Jiangbei female bandits

Chapter 43
Three years in Yongning was destined to be a year of restlessness.

First, the king of Yue sued the prime minister Xiao Zhun for treason, which involved many people. Xiao Zhun committed suicide in prison, and Empress Xiao was deposed as a commoner and died of illness in the cold palace.The case is over, but who knows that the King of Yue was not reused by the emperor, but the King of Lingnan was called to assist the government.Not long after the King of Lingnan entered the court, he asked the emperor to order all the kings surnamed Qi to return to the vassal. King Yue already had resentment in his heart, and this matter aroused his jealousy, and he threatened to make the King of Lingnan look good several times.

In June, someone again reported that the King of Lingnan had conspired against him. The King of Yue received an order from the emperor and sent troops overnight to surround the Palace of the Palace of Lingnan and slaughtered the Palace of the King of Lingnan.The emperor was furious when he heard the letter, and said that King Yue's coercive order to kill without permission was tantamount to conspiracy, and the crime was unforgivable.

In just a few days, the royal family surnamed Qi killed two high-ranking princes in a row. The kings said that the emperor intended to kill the kings. They couldn't directly say what to do with the emperor, so they played the tried and tested "side of the Qing emperor" Under the banner of the banner, several feudal lords joined forces, and the army went straight to Shengdu.

In desperation, the emperor had no choice but to send his confidants to Yunxi with a secret edict, and ordered Yunxi King Fengnuo to lead troops into the court to suppress the rebellion.

In August, Feng Junyang, the son of Prince Yunxi, led an army of 20 to march eastward, breaking through several armies of vassal kings all the way, and went straight to Shengdu to stabilize the court.But soon, some old ministers remonstrated with the emperor: the army of the king of Yunxi staying in Shengdu was a wolf's ambition and a sign of the country's subjugation.Just when everyone thought that the emperor's use of Yunxi's army to quell the rebellion was "rejecting wolves at the front door and entering tigers at the back door", they didn't want the prince of Yunxi to invite a respected vassal named Qi to assist the government, but he led the army back to Yunxi , all the way without any crime.

This move greatly exceeded the expectations of the world. If it is said that Feng Junyang led the army to suppress the rebellion before, it was still mixed. When the Yunxi army returns to the west, the world will only have praise for it.Even in Jiangbei, which has long been in chaos, when the people mentioned the Prince of Yunxi, they were full of praise, saying that that is the real benevolence and righteousness, and the Yunxi army led by him is even more a loyal teacher.

Xiao Hou'er was assigned by Chen Nian to go to Jizhou to purchase grain, and when he came back, he told everyone what he had heard. He couldn't help giving a thumbs up when he said this, and praised: "The prince of Yunxi is a real hero, a real hero!" Man! I heard that when he was stationed in Shengdu with troops, that stubborn old man scolded him in the face in the street, calling him an ambitious wolf. Guess what happened to him?"

He was talking happily, but Wen Daya suddenly scolded him: "You can't stop your mouth even if you eat! It's useless to talk less, eat quickly, and go do your work after eating!"

The bystanders were engrossed in listening, and hurriedly asked: "What's the matter?"

Someone else speculated: "The old man must be cut. He is the uncle of the dynasty, and he is heavily armed. How dare you scold him? I am really impatient!"

Xiao Hou'er was triumphant, and just about to continue talking, but saw that the village owner Chen Nian had been eating in a muffled voice without even raising his head.He couldn't help but ask her: "The master! What do you think?"

Chen Nian glanced up at him and asked, "What?"

Xiao Hou'er didn't want her to speak so wonderfully, she didn't hear a word, she couldn't help feeling a little dissatisfied, and said: "There is a stubborn old official scolding the Prince of Yunxi in the street, what do you think will happen to the prince?"

"Oh." Chen Nian responded, thought for a while, and said lightly, "It won't be a big deal, nine out of ten it's just doing it on its own and treating each other with courtesy."

Xiao Hou'er patted the table excitedly, and shouted: "The master's guess is indeed correct! That Prince Yunxi's son really did this, and people say he has a good temper."

Chen Nian smirked slightly, and said: "That's how he is, he won't put anything on his face, even if he wants to kill you at night, he can still call you brother and brother with a smile during the day."

Xiao Hou'er was very surprised, he opened his mouth and was about to ask again, when Wen Daya suddenly raised his foot, kicking the stool under him flying.Xiao Hou'er sat down on the ground, and shouted angrily: "Wen Da Ya, what are you doing?"

Wen Daya hurriedly winked and pouted at him, Xiao Hou'er was startled, and suddenly remembered that the man named Zheng Lun mentioned that Chen Nian was the son of the son when he was in Feilongxing, so the son of the son was not This Yunxi prince's son!For a moment, he completely forgot about this matter.Xiao Hou'er was startled, and immediately fell silent, only carefully peeking at Chen Nian's face.

Chen Nian smiled nonchalantly, and said: "It's not a hindrance, and it's not something I can't mention. I did deal with this Prince Yunxi for a few days before."

In fact, Wen Daya and others all heard Zheng Lun's nonsensical words that day, except for Cui Xi who had asked Chen Nian in private, the rest of the people did not dare to ask what happened between Chen Nian and that son. thing.After a long time, Xiao Hou'er and the others almost forgot about it, so they were so unscrupulous in their words.

Most of the people in the village were careless, and hearing what Chen Nian said, the idiot asked without even thinking: "Master, how do you know that son?"

Wen Daya didn't think there was someone more stupid here, he was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood, and wished he could kick him away again.It's a pity that he was too far away, and the idiot was heavy. He secretly raised his foot to kick, not only did not shake the idiot at all, but almost stretched his hamstring.

Chen Nian finally put down his job, raised his face to look at everyone, but asked seriously: "Do you think I'm handsome?"

Everyone was taken aback by her question, and then nodded.Everyone has been with her for a long time, although they think she is very good-looking, they are used to it, but those who meet her for the first time are often dumbfounded at the first sight.

Chen Nian asked again: "Can you be considered a beauty?"

All the gangsters responded one after another: "The head of the family is a great beauty!"

Chen Nian stood up, stepped on the stool, and said boldly: "We are all brothers who have died, and I will tell you that at the beginning, the son of the world also saw my beauty and wanted to take me as a concubine. But this village Who is the master? He is both beautiful and martial arts, so he can be regarded as both talented and beautiful, even if he marries him, he has to be a big wife! His kid actually wants to be the master of Naben Village, who has countless ranks. Concubine, do you think I can obey him?"

The bandits were furious and shouted, "No! No!"

Chen Nian smiled, and said bluntly: "I don't think so either! So the two of them couldn't agree, so they broke up!"

After going through so many things, everyone in the village has long respected Chen Nian, and someone immediately complained for her: "Then Shizi is a piece of shit, and dared to call our eldest master to be a concubine! Pooh!"

Someone even yelled: "Catch him when you have the chance, and tell him to be Mrs. Yazhai for our head!"

Everyone laughed, Wen Daya took a look at Chen Nian, seeing that she was not angry, he purposely joked, "Don't say that, and let Master Lu know later, I will kill you!"

Before the words were finished, Lu Xiao happened to enter the door, and everyone laughed kindly when they saw it.He was confused by everyone's laughter, looked up at Chen Nian, but seeing that she was also smiling, he couldn't help grinning too.His smile made everyone laugh even harder.

Chen Nian was helpless, so he had no choice but to sink his face, patted the table and shouted: "Enough! Enough! When you are full, go to the back mountain to collect stones! The house can't be raised again. If there are newcomers, they have to Live outside the house!"

Because of the war, many people in Qingzhou fled into the mountains, and many of them heard about the name of Niutou Village in the southern town, and learned that the leader of this village is benevolent and righteous, and he never did such bullying things, so he came to join him. .

And because Niutou village is not like other villages that only want young and strong, no matter you are old or young, male or female, as long as you are not a vicious person, even if you are not accepted into the gang, they will take care of your two meals a day.As a result, in just a few months, the number of people in the village, which originally only had about twenty people, has increased to several hundred.

The village is not big at all, how can it accommodate so many people.Chen Nian was helpless, so he had to assign people to quarry and log, saying that he had to build some houses before the weather got cold, so that everyone could have a shelter.

Two days later, Cui Xi, who went out to inquire about the news, returned from outside the mountain. When he saw Chen Nian, his expression was a little heavy, and he said to her: "I have traveled to many places this month, and almost everywhere I went was fighting. The whole Jiangbei is in chaos, not only in Qingzhou, but also in Yongzhou and Suzhou. I heard that the Taixing He clan took advantage of Zhang's attack on Qingzhou and led troops to the north. The two families are fighting for Yuzhou. The rest of the small Some of the military towns also want to take advantage of the battle between the two of them for some territory and have a lively fight."

Chen Nian said: "It can be seen that the number of people fleeing to the mountains is increasing day by day, even in such a poor place as ours, so many people have come, which shows how chaotic the outside world is."

Cui Xi said again: "On the way back, I also saw many refugees coming to the east. It seems that Jizhou is the most stable now, no wonder everyone is fleeing here. It's just that the Feilongxing Pass was sealed by Xue Shengying, and the refugees He couldn’t walk the road, so he had to cross the mountains from other places. Moreover, Xue Shengxian from Jizhou would not allow these refugees to flood in, even if he fled to Jizhou, he didn’t know what would happen to him.”

Chen Nian was silent for a while, then sighed: "No wonder the book says 'I would rather be a dog of peace than a person in troubled times', it really is!"

Cui Xi had seen and heard a lot during this trip, and was quite moved. He was silent for a moment, glanced at the people who were busy building houses in the distance, and asked Chen Nian, "Does the master want to expand the village?"

Unexpectedly, Chen Nian shook his head slowly, and said in a low voice: "The purpose of building a house is to hide people's eyes and ears, and also to find some work for those newcomers, so as to see who is honest and who is slippery."

After hearing this, Cui Xi looked at Chen Nian with some puzzlement: "The master is planning to..."

"I plan to eat Hukou Ridge." Chen Nian said in a deep voice.

Liu Yanwang, Black and White Wuchang and others all died in Feilongxing. Zheng Lun took their corpses back and hung them at the Feilongxing Pass for public display, as a warning to others.All the bandits in Hukouling thought that those people were killed by the Qingzhou army, and they wanted to seek revenge from Zheng Lun, but they were all killed by Zheng Lun after several groups of people went, and finally had to give up.

"After the death of King Liu Yan and that Black and White Wuchang, the strength of Hukouling was far inferior to before. Afterwards, other villages sought revenge several times in a row. Although they managed to survive, they were at the end of their strength. But the village was built solidly. After many years of painstaking management by King Liu Yan, there is a lot of food in the village, if we can take down that village, let alone these people, even if there are hundreds more, they will be able to support them."

Cui Xi's eyes flickered slightly when he heard this, and he was also very moved, and asked: "Is there really a lot of food in that village?" In the current war, the most rare thing is food, as long as there is food to feed everyone, you can do anything. easy.

Chen Nian smiled but did not answer, turned to look at Lu Xiao who was waiting by the side: "You asked him, he went to check on it himself."

Lu Xiao said: "The cottage in Hukou Ridge is built on the top of the mountain. Although the mountain is not the highest, the terrain is quite steep. The west and north sides are full of straight up and down cliffs. The village is divided into two layers, the inner and outer layers. There are two gates in the east and south, but there are gates in the inner layer divided into four directions, east, west, north, south, and some are like a city, I never imagined that King Liu Yan would have such ability to build the village like this."

Chen Nian interjected with a smile: "This is not the ability of King Liu Yan. I have asked someone about it. The village in Hukouling has been around for many years, but it was not built by King Liu Yan. It is said that it was built by a capable man during the previous war." It was built not only to avoid bandits, but also to resist troops.”

Cui Xi asked anxiously: "Have you visited the village? Does King Liu Yan have a lot of food?"

Lu Xiao said: "I went to investigate. There is a cellar in the inner village. There is a lot of food in it, some new and some old. It looks like it was saved by Liu Yanwang."

Cui Xi was overjoyed when he heard that, and turned to Chen Nian, "Master, what scheme do you have?"

Chen Nian said: "I have thought about it carefully. Although there are no Liu Yanwangs in Hukou Ridge, it is a big stronghold after all. There are also a few masters in it, and the terrain is advantageous. It is extremely difficult to take it down. The front one A few cottages that wanted to take Hukouling by force are examples."

Cui Xi also muttered: "A strong attack is not as good as an outsmart attack."

Chen Nian smiled: "I think so too. His village is surrounded by cliffs on the west and north sides. Because it is steep and difficult to climb, there is almost no defense. You can walk from there."

Cui Xi thought for a while, but hesitantly said: "Where can I climb up?"

Lu Xiao said lightly, "That's where I went up this time."

"After Lu Xiao goes up, he will let everyone hang down the rope, and the rest of them can climb up carefully." Chen Nian said, "It's just that the outer village is easy to enter, and the inner village has high walls, which are difficult to break through. We need to discuss it carefully."

Chen Nian and Cui Xi discussed how to break through the inner stronghold. Although Cui Xi was young, he came from a military family after all. He had also learned a lot of military art and knew some methods of attacking the city.It's just that this cottage is different from the city after all, he repeatedly talked about a few tactics he learned from books, but after discussing them in detail, they were useless.

Lu Xiao always obeyed Chen Nian's arrangements and did not get involved in the affairs of the village. This time he heard a lot, but he couldn't help saying: "The people in Hukouling are just bandits, how can they know how to defend the city? It’s because you are thinking wrongly. In my opinion, choose a few people with good lightness skills to go in first, kill people and open the city gate directly.”

Only then did Chen Nian and Cui Xi suddenly realize, and Chen Nian even laughed and said, "It's not that we were wrong, we really destroyed Hukou Ridge like a city."

From the looks of it now, it would not be difficult for them to break the village.Cui Xi thought for a moment, and said: "There is one more thing, how to occupy the stockade after breaking through it, we have few people, and the other party has many people, even though it is a group of thugs, we can't kill them all, let alone It is said that there are not all extremely vicious people there, and the crime is not worthy of death."

Chen Nian said with a smile: "I have thought of a way, you can see if it works."

She told Cui Xi the method she had been thinking about these days, and Cui Xi thought about it carefully, and said, "I think it's feasible!"

The two of them are the brains of Niutou Village right now, and now that they have decided on this matter, they each proceed to arrange it.Chen Nian found Wen Daya and other capable men, instructed them patiently, and then explained the key points to them in detail, saying: "Jiangbei is in chaos now, if we only stay here, we will die sooner or later. It's better to be hard-hearted and go one step further!"

The rest of the people were a little excited, but Wen Daya was cautious, hesitantly said: "Isn't it too risky, Master?"

Chen Nian said with a smile: "Wealth and honor are in danger! Although we don't seek wealth and honor, we can only seek survival."

Xiao Hou'er even shouted: "What the boss said is absolutely true! If we were as timid as Brother Wen was before, we would have starved to death by now."

Seeing that everyone agrees, Wen Daya no longer objected, he only said: "If you want to do this, you have to think carefully."

Knowing Wen Daya's temperament, Chen Nian said, "Don't worry, I already have a plan, but you need to support us in our village, whether it's building a house or training the newcomers. Come down, lest people see the flaws."

Wen Daya also likes to do these things, so he quickly agreed.Since Niutou Village is managed by Wen Daya, Chen Nian only went to Hukou Ridge wholeheartedly.

Due to the war outside the mountains, more and more refugees are pouring into the mountains.I don't know where the news came out of nowhere, saying that there were food distribution in Hukouling.Not long after, hundreds of refugees gathered at the foot of Hukouling Mountain.Although the people in Hukouling went down the mountain several times to drive them away, there were always people who secretly came here under the name of Hukouling's second master to distribute food to everyone.

The Hukou Lingda head was in a hurry to get angry, and the second head was even more aggrieved, but Wen Daya in Niutou village was heartbroken looking at the granary that was emptied day by day. Where to send food? Send it again, we will have nothing to eat in winter."

Chen Nian smiled and said, "Don't worry, after a while, I'll return you a cellar of grain!"

She has painstakingly calculated Hukou Ridge for the time being, and said that the situation in the world outside the mountain is also changing rapidly.Compared with Jiangbei, which was in constant war, Jiangnan was lively for a while, but with the withdrawal of King Yunxi's army, it seemed that the peace of the past had returned.

Soon after Feng Junyang left, the emperor conferred the title of noble concubine as empress, and held a grand empress ceremony for her.

After the ceremony, the emperor and the empress were served by the palace servants to change their dresses. The new empress Feng brought a cup of tea to the emperor herself, and said coquettishly: "The emperor is really, it is enough to have concubines in my heart, and I have to Inspiring teachers and mobilizing people like this, those courtiers don't know what to say about courtiers and concubines."

The emperor took the tea with a smile and put it aside, but stretched out his hand to pull the seal and sat next to him, and said with a smile: "Anyone who wants to say anything can say what he wants, and what to do with him! They also said that you are a witch who is a disaster for the country, and you will die. What about my country. What happened? If you hadn’t been loyal to Feng Family, my country would have been taken away by those tiger-like uncles and wolves long ago.”

The queen leaned gently in the emperor's arms, and said softly: "The emperor is the real dragon emperor, and he has his own protection from heaven. Those vassal kings are just shrimp soldiers and crab generals. Even if they jump around for a while, they are just clowns. compared to."

This made the emperor very happy, but when he thought of those vassal princes who were still strong despite being defeated by Feng Junyang, he couldn't help but feel a headache, and said: "Your brothers and sisters are too careful, Jun Yang should stay in The one who helped me in the court, when he left like this, those old men will no longer be afraid."

Hearing the words, the Queen of Seal retreated the palace servants in the palace, got up and knelt down to the emperor, and remonstrated solemnly: "Your Majesty, the world belongs to the Qi family. Even if you want people to assist the government, you should also invite the highly respected prince surnamed Qi to enter the court. How can we ask foreign relatives to assist the government? Not to mention that it will cause dissatisfaction with the royal family and vassals, even the court will have a lot of discussions. Moreover, although Jun Yang is loyal to the emperor, he has no second thoughts, but if he is in Shengdu If you stay for a long time, if you don't keep all the people under him, you will have some thoughts that you shouldn't have. At that time, there will be foreign relatives arbitrating power inside, and vassal princes outside will make trouble, how should the emperor deal with himself?"

In fact, this remark has already been said to the emperor by loyal veterans, and the emperor himself has savored it countless times.However, he never thought that one day he would hear these words from the woman in front of him, and for a moment he felt a little bit dizzy, quietly looking at Empress Feng, speechless.

After sealing her rosy lips, she continued: "According to my concubine's humble opinion, if the emperor wants to choose a minister to assist the government, it is better to choose a loyal and highly respected prince from among the princes surnamed Qi. In this way, both To show the emperor's heart, but also to block the mouths of the people in the world, let people know that the emperor did not tolerate his uncles and brothers, and the death of King Yue and King Lingnan is all their own fault."

The emperor was silent for a long time, he stretched out his hands to help the queen, and said with emotion: "Although there are many women in the harem, you are the only one who is wholeheartedly thinking about my sake."

The back of the seal revealed a shy look, and lowered its eyes and said: "The concubine also has selfish intentions, I only hope that the sincerity of the concubine will be valued by the emperor, and will accompany the king forever, and will never stop favoring him."

Her frankness moved the emperor even more, he stretched out his arms to embrace her, and said in a low voice: "You treat me with sincerity, and I will definitely live up to you."

The woman with a bright and open smile suddenly flashed in front of Empress Feng's eyes, the empress Xiao who once proudly told her that "this palace and the emperor have married since they were young and have been in love for more than ten years", she finally died alone in the cold palace.

Ah!The emperor's love words are the most touching, but also the most unbelievable!The queen fell into the emperor's arms meekly, but there was a mocking smile on the corner of her mouth.

Thousands of miles away, Feng Junyang had just rushed back to Yunxi with dozens of Qingqi, and said to the king of Yunxi who was on the sick bed: "My father expected it well. Now, if the son-in-law forcefully stays in the capital, it will only attract them to jointly counterattack. Why don't you take a step back and watch the infighting among the kings of the Qi family first, and wait until their hearts are gone, and I, Yunxi, will take the opportunity to advance. The son-in-law was anxious before gone."

The king of Yunxi had just arrived in the year of knowing his destiny, but he was almost exhausted, and he was hanging on the century-old ginseng, and it was only when Feng Junyang rushed back.He slowly turned a pair of cloudy eyeballs, glanced at the soldier talisman, and said in a hoarse voice: "It's rare for you to be able to endure and restrain like this. Even if my father is dead now, he can still close his eyes."

When Feng Junyang heard the words, he laid down on the bed and cried bitterly: "Father, don't say such words, you still want to watch my son conquer the world for you and embrace you as emperor."

"It's the same if you can take over the world." He swallowed with difficulty, "Marry with Taixing to stabilize Jiangbei, first settle Jiangnan and then plan to go north. Take precautions against He Zhen, this person has deep scheming and should not be underestimated."

Feng Junyang's sobs should be "yes".

King Yunxi paused for a while, and then said with difficulty: "After I die, treat your brothers well, and even the third brother will not kill him. Don't blame the king for being partial, because the king knows himself too well. Son, he doesn't have the ability to calculate the attack on you in Jiangbei so accurately, there are too many strange things in it, I don't know who borrowed his hand to act."

Feng Junyang broke down in tears, and replied: "I know this, so I won't argue with him."

King Yunxi paused for a while, and then said: "Don't trust your elder sister too much, you can't trust the water thrown by a married daughter."

Seeing that Feng Junyang hesitated for a moment, King Yunxi showed a sneer on his face, and said, "Do you really think that child was abandoned for our Feng family?"

Feng Junyang lowered his head and remained silent.

King Yunxi said: "You are my most proud son. How can you not see through it? You just don't want to believe it. The baby's fetus is unstable and depends on medicine. Your elder sister secretly found a baby from outside the palace. The divine doctor went back and heard the divine doctor say that the child is born with insufficient birthright, even if it is forced to give birth, she will not survive a hundred days, so she became so cruel."

Feng Junyang did not expect these twists and turns. He also arranged eyeliner in the Shengdu Palace, but he had never heard of this miracle doctor, and he had never even heard of the unstable pregnancy of Concubine Feng. It can be seen that Concubine Feng How closely the matter was kept secret.

Before he could ask, King Yunxi asked again: "Do you want to ask me how I know?"

Feng Junyang was silent for a moment, and replied: "Yes."

King Yunxi twitched the corners of his mouth with some effort, and said mockingly, "Because I sent that miracle doctor."

Feng Junyang's back tightened when he heard it, and he shuddered.

King Yunxi stared at the top of the tent with empty eyes, and after a long while, he said as if talking to himself: "You have to be ruthless to do great things."

Feng Junyang wanted to say "yes", but his voice seemed to be choked by a pair of invisible hands, and he couldn't make a sound.

King Yunxi's breathing suddenly became short of breath, he gasped for a while like a bellows, and reluctantly said, "I will arrange everything after the death, so you don't have to worry about it. Go down and call your mother in."

Feng Junyang left the hall with his hands down, and Princess Yunxi went in instead.The concubines guarding the courtyard also wanted to follow in, but they were startled by the cold glance of the princess, and stood timidly on the porch, sobbing in a low voice.

In the courtyard, the rest of King Yunxi's sons stood there with their hands down, no matter what they thought in their hearts, they all had sad expressions on their faces.Feng Junyang only glanced at them lightly, then withdrew his eyes, and stared at the bluestone bricks in front of his feet in a daze.

After an unknown amount of time, Princess Yunxi's bitter cry suddenly came from the hall.Feng Jun Yang Dun felt his heart empty, he seemed sad, but he also seemed to have a faint sense of relief.He closed his eyes slowly, and opened them again after a while. From then on, he was the king of Yunxi.

In Jiangbei, as the weather gets colder, the days are getting shorter and shorter.Chen Nian and others waited under the cliff on the north side of Hukou Ridge for less than an hour, and the twilight was already extremely thick.Lu Xiao slung a roll of thin rope over his shoulder, turned to look at Chen Nian, and asked again: "Do you really want to go up with me?"

Chen Nian put on the gold silk glove that he got from Chaoyangzi, smiled at Lu Xiao, and said, "If my master hears what you said, she will scold her again. Stop talking nonsense, maybe I'm faster than you."

Lu Xiao looked at her again, and then said: "You go up first, I'm behind."

Chen Nian was not polite to him, he stepped on the rock wall with his foot, and his body nimbly jumped up more than ten feet, and stretched out his hand to grab a protruding rock.She paused slightly, and then lightly tapped her toes on the cliff, but she couldn't see how hard she was, but she jumped up a foot high and clung to another place.

People watching from the bottom of the cliff felt that she was extremely light and agile, but in the blink of an eye, she reached a height of more than ten feet.Xiao Hou'er was so excited that he scratched his head and shouted: "Star Picker! The star picker taught by master, I never thought that my sister would use it here!"

This star-picking hand is originally a clasping palm technique, but Chen Nian applied it to the lightness kung fu skillfully, and even Jing Yuxuan would praise her for her flexible mind when she saw it.Lu Xiao looked up at Chen Nian with a smile on his head. He didn't hold onto the rock wall until he saw that she had climbed halfway, and climbed up slowly, but his eyes glanced at Chen Nian from time to time, as if afraid She missed and fell.

Although the cliff was steep, fortunately it was not very high, but after a stick of incense, Chen Nian lightly jumped to the top of the cliff.After a while, Lu Xiao slowly climbed up from behind.Chen Nian couldn't help being a little proud, and asked him with a smile: "How is it? Is my lightness skill better than yours?"

Lu Xiao thought for a while and replied, "If the cliff is several tens of feet higher, you will lose to me."

Although Chen Nian's hand is exquisite, it requires deep inner strength to support it. If the cliff is higher than a hundred feet, she really can't use this method to go up.Chen Nian smiled and said: "You're right, no matter how high the cliff is, my internal strength is weak, so I have to find a place on my waist to catch my breath."

Lu Xiao smiled, without saying anything, untied the rope from his shoulders, and lowered it slowly to the bottom of the cliff.It was already dark at this moment, and only the torch burning at the bottom of the cliff could be seen. After the torch swayed left and right, Lu Xiao pulled up the thin rope again, and tied the thick and strong rope to a big tree. .

A small lantern was already lit at Chen Nian's place. Seeing that Lu Xiao had tied up the rope, he waved the lantern towards the bottom of the cliff a few times, sending out a secret signal.

After a while, Xiao Hou'er was the first to climb up with the rope, and everyone followed suit.The last one came up was Shada, who was the tallest and most cumbersome, with two stone hammers tied around his waist, panting heavily from exhaustion, sat down on the ground like a fool, and shouted in a rough voice: "I'm going to be exhausted to death!" I won't climb this thing if I beat him to death next time."

Chen Nian counted the number of people and saw that there were few people, so he felt relieved and said to everyone: "I have already explained to you how to do things, remember not to panic, just follow the plan."

Everyone nodded, Chen Nian and Lu Xiao looked at each other, and they went to the cottage together.

(End of this chapter)