Tang riddles

It was almost noon, and Fanyang City, which was full of noise due to the Eid al-Adha, had already reached the climax of the festival.There are Dashi Cult believers participating in the celebration ceremony everywhere on the street. Their fanaticism and devotion are unavoidably shocking.

Two Huihe men who looked like brothers were wrapped in turbans and long robes, with beards, high noses and deep eyes, and looked very exotic.They chanted the Qur'an aloud and walked down the street step by step towards the center of Nanshi.On a large open space in the center of Nanshi, an imam is presiding over a grand sacrificial ceremony.

The two men kowtowed and walked forward, when they passed by Fan Yang's dental shop, they happened to bump into a fellow who came out of the dental shop.The guy was having lunch, and he was standing at the door with his rice bowl in his hand, watching the excitement while eating.

One of the two Huihe men, who did not pay attention to the figure that suddenly appeared in front of him when he was prostrating, got up together and suddenly overturned the guy's job.The food in the guy's bowl spilled out, splashing the Huihe man all over.

"Hey! You don't look at the road when you walk?" the man said angrily. He was eating well, and his good lunch was wasted like this, and he was going to starve in the afternoon.

However, the Huihe man was even angrier than him.He sniffed the soup spilled on his body, and looked at the food scattered all over the floor.A few pieces of meat are particularly eye-catching.The Huihe man's complexion turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye. He grabbed the guy suddenly and said angrily:

"You blasphemous heretic! You humiliate me with pork, and I will never let it go today!"

"What... what?" The guy was stunned, completely unaware of what the Huihe man was talking about.

The Huihe man's brother also suddenly became furious, and grabbed the boy and asked him to bow down to Allah and apologize to Allah immediately.He also asked the clerk to catch him without a fight, and to take the clerk to the square in the center of Nanshi to let the imam cleanse his soul.

The guy was hairy, struggling constantly, and shouting in his mouth:

"You lunatics! Do you know who you offended? This is Fan Yangya! Be careful that my master will take you all away!"

His words were tantamount to adding fuel to the fire, and the Huihe man's brother immediately shouted loudly:

"Brothers and sisters, someone here insulted the devout believers of Allah with dirty pork, and uttered wild words, humiliating us as lunatics, and wanting to arrest us."

Immediately, a large number of Dashi Cultists surrounded them, and after hearing the shout of the Huihe man, everyone showed angry faces.They glared at the guy and forced him to apologize immediately.Shouts and reprimands were heard endlessly, and the entrance of Fan Yang Ya's shop was immediately surrounded.

The guy panicked, desperately trying to break free from the shackles of those big cannibals.I don't know if he struggled too hard, or if the Huihe man's strength loosened for a moment, he really broke free.The guy hurriedly ran into the tooth shop, not knowing where to go.

Seeing that he ran away, the big food cultists shouted:

"Insulting Allah's believers on Eid al-Adha is so rampant, and heretics are too hateful. How can we bear such anger? Let's rush in and catch him!"

Crowd anger is extremely easy to fan, especially when people share the same beliefs.Immediately there was a response from the rear, and then hundreds of Dashi Cultists rushed into Fan Yang Yaxing like a flood.

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At that time, Xue Chuyu and Xue Chuzhen brothers were discussing secretly in the camp of the Xue family army. Suddenly, a messenger came to report that there was riot/chaos in Fanyang city. It was blocked.

"Fifth Brother! Opportunity!" Xue Chuzhen's eyes lit up, looking at Xue Chuyu.

Doubt flashed in Xue Chuyu's eyes, he was as cunning and cautious as a cult, how could he offend the Dashi Cult at this juncture?Could it be that other than their Xue family, is there someone secretly dealing with this cult?

Their conspiracy with Mrs. Li has not yet begun, and someone helped them start the incident.He thought about it, and although he had doubts in his heart, he also knew that the great opportunity should not be let go.Immediately ordered:

"Message the Li family immediately, our plan begins!"

Order after order was issued, and the Xue family army stationed in the north of Fanyang City mobilized wantonly.Hundreds of soldiers lined up and marched hurriedly, entered the city through the north gate, and rushed all the way to Li's mansion.

And Li's mansion also received the news, and even opened the door of the house to welcome a large number of army soldiers to enter.

The destination of these soldiers turned out to be the main house of the long dormitory, where all the floor tiles had been removed, and a deep hole appeared underneath.A large number of soldiers slid into it from the hole, and Li Changyun, Li Changxue, and Li Jilan watched from the side, their faces full of determination in revenge.

In addition, Xue Jiajun also had a [-]-member team stationed in Fan Yang Ya Xing. They used the banner of maintaining law and order, but they did not really disperse the troublemakers, but surrounded Fan Yang Ya Xing tightly.

However, Fan Yang Yaxing is obviously not a vegetarian.The big food cultists who broke into it have already started a fierce battle with the people inside the tooth shop.From time to time, there were screams, and there were killing sounds inside the tooth shop. The sound of broken objects was accompanied by the screams, and the smell of blood began to permeate.

About half a minute later, thick black smoke rose from the dental shop, and an open flame gradually ignited. Someone actually set a big fire in the dental shop.

Seeing that the fire was getting bigger and bigger, the surrounding officers and soldiers were indifferent, watching the flames continuously engulfing the houses in the Yahang.And those crazy big food cultists seemed to wake up from the rage suddenly, and began to flee in all directions.But these people escaped from the fire scene, but they failed to escape the capture of the officers and soldiers. All those who walked out from the encirclement, regardless of their clothing, gender or age, were all arrested by the officers and soldiers and put in prison.

At this moment, half an hour has passed since the riot broke out.

The fire began to gradually spread to the surrounding houses, and the officers and soldiers still did not put out the fire, but just moved the people out of other houses, and also imprisoned them in the prison for no reason.It wasn't until three hours later that the houses in several rows were almost completely burned, and the officers and soldiers began to put out the remaining fire.

By the time the embers were extinguished, it was already midnight.As time passed, almost half of the entire Fanyang Nan City was burned down.Fan Yangcheng experienced a sleepless night filled with fireworks.The noisy riots in the city frightened the people to stay at home and dare not go out.And this inexplicable riot has affected many innocent people.

There were even looters who took advantage of the fire. At the same time as the riots in Nanshi, many wealthy families in the city were looted.Among them, Shen Sui's house was included.Fortunately, no one was at home, and there were no particularly precious treasures. Even so, the house was still a mess, and everything of slight value was taken away.

***

Three and a half hours ago, somewhere underground.

The dark corridor is narrow and narrow, as if it has no end.The corridor is paved with stone bricks, square and square, with smooth cut corners, which shows the vastness of the project.It's just that the inside is extremely humid, and the underground springs caused by the subsidence have formed the hot springs above. A considerable part of the corridor has accumulated a layer of water, and it is still continuous after thousands of steps.

There is a small group of people walking quickly through the corridor.There is no open flame in their hands, and the lighting objects are two night pearls.One at the head of the team and one at the end of the team, the faint cold light of the luminous pearl illuminates the corridor, and the shadows of ten people are imprinted on the bricks and stones, flashing frequently and regularly.After a long time, I felt as if I was in a dream in a trance, and everything became unreal.

There is only the first section of the straight road, and then every twenty steps or so, there will be a corner, suddenly left, sometimes right, confusing and confusing.

No one spoke, except for the sound of depressed breathing, the silence was overwhelming.

After walking for more than half an hour, everyone was tired and their breathing became heavy.The leader, Shen Sui, signaled for the team to stop and take a break.

"Master, what's going on here? After walking for a long time, it seems to be spinning in circles." Cong Yun seemed a little irritable.

"According to my calculation, if you go up the corridor in the opposite direction, you must go to the north. However, I suspect that there are some traps down here that make us lose our way." Shen Sui deduced.

She thought for a moment, and said: "Don't be impatient, such a large underground fortification will inevitably form a wind channel. If we go along the direction of the wind, we should not go wrong. We should have walked too hastily before and missed I have entered a certain hidden path, so that I have entered a fork in the road."

As she said, she put away the Ye Mingzhu, and Hutuo, who was carrying several torches on his body, immediately took out one and handed it to Shen Sui, and took off the big cowhide water bag from his waist, poured out a little oil from it, wet the torch head, and blew on the torch , lit the torch.Orange-red flames sprang up, illuminating everyone's faces.In the flickering flames, everyone looked solemn, their fronts already wet with sweat.

Everyone held their breath and quietly observed the flames.The flames burned obstinately upwards, not about to bend down.However, after a long time, he finally couldn't stand the wind and fell in the direction Shen Sui and the others were heading.

"Sure enough, I went wrong." Shen Sui said, so he immediately led the crowd back, and walked back along the way they came. This time they walked in a slow pace.After walking for another quarter of an hour, Shen Sui stopped.She saw the flames falling towards a wall to her left, and her gaze was directed to the wall to her right.At first glance, it looks like a brick wall, but when you get closer, you find that it is not a brick wall.Hitting the wall with your hand turned out to be like a plank.Raising her hand and pushing, a hidden door was pushed open by her.

"How cunning!" Huyan Zhuoma exclaimed.

Shen Sui pressed his lips tightly, and led everyone into the hidden door.After walking along the corridor behind the hidden door for about two quarters of an hour, she stopped again and extinguished the torch.

"Shut up and turn off the light, there are people ahead." She said softly.

Everyone stayed quietly in the darkness for a while, and when their eyes had completely adapted to the darkness, Shen Sui waved his hand to signal everyone to follow her.Shen Sui walked forward, turned around a corner, three steps away was the exit of the corridor, and further ahead was another world.Shen Sui did not go to the entrance of the corridor, but stayed three steps away from the exit, standing against the wall.

Arriving here, the sound of footsteps has gradually become clear.It can be heard that it is a kind of neat footsteps of countless people, accompanied by the friction and impact sound brought by the thick armor, echoing very regularly in the dark underground world.No one spoke, only the sound of huge footsteps, gradually approaching the exit where they were.

Everyone's hearts were raised, they held their breath, and their hairs stood on end.

Immediately afterwards, in the darkness, they saw countless pairs of legs stepping past through the low exit.They wore uniform armored leather boots, and their steps seemed to have been measured, and they were exactly the same after they stepped out.This is a long line, Shen Sui silently counted, and it took a quarter of an hour before the line passed.She roughly calculated that there might be two or three thousand people.

The team went away, Cong Yu was covered in cold sweat and grabbed his brother's sleeve.Cong Yun asked Shen Sui:

"Master, who are these soldiers...?"

"Perhaps, it's the army of the remnants of Goguryeo, but..." Shen Sui hesitated.

"But what?" Huyan Zhuoma asked.

"The actions of these soldiers are no longer humanlike." Shen Sui said, "I'm afraid that the cult has done something to these remnants of Goguryeo, training them into war weapons like mechanical puppets."

"The sect master means that these remnants of Goguryeo have been transferred here underground since they disappeared?" Congyu asked in surprise.

Shen Sui nodded: "This is exactly what I guessed, and it has been confirmed now. Fan Yang Yahang's inconceivably large dungeon, the sudden gushing hot spring, and the mysterious disappearance of thousands of remnants of Goguryeo, all of them told me, Fan Yang Under the city, there is a huge underground fortification. Li Changkong's death is also related to this matter. Li's mansion seems to be far away from Fan Yang Yahang, but in fact it is only back to back. Especially the underground of Li Changkong's dormitory, There is only one courtyard wall, one square wall and one street away from Fan Yang Yahang on the opposite side. So why did the other party send a woman to lure Li Changkong, and they often meet privately on the side of the study, just to prevent Li Changkong from discovering him The secret under the dormitory."

"So that's the case, so the death of Li Changkong is also because he finally discovered the secret of the underground?" Hu Tuo asked.

"Probably yes. Originally, there was no need to use such a cumbersome method to kill Li Changkong, and there was no need to use aphrodisiacs. But the people of the cult always act in multiple moves. While killing Li Changkong, they thought that I would arrive at the scene later To investigate. So they used Jinzuifang aphrodisiac and left traces. Firstly, it was to divert my attention and let me ignore the underground secrets of the Li Mansion; secondly, it was also to facilitate my child with the lotus maid. The spring/medicine was taken back by me, and the fake bluebird lurking beside me will definitely find an opportunity to let me or the lotus maid take it, so that I will have intercourse with the lotus maid when my hand is injured and bleeding."

"Dalang, have you noticed something wrong with the bluebird long ago?" Hutuo asked, his voice muffled, these days he lived in pain, every time he closed his eyes, he would think of the bluebird's voice and smile, something happened to the bluebird During those days, he was always by his side, but he neglected the safety of the bluebird.

Shen Sui didn't answer, but Hutuo continued: "Actually, I... also suspected the blue robin. That day I was dragged by her and failed to deliver the medicine package to the bride. Afterwards, I asked the bride. It is not a coincidence that the cuju is not a coincidence, it is the result of the bluebird's efforts. Originally, Yingniang could not get away from decocting medicine in the medicine hut, but she forced her to go out. This is very unlike her style. The half-disciple of the mother has always respected the mother, and would not disturb her like this when the mother is busy. But that day...she seemed to be a different person..."

"Hutuo." Shen Sui called out to him, "Don't be foolish. Although the child of me and the lotus maid was brought about by a cult, I still think that this child was given to me and the lotus maid by heaven, and it can give us a child. My child, I am grateful to God. You don’t have to regret what happened that day. As for the death of the bluebird, we are all responsible, and it is not your fault alone, so don’t take it all on yourself.”

In the darkness, there was complete silence all around, and no one spoke for a while, but Shen Sui could hear the trembling and choking sound of Hutuo's throat.She raised her hand and patted Huta's shoulder, and said softly:

"Okay, let's put away our emotions. It's time for us to go. I think we should be not far from Fanyang City now. Maybe we will touch the core area soon. But..."

She poked her head out and looked at the wide marching road outside the exit of the corridor. After confirming that there was no one there, she led a group of people and walked out quickly.The direction that the large army was heading just now might be the camp of the Xue family army. After weighing it, she led her people to chase after it.

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