Chapter 18: The Nine Palaces

"If you can solve the mechanism in the forest opposite, this door will be opened, if you can't solve it, leave as soon as possible, and when you arrive in Handu, your brother may still be saved. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Organ? In the previous life, he had lived for eighteen years and had never even seen anything like the head of the organ, Xiao Mo had no bottom in his heart, and when it was life and death, he always had to give it a try, and said: "Okay." ”

Xiao Mo glanced at Ling Xu and said lightly: "Don't wait for me to come back." Without further ado, he turned and walked into the forest across the house.

The old man only asked her to open the mechanism, but he didn't know what the mechanism was, Xiao Mo walked into the depths of the woods with anxiety, and looked through the cracks in the trees, and vaguely saw that there was a mountain wall in front of her, and it seemed that there was no way out.

Passing through the trees, there is a small open space in front of the mountain wall, and the middle side of the ground is divided into nine horizontal and vertical squares, and there is a wooden frame next to it, on which are hung nine gongs of different sizes.

Xiao Mo was confused when he saw these in front of him, and frowned: "This is the so-called mechanism?" ”

Nine grids, nine gongs, what does it mean, Xiao Mo wandered in front of the wooden frame, his eyes scanned back and forth at the gongs, puzzled, and didn't know where to start.

Qimen Dunjia has heard of it, not so much that he has heard of it, but that he doesn't know anything, if he can't unlock the mechanism, Ling Xu is more and less lucky, and time passes minute by minute, Xiao Mo still doesn't have the slightest clue, and he becomes more and more anxious.

"There must be some kind of connection between these nine gongs and these nine grids." Xiao Mo'e frowned and muttered to herself, walking around the nine grids a few times, there was nothing in these grids, and they were blank.

"Nine grids...... Nine grids ......" Xiao Mo muttered softly, pacing back and forth a few steps, thinking carefully.

Xiao Mo suddenly turned around, stared at those lattices, and slowly spoke: "Could it be...... Vena Nine Palaces Chart? ”

Although Xiao Mo was a woman, she could not follow her father and brother to fight in the past, but she was quite interested in the art of war, and remembered that her father had said when talking about the marching formation, although the Luoshu Nine Palaces Diagram was often used to watch the sky from the ground at night and the movement of the stars to know the direction and season, but its concept of orientation was also widely used in geography, the formation of the camp for conquest, and even calligraphy.

"If this is really a nine-house chart, then these squares should be filled with numbers."

With a clue and the idea of giving it a try, Xiao Mo ran to the side and picked up a branch.

"Nine sons are obliquely arranged, up and down are easy, left and right are more interchangeable, four-dimensional stand out, wear nine shoes one, three on the left and seven on the right, two or four for the shoulder, six or eight for the foot." Xiao Mo recalled the mantra as he used a dead branch to write down the corresponding numbers in each of the nine grids.

Xiao Mo pondered whether to fill in or fill in, the strange old man would not come out to see it by himself, turned around and looked at the gong on the wooden frame, and said: "Then the intention of these nine-sided gongs to be located here is probably to let me inform him through the gong that the nine-palace diagram has been solved." ”

Then how should this gong be struck, the sound of the different sizes must be different, and the old man should tell whether she has really unlocked the Nine Palaces Diagram by the timbre.

Xiao Mo glanced at the Nine Palaces Diagram again, and had a rough number in his heart, so he picked up the mallet and stood in front of a row of gongs, and knocked down the numbers in the Nine Palaces Diagram in order from left to right, from top to bottom: four, nine, two, three, five, seven, eight, one, six.

In order to make the strange old man hear clearly, Xiao Mo struck extremely hard, and the sound of the gong resounded through the mountains and forests. Estimating that it was done, Xiao Mo couldn't wait to run out of the woods, and the door of the house really opened, and the old man stood in front of the door and watched her approach.

"The old gentleman set up a nine-palace diagram in the forest, which is not a kind of institution, presumably the old gentleman just doesn't want to be bothered by uneducated people, so he can take this opportunity to test the people who come to visit." Xiao Mo said.

"There is no vain." The old man said lightly, turned around and entered the house, and said, "Help him in." ”

Xiao Mo was overjoyed, Ling Xu was saved, and hurriedly picked up Ling Xu into the courtyard.

The old man was alone inside and out, and the yard was not so much clean as empty, with no flowers and no furnishings, only a lot of sundries piled up in the corner.

The old man led the way in front, and Xiao Mo asked behind him, "I don't know what the old gentleman is called?" ”

The old man did not answer, but went straight into the house.

He had already seen the strangeness of this person, Xiao Mo didn't take it to heart, and he didn't dare to provoke him, now there is nothing more important than saving Ling Xu's life.

According to the old man's instructions, Ling Xu was placed on the bed, the old man took the medicine box, and Xiao Mo stepped aside.

"What are you doing in a daze, why don't you take off his clothes quickly." The old man snapped.

"Huh?" Xiao Mo was surprised in a low voice, although he was already familiar with Ling Xu, after all, there was a difference between men and women.

The old man glanced slightly: "Don't want to save?" ”

"Okay." Xiao Mo responded, stepped forward and carefully untied Ling Xu's wide clothes, tilting his head to the side and not daring to look, only groping with his hands, his movements were extremely slow.

"It's been two hours since he got this poisoned arrow, and if he continues to rub it like this, I'm afraid his front feet have already stepped into the ghost gate."

The old man's words made Xiao Mo suddenly worried, and threw all the men and women who were not intimate with each other to the clouds, took scissors to cut the cloth near the wound, and quickly peeled off the clothes on Ling Xu's upper body.

"Draw the arrow." The old man said.

"I'm coming?" Xiao Mo was shocked.

"Isn't he your brother? The old man doesn't know the severity of his hand, in case he loses his senses, but sends him on the road. ”

Looking at Ling Xu, who was dying, she could no longer tolerate her hesitation and fear, Xiao Mo trembled and stretched out his hand, supporting the side of the bed with one hand, holding the arrow with the other, stopped, but couldn't get down for a long time.

The old man looked at her quietly and said no more. Xiao Mo told herself over and over again in her heart, if she didn't even dare to save people, how could she dare to slash the enemy, she mustered up her courage, closed her eyes tightly, and pulled out the arrow with force in an instant, a few drops of blood splashed on her face, there was a faint fishy smell, and she was not afraid if she smelled too much, she raised her hand and wiped it off with her sleeve.

The old man took out the porcelain bottle, sprinkled the medicine powder on the wound and said lightly: "This medicine can only stop bleeding, not detoxification." ”

Xiao Mo hurriedly asked, "Then what should I do with this poison?" ”

The old man still didn't answer, unhurriedly put the porcelain bottle back into the medicine box, and handed a roll of muslin to Xiao Mo: "Bandage him." ”

After Xiao Mo took the muslin, the old man got up and left with the medicine box.

only said that this medicine could not detoxify, but did not say that any medicine could detoxify, Xiao Mo complained secretly, sat on the edge of the bed, and in a blink of an eye saw the person lying on the bed with his upper body naked, he was immediately ashamed, and had to help Ling Xu up, blushing and carefully bandaging his wounds, and secretly glad that he was unconscious and didn't know anything.

After settling Ling Xu and looking at his purple complexion, Xiao Mo thought about it, but couldn't help but go out, and went straight to ask the old man how to detoxify Ling Xu, just when he went out, the old man came out of another room with a book in his hand.

"You can't take this book out, give you time for a stick of incense, memorize the herbs on the pages I folded, and then go to the mountains to pick it back, remember, you only have time for a stick of incense, and it will be difficult to save the gods if you delay him." After the old man finished speaking, he gave the book to Xiao Mo, returned to the small room and closed the door.

said that it was the time of a stick of incense, but she didn't even see the shadow of incense in these places, did she have to weigh it herself? It was estimated that it was only half an hour, Xiao Mo looked at the folded pages of the book, nearly ten kinds of herbs with strange shapes that had never been seen, and it was almost dark, Xiao Mo glanced at the closed door and pulled the corners of his mouth.