"I have a question. Li Qing slowly opened his eyes and stared at Gu Yue's quiet and beautiful side face beside him.

The car jolted, Gu Yue turned her head, and looked at Li Qing with unblinking eyes: "What?"

"Why didn't you tell me about the Ancient Mansion of the Zhenfan until now?"

"Just in case you follow in your parents' footsteps, if you die inexplicably, won't my efforts be in vain?" Gu Yue said with a smile, "And are you sure that if I make it clear in advance, you will come with me?"

Li Qing was silent for a while before he slowly spoke: "Probably... I'm going to think you're crazy, after all..."

"Li Qing. Gu Yue paused slightly between her words, "No matter what kind of relationship you have with Xie Yuyan, how close you are, you have to be careful enough this time, she is not as reliable as you think." ”

Li Qing was stunned for a moment: "What does this mean?"

"When a person takes the initiative to do something, there must be enough reasons to drive it. I traveled thousands of miles to Lingang to find you, because Gu Zhou left you the map of the ancient building of the town domain, because I needed your help, and because the debts owed by the ancestors of your Li family a hundred years ago have not been repaid. Gu Yue blinked her beautiful eyes, "But why did Xie Yuyan get involved in this turmoil?" She took the initiative to step in, and no one forced her. Li Qing, have you ever thought about the reason?"

Li Qing hesitated for a moment: "Yuyan once said that all the secrets in this world are shrouded by an invisible black hand. If someone else gets involved, they will be ruthlessly killed. ”

Gu Yue smiled: "If Xie Yuyan didn't lie to you, then she would be even more suspicious." Since there will be trouble when it comes to these things, why should Xie Yuyan bother to trouble herself? As the head of the Xie family, she controls a huge family business, can she still get tired of living?"

Li Qing frowned tightly and said nothing.

"Of course, I'm not reliable. Gu Yue glanced at Li Qing lightly, and said with a smile, "It's not like betraying you once or twice, at the critical moment, you still have to grow your own brain." ”

Li Qing stared at Gu Yue's bright eyes and moved his lips, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he couldn't say anything.

Whether it is Xie Yuyan or Gu Yue, there are already inextricable entanglements with Li Qing. Would such an important person betray himself?

Li Qing didn't know that after so many ups and downs, he had been polished and sleek by the world, and he had finally learned to be obedient. Sometimes, with less hope, there is less disappointment.

At about ten o'clock that night, the car arrived at Daqianpo. But the place Li Qing was going to was not in Daqianpo Town, but an abandoned village more than 40 kilometers away from Daqianpo. After several devastation in the Longxi War, this abandoned Hakka village is like a hideous scar imprinted on the earth, which can be seen almost everywhere.

When the car passed by Daqianpo Town, Li Qing raised his hand and pointed to the entrance of the town, and asked in a deep voice: "The last time we saw the stone tablet erected at the entrance of the town, it was erected by the ancestors of the ancient family." ”

"Hmm. Gu Yue stared at the dark night outside the car window, and her delicate cheeks showed an unprecedented melancholy, "That is the sixth general of the Ming Dynasty, Gu Jing, the word is far away." Since then, the Gu family has settled in Longxi for generations, guarding the ancient buildings of the town for hundreds of years. Back then, it was also a huge and prosperous family, but it was involved in this kind of dead man's tomb, and now I am alone. ”

When Gu Yue said this, she had a lot of embarrassment, and her tone was extremely bleak, so that Li Qing didn't know how to answer.

Since the beginning of Jiazong in the Tang Dynasty, he set up a general in Longxi, nominally to suppress the rebellion of the vassal king in Xilong, but in fact it was just a special envoy to find the whereabouts of the fairy tower in order to fulfill a delusion of immortality. Therefore, the generals of the town domain who are placed in Longxi are all quite neglected in the court, do not involve party disputes, and are convenient to be controlled by the emperor. Their task was already doomed from the beginning, and the search for the traces of the Immortal Tower was listed as the top priority, and as for suppressing the rebellion of the vassal king, it would be good to be able to get by.

As a result, the rebellion in Shillong intensified, and no one tried to reconcile the contradictions between the nations, and the only thing they could do was to rely on the strong national strength of Lang Huaxia. And in other insiders, the legendary fairy building was also associated with the general of the town domain, and gradually evolved into the ancient building of the town domain in terms of name.

In the Ming Dynasty, the emperors of the past dynasties identified immortality as the only goal of their lifelong pursuit, and the wind of magic prevailed, during which there were several generations of emperors, because they were too obsessed with the fairy road, and even in their whole lives, they did not go to the court several times. In this environment, the power of the generals of the town domain was also unprecedentedly high. When Ming Shizong ascended the throne, he finally appointed Gu Jing, the border guard at that time, as the general of the town domain, and continued to search for the whereabouts of the fairy tower. The prelude to the kind of encounters that Li Qing is facing today has finally kicked off since then.

Gu Jing, the word is also far away. His great-grandfather once fought the world with the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty and dominated the mountains and rivers, so he can be regarded as the son of the Founding Father. Gu Jing has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and at the age of seventeen, he fought in the north of the empire and made many military exploits. But at that time, the dim Ming court had long since been rewarded by military merits, although the Gu family had a glorious and long history, after all, time had passed, and Gu Jing was upright and upright, never formed a party for personal gain, so naturally he could not be promoted and reused, so he could only keep nesting in Saibei, where birds don't, and sighed for a handful of snot and a glass of wine.

Gu Jing stayed in Saibei for twenty years, and it was not until Ming Shizong ascended the throne that he finally came to work and was transferred back to the imperial court. Ming Shizong was able to do this, not because he was virtuous, but because he thought that Gu Jing was the one who could help him find the Immortal Tower.

One is not involved in party disputes, the second is upright, and the third is loyal to the king. After being left for observation for two years, Ming Shizong finally determined that Gu Jing had no problem, so in the spring two years after he returned to the court, he ordered Gu Jing to be appointed as the general of the town domain, and immediately went to Longxi to quell the rebellion. Of course, this will is just a show on the surface, in fact, Ming Shizong has already had a private conversation with Gu Jing, and it stands to reason that there should be a secret will, but hundreds of years have passed, and it is a confidential secret, and no one knows what Ming Shizong specifically explained to Gu Jing.

After receiving the order, Gu Jing immediately went to Longxi to take up his post, and in August of the same year, he confronted the Xilong rebels in the area of today's Daqianpo. Gu Jing has rich combat experience, coupled with the quality of the Ming Dynasty's army, the combat equipment is far stronger than the Xilong rebels, so the battle was a complete victory, the then vassal king Batilda only with a dozen guards hurriedly fled back to Xilong, since then did not dare to confront the Ming army head-on, can only rely on the terrain advantage to occasionally engage in surprise attacks.

The stone monument in front of the big front slope that Li Qing saw was erected after the battle.

Gu Jing's talent is not only in combat, after he defeated the Xilong rebels in one fell swoop, he began to accumulate old evils, reorganize household registration, build fortifications, and at the same time rhythmically open trade, hoping to integrate Xilong with the people of Longxi and fundamentally stop the war. After the war, Gu Jing did not lead the army to the east, but adopted a soft policy, which surprised Shillong. So all of a sudden, the mood for war within Shillong was low, and the tension between the two sides eased. If the policy formulated by him is carried out consistently, Xiceremonia will return to the arms of the Ming Dynasty and become a veritable vassal state again just around the corner. But at this time, a holy decree fell from the sky, knocking the ambitious Gu Jing back to the cold reality again.

This holy decree did not cut Gu Jing's position, but it reduced his salary, and scolded him harshly. It was a great achievement to pacify the rebellion of the vassal king, but Gu Jing was not rewarded by the imperial court, but was criticized by the emperor, how wronged!

While asking for immortals, Ming Shizong finally took the effort to look at the excerpt presented by Gu Jing, and was immediately furious. Lao Tzu sent you to Longxi to ask you to find the Immortal Mansion to help me live forever! Who told you to put down the rebellion? Even if you put down the rebellion easily, do you still need to remember this kind of trivial matter and present it to me in an excerpt? I don't care about this at all, it is important that you find the Immortal Tower, if you can't even do this little thing, what is the use of me keeping you!

The wording of Ming Shizong's holy decree was extremely harsh, which was tantamount to giving Gu Jing an ultimatum. One of the sentences is "The courtiers are useless, and they should be trapped in Xilong".

If these eight words are translated into Mandarin, it will be "If you can't find the fairy building again, give me a death in Longxi."

Gu Jing is a courtier, and since he was a child, he received the feudal orthodox education of "the king let the minister die, and the minister has to die". Even the main generals who crisscross the battlefield are afraid of death, especially this kind of guilty death, in ancient times, it will bear infamy and harm future generations. If Ming Shizong stomped his feet, gritted his teeth, and then came to a full house, then even the descendants of future generations would be gone.

This famous general with both civil and military skills is estimated to have been in a panic for countless days and nights, and finally gritted his teeth with hatred, isn't it a fairy building, Lao Tzu will find it for you!

But even though there are many wild historical records, the specific appearance of the fairy building and where it is are often unknown. It seems to be more like an ethereal legend, which has only been passed down by word of mouth in the world, and has never really revealed its true body. It is not surprising that this nine-storey quadrangular pavilion is rumored to have been built in the Zhou Dynasty and eventually served as the tomb of King Zhou Luo. That dynasty is thousands of years away from the era where Gu Jing is located, even if there is really such an ancient building, and it happens to be really in the Longxi area, after thousands of years of vicissitudes, I am afraid it is difficult to find the authentic works.