Chapter 70 Burning incense and worshiping gods on the mountain
Chapter 70: Go up the mountain to burn incense and worship the gods
Author: It’s so hard to get an ID
Chapter 70: Go up the mountain to burn incense and worship the gods
The three thousand miles journey is easy, and Huang Xiaoshi has just returned to Shu.
For Huang Xiaoshi, this trip back to Shuzhong can be described as a relaxing and enjoyable journey.
He used to walk back and forth several times on the narrow mountain road from Luoyang to Shuzhong carrying goods with his disciples. Compared with walking empty-handed like this now, it was much harder. The man carrying the goods accidentally killed someone.
It is not uncommon to fall off a cliff while carrying goods.
It is easier to take the land route, but that is only compared to the water route. The dangerous plank road is not so easy to walk.
There is a way, but the way to Shu is difficult.
Shuzhong is a place you don’t want to leave once you’ve arrived.
Of course, "I don't want to leave". In addition to the comfortable life in Shuzhong, the more factor may be that I am afraid of tossing people on the way in and out of Shuzhong. It is not easy to get in, and it is also difficult to get out.
Therefore, the old saying "If you are young, you will not enter Shu, and if you are old, you will not leave Shu". If you think about it carefully, there is nothing new about it.
After walking thousands of miles, they arrived in Chengdu, where the new main gate of Shennong Baicao Gate was now. Huang Xiaoshi turned around and climbed the mountain.
Which mountain to climb?
Qingcheng Mountain.
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On the way back to Shuzhong, Huang Xiaoshi couldn't decide whether to go back to Shennong Baicaomen first or go to Qingcheng Mountain first. After arriving in Chengdu, Huang Xiaoshi discovered a legendary figure.
This legendary figure is not a specific person, but a type of person.
It is very strange to say that Huang Xiaoshi has never seen the real Jin Yiwei, but it is not as if he recognized the Jin Yiwei at a glance.
In an era when everyone on the street wore coarse cloth, Jin Yiwei's unusual and unique dress was very eye-catching, and could even be said to stand out from the crowd.
What's even more strange is that when Jin Yiwei walks on the street, he keeps away from pedestrians at a distance, just like a school of fish seeing a shark.
After seeing Jin Yiwei, Huang Xiaoshi understood immediately that the search for the crown prince had begun.
Huang Xiaoshi only returned to Shu in advance because he thought that he was not sure about the specific time of the secret search for the crown prince in Shu.
Because Huang Xiaoshi could only work backwards from the original plot outcome, he was not sure about the timing.
Therefore, Huang Xiaoshi's idea was to use the excuse of attending Gong Guangjie's wedding to squat in Shu, waiting for the opportunity.
Who knows, Huang Xiaoshi arrived just in time, or the incident developed faster than Huang Xiaoshi expected. By the time they arrived in Chengdu, even the Jin Yiwei had already been dispatched.
Huang Xiaoshi screamed in his heart that he was still too greedy to practice and spent too much time in Xiaoyao Valley.
Huang Xiaoshi regretted deeply, stopped suddenly, turned around and left.
Just as Huang Xiaoshi turned around and walked away quickly, he heard a loud shout from behind him: "Hey, stop here."
Huang Xiaoshi subconsciously turned his head and saw Jin Yiwei coming towards him.
After being stunned for a moment, Huang Xiaoshi stretched out his hand to pull down the straw hat on his head, turned around and walked quickly towards the city gate.
With a "click" sound, Jin Yiwei pulled out the steel knife in his hand.
Jin Yiwei's snow-white knife was so bright that everyone in the street ran away.
Speaking of which, Jin Yiwei is not just wandering around on the streets, they call this kind of patrolling the streets handling cases.
Jinyiwei is a very special profession, and their methods of handling cases are often relatively simple.
For example, the most commonly used method is to show your identity and walk on the street, and then carefully observe the expressions of passers-by on the road. If you encounter anyone with a different look, take them down directly.
After these people are captured and interrogated, they can always find out what the charges are.
There is a saying that the thief has a guilty conscience. The greater your aura, the more guilty the thief will be.
Many times, with just such a scare, the thief will reveal his true identity.
So this method sounds crude to say, but it works well every time.
As for what to do if you say you took the wrong person?
How confusing!
How could Jin Yiwei get the wrong person when he was doing something?
There is absolutely no such thing, not one, never has, and there will never be one again.
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This Jin Yiwei was walking and looking on the street when suddenly a pedestrian wearing a straw hat rushed toward him. The brim of his hat was so low that it blocked most of his face.
Just when he was about to hit him, the man suddenly turned around and walked away.
Seeing this situation, Jin Yiwei naturally shouted at him.
In the end, it was better not to shout. After Jin Yiwei shouted loudly, the straw hat man not only did not stop, but even ran away.
Hey, you still dare to run!
The Jin Yiwei suddenly pulled out the sharp knife, and then shouted loudly: "The Jin Yiwei is handling the case, the little thief should stop running away!"
When Jin Yiwei drank, everyone in the street, not to mention the straw hat man, ran away.
The guards in Jinyi held a knife and gave chase. The thief in front obviously had some skills and escaped very fast. The two of them, one after the other, quickly chased him to the city gate.
When the gatekeepers saw someone running toward the city gate, they naturally raised their guns to stop him. Unexpectedly, the thief kicked the gatekeeper.
I saw him jumping, kicking, padding, and kicking, and jumped directly over Mending's head. Not only did he not slow down, he also went a few minutes faster.
"Get out of the way!" The guard in Jinyi rushed past the gate guards with a knife, and finally left a harsh "trash" to the group of city gate guards who were looking at each other.
First the thief escaped, and then he was scolded. Naturally, the servant felt uncomfortable.
I saw the leader of the door put away the long knife in his hand, spat on the ground, gnashed his teeth and cursed, then raised his head to look at the stunned people, and shouted loudly and arrogantly: "What's there to see?"
?If you want to get in, just get in, if you want to get out, just crawl, hurry up and get out of here!"
After the Jin Yiwei followed the thief out of the city, he quickly turned off the main road.
All the way towards the deserted area, the thief fled slower and slower. Finally, after the thief wearing a straw hat fled to a small mountain col, he stopped.
The straw hat thief turned around and said to the panting Jin Yiwei: "Oh, I think it's rare for you to run away, so forget it."
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A few days later, in the middle of Shu, at Qingcheng Mountain, Taoist temple.
A pilgrim carrying a backpack walked over and sat down on the stone pillar next to the gate. He breathed a sigh of relief and finally arrived.
It is only more than two hundred miles from Chengdu to Qingcheng Mountain, but climbing the mountain is painful.
This is called sincerity and spirituality. Since we are here to burn incense, it doesn't matter if it is a bit hard and tiring.
After entering the Taoist temple, this young pilgrim entered every room and worshiped the gods when he saw them. He paid homage to every corner of the temple, no matter how big or small. His expression and posture were extremely pious.
But if you get closer to him, you will find that this pilgrim is not as serious as he seems. You can only hear him mumbling words such as "Old man is in good health", "Mom is in good health", "Business is prosperous", "Find a wife as soon as possible"
"I want a son first, then a daughter." Anyway, I just made a wish and didn't pay attention to whether the gods care about so many things.
In the evening, after the pilgrims had a fast meal in the Taoist temple, they asked to stay overnight in the temple. Since there were many pilgrims coming to offer incense during this time, four grown men crowded into one incense room.
After dark, a group of men began to whistle loudly with accents from all over the world. After a while, everyone became sleepy and gradually stopped talking, and snoring gradually started in the room.
Late at night, a figure stood up from the small bed. This was Huang Xiaoshi, who had worshiped the gods for a day.
After Huang Xiaoshi got up from the bed, he quickly came to the beds of several other pilgrims and stretched out his hands to them with the help of the faint light of the stars and moon coming in from the window.
After a while, the room that was originally filled with snoring gradually became quiet.
After Huang Xiaoshi reached out and massaged several acupuncture points for the three pilgrims one by one, they quickly fell into a deep sleep, which could be said to be irresistible.
Black hat, soap coat, sharp knife.
Huang Xiaoshi took these three pieces of equipment that had been stripped from Jin Yiwei's body from his backpack and quickly put them on him.
As for the Jin Yiwei whose equipment was borrowed, he was first killed by Huang Xiaoshi's acupuncture points. After stripping off all his clothes, he was cut into a pile of minced meat using the chicken claw technique.
Digging acupuncture points, killing people, seizing clothes, cutting corpses into pieces, and throwing them away, Huang Xiaoshi did this with ease.
Huang Xiaoshi was originally worried about where to find clothes, but as soon as he entered Chengdu, he met someone who gave him a complete set of equipment.
This matter is extremely important.
The Jin Yiwei whose equipment was borrowed cannot even die, let alone be found to have his clothes taken away, so he can only "suddenly disappear" and disappear forever and completely.
After changing into his clothes, which were a little too big, Huang Xiaoshi arranged them carefully. Finally, he took out a black gauze scarf and covered his face, then opened the door and stepped out.
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In the middle of the night, Yan Yu, who was sleeping soundly, suddenly woke up and became very conscious in an instant.
He reached out and touched the sword on the bed. He didn't open his eyes but held his breath, waiting for that moment to come.
In the past few years since he got his first sword, Yan Yu has been walking with the sword during the day and sleeping with the sword at night. In the eyes of his master and other brothers, he is "obsessed with swords" and they all think that Yan Yu is "obsessed with swords".
Yu has a talent for practicing swordsmanship.
Live up to everyone's expectations, Yan Yu has practiced the Ziyang Magic Kung Fu to the sixth level at a young age, and his sword skills are even more outstanding, as he has learned from his master Qing Xia Zi's true teachings. Even people outside the door can't help but praise Yan Yu when they see him.
Talent.
It is foreseeable that in the future, Yan Yu will definitely become a leading figure in the Qingcheng faction.
Yanyu does have a special feeling for swords.
In the beginning, Yan Yu felt a real "need" for swords. After a frightened life in exile, only by holding and touching the sword could he feel a trace of safety in his heart.
After many years of carrying a sword with him, Yan Yu gradually fell in love with the sword. Not only did he like the sword, but he also liked the feeling of his body flowing like water and his mind without any distractions when practicing the sword. Only in this ethereal spirit could he forget the past and the past.
Those sorrows.
There was a time when Yan Yu took a silk scarf and wiped it on the long sword as if it were brushing his lover's face. He truly promised in his heart: "In this life, I will collect swords, love swords, love swords, and am willing to dedicate my body and mind to the sword."
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However, everything in the past, whether it was the breaking of stool, or the fire that had been forgotten in daily life, and the machete that came towards the face, often appeared in Yan Yu's dreams.
After waking up in the middle of the night, Yan Yu could only gradually wake up by touching the sword beside him.
Yan Yu really hoped that all of that was just a dream, even if it was a nightmare, as long as he woke up, it would disappear without a trace.
But now, the ghost that has been chasing him for many years has finally come to the door.
"They have not forgotten me after all."
Lying flat on the bed, feeling his own heartbeat, Yan Yu felt a sense of relief. The relaxation in his heart gave him a sense of soul sublimation.
"He's here, just let him come!"
Three heartbeats later, the expected assassination did not come.
Yan Yu slowly exhaled a breath, then opened his eyes, and then he slowly sat up again.
Three steps in front of the bed stood a ghost-like black figure. From the time Yan Yu woke up from a deep sleep to when he sat up, he stood there motionless. If the light of the stars and moon vaguely coming from the window had not been blocked by his body, maybe
Many people would think this is a life-threatening ghost.
After Yan Yu sat up, he faced him face to face, and both of them remained silent.
"Jinyiwei?"
As soon as he saw the man's attire, Yan Yu couldn't help but mutter to himself.
Sure enough, it was Jin Yiwei. I heard that Jin Yiwei was handling the case back then. Although the case was apparently closed, in fact, it had been secretly investigated over the years.
In the end, Huangtian paid off and finally turned himself upside down.
But something was wrong. Yan Yu suddenly thought that if the Jin Yiwei came to find him, he could just go to the door and lock him up during the day. Who among the Qingcheng faction, including the master and even the leader, could stop him?
"assassin?"
In the middle of the night, he appeared in his room with his face covered with black gauze and dressed like this. He said that he was not an assassin, so no one would believe him.
But since he is here to assassinate himself, why bother wearing the uniform of a royal guard?
Yan Yu suddenly figured out that the other party was actually trying to tell himself that what happened next was very variable, and how to deal with it might depend on his own attitude and answer.
Yan Yu quickly made a series of thoughts based on his own experience. If these thoughts of his were known to the person opposite, he would definitely be called an expert.
Why is Mao dressed in such a crooked way? There is nothing I can do about it.
Except for Jin Yiwei, Huang Xiaoshi really didn't know what the other secret agents of the imperial court looked like. In order to make Yan Yu believe that he was a secret agent of the imperial court, only the brand of Jin Yiwei should be effective.
As for the black gauze covering his face, that's not nonsense. Huang Xiaoshi was afraid that he had taken the wrong medicine before he dared to show his true face.
What's more, Huang Xiaoshi has double insurance. His face has already been painted with turmeric. Even if the black veil is lifted, what can be seen is a thin man with a yellow face and thick black eyebrows.
This thick black eyebrow was carefully designed by Huang Xiaoshi and was painted with charcoal tonight as a disguise.
Sometimes deliberately creating one or two very prominent features will make people ignore other features of the appearance.
Of course, Huang Xiaoshi had considered everything carefully. He not only tampered with his appearance, but also chewed up the medicinal herbs that made him hoarse before going up the mountain. He successfully made his voice hoarse.
The reason for being so cautious is because tonight is a very important node for Huang Xiaoshi. Not only is the risk huge, but it is also uncontrollable.
No one knows what Yan Yu will do after seeing him dressed like this. The worst result is that he suddenly goes berserk and fights.
In that case, Huang Xiaoshi would have no choice but to run away, give up on this epic mission, and find another way.
It's impossible to force Yan Yu to death.
Huang Xiaoshi agrees with "useful" killing, rather than killing as he pleases.
Yan Yu was calmer than expected. Now what Huang Xiaoshi had to do was to use carefully designed words to find a way to get his words out.
What Huang Xiaoshi never expected was that Yan Yu, who had attained great enlightenment, had a clear mind and had entered an extremely high state.
"No matter what the outcome is, just follow your own heart and nature.
I will neither deliberately seek death nor seek to survive.
When he comes, let him come."
The two looked at each other. After a moment, Yan Yu broke the silence and said first: "Who are you?"
"Should I call you Yan Yu, or His Highness the Crown Prince?" Jin Yiwei's voice was a little rough, but he spoke authentic Beijing dialect.
It has been years since I heard such authentic Beijing dialect. Since arriving in Sichuan, all I heard was Bashan Shu dialect all day long. Yan Yu almost forgot what Beijing dialect sounded like.
"Are you here to catch me or to kill me?" Yan Yu sat on the edge of the bed and placed his sword across his thigh.
Although it is not visible on the surface, the muscles in Yanyu's legs are actually tense, ready to draw a sword and strike.
"I came today mainly because I want to ask you something." Jin Yiwei stretched out a hand and pressed it down, indicating to Yan Yu to relax, "You have to think about it before answering."
Yan Yu nodded slowly.
After Yan Yu relaxed slightly, Jin Yiwei said again: "I was ordered to investigate the case. There are some things that are still unclear, so I came here to ask you tonight."
After Yanyu was silent for a while, he slowly said: "Okay."
After listening to Yan Yu's words, Jin Yiwei nodded and said, "Remember and tell me as much as you can about what happened back then. Don't miss a single word."
