I fought with the empty for a few rounds, and the martial arts of the exhaustion were not bad, and I took advantage of the dagger, I didn't dare to fight hard, I was at a disadvantage, but Chen Jiu, who was following behind, also joined the battle group domineeringly, and the situation was immediately reversed.

Chen Jiu's saber against the empty dagger, after two rounds, Chen Jiu slashed on the arm, although it was not very heavy, but it was also bloody, the two of us faced the empty, and after a while, I pressed the empty space to the ground, I kicked the empty kick hard, just kicked his wound, and let out a howl like killing a pig.

At this time, the battle in the main hall was still going on, and the four eunuchs sent by Chen Jiu at the entrance of the 'gate' saw that we were fighting and ran over, and Chen Jiu ordered them to tie up the empty space, and then we came to the Daxiong Treasure Hall together.

In the main hall, the eunuchs of the East Factory have the upper hand in the monks' martial arts, although they are good, but the matter is in a hurry, there are no weapons, the eunuchs of the East Factory have swords, so the fight in the hall is also a one-sided situation, these eunuchs are very, they are not healthy, and now they can kill happily, that is all with very good skills, although the monks are also desperate, but there are no weapons, there are more than a dozen monks' stones lying on the ground, and a few seriously injured howls on the ground, and the terrible screams are back in the hall. Although a few eunuchs from Dongchang were also injured, they were beaten by fists, and they did not worry about their lives, but only temporarily withdrew from the battle.

The eunuchs of the East Factory saw Chen Jiu come in, the murderous aura was even stronger, and now they were completely pressing these monks to beat, although the monks copied the guys casually, they were all futon wood 'sticks' and the like, and the eunuchs on the other side were holding steel knives, that is, hitting the stone with eggs, and the battle ended soon after, the corpses of the monks on the ground, and a few living mouths that Chen Jiu deliberately let them leave.

When this side was all over, Chen Jiu instructed a few eunuchs to also bring in the empty space, Liu Lianjiang bandaged my arms with me, and I sat on the chairs brought by the eunuchs with Chen Jiu and began to interrogate these monks.

The first to interrogate was the empty space, no matter how Chen Jiu asked, the empty just didn't say, didn't fight, and there were three monks who were left alive, and they didn't say it, and finally Chen Jiu cut two, and the rest still didn't say, Chen Jiu shook his head and said to me with a wry smile: "Brother Lan, these bald donkeys are really hard-mouthed, this is the one I have ever met with the strictest mouth and the least afraid of death, and I don't know how they trained." ”

"Brother Chen, it doesn't matter, now we have confirmed that these monks are making trouble, that is to say, the princess is guaranteed to be in the temple, only in the temple, we will work hard to find it, just now I went to the rockery, and I made trouble to me as much as possible, we will go over there now to see if there is any secret way."

"What Brother Lan said is, it doesn't matter if you don't say anything about this bald donkey, bring it back to Dongchang to see what I do with him." As he spoke, he kicked the empty air on the ground.

He laughed and said: "Hahaha, you want to find the princess, how can it be so simple, the old man has already transferred her out, let your dog emperor cut off his children and grandchildren, and we will kill your prince in the future." ”

Chen Jiu kicked the empty again, regardless of the resentful eyes of the empty space, followed me to the front of the rockery, and looked around the rockery several times, the rockery from the outside to see nothing surprising, even a few small mountain 'holes' can not drill into people, but if there is not a problem with this rockery, why do you see me to the rockery This side will be a dog jumping over the wall, I always feel that there is a problem with the rockery, but now I can't find any hidden channels, do you have to dismantle this rockery.

I looked up at the hexagonal pavilion on the top of the rockery, the pavilion is also paved with glazed tiles, six thick pillars, supporting, and the pavilion has a plaque with three big characters written: Dusk Cloud Pavilion. I don't know who wrote it, but the words are vigorous and powerful. The Twilight Pavilion sounded good, but as I tasted it, it felt a little twilight, and I followed the narrow steps to the top of the pavilion.

There is a stone table on the top of the pavilion, and there are four stone piers, and there is nothing else different, I looked around and was thinking about going down, and suddenly found that four stone piers, one of them is relatively bright, as if someone often wipes it, at this time no one comes up to sit on this thing, the cold stone must be uncomfortable to sit on, and there is a layer of dust on the three sides, why is this one so clean, is it said that this one is sitting.

I came to the edge of the stone pier, stretched out my hand to move the stone pier, but the stone pier did not move at all, I came to the outer edges, and did not have much strength to move up, I secretly rejoiced in my heart, it seems that this stone pier is where the mechanism is. I didn't rush to move the mechanism, and beckoned Chen Jiu to come up first.

At this time, Chen Jiu was also anxious below, now that it was dark, he couldn't find the princess, and there was no news at all, how could he go back and 'hand' the emperor, seeing that I was waving to him, he hurriedly came to the pavilion along the steps.

"Brother Lan has made any new discoveries?"

"Brother Chen, the mechanism may be under this pavilion, and this stone pier may be the mechanism that starts the secret passage, now are we going to open it."

"Of course, let's open it right away." Chen Jiu said anxiously.

"Brother Chen, now we don't know the following situation, is there any other exit, I'm afraid that if we start the mechanism, alarm the thief and run away with the princess, then we really have nowhere to find it, I think so, Brother Chen, let's wait for the Beijing army to come, and after surrounding the whole mountain, we will open the mechanism, so that there are other exits, and we are not afraid that they will run out."

"Okay, Brother Lan is still thoughtful, then let's go down and see if the reinforcements from outside have come."

The two of us didn't move the mechanism, came to the bottom, the eunuch who went to report the news has not returned, but Lao Liu and the four hurriedly came to the courtyard, seeing me standing here, Lao Liu ran over and said: "My lord, we have been to see the mountain, but we have not found the figure of the princess, what should we do now." ”

"Brother Liu, you have worked hard, now it has been determined that there is a problem with the monks in this temple, the princess may be detained by them, we are waiting for reinforcements to come, the four of you take a rest, take a walk around the temple and have a look, I am afraid that they have other exits."

Lao Liu didn't rest, took the three of them out of the big 'door' again, to check if there was an exit outside, I spent them, but also have my thoughts, if Lao Liu and they are here, they will open the organ for a while, they must want people to go in, if they go in, it will be more auspicious and less, this is inevitable, I don't have many people now, I don't want Lao Liu to have any more mistakes, so I sent them out.

Chen Jiu didn't understand my thoughts, and praised there: "Lord Lan and the princess really have a deep master-apprentice relationship, and they did their best to save the princess." ”

"Brother Chen, the princess is my apprentice, if something happens to the princess, my master can't live alone, in order to rescue the princess safely, it is still necessary to arrange more."

"What Brother Lan said is, if you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of just in case, it is better to arrange more, and I will also arrange for the eunuchs of Dongchang to be on guard everywhere to prevent other exits in the temple."

As soon as the words fell, the little eunuch outside ran in and reported: "Lord Steward, reinforcements have arrived." ”

The two of us came to the big 'gate' and looked down the mountain, and sure enough, it was all black and oppressive, all of them were soldiers, swords, guns, swords, and halberds, and at this time the sky was already dark, and the soldiers were lighting torches, and the leader of the team was walking towards the mountain.

The one who came to us was a deputy general, I didn't know it, Chen Jiu seemed to know, and the deputy general from afar greeted Chen Jiu: "Manager Chen, don't come unharmed, it's too late in the future." ”

Chen Jiu also arched his hand and said: "'Hua' general, I'm tired of you, how many people have you brought here." ”

"Manager Chen, we have 10,000 people, I'm afraid that you are in a hurry to bring 5,000 people over first, and then other big battalions will come over with 5,000, now please ask Manager Chen to arrange a task for us."

Chen Jiu was not polite, and said to the 'flower' deputy general: "'Hua' general, you five thousand people, bring one thousand to surround the temple for me first, and pick another hundred 'fine' strong ones who are best able to do martial arts to come and listen to my command, and the rest of the soldiers and the five thousand soldiers who came later will surround the entire Xiangshan, and don't let anyone out." ”

"Okay, Mr. Chen, I'll go down and arrange it first." After speaking, the 'flower' deputy general returned to the bottom of the mountain and arranged for the soldiers to surround Xiangshan.

After everything was arranged, the 'Hua' deputy general came to the courtyard with a hundred selected 'elite' soldiers and waited for Chen Jiu's command.

Chen Jiu asked me, "Brother Lan, how did you open that mechanism?" ”

"Turn left or right on that stone pier, I don't know how to open it, but I know it must be a mechanism in there."

"Okay, come on, you go up and open the mechanism according to what Lord Lan said."

The two eunuchs of the East Factory came to the top of the pavilion with a few soldiers, and we didn't go up, who knows what danger there would be. The two eunuchs instructed the soldiers to turn the stone pier, and sure enough, with the rotation of the stone pier, the stone table in the middle was moved. The eunuch asked Chen Jiu again, Chen Jiu and I also came to the top, looked at the 'hole', Chen Jiu said: "You two take people down, pay attention to safety, light more torches, and report the situation in time." ”

After the eunuchs and soldiers went down, Chen Jiu beckoned more than a dozen soldiers and followed them into the secret passage, the two of us still didn't go in, because we didn't confirm that it was safe inside, we wouldn't go in, Chen Jiu knew that there were so many hidden weapons in the dungeon of his Dongchang, who knew what kind of danger was hidden in this secret passage, after the two teams went down, there was still a sound coming out, but after a cup of tea, there was no sound, Chen Jiu couldn't hold his breath, and found more than a dozen soldiers from below, Arrange for them to enter the secret passage.