Chapter Twenty-Five: The Night Follows the Hair Thief Creek Source Nunnery
It was getting dark, and the two of them followed the little second brother to the upstairs guest room. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info lit lanterns on the street and hung them in front of the door. Although there was light, it was very dark, and there were few pedestrians walking around the streets.
Songbai told Yuejing to go to bed early, sat alone at the table and drank alone, and unconsciously fell asleep on the table.
Yuejing got up and put on a dress for Songbai, "Wake up!" Songbai said sleepily. Suddenly, I heard "dong dong dong ......" outside the window, "the weather is dry and dry, be careful of the fire and candles, pirates are rampant, close the doors and windows ......" The husband said while beating the drum.
"It's three watches, so fast, look, the moon is so round tonight. Yuejing looked out of the window.
Songbai got up and moved to the window, and the two looked out the window......
The crescent moon is round and round in Jianzhou,
The ancient city trail Yingqiong Tower.
The mountains stretch and the wind is quiet,
There is no deep ditch in a small boat.
"Look, there's a figure swaying on that roof. Song Pao Shun Yuejing pointed in the direction, and the four black-clothed people carried the east and west roofs and roamed.
"Let's go over and see......" Songbai and the two flew down the window with their weapons, landed on the street, and ran in the direction of the man in black......
Of the four men in black, two of them were carrying a moving bag, and the other two were carrying their backs and walking towards the city gate. Not far from the city gate, the four of them flew down and jumped off the eaves, and went straight to the city tower.
When Songbai and the others ran to the city gate, they looked at the guards lying on the ground, and they all cut their throats with knives, and they were lifeless. Then he went up to the city tower. The people in black all went down the city wall along the rope, and the person below had fallen to the ground with a big bag, and the two men in black saw the two pine and cypress, and they slashed with a knife, and one person was going down the city wall along the rope, and the four of them were fighting.
The sound of swords and fights woke up the guards of the city tower, and they immediately sounded the gong to warn. After a while, under the stairs of the city tower, a team of soldiers rushed up. The men in black were all defending the city in front and behind, and the sound of killing shook the sky.
The two black-clothed people had no intention of fighting, both nodded their heads and threw out smoke bombs, a firelight and white smoke rose in front of Songbai's eyes, Songbai covered his nose and fanned the smoke with his clothes, and the two black-clothed people were gone, and the flying tiger claws on the wall were also gone.
"Master Jun, this gangster robbed property, I'll go and chase after you. Songbai clenched his fists and said. He Yuejing flew down the city wall one after another. Chase after you outside the city...
The officers and soldiers at the head waved their swords, "Open the city gate, chase and kill the pirates, and send the pirates alive to the Beijing division, and everyone will have two silver to take." Chasing ......, more than 100 officers and soldiers ran from the city gate to the outside of the city.
The man in black and the others carried the bag all the way, and when they reached the river, they opened the bag, and there was a girl inside, about seventeen or eighteen, with a beautiful face and a rag in her mouth. Issuing a "Hmm...... Hmm......" sound.
The man in black took the girl out of her bag, carried it on her shoulder, and continued to cross the bridge and run towards the grove, followed far behind the pine and cypress Yuejing......
The four people in black carried the girl through the river and the forest, all the way towards the Mangdang Mountain, which is fifteen kilometers away from Nanping, is located in the northwest of Nanping, and there is an ancient road made of stone slabs in the mountains. There are a total of 3,800 steps, which is called "3,800 kans".
Legend has it that in the past, it was a sheep intestine trail, Yang Bajie led the troops into Fujian, because it was inconvenient to transport grain, the mountain road was rugged, and it was even more slippery and difficult to walk after rain, so it was ordered to repair this ancient road. Each stone step is nearly two meters wide and is paved with one or two stones, making it much easier to walk.
The natural scenery of 3,800 kans changes endlessly with the height of the mountain slope, sometimes the stone wall is steep, sometimes the deep valley cliff, the mountain stream sometimes sings in the ear, sometimes falls into the waterfall before the cliff, and the birds come from the mountains and forests far and near, bringing a quiet and far-reaching feeling to the ancient road.
The man in black climbed the hill, and everyone exchanged the girl on their shoulders, looking all the way to the top of the hill.
The two of them followed the tail of the man in black, and a boulder at the foot of the slope, by the moonlight, said "three thousand eight hundred kans". On both sides are dense plantain jungles, heavy plantain bent the plantain tree, pine and cypress two people climb the stairs, the sound of the stream comes from afar, it is a full moon night, the rickety moon appears on the water.
The two of them had no intention of watching the scenery and walked along the steps. In the middle of the slope, the waterfall hangs in front of the steep cliff, like a white curtain hanging in front, and the stream rushes and pours, stirring up the water pool below, splashing the waves.
The man in black runs quickly, and after a while, he walks towards the southern foot of the Mangdang Mountain, the canyon here is quiet, there are eighteen scenes in the canyon, thirty-six holes, seventy-two songs, and there is a pilgrimage and prayer holy place, Xiyuan Nunnery. There are Xiao Gongzu Temple, Guanyin Hall, Laojun Temple, Jigong Temple and so on.
The man in black knocked on the door of the nunnery, and when he saw that there was no one around, he closed the door and entered the nunnery. By the moonlight, the pine and cypress marched into the hermitage, and the words "Xiyuan Nunnery" were written on it.
"This should be the old nest of thieves, so deep and secluded, no wonder the government can't find it. Songbai said.
"These people are too cunning, they are hidden in the nunnery, and naturally they can't be found. Why didn't you save that girl just now?" Yue Jing asked Song Baidao.
"Haven't you heard? Pirates in this area come from time to time to rob and save one, but there are still tens of millions of women who will be killed, I want to ......," Songbai said.
"Pull out the thief's den in one fell swoop, right?" Yue Jing said with a smile.
"Now it's just the two of us, go in and find out the truth. Songbai nodded.
Songbai and the two flew into the nunnery, walked towards the backyard, stopped outside the window of the light room, Songbai pierced the window paper with his fingers, and at a glance, there were three people in the house, a plump middle-aged nun, a mustache wearing a kimono and a widow, and another was Ying Tianxiong.
Songbai pointed and whispered in his ear, "Ying Tianxiong is inside." ”
Yue Jing looked through the window paper hole, and the Japanese people were scolding in non-standard Chinese, "Tianxiongjun, we Dongying Ronin sacrificed our lives to save you, but you don't know Entu, Baga, our flower girl will not be transported to Nanyang for a day, and there will be no big silver taels, and they have to take care of their food and drink, and there are losses." ”
"Sato-kun, I have sent someone to contact the ship, and the hateful Su Yuecheng has detained it, and I will continue to think of a way. Two days later, the girl will be transported to Nanyang. ”
"This is the best, after the deed is done, your benefits will be great, it's not too early, so be it. After speaking, he hugged the plump middle-aged nun and went back to sleep in the room with bird language.
Songbai was about to move into the house, but Yue Jing pulled him to the back of the house, when a team of men in black passed by with knives.
"I'll make plans tomorrow, let's find a place to sleep first, where is the girl? I don't know how many? I don't know how many of them don't know?"
The two of them found the room, closed the door, spread the straw by the moonlight, and lay down until dawn to find out the situation before making plans.
The sound of footsteps outside the door woke up Songbai, hurriedly woke up Yuejing, and hid in the gap behind the grain pole, and it was vaguely seen that the two people came in, both holding steel knives, and pushed the door open.
"It's really unlucky, it's our turn to cook today, and we have to cook to provide for support. One said.
"It's better to get a girl to come here to play, I haven't come down the mountain for several days, I'm suffocated, and I can satisfy my hunger." Another tall man said.
"I'm afraid that the ronin will know, and it will be difficult to be the master. The short man said.
"What are you afraid of, every day we are asked to lead the way to rob the girl, we also have credit, without us, they can't even find the way down the mountain, let alone enter the city. Wait, you cook first, I'll bring a girl right away." ”
The tall man went out, and the pine and cypress bent down to follow, and the short man hummed a little song while lighting the fire. The joy blossomed in his heart, and he smirked a few times from time to time and lowered his head to cook on the fire.
The tall man walked through the backyard door, walked along the path to the hillside, turned left and right, and came to a boulder, which protruded along the mountain, and the bottom was three meters high and the huge crack was high, and the stone was empty and wide. The two soldiers guarding the mountain hold knives back to back in front of the fire to sleep, snoring is everywhere, the pine and cypress follow the tall man into the cave, walk along the stone cave, the cave surface is a little damp, from time to time there is seepage water dripping to the ground, there is a fork in the hole, it is a labyrinth!
The pine and cypress followed the tall man in the cave with a hole, and began to hear the sound of flowing water, and the entrance of the cave went out, and another open hole was connected outside, and the inside was extremely empty, and there was a stream passing along the foot of the hole on the opposite side, and the water was murmuring
, hole, hollow all the way to the top of the hole, there is a crack on the top of the hole, the gap is about 100 meters long, less than a foot apart, the sunlight shines directly into the hole from above, shines on a boulder, the boulder has a large wooden cage two meters from the ground, supported on the ground by a wooden stake, the cage is arranged with a head of thick wood, the distance between the pillars is eight centimeters, the bottom of the cage is tiled with a wooden plank, the flat plate is covered with thick straw, a large black cloth cover is on the straw, and more than 20 women with unkempt hair and disheveled clothes lie down on it, all covered with quilts for warmth.
Not far to the right of the boulder, there are many stone tables and stone benches placed on it. Four or five men in black slept on the table.
The tall man tiptoed to the boulder, climbed up the wooden ladder, and the cage door was locked with a large iron chain, so he got down the boulder, ran to the sleeping man in black, and untied the key from his waist lightly, and went back to the boulder. Climb the ladder and unlock it, close it after the door is opened, look left and right, find a woman with a slightly better posture, carry it on her shoulder and want to go out, this woman struggles to pat the back of the tall man.
"I'm here to save you, don't make trouble, wake them up, you won't suffer from flesh and skin, and you will be despised by you. After hearing this, the woman did not call for help and beat again, and the tall woman went out and locked her.
The man in black was disturbed by the woman's noise, so he got up and walked towards the cage......