Cover The Sky With One Hand, Beat The Ground With The Other - Chapter 40

The black shadow cast by the fire light slowly stretched on the stone wall, strangely like a monster.

As if the whole person was being propped up, the beautiful face of the original woman gradually broke apart.

I thought it was just a disguise technique. If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, how could I believe that a person with a female figure could become tall and straight in an instant?

The man’s face in front of him was sharp and sharp, and he slowly raised the corners of his mouth, “I saw the bone shrinking power the first time?”

I was quite frightened.

I heard Song Langsheng mentioned in the past that Shaolin Temple has a kind of martial arts, which can shrink muscles and muscles as you like, overlap and close the bones, and retract the whole body freely. I never thought that Fengli could practice such a magical skill.

I closed my sleeves calmly, “Sure enough, it’s eye-opening, and I admire it.”

“It is the princess that Ling Zai admires,” Feng Li smiled politely, “It’s a good one. I don’t know how to guess that I am Feng Li?”

I pondered for a moment, and said, “From the moment you pushed that piece of’Zhao’, I began to be suspicious. No one seemed to have a lot of organs on this stone wall, and I could easily touch it without consultation. It can only explain. You are very sure about avoiding the mechanism. So when the arrow shoots out and seeing you avoid it more easily than my shadow guard, I think, you must have been here. Since you have been, you deliberately pushed The word’Zhao’ is meant to make me understand that opening this stone wall is not in the order of the surnames of the common people, and I want to induce me to think of another kind of insurrection. Such plotting of people’s hearts and separation from the wind that I know is precisely unplanned. And together.”

He nodded slightly, “That doesn’t mean that I am Fengli himself.”

I said: “When we first entered this secret path, the dust was full and the soil under our feet was extremely thick, indicating that after the failure of Fengli to open the stone wall, no one has been here again for so many years.”

“so what?”

I said: “There are secret roads and organs under this cloak, and anyone who looks at it will inevitably guess whether there are rare treasures hidden in it. Humans are a very strange animal, especially for one day and night that can change their destiny. How many people can resist the temptation of the world? If you haven’t been here before, it’s okay, if you have come, but you return without success, there will always be a day when you want to come back to see the truth or try your luck. It’s human nature.”

Feng Li showed an expression of approval.

“Young Master Fengli should have a better insight into human nature than I, and the more insight he is, the more suspicious it is. For a suspicious person, it is harder to trust people around him when digging up secrets. So I think you should have come alone back then. Well, even if you bring a helper, you will be relieved if you go out of the secret way.”

Fengli smiled noncommitantly, “It seems that Her Royal Highness is sure that she will show up here tonight.”

I shrugged and smiled, “I’m just guessing, I guessed it wrong, and there is nothing to lose.”

Hearing this, the smile on Fengli’s face gradually faded, and said: “If the princess does not pierce at this moment, it will not mean harm, but it is a pity…” His “pity” word fell on his body. The shape shook suddenly, only to hear a crisp sound of “ding”, the long sword that was still resting on his neck actually made him snap his fingers apart, the moment the sword fell, the figure turned like a flower, and I didn’t wait for me to take a step back. , The palm of the sword swept to me, the momentum is like water and fire, no doubt!

It’s that I have been prepared for a long time, and I have never seen such a curious and unparalleled Kung Fu!

At the moment of sparkling fire, the palm that was close at hand stopped in front of his eyes.

Someone took Feng Li’s hand, and with just a squeeze, he stopped the monstrous evil spirit.

Being able to block the ultimate move of a martial arts master in a moment, this princess naturally has no such ability.

Then, it could only be the third person in this cave-Ah You.

Fengli turned his head to look at Ah You, he opened his mouth, only “heh”, and at the moment of the turn of his five fingers, he turned into a fierce move, and slashed towards Ah You with a force of death, but Ah You’s expression did not change. , Neither retreated nor attacked, she could see clearly, but in the blink of an eye, the two had done hundreds of moves!

Regardless of whether Fengli wanted to hit the west, or really launched an offensive against Ah You, Ah You was able to block every move.

She may not be easy to block, but she is like a copper wall and iron wall across the middle, making Fengli unable to get closer to me!

The two of them fought faster and faster, but when they heard a “bang” applause, each of them took a step backwards before stopping.

Fengli’s eyes moved slightly, “A little shadow guard, the effort is actually—”

I sighed unconsciously, “If you don’t have one or two masters around, how can this princess meet Young Master Feng easily?”

Half a year ago, when I asked for a shadow guard at Ming Jiansi and my principal Tao Yuan, Tao Yuan said: “Since it is the golden mouth opened by the princess, I dare not slacken off in Xiaben. Hiring a group of first-class experts in the arena to attack it may not be able to protect the princess well. Unless it is…”

“unless?”

“Unless it is the deputy director of our company, Ji Nanyou, her martial arts can be described as the upper level. In the past ten years, the guardian has never been half-way behind… It is just that she is the next chief appointed by the holy. She protects the princess herself, I wonder if she will…”

At that time, I was trying to express “No need to spend so much time”, but I heard a woman behind me say: “I’m coming.”

Looking back, the woman was dressed in gray, with a saber on her body, “I’ll protect the princess.”

Later, when she followed me to leave the Ming Kam Division, I said: “The stronger the shadow guard in this palace, the more the opponent will be on guard; if you leave this door and stay by the side of the palace, you can no longer be yourself. Ming Jiansi’s deputy chief is now, do you understand?”

She smiled softly, “You understand.”

At this moment, Fengli was only three steps away from us. He stood on the opposite side in a gloomy manner, looking across his face, “Does the princess think that if you find a master for help, you can beat me?”

I was taken aback for a moment, but seeing the corners of his lips twitched slightly, and his sleeves were like a gust of wind, as if he was about to launch another offensive posture.

It’s a pity that he didn’t move but stopped. He didn’t even take a step, he collapsed on his knees, and when he woke up, he suddenly raised his head and looked at me with almost horrified eyes: “You-actually down Poisoned?”

I slowly said, “As Mr. Feng said, I am not so naive as to use a shadow guard to win by surprise…”

Fengli supported the wall with one hand and tried to stand up, “When?”

“Today drinking tea at the Huxin Pavilion…”

“I didn’t drink that tea…”

“The incense burned in the heater this morning,” I said flatly, “it’s poisoned.”

Fengli was stunned, “You are also there.”

“Yes, so I was also poisoned by this poison.” I spread my hands. “But I don’t have martial arts. This kind of poison that inadvertently dissipates internal forces does not have much effect on me…”

Feng Li laughed abruptly when he heard the words, he laughed again and then again, “After all, it is Princess Xiangyi, from the beginning, you have never trusted anyone…”

I couldn’t help but roll my eyes. “Only a stupid person can trust a person by feeling for no reason.”

“What about Song Langsheng?” Fengli looked straight at me, “Has the princess ever been suspicious? He really… never knew about his life experience?”

But this question made me really sink.

It was just this loss, but when Ah You suddenly shouted: “Be careful!” I saw a folding fan hitting me straight, Ah You quickly pushed me aside, and the handle of the fan whizzed through his hair. It was nailed to the stone wall.

When I shook my head and turned my head again, Fengli was already close in front of him. He held the knife in his right hand and slashed towards Ah You. The moment Ah You avoided the short knife, something slipped out of his left sleeve and aimed at me. A diamond-shaped brocade box. I recognize that brocade box. Someone in the Imperial College had used such a box on me that day. The inside was naturally not a rare treasure, but a hidden weapon.

Suddenly poisonous rainstorm pear flower needle!

There are countless possibilities in my mind, but none of them can escape the predicament at this time.

Just as I was wondering if I was really going to die here tonight, with a loud squeak, I saw a sharp sword tip stretched out of the left heart from the wind.

Everything seems to be static.

The brocade box and the short knife fell from his hands to the ground.

Feng Li was a little confused and slowly lowered his head, trying to touch the tip of the sword that suddenly appeared in front of his chest, but before his fingertips touched him, he fell down.

——————————— Second more————————————

Then, I saw the man who stabbed this sword—my other shadow guard, Zuo.

The whole land was stained red with blood, and Fengli’s eyes were wide open. For a long time, he never blinked or moved again.

Fengli is dead.

This person, whom I regard as a great enemy, was still talking and laughing a while ago, and instantly died under an unnamed sword.

I can’t even believe it.

Really… dead?

Zuo drew the sword back into its sheath, and wanted to kneel down. Seeing that the ground was full of blood, he bowed and said, “The subordinates are late and the princess is frightened.”

Ah You asked, “Why are you here? Can someone guard the entrance of the cave?”

Zuo said: “I saw no movement for a long time, and I seemed to hear the sound of fighting below. I couldn’t let go of it. But please rest assured, the princess. I have asked Ah Shang to guard at the entrance of the cave. If there is a situation, one of them Will come down to inform us.”

I was still a little frightened, after thinking for a while, I asked: “Ah, ah, ah?”

Zuo: “Yes, it’s also the shadow guard of Ming Kam Division.”

“…Good name.” I pulled out the folding fan that had just been nailed to the wall by Feng Li. I regretted that I had nothing to do with the iron fan. It almost became the weapon of the culprits. I couldn’t help but said with the lingering fear of this wind. Li pretends to be poisoned only for assassination, shouldn’t it be fraudulent death right now?”

Ah You leaned down to examine Fengli’s body carefully, frowned, and suddenly held up the knife to stoke a few holes in Fengli, until he was sure that he was dead and could not die again, then said: “Well, it’s not a fraud. .”

I:”…”

Zuo bent down and picked up the wooden box on the ground. He carefully examined it and said, “Isn’t this…Isn’t the hidden weapon in the Imperial College at that time, the torrential rain pear flower needle? Later, the princess asked me to investigate the source of this hidden weapon? “

I took the wooden box and took a look, then nodded.

At that time, it was Su Qiao who used the hidden weapon, and Lu Lingjun was the one who used it.

Although Mr. Lu Ling frankly told him to change the poisonous needle afterwards, when I asked where the hidden weapon came from, he only said that it was given by King Kang, and knew nothing about the rest. Later, King Kang’s party fell into the wild. , I also forgot about this one.

Why does Fengli use the same hidden weapon today?

Could it be… Feng Li was involved in the case of King Kang’s conspiracy that day?

So, what role does he play?

He tempted me to come here tonight, asking me to open this stone gate, what will happen next? What did he want to do?

Also, what does the last sentence he said before he died, what does it mean?

The more I thought about it, the more chaotic, and the pain in my heart could not stop, Ah You helped me and said: “Since the wind has been removed, it is not suitable to stay here for a long time. Let me go back to the house and talk about it, A Zuo…”

Ah Zuo nodded, planning to open the way, I raised my hand and said, “Hold on.”

I turned around and took another look at the stone wall.

Behind the stone wall is a great secret.

Now that this action tonight has exposed its position, it is very likely to attract more people who look at it. My remark is not to deceive Fengli, and there is indeed no safer way to deal with it than destroying it with a single shot.

But… if the secret is destroyed, will the crisis cease to exist?

Zuo followed my gaze and looked at the stone wall, and asked, “The mechanism above is strange, but I don’t know where to open it… Or let the subordinates go down and take a few explosive packs and blow the door open. Isn’t it simple? “

Ah You glared at him fiercely, “This stone wall is high and thick and still close to the stone wall. If it can be exploded, the whole cave will collapse. What kind of bad idea…”

I watched without saying a word, pointed at the upper right corner of the stone wall with a fan, and interrupted their bickering, “The first word-Zhou.”

A Zuo A You suddenly turned his head, and said in amazement: “Princess?”

“No matter what’s hidden behind this stone door, don’t open it and take a look, I’m afraid I will panic about it in the future.” My heart went round and round, “What are you still waiting for? The second word-Chen !”

Ah Zuo and Ah You looked at each other. Rarely, I was puzzled. He was finally a well-trained shadow guard. When I slapped my finger, he immediately performed light work and jumped up the wall. Ah You first pushed the upper right corner. The stone pile with the word “Zhou”, watched carefully at the cracks between the two rock walls, no movement was seen, and he nodded with Zuo, and Zuo Fang pushed the pile with the word “Chen” in the center.

“Third,’Shen’; fourth,’Zhang’!” Following my order, the two shadow guards flew off the wall and pressed piles into the wall in response, but there was no other movement in the stone cave except this sound, which is obvious. My memory has not gone wrong, and the wrong version of the surnames of the family back then was etched in my heart along with my elder brother.

At the bottom of the cave, my thoughts were widened for hundreds of thousands of miles. I didn’t have time to pay attention to which surname I mumbled. All I heard was a crash. The whole cave trembled and hummed continuously. A Zuo A You pulled me down. I took a few steps, but I saw a huge crack in the majestic stone wall, and the crack became bigger and bigger, and the earth broke and the stone broke, dust and smoke surged, until the earth-shaking sound stopped, all the silence returned to the darkness. Among.

When the torch was ignited again, the scene in front of him was that the stone wall was completely destroyed and the cave door opened wide.

Ah You said with emotion: “It’s really amazing…”

Zuo couldn’t help asking: “Princess, who will open the way?”

I said: “Who asks who opens the way.”

A Zuo: “…”

I thought that what was hidden behind this stone wall would be the tens of thousands of treasures piled up in gold and silver boxes. I didn’t expect that when we stepped closer to this unique cave, what we saw and hoped turned out to be the accumulation of gold and silver boxes. Thousands of treasures.

Sure enough, the exhausting thousands of sails mentioned in the storybook are nothing but a storybook.

In the light of the fire, when a box of pear wooden boxes was opened, my eyes shook, I only felt that when I looked at it, the whole hole was almost covered by this golden light.

Azuo stunned: “It’s all gold and silver…”

Ah You picked two pieces and turned to look at the back, “Each piece is engraved with the front official silver pattern.”

I squatted down and weighed it up, and agreed: “It is indeed the official bank, hey, the wealth here adds up, I’m afraid that even my state treasury will not be able to match it.”

A Zuoqi said: “Why did King Narui have such great ability to store such money and hide it in this basement?”

I was a little startled. I just thought this question was a little strange, but I couldn’t think of the strangeness. Then he said, “If he has such a wealth, he will not be able to plunder all his life, not to mention that this lot of money is official money. In the opinion of this princess, these are not necessarily the money of the former King Rui. It is said that when the former emperor of the former dynasty struck the world, he set up a’pile treasury’ to hide gold and silver wealth collected from various places. Wealth and silk have two purposes. One is to rescue the emergency, and the other is to redeem the ten states of Yandi, which was captured by foreigners. Later, when it was passed to the second generation of emperors, the Yandi was snatched back by the army of the previous dynasty. “Naturally, it didn’t come in handy. It was changed to “Inner Treasury” and passed on. Only every successor can move it.”

Ah You was puzzled: “Since the former state treasury is so abundant, how can it be overthrown so easily in the future?”

I coughed and coughed, what Ah You meant was, since the former emperor Lao Tzu was so rich, why was it destroyed by my poor ghost father?

“This practice of moving all local surpluses into the strong branches of the capital division will naturally lead to a lack of local finances…” I opened the box as I walked. “Back then, our army marched in a hurry and came under the city in just three days. You know The reason? On the one hand, because Hebei Road is located in the hinterland of the North China Plain, there is no natural barrier, and the other reason is because the local finances are exhausted and there is no resistance…In short, the distribution of finances in various places is uneven, and the capital is the only one. Once there is a sudden change, it will be known. It hurts endlessly, but it’s too late… But now, it seems that I’m afraid there’s another reason…”

Zuo asked: “What is it?”

“This’pile library’ is in the hands of King Rui, but King Rui did not become the emperor in the end. What does it mean?” I knocked on the box noodles, “This shows that King Rui’s father wanted to pass the throne to Rui. King’s, that’s why King Rui learned of the location of the’pile library’, and quietly transferred a large part of it here… Unfortunately, King Rui despised that younger brother Rongma who had been fighting for many years and had a heavy hand. In the end, King Rui could only give way to the throne, and left the capital to hide in the domain for self-protection…” I sighed, and didn’t stop tumbling over in my hands. ‘Zhuangku’ is dedicated to the emperor, but it will not be reduced to the country’s subjugation…”

As for this, my hand suddenly stopped, and Zuo and Ayou also stopped when they saw this, “Princess, what’s the matter?”

I opened the lid of the box vigorously, and when I cleared the contents of the box, I couldn’t help but shook my whole body.

It is armor.

And, it’s not an ordinary armor.

I said: “A Zuo, you split this armor with a knife.”

Azuo Yiyan did so, and he swiped it vigorously, only a small cut was made in the armor.

Zuo was shocked and hacked again several times, each time he could only cut a little bit.

I looked inside through the cut, and saw the inner lining interlocked, like a net lock, while the outer shell was woven from thin fish scales, with thin cotton embedded in the center and solidified by copper nails.

If the folk history records are good, this should be the lost fish scale chain mail of the Western Regions.

Not only can it withstand bow and arrow shooting, it also protects against cold, and even firearms have a certain degree of protection.

In those days, the monarchs of several dynasties found the craftsmanship of this armor, and I don’t know how much manpower and material resources were spent.

Now, it is worthy of appearing in this grave.

I ordered Ah Zuo Ah You to open all the remaining boxes. As expected, in addition to armor, there are also various magic weapons for blowing and breaking hair, and even a book containing specific refining methods. Any book is very difficult. Things to buy.

Song Langsheng’s father, my father-in-law, as the former King of Rui, is not a vain name after all, nor is it a leisurely panic. He repaired the world behind the stone wall into a relief mural, which looked like a palace and said it was an underground palace. Not an exaggeration.

I suddenly wanted to understand one thing.

Why was he still thinking about telling Song Langsheng about this basement secretly before he died?

Jun Jinzhi never gave up his dream of emperor, even when he was driven to the domain, when his dynasty was overthrown, or even when he was about to die—

He also wants his son to continue his journey.

However, even if you have everything in this vault, without the most fundamental soldier, what great cause can you talk about?

If I were Jun Jinzhi, it would be impossible for my son to rebel by leaving only these. It would be no different from sending him to death.

My heart was trembling, pacing back and forth, and there was only one heart full of “What would I do if I were the king of brocade”. I was born twenty years late. I didn’t know much about the past 20 years ago, so how can I put myself in my place? Thousands of ideas can’t pile up any favorable clues.

Inexplicably, a voice rang in his mind: “So what about Song Langsheng? Has the princess never been suspicious? He really… never knew his life experience?”

if.

If Song Langsheng really knew everything.

If you really want to uphold the father’s last wish.

If… I am Song Langsheng.

Then the first starting point I will choose is definitely… the princess of the country.

This thought suddenly startled me in a cold sweat.

I shook my head hurriedly.

Will not.

If Ma Ma had this idea, it would be impossible for Feng Li to enter this cloak with me today. Feng Li wants to make us chaotic. How could he be credulous.

It’s just that… even if Fengli succeeded in entering here, such a bin full of gold and silver could not be moved by his own power. Moreover, he knew that the wind and the grass were all monitored by my people, so why he took the risk personally and went for nothing. life…

I was trying to find some clues, but I accidentally caught a glimpse of a painting in the corner of the wall.

A pair of Guanyin pictures, red and green pen, vivid in the wood, but no signature.

But the most strange thing is that the thing that Guanyin holds in his hand is not like a jade bottle, but more like…a scroll.

Could it be…

I used a folding fan to open the Guanyin picture, but saw that there is really a hidden grid in the result of the painting, and there is another mystery in Gerry, which is precisely a scroll of bamboo scrolls with a brocade box next to it.

I stood on my tiptoe and removed the scroll from the brocade box. The box was unexpectedly heavy. I stopped hesitating and opened it immediately.

There are five jade hand pieces in the box, all of which are engraved with a half-fish body pattern. The textures are unique but similar but not the same.

When the bamboo scroll is unrolled, all the names of places and people are engraved on the scroll.

There are the Wusuli River basin, the Liaodong generation of Changbai Mountain, the four parts of Bayingoleng, Bortala, Haixi Gannan, and even Qinghai Hualong, Gansu Yunnan, etc. Although the names of people may not be fully recognized, it is easy to see from the surname. Recognized as the surnames of the warriors of various territories or subordinate countries in the past few decades.

Then, the thing in the box must be the fish symbol.

In the previous dynasty, there was one talisman for one place, half held by local generals, and half held by the emperor. When the two match two into one, they can lead the army.

At that time, the father seized the opportunity to invade the capital in one fell swoop to change the dynasty. After that, many tribes refused to give up their military power completely. Although his troops were insufficient to cause storms and waves, he should not be underestimated. In order to stabilize the overall situation, the father and the emperor made each of the two sides take a step back and set up the feudal vassal. Although the father and the emperor gradually regained part of the military power one by one, but my descendants were not under the jurisdiction of the imperial court in more than forty domains.

And the biggest tumor is now heavily pressed in my palm.

This is…Is the real reason why my father never killed Song Langsheng, but still indulged him to become my husband?

What is there to fear for the remnants of the previous dynasty? Only by putting a long line to catch the big fish and catching it all in one net can the troubles be eliminated from the root.

Who could have imagined that he would use his beloved Princess Xiangyi as bait.

But this is the father I am familiar with.

Before he became a father, he was first of all, the king of a country, and he cared about the stability and tranquility of the world.

My body trembled slightly unconsciously. I didn’t dare to think about how Song Langsheng would choose if he knew everything. I only know that this scroll of bamboo scroll and this box of soldier charms must be destroyed, and it is urgent.

“A Zuo, Ah You, give me the torch first…”

No one responded to me.

Then came the sound of torches falling to the ground, and the sound of ticking water.

I lowered my head and watched the extinguished torch roll to my feet.

The light in the whole cave dimmed, but it didn’t fall into darkness. There is also a bunch of torches jumping from beginning to end.

I turned around slowly.

Seeing Ah You’s mouth covered by someone, the dagger cut through her throat, blood spurted out and splashed on my face.

It was red and crimson.

For a moment, I just felt a blank in my head, as if I was strangling my throat, unable to speak.

The man saw me turning his head and let go, letting Ah You’s body slowly slide down and fell to the ground, silently.

Still holding the torch in one hand, and reaching out to me with the other hand, in an open posture, calmly said: “Things, give me.”

I almost subconsciously wanted to hold Ah You, but the sudden horror made me numb and unable to move a finger. I stared at everything in front of me in amazement, “So…it’s you.”

Zuo stared at the brocade box in my hand indifferently, and repeated: “Give it to me.”

I lowered my head and watched Ah You, who was just still alive and alive, fell to the ground. The chill that was about to die was growing from my back. I tried my best to keep my voice from shivering so badly, “By my side, master all my actions.” , But there is no trace of the person, it turned out to be you. It is you who are deliberately deliberating every step of the way, and you are the one who plans to take this step.”

“You are… the real, Fengli.”