Chapter 64: Missing
Along the way, Xuanyuan Wan'er was worried in her heart, and she couldn't stop asking Qiao Song this and that, Qiao Song just comforted her and relieved her, in fact, he himself was not the same as Xuanyuan Wan'er. At this time, there are hundreds of heroes sitting in the main hall, and the characters with heads and faces in the rivers and lakes are here, not to mention that the master will snub everyone if he does not appear, if Xuanyuan ponders what really happened, a few days later Dugu Yang came to challenge, this person is suddenly good and evil, but I am afraid that it will be another disaster. After a while, the two of them saw Lao Lu, and without waiting for Lao Lu to say hello, Xuanyuan Wan'er asked anxiously: "Uncle Lu, have you seen your father these days?" She is low-key and gentle, and she is polite up and down the house. Lao Lu is over 60 years old, older than Xuanyuan Zhuo, so she calls Lao Lu "uncle". Lao Lu saw Qiao Song and the eldest lady coming to him, thinking that something had happened, and hurriedly greeted him. At this time, after listening to Xuanyuan Wan'er's question, she smiled and said: "I have seen, I have seen, I have sent food to the master every day for the past few days, and I went at noon today." Qiao Song asked on the side: "Lao Lu, have you ever seen the master with your own eyes?" Lao Lu said: "Not today." In the past, if the master was not practicing, he could see it. I want to come to the master today to practice, I only put the meal in the hall and see the master. Xuanyuan Wan'er hurriedly said: "Didn't you see ......it?" Qiao Song interrupted: "Miss doesn't know, there are several halls in the secret room, and I want to come to the master in the inner room." Lao Lu saw that the two of them looked nervous, and hurriedly asked, "Something happened?" Qiao Song looked at Lao Lu, his heart moved, and said: "Lao Lu, didn't you send food to the master at night?" Lao Lu said: "There was a hero's banquet at night, and I didn't prepare it for the master alone." Why, the master hasn't come out yet?" Qiao Song nodded, and Lao Lu said: "Then I'll send food to the master!" Qiao Song asked: "Isn't it unprepared?" Lao Lu smiled: "There is food in the back kitchen, but it is not prepared for the master alone, so I will simply get some and send it to the master." Seeing Lao Lu trotting towards the back kitchen, Qiao Song comforted Xuanyuan Wan'er: "Don't worry, Miss, let's follow Lao Lu in a while, and we will naturally see the master." ”
After a while, I saw Lao Lu coming with a vegetable basket. Although he didn't know what was going on, he saw that the two of them looked anxious and didn't dare to slack off, so he didn't say a word at the moment, and led the way quickly, and after a while, the three of them came to the back garden. Lao Lu stood by the wall behind the two pine trees and shouted to the wall, "Master, bring food." "Reaching out and touching the wall, I felt a protruding wall brick, pressed it in, and saw a large piece of wall on the side slowly moving inward, it was actually a stone door. It turned out that the secret room where Xuanyuan pondered the retreat was in the wall. Seeing the entrance open, without waiting for Qiao Song to speak, Xuanyuan Wan'er couldn't wait to rush in. Qiao Song asked Lao Lu for the vegetable basket and said, "Lao Lu, you go back first." Lao Lu knew that something was happening, so he didn't dare to respond, nodded and left. Qiao Song followed into the secret room, and the stone door slowly closed. A candle was lit at each of the four corners of the main hall of the secret room, and although the light was dim, it could be seen clearly, and there was no Xuanyuan pondering. As soon as he was about to go inside, he heard Xuanyuan Wan'er shouting, "Uncle Qiao, come quickly!" Qiao Song's heart tightened, and he said secretly: "It's not good!" and hurriedly walked towards the inner hall.
When he arrived at the inner hall, he saw a mess, the stone walls were broken everywhere, obviously after a vicious fight, Qiao Song was shocked, and Xuanyuan Wan'er on the side had already trembled in his voice and almost fainted. Qiao Song supported her, and then heard her say slowly: "Uncle Qiao...... Uncle Joe...... Daddy, Daddy has an accident...... "Look at this situation, Xuanyuan pondered that there must be an accident, but with his martial arts, he is a rare opponent in today's world, and he can't be taken captive in the future, so he whispered: "Miss, don't worry, in my opinion, the master may not be fine." He thought in his heart that it was Xuanyuan who met a foreign enemy, and after a fight, the other party was defeated and fled, and Xuanyuan pondered and chased out. He looked around and saw that there was very little furnishings in the stone room, nothing but a bed, a table, and a chair. He helped Xuanyuan Wan'er sit down, and he carefully looked inside and out of the secret room, but he still didn't see any clues. When I returned to the inner hall, I saw Xuanyuan Wan'er lying on the stone bed, staring at the wall, feeling strange in my heart, and suddenly heard Xuanyuan Wan'er shouting: "Uncle Qiao, look." Qiao Song walked to the bed and looked at the wall carefully, it turned out that Xuanyuan Wan'er was staring at a small "ten" character. The position of the writing is extremely low and crooked, indicating that the person who wrote it was extremely uncomfortable at that time. "Who could it be?" Qiao Song muttered in his heart: "Could it be that the master wrote it?" He didn't dare to think about it anymore, only muttered: "Who would have such a great ability...... but listened to Xuanyuan Wan'er's voice choked up and said: "Yes...... It is Dugu Yang, the word 'Yang'. I don't know whether it was nervous or grief, but she was already trembling all over her body after saying this. Qiao Song was shocked, and read the word "ten" more than ten times, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that Xuanyuan Wan'er was reasonable, and he "chuckled" in his heart, and said in a low voice: "It's him." ”
"That's ...... So what should I do?" At this time, Xuanyuan Wan'er had no idea at all, and only hoped that the man in front of her, who had been with her father for more than 20 years, would be able to come up with a way to rescue her father.
Qiao Song lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and said slowly: "Right now, it is a hero's feast, and I can only turn to all the heroes for today's plan. There are hundreds of representatives of each sect, and if everyone responds and calls on their disciples to find the master, there will be tens of thousands of people in the beggar gang alone, and they will definitely be able to find the master. At that moment, the two decided to return to the feast and inform Qunhao of the matter.
The two returned to the main hall, and Qiao Song instructed Xuanyuan Wan'er to wipe away her tears and return to the banquet to avoid everyone from becoming suspicious. As for Xuanyuan's disappearance, it is up to him to talk to Qunhao. Xuanyuan Ting saw her sister and asked her where she went, Xuanyuan Wan'er said that there was something, at this time Xuanyuan Ting was already familiar with several seniors in the same seat, thinking that when Xuanyuan Wan'er left, she chatted with these "uncles and uncles" in order to ease the atmosphere of the banquet. Xu Ming, the head of the Kongtong faction, saw Xuanyuan Wan'er coming back, and said with a smile: "Wan'er, your sister can talk more than you." Xuanyuan Wan'er smiled faintly and turned her head to look at Qiao Song. Xu Ming was bored with the boss, drank a glass of wine alone, and stopped making a sound. Xuanyuan Ting saw it in her eyes, nudged Xuanyuan Wan'er, and glared at her, but Xuanyuan Wan'er ignored it. At this time, she was anxious, and she only hoped that Qiao Song would tell everyone about it quickly.
After a while, I saw Qiao Song go up a few steps, stand on the platform in the middle of the lobby, salute the heroes in the audience, and said loudly: "Today's conference, the heroes and young heroes from all walks of life in the world attended the ceremony. He bowed again. The crowd in the audience was strange for a while, and it felt very awkward to say these words from his mouth, but when they saw him salute, they also stood up and returned the salute together.
Qiao Song said again: "The old league leader of Xuanyuan is benevolent and righteous, he has worked hard for the country and the people all his life, and now the Mongolian army has committed my Great Song Dynasty, and the traitor Liu Quanli has betrayed the country, and the land of Xiangfan is precarious, and the old league leader beckons everyone to come, just for the sake of the country, but ......" Speaking of this, he paused for a moment, and couldn't continue. The group of heroes had faintly felt that something was wrong, and Xuanyuan Ting was even more anxious, and asked Xuanyuan Wan'er: "Sister, what's wrong with Uncle Qiao, is Dad ......?"
Xuanyuan Wan'er was silent, stretched out her hand to hold her sister, and only heard Qiao Song say: "It's just that the heroes can't see the old alliance leader today." As soon as these words came out, there was an immediate uproar, and even high-ranking monks like Huicheng and Huiwu were shocked, and the heroes below exploded and shouted: "What happened to the old alliance leader?" "Qiao Daxia said clearly, what's wrong with the old alliance leader?"
Qiao Song continued: "I just went to find the master with the eldest lady of the mansion, but I didn't see any movement for a long time, and I was worried in my heart, so I entered the secret room where the master was retreating, and I only saw traces of fighting, but I didn't see the master. Xuanyuan Ting turned her head to stare at Xuanyuan Wan'er, and said hurriedly: "Daddy has an accident, isn't it?" Xuanyuan Wan'er nodded, Xuanyuan Ting suddenly got up and shouted at Qiao Song: "Uncle Qiao, where is Daddy?" Qiao Song didn't look at her, and slowly said to everyone: "The old alliance leader is injured, and now he is missing." He said that he still had to take care of Xuanyuan to save face, Xuanyuan Zhuo Mo Gui is the leader of the martial arts alliance in the world, and his martial arts are unique in martial arts, if he directly said that he was arrested, not only no one believed him, but also broke Xuanyuan Zhuo Mo's prestige, so he first stated that Xuanyuan Zhu Mo was injured. The voices of surprise and suspicion aloud from the crowd below, and some people simply shouted: "The old alliance leader has excellent martial arts, even if he is injured, who can be so capable?"
"Lonely, lonely, young. Qiao Song said word by word.
As soon as these three words came out, they were suddenly silent. If someone else caught Xuanyuan Pondering, naturally no one would believe it, but Dugu Yang and Xuanyuan Pondering are equally famous, who doesn't know who is on the rivers and lakes, who doesn't know, and the two are feuds, Qiao Song said these three words, and none of them dared to answer again. After a long time, Hui Chengcai asked, "Does Qiao Daxia have real evidence?"
At this time, Xuanyuan Wan'er spoke: "The little girl doesn't dare to deceive your seniors, my father...... My father was arrested by Dugu Yang. She got up and turned to everyone, everyone choked up when they heard her voice, and saw that her eyes were red and swollen, which didn't look like lying. I only heard her continue: "The little woman and Uncle Qiao just found a 'ten' character in Daddy's secret room, the character is crooked, it must be ......engraved by Daddy under the condition that Daddy is controlled by others" Before she finished speaking, Qiao Song took over the conversation and said: "There are only a few people in the martial arts who can match the old alliance leader, the old alliance leader has been upright all his life, who will there be besides Dugu Yang, and the word 'ten' is not exactly the word 'Yang' in 'Dugu Yang'! Dugu Yang is insidious and cunning, and he can't fight the old alliance leader, so he actually came up with despicable means. Today is the Heroes Conference, the old alliance mainly called on everyone to resist foreign enemies, but he took advantage of the old alliance leader's injury to secretly attack, kidnapping the old alliance leader, this move is not only openly with the Central Plains martial arts as an enemy, but also to destroy my Great Song Dynasty!" The group of heroes was still discussing, and when they heard Huicheng's words, they nodded their heads one after another, feeling that he was right.
Qiao Song said: "The secret room is the retreat place of the old alliance leader, don't say that outsiders are my young lady, and they have never entered it on weekdays." However, today's situation is special, so let's elect a few respected seniors to follow. Xuanyuan Ting stood up and said, "I'll go!" Qiao Song nodded, and immediately decided that the heads of several other sects, such as the Xuanyuan sisters, Huicheng, Huiwu, Cui Yang, Xu Ming, and the representatives of the Snow Mountain faction, Pang Yunshu and Mu Yunliang, would go to the secret room together.
After waiting for two pillars of incense, a few people came back, where could the group of heroes still sit still, and they got up one after another to ask, only to hear Qiao Song say: "Several seniors have seen it, and there is no doubt that the word 'Yang' is true." After he finished speaking, he turned his head to look at Hui Cheng, Hui Cheng folded his hands together, and said slowly: "What Qiao Daxia said is true, it is Dugu Yang." ”
"Let's find Dugu Yang together and rescue the old alliance leader!" someone shouted below, and the heroes responded.
Qiao Song said loudly: "There are more than 100,000 martial arts disciples in the Central Plains, all over the world, and the dragons are not able to do it without a leader, so we must nominate a deputy alliance leader as soon as possible and take everyone to rescue the old alliance leader." Taking advantage of today's convenience, let's nominate a hero with both ability and political integrity, both civil and military, to be the deputy leader of the alliance here. As for how to be promoted, the younger brother didn't dare to decide, so he asked Master Huicheng to come to the stage to speak. ”
Hui Cheng walked up the steps, folded his hands, and said to everyone: "This matter is not only about the personal safety of the leader of the Xuanyuan Alliance, but also about the success or failure of the Central Plains martial arts and even the country. A few of us didn't dare to make a decision on our own, but after discussing it for a long time, we still came up with such a method. The audience was silent for a while, listening to his announcement, only listening to Hui Chengdao: "We think, the Central Plains martial arts disciples are all over the world, and there are many of them. To lead these hundreds of thousands of horses, as Qiao Daxia said, you must have both ability and political integrity, both civil and military. Today, everyone is a well-known hero, but there are too many heroes, but it is difficult to choose. Only by inviting all the heroes to show their skills on the stage, who is strong and who is weak, everyone can see. ”
When he said this, the audience burst into cheers.
Huicheng said again: "The old man has a saying that comes first, today's competition, please stop at the point, if someone is injured, it is absolutely impossible." We can't save the Xuanyuan Alliance Lord yet, and we will lose our troops first. If there is any beam between the heroes, they must not be broken on this stage, otherwise they will be unable to get along with the entire martial arts. When he said these words, his eyes swept from left to right to everyone, and his expression was awe-inspiring. If you don't tolerate mercy, there will be casualties at every turn, and at this time, how can you kill each other if you gather righteousness to resist foreign enemies? Therefore, Hui Cheng solemnly warned, which means that if someone takes the opportunity to vendetta, everyone will attack them in groups.
The group originally thought that the martial arts conference was to listen to Xuanyuan's call to resist the invasion of foreign enemies and eradicate the remnants of the traitorous party. The characters of the elder generation have long been famous, or for which family and which faction are in charge, or for which gang and which village leader, the leadership ability is outstanding, but when it comes to the competition of martial arts to dominate the crowd, but also each has no bottom in their hearts; there are a lot of masters who do not belong to them, but they all want to be famous in the martial arts, although their martial arts are not lost to others, but they say that they want to overwhelm hundreds of heroes in the field, then they are absolutely unsure, if they give people a stage, they are disgraced, and they do not eat mutton but provoke a sheep's cheek, and they are also worried. There are many young people under the age of 40 who are excited and eager to try, but they all understand that such a competition is naturally a wheel war, and the sooner they come to power, the more they will suffer. Therefore, after Huicheng finished speaking, no one came to the stage.
Qiao Song took a step forward and said loudly: "In addition to a few predecessors and masters, the heroes of the world are all here, as long as they have the heart to contribute to the Central Plains martial arts, please come to the stage to teach." If the children of the lower ranks of each gang and faction are confident and outstanding in martial arts, they can also come to power, maybe he has always been hidden, and no one knows that he is a hero. He said it a few times, only to hear the people in the audience shouting like thunder: "I'm coming!" and jumped onto the stage.