A knife in love

Chapter 1518

Li Qiufeng and Murong Danyan walked through several vegetable beds, and a large bamboo forest suddenly appeared in front of them.Startled, the two stopped at the same time.At this moment, a rooster crowed in the distance, and after a while, cocks crowed from far or near, mixed with the sound of dogs barking.

Murong Danyan was stunned for a moment, and said in his mouth: "It's said in the book that chickens and dogs hear each other, I think it's like this. It's really unbelievable, this is actually the lair of Fusang people."

Li Qiufeng said in a low voice: "It's about to dawn, we have to find a place to hide first. The bamboo forest ahead is very dense, let's take shelter in the bamboo forest for a while, and then decide what to do next."

The two performed lightness kung fu and jumped into the bamboo forest in the blink of an eye.But in the bamboo forest, there is actually a path paved with stones, extending from west to east in a zigzag way.Li Qiufeng and Murong Danyan hid in a place with dense bamboo bushes, the sound of cocks crowing and dogs barking could be heard in the distance, and the whole earth seemed to be slowly waking up from sleep.

While looking around, Murong Danyan said to Li Qiufeng: "One year my father took me to the outskirts of Hangzhou to visit a hermit and stayed for one night in the small village where the hermit uncle lived. Although there was no sound, I suddenly abstracted a place to rest, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep. After tossing until the middle of the night, I was so sleepy that I fell asleep. It was just that when I woke up the next morning, the sky was about to dawn, and the sky was far away. There was the sound of a rooster crowing, and then some villagers called their sons and daughters to go out to work. Ah, it is quite similar to the situation at this time."

Li Qiufeng said: "The Liusheng family's lair is only a few miles outside the city of Dongliao County, but Li Zhisheng, a fool, didn't notice it at all. Liaodong's officials are so corrupt, if the Japanese pirates suddenly attack, I'm afraid Liaodong will no longer belong to Ming Dynasty .”

While the two of them were talking quietly, they suddenly heard the sound of talking from a distance.Li Qiufeng and Murong Danyan's heart trembled, they didn't dare to speak out any more, they hid cautiously among the bamboo bushes.After a while, only the sound of footsteps was heard, as if many people were walking along the path in the bamboo forest.These people talked and laughed as they walked, but they couldn't understand what they were talking about.Li Qiufeng and Murong Danyan both thought in their hearts that these people are all from Fusang, and they speak in Fusang language, so we can't understand them.

In a blink of an eye, these people had already walked beyond the bamboo bushes where Li Qiufeng and Murong Danyan were hiding.The two held their breath and looked out from the gap in the bamboo bushes.At this time, the sky was just getting bright, and he could already see the surrounding situation clearly.I saw more than a dozen men and women walking over, some with bamboo baskets in their hands, and some with burdens on their shoulders.These people were talking and laughing as they walked, and some of them were pushing and fighting with each other, and their speech and behavior were quite intimate.

Li Qiufeng saw that these people were wearing linen clothes, which were very different from the clothes of the common people in Ming Dynasty, and he thought to himself, these people are all Fusang people.Although they sneaked into Daming, they still wore Fusang clothes.The Liusheng family has been hiding here for more than ten years, and their perseverance is truly admirable.

I saw the dozen or so people talking and laughing and walking westward, and after a while, they walked out of the bamboo forest, and they were no longer seen.Murong Danyan then whispered: "Brother Li, what are these people going to do?"

Li Qiufeng pondered for a moment, and said: "Most of these dozen people are women, and they are carrying bamboo baskets and other things in their hands. Presumably they are going to pick vegetables and cook breakfast."

When Li Qiufeng said this, he paused for a while, and then said: "It seems that the place where the Liusheng clan lives is not far ahead. These people are completely defenseless and will not suspect that someone has sneaked into this place. Let's take the opportunity to sneak over and see Let's see what the old lair of the Yagyu clan looks like."

The two quietly got out of the bamboo bushes and walked eastward along the path.This bamboo forest is very quiet, the bamboo is several feet high, obviously it has grown for many years.Murong Danyan said in a low voice while walking: "When I was in the south of the Yangtze River, I heard that Liaodong is a place of bitter cold. Bamboo loves heat and fears cold, so it cannot grow in the north. But there is a large bamboo forest here, which is really strange."

Li Qiufeng was also in doubt.When he was in the middle of Shu, bamboo was commonplace, so he naturally didn't find it unusual.Later he went to the capital and worked in Jinyiwei for five years. On weekdays he was on duty in the palace, but he also saw bamboo in the imperial garden.It's just that the bamboo in the imperial garden is slender and short, and it's just for decoration.And every winter, most of the bamboo will die.In the spring of the next year, people will be sent from the south of the Yangtze River to transfer bamboo to the palace for replanting.Li Qiufeng heard from the gardener in the palace.It is bitterly cold in the north, and bamboo will freeze to death in winter.Therefore, the bamboo in the imperial garden must be replanted every year, so that no tall bamboos can be seen growing.Liaodong is colder than the capital, how could such a tall bamboo survive?Could it be that Liu Sheng Zongyan really has such a skill that he can make bamboo grow in Liaodong?

The two walked carefully through the bamboo forest, and in front of them was a meadow with twists and turns, extending eastward from this meadow.On the opposite side of the lawn is a tall tree. Behind the tree, the shadow of the house can be seen faintly.When Li Qiufeng and Murong Danyan saw the white walls and black tiles exposed among the trees, their hearts trembled, and they stopped in unison.

Murong Danyan was silent for a while, then said: "Those houses, I think they are the lairs of the Liu Sheng clan."

Li Qiufeng said: "That's right. Although we still can't see what these houses look like, but from a distance, the style of the houses is completely different from the houses of our Han people."

Murong Danyan looked around for a while, and then said in a low voice: "Those houses are hidden behind big trees. If we set fire to it, the Fusang people will suffer a lot. The sky is not bright yet, and most of the Fusang people are still awake. It's cheap for us to act!"

Li Qiufeng shook his head, and said, "Don't be reckless. This is the lair of the Liusheng clan, so it must be heavily guarded."

When Li Qiufeng said this, he pointed to the grass outside the bamboo forest and said: "This grass is very flat, obviously someone has leveled it. It is about twenty feet from the bamboo forest to the row of big trees on the opposite side, and it is a flat land without any shelter. Let's If we rush over rashly, the enemy will immediately notice that we are crossing this grassland."

Although Murong Danyan knew that what Li Qiufeng said was very reasonable, she thought to herself, we have already arrived here, so why not wait at the edge of the bamboo forest forever?Thinking of this, she said to Li Qiufeng: "If there is danger here, let's walk through the woods on the south side."

Standing behind the two big bamboos, Li Qiufeng first looked east and then north.I saw that this place is about a hundred feet away from Laoweng Mountain, and the forest is more than twenty feet away to the south.He thought for a moment in his heart, and then said to Murong Danyan: "Miss is right. Let's go into the woods and approach those houses quietly from the woods, so we won't be noticed."

(End of this chapter)