Zhan Zhao Adventures - Chapter Eight (Part III)
Chapter Eight: Vainly Knitting Brows (Part III)
The hazy and misty rain had already stopped, but however the fog became even more thick and heavy.
That pair of swallows possessing black scissor-tails had already flown to where they could not be seen.
Swallows came and additionally went, went and additionally came. But however, this person within the heart, in the final result will they or will they not meet again?
Zhi Hua finally let out a single sigh-sound, and said: "I still underestimated you. Shao Jizu had already warned me, but I still underestimated you. Down to now, I already truly cannot bear to kill you."
Huo Linglong's small mouth gave a twitch, and cold-laughed said: "Are you able to kill me? You chasing additionally cannot catch up to me."
Zhi Hua faintly said: "Unable to kill you, killing this pair of older sister and younger brother, conversely is as easy as turning over the palm."
Huo Linglong's face color gave a change.
Since knowing they were his servants, how could she additionally have the heart to look at this young-and-small-aged pair of older sister and younger brother receive injury beneath this person's hand?
She originally excelled by means of lightness kungfu which no person could compare and match up to and the "Yin-Yang Han" within her hand; if she could not bear to walk away and be done with it, how additionally could she easily and without trouble deal down with Zhi Hua?
Once thinking to here, she could not bear to look at that pair of older sister and younger brother for a single glance; those two people, Ming Yue'er and Ming Zhu'er, unexpectedly just so smilingly-and-hummingly sleeved their hands to one side, appearing as if not afraid.
Ming Yue'er micro-smiled, and said: "Only pitying that Master Zhi fundamentally does not want to kill us."
Zhi Hua said: "Oh? You people have already known too many secrets, why do I not want to kill you?"
Ming Yue'er said: "The small female is no more than a servant of the Third Young Master; Master Zhi's hundred-turn mind-mechanism, how additionally can I be able to guess thoroughly? It is merely that these secrets all were purposely let us hear by Master Zhi, and that is all. If Master Zhi wanted to kill us, he long since would have already moved hand, why additionally must he delay until this time only then kill, why additionally must he waste so many mouths and tongues, letting us hear your secrets?"
——This young-and-small-aged young girl unexpectedly was so of a fragrant-herb quality and orchid-heart; although not like her younger brother identical-wise loving to speak words, but however several times exiting mouth to speak words, they yet all were piercing a single needle into blood, letting Huo Linglong and Zhi Hua both be unable to bear looking for a few more glances.
Zhi Hua's gaze had already looked toward the night curtain gradually floating up within the fog; he suddenly spoke a single turn of very strange words: "Hearing these few sentences of words of yours, I at present conversely truly want to meet a single person."
That purple-clothed young girl said: "Not knowing what person Master Zhi wants to meet?"
Zhi Hua said: "Precisely is that Third Young Lady of the Ding family of Songjiang mansion. I conversely truly want to look and see, that Ding Third Young Lady, in the final result is what kind of a heavenly immortal countenance and appearance, what kind of a thoroughly transparent and exquisite intelligence, ice-and-snow cleverness, to unexpectedly let Zhan Zhao even you be able to bear to cast aside."
Ming Yue'er's face was already slightly red, and lightly voiced said: "Master Zhi also too much praises. Our future Young Mistress, naturally is a person outside of people, at a heaven outside of heaven, how is it what we who do servant business are able to compare with."
Zhi Hua looked at her, lightly gave a single shake of his head, not knowing because of what, secretly let out a single sigh-sound.
Then his eyes turned toward Huo Linglong. At the time of looking at her, the craftiness within his gaze had already not appeared for a single shred of a trace; that which possessed, was only bleakness and disappointed-loss.
Only heard him say: "Therefore I also advise you, still do not vainly waste mind-mechanisms to go chase Shao Jizu. That piece of yellow silk fabric cheated away by him, at this click of an instant has already long since not been upon his body. Upon this single stretch of road, he long since had set down fast horses for transmitting letters; your lightness kungfu even if additionally good, additionally already cannot catch up."
——He just now additionally wanted to kill Huo Linglong, at present however again turned concerned toward her. He in the final result because of what spoke these words? Is he in the end an enemy or a friend?
Huo Linglong however suddenly cold-laughed: "Why additionally must I go chase?"
Zhi Hua gave a blank start: "Could it be you do not want to snatch back that piece of yellow silk fabric?"
Huo Linglong again was within a cold laugh: "Why do I additionally still want that piece of yellow silk fabric? Even if he takes away that yellow silk fabric, the secret upon that yellow silk fabric will additionally leak out past."
Her smile in the final result possessed a thread of proud satisfaction. Her lips slightly opened; she did not look at him, yet word by word in a casual voice said: "Your subjects and others have our livers and brains spilled upon the earth, leaning our strength to assist and help, together to assist the great enterprise. Your subject Lake-Guang Transport Envoy Xie Qiming, Ba-Shu Jiedushi Duan Xiu, ——"
Along with name after name lightly sketched and faintly written-wise being spat and revealed out from inside her thin lips, the smile upon Zhi Hua's face had already stiffened; the cold sweat upon his forehead, already was in a drenched and flowing-down manner falling.
He already could not believe his own ears, his voice appeared additionally to have become hoarse: "Could it be, could it be you have already looked at this alliance roster?"
Huo Linglong said: "Not bad, everything upon this yellow silk fabric, I have all already silently recorded and minded within the heart, why do I additionally still want that piece of yellow silk fabric?!"
Zhi Hua still was difficult to self-believe, muttering-wise saying: "This is impossible! Upon this alliance roster it is thousands of heads and tens of thousands of threads, how can you additionally within a hasty interval then record it down?"
Huo Linglong twitched her mouth, proudly and cold-laughingly saying: "What is there so good to look at about this alliance roster of yours, merely a single time then is enough."
Zhi Hua just so looked at her, suddenly let out a long sigh, and said: "I at some times truly do not understand, whether you in the final result are truly clever, or are a fool. Perhaps it is that you truly are too clever, clever to the point of being somewhat over the top! Do you not leave aside and forget, that Zhan Zhao additionally possesses the ability of passing the eye and not forgetting, for what did he still bound to must fight and risk his life, to take away that piece of yellow silk fabric from within the Chongxiao Tower?"
Huo Linglong gave a blank start, inside the heart not knowing because of what welled up a strand of difficult-to-explain-by-name fear.
Zhi Hua additionally said: "Only because that yellow silk fabric itself precisely is the crime evidence of the Prince of Xiangyang plotting rebellion! Upon that, it is written with the roster of the Prince's co-plotters, and additionally stamped and covered with the jade seal privately manufactured by the Prince; this already is his life-root-child, is the handle to let his co-plotters bow their heads and paste their ears. For a single day the yellow silk fabric is not inside the Chongxiao Tower, the Prince for a single day then dares not lightly move or rashly act. You do not possess this evidence-good; even if you arrive to Dongjing, without a single character of error back-recite it to give to that Little Zhao Prince who pets you and loves you and the Emperor to hear, who additionally can believe you? Who additionally can be able to depend single-mindedly upon your one side of words, to then fix that Prince of Xiangyang's crime?"
Huo Linglong had already with a hissing voice interrupted him, saying: "I have the command token given to me by him; the Emperor so trusts him, naturally will believe my words!"
——But however at the time of speaking these words, why did that thread of fear within her heart at present already order her to be about to be unable to pant out a breath of air?
The craftiness and pity inside Zhi Hua's eyes, for a flash of time let her be unspeakably uncomfortable: "Do you not mistakenly forget, that whom you want to pull and collapse this time, is the Prince of Xiangyang, the Emperor's blood-related uncle, not the Xingyun Manor. Even if it were the Xingyun Manor, it additionally is not what your one single person's strength can pull and collapse. Even if Zhan Zhao himself were precisely before the Emperor's face, without possessing true proof and solid evidence, he additionally would be given a cured crime of slandering imperial relatives."
His spoken tone suddenly took a turn: "Put your heart at ease, I am one who will not take today's this matter to go tell the Prince of Xiangyang. In the final result whether the Emperor will or will not believe your words, toward me, has additionally already been not very important; what is important is, your acting-by-own-cleverness has already harmed your most heart-loved person."
At the time when this sentence of words of his was slowly spoken out, Huo Linglong's face color all at once then already was pale like a dead person.
Zhi Hua slowly walked close to her, word by word saying down: "Not bad, you finally have begun to understand; I already have no use to kill you. Your heart, very quickly then will be dead. Your heart will die, is because you very quickly will discover, you have already committed what kind of a mistake. A person whose even heart is about to be dead, no matter what kind of Linglong Eye and 'Yin-Yang Han', all already can not open your heart-aperture."
He cruelly-wise appreciated the alarm and terror gradually welling up inside her eyes, and additionally said: "You unexpectedly erred. You yourself at present already know it, is it or is it not? Everything that you performed was merely for the sake of your own heart-loved person, but however everything that you performed, however additionally destroyed and ruined your heart-loved person!"
Within Huo Linglong's brain, there had already been a "hong"-wise single ring, immediately feeling heaven spinning and earth turning, a single stagger, almost standing unstable and unsolid!
Within her ears, it appeared to be several hundred exploding thunders, wanting to shock her down.
"You erred!"
"You erred!"
"You erred!"
These three words, just appeared as if they were heavy iron hammers, single blow and single blow-wise, without externalizing a shred of sentiment hacking onto her heart. Her head and brain had already "weng-weng"-wise tangled into a single clump. Her heart, additionally appeared as if by an invisible hand was pitilessly ravaged, torn into slices and pieces!
She——unexpectedly——truly——erred!
Zhi Hua looked at her face that was pale identical to a dead person; upon his face, there already was a proudly satisfied smile. He laughed truly very proudly; he additionally indeed possessed the capital to let him be proudly satisfied.
His eyes, at present had already looked at the Ming Zhu'er older sister and younger brother, and slowly additionally said: "As for you, I advise you still to not strike any ghost ideas. The Xiangyang city additionally is not Dongjing Bianliang. At present the Great Song officialdom inside the Prince of Xiangyang's mansion first has snapped and lost Bai Yutang, and additionally has snapped and lost Zhan Zhao; if additionally it tags along a single small life of yours, it can truly be not worthwhile."
He suddenly laughed aloud, and said: "But however you still will go, is it or is it not? You at present finally know why I additionally have no necessity to kill you?"
His laugh, just was like a basin of freezing cold water, drenching a person thoroughly to the heart-inside cold.
Within the laughing voice, behind his body, there had already risen up a single strand of thick and intense black colored smoke mist.
After the smoke mist scattered and finished, his person had already long since disappeared.
——He once possessed what was the opportunity to kill these three people who had already entirely known his countless secrets, but however he did not kill them. Could the reason spoken of by him truly be the cause of his not killing them?
——This shrewd person of his, mutely without a sound lurking inside the Prince of Xiangyang's mansion, in the final result possessed what kind of a purpose? Is he in the end an enemy, or a friend?
He vanished as if he were a ghost-monster; if it were ordinary times, Huo Linglong long since would have had to compare for a single turn, to look for a single look at whether her lightness kungfu of "Frightened Swan's Single Glance" in the final result could or could not conquer past him. But however at present, Huo Linglong's hollow eyes appeared as if they saw nothing.
Ming Zhu'er gave a single glance at Huo Linglong who was blankly standing upon the earth, and lowly voiced asked: "Sister, you look at that girl without sending out a single sound, could it be she suddenly obtained lost-heart sickness and became unfit?"
That young girl lightly let out a single sigh-breath, and said: "Zhu'er, do you not talk recklessly and beardedly. Although that girl has not lost her heart, she yet already is a heart-broken person."
Ming Zhu'er strangely said: "She can be a heart-broken person?"
That young girl said: "Only because she thousand-times ought not, ten-thousand-times ought not, ought not to use that piece of yellow silk fabric to coerce, to come exchange for the Third Young Master."
——"If she did not go to exchange, the Third Young Master still could hang onto a single line of life; once she hands out this yellow silk fabric, the Third Young Master then bound to must have life-worry!"
——"Although she is a clever person, she however has her cleverness conversely mistaken by cleverness; not merely failing the trust and commission of the Third Young Master, but additionally having to vainly tag along his life, how additionally can she still have countenance to go meet him. She bound to additionally have thought onto here, therefore only then is heart-broken to the extreme portion. Zhu'er, you just do not additionally blame her."
Huo Linglong stood blankly at the road side; that young girl's words, however without leaking a single drop drilled inside her ears; every single sentence of words, all appeared as if they were steel needles, single needle and single needle-wise piercing onto her already broken heart, piercing out that eternally unable-to-be-drawn-back pain within her heart; she uncontrollably gave a single shudder.
Ming Zhu'er still was difficult-to-forgive-wise saying: "Not bad. Although the people of the Prince of Xiangyang's mansion seized onto the Third Young Master, yet because this yellow silk fabric was not upon the Third Young Master's body, they bound to must think out thousands of ways, to obtain from his mouth the whereabouts of this yellow silk fabric, and also would not harm him. Once they obtain this yellow silk fabric, and additionally long since know the Third Young Master absolutely will not flow within the same mud and join with them, and even more will spare no remaining strength to obstruct their dark plot, they then absolutely will not remain his life. This kind of simple principle, even I who am this underneath servant can think it clear, how can someone additionally still go up other people's trick-deceit!"
That young girl lowly barked: "Zhu'er!"
The voice although was not large, yet possessed a kind of majesty; Ming Zhu'er immediately dared not additionally speak, still of his own accord unsubmissively gave a fierce glare at Huo Linglong.
He appeared to be extremely submissive toward this older sister of his, lowering his voice and saying: "With things arriving at this single turn, we must quickly hurry to Xiangyang, to beforehand go rescue the Third Young Master! Sister, I will place and settle you to Lord Yan's place in Xiangyang, and then will immediately go to the Prince of Xiangyang's mansion."
Across that young girl's peerless-countenance brows and eyes, there flashed past a layer of worry-color, and she said: "The Prince of Xiangyang's mansion bound to must be a dragon's pool and tiger's den, danger layer upon layer, how can I additionally let you one person alone venture into it."
Ming Zhu'er said: "At present how can one manage so many matters! If the Third Young Master possesses a good or bad turn, how can I be worthy toward him; even if it is death, I additionally must die together in one place along with him!"
That young girl slightly angered and said: "Of a tiny little age, additionally do not cultivate a bit of mouth-virtue, again speaking silly words, truly vainly called 'Ghosts See and Ghosts Worry'!"
Ming Zhu'er said: "Arriving there, Zhu'er naturally precisely has to conform to changes according to opportunities. Even if the Xiangyang city truly is like what you said, a dragon's pool and tiger's den, could it additionally still be larger past the Dongjing Bianliang city?! Older sister, you still go to Lord Yan's mansion-interior to wait for my news."
That young girl said: "We two people of older sister and younger brother, since small childhood then have depended upon each other for life; this kind of tight and vital pass-junction, how can older sister put her heart at ease to let you one person go?"
Ming Zhu'er said: "I am afraid the situation and trend are dangerous, and additionally, if ten-thousand-ones the Third Young Master he——"
His body gave a single shake, unexpectedly not speaking down. His nose gave a single sour turn, tear-water within a brief instant already rolled hither and thither inside the eyes, strongly enduring to not let it flow down.
That young girl's face color however was still peaceful, gazing at the night color that was gradually enveloping up, faintly let out a single sigh-breath, and said: "If he possesses a three-long-four-short mishap, how can I additionally alone live——”