Chapter 3: Compassion
"There are two left, plus you for a total of three." Ma Hu got up, carrying a rifle and looking down at Xing Renju who was lying there, "The money on your body, plus the treasure map, should be able to buy the remaining three lives, to be honest, I admire you, you met them in Pingshui, and you didn't forget to save them at this time." ”
Xing Renju looked at the upper of the horse's beard: "Then why did you kill another one?" ”
Ma Hu closed his eyes and said: "I just said, they broke the rules, I can let the five of them survive, it's already very merciful, you ask those brothers of mine, if I hadn't seen that they were all the same as me, they were born with guns and sold their lives, I buried them all the first time!" ”
Xing Renju also closed his eyes: "It's good to be compassionate." ”
The beard said: "Okay, stop talking nonsense, if you talk nonsense, it's going to be dark, you go down for me and get that treasure map." ”
Xing Renju immediately said: "I have to let the two of them go down to help me, there is a mechanism below, no one helps me, I can't get it." ”
Horsebeard gritted his teeth and squatted down: "Then let me ask you, are you lying on your stomach here, are you preparing to go down, or are you preparing to come up?" I see the way you look, are you ready to come up, and that guy was still holding a gun at you just now, you really repaid your grievances with virtue and saved him? ”
Xing Renju looked at Ma Huzi: "I came up, and the reason why I came up is because, just me and him, there is no way to get that map, if you don't believe it, you can follow me down to have a look." ”
After speaking, Xing Renju looked at Ma Hu directly, worried that Ma Hu would really go down with him, and he could deal with it if there were few people, if there were many people, and they still had guns in their hands, it would be troublesome.
The beard pondered for a while, and then looked around the grassland: "Just the two of you go down, leave one alive on it, if you don't come up with something, then I will kill him!" ”
When Tang Yudao heard this, he immediately said: "Master Ma, I'll go, I'll go, I'll definitely bring you the treasure map!" ”
Ma Hu frowned: "Okay, this is what you said, if you still don't understand the rules this time, then your brother really can't live." ”
After Ma Hu finished speaking, he slowly retreated, while Tang Yudao grabbed the rope and let Xing Renju slide down slowly, and then handed the rope to Ma Huzi's subordinates and asked them to put themselves down.
After waiting for Tang Yudao to come down in the "Gaimou", Xing Renju immediately handed him the treasure map: "Go up, hand it over to that Ma Ye, and let him release your brother." ”
Tang Yudao raised his eyes to look at the entrance of the cave, took a few steps back, and left the range of the cave.
The horse's beard at the entrance of the cave lay there and looked down carefully, but he could only see the part where the sunlight penetrated into the cave and illuminated, so he shouted: "You *** don't play tricks, or I'll kill him!" ”
As he spoke, the bearded man asked someone to drag Lao Wu to the entrance of the cave, pressed his head to the mouth of the cave, held the gun against it, and at the same time removed the rags from his mouth, and whispered in his ear: "Tell your brother to listen." ”
The fifth brother lay there and shouted loudly: "Fourth brother, be careful." ”
After the fifth child finished speaking, the horsebeard also shouted down: "Did you hear that?" Be careful, be careful with Lao Tzu, don't play tricks! ”
In the underground hall, Tang Yudao and Xing Renju's eyes moved away from the entrance of the cave at the same time, looking at each other, although there was only a faint light, Tang Yudao could still see Xing Renju's expressionless face clearly.
Xing Renju suddenly lowered his voice and said, "Don't you want to save your brother?" ”
Tang Yudao swallowed his saliva and took a few more deep breaths: "Master Xing, even if we send the treasure map, we won't be able to live, so, if we kill him, we can save the two of us, I know that you have a way to definitely leave from here, even if you don't, it doesn't matter, I don't believe that they dare to spend the night on the grassland in this season, even if they don't freeze to death, the steppe wolves will bite them to death, the steppe wolves in this season are the most ferocious!" ”
Xing Renju grinned: "Your plan is very good, have you been thinking about it for a long time?" You were thinking about this plan when your brothers were killed, right? ”
Tang Yudao didn't deny it, but nodded vigorously, held the scroll and said, "Master Xing, this is our only hope." ”
Xing Renju shook his head: "That's it, you let them throw your brother in, and we'll give them the scroll again, even if it's death, everyone will die together, okay?" ”
Tang Yudao clenched the scroll: "No! ”
Xing Renju asked slowly, "Why?" ”
Tang Yudao didn't speak, just looked at Xing Renju.
"I see." Xing Renju shook his head, "You actually don't care about your brother's life at all, you only care about your own money, what you plan is to save your life no matter what, first save your life, then escape, and then take this scroll to sell it for money, if I tell you that this scroll is worthless, what will you do?" ”
Tang Yudao looked at the scroll, gritted his teeth and said, "Listen, if you don't do what I say, I will have a way to get the beard to kill the fifth child now!" Aren't you merciful? ”
Xing Renju shook his head slowly: "I really didn't expect that a person could do such a desperate thing for his own greed, you must know that no amount of money can buy a life." ”
Tang Yudao smiled: "Who said that?" Didn't you buy the lives of both of us with those gold leaves and those gadgets just now? Money can be used to understand the gods, and it can buy lives! ”
Xing Ren grabbed Tang Yudao and came forward: "That's because this beard is a trustworthy bastard, understand?" So, give him the scroll for your brother's life! I'll take you both away! ”
Tang Yudao nodded, slowly walked to the bottom of the cave, held the scroll and said, "Master Ma, I got the scroll!" ”
The horsebeard above responded, "Okay, you two come up first with the scroll, you stand aside first, give him the scroll, let him come up first!" ”
Tang Yudao squeezed the scroll tightly, swallowed his saliva, looked back at Xing Renju slightly, and suddenly said: "The surname is Ma, I will fuck your mother, there is a kind of you who killed Lao Wu, Lao Tzu will not give you the scroll!" ”
When Xing Renju heard this, he grabbed Tang Yudao and said fiercely: "What are you doing?" Are you crazy? ”
When the horsebeard above heard this, he was stunned at first, then laughed, pulled Lao Wu to the entrance of the hole, stepped on his head, and held it against the gun: "I'll say it again, let him bring the scroll up!" Otherwise you'll all die! ”
Xing Renju suppressed Tang Yudao and shouted towards it: "Master Ma, I'll come up with a scroll immediately, don't kill him, don't kill him!" ”
As he spoke, Xing Renju snatched the scroll, grabbed the rope and tied it to his body, Tang Yudao pounced again, knocked Xing Renju to the side, and the two scuffled together.
The horsebeard was above, and when he saw this scene through the light, he was anxious: "What tricks are you playing?" What do you want to do? I'm dozens of numbers, if you don't come up again, Lao Tzu will really collapse him! ”
As he spoke, Ma Hu fired a shot at the entrance of the cave, the bullet hit the ground in the hall, and bounced around inside, Xing Renju and Tang Yudao immediately curled up in a ball to dodge the stray bullet, even so, Xing Renju's arm was grazed by the bullet, and he let out a low wail.
Seeing this, Tang Yudao immediately stepped forward to grab the scroll, and said at the same time: "Horse beard, Lao Tzu won't give it to you!" ”
The beard gritted his teeth, put the gun on Lao Wu's body, leaned over and took out the rags from his mouth, and shouted: "Ten counts! 1.2......"
When the beard was counting, Xing Renju and Tang Yudao were fighting below, because Xing Renju's arm was injured, he couldn't make it hard, although Tang Yudao was not his opponent in fist and foot kung fu, but Xing Renju didn't want to kill people, he didn't want to kill......
Finally, Xing Renju grabbed a vacancy, pressed his knee against Tang Yudao's body, twisted and dislocated his arm, and then pounced on it, wanting to tie the scroll on the rope.
"Don't worry! I'll be up right away! Xing Renju hissed and shouted, and at this time the number of horsebeards had already counted to "eight".
Just when Xing Renju was about to tie up the scroll, Tang Yudao roared violently, rushed up again, and directly knocked Xing Renju away with his body, picked up the scroll and hid in the darkness.
Xing Ren raised his head, found Tang Yudao in the dark, and shouted: "Give it to me quickly, give it to me quickly, your brother will die, he will die, hurry!" ”
"He's dead! We live! There's nothing wrong with that! He is my brother, if you are a brother, you have to help your brother, and if you are a brother, you have to die for your brother! Tang Yudao shouted frantically, "I won't give it!" I will never give! It's mine! It's mine! ”
At the same time that Tang Yudao finished shouting, a gunshot sounded above, and Ma Hu didn't count the last count, but after the ninth sound, he directly pulled the trigger.
Then there was the sound of horsebeards scolding from above, followed by the neighing of horses, and then the sound of horses' hooves stepping on the ground.
Xing Ren sat on the ground with his ass, watched Tang Yudao, who was like a ghost, crawl out of the darkness, raised the scroll in his hand and said: "I won, I said, we will survive, they don't dare to come down, it's going to be dark soon, they don't dare to stay here for a long time, I know here, there are wolves at night, many wolves, there was a Northwest Army here before, and the soldiers of both platoons were killed by wolves, and he only had a few people, hahaha——"
Xing Renju didn't speak, just fell to the ground, lay there, looked at the entrance of the cave, and watched the light outside getting darker and darker, during this period, except for the sound of the wind, no other sound could be heard, which means that the beard is really gone, maybe they will come tomorrow, maybe they won't come again......
Or maybe even if you crawl out of this hole at night, you won't be able to make it to the nearest town alive in the freezing night.
Tang Yudao, who had been sitting against the wall, finally got up, stretched, looked at it and said, "Master Xing, it's almost over, I should go, you have mercy, don't hold me back." ”
After Tang Yudao finished speaking, he bit the scroll, stepped on the stone table, went up, grabbed the edge of the living stone and climbed it hard. And Xing Renju just lay there watching, motionless, waiting for Tang Yudao to climb up, and then whispered four words: "Compassion is ......"
Just when Tang Yudao's head had just crawled out of the hole, and his hands were propped up on the edge of the hole, a gun appeared in front of him, he was stunned, raised his eyes suddenly, and what he saw was the fifth child who should have been hit by a horsebeard several hours ago.
Although he was wearing two layers of leather jackets, the fifth old man, who was still frozen and his eyebrows were frosty, looked at Tang Yudao with a smile, and said word by word: "Do you know why the horsebeard has been mixed in this generation for more than ten years?" Because he talks about the rules, the rules of the rivers and lakes, don't think that this is the grassland and is far away from the rivers and lakes, everywhere is the rivers and lakes, walking on the rivers and lakes, if you don't talk about the rules, it will be a death. ”
Tang Yudao smirked: "Old Five, it's really good that you're alive, I'm holding the scroll, let's sell it together, we can sell it for a lot of money, otherwise, let's go treasure hunting together!" ”
Lao Wu didn't answer at all: "The beard is gone, leaving a gun and five bullets, he said it's enough to kill you, it's up to me to be lucky, if I freeze to death, or there are other entrances and exits in the hole below, then I'm unlucky, and he also said, if I kill you and give him the scroll alive, he will let me in, or give me money, let me go, and leave here." ”
Tang Yudao still smiled reluctantly: "What are you doing for him?" The boss they all died, he killed them, you see......"
Before Tang Yudao finished speaking, Lao Wu pulled the trigger, and the bullet pierced Tang Yudao's forehead, passed through his head, and directly exploded a big hole in the back of his head.
Tang Yudao's body was weak, his hand was loosened, and the scroll rolled to the ground, and the corpse fell directly into the hole and smashed beside Xing Renju.
Xing Renju tilted his head slightly, looked at Tang Yudao who fell beside him, stared at his eyes, turned his head towards him, and sighed: "Compassion." ”
Lao Wu above the entrance of the cave lay down at the entrance of the cave, glanced down, and then threw down the burden of Xing Renju's valuable objects that had been emptied, and then turned his head to look at the scroll.
After a long time, Lao Wu got up and stood in front of the scroll, but his mind was blank.
Finally, Lao Wu still kicked the scroll into the hole and shouted down: "Thank you!" ”
Just as the fifth child was about to leave, Xing Ren raised his head and spoke: "Hey, did you just use the words to take this scroll?" ”
Lao Wu was stunned, squatted down and said, "No, why do you ask." ”
Xing Ren said: "If you take it, I will give you the antidote, it is poisonous, and the poison will occur for about three hours, so even if you don't kill him, he will die." ”
The fifth child laughed after hearing this, and laughed out loud, but he was so helpless.
Lao Wu sat there and sighed: "Mr. Xing, let me ask you, were you going to kill him from the beginning, afraid that he would ruin your good deeds?" ”
Xing Ren raised his head and looked at the entrance of the cave: "If I wanted to kill someone, I wouldn't have bothered to save you before." ”
Lao Wu asked again: "Then why did you poison the scroll?" ”
Xing Renju said with a smile: "You also said before, this is the rivers and lakes, walking the rivers and lakes, every step, you have to guard, I will give you this sentence, you remember, the heart of defense is indispensable, but never harm people, there is retribution." ”
"Thank you." Lao Wu got up, "You're right, be merciful." ”
After the fifth child finished speaking, he walked slowly into the distance with a gun, and soon disappeared into the night.
Xing Renju looked down at Tang Yudao's corpse, shook his head and said, "Greed is a disease that can heal itself, but if you don't want to cure greed, then this disease will kill you." ”
With the rotation of the stone table, the wall next to the stone table slowly opened, revealing a small door, Xing Renju picked up his burden and tied it to his body, and looked at Tang Yudao's corpse: "If there is a next life, reincarnate as a good person, and remember to cure your greed." ”
After speaking, Xing Renju walked to the small door, and stood at the door and looked at the stone room hall that was almost the same size as this one, and there were also the same stone tables, stone benches, and stone beds inside, the biggest difference was that there was a stone door blocked by rubble in the opposite room.
Xing Renju stood at the door for a long time, then walked in, came to the stone table, took out the scroll and placed it, glanced around the stone chamber hall, and then returned to the previous stone chamber, turned the stone table and closed the stone door.
When everything was in order, the living stone at the top of the hall of the Xingren Lifting Stone Room was sealed, and he leaned over and tapped the stone slabs on the ground one by one, and then moved the four stone benches with great difficulty to the selected four stone slabs.
When the last stone bench was moved into place, there was a roar in the center of the four stone slabs, and the stone slabs began to rotate and move, and soon, a tunnel entrance appeared in front of Xing Renju's eyes.
Xing Renju turned his head to look at Tang Yudao's corpse, looked at it for a long time, and then walked into the tunnel with a torch.
……
A few decades later, the western uninhabited part of the Mongolian steppe, where the Ural Khan tribe was located.
Late at night, in the tent of torture, Lian Jiuqi and Ma Fei, who lived with him, were thinking about why the "Sealing Sword" appeared in such a primitive tribe, how could this primitive nomadic tribe that was xenophobic in tradition have an official knife from the forbidden army of the Tang Dynasty?
"Mr. Lian, I think, the reason why this tribe is xenophobic is not related to that Sealing Sword?" Ma Fei raised his eyes and looked at Lian Jiuqi, "We have a key problem that we haven't figured out, and that is the history of this tribe. ”
Lian Jiuqi was very interested in Ma Fei's speculation: "There is also the history of the Golden Eagle Tribe, and why the Golden Eagle Tribe snatched this knife, without these clues, we can't string the Ural Khan Tribe, the Golden Eagle Tribe, the Four Seasons Mountain, the Qimen and the Cast Iron Immortal into a line." ”
Ma Fei said: "I should ask Brother Torree carefully tomorrow, he should be able to tell us, but, Mr. Lian, looking at Brother Torree's embarrassed look today, I am afraid that he will not say." ”
Lian Jiuqi nodded and looked at the torture technique: "Torture technique, what are you thinking?" ”
Xing Shu's eyes were a little dull: "I'm thinking, Xing Renju left a clue this time." ”
Lian Jiuqi immediately realized the meaning of his words: "Are you saying that Xing Renju's way of leaving clues this time is too direct?" ”
Xingshu said: "Not only direct, but also too simple, all along, we have been following the clues of Xing Renju with a backward way to check, the earliest clue found is the millennium black incense chopsticks, under the arrangement of the Cusco company, directly found Tiandifu, at this stage, did not find any clues left by Xingrenju, in other words, even Xingrenju may not know the existence of Tiandifu, and then we found the underground cave, and then followed the things left in the peerless painting to Xiangxi, to this stage, We just woke up to the fact that everything was arranged by Cusco......"
Speaking of this, Xing Shu sighed: "We were so difficult to find it before, Xing Renju left so many puzzles in the final stage, but it was unreasonable to leave one of the most important clues so simply to the people of the Southwest Tie Tang family." ”
Ma Fei frowned: "Xing Renju should know the relationship between the Southwest Iron Tang Family and the Cast Iron Immortal?" ”
Xing Shu shook his head: "Although Xing Renju is a cargo chaser, he is a cargo chaser who doesn't want others to find Qimen, so there must be a problem with the clues he left in the Tang family in the Southwest Tie, think about it, if Tang Qianrou and they really have that much confidence that they can find Qimen, why do they want to let us in?" Wouldn't it be better for them to find it quietly themselves? ”
Lian Jiuqi pondered, recalling everything he had experienced in Cusco over the years, and at this time he clearly realized that although he was in it, his eyes had been covered by the black hands behind the scenes, and he had not discovered a series of secrets hidden behind Cusco at all.
"Perhaps...... He just wanted to use the relationship between the Cast Iron Immortal and the Southwest Tie Tang to do something. Lian Jiuqi pondered, "The biggest possibility is to lead the people who are looking for Qimen into a dead end." ”
Ma Fei shook his head: "I have always had something I don't understand, and this is also my biggest question." ”
Even Jiuqi and Xingshu looked at Ma Fei, and Ma Fei said: "If Xing Renju doesn't want future generations to find Qimen, he can destroy the thousand-year-old Wuxiang chopsticks, and he doesn't care about this matter at all, why do you deliberately leave clues to mislead?" Isn't that redundant? ”
Xingshu nodded: "I've been thinking about this too, I think the key problem is still on the pair of chopsticks, Tian Lianfeng told me that in the past of his ancestors, there is one thing that is still a mystery, that is, when Xing Renju hid in the pawnshop under Shanhaiguan as a courtier, just to live his life smoothly, if it wasn't for the mysterious man who brought the pair of chopsticks, he wouldn't have left suddenly, so, the key question is, who is that mysterious person?" What secrets are hidden in those chopsticks? ”
Lian Jiuqi asked: "Torture, have you put the pair of chopsticks ready?" ”
Torture said: "Before I left, I played some tricks, and there were a lot of real and fake chopsticks everywhere, but only I know where the real thousand-year-old black incense chopsticks are placed." ”
Lian Jiuqi nodded: "That's good, the chopsticks are the key, although I haven't used them so far, but I think the final clue must still be on that pair of chopsticks." ”
Ma Fei suddenly thought of something: "That's right, the clues left by Xing Renju have gradually deviated from the direction of us and the Cusco company, even sir, haven't you also come back to find chopsticks?" Did you want to hide your chopsticks? ”
Lian Jiuqi said: "Yes, I have always felt that chopsticks are the key, although the follow-up clues have nothing to do with chopsticks, but I still want to hide them and take them out at a critical time." ”
Xingshu said: "That's right, the key is still in the pair of chopsticks, so, we went to the Four Seasons Mountain this time, it is estimated that we can't find Qimen, if Qimen is there, the pair of chopsticks have not played any role, isn't this a contradiction?" ”
Ma Fei's mood suddenly fell: "Even then, you still have to go to the Golden Eagle Tribe and retrieve the Sealing Sword." ”
The torture technique immediately smiled and said: "It's okay, I'm blessed with a great life, where is it so easy to have an accident, besides, there are two masters, Mr. Lian and Mo Duqiao, and there is Angu as a guide, it's okay, it's going to be okay......"
Although the torture technique said so, even Jiuqi echoed Ma Fei's safety, Ma Fei could still see that the two of them were forcing a smile.
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