Chapter Forty-Six: Eavesdropping in the Secret Room
The rain receded, and the wind subsided. Under the bright sun, I saw the lake rumbling and trembling, the big waves in the center of the lake rolled to both sides, and in the blink of an eye, the big water was divided into two roads to the left and right, and a long bridge hidden under the water was revealed, and the two water walls several zhang high were steeply separated from the two sides of the bridge, but not a drop of water fell on the long bridge. Roland watched the lake water being dissected into two parts, and through the water wall, he could faintly see the fish, shrimp, insects and turtles flying freely under the water, just like watching the underwater world. At the other end of the long bridge is a huge mansion, with bamboo shadows curling and a deep courtyard, which is the big courtyard that the third prince followed the marriage team into that day. Above the black gate, there is a plaque made of sandalwood, on which are written the words "Mansion Dongtian". The door is opened, a team of soldiers is dressed in red and hung with colors, holding the ceremonial guard and ritual instrument divided into two columns of fish and coming out, there is a team of soldiers puffing up their cheeks, playing ancient songs hard, and it is very lively for a while.
Baozi knew that this umbrella cover must have been identified as genuine by the person who knew the goods, so he had the honor of being a fox and a fake tiger, but he didn't know which tiger he had faked. In order to save the third prince who fell from his body, he let out this old face and dragged Roland swaggering in.
Zhu Yan led Zhu Wu and other generals, cabinet staff officers, clerks and other officers to greet him, the old Zhu Yan was dressed in a costume, wearing a fairy official hat, holding a whole white ivory carved wat in his hand, standing high, bowing his head and saluting, and shouting "Duowen Tianwang Qincha Yushi is on top, Xiaguan Luding Mountain in front of the river god Zhu Yan", "Xiaguan new river god Zhu Wu", "Xiaguan..." ”
Baozi secretly pondered, it is really interesting for me to be self-improving these days, first I was said to be a dragon, and I said that there are five people and six people; A person who has just accepted the facts, and has become a mortal in the flesh, has been in a hurry for a while; I just figured it out and was ready to live an ordinary life, good guy, and I became a Buddhist again.
The first time Roland saw the immortals, they were all kneeling in front of him, and he couldn't help but be frightened, but according to the role requirements discussed with Baozi in advance, she settled down, stepped forward with an umbrella, and said proudly but shyly, "Inside, you all get up." The immortal officials got up and didn't dare to look up at the buns. Baozi has a spectrum in his heart, oh, it turns out that he is the messenger of the King of Duowen, and when he traveled to Shenyang last year, he entered the temple, and he did see the statue of the King of Duowen with an umbrella, and the umbrella he held was really genuine.
"Is the pavilion ready?" Roland asked expressionlessly.
"Back to the boy, the three rooms in the upper room have been prepared," Zhu Yan hurriedly replied.
Baozi held his head high, and with the support of Roland, who pretended to be submissive, he strode past Zhu Yan's side, and looked back at Zhu Yan very meaningfully, "Senior Zhu, your welcome ceremony is really unique." ”
Zhu Yan and Zhu Wu were so frightened that they immediately knelt down, "Shangxian, just because there are too many people who have bothered the old man to ask for immortals recently, and there are countless people who write notes and say hello, and the lower officials are unbearable, so there is such a way to retreat, it is for the sake of fairness and honesty, and no favoritism..."
"Zhu senior" Baozi interrupted him, and he didn't look at the old man.
"The lower official is here!"
"Who is the river god now?"
"It's my son Zhu Wu," Zhu Yan trembled.
"Then do you still need to find you for comments and greetings? Do you have the right to seal? Or the right to approve recommendations? Baozi finally caught the handle and couldn't help but laugh secretly.
"Xiaguan, no, no, Caomin just thinks that his son is young, for the sake of the country, for the sake of strict control...."Zhu Yan obviously felt that he had talked too much, and he couldn't wait to slap himself in the mouth.
"I haven't heard the report of the orthodox river god of Luding Mountain until now. Zhu Wu? Baozi asked coldly, "Can't you speak?" ”
"Xiaguan is here" Zhu Wu knelt on the ground, stretching out his hands forward, "Xiaguan will prepare the account books immediately".
"Give you an hour to prepare, listen to your report in a while, and have an important will to be communicated."
"The lower officials obey the order."
After entering the pavilion, Baozi hurriedly closed the door. The two of them changed all the dirty clothes that had been rolling for a day, Baozi put on a sportswear with tight cuffs and trouser legs, and pasted talismans on the three places on his body, and told Roland to say, "Stay here, I'll go look for the third prince." ”
Roland said, "No, it's too dangerous for you to be alone, I'll go with you." "Baozi instructed" I can't go, someone will send tea and snacks for a while, and someone needs to receive it." No matter who comes, they will not be told, and they will be left at the door. Got it? ”
Roland said, "Don't worry, no one can put it in the house." ”
Baozi pasted all the gaps between the doors and windows with rune paper, "I see that Zhu Yan is cunning and cunning, not a combative master, it's hard to guarantee that he won't arrange for fine work to come in, don't open the doors and windows before I come back, just listen to the tape recorder when you're bored, you know?" ”
Roland said, "You don't have the eye of the sky, it's useful to take the tape recorder, go quickly, hurry back." ”
Baozi picked up the cassette recorder, and then thought about it, this German thing still has a recording function, and I remember that when I bought the radio, the aunt also gave me a tape, maybe it can play a role at a critical moment. So he came back again, tossed around in his baggage, found the tape, put it in his arms after installation, and then got up and went out. He lightly opened a gap in the window, and saw a guard standing outside the window, the faces of the two people were almost together, and he was just shocked, but he found that the guard looked at him like air, but he was in the eye with Roland, and he knew that it was the invisibility charm that played a role. Roland hurriedly said, "Hey! You, turn your face to the "guards clasp their fists with both hands" No! He turned around as he spoke. Roland nodded, and the bun jumped out of the window and flew away.
Zhu Yan's family has 49 upper houses, plus 81 side rooms. The big mansion is set with a small house, the small house also has a back garden, the corridor is also a twist and turn, the winding paths are secluded everywhere, there are blue pond rockeries everywhere, and the guards and servants shuttle between them, just like the panache of the gate mansion. But it also brought difficulties to finding the third prince. The bun passed through the corridors, rummaged through almost every corner of the room, even the tool room and the toilet, and there was no trace of the third prince, so there must be a hidden place in this house.
There is a large wing room near the new house of Zhu Wu in the back garden, there is a plaque "rejuvenation", there is a burst of fragrance of medicinal food inside, it must be the place where this old man stores medicine and decoction, the bun slipped in from the open window, only to see three small guys are grinding with their heads down, behind them is a wall full of medicine cabinets, in turn it is written ambergris, musk, cordyceps, seahorse, wild donkey treasure, ejiao, deer antler velvet, etc., a look at the name of the medicine knows that it is all a great tonic medicinal material, even the scarce eucommia ulmoides, danpi, magnolia, cork, cinnamon, white fresh peel and other precious medicines are in stock, There are even penicillins, berberine, streptomycin, and the recently released cephalosporin No. 1.
The bun was not polite, opened the cordyceps drawer, grabbed a handful and stuffed it into his arms. I rummaged through a few more pairs of laxatives, put them all on my body, and just wanted to go out, but the little guy with the eyes of the thief shouted, "Hey! Why did the drawer open so much?" the other guy wondered, "I didn't move!" Opened it yourself? ”
The TCM doctor who was grinding the medicine heard the noise and went over to check, "Why are they all laxative medicines, what are you looking for this medicine?" ”
The two of them hurriedly defended, "We didn't do it!"
The doctor of traditional Chinese medicine turned around, revealing half of his fiery red tail behind his buttocks, it seems that this old official is also a fox, and he has not fully cultivated into an adult, this guy is also a ghost, he hurriedly instructed the little guy to close all the windows and doors immediately, and fill the house with brooms to see if he can hit something. Baozi complained bitterly in his heart, this stealth technique was passed down by Hu Huang Erxian, and the old fox Chinese medicine must be familiar with stealth techniques, so he must be suspicious.
Baozi quickly dodged a few brooms, but it was not a way to dodge like this, so he climbed up the pillars, climbed to the top beam with all four feet, and looked down to see that three fools were talking about brooms all over the house. I wanted to wait for them to get tired and then climb down, but I found that there was a ventilation hole on the roof of the house, and the hole could be drilled out, so I quietly crawled to the hole along the main beam, and soon got on the roof. Baozi quietly walked along the roof, for fear of kicking off a piece of tile, and slowly walked through the three houses. Looking at the high place with a good view, I saw from a distance that the small door of a courtyard opened, and three people walked in, two officials in brocade clothes and crowns, and a Taoist priest with a blue beard and white hair. It's none other than Zhu Yan, Zhu Wu and the old centipede Taoist! Hey, there are tens of millions of mansions, how can you choose such an inconspicuous place for a small meeting? Baozi held his breath, quietly slipped to the top of the small house, and quietly listened to the conversation between the three of them at the mouth of the chimney. Baozi was overjoyed, turned on the recording function of the radio (strictly speaking, called a cassette recorder), tied it with a wire, and went down the chimney little by little, recording while listening.
Zhu Yan: This is really unusual, and before I entered the hospital, I was dismissed from the government in a few words.
Zhu Wu: Father, the child is only the father's head, you don't have to listen to the Qincha.
Zhu Yan: Don't listen? This little thing is on patrol! He has to report when he goes back, and if I interfere in government affairs again, I'm afraid I will be tied up to heaven to deal with it.
Old Ccentipede: This is a teenage child, so old and steady, I think this person definitely has a tenth-generation cultivation.
Zhu Yan: You old centipede, short-sighted, rural style. They are children beside the Buddha and Bodhisattva, which one of them has not practiced for more than 10,000 years, and it is enough to follow the great leader all day long, but do they still need to be like a fox and badger, running to the world to seek hardships and hardships? I'll tell you, this man has a boy face, and he's at least ten times as old as you.
Zhu Wu: Father, Uncle Wu, I'm going to report in a moment, so I'll go first, and you can talk slowly. After speaking, I listened to the sound of doors opening and closing.
Zhu Wu left first.
Lying on the beam of the house, the hidden bun endured the dissatisfaction and continued to listen. There were only old centipedes and Zhu Yan left in the house now, and the two of them were even more indifferent when they spoke.
Old Centipede: The question is, what about the third son in the secret room?
Zhu Yan: The errand official didn't mention it, and when the errand officer is gone, it's not too late for us to do it again.
Old Centipede: Alas, why am I so unlucky, I was drugged by a man in red, and then I ran into two heavenly kings, and I was beaten by a good meal, and now I am blocked in your house.
Zhu Yan: Be quiet. You have absorbed seventy-seven forty-nine ** blood, and you have seriously violated the rules of heaven, if this is spread, everyone will not think about it.
Old Centipede: Old Zhu, what do you mean by this, do you want to clear yourself? I suck yin blood, and you still ask me for the forty-nine yin soul alchemy, why don't you mention this? Let's be a gang, right?
Baozi was even more angry when he heard this, but he didn't expect that Zhu Yan was not only greedy, but also colluded with the old centipede to kill living beings, which could not be spared.
Old Centipede: Old brother, you see that the dragon clan is also here, and the boy of the King of Heaven has also arrived, isn't this an opportunity given to us by God? The Yin Jiao Inner Dan, the Third Prince's own Inner Dan, the Sword of Victory over Evil, and more importantly, the Heavenly King Qingtian Giant Umbrella, are all in your home! This is a treasure competition, we might as well do it all with one slash.
Zhu Yan: You think I don't want to? But the giant umbrella of the king of heaven can you control it? I can't catch the fox and make a fuss.
Old Centipede: Hey, let's do this, send him some pastries in a while, and give him my unique centipede poison, except for the shelter pill I have hidden, there is no cure, let's ask the two of them how to use the giant umbrella. Once we got the spell password, we did them.
Zhu Yan: Well, alas, the matter has come to this, so let's do it. But I heard a lot about His Holiness over there.... Alas, I always feel worried.
Old centipede: No matter how powerful Duowen is, he is also the director of Beiju Luzhou, since his hand has reached Luding Mountain in my Dongsheng Shenzhou, then it will not hurt or itch to give him a dumb loss, this is what people who have achieved great things should think and do.
Zhu Yan: How are your injuries? Ability to participate in the operation.
Old centipede: Don't worry, animals like us, it doesn't matter how many arms and legs we cut off, as long as this navel is guarded, King Kong is not bad, do you see that my arm has grown?
Zhu Yan: After a while, you lay in ambush behind the screen in the main hall, and listening to my cough three times is the order.
Baozi was so angry that he jumped down and questioned him, and then stabbed two old thieves one by one. I also felt that this method was inappropriate, as a special envoy, I quietly hid on the roof of someone else's house and eavesdropped on the talk, and then drew a sword to kill the head of the household, and I was afraid that I would not be able to explain it to anyone. Anyway, I know the opponent's next plan, so it's better to make a plan. was pondering, suddenly the yin wind in front of him flickered, the ghost was angry, and Baozi looked around vigilantly, but saw the yin general Li Zaiyuan floating in front of him.
"Lao Li, why did you break into the River God Mansion? If the Immortal Family knows that the people of the underworld have crossed the boundary, they must join you!"
Li Zaiyuan arched his hand and said, "I led the soldiers to patrol nearby, and I heard that His Holiness had arrived, and I rushed all the way to pay homage, but I was a step late. I heard the little ghost monster say that the envoy is your Excellency, and I was overjoyed, and it happened that I found a strange thing during my patrol, which was related to the centipede spirit, and the clue pointed to the River God Mansion, so I sneaked in to investigate. Your invisibility talisman can hide from the immortals and ordinary ghosts who practice in the flesh, but you can't hide it from your eyes, and you have already seen you running all over the yard, secretly following all the way. Please forgive your sins. ”
When Baozi heard this, he sneered, "I'm really not your opponent, okay, just say something!" ”