ask sword 2

Chapter 83 Underground
Li Ang stopped slowly, the soles of his boots stepping on the gravel on the ground, making a soft sound.

The crossbow mounted on the window of the carriage was nearly an arm wide, the body of the crossbow was dull, and the cluster of arrows shone with icy cold light.

In terms of shape, it is almost the same as the crossbow used by the soldiers and soldiers of Zhenfu.

There is no shelter or shelter in the alley, and the walls on both sides are towering.

pat.

The coachman driving the carriage gently flicked the reins, lowered his sleeves, and turned his head - the face under the bamboo hat was one of the two sword cultivators who guarded Jiao Cheng in Pingkangfang that day.

And extending from the bottom of its cuff, is a floating, trembling hiltless flying sword.

Tread, step, step.

Li Ang stepped forward, boarded the carriage, and immediately smelled an herbal scent.

I saw the spacious car, covered with a thick layer of white cloth,
On the double-row seats sat Jiao Cheng, Di Wu, and another middle-aged swordsman.

Jiao Cheng's lame right leg was covered with messy linear cuts, as if a sharp object had slashed the skin.

Although Di Wu and another sword cultivator, who had blood on their hands, had already bandaged the wound with herbal powder and cloth, they still couldn't stop the blood from oozing out and dripping on the car.

"Cure him, the money is yours."

Di Wu took a deep breath, and with his blood-stained palm took out a wad of flying money from his arms, the smallest denomination was [-] coins.

"I know you'll be in trauma,"

The pale-faced Jiao Cheng struggled to retract the crossbow from the car window, leaned against the inner wall of the carriage, panting and said, "After you left with You Xiao that day, I asked someone to investigate. People have healed wounds.

cure me. "

Jiao Cheng's tone was firm, his index finger was always on the crossbow machine.

Li Ang glanced at him blankly, and did not take the flying money from Di Wu's hand, and said indifferently: "The tool is not there."

"Go to Huaidefang."

Jiao Cheng kept his voice low, and the monk sitting in front of the carriage shook the reins, drove the carriage north, and stopped in front of the hotel courtyard where Li Ang lived.

Jiao Cheng didn't get out of the car, but let Jianxiu and Li Ang in the car jump out of the carriage together, went into the house and took out the medicine box, and returned to the carriage.

And let the carriage go southeast.

During the driving process, Li Ang did not use pure wine to clean his hands, but directly sutured the wound on his burnt leg with a silver hook and silver thread.

I don't know if it's the herbal powder covered with burnt legs, what special effect does it have?
Jiao Chengcheng didn't cry out because of the pain during the stitching process, and there was no blood oozing from the wound on his leg, but his face became paler.

Jiao Cheng handed the crossbow to Di Wu and asked him to continue aiming at Li Ang.

Another sword cultivator in the carriage also always controls the flying sword, hovering on the side of Li Ang's head.

In Chang'anfang City outside the car window, the voices of people are still noisy,
In two days, it will be the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, the Buddhist Obon Festival. Both the rich and the poor must prepare snacks and paper money to pay homage to the deceased to show their memory of their ancestors.

Roadside shops have already started various memorial items, clothing and hats.In some markets, lanterns should be hung up in advance to pray for blessings during the Obon Festival.

The streets were chaotic, and the yamen and bad people in Chang'an and Wannian counties maintained law and order at the intersection.

Occasionally, some unscrupulous people can be seen leading small dogs, sniffing the smell of passing carriages and pedestrians.

Li Ang remained silent and sutured the wound slowly and steadily. Instead, Di Wu and Jian Xiu, who was driving the carriage, became nervous first.

The carriage gradually approached the intersection ahead.

The small dog that was lying on the ground on the side of the road seemed to sense something, barked "woo wang", stood up from the ground, and looked at the slowly approaching carriage.

"Gudong."

The bald-headed Di Wu swallowed heavily, his palm holding the crossbow machine was covered in sweat, his eyes seemed to pass through the carriage and nail the small dog to death.

Snapped.

Jiao Cheng didn't know where the strength came from, he firmly grasped Di Wu's wrist and forced Di Wu to put down his bow and crossbow.
And he himself took out a packet of medicinal powder from his arms, crushed it with one hand, and sprinkled the medicinal powder in the car.

A strange, inexplicable smell filled the carriage and escaped through the windows.

The small dog, who was alert on the side of the road, sniffed his nose, tilted his head in confusion, and watched Jiao Cheng's carriage driving past.

And the bad guy holding the leash of the thin dog also yawned, completely unaware of the abnormality.

Actually, passed.

Li Ang's eyelids twitched slightly. The fine dogs responsible for guarding patrols in Chang'an City were all domesticated by the Zhong family of Zhenfu Si, who could easily sniff out and track the smell of human blood.

First of all, the package of medicinal powder in Jiao Cheng's hand must be extremely precious.

Secondly, no matter what they are conspiring, they don't want the outside world to find out - otherwise, there is no need to sneak up and use kidnapping to threaten medical treatment.

Li Ang is a student who is going to take the final exam of the school. If he suddenly disappears the day before the exam,
Even if some people think that Li Ang is afraid of abstaining from the test,
There will also be students from the same town and staff from the academy looking for them in the city, which will cause disturbances - after all, to prevent students from trying to exclude competitors, the academy will definitely attach great importance to this,

It is even possible to send monks to jointly search the city with the people from the Zhenfu Division.

At this point in time, Li Ang was held hostage
'What is it for? '

Li Ang gradually accelerated the stitching action, and the carriage also drove out of the intersection smoothly and continued to the east.

Guangdefang, Xinghuafang, Lanlingfang, Jinchangfang
The carriage went all the way to the southeast until it entered the wall of Qinglongfang and stopped in a hidden bamboo forest.

"Sewn and bandaged."

The gauze bandage in Li Ang's medicine box wrapped Jiao Cheng's injured leg.

He put away the silver hook and silver thread, the white cloth in the medicine box, and wiped the blood on his palms and surgical instruments.

Jiao Xingxiang didn't feel any pain. He stretched out his hand and pinched his right leg, which was tightly wrapped in bandages for several times. With the help of Di Wu and the middle-aged Jianxiu, he got off the carriage.

The breeze lifted the window curtains, and through the green shade of bamboo leaves, you could see the river not far in front of the carriage, and a flat-bottomed painting boat came slowly.

On the side of the painting boat, there is a sign of a certain building in Pingkangfang—not Lianhua Building.

The boatman in bucket hat standing on the bow of the painted boat, holding the bamboo pole, parked the boat on the shore,
Jiao Cheng turned around and said to Li Ang who was still in the car, "Jun Li Xiaolang, come with us?"

"Where?"

Li Ang did not ask the other party why he was holding him hostage, and whether the other party knew the possible consequences of holding him hostage. Jiao Cheng was a smart person, and there was no need to talk nonsense, "I have healed your leg injury. Tomorrow, I will still have it. The final exam of the academy."

"I know, if things go well, tonight, Li Xiaolang-Jun, you can bring [-] guanfei to return to Chang'an to take the final exam tomorrow in time. Now, I just ask you to come with us."

Jiao Cheng said hoarsely, "Please."

Jiao Cheng's attitude was resolute, even at the risk of a ruptured wound on his right leg, he refused to rest.

'What they are plotting must have been planned for a long time, and the situation is extremely urgent.This painting boat came from Jinchangfang in the northeast and sailed to the southeast.In other words, the destination is the Yellow Canal. '

The thoughts in Li Ang's mind turned sharply, 'They are going out of the city? ! '

The water system of Chang'an City in Yu State is collectively known as the Eight Waters and Five Canals.

The Eight Rivers refer to the eight rivers around Chang'an City, such as Jishui, Zhushui, Jingshui, etc.

Five canals refer to the five main channels that were constructed artificially to draw water from outside the city into the city in order to utilize the water sources of the eight rivers.They are Qingming Canal, Longshou Canal, Yongan Canal, Huang Canal, and Cao Canal.

The Yellow Canal is located in the southeast of Chang'an City and is the main channel of Qujiang Pond. Along the Qujiang Pond river, you can go directly out of the city - there are too many boats traveling on Qujiang Pond every day.
Now it's coming to the Obon Festival, and the crowds of tourists are crowded.
Even if the yamen, unscrupulous people, and military officials in the city come out in full force, they may not be able to take care of every corner.

According to the usual rules, on Qujiang Pond, only the boats that want to enter the city should be carefully searched, and the boats leaving the city should be swept away.What's more, it is still a high-end painting boat in Pingkangfang.

Pingkangfang has always had the jargon of "walking a horse" and "staying in a mu". Staying in a mu means staying overnight, while walking a horse means traveling with prostitutes——

Especially going out to the city to walk a horse, this is not a shameful thing in Shilin, on the contrary, it is very romantic and unrestrained.

Many literati, dignitaries and dignitaries do this.

The soldiers in charge of guarding and patrolling the Qujiang Pond, naturally, would not be in trouble, so they went to search for a high-end painting boat in Pingkangfang that was about to leave the city——

Wouldn't it be embarrassing to find a prime minister or a minister in it.

In a flash, Li Ang guessed the whereabouts of Jiao Cheng and others' plan,
With his face still calm, he picked up the medicine box and got off the carriage.

Under the gaze of the two swordsmen, they stepped onto the painting boat.

In the painting boat with carved beams and painted buildings, there are several men with tattoos on their foreheads, and several women in Pingkangfang who look a little nervous.

Li Ang glanced at them, then found a place to sit down, holding the medicine box.

"Doctor Li, please."

Jiao Cheng and others also boarded the painting boat, Di Wu stepped forward and handed a black square towel, Li Ang glanced at it, took out the handkerchief that Chai Cui had stitched up from his arms, and put it over his eyes .

The painting boat sailed again without a sound, and the sound of silk and bamboo music and the interlacing sound of gongchao came from the boat, just like an ordinary painting boat.

Li Ang, who was wearing a blindfold, silently felt every turn of the boat, and calculated the speed of the water and the speed of the boat in his heart.

The painting boat left the stream and sailed into the Yellow Canal.
Gradually, the sound of other painting boats gradually came from the river surface.

'Out of town. '

Li Ang felt the direction of the ship, and with a turbulent sway, the painting boat docked.

Brush pull.

There was a sound of standing up around, Li Ang took off his blindfold, and saw Jiao Cheng, Di Wu and others walked out of the boat and came to the bow.

This seems to be a hidden forest, and the horses have been prepared in advance in the clearing.

Li Ang followed Jiao Cheng and others off the bow, watched the painting boat slowly leave, and moored in the middle of the river with the other painting boats, lighting the candles that illuminated in the evening.

"Li Xiaolang's first exam at the Academy, the first in the imperial examination, should you be familiar with horse riding?"

Jiao Cheng raised his chin, and with the help of Di Wu, he rode on the back of the horse, and tied the bamboo crutches that never left his body around his waist.

Li Ang glanced at him, did not speak, and chose a horse to ride on.

The corners of the eyes of the two swordsmen shrouded him all the time.

Li Ang did not doubt that as long as he made a change, the two sword cultivators would sacrifice their swords and stab at them.

"Can you hold on to your legs?"

Li Ang asked indifferently, Jiao Cheng grinned, "This will not bother Li Xiaolang-jun. Let's go."

Jiao Cheng flicked the reins and galloped away on his horse.

Two Jianxiu, Di Wu, and the tattooed man who got off the painting boat and responded in the forest, followed by riding horses.

The road in the forest was quite bumpy, and Jiao Cheng, who had gauze wrapped around his legs, did not slow down in the slightest.

Half an hour later, the crowd stopped at a mountain pass, Di Wu dismounted first, and after a little bit of identification, he went straight to a withered pine tree, squatted on the ground and swept away the fallen leaves, revealing the hidden under the pile of fallen leaves. square planks.

Di Wu took hold of the brass ring on the plank, lifted the plank door,

There is a hole with a diameter of half a zhang hidden under the door. Looking down the hole, you can see a sloping staircase.
If you listen carefully, you can faintly hear the sound of the gurgling water below it.

'Chang'an Ghost City.'

Li Ang let out a faint breath. He had thought that the destination of Jiao Cheng and others was here, but after seeing it with his own eyes, the doubts in his heart became even greater.

'Chang'an Ghost Market is a place for underground trading, selling prohibited goods such as monsters and aliens.Based on Jiao Cheng's status, connections, and financial resources in Chang'an City.

It is completely possible to let the subordinates go out of the city, trade on their behalf, and then find a way to transport them back to the city through other means.

There is absolutely no need to take the risk in person—there are so many outlaws and defecting monks hiding in the ghost city.

If there is a conflict, even the two sword cultivators may not be able to keep him.

Unless he didn't come to trade in the ghost market.

But for other things. '

Di Wu took the lead and walked down the steps in the dark, and lit the torches on the wall of the tunnel with the fire stick he took out from his arms.
Jiao Cheng leaned on a bamboo cane, limped forward, and glanced at Li Ang when his head disappeared at the entrance of the cave.

'Are you going to watch me? '

Li Ang frowned slightly, and walked forward with the medicine box in his arms, with countless guesses in his heart.

The risks of holding him hostage are not directly proportional to the benefits. Jiao Cheng is a rational and calm person. He will not deliberately take revenge for taking Song Shaoyuan and You Xiao six days ago-especially when he finds out that the money is from the Duke of Yan's mansion. After getting it.

There must be something very important in coming to the ghost city this time.

Healing the mastermind behind the ghost city?

Or.
Li Ang looked at Fang Jiaocheng's right leg in front of him - there was a faint blood oozing under the bandage there.

'Jiao Cheng's injury was not a cut with a sharp weapon, but a cut with a sharp weapon.That's why the injury looks terrifying, but the main arteries and veins are not injured and can be sutured. '

Li Ang supported the cold and damp tunnel wall and walked down, 'There are two possibilities that can cause such a large area and a large number of sharps to be cut.

One, the sword master's flying sword.

Second, the congenital astral wind. '

The congenital gangrene that exists only in high places, Jiao Cheng's subordinates who inexplicably suffered from high altitude cerebral edema six days ago.
Li Ang stared at Jiao Cheng's back and went down to the bottom of the steps.

This is an underground dark river, and three canoes are tied to the river bank with iron chains.

The river flows endlessly, leading to the depths of the cave, the dark unknown.

(End of this chapter)