"Okay." Chen Tu was not polite and nodded in agreement. He got off his horse and put the iron box carried by the strong horse in the inn on his horse. He carried another iron box on his back and rode on the snow that Hong Chen had given him.
He cupped his hands and said, "Take care!" and then rode away.
After Hong Chen waved goodbye to Chen Tu, he mounted his strong horse and reined around to the north of Wuyang Mountain. Not long after he arrived at the shade of the mountain, he saw a forest lake in the northeast and several families by the lake. He felt hungry again.
Then he galloped away.
There was a woman washing clothes by the lake. Hong Chen got off his horse and asked, "Sister, do you have food at home?" The woman looked up and saw a man leading a horse and carrying a knife. She stood up in fear and said timidly: "No."
Hong Chen took out some broken silver from his arms: "I'm just a traveler. I'm empty at the moment. If you have some bacon and pickles at home, can you sell me some?" The woman suddenly smiled and wiped her wet hands on her clothes.
After wiping it, he took the broken silver and put it into his waist: "I don't think you look like a gangster, so come with me." Then he led Hong Chen to a small courtyard, picked a bunch of sausages hanging under the eaves, and moved out a vat.
Pickles were put on porcelain plates and brought to the stone table in the courtyard.
Hong Chen moved the chopsticks to eat, and the woman brought another bowl of half-warm white rice porridge: "These are the leftovers from the morning. I lit a fire and heated them up. If you don't like it, I will cook another pot." Hong Chen waved his hand and said:
"No, that's good." Then he chatted with the woman while eating: "Sister, have you lived here forever?"
The woman said: "No, I got married ten years ago."
"Then your man has been living here?"
"No, my husband used to live in a village ten miles away to the east. His parents died early, and his brother and sister-in-law took all of his property, so he went to work in the city when he was a child. Later, he came to build a house in this unowned land and married me.
"
"This place is surrounded by mountains and rivers and is also adjacent to a forest. There are many trees in the forest, and there are fish and shrimps in the lake. Why are there only a few families?"
"There used to be a fishing village with dozens of families here, but more than 20 years ago, suddenly several groups of murderers started fighting nearby. All the people in the village were killed and the houses were demolished. Since then, it has become a feng shui murderous village.
Land, only a man like me who is too poor to afford good real estate would come here to build a house and raise a family."
Hong Chen thought to himself, more than 20 years ago, there was a bloody battle between the Huangtian Sect and the martial arts people on Wuyang Mountain. How come it also affected the innocent people at the foot of the mountain? He asked again, but the woman knew nothing about the Jianghu matter.
Understanding, he just said: "People in the fishing village have to sharpen their knives by the lake when they go to chop wood in the forest or on the mountain. This lake is also called the 'sharpening pit'. Later, everyone said that the name of the lake was too fierce, so it was given to the fishing village.
It caused disaster, and now we call it Nanhu."
"The man was killed by gangsters, what does the name of the lake have to do with it?"
Hong Chen disagreed with the woman's superstitious remarks and thought about asking the hermits of the Wuyang Sect. What harm did conflicts between martial arts people do to other people? After picking up the pickles and porridge in the bowl, he
He said goodbye to the woman and went up the mountain.
The strong horse in the inn was not good at galloping, but it was very stable when walking up the mountain. In a short time, Hong Chen was brought to the mountainside. Many old and crude graves could be seen on the way. I thought that the poor people who came here had no geomantic treasures to bury, so they could only be buried on this lonely mountain.
His descendants have been cut off, the graves are unmaintained, and there are clumps of weeds around the graves. Many of the grave heads have been washed away by wind and rain and are almost flattened.
The road from the mountainside to the top of the mountain was rugged and steep, and the horse could not move. Hong Chen got off the strong horse and patted its neck: "Go back to your house!" The strong horse also understood people's wishes and turned around and went down the mountain.
Hong Chen walked all the way to the top of the mountain and saw that the bare cliff was covered with strange rocks. Many of the smooth stones reflected sunlight on the cliff below. The light and shadow intertwined, showing a strange lavender color. He immediately understood the meaning of "Ziyang Cliff".
Where did the name come from? Walking to the edge of the cliff again, looking down, you can see the evergreen jungle in the mountain, and the Wuyang Sect is living in seclusion in the forest. I wonder if the murderer of Chen Jiantian and others has been caught at this time.
When he went to the cliff to investigate, Hong Chen found that there were traces of hooks and pulls embedded in several rocks. He immediately concentrated on tracing the traces and found that the traces of sharp weapons were intermittently extending down the mountain wall, and they were invisible.
At this point, we understood the way the murderer entered the Wuyang Sect - not by hanging down with a rope, but by climbing down with a climbing hook.
Now that the murderer's infiltration method was known, Hong Chen walked from the top of the mountain to the entrance of the secret passage on the south mountainside and returned to the Wuyang Sect.
But he said that after Tianyun Sanmeng was knocked down by Hong Chen, his injuries were not serious. He quickly stood up and hurriedly chased after him. After a few miles, he met six other purple-clad guards in brown robes who were on their backs. Yuwenmeng frowned and ordered:
"My two brothers and I will go after the two people who escaped. You six, go back to the inn to contact Commander Li and Vice Commander Chen and report to Commander Li what happened here. Then, with him as the leader, we will continue to carry out the mission." Liu Ziyiwei enran.
Agreeing, the three Yuwenmeng brothers continued to gallop forward.
Although these six purple-clad guards were not wearing any colors, their horses were all injured. The boxes they were carrying at the beginning also fell to the ground. Hammers, hoes, drills, shovels, ropes and other tools were thrown all over the ground. They packed up their tools and led them.
The horses returned to the inn to eat and rest. At noon, a group of men and horses dressed in brown robes and smart clothes like them finally arrived.
"Commander Li! Deputy Commander Chen!" A purple-clothed guard clasped his fists and said, "Earlier, we met two people here carrying heavy iron boxes. We suspected that they came down from the mountain to rob the tomb, and they may have the items we are looking for this time.
Dancai came forward to question them, but unexpectedly, they were both guilty, and after a fight with us, they fled on horseback. The three commanders Yuwen went to pursue them, leaving the six of us waiting here."
"Haha." Commander Li chuckled. The upper half of his face was covered by a cold silver mask, and the lower half of his face was exposed. He had fair skin and little beard, and his voice was very young. "The three of them are quite cunning. They took the opportunity to hide and it was detrimental to their moral character.
I'm on an errand." Then he turned around and said to the others behind him: "Everyone has a meal and rest. In the evening, we will go up the mountain." Then he said to Deputy Commander Chen beside him: "Uncle Ye, these six people used to be your subordinates. Next
You take them with you."
"Subordinates take orders."
Vice Commander Chen responded.
If Hong Chen was still in the inn at this moment, he would be shocked when he saw Deputy Commander Chen. Deputy Commander Chen was none other than Chen Shuye, who had his right forearm cut off by Hong Chen more than a year ago, but his hands were intact at this time.
, looking at his movements, it was impossible to tell that his arm had been severed at the elbow level.
Among the purple guards in the inn, there were six Tianyun Sanmeng who stayed, and Commander Li and Chen Shuye, who had ten people, a total of sixteen people. After eating, they went to bed and woke up in the evening to gather.
, heading up the mountain. They did not stop on the mountainside, but walked all the way to the top of the mountain, to Ziyang Cliff.
At night, Uncle Chen ordered six of Tianyun Sanmeng's subordinates to take out the iron drills from the box. First, they dug two iron drills deeply into the cliff, and knotted them with ropes to form a long rope.
The sixteen people were divided into two groups, each hanging down from a rope. When it was more than ten feet long, the person at the bottom drove an iron rod into the cliff wall and tied the new rope securely. This went back and forth, all the way down.
After each group of two groups nailed the sixth iron drill, and lowered it until it was still dozens of feet away from the forest below, Commander Li suddenly said: "This is it, dig!" Then he pinched his lips with his hands and blew out a scratching sound.