Li Zhang

Soon after the new year, Rong Xie came to invite Zhiqing again.Mrs. Rong's complexion improved a little compared to before, when she saw them coming in, she smiled, and with the support of the little girl, she stood up and greeted Zhiqing.Zhiqing hurriedly returned the salute with a serious face, and was about to step forward to check her pulse when Madam Rong suddenly said, "Miss Song came from another place to look for relatives?"

Zhiqing was startled, looked up at Mrs. Rong, saw that she was still in a good mood, calmed down a bit, looked at Li Zhang again in a blink of an eye, and replied cautiously: "The little girl and her brother came from Ningzhou , for the convenience of the road, I changed it into men's clothes, which made my wife laugh."

Mrs. Rong nodded and said: "The internal turmoil will stop, it is right to be cautious. I wonder if there is any news about the relatives you are looking for?"

Zhiqing still said cautiously: "It's almost there."

"That's good. This is close to the border gate. Every spring, the northern barbarians will take advantage of the opportunity to come over to raid grass valleys and plunder people and animals. The Shanqian village where your brothers and sisters live is close to Yangfangbao, and it is affected every year. It is the village of Yushugou. Daji has also been washed away several times. If you want to find relatives, you should be very careful."

Li Zhang had already inquired about the situation of Rongjiazhuang in Shanqian Village, and knew that it was the hometown of Rong Huan, the right general of the Dingbei Army, so he couldn't help being a little surprised.He has always had a good memory, so he naturally remembered the people and things related to the Ling Feng case back then, and he didn't have much affection for this general who only knew how to follow orders.

But the Rongjiazhuang in the mouth of the villagers is faintly like a pillar of the local area. Whenever the government and army failed to stop the northern barbarians, they almost all drove them out with the help of the Rongjiazhuang. In recent years, they have often taken the initiative to attack , Rescue the looted villages.All the four villages and eight villages knew that there were people in Rongjiazhuang who taught martial arts and formed town soldiers, and even the county lord acquiesced in Rongjiazhuang's casting of troops.

In the first year of Jianping, when Su Qingyang died against the Rouran army in Loufan, the scattered Xianbei people who came to beg for cheap were repelled by the township soldiers and garrison soldiers under the leadership of Rong Xie.Afterwards, the county magistrate pleaded for merit for Rong Xie and Rongjiazhuang, but was judged by the Ministry of War to balance the merits and demerits on the grounds that they hoarded the village soldiers privately in an attempt to commit crimes, and ordered the Rongjiazhuang village soldiers to be dismissed.The county magistrate was quite guilty about this, and strongly recommended Rong Xie to the county guard.The Sheriff of Shanggu is a cunning man, seeing that the Ministry of War and the Inspector of Youzhou turned a blind eye to the righteous deeds of the Rong family, so he also pretended to be deaf and dumb, and did not say a word about the county magistrate's recommendation.

Rong Xie did not fight much after the incident, and dismissed the villagers, but still set up a martial arts hall in Rongjiazhuang, and continued to teach the villagers who came to learn martial arts.The county magistrate did not stop this, and allowed Rongjiazhuang to continue to manufacture bows and arrows, but forbade the manufacture of weapons such as knives and crossbows that the superiors emphasized.

After understanding these situations, Li Zhang naturally had different perceptions of Rongjiazhuang and Rong Xie, and now he heard Mrs. Rong say so, and he had the idea of ​​temporarily keeping Zhiqing in Rongjiazhuang.

So he took advantage of Zhiqing's opportunity to prepare acupuncture and moxibustion tools, and quietly discussed with Zhiqing: "Mrs. Rong just said it well, Shanqian Village is too close to the customs, if there is any danger, she will be tortured first. My sister might as well live here Next, wait until I find the right place to pick you up, okay?"

Zhiqing didn't seem to have thought about this, she was stunned for a moment when she heard the words: "Is it really so serious? Aunt Zhao has a headache again, and she just prescribed the prescription before coming here, and she has to go back and massage and get the needle..."

"It's not urgent today. If my sister is willing, it won't be too late to send you here when I leave in a few days."

Zhiqing was still a little hesitant. Li Zhang knew that she was exposed as a disguise and felt uneasy. After thinking for a while, he said, "Know people, know faces, but not heart. It's always good for a younger sister to be on guard. It's okay to use the methods taught by Mr. Zheng when necessary. "

Zhiqing blushed, lowered her head and thought for a long time, and finally nodded.

When he went to the treatment again, Zhiqing was directly invited into the inner room. Seeing that Li Zhangku was sitting bored, Rong Xie chatted with him, talked about where Li Zhang and Zhiqing came from, and asked seemingly casually: "Listen Said that the first culprit in the land invasion case in Ningzhou was the brother-in-law of General Zhennan?"

Li Zhang hesitated for a while before answering: "I'm just a countryman, how would I know such a thing."

"Why, the land invasion case is such a big deal, brother Li hasn't been affected?"

"We live in the mountains, we have no land."

Rong Xie was stunned, and then continued: "I heard that Dongping Village is also a copycat village, where a hundred people, old and young, were killed, and only a three or four-year-old child remained. Such evil deeds are really outrageous! "

"That's right! So the laws of heaven are clear, and there is always a time to deal with them!"

Rong Xie listened to Li Zhang's emotion, looked at his expressionless face, and was hesitating whether to break through his disguise, when he heard Li Zhang say: "Master Rong is very concerned about Ningzhou's affairs."

Rong Xie waved his hand helplessly, and sighed: "Brother Li, I'm afraid I don't know the situation here. The Dingbei Army has suffered serious losses in the rebellion, and it has not been fully replenished. The border between Youzhou and Bingzhou is long. At the same time, there are two northern barbarians, Xianbei and Rouran. Originally, Rouran was weaker, but Xianbei did not dare to approach too closely. During the second rebellion, the imperial court dealt with Xianbei but failed to guard against Rouran, which caused Rouran's army to break through. And entered, directly approaching the capital. After that, the people of Rouran stared at the Central Plains from Jiuyuan, and with Chengxuan's support, their strength was no longer comparable to what it used to be. As for Xianbei, after hearing that Xianbei was old Shanyu Bintian, it was difficult to unify within Xianbei , once divided and ruled, the previous peace talks will become empty words, and if Rouran and Xianbei knock on the pass at the same time, this long northern border will not be able to be defended by a Dingbei army!"

"Master Rong hopes that the Dingnan Army can go north?"

"Of course!"

Li Zhang sincerely praised: "Master Rong is worried about northern Xinjiang, I admire you!"

Rong Xie smiled wryly and said: "To tell you the truth, Brother Li, Rong once tried to protect himself, but he was not approved by the court. Now he is just teaching the villagers some self-protection skills. If he encounters a large army, he still can only hold his hands Just kill, how can we not hope that the imperial court will send more troops over!"

Li Zhang knew that Rong Xie's words were true, but what Sima Yi had planned was beyond his ability to guess, so he mused and stopped talking.

Seeing Li Zhang's pensive look, Rong Xie smiled slightly.Ever since he saw Li Zhang and Zhiqing's disguise, he always felt that there must be a story behind these two brothers and sisters.These days, when Emperor Su investigates land invasion cases, he lightly punishes the small number of corrupt officials who follow the crowd, and he has not seen any arrest documents from Jiangyang pirates in the county government office. Li Zhang deliberately wears a human skin mask like this. Naturally, it will not be as simple as a hunter.It's just that he can't find out the root cause for a while, so he wants to win over him first, and it will be the best if it is really useful in the future. If Li Zhang is really just an ordinary hunter, Zhiqing's medical skills can also be enough to help him in what he wants.

Thinking of this, Rong Xie said to Li Zhang: "My mother likes Miss Song very much. If you need help after you find your relatives, feel free to come to Rongjiazhuang. Unlike previous years, northern Xinjiang is afraid that there will be no peace. The Rong family Although the village is small, it is its duty to protect the villagers, which has always been the ancestral motto of the Rong family."

Hearing this, Li Zhang cupped his fists and said to Rong Xie: "I just want to ask Master Rong to let my cousin come to Rongjiazhuang to stay for a while, and then come to pick her up after I find a place. I don't know what Master Rong wants?"

Rong Xie's eyes lit up, and he smiled back and said, "It's a good relationship! With Miss Song here, my mother's illness doesn't need to worry too much. Rong has two younger sisters waiting in her boudoir, and Miss Song is here, just in time. Brother Li can rest assured that he is with the eldest sister!"

"Then thank you in advance!"

As soon as the weather started to warm up, Li Zhang packed his things and went into the mountains.Although he had inquired about the situation in the mountains from the hunters in the village and had Zheng Yiyan's map, he still wandered around the mountains for a few days before finding the place.

It was a small valley hidden in the depths of the mountains, and the only path into the valley was blocked by overgrown bushes. Li Zhang turned around a few times before finding the way in.After entering, you will face three cliffs. There is a wooden house in disrepair under the east cliff. The west cliff is slightly lower, with a thin waterfall hanging on it, but there is no pool at the bottom. It is only as wide as a water tank. Stone mortar, there is a mortar of clear mountains and rivers.

Li Zhang compared the map drawn by Mo Mo several times before he decided that he had found the wrong place, but he still couldn't see any caves.So he entered the wooden house, and saw that there were all kinds of utensils and even food inside, but it had been corrupted for too long.He cleaned out all the unusable things, saw that it was getting late, set up a brazier to boil water, ate dry food with the hot water, washed and went to bed.

The next day, he went outside the valley to cut wood, cut it to the required size, and prepared to repair the wooden house.

The wooden house was built solidly at the beginning, and there was no danger of collapse, except that there were some damaged and rotten places by the windows, door corners and in the shade. Li Zhang removed them one by one and replaced them with new wood. After seven or eight days, the wooden house looked brand new again.He looked at his results with satisfaction, and started looking for the cave again, but he was still missing.

Seeing that it has been more than half a month, Li Zhang is afraid that Zhiqing will be worried, so he plans to go back first.He went out of the valley to see the harvest of the trap, accidentally tripped over a vine, and fell backwards.He hurriedly used his hands to support it, but it was empty, and his arm was stuck in the crack of the stone.He reluctantly pulled out his arm, even though it was covered by thick clothes, it still hurt from rubbing against it.He slowly cleaned up the vines on the ground, and found that the culprit was the gap between the two stone slabs. He pried the stone slabs harder, but it was easy to pry them open, so he pried the two stone slabs up in one go.

Under the stone slab is a staircase covered with moss, which stretches straight to the ground.

Li Zhang went back to the house and fetched the torch, stretched it out to the hole, and saw that the flame was going straight in, so he went down the steps.The stone steps soon turned around, and the front could already see a rather large cave, with luminous beads hanging from the four corners, dimly illuminating a row of motionless things.

Li Zhang's heart beat faster.

Sure enough, there are shelves of books, which look very old under the firelight, and some are even wooden slips, neatly stacked on the shelves waiting to be seen again.

Li Zhang held a torch and looked around carefully. He saw the gurgling dark river beside the west wall, and understood where the water from the waterfall went.There is water in the cave, but it doesn't feel damp, and the wind comes straight in and flows away with the underground river.At this time, Li Zhang had adapted to the light in the cave, so he inserted the torch into the post ring beside the wall, and took down a luminous bead to look at the book on the shelf.

He was fascinated by it at first glance. He just wanted to browse the general information first, but he couldn't put it down after taking a look. He didn't know how long he was in the cave. He didn't realize it until the torches on the wall burned out. Several copies returned to the ground.

The moon is already in the middle of the sky, and when I look up, I seem to be in a well.Li Zhang stared blankly at the moon above his head, feeling that he was really a frog at the bottom of the well.

The author has something to say:

Maybe a little procrastinated, consciously written a little wayward.However, this last part of the story is a new event with a beginning and an end, so I think it is still necessary to pave the way.If it's annoying, just skip it, it will definitely end in 100 chapters.

I was watching the animation "PSYCHO-PASS" recently, and I was so tortured by the plot setting that I was so heartbroken, I worshiped Urobuchi Gen!The plot of the second season was set in the same way, but with a different screenwriter, he didn't care at all. This is really Lao Xu's ability!I like it while feeling stuffy, and I love the characters in the play so much!Oh~~