A knife in love

Chapter 209

After Li Qiufeng said goodbye to Xiao Zhanpeng and Ma Dongqing, he immediately stepped on his horse and passed the place where Qunhao camped in a short time.At this time, there were more than 100 Jianghu figures who arrived, and three or four large fires were lit.Qunhao sat by the fire and talked and laughed loudly. Many horses were tied to the edge of the surrounding woods, and there were horses neighing from time to time.So Li Qiufeng rode past, but no one noticed.

Li Qiufeng walked around the place where the group of heroes gathered, and carefully observed the right side of the road.At this time, the stars in the night sky are getting brighter, and the situation on the side of the road can already be seen vaguely.Li Qiufeng rode his horse and walked not far away, and he saw a white road appearing on the right side of the road.Li Qiufeng turned the horse's head and ran on that road.

As soon as the horse's hooves set foot on the road, there was a loud crackling sound.It turned out that this road was paved with white stones. After the horseshoe stepped on it, the stones were kicked everywhere.

Li Qiufeng rode his horse forward, only to feel that the terrain was gradually rising, and he had reached a ridge.There are no trees on both sides of the road, but a valley of unknown depth.Li Qiufeng turned his head and looked back to the right, and he could still see the big fires lit by Qunhao.It's just that it's far away, and it looks quite hazy.

After walking for about a stick of incense, under the starry sky, I suddenly saw two big trees appearing in front of me, one on the left and one on the right, lined up on both sides of the road.About five or six feet away from the big tree, stands a huge stone archway.Arriving here, I think it is not far from Shajiabao.

Li Qiufeng reined in his mount, thinking that when he came to Shajiabao this time, he only wanted Murong Danyan to leave safely, not to compete with others in martial arts, life and death, so etiquette is absolutely indispensable.Immediately rolled the saddle off the horse, led the horse and walked forward slowly.

When he got to the stone archway, Li Qiufeng took out a torch from his pocket and shook it, then lifted it up to examine the stone archway carefully.I saw that the whole body of the archway is made of white marble, but the original white stone walls have become gray due to the long history and wind and rain.There are four big characters embedded in the forehead of the stele in the middle of the archway: "Liufang for a hundred generations".

Seeing these four big characters, Li Qiufeng couldn't help being startled, thinking to himself why these characters are so familiar, as if he had seen them somewhere before?He thought about it carefully, and suddenly remembered the origin of the word, and couldn't help being startled.

He remembered that there was also an archway in front of the lobby of the East Factory, and the four characters "Liufang for a hundred generations" were also engraved on the archway.It was written by Cheng Zu Zhu Di himself.

When Li Qiufeng was working in Jinyiwei, he had visited Dongchang a few times.The first time I went to Dongchang with other Jinyiwei escorts, I entered the third courtyard of Dongchang, and there was a memorial archway in front of the lobby, with the words "Hundred Generations Liufang" written on it.In the middle of the lobby is a portrait of Yue Fei, a famous general of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the four characters "serving the country with all sincerity" are written on the plaque.

At that time, Li Qiufeng was noncommittal, thinking that although Dongchang had handled many cases, during the reign of Emperor Zhengde, he spied on news everywhere and framed many ministers. The court and the people complained a lot about Dongchang. There is no relationship between "beautiful for a hundred generations" and "serving the country with allegiance".At that time, several guards in Jinyi were all laughing, but the elders who went with them whispered to everyone: "The East Factory began when Chengzu Zhu Di ascended the throne. Although the Jingnan campaign was over at that time, there were not a few officials who were loyal to Emperor Jianwen. Jin Yiwei has always been loyal to Emperor Jianwen. Although the commander and other officials were replaced, most of the subordinates stayed on. Therefore, Zhu Di was not at ease with Jin Yiwei, so he reused the eunuchs around him and established the Dongji Incident Factory. At the beginning of the establishment of Dongchang, Cheng Zu personally inscribed a plaque with the four characters of "Hundred Generations Liufang". Later, he inscribed the four characters of "Serve the country with loyalty" for Yue Fei's portrait. These are imperial pens, and they must not be used The color of respect."

Standing in front of the archway, Li Qiufeng thought of the archway in front of the lobby of the Middle East Factory in Beijing, and became suspicious.In terms of scale alone, the archway outside Shajiabao is much larger than the archway in front of the Dongchang lobby, but it is exactly the same in terms of regulations.In particular, the four characters "Bai Shi Liu Fang" are exactly the same as those on the archway in Dongchang.Li Qiufeng had heard that the ancestors of the Sha family had participated in the battle of Jingnan, and they were the heroes of Chengzu Zhu Di's seizure of the throne.It was just that he thought it was just rumors at the time, but seeing this archway today, he believed that the legends about Shajiabao were probably true.If this is the case, it may be even more difficult to bring Murong Danyan out of Shajiabao safely.

He pondered for a long time, and then led the mount and walked under the archway.

After passing the archway, I saw that the road under my feet was no longer a gravel road, but a road paved with green bricks.Both sides of the road are full of tall trees with a height of several feet. They are strange in shape, simple and heavy, and it is obvious that they have not been growing for a long time.

After Li Qiufeng walked for more than thirty feet, he suddenly saw a high wall looming in front of him.The range of the torch in his hand was limited, so he hastily took more than ten steps forward.Only then did he realize that there was a stone wall more than two feet high, with a closed gate in the middle and a small gate on each side.In front of the gate, there are two beasts carved out of stone. At first glance, they thought they were lions, but when they got closer, they realized that they were actually two tigers.

There is a custom of placing stone lions in front of the houses of rich and gentry folks, but no one has ever seen stone tigers in front of the door.Moreover, the two tigers are separated from the left and right, but their appearance and demeanor are different.The stone tiger on the left squatted on the ground, raised its head to the sky, and seemed to be roaring to the sky.The stone tiger on the right had its legs spread apart, and its head was lowered, as if it was going to pounce suddenly.

Li Qiufeng looked at the two stone tigers, and thought that Shajiabao is really strange, why two stone tigers were used to guard the house.While he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard an extremely slight "click" sound not far away, his heart trembled, and he immediately shook the fire wiper in his hand, holding the handle of the knife with his right hand, and dodged to the right side After that, Shi Hu lightly kicked the horse's buttocks.The horse immediately flew all four hooves and ran back the way it came.

Li Qiufeng's left arm has not healed from a serious injury, and the poison still remains on his body, so he doesn't want to fight the enemy at this time.Therefore, he hides behind Shihu and wants to find an opportunity to escape.It's just that the enemy is also very good, after the very light sound was heard just now, there was no more sound.Li Qiufeng waited for half a stick of incense, and the surroundings were completely silent, without any sound.He thought that dragging it down any longer was not an option, so he immediately squatted down and slowly moved towards the stone tiger on the left.

He just moved to the foot of the stone tiger on the left, only to hear the sound of footsteps, but it came from the side of the stone archway.Li Qiufeng's heart trembled, and he thought to himself that the person who made the sound just now had a very high lightness skill, and he was already near the stone wall of Shajiabao, why did he hear footsteps from the stone archway?

He knew that if he squatted next to Shi Hu like this, someone would definitely find him, so he turned around and walked behind Shi Hu.

Li Qiufeng had just hid, and the visitor had arrived not far from Shihu.Li Qiufeng heard that this person's footsteps were heavy, either he was seriously injured, or he was so tired that he couldn't even hide it.Only the sound of panicked footsteps ran up to the door, and then there was a knock on the door.

Li Qiufeng listened attentively, and found that the voice of this person knocking on the door was different.First there were three very heavy knocks on the door, followed by two very light knocks on the door, and then two more knocks, one heavy and one light.After a while, there was only a "twisting" sound, presumably the door had already opened, and then they heard a few words in a very low voice, and the door closed again.

Li Qiufeng didn't care who was coming, but he was wary of the man hiding in the woods on the right.It's just that after a long time, the man never showed up.Li Qiufeng thought to himself that this person could really hold his breath, but he had no time to delay with him.Just as he was thinking of a way to lure that person out, he heard the faint sound of breathing not far away.Knowing that the man had appeared, his whole body tensed up immediately, leaning against the stone tiger, his right hand clenched the handle of the saber.

Only the sound of extremely slow breathing came from the direction of Shihu on the opposite side. It seemed that the man had already walked out and was approaching Shihu on Li Qiufeng's side.Li Qiufeng was surprised, when the two confronted each other just now, Li Qiufeng had already noticed that this person had extremely high lightness kung fu and was extremely vigilant.It's just that I don't know why after someone entered Shajiabao, this person had the courage to come out of his hiding place.

Li Qiufeng knew that he found this person hiding in Zuojin, and this person must also know that he was hiding in front of the Shajiabao gate.Now that the other party showed up, he didn't have to hide any more. He held the knife handle tightly with his right hand, and slowly stood up from behind Shi Hu.

With some starlight, I saw a person standing next to Shihu on the opposite side.This man was wearing a long gown, with long hair and shawls. Although his face was not clearly seen, Li Qiufeng was very familiar with the clothes.

This mysterious figure is Zhu Yue who broke up with him not long ago.

(End of this chapter)