Chapter 5: Descendants of the Demon Sect
Shen Yong turned his face and slowly opened his eyes, the old man Ah Huang was licking his face with his wet tongue, and his mouth made a "woo" sound, calling for himself to wake up, and Ah Huang's prey was still thrown on the ground, a hare that had been bitten to death.
Shen Chaixing looked at the only "relative" in the world, a warm current surged into his heart, he hugged Ah Huang's fat body tightly, and the cold brought by the night rain was gradually dispelled. The light rain also slowly stopped.
This family can't stay any longer, and the opponent will come to the door at any time. Shen Chaixing went back to the house to pack some necessary luggage on the road, picked up the package handed over to him by Daddy, and took Ah Huang to prepare to go down the mountain overnight.
As soon as he went out, he heard Ah Huang Chong's low bark in the distance, Shen Chaixing looked into the distance, and saw two points of fire on the mountainside coming straight to the mountain, extremely fast. At this time, the people who come up can only be enemies, but if you go down the mountain to dodge, it will be too late. What to do?
Xing'er led Ah Huang to the haystack in the threshing floor, opened a hole for Ah Huang to hide in, and touched its head to silence it and not come out. Ah Huang seemed to understand that there was danger, and obediently hid inside.
After arranging Ah Huang, Shen Chaixing took the small bag left by his father, climbed the big locust tree, held his breath quietly, and hid among the branches and leaves. After a while, two people came up from the mountain.
The two are a man and a girl, and they are not very old. The man is about twenty, tall, with a red forehead scarf on his head, and a square face in Chinese characters, although he is not good-looking, but his eyes are like electricity, and his temples are high and bulging, which is quite masculine. Holding a torch and carrying a long-armed scimitar. The woman was only seventeen or eighteen years old, with a well-proportioned figure, a thin waist and large breasts, a long whip wrapped around her waist, a short sword hanging, a torch in one hand, and a small animal like a cat and a raccoon dog in the other.
"Third Senior Brother, it's here!" the woman said, her voice having a lazy and sultry taste.
The "third senior brother" made a gesture to stop her in place, held a torch, and quickly circled the house like a ghost, and only after making sure that there was nothing abnormal did he gesticulate, and then the two entered the house to check.
After a short time, the two men walked out of the hut, holding the gold ring and the nameplate left by the Assassin.
The two came to the grave and stood. The woman looked at the new grave, turned her face to the man and said, "Third Senior Brother, according to the report, the clue to King Wu's treasure is on a father and son in this place, do you think there is really someone in this tomb, or is it a plan to get out of this tomb?"
"That's not easy, just dig it up and see. With that, the man picked up a hoe not far away and was about to dig up the grave.
Seeing this, the woman stepped forward and gently pressed the man's arm, and said with a smile: "Senior brother, I know you have strength, but you have to find the right place to do it!"
When the man heard this, he didn't know what to remember, and his face immediately turned red. The woman giggled and said, "The famous Demon Sect's descendant, the Red Wolf Meng Lichi, actually blushed, who would believe it? You see that the weapon in our hands is a long-rumored life-killing gold ring on the rivers and lakes, and the weapons on our side have been abandoned, indicating that the master is dead, and it must be the father." The footprints left in front of the grave and the thin handprints left on the grave must have been left by his son. Also, guess why the door panel is missing?"
"It must have been buried in the grave as a simple coffin, and if it was fake, I would not have thought of this detail at all. Seeing that Meng Lichi was still puzzled, the woman continued to explain: "Poor people who can't afford coffins often use door panels to fill the number, and my brother is a descendant of the Golden Family, and he has been eating since he was a child, so how can he know this. Speaking of this, I don't know if it touched my heart, and sighed softly.
The woman said this, paused for a while, thought for a while, and continued: "There are traces of simple cleaning in the house, and I don't see the flint fire knife and fire fold, which means that the child has already taken it away, but there are still damp footprints in the house, and it has not rained for a long time, which means that the child has not gone far, and after a while, let the brocade smell the smell, and he will definitely be able to catch up." Meng Lichi nodded and praised: "It is worthy of the silver fox Ye Mei!" After that, he carried the brocade fox into the house, and after a while, the brocade civet sniffed the smell and came out of the house and went straight to the direction of the valley field.
Shen Chaixing hid on the top of the tree and listened to Ye Mei's meticulous analysis, and he also secretly admired it, and at the same time he was worried that the smell of his body would be smelled by the brocade civet, and as soon as the thought in his heart moved, he felt that the pores all over his body were quietly closed, his heartbeat dropped, and his breathing was as thin as a gossamer. I secretly wondered in my heart that my body could move at will today, so strange.
After going round the grave, the civet went straight to the bottom of the tree, and stopped there after two turns, as if he had noticed something but was not sure.
The two also got suspicious and came to the tree, only to see that the big locust tree was as high as ten zhang away, although the branches were thick, but the smooth part of the trunk was three or four zhang high, and the trunk was extremely thick, an adult could not hold it, a child should not be able to go up, was hesitating whether to climb the tree to check, the mutation suddenly appeared.
Suddenly, a yellow lightning bolt flashed from the haystack and struck the civet. It turned out that when the civet was fluting, Ah Huang pounced on him from behind and bit the throat of the civet, and the civet suddenly let out a squeak and rolled desperately.
When the two of them found out about the abnormal noise, Ah Huang had already bitten the golden civet, and the red wolf Meng Lichi shouted loudly and kicked Ah Huang. The force of this kick was very heavy, and Ah Huang flew out three feet before he fell to the ground and died, but he still clenched his mouth. When the two arrived, they found that the civet had also been bitten to death.
Shen Chaxing, who was hiding in the tree, was sad, but he could only suppress his grief.
Seeing the tragic death of his sister's beloved object, the red wolf Meng Li Chi was furious, and pulled out the nine-ring golden knife to chop Ah Huang to pieces. But Ye Mei persuaded the senior brother: "It must be a wild dog hiding in the haystack to avoid the rain, thinking that we were going to catch it with a brocade civet, and it became a beast and bit the brocade civet to death." Senior brother, why do you have to deal with a dog and get dirty? Maybe this is the fate of the two of them? Since they can't be separated, let's bury them together. Meng Lichi was also happy when he heard it, and said: "This dog has a bit of the wolf nature of my grassland, and I like it a little bit when you say this." ”
The two dug a pit and hastily buried the two beasts. After the incident, Ye Mei said to Meng Lie: "Senior brother, when I came out, Shizun once said that the treasure of King Wu was very important, and the gold, silver, jewelry, and weapons were secondary. He took out the nameplate and looked at it, handed it to Meng Lichi, and asked, "Senior brother, do you know the origin of this brand?"
"I haven't seen a sign like this," Meng Li said, "but I seem to have seen the pattern on it, it should be the mark of 'Ethereal Palace'." ”
"Seeking Immortal Island in the East China Sea, Ethereal Palace?" Ye Mei frowned when she heard this: "Originally, there were two forces that tracked down King Wu's treasure, Jinyi Wei was in the light, we were in the dark, and now there is another Ethereal Palace, the situation is a bit complicated, let's go down the mountain immediately, Senior Brother, your tracing and tracking skills are the first, on the one hand, we will continue to track the clues, and at the same time we must guard against the yellow finch of the Ethereal Palace, on the other hand, we will arrange for someone to hand over the nameplate and gold ring to Shizun, and wait for further arrangements from his old man." ”
Meng Lichi nodded yes, picked up the torch, and the two quickly descended the mountain. In a few moments, the two flames had disappeared at the bottom of the mountain.
Seeing that the enemy was gradually moving away, Shen Chaixing gently climbed down from the tree. Raised his legs to the threshing floor, looked at Daddy's new grave and Ah Huang's burial place, and stood in a daze.
A strong aura of sadness spread from the tip of his heart little by little, burning his body and rushing to his brain like wildfire. Originally, he had no memory of the death of his biological parents, and Shen Chaixing's death endured his grief, hoping that his strong life could comfort Daddy's spirit in the sky. The appearance of Ah Huang made Shen Chaixing overjoyed, thinking that God had not abandoned him. However, Ah Huang died, and died to protect himself, maybe he went with Daddy today, Ah Huang would not die, maybe he died with his biological parents, Daddy would not die, perhaps, there was no self in this world, and his biological parents would still be alive and well. Since there is no love in life, why not dig a pit in front of Daddy's grave, sleep here, and accompany you?
Thinking of this, I have made up my mind, my heart is a little less sad, and I bow my head to pick up the hoe.
As soon as he lowered his head, he suddenly saw another figure quietly sticking to the ground under the shadow of the swaying trees on the ground, motionless.
Midnight. Ying Tianfu. Jin Yiwei commanded the envoys.
Jiang Huan walked out of the "small warehouse" of Jinyiwei, wiped the blood stains on his hands, listened to the heart-rending screams coming from the prison behind him, and sighed with satisfaction, the anxiety and uneasiness subsided slightly, the nameless fire disappeared, the body relaxed, and the heart tended to be calm. I don't know if it's the practice of the exercises or some other reason, Jiang Huan is excited or nervous, and a nameless fire will be generated in the lower dantian, slowly burning his own strange meridians and eight veins little by little. At this time, the flattery of his subordinates can't extinguish the fire, Tianxianglou Red Aunt Xiaoyunu Xiaoyuxian's tactful and joyful, moaning and screaming can't completely solve the problem, only by torturing others with his own hands, watching others survive under all kinds of torture and can't die, the desperate eyes, the howl of pain, can make yourself satisfied, and the nameless fire can be extinguished.
Of course, all this can never be seen by others from Jiang Huan's face. Jiang Huan was in his early forties, tall and thin, with a long horse face, raised cheekbones, and a white complexion, this face seemed to be a mask, and it was the same cold expression without joy and sorrow at all times. A pair of squinted eyes seem to be open and closed, occasionally looking at you, the breathtaking cold light can make people nightmares every night.
Jiang Huan was born in a small fishing village in the remote part of eastern Zhejiang, and was adopted by wealthy distant relatives in Ying Tianfu after the death of both his parents. Within a few years, the members of the family died one after another due to illness or accident, and finally the old owner left a will before his death to leave all the family property to Jiang Huan. Jiang Huan then became the owner of the house. After Jiang Huan took charge of the family, he wantonly scattered his wealth and made friends with powerful people. Soon, he got an errand in the pro-army governor's mansion. In the fifteenth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang transformed the pro-army Governor's Mansion and the Yiluan Division into the Jinyi Guard Command Envoy, and Jiang Huan became a general banner of the Jinyi Guard. After that, Jiang Huan was sent by hundreds of households, thousands of households, and pacification, commanding affairs, and commanding Tongzhi, all the way up, and finally became the new commander of Jinyi after Mao Xiang was convicted and killed.
Jin Yiwei originally had three functions, guarding duty, reconnaissance and arrest, and in charge of the prison, among which the famous Jinyiwei "edict" was the most frightening, and then because of the complaints, the people were extremely angry, Zhu Yuanzhang was worried that Jinyiwei would abuse his power, so in the 20th year of Hongwu, the internal and external prisons were abolished from the duties of Jinyiwei and handed over to the judicial department to deal with. However, sometimes the arrested prisoners could not be escorted to the Criminal Department or Dali Temple in time, and needed to be temporarily detained, so Jiang Huan set up a secret prison for this purpose, which insiders jokingly called "small warehouses".
After Jiang Huan became the commander, he never gave up the pursuit of King Wu's treasure. Two years ago, Jiang Huan carefully studied the details of Shen Heng's past, and only Shen Heng had a soft spot for a certain rice wine, so he secretly monitored and investigated the sales trend of this wine throughout the country, and finally got Shen Heng's clues at the beginning of this year, and immediately arranged for his son Jiang Yulin to go to check. Jiang Huan is still at ease with his son Jiang Yulin's martial arts schemes, so that Jiang Yulin is very young about himself in this regard. All, Jiang Huan was relieved to let his son go out to run errands.
There is another reason for Jiang Huan's reassurance, which is a reason that only he knows, and even Jiang Yuhuan doesn't know: every time he goes out, Jiang Huan arranges for "Mei" to follow secretly and escort him. "Charm's" sneaking skills have reached an unpredictable state, and if he wants to hide, only he can find himself in this world.
"Mei" is not Jinyiwei, "Mei" does not belong to this sunny world, he belongs to another dark and mysterious world. Jiang Huan and "Mei" both belong to a secret "organization", "Mei" is a weapon, Jiang Huan currently controls this weapon, of course, Jiang Huan has no doubt that when the "organization" needs it, or when he does not complete the task of the "organization", this weapon will cut off his head at any moment that Jiang Huan did not expect.
Jiang Huan's "fire" is not without reason, it has been half a month since he learned that Shen Heng's clues arranged for Jiang Yulin to go, and he has received Jiang Yuhuan's secret report continuously in the early stage, and there has been no news in the past three days, if something happens, "Mei" will also send the news. The "Treasure of King Wu" is too important, not only is it urged by Zhu Yuanzhang every day, but it is also a task that must be completed under the orders of the "organization".
In addition, the "organization" formulated a plan a few years ago, the goal of which was to defeat or even eliminate these founding feats through various means, so as to achieve the goal of weakening or even crushing the military strength of the Ming Dynasty. After several years of arrangement, the plan has reached the stage where it should be concluded, and the finishing touch. Thinking of this, Jiang Huan's head began to ache faintly again, and the "fire" that had just been extinguished rose from his lower abdomen little by little.
Shen Chaixing suddenly looked back and saw the silver fox Ye Mei standing in front of him with a smile. Shen Chaixing was shocked at first, and then his heart calmed down, and he secretly thought: "I'm a person who is about to leave this world, what else is there to be afraid of?" Glancing down the mountain from the corner of his eye, he saw that the two fires were quickly turning back up the mountain, and immediately understood that Ye Mei asked Meng Lichi to go down the mountain with two torches in his hands, creating the illusion that the two of them were going down the mountain, and secretly turned back to check, thinking that this woman was cunning and suspicious, worthy of the name of "Silver Fox". Thinking about this, I actually showed a smile that was relieved and so good.
Ye Meishang met Shen Chaixing for the first time.
After quietly going up the mountain, Ye Mei stood quietly at the only exit next to the boulder, and when she saw Shen Chaixing standing in front of the grave, she was overjoyed, as she expected. I thought that this son was young, and he was helpless and helpless, so he should coax the other party to go to Mobei willingly with him with rhetoric, if he traveled thousands of miles by force, it would be very troublesome. Thinking of this, the attention has been decided, as long as it is a man, no matter how old or young, he will become obedient in front of him, Ye Mei is full of confidence in this.
Seeing Shen Chaixing turn around, Ye Mei looked at it attentively. Suddenly, my eyes lit up.
I saw that the young man's body seemed to be thin, but his bones were well-proportioned, his limbs were slender, his forehead was high and raised, and his bright eyes were particularly eye-catching.
Ye Mei's heart fluttered slightly, and at the same time, she secretly thought in her heart What is wrong with me? Control her emotions, Ye Mei took a few steps forward, and said with a smile: "My name is Ye Mei, I don't know what to call the little brother?"
Shen Chaixing saw Ye Mei approaching and took a few steps back. The cliff is not far behind, and the fierce mountain wind blows Shen Chaixing's clothes and hunts.
Shen Chaixing made a stop gesture to Ye Mei, and after seeing Ye Mei stop, he said, "My name is Shen Chaixing, and my father is Shen Heng." Thank you for burying Ah Huang and not touching my father's grave. My father never told me what you wanted, so naturally I have nothing to say. In a blink of an eye, he glanced at Daddy's grave again, turned around and continued: "Now that all my relatives have left me, I have nothing to love, even if there is really any secret, let me take it with me!"
Ye Mei found that it was not good, and hurriedly untied the long whip wrapped around her waist and rolled towards Shen Chaixing, and when she was about to wrap up Shen Chaixing's legs, Shen Chaixing actually rose gently, her toes slid over the tip of the whip, her arms were open, and she flew off the cliff like a big bird.
The darkness quickly engulfed his figure, leaving only Ye Mei standing on the edge of the cliff in despair.