A knife in love

Chapter 90

Before Yu Changyuan and Zhuang Hengyun snatched the statue, they searched carefully in front, back, left, and right. Yu Changyuan even stretched out his hand to flick or touch the statue, but he couldn't find the mechanism.

Yan Dufei stood in the center of the room, carefully identifying the source of the cold wind, and it was indeed blowing from the direction of the statue of Xuanwu Emperor.It's just that Yu Changyuan and Zhuang Hengyun are busy with their work, but there is no result, and I am quite surprised.Inadvertently turned his head to glance, but saw Li Qiufeng with his hands behind his back, looking at the mural on the left wall.

Yan Dufei thought to himself: "When is this, do you still have the heart to appreciate the murals here?" So he walked up to Li Qiufeng and whispered: "Brother Li, what did you find?" "

Li Qiufeng shook his head and said, "I always feel that there is something wrong with this painting, but I can't find anything weird about it."

Yan Dufei took out the torch from his bosom, shook it and held it up high, and the mural on the left wall immediately became clear.I saw that this mural painted a picture of ascension to immortality. At the bottom left of the picture is a forest, which depicts many people and livestock, and then there is a person with a strong sense of immortality, who is flying towards the sky on auspicious clouds.But the sky is full of clouds, and after passing through the clouds, you will reach the upper right of the mural, where Fuxi, Nuwa, and the four gods of the sun and moon are painted, making greeting gestures.There are also many fairy ladies lined up in the air to welcome them.The characters in the painting have different expressions, and they are all vivid.

This painting is very vivid, and the characters are quite vivid.At that time, the picture of ascending to immortality was popular among the people, and many people took the picture of ascending to immortality and sold it every New Year in the market.Some well-to-do families build new mansions, and they often draw a picture of ascending to immortals on the wall to win the prize.The content is similar, nothing more than Wang Ziqiao, Yuren, Queen Mother of the West, Fuxi, Nuwa, and the four gods of the sun and the moon.Therefore, when Li Qiufeng and others saw this mural, they immediately guessed what story it was about and who the characters were.

Yan Dufei said: "This picture of ascension to immortality is well drawn, but I don't see anything strange."

Li Qiufeng didn't answer, and carefully searched in the painting with the light of the fire zip in Yan Dufei's hand.Suddenly he whispered: "So it's here?!"

Yan Dufei was startled, and hurried over and said, "What did Brother Li find out?"

Li Qiufeng pointed to the lower left corner of the mural with his left hand, and said to Yan Dufei, "Brother Yan, come and see, what is this?"

I saw that the lower left corner of the mural was painted in a cave, and on the left sat an old man with long beard cross-legged, holding a whisk in his arms, as if he was in meditation.On the right side is a very small figure, half kneeling and half lying down, facing the old man, but pointing behind with his left hand.There were five or six people around him, who seemed to be listening to what he and the old man were talking about.

Yan Dufei said: "This picture seems to be a Taoist priest talking to his disciples. I think the old Taoist priest taught some secret method, so this little Taoist priest can finally ascend to the ascension."

Li Qiufeng said: "Brother Yan has lived in the northwest for a long time, so I'm afraid I don't know this story. There is a miscellaneous book in the Central Plains called "Journey to the West Commentary", which tells the story of Sanzang's journey to the west in the early Tang Dynasty. According to the book, this The Sanzang master had a great apprentice who was born with a stone monkey and was born with supernatural power. After this monkey was born, he worshiped under the Bodhi ancestor in the oblique moon and three-star cave in Fangcun Mountain of Lingtai, and cultivated his skills. The picture depicted This is the story. Li is on a job in the capital, and he often hangs out in restaurants and tea shops when he has nothing to do, and he loves to listen to this book."

Yan Dufei was both surprised and delighted, pointing at the half-kneeling and half-prostrating human being, he said: "Brother Li said this person is the stone monkey?"

Li Qiufeng said: "That's right. He is worshiping Patriarch Bodhi as his teacher. Can you see where his left hand is pointing?"

Yan Dufei brought the fire folder closer, and looked in the direction where the stone monkey's left hand was pointing in the painting, and saw that the direction he was pointing obliquely was the statue of Emperor Xuanwu.

Yan Dufei smiled bitterly and said, "It's still the statue. It's just that Master Yu and the others searched for a long time, but they didn't find any mechanism."

Li Qiufeng said: "It's not just a statue, look at the height of his finger, it's not as tall as a statue."

Yan Dufei re-examined it, and finally his eyes fell on the altar, his heart trembled, and he said: "This altar is weird!"

Yu Changyuan and Zhuang Hengyun were still circling around the statue. Many fingerprints of the two of them had been stained on the statue, but they didn't notice it. While they were anxious, they suddenly heard Yan Dufei say that the altar was weird. They stopped in their tracks, looked at each other, and ran to the altar in unison.

Xu Yingyang had been standing in front of the palace gate, watching Yu Changyuan and Zhuang Hengyun coldly beating in front of the statue of Emperor Xuanwu.At this time, seeing that the two of them grabbed the altar, he quickly walked a few steps to the altar.

Yan Dufei and Yu Changyuan held fire folders and searched carefully up and down the altar.The whole body of this altar table is black, the table top is very thick, and the four table legs are almost as thick as the mouth of a bowl.The tabletop was wiped very clean, and there were several empty dishes stacked on it.

Zhuang Hengyun is proficient in mechanism techniques. At this time, he pressed lightly on the four corners of the table with both hands, but the table showed no abnormal shape.Then he supported the two corners of the altar table with both hands, and lifted it up slightly, the table was actually very heavy, it was only raised an inch, but it couldn't go up anymore.Zhuang Hengyun was overjoyed and said, "This table is really weird!"

When Yu Changyuan and others saw that Zhuang Hengyun had found the agency, they were extremely happy in their hearts.I only heard Zhuang Hengyun say: "Everyone take a few steps back, I will lift this table up to see if there is any abnormality."

Everyone backed up a few steps according to the words, Zhuang Hengyun used his arms to lift the table upwards forcefully, only heard a sharp and piercing rubbing sound, and under the light of the fire, the ground under the altar table slowly cracked There was a hole, and a chill came out from the hole.

Zhuang Hengyun was both surprised and delighted, and said: "This table must be connected with steel wires, just lifting it will activate the mechanism below."

After he finished speaking, he slowly put the altar back to its original place, but the hole was not closed.Zhuang Hengyun squatted down, carefully searched for the legs of the altar table, and then gently lifted the legs of the table, and sure enough there were steel wires under the two legs near the end of the statue.As long as the altar is lifted vigorously, the two steel wires will pull the underground mechanism.

Zhuang Hengyun carefully turned the altar down to the side of the statue, completely exposing the hole.

Looking at the dark hole, Yu Changyuan laughed and said, "Finally we have lived up to our years of hard work, and there are still more than a dozen lives. Hahaha."

Zhuang Hengyun was taken aback, and hurriedly said to Yu Changyuan: "Brother, we are in a dangerous place, be careful!"

Yu Changyuan snorted, and said, "The treasure is right in front of you, so be careful. Tell the third child to bring someone in, and we're going to go down the cave!"

Zhuang Hengyun called He Yi and others in. The room was originally extremely narrow, but now there were nearly 40 people crowded into it, and it was immediately overcrowded. Zhuang Ding barely had a place to stay, but half of his body was outside the hall.Yu Changyuan ordered two clever Zhuang Ding to stay in the Xuanwu Hall, and the rest of the Zhuang Ding followed the crowd down the cave.

After Yu Changyuan made the arrangement, he checked the weapons carried by each of them. The most important thing was the gunpowder, water and dry food carried by Zhuang Ding. Gone, among us, only you are proficient in organ skills. You have to work hard to go ahead, and we will follow."

Zhuang Hengyun was a well-known tomb robber in Jianghu in the past, and he has robbed countless tombs in his life. He listened to Yu Changyuan's orders at this time, but he had no objection.He took a torch from a Zhuang Ding, lit it with the torch in his hand, and threw it into the cave.

Everyone gathered around the entrance of the cave and looked into the cave by the light of the torches.But at the entrance of the cave, there is a slanting stone step extending into the cave.The torch kept rolling on the stone steps, and disappeared into the cave after a while.

Zhuang Hengyun said: "Brother, I will walk in front, and you will follow behind. Remember that after entering the cave, don't touch anything in the cave, even the walls, so as not to trigger the agency's message."

Yu Changyuan and others nodded in agreement, Zhuang Hengyun lit another torch, held it in his left hand, and took a wooden stick as tall as a man from a Zhuang Ding with his right hand, and lightly tapped it on the top few stone steps. A few times, and after waiting for a while, seeing that there was no abnormality, he took a deep breath, and then walked slowly.

Yu Changyuan said to the two Zhuang Ding who stayed behind: "After we go down, you put the altar back to its original position. If the hole is closed, you will hold the altar and open the hole every hour. If someone is outside this hall After passing by, as long as you don’t find you, don’t fight them.”

The two Zhuang Ding are the most clever two in Wuhu Villa, but their martial arts are not weak. Hearing Yu Changyuan's order, he hurriedly nodded in agreement.Yu Changyuan turned his head, lit another torch, and said to He Yi: "Young three, you follow at the end, and the rest of the brothers follow me in!"

(End of this chapter)