Chapter 21: Dark Fire Gives Birth to the Bright Hall
Knock! knock... Boom......
"It's dry, be careful of the candle ......"
Knock! knock... Boom......
The sound of this change is a little lazy, but it is still particularly loud in the lonely Songyang County. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
It was early summer, and there were no stars in the sky, and dense black clouds were surging with the wind, as if the whole sky was brewing an unknown secret.
"It looks like a rainstorm. ”
The husband Li Eryun looked up at the sky, tightened the single clothes on his body, and complained about why he didn't wear one more when he came out. Fortunately, there are few people on the road nowadays, so I plan to be lazy, and turn back all the way after passing the courtyard wall of the Qunfang Pavilion Courtyard, so as to get close to my daughter-in-law.
Thinking of the beautiful girl who had just passed the door, Li Eryang only felt the heat surging all over his body, although it was windy, it was not so cold.
And at this moment, a little fire light not far away suddenly caught Li Er's eyes, making his eyes seem to be glowing.
Li Er rubbed his eyes, fixed his eyes and looked at them again, his complexion changed suddenly, and he hurriedly rushed all the way to the front. However, the closer he got to the wall of the Fang Pavilion courtyard, the more ugly Li Er's face became.
He saw a large house that was burning, and the adjacent rows of houses were also emitting light smoke, but in a moment there were tongues of fire bursting out from the corners of another large house, and before he could turn his heels, they burst up to the eaves and burned. The fierceness of the fire frightened Li Erlang outside the wall, and as if he suddenly woke up, he immediately pulled his throat, and beat the gong fiercely: "Go water, go water!"
Under this shout, the lights in the neighborhood house were turned on one after another, and suddenly the sound of people and dogs mixed out, showing that the neighbors on the left and right had been awakened one after another, but the nearest courtyard was quiet and abnormal.
Li Erlang said anxiously as he walked, there are few people in this courtyard except for domestic servants on weekdays, and today there are just nobles from Qunfang Pavilion staying during the day, how can it catch fire at night?
Thinking of this, Li Erlang couldn't help but shudder, and ran to the gate of the group of Fang Pavilion courtyards in three steps and two steps and knocked hard. After a long time, many neighbors with buckets of water had gathered on the left and right, waiting to work together to extinguish the fire, but there was still no response from inside.
At this time, Li Erlang's back was already drenched in cold sweat, and he gritted his teeth slightly, so he had to say to the neighbors around him: "It's important to save people, I'll go to the yamen to report the news!" You carry a log to knock the door open, and I'll take care of it," after speaking, he ran towards the county government without looking back.
At the same time, in a certain room of Qunfang Pavilion, after Lu Bujia heard the woman dressed in black report that the fire in the courtyard was on fire, she was so shocked that she got up and said coquettishly: "Bastard! Didn't I say don't make a move?!Who doesn't know whether to live or die, and dares to disobey the order of the pavilion master!" The woman in black was prostrate on the ground, and when she heard the master's anger, she could only say timidly: "The pavilion master is angry, and his subordinates have not done anything beyond the norm except for surveillance, so I dare to guess that I should... It should have been done by that person!
As soon as these words entered his ears, Lu Bujia also calmed down, muttered a little, and said, "Then did you see his people enter the other courtyard?"
"This ...... The moon is shiny tonight, and the wind is squinting, so ......"
The woman in black hesitated and didn't finish speaking, she didn't want Lu Bujia to suddenly get into trouble, she kicked it with seven points of internal strength, only to hear a muffled sound of 'click' The left arm of the woman in black folded in response, Rao is so Lu Bujia was still angry, and when she wanted to reach out to fight, she saw the woman in black dragging her left arm and came forward by herself, and couldn't help begging for mercy: "Subordinates should die, the pavilion master spares his life, the pavilion master spares his life!"
Lu Bujia squinted his eyes slightly and said: "Hmph! Useless things, for the sake of you who have been with me for many years, I will leave you a cheap life for the time being! Since it may be the meaning of that person, then don't do it, you immediately take all the sisters of Qi Qunfang Pavilion, disguise themselves as people in black and enter the courtyard to show me, and those who are lucky enough to escape are slaughtered, you must not leave any of them, do you hear!"
"Yes!"
With a clean and neat response, the woman in black dragged her injured body and planned to leave, but she heard Lu Bujia stop her again and ordered: "Slow down! Go and inform the county king, surround the courtyard, no one is allowed to enter or leave, I will come later!"
"Order!"
The woman in black took the order and left, Lu Bujia closed the doors and windows of the four places, walked quickly to the bed, and twisted the crested head on the railing of the bed, with a sudden sound of 'click', the wall with a picture of a lady on the back wall flipped over, Lu Bujia quickly dodged in, turned around after a while, twisted the phoenix back into place, and hurriedly walked out of the door.
However, no one would have thought that Lu Bujia had just walked on the front foot, but a man on the back foot had stepped down the beam and entered through the window, and then after half a cup of tea, two women followed a man into the room, and when the four people stood still, a woman laughed heartily: "This fire is really happy, then Lu Bujia never dreamed that it was our own fire." ”
"Keqing is resourceful and admired. ”
The two people who spoke were Shu Yao and Bai Suyi, and it turned out that one of Qi Yan had long decided that Lu Bujia would not hand over people easily, so he had formulated a plan to set fire to himself and disrupt the opponent's position first, so as to lure the snake out of the hole. Sure enough, the strategy turned out to be quite successful, Qi Yanzhi smiled slightly when he heard the praise of the second daughter, and then said to Mo Zhongqing: "What can Zhongqing find??"
Mo Zhongqing said: "I was too close for fear of being detected, but I heard a few sounds of brackets and the sound of the wall rubbing on the beam outside the house, so I guess this room should have something else." ”
Seeing that Mo Zhongqing was so sure, the three of them didn't ask any more questions, and scattered around the room to find them. After a long time, the four of them searched but found nothing, and Su Yao pulled Bai Suyi to sit down in a fit of anger and said: "I have searched all over the top and bottom, left and right, inside and out, how can there be a secret way? Boy, how can you boast about Haikou? It is better to change me to monitor." ”
Mo Zhongqing was speechless for a moment, and said with a guilty face: "What my sister taught me is that I am not good at learning, if I had the skills and courage of the second senior brother Shaoying, I would have poked at the window and peeked at it a long time ago." Mo Zhongqing was a little deflated, leaning against the wall and thinking hard about countermeasures.
There was silence in the room for a while, and everyone was at a loss.
After a long time, I suddenly heard a 'click', and the wall with the picture of the lady turned upside down, and a pretty woman came out of it.
Everyone was shocked, the woman's complexion changed even more, and she just wanted to dodge and escape back to the dark room, Mo Zhongqing, who was closest to her, flew out with a sword in her eyes, blocking the woman's retreat, and then pulled the sword hilt with a strong force, and the woman immediately fell out of the wall with an exclamation.
Shu Yao put the sword back into the sheath, looked at the woman's face and was startled, and then suddenly stepped forward as if she thought of something, grabbed the woman's wrist violently, and said sharply: "Okay, you Miao Qingshu, say! Why did you appear alone in the secret passage? You have followed Sister Nayun for many years, and she treats you like a sister! Neifang has never owed you, why did she betray her! Where is Sister Nayun imprisoned! Where are the other sisters? What is this place!"
Miao Qingshu's wrist was held painfully by this sudden finger force, and this dance was changed from her usual gentle and graceful, and she came up with a fierce and vicious appearance, Rao is Miao Qingshu thought of the words in advance in her stomach, but when she got to her mouth, it became a pleading: "This, this, Sister Wuwei, listen to me... That's not true. ”
In the face of the words of argument, Su Yao couldn't bear it, and 'choked' drew the sword out of the sheath again, and when she was about to poke seventeen or eighteen holes in Miao Qingshu's delicate body, she saw Bai Su next to her pressing down the sword to stop the angry Su Yao, and said slowly: "Sister Wuxiu, don't be angry first, or I'll say hello." ”
Bai Suyi turned her head and said gently: "Sister Miao, don't be afraid, Sister Su Yao is also in a hurry, but you can tell me, we saw Lord Lu Ge go in before, and now you come out of it, why is this?"
Miao Qingshu had already been frightened by Su Yao's previous appearance, and only said that she was only afraid of more evil and less auspicious today, but when she saw Bai Suyi so soft-spoken and persuasive, she was like a drowning person grabbing a straw and tightening Bai Suyi's sleeve and said: "Good sister, you help me plead, I was forced, I ......"
Speaking of this, Miao Qingshu's body trembled suddenly, as if she thought of an extremely terrifying scene, and she became hesitant again: "I... I... Can't really say. After that, her pretty face was snow-white, with a hint of crying.
Bai Suyi couldn't bear it when she saw it, and said comfortingly: "Sister Miao, don't be afraid, no matter how bad the people who force you to do this are, aren't there still us? ”
Miao Qingshu swept the hole in the dark room in the wall, the fingers of her right hand trembled for no reason, although the movements were extremely subtle, Qi Yanzhi, who was standing on the side, saw him squat down slowly, and said meaningfully: "Is there anyone else in the wall? The person who forced you to do this?" Under this question, Miao Qingshu's whole body suddenly became excited, and he slurred his speech: "No... Don't go, there's no one alive anymore, they're all dead!"
After speaking, this Miao Qingshu couldn't hold back her grief anymore, and bent down on the spot and cried.
Mo Zhongqing frowned and took the sword to bully into the wall, but after a while, he heard Mo Zhongqing's exclamation coming from the secret room inside the wall, and everyone was in a hurry, helping Miao Qingshu, who had collapsed, to carefully probe into the wall, all the way down, and after a while, a fishy smell floated out of the inside, but Mo Zhongqing was standing in front of him unharmed at this time.
Coming to Mo Zhongqing, everyone swept around by the light of the indoor fire, and they couldn't help but gasp. I saw that in the huge secret room, the torture instruments were all over the floor, and on the opposite wall hung three mutilated corpses with bloodstained iron hooks. The corpses were rotten, and the dark red and dried blood on the ground was enough to prove that these three carcasses were not the only ones who died here.
Fortunately, the fire is uncertain, and the scene is not real, but Rao is like this, Shu Yao and Bai Suyi suddenly saw this scene, and they both turned around and retched, but Qi Yanzhi stepped forward, smelling the dead air on his face, and carefully observed the corpse, only to see that in addition to the punctures, hot marks and whip marks caused by the torture instrument, there were also horizontal and vertical tooth marks, and some of the edges of the legs and feet clearly had traces of gnawing!
Qi Yanzhi couldn't help frowning deeply when he saw all the details, and after several weighings, he finally turned around and said in a deep voice: "Miss Miao, if you don't put things together, we will throw you here." ”
Although Qi Yanzhi's tone was calm, Miao Qingshu was like thunder, and hurriedly said: "Don't, that evil ghost is not a human, he will come back." Please, take me with you!"
After saying this, seeing the expressions on everyone's faces, Miao Qingshu took a deep breath, thought about it again and again, and finally compromised: "That day, Sister Nayun and I and sixteen sisters were arranged to stay in another courtyard, and Lu Bujia treated us with respect, as before. But until one day, Nayun and I were talking to Lu Bujia in Qunfang Pavilion, and a strange man suddenly came, and the man turned around and left as soon as he looked at Nayun. Then... Then we went back to the courtyard to rest. Who would have thought that at the third watch that night, that evil ghost! He, he sneaked into the house, knocked Nayun sister unconscious, and knocked me unconscious, and after waking up, I was locked up here, and the sixteen sisters around me, including Nayun's sister, were arrested......"
Speaking of this, Miao Qingshu took a deep breath and continued: "After that, the evil ghost began to interrogate Sister Nayun, he seemed to be asking something, but Sister Nayun didn't say a word, even if she was beaten all over her body, she still gritted her teeth and held on! Seeing that Nayun didn't say anything, the evil ghost smiled yin and began to bring a female disciple to her and use it, using ......" Speaking of this, I saw Miao Qingshu pause, and the light in the room hardened his miserable white pretty face and flickered: "That evil ghost actually used his double knives to peel off the flesh and skin of his sister inch by inch!" Blood splattered Sister Nayun's face, and the sister's screams echoed through the room, making the other sisters shudder, and the demon seemed to be more excited as he heard the sisters' screams, until the sister died, and then, and then began to chew her flesh raw......!
Miao Qingshu couldn't describe it, but judging from the fact that his voice was already full of paleness, and there were fine and dense beads of sweat on his forehead, it showed how afraid he should be of that nightmarish scene, and at this moment, the faces of Su Yao, Bai Suyi and Mo Zhongqing were also not much better, so Qi Yanzhi listened thoughtfully.
No one spoke in the room, and Miao Qingshu said quietly: "Are you just going to end it like this......?" For the next few days, the demon did the same every day, and the sisters died one by one. Until the seventh day, I was taken to the stone slab like the torture bed and dining table!" Speaking of this, everyone followed the direction of Miao Qingshu's finger and saw a stone bed lying horizontally in the corner of the secret room, and as the fire in the room was dim, the purple and red blood stains on it were also of different shades.
Miao Qingshu raised her fingers and said tremblingly: "I didn't want to die at that time." I don't want to watch my sister continue to die, I don't know what the evil ghost wants to ask Sister Nayun, but if Nayun opens his mouth, maybe I will be saved, and everyone will be saved......! Maybe Sister Nayun saw that I was too pitiful, maybe it was because too many sisters had died, but she finally compromised and told the evil spirit to listen to me, and after listening to it, the evil spirit looked at me with great interest, and pulled me off the stone bed and kicked me aside, and then the evil spirit took the rest of the sisters and Nayun, where did I go, I... I don't know, but the demon left me alone..."
When everyone heard this, their faces had changed several times, and their chests were filled with righteous indignation. In the face of this beast who was angry with each other, Mo Zhongqing secretly vowed to break the evil ghost into ten thousand pieces, but Miao Qingshu didn't say anything when she said it, and her hesitant appearance couldn't help but make Mo Zhongqing scratch his ears and cheeks in a hurry, and asked repeatedly: "What do you do with you, right?"
Facing Mo Zhongqing's questioning, Miao Qingshu blushed for no reason, lowered her head and clenched her fists, Su Yao has been taking care of foreign affairs all year round, seeing her like this, she understood after a little thought, and immediately piled up Mo Zhongqing, and said angrily: "I said that you are a big man, ask so clearly what to do!" At the end, I saw Su Yao Fu softened again: "Sister Miao, you don't have to be afraid, it's all over, what happened later? The key is where the evil ghost is now?"
Miao Qingshu couldn't help but feel a little grateful when she saw that Su Yao, who was shouting and shouting to kill, actually relieved herself, and then just turned her face away, and hesitated: "That's it, just now Lu Bujia came in and said a few words to the evil ghost, and the evil ghost went out after Lu Bujia left, fortunately you didn't meet him." ”
"What!"
When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but change their expressions suddenly, and they all drew their long swords and surrounded Qi Yanzhi and Miao Qingshu in the middle, looking around motionlessly, and the surroundings looked treacherous and changeable against the flickering firelight, and the fishy wind from time to time made everyone feel inexplicably frightened!
"Let's get out of here. ”
Mo Zhongqing said after a while. But as soon as the words fell, they heard a strange laugh from the nasal cavity that came into everyone's ears: "Hehehehe...... This is leaving?...... Have you ever asked my master about the playthings of this greedy wolf in such a confession? ”
Miao Qingshu's face was as earthy as she heard this human voice, and before she could turn her heels, she saw a person quietly slipping from the top of everyone's heads like a ghost, and when she stood still, she put the double knife behind her in her hands, the corners of her lips were hooked obliquely, and she said with a little playfulness: "Tsk, slut, why didn't you say it?" Miao Qingshu heard this, her body trembled and slammed into the front of Mo Zhongqing in front of her, and she hurriedly knelt down in front of the person under the stunned crowd, and begged bitterly: "The greedy wolf makes the adult, it's not like this, the adults have seen it, they forced me to say it, and I tried my best to drag them down!" ”
Seeing Miao Qingshu kowtowing like pounding garlic, the greedy wolf couldn't help but stretch out his index finger and slowly hook Miao Qingshu's jaw, and said with a pleasant face: "Yo, what should I do if it is broken, of course I know that you are forced, but what ......about it" The voice was stunned, only to see the greedy wolf's face suddenly appeared, and the cold light around her body flashed and she couldn't see how to move, Miao Qingshu's feet were separated in an instant, and then the pain from the root of her legs made her wail all over the ground, and the scream was terrifying. But in the face of such a scene, the greedy wolf envoy laughed more and more excitedly.
Bai Suyi and Wu Wei had only heard of it, and now that they had seen such cruel things with their own eyes, they couldn't help but feel cold in their hearts.
Mo Zhongqing wanted to step forward to fight with him, but seeing that his swordsmanship was extremely fast, he knew that the chances of taking the risk were not good, so when the greedy wolf was distracted by the wild laughter, he took a half step back, approached Bai Suyi's body, and couldn't take care of the defense of men and women in danger, and almost bit his ear and whispered: "Take Mr. away! I and Shu Yao entangled him." ”
In the face of Mo Zhongqing's whisper at such a close distance, Bai Suyi didn't have time to think about it, but after a few hesitations, he was pushed vigorously by Mo Zhongqing, and shouted: "Don't leave yet!" As soon as the roar fell, Mo Zhongqing had already rushed forward, and when Su Yao saw it, she immediately understood, although she was timid in her heart, she saw Miao Qingshu wailing on the ground thinking of the sisters and the Nayun sister who was uncertain about her life and death, she gritted her teeth for a while, was full of resentment, and drew her sword with a 'chok' sound! Bai Suyi looked at the two people who were not afraid of death, and suddenly made up his mind to pull Qi Yanzhi and turn around and quickly escape.