Hankasa • Volume 1 • Omen of Doom Chapter 8 There is no cave
In the forbidden land of the back mountain, when Xu Qing saw these eight characters, he subconsciously glanced at the couch, put down the book and went around to the back of the couch by Zhao Li's side, there was only a stone wall behind him, but the lines were very different from the cave wall, Xu Qing looked up and down at these lines, but saw the raised stones in the corners.
I was curious for a while, so I squatted down and reached out to the stone, and when I touched the stone, I pressed it down hard, and sure enough, the stone moved.
Xu Qing's face was happy, and he continued to press the stone, and suddenly heard a sound of regret, and four cracks suddenly appeared on the originally good stone wall, which happened to form a frame, and the stone wall in this frame suddenly moved inward, and then slowly lifted up.
Zhao Li woke up, stayed and looked at the stone wall in shock, and saw Xu Qing standing in front of the wall, so he paced over and stood behind Xu Qing.
Xu Qing was looking up at the stone gate, and in a blink of an eye, he saw Zhao Li standing aside, and took a few steps back, and said to Zhao Li: "When did Miss Zhao Ru wake up, why didn't there be any movement?" Zhao Li replied: "This loud sound of pushing the door, how can this girl sleep peacefully? Xu Qing said: "I disturbed the girl's good dreams, and the girl should not be surprised." Zhao Li said: "Hugh is going to say this, how did this stone door open?"
Xu Qing walked to the table, picked up the white strip in the book and handed it to Zhao Li, Zhao Li carefully read the words on it, looked at the back of the couch, and then said to Xu Qing: "There is a mechanism to open the stone door behind this carved wooden couch?" Xu Qing responded: "That's right, would you like to go in with me and have a look?"
But seeing that Zhao Li didn't look at himself, he picked up the book on the table, turned the pages and read it carefully, then walked to Zhao Li's side and said: "This is a book that introduces the "Sword Technique of Stopping Death", not a secret book of martial arts. ”
Zhao Li carefully looked at the words in the book, saw the word "Zhao Sheng", and his heart tightened, this Zhao Sheng is his father's close brother and friend, and he and his father followed the first emperor to pacify the North Saihachi clan, and made countless military exploits, and then somehow disappeared.
According to Daddy, Uncle Zhao dismissed the official and entered the township, returned to the mountains and forests, and never reappeared, Daddy also looked for Uncle Zhao for many years, but found nothing, and now he actually saw Uncle Zhao's name here, and there is a saying in the book, Uncle Zhao wrote the sword spectrum of "Seven Swords of Death", which is really weird.
Uncle Zhao, who was originally a pillar of the imperial court, didn't even know where he was, but now it was written into the book, who wrote this book, and why it appeared in Ye Ji's retreat, so I was even more suspicious of whether Ye Ji had any connection with Uncle Zhao.
Do you know the place where Uncle Zhao is retreating, if you can let yourself see the sword Yang Hou that you have admired since childhood, you will die here, and you will have a wish.
was looking at the book and was distracted, but saw the palm in front of him slipping, turned his head and saw Xu Qing looking at himself suspiciously, and said differently: "Miss Zhao, what interesting things are you thinking about, and you can't hear you talking for a long time?" Zhao Li ignored Xu Qing's words, and only asked Xu Qing: "Where did you get this book?" Xu Qing smiled: "These two books have been stored under the girl's pillow, didn't the girl see it?" Zhao Li said in a trance: "I didn't see it, it seems that this girl is sleepy and hasn't paid attention to the things under the pillow." Then he said: "Do you know the Jianyang Hou who wrote the "Seven Swords of Stopping the Dead" in the book?" Xu Qing said: "I have never heard of Jianyang Hou before, and I have only just read what is said in the book, so I know a little bit about it, why does the girl ask like this, do you know this person?" Zhao Li said: "I don't know, that's why I asked you, and regardless of these, you just want me to follow you into the door to take a look?" Xu Qing said: "Yes, girl, would you like to?"
Zhao Li looked at the stone gate, secretly thinking that it was very strange here, so he said to Xu Qing: "The world behind this gate should be the place where Ye Ji retreats, this Ye Ji is the head of a faction, and there is such a hidden stone gate, you should be reluctant to let others in, why do you leave a note in the book, maybe there will be some secret arrow danger behind this gate, Shaoxia should not be easily fooled." ”
Xu Qing felt that Zhao Li's words were very reasonable, so he paced back a few steps, sat down on the wooden chair, Zhao Li lay down on the couch, and said to Xu Qing: "This girl has an empty belly, can the young man enter the door for me, if you can find anything to eat, and then come back to call me to enter the Tao, so this girl must be very grateful." Xu Qing said angrily: "What does the girl mean by this? is it to be in front of you in the lower block, if you die in the next, you can follow the traces to detect the flaws, and then easily enter the Tao, if you are lucky to find food for the girl, for the girl, you can fill your belly without a trace of strength?" Zhao Li smiled: "You are still a martial arts practitioner, is it difficult for me to ask a girl to explore the way for you?"
Xu Qingpin Zhao Li's words suddenly felt reasonable, thinking that although Zhao Ru held a spear, she was also a woman, and she was not a Jianghu person since she first ascended to Ye Yun, but she could be regarded as half a Jianghu person after learning some stick boxing techniques with her father.
Thus he was silent, and after a moment's thought, he stepped towards the door of the cave.
Zhao Li wanted to joke casually, but how did he know that Xu Qing was really angry and walked into the door as he said, and when he saw that Xu Qing was about to step into the stone door, he immediately got up and shouted: "Hey, what are you doing?" Xu Qing looked back and said: "Didn't the girl let me explore the way for you? Seeing this, Zhao Li hurriedly called: "No, no!"
In an instant, his body swept to Xu Qingzhi's side, pulling his coarse cloth sleeve shirt, Xu Qing turned his head to look at Zhao Li in a daze, but saw Zhao Li and said angrily: "You idiot, this girl said casually, you actually take it seriously? If you unfortunately die in the cave, how can I deal with all kinds of organs behind?" Xu Qing said: "What does that girl want?" Zhao Li sighed: "You better go with me! Anyway, staying here is either starving to death, or being captured and executed by the disciples of the Ye Yun faction, it is better to gamble." Xu Qing said: "Why should the girl be so persistent, you and I can go out of the cave and go down the mountain, and we will not die in this cave in vain." ”
Zhao Li secretly thought that since he had already known Uncle Zhao's traces or would be known by Ye Ji, or that other masters in Ye Yunshan would have Uncle Zhao's message, if he gave up and left, he would never have a chance to find Uncle Zhao again, and when he saw that Xu Qing had the intention of repenting, he couldn't tell him that he had the intention of observing the traces, so he stared at Xu Qing and said: " Xu Qing Shaoxia, you still want to get out of the hole after all, no matter what, everyone has their own ambitions, if you force you to leave, I don't want to stop you, you and I know each other, if you can see each other alive in the future, this girl will definitely drink with you on the moon, and you will leave, don't care about me. ”
Xu Qing was stunned, thinking to himself, that Zhao Li did not hesitate to risk his life, and did not want to find a convenient road, if he left, wouldn't it be the act of the eldest husband, the revenge of his father and mother has not been avenged, how can he be greedy for life and fear death, and live in the world, so he stood up and said: "Miss Zhao, Xu Qing will go with you." Zhao Li said tightly: "Xu Shaoxia, you don't have to take care of this girl. Xu Qing said: "Girl, don't worry, Xu Qing is not reckless for a while, but thinks twice, the girl will come with me." ”
After saying that, he walked towards the stone gate, Zhao Li was helpless, but he quickly caught up with Xu Qing, and then blocked in front of him, went to the door to peek, and saw that there were unlit lamps and candles on both sides of the cave, so he looked at Xu Qing and said: "Xu Shaoxia, the cave is dark and rumbling, but there are two white candles on both sides. ”
Xu Qing couldn't help but look at it, and said again when he heard Zhao Li's mouth: "There is a fire fold by the white candle, and there is a candle shade hanging next to it." After Xu Qing took a closer look, he said to Zhao Li: "If you light the white candle and cover it with the candle cover, it will definitely make the cave clear." ”
Zhao Li nodded in understanding, Xu Qing went into the cave and lit the candle wick on the left side, the candle wick lit up when he landed, Zhao Li lit the candle flame on the right side, the two took the cover and covered it, and the cave was brightly lit.
But the candlelight inside is still pitch black, but they see the same two white candles standing nearby, the two of them go to the white candle and light the wick again, and the front is lit up instantly, so the candles are lit frequently, and after a while, the two go around the hole to the depths, and see that there seems to be the outline of the cave door in front of them, so they hurriedly move forward, look around, grope up and down, and skim to the bottom of the same raised stone as before.
Zhao Li Yixin, squatting to push the stones, the stone door suddenly moved upward, the two walked into the door, but saw the general appearance of things before entering the cave, the same wood carved couch, the same tables, chairs and benches, the same pattern of cups and teapots, except for the pillow did not have the two books that Xu Qing had seen before, even the color of the wooden door in front of it was the same as before.
The two glanced at each other, thought secretly or took a wrong detour, and returned to the place where they first came, Zhao Li looked at the door and said: "Why don't you go into this wooden door and take a look, is it the same as the wound medicine that I usually saw before?"
Xu Qing smiled, walked to the door with Zhao Li, opened the wooden door, and the field of vision suddenly widened a lot, and what appeared in front of him was not a pharmacy, but a kitchen in the cave.
The furnishings in the cave are like a kitchen house, the most obvious is the stove and the wooden cupboard, Zhao Li approached and opened the wooden cupboard, and there were several porcelain bowls and porcelain plates in each lattice door in the cupboard, as well as a few pairs of wooden chopsticks placed on the bowl.
Closing the cabinet door, Zhao Li walked to the stove again, opened the wooden lid, and there was nothing inside.
Xu Qing walked to another cave door on the other side of the cave, and when he walked in, he saw rows of bookshelves, on which some ancient books from the previous dynasty were displayed, only an empty shelf had a gray-faced book on it, and the four big characters "Fallen Divine Sword" were written on the cover.
Xu Qing thought of the previous "Sword Technique of Stopping Death", and secretly thought that it must be about the origin of the divine sword, so he didn't pay attention to it, and was about to turn to some other books to take a look, but he heard Zhao Li's summons from outside the cave.
He was busy running out of the cave, only to see a vegetable garden and a piece of bamboo forest, but he didn't see Zhao Li, and then Zhao Li's voice came again, Xu Qing ran to the back of the vegetable garden, and saw a big peach tree, Zhao Li was waving to this side.
He walked quickly to the peach tree, and saw Zhao Li holding a peach in his mouth, and he was beating the branches on the peach tree with a wooden stick in his hand, and three or five fruit peaches fell.
Xu Qing picked up the peach fruit and hurriedly chewed it in his mouth.
Zhao Li nibbled on a few mouthfuls of fruit and said to Xu Qing: "Brother Xu, you can beat peaches here first, and I'll go to the house and get a wooden basket." ”
Xu Qing had a peach in his mouth, nodded his head, and Zhao Li slowly climbed down the tree and ran straight to the cave.
Xu Qing picked up the wooden stick and continued to beat the peach branch, and the bright red fruit peach fell down one after another, but the wooden stick was not very long, it could not reach the big peach at the top of the tree, and it could not eat the largest peach fruit, so he was unwilling, so he leaned the stick against the trunk, picked up his sleeves, and climbed up with both hands holding the tree.