Chapter 9: Damn the Old Nun
Xiao Han was having a headache and no one knew the way out of the valley, and suddenly a person smiled and said, "I know that way." www.biquge.info"Xiao Han was overjoyed, looked at the old man who came in and said, "Uncle Wan, how did I forget, you have taken care of the three heads, so you should naturally know." Wan Shicheng said with a smile: "The Jiuhua faction was originally built to escape the world, and later there were more and more personnel, but each head strictly abides by the rules of the faction, and no one except the head is allowed to know the way to the outside world, just in case someone can't stand the hardships of the valley, escape, and leak the secrets of the faction." ”
Xiao Han nodded and said, "That makes sense." It's just that the secret of the faction has been leaked, and it doesn't make sense for us to stay in the valley and be isolated from the world. ”
Wan Shicheng glanced at him, Xiao Han smiled and continued: "Although this place is good, it is not a place to stay for a long time, although the prosperity of the world is like floating clouds with me, it also needs to be decorated by all living beings. I mean that this valley can't stay for long, and I'm going to go up and find a place to build a gang and officially call out the name of my faction. ”
Wan Shicheng's face changed slightly, obviously not convinced, shook his head and said: "Master Xiao, do you know how many sects there are in the world, just this Jiuhua Mountain 99 peaks, peaks have temples, peaks have nuns, all of them are monks and nuns with profound Buddhist martial arts, we can't provoke them." In addition, there are Shaolin in the north, Emei and Tianshan factions in the west, all of which are famous factions that have been inherited for hundreds of years. Not to mention that there are many small sects on the rivers and lakes, and there are many black and white eaters. I have been in this faction for decades, and although I have never been out of the valley, I have heard from several heads about some things in the rivers and lakes. In my opinion, we still continue to stay in the valley, one can be quiet, the other can be quiet, the other can be quiet, we can cultivate our self-cultivation, and we can enjoy longevity. ”
After Xiao Han heard what he said, he knew that these people had been in the valley for a long time, and their minds were conservative, and they had long since lost their knowledge of what the world outside the mountains was like, and they had lost the heart to work outside. However, he is just twenty-three years old, and if he stays at the bottom for the rest of his life, it is estimated that he will die of depression before he is thirty years old. No matter what they think, they have to go up and see it first.
After listening to everything to come, Xiao Han nodded and said: "Uncle Wan is reasonable, but I have been in the valley for three months, and I am really bored, I want to go out of the valley to see, and I ask Uncle Wan to tell the passage out of the valley." Ye Zixuan saw that the two of them talked about the secret passage in the valley, and it was inconvenient to be present, so she got up and left.
There were only two people left in the house, and everything was right and said: "The secret passage in the valley is in the cave of the people in the back mountain." Xiao Han suddenly realized, yes, in the past three months, he has studied martial arts secrets on the one hand, and on the other hand, he has taken Tian Chengzhi up and down, left and right, front and back to search for the passage out of the valley, but it turned out that the secret way out of the valley was in the cave.
Xiao Han nodded and said: "The head of the palace uses the cave to lock up people, aren't you afraid that those people will run away?" Xiao Han said: "The most dangerous place is the safest place, creative." Then he asked, "Then Uncle Wan, do you know how to open the mechanism?"
Wan Shicheng smiled: "Of course I know, it's just that several heads of the house are holding the key to the cave in person, and no one can enter the cave." If you want to go out, please come with me. With that, he got up first, opened the door and walked out. Xiao Han was overjoyed and hurriedly followed behind, Tian Chengzhi followed behind him, all the way to the cave in the back mountain.
Tian Chengzhi obediently stayed outside the cave, and the two of them went into the cave one after another. Wan Shicheng took out the fire fold and lit it, and Xiao Han saw that the hole was very wide, two or three meters wide and hundreds of meters deep. Everything was done in front to lead the way, Xiao Han followed behind, bent around, and finally came to the deepest stone wall. The stone wall was completely black, dripping water downward, and the surface was pimple, and it didn't look unusual.
Wan Shicheng looked at the stone wall, turned back to Xiao Han and said, "You count, how many raised stone ridges are there on this?" Xiao Han heard this, took two steps forward, counted them according to what Wan Shicheng said, and said: "Ninety-nine eighty-one stone ridges." Wan Shicheng closed his eyes, thought for a while, and said: "You stand in front of the stone wall, press the stone ridge in the second column of the third row with your left hand, and press the ancient ridge in the fifth column of the eighth row with your right hand. ”
Xiao Han did as he said, facing the stone wall, his left and right hands stretched out at the same time, and according to him, they held down the stone ridge respectively. Wan Shicheng opened his eyes and said, "Press hard." Xiao Hanyun took a breath, pressed his fists hard, and pressed down at the same time, only hearing a few soft sounds of "rolling". Everything closed his eyes again and said, "The left hand returns, press the seventh column of the fifth row, and the right hand returns, press the first column of the ninth row." Xiao Han did as he said, and heard the sound of "rolling" getting louder.
Wan Shicheng continued: "The left hand presses the ninth column of the first row, and the right hand presses the second column of the seventh row. Xiao Han pressed them one by one according to what he said. The sound is getting louder. Wan Shicheng continued, Xiao Han didn't dare to slack off, he was engrossed, pressed them one by one, and after half an hour, he pressed all the stone ridges down.
Only then did everything open his eyes, and when he saw that Xiao Han had pressed all the stone ridges down, he hurriedly said, "Retreat." After speaking, he took the lead in retreating, Xiao Han didn't dare to slack off, followed behind him, and just after a bend, he heard the whirring wind in his ears, and dozens of arrows "jingled" all shot onto the stone wall.
Xiao Han was taken aback, oh yes, who designed this kind of mechanism, it's just a cheat. Let's not talk about the cumbersome procedures and steps, let's just talk about the last moment, which is also scared to death.
After a quarter of an hour, he suddenly heard a loud "bang", like an earthquake, which frightened Xiao Han and almost jumped up. Wan Shicheng was next to him and said with a smile: "The secret path is open, take a look." After speaking, he walked forward, and Xiao Han hurriedly followed behind him.
With the faint light of the fire fold, Xiao Han saw that the stone wall was divided into two halves left and right, flashing a narrow path that meandered up to the depths of darkness. Xiao Han said: "What a wonderful design. "Everything comes true:" The father and son of the Wu Sect have accumulated decades of work for decades to build this secret path mechanism, which naturally requires clever design. ”
Xiao Han admired for a while, and suddenly said, "Uncle Wan, have you ever been out?" Wan Shicheng was stunned, shook his head and said: "The secret path has been completed, I have followed Master Wu a few times, but I really haven't gone out." Xiao Han nodded and said, "I see." Then I'll go out and take a look, please take care of the things in the valley these days, more than half a month, as little as ten days, I will definitely come back. ”
Wan Shicheng hesitated and said: "The head of the sect is responsible for the people of this faction, and you can't stay outside for a long time." As he spoke, he took out a piece of broken silver and handed it to Xiao Han: "Take this, I have always been self-sufficient in food and clothing in the valley, and I need money to eat and stay when I go outside. ”
Xiao Han took the silver and said with emotion: "Uncle Wan, don't worry, I will come back as soon as possible, and I will trouble you about the matter in the faction." The two of them said a few more words, and the fire broke out suddenly, and everything came true: "You go, go straight all the way up, there are about thousands of steps, and you can rest when you are tired." I still need to close the secret passage, remember to come back early. ”
In the dark shadow, Xiao Han slowly groped his way up the steps, the cold air on the cold steps was pressing, Xiao Han shivered, and suddenly there was a loud "boom", the stone wall slowly began to close, and he heard everything say loudly outside: "When you come back, press the stone rings on the left and right inside the stone wall with both hands and it will open." Before the words fell, he heard a "clang" sound, isolated inside and out, and Xiao Han completely fell into darkness.
Xiao Han went all the way, and he couldn't tell the time in the dark, so he rested for a while when he was tired. He carried a windproof lighter with him, and when he opened it every once in a while, he saw a path all the way up, and there were cold stone walls on both sides, and there was nothing. I walked and climbed all the way like that, and I don't know how long it took, when I suddenly saw a glimmer of light outside.
Xiao Han was overjoyed, and hurriedly walked a few steps, the light became bigger and bigger, the size of a palm, he stretched out his hand, but he touched a large piece of vines, obviously those vines blocked the exit, and the sunlight penetrated through the gaps. Xiao Han sat on the steps and rested for a long time, and then he reached out and pushed the vine at the entrance of the cave open, revealing a narrow hole. He leaned out half of his body and looked out, his face turning white.
The exit of this cave is open on the cliff, and there is a protruding mountain rock about a meter below the cave, which is the size of a house, but it can be used to settle down. It's just that the top is more than two meters high from the top of the cliff, and it is nearly three meters high when you come and go.
He thought for a while, and suddenly said to himself: "Ah, yes, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, go out first." He cautiously leaned out, leaning against the stone wall, his hand touching the ground first, and one fell to the ground. Xiao Han stood up, covered the entrance of the cave first, and then lay down on the boulder to rest.
The wind in the mountains was strong, and the sweat on Xiao Han's body was dried after a while. He lay on the ground and saw that he was surrounded by mountains, and the light mist between the mountains was like a fairyland. The place where I am should be the top of a small mountain, less than three meters from the top of the mountain, but unfortunately I am only one meter seven and a half tall, and I am still more than one meter away, so I thought that I would jump up. But after trying it once, my whole body was sore, and I couldn't jump that high at all.
The stone wall was full of vines, and he tried to pull it a few times, but he broke it off at the right time, but he didn't dare to take that risk. Xiao Han stood on the stone wall and thought about it, thinking about everything, and was about to learn from the last time when he shouted for help, when he suddenly heard someone talking at the top of the mountain.
Xiao Han was overjoyed, someone was easy to do, and he was about to speak, but he heard a person above shouting: "I've said it a few times, don't pay attention to her, don't pay attention to her, why don't you listen?"
I heard another person: "Master, she is also pitiful, she has been in our nunnery for many years, and no one pays attention to her, I am just afraid that she will be lonely and lonely, so I will accompany her when I have time." The disciple knew that he was wrong. "It's also a woman's voice, soft, tender, and young.
The woman in front said: "You are still young, you don't understand the world, and people outside the party have long forgotten everything, what are you afraid of being lonely and lonely?
The latter woman said: "Master, the monks are compassionate, and the master has been practicing hard for decades, and she doesn't say a word, presumably because she has great pain in her heart, and I also want to help her express a thing or two." Since the master doesn't allow it, the disciple won't go in the future. ”
The woman sighed before, and her tone softened a little: "Meditation, there are few villains in our nunnery, and in the past, the big rankings were often after seventy, but this time I got this secret book, and I hope that you can become famous in one fell swoop, and also let this nunnery shine on this Jiuhua Mountain." Then he sighed and said: "There are few villains, the fame is small, and there are naturally few pilgrims. ”
There was silence on the cliff for a moment, and the latter woman said, "Master, the disciple listens to you." The woman said, "That's good." He sighed again, and then said, "There are many things you don't understand. ”
It was quiet above, Xiao Han didn't dare to miss this opportunity, if the two of them left, he would have to hang here. He hurriedly stood up and shouted, "Help." ”
The two people on the cliff suddenly heard the sound of people and were surprised. Xiao Han could imagine their panicked appearance, or the previous woman was bold, walked to the edge of the cliff and looked down, and saw a young man in gorgeous clothes standing on a stone cliff, looking up with his head full of anticipation.
The woman asked in a deep voice, "Who are you, how did you fall?" Xiao Han breathed a sigh of relief, it's good to have someone, now there is help. Xiao Han respectfully bowed to the top, these days at the bottom, on the one hand, he learned a lot of words from Ye Zixuan, and Hao Yufei taught him a lot of etiquette, and now he is just using it.
Xiao Han Zhengse said: "Seniors save me." In Xia Xiaohan, because he came to the mountains to play, he accidentally fell off the cliff, fortunately there was a big stone here, and he escaped with his life. ”
The person above was stunned for a moment, and hesitated: "The mountains here are high and dense, are you alone?" Xiao Han had already seen a bald head sticking out of it, obviously a nun. Looking at the age of only about forty, his face is stern, but the corners of his mouth are down, and he has a fierce appearance. Listening to the middle-aged nun ask him, he hurriedly said: "Xiao Ke will also have some slight martial arts, used to save his life, his family stayed at the bottom of the mountain and waited for me, I didn't expect this accident, and I hope that the teacher will help me, and I will be grateful for it, and I will go down the mountain, and I will send a meager amount of money to reward the Buddha for his good life." ”
When the nun heard this, she nodded and said, "It makes sense, but I don't have a rope in my hand, and I can't pull you up." The donor waited for a while, and I asked the apprentice to go down to the nunnery to get it. After speaking, he turned his head and said, "Meditation, you go down and get a rope." Jing Xin was naturally the little nun, and when she heard this, she said, "Master, this cliff is not too high, we can pull him up." "As he spoke, he was going to the edge of the cliff.
Xiao Han was overjoyed, he also thought of this method, the simplest but the most practical, I really couldn't understand why the old nun wanted to get the rope again. But I heard the middle-aged nun above: "Men and women don't kiss each other, as bhikshunis, how can we break the rules of Buddhism." Jing Xin said "um" and said, "Master, there are a lot of mountain vines on this, you can twist them together to pull the donor." ”
The middle-aged nun nodded, glanced at the little nun appreciatively, and smiled, "This method is feasible. The two of them were just about to bend down to collect the vines on the top of the mountain, when they suddenly heard a crisp female voice coming: "Master, where are you? ”
The middle-aged nun was shocked: "Jingming, who did you say is coming?" The female voice got closer and closer, and finally climbed to the top of the mountain, her voice trembled a little: "Master, go and take a look, they are here again, they have already injured four or five senior sisters, Senior Sister Jingyun asked me to come to you quickly." ”
The middle-aged nun hurriedly said, "Your senior sister, are they okay?" Jing Ming said: "It's all some skin trauma, but it's okay to live, but they are too fierce for us to stop." The middle-aged nun couldn't take care of Xiao Han below, and hurriedly said, "Let's go." Then they heard the hurried footsteps above, and the three of them quickly walked away, and there was no sound of people on the top of the mountain.
Xiao Han didn't know what was going on, which made this old nun so afraid of hurrying, ahh
After scolding for a long time, he was a little tired, and just wanted to sit down and rest, when suddenly a few vines were dropped on it, and a soft voice said, "Donor, are you still down there?"