Chapter 94: The One-Eyed Snake!
Three days have passed in a blink of an eye, everything that should be prepared has been prepared, just wait for Jing Fan to send the imitation golden sword, and then you can set off.
did not disappoint Yingzheng, Jing Fan and Tian Yi sent three swords early in the morning.
An original Xuanyuan sword, an imitation fake, and a golden sword designed by Yingzheng himself.
Ying Zheng packed the three sharp swords in cloth bags separately, and took the two real and fake Xuanyuan swords to Mrs. Xia's residence.
After greeting Mrs. Xia, Ying Zheng handed the cloth bag containing the golden sword in his hand to Princess Hu Yu.
"I've got you." Ying Zheng said with a grin.
Princess Hu Yu opened the cloth bag, and after seeing the contents of the bag, she couldn't help but tremble and froze.
You must know that Princess Hu Yu asked Ying Zheng for this golden sword, but more than once, Ying Zheng did not let go.
And every time he borrowed it to play, Ying Zheng either asked for it back early, or secretly took it back, how did he take the initiative to send it today.
Princess Hu Yu drew her sword neatly and looked at it carefully.
That's right, it's the golden sword from before!
"Your Majesty...... Really, send me? Princess Hu Yu's happy mouth was not very sharp.
"Of course." Ying Zheng said with a smile.
Princess Hu Yu pursed her lips and said, "Liar, I asked for it so many times before, but you didn't give it to the king." I gave it this time, and I will go back again. β
"How could it be, I said I would send you, and I would send you." Ying Zheng still smiled and said, "The widow is the king of Great Qin, how can his words not count." β
Princess Hu Yu raised the sword and danced twice, but she still said uneasily: "Then the king, what is the reason why you suddenly gave this golden sword to Hu Yu." β
"The dowry." Ying Zheng said.
"Dowry?" Princess Hu Yu's eyes rolled around and said, "Then if you take Hu Yu from nowhere, won't you have to go back again." β
Ying Zheng: "......"
In short, Princess Hu Yu was worried that the sword would be taken back.
"Okay, let's be honest." Ying Zheng put away his smile, he realized that as long as he said to Hu Yu with a smile, she would not believe it, "Didn't the widow tell you that this golden sword was found in an ancient tomb by the widow." β
Princess Hu Yu nodded, still holding the golden sword tightly in her hand.
"Recently, the widow went again, and the result was ......" Ying Zheng paused deliberately, and then opened another cloth bag.
Princess Hu Yu leaned over curiously, and suddenly a spirit was excited.
What? And another handful?
Ying Zheng pulled out the real Xuanyuan sword from the sheath, and then put the blade of the sword together with the blade in the hand of Princess Hu Yu, and then said: "As a result, the widow found another one, it is said that these two swords are a pair, male and female double swords, the widow is male, and the female in your hand will naturally be given to you, how can the widow go back." β
Princess Hu Yu looked at the golden sword in Ying Zheng's hand, and then at the one in her hand, and finally jumped up happily.
I finally have the golden sword that I have been thinking about for a long time, and the king will never go back, haha.
Seeing Princess Hu Yu rushing out of the door like a child, brandishing the golden sword, Ying Zheng's heart finally let go.
If you cheat, you cheat, this level always passes.
After asking Mrs. Xia to resign, Yingzheng sent Zhao Gao to send three boxes of porcelain to Huayang Palace, nominally for Mrs. Huayang, but actually for Princess Nansu. After all, it is not appropriate to give only a gift to Princess Hu Yu and not to Princess Nansu.
After arranging the affairs of the harem, Yingzheng came to LΓΌ Buwei's mansion again.
Two days ago, Ying Zheng had already told LΓΌ Buwei that he was going out to cruise for a few days and did not need an escort to accompany him, so he came to say hello.
Lu Buwei took some silver taels, and there was a little worry in his eyes, if it wasn't for Ying Zheng's insistence, Lu Buwei really didn't worry about letting Ying Zheng travel alone. It wasn't until Yingzheng said that Li Si was with him that LΓΌ Buwei didn't stop him.
But Ying Zheng also wondered in his heart, in LΓΌ Buwei's eyes, Li Si should be a powerless scribe, how could he say that he was accompanied by Li Si, LΓΌ Buwei was relieved.
Ying Zheng was in a hurry to go to Lishan, and when he came out of the Lu Mansion, he went directly out of the East City Gate and galloped wildly with Li Si on horseback.
Due to his speed, Ying Zheng hardly talked to Li Si and did not rest much.
It wasn't until late afternoon that the two stopped to camp.
Lees found a cave to sleep in the open at night, went to hunt a hare, and then set up a fire and prepared dinner.
This scene made Ying Zheng's whole body tremble, because he remembered a person.
Brother Jing......
Before going to Qishan, Ying Zheng and Jing Liang were together for many days and experienced the biggest turning point for Ying Zheng.
"Sir, Brother Jing, are you okay now, where is he?" Ying Zheng missed Jing Liang and unconsciously asked Li Si.
"He's good." Li Si added some firewood and said, "It should be in Qi Country now." β
"Qi Guo?" Ying Zheng frowned, "What is he doing there?" β
Li Si turned the stick with the hare on it again, and said, "Of course, it is for the king." β
"Doing things for the widows?" Ying Zheng was puzzled, "What do you do for the widow in the Qi country?" β
"The king will know when the time comes, and the specifics, Wechen can't say clearly, after all, the master doesn't tell Wechen." Li Si said with some embarrassment.
Looking at Li Si's appearance, it seems that he really doesn't know, and even if he knows, if he doesn't want to say it, Yingzheng won't ask much.
Ying Zheng didn't ask Jing Liang about his current situation, but just told Li Si about some of his previous experiences with Jing Liang, especially the story about "my device".
From time to time, Li Si asked some questions, and then looked thoughtful.
Ying Zheng didn't care about Li Si's expression, drinking wine and eating meat, telling stories.
At noon on the second day, the two came to the foot of Lishan Mountain.
Lishan is not a big mountain, nor is there a high peak, but there are many valleys, horizontal and vertical, different depths, some ditches and ravines, and there are ditches in the ravines.
Ying Zheng took out the road map that had been prepared long ago and found the starting point of the marker.
Ying Zheng took out the black iron snail again and converted it into a pointer to determine the specific location of this starting point.
The darkiron pointer made three quick turns on the compass before shuddering to a halt and pointing in a northeast direction.
Ying Zheng and Li Si looked in that direction, and in front of them was a hillside, densely wooded, and it seemed that there was no road.
The two men dismounted and tied the horses to two trees, but the reins were long enough so that the horses could eat the grass farther away.
Armed with a few cloth bags hanging from the saddle, Ying Zheng and Li Si followed the pointer of the Xuantie compass on foot.
After climbing a gentle slope, the woods became dense and the slope became steeper.
Li Si carried most of the cloth bags on his back, allowing Ying Zheng to concentrate on holding the Xuantie compass, but Li Si's speed was still faster than Ying Zheng.
"Sir." Ying Zheng gasped a little and said, "Your kung fu is similar to that of Brother Jing." β
Ying Zheng has long wanted to ask this sentence.
Li Si smiled back and said, "Almost, Your Majesty." β
Li Sibi used to love to laugh, is it the reason for traveling?
Bypassing this peak, they began to walk down, and the black iron pointer also swung from time to time, one pointing to the left front, the other pointing to the right front, and the two people also continued to adjust the direction of progress with the pointer.
I don't know how long I walked, but a valley appeared in front of me, and the black iron pointer also turned three times in reverse, and then it was no longer horizontal, but diagonally downward.
"Your Majesty, we have reached the starting point, it's time to follow the map, it shouldn't be far away." Li Si said as he looked at the valley.
Chief Ying exhaled and said, "Then let's go." β
Ying Zheng put away the black iron snail and began to follow the route pointed out on the map.
At first, the valley was gentle, with a small slope, but after a while, it gradually became steeper.
Li Si took out several pieces of rope and connected them together to form a long rope, one end tied to Ying Zheng's waist and the other end to his own waist. The main reason for doing this is that Ying Zheng is afraid that he will fall and roll down the hill.
I don't know how long they walked, but the two of them came to the bottom of the valley, and then walked along the bottom of the valley.
The route shown on the map is indeed along the valley floor, but after walking for a while, you turn right. However, there were mountain walls on both sides, and there was no mountain road in sight.
When I got to the bend shown on the map, I still didn't see a way up the mountain, and the walls on both sides were so steep that it was almost impossible to climb.
Lees, who had been walking in front, suddenly stopped, untied the rope around his waist at the same time, and leaned down to the right, as if looking for something.
Ying Zheng also untied the rope and followed.
Turning a corner, the opening of a cave appeared in front of me.
This hole is not big, and you need to bend down to get in.
Lees lit a torch and climbed in first. Ying Zheng also lit a torch and followed.
The direction of the cave slowly descended, and after about a meal, the cave gradually widened, and the slope was no longer felt, and the terrain became gentle.
Turning a corner, the eyes suddenly opened up, and a circular space appeared in front of me.
Ying Zheng felt that this cave was familiar, and after recalling it, he remembered that this cave was very similar to the cave when he saw the old man in white.
On the other side of the circular cavern, there seems to be a hole opening, like an exit.
Li Si quickened his pace and walked towards the exit, Ying Zheng didn't ask much, and followed Li Si closely.
Walking into this exit, there is another passage-like cave, but in the opposite direction, it is going upward.
Ying Zheng approached the torch from time to time on the map, and the route on the map had already walked most of the way, and it seemed that the end was not far away, probably the end of this cave was the exit.
Diagonally above, a beam of light was cast from the front, and although it was very faint, the two men looked at each other happily and climbed up towards the exit.
Suddenly, the light cast through the hole vanished.
"What's going on?" Ying Zheng asked inexplicably.
Li Si shook his head, also at a loss.
Although the two of them were puzzled, they still walked in that direction, only slowing down slightly.
As they got closer and closer to the entrance of the cave, the footsteps of the two of them became slower and slower, and the atmosphere was strangely weird.
Rustling...... Rustling......
It seemed that the sound of sand rolling came from the direction of the cave entrance, and Li Si raised his hand in front of him to signal Yingzheng to stop.
Ying Zheng stopped and subconsciously dodged behind Li Si, his eyes fixed on the direction of the exit.
The rustling did not stop, but the light reappeared, from weak to strong. Since the position of the two people was already very close to the entrance of the cave, when the light was fully revealed, it was still a little dazzling.
Li Si didn't extinguish the torch, and pulled Yingzheng towards the entrance of the cave.
When they arrived at the entrance of the cave, their eyes had adjusted to the light, but they still stopped at the entrance of the cave, and Li Si raised the torch out of the hole and paused for a moment.
There was not a trace of movement outside the cave, as if what had just been experienced was an illusion.
Li Si did not let his guard down, but he did not let Ying Zheng wait here, but quickly climbed out of the cave with Ying Zheng.
The one who stood firm for the two of them quickly looked around.
However, there was nothing but trees and weeds.
Is it really a delusion?
Ying Zheng relaxed and extinguished the torch in his hand. Lees also extinguished the torches.
But just after the two of them extinguished the torches, the rustling sound began again.
The front, the back, the left, and the right seem to be all there, but only the sound is heard, and nothing unusual is seen.
The fear of the unknown made Yingzheng's forehead run into a cold sweat.
Li Si seemed to be prepared and didn't show much nervousness.
Call......
Only to feel a gust of wind swept in, and the two of them felt as if they had been swept by a tree trunk, and fell to the ground at the same time.
Instinctive reaction, arm on the ground, the two looked behind at the same time, and the scene in front of them was extremely terrifying, so frightened that Yingzheng's face turned pale.
What they saw was a huge eyeball, and underneath it was an equally huge mouth, from which a soft herringbone tongue was still quivering.
In front of him is clearly a giant snake with one eye, if its mouth is open, ten Yingzheng will not be satisfied!
The big snake's big eyes glared at Ying Zheng and Li Si, and he approached them little by little, and there was that rustling sound on the ground.