Chapter Ninety-Three: The Castle

Early the next morning, Xiao Ruoshui got up early, he ran to the foot of Juyanxu Mountain, ran around Juyanxu Mountain, ran around Juyanxu Mountain, and looked at it while running, there was a military camp at the foot of Juyanxu Mountain, and the officers and soldiers inside were also running around Juyanxu Mountain.

Xiao Ruoshui ran slowly around Juyanxu Mountain, and there were also many people in the city who came out to practice in the morning, it seems that there are many people who are very leisurely this winter. Xiao Ruoshui stopped at the gate after running a lap, he looked at the winding steps up the mountain, next to the mountain is the barracks, from time to time there are soldiers who change guards from the mountain, he followed the tourists slowly towards the mountain, yesterday the rain just fell, the wind on the mountain blew over with a cold tide. So there weren't many people going up the mountain, so Xiao Ruoshui walked towards the mountain unhurriedly in the middle of the team. Many people climb mountains for a kind of fun, and exercise is secondary. He saw a lot of sentry checkpoints along the way, most of them built a sentry post in the flat place between the mountains, and then closed the only passage up the mountain, so as to prevent personnel from entering and leaving Juyanxu Mountain, but now it seems that it is not very strict, most of the checkpoints are watching personnel spot checks, it seems that the Turks are still very attached to this mountain, so people often come up to the mountain to pray for blessings and petitions, so the upper officials and ordinary soldiers are not very unreasonable to the personnel to go up the mountain. Xiao Ruoshui followed everyone to a large temple halfway up the mountain, everyone came in to make wishes and pray for blessings, Xiao Ruoshui looked at the other road leading to the castle on the top of the mountain, but there was no one. Occasionally, the officers and men who went up and down were changing guards. He immediately understood that this temple halfway up the mountain was the end point for ordinary people to go up the mountain, and the road leading to the castle would definitely not allow ordinary people to set foot half a step. Xiao Ruoshui sat at the stone table in the courtyard of the temple, asked for a pot of tea, and ate a few snacks slowly, he looked towards the top of the mountain, drinking tea and eating snacks at the same time, as if enjoying the scenery. He looked carefully at the steps up the hill, which spiraled upwards toward the mountain. Along with the waterfall river up the peak. At the top of the hill, it turns into a castle entrance staircase. The castle is built in a circular shape, with the highest up and down being five storeys and the lower ones having two or three storeys. They are all carved out of the circular mountain wall. The entire circular wall of the mountain has been carved into a circular castle. There are walls on the mountain wall. There were rooms, there were pillboxes, and watchtowers for guard and defense. The whole castle is built according to the mountain, and only one road leads to the castle, the other three sides are all overhanging rock cliffs, and the road to the castle is the result of many years of waterfall washing, so that the slope becomes smaller to build this road up the mountain. Xiao Ruoshui looked at this natural fortress and couldn't help but admire the magic of nature, and was also impressed by the ingenuity of the Turks. The perfect use of the power of nature and the power of man can create such a perfect defensive castle. Compared with the castles in the Central Plains, this castle is indeed difficult to break, and most of the castles in the Central Plains are located in the plain area, and they can be besieged all around, which is relatively much easier.

After eating snacks and drinking tea, the sweat of going up the mountain was almost blown away, he stood up and began to descend the mountain, when he walked down the mountain, the morning fog had dissipated, and the fog shrouded in the mountains turned into drops of dew on the branches, and the leaves rolled, reflecting the colorful sunlight, which made people feel refreshed.

Xiao Ruoshui walked into the castle, he suddenly remembered the contact method of the shadow, it was the method used in the leather warehouse, he walked into the inn, changed his clothes, rode on his horse to the warehouse on the outskirts of the city, he changed the disguised things in the woods, and he became the vulgar leather merchant road again. He went to his leather warehouse, and waited until it was almost dusk in the afternoon, and no shadow man contacted him. He sighed and told the guys to load the truck tomorrow and send the furs to the Phoenix Fair. He rode his horse and changed his outfit, and then returned to the inn sullenly. He returned to his room dejected. As soon as he pushed the door in, before he could sit at the table and take a sip of tea, Gu Lisha pushed the door open and came in.

"Where have you been in the afternoon, I've been waiting for you all afternoon. Gulisha closed the door and walked to the table and sat down, and casually brought a cup of tea to the two of them.

"Where else can I go? I'm going to look for information and see if there's any clue. Xiao Ruoshui lowered his head and drank tea dejectedly, his expression was very depressed, and he was not in the mood to talk to Gu Lisha, so he catered to her without a match.

"It seems that our all-powerful Xiao Daxia is not omnipotent, and he was actually stumped. Gu Lisha took a sip of tea and looked at Xiao Daxia's sad face with a teasing expression.

"Miss, don't tease Xiaosheng when you are old, your business is doing well, take it out and let me see the results. Xiao Ruoshui looked at Gu Lisha angrily.

"The problem is solved, and tomorrow you can go to the castle to meet your big brother Tuoba. Gurisa grinned and took out two tokens and a roll of maps from her sleeve and spread them out on the table.

"We still have two questions that have not been solved, one is where the outer disk of the Celestial Star Compass and the treasure map are hidden in the castle?The other is if we can rescue Big Brother Tuoba and them, how can we go down the mountain and escape from the royal city?" Xiao Ruoshui looked at the token and the map and said the reason for his sad face.

"In fact, the people in Tuoba Hanshan and their house were taken away for the war as hostages of the Tuoba tribe who did not resist, the main thing is that their lives can be guaranteed if they don't have different intentions, and they will be released as soon as the war is over, as for the place where the treasure map and the celestial star compass are in the castle, it is indeed a mystery, only when you get to the castle and continue to think of a way, it is useless to be anxious now." Gu Lisha looked at Xiao Ruoshui and said with a smile.

"It seems that the matter of Brother Tuoba is only said after going up the mountain, and I have to discuss with Brother Tuoba what to do. The treasure map seems to have been searched only one by one to see if there are any clues. Xiao Ruoshui said helplessly.

"Say you're smart, but you're stupid, here is the architectural layout, if we analyze it now, it is estimated that we will save a lot of trouble tomorrow. Let's take a look at graph analysis. Cheer up, what have become of you now?" Gu Lisha reprimanded Xiao Ruoshui, she seemed to be half angry by this frustrated Xiao Ruoshui's appearance, and when she saw his appearance, she was angry when she saw him, and she reprimanded Xiao Ruoshui.

"Okay, okay, let's break it down. Xiao Ruoshui was very uncomfortable by Gu Lisha's reprimand, he cheered up and began to carefully analyze the drawings.

"The location of the treasure must be in a room with only one road, and it is a dead end, generally not in a high place, hidden in the basement, so the upper ones can be abandoned, let's take a closer look at the rooms below to see if there are any special rooms. Gu Lisha analyzed. Xiao Ruoshui nodded, he also thought that Gu Lisha's analysis made sense. He began to look at the drawings on the bottom floor.

"The lowest room is the only one that fits the buried treasure, and there should be a dark room inside. But which of these rooms is the real treasure spot?" Xiao Ruoshui marked the location on the map, and he looked at these rooms and thought.

"Also, which of these rooms is the most likely, if I am the treasure collector, I will definitely let others not be able to snoop, and I can often see it, I think this room of the Khan and this room of the Khan's concubine are the most likely. Gulisha said, pointing to the two houses on the map.

"The place where the Khan hid the treasure must be in his own room, but we don't know that there is a mechanism in that part of the room, how can we get to the dark room where the treasure is hidden smoothly?" Xiao Ruoshui scratched his head and touched his nose, he guessed with a little headache.

"Let's go in first, let's wait until it gets dark and go to the Khan's room to find it, I don't believe we can't find the mechanism. Gu Lisha looked at the map and said categorically.

"That's the only way, let's go in and meet with Brother Tuoba first, and then discuss it with Brother Tuoba and see what he thinks. Xiao Ruoshui looked at the map and nodded, he felt that Tuoba Hanshan should be able to guess the location of the treasure.

"It's not early, I'll go to sleep first, you're taking a good look, I'm familiar with it, I'm going to return this picture tomorrow, but I found a lot of connections to get it." Gu Lisha yawned and left Xiao Ruoshui's room. Xiao Ruoshui watched her walk out of the room, he touched his forehead, and continued to look at the map (to be continued......)