During this period, Xi Heng decided that before going on a long journey, he must first learn the art of disguise and change his appearance to a face that is slightly different from the wanted portrait.
As for the source of the disguise technique, it was obtained from my senior sister.
Although there is no method of disguise in the inheritance of the Red Line Sword Academy, the former Blood Line Sword School did have it, and the senior sister also knows where the disguise technique is now circulating.
It’s in the Blood Son organization that runs assassination and intelligence business.
As the descendant of the Bloodline Sword, Hong Miao has some relationship with Blood Son, so it is not difficult for her to get a copy from him.
But even so, there is a price to pay.
The price is not money, nor is it exchanged for other martial arts.
While Xuezi was teaching Hongmiao the art of disguise, he also said frankly that if there was a chance in the future, he wanted Hongmiao to help them complete an assassination.
When Xi Heng heard this, he told his senior sister that if Xue Zi wanted to use this opportunity to assign a task in the future, he could just give it to her to complete, and Senior Sister Hong Miao would not have to do anything.
After all, she wanted to use this disguise technique herself, so she should pay the price herself.
Xi Heng and his senior sister have been through so much together and have slept in the same bed for so long. No matter how indifferent he is, he can't help but have some feelings for her because of his ability to reload save files and repeat himself.
Now, even if she dies, she doesn't want her senior sister to disappear.
She even thought about setting up a save file here, so that even if they were separated or separated by life and death in the future, she could just load the save file and go directly back to her beloved senior sister.
However, now is not the time.
Even if you want to save a game in this life, you don't have to do it right away. You can save it later when you go to the northern border battlefield to practice sword skills. In that way, you will have the company of your senior sister, and you can add an extra place to practice sword skills in the save file.
Alternatively, you can save the game when you are about to face a powerful enemy that you must defeat, like in a game where you can be resurrected, and reload the game over and over again, eventually defeating the boss in front of you with a perfect process.
Xi Heng hopes to use one gear for multiple purposes and is not in a hurry.
……
By now, Xi Heng has almost learned the disguise technique brought by his senior sister.
She simply drew a thin sword-like eyebrow, and then used a special long needle used for disguise to draw a line at the corner of her eye. The originally heroic and noble phoenix eyes were turned into slightly lazy and sleepy phoenix eyes.
The fierce heroism in her eyes was concealed by her slightly closed eyelids. With her slightly squinted eyes and gently raised thin lips, she looked gentle, kind, smiling, and graceful.
Without the long sword at her waist and wearing a set of silk clothes, she would look more like a lady from a noble family rather than a chivalrous woman.
But even with a sword, her temperament at this moment was more like that of a scholar with a sword, not like a martial artist with a haggard and ruthless appearance. It was even more impossible for anyone to equate her with the blood demon that was widely circulated in the martial arts world.
After carefully looking at himself in the mirror, Xi Heng saw that his appearance was not much different from before, but his features and temperament had changed a lot. He nodded slightly, and when he was satisfied, he put the long needle of disguise in his hand back into the prepared bag.
After more than a month, she was going on another long journey and her luggage was ready.
But it was already night, so she planned to leave early tomorrow morning.
As for what to do tonight...
The girl looked back at the bed, her fingertips touched her exposed white neck, and moved down along the soft skin.
You will know when senior sister comes back from the study.
"Why don't we just get intimate in the bathroom today." Xi Heng muttered to himself, letting out a warm breath.
Not long after, there were faint footsteps coming from the door.
Through the candlelight, a shadow appeared in front of the door.
Hong Miao's figure swayed, and the carved door was opened.
Seeing that Xi Heng looked slightly different from before, she smiled and asked, "Are you practicing disguise again?"
"Senior Sister." Xi Heng's voice was soft, and after he finished speaking, he placed his little tongue on her lips.
These two words seem to have become a switch button. As long as they are said so tenderly, the body will react.
"Why is it that I just came back and Junior Sister is already interested again?"
Although she was the one who took the initiative at first, by now, Xi Heng was asking for it more and more often.
To the extent that Xi Heng was implicitly taking her place and becoming the active party.
"What a pervert." Hong Miao said with a sigh.
"Don't say that... Senior Sister is obviously the same."
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Chapter 62: Can Xian be replaced?
The next morning.
After saying goodbye to his senior sister who had become drowsy on the bed, the energetic Xi Heng changed into a knight's outfit, came to the stable in the courtyard, hung the prepared bag on the saddle, sat on the horse's back and left Jiangning City, where he had lived for more than a month.
The horses' hooves stepped on the official road, passing through villages of all sizes and the three big cities of Suzhou, Gui'an and Xiuzhou, and galloped towards Jinshi City.
Xi Heng calculated the time and thought that the hero Guo Zhengwo, known as Jingtao Sword in the martial arts world, should have arrived in Jinshi City recently - she wanted to obtain the Huajin martial arts in his hands.
If it can be traded, that would be great.
I don't think I can beat that Hua Jin warrior, so I can't snatch it directly.
At best, they will all end up perishing together.
"But I don't know whether he will come to Jinshi City again in this life." Xi Heng was not sure.
Today's Jinshi no longer has the prosperity of the past. Since the approach of the Tianliang Army, many people in the city have fled the city, and those who remain in the city have been looted several times by the Tianliang Army. I'm afraid there are not many people left alive now.
In my previous life, Guo Zheng and I came to Jinshi City in search of a successor to my martial arts skills.
Now, the number of people in the city may be less than one-fifth of what it was before. Maybe they will go somewhere else in this life...
"After all, we can't just stay at the gate of Jiangning City forever... No matter if he's there or not, we should go out and look for him. Maybe he's there."
Xi Heng lifted the white gauze hat he was wearing with his fingers, looked into the distance, and saw the familiar thick city wall of Jinshi City.
There were still many traces of carbon ash left by the war at the bottom of the blue-gray city wall. The ground looked like it had been swept, but there were still traces of dried blood and some broken weapons.
In front of the city gate stood many guards wearing yellow clothes and carrying swords. Several flags were planted on the top of the city wall. The big characters "Tianliang" were written on the flags, rolling in the wind.
Jinshi City was an important place in the north, so the Tianliang Army did not ignore it like they did to Jianchang City, leaving only a small number of soldiers to garrison. Instead, they left a large army there and forced many soldiers who were originally tenant farmers to return to the fields. They even moved a lot of people from other cities. It was rumored that Fang Tiande wanted to build Jinshi into the future capital of Tianliang.
In addition to farmland, the city's commercial industry is also working hard to recover, various shops have opened, and the conditions for entering the city are relatively relaxed.
Xi Heng paid two taels of silver at the city gate and said that he was a chivalrous man of the world, and was easily allowed in.
The guards treated the people entering the city quite carelessly. They did not check the belongings they brought, and did not even let Xi Heng take off his veil. They just let him go.
This made Xi Heng, who had already prepared several excuses for his identity, a little unhappy, and he went into the city in a depressed mood.
There are still some people living in the city. Red couplets and square characters of "Fu" are hung in front of most shops and houses, and the atmosphere of the previous Spring Festival still remains.
But now, there are only a few scattered figures on the streets, and it can't be called prosperous at all.
Most of the shops were open, but there were very few customers. Even when the autumn wind blew through the street, few people were seen.
The scene was more like that of a sparsely populated small town in the countryside than of a large city in the middle of nowhere.
One only needs to take a walk around the city to discover that the various industries that the Tianliang Army claimed to have restored have not produced any results.
Xi Heng turned left and right and walked to the edge of the central city, then took a long detour and returned to the familiar Red Line Sword Academy.
The faded gate of the Sword Courtyard was closed, and the plaque above it became increasingly blurred. Like most of the houses and courtyards in Jinshi City, it was deserted.
The sky gradually darkened.
Xi Heng felt more and more that he had come here in vain.
Guo Zheng is unlikely to come to such a dilapidated city.
The sun sets in the west, emitting warm orange-red light. The layers of dark clouds are penetrated by the red light, turning them into fiery clouds.
She turned and headed for the central city, preparing to find an inn or restaurant to stay temporarily.
Along the way, you can see that the bloodstains on the stone slabs on the ground have not been cleaned. Even after snow and rain, some places are still darker red than others.
The blood of that siege was not only shed on the city walls, it was even more brutal inside the city.
The soldiers defending the city at least still had the ability to kill the enemy, and Tianliang's losses in attacking the city were several times greater than those of the soldiers.
Since the city was captured, the civilians remaining in the city have no power to resist.
Even the Tianliang Fan army's hatred for the imperial court would fall on them for no reason.
"There is a sense of resentment in this city..." Xi Heng vaguely sensed it.
The resentment was transmitted to the girl's sensitive heart through the bloodstains on the street, the knife marks on the wall, the indifference and numbness in the eyes of passers-by, the candlelight in every lighted window at night, and the damp and strange smell in them.
This feeling made her feel a little uncomfortable.
Xi Heng shook his head and looked up to see a commercial street in front of him. There were a few red lanterns lit on the ground floors of several tall restaurants, but there were obviously few customers.
She set her sights on the largest restaurant, and just after taking a few steps, she heard an extremely tender voice calling from the side and below.
"Please be kind, please be kind..."
Xi Heng looked towards the source of the sound. He didn't see anything at first glance, but when he looked down the second time, he saw a small child who had just learned to stand up, holding half a small bowl and raising his hand to him with trembling hands.
Seeing this, she stopped her horse and said calmly:
"How old are you?"
The child seemed to not understand, his eyes were dull, and he only spoke in a childish voice:
"…I, I want to eat."
Xi Heng simply said: "Come with me to the restaurant and get a cake."
However, the child did not move and just kept saying the three words "please do good".
"Forget it." She yawned and ignored him, threw the reins and continued walking.
When the horse arrived at the bottom of a restaurant nearby, the waiter greeted them warmly.
Xi Heng casually threw a few copper coins as a tip, asking the other party to feed the horse some good grass, then dismounted and entered the restaurant, sat down and waited for the other party to bring the menu.
“Why are there so few dishes?”
Xi Heng had been here before when he was shopping with his junior sister. At that time, the menu was full of items. Now that it was occupied by Tianliang, only a simple page was left.
"And the meat dishes are all chicken and goose...are there no other non-vegetarian dishes?" Xi Heng clicked his tongue.
"Sir... we have few customers, so we prepare fewer dishes and meat. However, the chickens, ducks and geese are all freshly slaughtered, so they are guaranteed to be fresh!" The waiter was barely trying to promote the food under difficult conditions.
"Just serve two meat dishes and a plate of vegetable cakes." Xi Heng waved her hand. None of the dishes above suited her taste, so she just did it casually.
"Okay." The waiter ran to the kitchen with the menu to make arrangements.
Because Xi Heng was the only guest in the entire restaurant during dinner, the food was served quite quickly.
As for whether it tastes good or not... I can only say that it is too homely and the taste is too mediocre. The chef in this restaurant might be a soldier in the Tianliang Army who can cook and has changed his career.
The two meat dishes tasted exactly the same, but the vegetable pancake was a bit tastier.
After picking up a few bites with chopsticks and simply filling her stomach, she asked the waiter to get some straw paper to wrap the pancake.
Xi Heng walked out of the restaurant and within a dozen steps he reached the begging child and threw the bread over to him.
"Yes, eat it."
"..." The child used his short and small hands to try to unwrap the package, looked at the fried cake, and quickly took a few bites.
It seemed that his teeth were not strong enough to bite it off directly, and he had to tilt his head to tear the cake apart before he could swallow it.
Xi Heng turned to leave, but heard the child behind him say: "Please be kind..."
"Isn't there food?" Xi Heng yawned.
She had no intention of caring about the little beggar, but she took it because she saw there was some bread left and wanted to avoid wasting food.
"Please be kind..." The small bowl was pushed over again.
"You want more money?"
"Money, money!" the child said anxiously, "If I go back without money, I will be beaten by the adults."
"Oh?" Xi Heng turned his gaze back: "Did someone force you to beg?"
"Please be kind." The other person just lowered his head and stretched out his two hands holding the broken bowl.
