Chapter 79 Chapter Eight: The Bold Art of Riding a Kite

In the early morning of the second day, Yiyang Xuanyi made some calculations, and went down the mountain with the Dongguan brigade to find some dry food and rice noodles in a nearby town, preparing to go deep into the cave again to study the super-era knowledge in the cave wall. Following the path they escaped from, the two carried some food and supplies and went deep into the grotto from the underground river again. This time, because they already knew the characteristics of the corridor, they walked much more freely. After entering the stone chamber, Yiyang Xuanyi checked the condition of each location one by one in each stone chamber, and found that the remaining "half" of the grottoes were not too obviously damaged, on the contrary, many places had been carefully repaired Obviously, people in Yangcheng spent a lot of time renovating this wonderful treasure house.

He has lived in Yangcheng for almost half his life. Although he has stayed in Biluomen for many years, he has also had a lot of contacts with the people of Yangcheng. Is his disciple. Because of such a relationship, the old man was well aware of some of the habits and tricks of the people in Yangcheng. After a little deliberation, the Dongguan brigade saw him calculate the direction, and walked a few strange steps, and came to a cave. Then, Yiyang Xuanyi just tapped lightly, and a stone slab with a width of one person was laid down on the whole stone wall, and behind the slab was a small room, which was filled with many clothes and dried rice. Food and lighting equipment.

People in Yangcheng rely on many thaumaturgies handed down by their ancestors and the help of Biluomen. Therefore, in some daily necessities, the level of enjoyment and comfort far exceeds the level of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. With this batch of Yangcheng's storage, the two no longer have to worry about the trivial matters of food, clothing and housing, so they are more focused on life in the cave, and they can also concentrate on studying the super-age wisdom left by Di Menghun on the stone wall. After Yiyang Xuanyi carefully studied several items of knowledge, he found that in these original records, the wise men in Yangcheng left incisive comprehensions and annotations from time to time, which made Yiyang Xuanyi and Dongguan Brigade more handy in their research. It's like a child who has run into a candy house. Although his mouth, hands, and arms are already filled with many favorite things, his eyes are still looking around greedily.

Although the years in the cave were dimly lit and the sun was not visible, the old and the young were fanatical and curious about the knowledge beyond the age, and had no complaints about living in this deep underground, and devoted their energy to all kinds of knowledge. Among them, I have almost forgotten that there is a dazzling universe outside the grottoes, a world of flowers and flowers. The only thing that can roughly remind the East Pass that time is still passing is the hair on the head and the beard on the face. As long as the hair is scattered on the forehead again and the beard grows enough to be visible when you lower your eyes, you will know that it is another month. Time has passed.

The knowledge in this grotto was first obtained by Di Menghun, a strange person from ancient times. Like all living creatures, this Di Menghun also came from the future of the 24th century, but he was a well-educated man in the 24th century. The scholar, who had received advanced education, was quite familiar with ancient history, biology, and medical pathology. Most of the knowledge left on the stone wall back then was based on knowledge in these fields. However, after the wise men in Yangcheng began to study this, some people not only added annotations to the difficult parts of Di Menghun's records, but also added some mechanical and civil engineering knowledge that they did not know where they came from. The knowledge learned, so the Dongguan Brigade and Yiyang Xuanyi have studied a lot, but they have a lot more understanding of mechanical civil engineering.

With this kind of understanding, and compared with the story of the Star Arrow described by Luo Deer that day, the two of them had a lot more understanding of these strange races with starbursts on their foreheads, and those huge and strong Star Arrow robots. . The knowledge in the grotto is endless, there is almost no end, and the sense of time in the grotto also becomes more blurred as the two of them stay in it for more years. Once, the Dongguan Brigade suddenly remembered, and found that I had no idea what year and month it was outside a long time ago, but only found that I went to the outside world occasionally, and sometimes I clearly remembered that not long ago, it was still a snow-covered silver world. Going out once but the weather is already sunny?

Later, he tried his best to do the calculations, and only then did he realize that he had been here with Yiyang Xuanyi for more than two years. It's just that most of the relatives in his life have withered, and his only wife and child are in the depths of the East China Sea where he will never survive once gone, so it means that he doesn't have these two closest relatives. Since there are no relatives and no reason, there is nothing to miss in the outside world. And the old man Yiyang Xuanyi is of course even more carefree. He is nearly a hundred years old and has never been married in his life. Most of the old friends he knew have passed away.

On this day, the two discovered that they had stayed in the grotto for nearly half a month and hadn't gone out. The Dongguan brigade learned from Di Menghun's records that no matter how comfortable you feel in the dark, there are some The elements that sustain life can only be obtained by basking in the sun, otherwise there will be dangers to their lives. It just so happened that the two of them just finished a study that took several months, so they decided to go out for a walk together. Walking to the exit, looking at the light shining outside, they knew that it should be early in the morning. The two tidied up their eyes a bit, massaged the eyeballs by rubbing them to generate heat, and got used to the exit for a while. Only once again walked into the bright sunshine.

It was early spring at that time, there were slight clouds in the sky, and the sun was shining down warmly, not as fierce and overbearing as the summer sun. The Dongguan brigade squinted slightly, walked to an empty cliff, sat limply on the grass, overlooking the earth and rivers under the clear sky, thinking of the recent comprehension of the knowledge in the grottoes, in his heart nothing but satisfaction There is a bit of complacency outside, such thoughts hit my heart, and I suddenly feel comfortable all over my body, I just want to straighten my throat and yell a few times with forgetfulness.

The idea of ​​shouting like this just came up, and before he had time to do it, he heard Yiyang Xuanyi who was not far behind him actually shouted out first. "Oh!" In the memory of Dongguan Brigade, this old man with a strange mind has never been a person who is easy to make a fuss. He is always calm and calm, as if the sky is falling, and it is also in his calculations. There is nothing to be shocked at all. place. Therefore, at this time, the old man yelled so suddenly, which shocked the Dongguan Brigade. Before he had time to turn around, he heard the old man approaching him quickly with "bang bang bang bang", passed the Dongguan Brigade, and stood on the very edge of the cliff.

"There!" Yiyang Xuanyi said loudly: "That thing!" Looking in the direction the old man pointed, I saw a bright and clear sky with occasional clouds, but at first glance, I didn't see anything. "Ah?" The Dongguan Brigade put its palms over its eyes and looked out, but still couldn't see any mystery. "Is there anything there?" Yiyang Xuanyi stood majestically on the cliff, with his hands on his hips, also put his palms on his eyes, and said loudly. "It's the mulberry sheep! It's the kite herded by the mulberry sheep!" The Dongguan Brigade was stunned, remembering the kite "Chengdao" which was used by Sang Yangjie, a strange man from Yangcheng, when he was a boy. When he took a closer look, he saw a small figure like a flying giant eagle in the southeast sky. I saw that giant eagle-like object hovering lightly in the sky, but as long as you look carefully, you can find that its flight path is always limited to the same range, without any change, it just stays in the sky mechanically. Wandering and gliding. "Is this 'Chengyuan'?" Dongguan Lv asked curiously, "Could it be that people from Yangcheng have come here?" "This kite ride is different from the one you took to Yangcheng back then. At that time, the equipment you took was much bigger than this one. The one you took could carry people, but now this kind of kite ride can only glide in the sky, no different from a kite. How many. Just why is it here?It stands to reason that kid Sangyang dare not go against what I said... Could it be that kid Sangyang..." "Is there anything wrong with this kite?" Dongguan Brigade smiled curiously: "It seems that the senior is very confused." "Of course I am confused, because this kite is something I have carefully designed, and I have repeatedly ordered and repeatedly made strict regulations to that kid Sang Yangjie, unless there is an urgent matter of life and death, he is absolutely not allowed to use this 'thousand-mile line' Take the kite! You don't know, Sangyang is a fussy man who makes a fuss, sometimes a not serious matter, once he gets involved in it, it will be several times more serious, and some innocuous things, but he wants to get involved The whole world knows it! Because of this, I told him at the time that even if you, Sang Yangjie, were about to die, you were not allowed to use this kite unless something more serious than his own death happened. can be used……" "So, could it be that something big happened to Senior Sangyang?" The Dongguan Brigade asked in surprise, "Then why don't we go and see?" Yiyang Xuanyi pondered for a while, finally gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice. "You're right, we just have to go and have a look..." As he spoke, he still said with some displeasure: "It's just that if it's a trivial matter, this kid's skin will be tighter for me." It's..." Hearing this uncharacteristically muttering of this usually bold and straightforward old man, Dongguan Brigade felt a little dumbfounded, but he always felt grateful to Sang Yangjie who saved his life in Shuiyueju and brought him to Yangcheng. , So knowing that Sang Yangjie may have an urgent need for help, he is eager to go to the rescue immediately. The two identified the location of the flying kite, and estimated that it was about ten miles to the southeast. The distance is not too far, and they will arrive soon. About ten miles southeast of the Dimenghun Grottoes, there is a small town at the foot of the mountain, named Dongniu Town. The two of them went down the mountain, and their footsteps were extremely fast, and they reached Dongniu Town in a short time. Seeing a desolate path at the entrance of the town, Yiyang Xuanyi looked up at Chengyuan's direction and said in a deep voice. "It's right there." The two walked over quickly, only to see that under the high noon sun, the path was full of wild grass, and after walking for a long time, there was no one in sight. Grass, walked in. The Dongguan brigade followed the old man into the grass, and saw that behind the grass was a small pond, and a very simple thatched shed was built beside the pond. In the thatched hut, a young girl was sitting in a daze at this time. The East Gate Brigade looked at her carefully for a while, and couldn't help showing a very surprised expression on her face. "Bingrou!" he yelled out loud. "You are Bingrou!" The girl in the hut is actually Sangyang Bingrou, his old friend with Huer and Xionglu! At this time, Dongguan Lu and Sangyang Bingrou have not seen each other for a long time. When they met last time, she was Xiong's lover, but she still cared about Hu'er in her heart. It was a very complicated love affair. problem. When Yiyang Xuanyi saw Sangyang Bingrou, remembering her identity, he couldn't help but hum in a low voice. "It turned out to be the boy's only daughter. I thought the boy was so courageous that he dared to use my 'Chengyuan' casually!" He didn't like Sang Yangjie to easily use this important "Chengyuan", and he was going to have a fit when he saw Sang Yangjie, but at this time he saw the little girl Sangyang Bingrou, and he felt displeased Instead, the emotions disappeared without a trace. Sangyang Bingrou was sitting far away in the thatched shed, and when she heard the call of the Dongguan Brigade, she froze as if struck by lightning. Turning his head bluntly and slowly, he saw the figures of an old man and a young man coming from the midday sun. Then, her slightly haggard face wrinkled abruptly, and tears welled up in her eyes. She jumped out of the thatched shed, hugged the Dongguan brigade, and began to cry loudly. Being hugged so suddenly by her, the Dongguan Brigade was at a loss for a while, and didn't know how to respond, so he could only let her cry aloud. Sangyang Bingrou has been waiting here for Dongguan Brigade and Yiyang Xuanyi for several days. She is eager to find the old and the young, but in the process of waiting, she does not know when the two will appear, and she is suffering emotionally. One can imagine. At this moment, seeing Dongguan Brigade and Yiyang Xuanyi appearing as expected, for a while, besides crying, he could only cry loudly. Yiyang Xuanyi frowned and had no choice but to speak loudly. "Hey! You little girl from the Sangyang family, you dare to use my kite for nothing serious, tell me! Did that bastard your father instruct you!" Sangyang Bingrou cried for a while, and when she heard him questioning loudly, she finally stopped her tears and said sobbingly. "No...of course not my father, my father said, your old man once strictly stipulated to him, saying that unless a great disaster happens, even if father dies, he can't use this kite casually. I talked all kinds of things to my father, but he just refused to agree. I became anxious, so I got drunk with wine, tied him up, and then stole Cheng Yuan to come to your old man! " Yiyang Xuanyi laughed loudly, and after hearing her narration, he felt even more happy, and immediately forgot the fault of Sangyang Bingrou for abusing the kite. "Very good, Sang Yangjie is really obedient, okay! I'm not here to argue with you. It's just that some major event related to life and death happened to you, and you want to use the superior kite to find me? " Hearing his question, Sangyang Bingrou's slender body trembled suddenly, and burst into tears again. "I...I came to you because Hu'er... Hu'er had an accident!" As soon as this remark came out, the Dongguan Brigade was immediately taken aback. He knew that since the battle of the Dragon Clan in the East China Sea, Hu'er was worried that the domestic situation would still be unstable because of Xiong Lu's first appointment as King of Chu, so he insisted on going back to Chu to help Xiong Lu. At this time, when he heard Sangyang Bingrou say that Hu'er was in trouble, several possible accidents flashed through his mind immediately. "What happened?" Dongguan brigade asked urgently, "Why did it happen? Is it because of changes in the state of Chu? Could it be that the Dou family is resurgent and wants to force Xiong Lu to give way?" "No, it's not the Dou family. It's not the Dou family that Hu'er offended, but the Xiong couple." Sangyang Bingrou said with tears in his eyes, "Hu'er offended the Xiong couple this time." When she said this, most of the anxiety of the East Gate Brigade disappeared. At first, he thought that Hu'er had been murdered by the opposing forces of the nobles of Chu, but now he heard that it was related to Xiong Lu, and he was relieved for the most part. Hu'er and Xiong Lu's friendship may be deeper than that of Dongguan Brigade himself. If there is any unhappiness with Xiong Lu, there should be room for change even if it is a big matter. Moreover, Hu'er once said that if one day he was asked to die for the bear couple, he would willingly nod and pay the death. With his loyalty to the bear couple, no matter how serious the crime was, it should not be too serious. question. "I thought it was a big deal! I was so scared to death by you," Dongguan Brigade wiped the sweat from his forehead, frowned and smiled at her. "If it's about the couple Xiong and Hu'er, it won't be serious! Is there any reason to be so nervous?" Sangyang Bingrou showed an anxious expression, and said loudly: "No, you don't know, this time is really serious, I really don't know what to do, that's why I came to you." "How serious can it be?" The Dongguan Brigade still smiled nonchalantly. "It's not like you don't know the friendship between the three of us, we..." Before he finished speaking, Sangyang Bingrou interrupted him loudly. "No! Something really happened, because Hu'er beat Xiong Lu in front of everyone!" Hearing such words, Rao Yiyang Xuanyi was well-informed, and he was also taken aback after hearing this. And the Dongguan brigade was even more stunned, his mouth was wide open, but he couldn't close it no matter what. "Hu'er beat Xiong Lu?" The Dongguan Brigade was taken aback, his eyes widened. "He really hit the bear couple?" "Yeah!" Sangyang Bingrou nodded, her eyes turned red, and crystal clear tears dripped down again. "I know he's doing it for me, he feels that I've been wronged, that Xionglu didn't take good care of me. Although I have told him thousands of times that I don't care that Xiong Lu doesn't like me anymore, because he has become the king of Chu now, which is different from when he was the son of the prince. If you have to marry a girl from the Dou family to stabilize the situation in the whole country, then even if the Xiong couple don't want me, it can be forgiven. But Hu'er didn't listen, and often said very angrily that one must never behave like this, no matter what the reason is, one must never do things that disappoint others. " Hearing such an astonishing development, apart from being surprised, the Dongguan Brigade also faintly began to feel that the whole matter had become more and more difficult. Thinking carefully about the stakes involved, his face turned even paler. Because no matter how deep the friendship between Hu'er and Xiong Lu was back then, Xiong Lu is now the king of a large country with a vast territory and the king of Chu. If Hu'er really beat Xiong Lu, I'm afraid he will With ten lives, the friendship with the Xiong couple is a hundred times deeper, and this matter is already very difficult. what to do……? Thinking of this, he unconsciously turned his head to look, but saw Yiyang Xuanyi's expression was serious, as if he had also fallen into deep thought. Seeing this tall white-haired old man, the Dongguan Brigade suddenly saw a bright light like a victim trapped in the dark night and fog, and quickly took Yiyang Xuanyi's hand and said loudly. "Senior Yiyang, you must help save Hu'er this time," the Dongguan brigade shouted eagerly, tears almost welling up in his eyes. "If we don't save him, Hu'er will die." Yiyang Xuanyi frowned, pondered for a while, and then said in a deep voice. "Don't be busy, don't be busy, you still don't know the cause and effect of the whole thing, what's the use of being so anxious?" At this point, he opened his eyes wide and said to Sangyang Bingrou in a deep voice: "Hey! That little girl from Sangyangjie, can you speak more clearly? You are vague and unclear, how do you tell us to save Hu'er? Was Hu'er really caught?Why do you say 'I'm afraid something happened' again?Did you see Hu'er captured by the bear couple? " Sangyang Bingrou wiped away her tears and shook her head. "No, I didn't see Hu'er captured with my own eyes. It's just that he disappeared suddenly. I couldn't find him for a long time. I asked his cronies and followers, but no one would tell me. Later, a nanny who was acquainted with me secretly said it, and I found out that Hu'er had quarreled with Xiong Lu once. " She was anxious and worried, and her speech was not very organized. Yiyang Xuanyi frowned, but still couldn't quite understand what the girl was saying. "What's the mess?" He said loudly, "You didn't see him being arrested, and the only information you got was from some nanny. What's going on?" Seeing Sangyang Bingrou's demeanor flustered, the Dongguan Brigade, although he was also shocked by what happened to Hu'er, was a little more calm than this girl after all, so he patted Sangyang Bingrou gently. Back, said gently. "Don't panic. If something really happened to Hu'er, we shouldn't be so flustered. We have to calm down and think about how to solve it." Bear Couple, what is going on here? Can you tell us in detail from the beginning to the end?" Sangyang Bingrou nodded, took a deep breath, and cheered up a little, but her voice was still trembling slightly. "This... all of this, I think it should start after Hu'er returned to Chu after finishing your work from the Dragon Clan of the East China Sea. After Hu'er returned to Chu State, everyone thought that based on his friendship with Xiong Lu and his achievements in helping Xiong Lu conquer the world, he should have a lot of officials to do. I just don't know why, Hu'er seems to be less interested in this kind of thing. When he first came back, he participated in the Chu king's governance discussions a few times, but after a few times, he never interacted with those princes and ministers again. And Xiong Lu didn't seem to know him, he didn't pay attention to Hu'er when he didn't come, he just drank and had fun all day long, and rarely heard him talk about Hu'er, as if these two people had never known each other. Originally, with Hu'er and Xiong's friendship and contributions, it would not be an exaggeration to give him a general of a thousand households, but for some reason, Hu'er was placed under the subordinate of Da Sinong to be in charge of the autumn wheat harvest. A small official. and I!You...you know, I used to have a good relationship with Xiong Lu, but that was only when he was the crown prince. Since he ascended the throne of the king of Chu, he was always surrounded by beauties from the state of Chu. come to me. I... my thoughts, Brother Dongguan, of course you understand, don't you?So the couple of bears don't come to me very often, I don't feel anything, on the contrary, I feel that there is nothing wrong with living a leisurely life like this..." Dongguan Brigade remembered what Sangyang Bingrou had confided to him back then, so of course he could only nod. Back then, Sangyang Bingrou was superficially close to Xiong Lu, but when Hu'er helped him home after drinking, she told him that Hu'er was actually her favorite. Even if he is as cheerful and open-minded as a tiger, he still doesn't know how to deal with such perverted emotions. And Hu'er once said that it's not that he doesn't like Sangyang Bingrou, it's just that he was lonely since he was a child, and he has always lived a rootless life. Sometimes he even has problems supporting himself, so how could he expect to have someone Partner, give her a happy life? Because of such considerations, Hu'er decided to ignore Sangyang Bingrou's affection and try her best to promote her marriage with Xiong couple.