Chapter 9: Masquerade—Maze

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In front of the thatched hut in the eastern suburbs, Xiong Dai Yingle stopped the carriage, and Chris rolled over and got out of the carriage. Writing "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info she took a few big burdens from the back of the car and told Xiong Daiying to move them to the thatched house. Chris often summons Xiong Daiying, thinking that he is not only a good laborer, but also can be called out to chat and relieve boredom. In fact, a habit can be formed in seven days, and Xiong Daiying has gradually been imperceptibly influenced by Chris.

Chris entered the house but saw no sign of the old man, shrugged her shoulders and got busy.

On the hill behind the thatched hut, a tall hibiscus tree grows on the edge of a cliff. At this moment, the old man is lazily lying on the horizontal branches, the sun is like fire is covered by dense leaves, directly above his head, hanging many bamboo and rattan discs, each disc is covered with a thin layer of white gauze, the gauze net is full of wood hibiscus petals, fragrant and elegant. The old man pulled down a rope from a branch with his big toe, and he heard a sound from above, and it turned out that there was a huge wine gourd fixed at the top of the tree. With the old man's movements, the lid of the wine gourd was pulled open by the rope, and a "whoosh" was heard, and the wine poured out, and was pouring into a disc, and through the leakage of the gauze ticking, it fell into the second disc, and then went down. The old man just lay on the spot, opened his mouth, and a gurgling of wine with the fragrance of strange flowers entered his mouth, and this drinking process was called "hibiscus flower drink". The old man saw that his clothes were full of hibiscus flowers, picked up a petal, and muttered: "Flowers, flowers, you say strange, I obviously like peach blossoms the most, but after 'death', why did the world give me your name? ”

The old man removed the gauze disc that was hidden on his face, revealing his true face, and he looked not far from the southwest, there was a big stone, facing the sun and leeward, facing a relatively flat grassland, and he was reading and playing the piano under the big stone on weekdays, drinking and having fun, which often reminded him of the days in Shipeng Mountain. The old man looked over to the big stone and said, "It's been half an hour, and the junior brother should come out." ”

At this time, Yuwen Zhishao, who was recited by his senior brother, shuttled in a shady cave, wearing a thin silk white dress and dancing with his movements, inadvertently exuding the most incisive elegance and purity. But if you look closely, the bottom of his eyes is like cold ice scattering, bursting out of the cold. A peach blossom branch appeared in front of his eyes, the green branches were like umbrellas, the peach blossoms were clustered, and the sea of flowers in front of him was rippling. At first, Yuwen Zhishao was amazed by his brother's ingenuity, but now he has no such leisure, because he can't get out of this peach blossom cave with rocks and flowers. His body moved slightly through a winding peach blossom forest, and when he reached the end, he found that it was a dead end. He felt a sense of annoyance in his heart, raised his arm and waved it gently, and a cold edge pierced through the branches, and the peach petals fluttered in all directions.

He sighed, why did he take the flowers to vent his anger. I haven't seen my senior brother for a long time, and as soon as I arrived today, my senior brother said that he had laid out a new set of formations and let him try it. To be honest, the Xuanzhen faction is not good at Qimen Dunjia and Bagua formations, but the senior brother can be described as a rare formation genius in this sect, and he has created many Qimen formations. This peach blossom cave array must be created by his painstaking study, from the entrance of the cave seems to be very simple, but after entering the formation, it is found that combined with the already winding and strange cave, planting peach blossoms in some key positions, it is dazzling; although there are a bunch of torches lit at intervals in the cave, but on the contrary, the water vapor in the cold stream is steaming, like smoke and fog, ethereal and hazy, and everywhere you go, you are disturbed by these peach blossoms, which can easily make you lose your way.

Yuwen Zhishao stretched out his hand, a peach petal was falling on his palm, he closed his eyes, and quietly recalled: Senior brother's formation has always been derived from Tai Chi Bagua, there must be some mystery in it.

Tao gives birth to one, life to two, two to three, and three to all things, and all things are reincarnated in the five elements. In this array, the peach branches are wood, the cold stream is water, the torches are fire, the cave is soil, and the five elements lack gold.

Yuwen Zhi Shao seemed to remember something, turned around and walked back. When he came to a stop, he found that although he was walking around the cave, he always passed by this place, and it could be seen from the relatively concentrated footprints left on the ground. He carefully observed the directions of the other four elements, and muttered: "The sky is righteous, the status is empty, the courage is determined and the qi is formed, and the golden qi of the White Emperor of the West is the Yuan." ”

Sure enough, he saw a flash of golden light on the roof of the cave on the west side.

He turned over, his white robe fluttering, and in a blink of an eye he flew to the top of the cave, and he grabbed a raised stone pillar at the top of the cave with one hand, and it hung in the air.

And right next to the stone pillar, an iron sword was plunged upside down into the stone wall.

He cautiously looked left and right first, stretched out his free hand, and twitched it gently, not moving at all. If you push harder, you won't move.

He sighed, thinking that it was impossible for Senior Brother to make it so easy.

I tried a few more times, but there was still no movement. In the end, he simply loosened the stone pillar and continued to hang in the air with the hilt of the sword with one hand. In contemplation, he played again and shook his body like a swing. Suddenly, he patted his head and asked himself, "Stop, stop, where is this sword?"

The Taoist "top" refers to the "inner courtyard of the heavenly palace", the heavenly palace is the brain, and the inner courtyard is the inner space of the brain with the vertical line of the Yintang acupoint and the Baihui acupoint as the center point.

"Three flowers gather at the top, five qi Chaoyuan, it seems that the senior brother wants me to rush to the top?"

At that moment, he stopped speaking, carried the "Wu Nian Shen Gong Method", poured qi into the iron sword, only to hear a loud bang, and the top of the cave stone above his head was divided into two with the iron sword as the boundary, and the Yuwen Shao hanging on the sword slowly lifted up, and shot down thousands of feet of light above his head. Yuwen Zhi Shao let his eyes adjust to the brightness, and then raised his head, he looked up, only to find that this was not an exit, and there was still a square bluestone paved stone well above, dozens of zhang high.

The stone wall of the cave had been completely opened, and it was slowly closing, and he really had one last hurdle in his heart. So as soon as he stood on top of the iron sword, just as the stone wall fell down, he jumped up the stone well with his strength, tossed and turned on the well wall, all the way up, and finally saw the end, and jumped out.

When his feet fell to the ground, he let out a long breath, and heard his brother's voice sound behind him.

"It's really like a flying immortal, although it is half a cup of tea later than I expected. ”

He turned around and saw his senior brother leaning comfortably against the shade of a big stone, and thought about his embarrassment in the cave just now, and said angrily: "If you are still flying immortals outside the sky, your senior brother will know how to make fun of me." ”

The old man laughed and said, "How about Senior Brother, how about the last level called Tianzhan Duyue, how does it taste?"

"I'm dying of exhaustion!

He sat cross-legged on the stone bench in front of the boulder, breathing and calming down. His expression stretched out, and he said with a smile: "It seems that Senior Brother wants to study the kung fu of stopping, if it weren't for Master's hidden steps, then the 'Heavenly Vision' would not be able to go up." And the senior brother's formation really makes me admire, if I hadn't figured out the location of the Shengmen just now, I guess I wouldn't have been able to come out for a long time in that formation. ”

The old man smiled freely, sat down in his robe, and said: "If you talk about the formation, the Tongxuan faction that inherited the Yin-Yang technique of the Guigu is the best among the four Taoist factions, but it is a pity that Tao Zhu Gong explicitly forbade the disciples of later generations not to participate in politics, and they only love to make money now, not fame and fortune." Even so, I still laugh and be generous in front of them. ”

"Senior brother, don't grow the ambition of others, I see that this formation is very exquisite, the mystery is endless, if it is used in the confrontation between the two armies, it will definitely be able to trap 100,000 male soldiers...... If it weren't for my wit, I would have been able to use one or two, not to mention the dead door, if I changed to a chariot, few of the enemy troops who entered the maze would have escaped this catastrophe!"

"Haha, what do you think if that torch is replaced by a firearmourer?"

It's rare to talk about things that both of them are interested in, and the brothers can't help but talk speculatively.

While the two were talking, the old man suddenly saw a wisp of smoke rising from the sky above the thatched house, and he snorted softly.

Seeing the old man stand up and walk towards the edge of the cliff, Yuwen Zhishao also followed.

The old man sniffed his nose and said, "It seems that there is something delicious to eat and drink today." ”

There was a horse-drawn carriage parked in front of the thatched hut, and the thatched hut surrounded by a wooden fence had a simple adobe roof. The front thatched hut is the main hall, next to the study, and behind it is the bedroom. The west wing is a pharmacy, there is a small room in the pharmacy that can be used as a temporary guest room, and the medicine garden is outside the window; the east wing room is a cooking room, and one side is a vegetable garden of one acre and two points, and there is a clean room a little far away from the vegetable garden.

The old man saw the little man come out of the cooking room and walk into the vegetable garden next to him. Even though it is far away, with the eyesight of this senior brother, he can see it clearly. Today, she is not wearing a eunuch uniform, but she is still dressed in men's clothes, she has no gold and precious ornaments on her body, her little face is red under the hot sun, and her natural nature is natural, where she looks like a woman in the inner house who is greased and powdered every day and pampered and pampered.

That figure fell into Yuwen Zhi Shao's clear eyes, that day, he had long been suspicious of Lan Yuanxiao's identity, and then after thinking about it for a few days, his heart was a little clearer. Now that I saw him again, I was slightly surprised in my heart, and said, "Senior brother, what do you think about this woman pretending to be a eunuch?"

The old man raised his eyebrows slightly, and said with a little playfulness: "Senior brother doesn't know my temper, who I care about her and what is her identity?"

Zhizhi saved her, and she took Zhizhi's twists and turns, which was related to her junior brother. ”

The old man didn't want him to mention this matter solemnly, his mind moved slightly, the junior brother always looked like a fairy who does not eat the fireworks of the world, even if he joked with himself, it was tepid, but now his mood fluctuated slightly, is this the influence of the villain? The old man looked at the junior brother again, smiled movingly, and said in his heart It seems that the junior brother has not noticed the difference between himself and the past.

Seeing his senior brother's dark eyes staring at him, Yuwen Zhishao said again: "A woman pretending to be a man, and there are so many shadow guards around her, I am afraid that among the women in the harem, there are only the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager, and the Empress." The Empress Dowager is old and can be excluded, the most suitable age is the newly crowned Empress Xiang at the beginning of the year, the daughter of Xiang Jing, the reputation of gentle and virtuous has been outside for a long time, and it really doesn't look like it, so there is only ......"

The old man interrupted him and said, "The head of the senior brother's analysis is the Tao, which is clear at a glance, and he still asks the senior brother what he has done?"

Although Yuwen Zhishao thought so, he always inevitably remembered the short time he spent with Lan Yuanxiao, and it was really difficult to accept that she was the woman who was high up and Feng Yi Luan.

The old man hooked his lower lip and said, "No matter who she is, the little girl is smart and smart, and the senior brother only knows that he is interested in her." ”

Yuwen Zhishao was surprised when he heard this, but when he saw a trace of unusual interest flashing in his senior brother's eyes, he knew how serious his senior brother's words were. At this moment, he remembered the vision that appeared on Lan Yuanxiao on the night he saved her...... That picture has been coming to his mind from time to time in the past few days, and he can't figure it out every time. Then his sea-blue eyes knew a little more about it, this should be her private matter, he really didn't know how to open his mouth to talk to his senior brother, so he swallowed the words back into his stomach.

He changed the topic and said, "Gongnan has something I want to discuss with my senior brother." ”

When the old man saw him claiming to be in small characters, he also replied solemnly: "Senior brother, please speak!"

"Gongnan wants to return to the field and return to his hometown!"

Hearing this, the old man was not surprised at all.

Yuwenzhi Shao sighed and said: "The new emperor took the throne and asked for advice, Gongnan poured his money into teaching, but the book was played, but he did not report it. I thought there was some reason for this, so Gongnan stayed in Beijing and waited. Unexpectedly, he let Gongnan know that his heartfelt words were all abandoned by others, and I can't do anything like this monarch. ”

The old man said: "Senior brother has thought clearly? Instead of being impulsive? Everyone is willing to serve Mingjun, but how many Mingjun are there in the world?"

"Gongnan doesn't have to be the one who is in the top position to be Mingjun. Yuwen Zhi Shao retorted, "Now it can be seen that there are many contradictions and fierce struggles in the Forbidden Palace, and the eldest husband is so inward-minded and uncultivated, but he keeps saying that he wants to start a war with the outside world, which is shameless and shameless; ”

The old man knew that this junior brother was both wise and brave, and he could think of it, so he naturally thought of it, so he only shook his head and smiled, and said: "My generation has a very light view of these, and returning to the mountains and forests is actually the pursuit in my heart, but it is just a matter of one day earlier and one day later." You have more time to drink and have fun with your senior brother, and it's too late for your senior brother to be happy!"

Yuwenzhi Shao laughed when he heard this, stroked his palms and said: "I am willing to accompany my senior brother to play the piano and study, and indulge in the landscape." ”

The old man was happy, pointed to the direction of the hut, and said, "Are you willing to compare with your senior brother, who will arrive first?"

Before the words fell, both of them had already used light skills and took off.