Chapter 198: Turning People into Stones
Zhen Zhen led people to snatch Dading and killed their old leader. Du Qian, the son of the old chief, touched the black road in the mountain, ran more than ten miles to the west, and came to the bottom of a mountain. At this time, Siye was as silent as a dead world, and suddenly a terrible voice sounded in his ears, Du Qian pricked up his ears and listened carefully, if he usually heard this sound when hunting in the mountains with his clansmen, he might not be too nervous, after all, how bold people are. But now when he heard it, he was terrified, because he knew it very well. It's the roar of a tiger. He didn't know where the tiger was, but he could tell intuitively that it was very close to him, but he couldn't see it clearly in the night. So I had to tiptoe and try to hide to the side.
At this time, he only heard the tiger roar, and he knew that the tiger had already set its sights on him. Du Qian could only hold back his fear, clenched the short knife in his hand, tried his best to suppress his fear, got up and walked forward slowly.
The tiger slowly followed him, and he heard the tiger's roar, and now his heart was in his throat.
Seeing that the road ahead is wide and straight, there is no way to escape. Suddenly, the tiger attacked him and pounced frantically.
"Ah, help..."Du Qian ran forward quickly, and the tiger was stimulated and ran up.
At this moment, a man in his forties suddenly flew from the air, grabbed a tree vine, and flew towards Du Qian in the forest. When he flew to the top of Du Qian's head, he grabbed his arm and swung to another tree, and the tiger pounced forward and suddenly fell into a large, deep trap.
Du Qian sat on the big tree in shock, and at this time, the man who rescued him took the initiative to speak: "Qian'er, it's so late, why are you here?"
Only then did Du Qian see that the person who saved him was his uncle Du Gao. When Du Qian finally saw his uncle, he couldn't help crying out loud and aggrieved, and threw himself into Du Gao's arms.
Du Gao patted Du Qian's back and comforted: "How can you move your child? Usually you are so brave, but you didn't expect to be scared like this tiger today?"
Du Qian said: "Uncle Gao, I can be regarded as having found you." ”
Du Gao said: "These **** saw that this tiger was eyeing here, so they set this trap, and they were worried that there was no bait, but I didn't expect you to come and make a living bait, and you also have the credit for catching this tiger." Oh, by the way, why are you here in the middle of the night?"
Du Qian cried and said, "Uncle Gao, I'm looking for you." ”
Du Gao asked, "Are you looking for me?"
Du Qian cried and said, "My father he..."
Du Gao asked, "What's wrong with your father?"
"My father has been killed. Du Qian choked up and said.
Du Gao asked in surprise, "What? How can this be, didn't he be a chief in the tribe and have always been fine? Who challenged his authority and killed him?"
Du Qian said: "No, it was the people who broke in outside and killed him." ”
Du Gao said: "When is it?"
Du Qian: "Just now, my father was originally on the rooftop of the Beidou Festival, and was about to pass on the position of leader to me, when suddenly a group of people rushed out, they were indiscriminate, and wanted to rob us of the gods for a few days, and if my father didn't give them to them, they killed my father." ”
Du Gao said: "Is this really the case? How can this be?"
Du Qian said: "It's true, I ran desperately to you, and I escaped a catastrophe." But my father's body is still on the rooftop. ”
Du Gao said: "Who are they, do you know?"
Du Qian said: "I don't know, but they seem to claim to be the people under the Jinghai Jiedu envoy, and they want to grab the crown without saying a word, which is very arrogant." ”
Du Gao said: "Don't cry child, I know." Let's go back now and take care of the aftermath for your father. ”
Du Qian cried and said, "Uncle Gao, I want to ask you to avenge my father." ”
Du Gao said: "Okay, let's go back and find your father first." ”
The two jumped down from the tree, and at this time, the tiger in the trap roared wildly, jumping like thunder and jumping towards the mouth of the trap, wanting to rush up and swallow the two of them.
Dugo came to the trap and sprinkled a cloud of white powder from the sleeve. The powder fell on the tiger, and in an instant, the tiger was ossified into a stone statue, standing motionless in the burrow.
Du Qian wiped his tears and said, "Uncle Gao, your zombie silkworm powder is so powerful, even the tiger has been subdued by it." ”
Du Gao said: "This is nothing, let's go, let's go to your father." ”
Du Gao and Du Qian's uncle and nephew returned to the rooftop of Yangqiang Mountain. Sure enough, I saw Du Lian lying in a pool of blood, and he had already lost his breath.
"Dad, Dad, you died so miserably..."Du Qian cried loudly.
Du Gao stood aside and said a little calmly: "Big brother, although I have never been in favor of the kind of authoritarian hegemony you used to govern our tribe and rest on your laurels, but after all, we are brothers of the same mother, and now that you have been killed by a traitor and died innocently, I must find a murderer to avenge you." ”
Du Qian said: "Dad, don't worry, my uncle and I must avenge you." ”
Du Gao glanced at the messy sacrificial platform and asked, "Did they snatch the rest of the tripods?"
Du Qian said: "That's right, they came to rob the Ding, and my father didn't give it, so they killed the killer." ”
Du Gao said: "Although I have always disapproved of your father to lead the tribe under the pretense of worshipping the heavens and communicating with the gods, after all, these tripods are left by the ancestors, and they must not be robbed by others, so that the ancestors will be disgraced underground, and I must take it back." Do you know where they're going?"
Du Qian said: "I don't know, otherwise let's go to the mouth of the valley and ask the guards, maybe they should know." ”
When the two came to the valley mouth, they saw that the back of the heads of the two guards was firmly glued to the cliff and could not move.
Du Qian hurriedly stepped forward to check and asked, "What's wrong with you? Have you ever seen someone transport our tripod out?"
The guard said: "Damn it, we didn't hold the valley mouth, let the thieves snatch the tripod away, and ask the prince and the prince to punish it." ”
Du Qian said: "Let's not talk about these things first, do you know where they transported Ding?"
The guard said: "I heard them say, it seems that they are going to some kind of guest inn in Anyuan County." ”
Du Gao said: "Okay, I know, let's hurry to Anyuan immediately, and we must break the thief's body into ten thousand pieces." ”
"Okay, let's catch up. Du Qian said.
Du Gao: "It's good for me to go alone, you stay here, find a way to unlock the hidden weapon for them, and prevent the enemy from invading our tribe again." ”
Du Qian said: "That's good, it's hard for you, Uncle Gao." ”
With that, Na Du Gao quickly whipped his horse and rushed out of the valley at a high speed.
At this time, Yi Dan followed Jiao Gongxian's team and slowly returned to Anyuan, and it was already Chenshi.
Jiao Gongxian asked, "May I ask Miss Yi, which inn do you live in?" ”
Yi Dan said: "No need for Brother Jiao, I'll go back by myself."
Jiao Gongxian said: "You don't have to excuse yourself, you lost your horse and baggage last night, I'll go to the inn and help you check with the shopkeeper by the way." ”
Yi Dan said: "It's better for me to ask myself, Brother Jiao, you are busy with military affairs, and you have been running around all night, how can I take up your time again." ”
Jiao Gongxian said: "I have finished transporting grain and grass this time, and there is no task for the time being, or let me ask you, you don't know that these inns and tea shops like to bully outsiders, if you ask them, they will not tell the truth." ”
Yi Dan said: "Okay, then it's hard for you."
Jiao Gongxian said: "Where is it, it should be, let's go, let's hurry up." ”
As soon as the two arrived at the gate of the inn, Yi Dan found that the inn was in a mess, and two huge copper tripods had fallen on the ground in the inner courtyard of the inn.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Yi Dan hurriedly entered the lobby of the inn and asked the shopkeeper, "Shopkeeper, what happened here?"
The shopkeeper said, "Ouch, girl, why did you come back?" ”
Yi Dan said, "What's wrong?
The shopkeeper said: "An hour ago, a few people came, made a mess here, and moved a few big dings, and almost demolished my inn." They seem to have taken your friend and two others away. ”
Jiao Gongxian asked, "How can this be, are you mistaken?"
The shopkeeper said: "If you don't believe it, go up and take a look for yourself, I don't know what is on the ground, it's very sticky, I can't wash it off." Hey, that's bad luck. ”
Yi Dan hurriedly ran upstairs and opened the room to take a look, and sure enough, the room was a mess. Senior Brother Youming's sword was still messily thrown on the ground, and there were two other unfamiliar swords that were also thrown on the ground. There were also two huge tripods, also placed in this room, only the milky white glue on the floor, which she was somewhat familiar with, but had to be carefully avoided.
Jiao Gongxian followed up and asked, "What's the matter, Miss Yi, have you found your junior brother?"
"No, only my junior brother's sword is still here, and he must have been captured. Yi Dan said.
Jiao Gongxian asked, "Have you sinned against anyone?"
Yi Dan said: "No, we just went ashore today, and we didn't have a holiday with anyone." Oh yes, except for that Yang Tingyi. Oh, it can't be that Yang Tingyi did it, right? This bastard, I must go to him to settle accounts. With that, Yi Dan was about to rush out.
Jiao Gongxian stopped her and asked, "Are you sure it's Yang Tingyi?" But didn't we meet him on the road just now?
Yi Dan thought for a while and said: Yes, we passed him by just now, he went north, we went south, so it seems that he has no time to commit the crime at all. But if not him, then who?"
Jiao Gongxian said: "Let's not worry, let's look for it again, if there are any clues." ”
Yi Dan pointed to the glue on the ground and said, "In addition to these glues, there are two more Dading and two more swords. ”
When Jiao Gongxian heard the word glue, he hurriedly asked, "What glue?"
Yi Dan pointed to the milky liquid on the ground and said, "That's it, you see." ”
Jiao Gongxian lowered his body and lay on the ground to carefully check the residue of the glue, then poked a little with a small stick, carefully examined it, sniffed it with his nose, and said, "This is 'torn skin'"
Yi Dan said: "That's right, that person did say last night, this is called 'tearing skin', what's the matter, Brother Jiao, do you know this glue?"
Jiao Gongxian said: "It's not just acquaintance, it's also very familiar." ”
Yi Dan hurriedly asked, "Is it? May I ask Brother Jiao, do you know who did this?"
Jiao Gong said envially: "This is the unique secret weapon of my other uncle. ”
"Your uncle?"
"Yes, he is Zhen Zhen, one of the five masters among the twelfth disciples of Jiaowutang. ”
Yi Dan: "Zhen Zhen?"
Jiao Gongxian: "That's right, Uncle Zhen is good at developing all kinds of glue as hidden weapons, and the most powerful of them is this 'tearing skin'." It is a kind of vine bean that grows on clay, grinds it into powder, adds water, and filters it with gauze to precipitate the substance that flows out, and it is a very viscous liquid. In addition, the skin of a wild pig called 'Forgotten Pig' in Yuzhou is boiled and mixed to make glue. ”
Yi Dan asked, "Why do you call it a forgotten pig?"
Jiao Gongxian explained: "Forget pig is a kind of black and white spotted wild boar, and the skin of the pig is particularly sticky after boiling. Because this pig is very playful and often forgets to go home, people call it the forgotten pig. ”
Yi Dan said: "I have learned the power of tearing the skin, and the stickiness is indeed very large." May I ask Brother Jiao, where is your Uncle Zhen now, and why did he arrest my junior brother?"
At this time, Jiao Gongxian saw a special sword on the ground, he walked over, bent down to pick up the sword, looked at it and said, "Strange, isn't this sword the Li family sword that was famous in Annan back then?
Yi Dan asked, "What is the Li family sword, whose sword is this?"
Jiao Gongxian said: "During the period of Li Xian of Tang Zhongzong, there was a Duhu named Qu Lan in the Annan Metropolitan Protectorate, who was insatiable and tyrannical, and was killed by a righteous man named Gan Meng with this sword. Nagan Mengyishi was both civil and military, claiming that he was a descendant of the Shang Dynasty Li State, so he changed his surname to Li. Later, there were people in the Li family who were officials in the Tang Dynasty for generations, and this Li family sword has not appeared in Annan for a long time. I also saw it once in Jiaozhou many years ago. ”
Yi Dan asked, "So, the owner of this sword is likely to be the descendant of the Li family?"
Jiao Gongxian said: "That's right, although the lord is now secretly expelling the Tang people who do not live in Annan within three generations, the Li family lives in Annan and has also contributed to the people of Jiaozhi. I just don't know why I, Uncle Zhen, want to arrest the people of the Li family? I really don't understand. ”
Yi Dan looked at the big tripod on the ground and said, "Brother Jiao, look, these two big tripods, and the two downstairs, these tripods are so big and heavy, I don't know where they came from?"
Jiao Gongxian said: "My Uncle Zhen's martial arts are mediocre, but the glue secret weapon is very powerful. However, the adhesive concealer has a fatal drawback, that is, if it sticks to the clothes and shoes, it can be taken off. I think he used this big tripod to detain people inside and capture them alive when they didn't have time to get dressed, right?"
Yi Dan said: "Well, Brother Jiao, your analysis is very reasonable, but you don't need such an exaggerated tripod, right? It's not like a commonly used utensil. ”
Jiao Gongxian looked at Da Ding carefully, touched the black pot ash under the Ding with his hand, and said, "This Ding should have been used to cook things before." ”
Yi Dan asked, "Who would cook something with such a bulky copper tripod now?"
Jiao Gongxian said: "I don't know, but you look at the obvious pot ash under the ding." ”
Yi Dan said: "Since we can't find clues from these two tripods, let's go down and take a look, there are still two tripods below." See if you can find any clues. ”
The two of them came downstairs and carefully inspected the other two Dading. But the tripod downstairs is the same as the tripod upstairs, and there are traces of burnt pot ash at the bottom, but it has obviously been deliberately cleaned. The pattern of the tripod body is engraved with a very exaggerated human face, as well as many abstract human postures and movements, which looks like the human form in the martial arts cheats.
The two of them carefully examined these picture gestures, but still couldn't find anything.
At this time, Yi Dan said to Jiao Gongxian: "Brother Jiao, in this way, the most likely thing at present is that your senior uncle Zhen Zhen has taken my junior brother away. Where does he live? I can't wait, I'm going to go to him now. ”
Jiao Gongxian said: "My Uncle Zhen lives in a valley in Yuzhou, if you need it, I can accompany you to find him." ”
Yi Dan said happily: "Okay, that's too much to ask for, thank you Brother Jiao! ”
Jiao Gongxian said: "You're welcome, Miss Yi, you have helped me so much, this little thing, it's a little effort." Let's go, let's go to Suzhou to find my Uncle Zhen. ”
"Thank you, Brother Jiao!"
Yi Dan and Jiao Gongxian were planning to find the Zhen Zhen dignitaries, at this time, I saw that Du Gao was holding a halberd, riding a fierce horse, and broke in from outside the inn angrily, he saw that in the courtyard, Yi Dan and Jiao Gongxian were standing next to the two big dings, and Jiao Gongxian's hand was still on the ears. So he mistakenly thought that the two of them were the thieves who robbed Dading, so he asked loudly in anger: "Are you the people under the Jinghai Jiedu Envoy?"
Jiao Gongxian stepped forward and said, "That's right, it is the people under the Jinghai Festival Envoy below, may I ask Your Excellency?"
Du Gao was so angry that his face turned red, and he continued to ask, "What about the other two tripods?"
Jiao Gongxian said with a blank face: "It's in the upstairs room." ”
Du Gao saw that Ding was also there, and the people were right, and finally everyone had obtained the stolen goods, so he didn't think much about it, so he scolded loudly: "Okay, it's refreshing enough, since that's the case, then don't delay the time, let's solve it quickly." ”
With that, Du Gao flew up from his horse, picked up the halberd, and stabbed at Jiao Gongxian without saying a word.
Jiao Gongxian was confused, and he didn't have time to explain anything, but he saw the halberd poking at him, so he also picked up the spear in his hand and fought with Na Du Gao in the chaotic courtyard.
Jiao Gongxian and Du Gao both used battlefield weapons, which were long and heavy, and the whole courtyard was not enough for them to wield. So while the two were fighting, they flew out of the courtyard wall, came to the open space outside, and continued to fight.
Yi Dan also hurriedly followed, only to see the two in the empty dam, fighting each other. Jiao Gongxian's hand-held spear, dotted with cold stars, shining with silver light, fierce and powerful, indestructible. The sharp spear head and the cold stick body are perfectly integrated, like a mighty long sword, sweeping out a strong wind in the hand. He stabbed, stabbed, blocked, pounced, pointed, dialed, and swept with all his might, and the subtleties of his marksmanship could be fully understood and used freely.
And Du Gao's halberd is also a smooth and handy dance. At the top of the halberd is a sharp stabbing head, and below the stab head are two sharp blades. The halberd, as a battlefield weapon, was mainly used by generals in the pre-Qin and Han dynasties. However, due to the heavy head and light body, it was difficult to use, so it was gradually replaced by pure guns. This Du Gaowu's halberd chopping, stabbing, hooking, slicing, probing, hanging, and chopping basically encompasses the traditional nirvana techniques of the halberd method, which should have been handed down from ancient times. Coupled with his dark skin, mighty body, and heroic posture when he danced this halberd, he seemed to have the spirit of the Han generals fighting the Hu army back then.
The two were evenly matched, and they did not give in to each other, and the spears and halberds collided violently, and the sparks flew everywhere. Yi Dan was very anxious to watch, but she didn't know who was coming, why she suddenly started fighting without saying a word? She didn't know how to stop this inexplicable fight, so she could only stand aside and wait anxiously.
After dozens of rounds, Jiao Gongxian obviously began to struggle a little after facing Du Gao's powerful halberd head with a fierce attack. At this time, Jiao Gongxian turned over with a wild goose, and the spear just pierced into Du Gao's halberd hole, Du Gao held the halberd tightly, twisted it vigorously, and Jiao Gongxian had to let go of his hands and let the gun body flip freely. Seeing the situation, Du Gao shook it fiercely, throwing Jiao Gongxian's spear far to the ground.
After Jiao Gongxian lost his gun, Na Du Gao pressed forward step by step, stabbing at his people with a long halberd, Jiao Gongxian was about to be defeated, and he was powerless to return to the sky, at this time, Yi Dan, who was watching from the sidelines, saw that the situation was critical, and he couldn't care about so much, so he pulled out the sword in his hand and threw himself at Na Du Gao.
Du Gao was attacking Jiao Gongxian, but he suddenly felt a powerful true qi, swept a whirlwind, and attacked him. Yi Dan uses the sixth style of "moral swordsmanship": the beak bird pecks the fish, and the sword edge picks the lamp. The shadow of the sword fell on Du Gao's halberd, and the strong shock made his hands numb, making Du Gao unconsciously drop the halberd.
Du Gao was dumbfounded by Yi Dan's sword style, he took a few steps back and took a closer look at the woman in her early twenties in front of him. I never thought that there would be such a wonderful swordsmanship in the world.
"I can't see it, you still have two more strokes. Du Gao stared at Yi Dan's face and said.
After Yi Dan picked out the halberd in Du Lian's hand, he just wanted to explain, but because of the hatred of the innocent killing of his eldest brother Du Lian, Du Gao lost his mind of rational thinking. He believed in his heart that Yi Dan and Jiao Gongxian were murderers, so he didn't give Yi Dan any chance to explain at all. A cloud of white dust was quickly released from the sleeve tube, which was the unique secret weapon that turned the tiger into a stone carving in the trap before-zombie silkworm powder.
The sudden spillage of zombie silkworm powder shrouded Yi Dan in a cloud of dust. Yi Dan didn't know how powerful this white dust was, she just wanted to retreat, and at the same time raised her hand to pat the dust, but she didn't expect that after the dust shrouded the surface of her body, it instantly formed a layer of solid shell as solid as stone on the surface of her body, enveloping her whole person in the stone shell and turning into a stiff stone statue. In order to protect the weak eyes, he was also forced to close.
Yi Dan was trapped in the hard shell by the hidden weapon zombie silkworm powder released by Du Gao, and completely turned into a living sculpture, Jiao Gongxian was shocked and hurriedly took several steps back. He watched Yi Dan turn into a statue, and was immediately stunned by fright, and wanted to run away. Du Gao once again popped out a cloud of stiff silkworm powder from his sleeve, shrouding the fleeing Jiao Gongxian in the dust. Jiao Gongxian struggled a few times, but it was in vain, and soon he also turned into a living stone statue that was running. So far, Yi Dan and Jiao Gongxian have been captured alive by Du Gao's mysterious secret weapon.
After seeing that both of them had become sculptures, Du Gao picked up the halberd on the ground and wanted to stab at Jiao Gongxian in order to avenge his eldest brother, but he thought about it carefully: Forget it, since the enemy has been caught, simply drag it back and kill him again in front of the eldest brother's spirit hall, so that the eldest brother can also see it with his own eyes in the heavenly spirit.
Du Gao found a few carriages and transported the four Da Ding, as well as Yi Dan and Jiao Gongxian, back to Yangqiang Mountain. (To be continued.) )