I turned over and looked at the uncovered door, really worried that the village guardian might sneak in in the middle of the night.
The people of the Five Poison Sect have lived with poisonous insects all their lives, and their bodies have long been filled with various toxins. When pythons smell them, they will avoid them. But we outsiders are different. We are attacked by snakes and insects without any protective measures.
Attacks are inevitable.
Suddenly there was movement on the stone steps. I leaned out and looked out alertly. A white shadow suddenly flashed in. My qinggong was extremely erratic. It stopped briefly on the first floor and then floated up to the second floor. It was silent and ghost-like.
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I could see clearly that it was He Jishang, but she had changed into a silver-white robe, and she looked extremely confused.
"Is it sleepwalking?" This was my first reaction. I quickly jumped up and jumped towards the stairs. Without lights, the light in the building was very dim, and I could only vaguely distinguish objects by the light reflected from the snow on the ground outside.
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"Oh, Brother Tian, Brother Tian, where have you been?" He Jishang sighed repeatedly, and his voice came from the direction of the window.
I quietly poked my face out from the corner of the stairs and saw her sitting on the window sill with her knees bent, her chin supported on one hand, facing the window.
"Just don't miss lovesickness. Lovesickness makes people grow old. After careful consideration, it's better to miss lovesickness. Brother Tian, I relive your feelings of missing Shuilan every day. Do you know? After so many years, are you so cruel?
You don’t give me any news? People in the world are saying that you are dead, but I know that you are still alive. If you are gone, I will definitely feel heartbroken, but now, I am just lovesick.
, but I didn’t feel the pain of separation or death. Tell me, where are you? Amidst mountains of swords and seas of fire, I want to see you too..."
I didn't want to inadvertently peep into He Jishang's secret, so I quietly retreated, still lying back on the bed, and listened with my ears straightened up.
He Jishang muttered to herself for a while, then slowly went downstairs and stopped in front of my window. I felt her gaze roaming back and forth on my body from head to toe.
"Who are you? Who are you? Why do I feel that you and Brother Tian have so much in common? Tell me... tell me... maybe we should form an alliance, pass through that ancient cave, and go together to defeat Tian.
Brother, get it back? Right?"
I closed my eyes, breathed evenly, and pretended to be asleep.
She leaned down, stretched out her cold hand, pressed it on my forehead, and whispered in her sleep: "Brother Tian, who is he to you? Who was that baby to you back then? Why didn't you say goodbye?
Am I not good enough? Although I am a Miao person living in the mountains and deep swamps, I am willing to leave the Five Poison Sect for you, forget my people forever, and follow you across thousands of mountains and rivers, to the ends of the earth. Tell me, tell me..."
I felt that her five fingers were gradually gaining strength, and I immediately raised my breath and rushed forward. I resisted her grip quietly and was ready to fight back at any time. Her fingers tightened on my forehead like five steel hooks.
, suddenly let go and retreated, shouting in a low voice in panic: "No, no, I can't kill him, he is Brother Tian's treasure, if I kill him, Brother Tian will never forgive me -"
Suddenly, she whirled around and rushed out, jumped down the stone steps and disappeared.
I jumped up and hid in the shadow of the door, but I never saw her shadow again.
When I think of her fingers and the tone of her voice, I can guess that she treated "me" as a baby in this way, and I can't help but feel a cold shudder in my heart. How can a baby who can't speak yet resist?
A surprise attack by a master of martial arts like her? Fortunately, God has foresight and allowed me to survive smoothly.
After lying down again, I slept soundly and deeply. When I opened my eyes in a daze, the sun had already risen in the window.
"Good morning, Mr. Feng." The person standing in front of the window was Fei Yue, with a slightly flustered face. After Shi Qiang was in danger, she had been in a bad mood and lost the motivation to chirp, croak, and even laugh.
"What happened?" I threw off the quilt and jumped up. At the same time, I heard the noise of a large group of people talking noisily. In fact, it was these noises that woke me up.
The sun was a little dazzling, and the snow on the stone steps outside the door had long turned into water, making it wet. I shook my head, adjusted my mood, and wanted to figure out what happened first.
Feiyue pointed to the door: "Everyone from the Concubine Hall has arrived, but the people led by Xiaoguan have turned into six corpses, and the blood has dyed the river red. Everyone is waiting for you for the specific details.
Decided." Her hair looked very disheveled and her clothes had many wrinkles. She must have just woken up from a dream just like me.
I had already had an ominous feeling before, and when Li Kang reported it to me on the phone, I had already guessed it.
I took Fei Yue down the stone steps. Everyone was standing on the road between the wooden buildings, in small groups, and they were noisy. The Jiang brothers stood in front of Fei Ying, gesticulating and talking about something, with expressions on their faces.
He was quite excited. When he saw me appearing, he immediately dropped his flying eagle and strode towards me.
The Bakun brothers stood around a stretcher. The person on the stretcher, covered with a thin blanket, was of course the once arrogant Schiller.
"Mr. Feng, the Jiang family brothers asked for money to retreat. They were furious and roaring. The eldest brother was about to fall out." Feiyue was behind me and added in a low voice. There was a touch of ridicule in her tone. It's no wonder that, considering the Jiang family,
Brother's skill like this makes Fei Ying angry, and he is afraid that he will fall into trouble. These folk martial arts masters will never understand the strong winds and langs in the rivers and lakes, and they will yell and scream wherever they go. It is always like an acre in their own village.
Three points on the ground.
"Mr. Feng, write me a check and we'll leave the expedition immediately. We've had enough of this kind of fearful life!" Jiang Guangqi hummed, his sleeves half rolled up, revealing his muscular arms. He said unceremoniously
He stared at me as if a creditor came to collect debts openly.
I stared at his rough face, and remembered that Su Lun was obsessed with going deep into the mountains after listening to their brothers' narration, and ended up in a situation where there was no news today. I couldn't help but get a little angry: "It's okay to ask for money, but you have to continue.
Tell me about that experience again. I want to know all the details. After you finish telling me, I will write you a check and let's break up. How about that?"
Jiang Liang's eyes glowed with greed: "Really?"
Tens of thousands of RMB is nothing to me. I don't need to lie to them, but I don't bother to explain, so I turn to Feiyue: "Inform Feiying, Liang Wei, Xiaoguan, Li Kang, and Li Zun'er that they are all here.
He Jishang's wooden building is here. Everyone must listen carefully, the more carefully the better."
This kind of difficult expedition will definitely be difficult if the heavy responsibility is placed on only one person. It is better for everyone to listen to the Jiang brothers and brainstorm, and maybe we can make new discoveries. As for Li Zun'er's participation, it is
In order to verify whether there were huge fallacies in his transcripts back then.
"Mr. Feng, Xiaoguan is missing. Except for six dead bodies, no one else was found at the scene." Feiyue answered uneasily and immediately went to convey my words.
Missing? Does it mean that it was devoured by some monster?
I retreated to the wooden building in confusion. He Jishang was leaning in front of the door, crossing his arms and looking across. If nothing else happened, she would probably drag me to that location again this afternoon to watch the image of my elder brother again.
"Ms. He, I have two guides who will tell you about the experience of passing through Langu, the ladder to heaven, and entering a huge underground palace many years ago. Do you want to listen together?"
My words were not funny, but she only heard half of them before she frowned and sneered: "Crossing Langu, the ladder to heaven? Isn't it another big lie to defraud money? I have also heard many different versions of lies. This time, I
You don’t want your tour guide to become the village god’s breakfast.”
This kind of question coincides with mine. The time I stayed in the Concubine Hall was very short, and I didn't have time to ask about this matter in detail, so I postponed it until now.
"Miss He, have you ever entered Langu?" In last night's narration, she did not mention the search work she started after her eldest brother left, but this is inevitable. Since his goal is the ladder to heaven, she will definitely follow him.
Go up.
"Yes." She nodded.
I uttered the truth after drinking. Now that I'm sober, the distance between us seems to have lengthened a little bit, not far nor close, just right.
Fei Ying and others had gathered together and were walking towards the stone steps. After a long night's journey, Liang Wei didn't seem to be in good spirits. There was dust everywhere on his combat boots and trousers.
He Jishang still has reservations. Some people can only tell their secrets under the cover of alcohol and darkness. It seems that she belongs to this kind of person. Miao people are inherently open-minded and straightforward, and they will express what they think of immediately.
, she was able to cultivate this kind of character because she must have been deceived and deceived many times in the past ten years, and she naturally learned to protect herself, just like the ugly mask on her face.
I smiled kindly: "Let's listen together. Our goal is to pass through Langu. If by chance we can get clues about Hero Yang Tian, we will definitely send someone back to inform you."
The Jiang brothers may have been used to telling that thrilling history in front of many people. They spoke vividly and vividly as soon as they opened their mouths, like a storyteller taking the stage at the beginning: "More than thirty years ago, in early winter, we brothers were hunted down and we escaped all the way.
We went deep into the mountains and hunted pheasants and hares for food, hiding all the time. Our enemies stayed outside the mountains, threatening to kill us until spring after the new year, and they would definitely take our heads. We had no choice but to keep walking deep into the mountains until one day
, discovered a strange snake with two wings. At that time, we were cold and hungry, so we found a cave, cooked the two-meter-long frozen strange snake, and stuffed it into our stomachs."
For the sake of money and fame, they must have processed these materials many times. The opening chapter went straight to the whole story and mentioned the flying snake in Langu.
He Jishang did not walk in, but leaned against the door frame and looked south.
"As we walked along, we found more strange snakes. They were everywhere on the roadside, beside the stream, under the rocks, on the branches, and all of them were frozen or half-frozen to death. The older generation said that strange snakes were everywhere.
There will be treasures hidden somewhere, and they are the spirits who guard the treasures. Since we couldn’t leave the mountain anyway, we walked straight down the valley. Not far from the valley, there was a round stone house built on a large cliff.
Even the doorway was round, but there was no door. There was light snow falling in the sky at that time, so we climbed in without any hesitation."
Li Zun'er squinted his eyes and smiled, looking very proud. He had recorded these stories in his own handwriting, and they must have been "artistically processed" by his own imagination. It is conceivable that when others vividly recounted what he had "compiled"
How proud was this pedantic old country teacher when he read his works.
"What is that? That stone house is the ladder to heaven?" He Jishang suddenly asked and turned his face.
Jiang Guang laughed: "Of course! There are red letters chiselled on the stone house. Although we don't recognize the crooked characters, we still have the foresight to copy them down. Show them to Lao Li. He is highly knowledgeable and recognizes them."
The word "ladder to heaven"."
Li Zun'er nodded pretending to be elegant and dismissed He Jishang's question.
"Where are you on the road? You didn't encounter anything, and you just passed Langu peacefully?" He Jishang's tone was also very strange, full of ridicule.
Jiang Guang was stunned: "On the way? What do you mean?"
The eyes of everyone in the room fell on He Jishang at the same time, especially Jiang Guang, Jiang Liang, and Li Zun'er, with anger on their faces, as if they would sneer at anyone who dared to doubt this experience.
Light fire.
He Jishang shook his head slowly: "I don't mean anything, you can continue. What will happen when you get to the ladder to heaven? Can you go to heaven and earth and do whatever you want?"
I understand that the situation she knows must be different from what the Jiang brothers told her, and it is completely different, so she speaks in this tone. In fact, with her body and method of doing things, she has already given Jiang a lot of attention.
The brothers have lost face, and the village guardian god is nearby. As long as she whistles, the Jiang brothers will disappear from this world immediately.
"Mr. Jiang, please continue." I waved my arm to get everyone's attention back.
Jiang Guang was a little distracted, so Jiang Liang continued: "We entered the stone house. It was empty and there was nothing. Suddenly, the ground dropped rapidly, as if suddenly falling into a deep well, falling without any scratches.
We didn't have a watch, so we didn't know how long we had been down. When we could see things again, we had entered a huge square. Opposite the square was an ancient palace. Above the door hung a huge plaque with gold characters on a black background.
Lao Li identified the characters and found that it was the name 'Afanggong'."
Jiang Liang's eloquence was obviously not as good as his brother's, and the most thrilling passage was tasteless.
To be honest, this is an adventure story that is easy to imagine. Monsters, deep wells, underground palaces, Qin Shihuang's Afang Palace... It is said that after Qin Shihuang annexed the six kingdoms, he once occupied the capitals of Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, and Wei
All the treasures were plundered and carried to the Afang Palace in Lishan Mountain. If the place where the Jiang brothers went was also the "Afang Palace", you can imagine the treasures inside.
Li Zun'er coughed lightly in an extremely arrogant manner: "Can I let me fill in the gaps about what's going to happen next?"
His thoughts may still be stuck in the era of "respecting Confucius and Mencius, that's all." Therefore, he is often self-centered, regardless of the actual environment.
Li Kang tugged on his clothes and kept giving him colors.
Li Zun'er turned his head in displeasure and scolded: "Kang'er, I wrote down their experiences in my own hand, transcribing them word for word. Shouldn't I leave my name in history together?"
Fei Ying asked loudly: "What happened next? You didn't take anything but a compass. Where's the gold? Where's the night pearl? Where's the ancient sword? Is there nothing else? I don't believe it!"
It is the most regrettable thing to enter Baoshan and come back empty-handed. With the personality of Flying Eagle, whenever a valuable ancient tomb is discovered, it must be looted before it can be fully enjoyed.
Jiang Liang replied: "This is the only one I found inside. All the houses have been visited and they are empty, not even a single person. We were tired from walking, so we returned to the round house entering the square, and then rose to the ground again.
I retreated. That’s all the experience I had.”
He Jishang sneered: "This is not a child's game. How can others believe you based on this little information? What a joke!"
Jiang Guang stared at her impatiently: "What do you know, you ugly guy? Get out of here. I'm talking to Mr. Feng, and other people don't pay to listen to me for free. How can there be so many problems?"
These words have appeared in detail in Li Zun'er's notes, and there are many exaggerated chapters, such as describing the splendor and vastness of Epang Palace, etc.
The Jiang brothers are just rural martial arts masters outside Xianyang City. What they know about the world is just the content of scoundrels fighting in the market. They have never seen any masters who can kill people in an instant. Based on their thinking, now
It is a legal society in broad daylight, and no one dares to raise their hands to kill. Therefore, they dare to lose their temper with anyone, without even thinking about who Fei Ying and He Jishang are.
The flying snakes in Langu can also freeze? This is a strange thing. If I had known this, wouldn't I have saved myself all the trouble if I had waited until there was heavy snow in the mountains before setting off?