Chapter 124: Questioning the Holy Maiden
Suddenly, a melodious flute sound came faintly, and the flute seemed to be not far away, but Song Ting quietly stared around the stone formation, but there was no one playing the flute.
The flute is short, stops for a moment, not like playing some tune, but like a string of signals. But even if it is short, it is much better than the beautiful sound of those hooked columns, melodious, cleansing the heart and lungs, and the music of silk and bamboo rises slowly, slowly and receiving, as if this purple bamboo forest is instantly full of notes drilled out of the flute.
After the flute sounded, Song Ting quietly looked over, and suddenly heard a commotion in his ears, and when he raised his eyes, he suddenly saw three women flying in the air: two women wearing Miao costumes and cloaks, stepping on the void while holding the flute in their hands; The two flute girls were surrounded by a woman wearing a white curtain cloak and a moon-white feather robe. The three of them flew from the night sky into the stone formation.
Two women in Miao costumes flew into the stone henge, and the woman in the white feather dress of the moon fell on a boulder like a fairy, the faint moonlight and the light of the octagonal glass lamp were intertwined in the dark night, a snow-white figure like a fairy, at this moment it seemed that the whole body was emitting a white light, her cloak and white curtain were like a layer of faint silk net covering her face, Song Ting looked at it from afar in the bamboo bush, but could only see the general outline of her face through the white curtain, but did not dare to make a conclusion about her beauty and ugliness.
She looked light and tall, dressed in a feather coat and a cover that danced gently with the night wind. The light dance of the dress gave her a fairy-like temperament. As if she didn't know the fireworks in the world, she stood quietly in the wind, looking at her feet like a sentient being, as if she was looking at something, and as if she was just standing like that, doing nothing.
Two women in Miao costumes put their flutes into their sleeves, and knelt down with Bao Daoyi, Liu Yun, Elder White Tiger, Dharma Protector Zuo Envoy, and other Mingjiao elders in the stone formation, and the neat voice came from the mouth of the kneeling person-
"Welcome to the Holy Maiden!"
"Sun and Moon God Cult, Shuntian responds to the people!"
"Sect the Holy Father, Wen Cheng Wude!"
"Sect the Holy Maiden, peerless martial arts!"
"The Sun and Moon Divine Cult, rule the world!"
"Long live the Holy Father, a thousand years old the Holy Maiden!"
Hearing this neat slogan, Song Ting, who was hiding in the bamboo bushes, complained in his heart about the mentally handicapped who had a few slogans, and then stared at the woman wearing a white curtain cloak and a moon-white feather robe, what kind of Mingjiao saint is this woman? "The Sun and Moon Cult? Peerless martial arts? What is ...... with what", and couldn't help but complain in his heart.
I saw that the "Holy Maiden of Mingjiao" was still standing on the boulder, without saying a word, just standing quietly like that, for a long time, maybe the people in the stone formation were a little impatient, and there were faint voices from each other, and the Holy Maiden gently stretched out her hand, raised it slightly, and everyone below got up.
The saintess gently ordered: "Tonight's fourth watch, you should go and prepare."
Her voice didn't seem to carry any joy or sorrow, but just spit so lightly, as if nothing was worth her concern, and such a big thing as "rebellion" spit out from her mouth, as if it was less worth mentioning than eating.
There were obviously doubts on the faces of everyone in the stone formation, and after the holy woman said this, she no longer spoke, and one of the two women wearing Miao costumes said to everyone: "The criminal marshal and the eight kings have each led 200,000 soldiers and horses to the north and south city gates, and within an hour, they can surround the ten gates of the city, the criminal marshal and the eight kings are responsible for attacking the city outside the city, General Liu, you are responsible for the affairs in the city, and I am the elders of the Ming Sect, leading the disciples to try to open the ten gates...... That's all for the plan and the task, but still have questions? ”
Everyone in the stone formation seemed to be respectful to this Miao girl who looked like a holy maid, and after hearing her clearly say these plans, they naturally knew in their hearts that this was what the Holy Father and the Holy Maiden meant, so they all nodded.
"The city will be handed over to you, Zixuan, Ziyun, follow me out of the city." The saint said lightly.
The two Miao girls immediately nodded yes, flew straight up, and with a loud noise, and the sound of ringing bells, the saint and the second girl disappeared into the night sky in a blink of an eye, as if they had never been here.
"Hey, Liu Yun, didn't you say that the five watches were good? Why did it change to four watches? ”
"This is what the Holy Father and the Holy Maiden mean. You ask me, how do I know? ”
"Those two guys, Criminal Administration and Fang Maung, are you coming too?"
"The Holy Father wants to preside over the overall situation in Hangzhou, and now the Holy Father has taken the six prefectures of She, Mu, Hangzhou, Chang, Xuan, and Hu, Shi Bao, Lu Shixiang, Li Tianyan, Wang Yin and others took 300,000 people to take Runzhou, although the Holy Father only sent the criminal marshal and the eight kings over, but there is a holy woman in charge of Suzhou, and it is easy to take Suzhou, but there is no suspense."
"That's nature, the saint is the sixth master of the 'Qilin List', in this land south of the Yangtze River, who can stand out?"
"Master Bao, what exactly is the Qilin List?"
"General Liu, I'll tell you again when I go back to this Heavenly Master, time is pressing, let's all go and prepare separately!"
"Scattered, scattered......"
After a tumultuous discussion, everyone in the stone formation flew up and disappeared into the night. In the end, Bao Daoyi took out a yellow talisman from his body and pasted it towards the stone door, and the fire of the octagonal glass lamp suddenly dimmed until it disappeared into darkness.
After Bao Daoyi also flew into the night sky and disappeared, Song Ting asked Hu Sanniang to go to the front to investigate to see if everyone was clean. When Hu Sanniang came back and told him that he was safe, Song Ting beckoned Lu Junyi, Yan Qing, Chen Gui's master and apprentice, Lao Liu and others to come out of the bamboo bushes and re-light the lantern with a fire knife and flint.
When Song Ting and his entourage of seven people went to see the stone formation where those people had gathered with lanterns, Chen Dabeard couldn't help but exclaim: "Good guy! How did they get these big rocks? ”
Song Ting touched the big stones, and saw that there were moss and a few green grasses on them, so he said to Chen Dabeard: "Jiangnan gardens originally used huge stones to build rockeries, and these stones should be in this purple bamboo forest, but they are distributed everywhere, and they were moved here by what means this Bao Dao Yi Heavenly Master used."
"Oh," Chen Dabeard nodded, and then scratched his head again: "But, what do they mean by building this gossip array with these stones?"
Song Ting thought for a while and said, "I'm afraid that when they are partying, someone suddenly breaks in, which is not good for them." I don't know the specifics...... Let's go! They are doing things for the fourth time, so we can't go out of the city. ”
"Yes, yes!" Lao Liu led the way in front, with a dignified face, and said as he ran: "Everyone keep up!" After the Canglang Pavilion, two stone bridges outside, you will arrive at the East Gate! ”
And the people followed suit. At such times, no one dares to leave anything to chance. Although no one has seen the scene of the riots in the city, but just now those people in the stone henge were so good that they flew in the air, but everyone can see it.
Lu Junyi, who has the best martial arts among the seven, can also climb the city wall, but if he wants to fly, he can't do it. I just don't know if the ghost sword can be stronger than these people? What did Bao Daoyi say just now that the saintess is the sixth master of the Qilin list?
Although Song Ting didn't know how many his "brother" Song Daoyan was, he always felt that he might not be as powerful as her. Just now I saw her standing gently on a boulder, as if her feet hadn't stepped on the stone at all? Is it a volley? Is there really such a powerful person in the world? And still a woman?
I don't have time to think about it, now going out of the city is the most important thing, this holy woman has nothing to do with him, if he really wants to fight, call Song Daoyan and the master of Youjian, and I don't believe that I can beat her...... Now, going out of town is the number one!
"Ahead is the Canglang Pavilion!" After walking for a while, I saw a pavilion in front of me, and Lao Liu said.
"Well, hopefully it's still too late, hurry up and ......"
At this time, it was still dark night, it was quiet all around, people were still asleep, two or three lanterns in the Canglang Pavilion flashed by, everyone rushed by, Song Ting urged.
After passing the Canglang Pavilion and crossing a stone bridge, the young Ah Ping suddenly exclaimed and said, "Oops! Master, my shoes are off! ”
"You...... You ......" Chen Dabeard turned around and was so angry that he couldn't speak, and he wanted to slap it down, and couldn't stop muttering: "How can there be such a stupid apprentice as you!"
The slap finally didn't hit, he tore a rag from his already torn clothes, wrapped his feet, and couldn't help muttering: "At a critical time, can you not be so stupid!"
"Master! Don't hit me in the face! ”
"I don't have time to hit you, hurry up!"
This scene passed quickly, and Song Ting only glanced at it slightly, and then directly ignored it, at the critical moment, not to mention that a shoe fell off, even if he ran naked, he had to hurry out of the city.
"It's here, it's here!"
After crossing a few more stone bridges, we arrived at Dongmen Street.
Turn out from the three-way intersection, a straight street about three zhang wide and about 30 zhang long leads straight to the east gate.
At this time, on the tower of the city, several night-seeking soldiers were patrolling back and forth with torches in their hands, and a long group of spearmen stepped from one end to the other, but unfortunately the gate under the city tower was closed, and about sixteen soldiers were guarding the door.
"How do you get out?" Lao Liu turned his head and asked.
But I saw six people behind me staring blankly at the sky, at this time a cannon in the sky rose into the sky, exploded in mid-air, and dispersed, but saw that the sky was full of rain and hung high in the sky, and it did not disperse for a long time.
Song Ting recalled for no reason that the fireworks set off on the night of April 12 to celebrate Zhen'er's birthday were also so dazzling and brilliant.
I was stunned for a moment, and I saw that in the sky outside the east gate, there were also fireworks rising into the sky, corresponding to the fireworks in the city.
"What's going on?"
The little colonel guarding the city on the castle tower had time to ask an exclamation, and a sharp arrow pierced his neck with a "whoosh", and he fell down from the castle tower with a "uh" sound.
Woohoo! Woohoo! Woohoo! Shout!
The sky is full of arrows, and it suddenly descends in the direction of the castle tower!
After a few "uh", a few more soldiers at the battlements fell, and a small colonel pulled out his sword and ran to the Yuelou, shouting: "Enemy attack!!"
Bang - Bang Bang -
The drums thundered, and all the soldiers on the city wall shouted in unison: "Enemy attack !!"
A general who woke up from his sleep jumped out of the building next to him, dressed in white, holding a Pu knife in his hand, and after shooting down a few feather arrows with a Pu knife, he jumped down and calmly commanded more than a dozen soldiers guarding the door: "How many of you...... Hurry up and go to the city defense battalion to inform Commander Wu! How many of you...... Hurry up and report to the prefect! And you guys...... Go and wake up all the day shift sleepers! ”
"Yes!"
More than a dozen soldiers, some on horseback, some on run, led the way.
"It's over, it's over, I can't get out......" Chen's bearded mouth was broken.
Song Ting turned around and looked at the back, was taken aback, and hurriedly pulled Chen's bearded hand: "Look at the back!"
Behind him, the streets and inner city where the three-way road extends are burning everywhere at this time, and there are no less than 100 fires spreading along the houses and tiled courtyards.
The flames soared into the sky, and the dense fog shrouded the entire city of Suzhou.
People finally began to wake up, and people began to shout in the streets, and the sound of crying and grabbing the ground came from all over at once. The nightmare, as if it began......
(End of chapter)