Golden Greenery

Mu Yue, who had always been afraid of death, no longer wanted to live, he wanted to die.

He was tired of living and felt that living like this was meaningless.

Sixteen years ago, Mu Yue escaped from Chang'an City and was driven out of Yumen Pass by Li Bai. After he returned the Qinghong Sword to Li Bai, he took Niu Xiaoqing into the Western Region of the Tang Dynasty in his singing.

After two months of running for their lives day and night, Mu Yue and Niu Xiaoqing were so tired that their noses and mouths were crooked, so they quickly stopped when they arrived at Yiwu City, where they also became husband and wife.

But many years later, Yiwu City, which was called Hami, was still too close. It was so close that it did not belong to the Western Regions administratively. It still belonged to Longyou Road of the Tang Dynasty. Within a year, killers from aristocratic families tracked it down.

Continuing to flee westward, the two of them climbed over the Flame Mountain and arrived at Gaochang. This was really the Western Region, the Anxi Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty.

But Gaochang was still close. A year later, the two fled to Shule again. This time it was definitely far enough to reach Congling. However, perhaps because they were addicted to escaping, they still felt uneasy living in Shule.

So, finally in the fourth year after leaving Chang'an, Mu Yue and Niu Xiaoqing crossed the Congling Mountains and arrived at the westernmost end of the Tang Dynasty, arriving at the Suiye River.

There are Tang people, Tocharians, Sogdians, and two families of Xiaobolu people in the village. Anyway, they are all diverse and friendly. The villagers helped them build a hut and opened up a few acres of riverbank land. Mu Yue lived here for twelve years. During these twelve years, he and Niu Xiaoqing were no different from other village couples.

In a village that relies on the sky for food, sometimes if it is really hard, Mu Yue will say to Niu Xiaoqing: "I'll go out for a walk." She will understand and wait at home with peace of mind.

In two days at most, Mu Yue would come back on an unknown horse, carrying large and small bags on its back. When the villagers saw this scene, they were very happy for him. Everyone smiled, and Mu Yue would share some of the harvest with his neighbors.

They are very friendly to each other, but once they leave the village, the men and even women here are very brave, just like the custom here. Many times, there is no difference between villagers and thieves.

The land is vast and the people are sparsely close to the trade routes. As long as you are brave and lucky, you will always be rewarded.

As long as they don't play bad tricks on their neighbors, they are all good citizens. The villagers here are very gentle, very gentle in the village.

However, Mu Yue is really not a thief. This seems to be his bottom line. He just pretended to be a traveling businessman to lure the thief into taking the bait, and then robbed the thief. Maybe it has nothing to do with the bottom line, because thieves are often richer than pedestrians. Mu Yue just grasped the most crucial point.

Thieves are often better than traveling merchants.

Mu Yue would naturally encounter resistance when he robbed them. It doesn't matter, just kill them. If you really can't kill them or beat them, just run away.

When it comes to the ability to escape and the physical strength when escaping, he has practiced hard in the mountains for seventy-nine years and been chased by the swordsman Li Bai for two months. I dare not say that in the entire Tang Dynasty, Mu Yue is definitely the No. 1 warrior west of Congling. one.

The days pass by in such a peaceful and soothing rhythm, with the sun rising and working, the sun coming in and breathing out, and the day running out of time. Occasionally, the two of them would chat about Chang'an, but more often they would talk about what they wanted to eat tomorrow.

When the conversation reached the tenth year, in order not to expose the secret of his ageless appearance, he interrupted and moved back to Shule, east of Congling, but Niu Xiaoqing didn't want to move, and she said it wouldn't hurt to stay for another two years. Mu Yue didn't know what she meant by 'no problem' because he didn't tell her his secret.

Mu Yue was also lazy and didn't move. So, the sunrise and sunset continued, and the chat continued. He felt that the various villagers here were not a threat to him, and it would not be too late to move away in two years.

After twelve years of chatting, our family has not moved away, and we can no longer chat. It is not because we are tired of it, but because Niu Xiaoqing is dead.

The border areas of the Tang Dynasty were naturally not comparable to the prosperous city of Chang'an. The most obvious point was the lack of medical treatment. Living here, no matter what kind of illness you get, it basically all depends on your own destiny.

Niu Xiaoqing said she had a stomachache. After two months of diarrhea, she became as thin as a piece of paper and then died.

When the diarrhea lasted for a month, Niu Xiaoqing knew that he was going to die, because several people in the village had died of diarrhea, and the family of five that Xiao Bolu came from had died of diarrhea.

Niu Xiaoqing said that she was very sorry for Mu Yue. After being married for 16 years, she could not leave a boy and a girl for the old Mu family. Mu Yue wanted to tell her that his surname was not Mu, but he didn't know what his surname should be, so he didn't say anything. He just held her in his arms and listened quietly.

After one and a half months, Niu Xiaoqing was already exhausted and unable to get out of bed. So she knew it was time and told everything.

Niu Xiaoqing said that her real surname was Wu, her name was Wu Huiqing, and she was a female spy of the Yinyun Pavilion of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Longji ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor after the "Tang Long Coup". To prevent a recurrence, he secretly established Yinyun Pavilion, which was loyal only to him, and was an intelligence operations yamen affiliated to the emperor.

Hidden Cloud Pavilion is specifically controlled by Gao Lishi, whom Li Longji trusts most. The Tang Sword Sect is also the intelligence chief of the Tang Dynasty.

Wu Huiqing also has a younger brother named Wu Zhizhong. The elder sister is only two hours older than the younger brother. The younger brother Wu Zhizhong is also in Yinyun Pavilion. The two siblings were adopted by Gao Lishi when they were very young.

Everything comes from the unusualness of Sword Master Pei Min.

Pei Min's sudden rise was very sudden, and Wenxi Pei's return to life was not a normal progress. The Yinyun Pavilion, which monitors everything, investigated Pei Min for many years. More than 20 spies were sent out, most of them died by Pei Min's sword.

Xiao Qing couldn't explain the specific situation, but it seemed that Pei Min was related to a certain demon sect, and Wenxi Pei received military and financial support from there.

Wu Huiqing didn't know what Pei Min wanted to do. She only knew that Li Longji and Gao Lishi had murderous intentions against Pei Min. They could not tolerate any potential threats, especially from aristocratic families.

But there was no obvious act of rebellion, and there was no sufficient evidence of rebellion. Killing Pei Min, the head of the Pei family, would cause a strong backlash from other families, so he could only die unexpectedly in a way that had nothing to do with the emperor and Yinyun Pavilion.

Mu Yue appeared in Chang'an City, allowing Gao Lishi to find a way.

Gao Lishi felt that Mu Yue had a secret, but Hidden Cloud Pavilion had monitored Mu Yue for a year but nothing happened.

Hearing this, Mu Yue was glad that he had not returned to the Zhongnan cabin in his last year in Chang'an, but if he thought about it more carefully, there were no secrets in the cabin. All the secrets were only on his face.

Gao Lishi's suspicions about his intuition are getting heavier and heavier. He must find out what secrets Mu Yue has.

So, a chain plan was hatched.

1: Li Longji summoned Peking Governor Pei Min to Beijing to report on his duties;

Two: After calculating the time and opportunity, the spy of Yinyun Pavilion was responsible for dragging Pei Zhong to Zuiyun Tower to watch Hu Xuanwu, because Mu Yue and Li Bai had agreed to go the day before.

The female spy Wu Huiqing disguises herself as a poor peasant girl who sells dyes. She sees the right opportunity to anger Pei Zhong and induce Mu Yue to feel sympathy. After the hero rescued the beauty, the spy lurking among Pei Zhong's friends took the opportunity to stir up trouble and caused a conflict between Mu Yue and Pei Zhong.

Three: Gao Lishi personally took action, stole the Longquan Sword, disguised himself as Mu Yue, killed Pei Zhong, and framed Mu Yue;

Four: Reveal the news of Mu Yue's escape from the south of the city to Pei Min, who is rushing back, and ask him to intercept the person;

Five: Gao Lishi ambush and find the right opportunity to kill Pei Min. Saved Mu Yue and made the family think that Mu Yue killed Pei Min due to personal vendetta;

Six: Instructing Mu Yue to escape from Chencang Road to Shuzhong, Wu Huiqing 'encountered' him on the way, and then went to Shuzhong together;

Seven: Wu Huiqing becomes Mu Yue's wife, lives with him, and investigates his secrets.

Wu Huiqing sacrificed her life to feed the wolf, and Gao Lishi would protect Wu Zhizhong's life of prosperity and wealth, otherwise both of them would die.

Everything was going well in the front, but Li Bai's incredible uncertainty disrupted the ending. He drove Mu Yue and Wu Huiqing out of Yumen Pass, and then they ran to the west of Congling, causing Wu Huiqing to completely cut off contact with Yinyun Pavilion.

So, they really became a couple, and they became a real couple.

Xiaoqing said that these were the happiest 16 years of her life. She said: Mu Lang, Xiaoqing can't bear to leave you. Mu Lang, Xiaoqing is ashamed of you. I would like to be a cow or a horse in the next life to repay my Mu Lang.

Wu Huiqing may have discovered Mu Yue's secret, because 16 years later, she was already an old woman, but Mu Yue was still Mu Yue from Chang'an City. Others may not notice it if they look at her every day, but she is a trained female spy.

But she didn't point it out, she just told Mu Yue not to go back to Chang'an, Gao Lishi would kill him.

Xiao Qing told Mu Yue that he must wait until everyone who knows him in Chang'an City has died of old age before going back. At that time, she hoped that Mu Yue could bring her ashes back to Chang'an and find the descendants of her younger brother Wu Zhizhong to see if they were doing well. If you are doing well, remember to tell her, and forget about it if you are not doing well.

Wu Huiqing took off the small silver medal she had been wearing on her chest. It was in the shape of a hibiscus flower, with the word "green" engraved on the stamen.

She said that her younger brother Wu Zhi had an identical silver medal with the word "中" on the stamen.

The silver medal is the only relic left by their mother to their siblings.

Wu Huiqing is not Niu Xiaoqing, and her parents are certainly not from a village outside Kaiyuanmen.

Wu Huiqing said that her father's name was Wu Sansi and her mother's name was Shangguan Wan'er. She and her brother were illegitimate children.

After saying this, whether it was Niu Xiaoqing or Wu Huiqing, she died.

She died, and Mu Yue wanted to die too. He was tired of living in this Tang Dynasty.