Tang riddles

In the early morning of February 17th, the [-]th year of Kaiyuan, when the sky was still dark, Shen Sui set off with Hutuo.She didn't sleep all night last night. After returning from Zhang Ruohan's place, she made preparations all night.Hu Tuo was the same as her. He was still in the Jiangling branch until about four o'clock, and the people in the Jiangling branch watched the two Nestorians all night. No unusual behavior.There was no movement at the inn where they stayed temporarily.

The cold wind is expected to be cold, and in such an early spring season, riding a fast horse in the early hours of the morning is by no means a comfortable thing.The fur cloak on Shen Sui's body was picked up by the oncoming wind and fluttered, as if it was a little thin.But in the eyes of Hutuo, who followed behind, he was extremely tenacious, even revealing an outrageous courage.

Oiro began to be serious rarely.

She is a calm person, there are not many things that can worry her in this world, except for her horrible past and an unforgettable love, nothing can shake her in the slightest, she can handle everything easily clean.When she shows seriousness, it means that things are getting out of control.

The horseshoes kept hitting the road in the darkness before dawn, rattling, as if the drums of war were in a hurry, and every beat was beating the heartstrings.The destination of their attack was Songzi, a small county town closest to Jiangling City in the northwest.Several prisoners had just been escorted into the prison in Songzi County last night, so they should not be on their way at this time.Officers and soldiers escorting felons will not walk at night, and they must follow the official road, and they will not take unnecessary trails, let alone take shortcuts.Therefore, facing this official road, they will inevitably be stopped halfway.

Of course, the premise is that there will be no accidents before they are stopped.

Shen Sui was very silent along the way, never saying a word to Hu Tuo.Hu Tuo didn't ask, Dalang never talked much when he was alone with him, he was used to Dalang's silence, and he also liked the atmosphere of silence, which represented the tacit understanding between him and Dalang without words.In his opinion, there are many things that cannot be expressed in words.

About fifty miles away from the city, Shen Sui started to whistle.Shen Sui's voice imitation skills are superb. She can imitate the chirping sounds of thousands of birds, and accurately convey her meaning to the birds, and make them obey her orders in an instant.This kind of skill cannot be achieved by ordinary people through practice. Hu Tuo knew in his heart that Da Lang could never be an ordinary person, because this is an innate and unique talent.

But this time Shen Sui's whistle imitated the chirping of an eagle, which was extremely loud and pierced through the sky.Kuta was very familiar with this eagle call, because he had a small whistle in his luggage, specially imitating this eagle call.It was a special whistle for "Bai Hao", and taking care of Bai Hao was one of Hutuo's jobs.

Bai Hao is Shen Sui's special messenger bird. It is an extremely fast bald eagle. Among Qianyumen, the messenger bird ranks first in comprehensive ability and speed.In the past, Bai Hao actually never left Shen Sui at every step. Wherever she went, it was there, but it was usually invisible.Because it is either hovering a thousand meters above the sky, or it is perched in the lush forest outside the city.It only appears when called upon.

Hu Tuo tried many times. His whistle, which is specially used to call Bai Hao, needs to be blown continuously for a long time to attract Bai Hao, and there are also restrictions on location and height.But it was Da Lang, no matter where she was, as long as she whistled, Bai Hao would appear in a short time.

No, just after Shen Sui whistled three times, he heard a response from high in the sky, which was Bai Hao's response.Looking up to the sky, I can vaguely see a small black spot appearing on the edge of the dark sky.

Shen Sui's horse did not slow down, but the whistle began to change. Hu Tuo knew that she was conveying a relatively complicated order to Bai Hao.The order ended soon, and the small black spots in the sky disappeared soon. Hu Tuo guessed that Bai Hao might have passed through the clouds and flew higher.

"Speed ​​up!" This was the only instruction Shen Sui gave Hutuo along the way.

When the sun was rising, the shadow of a group of chariots and horses could gradually be seen in the distance of the endless official road, and then moved forward for a while.Kutuo found that it was a group of government soldiers escorting the prisoners, about 20 people, two even, and the leader was a school lieutenant of the government soldiers.They escorted three prison wagons, the first one with two female prisoners, the next two, the middle one with two male prisoners, and the last one with only one male prisoner.Hu Tuo saw that there was a very familiar ugly face in the front female prison car, which was Zhang Ruijin.

He breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, they welcomed a few prisoners smoothly.

Shen Sui crossed his horse to stop the convoy in the middle of the road, took off the fish charm and the inspector's order from his waist, and showed them.

Seeing this, the leader of the Fubing Xiaowei hurriedly stopped the convoy, got off his horse, stepped forward to salute Shen Sui with his hands clasped.

"Time is running out, I came here to interrogate a few prisoners first. You don't have to worry about it, just go your own way." Shen Sui got off his horse, stepped forward, and said.

"Here, Shen Sizhi." The captain replied, Shen Sui came in such a hurry, the military captain naturally sensed that something was wrong, but he wisely didn't ask any further questions.

Shen Sui jumped straight into the first prison car, stood on the edge of the prison car, grabbed the railing of the cage, and walked forward with the prison car.In front, Kutuo led her horse, and followed beside the leading captain of the army.The team started again, and the speed seemed to be faster than before.

"Miss Zhang, do you still recognize me?" Shen Sui was the first to ask Zhang Ruijin.

Zhang Ruijin in the cage is still so dull, with disheveled hair, several days of long-distance travel and prison life, making her more and more haggard, and her dirty and ugly face is even more difficult to look at.

"Mr. Shen...I know you..." Fortunately, Zhang Ruijin was still conscious, so she recognized Shen Sui.

"I'm going to ask you a few questions now, please answer truthfully." Shen Sui said.

Zhang Ruijin didn't speak.

Shen Sui directly started the first question:

"Where did you and your sister get the medicine used to stun Lu Ziqian?"

"Someone gave it..." Zhang Ruijin whispered.

"Who? Have you had direct contact with that person?"

Zhang Ruijin shook his head, and slowly explained word by word: "No, just one day, my sister went shopping for vegetables, and when she came back, she found that there was a large bag of medicine powder in the basket, and there was a piece of paper attached, which said : If you want to avenge blood, you can choose the opportunity to use it. Later, my sister and I opened the package of medicine powder, a large package of golden medicine, revealing a strange fragrance. We fed a bit of it to a wild dog, and the dog fell asleep for a long time... ..."

Although it was expected, Shen Sui was somewhat disappointed.

It didn't bother her, though, and she quickly asked a second question:

"Have you been in contact with anyone suspicious for so long? Religious people, for example."

This question made Zhang Ruijin think carefully for a long time, and finally she answered:

"do not know."

have no idea?Yes, yes, no, no, why the answer is don't know?

"What do you mean by that?" she asked.

"The revenge between my sister and me was instructed by a mysterious man in a letter. Many things were also arranged by that mysterious man. Otherwise, my sister and I would not be able to do so many things. It took us 12 years to get the whole village It took too much energy to finish making the hanging coffins and put them all in place. Originally... I didn't have the idea of ​​revenge, because I knew it couldn't be done..."

Shen Sui understood that the other party was very careful and did not leave any clues.So Zhang Ruijin didn't know whether he was a religious person or not.

She didn't ask any more, but lowered her voice and said:

"These, don't confess, just tell me. If you don't say that you may survive, you will die if you confess. If you want to die, I won't stop you, but I think you should give it to you after you figure it out. My sister burns paper, and when you die, no one cares about her."

Zhang Ruijin's throat twitched, his expression was still numb, but Shen Sui knew that she had promised herself.She just agreed but not for the sake of surviving, because even Zhang Ruijin knew that according to Tang's law, she would not be able to survive.She agreed, just because she understood the meaning of Shen Sui's words, if she didn't say anything, at least they would have a burial place, if they did, they would die without a burial place.

Shen Sui did not continue to ask her, but turned to Amei from the Zhou family who was locked in the same cage with Zhang Ruijin.

"Amei, let me ask you, do you know who your uncle had contact with when he was serving in Gyeonggi?"

Zhou's Amei looks much better than Zhang Ruijin, at least her appearance is still eye-catching.She also had disheveled hair and a messy appearance. She was shaking all the time while sitting in the car, looking extremely nervous and frightened.

No matter how Shen Sui tried to talk to her, she seemed to turn a deaf ear to her, and just curled herself up into a ball, trembling, unable to communicate at all.Shen Sui didn't waste any more time on her, she jumped off the first prison car.When the second prison van came, she jumped on it.

In the second prison car were two young men with messy buns, dark skin, unshaven beards, and haggard appearance.Shen Sui had seen them on the boat and knew they were Zhou Da's second son Zhou Jin and Wednesday's son Zhou Zhong.It seems that Zhou Da's eldest son, Zhou Mao, was imprisoned in the last prison car.

Zhou Jin and Zhou Zhong are in much better condition than Amei. Although they seem to be ashamed, they can still maintain their sanity.However, they didn't know much, they didn't know who Shen Sui asked about Zhou Da met when he was serving in Gyeonggi, because Zhou Da never told them.They only know that Zhou Da is superstitious about a "saint" who is active in the Gyeonggi area.Ask them what kind of saints they are, and what teachings they are preaching, and they can't tell.

It seems that we can only place our hopes on Zhou Mao.He is the eldest son of Zhou Da, so he should have more exchanges with Zhou Da.

But just when Shen Sui jumped into Zhou Mao's prison car, something unexpected happened.

At that time, the chariot and horse team came to a narrow road, and there were dense forests on both sides of the road.Suddenly, something shot from the right side of the road, stabbing straight at Zhang Ruijin who was sitting in the first prison car.Shen Sui's eyes widened, his reaction was extremely quick, and something in his sleeve was thrown out, hitting the stabbing thing straight.Hearing a "ding" in the air, Shen Sui saw a strange-looking dagger land on the ground.

Japanese Shuriken?Shen Sui was shocked when he saw the surprise attack clearly.

Before he could react, two shurikens shot at the second prison car in succession.

Her brows were stern, and the power around her body soared. With a "clang" sound, the snow knife stuck in her back was pulled out of the sheath by her backhand. The blade shone brightly in the morning sun, and she shook the direction the shuriken came from.The other party seemed to be dazzled by the light of the sword, and was forced to stop the sneak attack for a while. When Shen Sui drew the sword, he also jumped out of the third prison car at the same time, and jumped towards the second prison car at an alarming speed. The Qiu cloak had already been thrown out by her with a howl, and with a roll, it blocked the two shurikens.

At this time, the people in the team reacted.The captain of the government soldiers shouted:

"Someone is robbing prisoners! Line up to defend!!"

When he shouted this sentence, Shen Sui had already bit his left index finger, and blew an unusually piercing whistle.The sound was so unbearable to the eardrums of everyone present, they subconsciously covered their ears with pain on their faces.

After blowing the whistle, Shen Sui luck shouted:

"run!!!"

Hu Tuo was the first to react, and lashed the horse of the military officer next to him with a whip. The horse suffered from pain, raised its hooves and neighed, and then quickly ran away with the military officer.

At the same time, Hu Tuo turned his horse back and ran towards Shen Sui, whipping his whip while running, prompting the entire team of prison cars to start galloping forward.Probably the officers and soldiers also took mobility into consideration, and the government soldiers who sent the prisoners were all cavalry, and there were no infantry, which is really lucky.

"Da Lang! Get on the horse!"

Hu Tuo stretched out her hand, Shen Sui reached out and grabbed his hand, using her strength, she jumped up and straddled his back. As Hu Tuo urged the horse forward, she suddenly clamped the horse's belly, and her whole body leaned over. He got down, stretched out his hand, and easily picked up two items on the ground.One was her fur cloak, which contained two shurikens, and the other was something she threw out in a hurry, which was her inspector's token.

Picking up the things, she untied the balled fur cloak as quickly as possible, took out the two shurikens with leather gloved hands, and then put on the fur cloak again.She put away her inspector's order, bit her snow knife handle, freed her hands to support Hutuo's shoulders, exerted strength on her waist and abdomen, jumped up with a "huh", kicked the horse's back with one foot, and spun in the air. With his clothes fluttering, he leaped from Hutuo's horse to his own empty horse running on one side.Kuta tacitly tossed the rein to her, she grabbed it, holding the knife in her right hand and the rein in her left, and shouted:

"drive!"

The horse under the seat flew all four hooves and galloped at a high speed.In the dense forest behind them, there was already a lot of noise of birdsong, mixed with the sound of flapping wings, a large black flock of birds was flying from the forest to the sky, rushing towards them.

This is the riot/movement of the birds caused by Shen Sui's extremely ear-piercing whistle. I heard that this move is called "Hundred Birds Facing the Phoenix". It is difficult for Suiwei to resort to such means.

In addition to the riots/movements of birds in the dense forest, there are other movements.Kuta saw several shadows running quickly through the dense forest, chasing them.The dense forest concealed their identities, and it was impossible to see who they were, but there was no doubt that their purpose was to kill those prisoners. They were extremely dangerous.

Shen Sui had already rode his horse to catch up with the last prisoner car, and the prisoner caravan was about to drive out of the dense forest, and the road started to go up. They were going uphill, and Hutuo remembered that there was a high cliff on the side of the road ahead.

He suddenly realized that something was wrong, there might be an ambush there!

Shen Sui had obviously already noticed what he was aware of.Seeing her turn her wrist, Hu Tuo seemed to have realized it first, and threw away the shuriken thrown by the enemy just now.The shuriken roared, and with a "swoosh", it cut off a hidden arrow shot from above the cliff.

But immediately above the cliff, a black figure sprang out. The figure was dressed in dark clothes, covering from head to toe, and it was impossible to see clearly.He was of medium build, with a huge quiver on his back, and a big bow in his hand, but he seemed to be carrying no weight, and he ran along the sloping cliff at a high speed.While running, he put his hand into the quiver, took out three arrows in a row, and shot them rapidly, each arrow aimed at a prison cart.The arrows seemed to have eyes, their directions were terrifyingly precise, and they arrived at every prison car almost at the same time.

What a great archer!Kuta held his breath in shock.

Shen Sui moved at this moment, and she threw the snow knife in her hand directly, drawing a fierce and fierce arc of light in the air, spinning and flickering, and severing three arrows in a row with an unrivaled posture.Then Shen Sui flipped his wrist, and shot the last shuriken at the archer.

In the whistling, the Xuedao pierced into the ground with a "bass", and the blade trembled with a "buzzing".

The shuriken hit the archer's left arm directly at an astonishing and unstoppable speed, and the archer rolled down from the hillside.But from beginning to end, a single syllable could not be uttered.

At the same time, Shen Sui steered his horse around to the outside of the prison car, reached out his hand, and brought out the snow knife stuck in the ground.

The flock of birds in the sky had already caught up, and just at this time, countless crossbows and arrows began to form a rain of arrows on the hillside and burst out.Overwhelming, it is extremely frightening.

"Watch out for the arrows!" shouted Hutuo.

Shen Sui whistled again, all the birds swooped down, enveloping the prison car team.

The rain of arrows swept powerfully, but most of them were stopped by the flock of birds.Birds chirped miserably, deafeningly, and bird feathers flew all over the body. The day seemed to turn into night in an instant, and the sky was covered with blood feathers.In the team of prison cars, those government soldiers had never seen such a scene before, they all thought that the end was coming, and their faces turned pale with horror.He leaned on the horse and rushed forward, not daring to raise his head.

However, a small number of crossbow arrows still shot into the prison car team.Hu Tuo drew out the scimitar at his waist, and followed Shen Sui's snow knife to split the incoming arrows, but the rest of the soldiers were not so lucky.People kept being shot by arrows and were shot off their horses by powerful arrows. Some fell off their horses and were trampled by horseshoes and died on the spot.

Worst of all, the driver of the third prison wagon was shot by an arrow. The wagon was now unmanned, and the frightened horses were leading the prison wagon away from the line.

"Hutuo, lead the horse!" Shen Sui said.

Hu Tuo understood immediately, he drove his horse and kept approaching Shen Sui's mount, and Shen Sui's mount was constantly approaching the third prison cart.

When the time came, Shen Sui immediately threw the reins to Hutuo, and in the next moment she jumped up and jumped onto the third prison cart nimbly.She stood on the shaft with her feet apart, grabbed the reins to control the prison car, and guided the prison car to follow the team forward.

Suddenly, an ominous premonition arose in Shen Sui's heart. She stared forward, and then she was startled and yelled:

"Trip the rope!!!"

However, it was too late... Shen Sui saw that the leader of the army at the front suddenly fell short, and the horse's miserable neighing sounded immediately, so he knew it was too late.

The author has something to say: This chapter has written more than 5000 words, and I can't stop writing the ancient chariot and horse chase in my heart.

While writing, I am infatuated with nympho, my Da Lang is really handsome, his ability has fully exploded for the first time, he is unparalleled handsome.