Chapter 242 Game Within a Game (Please Vote for Me)

Luting Pier is blurred by drizzle.

"grown ups……"

Fang Ke held an oil-paper umbrella, walked slowly to Yang Ge, who was already waiting at the dock, and called in a low voice.

Yang Ge came back to his senses and glanced at him: "Here we come."

Fang Ke: "Well, how long have you been here?"

Yang Ge: "I just arrived too."

Fang Ke glanced at his rain-soaked uppers and wanted to comfort him, but couldn't.

On the contrary, Yang Ge asked him with a smile: "As the old saying goes, 'If the earthen pot is not broken outside the well, the general will inevitably die before the battle.' Is this Lao Wei's benevolence and benevolence?"

Fang Ke laughed and said, "Sir, Eunuch Wei doesn't have such high ambitions."

Yang Ge thought for a while, nodded and said: "That's right. If he were still here, he would definitely say, 'It's better to die than to live'... He has been cautious all his life."

Fang Ke stood silently behind him, feeling sad in his heart.

Not long after, three large ships flying the dragon flag of the Emperor's personal army slowly sailed into the fast-moving Luting Pier under the guidance of trackers. They would stop here briefly for supplies, and then continue along the Bian River back to the divine capital Luoyang.

Yang Ge stood on the edge of the pier holding an umbrella, raising his head and quietly watching the three large ships docking.

After the boat docked, the first person to step out of the boat was Shen Fa, who was wearing a scarlet python robe and a black cloak: "You're here..."

When he saw Yang Ge on the shore, there was no surprise in his eyes, but rather a sense of solemnity.

Yang Ge glanced at him expressionlessly, then held the oil-paper umbrella and stepped across the gangplank, landing on the deck of the first ship.

A group of guards in embroidered clothes with oxtail knives on their waists on the deck saw him, and they all clasped their palms and saluted: "Greetings to Mr. Yang."

Yang Ge looked around and saw the dark, thick coffin tied to several stools in the center of the cabin, which was decorated as a temporary mourning hall, but he did not see a Xichang fan.

"Where's Cao Yingren?"

Yang Ge slowly put away the oil-paper umbrella, walked slowly into the cabin, picked up three pillars of incense from beside the coffin, and lit it on the ever-burning lamp: "Let him come to see me."

Shen Fa, who followed him back to the deck, responded in a low voice: "Old Wei left suddenly, and things in Xiangxi are still unfinished. Cao Ying stayed in Xiangxi on behalf of Old Wei to take charge of the overall situation."

Yang Ge held the fragrance, bowed three times to the coffin in front of him, and stepped forward to insert the incense burner.

Maybe it was the waves swaying the boat, and the light smoke was scattered in a ball above the coffin, like a scattered chrysanthemum.

Yang Ge lowered his eyelids, pursed his lips vigorously, then gently patted the edge of the coffin board, and said with a stiff smile: "Okay, you are almost home, so don't worry about it, and have a good rest later. , I will find your head back for you, you can rest assured when I do things... Next time you pass by the road pavilion, don’t forget to come and drink with me! "

Listening to his low ramble, the group of embroidered guards standing on the deck in the rain felt vaguely envious of the person lying in the coffin.

After a while, Yang Ge slowly walked out of the cabin.

Shen Fa quickly led Fang Ke up to meet him: "Second brother, don't get angry first, listen to me..."

Yang Ge glanced at him expressionlessly, turned around and shouted: "Where is Cao Ying?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the sound of a heavy object falling into the water.

When Shen Fa heard this voice, he turned his head in despair.

Yang Ge looked in the direction from which the sound came, and saw a burly Xichang man who didn't look like a eunuch climbing up the side of the ship from the water. He knelt on one knee, clasped his hands, and screamed with tears streaming down his face: "Slave. exist!"

"You..."

Yang Ge raised his hand and poked Shen Fa's chest, turned around and walked towards Cao Ying, pulled him up forcefully, and slapped him on the chest.

Cao Ying's clothes that were wet by the river water suddenly bulged up, and water vapor billowed out from all over his body.

After a few breaths, Yang Ge withdrew his hand, and Cao Ying's clothes naturally fell down, without any moisture left.

He asked quietly: "On the day your governor was assassinated, were you at the scene?"

Cao Ying lowered his head and replied in a hissing voice: "Go back to Lord Marquis, I was behind the governor that day and witnessed the fight between the governor and the evil thief with my own eyes."

Yang Ge: "Tell me about the process...be careful and don't miss any details."

Cao Ying clasped his hands and replied in a hissing voice: "Yes, that was eight days ago. The servant went north with the governor, passed by Yueyang Lake and transferred to the Yangtze River, and went south along the river to Fengyang to attend the appointment with King Yang Tiansheng of Mingjiao..."

Yang Ge frowned: "Stop, what's going on with Yang Tiansheng here?"

Cao Ying replied: "Master Qi, my slave and the governor were in western Hunan, presiding over the work of cleaning up the Five Poison Cults. About twenty days ago, Mingjiao Yang Tiansheng sent a letter from King Yang Tiansheng, saying that he had decided to promote his Qingmu Hall to teach first. Everyone surrendered to the imperial court, and it was the first time for the Enlightenment Sect to be recruited. It was at the invitation of King Yang that the Governor temporarily put aside the war situation in western Hunan and went to Fengyang to discuss with King Yang the recruitment of the Ming Sect's Qingmu Hall..."

Yang Ge: "Where's the letter?"

Cao Ying looked at Shen Fa.

Shen Fa sighed, took out a palm-sized rectangular wooden box from his arms, opened it, took out a piece of letter paper and handed it to Yang Ge.

Yang Ge took the letter and looked at it carefully... The letter had been soaked, and part of the writing had been blurred into a ball, but the noise coming from the lines of the small regular script still made him sure at a glance that this was indeed written by Yang Tiansheng. mouth.

Calculating the time, this letter should have been sent to Wei Heng by Yang Tiansheng after he returned to Jianghuai from Luting.

He handed the letter back to Shen Fa: "Continue."

Cao Ying: "We followed the governor southward along the river. When we reached the Jiujiang River, we were intercepted by a awning boat. The evil thief claimed to be 'Xu Hongru, the Western Heavenly King of the White Lotus Sect'. The governor was heartbroken when he saw that man. I knew it was bad, so I said to the slave, 'The person coming is either Yang Potian of the Ming Sect or Yan Shoujin of the Five Poisons Sect. It is most likely Yang Potian.' Then he ordered the slave to leave quickly, and then jumped up to meet him..."

Yang Ge frowned more and more as he listened to what he said. Finally, he suddenly smiled and said, "It's a bit interesting. He claimed to be a member of the White Lotus Sect, but he started doing it in Jiujiang, using the skills of the Ming Sect..."

He turned his head and looked at Shen Fa: "What do you think?"

Shen Fa was silent for a moment, then waved his hand to screen away all the people on the deck.

After he and Yang Ge were the only ones left on the deck, he said slowly: "Don't get angry. Let's talk slowly if we have anything to say..."

Yang Ge smiled and interrupted him softly: "Have you already guessed that Yang Potian did this?"

Shen Fa nodded, then shook his head: "But I don't think Yang Potian is that stupid."

Yang Ge was not surprised, nodded and asked calmly: "So, this is for me?"

Shen Fa helplessly replied: "This must be a game within a game, you must not jump into it..."

Yang Ge smiled and said: "They have already started killing people. Do you think I still have a choice?"

When Shen Fa saw him looking so helpless, he felt a pain in his head. He could only persuade him earnestly: "This is not like the time of the Five Poison Sect. That time the Five Poison Sect did not deliberately lure you into the game, but just I want to test your authenticity, and this time they are willing to kill people to lure you into the situation. If they have no support, will they dare to do this? Now they are hiding and you are hiding, knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, they will go to the tigers. It’s definitely not the work of a wise man!”

"Did you forget again?"

Yang Ge smiled lightly and said: "You are the wise man, I am just a warrior."

Shen Fa persevered and continued to persuade: "As the saying goes: 'Two fists are hard to beat with four hands.' Although you are the best in the world, there are still some old monsters hidden in the world who can compete with you, and these No one knows how many old monsters there are.”

"In my opinion, it's better to stay out of the spotlight for now and figure it out slowly... Even if you don't think about yourself, you should also think about Lu Ting."

Yang Ge glanced at him: "Don't make me sound like some aggressive and bullying big devil. I, Yang Ge, behave upright and sit upright, and I don't have to have trouble with anyone. They are the ones who come after me." I, it wasn’t me who found them!”

Shen Fa: "I know you just want to be the boss of your Yuelai Inn, but you have also been in the guard. You should understand that in the eyes of corrupt officials, all honest officials are sanctimonious fake Taoists. , you, Yang Ge, did not provoke them, but your existence itself is a mountain that they cannot get around..."

Seeing that Yang Ge was about to have another attack, he quickly added: "Don't talk about it from afar, let's talk about it right in front of you. Without the support of you, Yang Ge, would Yang Tiansheng be able to sit on the throne of the Mingjiao Heavenly King? Can he push the Mingjiao to recruit people? I want to I remember correctly, you are planning to go south to be an intermediary for the Ming Cult, the White Lotus Cult and the Five Poison Cult, right?"

"This one, one after another, which one do those ambitious rotten people want to see?"

"Of course they want to get rid of you first and then..."

Yang raised his hand to interrupt him and said expressionlessly: "I know why they came to me. I just want to tell you that I didn't do anything wrong. Don't kidnap me with your fallacies again." !”

"I don't care who is standing behind Yang Potian. Since they dare to be the first grade students, I must give them fifteen years back!"

"Otherwise, the next one may be the Yang family, or you, Shen Fa, or even more likely, Lu Ting!"

"and……"

"I still owe Lao Wei a favor. If I don't pay it back now, I might not pay it back..."

After hearing what he said, Shen Fa remained silent for a long time with a complicated expression, but finally whispered: "Things may not be either/or. Maybe they just want to force you to take a step back so that you can survive... With you With your martial arts skills, no one will want to fight with you.”

"Take a step back? Where to go?"

Yang Ge looked at Luting City in the mist and rain: "Do you not care about Yang Tiansheng, or do you not care about them harming the people of Jiangnan? Will I have to turn a blind eye if they invade Luting in the future?"

"Shen Lao Er, Shen Lao Er, this is the biggest difference between you and me. You think about compromise in everything, and you are always unwilling to face up to the problem and face it, but the problem will never disappear just because you avoid it. As long as it is not solved, the problem will always be a problem. Only when it is solved, the problem will not be a problem.”

"Of course, I can understand you. After all, the Wei Dynasty rests on your shoulders. You must have more worries than an idle person like me..."

"Forget it, let's not talk nonsense. Anyway... I've settled this matter!"

"If everything goes well, everything will be easy to say."

"If things don't go well, I'll ask you to take care of the Liu family for me. I don't want them to be rich, I just want them to be safe."

"Don't worry, I won't let you work in vain. No matter how bad I am, I can still get an old guy who is as good as me to support me..."

Listening to his understatement, Shen Fa's heart was as blocked as if someone had stuffed a stone into it. He tried his best to squeeze out a smile and said with a forced smile: "If you don't talk about victory before fighting, you will lose the ambition of others." My own majesty is not like yours, Yang Laoer..."

"Isn't that what you said? Since they dare to set up a trap to lure me over, they must have something to rely on."

Yang Ge smiled lightly and said: "I don't know how many masters they have invited to wait for me."

This may mean that there are people outside the world, there is a sky outside the sky, and every mountain is as high as the other.

Rookies who are just starting out in the martial arts world are always encountering masters who come and go, and they are always looking forward to what they will do when they become more advanced in martial arts.

But when my martial arts became more advanced, I realized that it is indeed not like before. I can't tell the difference between a person who practices martial arts when I meet him casually. Whether he is a person or a dog, he can fight with him on an equal footing, and both sides will be injured. …

But it's okay if you don't encounter trouble, but once something happens... it may be fatal!

Because others already know how high your martial arts skills are, and if they dare to target you, they must be fully confident and well prepared.

Just like Wei Heng, the old eunuch has a strong Tiangang Tongzi Kung, which is also top-notch in Guizhen territory. He can almost be regarded as the first echelon under the Four Olds, Seven Heroes and Twelve Heroes.

But the moment he met the mysterious master in Jiujiang, he knew that he would most likely give an explanation today. He didn't even struggle, so he just asked Cao Ying and others to leave quickly, and he met Cao Ying himself. They buy time.

Because he knew that since the attacker dared to come to intercept him in a single boat, he must be sure of defeating him.

Yang Ge's situation is slightly better than Wei Heng's. His martial arts has reached the top of the world's martial arts. No matter how strong the person who set up the trap is, it is unlikely to be a level stronger than him.

But even in the same realm, there are still differences.

What's more, it is very likely that there will be more than one opponent...

Shen Fa thought about it for a long time with his mind in turmoil, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "Can you not go? I am only a friend like you..."

Yang Ge looked back at the dark coffin in the center of the mourning hall: "But Lao Wei is also my friend."

"Okay, let's not talk nonsense anymore. I will give you another seven days to plan. After seven days, I will leave for Guangmingding."

"Well, you find a time to go to the inn to pick up Zhao Miao and Zhao Hong back to the palace. If I leave, Luting will not be safe..."

He raised his hand and patted Shen Fa's shoulder. A billowing stream of heat immediately surged out of Shen Fa's body, and dense water vapor evaporated in an instant.

When the white mist in front of his eyes cleared, Yang Ge had already walked away with an umbrella.

He watched Yang Ge go away and suddenly shouted loudly: "Yang Laoer, I sent someone to lure Ding Man to your inn back then. I'm waiting for you to come back and beat me!"

"Shen Laoer, your uncle..."