The temple of witches above the clouds on the top of the mountain, a huge room in the attic at the top, and two people stood on the terrace, an old man dressed in a white coarse linen robe, barefoot, holding a black wooden cane, very short, but about five feet, very thin, with wrinkled skin, and many old people with freckles, a very pointed nose, a black flesh mole on the bridge of the nose, the old man's eyes were very bright, his slender eyebrows were half down to the sockets, and there was a slender white beard around his mouth.

The other person was a twenty-one or twelve-year-old young man, white and fat, close to seven feet tall, but with a weight of no less than three hundred pounds, wearing a silk robe, the whole flesh felt like it was about to be strangled, especially the gold and jade belt around the waist, properly strangled himself into a gourd, which looked a little funny, but although the facial features were fat, it could be seen that it was still very delicate.

These two people were You Changzhi, the high priest of the Witch God Temple, and Duan Yanping, the last prince of the Yue Kingdom, and they stared at the bamboo rafts in the lake under the mountain, which were slowly approaching the shore.

Duan Yanping's eyes were filled with deep hatred, and he said rather angrily: "High Priest, is it really necessary for us to make a deal with Wang Dun's old thief? He used us to do a lot of things and helped him gain a foothold in Yuezhou, and I don't believe he was willing to fulfill his promise to cede Sanzhou and let us return to the country. ”

The high priest said in a very hoarse voice: "Your Highness, the Central Plains Dynasty has never been able to tolerate our three seedlings and nine li, thousands of years have driven us from the rich and fertile land in the south of the Yangtze River to this poor mountain and bad water full of miasma, the Han people have never been trusted, our Yue country took advantage of the civil strife in the Central Plains to re-establish the country, but unfortunately as soon as the Liang country was strong, we fell apart, the land was tired, the people were scarce, the products were scarce, the ability to make metallurgical instruments was lacking, and the army could not be strong. We can only survive on this miasma in the deep mountain wall. ”

Duan Yanping: "But, High Priest! ”

The high priest raised his hand to stop it, and said: "Your Highness, the old minister knows what you think, but the old minister has to tell His Highness, Wang Dun is still okay to talk about, if it was really Zuo Jinglong who destroyed the Yue Kingdom back then, not Wang Dun, the old minister has to tell His Highness, you will definitely not survive, Zuo Jinglong will not talk to us, and if the Liang State comes to fight and divide and win over, most of the eighty-one villages will defect, and over time, all the strength of the Yue Kingdom will be exhausted; And over the years, Wang Dun and we have restrained each other, he used us as a bargaining chip with the court in exchange for his position in Yuezhou, we used his promise in exchange for 20 years of peace, everyone needs each other, and everything is safe, this is the way to accumulate strength, so Wang Dun can't fall! We have to play this scene with him. ”

Duan Yanping nodded: "High Priest, I understand, it's just that this time the old man doesn't know what dirty hands he wants us to do!" ”

The High Priest said softly, "Probably to the north." ”

Duan Yanping muttered: "North? What does Wei have to do with us? ”

The high priest slowly turned around with his cane and walked to the back room

"Your Highness doesn't have to see him, it's good for the old body to go, he sent someone back, and the old body still has to express it!"

Duan Yanping responded: "High Priest, you have been wronged!" ”

The head of the high priest smiled slightly: "Your Highness, you are still very young, learn to endure, there will come a day, all your enemies will return to dust, and you can step on their ashes and corpses to build a new kingdom." ”

Duan Yanping nodded, watching the High Priest disappear above the stairs.

…

The Witch God Hall, all made of red nanmu, black wood, purple shirt wood to build a huge temple, in the center is a purple altar, enshrined a blood-red statue of the witch king, the red like the blood flowing alive, slowly left from the sculpture, into the groove under the altar, forming a huge red formation map;

The ten-zhang high shrine supported by thirty-six huge black trees around it, each pillar was carved with huge gods and demons, exuding a strange atmosphere in the dark temple.

The red floor filled the huge temple with a length of 80 zhang and a width of 50 zhang, like a red sea, boundless in the vision, and the huge divine seat stood on the third layer of the god seat at the bottom of the main hall, and above the divine seat, sitting was a short and thin old man who was like dry bones.

The left protector Bai Liang took Wang Dun and his party all the way up, there were left and right guards every ten steps, each guard wore a mask, wore red linen clothes, expressionless, and motionless like zombies, and when he arrived at the door of the main hall, Bai Liang said: "Grandpa Guo, please slip your shoes into the palace." ”

Wang Dun motioned for Wang Ying to take off his shoes with him, and the three of them followed Bai Liang into the Witch God Palace, and as soon as Wang Ying entered the hall, he was shocked by the atmosphere in front of him, and his steps trembled slightly.

Wang Dun glanced back and said softly, "Ying'er, be calmer." ”

Wang Ying nodded, finally suppressing the fear in his heart.

There were no guards in the empty hall, and from a distance, I saw an old man as thin as a dry bone on the throne.

Wang Dun walked to the throne without hurry, and nodded as a salute: "High priest, don't come unharmed!" ”

The high priest spoke: "The prince has also been absent for a long time, sit down." ”

As soon as the high priest finished speaking, he saw a group of flying ants fly out from the candle flames around him, and they landed on the ground and slowly converged, and soon merged into three red chairs, the color and texture were the same as those on the floor, and this method was equivalent to that of an immortal.

Wang Ying remembered what his father reminded him just now, and he didn't dare to show excessive nervousness, but he still didn't dare to sit on it immediately, Wang Dun sat down with a smile and said, "The high priest has good means, it seems that compared to last year's meeting, his skills have improved again." ”

Gong Quliang also sat down with a smile, and Wang Ying dared to sit down slowly.

The high priest opened his mouth and asked, "Guogong, our old friend doesn't have to be polite, if there is anything to talk about, you might as well say it directly." ”

Wang Dun's eyes motioned to Gong Quliang, and Gong Quliang presented the wooden box.

Wang Dun opened his mouth and said: "High Priest, this is a gift from His Majesty to Gu, after receiving it, King Gu couldn't calm down for a long time, so he specially came to send it to the High Priest, hoping that the High Priest would take a look." ”

The high priest's face changed slightly, and he motioned for Bai Liang to take the box

Then the high priest spoke: "I already know the gift, the emperor of your country has a heart, such a generous gift, this seat can not help but return the gift, the prince of the country and go with peace of mind, someone will return the gift on the same day." ”

Wang Dun nodded with a smile and asked, "High Priest, how do you want to return the gift?" ”

The high priest replied coldly: "Guogong, you have talked too much today, unlike you, I don't like it, send off guests!" ”

Wang Dun hurriedly said: "High priest wait, the words are lonely and don't say anything anymore, but the high priest has prepared 200,000 loads of grain and grass for the high priest on the Nu River, and the high priest may as well accept it." ”

The high priest said to Bai Liang: "Bai Liang, you can accept it." ”

Bai Liang knelt down and nodded, "Yes, High Priest!" ”

The high priest got up and left, leaving a sentence casually: "Guogong, don't send it, I hope to be cautious when instructing the Yue people to do things in the future, I heard that you only have one sister-in-law, I hope you remember what the old man said, don't leave lifelong regrets." ”

Wang Dun's cheeks trembled slightly, his clenched fist slowly loosened, and a flying insect stopped at Wang Ying's eyebrows, and slowly flew away in Wang Dun's gaze, and Wang Ying couldn't move, breathe, or even think for a few breaths.

…

Wang Dun left Luobi Lake with the bamboo row, and on the way back, the three of them looked grim, did not say a word, the atmosphere was solemn, Bai Liang just opened his mouth and said a word: "High priest, let me thank you to the national justice." ”

Wang Dun nodded slightly.

On the big ship that went back, Wang Dun quietly said to Gong Quliang: "Qu Liang, call back all the Yue secret agents from all over the country, especially the descendants of the former ministers of the Yue Kingdom, and replace them with our Yuezhou army." ”

Gong Quliang nodded: "Yes, the subordinates will do it when they go back." ”

Wang Ying shivered in the cold wind, and only now did he feel the cold to the bone.

Wang Dun took off his windbreaker and put it on for him, and said softly: "Go to the cabin to rest!" ”

,,,

In a secret room of the Witch Temple, there is a shrine platform, and there are many tablets on several floors on the door, and the high priest puts a new tablet on the bottom layer, which reads "The sixth generation of Dayue Protector Gongyou Xianda's Divine Position".

The high priest looked at a shrine on the upper two floors, which read, "The fourth generation of the protector of the country, the god of the forest." ”

The high priest muttered: "Big brother, I didn't take good care of the virtuous people, the You family only has the bones of my body now, but the account still has to be repaid, and the revenge has to be avenged." ”

After the high priest finished speaking, he slowly walked out of the secret room, and the door behind him slammed and closed on its own.

…

Three days later, a caravan selling tea bricks set out from Yuezhou to Wei, taking the merchant road guide issued by the Yuezhou government, and the road was unimpeded, and it arrived in the eastern capital three months later.