Chapter 551: Longmen Grottoes
In order to catch the other party, Luoyang City did not open the city gate for three days, and all the officers and soldiers in the city searched again and again, but in the end they found nothing, and the city gate could not be closed all the time, and finally they could only temporarily give up the search for Igle, but they still issued a document to go to sea to catch and posted it everywhere, and issued a heavy bounty, hoping that someone could provide useful information.
Igler's matter was put aside for the time being, and Li Zhang's current interest was still the evidence about the hat demon in Liu Chengfeng's mouth, but he deliberately hung Liu Chengfeng for a few days, and only came to prison on this day.
As a feloon, Liu Chengfeng was naturally imprisoned in the deepest part of the prison, and in order to prevent someone from leaking the news of Igler's fugitive to him, Li Zhang arranged a separate cell for him, and it was strictly forbidden for anyone to visit him, and even the jailers were not allowed to say half a word to him, and when Li Zhang came to the prison to see Liu Chengfeng, he saw that the other party was even more haggard than a few days ago, and the whole person lost a few laps, and he immediately jumped up when he saw Li Zhang come in.
"Where's my son?" Liu Chengfeng's first sentence was to ask about Igler, it seems that his son is indeed the most important person in his heart, which makes Li Zhang a little unbearable to use him.
Of course, the above thoughts were just fleeting in Li Zhang's heart, and then he said calmly: "Tell me where your so-called evidence is, as long as your evidence can satisfy me, your father and son will naturally meet one day!" ”
Hearing Li Zhang's words, Liu Chengfeng hesitated for a moment at this time, and then spoke: "The location of that evidence is extremely secret, even if I tell you, I'm afraid it won't be easy for you to find, unless I personally lead the way!" ”
"You want to get out?" Li Zhang showed a vigilant expression when he heard this, Liu Chengfeng is a repeat offender, and this person is quite cunning, so he now also doubts whether the other party is deceiving him with fake news, so he wants to take the opportunity to escape?
"What? Is Li Yushi still worried that I will be able to escape? Liu Chengfeng shook the shackles in his hand at this time, the iron chain made a crisp sound under the impact, as a felon, he was wearing special shackles on his hands and feet, and he didn't want to open it without a key.
Li Zhang's heart suddenly moved at this time, he thought that Igle had not been caught yet, and he went out with Liu Chengfeng, maybe he could attract the other party to come to the rescue, if he could catch the other party, it would be great.
"Okay, I can let you lead the way, but you can tell me where the evidence is?" Li Zhang thought of the above and immediately nodded.
"It's in the east mountain south of the city!" Liu Chengfeng replied without hesitation.
"Higashiyama? Longmen Grottoes! Li Zhang also showed a surprised expression when he heard this, Dongshan may not have been heard of by many people, but everyone in Longmen Grottoes must know about it.
Longmen Grottoes is located in the southern suburbs of Luoyang on the bank of the Yishui River, the two sides of the river are respectively East Mountain and West Mountain, of which the West Mountain is also known as Longmen Mountain, the East Mountain is called Xiangshan, Longmen Grottoes is located on the mountain wall of these two mountains, from the time of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty began to excavate, after the Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties, until the Great Song Dynasty, there are still many people digging the grottoes, Li Zhang did not expect that the evidence of the so-called hat demon was actually in the Longmen Grottoes.
At that moment, Li Zhang asked people to prepare a closed carriage, and then locked Liu Chengfeng in the carriage, and let the wild dog take care of it himself, because the carriage was closed, and Liu Chengfeng would not see the official documents offering a reward to Igler at the streets and city gates.
And Li Zhang led a large number of guards to surround the carriage where Liu Chengfeng was being held, and even when he went to the street, there were people clearing the road, strictly prohibiting anyone from approaching the carriage, and almost wrote the word "repeat offender" directly on the carriage.
However, it is a pity that until Li Zhang and they left Luoyang City, they did not find any suspicious characters, but when they arrived outside the city, Li Zhang also ordered people to be more careful, after all, if anyone wanted to do it, they would definitely choose to be outside the city.
Yishui was not far from Luoyang City, and in the afternoon, Li Zhang and his party finally came to the bank of the Yishui River, only to see the mountains and rivers on both sides of the river, and Yishui meandered from the mountains and rivers like a beautiful landscape painting.
Along Yishui and walked forward a short distance, in front of the famous Longmen Grottoes, Li Zhang had been here in later generations, the scale of Longmen Grottoes at that time was larger, after all, the Song Dynasty and later dynasties also dug a lot of grottoes, but because of the war in later generations, the Longmen Grottoes were seriously damaged, and many precious grottoes were also destroyed.
In contrast, although the Longmen Grottoes in the Song Dynasty are smaller, but they are very complete, even after many wars, but generally few people destroy the grottoes, firstly, the ancients are more in awe of the gods and Buddhas, and secondly, the carvings and books in the grottoes are not as valuable as those of later generations, even if they are sneak attacked, they cannot be sold.
Li Zhang is also the first time to come to Luoyang in this life, and it is also the first time to come to Longmen Grottoes, as a major scenic spot in Luoyang, Longmen is also very lively here, there are often literati and scholars come to Longmen to play, of course, it also attracts a lot of stalls to set up stalls here, and even at the foot of Longmen Mountain, it also forms a small village and town, and Yishui also builds bridges to connect the two banks.
Unfortunately, the evidence is not in the most lively Longmen Mountain, but in the East Mountain on the east bank of the river, compared to Longmen Mountain, there are fewer carvings on the East Mountain, and many grottoes in this period will seal the entrance after the excavation is completed, so that fewer caves can be seen.
The carriage stopped at the foot of Dongshan, because the mountain road was narrow, the carriage and horses could not go up at all, and they could only walk up the mountain, the wild dog carried Liu Chengfeng in front, Li Zhang and the guards followed, and occasionally some tourists or craftsmen could be seen on the mountain road, but when they saw the officers and soldiers around Li Zhang, they all flashed to the side.
Dongshan is also known as Xiangshan, the terrain on the mountain is complex, there are not only grottoes here, there are also many places of interest and historic sites, such as the famous Bai Juyi, called Xiangshan Jushi, which Xiangshan refers to here, and he was also buried on the Pipa Peak of Xiangshan after his death, Bai Juyi's cemetery is also called Baiyuan, and there are often scholars who come to mourn.
And walk further through the White Garden, is the legendary Xiangshan Temple, which was once rebuilt by Bai Juyi at the expense of Bai Juyi, and stored his own poetry collection in the temple, and next to the temple is the Dongshan Grottoes, and the opposite Longmen Grottoes across the water.
Liu Chengfeng took Li Zhang and them all the way through the White Garden and Xiangshan Temple, and finally came to the excavation area of the grottoes, compared with the Longmen Grottoes opposite, the grottoes here are obviously smaller, and most of them are the grottoes that have been excavated in the previous generation, only a few grottoes are being excavated, occasionally you can see some craftsmen working at the entrance of the cave, and few tourists come here, and the surroundings are also very quiet.