Chapter 20: The Gossip Secret
Gui Ning left his subordinates in the White Sandfly Peak, secretly sent a letter to the post house, and transferred a hundred post soldiers to turn into ordinary people to find the whereabouts of the hunter in the White Sandfly Peak. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Du Yuan rummaged in the tree house for a long time, only to find a brand-new animal skin jacket and handed it to Dou Xin, allowing Dou Xin to temporarily cover the large blood stains on his placket. Gui Ning asked one of his subordinates, King Kong and Du Yuan, to change their clothes.
After two nights of repairing in the tree house, Dou Xin recovered most of his strength, and the blisters on his neck also crusted. Seeing that Dou Xin's fever had subsided, and the people were much more energetic, Du Yuan and Gui Ning were ready to go on the road. Du Yuan felt guilty because of a misunderstanding, and his attitude towards one in the past two days has eased a lot, but he gradually became suspicious: one is a monk in the wild temple in the mountains, Dou Xin is a new apprentice of the Kuzen mountain people, the two have nothing to do with each other, but they seem to have known each other for a long time, not only that, Gui Ning's attitude towards one has also changed a lot.
Bai Zhi Feng was still calm, and there was no disturbance in the slightest because of the appearance of the four people, the village gate of Baixi Village was closed, and the other two villages were grateful to the imperial court for sending them Lang Zhong and medicinal materials, and grateful that this small epidemic did not destroy their homes like more than ten years ago. In the vast grace of the emperor, no one will notice that an old hunter in the deep forest is heading north alone, disappearing into the approaching wind and snow.
Before leaving, Dou Xin restored the tree house to its original state, secretly praying that the old hunter would return one day, and that he would have a chance to ask him about his past with Boss Dou.
Passing through the Sandfly Peak, the post house loomed, and Dou Xin's heart began to secretly tense. From the mountain pass to the post house, the four of them walked for two whole days, and it was noon on the third day when they arrived at the post house. The appearance of the post house is different from that of ordinary post houses, but it looks like the courtyard of a large family.
"It's hard for adults, and villains wait for adults for a long time." Before Gui Ning dismounted, he saw an old man and four attendants coming from the gate, and after careful identification, he found that they were not familiar with each other. Du Yuan saw the old man's gait from a distance, and he was shocked, and hurriedly dismounted, his brows furrowed, and he led the horse closer with a hesitation.
"Don't dare to bother the old man, let's lead the horse over." Du Yuan wanted to salute the old man, but was stopped by the old man. Seeing Du Yuan's appearance, Gui Ning hurriedly got off the horse. The old man saluted respectfully to the two, and without waiting for Du Yuan to say more, he snatched the reins from Gui Ning's hand and walked towards the stable.
Du Yuan looked at the old man's back, his mind was buzzing, the iron horse was glacial, and the memories of flesh and blood were like a world away. Gui Ning was silent and patted Du Yuan's shoulder.
Before entering the door, Dou Xin had already felt a chill in the post house, wrapped his jacket tighter, and then followed the three of them into the post house. He looked around at the post house while walking, and whispered: "This is not a real post house, what General Du has not done should be a courtesy in the army, and it seems that the old man is not an ordinary post man." ā
Dou Xin listened, nodded, and did not answer. She didn't know what the real post house looked like, she only felt a bad premonition, which was very similar to when Master first met Master Qi.
Du Yuan told Dou Xin that this was already the territory of Chengtian Pavilion, and it was safe within a radius of five miles, so if he felt bored in the post house, he could rest assured that he could wander around. Gui Ning specially instructed the post guard and gave Yi and Dou Xin a first-class room. Dou Xin's room was next to the first one, and Gui Ning and Du Yuan's were on the other side of the corridor, far apart.
From the beginning of entering the post house, Dou Xin noticed that there were people watching him all the time in the post house. The nine-curved corridors in the post house extend in different directions, and there are even hundreds of large and small rooms combined, if more than half of the rooms are occupied, then the power here can even be compared to the South Pavilion Stack. However, all the way from the sandfly peak, the scenery on the road is more and more desolate, the Tianshan Mountains are not an important pass, there are very few people passing by, what is the purpose of building such a grand post house in this kind of place for no reason? Dou Xin thought about the Dou Inn, which was also in a remote location, but it was a necessary place for envoys to come and go, but there were only nineteen rooms inside, which was enough for a year's merchant envoys to settle down.
After settling down with a handful of luggage, he wandered around the inn uncharacteristically, and soon disappeared into the nine-song corridor. Dou Xin didn't catch up, so he had to take a walk alone in the huge post house. After passing through the three corridors, Dou Xin gradually figured out the layout of the entire post house, and it turned out to be a large Fuxi Bagua Array. The place where you enter the door is due west, and the hexagram is Kan. The hexagram is prosperous in winter, declining in spring, and now it is winter, and it is normal to open the west gate. The stable is in the southeast, that is, the hexagram, the hexagram, the Ze, the place for drinking horses. I have a guest room in the east, located in the hexagram, which is a place for honored guests. Du Yuan and Gui Ning should be in the guest room in the northeast, counting the shocks, and the earthquake turned into thunder, so the residence of the two was different from himself and one or two civilians.
According to the direction of the eight trigrams, each hexagram extends outward with five long corridors, and two short corridors are connected to the adjacent hexagrams. Dou Xin walked from his room to Du Yuan's room, which was a short corridor, about one hundred and twenty steps. Dou Xin tried to walk a shorter corridor, a longer corridor. After walking through these three corridors, the sun was already sinking, and Dou Xin gave up the idea of walking the farthest corridor. The Bagua Array was very large, and it was difficult for Dou Xin to identify them all in a short period of time, but Dou Xin found that the location of the atrium was slightly to the south, that is, the direction of the Qiangua. Dou Xin couldn't help but wonder, since the builder of this post house had established a Bagua formation and would never make such a mistake, the simple explanation was that there was a problem in the north-south direction, and the most likely thing was that there was a problem in the south.
Dou Xin suppressed his curiosity, and planned to discuss it with Yi before exploring to the south. In the center of the Bagua Array is the atrium of the post house, surrounded by a circle of pond water, which looks quite meaningful from a distance. Night was approaching, and Dou Xin walked along the corridor from northeast to east, faintly hearing the voices of Du Yuan and Guining. Dou Xin looked left and right, and saw that the sound was coming from the other end of the hollow wall of the cloister. On the hollow one on the wall, the people on both sides of the wall could just see each other's faces, Dou Xin had to bend down in order not to be discovered, turned around, put his ears on the wall, and turned back to the northeast. After listening for a while, Dou Xin found that the voices of the two people seemed to be drifting away, Dou Xin couldn't hear it clearly, and he didn't dare to raise his head rashly. Later, when he found that he couldn't hear, Dou Xin decided to go back the same way, and go back to his guest room first. After walking for a while, the voices of the two people became clear again, and Dou Xin noticed that Du Yuan and Gui Ning were walking in the direction of their guest room. Dou Xin put his ear against the wall again and followed in the footsteps of the two men.
"Your Majesty lived here for a while before he ascended the throne, but no one mentioned it since. If you repair it well, it can become a palace or something, and it won't be reduced to a small inn. Du Yuan said.
"In such a deserted place, Your Majesty is afraid that he will never come again. The eldest brother is very bitter in the land of Mobei, but after all, he has created the number of a victorious general, and it may not be really bitter to mention that hard life in the future. His Majesty was wronged and degraded back then, even if he brought a skilled craftsman to build such a grand mansion, and then he was accompanied by good relatives, I am afraid that he would only be sad and frightened when he remembered it. Gui Ning picked up a half-withered weed on the ground, put it under his nose and smelled it. Throw away the bitterness of this flower, go to a prosperous place to change a generation of brocade clothes, and there are groups of children and grandchildren, why not? ā
"This is Shezihua?" Du Yuan also plucked a leaf and crushed it in the palm of his hand.
"The flowers and leaves have not appeared, and the leaves are full of flowers without a shadow. Pity the flowers and leaves, and the catastrophe is speechless. This flower is long in this place, and it is also emotional. The country is so big, I can't find this flower anywhere else, and I can't find the old people of the post house. Gui Ning squatted on the ground, picked up a piece of broken tiles and dug a small pit in the reddish soil, poured the grass in his hand into it, and turned his head to look at Du Yuan. Du Yuan faced the small pit, rubbed his palms with both hands, and poured all the fine pieces into it.
Gui Ning filled in the small pit, stepped on it hard, and then let out a long breath. "You said Qi Yu was ......"
Du Yuan kicked Gui Ning violently and glared at Gui Ning viciously. Gui Ning let out an "ah" and didn't continue.
"Don't mention the old past, that's what Lord Qi taught you. He is unjust to me, I can blame him, but you can't, call me a daddy, and you will have to recognize it for the rest of your life. You can't forget what he once said. Du Yuan said with a cold face.
Gui Ning was stunned for a moment, and sneered: "I admit Father Qi, but if it weren't for his protection, I would have picked Qi Yu's head early in the morning to avenge my father." I really can't figure it out, what is Daddy Qi trying to do? ā
Dou Xin listened carefully behind the wall, but just when he heard Qi Yu's critical moment, the two people on the other side of the wall stopped talking again. "Don't mention the old ones, you have to be kind for a thousand years." From Du Yuan's words, Dou Xin suddenly remembered this sentence, and his heart was shocked, and his hands and feet trembled involuntarily.
"Master, you're awake." Dou Xin covered his heart and moved forward against the wall. The bones in his whole body seemed to be suddenly crispy, and he couldn't exert his strength at all, and Dou Xin felt that Guanlan Jun was not completely awake, but it was enough to control his hands and feet. After walking more than a dozen steps, Dou Xin eased up, and Guanlan Jun's voice was like a big bubble coming up from a deep pool, exploding in Dou Xin's heart: "Be careful behind!" ā
Dou Xin turned his head sharply, only to see a cross dart rushing towards the front door. Something else flew from some direction and hit the dart, and the vicious crossbow fell lifelessly to the side.
On the other side of the corridor, a purple dress with a snow-white face flashed in the night light of the atrium. As soon as he ran over, the purple disappeared into the corridor, and Dou Xin collapsed on the ground, his chest hot for a while. It was probably Du Yuan and Gui Ning who heard the movement here and came through the small door in front. Dou Xin couldn't make out these details clearly, she only saw a few vague shadows dangling in front of her, and a flaming yellow night light, one by one, connected together.