Harrier Ridge is located in the southeast direction of Zaotu Mountain, with a gentle slope and dense trees.

Because the mountain does not lead up and down all year round, there is no mountain road in Zhoushan.

Although the slope is gentle, the snow is deep, and the dense forest is blocked, Li Manzhu, Fancha, Dong Shan and the five guards took a lot of effort to climb halfway up the mountain, while Zhu Qiming and Liang Gang were outstanding and arrived on the mountain early to wait for everyone.

By the time the two sides converged, it was already three poles in the sun.

Passing through a dense forest, the front suddenly opens up, and on a spacious flat land, an isolated log cabin stands out.

Fan Cha trotted in front of Zhu Qiming, and said with a smile on his face: "Your Highness, it's better to let the last general try it first." ”

"It's fine." Zhu Qiming motioned for everyone to stay outside the house.

Fan Cha took out the jade pendant, pinched it in his hand, and walked into the wooden house in three steps and two steps.

A whisper rang out in the room, and after a moment, silence fell.

Li Manzhu began to pace anxiously, walked back and forth twice, and suddenly stopped and said, "Your Highness, Fancha has been gone for too long!" ”

"What the hell is Vancha doing! Your Highness, the last general will go in and have a look. Dong Shan said.

Suddenly, there was a loud shout from inside the room: "Get out! ”

Immediately afterwards, the emerald jade pendant flew out, and Fan Cha pounced out like a duck fleeing for his life, and a wooden cane chased Fan Cha out of the whirl.

Vanchakankan dodged the wooden crutch and gasped for breath in horror. Here, Li Manzhu and Dong Shan cast a disdainful glance.

"I think I'm smarter than others, I want to eat alone, but I almost took my own life, I deserve it!"

"Be kind! The three of us should be in the same breath, share difficulties and blessings! ”

Zhu Qiming shook his head, got up and walked slowly to the wooden house.

When I entered the house, I saw an old man over sixty years old sitting with his back to the wall, and two sharp cold lights shot out of his eyes.

This person's hair and face were very neat and tidy, but the clothes on his body were sewn with animal skins with thick needles and large threads, which looked extremely awkward. The left leg was missing from the lower body, and the left arm of the upper body hung down on the chest, obviously disabled.

This man lives in seclusion in the deep mountains and old forests infested with fierce beasts, and it is a miracle that he has survived until now!

"King Daming Yue is fortunate to meet his predecessors." Zhu Qiming arched his hand.

The old man raised the cold glint in his eyes, was slightly stunned for a moment, shook his head and said: "The color of the lips is not right, it must be a strange poison in the body, and there is no cure, alas, such a good body, but it is ······ This dignity, the great scenery, the great scenery! Pointing to the rattan chair in front of him, he said slowly, "Sit down." ”

If you yourself lack arms and legs, you still think I'm unrecognizable!

It's really Hanako can't get used to begging rice guys!

Although Zhu Qiming was a little dissatisfied, he still sat upright on the rattan chair.

The old man's seat was like a spring, his body suddenly shot up, flew over, reached out and grabbed Zhu Qiming's collar, and said in a deep voice: "The Jurchens are tigers and wolves, and they have coveted martial arts in the Central Plains for a long time. ”

Zhu Qiming suddenly felt that a boulder was pressing on his chest, and his breath was stagnant. "Xiao Wang has a lot of dealings with people in the rivers and lakes, and he knows ······ The top masters will definitely not carry the martial arts cheats with them, only the disciples with low martial arts will carry the cheats with them so that they can study them at any time, so even if the Jurchens find the martial arts cheats left over from the past, they are just some inferior martial arts, so why worry! ”

"Hey, that seems to make some sense!" The old man paused for a moment, then let go, jumped back into the seat, and muttered: "The old man has taken every precaution, it turns out that he is a mediocre person disturbing himself!" The authorities are confused. ”

Zhu Qiming waved his hand to the door, and the two guards quickly sent a box of meat and a jar of autumn dew to the house and placed them on the wooden table in front of the old man.

The old man's eyes immediately flashed brightly, his body trembled slightly, he stretched out his right hand to stroke the wine jar, and then hurriedly slapped the mud seal, picked up the wine jar with one arm, and poured three sips in a row, with an extremely pleasant expression on his face.

"Autumn dew! After more than 20 years, the old man finally tasted the wine of his homeland! Immediately, the corners of his mouth twitched, and two lines of cloudy tears rolled down his wrinkled old face.

"Listening to the accent, the predecessor is from the capital, presumably when he went here, there must have been a high hall in the family, and a wife and a child below."

Zhu Qiming guessed that a jar of fine wine would not make the predecessors cry, only the deep concern in his heart could have this power.

The old man slowly put down the wine jar, and suddenly began to cry like a child.

"Xiao Wang is willing to send his predecessors to Beijing." Zhu Qiming got up and arched his hand.

The old man sobbed and waved his hand, and said, "That's it, half-dead people, why make your family uncomfortable?" ”

"As the saying goes: 'If you live to see people, you must see corpses when you die', if your predecessors don't go home, you're afraid that your family will be unsafe in this life!"

The old man stared in contemplation, and his mood gradually stabilized.

Li Manzhu, Dong Shan, and Fan Cha came uninvited, and nodded at Zhu Qiming after entering the house.

The old man hurriedly held back his tears and said, "Your Highness has no intention of looking for treasures, but why are you here?" ”

"Just for an unsolved case eleven years ago."

"An unsolved case eleven years ago?" The old man's eyes widened in surprise, as if he didn't quite believe his ears.

The bloody battle took place more than 20 years ago, how could it be related to the unsolved case more than ten years later?

"Eleven years ago, Xiao Wang was almost injured by the assassin's sword." After pondering for a moment, Zhu Qiming said slowly: "That assassin is using the Beihai Condor Gang's swordsmanship. ”

The old man's face was shocked, he closed his eyes and thought for a moment, then opened his eyes and swept to Li Manzhu and the three of them, and said in a deep voice: "Presumably, His Highness negotiated the conditions with the Jurchens, and made a promise himself, but he came to embarrass the old man?" ”

"Xiao Wang is ashamed!"

The old man picked up the jar again, poured a large sip of wine, and then immersed himself in the memories of the long ago.

"My Beihai Condor Gang was established in the twelfth year of Hongwu, and it has always been based on righteousness. Emperor Yongle attacked Mobei five times, and our gang went with the expedition five times, responsible for gnawing the most difficult bones, that is, to defeat the Jianghu scattered people mixed in the Tatar and Warat armies. ”

"Senior, why doesn't anyone in the court know about this?" Zhu Qiming interjected.

The old man put down the wine jar and raised his eyes to look at Zhu Qiming, his gaze softened. "Our gang lives in a bitter cold place, if there is no secret funding from Emperor Yongle, how can the gang industry prosper? However, every time the Yongle Emperor gave an order, he sent his personal guards to come in disguise, and our gang members joined the army as a tiger warrior secretly raised by the Son of Heaven, so others had no way of knowing the secret. ”

"Please continue, continue." Dong Shan urged anxiously.

The old man glared at Dong Shan fiercely, paused deliberately for a moment, and Fang reluctantly continued: "The scattered people in the rivers and lakes mixed in the Tatar army are mainly from the Heavenly Wolf Society. Our gang and the Celestial Wolf Society fought several times, and both sides suffered heavy casualties, so they formed a blood feud. ”

"In the last years of Yongle, the Heavenly Wolf Society finally figured out the identities of our gang, and found Sumeru Island, where our gang is located, cast a war letter, and met in a third-party realm to duel out."

"At that time, the leader of our gang Qi ······"

"Gang Leader Qi? But Qi Yunqi gang leader? Liang Gang exclaimed.

"Not bad." The old man paused and continued: "Considering that the rotten people of the Heavenly Wolf Society often harass the border of the Ming Dynasty, burning, killing, looting and doing all kinds of evil, he agreed to lead all the gangs to fight in the Jurchen Realm, and vowed to destroy the Heavenly Wolf Society in one battle. ”

"The place of the battle is at the foot of the southern foot of Zaotu Mountain. More than 300 people from the Sky Wolf Club and more than 200 people from the whole gang of our gang were all dispatched, and both sides exerted all their strength to fight each other with their lives. ”

"However, it is said that someone went there to investigate afterwards, but there was no trace of a fight." Dong Shan interjected, and when he saw everyone's disdainful gazes, he laughed dryly.

The old man was stunned, "An hour has passed, and although there are many wounded on both sides, none of them have died. At this moment, I saw lightning and thunder in the air, and the heavy rain was pouring in an instant, and everyone couldn't take care of these, and fought for half an hour, and suddenly saw the mountain torrent roaring, and the two sides had to stop and climb high to avoid the mountain torrent. ”

Just when everyone was helpless by the pouring rain, they suddenly heard a loud noise, and followed the sound, only to see that the torrent had collapsed a hillside, revealing a hole two feet wide. So, everyone jumped into the cave to take shelter from the rain. ”

"The cave is very flat and spacious, a little deep, about half a mile wide, it is a good place for a decisive battle, but the boulder at the entrance of the cave has been loosened, and there is a danger of collapsing at any time. But the two sides didn't care about this, they lit torches in the cave, and the leader of the Qi gang and the leader of the other party fought at the entrance of the cave, and both sides put on a posture that they would never get out of the hole alive. ”

The old man's expression was blank, with tears in his eyes, "That bloody battle was really tragic!" At dusk, only the Qi gang leader and the old man were left, and the other party still had nine masters, the Qi gang leader was able to rival the other party's six people, the old man tried his best to kill one person with one enemy and three, but he was seriously injured by the hands of the other two, and became like this. After being seriously injured, the old man could only be killed by drinking, so the situation of the Qi gang leader was bound to be even more difficult. ”

"Suddenly, the Qi gang leader shouted violently, pushed the old man out of the cave, and then picked up a copper hammer thrown by the tartar and smashed it into the loose boulder at the top of the cave, and when the old man landed, the hole had collapsed."

A terrible north wind swept through the snowy forest, whirring. Everyone in the room was silent, all immersed in the tragic storyline.

Dong Shan was the first to break the silence, "Hero, where is the cave?" ”

The old man glared at Dong Shan fiercely, "That cave is on the western slope of Harrier Ridge, and there are three thousand-year-old trees on the top of the cave, even fools can find it!" Then he turned his head to look at Zhu Qiming, and there was a lot of complaint in his eyes.

The dignified prince naturally can't break his trust in the vassal state, but you are generous, but you have taken the hardships of the old man for more than 20 years in vain!

"What a pity! The entrance to the cave has collapsed, and the secrets of more than 20 years ago are probably buried forever. Li Manzhu said disappointedly.

"Not necessarily! Last year, a flash flood was rare in a century, and there may be a miracle. The old man said coldly.

Li Manzhu, Fan Cha, and Dong Shan's eyes instantly lit up.