Ping An Biography

It seemed that Zhang Ning was determined to go in and look for evidence, but Xu Wenjun didn't persuade her. She opened the water bag and drenched two towels and handed over one: "Cover your mouth and nose, maybe it will help." Zhang Ning nodded and took it. Come here, Xindao girls really need to be more careful.

Zhang Ning walked forward with a torch, Wen Jun gently drew out a short knife and followed closely behind, walking very lightly.Both of them raised their hearts and kept vigilant.As soon as you enter the door, you will find a hall with a statue in the middle, but you don't know what god it is enshrining.There are four large pillars in the hall, the incense burner in front of the statue is down on the ground, there are scattered debris around, everything is earthy, covered with a layer of dust, only the stone bricks on the ground are not covered by the mud .

He looked around and found no place that had been touched by anyone. He saw an open wooden door diagonally opposite, so he whispered: "Let's go in and have a look."

Wen Jun never expressed any objection, and the two entered the door timidly.There is light in the front hall, but once you enter the door, it is completely dark and can only be illuminated by torches.Zhang Ning covered his mouth with a wet handkerchief, but he couldn't smell any peculiar smell.He took a torch and looked around to check.

Both the apse and the front hall have the same roof, and the whole building is integrated.I don't know when the building existed for how many years, but the ancient people racked their brains to build buildings on the cliff, most of which were Taoism, or some local religion, who knows?Zhang Ning came here mainly to collect evidence, but the smell was too faint, even if he didn't cover his mouth and nose with a veil, he would definitely not be able to smell where it was coming from.

The stone lamp prisoner in the corner quickly attracted Zhang Ning's attention. He hurried over, handed the torch to Xu Wenjun, then squatted down to tinker with it. After a while, he unscrewed the cover on it. I saw that there was no lamp inside but it was filled with powder, but the powder didn't look like the soil that was poured into it.Zhang Ning was overjoyed, and picked up a little with his hand, then took the wet wipe from his mouth, put his finger in front of his nose and smelled it for a while, then turned around and said happily: "I found it! Did you bring a container, let's pack more Go back, lest that old cousin Yan find some excuses."

"The kettle is full of water and I'm afraid of getting the incense ash wet, so use that piece of cloth to wrap it." Xu Wenjun said.

"Okay." Zhang Ning waited for Xu Wenjun to spread the cloth on the ground, and then reached out to grab the incense ash, and after grabbing two handfuls, there was not much left.He was still not satisfied, and saw that there were lampshades in other corners, so he wrapped up his cloth bag and went elsewhere.He remembered that he had a money bag in his pocket, so he reached out and took out the banknotes and some heavy metals inside.Unexpectedly, a piece of silver fell to the ground with a "boom" when he missed it.

At this time Xu Wenjun said: "Go to the empty space under the floor."

"Hmm." Zhang Ning squatted down to pick up the silver ingot, and knocked it twice again. Sure enough, there was an empty sound, which was completely different from the solid ground.Curiosity kicked in, and having ventured in anyway, he wondered for a moment what lay beneath.But I didn't have any tools in my hands, so I couldn't pry the slate open, and I didn't know how to open it after touching it on the ground.

"Could it be that there is a mechanism?" He raised his head and looked around. The light was not good, and it was pitch black after a little distance.However, he quickly turned his gaze to the stone lampshade in front of him, and stretched out his hands to twist it. At this time, Xu Wenjun reminded him to "be careful", but it was too late. With a sound, the stone lamp immediately rotated ninety degrees.As soon as the stone slab under his feet was loosened, Zhang Ning instinctively jumped to the side. There was a heavy "wow" and the slate sank to reveal a black hole.

Unexpectedly, hurried footsteps sounded outside, Zhang Ning and Xu Wenjun looked at each other, he blurted out: "Who is here... Yan Ruofei and the others must not have the guts to come up."

The apse seemed to have only one exit through the door, and they found that the two of them seemed to be trapped.Xu Wenjun held the dagger tightly, Zhang Ning looked around for something convenient, and he could only unscrew the stone lamp cover.

"There are at least three or four people." Xu Wenjun said quickly, "After a while, I can't stand my master, so I will go down this hole."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a woman's voice say: "It's dead anyway, someone is blocking the other end." As soon as the voice fell, two men in black clothes and drapery hats appeared at the door, holding crossbows in their hands. watching them.

Xu Wenjun hurriedly stood in front of Zhang Ning.

"If you are sensible, you will be arrested without a fight, and you will die quickly." A woman's voice from the other side of the door said.

"There is something to say, something to say..." Zhang Ning made a gesture carefully, as if to put down the stone in his hand.In the current situation, with people blocking the door and other people with long-range weapons, it would be considered polite not to shoot himself immediately, so Zhang Ning reflexively wanted to stabilize first.After a while, he thought of telling Xu Wenjun to throw the torch away, because long-range weapons are not so effective in the dark; but Xu Wenjun was in front, and he didn't dare to call her, so he didn't know how to hint... She might have thought of this problem, but she didn't Dare to act rashly, otherwise Zhang Ning is unprepared and easily shot. In short, it is difficult for the two to reach a tacit understanding without any communication.

He deliberately said: "There is no woman standing in front, Wen Jun, come back to me!" After finishing speaking, he pulled her back, and while turning sideways, he took the opportunity to make a mouth shape: fire.

"Don't move!" said the woman's voice, "Move again and shoot the arrow immediately! The woman in front put down the weapon in her hand, otherwise I will kill you first!"

Zhang Ning had nothing to do, and he was still worried that Xu Wenjun would do it on his own. If she was killed, he would be helpless as a literati.He hurriedly ordered: "Mr. Wen, put down the knife."

"Take your time, don't throw the torch, otherwise it depends on whether you throw it faster or the arrow flies faster." The woman said.

Xu Wenjun had no choice but to obey Zhang Ning's words, stretched out his hand gently, let go of the handle of the knife and fell to the ground with a "ding".

"Put your hands where we can see them." The woman said as she led people in. There were four people in total, all of whom seemed to be women, holding two torches, and the light in the back hall became brighter and brighter.The lady ordered again: "Tie it up first! You better behave yourself, otherwise you will know the consequences."

Zhang Ning said helplessly: "We just came here out of curiosity, and now we know there is a hole here, and we don't know what's underneath. Could it be that there is some treasure hidden? Why don't you hide it in another place, and I'll compensate you for the loss. Why don't you kill someone? Since you know we've come up, you should know that there are people down there, and you'll be in trouble if you don't go back."

"Shut up, shut up!" The woman scolded, tied Zhang Ning and Zhang Ning tightly, and confiscated their belongings.

At this time, the other party relaxed their vigilance slightly, because Zhang Ning and others were disarmed and tied up, so there was really no threat.The girl breathed a sigh of relief and sneered, "You're quite courageous. Usually, no one would dare to approach you. You came up here with a big swagger. That's right, the theory of ghosts and gods is the first line of defense here, and it can block most of them." Enemy; but in normal times, you would have been poisoned to death long ago, and there is a kind of evil spirit incense that is poisonous and is our second line of defense. You are lucky, we just got an order to remove the poison some time ago... If you just come up for a walk Let's go, you should be safe and sound. If you want to blame, you are too courageous to discover the secret passage. How can we stand by and watch? There are sentinels within ten miles of this place, and every move you make after entering is under our control, hum Hmph, I really think too loosely about the defense of our god religion."

Zhang Ning said: "It turns out that the teaching altar of your religion is actually set up here. I really didn't expect you to choose such an unlucky place. There are so many sarcophagi on the stone wall outside, and all of them are filled with dead people."

Another person next to the leading woman said: "Master Xiang, what should these two people do, kill and cut off their heads on the spot and go in to receive meritorious deeds?"

"Don't!" Zhang Ning said in amazement, "It's not the same to get credit for catching people. Being a believer is also a human being, so how can you be too vicious? Let me tell you, the credit for catching people may be even greater. You have a lot of confessions!"

"Oh?" The incense master looked at him suspiciously.

Zhang Ning hurriedly said: "Fortunately, I am used to carrying seals and other things with me. You can search for them. I have tokens in my underwear bag... We have all fallen into your hands. What do you have to worry about? You can't run away anyway. If you kill me Killing and exterminating the living, maybe there will be no credit but will be accused, don't you believe it?"

Xiangzhu thought for a while, then stepped forward, and really reached out to touch the bag inside Zhang Ning's clothes.Suddenly, she felt her hands trembling slightly, revealing the tension in her heart. Maybe it's hard for them to see men after hiding in this kind of place for a long time?

Taking out Zhang Ning's seal, road guide, official documents and other things, the incense master immediately believed it.Sure enough, Zhang Ning saved his life for the time being by fooling around. He is not good at martial arts, but he can still speak with a mouth, and he is not the kind who talks too much and has little use.

Lord Xiang pondered and said: "You have to report first before you can bring outsiders in. I will report to you to watch people. The rest of the people outside should not dare to come up...Forget it. To be on the safe side, we should take the prisoners into the secret passage and keep them safe. Shut their mouths!"

Before being gagged, Zhang Ning couldn't help but finally said to Xu Wenjun: "Did I tell you? No ghosts, gods, mysteries are considered dangerous, and the most dangerous thing is people. You see, everything is made by people."

"If you study and become an official, you will have a lot of twists and turns in your stomach." The incense master muttered after hearing this.

Then Zhang Ning and Wen Jun were escorted down the secret passage, inside was wet|humid and there was running water flowing, and the air was not stuffy at all. Obviously this place is not a dead end, and it must be ventilated.I don't know where the other end is.

Just now the woman called Xiangzhu walked straight to the other side, and the other three people held weapons in their hands and looked at Zhang Ning.At this moment, he really had no hope of escaping by force. He only thought about whether he could negotiate something with the evil spirit sect, but it was a bit difficult to think about it... First of all, he had nothing to offer as a bargaining chip, and then how could the evil spirit sect believe it? A bargaining chip that can fulfill the promise after letting people go?