After Luo Ping put the young girl down, he said again, "Let's find a place to hide first. This place is too wide, and it's easy to be exposed."
This time, the young girl opened her mouth. "Okay, I'll listen to you."
Her voice was very soft, but very pleasant to hear.
So the two of them walked for another two to three li before arriving at a small town.
"'Biyi City?' We actually came to this city? Since that's the case, let's find a place to rest! "Luo Ping suggested.
"Okay." The young girl in white replied obediently.
After the two of them entered the city, they casually found an inn and walked in.
"Hey, two guests, please come in. Are you having a meal or a place to stay?"
At the entrance of the inn, a young servant immediately greeted them and asked in a practiced manner.
Luo Ping looked around and said, "Give us a good room. In addition, make some home-cooked dishes and send them to the room. Here, this is money."
Luo Ping took out a silver ingot from his bosom and was about to hand it to the servant.
When the young girl in white behind him heard that only one room was given, her face immediately turned crimson, and her heart was beating wildly. Her hands fiddled with her clothes back and forth, and she was distracted.
Behind the counter, the owner of the inn was a middle-aged man. Although he was thin and short, his eyes were shining. At first glance, one could tell that he was a businessman who was good at calculation.
From the moment Luo Ping and the young girl entered the inn, the owner had been sizing them up through his reading glasses.
'Wearing bright clothes, extraordinary manners, a perfect match, either rich or noble.' This was the owner's evaluation of the two of them.
At this time, when he saw Luo Ping take out the silver ingot, the owner immediately ran out from behind the counter and rushed to take it, stuffing it into his bosom.
"Xiao Ma, quickly take the two guests to the best room. Tell the kitchen to prepare a meal and send it to them as soon as possible." The owner ordered the servant.
Then, he turned around and smiled flatteringly at Luo Ping and the young girl, "Two guests, please come upstairs!"
Luo Ping and the young girl nodded and followed the servant upstairs to choose a room.
The room was very spacious, and the items were neatly arranged. The windows were bright and clean, and there was not a speck of dust.
Luo Ping looked around and was very satisfied.
"In order not to be discovered, it's better if we don't separate. At night, you sleep on the bed and I sleep on the floor. "
Luo Ping poured himself a cup of tea, took a sip and said.
"Oh, okay!" The woman in white also sat down.
"Are you alright?" Luo Ping asked again.
"It's fine!"
"Then tell me, why did those people want to capture you? Did you offend someone? "
Luo Ping voiced his doubts.
"Impossible, I don't know them at all, and I've never offended anyone."
The white-clothed girl finally returned to her normal state and denied it.
"That's strange. Why don't you tell me the whole situation so that we can analyze it?"
Luo Ping felt that this matter was not simple.
"It's like this …"
Dong, dong, dong.
"Sir, your meal is ready. I've brought it to you."
As soon as the white-clothed girl opened her mouth, the waiter shouted at the door. Luo Ping could only let the waiter bring in the food first. After closing the door, the girl told the story.
"According to what you said, after they appeared, they did not ask who you were and directly attacked?"
After listening to the white-clothed girl's description, Luo Ping began to analyze. The white-clothed girl nodded affirmatively.
"Since they didn't ask for money and only captured you without asking for your identity, it must have been premeditated. They should know your situation like the back of their hand." Luo Ping concluded.
"Ah! Premeditated? Why? "The white-clothed girl was shocked.
"I don't know about this. I guess we can only ask them." Luo Ping spread out his hands, indicating that he did not know.
Seeing the white-clothed girl still frowning and silent, Luo Ping could only divert her attention.
"Okay, let's eat first. The food will get cold if you don't eat."
The white-clothed girl slowly picked up the bowl and chopsticks!
… … …
"Cousin Yunzhan, I can't hold on any longer. What should we do?" Luo Yuntian shouted into the distance while resisting the opponent's attacks with difficulty.
"I can't hold on any longer either!"
"Me too. The other party sent people who are stronger than us. It seems that they were prepared."
Anxious voices could be heard from several other directions.
Luo Yunjue was also very depressed at this time. They had just reached the border between Longzhou and Bazhou when they were surrounded by a group of unknown bandits. The bandits did not say much and directly attacked.
The opponents these bandits chose were all of a lower realm than them. They suppressed Luo Yunjue and the others in every way. Even if he could fight above his realm, he was no match for the peak Martial General strength of the opponents.
As for Jin San, who had the highest cultivation, although he was already at the initial stage of Great Martial General, he was targeted by a peak Great Martial General. It seemed that he was determined to be captured.
Luo Yunjue's opponent was a peak Martial General middle-aged man. He held two large axes in his hands. When he opened and closed them, he was full of killing intent and did not leave any way out. However, he did not kill.
Now, Luo Yunjue and the others had resisted with difficulty for nearly an incense stick's worth of time. Everyone was about to be unable to hold on and asked him what they should do.
"These people are of unknown origin but they are not killing. There must be a conspiracy. Let's split up and escape. Let's escape as many as we can."
Luo Yunjue could not think of a good idea at the moment and could only say this.
When Luo Yuntian and the others heard this, they could only do as they were told. They began to slowly widen the battlefield in an attempt to find an opportunity to escape.
When the bandits heard Luo Yun Jue's shout, their attacks became even more ferocious. As the two sides chased each other, they slowly distanced themselves from the battlefield.
… … …
At the border between Chi Prefecture and Ba Prefecture, a handsome young man wielding a sharp sword was fighting a grey-robed man. He fought and retreated until he was back to back with another scholarly middle-aged man.
The scholarly middle-aged man was also desperately resisting his opponent's attacks. With his peak Martial General strength, against a late Great Martial General, he was quickly beaten into a corner and gradually lost.
"Uncle, what do we do now? We don't know where these people came from, but their strength completely overwhelms us. It seems that we can't escape. "
The handsome young man asked anxiously. In his eyes, his uncle was calm and quick-witted. If even his uncle could not do anything, then they really should face this calamity.
The scholarly middle-aged man said: "These people are not after money or lives. They just captured our people and tied them up. It seems that they have another purpose. I think we should split up and meet up in the capital."
The handsome young man heard his uncle's analysis and could only helplessly nod his head when he saw his entourage caught and tied up.
Like Luo Yunjue and the others, the handsome young man and his nephew, as well as their remaining entourage, also began to split up and escape.
Sometimes, escaping was not out of fear, but to preserve their strength and make a comeback.
… … …
The same thing happened almost at the same time in the other prefectures. Those who were intercepted were all young practitioners who were heading to the capital to participate in the 'Champion Battle'.
Among the eight prefectures, other than the participants from Ba Prefecture, there were a total of 224 participants from the other seven prefectures. In addition to their entourage, there were at least a few thousand people.
And the bandits along the way not only suppressed those practitioners and their entourage in strength, but also far outnumbered them. A conservative estimate was close to ten thousand people.
To be able to mobilize such a large number of martial artists and pay a lot of money, it seemed that the identity of the mysterious person was definitely not ordinary. But what was his purpose? Why did he want to kidnap all the participants?
Within the Imperial Capital, the martial artists who were qualified to participate in the competition had all mysteriously disappeared the night before the Champion Battle. It was so quiet that even their families did not notice the slightest abnormality.
It could be said that almost all the participants were wiped out, except for one, two, three who were lucky enough to escape …
… … …
"One, two, three … twenty-three. Why are these people carrying so many boxes?"
At night, Luo Ping and the white-clad lady were hiding in the dark of the backyard of the inn, observing the movements of the group of people in front of them.
Originally, after dinner, Luo Ping and the white-clad lady had nothing to do so they strolled around the streets of Biyi City and experienced the local customs of the city. They also understood the origin of the city's name.
A few hundred years ago, Biyi City was not called Biyi City. At that time, it was just a very small town. There were three big families in the city, each of them was rich and powerful. They almost monopolized the assets of all walks of life in the city.
The Pei Family was one of the three big families. The Patriarch, Pei Shichang, had two daughters. Both of them were as beautiful as flowers, bright and moving.
Both of his daughters had reached the age of becoming a nun. There was a long line of matchmakers who came to propose marriage, almost bursting through the door.
The other two big families in the city, the Jiang Family and the Xing Family, each had a male heir. When the Patriarchs of the two big families heard about the Pei Family, they personally came to propose marriage, hoping to forge a good relationship and cooperate to strengthen their families.
Although Pei Shichang did not like the playboys of the two big families, he had no choice but to agree to the marriage proposal for the sake of the family's interests and long-term development.
His eldest daughter was betrothed to the Jiang Family, and his second daughter was betrothed to the Xing Family. They had already chosen an auspicious date and would get married in three months.
When his second daughter, Pei Yuru, heard about this, she refused to agree no matter what. Her heart had long been occupied by a figure, and his loving smiling face kept appearing in her mind.
It turned out that Pei Yuru's heart already belonged to someone when she was studying and practicing martial arts in the academy.
Meng Shaoxuan was intelligent and sensible since young. However, due to his family's poverty, he had no choice but to give up his studies and become a farmer. It was only when he was seventeen or eighteen that he had the opportunity to re-enter the academy.
Although he had given up on his studies for many years, his desire to learn did not diminish. He often studied at night and doubled his efforts. Pei Yuru saw all of Meng Shaoxuan's hard work and took the initiative to tutor him.
A year later, not only did Meng Shaoxuan's academic results rank among the best, but the two of them also had sparks of love. They had already made a solemn vow of love that would last until death …
Therefore, when Pei Yuru heard that the marriage was set, she almost broke down. After pondering for a while, she decided to escape from her family and find Meng Shaoxuan. She planned to elope and fly far away.
Unfortunately, she was caught by the Pei and Xing Families halfway. They wanted to break up the couple and unite the families through marriage.
Pei Yuru would rather die than comply. In the end, she and Meng Shaoxuan made a death vow and broke their souls in the 'Shuangfei Forest'.
Legend had it that after the two of them died, their unwavering love moved heaven and earth. Their souls turned into lovebirds and flew far away. They finally got their wish and were together forever.
Not long after that, the city was renamed 'Biyi City', and the place where the two of them died was called 'Shuangfei Forest'.
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