Chapter 49: The Underground Palace
The horse neighed, its front feet stood upright, and it stopped before it hit Duan Xing's carriage. The girl in red on the horse almost fell off the red horse. After the red horse stabilized, the girl in red scolded: "People say that good dogs don't get in the way, you are deaf, Miss Ben just ordered you to get out of the way, didn't you hear? Kill you dog in your way" said, and with a "snap" he whipped the leather whip towards Ah San.
A hand reached out of the carriage and grabbed the whip. The girl in red said angrily: "Which bastard dares to stop Miss Ben and get out of here." After saying that, she pulled the whip back with all her might, but no matter how hard the girl in red tried, the whip seemed to be tied to the rock, and it did not move. Ah San lifted the carriage curtain, and Duan Xing walked out slowly.
As soon as she saw Duan Xing, the girl in red unconsciously relaxed the strength of the whip in her hand. His movements and expressions began to twist, and he asked shyly, "This ...... I don't know where this son is from, but is it the first time I've come to Dali City?"
Duan Xing looked at the extreme contrast between the front and back of the girl in red in surprise, and gave the leather whip in his hand without replying. Ah San cleverly put his body behind Duan Xing and said to the girl in red: "You unruly girl, have you ever heard the rumors of 'North Qiao Feng, South Murong, and the jade-faced little flying dragon in the middle'?" My son-in-law is called the jade-faced little flying dragon in the rivers and lakes, a first-class young hero in the martial arts, you hit my son-in-law's carriage at the city gate, how should you make amends?" This set of lines is a set of Jianghu rhetoric that Duan Xing is bored reading in the car, and confesses to Ah San when he is idle and bored, and in the future, whenever others ask about him, as long as Duan Xing does not speak, Ah San will be responsible for bringing out this set of lines.
The girl in red paused for a moment, and thought in her heart: "'North Qiao Feng, South Murong' have heard of it, when did the jade-faced little flying dragon appear in the middle? Could it be that it is a new rise on the rivers and lakes?" and then looked at Duan Xing again, that handsome and chic appearance, coupled with the natural exudation of the master's momentum, really made his heart almost jump out, the little flying dragon is the little flying dragon, this doesn't matter, even if there is no fame in the rivers and lakes, you can let your father find a way to get it. With a twist of thought in his heart, he first took the whip back in his hand, and then saluted: "The little woman Duan Yingying is polite this time, and I hope that the son will bear with me when I offended the son just now." ”
The girl in red stunned the guards defending the city. On weekdays, this eldest lady doesn't beat and scold others, it's good, how have you ever seen such a virtuous appearance, could it be that she has taken a fancy to that white-faced little student? A few big-headed soldiers, you look at me, I look at you, and they all sighed: "People are more angry than people!"
The girl in red did this, but it made Duan Xing have a bad attack, and when she heard that the other party was also surnamed Duan, she didn't think it would be a distant relative, so she didn't want to hurt her face in front of the public, just stop it. When he hugged his fist, he said: "Miss Yingying is not a rude and willful person, what happened just now is a misunderstanding, even so, it will not delay Miss Yingying to enter the city, let's get out of the way first, I just hope that Miss Yingying will not be so quick in the future, it is easy to hurt pedestrians." ”
"Childe, childe, slow ......" The girl named Duan Yingying stopped Duan Xing, who was about to return to the carriage, and said, "Childe, just now the little woman was in a hurry to help with the affairs of the middle." Therefore, the horse is a little too fast, and it will definitely not be next time. ”
"Yes, that's fine. Duan Xing didn't want to deal with Duan Yingying anymore, but Duan Yingying stuck to it. "Childe, Childe!" Duan Xing looked back.
Duan Yingying said to Duan Xing with a look of anticipation: "If the son has nothing important, why don't you follow the little girl to the Gang as a guest, drink a cup of tea, and then let the little girl accompany the son to visit Dali City?"
Duan Xing was stunned, and said that he didn't have to, and entered the carriage by himself, no longer looking at Duan Yingying. Ah San no longer turned the carriage to let the red horse, but "drove", and the carriage entered Dali City first.
The only woman in red, Duan Yingying, was left stamped on the spot, and threw a whip at the guard guarding the door with a whuff, but the poor guard who had not learned any exercises was unable to dodge Duan Yingying's angry whip, and she was forced to suffer it, only to see where the whip had been drawn, and the skin was open. The guard seemed to have scruples, and dared not speak out, and the people around him cast sympathetic glances at him.
"Hmph, I don't believe that you can hide from the first day of junior high school, and you can still hide from the fifteenth, in this Dali City, there is nothing that I Duan Yingying can't get!"
Ah San followed his master of the Western Regions to walk through the north and south of the river, but it was the first time in his life to directly enter the palace of a country like today, and he couldn't help but feel nervous, and it was unnatural to walk. Looking at the prince who was struggling in front of him, remembering the constant sound of "meeting His Royal Highness the Prince" all the way into the palace, Ah San felt as if he was in a dream. Could it be that the time is coming, God sees that the first half of his life is too bumpy and too hard, so he will let himself follow the prince of a country? Fantasizing about the beauty of the future, Ah San's waist unconsciously straightened up, and the smirk of "hehe" on his face continued. As for Weishenme Duan Xing, as the prince of a country, he still has to go to Suzhou to do the stealing thing, it is not within the scope of Ah San's consideration.
"Xing'er, you're back. A majestic voice sounded, interrupting Ah San's conjecture. A person wearing a three-clawed golden dragon robe and a purple gold crown came in from outside the door, and the steps of the person who came were calm, and there was an aura of a superior person between his gestures.
"I've seen my father" "I've seen Bixia!" Emperor Baoding grabbed Duan Xing, who was about to salute, looked at Ah San who was kneeling on the ground, and asked Duan Xing, "Who is this person?"
"Back to my father, this person's name is Ah San, and he is a retainer accepted by Xing'er when he was out wandering the rivers and lakes. ”
Emperor Baoding looked Ah San up and down, but he really didn't see anything special, so he couldn't help but ask again: "I don't know what strengths this person has, but he can make Xing'er move and accept him as a retainer?"
"Ah San has been traveling between the Central Plains and the Western Regions since he was a child, and he has a lot of knowledge about the personnel of the Western Regions. ”
Ah San, who was kneeling on the ground, couldn't help but be excited when he heard that Duan Xing was going to put him in charge of the trade between the two countries. It's just that I'm worried that the emperor is ruthless, what should I do if I can't do it well and my head is cut off. He hesitated for a moment.
Emperor Baoding turned his head to Duan Xing and said, "Xing'er, this matter still needs to be discussed in the long run. My father has something important to discuss with you. ”
Duan Xing nodded, knowing that anything involving national affairs was not something that could be done overnight, and he didn't care. Just waved his hand to let Ah San retreat.
Duan Xing returned to the secret room with Emperor Baoding again, after many years, the environment of the secret room has not changed at all, but there is no occasional sound of clanging chisels from the ground in the past.
"Father, the underground work is complete?"
Emperor Baoding smiled slightly, pulled Duan Xing into through a secret door in the secret room, and said: "What my father wants to say is this matter, the underground palace was completed a year ago, I wanted people to call you to come and have a look, but I was afraid of delaying your cultivation of martial arts, so I didn't tell you." Let's take a look with my father. ”
Following Emperor Baoding through many secret doors, noting down various trap mechanisms, and understanding the direction of each exit of the dungeon, the complexity of the underground design made Duan Xingdu feel confused.
When Duan Xing was about to be confused, Zuihou finally came to a huge underground palace palace. The palace has no splendid carved balustrades, only two colors, one is the gray-white of the stone, and the other is the red of the firelight. Although there are few colors, they can't help but give Duan Xing a strong shock in his heart.
In the center of the main hall is a circular altar on which stands a five-meter-high stone statue. There are nine stone dragon pillars and eight square platforms around the altar according to the direction of the nine palace gossip, I don't know what it is for. Between the dragon pillar and the altar was a whole circle of ditches, and in the ditches was a raging fire. At the four corners of the main hall are large round pillars with ten people hugging each other. There are stone gates at the four corners, and the stone gates are two long and eight feet wide. From the altar to the trench and then to the platform, there is only a stone bridge directly in the direction of the north gate that can be walked directly to the altar. Other than that, the main hall was empty, and there was nothing else in the underground palace the size of two football fields.
(Duan Xing stands in the center of the altar and whispers a mantra, and nine fire dragons fly around the altar in the air.) Suddenly, the stone statue on the altar opened its eyes and shot out a divine thought that spanned tens of millions of years and hit Duan Xing's body, Duan Xing held his hands in a virtual posture, and slowly showed an obscure text from Duan Xing's hand, to the effect of the following: "It will be delivered on time at night!"