Chapter 3 The second time I wandered in the rivers and lakes, the water was dry and the wind was silent

In the dark night, Mao Huanlian saw the girl wearing a veil, with one eye exposed, looking around, she was shining brightly, like a star embedded in the dark sky, or wrapped in white mercury. black mercury.Seeing Fu Mao catching up, the girl smiled brightly and said, "Let's go our separate ways!" and ran off on another mountain path. The girl's voice was so familiar, Mao Huanlian was about to chase her to see who it was, Fu Qingzhu grabbed her and said, "Don't chase her, she is the veiled girl Yi Lanzhu who appeared today, she must have other things, You don't want to go with us." Mao Huanlian thought to herself: Why is this girl acting so mysteriously?

Fu Mao and the two started their super light kung fu, and within a short while, they had arrived in front of Qingliang Temple.Although the night was dark, the five big copper pagodas surrounding Qingliang Temple were each thirteen stories high, and each floor was embedded with eighteen glazed lamps, illuminating the vicinity of Qingliang Temple brightly.The guards in front of the temple were patrolling, and it was obvious that the defense was very tight.And in front of the main tower in the middle, there was a row of archers, and each bow was on the string, and the atmosphere was very tense.Fu Mao and the two were lying behind a rock, but they couldn't think of any way to sneak in.While he was thinking about it, a gust of wind suddenly blew, and sand and stones flew randomly.At this moment, the three glazed lamps on the front of the third floor of the big copper tower on the left suddenly went out!In the dark night, there seemed to be a figure flying up into the sky. The imperial guards shouted in an uproar, and bows and arrows shot into the air one after another.In the midst of the panic, another gust of wind blew, and the three glazed lamps on the front of the third floor of the main tower went out all at once.Fu Qingzhu hurriedly pulled Mao Huanlian, and shouted: "Get up quickly", the two of them dodged straight out in the dark, swept lightly, jumped onto the rafters of the first floor of the main tower, pressed their hands, and their bodies were out of thin air Bounced, passed the second floor and reached the third floor, the two of them flashed into the tower.Fu Qingzhu quietly said to Mao Huanlian: "A master of martial arts with great kung fu tonight, that glazed lamp was smashed out with a hidden weapon like locust rock!" The guards outside made a fuss for a while , No one was seen, suspected that birds flew by in the dark night, and suspected that the glazed lamp was accidentally extinguished by the sand and stones rolled up by the strong wind, so they simply lit pine torches to guard, and did not investigate anymore.

Each floor in the main tower is very spacious, except for the hall in the middle, there are also several rooms.As soon as Fu Mao and two entered, they also knocked out several lights in the hall with hidden weapons.After a while, two people came out with "qi dead wind" (a kind of airtight lantern), muttering: "Why is the mountain wind so strong tonight, the glazed lamps outside are extinguished; It's also blown out, it's really evil!" Fu Mao and the two didn't dare to neglect, they jumped up, flashed in front of them like lightning, and pointed at each other; before the two could shout, they were caught by Fu Mao and the two After pressing the Ya point, he dragged it outside, stood at the eaves of the tower, looked at it with the light of the glazed lamp on the fourth floor, and almost cried out!

These two people were not imperial guards, nor were they ordinary people. Judging from their clothes, they were clearly two eunuchs.Fu Qingzhu still didn't believe it, so he stretched out his hand and said, "Yes!" Mao Huanlian turned her head away in shame.Fu Qingzhu suddenly woke up and felt embarrassed that Mao Huanlian was a girl.Reach out a little.Unlocked the dumb acupoints of the two, held one with each hand, and said in a low voice: "Tell me quickly, has the emperor come? On which floor? If you dare not tell, I will push you down the tower!" The copper pagoda was towering and there was no ground below. The two eunuchs couldn't help trembling and stammered, "The emperor is on the sixth floor." On the fifth and second floors, when I reached the sixth floor, I peeked inside and saw a few eunuchs taking a nap inside, and there was a big bed covered with a yellow silk curtain in the room.Fu Mao and the two thought to themselves that the one sleeping in the tent must be the emperor.Fu Mao and the two jumped in on the ground, the eunuchs screamed in alarm, Mao Huanlian pulled open the yellow curtain, and stretched out her hand to dig it out.Unexpectedly, the man in the tent jumped up with a carp, and thrust a shiny dagger into Mao Huanlian's heart.Mao Huanlian was nimble, and with a backhand, she grabbed the man's wrist, and the dagger missed it by half an inch.

The man's martial arts were not ordinary, his wrist sank suddenly, although the dagger fell to the ground, his wrist was already out, and his left palm "Yinhong spit out", suddenly raised Huanlian's right elbow, Mao Huanlian With a stroke of the palm, he was shocked back several steps.The man shouted loudly and rushed out, but Fu Qingzhu's figure was surprisingly fast, and he rushed straight in like the wind, and casually gave him two mouths.The man was about to fight back, he was held in his grasping hand, he squeezed hard, his whole body went numb, he couldn't move any more.The man shouted, "Do you dare to commit a crime?"

Seeing that the man was wearing a "dragon robe", Mao Huanlian wondered why the emperor had such good martial arts.Fu Qingzhu laughed early: "What are you pretending to be?" He said to Mao Huanlian: "This man is not the emperor!" It turned out that Emperor Kangxi was only eight years old when he came to the throne, and now he is only a boy in his twenties. The person in question is a man in his thirties or forties. At that moment, Master Fu Qing held a sharp sword and threatened the eunuch to tell the whereabouts of the emperor. Several little yellow men looked at an old eunuch. Fu Qingzhu stretched out his hand and patted him lightly; I say."

The old eunuch was one of the emperor's close servants, and said: "The emperor is not here. Although he is stationed on this floor, there is a tunnel under this copper tower that leads directly to the monk's meditation room in Qingliang Temple. Look at the old monk." Fu Qingzhu pointed to the person in the tent and asked: "Who is he?" The old eunuch said: "He is Batulu (meaning warrior, official title in Qing Dynasty) in the palace." Fu Qingzhu thought for a while, and said: "If you want to survive, you must be at my mercy." The old eunuch nodded hurriedly, although that Batulu was tough, but Fu Qingzhu restrained him, knowing that if he did not agree, he would be disabled, so he had no choice but to Yes.

Fu Qingzhu casually stripped off the clothes of a small Huangmen, asked Mao Huanlian to put them on, and pretended to be an eunuch.Eunuchs speak and act like women, and Mao Huanlian's disguise is just right.Fu Qingzhu said: "Take us in through the tunnel. If the guards in the tunnel ask, you can say that I am an imperial physician invited by the emperor." After six hours, you can understand yourself.After finishing the cooking, Fu Qingzhu stood next to that Batulu and Mao Huanlian next to the old eunuch, holding one of them hostage, and said "Let's go!" There are more than a hundred ladders installed in the double wall of the trap door, leading directly to the entrance of the tunnel.

The tunnel is heavily guarded, with a warrior standing guard every ten steps.The old eunuch probably followed the emperor in and out of this tunnel, and the warriors were not suspicious at all, and let them rush in without even asking.Soon, the end of the tunnel was reached.Fu Qingzhu Mao Huanlian held the old eunuch and Batulu hostage, and stopped at the exit of the tunnel.The voice of the people above came through the tunnel, although it was not very clear, but it could be distinguished that it was the voice of "Dragon Sword" Chu Zhaonan.Fu Mao and the two were taken aback, this guy did not fall to his death!

The people above seemed to be talking louder and louder, and Fu Mao and the others could only hear a young boy's voice shouting majestically, "Wu Sangui really dares to do this?" Chu Zhaonan replied in a trembling voice, "I dare not lie." After finishing speaking, there was a sudden silence up there for a while. Fu Mao and his wife were in doubt, when there was a sudden bang, and an iron gate suddenly pushed out from the two walls of the tunnel. Fu Mao and his two looked back in astonishment, only to see that the iron gate had closed their eyes. He and the two warriors standing guard were all blocked in this section of the tunnel.Chu Zhaonan shouted loudly from above: "Who dares to eavesdrop from below?"

It turned out that Chu Zhaonan was excellent in martial arts and had sharp eyes and ears. Although Fu Mao and his party walked lightly, they still made a sound, especially the old eunuch's footsteps were even heavier.Chu Zhaonan heard the footsteps approaching, but stopped suddenly, and after a long time there was no sound, he couldn't help becoming suspicious, and quietly reported to the emperor.The emperor thought: The closest pair of warriors standing guard below are also ten feet away from the tunnel entrance, and they will not come close. If it is the eunuchs in the main tower, they will not come without their own orders, and they have come. They will not stop at the door, neither report nor enter.Feeling very suspicious, he stretched out his hand and pressed the switch, opened the iron gate near the tunnel, and shouted: "Go in for me and catch the eavesdropper." Fu Qingzhu, who was underground, was extremely clever. As soon as the iron gate opened, he knocked down the old eunuch and Batulu, and with a "swish", he drew out his sword.At this time, the two warriors standing guard were also alarmed, and they both rushed forward, but Fu Qingzhu's miraculous skills were amazing, they only met each other three or two, and they stabbed Fu Qingzhu's acupuncture points.The iron cover at the entrance of the tunnel suddenly lifted, and Fu Qingzhu shouted "Be careful!" Hidden weapons from outside came in one after another. Fu Qingzhu and Mao Huanlian unfolded their swordsmanship, with a cold light rolling up all over their bodies, the hidden weapons were struck, and they were knocked flying, hitting the stone walls on both sides with tinkling sounds.Fu Qingzhu yelled: "Break out!" Under the rain of hidden weapons, he forced his way out.The Wuji sword "sweeps the dust against the wind", and enters with the sword, but sees a circle of silver light, rolls out suddenly, and Mao Huanlian also rushes out of the tunnel closely. You Longjian Chu Zhaonan had already guarded the entrance of the cave, and as soon as he saw someone coming out, he slashed down with his sword. Fu Qingzhu swept his sword horizontally, but he heard a "buzzing" sound from the tip of the sword, and both swords were swung away by the opponent. go.Chu Zhaonan took a closer look and saw that it was his opponent Fu Qingzhu who was coming, he was angry and angry, and shouted: "Old man, today I will fight with you again!"Fu Qingzhu also risked his life to fight him fiercely.At this time, Mao Huanlian also rushed out. Seeing that the boy in the room was running away, she immediately jumped forward and grabbed him. When the guards outside the Buddha Hall heard Chu Zhaonan's yell, they had already swarmed in. How could they let Maohuanlian grab the emperor? After a while, Emperor Kangxi had already entered the inner room through the side door. Fu Qingzhu used all his unique skills, and his sword moves were like a storm. Chu Zhaonan pounced repeatedly, even taking dangerous moves, but failed.But although Fu Qingzhu was able to block Chu Zhaonan, he was at the disadvantage of being unable to fight alone. He was quick-witted and sharply aimed at the person in front of him. With a sudden turn of the sword, the sword stroke was like lightning, and he cut off the wrist of that person in an instant.The man let out an "ah!" and rolled to the ground. Fu Qingzhu jumped out from the gap and jumped onto the altar in the Buddhist hall. This altar is very broad, on which there are six venerables and eighteen arhats.The twenty-four big Buddha statues are all made of cast iron, and the arrangement is not neat.Fu Qingzhu used the Buddha statue as a cover on the altar to penetrate back and forth.Chu Zhaonan and the guards couldn't besiege, so they had to chase each other like hide and seek. Mao Huanlian was also chased by the guards fiercely. Fortunately, the masters of the guards all assisted Chu Zhaonan in dealing with Fu Qingzhu, and Mao Huanlian was the best at making light work, scurrying around in the Buddhist hall, slippery like a fish , they were not caught by them. In an emergency, Fu Qingzhu suddenly heard shouting from the altar: "Lian'er, feed them the poisonous sand!" It turns out that Fu Qingzhu is good at medical skills. Although he himself doesn't like to use hidden weapons, he has trained Mao Huanlian with a hidden weapon-death-killing sand.There are two types of iron sand, one is soaked in poisonous liquid, and the other is non-toxic.When Master Fu Qing taught her this kind of hidden weapon, he earnestly warned that poisonous ones are not allowed unless it is extremely dangerous.This time, Fu Qingzhu asked her to use it first, which was considered to be the first time ever. It was also the first time for Mao Huanlian to encounter such a big scene. In her panic, she didn't remember that she had such a powerful hidden weapon in her arms. She mentioned it to Fu Qingzhu, and she was overjoyed. She put on a buckskin glove with her left hand, probed into the hidden weapon bag, and grabbed it. With a handful of poisonous deadly sand, he raised his hand, and the sand divided into several black lines and hit the chasing enemies. Immediately, several people were hit on the head and face. Although there was no pain, they felt itchy all over the body after a while .These guards are all veterans of the rivers and lakes, and they have been paying attention when Fu Qingzhu said "dushazi". Once they feel strange, how can they not panic?They were so scared that they didn't dare to approach Mao Huanlian. But Shensha can only reach close, not far, the enemy is two or three feet away, there is no way to do it.Those guards left the effective range of Shensha, and fired hidden weapons at Maohuanlian one after another.Mao Huanlian was alone, and it was very difficult to deal with it. Suddenly, Fu Qingzhu shouted again: "You don't have to care about me, you go out first!" Mao Huanlian is another two life-threatening sand. While the guards are evading, she suddenly turns around and walks away, piercing through the window like an arrow, and then uses the technique of "gecko swimming on the wall" to reach the tile surface of the Great Buddha Hall like lightning above. The Great Buddha Hall of Qingliang Temple is built with glazed tiles produced in Beijing. This kind of tiles are so smooth that it is difficult to stand on them.Mao Huanlian simply slid left and right feet alternately, and slid to the center of the roof in an instant.The Buddha lamps in Qingliang Temple and the glazed lamps embedded in the five big copper pagodas complement each other, shining as brightly as day.Mao Huanlian slid on the tile surface alone, her target was very obvious, and the hidden weapons in the ground came one after another, which was more difficult to dodge than in the Buddhist hall. Mao Huanlian moved to dodge, but in her busy schedule, an arrow shot the hood away, revealing her full hair. She panicked, and suddenly hit another hidden weapon, round and whistling, with great force, she With a slip of his left foot, there was a bang on the glazed tiles in front of him, and a big hole was cracked by the flying iron ball.Mao Huanlian couldn't hold back her momentum, and fell from the hole! This fall happened to land on a big Buddha statue in the Hall of Ten Kings. Mao Huanlian pulled the big hand of the Buddha statue hard, trying to freeze her body, but unexpectedly the Buddha statue was moving. Mao Huanlian pulled the big hand of the Buddha statue hard After turning half a circle, a trap door appeared behind the Buddha statue.In order to avoid the pursuers, Mao Huanlian walked in without thinking. When she entered, Mao Huanlian was taken aback.It was an extremely exquisite monk's house, in which sat an old monk with a fluttering white beard, and beside him stood a young man with his hands down.It was Emperor Kangxi who the Buddhist hall couldn't catch just now.The old monk lowered his eyebrows and kept silent.Emperor Kangxi opened and closed his lips slightly, as if he was begging for something. Mao Huanlian had a thought, wondering if the legend she had heard was true.At this very moment, the wind was blowing from the back of the palm, and in the confusion, Mao Huanlian wanted to avoid it, but someone clasped his arm with one hand. The five fingers of the man were like iron hooks, and Mao Huanlian grabbed him. Can't move. The man dragged Mao Huanlian to the emperor. Kangxi recognized that this man was the one who chased him just now, and was furious.But when she saw that she was full of hair, she was obviously a young girl, but she was wearing eunuch clothes, she couldn't help being very surprised, and asked, "Who are you?" At this time, the old monk's eyes were wide open, as if he had touched something suddenly, his complexion changed drastically, revealing a look of surprise and joy, his eyes sparkled, and suddenly he said, "I recognize this female layman!" He chanted: "It's been a long time since life and death, and the soul has never come to dream!" He stared at Maohuanlian for a long time, and then murmured to himself, "Are you a human or an elf? Hey, you are so tall!" Be like her! You are not her soul, you must be her incarnation!" At this moment, Mao Huanlian's heart was filled with grief and resentment, and she blurted out, "You are the old son of Emperor Shunzhi, right? Where is my mother? Is she alive or dead? Is she here or in the palace?" ? You tell her for me that her Lian'er has come to find her!" When Mao Huanlian made such a fuss, Emperor Kangxi was extremely furious, his face turned green and then white, and he burst out suddenly: "This is a crazy woman, Yan Zhongtian, pull her down!" Yan Zhongtian was the guard who captured Mao Huanlian just now, and also Kangxi's confidant dead soldier.When the old monk was speaking, he had quietly moved aside, with his hidden weapon in his hand, and stood far away, in order to avoid suspicion.Seeing Kangxi having a seizure at this time, he came out timidly. He knew this secret in the palace by accident, and he didn't know whether it was a disaster or a blessing. The old monk's eyes were shining, and he said to Kangxi: "Don't scare her, her mother hugged you when you were young." After that, he slowly pulled Mao Huanlian up, and sighed: "You My father lost her, and I didn't gain her either. She is not a person in this world, where do you want me to pass the message for you?" Mao Huanlian widened her eyes and said, "Then my mother died? The old monk said: "Dreams of dust and dust, lightning and stone fire, like the moon in water, like the shadow in the mirror, like flowers in the fog. Concubine Dong E accidentally left her hue, and now the color and space are disillusioned, and everyone is forgotten. Why are you so persistent?" Huanlian said anxiously: "I don't know about Zen, please tell me how she is?" The old monk said: "Forget it, since you miss your mother so much, I will take you to see her." After finishing speaking, she stood up slowly. Get up, hold Mao Huanlian's hand, and walk out.Kangxi and Yan Zhongtian followed silently, their faces extremely embarrassed. The old monk took Mao Huanlian out of the corner gate and passed the main hall, only to hear the metal and iron clattering inside, chasing after him.Fu Qingzhu was in the middle of the Buddha statue, circling back and forth, his sword shining like a sword, fighting against the guards alone.The old monk asked Mao Huanlian, "Who is this man? He came with you?" Mao Huanlian said, "His name is Fu Qingzhu, and he came with me." The old monk said to Kangxi, "Xuan Ye (Kangxi's name). You tell them to stop. Fu Qingzhu is Mr. Mao (Pijiang)'s best friend and an expert in the world. Don't make things difficult for him." Although Kangxi didn't want to, he didn't dare to disobey, so he had to pass on the order.Fu Qingzhu put his long sword back into its sheath, brushed the dust off his body, jumped down from the altar, and nodded slightly to the old monk, neither thanking nor speaking. The old monk held Mao Huanlian with his left hand and Kangxi with his right, followed by Fu Qingzhu and Yan Zhongtian, walking slowly and silently.All the guards were very surprised, they didn't dare to make a sound, and they didn't dare to follow. Only Chu Zhaonan followed from a distance with his sword. Wherever this pedestrian went, the guard Huangmen bowed his back and stepped aside, the old monk ignored him and continued to move forward silently.After a while, I arrived at a garden covered with ancient locust trees in Qingliang Temple.At that time, the remnant stars will be extinguished, and the dawn will open.The night wind of Mount Wutai whistling, and the waterfalls of Songtao Mountain merged into music.The old monk pointed to a deserted tomb in the garden and said to Mao Huanlian: "The clothes buried here are your mother's clothes. As for your mother, she has passed away." This old monk was Emperor Shunzhi, who was very fond of Dong Xiaowan after he got her, and named her Concubine E.It's just that Dong Xiaowan misses both Mao Pijiang and her daughter Huanlian, and she feels depressed and unhappy all day long, so Shunzhi is also depressed.The queen mother was already displeased to hear that a Han woman was favored, let alone this.Immediately furious, she ordered the maid to beat Dong Xiaowan to death with sticks and sink her body in Yuhe.When Shunzhi found out, he was so sad that he quietly walked out of the palace gate, went to Wutai Mountain to become a monk, and erected a tomb for Dong Xiaowan in Qingliang Temple. When Mao Huanlian saw the deserted tomb, she was heartbroken, and she bowed down on the grass regardless of the wind, cold and dew.The two ever-burning lamps at the head of the tomb were glowing with miserable green light, illuminating the seal characters on the white jade tombstone: "Tomb of Dong Xiaowan, a talented woman from the south of the Yangtze River." Mao Huanlian felt a little better when she saw that there was no such title as "Imperial Concubine" written on it.She looked back and saw that the old monk also fell down in the grass, his face pale.Emperor Kangxi looked sullen and turned his head away.Fu Qingzhu looked up at the starry sky in the dark night, thinking about the secrets of life as if he was thinking about medical problems in the past. Among the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, although Shunzhi was the "king of the founding of the country", he also came to the throne at a young age (six years old). He was held hostage by his uncle Dorgon and his mother for most of his life. drama.This situation is a bit like Hamlet in Shakespeare's play. Shunzhi was also depressed and depressed mentally. After he became a monk, he confessed his love.Thinking of how he ruled the world but could not win a woman's heart, he couldn't help but laugh at the power of the king, and deeply regretted that he had broken up the relatives of Mao Pijiang's gods.At this time, he fell down beside the barren mound, riches and glory, kindness and resentment, flashed across his mind like lightning. Mao Huanlian bowed a few times, stood up, stroked the scabbard, and looked at Shunzhi.Seeing the old monk sitting on the ground like a fossil, she felt a tremor in her heart and her hands softened.Fu Qingzhu let out a long cry and said, "Huanlian, let's go!" He didn't stop sighing, and didn't move his footsteps. Suddenly, he saw a group of warriors chasing a veiled girl, getting closer and closer.Mao Huanlian saw it, and unconsciously called out: "Sister Lanzhu!" It turns out that Yi Lanzhu also had an adventure when he met the old monk in Maohuanlian.This starts with the multi-front couple. Duoduo was injured by Liu Yufang's concealed weapon. Although he was not fatal, he bled profusely. When he returned to Qingliang Temple, he lay on the bed to recover.Seeing her husband like this, Nalan Minghui felt pity for her husband, and personally served him decoctions and advised him to sleep peacefully.In the sixteen years since Duo Feng got married, his wife had always been indifferent to him. Seeing her serving him personally at this moment, he felt very relieved, and soon fell asleep.Princess E waited for him to sleep, and leaned on the railing alone to meditate, and the more she thought about it, the more confused she became.At this moment, the maid came in and reported, "Master Nalan is coming to see you!" Princess E said: "It's so late, and he hasn't slept yet?" After that, she ordered the maid to open the door.When the door opened, a young man in a cloak walked in excitedly and said, "Auntie, I got a new poem." This young man is the nephew of Nalan Minghui, Princess E, and the first poet in the Qing Dynasty. His name is Nalan Rongruo. His father, Nalan Mingzhu, was the prime minister of the current dynasty (official title Taifu) .Nalan Rongruo is extremely talented, and his name is famous all over the country.Emperor Kangxi doted on him very much, and took him with him wherever he went on tour, but it was strange to say that although Nalan Rongruo was born in an aristocratic family, he was not restrained by nature and liked to make friends. He hated the rigid life in the court the most. But he couldn't get rid of it, so he was unhappy, and the blood of rebellion flowed in the veins of the nobles.Some people who study "Hong Xue" in later generations say that Jia Baoyu in "Dream of Red Mansions" is the shadow of Nalan Rongruo. Among the court and family, Nalan Rongruo and his aunt got along best.Nalan Minghui knew his temper, and said with a smile: "I heard that you wrote a new poem a few days ago, two of which are 'Don't have roots, it's not a rich flower in the world.' The old man (emperor) is very unhappy. Today What new words did you write?" Nalan Rongruo said: "I'll play it for my aunt." After saying that, he took out a "Matouqin" in his cloak, adjusted the strings, and started to play, singing: