Cover The Sky With One Hand, Beat The Ground With The Other - Chapter 39

The green hills are winding and the peaks and mountains are rugged. If the lonely forest and the mountains were not piles of graves, it would have been a wonder of the dense forest.

The tombs here are mostly mounds of the same size and no name on the stele. It is not a person who is dead and nowhere to bury, or a lonely soul who died of war and plague in the early years.

In the middle of the night, listening to the harsh wind whistling in this barren mountain, Wu Pingting led the way with a lamp in front, and Ah Zuo and Ah right personally protected him, still feeling terrible and shuddering.

The terrain of Wanfengang is steep, but fortunately, I changed into a men’s suit with a foresight before going out. Wu Pingting just saw me as a scholar watching the moon and couldn’t help asking: “Why does the princess bring a fan?”

I spread out the gold edge folding fan nervously and said, “I think that I will see the legendary pineapple soon, with my hands empty, it is always wrong.”

Wu Pingting: “…”

The mountain breeze resembles a burst, and the higher the upward, the higher the weeds grow, almost making people feel psychedelic.

I was a little tired from crawling, and sighed bitterly, “I heard that the former King Chao Rui was also a famous scholar in his early years. How can I think of putting secret land in such a place?”

Wu Pingting said: “My father said that Wanfengang was used to bury the dead soldiers of the previous dynasty, or has a close relationship with King Narui.”

I was taken aback, panting with one hand on my waist, and then looked around and said, “But these ten thousand graves are so continuous, where exactly did your father tell you before he died?”

Wu Pingting paused, and finally said softly: “To the southwest, under the birch tree, beside the blue stone stele, in the ancient mound.”

After that, right away, Zuo and Ayou looked at me at the same time, and I whispered: “Come on.”

Dark clouds cover the moon, grass and trees are desolate, and on this empty chaotic graveyard, there are occasional green ghosts and fires floating in the air.

I sighed slightly in my heart.

Even if there are ghosts in the world and are buried here, whoever will listen to who cry, and who will not be sad because of whom.

It probably took another time to stick incense, Zuo suddenly pointed to a tall tree not far away and asked, “But that?”

Wu Pingting stepped forward quickly, raised the lantern and took a photo: “That’s it!”

It is another monument without words.

Except that the mound is slightly higher, it doesn’t look much different from other tombs.

Wu Pingting stretched out her hand to cover the mound, and the soil sparsely fell to the ground. After a while, she saw a white stone coming out of the mound.

When Azuo Ayou saw this, he also stepped forward to help. Soon, a small cloak of clothes was in front of him.

I held the fan and tilted my head around, but saw that the tomb gate was quietly hidden behind the tombstone, but it was only half a person high, and it was difficult for ordinary people to notice.

“There are tens of thousands of graves on the vast Qinglin Mountain. No wonder that Fengli has nowhere to find it.” I smiled, “Thanks to Miss Wu’s insight, otherwise it will be difficult to find it in the middle of the night.”

Wu Pingting faintly glanced at the two lineups of Zuo, Zuo and You, “Your Highness only intends to let these two guards deal with Fengli?”

“Miss Wu, you think too much.”

I gestured to Zuo and A right, they raised their fingers and whistles, and clusters of fire suddenly lit up in all directions. Thirty-eight shadow guards showed up together, and started to tie the torch in their hands to the long stick, and then embedded the long stick. In the soil, in less than a while, this small piece of tomb forest was full of flames.

Wu Pingting wondered: “What is this?”

I smiled lightly and said, “Create the illusion that we are so many and powerful.”

Wu Pingting frowned her eyebrows, “In this way, Fengli will soon discover our whereabouts and catch us all at once.”

“He won’t.”

“Why see?”

I thought about it and felt that there was no time to explain to her too much, so I said: “Because not long after we went up the mountain, the entire circle of Qinglin Mountain was surrounded by the commander Si Qianjun.”

Ah You glanced at me in surprise, but didn’t ask much.

Wu Pingting looked at the low door of the cloak and tried to push it, but there was no response, “Is this door blocked?”

I searched for a flat rock and sat down, beckoning to Zuo: “Take down this tombstone to the palace.” Zuo said, “Demolition, tear down the grave?”

I smiled and said, “Don’t let this palace repeat it a second time.”

Zuo did.

He used his family heirloom sword to dig for a long time, but when he tried to move the tombstone, he couldn’t move it.

Ah right up and forward to help, but the tombstone still doesn’t move.

They looked at me for help.

I sighed and groaned: “Teach you one thing. Usually when you want to move something that can obviously move but can’t move, it means that the thing has another secret, and it’s probably the key thing to open the mechanism. “

A Zuo A You suddenly realized that Qi Li tried to turn the tombstone left and right. As expected, the tomb gate was moved out by one inch after the tombstone turned around. After the tombstone turned around, the tomb gate was fully opened and a hole was opened.

Zuo looked around and said, “There is a hidden path inside, and the stone steps are facing down. You can’t see the bottom here.”

I patted the ashes on my butt, stood up and smiled at Wu Pingting, “I beg you to lead the way, Miss Wu, I will follow you.”

Wu Pingting hesitated for a while, neatly drew out the dagger from his boots, carried the lantern, and bent down into the hole.

I turned to Ah You again and said: “You follow me behind to protect me, Ah Zuo guards the door, don’t close the door, everyone else, stand by incognito.”

As soon as the voice fell, the thirty-eight shadow guards whizzed and disappeared like a conjurer. Looking across the mountain, it seemed that there were really only three of us left.

I stepped into the secret path with one foot, and Ah You grabbed me and said, “I’m afraid that the next person will not be able to protect the princess, so it is better to send more people to accompany…”

I glanced at her faintly: “If Feng Liruo entered this secret path, the shadow guards reappeared and followed closely. It is always easier to attack from the rear; if he does not enter, our group will swarm in instead. Then he closed the stone gate from the outside and was hungry for three, five or seven days or it was smoked with smoke. Then we really made it hard to escape.”

Ah You thought for a moment and nodded and said: “Subordinates understand.” Seeing Ah Zuo was waiting to open her mouth, she intercepted his words and said: “Left, your gatekeeping mission is of great importance, and you can’t afford to miss it.”

Zuo sighed and nodded unwillingly.

The secret path was small and narrow at first, and it was inconvenient to move. After a few steps, the stone wall gradually expanded and became unexpectedly spacious.

I held the torch and looked around. Every time I took a step, I could see the dust rising in the air, filled with the smell of dust for many years.

Ah You closely followed me, probably because the secret path continued to go down. She was quite disturbed: “I don’t know what purpose Narui King dug up such a secret path for? How can Feng Li be so painstakingly painstaking. Deliberate.”

I casually said: “In places like secret roads, most of them are not martial arts secrets or gold and silver jewelry. The pineapples have heard that they are anti-imperial people, but if he acts personally, even his subordinates can’t afford it. They should be short of money. It’s hard to move without money, let alone a big deal…”

Wu Pingting suddenly interjected: “Fengli may just be unable to trust others. If it is really for the sake of wealth, it is impossible to guarantee that other people will not embezzle it.”

I nodded, “It can be seen that Pineapple still trusts Girl Wu.”

Wu Pingting looked back at me suspiciously, “What does this mean?”

I shrugged and smiled: “If I am a girl Wu, I can’t avenge the hatred on my own, and if I learn that this secret path is extremely important to pineapples, I will draw a small map and post it around, so that all the people in the capital will be able to avenge me. Farmers, officials and businessmen know that the treasures of the previous dynasty are hidden here, so even if the wind leaves the world, there is nothing to do, don’t you want to die?”

Wu Piting was startled, as if she never expected that this could be regarded as one of the ways of revenge, “So, isn’t it ashamed of Jun Jinzhi’s trust in her father?”

I said, “So, Feng Li trusts Miss Wu’s character very much.” At this point, after turning a corner, Ah You suddenly said “Ah”, pointing his finger at the end of the secret road, and he appeared. A high wall.

This wall is about two feet high and wide, and it is made up of blocks of square bluestone.

In addition, the other four stone walls that are connected to the stone wall are all natural rocks that have passed through the years, and there is no other way out.

Ah You was incredulous: “Just…that’s it?”

I sighed, “Couldn’t King Rui just dug a hole and want to tell his son to bury himself here.”

Wu Pingting took a closer look and suddenly said, “There are words on the wall.”

I also walked a few steps closer when I heard the words, but as expected, words were engraved on the stone wall. The word Wu Pingting was referring to was the word “king”.

I took a step back, held up the torch, and instantly illuminated the wall. I saw that every bluestone pile was engraved with a word. Everywhere I looked at a column was “Cao, Xu, Qu, Feng, He, Sun, Gao, Ding …” and other words.

Ah You inexplicably, “What are these?”

Wu Pingting looked around in silence, and said in deep thought, “Hundred names.”

Ah You took a serious look and muttered: “The last name is the last name, but the order of the lettering doesn’t seem to follow…”

“So,” I read the words on the stone wall up, down, left, and right, “It’s the surnames of a hundred families in disorder.”

Ah You nodded slightly, and then watched the passage when he came again vigilantly, confirming that there was no one coming, and asked, “I wonder why King Narui built such a wall?”

I was about to speak, but seeing Wu Pingting frowned, as if curiously covering the bluestone pile beside her, my heart was hanging, “Don’t–“

Before I could stop it, the stone pile was pushed. I lowered my head vigilantly. Fortunately, there was no movement on the stone floor. I just wanted to breathe a sigh of relief. I just listened to a “swish” sound and an arrow shot the torch down in my hand. On the ground, several crossbow arrows shot out from the cracks in the rocks on both sides, like a gust of wind, hitting the key!

Ah You decisively pulled out the blade from his waist and stopped in front of me. For a while, he only heard the clanging sound of the blade and iron. I saw those arrows shot to the head and chest, and he simply squatted down before turning. Looking at Wu Pingting on the other side, she saw her with one hand on her back, her right hand holding a dagger in a changing posture to pick up the arrows, her clothes like wind, and she was unrestrained and unrestrained.

Until there was no concealed weapon to shoot out, the secret path returned to silence, Ah You hurriedly turned his head, “Is the princess hurt?”

“It’s okay.” I slowly stood up and looked at the scattered arrows on the ground. “This mechanism is embedded in the cracks in the natural weathered stone. It is truly natural.”

The horrified expression on Wu Pingting’s face has not faded, “I, I did not expect that there will be a hidden weapon here, which will almost harm your Highness, it is really…”

“As expected, there are heavy machinery here.” I bent down and picked up the torch. Fortunately, the flame was not extinguished. “It seems that if you want to open the stone gate, you have to press the stone piles in the correct order.”

Ah Youqi said: “Order?”

“The bluestone pile that Miss Wu moved just now is the word’Zhao’, but the hidden weapon still attacked us, which shows that the order of the surnames of the hundred families is not the’Zhao Qian Sun Li Zhou Wu Zheng Wang’ that we know well,” I sighed. “In the old days, I heard that there was a very boring emperor in the previous dynasty who ordered people to reorganize the Hundred Family Names and the Three-Character Classic on a whim. After a few days, he realized the absurdity of his behavior and stopped in time, so the revision did not spread. Going out, it is possible that King Narui set up these institutions because of this. Only the descendants of the former royal family could open this huge door.”

Wu Pingting frowned, “Does the princess know how to memorize the previous one?”

I glanced at her like an idiot, and said, “This palace is a royal family, not a descendant of the former dynasty.”

She said: “Since this is the case, how do you open this door?”

I tilted my head and looked at her, “Why open it?”

Wu Pingting blinked her pair of Qiu Shui Xiu Mu, and said in amazement: “If you get here, don’t you have to give up if you don’t try it?”

I raised my eyebrows and asked, “Isn’t the purpose of our trip to catch Fenglili to catch him?”

Wu Pingting was stunned for a moment, and only said: “Feng Li is sinister and cunning, and the girl is only worried that if he doesn’t really enter the secret place, he may not be willing to show up.”

I smiled, “Ms. Wu said and laughed, and Fengli has never entered here. How can he learn that there is Shimen in the secret passage? He knows nothing. Seeing us entering the cloak mound, he will think that he can’t wait. The method sneaks in… If he really doesn’t show up because we haven’t opened the stone gate, then there is only one possibility…”

I did not hurriedly said: “He knew that there was a stone gate under this secret road early in the morning. At this moment, he is waiting for us to open the door. Then, he reappeared and drove straight in…”

Wu Pingting’s brow furrowed deeper, “I have never revealed this secret to anyone, how would he know?”

I nodded nonchalantly, and she said again: “It’s just that today we have leaked the secret place. If Fengli really doesn’t show up, we will return without success. He will come back to explore in the future. Wouldn’t it be great to the princess? unfavorable?”

“There will be no future.” I slowly said: “If you return without success today, my palace will order people to blast this mountain to ashes.”

Wu Pingting’s expression changed, “This, how does this make it?”

I stared at her and said of course: “Everything that may become a hidden danger in this dynasty, there is no better way than eradicating it.”

Wu Pingting took a step and said, “This, this is the last way to lure the wind away. If the princess lets the secret land disappear into the world, where can I find him to avenge my father and brother?! “

I looked at her quietly, looked at the anomaly that flashed in her eyes, for a long while, and finally said: “Nothing.”

I handed the torch in my hand to Ah You, and drew out the gold-rimmed folding fan around my waist and spread it out. The inscription on the fan was “Only knowledge is forever, and black and white take turns, the sun and the moon are new.”, I stretched the fan in front of Wu Pingting. With a slight smile, he said, “The panoramic view of the fine brushwork of this Hang Fan was painted by the former famous painter Gu Xizhi.

The flames reflected Wu Pingting’s pretty face, “What does the princess mean?”

“This folding fan is a meeting gift I prepared for Fengli,” I paused, put the folding fan into her palm, and said with a smile: “A little gift, please give it to me.”

Wu Pingting stood there for a while, looking at me confusedly, “What is the princess talking about? Could it be that I suspected that I was an accomplice of the culprit…”

“Naturally not an accomplice,” I interrupted her, “My palace means that from the beginning, you are the way that the wind has led us.”

“Lu Yin?” Wu Pingting seemed to have heard the most ridiculous thing in the world. “The girl in the Yueyue Tower plays the piano and composes music all day long. It is clear that the princess came to see me and asked me the truth about the case of the **** destroying the door. I want me to bring your Highness here to draw the wind away…”

I met her eyes as if, “I wonder if the girl still remembers, what is the first truth you confessed?”

Wu Piting was startled.

I recalled: “You said, ‘My father, my eldest brother, and my fellow students were all killed by him’, didn’t they?”

Wu Pingting said: “Yes, the **** is indeed slaughtered by the wind. Does the princess have any doubts about this?”

I faintly curled my lips, but did not answer her, “Then you said, Fengli approached you and used your father’s relationship with Jun Jinzhi to get out of the earth-shattering secrets hidden in Jun Jinzhi’s body. Where we are standing at the moment, isn’t it?”

“Why should the princess ask knowingly.”

“Later, just after your father released Jun Jin, Feng Li suddenly sent troops to pursue him. After your father returned to Beijing, Feng Li killed everyone in the dart board in front of you in order to ask your father where his secret place was. Isn’t it?”

Wu Pingting sneered: “Could it be that the princess still suspects that I combined Fengli to kill my family?”

I said meaningfully and authentically: “Ms. Wu will naturally not do such a utterly conscientious thing. It’s just that when listening to your statement, I have some questions. I can’t figure it out anyway… For example, Feng Li… how could she be so stupid? Woolen cloth?”

Wu Piting was startled.

I paced and said: “If I am Fengli, since I know that your father and Jun Jinzhi are old friends, I should stand on your father’s side and deal with each other slowly, so that I can better ask the secret place, right? Use coercion. He tried to force a man of the rivers and lakes who valued love and righteousness, heh, how could such a stupid robber act come from Feng Li’s hand?”

Seeing Wu Pingting’s intention to open my mouth, I raised my hand again and said, “Also, you said that your father had secretly attached his ear to you before he died in order to save your life. Hey, that’s even more strange. Since he The old man knows the secret place by himself, so why not talk about a fake and deceive Fengli? There are more than this mountain in the whole capital. Even if Fengli knows through in the future, there is always more hope to live longer. , Why use such a tragic way of the life of the entire Escort to keep the secret?

After listening to me, Wu Pingting was not in a hurry to argue, “If according to this statement, when the princess invited Yuelou to meet for the first time, she decided that what I said was false. Why didn’t you say it at the time? Why should you ask me to come tonight? this?”

I smiled softly, still not answering her question, only said: “You don’t know today, I ordered my shadow guard, Ah You, oh, where is this one in front of you?”

Wu Yanting pursed her lips and glanced at Ah You who was expressionless.

I reminded: “It’s a cemetery, of course not our place. There are several people lying in that grave. There are the head of the Shangwei Escort, the master, the son of the dart… Hey, you said it’s not strange. They were all worshipped in the early years. The old incense burner is still alive. Today is obviously their death day, but there are weeds in front of the grave. Oh, you say, how long has the weeds been growing and no one has cleared them. ?”

Ah Right: “About one year.”

I raised my eyebrows and said to Wu Pingting: “I don’t think you would tell me, in order to get revenge, you forgot to worship your parents and brothers, right?”

She had changed her face when she heard that, I lowered my smile, and said in a low mood, “The real Wu Pingting is dead, and you, a fake, a person from Fengli.”

She looked at me coldly, as if looking at a madman: “If I am Fengli, why should I make up a story about Fengli destroys the door **** for you?”

I squinted and said, “Who said it was fabricated? The Shangwei Escort was destroyed by the wind. I have no doubt about this.”

She said coldly: “Oh, the princess might as well talk about it, what do you think was the truth back then?”

I shrugged, “At first, I just didn’t understand. Ruo Fengli really killed her in front of Ms. Wu. She was full of resentment. How could she look for enemies every year on the grounds of opposing the song? To an infatuated woman? Said that this behavior is not like seeking revenge, but rather like waiting for your sweetheart with a deep sense of affection.”

“Wu Pingting” smiled contemptuously, “That’s it?”

I shook my head and said seriously: “It may be true that more than a dozen people in the **** died under Fengli’s conspiracy, but they did not necessarily kill them one by one in front of Miss Wu. Moreover, if she really knew the secret of the land It’s impossible that I haven’t had the idea of ​​investigating the truth for so many years. Going to see it, it’s possible to see Fengli, if you don’t go, there is no news at all.” I walked around again, “So she started, I don’t know the so-called secret land. The only person who knows the secret land is his father. Fengli is a wise man, so he will naturally approach her father with a clever way, and finally gain her father’s trust and explore the secret land. Where.”

The “Wu Pingting” in front of him closed his eyes slightly, and his voice was extremely low: “Since he has already asked, why should he kill the escort?”

“In order to swallow this secret alone, it is necessary for the old dart to find the son of Junjin, and Fengli will kill him. As for why he killed the door… most of it was discovered by others when he killed the old dart of Wu, which attracted the whole escort. People, although making a big noise may not be beneficial to them, there is no other way but to kill people.” I sighed leisurely, “I think Wu Pingting should not be at home at the time, so she didn’t know the real murderer of her family. Who it is, on the contrary, Feng Li should still appear as a guardian when he looks back, taking care of her and comforting her, so that it will not arouse people’s suspicion.”

Wu Pingting in front of her couldn’t even smile a smirk, “The princess has said so detailed, it seems like she has seen it with her own eyes.”

I scratched my head apologetically, “My palace’s associations have always been enriched, this…I don’t know how to call it, don’t be surprised.”

“Wu Pingting” really did not take offense. She has no longer pretended to be, and she even showed a cold expression: “The princess has said so much, it sounds like a good point, but the princess must not forget, and personally invite the Yuelou to the song. , The one who wants to see me is you, the princess. If I really were Feng Li’s premeditated person, how could I not predict that the Prophet Princess would come and even made up a lie?”

“Of course no one in this world can predict a prophet.” At this point, I couldn’t help but sighed in annoyance. “All this is not the situation set by Fengli.”

“Wu Pingting” stood Shi Shiran just like that, seemingly interested in hearing what I said, “Oh?”

This is really a big situation, so big that I will wake up until I wake up, and I’m already stuck in it.

“In the first step, he let a honey-picking who had been missing for many years suddenly show up in the princess mansion, and at the same time, he let me find a very important letter paper. In this way, I will kill myself to investigate the truth of the year. People who follow the actions of picking honey will naturally find you because they deliberately avoid Xiange Street because they pick honey and go to the streets to buy medicine.”

“Feng Li knows that I’m not good at fooling around. He went in such a big circle just to draw you out. He told you to say a lot of things to me half-truths, knowing that I might not believe them all, but for the sake of Leading him out will surely bring you to this secret place with you. This is the second step.”

“Wu Pingting” raised her lips gloomily, “Then, why does he lead you to come?”

“I couldn’t figure it out at first. I didn’t come in until then, and suddenly I understood.”

“Because of this.” I turned around and pointed to the wall engraved with surnames, “I think that Fengli of the year should have come to Wanfang Pit the first time after he heard about the secret place. The secret path, however, stopped at this pass.”

“He can’t get in.”

“And he knows that the person who can turn on the mechanism is the son of Junjin. But how can the son of Junjin listen to him?”

“Then, there is only one person left, his wife, that is-this princess.”

The fire light was beating slightly, not illuminating the shrouded darkness.

I inexplicably remembered a sentence-everything has cause and effect.

Seven years ago, when Song Langsheng was just my elder brother, he said the wrong words when he was testing my “San Zi Jing” and “Hundred Family Names”.

I even laughed at him. I can’t even recite “Hundred Family Names”, and I want to be the champion.

The eldest brother said depressed that it was his father who was not good. He taught him a wrong version when he was a child. After so many years, he often failed to break his habit.

At that time, I was young and full of novelty to my elder brother, so I asked him to recite it with me.

Who ever thought that the playfulness of young girls in those days would become the key to a secret agency many years later?

“Wu Pingting” was not surprised by what I said. She looked at me quietly, and the fire light pulled her out of a ghostly reflection, “You know?”

“Yes, I know,” I didn’t deny it, “and, Fengli should be certain that I know it, so he didn’t hesitate to step forward and let me come here.”

Xiao Xiangyi, who always talks to Caimi about his thoughts, wouldn’t he recite the funny story of “Hundred Family Names” by his elder brother wrong? Picking honey is Fengli’s person, and only after Fengli knows, will he hit me with an abacus.

I looked at the cold stone wall stupidly, “I think the pineapple counts as one thing wrong, that is, I am not interested in the secrets of the previous period from beginning to end, so I won’t open this A stone door.” I took a deep breath and moved my gaze back to “Wu Pingting”, “You said, if he learns that I intend to razor this place to the ground, will he be willing to show up automatically?”

“If he knows,” but she laughed in a low voice, “tonight, I shouldn’t let the princess leave this secret path alive again.”

Before the words finished, Ah You suddenly raised the sword to her neck, but she did not evade, and there was no trace of murderous on her face. She just shook the folding fan and said, “Kill me, the wind will take it away. The princess’s gift is no longer.”

“Oh.” I said too much tonight, and I was very tired. “This princess prefers the kind of enemies who can be honest and conspiracy with each other in the showdown. Why do you always pretend to be confused? I set off tonight. At that time, I said, it’s not good to see pineapples with empty hands, but what about a meeting ceremony? What is a meeting ceremony? The princess Jianguo kept her promise, if she didn’t see each other, how would she give this gift?”

I raised my lips, “Do you think this is the truth? Miss Wu… Oh, no, maybe I should call… Young Master Fengli?”

The air condensed for a moment.

Then there was a soft laugh in the empty tunnel. The laughter was not terrible. Objectively speaking, it was still a nice voice, but it was a man’s voice.

“Since it is a great gift from the princess, I laughed at it!”