Chapter 10 Chapter 9: Chaos in the Sky and Water, Finding the Grass Master

More than a hundred years ago, a rare plague occurred in Tianshui City, which enjoyed the "Tianhe water injection".Tianshui City is located in the southeast of Gansu Province and is a must-pass on the ancient Silk Road.Tianshui City has always been known for its distinct seasons and pleasant climate. However, the summer of that year was extremely strange. The summer came very early and was extremely hot, which seemed to indicate that a huge disaster was coming. On this day, two merchants from the Western Regions came from the ancient Silk Road. One was tall and the other was short.The eyes of these two people were blue. There were a lot of merchants passing by in Tianshui City, and people of different skin colors often came and went here.Therefore, the appearance of these two people did not attract anyone's attention.

They live in a place called "Yungui Inn" in the east of Tianshui City. This place is very close to the east gate of Tianshui City, and there is a lake behind the inn.Seeing that the surrounding environment is excellent, the two settled here.They paid the innkeeper a month's rent in advance, and the only thing they asked of him was that they should not be disturbed. The boss felt some doubts at first, in order to dispel the boss's concerns, the two gave the boss double the price.So the boss left with a smile on his face. The two stayed quietly in the inn for three days. During the three days, the boss and the staff found that the two rarely went out for action. Even when they went out, they would appear at the same time, inseparable.They never ate the food prepared in the inn. All the items were bought from the street and then borrowed from the inn's stove to cook by themselves.

Although these actions were extremely weird, but the innkeeper took double the money and was so trouble-free, so he was naturally happy and didn't ask any questions before it was too late.In the next few days, they bought some planks and nails from outside one after another, and nailed the windows tightly.This action made the innkeeper very angry, and hurried to ask what happened. The two didn't say much and paid more rent, the innkeeper just gave up.After another two or three days, they bought some fresh live chickens, live fish, etc. from outside.Then put them in the room, the boss was really annoyed this time, no matter how high the price they gave, he also asked them to move these things outside.It's not that the boss is no longer greedy for money, but that other guests don't want to live here because of the smell.

In desperation, the two could only move those animals to the backyard and raise them carefully.In about half a month, the two told the innkeeper that they were going out for about a week, and then they left like this. A week passed in a blink of an eye, and the two merchants who traveled far away have not returned.It doesn't matter if they didn't come back, the boss thought that they had already paid the rent anyway, and he would check them out when the time came.If they come back, maybe something will happen again, and it will be difficult for themselves in the end. Unexpectedly, the next day, a man came rushing from the backyard and told the boss that the chickens and fish that the two merchants asked them to raise when they left were missing.Since it wasn't his own, the boss waved his hand indifferently and said, "Maybe it was taken away by a weasel, or some long-armed thief took it by the hand!"

But for two days in a row, the guys told the boss that the number of chickens and fish raised by the merchants was decreasing, but the boss never took it seriously.A week passed in the blink of an eye, and the sun was already high that morning, but the door of the Yungui Inn was closed tightly, neither the boss, the staff nor the guests staying in could be seen. The person with good intentions looked in through the crack of the door strangely, only to see that all the people inside were dead.The government immediately sent people to surround the inn, and everyone was shocked when they opened the door of the inn. Everyone inside looked rosy as if they were alive, but there was no warmth on their bodies.The county magistrate asked the servants to search the rooms one by one, and they found the same situation every time they opened a door.

And when they pushed open a room that was tightly sealed by wooden boards, they found not only the corpses of two Western Region businessmen lying on the ground, but also dozens of dead chickens and fish.Only the two businessmen had wounds on their bodies, one on the chest and the other on the forehead. This matter immediately spread in Tianshui City, and quickly became the talk of the streets and alleys.No one knows how those people died. They seemed to have drank mercury, their bodies were stiff and their faces were rosy, and they kept the posture they had in the last moments of their lives.And the most puzzling thing is when did the merchants who left two and a half months ago return to the inn, and who killed them.For a while, many rumors, such as the underworld's pursuit of life and evil spirits, began to spread in Tianshui City.

But if things stop here, there will be no further things.After more than ten days, a large number of dead people appeared again in Tianshui City. This time, the dead people were concentrated near Yungui Inn and Yizhuang.Then death spread like a plague in Tianshui City, and the rumors got stronger, and everyone was in danger. Some people said that this was God punishing the people in Tianshui City. So many people left Tianshui City with their families. In just one month, except for the old, weak, sick and disabled, as long as they were able to move, they all fled Tianshui City. Tianshui City has almost become an empty city.

At that time, Pan Shouren, a 26-year-old gentleman of the Pan family who was working in the Gongzhong Tai Hospital, was sent to Tianshui, Gansu to investigate the disaster and seek a cure.After Pan Shouren received the imperial edict, he led a group of dozens of people day and night.A few days later, when they arrived at Tianshui City, what they saw was desolation and the city gate was wide open.The corpses piled up beside the city wall like a mountain. It was midsummer, and the corpses exuded a strong and strong stench. Swarms of flies lingered on the decayed corpses for a long time, refusing to disperse.

The streets were empty like in a ghost town, there was no one, not even a wild dog.The doors of the shops, big and small, were closed, and from time to time, one or two "buzzing" flies flew out from the dilapidated windows.On a table of a street grocery stall, there was a broken bowl and a water ladle, which seemed to be waiting for its owner. Pan Shouren and his party walked towards Tianshui City along the empty streets. What they saw and heard was shocking. At this time, Tianshui City had been reduced to an out-and-out dead city.A group of people walked to the gate of the county government office, and saw a door of the county government office hanging crookedly on the door frame, as if it was in danger of falling down at any time, and there were bloodstains and traces of knives on the door.

"Your Imperial Envoy is here!" An attendant behind Pan Shouren shouted into the yamen.Half a quarter of an hour later, a county magistrate in a tattered official uniform with blue eyes and a tired face ran out with three yamen servants. When he saw Pan Shouren, he rushed to the front and knelt under Pan Shouren's horse, crying uncontrollably: " The imperial court has finally sent someone here, my lord!" Pan Shouren hurriedly dismounted to help him up, and asked why Tianshui City had become such a dead city in just a few months.The county magistrate wiped away his tears in embarrassment and said, "Now this is a purgatory on earth!"

It turns out that people have been infected with that strange plague for several months, and those who are infected will die within a few days. The county magistrate hastily sent people to report the disaster to Futai, and at the same time sent people to close the city gate to prevent the disaster from spreading No one is allowed to leave.During this period, he consulted several doctors, hoping to find a way to curb the spread of the disaster, but all the doctors were helpless. But it didn't take long for more than half of the people in the city to be infected with the plague. Those people rushed to the gate and fought with the guards. Although the fight was suppressed, there were heavy casualties.The last doctor found that all the plague victims suffered from severe pain and chills for a period of time before dying.In order to preserve the last population of Tianshui City, the county magistrate decided to open the city gates and let out all those who had not been infected with the plague. In this way, after about three days, those who were not infected with the plague left Tianshui City, but the remaining people who were infected with the plague refused to stop there.They had another large-scale fight with the gate guards, but fortunately the guards did their duty.Seeing that the city gate could not be opened, those people turned to the county government, preparing to threaten the county magistrate to open the city gate.Those people had already been angered by the fear of death. Their eyes were bloodshot and they held sharp knives incessantly launching suicide attacks on the county government. There was an extremely tragic fight at the gate of the county government office, and the gate was almost destroyed by the infected.In this way, the people of the county government supported it for a few days. Those people's illnesses broke out, some died at the gate of the county government, and some returned home seeing that there was no hope of leaving. The county magistrate said that tears were streaming down his face: "Now there are only four of us left in the county office, and..." He coughed violently twice, spewing blood from his mouth, and then said, "I'm afraid we are also infected. Plague, life is not long!" Pan Shouren looked at the yamen servants behind the county magistrate, and saw that their faces were all pale, and their lips and eye sockets were bloodless.Pan Shouren immediately pulled the county magistrate into the county government office. The county government office was dilapidated. After sitting down with the county magistrate, Pan Shouren stretched out his hand to press the county magistrate's pulse. While stroking the beard on his chin, he frowned and gave the county magistrate his pulse.All the people around looked at Pan Shouren with longing eyes.Pan Shouren only felt that the county magistrate's pulse was slow and strong, which was caused by blood stagnation caused by the cold in his body.Suddenly his pulse skipped a few times, Pan Shouren's heart tightened, he only felt that the pulse at this time was appearing and disappearing at this time, and he could not get it with a light press, but he could only know it with a heavy press. After a while, he let go of the magistrate's hand and beckoned one of the yamen servants to come over.I saw that the pulse of the yamen servant was the same as that of the county magistrate.Pan Shouren frowned even more. He had seen more than tens of thousands of pulse conditions since he was a medical student. Although these pulse conditions were somewhat different, they would eventually be attributed to the twenty-four kinds of pulse conditions in the "Multiple Classic".But the pulse in front of him is extremely rare, it is between the slow pulse and the deep pulse. After a while, he checked the pulses of all four of them, and then walked slowly in the room with his hands behind his back and a sad expression on his face, completely forgetting the people around him. "My lord..." The county magistrate felt that the waiting was like sitting on pins and needles, and finally couldn't help asking, "Can this plague be cured?" Pan Shouren stopped, glanced at the county magistrate, and said with a long breath: "It's hard to say now, this pulse is really strange, do you still remember why the plague started?" When the county magistrate saw that Pan Shouren was only in his twenties, he didn't have much hope that he could cure the disease.Hearing his question, he forced a smile and said, "The problem is from Yungui Inn..." As he spoke, he told Pan Shouren all the ins and outs of this issue. While listening to the county magistrate, Pan Shouren was very curious. In the middle, he couldn't help frowning, and for a moment he seemed to think of something. After the county magistrate finished the story, Pan Shouren stood up and said, "Where is the Yungui Inn?" "My lord? Are you..." The county magistrate asked Pan Shouren with a serious face. "I want to see that place!" Pan Shouren said firmly. "My lord, you have just arrived. After a tiring journey, let's rest for a night before going!" The county magistrate thought that the imperial court sent such a young imperial doctor here, he must just want to calm the hearts of the people. As for the plague, he might be powerless.So he went on to say: "I heard that the adults are coming and have already cleaned a few upper rooms. I will ask you to take you to rest!" "Now take me to the Yungui Inn!" After speaking, Pan Shouren walked forward with his hands behind his back, and his followers followed Pan Shouren outside.The county magistrate shook his head helplessly and followed them with his entourage. A group of people got on their horses and walked towards the Yungui Inn in the east of the city.The east of the city was the first place to be infected by the plague. After some people were found dead, some people buried those people, so there were not many rotting corpses here, and the rotten smell that had been permeating Tianshui City was much lighter here. The group of people walked for half an hour before arriving at the lake behind the Yungui Inn. They saw that the Yungui Inn was located on the southwest corner of the lake. The windows sealed by wooden boards on the first floor are also clearly visible. Pan Shouren led the horse and stopped by the lake for a while, looking ecstatically. He always felt that the two merchants had some unknown intentions in choosing the location here.Then the county magistrate brought a group of people to Yungui Inn. When I got off the horse, I saw that there was a seal on the door of the Yungui Inn, which had been sealed since something happened to the Yungui Inn.The county magistrate dismounted and tore off the seal but could not find the key to the door lock.An attendant behind Pan Shouren took out a knife and slashed at the door lock, and the door lock fell to the ground. The county magistrate was a little embarrassed, and pushed open the door with a smile.Immediately, a puff of dust fell from the door frame and rushed into the nostrils of several people, and several people lowered their heads and sneezed a few times.Look at the tables and chairs in the inn that are messy, densely covered with cobwebs, and thick dust is falling on the tables and chairs.On the ground were bits of broken china. Pan Shouren ordered everyone to wait at the door, and led two of his entourages down to the dark room on the second floor that was firmly nailed with wooden boards. As soon as the door was opened, an unpleasant smell emanated from the room. Strange smell. After the tragedy happened, the county magistrate had sent someone to clean it up, so although there were no dead bodies or chicken feathers on the ground, some traces could still be found in the corners.Pan Shouren sized it up, and found that the room was no different from an ordinary inn, just a big bed, a table, and two chairs.But he always had a faint feeling that there were some secrets hidden in the room. He paused for a moment, then told his followers and magistrate to go out, and he wanted to sit in the room.After those people left, Pan Shouren closed the door, and the room went dark.Pan Shouren sat on a chair, thinking quietly in the dark room. He could feel as if something in the room had been waiting for him, waiting to be discovered by him.He just sat there motionless in the room, with a deathly silence surrounding his ears.I don't know how long it took for a soft "squeak" sound to reach Pan Shouren's ears, he frowned, then the sound disappeared, and after a while there was another "buzzing" sound, the sound was like mosquitoes, if it wasn't quiet, Can't hear it at all.The voice became louder little by little, and after a while Pan Shouren could even feel the breeze brought by a pair of tiny wings fluttering by his ears. Just when the thing was about to get into Pan Shouren's ears, he suddenly opened his eyes, and quickly grabbed the thing in his palm.Then he stood up, opened the door and walked out. "My lord, what did you find?" Seeing Pan Shouren's happy face, a follower couldn't help asking. Pan Shouren slowly opened his clenched fist, and saw a dead bug appearing in Pan Shouren's palm. "What is this?" All three looked at the little bug in Pan Shouren's hand and said with some disappointment. Pan Shouren smiled without answering, and ordered his attendants to let the people waiting at the door come in, and remove all the wooden boards that blocked the windows.Although everyone didn't know Pan Shouren's intentions, they all obeyed the order and rushed into the room, and then dismantled the wooden boards. After all the wooden boards were dismantled, they were surprised to find that there were some small holes on the outward end of the wooden board, and the wooden board seemed to have been smeared with blood, exuding a faint smell of blood. It's the same as the smell when you first entered the room. Looking at the dismantled boards, Pan Shouren shook his head helplessly and said, "It seems that this is the source of the plague!" "These are the source of the plague?" The county magistrate's attitude towards Pan Shouren has changed a lot at this time, not to mention other things, the other quack doctors have never discovered that there are so many small holes in these wooden boards. "Well, many years ago, I saw a long-lost secret technique in an ancient book—health preservation technique." Pan Shouren recalled, "The name of this insect technique comes from the way of health preservation. According to legend, many years ago, a The wife of a dewormer died of illness. The dewormer tried his best to keep his wife's body from corruption, and finally found that a kind of bee lays eggs in the bodies of other insects, and the corpses planted with eggs will live for many years. No corruption. So he had a brainstorm and controlled the bee to lay eggs in his dead wife's body, and the result was miraculous. The insect exterminator was happy and named this bee Ji bee. But the good times didn't last long. Three years later One night after he came home, he suddenly found his wife's body was riddled with holes, and countless jibes were crawling in his room. He fled his home in a hurry. The place where he lived half a year later Turned into a dead city, leaving tens of thousands of bones in the city, just like today's Tianshui City!" "Because that kind of secret technique is extremely dangerous, it has become a taboo technique in the insect repellent family. After many years, no one mentioned that secret technique, and then it disappeared!" Pan Shouren said, looking at the wooden board on the ground with some excitement. "Then how did you find out?" the follower asked suspiciously. "Actually, I had a vague feeling when I saw the secret report from Tianshui County. It said that those who died of the plague had rosy faces and smooth skin on their limbs. This was by no means caused by ordinary plagues." Pan Shouren recalled, "When When I heard the county magistrate just said that the two merchants bought live chickens and fish, my guess became even stronger. It was recorded in the book that the breeding of jibes requires fresh blood and moist air. Look at this The inn is built by the lake, and the high tide at night is the most suitable for cultivating jibes. And these wooden boards are not something to be taken lightly!" As he spoke, he picked up a wooden board and said, "If my predictions are correct, there must have been excavations of tombs in the surrounding areas before this plague occurred." The county magistrate thought about it for a while and nodded: "It did happen. This kind of thing happens in Tianshui from time to time. But because the tomb robberies before that were special, they left a deeper impression on me. Because they dug The tomb did not covet the property inside but stole the coffin!" "That's it!" Pan Shouren continued, "These should be made of those coffins, because these coffins have been buried in the ground for a long time and they are relatively moist. Another point is that they absorb the corpse oil from the corpses and are more suitable for Jifeng. Breed." "So that's it!" The county magistrate said with some relief, "Since you know the origin of this plague, do you also know how to control and cure this plague?" Pan Shouren breathed a sigh of relief and said, "This health preservation technique has long been lost, and now it suddenly appeared, but there is no absolutely effective method for a while. All we can do now is to incinerate all those corpses first. Try to avoid further spread of the plague!" After speaking, he walked out with his hands behind his back, without looking at the county magistrate again. From afternoon to late night, the county magistrate and his entourage have been busy around, gathering all the corpses in the city together and lighting firewood to incinerate the corpses.It was the midsummer season at this time, and this summer was extremely hot and dry, so the corpses were burned to the brim very quickly.The remaining thing is to find some dead bodies at home or in corners and dispose of them, and that's it. But Pan Shouren kept himself locked in the center of the room, restless. He didn't know why this long-lost health preservation technique suddenly appeared and caused such a big killing in Tianshui City.As a doctor, Junzi, a wood-based insect repellent teacher, saw that the county magistrate and several government servants were suffering from health-preserving techniques, but they were helpless, which made him feel even more uneasy. In fact, he didn't finish his words in the afternoon. He heard that the insect repellent technique is not unsolvable.It's just that the antidote is more bizarre than the regimen.According to legend, the original insect repellent family originated from an ancient city that disappeared in the Western Regions. At that time, in addition to gold, wood, water, fire and earth, the insect repellent family also had a kind of insect repellent called human grass master. They are not only proficient in the five lines of deworming techniques, but also hold the key to the secrets of dewormers.Every family of the insect repellent masters the secret arts of the family. Putting these secret arts together, one can find a shocking secret of the insect repellent family.This is a secret that can subvert history. The so-called "in case of war, the master of insects will emerge, and those who win the insects will win the world. After thirty years, they will change hands." This is where it comes from.In order to obtain this shocking secret, the five-line insect repellent family must use their secret treasures reasonably, and how to use these secret treasures to find out the subsequent shocking secret is only known to the herb master. Not only that, the human grass they planted in their hands is also called Cao Huan Dan. Wu Chengen invented a spiritual grass called "ginseng fruit" according to the efficacy of human grass.Therefore, this kind of insect repellent is also called human grass teacher. It's just that there are very few legends about human grass masters, rarely seen in classics, and the only deeds about human grass masters only exist in legends and stories.According to legend, in the ancient city where the insect expelling master family flourished and disappeared, the status of the herb master reached its peak, and he was called the imperial insect master.However, even with such a high status, the whereabouts of the human grass master are still mysterious, and there are only a few people who are lucky enough to witness the human grass master.Afterwards, for some unknown reason, the Human Herb Master suddenly disappeared, as if the world had evaporated, and everything about the Human Herb Master seemed to be obliterated by history. At first, people were full of various speculations about the mysterious disappearance of the human herb master. They encountered enemies and wiped out their families, or the human herb master was just a fabricated mysterious profession, but in fact it did not exist at all.With the passage of time, hundreds of years have passed, all kinds of speculations and assumptions about human grass masters have gradually faded out of people's sight in the long history. Only the gentleman in the world knows. If the health preservation technique can be solved, then the only antidote is the human grass planted by the human grass master. However, it is not known what the human grass looks like, or even exists.Thinking of this, Pan Shouren let out a long sigh. At this time, the flames were already burning outside the window, and Pan Shouren pushed open the closed window, only to see that the four corners of Tianshui City were lit with flames, and the breeze blew with a faint smell of burning.He let out a sigh of relief, and burned all those corpses, and those jibes would no longer be able to harm people, which was a worthwhile trip. For several days, Pan Shouren helped the county magistrate and several yamen servants prescribe a few prescriptions to barely extend their lives, and at the same time led people to find the corpses scattered in every corner, and cremated them one by one to avoid future troubles.However, during this period of time, there has always been a mystery in his mind that has not been solved. How could the two foreign merchants carry Jifeng on their bodies?According to the county magistrate, the two merchants were not killed by Jifeng, but someone killed them.So who are these two people?And who killed these two people? At midnight on the fourth day when he came to Tianshui City, just as he was falling asleep, he faintly felt that there seemed to be a person staring at him in the darkness.He sat up from the bed in a jiffy, and saw a man sitting on a chair not far from him drinking tea. "You... who are you?" Pan Shouren gently groped for the blue silk under the quilt.However, the man took out a box from his pocket and put it on the table, "You are looking for it!" Pan Shouren thought to himself that the person in front of him must have come prepared, otherwise he would not have taken Qingsi away as soon as he came in.He sat on the bed and looked at the person in front of him hesitantly. Although he couldn't see his face clearly in the dark, he could feel the arrogance emanating from that person. "Oh, don't ask me who I am! I'm here today just to thank you. If you hadn't let them burn the corpses in time, I don't know how many people will be killed by this health preservation technique!" After that, he took out a bag from his arms. Put something on the table, and said: "As a thank you, take this, and save the lives of those people!" "Those are..." Pan Shouren vaguely guessed what was inside.The man smiled slightly, stood up and opened the door to leave his room. Seeing the man leave, Pan Shouren jumped down from the bed and went to the table to light up the lamp, only to see a small red silk bag on the table.He held his breath and tried to calm himself down, then opened the small bag layer by layer, and slowly, two fingers were thick and thin, and the herbal medicine that looked like a shrunken baby appeared in front of his eyes!Is this... is it human grass? He hurriedly put away the two herbs, awakened his followers to boil the herbs into a soup, and then gave it to a government servant who had been affected by the health-preserving technique.The yamen servant was fine after taking the human weed, but after a while he felt a sharp pain in his chest, and suddenly spit out a mouthful of black blood with a "wow", mixed with more than a hundred crystal clear insect eggs. Pan Shouren was overjoyed when he saw this, and immediately distributed the rest of the decoction to the rest of the people. Their reactions were the same as that of the yamen servant.After tossing and tossing until the next day, Pan Shouren returned to the room after seeing that everyone was fine.Lying on the bed, he was so excited that he couldn't sleep at all. It turned out that not only the health preservation technique existed, but also the human grass master really existed.So what about the secret that could overturn history? When Pan Shouren left Tianshui City, he secretly hid a few eggs of the jibee. In the following years, he has been devoting himself to researching the methods of cracking the health preservation techniques other than human grass, and carefully organized the health preservation techniques into wood-type exorcism. One of the secret techniques of the insect master.But what disappointed him was that there seemed to be no other way to solve the health preservation technique except human grass.And what haunts him the most is the shocking secret of the insect repellent family, the secret that can overturn history.In order to get a glimpse of that secret, he began to travel around the world, looking for traces of the human grass master.However, until the end of his life, he never saw the human grass master again, and he could only die with hatred. Wu Tian let out a long sigh of relief after explaining the history, while Guan Xiu who was sitting by the side remained silent.Regarding this extremely secretive history, the only people who know so clearly are members of the Mu family. However, Pan Jun's father passed away many years ago, could it be him? "Guan Xiujun..." Wutian looked at Guan Xiu who was lost in thought and said, "What's wrong with you?" "Oh, it's nothing!" Guan Xiu looked at Wu Tian with a long breath and said, "Now you can tell me how to help you!" Takeda smiled... It was already evening when Guan Xiu and Takeda Zhengchun left the restaurant. At this time, the sky in the west was covered with red clouds, and the streets of Beiping were bustling with people.At this moment, Guan Xiu's mind was in chaos.He didn't take a car but walked on the street on his own. He was always conflicted in his heart. Could it be really him?Guan Xiu couldn't believe his guess. He stood on the street and hesitated for a while, and finally walked towards Dongjiaomin Lane... At this moment, two black cars sped past Guan Xiu, and Guan Xiu recognized the person sitting on the co-pilot of the first car at a glance, and that person was Fang Rude.Guan Xiu quickly lowered his head, and the two cars went straight from Guan Xiu's side to the city gate on the east.Guan Xiuding wondered where Fang Rude would take people so late at the same place. I saw two cars driving out of the city gate on the east, heading straight for Tianjin... There are three pontoon bridges and two passes at the lower tip of the Jiuhe River.The long Haihe River runs through Tianjin from north to south, with nine turns winding into the sea.On the bank of the Hai River, a man less than five feet tall was lying there, holding a wine bottle with a hand with a few broken fingers, humming a barbaric tune, with a carefree look. He is Jin Shun, the great apprentice of Jin Wuxu from the Beiping Jin Department.Ever since fleeing from Fang Rude in Beiping City, he knew that Beiping City could not stay any longer, so he made his way to Tianjin. The so-called country is easy to change, but nature is hard to change. Just after entering Tianjin, this gambler who is addicted to gambling ran into Hongyunlai Casino. I lost everything.Fortunately, it was summer, so he bought a bottle of wine and slept under the Haihe Bridge. Although he is a dwarf in body, he is very smart in mind.I thought I could use the secret I discovered to make a fortune, and even if I can't eat meat, I can still drink some soup, but who knows that the opponent's power is so powerful.I am like an ant in front of him, and if I don't pay attention, I will be crushed into powder. He hummed for a while, and saw a cat playing on the bank of the river, having a great time.His little face, already flushed from drinking, immediately laughed, picked up a stone beside him and aimed at the cat.But he was not strong enough, and the stone hit a series of splashes on the river surface before sinking into the water without touching the cat.The cat was shrewd, glanced in his direction, and then jumped into the bushes beside it with a "meow". Only then did Jin Shun smile with satisfaction, took a sip of wine, and continued to lie on the riverside, watching the moon and humming his little song about walking on the board.Suddenly he stopped, looked up and saw a man in black blocking his view, Jin Shun was a little annoyed and roared with the strength of alcohol: "Don't fucking block your uncle, I will enjoy the moonlight!" The man in black didn't avoid it as if he didn't hear it, but Jin Shun was so angry that he stood up abruptly.Only then did he see the cat standing behind the man in black, and he turned his anger into flattery and said, "Meow, come, come, I was just teasing you!" He bent down and stretched out his hand to tease the cat, while he glanced at the man standing in front of him.The man was tall, heavy, and stern.Jinshun has always been a person who doesn't take advantage of the immediate disadvantages. It must be that people saw him beating the cat with stones to ask for an explanation, so he spared no effort to please the cat. But the cat didn't seem to accept this at all, and still stood there motionless.This made Jinshun a little embarrassed, he put down the bottle and took two steps forward, stretched out his hands and patted gently: "Meow, come here, come here!" Who knew that the person who was about to leave was standing in front of him , Jinshun was slightly angry.He looked up at the man in black and said, "Didn't I just hit your cat? Don't say I didn't hit it, even if I hit it, you can still kill me?" The corner of the man's mouth curled up slightly, he smiled and said, "Are you Jin Shun?" As soon as Jin Shun heard that this person knew his name, he immediately ran away. After running for a few steps, the cat leaped up to Jin Shun's face and started scratching at his face.Jin Shun's eyes were blocked by the cat, and the cat's claws stung his face.He grabbed the cat frantically, but his body was already off the ground.When the cat was pushed away, he found that the man in black was holding him in the air with one hand. "Let go of me! Let me go!" Jin Shun struggled and said, "My name is not Jin Shun!" "Hehe, why are you running away if you don't call Jinshun?" The man spoke slowly and calmly, and there was no doubt in this sentence at all. "I..." Jin Shun wanted to say something, but the man whispered something in Jin Shun's ear.Jinshun immediately let the man carry himself on his back like a deflated ball and walked forward. "Where are you taking me?" Jin Shun was locked on the shoulders by the man's hands, but he didn't stop talking. "Don't worry, I won't kill you, I just want to ask you something!" The man walked forward on his own.When the man walked onto the main road with Jinshun on his back, Jinshun started yelling by the way.Once it's midsummer, there are so many people around the Haihe River to enjoy the shade, the man didn't want Jinshun to have such a trick, seeing the crowd gathered here, he had no choice but to quicken his pace. Unexpectedly, he didn't go far when he saw two policemen rushing towards this direction who heard the shouts, and he quickly turned around. At this moment, Jinshun bit the man's ear hard.The man was suffering from pain, and the strength in his hand was slightly weakened. Jin took this opportunity to jump off the man, trotted towards the crowded road, and disappeared into the sea of ​​people under the vast night. Jinshun ran wildly all the way, his short stature would not stand out in the crowd, and it was easy to walk through.After three turns and two turns, he entered a dark and deep alley.He hid behind a pancake stand at the entrance of the alley and looked out, only to take a deep breath when he saw that the man hadn't followed up again.He straightened up and gently patted the dirt on his body, just about to walk into the alley. At this moment, several Japanese spies in black clothes and hats surrounded Jin Shun at some point.Jin Shun had a half-smile and a rascal expression on his face, jokingly said: "Guys, have you eaten yet?" As he spoke, he was about to pass through the gap between a few people, but at this moment a car stopped at the pancake stand In the front, the door behind the car opened, and a familiar voice came from inside: "Jin Shun, you are so easy for me to find!" Jin Shun knew something was wrong when he heard the voice, and turned around to look inside the car, only to see a square-faced, fat man with bruises on the bridge of the nose and the corners of the eyes sitting behind the car.That person was none other than Fang Rude, chief of the Beiping City Police Department. He slowly got out of the car and walked in front of Jinshun. Jin Shun hurriedly smiled, bowed and bowed, not daring to look him in the face, but looked at Fang Rude from the corner of his eyes and said, "Fang... How is Director Fang these days?" Fang Rude approached Jinshun with a smile on his face and said, "Good job, grandma!" As soon as he finished speaking, he slapped Jinshun heavily on the face. "Ouch!" Jin Shun hurriedly covered his face and wailed. In fact, Fang Rude's slap was not very serious, but Jin Shun was too wicked, "Director Fang, you see that this is..." "This is me?" Fang Rude became even more furious when he saw Jin Shun knowingly asked, he raised his hand but put it down again and said, "It's all thanks to you!" Jin Shun secretly rejoiced, the wound on Fang Rude's face was caused by the old bustard and several thugs beating up Fang Rude's face when he went to the brothel with Jin Shun.但他依旧一副可怜巴巴的模样望着方儒德说道：“方局长，我哪敢……哪敢得罪您啊？” “少他妈和老子废话！”方儒德强压住心中的怒火说道，“等你完了事，老子再找你算账！” “完了事？”金顺小眼睛一转，心想既然这样说，也就是方儒德不会在这里对自己下手，既然这样那就有机会溜了！ “给我把这小子绑瓷实了！”方儒德说完自己走进车里，不一会儿工夫，金顺被几个汉子绑得如粽子一般塞进了方儒德的车里。接着两个大汉钻进车里，一人坐在副驾驶的位置，另外一个则坐在金顺旁边！ 车子缓缓发动离开了天津卫，向北平的方向驶去。 这一路之上金顺几次想逃脱，然而他发现此次方儒德似乎特意安排，车内的大汉将自己看得严严实实的。 车子是在早晨六点进入北平城的。方儒德让车子直接开到了柏林胡同的一个四合院前面才停下。车子一停下院中便出来了几个人，他们将金顺带到四合院中，而方儒德连忙抓住这个机会在金顺的屁股上重重地踹了一脚。金顺被带入四合院中的时候，方儒德才伸了伸懒腰坐在车上离开了柏林胡同。 金顺进入院子之后，门便被牢牢地关上了。金顺这时才发现这原本其貌不扬的四合院竟然守卫极其森严，几步之内便会有一个日本兵。而在月亮门的门口也有日本兵荷枪实弹地把守着。 金顺被两个穿着黑衣的人押到了二进院的一间屋子前面，在门口轻轻地叩击了两下。里边的人轻声地咳嗽了一下，语气沉稳地道：“人带到了？” “是！”外面的汉子连忙应声道。 “让他进来吧！”那人操着一口慵懒的语气说道。 话音刚落，那汉子低着头一只手轻轻地推开门，然后将金顺提起丢进了房间里，然后关上房门。这一系列的动作中，汉子一直不敢抬头正视里面。 金顺被摔在地上“哎哟”了一声，然后挣扎了几下站起身来，见眼前这间屋子布置得极为精致，一排红木书架上面摆满了中外典籍，书架旁边是一张红木雕花长桌，桌子上笔墨纸砚齐备，在那桌子对面摆着一副假山盆景，正是泰山迎客松。假山旁边摆着一张茶桌，此刻茶香四溢布满整个房间。这里简直就是一间极为雅致的书房，与外面压抑的肃杀气氛显得有些格格不入。 一个老头穿着一身宽松的白绸衣服安详地坐在茶桌前面，手中拿着一把精致的茶勺轻轻地将几根茶叶从瓷罐内勾出放在一旁的茶壶中。而后从一旁的火炉上取下热水轻轻倒在茶壶四壁…… 金顺是个粗人，从未见过如此优雅的茶道，看了一会儿似有些着迷。心境也从之前的紧张慢慢舒缓了下来，不由自主地走到茶桌旁坐下。一壶茶沏好之后，淡淡的清香似乎能透过那薄如蝉翼的紫砂壶壁透射而出，老头将茶倒在金顺眼前的茶碗中悠然道：“茶道即为人道，讲究缓中求稳，韬光养晦，这样茶内存留的香味才能全部灌注到这茶水之中，入口沁人心脾啊！”说罢抽出一旁的刀，将捆绑在金顺身上的绳子割断，金顺抬起头看了眼前的老头一眼，那老头全神贯注地泡着茶并未理会他。 他这才双手举起茶杯将那茶一饮而尽，刚一入口味道甘洌清新，咽下之后顿时神清气爽，口齿留有余香。他享受般地吸了一口气，将茶杯放在桌子上，老头微微笑了笑，此时又煮好另外一种茶倒进了茶杯里。 金顺忍不住又举起茶杯，这次的茶甘甜中带着淡淡的苦味，苦味中又透出一丝甘甜，这两种味道在口中周而复始绵绵不绝。 “金顺……”那老头终于抬起头盯着金顺，他虽然一脸和气却让金顺两股战战，立刻站起身来退后几步。 “世……世叔！”说着金顺跪在老头面前说道，“世叔，我拿的东西已经被姓时的那个丫头拿走了。你的身份我会一直保密下去，您就当我是个屁把我放了吧！” 老头淡淡地笑了笑说道：“你起来吧！”说着在金顺的茶杯里倒了一杯茶，“我还没有谢你，怎么舍得放你走？” 金顺一愣，心想他说的必是反话，连忙在地上猛磕头道：“求求您，您放了我吧！放了我吧！” “来来来，金顺过来喝茶，我没有骗你，我是要感谢你的！”那老头微笑着招手示意金顺坐过去。金顺这才停下来，犹豫片刻站起身走到茶桌旁边，却无论如何也不敢再坐下了。 “你坐下，今天我要让你帮我一个忙！”老头笑眯眯地说道。 “帮忙……”金顺简直不敢相信自己的耳朵，接着说道，“可是我能帮您什么忙？” 老头点了点头，举起手中的茶杯擎在半空，金顺立刻会意坐在茶桌前面也举起茶杯，那老头微微一笑将杯中的茶一饮而尽。然后站起身引着金顺走到桌子前面，此时那张桌子上放着的正是那张被写满了记号的迷宫图。 “这张图……”金顺皱着眉头说道，“这张图怎么会在这里？” “呵呵，你见过这张图吧！”老头微笑着说道。 “嗯，见过！”金顺一边说一边禁不住伸出手轻轻抚摸着那张图，“不过它不应该出现在这里啊！” “看来我没找错人！”老头有些得意地说道，“金系秘宝有河箱和洛箱之分，合二为一叫作虫器。这河箱和洛箱一直分别由皇室和金系家族的人分开保管。在那洛箱之中藏着的是各大家族武器的设计图，而这河箱之中的物事却没有人知道！” “是啊，世叔！”金顺的残指一直在那张图上摩挲着，他对古玩字画颇有一些研究，只要手指轻轻一触，便已经能大致猜出这张图的真伪。眼前这张图绝对是珍品无疑，他惊叹地说道：“当时师父曾怀疑河箱之中藏的就是这伏羲八阵图，可惜我偷出河箱却发现里边空空如也，恐怕那时候这张图早已被师父藏在了别处，世叔您又是从何处得到的这张图啊？” “呵呵，其实老侏儒拿到的河箱本来就是空的！”老头淡淡地笑了笑，他口中的老侏儒便是指金顺的师父金无偿。老头顿了顿接着说道：“我今天找你来就是因为这张图！” “这张图？”金顺不解地抬起头望着眼前的老头道，“难道您也想去找那个传说中的伏羲八阵？” “嗯！”老头点了点头，“当年金系先人利用这张图设计了一个机关密布的伏羲八阵，据说这个阵设计得极为缜密，机关重重，稍有不慎便会殒命。我研究这伏羲八阵几十年却始终参不透其中的奥秘，既然你是金系传人我想应该是懂得一些的！” 这句话一出口金顺面有难色地说道：“世叔，实不相瞒，金系中确实有一张和这个极为相似的设计图，不过那只是后人凭着印象仿制出来的，我刚刚大略地看了看这张设计图。这张设计图简直天衣无缝，这八关每一关可以各自为战，却又浑然一体相互联系。我一时之间也理不出头绪！” “原来如此……”老头长出一口气，不过金顺笑了笑说道，“不过……看似这一关是一个关键！”金顺伸手指了指那张设计图，只见那张图上写着一个大大的“坎”字。 老头皱着眉头望着那个“坎”字，脑海中隐约闪现出一个漆黑的洞穴，洞穴之中不时会有喷泉从不同的方位喷出……