Chapter 301: Double-faced General
After the court meeting ended, Feng Qingyi hurriedly returned to the general's mansion. He walked through the courtyard without looking back, the shadow of the autumn sun falling on the newly renovated floor tiles, like a ghost shuttling through the white night.
He walked to the courtyard where the study was, and glanced around vigilantly until the secret guard hidden in the corner of the eaves on the second floor nodded at him.
Feng Qingyi did not walk directly into the study, but moved a waist-length pottery pot under the porch. There are lotus flowers planted inside, and a few brightly colored fish are swimming lazily. The fish were so startled by the way he moved the pots that one of them even fell headlong into the mud.
The pot was moved to the side, revealing a carved disc with cut-outs. It was cast from brass and scarce iron, with a stubby shaft jutting out from beneath the tiles.
He put his hands on the disc and turned it with all his mightβand immediately there was a creaking sound throughout the courtyard.
Although the sound was not very loud, it still made Feng Qingyi, who was turning it, look a lot nervous. Beads of sweat gathered on his forehead and eventually slid down his cheeks, turning around as they passed the scar at the corner of his eye, soaking in horrible marks.
As the crunching sound subsided, the tiles in the center of the courtyard slowly collapsed, revealing a passage that was so wide that it almost took up the entire courtyard.
Feng Qingyi took out an iron rod from the bottom of the flower pot and stuck it at the bottom of the disc, and glanced at the guard in the corner of the house. The man jumped down and stood beside the disc, so skillful and tacit, as if he had practiced it a thousand times.
"Lock it up first, it's a long time to say to the general today, and someone came in and found this secret room in the middle of the way." Feng Qingyi finished giving the order with a serious expression, turned around and entered the tunnel.
When the latter saw him go down, he immediately pulled out the iron rod stuck at the bottom of the disc, and let the disc creak and turn on its own, and in a short time all the tiles in the courtyard were restored to their original state. The guards reinserted the iron rod into the bottom of the pot and moved it back into place before jumping onto the roof to keep an eye on it.
At this time, the people in the tunnel have come to an end.
It was a natural cave with an underground river, and the sound of the water was very cool. In the water lay a large creature, covered in black scale armor and with two fleshy black wings.
The opening of the tunnel is so wide, it is specially prepared for this big guy.
There are more than a dozen candles lit in the cave, illuminating the place as if it were daylight. A large clearing by the river was covered with hay, and there were three standing cabinets side by side, the only one on which lay various medicine bottles and strips of cloth.
A man in a glutinous rice white robe was scooping sticky medicinal juice on a strip of cloth wider than the palms of his two hands together, he looked serious and thin, but unfortunately Ruyu's face also had a terrifying scar.
"Subordinates meet the general!" Feng Qingyi, who had just come out of the tunnel, hugged his fist.
The two men in the cave were still and moving, but they seemed to have been carved out of a mold. Except for the slight deviation in the color of his eyes, the man who was making the potion had pure black eyes like the night sky.
And Feng Qingyi, who was standing with his fists in his fists here, had a pair of slightly brown pupils.
"No need to be polite, what happened in the court today that made you so anxious?" The man on the other side put down the wooden spoon and took the fan placed next to the low table and fanned the medicinal juice, "Sweat soaking the human face will corrode your skin, tear it off." β
When the latter heard this, he said "oh" and reached out to pull a little bit from behind his ear, and immediately pulled out a thin piece of skin.
He said as he spoke: "Back to the general, today's court discussion is as usual, and the discussion is not a matter under your jurisdiction, the general." But there is one thing that has always made his subordinates linger, and today Prime Minister Meng Cheng brought a girl to Weiyang Palace. β
As he spoke, the human face on the man's face had been completely torn off, revealing a face with sharp eyebrows and soft lines. That face was unusually white because it was often covered with human faces.
It turned out that the court was not the real Feng family's son Feng Qingyi, who escaped from death. The thin man who developed medicinal herbs in the underground cave to heal the dragon's injuries was the real General Feng.
"The girl Meng Wangwu brought?" Feng Qingyi stopped fanning, "Is it dedicated to the emperor?" β
At this moment, the man put the human face in the small box he carried with him: "General, it's not like that. The girl brought by Prime Minister Meng Cheng came to offer treasures, and she presented a pair of evil beads to the emperor, which was deeply liked by the emperor. However, she didn't want the gold and silver treasures and silk silk and satin given by the emperor......"
"If you can have evil beads, you naturally can't look down on those things. This is not surprising. Feng Qingyi continued to wave the fan, and the thick medicinal juice gradually condensed into a paste.
The subordinates knew that it was not strange, but the reward for the girl was to show her a glimpse of the flowers in the palace garden. Moreover, she recognized the general. Before the court meeting began, his subordinates pretended to be generals and met Prime Minister Meng Cheng and the girl at the gate of Weiyang Palace, and she immediately called out the general's name in astonishment. It's like ......"
The man couldn't think of any suitable words for a while, and after a moment's pause, he continued: "It's like thinking that a person is dead, and then he meets him who is alive!" β
"Well, don't blame the general! It's a subordinate who has no mouth. After the man finished speaking, he immediately realized that his words were inappropriate and quickly apologized. However, Feng Qingyi on the other side did not respond.
The man looked over suspiciously, only to see the fan in his hand paused in mid-air, and his eyes were looking at him like a night.
"The general forgives the sin!" The man thought that Feng Qingyi was angry, so he quickly knelt on his knees, folded his hands on the ground, leaned down and put his forehead on the back of his hand, quietly waiting for the anger on the other side. Alas! He can't live if he does his own sin, who made him die so well that he didn't die and compared General Feng to "coming back from the dead"?
Unexpectedly, the man trembled his heart and waited for a long time without waiting for the monstrous anger.
The general on the opposite side was silent for a moment, then put down the fan and picked up the strip of cloth stained with medicinal paste with both hands: "Even so, do you know what the girl's surname is?" How did she find Prime Minister Meng Cheng? β
......The man was stunned for a moment, and then quickly raised his head and said: "My subordinates don't know how she found Prime Minister Meng Cheng, but when my subordinates heard Prime Minister Meng Cheng's treasure, they said that it was offered by the people's daughter Lu Qian." Prime Minister Meng Cheng is a loyal person and will not deceive the king, so the girl's name should be Lu Qian. β
Lu Qian?! Feng Qingyi's hand shook, and the strip of cloth stained with medicinal paste fell to the ground with a click.
"General?" When the man saw him like this, he couldn't help but be a little puzzled. Could it be that the general really knows the girl named Lu Qian? Thinking about it, his heart was cold, if he remembered correctly, he had made things difficult for others in the morning......
Will you be pinched to death by the general?!