Snake Tale

In the dark, damp, snake-shaped crypt, the young man held up a lamp, looked at the many holes, large and small, and then lowered his head to carefully study the sheepskin in his hand.

He frowned, and muttered to himself: "'Break the water and dance with thunder, and you will see your life'—well, the 'water' is the hurdle, and the 'thunder' is the earthquake, which corresponds to the direction mentioned in the Book of Changes...not bad , this step will go here!"

After he thought about it, he walked towards one of the caves.Sure enough, there was a warm and humid wind blowing slowly from the entrance of the cave, which showed that it was a way to survive.There was joy on his face, he was just about to take a closer look inside, when he raised the lamp to shine a light, suddenly a snow-white face was reflected!

He let out a scream of "Wow", his soul flew into the sky, and he fell back and sat on the ground.The figure stretched out his short dagger, caught the bronze oil lamp that he had dropped by accident, shone it on the ground, and asked in surprise, "Ping Feiyu?"

The young man was stunned: "You recognize me?" The man walked up to him with a half-smile.Ping Feiyu hurriedly went to collect the parchment that fell aside, but the man stepped on his wrist and bent over to pick it up.

Ping Feiyu saw the man shake the parchment, and looked at it by the light.When the bright light fell on him, one could see that the man's jacket was torn and his whole body was covered with bloodstains. Looking up, he saw curly hair and shoulders, a face that had lost all blood, and a pair of blue eyes that were shining brightly.This appearance is very strange, but Ping Feiyu has already recognized him, and said in surprise: "Luo Yi? He - why is he here?"

Before he could figure it out, he felt a pain in his neck. It was Luo Yi who pressed his neck with a dagger, and said with a smile, "Come on, tell me, why did you come here? This road map, And who gave it to you?"

Although he has recognized that the person in front of him is not a ghost, but Ping Feiyu knows that this person is murderous and vicious, falling into his hands is no better than being caught by an evil ghost!He pleaded tremblingly: "Strong man, beware of knives! I, I... Let me just say it-cough cough, that night I heard about the clever plan of Yingqi and Mr. Shen in your mansion, Knowing that the old man Huan Guo was going to finish playing this time, he hurriedly packed up his belongings from Huan's mansion and prepared to flee. In a hurry, he didn't bring the document to leave the city, so he had to take a small road and walk at night from Heming Hill. Unexpectedly, I ran into a strong man who robbed me. I was in a panic. I was running around in the forest without my life, running, tripping, slipping and falling into... ah!"

He suddenly felt a chill on his cheeks, followed by burning pain, and Luo Yi said with a sad smile: "How dare you lie to me? You have too thick skin, I don't like it, help you thin it." One o'clock?"

Ping Feiyu was so frightened that his liver and gall were shattered, if he really cut his face to pieces, even if he survived by luck, how could he see anyone?Luo Yi saw tears welling in his eyes, as if he also felt that he was invincible in bullying a child, he paused, then calmed down, and said slowly: "I'll know if you don't tell—yes Qin Wei sent you here, didn't he?"

Ping Feiyu was really startled: "No, no——you misunderstood! I am not Qin Wei's disciple. The title of 'Student of Qingyan Mansion' is just pretending to bluff..."

Luo Yi sneered and said, "You and Shen Yuzhu conspired to act in front of Ying Qi, you fooled me once, and you want to fool me a second time?"

Ping Feiyu's mind was buzzing like a hornet's nest, and he thought: "He—he already knows?"

It turned out that before Qin Wei arranged for Ping Feiyu to come to Jiangdu, he deliberately confessed to his young disciple: "Luo Yi is a deep man, cautious and suspicious, and the defense of Luo Mansion is like an iron wall. If you want to sneak into Luo Mansion secretly It's impossible not to get his attention."

Ping Feiyu hesitated: "Then what should I do?"

Qin Wei said with a smile: "Fei Yu, the more suspicious a person is, the easier it is to be suspicious; the smarter he is, the easier it is to pretend to be smart! To deal with such a person, it is very simple. You put the truth on the table carelessly, and put the truth on the table. The false appearance is carefully hidden under the stage, and he will believe that the false appearance is the truth." Qin Wei handed him a tube, and smiled again: "Take the truth as the false, and the false as the real. How to play with the false and the real is up to you means!"

Ping Feiyu suddenly enlightened after receiving this advice.So he came to Jiangdu, first publicized that he was Qin Wei's disciple, and quickly won Huan Guo's trust.Then sneaked into Luo's mansion to look for Shen Yuzhu—the word "secretly" is actually inappropriate, after all, Ping Feiyu already knew that every move he made when he stepped into Luo's mansion would definitely fall into Luo Yi's eyes.

That night, Shen and Ping pretended not to know Luo Yi's eyeliner in the dark, and staged a scene of "recognition between master and apprentice". The real purpose was to let Luo Yi let Shen Yuzhu out of the house with his own hands; Continuing the farce of "Ping Feiyu is not a student of Qingyan Mansion", one is to eliminate Yingqi's murderous intent and hostility, and the other is to pave the way for the phrase "the so-called Feiyu is a member of the bandit family" in the forged medical book.This interlocking labyrinth is all a ploy by Qin, Shen, and Ping to lure Luo Yi into the bait.

The praying mantis catches the cicada, and the oriole follows behind.Luo Yi always thought that he was the oriole, until the moment he was captured at the former site of Liumingguan, he was shocked. Behind the oriole, there was a hunter holding a slingshot and watching for a long time!Seeing Ping Feiyu again at this moment, he naturally connected all the causes and consequences together.

But later he activated the mechanism from the dark room of the Liumeikan and escaped to this secret passage, which was actually a bit of luck.He never thought that Ping Feiyu would be here.However, he deliberately tricked the young man into defrauding him, and indeed pried the name "Qin Wei" out of his mouth.

Seeing that he couldn't hide it, Ping Feiyu had no choice but to recruit Qin Wei's confession truthfully.It turned out that he came to Jiangdu under the order of his teacher this time, and rescuing Shen Yuzhu was only one of the tasks. The other important but vague task was to follow the secret road here according to the road map, and take a piece of " very important" stuff.

Luo Yi listened, and slowly stopped, with a sneer of "as expected" on the corner of his lips, he said: "You said it honestly, why should you suffer such flesh and blood!" He removed the dagger and stood up.

Ping Feiyu turned over and jumped up, stretched out his hand to touch his face, it turned out to be just a slight wound, he calmed down a little, thinking: "Looking at his manner of speaking, maybe he already knew a lot, Master can't blame me for not being able to bear it The punishment leaked the secret—but if he has a relationship with the master, why have I never heard of it from the master?" The feeling of "betrayal" of the master in his heart eased a little, and it was covered with a thick layer of doubt.

Luo Yi concentrated on looking at the parchment, and asked again: "You said just now that Qin Wei asked you to fetch an important item, what exactly is it?"

Ping Feiyu scratched the top of his hair, and said: "This... I don't know either, he just said that I'll understand it by myself, and I will know it when the time comes"—I'm afraid you know the master's temper. "If you take one corner and don't use three corners to turn it back, you won't do it again." If I dragged him to ask questions, he would kick me out of the teacher's door if he was unhappy—oh, it's definitely not me as an apprentice secretly It is said that the master is narrow-minded and prone to anger, he is naturally kind-hearted and never gets angry, but he just kicked me out of the teacher with a smile, that is not something to be happy about..."

Luo Yi heard him gossip, but didn't hit the point. Just as he was about to stop speaking, he heard footsteps coming from the distance of the tunnel.He twitched his eyebrows, turned off the oil lamp, covered Ping Feiyu's mouth and hid in the dark, whispering: "Don't make a sound!"

Ping Feiyu was pinned in front of him, he could only hear his shortness of breath, his whole body was hot, he didn't know that the medicine that Luo Yi had suppressed was taking effect again, he couldn't help being surprised, he thought: "Why is he so afraid of becoming like this, is it hard?" Could it be that the impermanence of ghost hunting has come?"

Luo Yi hid in the darkness, heard the footsteps slowly approaching, and thought to himself: "The caves here are intricate and complicated. He found the mechanism in the dark room. It's nothing more than that. How could he chase all the way here without any risk?"

The footsteps lingered outside the cave where they were hiding for a while, and suddenly someone laughed lightly.

Hearing that laughter, Luo Yi felt more and more like facing a formidable enemy, but Ping Feiyu was overjoyed.He has recognized that the person outside the cave is Shen Yuzhu.It's just that he was restrained by Luo Yi and couldn't report to him, so he could only secretly pray in his heart that Shen Yuzhu would find this cave by chance.But he also knew that the path of this crypt was twists and turns, and without the guidance of the parchment scroll, he would never have been able to find it here. What are the chances that Shen Yuzhu guessed it right by chance?

At this moment, there was a sharp sound piercing through the air, and a small arrow shot from outside the cave, and it was nailed to the rock wall in front of Ping Feiyu!Someone outside the cave laughed and said, "Lord Luo, your clothes are thin and you are curled up in this wet cave, aren't you afraid of catching a cold?"

Luo Yi knew that he had found his hiding place, if he just ran away and caused him to shoot arrows indiscriminately into the cave, it would be even more dangerous.Feiyu simply clasped the screen and slowly came out of the cave, sneering: "Shen Yuzhu, come and say hello to your precious nephew!"

Shen Yuzhu stood alone outside the cave, with a crossbow on his left arm and a lamp in his right hand. When he saw the flying feathers on the screen, he couldn't help showing surprise on his face.But the surprise was fleeting, so he walked towards them calmly and said with a smile: "Master nephew, I have a lot, what's the use of this idiot who can't even understand the parting words? Luo If your lord likes it, I will give you a few more—”

When Ping Feiyu heard the "parting words", she suddenly came to her senses, and said joyfully, "How did I forget about this thing!" He was only as tall as Luo Yi's chest, and with a single kick, he slammed into Luo Yi's jaw .

Luo Yi was fully alert, and caught a glimpse of something vaguely inside Ping Feiyu's bun, and hurriedly backed away, looking up to avoid it, but saw an afterimage pop out from it, and "Ding Ding Ding" hit the top of the rock three times!He loosened the grip a little, and was caught by Ping Feiyu like a fish, twisted around and fled away.Shen Yuzhu fired a burst of crossbow arrows, forced him to come forward, and grabbed Luo Yi's wrist.He was very accurate in recognizing the acupoints, although he was not as strong as Luo Yi's physical strength, two fingers clasped the two acupoints "Lie Que" and "Shenmen" on Luo Yi's wrist.How could Luo Yi be restrained, his experience in defeating the enemy in front of battle was much more experienced than Shen Yuzhu's, so he dropped the dagger and put it in his left hand, and stabbed Shen Yuzhu face-to-face, pointing at the shoulder blade and hanging on the ribs at the same time, the knife was so fierce that it seemed like a waste Even with one wrist, he would die with him.Shen Yuzhu went in without knowing it, and let go of his hand, but Luo Yi made a false move, quickly broke out, turned and rushed into the cave.

Shen Yuzhu didn't even think about it, so he chased after him.Ping Feiyu hastily followed, but seeing the twists and turns in the cave, cramped and deep, he didn't know where to go?He was terrified in his heart, called "Master Uncle" repeatedly, and ran forward repeatedly.

After running for an unknown amount of time, he vaguely saw two figures standing in front of him, they were Shen Yuzhu and Luo Yi.He was overjoyed, and shouted loudly: "Master!" and rushed forward.Unexpectedly, the terrain was sloping, the cave was wet, the soles of his feet slipped, he rushed out for more than a few steps, and threw himself directly on Luo Yi.

After Luo Yi took Shen Yuzhu's medicine one after another, his hands and feet became sore and numb from time to time, even with the breeze in his bosom, he might feel the same as that copper hammer striking a bell, how could he bear the full force of Ping Feiyu?After staggering a few steps, he fell backwards.Ping Feiyu felt his body fall sharply, and the wind whistled in his ears, only then did he realize why the two of them stood still just now - it turned out that there was a cliff ahead of this road!

Shen Yuzhu was taken aback, stepped forward and grabbed Luo Yi's hand.Looking down, the pale-faced Ping Feiyu was hugging Luo Yi's waist tightly.Although the two were frightened, they were both safe.

Luo Yi took a deep breath, stretched out his palm and patted Ping Feiyu's head, and smiled angrily: "Very good! Very good! This is a good road to choose!"

Ping Feiyu only felt the rubble falling down on both sides, and there was no sound for a long time. He imagined that there was an unfathomable abyss below.Already frightened, he was so frightened that his teeth were "knocking" in his mouth, and his arms were wrapped tightly around Luo Yi, so he didn't dare to make a sound.

Luo Yi raised his face and smiled at Shen Yuzhu, "Shen Yuzhu, you really are not a good nephew."

In his words, he reminded him to be cautious, Shen Yuzhu knew it well, and said with a smile: "Yes, Lord Luo, please hold on tight." He stretched out his arms and tried to pull the two of them up, but he saw Luo Yi's expression was strange, and he couldn't help but be vigilant. I thought to myself: "Could it be possible that he wants to take advantage of the moment I pull him up?"

Luo Yi hesitated and said, "Didn't you hear?"

Shen Yuzhu asked blankly, "What did you hear?" As soon as the words fell, his face suddenly changed.I could only hear the rumble of thunder behind me, and the attack was getting closer and closer, as if there were thousands of troops charging here.He looked back, and saw a monstrous torrent suddenly erupting from the narrow hole, like a gigantic monster with teeth and claws, wrapped in the momentum of thunder, it rushed towards them mightily.