Chapter 125: The Golden Pagoda of the Ancient City
"Du Qiuting's surname is very stubborn, he will not be coerced." Jade Fu frowned and spoke.
"Then it depends on what kind of coercion, arrest a few of his disciples or arrest his precious apprentice, can he not go?" Zuo Dengfeng said.
"It makes sense." Jade Whisk nodded and said.
"It's definitely not a good feeling to be involuntarily, so we can't blame him." Zuo Dengfeng spoke again.
"You don't seem to be a generous person, why are you so tolerant of him?" Yufu asked with a smile.
"He has been kind to me, and one cannot forget the kindness of others. Don't talk about this, there is a road here, and there should be a city not far ahead. Zuo Dengfeng stretched out his hand and pointed to the path in the forest. The road was winding, no more than three feet wide, and it was evident that people often trampled on it.
"Giants like wolves don't go one way or the other." Jade Whisk voiced her doubts.
"Not necessarily, after all, we don't know anything about it, by the way, have you ever noticed that you have gone so far without a single female giant?" Zuo Dengfeng recalled Thirteen, it was dark, and he was not worried that Thirteen was running around in front.
"They may live alone in an area." Jade Whisk nodded and said.
This path winds on the mountainside, from west to east, with a mountain peak in front of it, Zuo Dengfeng hesitated for a moment and chose to go west, bypassing the peak, and suddenly opened up in front of him, and a wide flat area appeared in front of him. This area is surrounded by several mountain peaks, east and west and north and south are almost the same length, according to the mountain peaks to roughly estimate that there should be fifty or sixty miles, this area is mostly weeds, the trees are not high, at this time it is already night, Zuo Dengfeng faintly saw the building complex thirty miles away due north in the night, because the distance is too far, and the line of sight is not good at night, can not accurately see the style of the building complex, even the general outline can not be seen clearly.
"There's a city ahead." Yufu raised his eyes and looked into the distance, and spoke.
Zuo Dengfeng nodded, and walked forward along the path, this area is sheltered from the wind and the sun, the land is flat, and it should be fertile land back then. During the walk, Zuo Dengfeng's attention has been focused on the few big trees, this was the place where crops were planted back then, there should not be big trees that block the sun, big trees should grow in the later stage, and the approximate number of years of this fertile land can be deduced from the age of the big trees, and then further deduce when the people here gave up farming, or when they didn't farm.
"Yu Zhenren, how old do you think this tree is?" Zuo Dengfeng stretched out his hand and pointed to a big tree not far away. He was a northerner, and the trees in the north grew more slowly than those in the south, and he could not accurately estimate the age of the trees in the south.
"Don't shout like that in the future, you know my name." Jade Whisk stepped forward and turned the dust bundle into a whip, and simply swiped the big tree, and then lowered his head to count the annual rings.
Zuo Dengfeng frowned secretly when he heard this, he felt that he had done a very stupid thing, the reason why he wanted to tell Yu Fu about the inference of the golden needle was not to discredit the golden needle, let alone to show off his intelligence, he was worried that Yu Fu might misunderstand the golden needle one day, so he eliminated the misunderstanding for her in advance, and now it seems that it has not achieved the expected effect, and it has the opposite effect. In fact, women like smart men, and the reason why they look for honest ones is because they can't find someone smarter than them, so they just find a stupid one, and fools don't bother themselves.
"You are a long-established Xuanmen master, why don't you shout real people?" Zuo Dengfeng pretended to be confused.
"Fame for a long time? Am I old? Yufu frowned slightly and turned her head to ask.
Zuo Dengfeng could only laugh when he heard this, he couldn't answer this question, saying that she was light when she was young, and that it was ignorant to say that she was old, so he simply didn't say it.
Jade Whisk glanced at him, turned his head and continued to count the annual rings of the trees, although it was very dark, but Zuo Dengfeng still found that Jade Whisk's nails were pinched on the fixed position of the annual rings, this was done to prevent him from forgetting to count because he opened his mouth to speak, and Jade Whisk was also a careful person.
"It's only been more than eighty years." After a few moments, Jade Whisk stood up.
"Eighty years?" Zuo Dengfeng was very puzzled when he heard this, if these trees had only grown for more than 80 years, it would indicate that the people here were probably still cultivating the fields 80 years ago.
"It looks like there were people here who could farm 80 years ago." Jade Whisk nodded.
"Let's go." Zuo Dengfeng pondered for a moment and turned forward, according to his previous speculation, all the people here should have mutated, and now it seems that there were still people who knew how to farm at least eighty years ago.
After a few more miles, the two stopped again, staring at each other in front of a neatly cut corn field.
Corn is divided into two kinds of millet and sorghum rice, one is a short stubble, one is a high pole, it is the main grain in ancient China, and it has been cultivated all over the country until now, the plants here are taller than millet, shorter than sorghum, it should be the previous variety, but Zuo Dengfeng and Yufu were shocked not by the variety of crops, but by who harvested the crops here.
"The autumn harvest will not be more than three months away from now." Jade Whisk squatted down to inspect the plant roots in the field.
"It's wild, not artificially cultivated." Zuo Dengfeng squatted beside Jade Whisk, and there were a lot of grass roots mixed in between these crops, which showed that there was no one to manage the corn before it matured.
"You're right, but whether it's wild or grown, if someone harvests it, it means that there are still people here." Jade Fu Zhengse said.
Zuo Dengfeng nodded and stood up when he heard this, Yufu is a young woman, and the breath on the woman's body Zuo Dengfeng can smell it clearly, which makes him very confused, he is not a eunuch, and he also has men's thoughts, but he can only try to restrain and try his best to avoid it.
"If you know how to harvest, you should know how to farm, and only harvesting and not cultivating means that they dare not come out often." Zuo Dengfeng took a few deep breaths to calm his emotions.
Jade Whisk stood up and nodded, and instead stepped forward. At this moment, Zuo Dengfeng did not completely calm down his emotions, the road was very narrow, and it was inevitable to move forward side by side with Yufu. If you walk in front, you will lose your manners. Walking behind the jade whisk, you will inevitably see the back and figure of the jade whisk, people in the cultivation do not need to wear too many clothes, the jade whisk is a woman, the heart ** beauty is still wearing a single robe, the buttocks are looming under walking, Zuo Dengfeng has always wanted to look away but still can't help but bow his head. At this moment, Zuo Dengfeng finally understood why so many men would continue after the death of their wife, because the animal's original surname was really difficult to suppress.
"You fuck." At this moment, Zuo Dengfeng found that there was a giant hiding in the grass three miles away on the right, and rushed over with a scolding, the giant just didn't have time to escape and hid there, he didn't want to attack him at all, seeing Zuo Dengfeng rushing, he immediately turned around and ran away in fright, Zuo Dengfeng chased out five miles and caught up with it, and smashed it with two punches in a row and wailed, this guy has the body of a giant, but his head is like a wolf, like a wolf and has no ears, how ugly it looks like, Zuo Dengfeng will naturally not show mercy to it, After two punches, Xuanyin True Qi made up another palm, directly freezing his head.
killed the ugly wolf-shaped giant, Zuo Dengfeng was in a much calmer mood, in fact, that guy died quite unjustly, it was simply a disaster, and it was wrong that it should not have appeared in Zuo Dengfeng's sight when he was upset.
"What's wrong with you?" Yufu looked at Zuo Dengfeng who was approaching suspiciously.
"A little irritable, let's go." Zuo Dengfeng turned around and looked at Thirteen running back with it, Thirteen was inseparable from him, and Zuo Dengfeng followed him wherever he did.
"Why are you irritable?" Jade Fu asked with concern.
Zuo Dengfeng shook his head and smiled bitterly without answering, he couldn't tell the truth.
Yufu saw that Zuo Dengfeng didn't want to say more, so he didn't continue to ask, turned around and walked forward, Zuo Dengfeng stepped forward quickly and walked side by side with her, it was better to be side by side with her than to follow behind and always want to bow his head.
After a while, the two finally saw the outline of the city ten miles away in front of them, and they accelerated their speed, and it didn't take long for the two to come outside the city, Yufu looked up at this huge ancient city, and Zuo Dengfeng's eyes first fell on the moat that surrounded the city wall and was several zhang wide, the river here is not turbid, the water depth is about two zhang, and there are strange fish with the thickness of a bowl mouth floating in the water, the body shape is like a snake, nearly two meters long, the mouth is very large, and the fangs are sharp, although Zuo Dengfeng does not know what kind of strange fish these fish are, But they know that they must bite, just look at the mouth of the fish.
When Zuo Dengfeng retracted his gaze and looked up at the city wall, Yufu just moved his gaze to the moat. Zuo Dengfeng has never seen such a tall and strong city wall before, there are more than ten miles left and right, the height can reach more than 30 meters, all of them are solid bluestone stone strips, each bluestone has a square, and the city wall is built extremely stable. But it was obviously built many years ago, and the color of the stone strips has turned gray, and under the washing of the rain and the blowing of the mountain wind, there are many gaps between the stone strips, and there are some thin weeds growing in the gaps, and the weeds have withered in winter.
As long as there is a moat, there must be a drawbridge and a city gate, and the position where Zuo Dengfeng and Yufu stand is the location of the city gate suspension bridge, the city gate has been closed, and the wooden suspension bridge has been closed. It stands to reason that such a tall city wall, the city gate should also be very large, but the fact is the opposite, the city gate here is very small, the length and width are only more than zhang, and the city gate is bronze.
The tall city walls, the wide moat, the strange fish that bite people in the river, and the sturdy bronze gates, these are not enough to surprise Zuo Dengfeng and Yufu, they are surprised by a towering building in the city, in fact, they saw this building in the city ten miles away from the city, but it was not until they approached that they saw that the building hundreds of meters above the city wall was yellow, and the yellow metal that could often be touched was only gold and copper, and the copper would turn green after being stored for a long time, but this building in the city could not see the green at all, Although it has been dusty and dim, it is still a true yellow.
Zuo Dengfeng had previously picked up several gold cakes from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and the luster of those gold cakes was exactly the same as that of this building, which means that this building, which is more than 200 meters above the city wall, is most likely built of gold.
"All over gold. It's a bit like a Western pyramid! After a long time, Yufu was the first to speak, although she was a cultivator, she was not alone.
"Gold is true, but it's not a pyramid. The pyramid has four faces in addition to the base, and this tower has only three faces. Zuo Dengfeng shook his head and spoke. Zuo Dengfeng's cultural knowledge is far higher, he can judge that this triangular golden tower is a corner in the north according to a plane in the south, and there is a corner in the southwest and southeast, what is the motivation for this design Zuo Dengfeng is not clear, but one thing is certain is that this design has a good wind shelter effect.
"The drawbridge outside the bronze gate has traces of repair, and there may be people in the city." Jade Fu nodded and spoke softly.
Zuo Dengfeng nodded when he heard this, although there were wild beasts howling in the surrounding mountains from time to time, but there was a dead silence in this city, and there was no sound.
"Is it to enter the door or to go up the wall?" Yufu asked for Zuo Dengfeng's opinion. The moat, though wide, didn't stop the two from jumping. Although the walls were high, the two of them were still able to leap up.
"Don't worry, wait for dawn!"