Book 2: The Journey of the Distant Traveler One Hundred and Twenty-Eight: There are clouds on the mountain
"I really didn't expect to come here again so soon."
Looking at Haoshan in front of him, Qiu Shaohu said with emotion.
Seeing the enemy's handwriting from the Yanmu Bridge, Qiu Shaohu wanted to find out its origin. However, those words have been blurred, and the power of the star map cannot restore the whole picture, so there is no other way to do it.
The words on the bridge were all left by Kang Jing's officials, and if you follow the clue of the official's identity, there are only two ways that Qiu Shaohu can come up with:
One is the archives of the imperial court, and all the appointment and dismissal of officials in the territory of Zhaoguo must be kept in the archives of the officials. Since his enemy is also one of them, if Qiu Shaohu can find out the files in it, he will definitely be able to learn something.
But this is the central capital, no better than in the Chaomen place, the deep palace compound of the imperial palace, where there are many guards and masters, where can he easily enter? So after thinking about it again and again, Qiu Shaohu broke off this thought and turned to find another way.
The second is the official document of the local county government. As Tang Xun said before, those who can come to the bridge to write inscriptions are all local officials in the capital, and this kind of officials are different from court officials, who come out to record the archives of the officials, and also keep their names in the local county government, so as to facilitate the management of the yamen.
Therefore, Qiu Shaohu's enemies must be mixed in the ranks of the county officials, and the guards of the county government will inevitably be much laxer than those in the palace, and they will inevitably be able to find out.
"I'll give you a hexagram, hey, this is a good fortune, you will definitely gain something this time. But be careful not to go too deep into the place, otherwise you will 'regret it'. Before coming, Tang Xun also calculated a hexagram for him, so to speak.
Qiu Shaohu didn't bother with his later words, he was the only one who came over this time, Tang Xun and Wu Jingxing also wanted to come with him, but he refused.
It's better to settle his own grudges, he doesn't want to involve other people.
"In the past, because of me, there were too many people involved." Qiu Shaohu laughed at himself when he thought of this now.
Haoshan is a whole continuous hill, and at this time, in front of Qiu Shaohu's eyes, is a cliff on the other side. Previously, Qiu Shaohu used a clairvoyant mirror to observe and found that Kangjing's local county government was not only built near Haoshan, but on top of this cliff. This seemingly abnormal situation is actually for a very simple reason.
At the beginning, the imperial court crossed to the south and moved the capital to Kangjing, and the original county government was all vacated and assigned to the children of the royal family and dignitaries who came from the north to live.
The cliff in front of you may be left unattended because it is too dangerous, if you climb up here, you can directly enter the wall of the backyard of the county government, and then you can sneak in unnoticed.
The idea was made, Qiu Shaohu immediately put on all the equipment, the grappling hook of the trap box on his back popped out, and it was firmly hooked to the rock wall above the cliff, and the machine turned around, moving up with him quickly.
In the night, a faint figure is rapidly climbing in the mountains, as agile as an ape, and if anyone can see this scene, they are afraid that they will be dumbfounded. After all, for Qiu Shaohu, climbing an iceberg in the ice and snow wasteland is like walking on the ground, and now he has a mechanism as an arm, so naturally it is not a problem.
"If you turn it over, you must find something," Qiu Shaohu thought to himself, "According to the information I got from Lian Yang, there are at least two people in Kang Jingzhong, so ......"
"Huh?" Before Qiu Shaohu could change his mind, he suddenly felt an unnatural tremor, and at this time, as soon as the trap box behind him was loosened, the flying claws that were originally hooked on it suddenly fell.
Right now, he climbed all the way down the cliff, and he had almost climbed a distance of 100 feet, and his whole body was suspended in mid-air. Lost the hook claw borrowing point, the whole body couldn't help himself, and fell straight down.
"What's going on?" Before he could figure out what was going on, Qiu Shaohu's movements were already faster than his thoughts, and the two flying claws he had originally worn on his wrists also popped out one after another, trying to re-hook the other rock walls.
On the bare cliff, in addition to these stones, there is not even a place for a piece of grass to stand on, and at this time, in mid-air, Qiu Shaohu does not have much to borrow.
However, although the ejected grappling hook hooked the rock wall, it continued to slide downward, as if it could not bear his weight at all.
Qiu Shaohu was helpless for a while, and immediately pulled out the goose wing knife directly from his back and stabbed it directly into the rock. This time, the downward trend finally stopped. Seeing the abyss below, floating in the air, I really have a sense of panic of "not touching the sky and not touching the ground".
"Oil?" Qiu Shaohu checked the hook claw that had just slipped, only to find that it was covered with lubricating grease. In retrospect, it was on the rock face that was about to get to the top, and it seemed to be covered in oil everywhere.
In this way, he underestimated the government, and he had already considered that someone might secretly take advantage of this to climb the county office, and he was prepared in advance.
And it doesn't stop there.
"This goose wing knife, the feeling of piercing into the rock wall, is also a little wrong." Finding a place on the rock wall to fix his body, Qiu Shaohu pulled out the knife, recalling the touch just now.
The head of the knife entered the mountain, and soon there was a sluggish and hard feeling, as if it had been pierced with iron......
"Click......" "Click......"
The subtle sound, which was very clear in the night, came from the rock wall close to it.
"Who!" Qiu Shaohu asked vigilantly, he could feel that on the inside of the cliff, someone was digging the soil.
The voice on the other side immediately stopped, as if someone had broken the silence, and only then did a hoarse voice come: "You...... Are you, fairy? ”
Slurred speech, as if he hadn't spoken for a long time.
"Immortals?" Qiu Shaohu was puzzled by this sentence that had no beginning or end.
"To ...... If not, immortals, then you are a ghost. As a few words came out, the other party's words became more and more fluent, "Otherwise, how could you talk to me in the water." ”
"There are gods and ghosts in the world, but I'm neither. And in the water? Speak? What do you mean," Qiu Shaohu was even more confused by the other party, "Where is the water?" ”
"Isn't it Haoshan Lake over there?" The other party didn't seem to be surprised, and he looked surprised.
"Haoshan Lake? Of course not, this is the cliff behind the county office. Qiu Shaohu said directly.
The other side was silent again for a moment before he said sullenly: "It turns out that the Xuanzhen Division and the county government are actually close at hand, and next to the edict prison is the cliff of the county government, no wonder there is not afraid of someone escaping from prison." Then he started to get angry again, "Hell, I'm going in the wrong direction again!" ”
"Edict? Jailbreak? Only then did Qiu Shaohu understand that the other party was a prisoner who wanted to dig a tunnel to escape from the edict.
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"I'm sorry, you...... You're not going to die, are you? ”
Looking at Wan Xian'er, who was accidentally knocked unconscious by herself, Cheng Xiangxian was in a hurry for a while, tried to snort, and found that the other party's breathing was stable, and he was really relieved that he simply fainted.
Then the heart that had been put down hung again, and the heart said that she had fainted now, what should she do in a while? What if Yijun took advantage of this time to come up?
Wan Xian'er's reaction to him just now was too violent, and Cheng Xiangxian was also hot in a hurry, no matter how thirty-seven twenty-one gave it to her, she didn't think about how to end it at all.
"Zang...... Hide...... Yes, we have to hide her first so that no one else can find out. The first thing Cheng Fuxian thought of was to cover up the traces first, and while helping Wan Xian'er, thinking about hiding her under the bed. But as soon as he touched the other party's body, the only bath towel that the graceful woman was wearing also fell, and the peaks and peaks were undulating.
"Oops, sin." Cheng Fuxian tried not to open his eyes to see, but no matter how he said it, he was also a man who was just an adult, and he was sweating after only a few steps, and his face was also sticky.
Cheng Feng first wiped it on his face, only to see that his body was also full of dirt. Just now, Wan Xian'er was in a hurry, and threw all her rouge, hoarfrost, eyebrow powder or something on his body, and at this time, it was mixed with the sweat on his body, and his body was like a ghost painting.
"Oops, that's troublesome." Cheng Xian was helpless, and after stuffing Wan Xian'er under the bed, he saw that his clothes were too dirty, and he was really delaying things, so he took off his clothes first and put them on a hanger next to the bed, and then turned back to clean up the mess on the ground, trying not to let outsiders see it.
Just so busy cleaning up in a panic for a while, even Cheng Xiangxian himself couldn't cry or laugh, and said in his heart that he was a dignified captain of the gods, why was he so unlucky to come here to do the work of a hotel boy?
But complaining is complaining, and the work still has to be done. When everything was finally put in order, he was ready to breathe a sigh of relief.
"Xian'er, are you in there?" The bustard's voice suddenly came from outside the door.
Cheng Xiangxian was startled, and immediately covered his mouth and said that he must not make a sound, his eyes scanned left and right, thinking of a way out.
"What, isn't Xian'er here?" Yi Jun's voice also came, but he seemed a little delirious.
"Hey, she may still be grooming, Master Yi, you can go in by yourself in a while, you two can catch up on your own, I won't accompany you here." The bustard said that he was about to leave.
"It's easy to say, it's easy to say, old mother, let's go." Yi Jun said busily.
"Oh no, he's coming in!" There's really no way to do it now, especially when Cheng Xiang looks down first, he is disheveled, and he doesn't even wear a coat, if he is caught now, he must think that something happened to him and the woman under the bed. His innocence for more than 20 years cannot be ruined today.
As soon as you rush to the hanger next to the bed, pick up your clothes, and get ready to put them on.
"Oh, how can this ......" Cheng Fuxian saw that he was in a hurry just now, and he didn't notice that there was another piece of clothing hanging on the hanger, but what he was holding in his hand at this time was a pink women's dress as light as tulle.
"Xian'er, I'm sorry, I've been eating and drinking down here for too long, and I've snubbed you, so I'll pay you compensation." At this moment, Yi Jun had already pushed the door in, with a strong smell of alcohol. In fact, according to the rules, he shouldn't be so abrupt, but he doesn't remember so much at this time after drinking too much.
Almost at the same moment, Cheng Fuxian dodged behind a screen next to the bed, so that he was not discovered by the other party.
"Xian'er, where are you?" Yijun was drunk, scurrying around the room, staggering, according to the layout of the room in his memory, after bypassing the screen, he finally saw a pink back in front of a large bathtub.
"Xian'er, it turns out that you are here, I want to kill you, do you miss me!" Yi Jun pounced, and hugged Cheng Xiangxian, who was wearing Wan Xian'er's clothes, from behind.
"I miss you big-headed ghost!" Cheng Quxian's heart at this time was extremely depressed.