The dream of a lonely hero

Feng Zan laughed loudly, Zhao Guangyi, Chai Yuxi, Gao Qiong, Li Bin and others were puzzled. Gao Qiong said: "Black Charcoal Head! You laughed so hard that I felt cold all over. I just fell down accidentally, but you laughed at me for being a drunkard and said that if it weren't for me, I don't know when I could get out of Tuolu Valley. This is clearly an insult to me!"

Feng Zan didn't answer, but said to Zhao Guangyi: "My lord! Please quickly order your followers to chop firewood and put it in the cracks of the rocks, pile it up beside the cracks, and cut some wild gourds."

Zhao Guangyi didn't understand what he meant, and didn't ask any more questions. He did what he said. Gao Qiong, Li Bin and other military generals followed his orders. In less than an hour, dry firewood and wild grass piled up like a mountain beside the cracks of the rocks, and dozens of big wild gourds were placed on the ground. Gao Qiong said: "Black Charcoal Head! Are you going to perform a ritual again?" Feng Zan didn't have time to deal with him. Zhao Guangyi said, "Mr. Lichen, please give the order!" Turning back to the followers, he said, "You must obey Mr. Lichen's orders and not disobey." The followers agreed in unison.

Feng Zan ordered Yang Mao and Mi Chao to light the fire, and ordered Li Bin, Sang Zan, Ge Ba, and Fu Qian to cut the wild gourds and take out the gourd pulp as a container for water. The six people took the order and acted separately. After a while, a raging fire ignited at the cracks of the rocks, burning the dry firewood and weeds with a "crackling" sound, and the people who were roasting retreated one after another. Gao Qiong approached Feng Zan and said, "Black charcoal head! Are you trying to burn this mountain down?" Seeing that he was ignored, he did not say anything. Everyone looked at the raging flames with doubts, looked at Feng Zan, and remained silent, looking forward to the next miracle. The fire burned for about an hour, and the dry firewood and weeds gradually burned out. Feng Zan ordered Gao Qiong, Dai Xing, Li Bin and other military officers to scoop water from the stream with gourd ladles and sprinkle it on the hot and red stone wall beside the crack. The smoke billowed. Gao Qiong, Dai Xing and others were busy for a while. Feng Zan ordered Gao Qiong, Dai Xing and other military officers to chisel a passage along the crack. Gao Qiong said puzzledly: "Black Charcoal Head has water in his head! Do you think this mountain is not made of stone? How can we chisel it open!" The followers also stopped.

Feng Zan's face was stern, and he said: "Who dares to delay, behead!" Gao Qiong, Dai Xing and others did not dare to neglect and ran to the crack. They all swung their weapons to chisel the stone walls on both sides of the crack. When the weapons hit the stone wall, there was no "clang clang" sound, but a "pa pa" muffled sound, and the stones fell like mud. Zhao Guangyi, Chai Yuxi and Liu Qi, who were beside Feng Zan, were stunned, and then they were overjoyed. Liu Qi couldn't help but exclaim: "Mr. Li Chen is really a god descending to earth!" Zhao Guangyi said: "'When the breeze blows, there is no worry about everything; when the clouds rise, there is no worry about anything'. What Prime Minister Fan said is true!" Feng Zan said: "I am ashamed! I am so stupid that it took me a long time to think of this method of opening the mountain, which made the lord and others worried for a long time." Chai Yuxi said: "Mr. Li Chen, if you blame yourself again, it's really shameful for me! We are both scholars, but I am so ignorant and incompetent. I am ashamed! I am ashamed!" Feng Zan said: "Mr. Yuxi is too modest. I am just a fool who occasionally makes a mistake."

Look at Gao Qiong and other generals who were overjoyed to see that the stone wall was so easy to chisel, and they were full of energy. They swung iron palladium, painted halberds, spears and other weapons to "crackle" and chisel the stone road. In less than half an hour, they chiseled a stone road of sixty or seventy feet long, and thenThe natural rock wall ahead was ten feet wide and did not need to be chiseled. Looking up, through the dense leaves more than ten feet high, dots of blue sky could be vaguely seen. Gao Qiong found Yan Yun in front of him with blue and purple face, scars all over, ragged clothes, leaning against the stone wall and fainted. He hurriedly called out "Yan Yun! Yan Yun!" After a while, Yan Yun was awakened. Gao Qiong laughed foolishly and said, "He's not dead! That's good." Generals such as Li Bin gathered behind him. Li Bin said, "Gao Dachi! What are you waiting for? Hurry up and get some food and water for Yan Yun." Gao Qiong turned around and ran away. He ran out of the stone road to report the situation to Zhao Guangyi and Feng Zan. Gao Qiong put the game in his arms, picked up the gourd ladle filled with water, and ran to the stone road. Yan Yun was overworked and rested for a while. After drinking water and eating game, his physical strength gradually recovered. Zhao Guangyi, Feng Zan, Chai Yuxi, Liu Qi, Yuan Da, Ma Yin, Li Jun, and Fu Dun also rushed over. Zhao Guangyi hurriedly leaned over to support Yan Yun, tears welling up in his eyes, and choked up and said, "Huailong - if I knew it was so dangerous, how could I ask you to risk your life!" Yan Yun hurriedly stood up and knelt down, saying, "I will die for my lord!" Feng Zan knew that this place was not a place to stay for long, so he ordered Gao Qiong, Li Bin, Dai Xing, and Ge Ba to cover the rear, Yan Yun led the way in front, and Zhao Guangyi, Chai Yuxi, Liu Qi, Sang Zan, Fu Qian, Yuan Da, Ma Yin, Li Jun, Fu Dun and others were in the middle. After walking along the rugged and steep stone road for two hours, they finally walked out of the stone road and there was a field in front. Everyone was very tired, and Feng Zan asked everyone to rest on the spot. Everyone sat down on the ground one by one. After a while, Zhao Guangyi burst into tears, beat his chest and stamped his feet, saying: "Alas! Wang Zhao, Zhang Baoyang, Chen Congbao are loyal and brave. If it weren't for your sacrifice, how could I, Zhao Tingyi, live to this day!" He cried so hard that he couldn't stop. Yan Yun, Sang Zan, Fu Qian, Yuan Da, Ma Yan, Li Jun, Fu Dun and others were all ashamed, thinking that if it weren't for Wang Zhao's selfless sacrifice, they would all have been crushed to death on the mountain road.

Zhao Guangyi cried for a long time. Chai Yuxi advised carefully: "My lord, don't be too sad. The dead cannot be resurrected. To put it bluntly, life and death, wealth and honor are all destined by fate and cannot be controlled by human power. Besides, the wise and resourceful Mr. Li Chen and the extraordinary 'Fei Yan' (Yan Yun) who are gifted to my lord by heaven have helped my lord to get out of the difficult situation. Now there is light at the end of the tunnel. We should be happy and congratulated!"

Zhao Guangyi stopped crying and said: "All civil and military officials, follow me to salute Li Chen and 'Fei Yan'." He bowed respectfully to Feng Zan and Yan Yun. All civil and military officials followed suit and bowed. Feng Zan and Yan Yun hurriedly turned aside to return the salute. After a while, Gao Qiong, Li Bin, Dai Xing and Ge Ba, who were responsible for the rear guard, came over and reported to their lord: they had been guarding for a long time but did not see any movement of the bandits on the mountain. It was getting dark, Zhao Guangyi ordered to set off towards Dingzhou. After walking for more than half an hour, they saw a village ahead and ordered Liu Qi and Dai Xing to seek shelter from the owner of the manor. Everyone was in rags and looked like beggars, so it was not easy to find a place to stay. Zhao Guangyi knew Liu Qi very well. He carried gold, silver and jewelry with him, so he would not lose his treasures even if he lost his life. Seeing that Liu Qi and Dai Xing were in rags, the owner of the manor was unwilling to accept them. Liu Qi took out a shiny ingot of 20 taels of gold and said that the businessman had encountered robbers and was in trouble here. He hoped that they would be accepted.The owner of the manor accepted it. The owner was so greedy that he would not refuse. He smiled and said, "I am not disgusted with you, but the world is unfair and I am afraid of robbers. It turns out that you are a businessman. It's easy to talk! As long as you don't despise this poor and remote place, you can stay as long as you want." Zhao Guangyi and his party stayed at the manor. After breakfast the next morning, they hurriedly set off for Dingzhou. In the evening of the same day, they entered Dingzhou City and found an inn to settle down.

Besides, the robbers on Longchou Mountain had lost their patience after guarding for five days. Led by the leader, they quietly moved to the bottom of the valley along the winding and rugged mountain road. They walked and looked around, and it took them most of the day to reach the bottom of the valley, but they saw no one. The leader in white took off his veil and said in annoyance, "The cooked duck has flown away. Look for it!" The leader in green led his minions to look for it. Xuanyi also removed the black cloth covering his face and said to the leader in white: "Yanfeng! I don't care whether Zhao Guangyi is dead or alive, I can't let my disciples of Wuyang Mountain make a wasted trip, and my disciples who died in the battle can't die in vain!"

Yanfeng (the leader in white) was angry but didn't dare to offend him, and said: "Master Leng (Leng Tiekun), your Wuyang Mountain Tianshan Sect is doing business of taking money from people to help them eliminate disasters. How could I not know this rule? The other half of the deposit and the money for your dead disciples are not less, but can you Wuyang Mountain keep your mouth shut about this deal? I also said before ”

Leng Tiekun (black clothes) said: "Haha! No one in the world has doubted what I did in Wuyang Mountain, so don't worry! When will the money be redeemed?"

Yan Feng said: "Go back to Dingzhou and ask your followers to follow me to get it."

At this time, the leader of the blue clothes (Fan Tenghu) ran back, took off his veil, and said breathlessly: "Yan Brigade Commander! Zhao Guangyi ran away."

Yan Feng asked anxiously: "Fan Tenghu, how did he run away?"

Fan Tenghu led Yan Feng and hurriedly ran to the stone road entrance where Zhao Guangyi had escaped. Yan Feng looked at the dark stone walls on both sides of the stone road and the black firewood sticks under his feet. He was stunned for a long time and said to himself: "This stone wall can actually be burned down." He smiled helplessly, "Hehe! No ghost would have thought of it! No ghost would have thought of it!" He laughed wildly at the sky, "Haha! God, God, is it blind? We have gone through so much hardship and couldn't even catch Zhao Guangyi's fart." Then he returned to Dingzhou from the stone road. When he returned to Dingzhou, he found the governor Hong Yun to pay gold and silver to Leng Tiekun's disciples. The amount was of course not cheap, so Hong Yun dared not refuse. Yan Feng and Fan Tenghu hurried to see Fan Yong to tell him about the pursuit of Zhao Guangyi.

Fan Yong held the teacup and remained silent for a long time.

Fan Tenghu said: "Mr. Minghe! I am a rough man and I can't figure it out even if you kill me. How can a stone wall be burned down!"

Fan Yong seemed to be talking to himself, saying: "The method of 'burning water with fire' has been recorded in ancient books, but later people thought it was a false saying."

"Geng Geng" sneered, "How could those strategists under Zhao Guangyi who are just sitting in office and eating for free think of it!"

Fan Tenghu said: "Zhao Guangyi is not a vegetarian. We went to Tianmen Road and heard from the people who evacuated from the north city that Zhao Guangyi can communicate with gods and perform magic. He dispatched heavenly soldiers and generals to burn the 5,000 iron cavalry of Han Rang, the left governor of Liao State, to the ground."

Fan Yong said angrily: "Nonsense! He ZhaoHow strong is Guangyi? I don't know yet." After a moment of contemplation, "It seems that Zhao Guangyi has a master under his command!"

Fan Tenghu said: "I heard from the people along the way that he has a new guest under his command. He is dark and tall."

Fan Yong said: "What's his name?"

Fan Tenghu thought: "Feng-Feng, yes, it seems to be Feng Zan."

Fan Yong stood up and dropped the teacup in his hand. He said: "Zhao Guangyi has such a movement. It can't be anyone else except Feng Zan who helped. The voice of the young phoenix is ​​clearer than that of the old phoenix."

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