Bright Spring

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Chapter 154

In the ancient temple on the mountainside, laughter of "hahaha..." came from time to time, but there was no one around, and the laughter suddenly seemed very strange and terrifying.

With his back against the mountain wall, Qu Neng walked lightly to the door, and Qu Liangcai followed immediately, bowing his head and picking up a stone.

Qu Neng poked out one eye quickly, took a look, and saw several people inside.Two women huddled in a corner; about five men were sitting drinking wine in front of a fire, and gold and silver were strewn about.

"I'll go in first, Liangcai protects my back." Qu Neng turned his head and said in a low voice, Qu Liangcai nodded.The eunuch Wang Gui didn't know martial arts, so he hid behind and probed his brain without making a sound.

As soon as the voice fell, Qu Neng had already jumped out.Those men were still sitting on the ground. Qu Neng rushed over, but his fists couldn't reach him, so he flew over with both feet "bang bang". The two men on the right screamed in pain, rolled and rolled, and were kicked out of the door. In an instant, there was a tragic cry, and both of them rolled off the cliff!

At this time, a man had just stood up, and Qu Neng punched the man in the face with a "bang", and the man's whole body flew backwards, and hit the wall with a "bang". .

There were still two people lying on their stomachs and grabbed the machete, and the stone in Qu Liangcai's hand went to buckle a man's head!The tiger father and dog son, Liangcai's strength is also great, and the stone was cracked when he smashed it, and the man was bleeding from the head and fell sideways.

At the same time, another man raised his knife to chop at Qu Neng. Qu Neng sneered, pinched the edge of the knife with the thumb and index finger of his right hand, his hands were like iron tongs, and then swung his arm forward with a "crack", The machete turned over and pulled a bloody gash on the boy's neck. The boy hugged his neck with his hands and struggled on the ground.

In an instant, the father and son killed five people in a row.Qu Neng simply ignored these unarmored bandits.

The eunuch Wang Gui who followed in couldn't help but cast a glance at Qu Neng.

Qu Neng inspected it and saw that this group of people might be gangsters running around, but they were not members of the White Lotus Sect. He guessed wrong last night.Or because at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the White Lotus Sect was listed as a cult. Qu Neng, who was born as a military officer in the court, always thought that those people were not good people, and it was normal to do some crimes and robbers.

He turned his head to look at the two women in the corner, their faces were covered with dirt, their hair was unkempt, and they had no clothes on, and covered them with a torn quilt.The two were looking at Qu Neng and the others in horror.

"Don't be afraid, we are not thieves, were you robbed by bandits?" Qu Neng asked in Sichuan dialect. After he looked closely, under the black mud, the two women were not very old.

One of them nodded boldly and said: "The concubine's parents and brothers were all killed by these people on the post road. Only the concubine and the maid survived. They were taken captive to the mountains and humiliated by these animals!"

"It seems that we killed the wrong person!" Qu Neng sneered. At this moment, he saw the man who had hit the wall struggling to get up, so he walked over, twisted the man, grabbed his head, and faced him. A sharp stone by the wall bumped past, and the man screamed and fell down again.

Qu Liangcai immediately took off the robe and lining on his body, walked up and handed it to the woman who was speaking.The woman looked at him gratefully, and saw Qu Liangcai's bare|exposed muscles on his chest. Her eyes flickered, she turned her head away, and said softly, "There is cold air in the mountains, sir, don't catch the wind and cold."

Qu Liangcai said: "I still have clothes, on the horseback at the foot of the mountain."

Wang Gui picked up the cloth bag and hurriedly picked up gold and silver pieces of different sizes and shapes on the ground.Qu Neng glanced at his son and asked the woman, "Where is your family? Is there anyone else at home?"

The woman said: "My concubine is from Chongqing Prefecture. My family has been killed by these bandits. I still have an uncle in Huguang."

Qu Neng picked up a piece of silver and said, "We will give you money, are you willing to go to relatives?"

The woman didn't say a word, and looked at the tall, young, tall and straight Qu Liangcai... Qu Liangcai and the three of them came to this place, obviously because the gold and silver on the ground were robbed by bandits; I'm afraid he is a young man with a lot of money.She was raped and lost her virginity again, and her family was ruined, but she was a clever little girl, and she noticed Liangcai at the first sight.

Qu Neng saw it, smiled and said no more questions, "Let's bury the body first."

The three of them went down the mountain to work.The road on the hillside was very narrow, and it was difficult for the horses to get up for a while, so they found another mountain forest and tied the horses inside to hide.When they got back to the temple, the two girls were all dressed up, and the maids were wearing Qu Liangcai's lining. They looked like they were wearing long skirts.

There were only two rooms in this bandit's lair temple, and Qu Neng took some people to get some pots, pans and chopsticks, and searched inside to see if the bandits had hidden anything useful.

In the afternoon, Qu Neng accidentally stepped on a stone slab by the corner of the house inside. He felt a little strange, so he squatted down and knocked on the stone slab, and there was a faint sound as expected.He immediately found a wooden stick to pry open the stone slab, and saw a wet|damp stone cave inside.

"Get a torch!" Qu Neng said.

Sometimes they would walk at night, carrying turpentine and other fuels, and after making a torch, Qu Neng took the lead in slipping into the cave.He took the torch and saw that there were artificially dug stone steps in the cave.So Qu Neng walked in with a torch, and Liangcai followed after a while.

The dark cave was winding and twisting, and water was dripping from the stone walls.The two walked one after the other for a long time before they saw a light ahead.They followed the light and walked out of the cave, and suddenly their eyes opened up.

The entrance of the cave is still on the mountain wall, but below it is full of birds and flowers, trees and bamboos are overgrown, and various flowers in spring bloom colorfully. A small stream flows slowly from the foot of the mountain to the distance.Looking down from the mountain wall, it is very beautiful, just like a peach garden!

"Ha!" Liangcai also exclaimed.

Qu Neng looked around and saw that this valley was surrounded by cliffs and high mountains, and a valley in the middle was lush with vegetation.He immediately said: "Let's not leave, just live here!"

Liangcai immediately agreed: "A paradise in the mountains, a valley in the mountains. If you can bring your mother and younger brother here and stay away from the beacon fires in the Central Plains, it will be a good day!"

"Huh..." Qu Neng turned his head and said, "King Gaoyang saved us, how can we let us live here forever? He must use me. Besides, you feel good when you first came here. It will take decades, and I haven't seen you yet." Just stay."

"Father is right." Liangcai said with a bow.

However, Qu Neng still had a happy expression on his face. Looking at this place, he couldn't help sighing: "The misfortune is the blessing. If the gold and silver were not stolen last night, how could we find such a beautiful place?"

Chapter 155 The Traitor

The mighty cavalry and guard of honor went all the way south, and the emperor was in a four-horse cart, and he was also busy on the road.Countless memorials and speeches, forces from all over the world, and various people who have to be treated separately, Zhu Di has just been on the throne for a month, and he is already very tired.

There was no smile on his face, it seemed that he was not as happy as he imagined when he just became the emperor...

After a large number of people arrived in the capital, Zhu Gaoxu received an order from the emperor, asking him to move to the mansion where King Yan lived before, which was the house where their brothers lived when they were imprisoned in the capital in the early years of Jianwen.This is what Princess Xu meant, saying that Gao Xu was about to get married, and many people had just died in Lianying's house, so it was not good to live there.

However, there used to be some maidservants guarding the house in the mansion of King Yan. It was inconvenient for Zhu Gaoxu to drive away those maidservants, but he didn't know their details.

... The capital has mountains and waters, and the wealth of the world is gathered in one city. It is extremely rich, and temples with double eaves, pavilions and pavilions can be seen everywhere.It is the season of warm spring and flowers blooming, weeping willows are Yiyi, and a hundred flowers are blooming.It was originally a beautiful scene on a good day, but at this time the city was shrouded in darkness and murderous.

Two months ago, the imperial palace was the place where Emperor Jianwen lived, but now it has become the residence of Xinjun and his family.For a while, the palace was still relatively chaotic, and each palace had to be re-arranged and selected.

Miao Jin didn't enter the palace for the time being, and went home first, she also wanted to see her long-lost mother.

She was in the same car as Jing Qing, and when she arrived at the door, she smelled a pungent stench!

When Miaojin got out of the car, she saw a lot of feces and unknown dirt at the door. The door panel was actually splashed with some kind of blood, and two large characters were scrawled on it: Traitor!

After Jing Qing came down, his face was livid, and his eyes swept over the red letter on the door.The attendants didn't say a word, they went up silently and knocked on the closed corner door.

At this moment, a long-robed scholar suddenly drilled out from a corner of the wall, and spat at this side: "Traitor! Greedy for life and afraid of death, soft-boned, full of loyalty and morality, hypocrite!"

"Stop!" a follower yelled.The scholar ran away in a flash.Jing Qing said: "Come back, enter the door!"

Miao Jin gently covered her mouth and nose, and followed her father into the mansion.Mrs. Jing came up to meet her, and everyone greeted the ceremony first. Mrs. Jing grabbed Miaojin's hand and kept wiping her tears with a handkerchief.The atmosphere in the house was very heavy, and they looked at each other silently.

"Mother, what happened to your forehead?" Miao Jin stretched out her hand to caress Mrs. Jing's head, and saw a bruise on it.

Mrs. Jing covered it with her hand and said, "It's nothing, it's almost better, I'm just to blame for my troubles. A while ago, Huang Zicheng was beaten to death at the entrance of the city, and it took three days and three nights to die of pain! I quietly took a look in the car, and unexpectedly Being recognized, a group of people from nowhere crowded the carriage and overturned it, and I fell down..."

As soon as the group entered the house, Mrs. Jing said again: "The family members of many ministers in the court are too miserable. There are also some unmarried daughters who were stripped naked and paraded through the streets, and then sent to the barracks, where they were humiliated day and night by those soldiers. Wanton abuse..." Mrs. Jing glanced at Jing Qing, "If I belong to their family, I might as well die!"

"Hmph!" Jing Qing said nothing with an angry expression on his face.

Mrs. Jing continued to say from the side: "Huang Zicheng's wife, Mrs. Xu, I know her. I heard that twenty men guard her every day..."

"You don't have to say it, the old man knows it all." Jing Qing finally couldn't listen anymore, "People like Huang Zicheng, Qi Tai, and Fang Xiaoru were the ones who advocated cutting down the feudal clan. Now that they have failed, they must not be exonerated. What's so strange?"

"It's not just them, there are Bao Zhao, Lian Zining, Lian Ying and other family members. I heard that there are still people who will be punished. Now the official circles in the capital are in panic. I don't know when it will be my family's turn to be unlucky." Mrs. Jing Sighing, she hesitated and asked cautiously, "Did your husband agree with Fang Xiaoru and Lianying to die for the country?"

Jing Qing frowned and didn't answer.

Mrs. Jing said with a worried face: "No wonder so many people insult our family, and now people in the family dare not even leave the house."