Turbulent Times Chapter 172: Desperate Survival
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In the corner of the kitchen there was a thick bone-chopping knife inserted on the thick chopping board. Shen Guang took it casually and kept on stepping on the floor. Removed the chopping board made of the stump.
Sure enough, there is a pull ring under the cutting board. He took a pot of vegetable oil and poured it evenly on the shaft. It opened without a breath.
There was a voice coming from below, Shen Guang cheered up, and listened carefully, he found that two or three people were arguing about a problem.
A clear voice suddenly broke in.
"Stop arguing, whether this Taoist is to be killed or released, or has other uses, is up to the higher authorities to decide. The two of you have been cured by others. If you want to repay your kindness, you can just cut off each other's heads. .”
"Master Wen was joking, I don't know what the above means?"
"I don't know what the above means. We just need to obey the orders and look after the old Taoist."
When Shen Guang heard this, he didn't want to listen any longer, and planned to continue searching for the place where Sun Simiao was imprisoned.
Hanging on a pillar with his hands, he slid down from it slowly. As soon as his feet touched the ground, he saw lights shining through in front of him. Under the table, holding the Tianchan knife in his hand, he watched the approaching footsteps coldly. Once he found that something was wrong, he would use this bone chopping knife to cut off the soles of both feet.
Watching the footsteps gradually move away, Shen Guang hooked his legs around the beams and columns, hung down his body, and looked into the room through the gap between the purlins, wanting to see who came in just now.
A man wearing a soft headband was sitting on the upper seat, playing with an iron knife in his hand. Opposite him was a thin old man, and on the other side was a bald strong man with two knives stuck in his ribs. Next, his right hand is always within a foot of the handle of the knife, and it seems that he is ready to violently hurt people at any time.
"Actually, we can also guess a little bit. Queen Dugu was responsible for the abolition of the former prince. In fact, the emperor didn't like Yang Guang very much. Now that the queen is dead, how can the former prince not act? Of course we adults will." Go all out..."
"Keep your voice down, it's better for us to talk less about this kind of thing, anyway, we just need to obey orders."
"It's not that I want to talk, but it's just that it's always dragging on like this. It's not good for us at all. Our brothers always have a noose around their necks. What do you people who pull the rope want to do it sooner?"
"What do you know? Before doing such a big thing, you must be safe before you can succeed. If you do it in a hurry, if you miss it, the consequences will be disastrous."
Shen Guang always felt that the three of them were very strong, not even weaker than him, so when he saw this, he didn't want to look any further. He lifted his body slowly with his waist, grabbed a protruding cornice, and then Supporting both sides of the narrow aisle with both hands and arms, he slowly moved down from the height, ready to continue searching.
Just passing through a row of low rooms, when he was about to enter the passage and leave, a person walked in from the dark passage in the distance, holding a food box in his hand.
Shen Guang's heart moved, he jumped up, grabbed the purlin again, put his body up, and followed this person quietly.
After another row of low rooms, the man carrying the food box walked into one of the rooms.
Shen Guang hurriedly glanced at the door that was opened when the man entered the room, and saw a Taoist priest who looked only in his forties sitting cross-legged inside, motionless, with food and water beside him.
Just by taking a look, Shen Guang immediately recognized that this Taoist priest was Sun Simiao.
At this moment, Sun Simiao suddenly opened his eyes and glanced at Shen Guang's hiding place.
"He seems to have found me?" Shen Guang was slightly taken aback, and when he was about to leave quietly, there was a loud noise from behind.
A middle-aged man in black with a knife walked out of the room, quickly stepped out of the room and asked, "What happened?"
"Someone has sneaked in, be careful..." a tall and thin man in black at the entrance said loudly from a distance.
Just before the man finished speaking, Shen Guang, who was unlucky in the dark, couldn't hide his figure. He raised the Tianchan knife and slashed at the middle-aged man in black standing at the door of Sun Simiao's house.
Hearing the sound of the wind, the middle-aged man fell back straight, and at the same time, a long knife flashed out in his hand, facing Shen Guang who was flying down.
The Tian Chan Knife and the long knife collided with each other with a clang, and then swung away, but Shen Guang's body stuck to it like a ghost.
As soon as the middle-aged man's screams sounded, they stopped abruptly, and his entire head was chopped off.
Hearing the shouts not far away, Shen Guang didn't dare to stay for a long time, jumped up quickly, and killed the man who had just walked out of the house with a knife, and then shot out like a crossbow arrow, and shot at the man who was shouting. The man's throat and neck were chopped off.
The man let out a scream, and his body straightened and fell backwards. At the same time, a long knife appeared in his hand at an unknown time, slashing out, and the lights of the sword were practiced, facing the rushing Shen Guang.
The two knives collided with each other with a clang, and then swung away separately, but the Tianchan Knife in Shen Guang's hand was trembling slightly, and the force of the knife had been relieved with extremely subtle and superb sword skills. Not only did his body not rebound at all, but he also Accelerated suddenly, shot out like a crossbow arrow, and slammed forward heavily.
There was a bang, the man screamed, Shen Guang heard the shouts not far away, he didn't care about making up the knife, he didn't dare to stay for a long time, he jumped up, and rushed towards the dark passage without turning his head. But then his body retreated violently. He was forced back by an iron sword, and the owner of that iron sword was the man wearing the soft headband. Not to mention his strength was not weaker than him. Follow a group of people.
The road was blocked, Shen Guang retreated all the way back with an ugly face, rushed into the room where Sun Simiao was, and then closed the heavy door with the fastest speed, and put the thick door bolt across the back of the door. After finishing this, he quickly took out a joss stick from his pocket and lit it, sticking it in a corner where no one was paying attention.
When Shen Guang was doing these things, Sun Simiao stared at him without saying a word, his nose moved slightly, and his face was full of curiosity about the incense candle he had inserted.
"You guys better not come in, or I'll kill Sun Simiao." Seeing a man wearing a soft headband leading more than a dozen people outside the house, Shen Guang put the Tianchan knife on Sun Simiao's neck and said loudly.
The people outside who were about to rush in stopped suddenly, but then the man wearing the soft cape glanced at Shen Guang, said with a sneer, "Don't worry about him, just open the door and go in first."
As soon as the words fell, a big man next to him slashed open the door, and a man wearing a soft headband rushed in with a dozen people.
"If you dare to do something, I will kill Sun Simiao." Shen Guang's words came again, and the man in the soft cap waved his hand, and everyone finally stopped.
"Who are you, you are so brave, you dare to come here." The man wearing a soft head stared at Shen Guang, and said coldly.
Shen Guang silently counted the time in his heart, and said to himself: "Fall!"
The next moment, except for the man wearing a soft cape, the other people who came in with him suddenly fell to the ground, their eyes widened, but they couldn't lift up their strength or move.
"You... are poisonous..." The man wearing the soft headband was taken aback, and was about to make a move, but then fell limply to the ground. It is worthy of being called the poisonous general.
Note: Recently, some readers deliberately added me to QQ, and used the legend "The Legend of the Curly Beard Guest" that first appeared in the Tang Dynasty to criticize Yang Su's writing in this book as untrue, inconsistent with history, and very violent. Therefore, I took a special look at this book. It only has a few thousand words, and it has been widely circulated. It can be regarded as the originator of martial arts novels.
Five characters are highlighted in the article, Yang Su, Li Jing, Zhang Mou, a bearded man, Zhang Chuchen, a red-haired girl with a surname and no name, and Li Shimin, who at the age of twenty showed the appearance of a real dragon and emperor. Since this novel is so famous, most readers regard it as history.
But this novel is after all a legend, or a fairy tale. If you measure the three truths and seven falsehoods in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", except for Yang Su, Li Jing, Li Shimin and other books, there are real people in them, and the others are not realistic at all.
For example, Li Yuan started his army in the thirteenth year of Daye (617) at the end of the Sui Dynasty. Li Shimin was born in 598, and he was just twenty years old. Therefore, in "Biography of the Curly Bearded Man", he asked Li Jing about the heroes of the world, and Li Jing replied, "The son of the state general, only twenty." and so on.
It's just that Yang Guang traveled to Jiangdu in the twelfth year of Daye. At that time, Yang Su had been dead for ten years. His descendants were also slaughtered by Yang Guang because of the failure of Yang Xuangan's rebellion. In the beginning of all the biographies of the bearded guest, "Emperor Yang's lucky Jiangdu also ordered Sikong Yang Su to guard Xijing" and later Li Shimin "only twenty years old", I am afraid that it is not the same as Yang Su, a famous official of the Sui Dynasty. Or Yang Guang has the unexpected ability to pull the dead ghost out of the underworld and stay in his lair for him.
There is another possibility that this Yang Su is not Pi Yangsu. Then, it would be meaningless for Li Jing to visit him and be admired by him.
Let's assume that Li Jing paid a visit to an old ghost who had been dead for ten years, and there happened to be a woman in front of the old ghost's tent who didn't like wealth and honor, valued Li Jing's future, and eloped with him overnight. This is the origin of the Hongfu story.
According to the arrangement of the novel, the two went north together to Taiyuan to find the hero in Li Jing's mind.
So, the problem came again. "Old Tang Book" Volume 17, the biography about Li Jing clearly wrote: "At the end of the great cause, Mayi Jun Cheng was exhausted. After meeting Gaozu to attack Turks outside the Great Wall, Jingcha Gaozu knew that he had the ambition of the four directions, because he locked himself Change, will go to Jiangdu, to Chang'an, and the road will be blocked."
So, novels are novels, don't read them as history. If you read the things in the novel as official history and take it as the truth, you will not only harm yourself, but you will often make the mistake of using your own ignorance to attract others to make mistakes.
Jiu Kong thinks nothing of himself, and the book he wrote is also an interpretation of an alternate history. Since it is an alternate history novel, it is estimated that compared with the official history, it is full of loopholes, no less than "The Legend of the Curly Beard". I just hope that everyone will read it as a novel, laugh it off, and don't take it seriously.