[mouse cat] special way

Bianliang is located in the north, and ordinary people's homes will have cellars for storing ingredients. Of course, those who are interested can also use it for other purposes.This cellar is not big, the floor and walls are made of bluestone and blue bricks, damp and cold.There is no lamp in the cellar, and it can only be illuminated by a little light passing through the crack of the cellar door.

In this damp and cold cellar, an unclear figure curled up in a corner and shivered.

Suddenly, the cellar door opened with a bang, and the bright candlelight made the people in the cellar close their eyes.There was the sound of heavy footsteps, and a strong hand roughly grabbed the man's arm, causing him to open his eyes in shock.

"Don't...don't catch me, please let me go!! I've told you all I know!! Let me go!!" He seemed to be trying to hide himself, but this place is so big. Where can I hide it?

The people who came didn't pay any attention to what he said, and left after dragging each other.

The man was dragged to a vermilion wooden door, and there was a shrill scream from inside the door, like a ghost escaping from hell.The screaming and wailing stopped suddenly, as if it had never happened.

The two people next to him opened the door and dragged him in, and the smell of blood, rancidity and excrement came to his face.

The man was thrown to the ground, shaking even more violently.He raised his head slowly, and what he saw was a miserable picture.A man who was almost completely naked was hung on the wall, his body was covered with blood and sweat, his head was drooping and trembling uncontrollably, and the iron chains binding his hands jingled.He quickly lowered his head, not daring to look any further.

The smell of blood and the smell of burning in the air were disgusting, but the people sitting by the charcoal fire seemed to be aroused by their bloodthirsty nature, and they were extremely excited.

"Chen San," the person sitting in the grand master's chair spoke slowly, flicking the barbed whip in his hand very comfortably, "Do you know why this king brought you here?"

"Prince, please forgive me!!" Chen San, who was kneeling on the ground, kowtowed desperately, "I have told you everything I know, and I have nothing to hide!"

"Really? Let me ask you, why didn't my people find that thing in Kaifeng Mansion?"

"This... I don't know..." Chen San grabbed his clothes and desperately recalled, "This is written in the drawing that the master gave me, and there will be no mistakes!"

"Oh? According to what you say, there is something wrong with my people?" Li Yuanhao waved his hand, and the guards next to him put down the man on the wall and dragged him away. Another person dragged Chen San to the rack and picked up a A red-hot soldering iron was slowly brought close to his face.

"Prince, listen to me!!" Chen San hid the terrible instrument of torture, raised his head and shouted, "Gold restrains earth in the five elements, so the scroll of earth must use the killing spirit of gold to restrain it. , whole...in the entire Bianliang, the Kaifeng Mansion is the most murderous, and...and the rule of the Song Dynasty is that the crown prince must first serve as the governor of Kaifeng Mansion, and then he can inherit the throne and become the emperor. So my information is absolutely correct! You have to believe me, believe me!!"

"Hold on."

The soldering iron moved away, and Chen San let out a long breath.Li Yuanhao stood up and walked to Chen San, patted his cheek with the handle of the whip, and asked, "Then why isn't there anything the king wants in the prison in Kaifeng Mansion?"

Chen San lowered his head and said: "A small conjecture, there is... Maybe the Kaifeng Mansion changed the location of the cell, after all, it has been a long time since Emperor Taizong..."

"Is there any other place where it is possible to collect books besides Kaifeng Mansion?"

"Prince, think about it, such a powerful thing can be hidden in any place, and it must be suppressed with a strong murderous spirit." Chen San's face was full of pleading, "The choice of Kaifeng Mansion The site is an ancient battlefield, and so many people are executed every year, even the Dali Temple Sky Prison is not as fierce as it!"

"Let me trust you one more time." Li Yuanhao glanced at him, then walked away slowly, "Give him twenty lashes." He left the room indifferently, ignoring the pleading cries of the people inside.

"Your Highness, this subordinate has something to report." A guard took out a bamboo tube and handed it to Li Yuanhao, "I have already obtained the list of Song Guo participating in this ring competition."

"Well, you go down and tell the Kaifeng mansion to continue searching, and dig three feet to dig it out for me!"

"Yes!"

Li Yuanhao opened the note and brushed the names with his slender fingers.Li Chengwei came over: "Heh, Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao, Brother Wang, as you expected, this time we can avenge Xiangyang."

Li Yuanhao didn't answer, his fingers rested on the three words "Yang Wenguang", Li Chengwei noticed it, and said with a smile: "The Yang family is really loyal to the emperor of the Song Dynasty, there is only such a single seedling left, and I will send it up to seek death I heard that Yang Wenguang is only 19 years old this year, so why would such a young master join in the fun?"

"Don't underestimate the members of the Yang family, you have never seen how powerful they are." Li Yuanhao said in a deep voice, "When Song and Liao fought against each other, his father Yang Zongbao was only in his early twenties, but he had already lost the soldiers of the Liao Kingdom and suffered a lot of headaches. Yelu Longxu made a plan to lure him to a dangerous place alone, relying on the strength of the crowd, surrounded him and killed him with ten thousand arrows, and lost more than 1000 people in this way..."

"So powerful...killing so many people single-handedly..." Li Chengwei lowered his head, trying to calculate how much he could do if he encountered such a situation.

"Not only that, the women of the Yang family can also kill, and the women who lost their husbands are even more vicious." Li Yuanhao added, "I was only eight (==) nine years old at that time, and my father and I saw Yang Zongbao's wife slashing with a knife. Yelu Longxu's uncle, Xiao Rang, died." What a powerful woman, her son...it shouldn't be easy...

Li Yuanhao warned: "In short, you must be well prepared! I will wait and see for tomorrow's battle."

Chen San, who had been whipped twenty times, was dragged back to the cellar like a dog.Xia Guo warriors always looked down on such boneless things like him the most, opened the door and threw him inside, and then left.

As soon as the door was closed, Chen San stopped begging for mercy and groped on the ground.

"Senior Brother, Senior Brother, where are you?"

After groping for a long time, he finally found a warm body by the wall.Some bandages were scribbled on this man, presumably the Xia people were afraid of killing him, so they treated his wound a little bit.Chen San held his senior brother in his arms, thinking of what the two brothers had been through all the time, his nose was sore and he began to cry sadly.

Probably woken up by Chen San's crying, the person in his arms moved his head and woke up in a daze.

"Brother, you're awake!" Chen San shouted in surprise, hugging him a little tighter.

"Hiss—" the man gasped, probably because he had hurt his wound.

"Ah, how are you, brother! It's my fault, I'm clumsy." Chen San hurriedly let go of his hand, so he couldn't see the appearance of his brother.Thinking that this person was covered in injuries, he had no choice but to let his brother lie on his lap.

"You... Get out!" The man stretched out his hand to push Chen San's hand, but it was badly hurt, and he was weak, "Who is your senior brother?!"

"Senior brother! It's my fault, you are injured, don't move around, okay..." Chen San's voice was a little choked up.

"You, let me go! Who are you calling...senior brother, I, Ding Yuan, don't have...no one like you, Chen San, who is unfaithful and unrighteous...betrays the master!"

"Senior brother..." Chen San's tears fell drop by drop on Ding Yuan's face, "I know you hate me and hate me for revealing the secret of the heavenly scriptures. But if I didn't tell you at that time, senior brother, you would just tell the uncle and the others They were killed together!"

"Yes, I'm a coward. I have no bones or integrity. But I'm also a human being. How can I just watch them kill you!" Chen San wiped his face, "We used to live well in Xiangfu , who knows which apprentice of the uncle is talking too much, causing us to be killed. They usually bully us enough, and they want to kick you out as a scapegoat. I don’t have a master anymore, and I can’t live without you anymore... ...Woooo...Senior Brother..."

Hearing the struggle of the man in his arms, he sighed faintly: "Even...so...you can't..."

"Wuuuu... senior brother..."

A bandaged hand stretched out gently, wiping away the tears on Chen San's face.

"Little San, do you know how terrifying the Heavenly Book is?" After hearing Ding Yuan's words, Chen San slowly stopped crying, and shook his head twitching.

Ding Yuan took a breath and said in a weak voice: "The master said that the coming of the heavenly book will destroy everything. No one can survive, and the world will become a hell."

The sobbing also stopped, and Chen San leaned against the wall in a daze, not speaking.

"What did you tell them?" Ding Yuan hoped that things wouldn't be too bad. Their master didn't know much at first, because they were just craftsmen who built the mechanism to seal the heavenly book.

"I, I told them, they..." Chen San clasped the crack of the wall behind him tightly, "I told them, the Scroll of Wood is in Kaifeng Mansion, and the Scroll of Fire is in the mausoleum of the former emperor..."

"You! Cough, cough, cough—" Ding Yuan was so angry that he lost his breath.

"Brother! You, how are you?!" Chen San hurriedly comforted him, tears streaming down his eyes again.

"You, ahem, why are you so stupid!" You actually told the Xia people everything we knew!

"Brother, don't worry, they look like they haven't got the scroll yet." Chen San added anxiously, "Just now Li Yuanhao asked me if the thing was really in Kaifeng Mansion..."

Ding Yuan coughed for a while before recovering from it, and he asked with difficulty: "What about the scroll of fire..."

"I don't know, he didn't ask me."

"The Sky Tower is broken, they already got the Golden Scroll." Ding Yuan sighed again, looking at the top of the cellar where the sky could not be seen, and said quietly, "I just hope they haven't found the other two volumes, Kaifeng It shouldn't be that easy to enter the mansion..."

"How?" Gongsun Ce asked.

Han Zhang stuck his head out of the vat and said, "We're still digging, it's already four feet deep..."

"Very good." The corners of Gongsun Ce's mouth curled up, and he sat on the chair and raised his legs, "Tell Mr. Zheng that the patrol time in the cell will be shortened by half." See if I can't beat you to death!

"Yes!" Ma Han shook his head, took the order and left, and shortened the time by half. Doesn't that mean inspections every half an hour?Poor Xia people...

"I said Mr. Gongsun, what the hell are they digging? Don't we care?" Zhao Hu squatted next to a large vat half buried in the ground, eating fried beans, and handed a handful to Han Zhang in the vat, "Two Brother, why don't you come up and rest for a while..."

"Hmph, whatever they want to dig, they won't be able to dig anything anyway!" Gongsun Ce also took a pastry from the small table next to him.

"Then what if they dig a tunnel to escape?" Xu Qing took a bite of the melon, well, the melons and fruits sent by the palace are different.

"Third brother, think about it too." Jiang Ping shook his feather fan, "They only have to sit in prison for ten days. If they dig a tunnel to escape, the punishment will be increased. Xia Guo can't afford to lose this person." !"

"What Jiang Yishi said is very true." Bao Zheng's unique honest voice came, "They really have ulterior motives in entering Kaifeng Mansion. Huh... But, but this time, it will be a waste of effort. The prison has been repaired a long time ago, Huh Huh...there is nothing underground. And ah...the former emperor once buried a huge stone in the ground to block the road, just to prevent people from digging tunnels...fufufu..."Huh?Why is Mr. Bao slightly panting? ? ?

No one responded to Master Bao's words.

Mr. Gongsun thought that the pastry was messy, so he picked up the tea bowl and took a sip of tea.

"How about those two?" He asked quietly.

"Relaxing in the house very honestly." Wang Chao replied very respectfully.

"Very good." Gongsun Ce nodded, looking to the side, where no one dared to look, "My lord, work harder, there is still time to burn incense."

In Zhan Zhao's room in the small courtyard, Chinchilla and Yumao each have a reclining chair, leisurely admiring the beautiful scenery outside the window.

"Hey, cat, we're going to experience old age early." Bai Yutang rested his head on his arms, turned his head to look at Zhan Zhao with his eyes closed, "but I just feel a little awkward...Mr. Gongsun is really..."

"Forget it..." Zhan Zhao said very comfortably, "This is already very good, don't you want to be like Mr. Bao?"

Uh……

Bai Yutang supported his forehead, and raised his head to meet a pair of black eyes that were also full of sympathy.

Mrs. Bao... Alas... Wu Qin Xi... Hey...

That's... so ugly...