20. Dream of the Abandoned Garden (B)
Xiang Youer stumbled, his body rolled down along the hole with the earth and stones, and a lot of grass and mud were poured into his mouth and nose, and when he reached the end, he was already hit by the wall of the cave, and he was very happy, he was able to straighten up for a while, pinched his thigh, confirmed that he was still in the yang world, looked up at the cave wall, but it was so dark that he couldn't see anything, he wanted to come to this cave very deep, and now it is probably not easy to go up, and there is a strange willow guard at the entrance of the cave, it is better to grope around, See if there is a way out. He calmed down, patted and touched beside him, but faintly felt that there seemed to be a hole on the left side, and he was bruised all over his body at this time, but out of survival instinct, he didn't think much about it, so he looked for the hole and crawled forward hand and foot. Fortunately, the air in the cave is still sufficient, he climbed like this for a tea hour, vaguely saw a little light in the darkness ahead, Xiang Youer was in the lightless place for a long time at this time, and when he saw the light, he was like a lonely boat seeing a lighthouse, he was very excited, so he exerted all his strength and desperately crawled towards the light.
After climbing for a while, the hole became wider and wider, at first it was only enough for a person of Xiang You'er's stature to pass through, and then gradually he bent over and walked upright, and then passed through a ruined place of masonry, and then he could step on the masonry floor under his feet, and at this time he could already see that the source of the light was actually an underground stone chamber. The stone room was the size of an ordinary hall, very spacious, except for a few bookshelves between the walls, a long table and a few neatly arranged chairs, and the light came from a wooden lamp hanging in the middle of the room.
When I looked at it again through the light, I saw that the long table was made of white marble, and the chairs around it were all carved from sandalwood, and the workmanship was very fine. There are ten chairs at the table, which look old but spotless. Xiang Youer just wanted to find a way out, so he looked along the four sides of the stone room, but saw that the four walls of the stone room were sealed, and there was no way out. He was depressed, so he pulled a chair and sat down, and struck the stone on the white marble table boringly, and the sound of the jade striking was piercing and unpleasant, and it reverberated back and forth in the stone chamber. Xiang You'er was extremely upset when she heard this, so she threw the stone in her hand back, and the stone bounced on the wall, as if it happened to touch some mechanism, and suddenly the stone wall on the side creaked and the sound of the wheel and axle turning. Xiang You'er jumped up in shock, but saw that the bookshelf on the right hand was slowly moving away, and a small door for a single person to enter and exit had already appeared on the stone wall behind the bookshelf, and there was a little light in the small door.
Xiang You'er waited behind the chair for a while, and when she confirmed that there were no hidden weapons or poison marks that Mr. Storyteller talked about, she stood up and walked towards the small door.
When he got to the side of the small door, Xiang Youer looked inside, but saw that this was also a stone room, about the same size as the stone room he was in now, but it seemed much more crowded. There are several offering tables in the room, and some stone long cards are densely placed on the table, and long white candles are lit before the long cards.
Xiang You'er was surprised and inexplicable, since entering the Xie family's abandoned garden, she has experienced a lot of strange things, and she didn't think about it for the time being, she just wanted to escape from this gloomy realm as soon as possible, but she didn't expect that although there was a road at this time, it was a mourning hall! He couldn't help but be frightened when he looked at the little ghost light jumping on the white candle, but there was no other way at this time, so he had to carefully bend his waist, lean against the wall, and grope his way into the mourning hall.
He walked a few steps, and when he saw that there was nothing unusual, he gradually let go of the fear in his heart, so the curiosity in his nature was aroused, and he looked at the spirit cards on the table without saying a word. But I saw that this tribute table was divided into two layers, and under the careful counting, there were eleven spirit cards on the upper layer, and there were twenty-three spirit cards on the second layer. When you look closely, you can see that this spirit card is quite different from ordinary people, not only are they all made of stone, and some of these spirit cards have names and surnames on them, and some spirit cards are empty, and there is a pair of white candles in front of the spirit cards with names and surnames, and the empty spirit cards are also empty in front of them.
In addition to the white candles, there is also a shelf in front of those famous and surnamed spirit cards, but it is not an incense burner brazier, but some utensils, Xiang Youer got closer to see it, but found that these utensils turned out to be some blade weapons!
Xiang You'er saw two fine iron meteor melon hammers hanging on the shelf in front of a spiritual seat in front of her, and couldn't help but be curious, bowed to the spiritual seat, and reached out to take the melon hammer, but unexpectedly, she couldn't pick it up with the strength to eat. He stood still and weighed it, but felt that this hammer should weigh one hundred and ten pounds, and it must not be an ordinary weapon for fighting, but a sharp weapon for killing the enemy in a heavy battle, so he couldn't help but be in awe, and looked at the stone shelf where the meteor melon hammer was hung. But I saw a row of small characters written on the shelf, but it was "Heavenly hammer iron courage, unparalleled in the broken formation, a hundred battles and famous, uncrowned in return", and then look at the spirit card on the book: "Xuanfu General Soldier Guard's Spirit Position". Xiang You'er didn't quite understand, only knew that it seemed that the one called Wei Cheng who made the meteor hammer was a powerful general, and this general should be very powerful, but in the end, it seemed that the evening was not guaranteed, and his reputation was affected. Xiang You'er shook her head, sighed secretly in her heart, and then looked at the other spirit positions.
At this point, he was not as flustered as he had when he first entered, and instead he was puzzled. Under his careful counting, this general Wei Cheng is the third spiritual seat in the second row, and there are some spiritual seats with words and candles engraved on the spiritual seats are all some generals and princes, and each person has a sixteen-character comment on the stone frame, and everyone should be a person with great background. There are as many as fifteen spirit cards engraved on the lower layer, and looking at the names and surnames of these fifteen people, it is obvious that they are not from the same family, but I don't know why these many masters intensively arrange the spirit cards here?
The more he looked, the more suspicious he became, and then he turned his gaze to the ten spiritual seats on the upper level, but saw that among the ten spiritual seats, five spiritual seats were engraved with words, and there were no items on the stone shelf in front of the fourth engraved spiritual seat. Xiang You'er was curious, so she looked at the stone shelf, but saw that it was engraved with "Eagle in the sky, ominous killing weapon, perched in the forest, wandering", and the spirit card was written "Ranger Black Eagle's Spirit Position". Xiang Youer usually loves ranger stories the most, although she doesn't understand the truth of the sixteen-character comment, but she has some admiration for this black eagle and this ranger in her heart.
He was thinking about why the stone shelf of this ranger was empty, at this time, he only felt that the candlelight on the left side of the Black Eagle Spirit Seat suddenly lit up, Xiang You'er turned his head in shock, but saw that next to the second engraved spirit seat in the upper layer, there was suddenly an additional stone spirit card, and there was a pair of lit white candles standing in front of the spirit card!
Xiang You'er was shocked, he counted it again, and determined that there were eleven spirit cards on the upper tribute table at this time!
When he entered, Xiang You'er remembered clearly that there were ten spirit cards on the upper floor, and secretly thought that it might be related to the ten wooden chairs in the outer stone room, but there was no one around at this time, but why did there be such a pair of spirit cards and white candles for no reason? At this time, he didn't want to stay in this mourning hall full of strange atmosphere, so he felt his way to the stone door where he had just entered, but unexpectedly after groping for a long time, he couldn't see where the door was. Xiang You'er's heart was empty, so he didn't care about taboos, stepped forward and took down the white candle in front of the Wei Chengling platform closest to him, and shone it towards the wall. It's okay if this doesn't shine, under this light, Xiang Youer couldn't help but cry out in her heart, but she saw that under the dim candlelight, the stone walls on all sides were smooth and abnormal, and she couldn't even find the cracks, but where was the door?
At this time, I heard the stone wall behind the eleventh stone spirit card suddenly creaked, and on the eleventh spirit card, the words Yin red gradually appeared, starting from the bottom of the card, in order to "bit", "spirit", "zhi", "you", "horse", "division"!
"Sima You's Spiritual Position"? "Yu"? "Sima"?!!!!!!
Xiang You'er only felt that the pain in her heart suddenly rose, and in an instant, she only felt that her heart and lungs were scorched, coupled with the boundless fear and torture in her heart, she couldn't help but take several big steps back.
At this time, a strange fragrance suddenly came from the nose, and when I smelled it in my nose, I felt that my body was gradually soft. Xiang You'er screamed badly, and squinted at a stone shelf near with a black iron dagger on it, so he pounced on it......
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In the cold and dim prison, a bucket of cold water splashed on the young man, who was already covered in flesh and blood. The bucket of water seemed to have been filled with chili salt, and when poured over the wound, it was like countless blunt knives cutting back and forth. The man's mouth opened wide in pain, but he couldn't make any sound. Only a pair of blood-red eyes were still fierce, as if they were fierce.
There are a total of 183 kinds of torture in the edict, even if it is a stone, it is time to speak, although it requires that you cannot kill people, not break your appearance, and not hurt your muscles, but in this case, there are also 48 kinds of torture that are enough to make people regret living in this world, but...... But it's already the fourth day, and forty-eight kinds of torture can be changed every hour, and the man in front of him won't let go!
This kind of strong stubbornness may be an anger that they can hardly have in this life, thinking of this, the old eunuch outside the cage couldn't help gritting his teeth with hatred. But when he thought of the instructions he got today, he couldn't help but turn to joy in his heart, so he covered his mouth and laughed in a low voice.
"Three days later, the beast will be punished, and the first class will be first-class. These days, I will collect some for my grandfather. This is the order he received from his boss today. It is said that His Majesty learned of this man's evil deeds and needed to swear a blood oath, so he changed Ling Chi, who was scheduled for three days later, to a beastly punishment. And this person can actually break a tree with a sword, collapse a wall, and shake open the five masters of the Shence Mansion at the same time, and he deserves the beast punishment of "first-class A"!
Beast punishment of the first class! This is not something that can wait if you have a fate, the four hundred years since the founding of the Qi Dynasty will never exceed twenty people. If it weren't for the fact that this person had committed this earth-shattering serious crime, and if this person was too powerful, he would not have used the first-class beast punishment at all, but he would have fought with twenty fierce beasts on the same field! The last time was twenty years ago, and twenty years that person was a demon king, how could he be as weak as the man in front of him.
The more the old eunuch thought about it, the happier he became, as if he was about to participate not in a bloody cannibalistic punishment, but in an unusually grand ceremony. Thinking of this, the old eunuch couldn't help licking the corners of his lips, he was extremely excited, and shouted sharply: "Little ones, quickly bring the rouge ointment secretly made by the female doctor of Tai Hospital, and my father-in-law will treat him." After that, he stared at the man in the prison who was bound in chains, and he sneered.
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"I Ching, Ming Yi": "Ming into the ground, Ming Yi, the gentleman to the public, with obscurity and Ming." ”