Fu Shifeng

Chapter 208 The promise is as heavy as a mountain
When the old man left the deserted town, there was no need for a boat or a bamboo raft. He lifted his feet and tapped the reeds on the shore and crossed the river in a relaxed manner.

All the way over the mountains and ridges, the obstacles that are difficult for ordinary people to cross were as smooth as walking on flat ground for the old man. The wind was roaring in his ears at an extremely fast speed. It took more than half a day to arrive at a mountain village. Looking up, he could see the fortress watchtowers and wooden piles all around. On the wall, the sound of Xiang Yong's training came from a distance.

When the old man came to the village, all the passers-by, men, women, old and young, stopped and bowed to show their respect.The old men nodded and returned the greetings one by one, and finally came to a shrine.

"Mr. Gu, are you back?" Several villagers came up to say hello.

The old man said: "I have asked King Sun Long to deal with the governor of Mingzhou, and then there will be one less obstacle to the rebellion."

"King Sun Long of Wengzhou? This man is a pirate. He can't afford to go early without profit. I'm afraid he won't take risks." The villagers were very worried.

"I understand, so I lure him with profit and show him power." The old man said: "And he has many boats. He will be needed in the future. Dragging him into this matter is for future considerations. In addition, Prepare fifty horn bows and three thousand arrows as a reward for King Sun Long."

Hearing the old man's request, the villagers looked embarrassed, but they still said: "Okay, we'll get it right away... One more thing, the little lady is here again. She is alone in the backyard right now, and we don't dare to disturb her."

The old man nodded, and then came to the backyard of the temple. He saw a young woman sitting cross-legged under an old paulownia tree with lush foliage. She folded her hands in front of her, holding a bronze square pot, and slowly breathed in and out the refining energy. It emits a ray of light that is about ten feet high, and ordinary people are not allowed to approach it.

The bronze square pot has an ancient shape, with a dragon on each of its four sides, as if it is about to fly with the pot in its hands and soar to the top.The surface of the pot body is covered with dragon-like patterns, which vaguely echo the glow of the woman's body. As the Qi breaths in and out, the bronze square pot becomes transparent for an instant, and things inside can be seen.

What is contained in the square pot is not wine, but a miniature mountain and river, miniature scenery, and even the rotation of the sun and the moon. It is really incredible.

The old man did not dare to make a sound, and waited quietly for the young woman to slowly finish her work. When the sunlight dissipated, a clear and beautiful face was revealed, with a natural tearful face that made people look down upon her.

"Greetings to Fairy Lingyin." The old man said hello with his hands in hand.

Sun Lingyin looked at the old man, stood up and said, "You don't have to be like this, Taoist friend Gu. You also practiced in Yingzhou and studied immortality. There are no such customs there."

Mr. Gu said: "I have a difficult fate in this world. After all, I am not a member of the immortal world. When I quit the mountains and left, I already felt deeply ashamed of the life-saving grace I had given to the Yingzhou Immortal Family."

"It's difficult to meet the fate of the world... Master said the same thing about me." Sun Lingyin lowered his head and looked at the bronze square pot in his hand.

Mr. Gu did not dare to make unreasonable suggestions, so he said: "Fairy Lingyin brought us these weapons. It is a great kindness that is difficult to repay. If there is any request in the future, I will definitely comply with it."

Sun Lingyin was silent for a while, then raised her eyes and looked around, looking at the secluded green mountains in the distance, and asked: "I heard that in this area, seven or eighty years ago, there was a woman who claimed to be emperor and rebelled?"

"It is indeed true." Mr. Gu replied: "The woman's official name was Shuozhen, her family name was Chen, and she called herself Emperor Wenjia when raising troops. Although the incident failed later, the local people in Qingxi County still secretly built a shrine for her. Worship.”

"Is this the Fairy Ancestral Temple?" Sun Lingyin turned around and looked at the old paulownia tree, nodded and said, "It's really extraordinary."

Gu Laoyan said: "Although Qingxi County in Muzhou is located in a remote valley, it is rich in products, especially lacquered bamboo and tung cedar. However, the taxation is heavy, the powerful are exploiting, and it coincides with the sudden flood in Qingxi County that has not happened in a century. , the government refused to provide relief, causing the people to live in dire straits and sell their sons and daughters.

"Back then, Immortal Aunt Shuozhen had not yet entered Taoism. She was just a servant of a local wealthy family. She couldn't bear to see the people suffer, so she secretly opened the granary of the wealthy family and released food to the people. After this was discovered, Immortal Aunt Shuozhen was tortured. Fortunately, people rescued her and she escaped into the mountains. Later, she was found in the mountains. Immortals teach wonderful methods, uphold the destiny, and go down to the mountains to save the world."

Sun Lingyin looked at Mr. Gu: "Are you planning to imitate Shuozhen Fairy? But she failed in the end."

Mr. Gu asked back: "Fairy Lingyin, did you see the people of Qingxi County on your way here?"

"Never noticed."

Mr. Gu sighed silently, and then said: "Qingxi County is not a barren land. Although it has many mountains and dense water, as long as it is managed properly, the people will definitely not suffer from hunger and cold. But now, let alone Qingxi County, Muzhou, Quzhou, Wuzhou is a place where hungry people can be seen everywhere. It is a land rich in mulberry and hemp, and one family even has only one pair of trousers. The county government urges grain and tax payments every quarter, and if anyone is in arrears, they will be beaten with sticks or even set fire to the house."

Mr. Gu's tone was calm, as if he was stating something that had nothing to do with him, but Sun Lingyin saw a fire burning deep in his eyes.

"You know...the imperial court has sent experts from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to Jianghuai." Sun Lingyin looked away: "They should be here to deal with you."

"A master of the Ministry of Internal Affairs?" Mr. Gu paused slightly: "Is it Gongchen Wei?"

Sun Lingyin was a little surprised: "You even know Gongchenwei?"

"I have an old acquaintance who once told me about the Ministry of Internal Affairs." Mr. Gu seemed a little surprised: "I just didn't expect them to arrive so soon, and we haven't raised our troops yet."

"The Gongchen Guards are a group of extremely vicious people. With their behavior, they are often the first to kill the leaders. They do not take the lives of ordinary people seriously." Sun Lingyin said in a heavy tone.

Mr. Gu was unusually calm: "It doesn't matter, we will have to face this sooner or later. On the contrary, I am worried that the imperial court will mobilize troops too early."

Sun Lingyin thought about it again and again, and then asked: "Didn't Fellow Daoist Gu just say that if I have a request, you will definitely help me?"

"Yes." Mr. Gu was very keenly aware of the murderous intention hidden in Sun Lingyin's words: "Who does Fairy Lingyin want me to kill?"

"It is Lord Zhaoyang of the Gongchen Guard." Sun Lingyin could not hide her hatred, and the corners of her mouth trembled and twitched slightly: "I have a big grudge against this person, and I must kill him with my own hands!"

"Okay, I will help Fairy Lingyin." Mr. Gu did not ask more about the reason. When he said this, he inadvertently revealed the chivalrous spirit of Jiangdong when he was young.

Thinking that she had received help from a master at the innate realm, Sun Lingyin's heart surged for a while, but she did not indulge in it. She immediately calmed down and continued: "There is no need to rush this matter. Gu Daoyou, you are well-connected, and you will serve as a minister to Lord Zhaoyang." News of his arrival in the Jianghuai area has spread to the martial arts world... I also want to mention that this man has powerful palm skills and is extremely lustful, so women from all sects should avoid him as much as possible."

"Is it possible to use Jianghuai martial arts to weaken this person?" Mr. Gu asked.

"If it doesn't work, it would be better to cause him more trouble so that he will be tired of dealing with it." Sun Lingyin showed a trace of complacency when he said this.

Mr. Gu nodded in agreement, but felt that this plan was not very clever. He really wanted to take revenge, and he was especially taboo to let his enemy be on guard before landing the fatal blow.

But since he agreed to Sun Lingyin, Mr. Gu would not allow himself to hesitate or shirk at all. It was this mentality of keeping promises that was more important than life that supported him to this day.

..."Wall penetration?"

In the elegant room of a restaurant next to Xiuyunfang, Cheng Sanwu was holding a basin of hot fish soup, sweating from the meal.On the opposite side of the table, Ah Fu occasionally took down chopsticks, dipping the white jade-like fish meat into the eight-and-gold dumplings.

When they heard Chang Qing describe the situation in the warehouse, they all stopped involuntarily.

"Are you kidding me?" Cheng Sanwu said with glib words: "I suddenly feel that it is more believable that all the guards have been bribed and that they cooperate inside and outside to steal weapons."

Afu stopped her chopsticks to raise her glass and took a sip of Yangzhou's unique Qionghua wine. She watched Changqing draw a door on the paper with strange curved lines around it.

"That's it!" Chang Qing faithfully drew the picture of the doorway through the wall and handed it to Afu: "This door is invisible to the naked eye. I relied on my clairvoyance to discover the clues. The rows of warehouses in the warehouse department were all blocked. This wall-penetrating spell has penetrated!"

Afu's face darkened slightly, and she glanced at the curved lines: "This is the curved pattern."

"Do you know him?" Changqing asked quickly.

"The back side of bronze mirrors is very common." Afu handed the paper to Cheng Sanwu for review: "Yangzhou is rich in bronze mirrors. There are a bunch of mirror casting workshops two streets west of here."

"I know this. The Yangzhou Jiangxin Mirror is also a must-have artifact for Taoists to arrange mandala rituals." Changqing seemed a little restless.

"Can you do this wall-penetration technique?" Afu asked.

"I can't." Chang Qing simply admitted: "When this spell is cast, the wall seems to be nothing, allowing ordinary people to pass through without hindrance. After the spell dissipates, everything returns to normal. This is the power of change, and it requires advanced cultivation. .”

"If even you can't do it, I'm afraid not many people in the world can." Cheng Sanwu slapped the paper on the table.

"That's not what you're saying." Chang Qing explained: "If you want to practice magic like penetrating through walls, it requires very special understanding. You can't stick to the established theories, you have to have wild ideas... I'm not good at this kind of thing. .”

Cheng Sanwu smiled and said: "I understand, only those who like to daydream can learn the art of walking through walls!"

Changqing sighed helplessly: "But people who have too much thoughts can't help but be impetuous in dealing with things. Before practicing magic, refining the spirit and refining qi requires people to calm down their body and mind. A person needs to be quiet and think about it. I’m afraid that before I can master the spell, I’ll torture myself to the point of going crazy.”

Afu asked again: "I can probably understand the wall penetration technique, but how were the weapons stolen? Now it doesn't look like they were smuggled by water or land."

"Have you ever heard of the 'Hu Tian Method'?" Changqing asked.

"Is it a cave in a pot?" Afu's lips curled up: "When you were in the Western Regions, you mentioned it in front of the Qi Protector."

Changqing showed a slightly surprised look, and just remembered this matter, and nodded with a wry smile: "The Cave in the Pot is a small world created in the pot. In ancient times, the immortal family hid in the Cave in the Pot to avoid disasters."

"I've heard similar claims before, but can anyone really do it?" Afu asked.

"There should be some." Chang Qing said: "If we use this method, we can easily take away the weapons from the warehouse. That's why we don't even see the cabinets where the weapons are placed in the warehouse, because the thieves It is to cast away them all together without distinguishing them.”

"Stop it, stop it!" Cheng Sanwu interrupted: "You are boasting more and more. If you continue to talk like this, the ones who steal weapons are not monsters, but immortals."

"But that's the fact!" Changqing defended: "So many weapons disappeared out of thin air. It is beyond human power."

"Then can you find the whereabouts of the weapons?" Cheng Sanwu asked.

Chang Qing opened his mouth, and then said in frustration: "No, the other party's methods are unpredictable and there are no traces of their comings and goings."

Afu looked at the wine glass in his hand and thought as he said: "If the theft of weapons is really related to the rebel party, it means that in addition to Gu Lianshan, there is also an immortal master who has come and gone without a trace. In addition, they want to support the deposed emperor. Son...this battle is really quite big."

As soon as these words came out, several people in the private room fell silent.Previously, I thought it was unbelievable to raise the flag to rebel, but now it seems that there are quite a few masters among the rebels, and the situation has exceeded previous expectations.

"Just because he is the heir of a deposed emperor, do you want to coerce the people and make the world uneasy?" Changqing found it difficult to accept this.

Afu sneered a few times: "It may not be that the scion of the deposed emperor really wants to rebel. Maybe the ambitious people take a fancy to his identity and want to support him in power."

At this time, Cheng Sanwu drank the fish soup in one gulp and placed the soup basin heavily on the table, causing the cups and bowls to shake. He wiped his mouth nonchalantly: "In my opinion, there are nine times out of ten that someone is pretending to be a ghost. Relying on this method to scare us. Didn’t Gao Changshi think it was an evil spirit? He was so frightened all day long that he didn’t even dare to send people to investigate with great fanfare, which allowed the thieves to prepare for rebellion with peace of mind. "

"Pretend to be a ghost?" Chang Qing originally wanted to sneer, but the words turned into a bitter smile: "Do you know that there are people who can cast spells to break through more than a dozen rammed earth brick walls and take away thousands of weapons in one go? How powerful is it? Even if An Quti comes back from the dead, I'm afraid he won't be able to do it easily."

"Didn't An Quti still get beaten to death by me?" Cheng Sanwu changed his position and leaned on the couch, holding a fish bone to pick his teeth: "And use your brains, you guys who are playing with magic are not empty-handed. ?Can’t you use magic weapons?”

Chang Qing said sullenly: "Then tell me, what kind of magic weapon can penetrate walls and store foreign objects at the same time?"

"How do I know? I still expect you to tell me." Cheng Sanwu said matter-of-factly: "If those traitors are really as powerful as you said, we don't have to do it anymore. We might as well switch sides, shed our armor, and welcome the new king. yes!"

"How can a national matter be such a child's play?" Chang Qing stood up immediately and shouted in a deep voice.

As a result, Cheng Sanwu let out a snort, and then burst into laughter: "Damn it, the emperor said that he dreamed of some Taoist ancestor, so he asked a large group of people to accompany him to go crazy and scatter the Taoist statues everywhere. I really don’t know which side is more trivial!”

These words immediately suppressed Changqing's rebuttal, and he sat down at a loss.

Afu vaguely heard Cheng Sanwu trying to persuade Changqing, so she took the opportunity to ask: "Do you think this matter has something to do with Fu Shifeng?"

Cheng Sanwu scratched his head, thought for a while and then replied: "I don't know. If they are really causing trouble, it would be convenient. Send a letter to Yan Fengjun to call in all the masters of Gongchen Guard and kill these people." It’s all a mess for this guy!”

(End of this chapter)