Chapter 16: The Secret Passage

Late at night, according to the original plan, a secret passage was drawn into the city, so everyone set off. A few people came to a village not far from the city, Xia Dade didn't look like a stout man, he worked hard to be steady, but he really wanted to walk lightly, and he was also light-footed. This is a kind of physical coordination, people who practice martial arts will, the footwork is not easy to control, and no matter how good the hard skills of the outsiders are, they are just a big stupid elephant.

Xia Dade is still like this, not to mention the few people left, he didn't even bark the dog much when he entered the village this way, and a few people came to a house, and the ninth master who led the way stopped. The wall of that house was extremely high, Lu Binggang wanted to ask, why didn't he knock on the door, but he saw Yang Feiyan lightly tiptoe, and he didn't say anything to make a color at Jiu Ye, Jiu Ye wrapped his arms around one leg and arched his legs, Yang Feiyan jumped up and stepped on Jiu Ye's arched legs and then turned his feet to his arms, his body flipped and jumped over the wall, and there was not much movement when he landed.

The door is divided into left and right, Yang Feiyan gently pulled the latch to open the door, the door shaft of the wooden door is very smooth, even so, if it is opened slowly, it will make a sound, but it is not a trace of movement when it opens so suddenly like Yang Feiyan. Yang Feiyan beckoned to the Ninth Master, and a group of people waited for the fish to enter, Lu Bing couldn't help but think that Yang Feiyan, this Nizi, is so good at light skills, and it seems that she has a lot of experience, if you want to steal something, I'm afraid there is nothing you can't steal.

A few people had just walked into the courtyard, and a man and a woman in their thirties, as well as two teenagers, came out of the main house, all of them dressed as peasant families, and their clothes were stacked with a few patches, looking very simple. But if you take a closer look, there is another clue to "there is no cave".

Looking at the age of the two teenagers, they are about the same size as Zhu Houxi, but their waists are straight, and although their bodies are thin, they can't be said to be smart. The two men and women in their thirties seem to be a couple, at first glance, they are ordinary and tight, but if you look closely, their fists are smoothed, and they seem to be boxers who have been working hard for decades. The four of them were dressed ordinarily, and their momentum was not strong, but the essence of their eyes from time to time could not be concealed.

The four people surrounded them, occupying the favorable terrain in the courtyard in an instant, there was no light in the house, and the moonlight did not look too real, Qia Lu Bing and his party stood at the back of the courtyard wall, so they could see the four people in the courtyard clearly, but the four of them could not see them clearly. The ninth master coughed lightly and said, "It's me." ”

"Ninth Master?" The man asked, and the Ninth Master replied, "Exactly." ”

The figures of the man and the woman relaxed a little, but the man still asked, "Dongming Dongliang Dongfang Zhao." ”

The Ninth Master replied: "The West Sword and the West Sword will kill in the west." ”

The man clenched his fists and made a gesture of please, then led the way to a well. The well should be abandoned, there is a huge stone mill on the well platform, the man beckoned the two teenagers to come to help, but Xia Dade smiled and said, "No, I can come by myself." Meng Lin patted Xia Dade and reminded him to speak quietly, because Xia Dade's mouth was like thunder.

Xia Dade was like a child who had made a mistake, covered his mouth and walked to the well, only to see him roll up his sleeves, clasp both sides of the stone mill with his hands, and the stone mill was lifted up as soon as the two arms competed, and then Xia Dade slowly put it aside, the action was very light and there was no loud sound of heavy objects falling to the ground, the more so it was, the more difficult it was, which showed that Xia Dade's strength was infinite.

The man whispered hello and said, "What a strong man, with such a strong man joining, why can't we make a big plan." Xia Dade hugged his fist at the man embarrassedly, and tried to lower his voice as much as possible: "I have won the prize." ”

Next, no one spoke to Xia Dade, because Xia Dade was rumbling even if he lowered his voice, and the dogs in the village had already heard the movement and barked, in order to act in concealment, Meng Lin also found a dead branch for Xia Dade to bite in his mouth.

The well had dried up, and after the man brought the rope and fixed it, Jiu Ye and the others swung down one by one, Xia Dade's shoulders were too broad, and he almost didn't get stuck, so the rope was not used, and he went down to the well. At the bottom of the well, Lu Bing's eyes suddenly opened up, there are wide roads under the well that extend in all directions, and the dark roads are also extremely high, although they can't ride horses and gallop, but people can run easily.

The Ninth Master pointed to one of them, and a group of people walked in, and Lu Bing asked in a low voice, "Ninth Master, did you cultivate this secret path?" The ninth master smiled and replied in a low voice: "How can I have this ability, Nanjing is the old capital of our Ming Dynasty, where can ordinary people complete the secret passage from here, and it is not allowed to move soil from the side of the city wall on weekdays, let alone such a big project." ”

Lu Bing thought about it, if it was so simple to dig tunnels into the city, Nanjing's garrison was too weak, there was no need to go underground at all, and no one would pay attention to swaggering into the city, but in this case, who was so hand-eyed, digging so many secret passages leading to various unknown locations? Looking at the flat walls and the bluestone slabs on top of it, the designation is not natural.

Lu Bingzheng was thinking nonsense, and the Ninth Master smiled: "Don't guess, if you want to build such a big project, you still need to act in advance, build it before Nanjing City is finalized, and then cover up the big project, and slowly transport the earth and send workers, so that you can do such a thing." If you think about it, the construction period is long, the project is huge, the private construction can still block the royal mouth and blindfold the eagle dog, when will it be? ”

Lu Bing completely stopped eating, part of his historical knowledge was learned from going to school and watching TV, and he listened to Meng Lin and others about current affairs in this era of underdeveloped information, so he didn't know much about it. Meng Lin suddenly realized: "If you repair the palace, except for the emperor, no one will dare to leave a secret passage, and other than that, it is to repair the city wall, Ninth Master, are you saying that this secret passage is cultivated by Shen Wansan?!" ”

The name of Shen Wansan Lu Bing is known to Lu Dao, and when he was a child, he heard a story called a cornucopia, which was about Shen Wansan. The story is generally like this, that is, Shen Wansan is an ordinary rich man who keeps opening by watching people cut the grass and no matter how the grass is cut, Shen Wansan discovered the doorway, and then after investigation, he knew that the road was called Phoenix Mountain, and the phoenix did not fall into the land of no treasure, and he dug deep and found a basin. In the end, because a piece of jewelry was transferred into the basin, the truth was revealed, no matter what was put in, the pot could be full of exactly the same things. So Shen Wansan became even richer, and since then he has done a lot of good things for the people by repairing bridges, repairing roads, digging wells, and giving porridge. This is the end of the children's story, and the adult version is here.

Shen Wansan has been doing good deeds since he got such treasures, but one day the Yangtze River embankment broke, and no matter how it was blocked, it couldn't be blocked, so the emperor ordered that those who could think of a way to block the estuary would be rewarded with officials. Shen Wansan had become the richest man in the world with the help of the cornucopia at this time, and he didn't want to come out, but he couldn't bear to see the people suffering and the thousands of miles on the earth, so he took out the cornucopia and grabbed a handful of soil into it, and instantly conjured up tens of millions of piles of soil to block the place where the breach was broken. The emperor borrowed the cornucopia to see, Shen Wansan hid the treasure and agreed with the emperor to borrow the fourth watch and repay the fifth watch, thinking that the emperor would take out the cornucopia and offer it, but he forgot that the monarch was mostly untrustworthy.

The emperor didn't want to return the cornucopia, so the fifth watch at dawn made people play the fourth watch drum, just to be able to delay, a eunuch said to the emperor that since His Majesty is the ninety-five honor, the monarch of the world, who dares to say a word, what can be done if he doesn't pay it back.

Shen Wansan attacked to take the treasure, but he was arrested, and ended up with a treasure that he did not offer, deserved to die, and the whole house was beheaded, and the nine clans were all destroyed.

Lu Bing snorted and told the story of his knowledge, but it caused the Ninth Master and the others to laugh, Xia Dade's voice was too loud, and he didn't dare to laugh with a dead branch in his mouth, but he was also silently trembling. Monk Lu Bing's second zhang was puzzled, and wondered: "What's so ridiculous." ”

Meng Lin explained: "If we didn't know the roots, we really thought that you were Shen Wansan's descendant, and your myths and legends would beautify Shen Wansan, a local tyrant, hehe." That's right, the emperor is not very trustworthy, this person is Emperor Taizu Gao Zhu Yuanzhang, and Shen Wansan has indeed done a lot of good things, but in order to win public support, I hope that Taizu will not use the knife against him. But what kind of person is Taizu, the founding ancestor! Where will be swayed by the ideas of others, the Taizu of the Hundred Officials Prison can do it, not to mention a little Shen Wansan. ”

"Back then, Shen Wansan actually died a long time ago, the legend among the people is the result of people and clouds, Shen Wansan was born in Yuan and died in Yuan, and then his grandson Shen Sen, Shen Sen is Shen Rong's son, Shen Rong is Shen Wansan's third son, this understands, right?" The Ninth Master then explained: "Shen Sen himself is not famous, so he often borrows the name of the ancestor Shen Wansan, which is why it is said that the construction of the school and other things back then were as your eldest brother said, so that Zhu Yuanzhang, who was about to enter Nanjing, would not kill him." The accumulation of three generations is enough to make Shen Sen rich in the world, and even rich enough to rival the country, so Shen Sen continued to make sycophants and helped Zhu Yuanzhang, who entered Jinling, to build the current Nanjing city wall. But Shen Sen is a businessman after all, the businessman is unkind, and he has also done a lot of debts, this is not his fault, as long as the person in the high position is inevitably like this, few people are clean people with full beard and full tail. ”

"And then the Ninth Master." Lu Bing asked, and the Ninth Master replied with a smile: "Then he helped Zhu Yuanzhang repair one-third of the city wall, and under the city wall, he dug these secret passages that extend in all directions, ready to deal with unexpected needs." Sure enough, Zhu Yuanzhang unloaded the mill and killed the donkey, and after Shen Sen rewarded the army, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Shen Sen to be arrested. And Xuancheng said that it is ominous for the people to be rich and rival the country, and he also angrily said that the army of the world is really chaotic people, and if the heart is not right, it will be punished. Shen Sen transferred a lot of secret property through the secret passage, but he didn't touch a penny on the surface, because he understood that Zhu Yuanzhang just took a fancy to his family property. ”

Lu Bing nodded, Zhu Yuanzhang is not a good stubble, and Shen Sen is not a fuel-efficient lamp, but since ancient times, the people have not fought with officials, and no matter how powerful Shen Sen is, he can't beat Zhu Yuanzhang. Lu Bing continued to walk with his head down, and Yang Feiyan led the way at the front with a small lamp, but he heard the Ninth Master continue: "The matter is not over yet. This time, not only Lu Bing, but also Xia Dade and Meng Lin raised their eyebrows and listened with raised ears, because they didn't know what was going on.

The Ninth Master smiled coldly and said: "The reason why we know the secret passage of the Lu Dao is that we also have the money to gather heroes to conspire with great things, and it is the descendants of the Shen family who contribute to help us. ”