Yang Qinhu stood on the small slope, looking at the burning Xuanyuan Village, he couldn't help shaking his head, his tall back looked very helpless in the dark night, although Zhuangzi was not owned by him, but he had worked hard for many years, and he was burned overnight, and he still felt sad.

There was an old man in gray standing beside him, dressed as a housekeeper, but his eyes flashed in the firelight, and he only heard the old man say: "The family members and subordinates in the village have been arranged, do you have anything else you can't put down?"

Yang Qinhu sighed: "Hey, Taifu, after so many years of hard work, I always feel a pity to give up so easily, I don't know if you think the same way, Taifu Dao?"

The old man is one of the three heroes of the late Song Dynasty Zhang Taifu - Zhang Shijie, when he desperately rescued Zhao Yu, he cleaned up the remnants, less than 2,000 people, he knew that it was difficult for the regular army to restore the Great Song Dynasty, although the generals were mostly lost, the young master still existed. He, Wen Tianxiang, Lu Xiufu and others had expected that there would be a day of defeat, so they had to take precautions and arrange retreats in various places, and this Xuanyuan Village was one of them. After the defeat of the Yashan Naval War, he faked his death, but he was lucky to live, Lu Ya became Zhao Yu's stand-in again, and others thought that there was no Zhang Shijie in the world, who knew that he was hiding in Suzhou today.

Back then, he just wanted to have a place to stay, and although he died in old age, he could always ask the emperor to eat and wear himself, and he would die well. However, the area south of the Yangtze River was oppressed too much by the Mongol army, and there were continuous uprisings in various places, so that he saw the hope of recovering the country again, so when the White Lotus Sect revolted, he secretly established many such strongholds, some of which were on the edge of the prosperous city, and some were in various towns, privately recruiting troops and horses, accumulating strength, hoping that one day the Great Song Dynasty could be revived. Although the number of recruits is small, they are all elite soldiers, plus the remaining remnants of the original, there are more than 20,000 people at the end, and more than 20,000 people are scattered throughout the country, forming a very organized underground news network. Later, the White Lotus Sect was suppressed by the government, and the whereabouts of the sect leader Yang Zhenlong were unknown, and those remnants of the White Lotus Sect defected to Zhang Shijie with Yang Qinhu. Zhang Shijie built the church of the White Lotus Sect in the underground secret room in Xuanyuan Village, and used it as a gathering place for the White Lotus Sect, so the owner of Xuanyuan Zhuang is also the head of the White Lotus Sect is Yang Qinhu, and the stewards, tents, and even servants and children in the village are all members of the White Lotus Sect. And Zhang Shijie himself started the nominal housekeeper in Xuanyuan Village, others only know that he is Zhang's housekeeper, but they don't know that he is Mrs. Zhang, although Yang Qinhu is the owner of the village, but the big things still have to listen to the big housekeeper.

At this time, Yang Qinhu asked this question, and Zhang Shijie said: "How can it not be a pity, but now that the government is eyeing us, Brother Sang is pressing, and it is really helpless to give up Xuanyuan Zhuang as soon as possible." ”

At this time, I saw a group of people and horses on the pipeline, lighting torches, one by one, like a long dragon towards Xuanyuan Village, the night was dense and I couldn't see how many people there were, the sound of horses' hooves was noisy and loud, and it spread far away in the quiet night.

Yang Qinhu said: "The Tartar soldiers in Suzhou came so quickly. I don't know who denounced us. ”.

Zhang Shijie smiled coldly, "Where are there still Tartar soldiers, now these soldiers in the Yuan Dynasty are all Han Chinese." ”

Yang Qinhu said: "I hope they won't find out where the secret room is." ”

Zhang Shijie said: "Didn't you burn the secret room?"

Yang Qinhu said: "When I was about to set fire, Miss Yin Lan took a young man into Zhuangzi, and I didn't know who that young man was, so I didn't dare to show up. ”

Zhang Shijie glared at him and said, "The secret of Xuanyuan Village must not be known to outsiders, why are you so confused." ”

Yang Qinhu said: "After Miss Yin entered the secret room, she touched the mechanism, and now it has burned there. ”

Zhang Shijie scolded: "What's the use of burning it, you should try to get rid of the outsider, then set fire to the secret room, and then leave with Lan'er." Now that the Tartars are going to encircle and suppress, what if they find a secret room?" Compared to the secret room, Zhang Shijie didn't seem to care much about Yin Lan's safety.

Yang Qinhu also broke out in a cold sweat and said, "My subordinates are confused, what should I do now?"

Zhang Shijie pondered for a moment and said: "Anyway, the matter has been revealed, since the Yuan army has gone to Xuanyuan Village, we will go to Suzhou." ”

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Lu Ya lit the candle in the secret room, only to see that the secret room was very empty, enough to accommodate more than a thousand people, in the middle of the room was a large incense burner, with three giant incense sticks inserted on it, each of which had a person high, and it had burned most of it, and the rest was still curling green smoke rising, which showed that the people in the room had not been gone for long. There are hundreds of futons under the incense burner, neatly arranged, and there are tables, chairs, incense tables and other sundries around the futon, and there are fruits and refreshments on the incense table, all of which are things for worshiping the Buddha. On the walls on all four sides is carved the image of Maitreya Buddha carved in white granite, and the Buddha statue is barefoot and bare-chested, sitting on top of a lotus flower, lifelike.

Lu Ya looked at it for a long time and asked Yin Lan: "This is a Buddha hall, why are there so many Maitreya Buddhas?"

"I don't know", Yin Lan also watched for a long time, "My father-in-law and I have not been here for a long time, and my father-in-law has never told me about things here." ”

Lu Ya nodded, walked to a Buddha statue, and saw a line of words on both sides of the Buddha statue, which read, "White Lotus reincarnation, Maitreya descended into the world", Lu Ya said: "Look here, is this the White Lotus Sect?"

Yin Lan stood in place and said, "Maybe." She naturally knew the inside story of the Dao, but it was inconvenient to mention it to Lu Ya, so she replied vaguely.

"Look around again, and see if there's a way out. Lu Ya said.

The two of them circled around the chamber again, and there were large rocks on all sides, and there was no road except where they had just entered.

Yin Lan said: "In this case, we will starve to death if we are not burned to death." ”

"That may not be," Lu Ya came to the offering table, "eat this first." After saying that, he bowed to Maitreya Buddha and said something in his mouth.

Yin Lan smiled: "What are you reading?"

Lu Ya stood up and said: "If you eat other people's food, you must always be polite, and ask him to bless us to get out of danger safely and find Xiao Yutian as soon as possible." ”

Yin Lan sank her face, and Lu Ya turned her back to her and didn't notice it, only heard Yin Lan say: "After eating these, what are you going to eat?" I'm afraid I'm going to starve to death sooner or later." ”

Lu Ya casually took a pear and handed it to her, saying, "Let's talk about it when I'm full first." ”

Yin Lan took it and said while eating: "My mother used to tell me that it is unlucky for two people to eat pears, and they will be separated from that person in the future." ”

Where did Lu Ya know the deep meaning of her words, "How can those words be accurate? As long as you don't leave me, I won't leave you." ”

Yin Lan wanted to say: I'm afraid I will really leave you one day. But looking at Lu Ya's innocent and cheerful appearance, the words came to his lips, but it was difficult to say them no matter what.

After eating snacks and fruits, the two took a nap on the futon.

Lu Ya woke up first, feeling that his strength had recovered, and his spirit seemed to be much better, seeing that Yin Lan was still asleep, he thought: "I don't know what the situation outside is, if the fire subsides, we can find a way out of Lu from above." Why don't you go up and have a look. ”

He couldn't bear to wake up Yin Lan, and returned to the iron house from the secret passage alone, and as soon as he walked to the door of the iron house, he heard a noisy sound of people outside, as if there was a sound of metal knocking.

He touched the iron door with his hand, there was still residual heat on it, he pushed open the iron door, and a scorching smell came to his nose, only to see that all the things that could be burned in the room had turned into dust, and the heat wave rolled in, but fortunately, the fire had been burned out, and Lu Ya was not burned. The iron room is still closed, the windows are sealed, Lu Ya tiptoed to the window, looking out from the crack in the window, the sky outside is twilight, it is already dawn, and then see a team of officers and soldiers are smashing this iron house, may come in a hurry and have no tools to use, some officers and soldiers use knives, sticks, spears and other weapons to smash, but this iron house is extremely strong, it seems that it will take some time to destroy.

Lu Ya thought to himself that if this place was opened, Yin Lan and I would naturally be able to go out, but in this case, if I was recognized, I would have to suffer a lawsuit, so I would have to hide for the time being, and wait for the officers and soldiers to retreat.

As soon as I wanted to go back to the secret room, I heard a person outside say: "Stop, don't smash it yet, wait until you get a sledgehammer." ”

As soon as Lu Ya heard this person speak, he seemed to have heard it somewhere, and couldn't help but take a sneak look, the person happened to be facing the crack in the window, and saw that he was dressed as a Mongolian officer, with a medium build, a slight general belly, a big round face, a big nose, sword eyebrows, dragon eyes, and a gray beard, isn't this person the father of Xiang Nan that he saw in the seaside temple ten years ago-Boyan? Why is he here?

Boyan has been stationed in Suzhou since the White Lotus uprising, in recent years, Xuanyuan Zhuang has flourished, as early as under the supervision of Boyan, Boyan was appointed as the deputy envoy of the Privy Council at this time, and the title of King of Pingnan was sealed, and he held great power, and the secret military affairs and border defense of the whole world were under his control. And this time he received a secret report, that Xuanyuan Zhuang was actually related to the thieves who made trouble in Hangzhou the day before yesterday, Xuanyuan Zhuang was under his nose, how could he sit idly by?

I only heard a person beside Boyan say: "My lord, the thieves in Xuanyuan Village don't know where they ran away, let's not investigate, but what time do we spend here?"

The person who spoke had his back to Lu Ya, dressed as a military attaché, and looked like a local official.

Boyan said: "Gao Guard, that thief may be hiding in this iron house, what do you know about martial arts?"

Gao Shoubei said: "But the soldiers of the battalion are here, in case something goes wrong in Suzhou......

"What can happen in Suzhou?" Boyan said angrily: "We have learned that the thieves are in Xuanyuan Village, and we have already sent people to block the door, and we will definitely kill them all, how can we do it if there are fewer people?"

Gao Shoubei said: "This is just the words of the Nanren, they Nanren always look towards the Nanren, and his words cannot be fully believed." ”

Boyan nodded, "Aren't you also from the south, why do you point fingers at me, you know who has the final say." ”

The high guard was reprimanded by Boyan for a few words, and he was not convinced, but Boyan was a big official, and he could only hold back his anger secretly.

Seeing that he was no longer speech, Boyan said, "Bring the messenger here." ”

After a short time, three or two officers and soldiers pushed and shoved a person over, and the man bowed when he saw Boyan bowing his head and kept kowtowing.

Boyan didn't call him up, and asked, "Is what you said to Gao Shoubei true?"

The man looked up and said, "The villain's words are true. ”

Lu Ya was taken aback when he saw the man looking up from the crack in the window, this person was Li Shoucai, the shopkeeper of Li.

Gao Shoubei stepped forward, kicked Li Shoucai down, and scolded: "Dog minion, why do you want to expose your own people as a southerner?"

Li Shoucai lay on the ground and kept kowtowing: "My lord, that gang of thieves has ruined my family, how can I and them be our own people? Yesterday I saw with my own eyes that the thief killed Xing Bantou with a knife, and that man wanted to kill me, but fortunately I ran fast, so I escaped death. ”

Lu Yaxin said in his heart that it was you who killed Xing Kaiyang, how can you say that I killed you? If I don't save you, can you still live now?

Boyan said: "You said that the thief is strong in martial arts, and there is more than one official, and he is not his opponent, how can you escape?"

Li Shoucai's eyes rolled, and said: "The villain escaped while he was fighting with the official, the adult can find the official to confront him, Xing Bantou did mention in the conversation with the thief what kind of eldest lady is here, I don't know who the specific person is, but the thief and the woman are all the way, and there is no doubt that it is a person from Xuanyuan Village." The villain was wronged, it was all caused by them, and the adults clearly investigated. ”

Gao Shoubei kicked again, and scolded: "You mean to say that Master Sango has wronged you?"

Li Shoucai cried and said with a sad face: "The villain doesn't dare, but I just want my whole family to be implicated in this matter. ”

"Cheap minion," Boyan said: "If you are unwilling, you will not accept it, Master Sang Ge has condemned you, and there is no reason to change it, read that you have meritorious service in reporting, and leave you a whole corpse." Come, take it down and hang it. ”

Li Shoucai originally wanted to use the whistleblower to clear his name, but he didn't want this Mongolian to be unreasonable and take his life completely inappropriately, but now not only did he not clear his name, but he was hanged, and he really regretted it, if he had escaped, it would have been fine.

Why did Boyan kill him? He, a businessman sitting on the land in Hangzhou, had no power to tie the chicken, how could he be in the same party as the thief, how could Sang Ge not know that since he wanted to kill him, he would naturally be asked to take the blame, and now that the thief has escaped, how can he close the case without an explanation? Therefore, no matter what Li Shoucai does, he will inevitably die.

The samurai who came from both sides didn't help Li Shoucai to say more, and pulled him away, and after a while, someone reported that he had finished cooking.

Lu Ya sighed in his heart, at first he felt that Li Shoucai bit himself back, and reported Xuanyuan Zhuang for his own selfishness, which was really hateful, but after thinking about it, Li Shoucai was just an ordinary person, and he only wanted to avenge his family, so he was angry with me, the Mongolian country, or the Han country, it didn't mean much to him, all he wanted was to restore a stable life, what's wrong with this?

At this moment, a reporter hurriedly came from outside the garden, came to Boyan and knelt down and said: "Lord Qiyu, the big thing is not good, the White Lotus Sect disciples in Suzhou City have killed the officials and soldiers, burned the city gate, and incited the people to rebel!"

Boyan was shocked when he heard this, most of the soldiers and horses in Suzhou came to encircle and suppress Xuanyuan Village, now the city is empty, if Suzhou loses he can not afford it, a few steps to the rockery, look in the direction of Suzhou, only to see the smoke billowing in the direction of Suzhou, I don't know what the situation is.

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