Chapter 7, is the original Gusu Murong still there?

With a decision in his heart, Li Shucheng's cultivation time was greatly reduced. In addition to internal strength and contemplation, the rest is just to complete the task every day, so as not to be rusty. And the freed up time is just enough to review more homework, practice doing articles, and still have to take the imperial examination.

"Well, Shucheng, your article has made a lot of progress recently. In the school, Mr. read Li Shucheng's article and praised, "Work harder and think harder." ”

"Yes, sir. Li Shucheng respectfully replied. Respecting the teacher is not to say, Mr. preaches and receives karma to solve doubts, and has paid a lot of hard work, dare not respect the teacher, don't want to achieve success in the industry. even angered Mr., and there was a rumor that you did not respect the teacher, which directly cut off your road to the imperial examination.

Moreover, this gentleman is an old qualified lifter and should have a lot of experience. Suzhou's literary style is flourishing, there are many readers, and the number of places taken in each session is not much, and it is not an exaggeration to describe the examination with thousands of troops crossing the single-plank bridge.

Farewell sir, Li Shucheng thought as he walked home, and this reading is really not easy to read. At this time, there is no familiar level of Xiucai, and anyone who has not been selected can be called Xiucai. In other words, Xiucai is just an honorific title for scholars, such as Li Shucheng, although he has only been studying for a few years and did not take an exam, now others can also call him Li Xiucai. If you want to take the exam, the first step is to solve the exam, and after that, you will raise people and get the qualification to take the provincial exam.

And if you don't pass the provincial exam, you will not be able to lift people for the rest of your life if you win the provincial exam, and you can only keep it for three years, and the next exam will have to start from the solution test.

In this way, it seems that we still have to be prepared to persist for a long time. Li Shucheng thought. He was not a child prodigy, he was not very interested in Confucian scriptures, and he had some difficulty in learning, "If he can take the exam after the age of twenty, even if he tries hard, there is almost no hope of passing the exam." ”

As he grew older, Li Shucheng felt that he had the power to protect himself, and he planned to start visiting Murong's house.

The story of "Tianlong Babu" takes place in the reign of Zhezong, just over a hundred years ago. At the beginning, the Gusu Murong family had a well-known reputation in the rivers and lakes, because of the martial arts of Douzhuan Xingxing, they broke out of the name of "returning the other way to the other". Since Murong Dragon City, the Murong clan has been a master in every generation.

For the sake of the impossible dream of recovering the country, Murong Bo cheated himself and his son. He faked his death early, and then hid in the dark like a mouse, stealing Shaolin 72 stunts and almost killing himself. His son Murong Fu also insisted on the dream of recovering the country because of his childhood instillation until he finally became a madman.

"Even if Murong Fu is crazy, there is Abi by his side, and it is impossible for the Murong clan to be the last. Li Shucheng thought, "It's just that why haven't you heard of the reputation of the Murong family all these years? Did they live a low-key life or did they move away, or what happened?"

"No matter, let's look for it first. Murong's family is in Gusu Yanziwu Shenhe Villa, it has only been a hundred years, and there has been no change of dynasty, and the name of Yanziwu should not change. Swallow Dock is at most a town or something, and the scope should not be large. And Shenhe Villa, as the residence of the Murong family, must be well built, and the area is also very large, not comparable to ordinary people's houses, so it is easy to find. It's much easier to think about it.

Li Shucheng plans to take the time to search recently to determine if there are still people in the Murong family. In "Dragon Babu", among the people with superb martial arts, Xiao Feng died, and Xuzhu became the palace master of the Vulture Palace, but the Vulture Palace did not have a shadow in the rivers and lakes, and I don't know if it was hidden or something had changed. Duan Yu became the Yellow Emperor, and Duan Zhixing, the Southern Emperor, was his grandson. The sweeping monk was already in Shaolin, and he must have died in Songshan. Wu Yazi is dead, Su Xinghe and his disciples are okay, and their martial arts are almost gone. As for Li Qiushui's inheritance, now that Xixia is still there, there should be heirs, but in the palace, how can they mix the rivers and lakes, and it is normal for the rivers and lakes not to hear about their reputation.

"It's a pity that the exercises created by the predecessors have disappeared in the long river of history like this. Li Shucheng thought that he didn't have much greed for the Murong family's mastery and the martial arts secrets in the room of the Shui Pavilion, and he hoped that the Murong family would pass it on.

Swallow Dock is really still Swallow Dock, and Li Shucheng didn't take much time to inquire about Swallow Dock.

Then I found a time to go out and headed towards the Swallow Dock.

A hundred years have passed, although Swallow Dock is still called Swallow Dock, but Li Shucheng has been looking for several days, not only did he not find Shenhe Villa, but even the Qin Yun Xiaozhu and Tingxiang Pavilion were nowhere to be found.

"It seems that the Sanhe Villa should be in ruins. Li Shucheng sighed. Looking all over Yanziwu, the area occupied by the house building did not exceed that of Li Shucheng's family at all, and it could not be Shenhe Villa.

"However, it's all here, even if it's a ruin, you have to go and see it. Li Shucheng made a decision.

"You said the Murong family, na, that piece is where the Murong family was at the beginning. An old man said to Li Shucheng, and pointed to a place overgrown with weeds at the foot of the mountain diagonally opposite, and sighed and said, "What a big Zhuangzi, after the Jin soldiers came, there was a big fire, and there was nothing!"

"Jin Bing goes south!" Li Shucheng was taken aback. More than 70 years ago, in the fourth year of Jianyan, the Jin soldiers broke through the city of Suzhou, plundered and plundered, set fire to the city, the fire burned for five days and five nights, and the city of Suzhou fell into ruins. The current prosperous city of Suzhou was rebuilt after the Jin soldiers retreated.

"Yes, my father fled into the mountains, and heard the neighing of people and horses from afar, and soon puffs of smoke rose into the sky, and the fire continued to burn for half the night, and half of the sky was red. "Since then, it has been desolate." ”

"Alas, what a sin!" Li Shucheng sighed. No wonder I haven't heard about the Murong family since then. It is said that even if the Murong family is not mixed with the rivers and lakes, but a hundred years ago, the Murong family had a great reputation in Suzhou and had a lot of industries, so there was no news at all, it turned out that it was because of the military disaster more than 70 years ago.

Listening to what the old man said, even if there were few people in the Murong family who escaped at that time, plus the ancestral house property was destroyed, they simply left Suzhou.

"War disasters, arson, so the water pavilion is destroyed. Li Shucheng thought for a moment and no longer had expectations.

Li Shucheng said goodbye to the old man, came to the ruins of the original Shenhe Villa, roughly estimated the area, and determined that this should be where the Shenhe Villa is located.

Standing on a high place and looking around, I saw two tombstones in the distance. Li Shucheng performed light skills, quickly came to the tombstone, looked at the names on the tombstone, and knew that it was the graves of Murong Fu and A Bi. At a glance, Li Shucheng found that the tomb had not been tidied up for a long time, if it weren't for the good construction of the tomb, the ground around it was also paved with stone slabs, and the tomb would have been covered by weeds and trees.

Li Shucheng did the math and found that Murong Fu had not lived past the age of sixty, and Abi was the same. However, the two of them really have a descendant, named Murong Ping. However, after so many years of not coming to worship the ancestors, it seems that no one in the Murong family escaped from that military disaster.

Looking at the graves of the two of them, he thought about it for a while, bowed down before continuing to search, and soon found the grave where Murong Bo faked his death.

"In "Tianlong Babu", Murong Bo saw through the red dust, he became a monk in Shaolin, and he must have died in Songshan, so what is in this empty tomb?" Li Shucheng looked at the tombstone steadily, a little curious in his heart, "Is it empty or is there a treasure such as jewelry?"

If you're curious, just open it and see if it's okay.

"Usually there are mechanisms in secret rooms, and if this empty tomb is a secret room, then there must be mechanisms to open it. Li Shucheng pondered, his eyes looked around, to see if there was anything special, there might be an organ.

After looking at it for a while, he didn't find anything special, Li Shucheng smiled bitterly and shook his head, if there is a special place, then not everyone can find it, or what kind of secret room?

Knocking and tapping on the tombstone, buttoning and touching, and finally finding the mechanism on the pattern of the tombstone base, Li Shucheng pressed it, and the stone slab in the middle of the tombstone base retracted and then sank down, revealing the hole.

"There really is!" Li Shucheng became excited. Even if there is nothing in it, it satisfies the curiosity of exploring on your own.

"There has been no ventilation for a long time, so you have to breathe it first, otherwise there will be no air inside, so I just used this time to make two torches for lighting. Li Shucheng thought about it for a while, took local materials, and made two torches from dead branches and weeds.

After the torch was ready, Li Shucheng slapped a few palms at the entrance of the cave, poured the wind into the hole, and then held his breath and climbed into the cave before lighting the torch with a fire sickle.

Why don't you use fire folds like in TV dramas? There is a time limit for fire excerpts to preserve fire, and they will burn out after a while, and Li Shucheng is so troublesome that he didn't bring them at all.

"The scythe is also troublesome to use, and it seems that it is convenient to make matches if there is a chance. Li Shucheng finally lit the torch and sighed as he walked. In fact, matches have been invented a long time ago, but they don't burn as soon as they rub them off.

After walking along the passage for five or six meters, I entered a stone chamber with a length and width of five or six meters. Li Shucheng took a look at it, except for the coffin in the middle, there was nothing in the stone room.

Walking in cautiously, and then walking around the coffin, Li Shucheng found that the coffin lid was not nailed, and for fear of a trap, he retreated into the passage, and then threw out the unlit torch to knock the coffin lid away.

Seeing that the coffin lid flew out and fell to the ground, there was no other movement in the stone room, so he walked in with confidence.