Chapter 255: Finding the Cave

Director Qiu arranged for his family, followed Xu Xiuzhen, and went to Yunyin Ancient Temple in Hebei Province to welcome Qiu Lin home.

After his arrangement was completed, he came to the room again and asked Yang Shucheng about what happened to Qiu Lin outside the gate.

Yang Shucheng said 1510 times, how Qiu Lin got the post of general, and escorted his military salary to Liaoyang City outside the Guan, he was bound to make contributions outside the Guan.

Unexpectedly, Wu Xiang, the chief soldier of Shanhai, pretended to be a golden soldier and took away his salary, and the two returned to the mainland across the sea, and went to Shanhaiguan to assassinate Wu Xiang.

The two were wanted by the imperial court and were forced to go south, and on the way, Qiu Lin became disheartened and became a monk in the Yunyin Ancient Temple.

Yang Shucheng finished the matter in one go. Director Qiu heard that the traitors had misled the country, his face was swollen and red with anger, and the white beard was so angry that he was so angry that his mind fluctuated, and he couldn't calm down for a long time.

Yang Shucheng waited for him to calm down and asked how they came to this cave?

It turned out that the Qiu family was a family in the south of the Yangtze River, with wide fields and wealth, and Director Qiu had two sons, the eldest son, Qiu Jiang, and had a son and a daughter, the male was named Qiu Yuzhuo, and the girl was named Qiu Yan.

The second son's name is Qiu Lin, married to Xu Xiuzhen, also the daughter of a rich family, no children, this Qiu Lin is the smartest, first studied literature, and then saw that the state affairs were not changing, so he learned martial arts and went to Beijing to seek fame.

He was outside the customs office, and the court offered a reward for his capture. The magistrate sent troops to surround the Qiu family and asked them to hand over Qiu Lin.

But Qiu Lin never returned. In the end, the imperial court issued a decree, and the Qiu family was exiled to Junzhou for hard labor.

It turned out that Chongzhen became the emperor, and when he saw internal and external troubles, he couldn't be calm, so some ministers came out, saying that he was going to overhaul Wudang, and asked the ancestor to bless Daming.

Emperor Chongzhen saw that the ministers were above the court, talking eloquently and impassionedly, but as soon as the battle started, he failed one after another, and the emperor killed several senior officials in the court, which was also to no avail. Now that the troops outside the border have been defeated again and again, and there are more and more thieves all over the place, he has also moved his mind to use his ancestor to protect the territory and the people.

But after years of war, the treasury was empty, and if you want to overhaul Wudang, there is nothing you can do, so someone came up with a crooked idea to send criminals to Junzhou and let them do hard labor to repair Wudang.

Therefore, Director Qiu's family was not killed, but there were five or six servants escorting dozens of Qiu's family members all the way to Junzhou.

Along the way, they slept in the open air, endured all the hardships, and were tortured and humiliated by the errands, and the Qiu family had already lost all their money in order to avoid trouble, where could they have any more money to give to the errands, so they were bullied by them along the way.

After walking on the road for more than a month, I came to the Xiangyang area, which is not far from Junzhou.

At this time, I heard that the Jin soldiers outside the gate entered the capital, the founding number was the Qing Dynasty, and Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself in the coal mountain, and the Ming Dynasty was already a dead country.

These officers also heard the news and didn't know where to go?

In the middle of the night, Director Qiu also made a quick decision, and while the servants were asleep, he led the family to kill them all.

After the incident, Director Qiu did not dare to lead the family back to his hometown, so he fled north into Tongbai Mountain.

I also walked to this Menglou market town, stayed in the market town for a night, and saw that several armies passed by here, and it was not a safe place.

He led his family to re-enter Tongbai Mountain, which has a vast area, lying between Henan and Hubei, with high mountains and dense forests, and is also a hiding place.

The family went deep into the mountains and also walked to the side of the cemetery, but fortunately they passed by during the day and did not encounter ghosts hitting the wall.

They walked through the cemetery, and walked seven or eight miles inward, and then they came to the foot of this lonely peak, and saw that here the mountains were steep, and the roads were longitudinal, and they could hide.

They buried the pot under the cliff to cook, Director Qiu sat under the tree to rest, and saw a goshawk flying to the cliff halfway up the mountain, and he didn't see it for a long time, thinking that there would be a cave there.

So, they sent people to climb the mountain, but the cliff was so smooth that they couldn't climb it at all.

So he went around and went up from another mountain, climbed to the top of this mountain, and hung down the rope, and one of them climbed down, and sure enough, he found a cave halfway up the mountain, and the entrance of the cave was very secret, and there was a small mountain in front of it, and the entrance of the cave could not be seen from the outside.

The family climbed into the hole, and the eagle inside fluttered out. He walked into the cave and walked more than twenty steps, and a hall appeared in it, more than an acre in size, surrounded by some small holes with twists and turns.

The family walked to the entrance of the cave and pulled Director Qiu up with a long rope. Director Qiu went into the cave and was very satisfied, and immediately decided that the family would live in the cave.

Dragged the whole family into the cave, where the mountains are high and the forests are dense, and there is a war, and no one has come to this place.

During the day, Director Qiu sent his family out to hunt to make a living, and sometimes he would take the prey to the market town to exchange some grain and salt, and he lived in this cave for several months, and because of his cautious handling, no one found them.

No, Yang Shucheng and the others broke into this area in order to avoid the pursuit of Cheng Tuding and Cao Fengying.

Because this cave entrance is very secret, Cheng Tuding and Cao Fengying searched in the mountain for nearly ten days, and turned around this lonely peak several times, but they did not find this cave.

Yang Shucheng and the two lived in the cave with peace of mind, and they lived for more than ten days, Director Qiu was proficient in medicine, and the injuries of the two were all healed, and there was not even a scar on their bodies.

In these days, Qiu Yan went to the cave where Yang Shucheng was, and listened to Yang Shucheng tell about the dangers experienced on the rivers and lakes, this little girl was sixteen or seventeen years old, at home all day long, listening to the thrilling stories outside, and couldn't help but yearn, so she came to talk to Yang Shucheng every day.

This Qiu Yan is beautiful, with a thin willow waist, a cherry mouth, and a pair of big eyes flickering, very cute. Yang Shucheng lived in a cave to recuperate from his injuries and did not feel lonely.

Ten days later, Yang Shucheng was about to leave, and he wanted to protect Wang Huaguo to go to Shaolin Temple in Putian, Fujian.

He promised Miss Taoling, and he must do it.

Director Qiu saw that the two of them were going to Fujian, but they couldn't be delayed, and he couldn't persuade them to stay, so he personally sent Yang Shucheng out.

Then Qiu Yan also wanted to follow, Director Qiu naturally would not agree, then Qiu Yan with a bubble of tears, turned around and ran to his cave, and no longer came out angry.

Director Qiu sent Yang Shucheng and the two of them out of Tongbai Mountain all the way, watching them go south.

Yang Shucheng decided to go south, and only then did he start to walk east, but he was caught up by two people and almost lost his life, so this time he went south.

In the past two months, Wang Huaguo's hair has also grown, tied into small braids, tied with a straw rope, and hung down at the back of her head.

The two dressed as wanderers and headed south together.

It was already early autumn, the sky was high and the clouds were light, the breeze was frequent, and the weather was a little cooler, Yang Shucheng suddenly thought that there seemed to be a few osmanthus trees in the fragrant valley of Miss Mulan, and he thought that the osmanthus was already budding and waiting to bloom.

After walking for more than ten days, he came to the border of Laohekou County, looking at the large county seat, and there were many people coming and going on the road, Yang Shucheng was worried that there were people from Cheng Tuding and Cao Fengying, so he didn't dare to enter the county, so he walked east.

After walking for a day, I came to a market town called Zhangji Town in the evening of this day.

Eat in a small restaurant. It's a mom-and-pop shop with a guy who cooks nothing more than home-cooked food. Yang Shucheng and the two have been walking for more than ten days, and they are also a little greedy, so they asked for a pot of chicken.

The pot of chicken was stewed to a pulp, and the two of them sat and did not drink, so they devoured it.

While he was eating, he heard a voice outside the door: "Mother, ......" and saw a woman flash into the door.

The woman was twenty-three or fourteen years old, and was very good-looking, with willow eyebrows, almond eyes, fair skin, and a thin waist of a bee.

Yang Shucheng glanced at it, he didn't think that the shopkeeper and his wife would have such a beautiful girl.

When the woman saw her mother come out, she hurriedly stepped forward and hugged her, and cried out in a low voice.

It was her daughter who was beautiful and married far away in the county town of Laohekou, her mother was flustered and hurriedly asked:

"What's wrong? What's wrong? ”

The woman said: "It's not that his family thinks I can't give birth to children, and this morning he scolded me again, I replied, and I was beaten by my husband, I ran away from home in anger, and on the way, I met an acquaintance, so I took his car and walked back." Mother, what do you say I should do? ”

When her mother heard this, not for anything else, but for the sake of conceiving a child, her tone became firm, and she said, "You don't have to be afraid, this time you are saved." ”

"What's wrong?"

"There is a Guanyin temple in Baihua Mountain, it works very well, we will go to ask Guanyin tomorrow morning, you will definitely be able to conceive a child."

"Is there really such a spirit?!" Her daughter didn't believe it, in order to conceive a child, she didn't try any home remedies, she didn't drink any bitter medicine, and the results were all disappointed.

"We'll go early tomorrow morning."