Strange Tales from the Northern Qi Dynasty

Chapter 78 Black Beast Black Body Black Feet
"Haha."

Lu Qing smiled awkwardly.

He didn't expect that this reckless guy was not easy to fool.

In fact, hiding family members is nothing new for the nobles around the capital.

Lu Qing didn't dare to think too much about the specific reasons.

Not only him, no one dared to think too much about it. Lu Qing certainly didn't dare to expose it. If he made such a thing public, he would immediately become the public enemy of the nobles in the capital.

"I'm not here to threaten Liu Youjiao. I'm just here to inform you of this matter. Anyway, it's up to Youjiao to decide what to do."

Lu Qing stood up. The identity of You Jiao was really not worth mentioning to him. If the Murong family had not told him the other party's identity, Lu Qing would not even look at this man.

Anyway, the message has been delivered.

He stood up and rubbed his eyes. "Today I will rest at the post station next to the county government office. If the patrol changes his mind, you can come to me anytime."

After saying that, he stood up, yawned, and left.

After he left, Yao Xiong and others hurried in.

"Brother Taozi! What happened?"

"Nothing happened, just threatened me a few times."

Yao Xiong was furious, "Damn it, I'll kill him sooner or later!"

Kou Liu was a little confused, "This man looks like an angel, why would he come to threaten my brother? This..."

"That old dog named Murong must have informed him in advance! To that old dog, our Brother Taozi is the most difficult person in the entire county government!"

Yao Xiong was talking to Kou Liu when Lu Qubing hurried in.

"Taozi, I heard that the envoy came to your place? What did he say?"

Yao Xiong and Kou Liu didn't dare to speak anymore.

Taozi shook her head, "I didn't say anything, just a few threats."

Lu Qubing sighed and sat aside helplessly.

"Brother Taozi is my cousin."

"what?"

Yao Xiong exclaimed, "Isn't that great? Jun just told him and asked him to help us, right?"

Lu Qubing smiled bitterly, "He has a good relationship with the Murong family, and just now he advised me not to deal with the Murong family."

"Also, the Murong family has found Prince Gaoyang to pressure County Lord Gao. Prince Gaoyang and County Lord Gao don't get along, and he likes to mess with members of the royal family. If this person stands on the side of the Murong family, everyone he sees is an enemy!"

Lu Qubing basically had no concept of confidentiality. He sat there, his lips moving constantly, and told everyone some of the most advanced information.

Yao Xiong and Kou Liu were both stunned.

"King Gaoyang? The one who peed on the podium?"

Kou Liu still had some impression of that person.

"it's him."

Lu Qubing looked at Liu Taozi, his eyes full of fatigue.

"Brother Taozi, what should we do now? Lord Yang helps them, King Gaoyang helps them, even my own family helps them. Everyone is an enemy, who will help us?"

"Could it be that we are really the ones who have lost the way?"

Liu Taozi said calmly: "Don't think too much, Mr. Lu, go back and have a rest. Maybe tomorrow you will have the answer."

Lu Qubing left here exhausted.

Kou Liu felt a little distressed when he saw this. "Mr. Lu has been really busy these past few days. He has almost thoroughly checked the farmland and household registrations of the entire county and compared them one by one."

Just as they were talking, Tian Zili hurried in.

He looked around vigilantly, then handed the thing to Taozi in front of him.

"Xiong, go and carry Mr. Zhang over here."

"okay!"

After a while, four people gathered in front of Taozi.

Taozi sat in the upper seat, Zhang Li sat on his left, Tian Zilie sat behind him, and on his right were Yao Xiong and Kou Liu.

Liu Taozi picked up the thing in her hand.

It was a dyed mask, dark in color, with ropes that could be tied tightly around the face.

The mask as a whole is a grinning dragon head, which looks very delicate.

"what is this?"

Yao Xiong was the first to ask.

Liu Taozi did not answer, but looked at Kou Liu instead.

"Flow, see if you can wear it."

Kou Liu took the mask and put it on with the help of Yao Xiong. He then shook it a few times and found it was very strong and did not fall off.

"Very good. Tonight, I want you to dye your body black with mud, put on your black nightgown, put on the mask, and head to the east of the city."

"Ah? Are we still going to Murong's house?"

Kou Liu said with some concern: "Brother, the Murong family is heavily guarded. The further we go in, the more people there are. They are all old soldiers, so it is difficult to sneak in."

"I know. You don't have to go into the backyard. Just move around the entire southeast area and let the soldiers guarding the important roads and the Murong family living there see you."

Liu Taozi asked again: "You can dance Nuo opera, right?" "Yes, I can. I learned it when I was young, but I haven't danced it for many years."

"Okay, tonight, you dress like this and move around the east of the city so that everyone can see you. Perform a Nuo opera on the roof and shout in Xianbei: Soldiers, leave!"

Kou Liu paused, and said helplessly: "Brother Taozi, my Xianbei language is not very good."

"You'll always say you're leaving, right?"

"Uh, no."

Tian Zili couldn't help laughing out loud, "You Xianbei people don't know as much as I do!"

Kou Liu quickly defended himself, "I lost my father when I was young, and my mother is Han Chinese. She doesn't understand Xianbei language. Where can I learn? Besides, except for Jinyang, there are many Xianbei people like me. Who would say that?!"

Liu Taozi pursed her lips and said, "I'll teach you, follow me."

After repeating it several times, Kou Liu finally mastered this sentence.

"Okay, Xiong, Zili, the two of you go to the soldiers and help Kouliu complete this task in the name of rewarding them."

Liu Taozi then began to seriously give instructions for tonight's team-building activities, and everyone listened very carefully.

After Liu Taozi finished speaking, he looked at Zhang Li and said, "Mr. Zhang, I didn't miss anything, did I?"

"No."

"Okay, then everyone go get ready."

"I took note of what happened to Brother Taozi, but why are we doing this?"

Yao Xiong looked confused.

"You'll know later."

Liu Taozi stood up and asked them all to go out and prepare, but left Zhang Li behind.

Yao Xiong walked out of the door and asked suspiciously, "Did Mr. Zhang tell Brother Taozi about this? Does this old man really have the ability?"

Tian Zili said calmly: "To be able to live to the age of sixty in a county government like this, he must have extraordinary abilities. Do you think there is another person of the same age as him in the county government?"

"Isn't that the old man Xu who's guarding the door?"

"Stop talking so much! Get to work!"

"Oh"

Under the night sky, the stars were twinkling, and the soldiers were guarding every road intersection, pacing back and forth.

The eldest grandson yawned, but still forced himself to stay alert and stared at his surroundings.

The construction of the East City is very strange. Normally, the houses on ordinary streets are built symmetrically or along both sides of the road, but these houses in the east of the city are disorganized and spread out along the innermost courtyard.

This results in a large number of small paths of various types, with intersections everywhere, all of which need to be guarded.

At this moment, someone suddenly exclaimed.

"what is that?!"

The eldest grandson raised his head quickly. Under the moonlight, a monster appeared on the roof in the distance.

It was a pitch-black monster with a black head, black body, and black feet.

Under the moonlight, this unknown monster was performing some kind of sacrificial dance. Its movements were weird and awkward, and it looked very uncomfortable.

Changsun had crawled out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood several times and had already become brave and fearless.

But at this moment, his back felt cold and his whole body began to shiver.

The Xianbei people believed in ghosts and gods to an extreme degree.

Zhang Sun plucked up his courage, drew out his sword, and pointed at the monster, "What the hell?! Shoot it!"

The bows and arrows in the hands of the Xianbei soldiers were shaking, and they believed it.

At this moment, the monster actually spoke in human language.

It sounded like Xianbei language, but not quite. The monster said it three times in a row. Chang Sun vaguely felt that the other party was asking him to leave.
The monster just kept running along, its movements were very agile and nimble, so Chang Sun and his men started chasing it.

Along the way, countless people exclaimed in surprise, having seen the monster.

Suddenly, the monster disappeared, and Yao Xiong was seen leading his men into a residential area.

"That's it! He jumped in here!"

A few people walked forward and saw only a well.

Yao Xiong stared at the well and suddenly shouted, "There is a black dragon in the well!!"

Chang Sun pushed a few people away, rushed to the front, took a deep breath, and then looked down at the well water.

Under the cover of night, something seemed to be moving in the well. The soldiers kept talking about the black dragon. When Chang Sun looked again, it seemed that there really was a black dragon.

He cried out and jumped up in fright.

Someone shouted not far away:

"The Murong family is protected by the Black Dragon! Let's leave!!"

"Yes!! Let's go!!"

"run!!"

ps: At first, the sorcerer said: The deceased Gao wore black clothes. Since then, after Emperor Shenwu, whenever he went out, he did not want to see monks because of their black clothes. At that time, Emperor Wenxuan was visiting Jinyang. He asked his attendants, "What is the blackest thing?" They replied, "Nothing is blacker than lacquer." The emperor chose Huan's seventh son as the right person. ———"Book of Northern Qi·Biography of Shangdang Gang Wang"

In Yan, a black dragon and a white dragon were seen on Longshan Mountain. They intertwined their heads and played with each other, then undid their horns and left. King Huang of Yan personally offered sacrifices to them with a grand sacrifice, pardoned their territory, and named the new palace where they lived Helong. ———Zizhi Tongjian

(End of this chapter)