Chapter 3 The mountain rain is coming

The frost is as white as snow, the smoke is shrouded, the cold wind kills, the stump branches, dead leaves, and broken grass fly in the streets with the wind, and the stray dogs who get up early smell the east and the west, and pick up the garbage.

"Boom!" The silence was broken by the sound of neat steps, and the stray dog whimpered and quickly hid. Xiong Jicai, the general of the tiger ben, led the elite soldiers, passed through the dense fog, and went straight to the Western Regions Restaurant. It turned out that An Ruhai got up early in the morning and listened to the urgent report from the internal affairs pet minister that the two protons of Harun and Gangtian Chi had not returned overnight, and couldn't help but be furious, "Useless minions, don't report early, don't report late, and it's dragged on until now, if the two princes escape, you can't escape the death penalty!" An Ruhai scolded fiercely, he ordered someone to take the pet minister of internal affairs, and punished him for late reporting, ignoring his pleading, he took off his pants and exposed his white ass and cane for thirty, until his skin was open and he fainted. Come back and clean you up! After he finished his instructions, he hurriedly went to report to Wei Miao.

At this time, in the Yongle Palace, warm as spring, Wei Miao is having sex with all the holy concubines, that Wei Miao was the second son of the Xuanyuan Emperor, twenty-five or six years old, it is the age of the dragon and the tiger, although the most loved by the Xuanyuan Emperor, but all the years are also cautious, do not dare to be a little presumptuous. It is estimated that he has been suppressed for a long time, and now that he has the position of the holy lord, he will do whatever he wants, he ordered people to help the holy concubines into the Yongle Palace, and he stayed up all night to humiliate him, without resting, poor Xuanyuan Emperor's bones are not cold, and the beauties of the harem have all become the playthings of his son Wei Miao. People in the world often lose themselves in two situations, one is that their desires are not satisfied, and the other is that their desires seem to be infinitely satisfied.

An Ruhai heard the lewd voice rising and falling outside the door, his brows furrowed slightly, and he didn't dare not report it, and shouted loudly, "Chen An Ruhai has something important to report!" ”

Wei Miao indulged in joy, where was he willing to listen, and said with boredom, "If you don't have a long eye, you just have to deal with it yourself, why bother to come and talk about it, just go back and report the results." ”

Choked so dumbfounded that he had to get up and retreat, run to the Imperial Forest Army, and falsely pass the holy decree Xiong Jicai immediately led the elite soldiers to the Western Regions Restaurant to search for the princes of the two countries, and be sure to bring them back to the palace.

Xiong Jicai received the order, did not dare to slack off, and closed the city gate on the one hand, and led the tiger soldiers straight to the Western Regions Restaurant. It turns out that this Western Regions Restaurant was opened by a wealthy businessman in Xionglupan, and the interior is extremely luxurious, and you can watch the songs and dances of the Western Regions, and taste the exotic flavors. The princes and ministers of various countries who visit the Eastern Holy Kingdom, and the wealthy people from all walks of life who do business like to stay here. An Ruhai expected that Naharun and Gangtianchi would flee back to China, and they would inevitably go here to seek help from their own envoys.

When Xiong Jicai and the others arrived, they saw a masked strong man setting fire to the whole city, some robbing the property of the lone prince of another king, some scolding and scolding the prince's entourage and his entourage into the private house, tearing up their dresses, and wanting to do wrongdoing, some were fighting with the prince's entourage, and the merchants and citizens were running all over the streets, anxious like a lost dog, hurried like a fish that slipped through the net, hurriedly looking for a safe place to take refuge, kicking over the tables and chairs, breaking the utensils, and toppling the vendors, the whole street market was smoky and unkempt. A masked strong man who seemed to be the leader saw the arrival of the tiger army, and let out a long roar, and all the masked strong men rushed to the west of the city in a swarm. The tigers are ready to rush. Xiong Jicai didn't want to make any extraneous branches, and shouted: "It's important to protect the princes!" ”

The tiger ben surrounded the princes, and Xiong Jicai counted according to the book, and disappeared the prince Yege of Xionglufan, nor did he see Harun and Gangtian Chi, and urgently ordered to extinguish the fire.

It's just that the fire in the restaurant is extremely big, crackling and crackling, and soot is pouring down like rain. The fire was extinguished until noon, and Xiong Ji did not wait for the gray and cold stars to be extinguished, so that people cleaned up the fire, and after a long time, they cleared out the remains of several bodies that were burned into charcoal, and examined them one by one, only to see that one of them had a rare melted gold and silver utensils on his body, and there was still a black and yellow lion's head jade ring on his chest, which was the personal belongings of Yege, the prince of Xionglupan, and the other ones were nothing special, as if they were the remains of his followers.

Xiong Jicai pondered for a moment, tore off the jade ring, and wrapped it in a cloth. Ordered Tiger Ben to ask the nearby people for some white cloth, so that he could wrap the wreckage. He divided the tiger into four or five teams and searched all over the city, but still did not find Harun and Gangtian Chi. Seeing that it was getting late, Xiong Jicai was helpless, so the tigers protected the princes and their entourage, carried the wreckage, and hurried back to the palace to resume their lives.

Xiong Jicai arrived outside the Platinum Palace, ordered Hu Ben to lead the princes and his entourage to rest, and truthfully reported the situation to An Ruhai, An Ruhai was shocked when he heard this, and even crawled and ran to the outside of the Yongle Palace, and reported urgently, "Holy Lord! Something is wrong! The minister really can't handle it, and please ask the Holy Judge! ”

After a while, Wei Miaocai walked out of the door with a tired face, bloodshot eyes, and untidy clothes, An Ruhai saw this, and felt a little unhappy in his heart, he finished the details, and said, "This matter is very important, and I also ask the Holy Lord to move to the Chaoyang Hall and make a detailed decision with the ministers." ”

Wei Miao listened, and kicked An Ruhai to the ground, "It's not even good to do this little thing, get out and call Huo Qiju and Jia Hugong to the Chaoyang Palace to wait, and call Xiong Jicai to wait there!" ”

In the middle of the ring, Wei Miao dressed neatly, beat his spirit, entered the palace, hurriedly went down the steps to meet with the princes, and comforted them one by one, and wept bitterly and blamed himself for the death of Yege, and ordered the remains to be buried in a sandalwood coffin, and prepared countless gold, silver and jewelry, and sent them back to Xionglupan on the same day. When the princes saw that his eyes were red and swollen and his face was tired, they thought that they were too sad and did not dare to be responsible, so they all went to the apse with their favored ministers with great gratitude.

"A bunch of rice buckets! Rubbish! Wei Miao rushed down to the palace, slapped Xiong Jicai in the face, and kicked Jia Hugong to the ground, "I have already ordered the city gate to be closed, and all idle people are not allowed to enter and exit, be careful, why let them escape?" What are you guilty of? Wei Miao scolded sharply.

Huo Qiju, Xiong Jicai, and Jia Hugong were so frightened that they knelt on the ground, and An Ruhai hurriedly said, "The incident happened suddenly that day, and all the guards were also in chaos. Thinking that the sun never sets and the two countries of Montas have always been eyeing me, it is only because they are afraid of the power of the ancestors, and they confront the king and grandson with the two countries of Montas and the sun never sets, so they dare not act rashly. This time, the ancestor died, the holy lord first ascended to the great treasure, everything is waiting to be enjoyed, but unexpectedly, Ye Ge's life was lost in the sea of fire, and the two princes disappeared, if they fled back to the country, he will hold the emperor Wei Shan and Wei Xia hostage to compete for the position of the holy lord. ”

Wei Miao said angrily, "Do you still need your minion to talk too much?!" ”

An Ruhai hurriedly knelt on the ground, "The slave doesn't dare." ”

"Jia Hugong! Quickly order Qinglong Pass and Xuanwu Pass to close the city gate and check the border secretly, if the two princes escape from the border pass, the Lord will be killed! Xiongjicai, you quickly send Ouchi secret agents day and night, chase along the road, carefully visit, you will definitely find it! If the two princes fled back to the country, they would definitely come to attack, and Hodgju would quickly plan a countermeasure. ”

The people took the command and departed. Wei Miao threw down An Ruhai, who was kneeling on the side, shook his hand and left the Chaoyang Palace, and walked straight towards Yongle Palace.

Besides, the group of masked strongmen saw the arrival of the tiger army, gave up their wealth and fled to a secluded place, and saw that no one was chasing, so they rushed into the alley, and in front of a house with a very Western style, the leading strongman knocked the lion head knocker three times, stopped for a while, knocked again, stopped for a while, and knocked four more times, the wooden door creaked open, and a beautiful woman from the Western Regions stretched out her head, nodded to the strongman, and let her into the house.

The strong people took off their veils, and they were all from the Western Regions, one of them was Toto, they walked into a room, turned over the wooden box, took out the circus singer's costume and put it on, moved a cabinet, exposed the tunnel, went down to dozens of meters, and crawled horizontally for about four or five miles, drilled out of the tunnel, it was already a forest outside the city, they covered the tunnel entrance, went west for half a mile, drilled into another dense forest, and walked dozens of meters, but saw a dilapidated wooden house, the vines were entangled, the wooden door was closed, and it seemed to be an empty house. The leading strongman knocked on the wooden door three times, stopped for a moment, knocked again, stopped for a while, knocked four more times, the wooden door squeaked open, and a big man from the Western Regions stretched out his head to look, nodded, and let the strongmen in.

"Young master, I have done as you commanded." Toto clenched his fists in return.

Ye Ge nodded with satisfaction, "No one is chasing after you, right?" ”

"Haha, no, they surrounded the princes and did not chase us." Toto laughed.

"I guess they already decided that my brother was killed in the fire!"

"The young master's trick of getting out of the shell of the golden cicada is really wonderful!" Toto praised.

"Hmph, if a person does not know it and blindly covets vanity, he will not be far from failure and destruction. That Emperor Xuanyuan thought that he was invincible in the world, and he was not killed in the mouth of the Golden Lion, the overlord of the Western Regions. ”

"What the young master said is that the Emperor Xuanyuan is simply beyond his strength." Maimaiti said disdainfully.

"Humph! I think it took more than 1,000 of us more than 50 days to capture that beast. Good value for money! This time the Emperor Xuanyuan suddenly returned to the west, the Holy Son of the Eastern Holy Kingdom was undecided, in order to compete for the position of the Holy Lord, the Wei Zheng will inevitably raise troops, the sun does not set, and the Mengtas Kingdom will definitely wade into this troubled water. We will set off immediately, return to our father, if the Eastern Holy Kingdom is not chaotic, if there is chaos, immediately send troops, this great river and mountain, it is ours. ”

Everyone laughed triumphantly. It turned out that the Western Regions Restaurant also had a secret passage, which led directly to the outside of the city, Ye Ge entered the Western Regions Restaurant, first went out of the city from the secret passage, the clerks and his entourage pretended to be strongmen, killed a citizen of the Eastern Holy Kingdom, put on Ye Ge's clothes and accessories, and then set fire to the house, creating the illusion that Ye Ge was burned to death. In order to invade the Eastern Holy Country, the Xionglu Pan Kingdom can be said to be deliberate and sparing no money.

At the moment, Ye Ge led a group of entourage, pretending to be a circus troupe, swaggering in the direction of the Xiong Lu Pan country, Namaimaiti still sneaked back to the city, to the ruins of the wall pretended to hammer his chest and feet, crying bitterly, all the neighbors have good words to persuade each other, saying that "Haosheng has cleaned up and rebuilt the restaurant, and he will be prosperous again in the future", etc., here is not the table for the time being.

Besides, Naharun and Gangtian Chi were bored watching the Colosseum on the day, they don't know how many times they have watched such a colosseum, and they have long been surprised, and the two of them chatted while watching, and they were not interested. Unexpectedly, the plot took a sharp turn at the climax, and Emperor Xuanyuan died violently in the lion's mouth. Harun immediately pulled up Gangtian Chi, took advantage of the chaos to sneak out of the Platinum Palace, and went straight to Chaoyang Gate, and when Wei Miao ordered the city gate to be closed, the two had already escaped.

Harun and Gangtian go out at night, choose the trail and go to the east, go east for half a month, see the Yanggu Pass from afar, only to see the Yanggu Pass and build on the water, the mountains on the opposite side are undulating, the river flows under the pass, the narrowest place is only five or six meters wide, but the depth is not bottomless, except for the stone bridge under the Yanggu Pass, there is no other path to cross.

They didn't expect to get by, so they walked downstream along the trail, hoping to find a place where the water was flowing smoothly. After walking about five or six miles, he saw a farmhouse on the side of the road in front of him, and he was hungry and thirsty, so he went to stay overnight and asked for something to eat.

The peasant was a half-hundred-year-old man, and when he saw that the two of them were richly dressed, either rich or noble, and that their faces were kind, and they did not look like bad people, he called the old woman to the kitchen to prepare some wine and food, and he wiped the table and chairs clean with his sleeves, and invited them to sit down, and he stood aside with his head bowed, and said in a low voice, "It seems that the two are not from their own country?" We mountain people don't know how to be polite, and we don't have any good things, so we can only prepare some coarse tea and light rice, and see what else we need? ”

Harun glanced at Gangtian Chi, and Gangtian said, "Old man, I have an uncomfortable stomach, I don't know if there is any convenience?" ”

The old man pointed to the thatched house with his finger and said, "Over there, I'm just afraid of dirty nobles." ”

"Don't get in the way, don't get in the way, when you're out of the way, you can take care of so much. Ha ha! Gangtian clutched his stomach and walked towards the thatched house.

Harlan didn't have anything to say, and pulled the old man to sit down. Tsunada took the opportunity to go in the direction of the kitchen.

Harlan smiled and said, "Old man, we are here to play, we are not familiar with life, and we don't want to get lost." What is your name? ”

"The untouchables are tired of asking, so as not to have a surname Tian, call me Tian Laohan."

Harun took out some broken silver and handed it to the farmer, "I hope we can spend the night and leave early tomorrow morning, I wonder what bridges and ferries can be used here to get to the other side?" ”

Tian Laohan had never seen so many silver taels, and he resigned again and again, "Either so much, or so much." Harun told him to accept it, and Tian Laohan had to accept it, "Here is five or six miles to the north, there is a mountain cliff, the river is relatively narrow, I don't know who, cut down a hundred-year-old tree there, just across the river, you can pass." Why don't you just get through it? ”

"Those who guard the gates, all like wolves and tigers, a little power to oppress the good people, we foreigners are even less to be extorted, anyway, it's a play, no one goes to the place scenery may be the best, so ......"

"Also, those officers and soldiers don't have a good thing, and we ordinary people have to be exploited if they pass the customs. So we all crossed the river from that 'bridge'. ”

"Thank you! Thanks a lot! Please lead the way tomorrow. ”

Gangtian Chi went to the kitchen to take a look, and saw that the old woman was busy cooking, and there was nothing abnormal, so he went back to the table and sat down.

Tian Laohan turned around and went to serve the food, but it was just some wild vegetables, bamboo shoots, kimchi, etc., and the two invited Tian Laohan and the woman to sit down and eat hastily.

Tian Laohan asked the old woman to make the bed and clean it up, and let Harun and Gangtian Chi sleep. He spent the night with the woman in the firewood room.

On the second day, Tian Laohan led the two on the road, and after walking half a mile, Harun glanced at Gangtian Chi. Gangtian Chi sighed, saying that his stomach was uncomfortable again, and he estimated that he had eaten a bad stomach. Tian Laohan looked apologetic, and he didn't know what to say. Harlan smiled and said, "Look at your belly is also expensive, I'm fine, you go and solve it first, don't have another accident halfway." Gangda Chi smiled, clutched his stomach and hurriedly ran into the trees. After a while, he came back, looked at Harlan and nodded, and said with a long sigh of relief, "Now that I'm comfortable, I can go." ”

The three of them walked five or six miles in the woods, and when they saw a large tree crossing the river. The tree had obviously been severed by an axe, but it had not decayed because it had left a small piece attached to the roots, and some of the branches still had green leaves. Due to the large number of people walking, the upward side is relatively clean, there is no moss, and it is not slippery.

Tian Laohan stood still, pointed to the broken tree and said, "This is the bridge, you go over, I won't send it." ”

Harlan hurriedly said, "This bridge seems to be very dangerous, I don't know where to slip, you are probably familiar with it, and lead the way in front, we follow behind, to be safe, cross the bridge, we will send you some silver taels." ”

As the so-called heart of harming people is indispensable, and the heart of preventing people is indispensable, Tian Laohan didn't know what the plan was, thinking that the two of them were pampered sons and brothers, and he had never seen this kind of danger, and he was afraid in his heart, and there were two silver to collect, so he promised to walk in front.

The three of them carefully moved to the middle, only to see the turbulent water under their feet, the sound was like a drum, and the strange rocks on both sides of the strait stood like sharp knives, which made people shudder. Tian Laohan asked them to be careful about their feet and pay attention to safety, but unexpectedly, Harun, who was following behind, took advantage of his unpreparedness, and suddenly pushed him down the stream, Tian Laohan fell into Hanoi with a sound, and the second time he didn't have time to shout, he was instantly swallowed by the torrent and disappeared, poor Tian Laohan and his wife were kind and helped the devil, but they died in Jiuquan. Harun and Gonda Chi looked at each other and smiled, and hurried across the river, heading straight for the East China Sea.