Regarding the record of the internal guard fighting, Dugu Shuo has not seen it, but it is the internal guard's extermination of the Spring and Autumn Dao, but Dugu Shuo has unintentionally glanced at it in the secret grid of the great commander Yan Qingfang's family.

When the Spring and Autumn Dao was at its peak, it was the time when Emperor Wu deposed Li Xian and Li Xian.

At that time, the crown prince Li Xian was benevolent, righteous and virtuous, deeply supported, Gaozong wanted to pass on the throne to Wu Zetian, who was in the back position, secretly opposed, Li Xian lived in the crown prince for only five years, and was demoted to a concubine for the crime of rebellion, and was exiled to Bazhou.

At that time, because of the establishment of the crown prince, some ministers in the court and Wu Zetian argued many times, so that some old ministers were killed, so opponents in temples and rivers and lakes jumped out to fight with Wu Zetian's guards.

These people are known as the Spring and Autumn Dao.

As for where and when the Spring and Autumn Dao originated, by whom, and by whom, there is no solid evidence.

The Spring and Autumn Dao wantonly slaughtered Wu Zetian's close guards, and the guards led by Yan Qingfang secretly poisoned the Spring and Autumn Dao people, and the two gangs formed a grudge.

The fight between the Spring and Autumn Dao and Wu Zetian's guards not only aroused Wu Zetian's vigilance, but also aroused Gaozong's dissatisfaction.

So there was the incident of Yan Qingfang leading the crowd to exterminate the Spring and Autumn Dao.

As for the situation at that time, Dugushuo had no way of knowing. The only thing is the song lying in the dark grid, Dugu Shuo vaguely remembers the words at the end of the case: "The Spring and Autumn Period is brutal, disturbing the temple, and now with the help of God, all of them are destroyed, playing the saint on the top, soothing the hearts of the people, and soothing the future generations!" ”

As for how much difference between the records recorded in the song and the reality of the Spring and Autumn Dao, Dugu Shuo is not clear and unable to delve into it.

When the four of them saw Dugu Shuo showing a thousand ox knives, they didn't say anything, they all pulled out their knives and forced Dugu Shuo to go up.

Dugu Shuo has a thousand calculations in his heart, and there is no way to return in life.

After a moment of fighting, Dugu Shuo felt that the four of them had mastered it, and the change of moves was completely the formation of the internal guard.

He carefully identified the four of them, and became more and more convinced in his heart that they were definitely not in the internal guard. Although he commands the left division, he has also seen many people in the right division, and now these four people have no face.

The four of them relied on the formation and did not give Dugu Shuo a chance to fight back.

Dugu Shuo's old injuries have not healed, and now his fists are difficult to defeat four hands, fortunately, the four people do not know the mystery of this formation, Dugu Shuo guessed that the person who taught the formation secretly left one hand, and the other formation was created by him and Pei Ce and others, and he knew most about some of the shortcomings.

Relying on this, he barely supported the four of them to fight in turn, while thinking about the way out, although the four of them were skillful in cooperating, but the move was lacking, giving Dugu Shuo an opportunity.

He feigned defeat and deliberately retreated to the backyard.

The wine jar is placed in the middle of the courtyard wall of the grass house, and the grass rope is knotted outside, and there are many old wines hidden in the wall, which is the favorite of Dugushuo's brother Tianhe. When Dugu Shuo was a teenager, he and his brother Tianhe followed Yan Qingfang to live in Chang'an, Tianhe was often punished by Yan Qingfang for stealing wine, and later Dugu Shuo followed Yan Qingfang into the palace.

And when he was older, Tianhe hung the pot to help the world, and every time he encountered delicious food and wine, he must be drunk and rested. And traveled all over the famous mountains and rivers, and treasured the world's famous wine here.

The four people saw that the formation could not win for a while, so they joined hands in pairs, one with a knife and the other with an arrow, hiding a sword in the knife, and walking fists and feet in the arrow, and forced Dugu Shuo in the corner of the courtyard.

At this moment, Dugu Shuo's old injury recurred, and he was already powerless under several blocks, and an internal guard suddenly struck out a palm, and Dugu Shuo could no longer stand up, holding it alone, and spit out a few mouthfuls of blood.

The night grew dark, and it was a little darker, and one of them lit a torch at the moment.

When Dugu Shuo saw it, he started from his heart and secretly rejoiced. Then he tried the blood at the corner of his mouth and stood up with difficulty.

When the four of them saw it, they approached again, Dugu Shuo tried his best to deal with it, and he was injured in four or five places on his body after a few stabs.

There is no way out at the moment, Dugu Shuo only feels that the sky is dark, and he doesn't have time to raise his knife to block, so he will cut down with four knives head-on.

The corners of Dugushuo's mouth chuckled, no longer blocking, as if he still accepted his fate in his heart, and let the Qianniu knife fall down.

But there was a sudden shout in the dark night, a short sword volley struck, the four internal guards hurriedly turned over to protect them, and Dugu Shuo stole a moment to live.

When he looked at it, it was Xiao Chufeng, Dugushuo couldn't help but roll into tears, smiled bitterly, and a glimmer of hope ignited in his heart.

Xiao Chufeng didn't fight with a few people, he stabbed several swords head-on, and after being dissolved, he jumped over the wall in the air, holding the sword in front of Dugu Shuo.

"Brother Dugu, don't come unharmed?"

Dugu Shuo glanced at Xiao Chufeng, barely squeezed out a smile from his haggard face, and said, "I can't die yet!" ”

"I see that these people's clothes and swords, like you, should also be internal guards, why did they kill each other?" Xiao Chufeng didn't look at Dugu Shuo, raised his sword to fight the general, and asked in a muttering voice.

"It's a long story, and it's not too late to talk about it in detail!"

After only more than ten rounds of fighting, Xiao Chufeng was already defeated, his arms, shoulder blades and other places were injured by Qianniu knife, and the blood slowly oozed out.

"Brother Dugu, this formation is very powerful, you have to think of a way!" Xiao Chufeng gasped, leaned over and said with his long sword in both hands.

"Brother Xiao doesn't have to be afraid, just go and charge again, I already have a way!" Xiao Chufeng listened, glanced back at Dugu Shuo, and went away suspiciously.

Dugu Shuo settled down, shook his tattered clothes and untied the crossbow arrows from his waist, and shot several arrows at the surrounding grass walls.

When Dugu Shuo saw it, he shook his body and leaned against the wall, raising his knife and slashing again. The people did not know what was the reason for him, and they did not pay any attention to him.

After cutting down the two walls, he shouted at Xiao Chufeng: "Brother Xiao be careful, someone is here to help you!" As he spoke, it was another "swish" two arrows. These two arrows were grazing Xiao Chufeng's clothes, so frightened that Xiao Chufeng jumped in a panic while raising his sword to block, and the four of them also jumped until Xiao Chufeng's back turned to the side of the door.

Dugu Shuo looked at the opportunity, rolled over, stood behind Xiao Chufeng, and faced the secret guard holding the torch is an arrow, the man dodged sideways, in an instant, Dugu Shuo tore off the broken lining on his back, wrapped around the arrow cluster, and shot an arrow at the torch behind the man, the arrow cluster burned with the torch, and fell on the grass wall, and the flames on the arrow cluster ignited the entire grass backyard in an instant.

Dugu Shuo spun around and ran out, jumping onto the grass roof with all his strength. shouted in his mouth: "Brother Xiao guards the exit!" ”

Xiao Chufeng had already seen Dugushuo's intention at a glance, and when he turned over and retreated, he grabbed the knocker with the door with his left and right hands and sealed the courtyard door.

The courtyard was immediately on fire, and the cold accompanied by the smell of wine and the fire swept away by the wind.

The four people panicked and wanted to rush out of the door, but they were pulled by Xiao Chufeng, so they put a few arrows into the air, and Xiao Chufeng dodged left and right to dodge. The four of them couldn't get out, so they had to borrow each other's strength to go out over the wall, and when they showed up slightly, Dugu Shuo raised an arrow and fired an arrow, one arrow at a time, and the four of them fell in the courtyard and were engulfed in flames.

After the fire burned for a while, Dugu Shuo struggled to climb over the wall, but he couldn't stand up and fell to the ground.

The two looked at each other, smiled, and walked out with each other.

Xiao Chufeng deliberately avoided the market, returned to his residence along the dark alley, and coerced two or three Lang Zhong, and the starry night healed Dugushuo, which is a later story, so don't bother first.

said that Dugushuo was in a coma for four or five days before waking up.

On this day, the two gossiped and talked to each other about everything after the separation.

It turned out that after Xiao Chufeng and Dugu Shuo and his party parted that day, they went straight to Wuzhou to ask Dugu Shuo's senior brother Tianhe, because he had Dugu Shuo's own letterhead, Tianhe took action to heal the Yingzhou people brought by Xiao Chufeng.

As for the details, Xiao Chufeng was not exhaustive.

But said that on a certain day near the winter solstice, Tianhe received a message from the flying pigeon, so he hurriedly came to say goodbye to the two of them, and did not go in a hurry, and when he left, he explained that if there was an emergency, he could go to Luoyang Caolu to find him.

Xiao Chufeng took care of the people of Gu Yingzhou, and seeing that he was gradually recovering, he thought about going back to Chang'an to report the funeral to General Wen's family. It was the day he passed by Luoyang, Xiao Chufeng inquired about the place of the grass house, and went back and forth to thank Tianhe, but unexpectedly bumped into the entanglement between the four internal guards and Dugu Shuo, who didn't want to get involved, he saw that Dugu Shuo was seriously injured, so he had to make a move.

Dugu Shuo was unable to argue the truth of what Xiao Chufeng said for a while, so he hid the matter of the internal guard of the Shendu and did not say anything, but said that he had offended Lord Zaifu because he was in the Sect Division, and Lord Zaifu sent these people disguised as internal guards to hunt him down.

At present, Tianhe is nowhere to be found, and he is also very worried, but he is even more worried about Lin Fengwan in his heart.

Xiao Chufeng nodded again and again in agreement, but he didn't know whether to believe it or not, and the two only talked until the second half of the night.

Then Dugushuo recuperated for another three days, and it was not until the day when all the nations came to congratulate him that he packed up and went to the Internal Security Division.

When Xu Gao saw Dugu Shuo, his eyes were full of tears for a while, and he hugged him tightly: "Dugu Shuo, you are still alive!" It's really good, in the past ten days, I and a few brothers have almost turned over the gods, and we can't find any trace of you, I really think that something happened to you..."Xu Gao said, deliberately raising his voice.

Dugu Shuo listened, coughed a few times and said: "It doesn't matter, it's just that I was infected with leprosy, and I didn't dare to see people easily, so I hid!" ”

Hearing this, Xu Gao suddenly turned away, took a few steps back, and wiped his hands on Shangguan's body on the side, revealing a look of disgust.

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but retreat and dodge, only to make Dugushuo laugh.

Only then did he enter the house and sit down, and after saying a few words, Yan Qingfang sent someone to call Dugu Shuo, and Dugu Shuo resigned and everyone followed.

After gossiping with Yan Qingfang, Dugu Shuo only thought that he was suffering from a stubborn disease, and the rest were silent, and Dugu Shuo couldn't detect Yan Qingfang's mouth, and he was going to go near noon.

Yan Qingfang saw that he was leaving, and said in a muffled voice: "Tianhe has come, and he said that you were chased and killed by internal guards, but is there such a thing?" ”

Dugu Shuo didn't expect Yan Qingfang to ask, he was shocked, a thought flashed in his mind, he was busy calming, waved his hands and smiled: "There is indeed a chase and killing, but it is inferred from the disciple that it should be Zaifu's house slave disguised, and the gods all know that I cut off one of his nephew's arms in the Jiaofang Division, and this feud cannot be resolved, and it is reasonable for him to send someone to kill me and become an internal guard!" Dugushuo said it easily and naturally, and it sounded flawless.

Yan Qingfang nodded slightly, "um", and still looked at the book by herself.

Dugu Shuo glanced at it with squinted eyes, but seeing that he did not have the slightest uneasy expression, he loosened the cold sweat he was holding a little, and then committed himself to retreat.

Yan Qingfang didn't keep him. When he went out, Dugu Shuo felt a little more at ease.

It seems that Tianhe and they were not harmed by the internal guards.

Before going out, Dugu Shuo met Xu Gao head-on, so he waved his hand and said: "Lord Xu is polite, you also know that my house was destroyed by fire, and I bother Lord Xu to tell the brother of the right division, I will borrow the inner courtyard for the past few days, and then leave when I choose another place to live!" ”

When Xu Gao heard this, he was stunned, and said to Dugu Shuo: "Commander Dugu is a celebrity in front of His Majesty, don't say that he will borrow the inner court for a few days, even if he lives in the palace..."

"Don't talk nonsense, what you say is serious!"

Xu Gao listened to it, and haha: "Okay, okay, let's entrust the Inner Court Division!" ”

"Thank you, Brother Xu!" After Dugu Shuo waved his hand and thanked him, he walked away. Only Xu Stomach was left confused, as if a hot face was attached to a cold buttocks, and he shook his head and walked away boringly.

The words are not annoying, but it is said that the night is Xu stomach on duty, in the middle of the night the lonely lamp is boring, suddenly remembered Dugu Shuo, so he went to the palace in charge of the imperial food to find some food, happily went to Dugushuo's residence.

Because Dugu Shuo said that he was infected with leprosy, no one dared to approach near the residence, and the lights were quietly lit around, and it was very lonely, and occasionally heard a few wild cats calling.

There was no candle in the house, Xu stomach pushed the door in, the moonlight was reflected on the ground, and he tiptoed to the bed, he wanted to scare Dugu Shuo, but the bed was empty, Xu stomach pounced, almost fell down, and then scolded a few words angrily.

At that moment, he lit the candle lamp and looked at all parts of the house, there was no trace of it, and his mind was confused for a while, like a second monk, and he couldn't figure it out.

He looked at the full moon outside the door, overjoyed, blew out the candle, let the silver frost moonlight spread on the ground, and sat alone to drink and eat.

I don't know how many hours have passed, but I seem to be slightly drunk.

Suddenly, he heard the chaos in the dungeon, shouting and shouting, he poked his head out to take a look, but saw a raging fire not far away.

He sat down again, drank another glass of wine, and sang: "Everywhere in the palace, it is common to walk in the water from time to time, so why panic!" And he remained motionless.

There was another shout, and he was startled and shouted, "Not good! Only then did I suddenly realize that it was the case vault of the Department of Internal Guard.

The case library was built in the first year of Tianzhu, and all the old files stored were discussed and filed by the internal guards, and they were taken care of by the Department of Internal Guards, and they were handed over to the forbidden army patrol this year.

Because it is old and dilapidated, except for those who return to the warehouse regularly, there are few traces on weekdays.

In this case, the library went to the water, and burned the imperial dining room of the palace on the side, which caused all parts of the palace to rush to save each other.

When Dugu Shuo panted like a cow and ran back to the inner courtyard residence, he collided with Xu's stomach head-on.

Dugu Shuo wore a night robe, holding a knife in his left hand and a silk wrap in his right hand.

The two looked at each other, as if time had stood still, and only stared for a moment before Xu Gao asked Dugu Shuo: "How can you be a thief like this?" ”

Dugu Shuo had thousands of thoughts in his mind, and glanced at Xu Stomach with angry eyes, so he pulled it over without asking the reason, and said: "Go back, go to the Internal Security Division quickly, the sky will fall tonight, you just insist that you don't leave the door of the Internal Security Division!" ”

Xu Gao was drunk and ignorant, but he was suddenly frightened by Dugu Shuo's angry lion, and the smell of alcohol turned into cold sweat in an instant, swallowing saliva, and nodding in response: "Let's go!" Let's go! And he really didn't look back.

Although he doesn't know the reason, he trusts Dugushuo very much, but what Dugushuo says, even if he can't understand it, he must know that there is a reason for him. Thinking about it, he spread his legs and ran towards the Internal Guard.

When Xu Gao walked away, Dugu Shuo was calm, closed the door casually and faded away from the night walkers, and carefully wiped the big beads of sweat on his forehead, before blowing the fire on the table and lighting the candle, and took the silk silk in his hand to take a closer look.

"Mu Xiaofeng" is the name of Tianhe's mother.

Dugu Shuo wiped his eyes again, it was Mu Xiaofeng Yes, looking back along the line of names, there were two more familiar names, he took out the waist card from Yingzhou and the internal guard of the house, compared it, the name was not wrong.

He thought back to the figures and appearances of the two men, and deduced that they were similar in age.

A terrible thought flashed through Dugushuo's mind. He deduced that these Spring and Autumn Dao people who were supposed to be slaughtered may not have died, but were replaced by another identity and became secret guards scattered everywhere......

He didn't dare to speculate any further.

He had read Yan Qingfang's note on the extermination of the Spring and Autumn Dao, if those people were not dead, it meant that the content of Yan Qingfang's note to Emperor Wu was fake, and the real Spring and Autumn Dao had already existed, and it had been more than ten years since Emperor Wu ascended the throne.

He suddenly faintly felt that his feelings on the day of Yingzhou might be true.

But at the moment, none of this is important, he stole the defense map of the Wanguo Dynasty He Tianshu, killed the commander of the forbidden army, and burned the case library, which is a big crime to destroy the nine clans.

But he also knew in his heart that he was bumped into by Xu Gao today, and he found out that Xu Gao had left his post without permission, and Xu Gao's temperament must not be able to withstand the torture of the internal guards, but in a few days, the forbidden army and the internal guards will be able to find him.

Dugu Shuo slapped the table, his teeth clucked, and it didn't help to beat his feet and chest, and he had no choice but to move forward.

changed into official clothes, carried things in his arms, pretended to go to fight the fire, and slipped out of the palace gate while the chaos was in chaos.

But what happened that night?

It turned out that Dugu Shuo had already calculated the time, and only deduced that the house was burned, and borrowed the Inner Court Division, in order to take advantage of the rotation of the forbidden army to sneak into the case vault.

This was an ordinary night, in the past, and no one noticed, but this night the east wind rose, blowing open the door of the courtyard of the case that was not closed, Dugu Shuo was not aware of it because he was in the potential tower, but was discovered by the forbidden army patrolling the night.

The name of the forbidden army of this night patrol of the imperial city is called Ye Zhen, the deputy commander of the official residence, and he is an official who relies on the blessing of the "door shade", and he has martial arts, and he was named the deputy commander of the forbidden army from the fifth grade.

When he saw that the door of the courtyard of the case was slightly open, he ordered everyone to continue to inspect and come in along the courtyard alone to visit, but he did not read the Three Classics and had no growth. But when he saw that there was a faint fire in the case vault, he thought that he had entered the thief, so he had to arrest him alone in order to win his merits.

At that time, Dugu Shuo had already taken the defense map, just thinking to see if he could find some clues about the secret guard here, but unexpectedly, Ye Zhen came in and arrested him.

Ye Zhen stood quietly for a moment, then recognized his identity, and snorted: "Commander Dugu, in the middle of the night, wearing a night walker sneakily lurking here, what do you want?" Don't you want to steal the key? ”

Dugu Shuo saw that his identity was recognized, turned around and walked quickly, Ye Zhen followed the side of the case, and said: "Hugh go, and go to the chief of the inner palace with me to argue!" ”

Dugu Shuo didn't entangle, he just wanted to seize the door, then Ye Zhen saw it, waved his long sword, stepped on the door, and brought the door shut.

Then he took a few steps forward, raised his sword and said to Dugu Shuo: "Don't think that I can't recognize you if I don't say anything, do you know that the theft of the library is a capital crime?" And I took you and handed you over to the chief manager, wouldn't it be a great achievement! "Anyway, swing your sword and attack.

Dugu Shuo saw that Ye Zhen was sick, and he didn't dare to fight, so he only ran to the back, Ye Zhen pounced in the air and hurried to the door.

But when Dugushuo was not seen, Ye Zhen provoked him with words as he walked.

Still didn't see Dugu Shuo respond, about a moment, Ye Zhen was angry, launched a frenzy, and knocked down a row of shelves in front of him, when the shelves in the front row were dumped, they drove the back row, and in an instant, the three rows of shelves that were close to each other fell down one by one, Dugu Shuo was hiding in it, and was almost hit, so he had to swing a knife and jump out.

When Ye Zhen saw it, he jumped over and fought with Dugu Shuo Qianniu with a sword.

The two of them are martial arts players up and down, jumping and fighting with each other, only hitting from low to high, chasing one by one, stabbing and flashing.

Ye Zhen is a few years older than Dugu Shuo, and Dugu Shuo has only a few relationships with him, and he has no personal relationship.

Ye Zhen thought that he had eaten Dugu Shuo at the moment, so he fought with all his might, Dugu Shuo was forced by Ye Zhen's fast sword and had no way, so he had to jump and dodge, sometimes going higher, sometimes lower, and finally climbing up the pillar to dodge, Ye Zhen saw that he couldn't hurt Dugu Shuo in a row with more than a dozen moves, and he became more and more angry, so he used all his strength to force Dugu Shuo to be wrapped around the pillar, not daring to be distracted in the slightest.

Dugu Shuo held the force pillar with one hand, stepped on the frame with one foot, and climbed up with strength, Ye Zhen followed, and the two fought from the ground to the top of the frame, Dugu Shuo fought and retreated, and when he turned around and jumped to the other side, both of them were already out of breath.

The two stood on either side of each other, facing each other with swords facing each other from a pillar in the middle.

Ye Zhen scolded a few more words, Dugu Shuo still didn't answer, if it was an ordinary time, Ye Zhen would definitely call the forbidden army outside to come in, but he was too anxious this time, and he was worried that others would grab the credit, so he would not shout even if he died.

This is also what Dugu Shuo is most worried about, if the forbidden army besieges him, he will not be able to get rid of his wings today.

Dugu Shuo saw that he didn't shout, and his heart was a little calmer. Let him curse, but he doesn't care at all.

Ye Zhen saw that Dugu Shuo was not fooled, so he took a few steps back, and was about to jump over and fight Dugu Shuo again.

Dugu Shuo no longer had the intention of fighting, he just wanted to get out, so he looked at the gap, and when Ye Zhen jumped into the air and was unprepared, an arrow suddenly hit his chest, and Ye Zhen fell down instantly.

Dugu Shuo was worried that Ye Zhen would deceive, so he jumped on the pillar and fired another arrow.

When Ye Zhen landed, he smashed a hole in the ground of the case vault and fell straight down, and when Dugu Shuo slid down the pillar, Ye Zhen was out of breath.

There was also a secret room under the vault, and the pillars went straight to the bottom.

He groped for the fire fold from his arms, and he reached out to find it from Ye Zhen's body, and saw that the arrow hit the chest, the arrow pierced the neck, and the blood flowed down the ground.

When the firelight illuminated the chamber, the inner chamber was not spacious, there was dust everywhere and nothing else, and there was an alcove in the wall in which a silk wrap was placed.

Dugu Shuo carefully opened it and saw the notebook.

Dugu Shuo could see his god, and suddenly felt a light above his head, so when he hurriedly climbed out of the pillar, the fire had already burned from under the collapsed case, and the entire case library was as bright as day.

It turned out that he had inserted the fire fold on the candlestick, but Ye Zhen was forced to tighten it and couldn't take it, and then the shelf collapsed and smashed the candlestick, which ignited the scattered old letterheads.

Dugu Shuo only stood on his feet, and he heard shouts outside the hospital.