【Chapter 23 - Jinshan Outside the City】Lan Ji is in the wild goose back to the inn

I have to say that although the internal strength method sent by Nanmo Evil this time looks absurd, it is quite useful. After practicing, Duan Baiyue felt that her body was refreshing and neat, and even her internal strength was much more stable than before.

Duan Nian finally breathed a sigh of relief, and worried all night, for fear that he would go mad.

There were still people coming and going in the Wu family's car dealership, Duan Baiyue found a hidden treetop and kept staring at the dilapidated inn. After two days, sure enough, another carriage drove in, still the same guy from before, first unloaded boxes of goods from the car, and then carried them in one by one, all of which were wood parts, and they looked tired enough.

After he carried another box of things in, Duan Baiyue also took the opportunity to jump into the courtyard, and glanced through the broken window lattice, and saw that there was indeed a secret entrance on the ground, which was covered by a few broken wooden boards on weekdays, and if you didn't pay more attention, it would be easy to ignore it.

After roughly calculating the time it took for the guy to make a round trip, Duan Baiyue had an idea in his heart, planning to go down and see what was strange inside.

There were still three boxes left in the courtyard, and the gang took a breath, carried the goods to his shoulders, and slowly walked down the steps of the dark passage. Duan Baiyue followed him silently, and walked for about half a cup of tea before he reached the flat ground, and he didn't know how deep he had dug into the ground.

The tunnel was dim enough, and the guy was carrying a big box on his shoulder, and he didn't look like he had a martial arts background, so he didn't notice that there was someone behind him. Just walking forward on his own, and when he passed through a long tunnel, the stars lit up in front of him, and the sound of speech and workmanship appeared.

When he saw the man coming, the people inside greeted him one after another, and then they bowed their heads and went about their own business. Duan Baiyue was hidden in the dark, looking at the situation inside, her brows furrowed slightly. There are more than 100 people in the hall at the end of the tunnel, there are vertical shelves near the wall, and the top is neatly stacked with all kinds of wood parts, and the division of labor between craftsmen and craftsmen is clear, sitting neatly in three rows, with tacit understanding, it seems that it has been running in for a while.

When the man put the box down, he wiped his sweat and carried the remaining two. Duan Baiyue didn't go out with him, but observed carefully for a while, and determined that the final product was put into the wooden box, painted again, and then piled up in the corner of the wall after drying, waiting to be transported elsewhere.

There is a faint fragrance of flowers in the air, and it is very familiar. Previously, Duan Yao often used it to refine poison when he was raising Gu, and his name was Butterfly Wing Orchid, which could be regarded as a medicinal induction. There was a sound of sizzling from the other end of the tunnel, it was the guy who brought the last wooden box, and Duan Baiyue followed behind him as usual, and walked out of the dark room together.

In the post house, Chu Yuan was looking at the excerpts, and he heard the rumor from Sixi's father-in-law outside, saying that King Duan was coming.

"It looks like there's a discovery." Chu Yuan looked at him, "Otherwise, I wouldn't have come back so early." ”

"If you don't find it again, then Xu Zhiqiu will inevitably be too leaky." Duan Baiyue sat at the table, "Today, another batch of new parts was sent to the abandoned guest house, so I went down and took a look at it secretly." ”

Chu Yuan was stunned: "You followed the tunnel?" ”

"Can't follow?" Duan Baiyue obviously didn't understand what he meant.

Chu Yuan frowned, but did not speak.

Duan Baiyue thought about it, but smiled: "Are you worried about me? ”

Chu Yuan's ears turned red, and there was a little anger in his eyes—more like he was annoying himself, and he couldn't hold his breath when he heard it.

"Since I dare to follow, I am naturally measured." Duan Baiyue didn't continue to tease him, and took the initiative to pull the topic back, "That guy doesn't seem to know kung fu, and it's not bad." The underground dark room was dug very deep, and as we had previously thought, there were about a hundred craftsmen in it, working together in an orderly manner. I think it's those people who so-called 'go out and do big business' and make their neighbors blush. ”

"A hundred, so many people?" Chu Yuan asked, "What are you doing?" ”

Duan Baiyue said: "I don't know, it looks like some kind of mechanism, all of them are contained in the wooden box we saw that day, and there seems to be Gu poison." ”

"So complicated?" Chu Yuan's brows tightened.

"I don't know what it is, but I also remember what the shape of the parts is." Duan Baiyue said, "But you have to find someone to ask." ”

"Looking for whom?" Chu Yuan said, "Tianyu? ”

Duan Baiyue nodded: "Although he is young, he is the best carpenter in the city, and he likes to listen to books and read stories on weekdays, so maybe he really knows." ”

Chu Yuan agreed: "Okay." ”

"There are many people during the day, and I will bring them again at night." Duan Baiyue said, "It's still early, and there's a lantern show outside, do you want to go and see it?" ”

"Out of the house?" Chu Yuan asked, "What if you are seen?" ”

"If you see it, you see it, who stipulates that the emperor can't go out to watch the play?" Duan Baiyue smiled when she heard this, "I am easy to disguise." ”

After staying in the house for a day, it was indeed a little boring, so Chu Yuan didn't refuse again.

It was cold outside, and before going out, Duan Baiyue took a cloak and gently covered his shoulders for him.

Sixi Gonggong happily thought that the king of the southwest was really considerate, and he deliberately picked a thicker one.

The so-called lantern show is nothing more than the technique of folk artists coaxing little dolls, setting up a platform to pull the cloth, and blowing the suona can play a fairy match. The adults in the city have nothing to do after eating, and they will stop to take a few more glances when passing by, and there are many people and it is also lively.

The play is nothing to watch, but Chu Yuan likes to stand in the crowd. No one noticed that the emperor was by his side, and the big guys were talking and laughing and eating melon seeds, and their smiles were simple and real.

So Chu Yuan's eyes were also dyed with a smile.

Duan Baiyue bought a bag of fried melon seeds and handed it to him: "Add salt and jin powder, it's sweet." ”

Chu Yuan was amused and glanced at him.

"What are you afraid of, those old ministers in the court can't see it." Duan Baiyue whispered in his ear, "No one will jump out and say that it is a loss of royal dignity. ”

Chu Yuan grabbed a handful of melon seeds from his hand and slowly swallowed them.

The stage was babbling and singing in a hoarse voice. When a lover finally becomes a family, the audience applauded thunderously, and it was said that it was a good story.

Chu Yuan also threw a small ingot of broken gold on the stage: "Let's go, go back." ”

Duan Baiyue tied his cloak for him, separated the crowd with his arms, and returned to the post house with him.

Sixi's father-in-law smiled and opened the door for the two, and said in his heart that it was rare to see the emperor like this, with light in his eyes.

"If you like it, I'll take you to see something else next time." Duan Baiyue helped him put his cloak aside.

Chu Yuan nodded: "Okay." ”

"The hour is almost up, I'll go and bring Tianyu over." Duan Baiyue said.

"Xiang Yan is here." Chu Yuan said, "Let him go." ”

Duan Baiyue hesitated when she heard this, but she was delighted again.

It seems that this is the first time that he has taken the initiative to keep himself by his side.

Chu Yuan said: "It's just a craftsman, I haven't seen you before, so I don't have to be frightened." ”

"Yes." Duan Baiyue pulled a chair and sat beside him, "I'm so fierce, it's better not to run around." "The tone is very serious.

Chu Yuan didn't hear it, and reached out to pour a cup of tea.

About half an hour later, Tianyu was secretly brought to the post house by Xiang Yan. I had already met the emperor once before, and I knew that it was very kind, so I was much more relaxed this time.

Chu Yuan took a stack of papers next to him and asked Sixi to hand it to him: "Little gentleman, do you know what this is?" ”

Duan Baiyue did not take off his face, standing behind him as a guard.

"This?" Tian Yu flipped through the two pages and shook his head, "I'm not impressed." ”

"Don't panic." Chu Yuan said, "Look slowly." ”

Tianyu didn't dare to slack off when he heard this, and looked at it carefully for a long time before he was surprised: "Could it be a ghost wooden box?" ”

"What is the Oni Wooden Box?" Chu Yuan heard this for the first time.

"This is a trap box that our ancestors forbade." Tian Yu hesitated a little, "But the grass people can't tell if it's right or not, they have never seen the real thing before, and they don't even have drawings, they only heard the old man mention it when he told the story to the little doll." ”

"Why do you want to ban it?" Chu Yuan asked.

"This ......" Tianyu knelt on the ground, "The old man said that the ancestors originally only wanted to make a secret weapon, but they could kill people invisibly and save their lives at a critical moment." So he devoted himself to research for many years, but in the end, he gradually became a demonic obstacle, and finally created a ghost wooden box before he died. When you open it when you use it, you can get ten thousand needles in it, the needles are quenched, and there are Gu worms hidden in the pinholes. When a ghost wooden box is opened, even if there are seventy or eighty men on the opposite side, it will be difficult to parry, no matter who it is, as long as it is invaded by Gu worms, it will be killed in an instant. ”

"So vicious?" Chu Yuan frowned.

Duan Baiyue also shook his head in his heart, if Xu Zhiqiu was really making this thing privately, he should really kill it.

"The ghost wooden box was also beautiful for a while, until the clan killed each other because of this, causing several tragedies, that a respected ancestor ordered all the ghost wooden boxes to be burned, and even the drawings were turned to ashes under the gaze of the whole clan." Tianyu said, "Since then, Dayan City has regained its strength, produced all kinds of tables, chairs, benches, carriages and beds, and gradually gained the reputation of the carpenter ancestor, and the ghost wooden box has also become a rumor, and it has never appeared again." ”

"I see." Chu Yuan said, "So in today's world, no one has ever seen a ghost wooden box." ”

"As it should be." Tian Yu nodded.

"There's Mr. Lao." Chu Yuan motioned to Sixi and took him down to receive the reward.

"Father-in-law, please rest assured." Tianyu tucked the silver ticket into his sleeve, "The grass people know what to say and what not to say. ”

Sixi's father-in-law smiled and asked Xiang Yan to send him back secretly.

Open people, everywhere to likable.

"Ten out of ten* That's it." Duan Baiyue said, "When I went to the underground dark room today, I did smell a trace of the fragrance of butterfly wing orchid, this flower is produced in the southwest, and it will only be used when refining Gu." ”

"Bastard!" Chu Yuan's eyes were cold, obviously angry.

Duan Baiyue sighed in her heart and patted his hand gently: "It's useless to be angry, now that it's the most important thing to do, finding a way to solve the problem is the most important thing to do." ”

With such a large number of ghost wooden boxes, it is obvious that they will not be bought by the people in the rivers and lakes. The sales of wooden tools in Dayan City are very good, and even the merchants of Nanyang are rushing to ask for them, if they want to hide tens of thousands of wooden boxes in their normal goods, it is easy to do - just a batch of ordinary mahogany wardrobes, you can unknowingly stuff hundreds of ghost wooden boxes.

And the purpose of other countries willing to buy this thing with a lot of money is self-evident.

A ghost wooden box may be the life of dozens of Chu soldiers, thinking of this, Chu Yuan only hates to cut Xu Zhiqiu with a thousand knives.

Duan Baiyue stood behind him, her warm and dry hands gently covering her eyes.

Chu Yuan froze.

"Don't be murderous in your eyes." Duan Baiyue's voice was very low, "I'll just do these killings." ”

"Xu Zhiqiu, where did he get so daring?" Chu Yuan stood up fiercely.

"Man dies for money, and birds die for food." Duan Baiyue said, "It's not uncommon to be tempted, it's a golden mountain." ”

Chu Yuan said: "No matter how much he sold before, from today onwards, this thing will definitely not be able to flow out of the city again." ”

Duan Baiyue nodded: "Okay." ”

While the two were talking, Sixi's father-in-law reported outside, saying that he had something important to see the commander.

"Xuan!" Chu Yuan sat back at the table and motioned for Duan Baiyue to take shelter behind the screen for the time being.

"Your Majesty." Xiang Yan saluted after coming in, "There is movement on the other side of the palace." ”

"What's going on?" Chu Yuan asked.

"The Demon Sect went to Xu Zhiqiu again, and the two parties reached an agreement that they would go to Hunting Cliff Mountain to dig gold mountain at noon tomorrow." Xiang Yan said.

"Xu Zhiqiu wants to go in person?" Chu Yuan asked again.

Xiang Yan nodded: "Yes." ”

"It's hard work to be in charge." Chu Yuan said, "Continue to stare at him and see how much there is in that golden mountain." ”

Xiang Yan was ordered to leave, still wondering in his heart.

Why is there someone behind the screen?

Who the hell is this, why do you stay in the emperor's bedroom every day.

Duan Baiyue said: "I'm going to stare at it too?" ”

"It's not necessary, it's enough to be directional, and it's easy to startle snakes when there are too many people." Chu Yuan said, "Let's see what's going on first." ”

"It's fine." Duan Baiyue squatted in front of him, "It's not early, rest?" ”

Chu Yuan shook his head, distraught.

"I know." Duan Baiyue shook her head, "I haven't thought it yet, seeing you like this at this time, I really want to slaughter Xu Zhiqiu." ”

"If you really violate the law, you will have your own Dali Temple to deal with him." Chu Yuan said, "The law of the country is greater than the sky, and no one can escape." ”

"You see, you understand the truth, but you can't get along with yourself." Duan Baiyue stood up and straightened the collar for him, "Even if you don't sleep all night, it doesn't seem to have any other use than to get through your body." ”

Chu Yuan said: "I don't want to listen to your reasoning. ”

Duan Baiyue smiled: "I don't want to listen to reason, so what do you want to hear, is it okay to talk about love?" ”

Chu Yuan was stunned when he heard this, and felt that he seemed to have heard something wrong.

Duan Baiyue looked at him with a smile in her eyes, and under the candlelight, her eyebrows and eyes were full of tenderness.

Then Sixi's father-in-law listened to a loud noise in the house.

A moment later, Duan Baiyue came out of the room and sat on the steps to watch the moon.

Sixi's father-in-law looked at him with a meaningful look.

The emperor's temperament is not in a hurry, and he is in a hurry.

After eating on the second day, Xu Zhiqiu really sneaked around and got into a carriage and went out of the city.

Although there was Xiang Yan staring, Duan Baiyue still followed all the way, and there was nothing to do in the post house, so it was better to come out and solve the problem - saving someone from worrying about it day and night, and not sleeping.

The carriage drove out of the city gate, Xu Zhiqiu came down again and walked alone for a while, turning up and down the hill, and finally stopped at the bottom of a cliff.

There were already two women waiting there, Duan Baiyue was also familiar, they were both Lan Ji's maids, and they had robbed Duan Yao in the forest.

Seeing Xu Zhiqiu, one of the maids smiled and said, "My lord is really an open-minded and generous person. ”

Xu Zhiqiu was distressed, and he was not in the mood to laugh with her, so he just threw the key over.

The maid was not annoyed, picked up the key and inserted it into the mechanism of the rock, and a roar faintly came from the ground, and a crack slowly opened in the mountain wall that was originally covered with vines.

Duan Baiyue shook his head in his heart, it was really a city of organs, and even a private vault was so exquisitely designed.

The sun in the sky was shining, and when he looked at it from the direction of Duan Baiyue, his face was bright and bright, saying that it was a mountain of gold and silver, but it was not an exaggeration at all.

Xiang Yan also sighed in his heart, he really felt sorry for Mr. Xu, I was afraid that he would lose his son again. This kind of greed is not enough for ten heads.

The maid went into the cave to inspect it, and was extremely satisfied, and said to Xu Zhiqiu: "From now on, this place has nothing to do with adults, and after my family leader takes the things away, he will return the key to the adults." ”

"I gave the money, your sect leader promised me, it's better to do it!" Xu Zhiqiu spat viciously.

"Don't worry, adults, my Tiansha Sect has always been true to its word." The maid's voice was crisp, Duan Baiyue secretly laughed when she heard it, this demon girl was also thick-skinned, and the Demon Sect dared to claim to be true to her word.

Xu Zhiqiu sighed again and again, and didn't want to stay any longer, turned around and went back to the mansion, and Xiang Yan also followed him all the way, afraid that someone would kill him halfway. Duan Baiyue followed the two maids and went back to the wild goose inn in Big Wild Goose City.

"Congratulations to the sect leader, congratulations to the sect leader." The maid said outside the door, "I've got it." ”

There was a giggling sound from inside the room, and Lan Ji opened the door herself: "Hard work two Dharma protectors." ”

Duan Baiyue touched her chin in the dark, she didn't expect that Lan Ji would come in person.

When he returned to the post house, it was already completely dark, and Chu Yuan had just heard Xiang Yan finish reporting today's events and was drinking tea in the house.

"The prince is a little late today." Sixi's father-in-law whispered, "The emperor didn't even have dinner, he kept waiting." ”

Duan Baiyue smiled, and after thanking him, he stretched out his hand and pushed the door open.

Chu Yuan put down the teapot in his hand: "Where did you go today?" ”

"The geese go back to the inn." Duan Baiyue said, "Lan Ji lives there. ”

"The leader of the Heavenly Brake Sect?" Chu Yuan said, "Then did you see the old man who was a wood idiot, or the rest of the old people in the good hall?" ”

"I searched up and down, but it didn't seem to be." Duan Baiyue shook her head.

Chu Yuan sighed: "I don't know where people are hidden." ”

"Since it is kidnapped and not killed, it means that there is still a use, and there will be no danger of life for the time being." Duan Baiyue said, "Just look for it slowly." ”

Chu Yuan said, "Hmm." ”

"Do you still eat green vegetables and tofu today?" Duan Baiyue asked suddenly.

Chu Yuan: "...... Yes? ”

"For the sake of finding Jinshan, have a good meal?" Duan Baiyue's eyes were sincere.

"Jinshan was Xu Zhiqiu's first, and now it is from the Tiansha Sect, what does it have to do with you." Chu Yuan smiled in his tone, and bent his fingers to tap the bridge of his nose, "At most, a bowl of noodles, whether you like to eat it or not." ”