Wish Junshou and Tianqi

The two continued to walk upwards. Although it was a ring of caves, the bandits traveled back and forth, so that the road was very smooth.

Some of the steep narrow paths protruding from the stone wall and clinging to the side wall are also hung with wrist-thick chains on the side wall for people to hold. Wet and very sticky.

Song Yanqing was a little bit obsessed with cleanliness. Even if there was a bottomless cave beside him, he would never touch the chain, and walked on such a steep path alone.

Chu Shou could not reach his level. He was afraid that the soles of his feet would slip and fall into the terrible and muddy cave, so he kept reaching for the chain all the time, not daring to let go.

The upward climbing trail protrudes from the stone wall. The two of them climbed the stone steps of different shapes step by step one after the other. They didn't find it until the end. I don't know if it leads to the next cave or directly to the mountain village. The exit was tightly sealed.

Chu Shou raised his forehead and sighed: "Why did a stone gate appear for no reason?"

This is completely a precipice cave made by nature, how can it be? !A stone gate appeared for no reason!Unreasonable, very unreasonable.

"It doesn't matter." Song Yanqing raised his right hand and touched the drilled pattern on the stone gate with his fingertips. It was wet by the wind and tide, and some traces had already disappeared. His fingertips quickly walked on the stone gate along the engraved mark.

Chu Shou hastily reached out to take the fire folder, leaned closer to illuminate him, and reminded: "Meng Liang knows the formation of Xuanmen mechanism, but the skill is not excellent, and it seems to be the paradigm in the book."

The stone door was glowing with candlelight, and the patterns on it were weird and difficult to distinguish. There were eighteen lotus flowers placed on the upper right side. The petals could be rotated, and the symbols were engraved on them. Chu Shou's face.

Song Yanqing was about to turn the lotus-shaped mechanism, but Chu Shou raised her hand to stop her. She said earnestly and earnestly: "There must be a crossbow needle hidden in this small hole..."

Song Yanqing looked in Xiaokong's direction, moved his throat, nodded slightly, and raised his hand to protect her behind. This kind of mechanism, four on the left and two on the right, should not be wrong.

He turned it slightly to the left, and the stone door boomed, and his hand holding Chu Shou's wrist tightened instantly. After the noise subsided, there was no movement around.

Chu Shou swallowed lightly, and said, "Azhi, continue..."

Song Yanqing glanced back at her, nodded firmly, and immediately turned according to the decoding mechanism of the fourth left and the second right, and soon finished turning, and heard the stone door boom again, and Chu Shou grabbed Song Yanqing's arm tightly. The cramped path, the loud bang, and the deep culvert, if not pierced by the crossbow needle, would have been frightened to death.

Immediately afterwards, there was another death-like silence, and the two of them looked at each other for a while, and in an instant, nine plum blossom crossbow needles shot out from the nine-hole hole, brushing against the figures of the two of them, and flew straight to the front. In the darkness of five fingers.

This series of frights was okay, but there was a woman's exclamation from the dark place ahead, followed by a rush of chaotic footsteps, and the chains on the side wall were pulled and vibrated, making a clear sound.

Chu Shou stretched out his hand holding Huozhezi tremblingly, and with the faint light, the woman's face gradually became clear.

After seeing it, Chu Shou heaved a sigh of relief and couldn't help laughing out loud. He went down a few steps and walked in front of her. He stretched out his hand and flicked the crossbow needle inserted into the woman's hair, "You should thank you a lot for your stature."

"you!"

Ke Yanyue grasped the chain tightly with her right hand, and pointed at Chu Shou, who was rather gloating with her misfortune, with her left hand, stomping her feet furiously, her voice was shrill but suppressed extremely low, with the fear of the rest of her life after a catastrophe.

"Why are you here?" Song Yanqing asked in bewilderment, her eyes sinking.

"Yeah, what are you doing sneaking here with us in the middle of the night?" Chu Shou looked down at her with his arms crossed and his tone indifferent.

Keyanyue said incoherently: "Who...who came with you, I want to go wherever I want."

Before the words were finished, the stone door seemed to be in disrepair for a long time, and there was a sudden bang, and it was opened slowly. Song and Chu looked back at the same time, and they both glanced at Ke Yanyue. Time waits for no one, and they are ready to continue immediately leave.

Ke Yanyue looked at the backs of the two who turned away, and shouted anxiously: "Hey! Wait for me!"

She got up in the middle of the night to tease Chu Shou to repay the shame of the day, but she watched her turn to another room. After the two of them walked out of the inn, she wanted to give up, but everyone came, and she saw it up...

So he followed the footsteps of the two of them all the way through the barracks, and entered this dark cave where you couldn't see your fingers.

It was very scary here, she didn't want to be left here alone, so she raised her skirt and hurriedly followed the pace of the two of them.

After leaving the cave, it turned out to be a cellar, because there are a lot of vegetables and fruits stored here, big jars, small jars, Chu Shou extinguished the fire, picked up a green fruit, wiped it on his sleeve, and put it in his mouth Li, vaguely said: "Yes, it seems to be a cellar."

She has long forgotten the specific setting of this secret passage, but she still remembers it clearly in the village. The most urgent task is to find Meng Liang. She doesn't believe anyone else, but it still takes a lot of trouble to get close to Meng Liang's residence. The officers and soldiers have been around for a few days, and the cottage must have been heavily fortified, and patrols have been stepped up.

"Eat one." Chu Shou took a few more fruits and handed them to Song Yanqing. Song Yanqing looked around, turned around and took the fruits.

Ke Yanyue just climbed up behind her, looked at the abundant fruits and vegetables in the cellar, and calmly took out a vegetable basket, suddenly she touched something like cold iron, and when she opened it, there were actually all kinds of fruits and vegetables under these fruits and vegetables. It is a handy weapon such as a crossbow, bow and arrow.

"This..." She was stunned for a moment, and took out a crossbow casually.

Chu Shou also turned around and pushed aside the fruits and vegetables on the basket. Sure enough, there were weapons under the basket, but they were just holding the fruits and vegetables as a cover.

Before the two of them recovered from their surprise, a voice of "No, no, no, no, no, no, no" came from the cellar at the corner ahead. Song Yanqing raised his hand to signal Chu Shou not to move, and also took out a bow from the basket. The crossbow, loaded with an arrow, walked slowly towards the corner.

He first raised his hand and tilted his head towards the person, looked at him, couldn't help frowning, then turned around and asked Chu Shou, "Is this still in charge of detaining people?"

Chu Shou walked over suspiciously, and saw a person lying on the ground, tied up in five knots, with hemp ropes wrapped around his hands and feet, and a cloth scarf the size of a fist was stuffed on his mouth. Creaking and wriggling, when the man saw Chu Shou, his eyes lit up instantly, his emotions became agitated, and he was anxious to say something.

Chu Shou took a closer look, and found that this person looked familiar, and then took a closer look, wasn't this the man they were looking for, Meng Liang, who was nicknamed "Military Master of Linglong Village"?
"If I hadn't seen the officers and soldiers still at the foot of the mountain with my own eyes, I really thought they were going straight to the village."

After Song Yan listened, he knew in his heart that this person should be the Meng Liang that Chu Shou had mentioned. He put away his crossbow, squatted down, raised his hand to take the cloth towel that blocked Meng Liang, and slipped it out from his sleeve. Flying knife, cut the hemp rope for him.

Meng Liang exclaimed first, then looked towards the cellar entrance with a guilty conscience, lowered his voice and asked, "What? The officers and soldiers are still at the bottom of the mountain?"

After the hemp ropes on his hands and feet were cut one by one, he leaned on the cellar wall and climbed up with difficulty, straightened his clothes, picked up the hairpin that had fallen on the ground, inserted it firmly into his hair, and bowed upright. Chu Shou raised his hand to stop it, and seeing a woman following behind him, it turned into a small salute again.

Chu Shou saw that his face was troubled, and he hesitated to speak, so he asked, "What happened in the village?"

"Last month, the head of the family went down the mountain to snatch a caravan of You Yan, and took a young lady from the caravan up the mountain. Who would have thought that the lady knew the art of witchcraft, and planted a Gu worm on the head of the family on the day of her wedding. , the head of the family is still in a coma in bed, and later this woman colluded with Yang Hu, the second head of the family, broke the agreement with the government, and went down the mountain to burn, kill and loot, which was surrounded by officers and soldiers. Tied to this cellar and left to fend for myself."

As Meng Liang spoke, tears came into his eyes. Chu Shou couldn't bear to speak when he heard it, but Ke Yanyue took the lead and asked, "Is that woman dumb?"

Meng Liang wiped away the old tears, frowned and recalled: "Oh? It seems that she has never heard her speak."

"Do you know her? If you are from the Canaan tribe, then this matter will be much easier to handle." Chu Shou looked at Ke Yanyue and asked.

Ke Yanyue lowered her head and said sullenly: "Knowledge is acquaintance, brother and I came here this time to find her."

Song Yanqing pondered: "Isn't this just right?"

Chu Shou also nodded.

"No..." Ke Yanyue said: "She is a disciple of our patriarch, called Cangcuo. Originally, the patriarch sent her to Youzhou to meet the Wu clan. Who knows, it has been a month, and the heavenly officials have welcomed her It's over, she hasn't come back yet, and once she communicated, she has never been to Youzhou. My brother and I were ordered by the patriarch to search for her along the way, and I thought it would be fruitless..."

Unexpectedly, she followed Chu Shou and Song Yanqing up the mountain by mistake, and she happened to know that Cangcuo was here. Although she and Cangcuo had no communication on weekdays, their relationship was worse than a nodding acquaintance , Cangcuo is a weird person, no one can get along well with her...

"She is proficient in witchcraft. Although she is dumb and looks weak, her temper is surprisingly weird. In our tribe, no one can defeat her, and no one can influence her decision. She is poisonous, He will also control the Gu insects. Originally, the patriarch stipulated that these should not be used lightly when going out, but since she has activated the Gu insects, you must have made her anxious. If my brother is here, I can try to persuade her to let go and go down the mountain. If it’s just me, it’s definitely not going to work.”

Chu Shou nodded slightly, and thought: If she herself was robbed by a group of bandits to become Mrs. Yazhai, let alone get angry, she might be able to do something like bloodbath the cottage...

"Didn't you want to open up the cottage, enlighten your wisdom and make you stupid? Why are you tied up here?" Chu Shou blamed. At the beginning, he couldn't go down the mountain, and he had to calm down the banditry before it was over. After eight hundred times of persuasion, he just refused to listen. This time I almost fell here.

Meng Liang scratched his head and said: "I'm working hard, who knows that the head of the family believed in Yang Hu's alienation, and gradually lost trust in me, and some plans and measures were interrupted. Seeing them start atrocities again, I can't bear it." Live up there for a few theoretical sentences, and then I was thrown into this cellar..."

Then he added, with a bit of remorse and self-reproach: "They were only blinded for a while, I believe they will get better, and they are self-sufficient in the past few years, and they don't need to rely on robbery to live..."

Chu Shou was angry again when he heard this, and his heart felt bad. Seeing this, Song Yanqing stepped forward a few steps, and asked with cupped hands, "Mr. Meng, how is the situation here now?"

"I heard from the people who came here today to reorganize weapons that there should be no abnormalities in the village. Because of the advantage of the terrain, Yang Hu has become the head of the house again, but he is anxious to sing, drink and have fun every night. They didn't seem too anxious, they just made a rough arrangement."

Chu Shou nodded slightly, touched his chin, and thought: "Since she has a different kind of kung fu, she can just kill her down the mountain, so why did she commit herself to be a pawn with that Yang Hu? I'm afraid this Cangcuo has other plans."

Speechless for a while, Meng Liang glanced left and right, and asked Chu Shou, "Boldly ask, these two are..."

Chu Shou came back to his senses and introduced: "This is Ke Yanyue of the Canaan tribe, this is..."

Chu Shou put his hand on Song Yanqing's arm and patted it lightly. He was worried about Ke Yanyue and didn't know how to introduce him. He took a few moments to say: "This is my bodyguard, the old general of my family specially asked him to protect me..."

After all, Chu Shou was inexplicably afraid to raise her hand to see Song Yanqing's face. She had too many scruples, and she didn't know which identity Song Yanqing should introduce to him.

"Then what should we do now?" Ke Yanyue asked in a low voice.

"It's better than..."

Ke Yanyue raised her eyes, and said tentatively: "Why don't you lure the officers and soldiers from the secret passage, and take advantage of the bandits' laxity to calm down the banditry in Qingzhou?"

In this way, Cangcuo can also be taken back, and she and her brother have completed their mission.

"This..." Hearing this, Meng Liang hesitated, he was unwilling to use force to quell the banditry from the beginning to the end.

Originally, there were no bandits in Nanshan. These bandits were workers in the Houshan mine. The mine collapsed in the early years, and many people died here. Their families rushed to the government to argue and ask for a talk. Just a few years.

The government treated them coldly and ignored them. Many families lost their fathers, sons, grandfathers, and grandsons, and their lives were impoverished. With hatred and helplessness towards the government, they were forced to go to Liangshan. Only then did they settle down safely, and after a long time, they became the Qingzhou bandits who caused troubles.

Before Meng Liang decided to go up the mountain, he was also afraid, but after waiting for a long time, he found that the stockade was like a small village. Although everyone was called a vicious mountain bandit, they respected the old and loved the young very much, and the men cared for them. Women and children, even pay attention to the academic education of young children. At the request of everyone, he even opened a small private school in the village, teaching the children in the village to read with their heads shaking their heads on weekdays.

If the officers and soldiers are really brought up, I am afraid that it will be another bloodbath, and I don't know how many innocent people will be hurt.