Chapter 185: The Past (Nine Roads Villa)
Seeing this mysterious gate open, Xiaoyaozi's brows also frowned slightly, and he said secretly in his heart: "It seems that among the rumors, the news that there are nine gates in Jiudao Villa is not groundless. ”
The rumors about Jiudao Villa are actually not very publicized in the rivers and lakes, after all, Jiudao Villa has never participated in the affairs of the rivers and lakes, it is like a wealthy family in the world, living quietly in a corner of this small county. If you have to say that he has something to do with the rivers and lakes, it can only be said that in order to prevent those gangsters who are trying to be unfavorable to the villa, Yan Wanshan, the owner of this villa, has hired many masters to sit in the town, and there are countless villagers in this manor.
It is precisely because of this that although Jiudao Villa is rarely mentioned by people in the rivers and lakes, there are also some rumors about it, it is rumored that Jiudao Villa has nine gates, of which four are bright gates, that is, four gates in the southeast and northwest, and the remaining five are secret gates, as for the secret door, perhaps except for the real core people of Jiudao Villa, no one outside may know the exact location of all of them.
And this door, hidden in the high wall of the pond, is obviously one of the five secret doors.
The secret door was wide open, and on the wall inside, the torches were bright, and the secret door similar to a cave was also distorted, and under the backdrop of the firelight, the two figures slowly walked out, but the firelight shook under the breeze, and the faces of the two people were flickering and flickering, and Xiaoyaozi, who was hiding on the secret door, did not dare to get too close, so he could not see the appearance of the two people very clearly.
"Four fingers, this is the villager's hundred slaves, and I will hand them over to you. Wang Yuanwai said warmly to the little leader.
Xiaoyaozi, who was hiding in the shadows, suddenly heard the name Four Fingers, and was also slightly surprised, and he immediately remembered the Four Fingers in the rivers and lakes.
"Four-fingered Eucommia" was once a well-known master in the Jiangnan area, when he debuted, he had a dispute with Xiao Jing, a swordsman in Jiangnan, but at that time, he was not Xiao Jing's opponent at all, under Xiao Jing's sword, he was defeated under his sword before he had gone through ten moves, Xiao Jing did not kill him in order to punish him, but just broke one of his thumbs.
But what is unthinkable is that after this Du Zhong severed his finger, he did not go down on this decadence, he named himself Four Fingers, which means to remember the humiliation of this severed finger. After that, he searched for famous teachers everywhere and practiced hard, and after three years, his martial arts improved greatly, and when he found the swordsman who had broken his finger that year, he took the sword from the swordsman's hand in only three moves, and plunged his backhand into the swordsman's heart.
It was probably from that time that the name of Four Fingers was really known in the rivers and lakes, but it was very strange that after Four Fingers became famous, it was difficult to find his trace, and it seemed that he disappeared like this. I didn't expect to let Xiaoyaozi see it in this Jiudao Villa now.
The appearance of the four-fingered Du Zhong here also made Xiaoyaozi feel the mystery of this Jiudao Villa, after all, a hero like Du Zhong, although he is not a first-class master in the rivers and lakes, but he is not an ordinary person, and now he is willing to put down his identity and be a small leader in this Jiudao Villa, from which it can also be inferred that the strength of this Jiudao Villa.
"Wang Yuanwai, I know, by the way, Mr. Lian has already confessed, saying that there are more than a dozen slaves who are unusable, after you come, I will hand it over to you, I have already told Yan Chun of the outer gate, when you leave, he will hand it over to you." Du Zhong said.
"Well, I know, I'll go see Mr. Lian first!" After Wang Yuanwai finished speaking, he ordered the boatmen and the fuding to drive the boat back to Jingyang after finishing their work, and then did not take the dark path, but flew up the high wall with two of his personal guards, and entered the Jiudao Villa through the north gate above.
Xiaoyaozi looked at the departing king, at this time, the four-fingered Du Zhong and another man were also busy escorting the slaves from the cabin, Xiaoyaozi did not dare to move, although he was a little anxious, but he was afraid of alarming Du Zhong, so he could only continue to hold his breath and concentrate on lurking. At this time, Du Zhong said: "Who is this king? Seeing that his martial arts are good, he must also have some fame in the rivers and lakes, why have I never heard of his name?"
The other person's eyes looked around, looking extremely vigilant, and pulled Du Zhong away from those slaves, and then whispered: "Du Daxia may not know, this Wang Yuanwai has a very close relationship with my Jiudao Villa, and in my guess, he should also be a person in the organization." Although with the humble status of the villain, I can't figure out the identity of Wang Yuanwai, but I know that the goods escorted by Wang Yuanwai for the first time are not slaves. ”
"What is it?" asked Du Zhong.
"Yellow and white things, and a lot of them, dozens of boxes!" the man whispered.
When Du Zhong heard this, he was also surprised and said, "Dozens of boxes? Isn't that hundreds of thousands of taels? Where did he get so many treasures?"
"I don't know this, I'm also very curious about the identity of Wang Yuanwai, I've been in Jiudao Mountain Villa for so long, and I've seen a lot of people, but this Wang Yuanwai, I'm very fresh. And what's even more strange is that Jiudao Villa has always been extremely strict about the development of outsiders who can get in touch with the secrets of the villa, but this king seems to have entered Jiudao Villa very easily, and his relationship with Mr. Lian is even much better than others. ”
"It seems that there are really a lot of secrets in Jiudao Villa! Okay, this matter is over, since you have been transferred to assist me, you and I are grasshoppers on a rope, there are many mistakes, if you and I leak the secrets of the villa because of your and me's chat, we will only have a dead end." This matter, as you and I have never talked about. Du Zhong said.
The man also stuck out his tongue, quickly shut his mouth, and then went to reprimand the slaves who had been bought.
Du Zhong's conversation with that person was listened to by Xiaoyaozi almost word for word, especially when the person mentioned that Wang Yuanwai might also be a member of the organization, which made Xiaoyaozi even more surprised and curious, what kind of organization was the organization he was talking about?
He used to be the number one killer of the dark river, and the tasks he performed were also extremely complicated, the things in the rivers and lakes, the people in the rivers and lakes, naturally he knew everything, but he didn't know anything about the information of Jiudao Villa, so he didn't know anything about the so-called "organization" in that mouth.
Although Xiaoyaozi was puzzled, he was silent at the moment, this Du Zhong and his subordinates took out the slaves in the cabin, counted the number of people carefully, and found that there was no mistake, that is, he took this group of slaves into the secret door of Jiudao Villa.
At this time, there were only a few escort boatmen and servants left in the ship, and one of the shipwrights didn't know where to get some wine and meat, so they found a place to sit down, eat and drink.
Xiaoyaozi also happened to take advantage of this time to get out and go up to the pond embankment, intending to enter Jiudao Villa from the north gate.
Xiaoyaozi quietly touched into the villa, only to find that the villa was so big, it made him a little dumbfounded, the rows of houses, the scattered pavilions and pavilions, so that Xiaoyaozi in it had a feeling of entering a labyrinth.
And the defense of Jiudao Mountain Villa is also extremely strict, in this huge courtyard, from time to time there are Zhuang Ding patrolling around with torches, and looking at these men with swords in their hands and their figures, all of them should have good martial arts, and even a few points stronger than the ordinary disciples of some major sects.
Although Xiaoyaozi knew that Wang Yuanwai had entered this village, there were many buildings here, and he didn't know where he went. With intuition, Xiaoyaozi felt that the Mr. Lian mentioned by Du Zhong just now should have a relatively high status in this villa, and the residence of a person like him should never be on the periphery of this villa, so Xiaoyaozi could only cautiously walk towards the depths of the village.
Sneaking all the way, going around in this complex courtyard, during which Xiaoyaozi also avoided several patrolling mansions, and the deeper he walked into the Jiudao Villa, the more intensive the patrols of these mansions became, and sometimes there were even several teams of patrolling mansions, staggered.
I have to say that Xiaoyaozi's luck that day was not bad, although he experienced some twists and turns, but with his experience as a killer for many years, he finally found the area that should be regarded as the core of the villa.
This area, all are independent yards and attics, here is even more extensive, there are at least a dozen cobblestone paved paths, extending to all directions, along these roads down, should be straight to the four gates of the Jiudao Villa in the center of these independent courtyards, but also towering an extremely brilliantly decorated independent attic, the other courtyards, as if the stars and the moon, enclose this attic in the middle.
The more he went to this kind of place, the more cautious Xiaoyaozi became, after all, the people who could live here should also be the strongest group of people in the entire mountain villa.
The most central attic is called "Honghu Tower", which should be the place where the highest status people in this area live, Xiaoyaozi does not know what the name of "Mr. Lian" in Du Zhong's mouth is, nor does he know what the status of his Jiudao Villa is.
At this time, it was already the middle of the night, and although the whole area was brightly lit, there were only a few places with lights in the real buildings, and the other courtyards were only under the eaves of the houses, with lanterns hanging up.
"Honghu Tower" is one of the lights in the room, and if you listen carefully, there seems to be a faint sound of whispering in this building. It's just that in front of the gate of this building, there are several mansion guards who stand straight.
Xiaoyaozi looked at the mansions, and then looked at the entire attic, and after finding the best route, he slowly approached the attic.