Lu Ming

"Well, well, there is already news, and the land master has responded." After a while, Lan Daochang nodded first, took off the leather ring on his head, and looked sideways Under the horse's posture, he passed the earphones over playfully: "The boss is also coming to listen?"

"Really? Aren't you afraid of offending the Land Lord?" Ma Shixia said politely, imitating his husband, and put the leather retainer on his ears.

"Oh!" After listening to the beeping sound from the earphones for a few seconds, Ma Shixia hurriedly took off the earphones: "It really is a god, I don't understand it, I dare not listen to it again."

"Hehe, it's right if you don't listen. If you have no morals, it's better not to listen."

The next moment, after looking up at the sky, Lan Daoist's face turned serious, he stretched out his hand and drew out his mahogany sword and shouted loudly: "It's almost noon, the rest will disperse, let's see what I do!"

Everyone retreated immediately when they heard the sound, and then the Taoist began to practice: dancing swords, lighting candles, burning talismans, spraying wine... In short, the movements are gorgeous and the scenes are cool, accompanied by various mysterious spells and rituals in the mouth of the master. Feel full.

After about 10 minutes, the ceremony entered its final stage.After the Taoist ignited all the remaining talismans, accompanied by the yellow paper all over the sky, at noon, the Taoist hid his sword behind his back and pointed his halberd at the black iron box on the altar and shouted loudly: "Heaven and earth are boundless, heaven and earth are boundless!" Borrowing the law, the Landlord is in a hurry like a law!"

... After the freeze-frame picture lasted for about 10 seconds, when all the talismans fell to the ground, Master Lan's ritual was considered complete.

"Come here, come here." After summoning the trembling melon-eating crowd from the outside, the tired Taoist priest pointed to the black box on the altar and said: "The good and bad are inside, you can go and see for yourself."

After speaking, the priest went to change clothes.

At this time, the task of opening the box naturally fell on the shoulders of shopkeeper Ma. When he was in the frontier army, shopkeeper Ma knew a few words in order to understand military order documents, so he was considered semi-literate.

After opening the iron box with trembling hands, the heads of the crowd suddenly shouted: "There are words! Really there are words!"

On Zhijian's original white paper, now there are eight big blue characters: "Seeing the dragon in the field, benefiting to see the northeast."

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The explanation of Jianlong Zaitian in the "Book of Changes" is this: If an opportunity arises, a genius should seize it.

So when Mr. Lan, who came back after changing his clothes, saw these eight words, he immediately began to congratulate the shopkeeper Ma Da: This is a sign, not only telling the shopkeeper to seize the opportunity, but also clearly pointing out the direction of great auspiciousness: northeast.

Huluyu is in the northeast.

The overjoyed Ma Da shopkeeper immediately issued an order at Mr. Lan's suggestion: Today everyone will get drunk and rest, and tomorrow everyone will go down the mountain and go to Huluyu to ambush.

Chapter 292 Longyan Battle ([-])

Chen Youshou sat up from the bed with difficulty.After reaching for the crutches, he dragged his injured leg, endured the excruciating pain, limped and pushed open the door and walked out.

As a veteran gangster in his 40s who is still fighting on the front line of robbery, Chen Youshou is eligible to enjoy the treatment of a small room: most of the rest will sleep in Datong bunk at night.

Originally, Chen Youshou didn't want to get out of bed - he was tortured by his leg injury and now he just wanted to sleep.However, the reality forced him to get up and take a look at the situation: as an old gangster, any unusual situation would make him alert, even if he was in the safest gangster's den.

What is the unusual situation?It was so quiet.

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Originally, Chen Youshou's window was very noisy.At noon today, the gangsters in Yantouzhai, who successfully held the superstition forum, took advantage of the opportunity to hold a thank you & mobilization reception.

The pigs, sheep and spirits sent by the forest court at the foot of the mountain came in handy immediately, and the sound of Li Li pouring wine and the bandits shouting and drinking resounded throughout the village.

Even Chen Youshou, who was lying on the bed, couldn't live in peace: several old subordinates not only brought a jar of spirits that everyone had never drunk before, but also rushed to tell him everything that happened just now.

As for Chen Youshou, except that he didn't drink because of his leg injury, he was quite happy to hear about the other things: this time the village finally has an expert to help, and everyone will be prosperous in the future.

After that, he remained in a half-dream and half-awake state-someone outside was always talking loudly from time to time.Before he knew it, he finally fell asleep.And when he woke up, looking at the sky outside the window, Chen Youshou knew that it was Shen Shizhong (4 o'clock in the afternoon.)

After lying on the bed with his eyes open for a while, he suddenly felt something was wrong: too quiet.

According to the gangster's usual routine of holding a party, the drinking will not end until after dark at least.As for the whole cottage getting quiet... usually after midnight, because there are too many drunks going around making noise.

However, something went wrong today, and after lying on the bed for a while, Chen Youshou didn't hear a sound.Feeling a little absurd, Lao Chen pricked up his ears on the bed and waited for a while, only to find that there was still no sound outside the window, and it was a completely different environment from before he went to sleep.

The next moment, he roared a few times at the top of his throat.However, it was useless, and there was still no response from the window.

Chen Youshou, who realized that something was wrong, didn't hesitate at this moment, he hurriedly endured the pain and sat up from the bed, picked up his crutches and went out.

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There was silence outside the door.

And when he turned the corner of the house and walked around a bunch of miscellaneous trees, he inadvertently breathed a sigh of relief - he saw three bandits.

These are three drunks.They lay unsteadily on the "dining table" composed of several large square stones, with an overturned wine jug thrown beside them, half-gnawed ducks thrown on the stone surface, and vomited filth under their feet.

Seeing this, Chen Youshou laughed and cursed, and walked over with a cane.When he got to the front and back, he pushed and shoved each of them a few times, and found that only one of them could still mutter a few words of nonsense, and the other two, who smelled of alcohol, were already drunk to death.

"Lin Chaofeng sent really good wine this time!" Chen Youshou couldn't help but shook his head when he realized that he couldn't wake up the drunk man, then turned and walked towards the mountain gate.

Chen Youshou's lightheartedness disappeared without a trace when he came to the field behind the mountain gate... With a "clang", the crutch in his hand fell to the ground.

What appeared in front of my eyes was a masterpiece of realistic savage sketching: at a long banquet made up of rows of tables, hundreds of bandits all passed away drunk without exception.They crawled and lay down on the long table, posing in various poses, but no one moved.

Under the daylight when the sun was shining, the entire arena was silent, and the sculpture-like human body was undulating, which looked weird and funny.

From the very first sight, Chen Youshou felt as if he was being poured over his head by a basin of ice water... He never believed that hundreds of people could get drunk like this, even if they all drank the so-called spirits.

He was so panicked that he didn't even have time to pick up a crutch, and strode forward with his injured leg, regardless of the fact that the wound was cracking.

After arriving at the banquet, Chen Youshou yelled, while pulling up the bandits one by one to observe carefully.Looking at it, he found a clue: most of the people were actually still alive, but they couldn't move anymore.

Without exception, these people's faces were blue and purple, their heads were sweating profusely, their hands and faces were twitching, and they couldn't speak complete words. At first glance, they looked like they were drunk.

At this moment, Chen Youshou's hairs stood on end: he dared to conclude that everyone had eaten something that shouldn't be eaten, or had been poisoned.

After looking around, Chen Youshou felt creepy even though he was standing in the crowd.At this time, he threw down the drunk man in his hand and hurried to the Juyi Hall.

On the way to Juyi Hall, bandits fell to the ground in twos and threes along the way.Chen Youshou ignored these little characters who were still twitching slightly, and went straight into the Juyi Hall.After walking around inside, he found that among the dozens of drunks in the hall, there were no big boss Ma Shixia and second boss Lin Hu, so he turned his head and walked into the big boss' room.

Sure enough, Ma Shixia, Lin Hu, and the other two bosses were all in the room.When Chen Youshou came into the room with bloodstains step by step, dragging his wounded leg, he found the horse lying on the bed, and the other three were lying on the ground. There were messy dishes and two jars of spirits on the table.

After Chen Youshou yelled in panic, he rushed to the bedside and wanted to help the head of the family get up.

However, the tall and fat horse was not something he could support at all—at this moment, the horse was the head of the house, his face was blue, and his hands were twitching like chicken feet.It can be seen that the head is trying to say something, but he is foaming from his mouth, and he can only make a few meaningless "grunt" sounds from his throat.

Chen Youshou's heart was hopeless: this situation did not match any poison he knew.You must know that in ancient times, whether it was the most commonly used arsenic or some plant poisons similar to the heartbroken grass, the symptoms during the attack almost all had the "abdominal pain like colic".

In other words, people after being poisoned are actually able to move. Before death, people can roll all over the floor and shout.However, today's total inability to move, speechlessness, and seemingly drunken poisoning are beyond the scope of Chen Youshou's knowledge.

Chen Youshou had no choice at the moment, he could only endure the pain and sit on the bed first, then put his horse's head on his lap with great effort, reached out for the water bottle on the side, and prepared to fill the head with some water first.

At this moment, the door creaked and was pushed open.

Chen Youshou looked up in horror, but the next moment he was overjoyed: the person who came in was none other than Mr. Lan Da in a plain Taoist robe.

"Sir, sir, where did you go just now? Everyone was plotted against! You must not have eaten those drinks and food, right? Save the boss!"

Chen Youshou is already incoherent at this moment... After spending a long time alone in the ghostly village, now that he saw the living person Lan Da for the first time, he immediately threw a series of questions away.

"I just came down from the watchtower, and the people on the sentry post are dead." After hearing this series of questions, Mr. Lan Da nodded with a serious expression, and walked over quickly: "There is poison in the wine, everyone is shocked Well, you are injured, I am a vegetarian, now you and I are living people in the village."

While speaking, Mr. Lan shook a green gourd in his hand, then pulled out the plug, and poured a few mouthfuls of unknown liquid into the horse's mouth.

"Sir, it should be equipped with an antidote? What kind of poisonous wine is this? It's so poisonous!" Chen Youshou discovered the gourd in Lan Da's hand, and when he saw the master pouring medicine into it, he couldn't help being ecstatic, and kept asking.

"How can the poison in wine be so easy to cure?" After Lan Da had poured liquid on the horse, he turned around and walked to the other side of the room, squatted down, and began to pour liquid on the three bosses on the ground one by one. .

At the same time, Mr. Lan said leisurely: "This wine contains barium chloride. In order to cover up the gastrointestinal irritation and prolong the time of muscle paralysis, some morphine is also added. Immortals can't help it!"

Chen Youshou couldn't understand those terms. Even though he felt something wrong in his heart, he still asked habitually: "'Barium chloride?' I've never heard of it... Then what kind of medicine are you feeding?"

At this time, Mr. Lan had already fed the "antidote" to the last boss on the ground. He stood up, shook the gourd in his hand to Chen Youshou, and said with a smile, "This is well water with barium chloride. 5 A large dose in a gram pack, specially used to give the bosses free refills."

"Ah! You, you, you, so it's you!" Chen Youshou understood everything at this moment. He sat on the bed, holding the head of the big master in one hand, and pointing at Lan Da with the other. "You, who are you!?"

"The three agents of the Imperial Intelligence Service look south, code-named 'chemist'".

Mr. Lan gave his name with a smile.

"Are you from the government?" Chen Youshou didn't understand the string of strange words, he guessed the opponent's identity instinctively.

"Of course." Lan Da nodded.

"Ah!" Chen Youshou yelled loudly, and he planned to rush over together, and die with the government demon who wiped out the brothers in the whole village.

However, the body under the horse's posture hindered him.The moment he moved away the body of the head, there was a "bang" gunshot, and a 9MM caliber bullet hole came out between Chen Youshou's eyebrows.

"I showed you the way earlier, who made you not want to be the government's dogs?" After Nan Wang shot, he sighed and slowly put away the small P226 pistol in his hand.After that, he took out a handkerchief from his pocket, bent down to wrap the bullet casings into the handkerchief, and put it away carefully.

After finishing all this, Nan Wang walked to the bed and took a look at Ma Shi.

Under the current situation of the horse, the pupils have already begun to dilate, and he can't live for more than 2 minutes.

Seeing this, Nan turned around and walked out of the house, walked to the banquet, carried a chair to the mountain gate, pushed open the mountain gate with effort, placed the chair in front of the door, and sat on it .

The next moment, he took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it, exhaled blue mist, looked at the distant mountains, and fell into deep memories.

Chapter 293 Longyan Battle ([-])

Mr. Lan Da's real name is Nan Wang.

Nanwang was originally a talented scholar in Hangzhou, but when he worked as a cleaner for a salt merchant, he made Liu Niang, the concubine of his employer, pregnant, and then he ran away with Liu Niang.

After encountering robbers while running at sea, Nan Wang, who was almost killed, was rescued by the people who traveled through. After that, he began to help the people who traveled through work in Hangzhou.After the cross-travelers took over the top members, Nan Wang followed suit, and according to his characteristics, he was developed into an agent by the newly established Intelligence Bureau.

As the first agent recruited by the Intelligence Bureau, Nan Wang can be said to have been trained intensively: any veteran employee in the early stage of the force can get some convenience when it was first established.

As for his recruitment, it was Dai Yun, the director of the Intelligence Bureau, who personally came forward; and the subsequent training, due to the small scale at the beginning, Nan Wang was in charge of Ma Yue, the deputy director of the Intelligence Bureau who was from the National Security Bureau.

At the beginning, he was actually resistant to being a "secret agent".However, the situation is stronger than others: he is just a scholar who has not been ranked for many years, and the salt merchants have been provoked in Hangzhou.

What's more, with the deepening of understanding, Nan Wang became more and more aware of the mystery and strength of this group of people, and of course, their ruthlessness.

You know, he participated in the "Li Kui Project" related to the Hangzhou scientific examination, which can be regarded as "confidential".If you don't follow the path pointed out by others at this time...

Nan Wang's job is to be a clean guest. Not only must he export poetry, but he must also be able to tell market gossip and political opinions at any time. This kind of people usually understand the world and are not the kind of nerds, so Nan Wang is very concerned about his dangerous situation. A very clear judgment.

In the end, he could only keep his dissatisfaction in the bottom of his heart, and became this vague "intelligence bureau student".

The treatment of the students is quite good.As soon as Nan Wang arrived at Da Yuan, he was assigned a single house: the pregnant Liu Niang needed him to take care of her.

Different from the private and cruel "learning crafts" he imagined, Nan Wang was assigned to the newly built Chikan Primary School as a "teaching assistant" after "working" on the first day.

The teachers in Chikan Primary School are all high-achieving students who were screened out from the refugees in the early stage. These people are going to further their studies and also serve as primary school teachers at the same time.

And Nan Wang's first job as a teaching assistant was also to study: "Contrast Table of Traditional and Simplified Characters", "Concise Dictionary", "Explanation of Old and New Vocabulary", "A Brief History of Social Forms".

Sitting in the sunny office, Nan Wang's mood gradually settled down after studying: he is not a scholar, his family has fallen, and he has no gratitude to Daming.

Now he doesn't object to learning some simplified characters with few strokes and strokes... After all, this group of people treats him well, with a monthly salary equivalent to three taels of silver. Liu Niang was also arranged in a relaxed community because of her literacy. For clerical work, the salary is also three taels.

Originally, Nanwang was reluctant, but all the women here have to go to work.Liu Niang, who has always been loved by the golden house, actually likes the feeling of going to work very much. She goes to work every day with a big belly and happily, and she still wants to be the director of the street office. Nan Wang has no choice but to let her go.

In addition, Liu Niang has also obtained the qualification to go to the hospital to check the fetus, which is very important: Nan Wang now knows that Liu Niang is pregnant with a daughter.

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A scholar's writing skills are far superior to those of junior high school students in later generations, so Nan Wang quickly learned the comparison table of traditional and simplified characters.

However, his state of mind gradually changed when he learned the booklet "Explanation of Old and New Vocabulary".

Some of the words in the booklet already exist in ancient Chinese, but they have been given new meanings, and some are simply invented, such as "industrialization" and "battleship".Nanwang can recognize every word, but he can't understand the meaning... But he can see a world completely different from the Ming Dynasty from these words.

At this time, Ma Yue, who had been caring about his growth, appeared.Ma Yue not only took the time to explain the meaning of these new words to him, but also took Nanwang to watch the "science and education film" in the screening room of the Intelligence Bureau, so that he could thoroughly see what battleships and industrialization are.

Listening to the voice-over in the same tone as Shuuzhong, seeing the huge steel battleships on the screen emitting thick black smoke and firing deafening artillery, Nanwang is really shocking.But when he saw the workers on the assembly line and the non-stop machine production line, he fell silent.

"Is what Huaying said true or false? Where did you come from?"

If there were such a city-like iron ship and a steel mechanism that spewed out finished products day and night, then the transversal people would have ruled all nations long ago, so why go to this island to suffer?So Nan Wang immediately thought that everything on the screen was fake, it was just some clever movie.

Ma Yue didn't say anything, but took him to the kiln base.

After returning from the visit to the base, Nan Wang had a preliminary idea of ​​the so-called industrialization.Only then did Ma Yue bluntly tell Nan Wang: The crossing people all come from the upper realm of Kunlun, and their purpose is to overthrow Ming Dynasty and build a new world.

Regarding the rebellion, Nan Wang was not surprised: he had already seen it from the clues and the daily conversations of the cross-travelers.Otherwise, what is the purpose of cultivating his "dark room"?

What surprised him was the so-called "Kunlun Theory": Now he finally knows the origin of these strange people... so they are exiled immortals?

This can be compared: two races that seem to be the same on the surface, but in fact have completely different connotations, all kinds of magical technologies and "magic tools", and the huge social background behind those new words. explained.

But what puzzled Nanwang was why didn't the time travelers directly disclose their origins?You know, those leaders of the Taoist sects in the Jianghu can gather a large number of congregations just by relying on a few low-level tricks.And too many of these things mastered by the traversers can be called real "miracles".

Ma Yue laughed when he heard this, and told Nan Wang two things: First, Jiangshan had to be defeated step by step with his own hands, and the magic stick was a trick without a foundation.

Second, these "banished immortals" now have no magic power and cannot go back to Kunlun. They are no different from ordinary people. Right now, they can only copy the world in those "scientific and educational films" bit by bit, so they have to lie dormant for some years.

In addition, since they are already "mortals", they don't plan to publicize the stories of the fairy world anymore.All the things about the "Kunlun Realm" will only be passed down orally among the first generation of indigenous elites, and will not form any written records. In the future, these stories will only become legends.

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The worldview of Nanwang has thus opened a new door.

With his in-depth study of those basic textbooks, Nan Wang became more and more interested in the legendary Kunlun God Realm.Ma Yue told him that the upper realm is also full of endless battles, countries and societies rise and fall, and various systems coexist——"A Brief History of Social Forms".