Chapter 19: The Tang Gate
Some things can be successful if you work hard, and some things may not succeed no matter how hard you try.
Shen Lang said to Qi Yiyan that he once helped Jia Quan do one thing, half of it was successful, half of it was unsuccessful, what was it, and who did he meet?
In other words, Shen Lang felt that what he helped Jia Quan did was not in line with his own ideas, and the life he was living now was not what he wanted. He sometimes expressed different opinions on Jia Quan's approach, and after a few times, Jia Quan became more and more uneasy about him, but Shen Lang was Jia Quan's most powerful helper, and many things still needed Shen Lang to complete for him, and now there was no one who could replace Shen Lang's role.
Thinking that Jia Quan was not at ease with him, and sometimes he would plant nails around him, which made Shen Lang feel extremely sad, and also made Shen Lang re-examine his relationship with Jia Quan, and felt more and more that he could not stay by Jia Quan's side.
In order to give himself a way out, when he visited a shopping mall, Shen Lang saw a kind of recording equipment, which looked like a zipper pull, so he bought this recording equipment, broke the zipper of a pair of pants he often wears, and then found a tailor to change the recording equipment to the pants, and recorded some conversations between him and Jia Quan as evidence.
In the third year when Shen Lang and Jia Quan knew each other, Jia Quan asked his subordinate Erdaozi to bring a letter to Shen Lang and asked Shen Lang to go, saying that there was something important for Shen Lang to do. And don't let Shen Lang let people know that he went to Jia Quan. When Shen Lang heard this, he knew that Jia Quanding had something important and couldn't let outsiders know, so he put on the pants with recording equipment when he left.
After going, Jia Quan told him to let him go to Tangmen, Sichuan to buy a little of the most toxic medicine back, he really couldn't buy it, and he could also find a poison master in Tangmen, as for the reward, Shen Lang could agree according to the situation, as long as it was not ridiculously high, at that time, Shen Lang casually asked what to do with this poison, Jia Quan said, the second master needed, suddenly realized something, and then immediately changed the topic, and did not go on.
The next day, Shen Lang said goodbye to Jia Quan, and under Jia Quan's repeated instructions, he left South China and went to Tangmen, Sichuan. Sichuan Tangmen is located in the Daba Mountain.
Daba Mountain, a mountain in western China. In a broad sense, Daba Mountain refers to the general term for the border mountains of Chongqing, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu and Hubei provinces. The eastern end extends to the western part of Hubei Province and is connected with Shennongjia and Wushan; It is bordered by the Motianling Mountains in the west and the Hangang River Valley in the north. Northwest-southeast trending. Most of the peaks are above 2,000 meters above sea level.
Due to the wide distribution of limestone, the karst landform is developed, with peak clusters, underground rivers, trough valleys, etc. There are also remnants of ancient glaciers. The river valley is deeply cut, with a drop of 800 to 1,200 meters, and there are only a few small mountain basins such as Chengkou in Chongqing and Wanyuan in Sichuan. Daba Mountain in the narrow sense, in the east of the Han River tributary through the river valley, the border of Chongqing, Sichuan, Shaanxi and Hubei provinces, is the watershed of the Han River and the Jialing River, with an altitude of 1,000 to 2,000 meters. The main peak, Shennongding, is more than 3,100 meters above sea level and is located in Shennongjia Forest District, Hubei Province.
The highest peak, Shennongding, used to have only an elevation on the map, but no name, so it was called "Nameless Peak". In 1981, the people of Shennongjia Forest District submitted to the people of Hubei Province for approval, and officially named it "Shennongding". The Qing Dynasty "Xingshan County Chronicle" called this place "Shennong Mountain", because it is said that Shennong's family had tasted a hundred herbs here.
The main peak of Shennongjia also has the name of "wooden city", which means that the forest is vast and dense like a city wall. Shennong's top arrow bamboo is thick, fir is forested, rhododendron leaves are gorgeous, evergreen in all seasons, and the ancient folk also called it "Four Seasons Mountain". Sichuan Tangmen is in Tangjiabao, the peak of the dragon in Daba Mountain.
According to legend, the founder of Sichuan Tangmen is Tang's sister-in-law, after several years of development and changes, the head of Sichuan Tangmen is called Tang Ying, who is the 10,000,180th generation head of Tangmen, and now he is old, and the position of head is passed to a young girl.
The head of the Tang Sect has a rule of succession, in principle, it is passed on to women and not men, and it is passed on to the younger and smarter juniors in the Tang Sect, so the juniors are more innovative in the development of the poison of the Tang Sect's secret weapons. The hidden weapons that have been passed down from generation to generation in the Tang Sect include the five poisonous divine sand and bamboo darts, as well as poisonous needles, especially poisonous needles, there is a way to shoot called full of rain in the sky, which makes people unable to guard against and dodge.
Tang Men is also one of the martial arts sects that everyone is not familiar with, and feels strange and fearful, one reason is that the martial arts people in the rivers and lakes are afraid of the unparalleled secret weapons and poisons in the Tang Sect, and they cannot peep into the true face of the Tang Sect in Shu, the second reason is that the Tang Sect is the same as the Qimen in Shu, and few people in his sect walk around the rivers and lakes, and the third is that the head of the Tang Sect is basically a woman.
Women are less concerned about things on the rivers and lakes, so most martial arts people think that the Tang Sect is an evil sect in the rivers and lakes, and they stay away. The disciples of the Tang Sect did not care about the comments of the world at all, and still walked alone and walked the rivers and lakes.
Legend has it that no matter who is hit by any kind of secret weapon of the Tang Sect, it is only possible to watch the wound fester, and then slowly wait for death, which is really miserable. People in the martial arts are afraid of tigers and have headaches.
The Tang Sect is good at using poison, which makes the people in the rivers and lakes frightened and change their color. Its poison is colorless and tasteless, so it is called "shadowless poison".
And once it is poisoned, it will cause death soon after the attack, so few people will dare to oppose the Tang Sect. Even if he is one of the best masters in the rivers and lakes, once poisoned, if there is no unique antidote from the Tang Sect, or the poison treatment of the Tang Sect's mental method, it will be difficult to escape the disaster.
Although the light skills of the Tang Sect are not as famous as hidden weapons and poisons, they are also unique in the world. Shen Lang wanted to go to the Tang Gate to find the people in the Tang Gate, and he had some understanding of the Tang Gate in advance.
On this day, Shen Lang reached the peak of the Divine Dragon, he thought that he would meet two wild people, I heard that the wild man is infinite, and his height is more than twice that of a normal person, once you make the wild man of the Divine Dragon Frame angry, the consequences are unimaginable.
Therefore, every step of walking on the Shenlong Frame and the peak of the Shenlong Sword, Shen Lang was cautious. Fortunately, from the bottom of the slope to the peak, I did not encounter a single wild man, and I saw more foxes, macaques, roe deer, pheasants, wild finch, pheasants, and many unknown wild flowers and wild fruits.
After walking for a long time, as I walked, the dense forest disappeared just now, and suddenly opened up in front of me, and I was greeted by a different scene. In front of you is a large open area, there is a bent river on the left like a jade belt around a small hill not far away to float into the distance, on the right is a pond of more than ten acres, the lotus flowers in the pond are blooming brightly, occasionally a gust of wind blows, the faint lotus fragrance floats into the nostrils, drills into the heart and lungs of people, all organs of people will be impregnated, as if bathed in a flower soup, suddenly refreshed.
Next to the lotus pond, a willow tree is exuding the scent of summer, and there is a sign standing next to the willow tree, and the words on it are not very clear. Below is a fifty or sixty square dam, and an old lady in her eighties is dancing. There is a road along the embankment of the river, and another path next to the willow tree, which leads to the small hill not far away, behind which it looks like a small village, but there are not many houses.
Shen Lang felt strange and was about to ask for directions, so he walked along the path by the pond and said hello to the old man, at this time he saw the words on the sign "Sichuan Tangmen Tangjiabao", no need to ask, this is the famous and frightening Tangmen Tangjiabao.
Seeing an outsider approaching, the old lady who was dancing stopped, and saw that the old lady was about eighty years old, but she was in good spirits, and there was a piece of flower cloth in front of her, and I didn't know what it was for. Shen Lang knew that since he was here, he couldn't mess around, as long as he was not careful, he might cause death. He politely stepped forward and asked:
"Old man, what is your surname? I want to ask for directions, is it convenient?"
"My old lady is not surnamed Tang, where are you going?
"I'm from South China, and I want to find the head of the Tang Sect, I don't know who you are?"
"I'm a dozen, and I'm in front. ”
Shen Lang just wanted to move forward, but suddenly remembered that the old lady seemed to be dancing just now, so he stopped again and asked:
"Old man, what were you doing just now? Did you dance?"
"Dance? No, it's my old lady who is fine, embroidering. ”
"What? in embroidery. This completely subverted Shen Lang's imagination, just now I saw that the movement was dancing, how could it be embroidery. He couldn't help but be curious, and asked, "Are you really embroidering?" Can you embroider one for me?"
"Okay, I don't believe that my old lady can still embroider, you see. After speaking, the old lady took off an embroidery needle from the flower cloth, the needle is not big, only a little longer than the ordinary needle, but the needle nose is not the same as the embroidery needle used by ordinary people, it is obviously much larger, and a red silk thread is worn inside, and the length is two or three zhang long.
The old lady took four or five steps outside, and the butterfly rolled several times in a row like a flower, and before Shen Lang could come back to his senses in great surprise, even more incredible movements appeared.
The old lady ran over in a few steps, and the speed of this run was not inferior to that of a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl, and she couldn't tell at all that this was an old lady's action, and the silk thread was just straight.
The old lady did not continue to run forward, like a dragonfly, fluttering upwards into the air, jumping five or six feet high, looking back at the moon in the air, her left hand stretched outward, her right hand drew an arc, her left and right hands stretched to the extreme, her right hand was raised, the embroidery needle in her hand took the red silk thread, like a red ribbon swished and flew into the flower cloth, and the tip of the needle was just tied to the center of a yellow flower painted on the flower cloth.
As soon as she followed the trend of the needle, the old lady fell to the ground, and at the moment when the needle flew in, the old lady's left hand was retracted into her arms, and the magical embroidery needle flew back into the old lady's hand, but this time the needle was not in the right hand, but in the left hand. As for how the needle passed through the flower cloth and returned to the old lady's left hand, Shen Lang only felt dazzled and didn't see anything clearly.
The old lady made the same action again, flying out a few steps, this time to the right, after running a few steps, she jumped up high, Shen Lang thought that she would use the same action, her body stretched out in the air, and then raised her left hand......
But this time Shen Lang was very wrong, after the old lady's body reached the highest place, I saw the old lady suddenly head down, the whole body was like a swimming fish, drawing a beautiful arc in the air, just when the body fell to the level of the flower cloth, the left hand stretched out flat, the hand was raised, and the embroidery needle in the hand with the silk thread was like a monochrome rainbow, stretched out to the flower cloth.
This time, the embroidery needle was pierced on the stalk of the flower embroidered just now, and the two actions ended, the old lady's face was not red, and her heart did not beat two meters in front of the flower cloth, so that Shen Lang's mouth could not close for a long time. This old lady has such handsome kung fu and a bewitching figure. Shen Lang couldn't help but clap his hands and praise:
"What a trick to shuttle to the bottom of the lake! ”
"Thank you to the seniors, the juniors say goodbye. One step ahead. ”
"Slow! If you want to enter Tangjiabao in Sichuan, it's not too late to pass my embroidery needle first. ”
At this moment, Shen Lang knew that it was not so easy to enter the Tangmen of Sichuan. It seems that there is no way to enter this level, so you can only take one step at a time.
"I hope that the seniors will be merciful. I don't know how to get your embroidery needle?"
"As long as any part of your body doesn't get caught or entangled in my silk threads, it's okay in the past. Okay, come on. The old lady smiled slightly.
I don't know when, the old lady had an extra needle in her hand, no longer the embroidery needle she had just used, and the embroidery needle she had just used was still inserted in the cloth.
This embroidery needle is a little longer than the one just now, this time the embroidery needle is wearing a purple silk thread, and the length is longer than the silk thread just now, which should be five or six zhang long. The old lady wound the needle around her chest, and the silk thread moved with the embroidery needle, at first it was one, then it became a circle, then later, it became a purple light and shadow, and then later, the purple light and shadow became a purple wall, and it was not easy to pass through this purple wall.
Shen Lang settled down, he knew that with his own skills alone, no matter what, he would touch this wall, not to mention touching a silk thread, even if he failed, he would definitely not be able to pass without weapons.
So, he slowly pulled out the green pine sword he carried with him, and decided to use the Tianshan sword technique to deal with it, striving to take advantage of strength, speed and endurance.
"The old man, the younger generation is offended. After speaking, Shen Lang made a sharp sword and attacked it, but it seemed to be a wall composed of a silk thread, but it was no worse than the real wall, and the pressure he felt was more depressing than the pressure generated by the real wall, Shen Lang wanted to find the old lady to make a move directly, but the speed of the sword was always half a beat slower, obviously looking at the old lady was still in the southeast corner, and the sword pointed to the southeast corner.
The old lady had already reached the southwest corner, and Shen Lang was always behind, either like two parallel lines, or like two straight lines that had just intersected, extending infinitely to both sides, always without intersecting. After a long time, Shen Lang felt impatient, and accidentally, his left finger was touched by a purple silk thread, which hurt like a fire, and as if he had been burned by a soldering iron.
Only then did he know that this silk thread was no longer the silk thread that had been embroidered just now. It turns out that this silk thread is not an ordinary cotton thread, it is a special weapon of the old lady, it is made of a kind of silk on Daba Mountain, this silkworm is called Tianba giant silkworm, the silk spit out is thicker than ordinary silkworms and has strong toughness, the general sword can not be cut, and there is a strong elasticity, the greater the force to hit it, the greater the rebound force, and it is more likely to be injured.
After suffering a small loss, Shen Lang was even more energetic, looking for the loopholes of the purple net wall, hoping to discover the flaws in this wall as soon as possible. At first, he was afraid of damaging the old lady's purple silk thread, but now that he found that he couldn't destroy it at all, he would simply use a sword.
Thinking of this, the sword swung, slashed left and right, stabbed up and down, but every time it was in vain, either the sword was entangled in silk threads, or the sword was like chopping a ball of cotton, or it touched steel, and there was a faint sound of metal and metal colliding. The old lady and Shen Lang refused to give in to each other, and fought for more than 20 rounds, regardless of victory or defeat.
But Shen Lang wanted to break out of this purple wall, but he couldn't succeed, and he couldn't hurt the old lady, Shen Lang was chasing the old lady in front of him, just like a person chasing a shadow, and how could a person catch up.
In the fierce battle, Shen Lang thought for a while, why not keep moving, the old lady went to the left, the next action must be to the right, that stop and move to a move, even if she doesn't take the initiative to attack, the old lady will take the initiative to step over. Therefore, he did not move the brakes, and the man was in the air, and deliberately stopped a move, the man was facing east, but the sword was facing west.
Sure enough, the old lady's shuttle footwork has a certain routine, the first move is to the left, and the next move must be to the right. Shen Lang stopped, just the old lady, and attacked to the east, Shen Lang was halfway through the sword move, Shengsheng put the sword in the air, pulled a sword flower, handed the sword in his right hand to the left hand, and took advantage of the situation to the west.
This point, is aimed at the old lady's right thumb holding the needle, a good old lady, just between the lightning and flint, the right hand is raised upward, the tip of the needle is up, only to hear the sound of "ding", the needle and the sword touch lightly, Shen Lang's sword tip was stabbed two inches crooked, just slipped from the front of the old lady's right hand tiger, narrowly avoided this move.
As soon as this trick passes, the old lady also has experience, as long as she finds that Shen Lang has this action trend, she will not be fooled. In this way, more than ten tricks passed. Shen Lang thought that it seemed that it was not easy to go through this experience.
We'll have to find another way. The old lady embroiders, only embroidering a stitch for each trick, it should be more difficult, so it is better to think of ideas on her semi-finished embroidery cloth. He simply grabbed her embroidered cloth in his hand and put it on the tip of his sword, forgiving her that she would not damage the fruits of her labor, and wrapped the silk thread vigorously around the embroidered cloth.
Thinking of this, he deliberately attacked the old lady with a few moves, then jumped back, jumped to the side of the embroidered cloth, and with a flick of his right hand, he had copied the embroidered cloth in his hand, and quickly changed hands left and right, at this time the sword changed to the right hand, and the left hand covered the embroidered cloth on the tip of the sword, and joined the battle group. This time, without cutting or cutting, he stabbed diagonally in front of him, which was not actually a thorn, but just an embroidered cloth on the top of the sword.
This trick really worked, the old lady was first shocked, and when she saw her beloved embroidery work being picked on the tip of the sword, she first felt a kind of shame, and secondly, she was afraid that her work would be damaged, so the square inch became chaotic.
In this mess, the kung fu in his hands was deformed, and the strength was not as good as just now, as soon as his hands relaxed slightly, this purple wall was half shorter, Shen Lang seized this fleeting opportunity, jumped high, jumped over the purple wall, and threw the embroidered cloth back with his hand, people didn't dare to stay, only turned around and hugged his fist to the old lady, and said: "The younger generation is offended." And he ran to the path beside the willow tree.
Shen Lang ran half a mile away, breathed a sigh of relief, calmed down, looked up, and came to the foot of the hill, which is not high, but the area is not small, the size of two or three football fields.
On the right side of the hill bag is a small wooden house, close to the hill bag, and from a distance, the house is part of the hill bag, and it is impossible to tell who is who. The house looks like the history is not short, there was originally a carved eagle carved of wood on the middle ridge of the roof, I don't know when the eagle's beak is gone, only a section of the eagle's neck remains, the middle is empty, there is a hole the size of an egg, and the three pillars under the house have many potholes, as if something is often struck;
It's just that the overall look is relatively clean, there is a dam at the front door of the house, there is an exit on the other side of the dam, after the dam, to the exit is connected with a path in front of it, along the path forward three hundred meters, this path will reach the river, and the path by the river has become one, leading to the sparse and sparse several wooden houses that are scattered and scattered farther away.