Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 244 What's the matter?
Ye Chen suddenly found himself in an extremely dangerous situation, and couldn't help but feel a little regretful about coming to Wei's house.

These thoughts flashed through my mind quickly, and without revealing anything on my face, I sighed deliberately and said, "There is no way to do this kind of thing. Who told Benhou to be such a famous person?" No: "That sort of thing always happens to a famous person."

What Ye Chen said was very humorous, everyone laughed cooperatively, and waited for Wei Yuanwai to drive out the extra people, leaving only three maids, including the assassin maid behind Ye Chen.

Ye Chen pondered for a while, then smiled and said to Wei Yuanwai: "I believe Wei Yuanwai must know why this Marquis came to Heiquan Town."

Wei Yuanwai said solemnly: "The villain knows that Master Hou is here for the case of the court's military salary loss. The villain is about to report something related to this big case to Master Hou."

Ye Chen was surprised: "Oh... what is it?"

Wei Yuanwai looked dignified, and said solemnly: "Master Hou has heard the legend about the Nether Gate in our Black Spring Town."

Ye Chen said: "I heard."

Wei Yuanwai said with a terrified expression: "The [-] imperial guards who escorted the military pay and the convoy pulling the military pay offended the ghosts and gods of the nether world, and were dragged to the nether world as sacrifices by the ghosts and gods of the nether world."

Ye Chen suddenly felt absurd, but he didn't show anything on his face, and asked in a serious manner: "Why do you see it?"

Wei Yuanwai said: "The villain remembers clearly that the moment the team escorting the military pay left the town early in the morning, Heiquan suddenly spewed out countless ghostly black mist, and the whole Heiquan town became a ghostly town. On that day, all children under the age of six and some women in the small town were taken away by ghosts and gods as sacrifices, and at the same time, there should be a team escorting the military pay that disappeared."

After Ye Chen heard the words, he was stunned and unbelievable, and said: "There is such a thing, where is the black spring, can Wei Wei take me to see it?"

Wei Yuanwai said: "The villain should obey the Lord Hou's invitation. The villain will take Master Hou there."

Wei Yuanwai's straightforwardness made Ye Chen feel a little surprised, and at the same time felt a little inappropriate, but now he has the bold confidence of a skilled person, especially he is very confident in the Huaxia Wei that he has carefully selected and trained. With a signal, the five hundred Huaxia Weis outside the town would arrive in less than half a stick of incense, and the other party might know his strength, but they didn't.Therefore, if the other party really had any conspiracy, or even made a direct move, they would definitely underestimate Huaxia Wei's strength.And this is where his real confidence lies.

The black spring really exists, and it is in the middle hall of the Wei family courtyard.

However, this hall is a very special existence, more like a temple. In the center of the innermost part, there is an extremely vicious black-faced statue with two heads, surrounded by other weird-looking statues of ghosts and gods.There is a large offering table in front of each statue, which is filled with various offerings.

And the black spring water is located in the center of the temple. It is oval in shape, with a length of about two feet and a diameter of about one and a half feet.

The temple was filled with candles, which were as bright as day, so not only Ye Chen could see clearly the scene in the temple, but Yu Qingyan, Du Qianqiu, Hu Sanguang and others could also see clearly.

In particular, there is a layer of black mist floating on the black spring, which is very like a ghost fog, revealing endless weirdness.

Wei Yuanwai seemed to want to show his innocence, he didn't bring any servants, and accompanied Ye Chen and the others to enter alone, and as soon as he entered, he bowed down to all the ghosts and gods with great reverence.

"The ghosts and gods are enshrined here. Because of the existence of this temple, the people of Heiquan Town will not be taken as sacrifices by the ghosts and gods." Before Ye Chen could ask, Wei Yuanwai took the initiative to say.

Ye Chen's heart moved, and he asked: "According to Wei Yuanwai's intention, could it be that the one thousand imperial guards who escorted the army's salary were taken as sacrifices by the ghosts and gods because they offended the ghosts and gods of the ghosts?"

Member Wei sighed solemnly, and said: "Your Majesty saw clearly that General Cheng, who was escorting the army's salary, heard from somewhere that the black spring water was a strange poison, so he forced the villain to bring him here, and then I took some of the black spring water, and offended the great Nether ghosts and gods, so I was caught as a sacrifice."

Yu Qingyan, who was standing next to Ye Chen, suddenly let out a mosquito-like voice that only Ye Chen could hear and said, "The strange poison lurking in Zhang Fan's body is probably the poison in this black spring water."

Ye Chen originally wanted to ask Wei Yuanwai where the 80 military pay was for a thousand forbidden soldiers who were captured as sacrifices, but after thinking about it, it was pointless to ask, and Wei Yuanwai would definitely say that he was killed by the ghosts. The ghosts and gods were dragged to the Netherworld.At this time, when he heard what Yu Qingyan said, he realized it in his heart, and said: "This black spring water is an important evidence. This Marquis wants to take some back for research. I also ask Wei Yuanwai to provide it with convenience."

"Master Hou speaks carefully, ghosts and gods know everything, Master Hou's words have already offended..."

"Ah... not good! The punishment of the ghosts and gods is coming." Before Wei Yuanwai finished speaking, all the lights in the temple were suddenly extinguished, and the surroundings were pitch black, because the sky was overcast tonight, and there was no moonlight or starlight. What's more, it seems that at that moment just now, not only the lights in the temple, but also the entire Wei family yard, and even all the glowing things in Heiquan Town were extinguished.

The sky and the earth are dark, it can be said that the magic hand can't see the five fingers.

"Protect Lord Hou!" Hu Sanguang roared, and the guards outside the temple, including a hundred Huaxia guards, rushed into the temple in the dark.At this time, Du Qianqiu had already lit the torch.

Everyone saw the surroundings clearly, but their faces changed drastically, because Wei Yuanwai and Ye Chen were gone.Ye Chen offended the Nether ghosts and gods with his words just now, so he was captured by the ghosts and gods.Hu Sanguang, Yu Qingyan, Du Qianqiu and several Huaxia Wei who heard the conversation between Wei Yuanwai and Ye Chen before were shocked, and their faces showed different degrees of fear.

With a bang, the door of the main hall was suddenly closed from the outside, and everyone's expressions changed again. The Huaxia guards behind rushed to the door of the hall like rabbits, and pushed the door hard, but they didn't move at all.Everyone was locked in this temple, so they couldn't even send out the signal to notify the five hundred Huaxia guards outside the town.

"This door is actually an iron door, and it's very thick. It won't open for a while." A guard shouted solemnly.

"The person surnamed Wei and the chief envoy are gone." Du Qianqiu shouted with great dignity.

"No, the black mist on the black spring is drifting around. I'm afraid it's poisonous, everyone hold your breath quickly." Hu Sanguang shouted, but his expression was ugly.

"This black mist is definitely poisonous, Lord Hou will be fine, don't look for him again, hold your breath, sit where you are and don't move, I'll study the black spring water and find a way to detoxify it." Yu Qingyan's face turned pale. Pale, with a trembling voice, but still speaking, he took out a pill and swallowed it, and walked towards the black spring.

Everyone looked terrified, they could only hold their breath and sit down, pinning their hopes on Yu Qingyan.

Behind the stone pillar at the top of a stone step leading to the ground, Ye Chen hid in the shadow here, watching Wei Yuanwai holding a fire folder in his hand, walking down about two hundred stone steps, and disappearing after a turn.The entire passage suddenly became pitch black again, but this did not affect Ye Chen's vision, it was still like daylight in his eyes, and everything could be seen clearly.

Ye Chen stood up and looked around. Behind him was a stone door that had just fallen down and its thickness was unknown. In front of him was a stone step leading to the ground. There were dark stone walls on the top of the stone step and on both sides.

The moment the lights in the temple were turned off just now, a passageway entrance opened behind the statue behind Wei Yuanwai, and Wei Yuanwai slipped in quietly.

Although the sound of opening the entrance of the passage was very small, almost silent to ordinary people, it couldn't escape Ye Chen's ears.

But in the darkness, Wei Yuanwai could walk into the passage in the dark because he was familiar with everything here. Yu Qingyan, Hu Sanguang, Du Qianqiu and others couldn't see anything, but it made no difference to Ye Chen whether there was a light or no light .

Before Ye Chen got into this entrance, he didn't tell anyone beside him.One is that time is running out, Ye Chen wants to rush in before the entrance of the passage is closed, it feels a bit too late.On the other hand, he was also worried that if he made a sound, Wei Yuanwai would find that he had followed into the passage.

Ye Chen quietly walked down nearly 50 stone steps, feeling that he had descended to a depth of about [-] meters underground.

On the right side at the end of the stone steps was a natural entrance. He hid behind a boulder next to the entrance and looked inside.

Seeing this, Ye Chen was dumbfounded for a while, and was amazed in his heart.

"This should be the Black Spring Grotto that Zhang Fan said." Ye Chen muttered to himself.

What came into his eyes was a stalactite cave that took up one-fifth of the size of Heiquan Town. The cave was irregularly circular with a diameter of four to five hundred feet. There are seven or eight feet, and the lowest point is only two or three feet.

There is actually a small lake about ten feet long and wide in the middle of this space, and there is even a small island in the middle of the lake, and there is an attic on the small island with flickering lights. It can be seen that there are two people sitting in it. Individuals are talking.

Surrounding the small lake in the middle, there are hundreds of houses neatly arranged, many of which also have lights and figures inside.But judging from the projection of the windows, all the people living inside are children under the age of six and adult women.

Ye Chen thought of what Zhang Fan said, and suddenly felt a sudden.

Next, Ye Chen extended his gaze to the outside of the house, and found a lot of large boxes stacked randomly, about one foot in length and width, exactly eighty in thickness, which was the same as the lost box containing 80 military pay. .It's just that the corpses of the thousand forbidden soldiers and the eighty carriages are still invisible.

After Ye Chen pondered for a while, he quietly sneaked inside.

"The horse can be killed for meat, and the carriage can be dismantled to make a fire." Ye Chen saw a pile of firewood outside a house, with obvious traces of the carriage.There are some meaty bones beside it, not the bones of a horse.

(End of this chapter)