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Chapter 117 The Qin People Cross the West (Please subscribe! Thank you)
"Where have you been? Who is calling you?" Hongqiu asked after Xiaoyu jumped down from the wall.

Aunt Zhang didn't know what secret communication was, so she just shouted against the wall. Xiaoyu could hear it, and Hongqiu naturally noticed it too.

Xiaoyu hesitated for only a moment and threw the small yellow cloth bag over.

"what."

Hong Qi took the small cloth bag, took out the jade pendant and looked at it. She was surprised and said, "This is a piece of spiritual jade. Where did you get it from?"

"Madam Xu's golden carp jade pendant."

Xiao Yu briefly recounted what happened last night and just now. As she spoke, she looked at the jade pendant with a warm color and asked, "What kind of jade is Lingyu?"

Last night she also briefly played with and carefully observed the golden carp jade pendant.

However, it was dark at that time, and observing with the faint residual light from a distance was not as clear and detailed as it is now under the candlestick.

It is indeed delicate in texture, warm and flawless, with uniform color.

Under the light, the golden carp seems to have a touch of charm.

But if you ask me what the essential difference is between it and other beautiful jades, Xiaoyu is too ignorant to tell the difference.

“Simply comparing the appearance, touch and color, spiritual jade is not necessarily better than ordinary gemstones. It is just that spiritual jade contains a trace of earth and stone spiritual energy, and is often used by immortals to make jade articles, such as jade bowls, jade cups, and jade pots.

This piece of spiritual jade is too small and has no value—"

Hong Qi paused for a moment as she flipped through the jade pendant, a look of doubt flashed across her eyes, and then she continued with a normal expression, "Of course, it's worthless only to an immortal.

In any case it is also a piece of spiritual jade.

Even an unpolished jade can be worth several hundred taels of silver.

This golden carp is carved so vividly and vividly that it is not surprising that it is sold at a high price of two to three thousand silver coins if it meets a noble who likes it.

No wonder Mrs. Hu was so greedy, she probably recognized it as a piece of spiritual jade."

After saying that, she put the jade pendant back into the small cloth bag and handed it back to Xiaoyu.

Xiao Yu took the jade pendant and said hesitantly: "When I read the Yin Fu Jing before, you said that Yin Fu was very common in the army."

She was standing next to Hongqiu, paying attention to her expression. She had noticed that there was something wrong with her look just now.

So there might be something wrong with the golden carp jade pendant!

Now Hongqiu pretends to be fine, but when night comes, he will probably write on her feet again.

She admired Hongqiu's caution, but she made her feet itchy, which was a bit uncomfortable.

After Hongqiu finished writing on her feet, she fell asleep in a daze and kept hugging her feet tightly. She felt her saliva flowing onto her feet.

"Is it a Yin Fu that conveys important military information?"

Hong Qi picked up the pen and drew a few symbols on the paper, including dots, short horizontal lines, long horizontal lines, vertical lines, and left-falling strokes. She said, “Using these symbols to form a secret message is also called ‘Yin Fu’.

But this kind of Yin Fu is just a minor method. The "Emperor's Yin Fu Jing" contains the ultimate truth of heaven and earth for becoming immortal.

They are both called 'Yin Fu', but they are worlds apart."

"So what if there is mud? So what if there are clouds? Without mud, the world will die. Without clouds, there will be little scenery on earth." Xiaoyu said.

Hong Qi glanced at her and sneered, "Everyone can talk about the truth, but there are only a few people who can understand it."

"Okay, let's not talk about big principles. Just teach me how to use the ordinary communication Yin Fu." Xiao Yu said with a smile.

Hong Qi pursed her lips and said hesitantly: "There are many people who know Yin Fu, but I don't know much about it. Maybe you can find someone else to learn from."

——The Yin Fu technique is not top secret. It is not as secret as writing on the soles of your feet.

She didn't know that Xiaoyu disliked her sleeping with her arms around his feet, but she understood why Xiaoyu asked about Yin Fu.

“Learn as much as you can.”

Xiaoyu thought of the Morse code in her previous life, and perhaps she could use sounds and gestures to represent various basic runes.

"If you want to learn the art of Yin Fu communication, you must first understand the basics of Yin Yang Bagua."

Hongju continued to talk and draw until the candle burned out, but she still hadn't finished explaining the Yin Fu technique.

There are a huge pile of various Bagua diagrams drawn on paper.

It was also thanks to Xiaoyu that he had just experienced the transformation of Kunpeng, and his brain seemed to have completed a "ascension".

If it had been before the sword bone broke, she would have been dizzy and confused after listening to it, but would have gained nothing.

"I never thought that this little trick of passing secret messages in the military would involve such a wide range of profound Taoist theories."

She felt a little tired, and considering that Hongqiu needed to send a message via her feet, she did not go to the pool to practice internal energy tonight, but lay directly on the bed.

"Humph, what makes you think it's a little trick? It's not difficult to simply convey a message. If we agree on what symbols represent what words, ordinary people can do it.

The key is secrecy!
Isn't the purpose of using Yin Fu to communicate to keep it secret?
The object of the secret may even be an immortal.

How could ordinary encryption methods deceive an immortal who has mastered the great Dao?"

"To use the Yin Fu to deceive the immortals, one needs to have the same level of knowledge of Yin Yang and Eight Trigrams as the immortals?" Xiao Yu was a little desperate.

She learned the Yin Fu just to deceive ghosts, gods, immortals and Buddhas.

If her understanding of the Yin-Yang and Eight Trigrams can reach the level of immortals and Buddhas, why would she still need the Yin Fu?
Anyone who dares to eavesdrop will be stabbed to death with a sword.

Hong Qi said seriously: "You are right. If you want to hide the Yin Fu from someone, your understanding of the Nine Palaces and Eight Diagrams must surpass that of the other party.

But it doesn’t mean that the Yin Fu will lose its effectiveness if one’s realm is not as good as the other party.

After all, it takes time and effort to crack the Yin Fu.

Urgent military information is highly time-sensitive.

Even if the other party can decipher your Yin Fu communication, it will take too long and there will be no point in deciphering it in the end."

"Oh, that makes sense."

Xiaoyu frowned slightly, she felt the small bump on Hongqiu's chest.

She hugged her feet again, covered them with the quilt, and quietly wrote on the soles of her feet.

"That golden carp jade pendant seems to contain a magical inheritance."

The sudden surprise made Xiaoyu's body tense up.

But just when she was expecting Hongqiu to continue, Hongqiu turned over and let go of her feet.

"What inheritance? Please explain it clearly!" Xiao Yu was helpless and began to touch her feet.

"I don't know, how can I explain it clearly?"

After a pause, Hong Qi explained, "Three years ago, I accompanied my father to visit Uncle Song, the 'Blood Hand Arhat'. He was playing with a jade slip engraved with the 'Lotus Sutra'.

I was curious, so I borrowed it to play with it.

It feels a bit like today's golden carp jade pendant, but not exactly the same. Uncle Song said that there is a scripture engraved by the "Bodhisattva" in the jade slip.

He is not the destined one, so he cannot open it.

I felt like there was a book in a glass box. I could vaguely sense the book, but I couldn't open the box and read it carefully.

The golden carp on the jade pendant is a book itself. I have a feeling that if I play with it for a long time, I can naturally unlock the secrets inside it.

But the golden carp is not my chance, and I don’t want to be involved in cause and effect.

Well, it's up to you to decide. "

Xiaoyu felt uncomfortable.

Hongqiu, this damn girl, has been reduced to living in the dust and has no control over her life, yet she doesn't even know martial arts. Where does her arrogance come from to dare to say such high-sounding words as "I don't want to be involved in cause and effect"?

"Golden Carp" may be a magical power, a magical power!

Compared to the ecstasy he felt when he first heard about the supernatural power, Xiaoyu felt even more uncomfortable.

"How do you know it's not your chance? How do you judge chance?"

Hong Qi said: "When you meet someone, when you get something, it's fate. It's like when you open the door in the morning and a magpie flies towards you. It happens naturally.

If you pass by each other or meet but don't get it, then there is no chance.

If you force it, even if you get it, it is not considered opportunity. It may be entangled with a lot of causes and effects and become a bad fate.

Madam Xu held it all her life, but gained nothing and had no chance of success.

Shopkeeper Hu almost lost his life because of it. It was a complete bad fate.

Madam Hu did have some luck. She seemed to have sensed something, but you ruined her chance. I don’t know how angry and upset she is now!
But I guess she's not really the one for me."

"So, I am the destined one!" Xiaoyu said.

"If I hadn't reminded you, you wouldn't have been able to notice its abnormality. How can you be considered a destined person? At most, you are like Madam Xu, with the chance but not the destiny." Hongqiu said.

Xiaoyu was planning to be stubborn a few more times.

But one can think of Hongqiu’s indifference towards the golden carp’s magical powers, and the phrase “I don’t want” to be involved in cause and effect.

She immediately said in a tough tone: "I don't want it! I never thought of embezzling the Xu family's jade pendant.

I gave it to Aunt Zhang to keep before, and now I keep it with me. Aunt Zhang will supervise me, and I will return it to Xu Huier one day. Hey, could it be that Xu Huier is the destined one?"

After Hongju fell asleep, she quietly got up from the bed and went under the grape trellis with the jade pendant.

"Plop~~~"

If there is no chance on the shore, maybe there will be chance once we get into the water?

She really didn't intend to embezzle Xu Huier's jade pendant, but supernatural powers are a kind of knowledge and skills.

Knowledge does not diminish by sharing.

"Mrs. Feng's predictions are so accurate. Within seven days, a nobleman will come from the East. Among the many girls at that time, the nobleman fell in love with Jinlian at first sight, and even declined Aunt Liu's suggestion to ask Shaoyao to come over to accompany her."

"Yes, even the best prostitute in Tianmen is gone, and Jinlian must be alone. Jinlian is really going to be rich this time. Why don't we chip in together and ask Grandma Feng to help predict her future and perform a secret ritual."

The next morning, Xiaoyu and Hongqiu went to the canteen for breakfast. Before they even entered, they saw two disheveled "old girls" squatting at the door. They drank egg soup and said "Grandma Feng" with envy on their faces.

Xiaoyu was about to ask a few questions when she heard many girls in the cafeteria talking about Jinlian and Grandma Feng.

"Ziying, what's going on? What happened to Sister Jinlian?" Xiaoyu scooped a bowl of soup, skewered two large oil cakes with chopsticks, pushed the little girl next to Ziying away, and sat over there himself.

"Sister Jinlian is so lucky. A nobleman from a superior country in China has moved into her Yihong Courtyard." There was no envy on Ziying's face, but instead a deep awe.

"The greatest country in China is the Qin Dynasty? Did you come from the Qin Dynasty?" Xiao Yu asked in surprise.

Ziying nodded repeatedly, "I heard from Aunt Liu that he is a true son of a superior state, just like Marquis Lieyang, a noble of the Great Qin, not from the vassal states in the East Region of Liusha River."

"Are you here to serve as a scout for the Qin imperial envoy?" Xiao Yu asked, then frowned and said, "If you are an imperial envoy, you shouldn't be so dissolute. You just crossed the Liusha River and came to Hongxiufang, and even lived in Yihongyuan."

"I don't know. I only know that even the servants of Master Shangbang are very dignified. I feel that the groom who leads the horse is more dignified than the Lord of our Tianmen Town." Ziying said.

——Compared with Zhu Yitao who speaks in country language, who is not a gentle gentleman?
Xiaoyu complained in her heart.

Hong Qi asked in confusion, "Master Bao Qin also brought a groom with him?"

"Ahem, Hongqiu, you are really..." Xiaoyu almost choked on the egg soup.

The little girls nearby, all with pale faces, held their bowls and ran away tremblingly.

Only Ziying was left feeling scared and anxious, "Sister Hongqiu, you better restrain yourself!"

Hongqiu glanced at the two women with an indifferent expression and continued to drink the soup in small sips.

Ziying closed her mouth and dared not say anything more.

Ziying was right. The servants of the nobles of the Great Qin all seemed particularly elegant.

Neither humble nor arrogant, always well-mannered, even a simple bow is full of charm.

Xiaoyu is not exaggerating.

Several servants practiced etiquette just like practicing immortal martial arts, and developed a majestic and humble artistic conception.

"What should I call this Lord Chief?"

Faced with the middle-aged man standing at the gate of Yihongyuan with his hands behind his back, Ziying and the others felt ashamed and did not dare to approach him. They just followed Xiaoyu submissively.

Xiaoyu had even seen Qingsong Taoist Boy and Lieyang Hou, so naturally he would not be afraid of a "high-level servant".

The middle-aged man's eyes flashed, he cupped his hands, and said with a smile: "I don't dare to be the 'General Manager'. I escorted Master Gongsun to Xisha Region to take up his post. I don't have an official position myself, so there is no need to call me 'Sir'.

Miss, you can call me 'Lao Zou'. My surname is 'Zou' and my given name is 'Wen'."

"Mr. Zou, my name is Yu Fengxian, and I am Sister Jinlian's swordsmanship instructor. Is it convenient for me to come in now?"

A trace of embarrassment flashed across Old Zou's skinny face, and he shook his head and said, "Miss Jinlian and my young master slept too late and haven't gotten up yet."

In fact, he got up and started his "morning exercise" again. The noise was quite loud. He couldn't stand it anymore, so he left the yard.

"Mr. Zou, can I ask how many of you are here?" Xiaoyu felt that there were seven or eight strangers in the yard.

Tickets for the racing boat are precious, and even the Marquis of Lieyang only gave out a dozen or so tickets to Western generals.

She didn't believe that Master Gongsun was more extravagant than Marquis Lieyang.

Old Zou smiled slightly and said, "If we count the companions who crossed the Quicksand River together, there must be at least seven or eight hundred of them!"

"How can seven or eight hundred people cross the river?" Xiaoyu asked in surprise.

Old Zou shook his head and said, "It's hard to say. I'm just a guard, I don't know, and I can't say anything."

(End of this chapter)