Cover The Sky With One Hand, Beat The Ground With The Other Chapter 39: (complete)

The green hills meandering and the peaks and peaks are rugged. If the lonely forests and mountains are not piles of graves, they should also be a wonder of the dense forest.

The tombs here are mostly mounds of the same size, with no names on the steles. I think they are either people who have nowhere to be buried, or the lonely souls who died in the early years of war and plague.

In the middle of the night, listening to the shrill wind whistling in this barren mountain, Wu Pingting led the way with a lantern in front, and A Zuo and Ayou were closely guarding her, and she still felt eerie and shuddering.

The terrain of Wanfengang is dangerous and steep. Fortunately, I was very prescient and changed into a man's clothes before going out. When Wu Pingting saw my appearance as a Confucian student admiring the moon, she couldn't help but ask, "Why does the princess still bring a fan?"

I spread out the golden-edged folding fan nervously and said, "It's not right to be empty-handed when I think about seeing the legendary pineapple soon."

Wu Pingting: "..."

The mountain wind is like a gust of wind, and the wild grass grows higher as it goes up, almost giving people a psychedelic illusion.

I was a little tired from climbing, and sighed bitterly: "I heard that King Rui of the former dynasty was also a famous scholar in his early years, how could he have thought of putting a secret place in such a place?"

Wu Pingting said: "My father said that Wanfen Mound was used to bury the dead soldiers of the previous dynasty, or had a relationship with King Narui."

I was slightly startled, panting on my waist with one hand, and looked around: "But this ten thousand graves is so endless, where exactly is the grave that your father told you before he died?"

Wu Pingting paused for a while, and finally said lightly: "To the southwest, under the birch tree, next to the bluestone monument, in the ancient tomb."

After saying that, I walked straight ahead, A Zuo and A You glanced at me at the same time, and I whispered, "Keep up."

Dark clouds cover the moon, and the vegetation is sparse. On this empty mountain, there are occasional green ghosts and fires floating in the air.

I sighed slightly in my heart.

Even if there are ghosts in the world, who are buried here, who will listen to who's cry, and who will not be sad because of whom.

About another incense stick, Ah Zuo suddenly pointed to the tall tree not far away and asked, "But that?"

Wu Pingting stepped forward quickly, raised the lantern and said, "This is the place!"

Another wordless monument.

Except that the mound is slightly higher, it doesn't look much different from the other tombs.

Wu Pingting stretched out her hand and scratched the mound.

Seeing this, Azuo and Ayou also stepped forward to help, and soon, a small tomb of clothes and crowns was in sight.

I held the fan and tilted my head and went around in a circle, but I saw that the tomb gate was quietly hidden behind the tombstone, but it was only half the height of a person, and it was difficult for ordinary people to notice.

"It's no wonder that Feng Li has worked so hard to find thousands of graves in Qinglin Mountain." I smiled, "Thanks to Miss Wu's insight, it would have been difficult to find it in the middle of the night."

Wu Pingting glanced at the lineup of Azuo and Ayou lightly, "Does your Highness only intend to let these two guards deal with Feng Li?"

"Miss Wu, you think too much."

I made a slight gesture to Azuo and Ayou, and they raised their fingers and whistled, and bursts of flames lit up in all directions. Thirty-eight shadow guards appeared in unison, and began to tie the torches in their hands to the long sticks, and then The long stick was embedded in the soil, and in less than a while, this small piece of tomb was ablaze with fire.

Wu Pingting is puzzled: "What is this?"

I smiled lightly and said, "Create the illusion that we are numerous."

Wu Pingting frowned, "In this way, Feng Li will soon find out our whereabouts and wipe us out."

"He won't."

"How can I see it?"

I thought about it and felt that I didn't have time to explain too much to her, so I said: "Because not long after we went up the mountain, Qinglin Mountain was surrounded by the commander Si Qianjun."

Ayou glanced at me in surprise, but didn't ask any further questions.

Wu Pingting looked at the low door of the tomb and tried to push it, but there was no response, "Is this door closed?"

I found a flat rock and sat down, beckoned to A Zuo and said, "This tombstone will be demolished by this palace."

A Zuo said, "Demolish, demolish the grave?"

I smiled and said, "Don't let Ben Gong repeat it a second time."

Azuo complied.

He dug with his family sword for a long time, but when he tried to move the tombstone, he couldn't move it.

A right came forward to help, but the tombstone remained motionless.

They both gave me a pleasing look.

I sighed and pondered: "Teach you one thing, usually when you want to move something that can obviously move but can't move, it means that there is something mysterious about that thing, and it is the key to unlocking the mechanism. things.”

Azuo and Ayou suddenly realized, and tried to turn the tombstone left and right. As expected, the tomb door moved out one point when the tombstone rotated an inch. After the tombstone turned around, the tomb door was fully opened, opening a hole.

A Zuo looked around and said, "There is a dark passage inside, and the stone steps are facing down, so you can't see the bottom."

I patted the ashes on my butt, stood up and smiled at Wu Pingting, "Please ask Miss Wu to lead the way, I will follow you."

Wu Pingting hesitated for a moment, then neatly pulled out the dagger from her boots, held the lantern, and bent down to enter the hole.

I turned to Ah You and said, "Follow me to protect me, Ah Zuo guards the door, don't close the door, everyone else, stay hidden."

As soon as the voice fell, the thirty-eight shadow guards disappeared like a conjuration. Looking over the mountain, it seemed that there were really only the three of us left.

I stepped into the secret path with one foot, and Ayou pulled me and said, "I'm afraid that one of my subordinates will not be able to protect the princess comprehensively, so it's better to send more people to accompany you..."

I glanced at her lightly: "If Feng Li enters this secret passage, the shadow guards will follow closely, and it is always easier to attack from the rear; if he doesn't enter, our group will If a swarm goes in, then he closes the stone door from the outside, starves for three to five days or smokes it, then we really can't escape."

A Zuo thought for a while and nodded, "My subordinates understand." Seeing A Zuo waiting to open her mouth, she stopped him and said, "Zuo, your gatekeeping mission is of great importance and there is no room for failure. "

Azuo sighed and nodded reluctantly.

At the beginning of the secret passage, it was narrow and difficult to move. After walking a few steps, the stone wall gradually expanded, and it became unexpectedly spacious.

I held the torch and looked around. Every time I took a step, I could see the dust rising in the air, filled with the smell of dust for many years.

Ayou followed closely behind me, probably because the secret path continued to go down and down, she was quite uneasy: "I don't know what purpose King Rui dug such a secret path for? from such painstaking care."

I said casually: "In places like the secret way, most of the secrets are not martial arts secrets, but gold and silver jewelry. Pineapple sounds like an anti-imperial court in the past, but seeing him act by himself and even his subordinates can't afford it, it should be compared. If you are short of money, you can't do anything without it, let alone do something big..."

Wu Pingting suddenly interjected: "Feng Li may just not trust others. If he really wants to make thousands of dollars, there is no guarantee that other people will not have the intention of embezzling it."

I nodded, "It can be seen that Pineapple still trusts Miss Wu."

Wu Pingting looked back at me suspiciously, "What do you mean by this?"

I shrugged and smiled, "If I were Miss Wu, I would not be able to take revenge on my own. Now that I know that this secret way is very important to pineapples, I will draw a small map and post it everywhere, so that the entire capital will be big and small. Small peasants, officials and businessmen all know that there are treasures hidden here from the previous dynasty, so even if the wind leaves the world, there is nothing to do, so don't you die of anger?"

Wu Pingting was stunned, as if she never thought that this could be regarded as one of the ways of revenge, "In this way, isn't it worthy of Jun Jinzhi's trust in her father?"

I said, "That's why Feng Li trusts Miss Wu's character very much." Having said that, after turning a corner, Ah You suddenly made an "ah" and raised his finger to point to the end of the secret path. , a high wall appeared.

This wall is about two feet high and wide, and it is made up of square-shaped bluestones.

Other than that, the remaining four sides of the stone wall are all natural rocks that have passed through the years, and there is no other way out.

Ayou said incredulously, "Is... that's it?"

I sighed, "Will King Rui just dig a hole and ask his son to bury himself here."

Wu Pingting took a closer look and suddenly said, "There are characters on the wall."

I heard the words and took a few steps closer, but I saw that there were characters carved on the stone wall.

I took a step back, raised a torch, and instantly illuminated the wall. I saw that every bluestone stake was engraved with a character. Everywhere I looked, a column read "Cao, Xu, Qu, Feng, He, Sun, Gao, Ding..." and so on.

Ayou is inexplicable, "What are these?"

Wu Pingting looked around silently and said in a deep voice: "Hundred family names."

Ayou took a serious look and muttered: "The last name is the last name, but the order of the lettering doesn't seem to follow..."

"So," I glanced at the words on the stone wall up, down, down, left, right, and right, "it's the surnames of hundreds of families who are out of order."

Ayou nodded slightly, and then he looked at the passage when he came, and confirmed that there was no one coming. Fang asked: "I wonder what the purpose of King Rui built such a wall?"

I was about to speak, but I saw Wu Pingting frowning, as if curiously covering the bluestone stake in her hand, I was hanging, "Don't-"

Before I could make a sound, the stone stake had already been pushed. I bowed my head vigilantly. Fortunately, there was no movement on the stone floor. The torch landed on the ground, and then a few crossbow arrows shot out from the cracks in the rocks on both sides, hitting the vital point like a gust of wind!

A-you made a quick decision and pulled out the sword from his waist to block it in front of me. For a while, I could only hear the clanging sound of blade and iron. I saw that the arrows were mostly shot to the head and chest, so I squatted down. Only then did she turn her head to look at Wu Pingting on the other side, but she saw that she had one hand on her back, and her right hand held a dagger in a changing posture to pick up random arrows.

Waiting for no more hidden weapons to be fired, silence returned to the secret passage, Ah You hurriedly turned around, "Is the princess hurt?"

"It doesn't matter." I stood up slowly, looking at the scattered arrows on the ground, "This mechanism is embedded in the natural weathered stone crevices, it is really natural."

The frightened look on Wu Pingting's face has not yet faded away, "I, I didn't expect that there would be a hidden weapon here, and it almost harmed Your Highness, it's really..."

"I had expected that there would be a lot of traps here." I bent down to pick up the torch, but luckily the flame hadn't gone out. "It seems that to open the stone gate, you have to press the stone stakes in the correct order."

Ayouqi said: "Order?"

"The bluestone stake that Miss Wu just moved is the word 'Zhao', but the hidden weapons still attack us, which shows that the order of these hundred family names is not the 'Zhao Qian Sun Li Zhou Wu Zheng Wang' that we are familiar with," I said. He sighed, "I heard that there was a very boring emperor in the previous dynasty who ordered someone to re-edit the Hundred Family Surnames and the Three Character Classic on a whim. After a few days, I realized the absurdity of my behavior and stopped in time, so I revised the edition. It hasn't been spread out, maybe Narui King just set up such an institution because of this, and only the descendants of the previous royal family could open this giant door."

Wu Pingting frowned, "Does the princess know how to carry the previous dynasty?"

I glanced at her like an idiot and said, "This palace is a royal family of the current dynasty, not a descendant of the previous dynasty."

She said: "In this case, how to open this door?"

I tilted my head to look at her, "Why open it?"

Wu Pingting blinked her pair of autumn trees and said in amazement: "When you get here, don't you give up if you don't try?"

I raised my eyebrows and asked back: "Isn't the purpose of our trip to catch him?"

Wu Pingting was stunned for a moment, then said only: "Feng Li is a sinister and cunning person, and the girl is just worried that if he doesn't really enter the secret place, he may not be willing to show up."

I smiled, "Miss Wu is joking, Feng Li has never been in here, how would he know that there is a Shimen in the secret way? Since he doesn't know anything, seeing that we have entered the tomb of clothes, he will be in a hurry. The idea of ​​waiting sneaked in... If he really didn't show up because we didn't open the stone gate, there's only one possibility..."

I said slowly and slowly: "He knew early on that there was a stone gate under this secret passage. At this moment, he was waiting for us to open the door, and then he reappeared and drove straight in..."

Wu Pingting's frown deepened, "I have never disclosed this secret to anyone, how would he know?"

I nodded noncommittally, and she added: "It's just that we have leaked the secret place today. If Feng Li really doesn't show up, we will return without success, and he will come back to explore in the future. Greatly detrimental to the princess?"

"There will be no future." I said slowly: "If I fail to return today, this palace will order people to blow this mountain to ashes."

Wu Pingting's face changed, "This, how does this make it?"

I stared at her and said naturally: "There is no better way to eradicate all the things that may become hidden dangers in this dynasty."

Wu Pingting took a step forward and said, "This, this is the last way to lure Fengli out. If the princess lets the secret place disappear into the world, where will I find him to avenge my father and brother? Snow hate?!"

I looked at her quietly, watching the flash of abnormality in her eyes. After a while, I finally said, "That's it."

I handed the torch in my hand to Ah You, took out the gold-trimmed folding fan around my waist, and spread it out. The inscription on the fan reads "Only know that the ages are never the same, and the black and white take turns with the sun and the moon." I extended the fan to Wu Ping In front of Ting, she smiled slightly and said: "The panorama of the meticulous brushwork of this hang fan was painted by Gu Xizhi, a famous painter of the previous dynasty, and it was not available in the market."

The light of the fire made Wu Pingting's pretty face flicker, "What does the princess mean?"

"This folding fan is a welcome gift I prepared for Feng Li." I paused, put the folding fan in her palm, and said with a smile, "A little gift, I'll ask Miss Wu to hand it over for me."

Wu Pingting stood there for a while, looking at me in confusion, "What is the princess talking about? Do you suspect that I am an accomplice of that thief..."

"Naturally not an accomplice," I interrupted, "Ben Gong means that from the very beginning, you were the one who led Feng Li to lead us here."

"Lu Yin?" Wu Pingting seemed to have heard the most absurd thing in the world, "The girl is playing the piano and composing music in Yaoyuelou all day long, and it is clear that the princess came to the house to ask me to ask me about the case of the escort's annihilation. The truth of the story, ask me to bring your Highness to this place to attract Feng Li..."

I just met her eyes, "I wonder if the girl still remembers, what was the first truth you confessed?"

Wu Pingting was startled.

I recalled: "You said, 'My father, my eldest brother and my fellow disciples were all killed by him', right or not?"

Wu Pingting said: "That's right, the guards are indeed slaughtered by Feng Li, what doubts does the princess have about this?"

I lightly hooked my lips, but didn't answer her, "Then you said, Feng Li approached you and took advantage of your father's relationship with Jun Jinzhi in order to reveal the shocking mystery hidden in Jun Jinzhi's body. , which is where we are standing right now, right or not?"

"Why should the princess ask the question."

"Later, just after your father let go of Jun Jin, Feng Li suddenly appeared and sent troops to pursue him. After your father returned to Beijing, Feng Li killed all the guards in front of you in order to force him to ask your father's secret place. People, yes or no?"

Wu Pingting sneered: "Could it be that the princess still suspects that I and Feng Li killed my family?"

I said meaningfully: "Miss Wu naturally would not do such a depraved thing. It's just that when I listened to your statement, I had some questions that I couldn't figure out no matter what... For example, Feng Li... how? So stupid?"

Wu Pingting was startled.

As I paced, I said: "If I were Feng Li, since I know that your father and Jun Jinzhi are old friends, I should stand on your father's side and slowly deal with it, so that I can better ask the secret, isn't it? ? Use coercion to interrogate a Jianghu person who values ​​love and righteousness. Oh, how could such a stupid robber act come from Feng Li?"

Seeing Wu Pingting's intention to open her mouth, I raised my hand again and said, "Also, you said that your father told you a secret before he died in order to save your life, hey, that would be even more strange. Since the old man himself knows the secret place, why not lie to Fengli and lie to Fengli? There is more than one mountain in the whole capital where there are mass graves. Even if Fengli knows it in the future, he can live longer. A pinch of hope, why use the entire escort's life to keep the secret in such a tragic way?

Wu Pingting listened to me, but did not rush to defend herself, "If you follow this statement, when the princess first met Yaoyuelou, she decided that what I said was false, why didn't I say it at that time, and why was it tonight? invite me here?"

I smiled lightly, still didn't answer her question, only said: "Do you know that today, I ordered my shadow guard Ayou, oh, that is, where is the place in front of you? "

Wu Pingting pursed her lips and glanced at the expressionless Ah You.

I reminded: "It's a cemetery, of course it's not our place. There are several people lying in that grave, including the chief **** of the Shangwei Security Bureau, the master, the son of the escort... Hey, you are saying it's strange. It's not surprising that they were worshipped in the early years, and the old incense burner is still alive. Today is their death day, but there are weeds in front of the tomb, eh, Ayou, you said, how long has the weeds been growing? People cleaned up?"

Ayou: "About a year."

I raised my eyebrows and said to Wu Pingting, "I don't think you would tell me that, for revenge, you forgot about worshipping your parents and brothers, right?"

She heard that her face changed here, I suppressed my smile and said in a low voice: "The real Wu Pingting is dead, and you are fake, Feng Li."

She looked at me coldly, as if she was looking at a lunatic: "If I was Feng Li, why would I make up a story about Feng Li destroying the **** bureau for you?"

I squinted and said, "Who said that was fabricated? The Shangwei Escort was destroyed by Fengli. I have no doubts about this."

She said coldly: "Oh, the princess might as well talk about it, what did you think the truth was back then?"

I shrugged, "At first, I was just puzzled, if Fengli really killed Miss Wu in front of her entire family, and she was full of resentment, how could she find enemies every year on the grounds of antagonism? For an infatuated woman, this behavior is not like seeking revenge, but more like waiting for her sweetheart with a strong sense of admiration."

"Wu Pingting" smiled contemptuously, "That's it?"

I shook my head and said earnestly, "It may be true that a dozen people in the security bureau died under Feng Li's conspiracy, but it doesn't appear that they were all killed in front of Miss Wu. Besides, if she really knew It's impossible that you haven't thought about finding out about the secret place for so many years. If you look, you might see Feng Li, but if you don't go, there's no news at all." I paced around again, "So she went from From the very beginning, he had no idea about the so-called secret place. The only person who knew the secret place was his father. Feng Li was a smart person, so he would naturally approach her father in a smart way, and finally gained her father's trust. the secret place.”

The eyes of the "Wu Pingting" in front of her were slightly closed, and her voice was extremely low: "He has already asked what he wants to ask, so why does he want to kill all the guards?"

"In order to swallow this secret alone, it is inevitable that the old guard finds Jun Jin's son, and Feng Li will kill him. As for why he killed the family... Mostly it was discovered by others when he killed the old guard Wu, which attracted the attention of others. Although the entire security guard may make a big noise, it may not be beneficial to them, so there is no choice but to kill people." I sighed leisurely, "I think Wu Pingting was not at home at the time, so she didn't know that she killed her whole family. Who is the real culprit? On the contrary, Feng Li should appear as a guardian when he looks back, taking care of her and comforting her, so that he will not be suspicious."

Wu Pingting in front of her couldn't even smirk, "The princess said so detailedly, it's like she saw it with her own eyes."

I scratched my head apologetically, "The power of association in this palace has always been richer, this... I don't know what to call it, so don't be surprised."

"Wu Pingting" really did not take offense, she no longer pretended to be, and even showed a cold look: "The princess said so much, it sounds like she is righteous, but the princess must not forget, come to invite the moon in person Lou Duoqu, the person who wants to meet me is you, the princess, if I was really the one who Feng Li planned and arranged, how could I not have predicted that the prophet princess would come, and even made up some lies to deceive me?"

"Of course no one in this world can predict the future." At this point, I couldn't help but sigh in annoyance, "All of this is nothing more than a game set up by Feng Li."

"Wu Pingting" just stood there like this, and seemed very interested to hear what I had to say, "Oh?"

This is really a big situation, and it's so big that I've already been caught up in it by the time I come to my senses.

"The first step, he let a man who had been missing for many years suddenly appear in the Princess Mansion, and at the same time let me discover a very important letter. The truth is to order people to follow every move of picking honey, and naturally they will find Yaoyuelou and you because they go to the street to buy medicine and deliberately avoid Xiange Street."

"Feng Li knows that I'm not easy to fool, and I have gone around in such a big circle just to draw out a person like you. He asked you to tell me a lot of half-truths, and I also know that I may not fully believe it. , but in order to lead him out, he will come to this secret place with you at risk, and this is the second step."

"Wu Pingting" raised her lips darkly, "Then why did he invite you here?"

"I couldn't figure it out at first. It wasn't until I came in, and all of a sudden I understood."

"Because of this." I turned around and pointed to the wall full of surnames, "I think that Feng Li should have come to Wanfu as soon as he found out about the secret place. The pit entered the secret path, however, it stopped at this pass."

"He can't get in."

"And he knows that the person who can open the mechanism is the son of Jun Jin. But how can the son of Jun Jin listen to him?"

"Then, there is only one person left, his wife, that is, this princess."

The flames flickered slightly, unable to illuminate the shrouded darkness.

Something comes to my mind—everything happens for a reason.

Seven years ago, when Song Langsheng was just my eldest brother, he said the wrong words when he took the test of my "Three Character Classic" and "Hundred Family Surnames".

I still laugh at him. I can't even memorize "Hundred Family Surnames", and I still want to take the top spot.

The big brother said gloomily that it was all his father's fault. He taught him a wrong version when he was a child, and he was often unable to break the habit after so many years.

When I was young, I was full of novelty about my elder brother, so I asked him to recite it with me.

Who would have thought that the playful playfulness of teenagers and girls would become the key to a secret place many years later?

"Wu Pingting" was not surprised by what I said. She looked at me calmly, and the firelight pulled her into a ghostly reflection, "You know?"

"Yes, I know," I didn't deny it, "and Feng Li should be sure that I know, so he will not hesitate to let me come here."

Xiao Xiangyi, who will always reveal her heart to the honey, will not tell the funny story of "Hundred Family Surnames" by the wrong big brother? Picking honey is Feng Li's person. After Feng Li knows about it, he will play the abacus on me.

I stared blankly at the icy stone wall, "I think the pineapple counts only one thing wrong, that is, I was not interested in the secrets of the previous dynasty from beginning to end, so I don't I will open this stone gate." I took a deep breath and turned my eyes back to "Wu Pingting", "Tell him, if he learns that I plan to raze this place to the ground, will he be willing to show up automatically? What?"

"If he finds out," but listening to her laugh in a low voice, "Tonight, the princess should not be allowed to leave this secret way alive again."

Before she finished speaking, Ah You suddenly raised the sword to her neck, but she didn't dodge, and there was no murderous look on her face, she just held the folding fan and shook it and said, "Kill me, Feng Li But I won't receive a gift from the princess."

"Alas." I said too much tonight, and I was quite tired, "This princess prefers the kind of enemies who can be honest and conspiracy with each other at the showdown. Why do you always pretend to be confused? When I left in the evening, I said that it would be bad if you want to meet pineapples with empty hands, so it is a meeting ceremony. What is a meeting ceremony?

I raised my lips, "Do you think this is the truth? Miss Wu...oh, no, maybe I should call you... Young Master Fengli?"

There was a moment of condensation in the air.

Then a soft laughter rang out in the empty tunnel. The laughter was not terrifying. Objectively speaking, it was a very nice voice, but it was a man's voice.

"Since it's a big gift from Princess Xiangyi, I'll accept it with a smile!"

——(End of this chapter)

The author has something to say: (covers his ears) I know you guys are going to say it again, but you forgot what you said earlier and you can't understand this chapter, why hasn't the concubine come out yet and so on! But, but if you watch such a plot consistently, it should be very interesting _

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I would like to recommend a good-looking Ming Dynasty ancient saying, the blue lion:

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