Placid Chang'an

In the twilight of the morning, Qu Ling'er led the forbidden army to fight out from the misty hills at the foot of Mt. Butterfly, followed by Liang Fang, governor of Xuzhou.

Standing with his hands behind his back, Li Shi ordered Liang Fang: "Surround and suppress the secret door chaos in Lu's village. If anyone resists, they will be dealt with on the spot."

Liang Fang took the order and led the imperial army to the village in a mighty manner.

Suddenly there was a loud noise, and the whole village was shaken, and it was felt strongly at the foot of the mountain, not to mention the village that shook everywhere.

"What's wrong? An earthquake?" Qu Ling'er looked around in panic, but saw everyone staring at the village at the foot of the mountain intently, as if they were seeing someone off.

Everyone knows that the tangled underground passages under the village, the fears that linger in their hearts, and even those dark, dark days no longer exist.

Qu Ling'er turned around, only to find that Qi Lin had come to him, she was overjoyed, "Brother Qi!"

Then he frowned again, "Are you injured?"

Qi Lin looked at his arm, and shook his hand indifferently, "It's okay, a small injury."

The winding blood flowed down from the arm, dyed half of the sleeve red, and finally dried up on a string of Buddhist beads on the wrist.

How could it be okay?

Qu Ling'er dragged Qi Lin to the side and carefully bandaged the wound. After confirming that there were no other wounds on Qi Lin's body, she smiled in satisfaction. When she turned her head, she met a few resentful eyes.

I saw that the tuduo three guards were all covered with scars, and there were even a few missing arms and legs. Compared with them, the small wound on Qi Lin's arm was really nothing.

Looking at Qi Lin again, he didn't feel ashamed at all, he rolled up his sleeves high, and walked through the market indifferently wearing the carefully wrapped white gauze.

Chen Ling gritted his teeth angrily. If he had known this, Qi Lin should have been stabbed a few more holes last night. Wouldn't it be better for the two of them to stage a scene of birth and death today!

"Where's Brother Su?" Qu Ling'er looked around but couldn't find Su Cen, so she could only turn around and ask Qi Lin.

Qi Lin raised his chin and nodded in the room, but didn't say much. Qu Ling'er looked around and saw people coming and going in the courtyard, but they didn't intend to set foot in that house, even the prince was outside wait.Qu Ling'er was puzzled for a while, and then slowly approached.

The room was still dark, and Qu Ling'er got used to it before she could see the furnishings clearly. Su Cen was sitting at the big table beside the bed, staring at a chess set on the table in a daze.

"Brother Su?" Qu Ling'er approached carefully, for fear of disturbing the person who was contemplating, and when she got closer, she saw that Su Cen was holding a white piece with her fingertips, and she hadn't moved for a long time.

Qu Ling'er looked at it for a long while and couldn't understand why, so she could only ask: "Brother Su, what are you doing?"

Su Cen finally moved, "I'm wondering if it's possible for Baizi to return with the fish after he enters the water."

Qu Ling'er remembered that Su Cen once said that the middle of the chessboard is water, and at this time the square in the middle is surrounded by black pieces, no matter where the white pieces fall, it seems to be a dead end.

Qu Linger scratched her head: "Is it still possible?"

After a while, Su Cen shook his head and threw the white piece back into the chess box.

Bai Ziqi is exhausted, it is a foregone conclusion.

Qu Ling'er helped put Heizi away, only to hear Su Cen sigh softly.

"You said that if people could be like chess pieces, black is black, white is white, black and white are distinct, and they can fight and kill openly, how good would it be?"

Qu Ling'er didn't know where his elder brother Su got so much emotion, she tilted her head, not knowing, so she said, "How boring is that?"

After a while, Su Cen smiled for no reason, "Yes."

He stood up and headed out the door.

Not far away, the hustle and bustle in the village gradually rose, and the secret door people had no secret way to retreat, so they had to fight to the death. This fell into Liang Fang's arms. These people made the people of Xuzhou homeless. This is a chance to get revenge.

Previously, the secret door used several times more people to deal with Tuduo's three guards, and did not get any advantage. Now the imperial army led by Liang Fang did the same, but they were completely defeated.

Su Cen found Li Shi and asked, "How is it?"

Li Shi stared at the hustle and bustle in the distance, obviously he had a plan in mind, "It's a matter of time."

Looking at Su Cen again, he asked, "How are you?"

Su Cen touched his nose embarrassingly, "Mr. Chen walks boldly, if he sees me like this, I'm afraid he will laugh at me for not being up to date."

Li Shi smiled lightly, "No."

After a while, the forbidden army came back to report that all the secret doors and rebels in the village had been cleared, but the whereabouts of Lu Xun, Song Fan and Bai Cho were not found.

Su Cen frowned: "Why?"

Li Shi meditated for a moment while touching his fingers, and said, "Go and have a look."

When Li Shi arrived with his men, Liang Fang had already searched the mansion inside and out, and when he saw Li Shi shook his head, "I found another secret passage in the back garden, which is not connected to the chess game. Go from there."

Under the guidance of others, Li Shi bypassed the front court and the atrium, and finally came to the back garden. Su Cen turned his head and asked in a low voice, "Do you think the layout here looks familiar?"

Li Shi nodded slightly: "Tai Chi Palace."

Su Cen thought it was true, even if he entered the palace less often, he might admit his mistake, but Li Shisheng lived in the palace and grew up in the palace, so he would never mistake the appearance of his own home.

"Is it the remnants of the previous dynasty?"

Li Shi was silent for a moment, noncommittal.

The secret path is just behind the rockery in the back garden. What shocked Su Cen was that this secret path stood opposite the one he had entered in the first place, but he didn't realize it at the beginning.

Li Shi led the way, and was about to go in, but Qi Lin gently stopped him, "Master, I'll come first."

Li Shi didn't force him, and let Qi Lin go in first, followed by Qu Ling'er, followed by Li Shi and Su Cen, and Liang Fang followed at the end to prevent someone from sneaking up on him.

As soon as he entered the secret passage, a gust of cold air rushed towards his face, and after walking a few steps, the sun was gone. Qi Lin lit the fire pockets and distributed them one by one, and then he could barely see the general idea.

This secret passage is different from the ones Su Cen saw in the chess game. It is narrow and cramped. There are no murals on the walls, and the ground is quite uneven. In some places, only one person can walk through it.If the previous ones were carefully planned, this one seems to have been made in a hurry, or it was abandoned.

After walking for some time, Su Cen made a rough estimate. If the secret road was straight, they should have left the village by now, and they should have reached the foot of Mount Fushan.

Qi Lin suddenly stopped in front and said, "Master, there are changes ahead."

Li Shi led Su Cen over, and looked through the light of the fire in Qi Lin's hand, and saw that the originally narrow stone path suddenly widened, and there were many strange stones inside. On the top of the stone, it seems that it may fall down at any time, piercing people through it.

There is also the sound of ticking water in places that cannot be seen, which sounds very distant and ethereal.

"It's a karst cave," Su Cen said after reading it. "The "Nanshan Jing" in the "Shan Hai Jing" contains, 'The mountain of Nanyu has a lot of gold and jade on it, and a lot of water below it. There are caves, and the water goes in and out. Xia Nai It is said that this kind of cave, these stones are caused by water erosion over the years, which is the same as dripping water through the stone. They should have dug here and found this natural karst cave, so hidden Get up and make a secret escape route."

Li Shi teased and said, "Can you believe in the Classic of Mountains and Seas?"

Su Cen glared at him, "Why don't you believe in the wisdom of the sages? Although some things are gone now, how do you know they didn't exist in the past?"

"Then you traveled according to the "Shan Hai Jing", what did you find out?"

Su Cen opened his mouth, but in the end he could only stop resentfully, and said angrily, "Are you still going?"

Li Shi smiled, thought about it, and said, "Let's go."

There are strange rocks in this cave, some are as thin as needles, while others are as soothing as a curtain.At the beginning, the group of people still had a little awe of these supernatural works, but after walking for a while, they realized that these stones looked a little weird, but they were no different from ordinary stones, so they let go of their strides and strode forward .

"I seem to have been to this place before." Qu Ling'er murmured softly, seeing Qi Lin's turn to inquire, said again: "These stones look familiar."

Su Cen asked from behind, "When did you meet?"

"As I said before, when I was young, I lived with Master and Han Shu in a place where we couldn't see the stars, and there were many such strange stones in that place," Qu Ling'er frowned, "But I can't say no. Well, maybe there are such stones in other places."

"The conditions for the formation of karst caves are harsh, and the right time and place are indispensable. They can't be found anywhere. And even if they can be formed, due to the difference in water quality and stone quality, the stones in the cave may not be the same..."

Su Cen was so busy talking that he didn't pay attention to his feet. Su Cen accidentally tripped and bumped his head against a stone pillar. His eyes were sour, and tears came out immediately.

Li Shi turned his head when he heard the sound, and saw Su Cen squatting on the ground with his head in his arms, moaning and huddling into a ball, feeling sorry and funny for a moment, so he could only stop and turn around to comfort him.

A little accident caused the entire team to stop, and it happened that they had left for more than half an hour, so Li Shi took advantage of the opportunity to ask everyone to stop and take a rest.

Su Cen's forehead was red, and it would probably be swollen in a while, and his eyes were red, and it was rare to show a little bit of tenderness.Li Shi pulled the man in front of him and blew on him a few times, and finally, unexpectedly, he leaned forward and kissed the red and swollen place lightly.

Su Cen only felt the coldness for a moment, and it was very beneficial. As soon as he raised his head, he felt his eyes darken. Li Shiwu extinguished the torch in his hand, and leaned down towards the place he had aimed at a long time ago.

Su Cen's throat moved, Qi Lin and Qu Ling'er were fine talking, but he was still worried about Mr. Liang, who had passed his destiny behind him, for fear that someone here would accidentally scare Mr. Liang to something good or bad, so he wouldn't let it go He refused with all his might, but it just gave Li Shi the opportunity to drive straight in.

A kiss was smooth and secret under the leadership of Li Shi, and Su Cen remembered that they had never stopped when they met in Lujiazhuang, and now they enjoyed half a moment of tenderness through the darkness. Qu Ling'er screamed in front of her: "Brother Su, come quickly!"

Li Shi frowned, and there was a bit of annoyance in the folds of being interrupted. He first made a note of Qu Ling'er in his heart, and then squeezed Su Cen's chin to exchange a deep kiss. Let go willingly.

When the fire light came on again, Su Cen cleared his throat unnaturally before asking, "What's wrong?"

"Brother Su, you are right. I have indeed been to this place before." Qu Ling'er was standing in front of a stone wall with Qi Lin. When Su Cen got closer, he saw that there was a crack on the stone wall, which was about as thick as an adult's arm. And Qu Ling'er was pointing fingers at this stone wall, "Brother Su, do you still remember when I told you that I was stuck in the crevice after playing hide-and-seek with Han Shu? This is the crevice!"

Su Cen looked at the stone crevice, and found that it was no different from other stone crevices, so he frowned and said, "How do you know it's this one?"

"Brother Qi, help me shine the light," Qu Ling'er took advantage of a little light to reach into the crevice of the rock, and after a while, she took out a shoe from inside - it was still a child's size, and the color had faded to nowhere.

"This is the shoe I left off when I got stuck here."

Su Cen looked at the shoe and pondered for a moment, "In other words, this is the initial stronghold of the secret door. This is where the secret door started, gradually expanded, and finally spread to the point where it penetrated all the territory of Da Zhou."

If the first emperor heard Chen Guanglu's words and led troops to encircle and suppress them, wouldn't there be a series of things after that?

After walking for more than half an hour, a little light began to be seen. A group of people quickened their pace and came out from the pile of strange rocks, their eyes suddenly brightened.

Su Cen and Qu Ling'er were taken aback.

Qu Ling'er circled around, "Brother Su, is this... the cave from that day?"

Su Cen looked around and nodded. This is the cave where the corpses of the Lujiazhuang villagers were stored on Mount Mt. Unexpectedly, they went around and finally came back here.

The so-called good fortune tricks people, God really does not deceive me.

The corpse in the cave had already been moved away, and there was nothing special about it. When several people came out of the cave, they saw a winding path going down, twisting and turning and hiding in the depths of the dense forest.

Su Cen said: "Going down this mountain road is Jinghe Village where we stayed overnight. From Jinghe Village to Chuanling County, the road after that leads in all directions. I'm afraid it will be difficult to follow."

"I don't want to go to the mountain, the mountain will naturally come to me." Li Shi looked at the Lujiazhuang hidden at the foot of the mountain, slowly frowned, and asked Qi Lin, "Did Song Fan be interrogated when he was sent back?"

Qi Lin nodded: "Because you can't leave traces on your body, you can only use medicine. This person is extremely resistant to all kinds of medicines, and he only asked two words in the end."

"what?"

Qi Lin said: "Chongde."