A light rain was ticking outside the window, the first rain of spring, but it was not heavy, and it stopped in about a quarter of an hour. There was still some sound of rain beating outside, and the sound of a few people talking inside the house was still the sound of a few people talking.

Duan Gan said treacherously: "There are such strange beasts in this wild boar mountain, could it be that when Brother Bai and I entered the wild boar mountain, these village elders felt that we would die from the giant pig, so they did not let the people in the village chase after them? Or are you afraid that the position of the wild boar mountain will be difficult to distinguish, and you are afraid that you will mess up the direction when you go in? But if as Brother Li said, this giant pig does not seem to hurt people, then have these village elders ever encountered the giant pig?"

Pu Mu said: "Brother Li, how did you get out of the cave after that?"

"It's strange to say, although I know the rhythm, but the music scores I know are all ruler minus words, although there are rulers and subtraction words in the book, but there are some non-piano notation words, if the piano score is played according to the ruler or minus the words, but it is full of strange sounds, and it can't be a law at all. Li Defei said.

Pu Mu opened the piano score, flipped through the pages one by one, and said: "There are some seals in this piano score, and there are both small seals and big seals, Brother Li, how did you deal with these words when you first played them silently in your heart?"

"I skipped it the first time I played it in my mind, and although I thought it would be useful in the book, I couldn't find a pattern, so I had to try it again. While I was bewildered, the giant pig went into the cave, and I saw that it had no intention of harming me, but although it had spirits, it could not speak, and I thought it was trying to tell me something. But the giant pig did not rub my body or be cruel to me as he had done last time, but went to the futon and tore it with his mouth, and the futon immediately fell out with seven beads. The giant pig walked behind the white bone again, and did not make any move. Li Defei said.

"Seven beads ......" Pu Mu looked at the book and said, "Can these seven beads imply the Seven Kingdoms in the pre-Qin period?" Li Defei said: "Brother Pu is really clever, I thought about it for a long time to understand the mystery, and Pu Mu can see through it for a while." ”

Pu Mu said: "The authorities are confused, and the bystanders are clear, how did Brother Li solve this piano score after that." Li Defei said: "The big seal in the book has six languages other than Qin, and the small seal is Qin. Fortunately, I knew some pre-Qin characters, and the Chinese characters in that book were not obscure, so I could see that the zigzag on this sheet music specifically refers to the order of playing, and the score can be played by changing the music according to the ruler and subtracting words. ”

The original Chinese characters are the order of music, as Li Defei said. The places where those big seals are laid are exactly the positions prescribed by the Six Kingdoms, and the places where the small seals are distributed are the places where the Qin States are located. And the sequence of music follows the seal, which is a piece of ruler followed by a subtraction of words, and so on, it is a piece of musical rhythm.

"Strange, why would anyone have set up this mystery here, and there is still a strange beast seeking someone who is destined for it?" Poplar wondered.

Li Defei said: "This is also what I wonder, who made this score, and what is the mystery of it. After I had solved the score, the giant pig took up seven beads and carried the bones, and went to the depths of the cave, and I was even more confused as to why it had learned that I had solved the score. By the way, the music has the sound of the overlord unloading the armor, but some rhythms, but different, and to the back of this music, I still feel a trace of tiger roar echoing in my ears, only to feel an internal force in the chest cavity, as if about to explode. Could it be that there are some secrets of martial arts hidden in the music score?"

"This is bizarre, but since Brother Li has safely reconciled with us, let's not trace the ins and outs of this matter first. By the way, what Brother Pu thought was that Wild Boar Mountain was his base camp, but Brother Li had not encountered an enemy in Wild Boar Mountain, and Wild Boar Mountain was full of strange phenomena, if you want to settle down here, I am afraid it is not the best policy. Duan Gan said treacherously.

Pu Mu moved his eyes to the map, then looked at the piano score, and said, "Brother Li, you just said that you entered the wild boar mountain, and the north and south were determined by trees, but the north and south were reversed, so how did Brother Li come back after that?"

Li Defei said: "I walked straight out of the hole, I didn't look back, and I didn't divide the north and south, but I just moved forward, I went down when I saw the slope, and I didn't care about the chaotic forest, so I walked for a long time, and when I went down to the bottom of the mountain, I saw a path in the dense forest, so I jumped back to the path, only to know that the path was where I walked when I waited for the mountain, and it was also the place where Brother Duan and I were in the fog." ”

Pu Mu looked back at the map again, and thought that Bai Yang and the others had crossed the boundary of the wild boar mountain and arrived in the Zhai River. With a slight stroke of his finger on the map, he fell back into deep thought. For a while, he lost his inch, and when he entered the mountain tomorrow, would he still be as confused as today, if it was still like this, he would probably fall into the trap.

When everyone was at a loss, Duan Gan asked a treacherous question, saying: "Now, how many soldiers and horses do we have?" Pu Mu said: "The imperial court has 10,000 soldiers and horses in Jingjiang Mansion, and the king of Jingjiang has only 1,200 soldiers and horses, and about 500 have been lost by entering the mountain during the day. ”

Li Defei said: "The imperial court's troop transfer order will be a few days later, so it is better for me to block the road into the mountain first, write to the emperor, and wait for the reinforcements to arrive, and then I will make plans." ”

"Now we are waiting for the loss of the soldiers, it is certainly a plan to recuperate and wait in place, but at present, the life and death of Xia Ming and Yan Jing are uncertain, and it is unknown where the people in the village were looted by those gangsters, and Brother Guo is also gone, and he has not yet returned, if I wait here for a day, they will be more dangerous, and waiting here is undoubtedly ignoring their life and death. Poplar said.

Li Defei said: "Xia Ming was robbed and plundered with the people in the village, if you want to know Xia Ming's traces, you can ask the two people who were captured alive during the day, as for Brother Guo and Brother Yan, we still need to go into the mountains to search, but we have lost many soldiers, and many of the people who came back alive today are still seriously injured, only one night but they have to enter the mountain, if they are ambushed again, I am afraid that we will really have no one to use, if the enemy counterattacks the cottage at that time, how should we respond?"

Pu Mu looked at the map and didn't say a word. The raindrops outside the eaves had stopped, and it was less than an hour before dawn broke, and the sergeants who were keeping vigil in the village were now sleepy, and some of them had their heads hanging down to their chests, but when their chins touched their armor, they raised their heads again, and their eyelids were much heavier than usual when they moved the sentry.

"After dawn, I'll go to the Zhai River to explore, Brother Duan, you go down the mountain at dawn, go to the town to buy some medicinal materials you can use, and I'll check the river water." Linghu City, half an hour later, the order was sent down, and a hundred sergeants and I were sent to the Zhaihe River to investigate, and the rest of the sergeants waited in the village. To investigate the Zhaihe, I went with Brother Duan, and Brother Li and Brother Bai stayed behind. What do you think?" said Pu Mu.

Bai Yang said: "Now that the water of the Zhai River is clear, this is related to the doubts that Brother Pu said before, and this doubt can be solved from the water of the Zhai River. ”

"The water of this river is clear, I wonder if I promised anything for those rebels for the Heavenly Dao, and Brother Bai and Brother Duan also said that you were ambushed by the Silver Snake Armor in the Zhai River. Why would they want to ambush you here, and why don't they bring more people with them since they found out you're here? Today, we fought with the Black Rhino Armor, and you have encountered the Silver Snake Armor again, so it seems that the Heavenly Dao has laid a lot of people here, but why didn't they send more people to intercept and kill Brother Bai by the Zhai River that night?"

Duan Gan said treacherously: "They want to drive us to the village, so that we can meet with the people in the village-"

"That's right-" Pu Mu slapped the table and continued: "This is the trick of the people in the Heavenly Dao - the water of the Dongzhai River is exactly what they want, and these Dongzhai people they promised have been turned over at this moment and they don't know it-"

"Why don't you go and interrogate those rebels and tell them what is at stake?" said Poplar.

The sound of conversation in the house gradually stopped, the night was gradually replaced by day, not long after dawn, Bai Yang led thirty guards down the mountain, Pu Mu and others also walked in the direction of the Zhaihe, and the left Li Defei sent the sergeant down the mountain to the Jingjiang King to retreat, so that the Jingjiang King would send the daily letter to the palace, and also inform the Jingjiang King of the investigation for him to decide.

It is only said that the poplar went down the mountain and drove the horse to the Han village, the early morning mist has not yet dissipated, and the Han people have been fetching water by the well, and at this time the poplar let the soldiers slow down, let the horses move slowly, and not disturb the people in the village. In the past few days, the clear-eyed people of the village have known that something has happened to the village on the mountain, not to mention that there are no people who have come here to fetch water yesterday, and this large number of soldiers have gone up the mountain immediately, so it will not be a good thing to come.

The sergeant marched slowly, and Poplar could not bear to break what little peace he had, and although he knew that the people of the Han village had already known that the peace had spread in the mountains, he would still persuade himself to leave a piece of peace for them. At least protect them from being violated by the Heavenly Dao.

Out of the village, Poplar signaled his subordinates to speed up the pace, marching for about a quarter of an hour, this is in the county seat, the county is already under martial law at this moment, the sergeant guarding the city saw the Jingjiang Mansion soldiers and horses coming, and saw the leading poplar, so they went up to greet him. After Poplar explained his intentions, the garrison sergeant immediately let him go. When Baiyang arrived in the city, he sent some of his men to the county government where the king of Jingjiang was resting to explain his intentions to the king of Jingjiang, and he led the rest of his men to the government prison to interrogate the prisoners.

Because those people were not ordinary prisoners, when the sergeants escorted them to the county office, they were directly escorted to the government jail, and only to death row, which was also a court order. In the same way, Bai Yang went straight to the government prison - the five people of Ouchi had come to the government office of this county seat when they came here to judge the case before, and after explaining the matter clearly to the county order, the five of them went to the village, so Bai Yang also knew where the prison here was going.

Turning two main streets, along a side road, there were not many houses here, and it was a hundred and eighty steps to the prison. There were more guards than usual, and when they saw the sergeant and the poplar coming, one of the guards came up and asked, "The little one has seen the adult, but I don't know why the adult is here." ”

As soon as the sergeant under his command wanted to speak, Bai Yang said: "I am the commander of the Ouchi, and I went down the mountain today to interrogate the two prisoners who were imprisoned in yesterday's prison. ”

The guards remembered that King Jingjiang had not left since he went down the mountain to the county yazhong yesterday - everyone in this public gate was rumored that there were five commanders in the inner hall, and each of them was a good hand, and this trip must be a big move in the village, and something that happened would definitely involve the stability of the government. Otherwise, how could the King of Jingjiang and the Ouchi Commanders all come here?

"Bold—the Commander has already opened his mouth to explain his intentions, how can you be allowed to say nothing?" said the sergeant beside Poplar.

Bai Yang interrupted his subordinates' words and said, "If it is inconvenient for you to let me in at this moment, we will wait here for the prince's order." ”

The guard immediately said: "How dare we let the adults wait here, if the adults want to go in and interrogate, we can open the prison door." Someone, lead the way with the adults—"

Poplar asked the remaining sergeants to wait at the prison door, and with that, he entered the door with one of the prison guards. At the end of a path, after entering a small door, there is a patio, and the surrounding houses are the resting places of the guards, and through the patio, after entering the main entrance, there is a cell. There were not many people in the cell, and after three or four bends in the cell, and then into a small room, we reached death row. The three men in bronze armor sat in the cell, and I wonder if the eyes in the helmet saw that someone was coming from the cell.

Poplar ordered the group to exit the cell. The death row was very clean, and Bai Yang said: "I have been wearing this masked helmet that I can't take off for two or three days." Originally, you waited for the blue sky above the village, but now what is it, this Laoshzi masked helmet, and this gloomy death row. What kind of temptation is it that makes you wait like this?"

The three of them didn't reply, and Bai Yang continued: "I don't want to talk to you about why you rebelled against the imperial court, and I'm not here today to preach to you. I have come here only to inform you and other things, that those people have promised you something, and they have not done it. This village water, mountain, sooner or later it will be someone else's. ”

Poplar leaned against the prison door, the fence here was still a little cold, looked at the motionless three, and then said: "I think they have made it very clear to you and others, they must have told you and others, we are court eagle dogs, and it is demagogic to wait with you to know the benefits? But the things they promised you seem to have not been fulfilled. I wonder if you have family and friends, and if they agree with you to do such rebellious things? Yes, how can a person who has no filial piety and no righteousness think about others and only want to be the master of the cottage with all his heart. But the surrounding clansmen are gone, and the master of this cottage just did it, so what's the use?"

One of them tried to get up, but the other grabbed his arm and motioned for him to sit down. Bai Yang caught a glimpse of this scene, and said: "You can't escape the death penalty, but I think I'm afraid that the friends and family you are waiting for will not be able to see you and wait." In fact, if you can't wait to confess, I also know that eight or nine are not far from ten. ”

"When Xia Ming, Yan Jing and others went up the mountain, they first proved that the blackening of the river was done by Miao Village, and wanted to lead me to Miao Village to investigate, but my Da Nei did not take action, but reported the case to Ouchi. In fact, it was not that your plan had failed, although you didn't know it at all, thinking that it was a failure of the plan, so you went to the Heavenly Dao people and told them what Xia Ming and the others had done. I think that at first, the people in the Heavenly Dao wanted you to provoke disputes, and you did this, but you didn't expect that the people in the Heavenly Dao had already thought that you couldn't bewitch Xia Ming and Yan Jing at all, but used the hands of you and others to summon us and other people from the Great Inner to come here. Poplar said.

"That's just one of them. And then you and the others thought that the plan would not work, but they also pretended to be a failure in front of you, and then asked you to wait at the bottom of the mountain to inquire about the news, or their own people to inquire about the news, so that you and others went to play a play, just to blame my big inner people to kill your companions in the village, think that your two companions are also pitiful, knowing that they will die, or to take risks. In fact, you didn't want to die, because at first, they just waited for you to release the fog, so that they could deal with my Da Nei Zhong in the green fog, but they also told you and others that if the plan was revealed, they would run away immediately, saying that they were chasing and killing you, but you didn't expect to die, but fortunately, you and others deceived a few village elders. I think you and others have worried that the imperial court will have a conflict with you, so they are a little embarrassed, and they are afraid that they will not let the people in the inner world who know about Er's plan go down the mountain alive. And they saw one person with you, and that person was Imperial Physician Liu, or Yan Jing. Later, they asked Er and the others to temporarily imprison him in the dungeon of the village. Poplar continued.

Before the two could reply, Poplar paced and continued: "After that, you should know that I kidnapped Ouchi's colleagues. The people of your village did not pursue it at that time, first, the elders of the village did not agree, and second, you also rest assured, because you will think that we will be ambushed by the people of the Heavenly Dao, and then die in the mountains. What Keer didn't expect was that we waited back in the village. I think that when the interception and killing of us and others failed, the people of the Heavenly Dao secretly found you and told you that the interception and killing were unsuccessful, and asked you to blame us and others in the village, but they did not inform you, Xia Ming was also among them——"

The three of them couldn't sit still, and slowly helped the ground to get up, Bai Yang continued: "Fortunately, the village elders didn't fully believe Xia Ming at the moment, but when I said that Er and the others were imprisoned in the dungeon with me, they breathed a sigh of relief, because they could go and report the news." But then, they decided to go to war with us, and they needed to temporarily detain the villagers, or something, so they kidnapped the people in the village. ”

"I'm right-" Bai Yang turned his head, and the three of them were shocked by Bai Yang's words, but what Bai Yang said was about the same, and one of them couldn't help but speak, "Did you catch someone in the Heavenly Dao?"

Poplar said: "Hahahaha..... If they really had a promise, why would they take away the people in the cottage, even the livestock? After you have died of your two companions, you should stop the precipice, but Keer and the others still insist on going their own way, and finally ruin their own way of life. ”

"I will never regret what I have done. If the adults want to kill or chop, listen to the respect. "One of them. The other person immediately spoke, "I only ask for one thing, to rescue the villagers of my village." ”

"Okay, I don't want to talk to you and the others, if I want to rescue the villagers of Dongzhai, you can tell me where they live first-" Poplar said.

Fang Cai said: "The villagers were escorted to Tanglin Mountain by them, and there is a grave of my ancestors in Dongling Mountain, and they think they were taken to the grave. We went with the other promised villagers and the Black Rhinoceros Armor, and they waited for me to put on this poured bronze armor. And if we remove you for them, we will unarm them and promise us what we will do. ”

Bai Yang said: "I see, but how much bargaining chips did they have with you?"

"Your Excellency is not like a god, why can't you guess it now. "The one who was just stubborn.