Chapter 70: The Double Opening
Although he will not turn his face with Zheng Patrol for the sake of Xiaotu's "Titan Gold" round shield, Wu Xing is also willing to try a little for Xiaotu.
Untied the round shield from Xiao Tu's back, Wu Xing first asked, "Tu Xingsun took the initiative to abandon his weapons and surrender, avoiding casualties. I don't know what the patrol plans to do with him?"
Wu Xing is no longer a student of the Heavenly Ladder Trial now, and entering the Nine Rank Star Monarch just needs to make up a process formality. Moreover, Qin Lan is a genuine star monarch with star stones, and the Shunfeng dart game may only be a very "small" dart game, but the two star monarchs should not be taken lightly. It is not impossible for the Star Monarch to change into a Star Venerable.
When he heard Wu Xing's obviously tendentious words, Du Baozheng took out a roster and looked at it twice, and said: "After investigation, Tuxing Sun does not have much evil deeds on weekdays, but he can make meritorious contributions. ”
"Which cottage in the vicinity still has a fragment of exercises? Qingniu Village, Huangyang Village, Heifeng Village or something, there is no need to mention it again, now those three cottages are estimated to have changed hands. Wu Xing looked at Xiao Tu and asked.
"There is also a set of exercise fragments in the white car cave, only I know where to find it. Xiaotu replied, "The White Car Cave is the one where I live." ”
"In that case, can it be regarded as a meritorious service?" Wu Xing turned his head to look at Du Baozheng and asked. The latter was noncommittal, just quietly looked at the round shield in Wu Xing's hand, and the meaning was also very obvious: Don't deceive, first show me what you can do to Zheng Xunjian.
So, the round shield was handed to Du Baozheng, and Wu Xing added: "This one is my personal 'seizure'." You can take a look...... It was damaged during the fight. ”
After Du Baozheng took the round shield, he directly flipped it over, carefully inspected the melted inscriptions on the inside, and then handed the round shield back, and said with a smile: "Several people have jointly unveiled the reward with the headhunters, according to the usual, the 'seizure' is naturally private property, and the inspection will not be asked." I'm just making sure that the exercises above have been destroyed as agreed upon in the reward. ”
Wu Xing casually accepted the round shield and asked, "If you take the fragments of the set of exercises in the white car cave, will it be counted as a meritorious service?"
Du Baozheng bowed his head and said: "Yes, it is considered a crime and meritorious service." However, Tuxingsun was not allowed to set foot in Ba County or Shu County for half a step from now on. The four old counties of the West Wind Country can be selected by them, and the county government is responsible for guiding them to the ground. ”
"Expelling all those Star Monarch Village Lords who have made meritorious contributions from the land of Bashu is actually just to prevent them from demagogic and seditions again. Du Baozheng saw that Wu Xing and the others were pale, so he patiently explained: "In fact, if you strictly follow the regulations of the military department, this round shield in Xingjun's hand should also be handed over. Since my West Wind Country incorporated Ba County and Shu County into its territory, there have been times when Xingjun has led the people to rebel and harm one side. Before the tenth day of the monarch, the monarch visited the two counties of Wenba and Shu, and ordered the two county guards to collect all the fragments of the exercises in the land of Bashu, transport them to the inner history of Gyeonggi, seal them in the inner treasury, and cut off the opportunity for rebellion from the root. The root cause of the rebellions in Bashu and Shu is the Xingjun who is still unwilling to submit and the fragments of the exercises scattered among the people, not just because of the bandits!"
At this time, Bao Ding brought over the horses that Wu Xing and the three of them had "lent" to Bao Ding, and there was also a captured bantam horse, which brought together four horses, and even thoughtfully prepared several days of dry food and filled the water bladder.
After making an appointment with Du Baozheng about the approximate time for returning from the cave, Wu Xing and the other four turned over on their horses, bid farewell to the nameless county, and headed towards the Baiche Cave in the southwest direction.
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Wu Xing and the other four left the place of Wuming County for a few miles, and they met Brother Gong and Poisonous Weed, escorting two men wearing star locks who were walking back, followed by two ox carts, covered with tarpaulins, and it was estimated that they were transporting the "Fragment Exercises". Behind the ox carts, followed by hundreds of dejected, unarmed bandits. Many of them were scarred and bloodstained, and it was estimated that they wanted to retreat to the cottage to wait for the resurgence of the mountain and surrendered with the owners of the village on the way. If nothing else, the bandits within a radius of dozens of miles in Nameless County should disappear from now on.
Seeing that Wu Xing and the others took the initiative to ride their horses to avoid the side of the road, and Tuxing Sun was in the ranks, Brother Pole and Poisonous Weed simply bowed their heads and signaled, which could be regarded as greetings.
The rest of the trip, there are no words all the way.
Originally, Baichedong was not too far from Wuming County, only fifteen miles, and it took a little more than a quarter of an hour to ride a horse.
The White Carriage Cave has a double opening, and the four men tied their horses to the cave at the entrance of the first cave, and erected a wooden fence to prevent wild beasts from breaking in and biting the horses.
There is a crack in the rock wall above the entrance of the cave, which is the second hole of the White Car Cave.
The passage in the cave was so narrow that you almost had to walk sideways into it, and it was dark and light all the way, so it was up to Xiaotu to take out two animal skin bags from the mountain wall, and take out a few of the night pearls and distribute them to the other three, so that they could continue to pass. The road in the cave was rugged, and there were several sections of the road that had to be climbed to go inside, and finally came to a cave hall, Xiaotu took the lead and lit a few oil lamps in the hall, and the light was bright.
"The entrance to the cave below is where I usually live, and the place above is where I usually practice, and outsiders can't enter. Xiao Tu explained for Wu Xing and the others, walked to the middle of the hall, pointed to the piece in the center, and said, "The exercise fragment I said is this thing." ”
"Xiaotu, you're kidding us, aren't you?" Wu Xing looked back at the gap that the four of them had managed to get out of, and said with a smile.
Qin Lan directly pulled Wu Xing and was about to go back, complaining: "You still bothered to save his broken shield." Look at people, they are simply playing us like monkeys!"
It's no wonder that Wu Xing and Qin Lan's reactions are similar, because the thing in the middle of the hall is a huge stone tablet that is more than ten zhang high!
Bagen's short and stout body, and his clothes didn't know that they were worn out in more than a dozen places before squeezing into the hall, and it was impossible for such a huge stone tablet to be transported in from that gap in the mountain, let alone transported out to inspect Zheng for business.
"Don't worry!" Bagen stopped Qin Lan, and Wu Xing also noticed the way the giant stone tablet might reach this place at this time.
Whoa!
On one side of the hall there was a large hole large enough for a megalithic monument to pass through, and from inside came the sound of rushing water.
Xiao Tu took a long piece of hemp rope and hung an oil lamp from the hole. Only then could everyone vaguely see that this was roughly a shaft-like stone wall structure, which suddenly opened up after extending down for a distance, and then down was a dark river that looked a little eerie, and the surface of the river was treacherous under the flickering light.
"I've checked around the hole, and there's no sign of a winch or anything like that....... At least this distance from the wall of the well......" Xiao Tu secretly swallowed his saliva, and then continued: "It is very likely that this giant stone tablet was moved to the hall through the Star Mind Technique. ”