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Chapter 135 The Secret of the Valley (2)
Lu Jian seemed to have been punched, with sweet hair in his throat, and said in a harsh voice, "Ah Qing...you are in my heart, no one can compare to..." Yao Qing glanced at him, her eyes were as cold as ice: "Okay , you do something for me." Lu Jian said: "What is it?" Yao Qing said: "Kill Ning Bukong and avenge my father."

Lu Jian was startled, and blurted out, "Miss Ning has no other relatives..." Yao Qing's eyes turned red, and a glimmer of water appeared in her eyes. She turned around abruptly and walked forward.Lu Jian asked anxiously, "Where are you going?" Yao Qing said coldly, "I'll take a walk to relax, and you don't have to follow." Lu Jian had a thousand words in his heart, but when it came to his lips, it became: "There may be beasts in the woods!" Yao Qing sneered, "Beasts are much better than men in this world."

Lu Jian was speechless, watching her back disappearing into the night, feeling so wronged, wished he could burst into tears.He stood there blankly for a long time, but turned around helplessly, and sat leaning against the door.

After sitting for half an hour, Yao Qing didn't come back. Lu Jian became anxious, stood up, and ran towards Yao Qing's place. His martial arts are rare in the world at this time. Hidden traces, the jackal saw the momentum and retreated, and the mountain wind was stern, and it seemed to be cut in two.

Lu Jian ran in all directions, and at dawn, he searched all over a hundred miles, but he still did not see Yao Qing.He was so anxious that he called out the girl's name, his voice was filled with internal energy, and the voice traveled for ten miles, echoing from all peaks and valleys.Lu Jian didn't hear the answer, and was very anxious: "Did she meet an enemy or a beast? With Ah Qing's alertness and supernatural powers, there are not many people in the world who can restrain her. When it comes to beasts, they are not her opponents. Hey , if she goes back at this time and sees me, won't she be angry again?"

He hurriedly turned back to the farmhouse, opened the door and entered. The giant crane lost its owner, and was pacing up and down the hall on slender, healthy feet. Lu Jian hurriedly asked, "Big guy, is Ah Qing back?" He Wang cooed at him, Lu Jian sighed, and said to himself, "I'm so confused, no matter how smart you are, you're not human."

After being dazed for a while, Lu Jian went out to search again, and almost searched Tianzhu Mountain all over. At dusk, he returned to the farmhouse hungry and hungry, but saw the table was full of big fish and fresh fruits, and the giant crane curled its neck and claws, and fell asleep. Long.Looking at the empty house, Lu Jian felt sour. He cooked the fish and grass and ate some fruits.The fruit was originally delicious, but when Lu Jian ate it in his mouth, it had no taste at all.His mind was in a mess, he thought about Yao Qing for a while, then Ning Ning for a while, after deliberation, he couldn't help but let out a loud cry, which made the giant crane startled and stared at him in bewilderment.

Lu Jian put his head in his hands, feeling extremely regretful in his heart: "I like Ah Qing, how can I miss Miss Ning..." The more he imagined like this, the more Ning Ning's phantoms appeared.Lu Jian couldn't help but ran out of the farmhouse, ran wildly, came to a small stream, and plunged his head into the water with a "crash".

The cold air came into his head, and Lu Jian regained his senses. He looked up, the moonlight was bright, like flying snow, he looked down again, and there was a blurry figure reflected in the water waves. In just two days, Lu Jian's eyes were sunken, his cheeks and lips Covered with short beards, it looks hideous at first glance.

Lu Jian was fascinated by the phantom, and suddenly the waves were messy, and the moonlight turned into broken silver. Lu Jian turned his eyes and saw that the giant crane was stretching its beak, drinking from the stream, straightening its chest and neck after drinking, looking left and right.Lu Jian sighed, and said softly: "Big guy, Miss Ning has gone, Gu Zhen is dead, Ah Qing ignores me, only you are still with me, but ah, after your wing injury is healed, I must I want to go too." He felt sorry for himself and wept sadly.

One person and one crane sat opposite each other for a long time, the next day the east was only dawn, and Lu Jian set out again. He searched all over the caves in the deep valley, but only found a few withered bones, some were killed by ferocious beasts, and some were the remains of cultivators. After searching for a long time, Yao Qing was never found.

The red sun was setting in the west, and Lu Jian returned to the farmhouse in a daze. He still didn't give up, thinking of pushing open the door, Yao Qing was inside the house, throwing a tantrum at him.But as soon as he entered the door, Lu Jian suddenly froze. There was a man in Chinese clothes sitting by the table. exist."

"Shen Xiu?" Lu Jian hesitated, "What are you here for?" Shen Xiu smiled and said, "Junior Sister Yao ordered me to come!"

"Ah Qing ordered?" Lu Jian grabbed Shen Xiu's shoulder and said sharply, "Who are you lying to?" He thrust his fingers hard, and Shen Xiu frowned in pain, and forced a smile, "You don't believe it, look at this... ..." He raised his left hand.It was only then that Lu Jian realized that what Shen Xiu was playing with was actually a string of shell necklaces.

Lu Jian was startled, and grabbed the necklace with his hands. Every shell on the necklace was polished by himself. It is believed that Yao Qing kept it close to her body, soaked her daughter's body, and became round and smooth, like pearls and jade.

Lu Jian stayed for a while, stared at Shen Xiu and said, "Where did this necklace come from?" Shen Xiu smiled and said, "Junior Sister Yao gave it to you, she said, and returned the necklace to you. Between you and her, there will be no more love between you and her from now on." It doesn't matter. Don't you like Ning Ning, just marry her."

Lu Jian said angrily, "You're talking nonsense." She was about to hit her with her fist, but Shen Xiu hurriedly said, "This is the original words of Junior Sister Yao, there is no half-word made up, otherwise, give me a chance, and I won't dare to stand alone Come on, offend your mighty majesty." Lu Jian paused, feeling dazed, and murmured, "Where is Ah Qing, I want to see her!"

Shen Xiu sighed: "If she wants to see you, why bother to let me come? She also said that from now on, she never wants to see you again. Whether you live or die, marry and have children, has nothing to do with her. Think about it." Look, if Junior Sister Yao didn't instruct me, how would I know that this shell necklace is a token of love between the two of you, and how would I know that you would like my sister Ning Ning. Haha, congratulations, sister Ning Ning has a beautiful appearance and a gentle temper. It's a pity that he is a robber slave, otherwise, my little brother would be so envious."

He was congratulating and envious, but his face was full of sneering.Lu Jian's heart was in a mess, and he said loudly, "Ah Qing really doesn't want to see me?" Shen Xiu smiled and said, "If you don't believe me, follow me to see her and see if she sees her or not."

Lu Jian knew Yao Qing's temperament. Once she made a decision, she never changed it. What's more, as Shen Xiu said, if Yao Qing hadn't told her about the shell necklace and Ning Ning, he would never have known about it.Thinking of this, Lu Jian lost all hope, and his voice became weaker: "She...why does she want you to come to see me?"

Shen Xiu glanced at him and said with a slight smile: "For Junior Sister Yao, Shen is not afraid of hardship and death. He has a deep love and never thinks twice. If Shen is so sincere, even a stone person like Sister Yao will be tempted. Brother Lu flirted with another, hurt Junior Sister Yao's heart, and caused her to cry like tears for the past two days, Shen looked at her heartbroken, so she volunteered to settle the old grudge for Junior Sister."

"Transfer love?" Lu Jian became anxious, forgot who the person in front of him was, and shouted, "Tell her, she blamed me." Shen Xiu smiled and said, "It's not a misunderstanding, you told Junior Sister Yao Go." He spread his hands generously, but Lu Jian hesitated instead.Shen Xiu rolled her eyes, and said with a smile: "Brother Lu, didn't you really think about Miss Ning Ning in your heart?" Lu Jian was confused: "I did think about Miss Ning, I called her name in my dream, and I also thought about it in my heart." I always miss her, alas, I am wrong, it is all my fault, and Ah Qing should hate me." Thinking about it, she was disheartened, and she loosened Shen Xiu's skirt.

Satisfied, Shen Xiu brushed off her clothes and walked away.Lu Jian looked at his back and tried to catch up several times, but his legs seemed to lose feeling. He stood blankly in front of the door, forgetting where he was.

The sun was setting and the moon was rising, the morning dew soaked his clothes, the night flowed slowly, and the morning sun came out at dawn. Lu Jian stood for a whole day and night, like a wooden sculpture made of clay.The giant crane became anxious and flapped its wings again and again. At the seventh time, Lu Jian shook his body, spat out a big mouthful of blood, and staggered towards the outside of the mountain.

He lost his mind and didn't know what to do. The giant crane brought fish, shrimps and fruits, and he grabbed them and ate them, regardless of whether they were raw or cooked.After a few more days, the giant crane recovered from its injuries and gradually leaped forward. It is expected that in a few days, it will be able to soar to the Qingming.

One day, Lu Jian sat under a tree and fell asleep, and suddenly dreamed of Yao Qing again, the girl was faintly present, like a puff of smoke, Lu Jian reached out to touch her, and she disappeared.Lu Jian's heart became anxious, and he woke up suddenly. He was only half awake when he heard birds chirping repeatedly.Lu Jian heard the cry of the giant crane, and couldn't help but look at it. There was a thick rope around the crane's neck, and four hunters raised their steel forks, surrounding it and shouting.

Lu Jian couldn't help but said angrily: "Stop." The four hunters felt as if they had been hit by a stick, and they dropped their hunting forks and ropes, covering their ears and foaming at the mouth.

Lu Jian stepped forward to untie the giant crane, watching the four of them without saying a word.The four were so frightened that they cried for mercy.Lu Jian was stunned, and suddenly asked, "Where is this?" A hunter stood up reluctantly, and said, "This is Zijin Mountain. We see this crane as a steed. It's an offense. How offensive is it?" I hope the hero will forgive me." Lu Jian frowned, waved his hands and said, "Go." The four of them rushed away with their heads in their arms as if they had received an amnesty.

Lu Jian came to the outskirts of Nanjing inadvertently, and his heart moved. He climbed up to a high place and looked at the city. The past came to his mind. Gu Zhen's figure seemed to be right in front of him. The young man's smile was so vivid, but that smile was no longer visible. .Lu Jian looked at the tower, his eyes gradually blurred. At this moment, something flashed by, and Lu Jian was startled and broke out in a cold sweat.It turned out that he remembered the matter entrusted to him by Gu Zhen at the Cuiyun Tower by the Qinhuai River that day. Lu Jian almost forgot about it due to repeated accidents these days.

He was out of his mind for a while, managed to pull himself together, and said to the giant crane: "Big guy, I'm going to the city to do something big. People are greedy, you stay on the tree and don't come down."

The giant crane seemed to understand, flapping its wings and jumping to the top of the tree, cooing like a pheasant.Lu Jian turned around and entered Nanjing. He stayed until late at night and sneaked outside the Dong'an Gate of the Forbidden City.His martial art is strong at that time, he is like a phantom ghost, when the guards in the palace encounter him head-on, he can only feel the breeze blowing on his face, and he can't see half a shadow.

Lu Jian found the stone lion on the left side of the gate, walked 120 steps to the southeast, and saw an old locust tree.Lu Jian felt sad when he saw things and thought about people.He looked around and touched the roots of the old locust tree, and found that there were six thick old roots exposed.Lu Jian counted west from the old root in the south, and reached the third old root. He reached out to dig under the root, but felt that the floating soil was soft, and when his fingers touched a hard object, when he lifted it out, it turned out to be a piece of iron about a foot in size. box.

Lu Jian held the iron box in his hand, but felt it was cold, his eyes were sore, and he wished he could cry.When he was sad, he heard the sound of footsteps from a distance, collected his mood and jumped out of Miyagi.His movements were erratic, like walking on flat ground, he passed the inner city and the outer city one after another, the soldiers guarding the city saw it, and saw a black shadow disappearing suddenly, they only suspected ghosts and apparitions, and were speechless in fright.

When Lu Jian arrived in the suburbs, he met the giant cranes, came to a farmhouse, and inspected the iron box under the lamp.There is no lock outside the box, but there is a thick layer of oilcloth inside the box. As soon as it is unfolded, precious light shines everywhere, and a seal and a ring are in shock.Lu Jian was greatly surprised, not knowing how Gu Zhen hid the Imperial Seal and the Ring of the God of Wealth in the box.

Then look at a letter that was pressed under Yuxi, and when he opened it, the letter read: "Take this ring, follow the map to a certain place, tell someone that Gu Zhen has died, and ask him to make a new owner. The map is behind the letter, follow the map Just go there. In addition, the Jade Seal of the Chuan Kingdom will be passed on to you as a gift. This is an eternal treasure, and there are many peepers. I hope you can keep it well and don’t fall into the hands of villains.”

Lu Jian stared at Gu Zhen's handwriting, dazed for a long time, and finally calmed down.He put the seal and the ring into his arms, turned over the letter paper, and saw a map outlined by the ink brush.

As shown in the picture, that person should be in the mountains of Subei, hundreds of miles away.Lu Jian put away the iron box and walked north with the giant crane.

Along the way, Lu Jian found that many people flocked to Nanjing with the old and the young. No matter men, women, old or young, they all looked disheveled.

Lu Jian was secretly surprised. When it was noon, he suddenly saw someone lying on the side of the road. He stepped forward to help him up, but it was a dead old man with swollen skin and flesh.Lu Jian was dazed for a while, dug a hole to bury it, and then walked forward. The farther away from Nanjing, the more refugees, and they rushed to the town like a tide.Beside the road in the field, you can sometimes see dead and hungry, mostly old, weak, sick and disabled.Lu Jian buried the corpses along the way, feeling sad and bewildered.He thought for a long time, remembering the prophecy that Gu Zhen said that day in Cangbo Lane, he couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat, thinking that the great famine had really come.He raised his eyes and saw that the beautiful countryside was desolate and uninhabited. Years of Japanese soldiers and disasters finally caused even greater disasters.

He is penniless, and he has nothing to do when he encounters such a natural disaster.Fortunately, the giant crane recovered from its injuries, soared into the sky, and disappeared from flight. It often caught hundreds of catties of sea fish, whole tree fruits, and even whole young deer.Lu Jian walked through the famine land without feeling hungry.But after Tianzhu Mountain, he was self-sufficient, and his diet became less and less. He can still be in good spirits by drinking a few sips of spring water and eating two fruits a day. give him peace of mind.

One day when Lu Jian was walking on the road, he suddenly heard a cry. He heard the sad cry, so he couldn't help but follow the sound.Still in the distance, I smelled the aroma of porridge and rice, and when I got closer, I saw hundreds of farmers gathered together.Lu Jian squeezed forward, but saw a large pot set up in the crowd, the pot was boiling with white gas, and a pot of gruel was boiled. In front of the pot stood dozens of servant boys in blue clothes, armed with knives and guns, with arrogant expressions.

It was a middle-aged woman who was crying, half kneeling and half sitting, holding a four or five-year-old boy in her arms. The child had a big head and a thin body, with a green look on his small face.The woman exchanged tears and said in a trembling voice: "Master Yi, do me a favor, give the child a mouthful of porridge, he hasn't eaten a grain of rice in three days, if he continues to be hungry, he will be gone..."

Only a lazy voice replied: "I want to drink porridge, it's done. I signed the land lease and can drink as much as I want." There is a servant girl on the left and right, one holds an umbrella and the other shakes a fan.The fat man held a cup of tea, blowing off the foam, with a friendly smile on his face.

The woman was timid and timid, not daring to look directly at the fat man, and faltered in her mouth: "Signing the land deed, I... how can I be the master?" Master Yi smiled and said: "You can't be the master, but your man can. Alas, this child It's poor too. As a mother, you can't persuade your man not to be stubborn. After the painting is mortgaged and the land is sold, everything is easy to talk about."

The woman said sadly: "Master Yi, my family lives on these few acres of Susukida. If we don't have any land, how will we live in the coming year?" Can you live with land?"

The woman shook her body, opened her mouth wide, and suddenly heard the child crying like a nightmare, the peasant woman was heartbroken, and wanted to let out a cry of grief, when suddenly she heard a hoarse voice: "Don't cry, here , let's sell it!"

There was a commotion in the crowd. A farmer separated them and walked out slowly. He had a dark complexion and dull eyes. He walked up to the fat man's case and said slowly, "Master Yi, there is a paddy field of ten acres on the stone slope in the south of the village. How much will you pay?" Master Yi giggled, stretched out two fingers, and the farmer said, "Twenty dans of millet?"

"Fart!" Master Yi spat, "Two loads of millet, one more grain will not make it."

"Two loads of millet?" The farmer's black face showed a dark red, and his body trembled: "Master Yi, the conscience of heaven and earth, ten acres of paddy fields, in a good year, can harvest a hundred, a hundred loads. "Master Yi showed impatience, bent a finger, and said coldly: "One load of five..." The farmer was stunned, tears rolled in his eyes, and he gritted his teeth: "My surname is Yi, you... you It's so heartless, it's going to be condemned by God..." Seeing that the fat man's lips were about to move, he was afraid that he would reduce the price again, so he had no choice but to hold back, dipped in the ink pad, pressed hard on the land deed, and when he let go, he suddenly felt physically and mentally exhausted , snorted, and collapsed to the ground.

"Okay, okay." Master Yi shook the paper contract and laughed loudly, "For this price, five loads of ten-acre land, three loads of twenty-mu land, the land sellers should sell it quickly, and after that, ha, this The price has to be reduced..." As he spoke, he laughed wildly, and all the farmers and women around him looked gloomy, and some people came forward one after another, pledging to sell the land.

(End of this chapter)