Chapter 473: The treasure that bewitches the real person (ask for double monthly votes)
Houses were dotted in the middle of the sea of flowers, making the fleeing monarch and his ministers feel as if they had entered a paradise.
And soon, some "farmers" in the village who were working in the flower fields or villagers who were busy in the courtyard looked over curiously.
Zhao Duan drove his car and stopped outside a courtyard at the head of the village. He stepped out of the car and heard the barking of dogs and the voice of a child calling for his mother from inside the courtyard door.
After a while, the courtyard door opened, and a woman about thirty years old looked outside curiously.
Behind her, there was a six or seven-year-old girl with her hair in a child's bun. She hid behind the woman's legs and turned her head to look curiously with her big eyes.
"Who are you looking for?" the woman asked in confusion.
Zhao Duan said politely:
"Excuse me, my wife and I are Linfeng people. We went south for some reason and are now back.
Due to the recent unrest, I didn't dare to take the Daguan Road. I borrowed the road from the village here and wanted to stay in the village for a day, but I didn't know if it was convenient. ”
While talking, he took out a bunch of copper coins from his sleeve and said that he would not go to whoring for nothing.
The woman was stunned for a moment, and saw that a young woman had really come out of the carriage. In addition, the manners and manners of the monarch and his ministers showed that she was not from a small family, she was well-educated, and she must not be a bad person.
The vigilance in her eyes diminished, and she opened the door eagerly to welcome the guests:
"Since we are staying overnight, if you don't mind, please come in."
Tsk... People in this era are still simple... I don't think that in my previous life, such things as staying overnight were almost extinct... Zhao Duan smiled.
Xu Zhenguan also smiled and thanked him. When he came over, he quietly glared at him and said resentfully:
"You are becoming more and more skilled in this rhetoric."
Zhao Duan smiled. This was not because he wanted to take advantage. The most suitable combination of the two of them when walking outside was to pretend to be a couple.
Because Linfeng Road is adjacent to the capital and has similar accents, it is not easy to be suspected.
The monarch and his ministers entered the extremely clean farmhouse courtyard and sat down in the courtyard. The woman who called herself "Liu Wangshi" poured scented tea to welcome the guests.
During the conversation, Zhao Duan learned that the head of the household was named Liu, and the little girl had a nice name called "Lily".
"You two are on the right track. Bandits are now rampant in the Huai River area. I heard that King Jing in the southeast and King Mu in the southwest led their troops into the Huai River... The soldiers and horses of the imperial court have to deal with both sides. I heard that , I’m afraid I won’t be able to hold on for long... The officials said there are still some strong men to catch.”
Mrs. Liu was a little reserved when facing the monarch and his ministers, who were dressed in ordinary clothes but had good temperaments. However, she had a good impression for no reason and shared the local situation.
Have the soldiers and horses of Prince Mu's Mansion also marched into the Huai River?
Zhao Duan and the empress looked at each other, their hearts sinking.
This is a very bad signal, which means that King Mu also swallowed up Yunfu Dao in a very short period of time.
But what is different from Jiancheng is that on the Yunfu side, there is the entire southwest frontier army of the imperial court headed by Zhao Shixiong!
In other words, the fact that King Mu went north shows that Zhao Shixiong's troops did not contain him at all... Combined with the fact that Zhao Shixiong never returned to Beijing on New Year's Eve last year, it is almost certain:
"The Southwest Front Army rebelled!"
Zhao Duan looked at the somewhat absent-minded empress, suddenly stretched out his hand, covered her hand, and squeezed it.
Xu Zhenguan forced a smile and obeyed without breaking away.
Taking advantage of the gap between the Liu family's mother and daughter leaving, Zhao Duan whispered:
"Looking at the bright side, two tigers fighting each other are far better than one killer whale swallowing them up. Both King Jing and King Mu have to fight for the throne, and their troops and horses have to cross the Huai River and enter Linfeng before they can reach the capital.
This means that the two sides will check and balance each other and slow down each other, which may give the court more time to react. ”
Xu Zhenguan nodded worriedly:
"I know."
The two of them treat each other as monarch and minister in private, but they would avoid using certain terms of address in front of outsiders.
At this moment, the Liu family's mother and son returned from their trip and brought in a man dressed as a simple and honest farmer. He was Liu Qi, the head of the household.
When Liu Qi learned that there was a guest staying overnight, he warmly greeted his wife to kill chickens and geese, and held a farm banquet to entertain them. He tried his best to come up with topics and chat with the two of them.
The gentle Mrs. Liu Wang and the innocent "Sayuri" interrupted each other at every opportunity.
This paradise-like small village and its simple and friendly people diluted the gloom in the hearts of the monarchs and ministers.
"Oh, I can tell at a glance that the young master and the young lady must come from a wealthy family. Now they have been hit by a military disaster. At this time of year, if you are traveling out, you are afraid of danger." During the dinner, Liu Qihuang drank his wine and couldn't help but sigh.
Mrs. Liu also nodded and said worriedly:
"If you two have relatives in Huai River, it would be best if you go and hide for a while."
The monarch and his ministers smiled bitterly and responded perfunctorily. The Liu family also knew how to behave and didn't say much.
……
The farmer had dinner early, and the sun was setting after dinner. Mrs. Liu went to clean up the side room, and Xu Zhenguan went with her to help.
Zhao Duan walked out of the yard and became familiar with the whole village. The little yellow-haired girl whose nickname was "Lily" became familiar with him after a meal and served as his "guide" with a smile.
The village was introduced somewhat awkwardly. Baihua Village is neither big nor small, with a population of dozens of households.
Zhao Duan listened with a smile, and after confirming that there were no spies of local wealthy people in the village, he looked at the mountain peak behind the village.
At this time, the light of the setting sun just peeked out from between the two mountains. Zhao Duan suddenly narrowed his eyes and paused.
"Sayuri, are there people on the mountain behind the village?"
he asked suddenly.
The innocent little girl tilted her head forty-five degrees, looked in the direction of his gaze, said "Oh" and said:
"No, there is only a ruined temple on the back mountain."
The little farm girl with a baby face and tanned skin suddenly looked frightened and whispered:
"The adults in the village say that there are ghosts in the temple. People who go in will come out in a daze and won't let me go."
ghost?
Zhao Duan twitched his lips and looked at the temple in the back mountain with an increasingly solemn look.
He was sure that he had never been to this area, but for some reason, he always felt that the scenery in front of him felt familiar.
"It's like...I've seen..."
"What is it? I must have seen it? Where is it? I have never been here before..."
"Think carefully..."
Zhao Duan stared at the temple building on the lush back mountain under the setting sun. Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed through his mind.
He remembered!
"Master Bewitching! I have seen this temple in the memory of Bewitching Demon Dao!"
Back when he was bewitching demons to come to the capital to kill people, Zhao Duan's massive memories from his previous life had backfired on the demon's magic, and he had "read" some of the remaining memories of the demon's ways.
This includes the scene where he colludes with Zhuang Xiaocheng;
Another thing is that before he entered the capital, he entered a dilapidated temple, opened a secret room, and took away some magic weapons.
At this moment, in his eyes, the ruined temple on the mountain peak behind Baihua Village overlapped perfectly with the vague scene in his memory.
"Is it a simple resemblance? Or... the secret treasure house of Bewitching Master is hidden here?"
Thinking of the haunted legend from Sayuri's mouth, Zhao Duan held his breath and immediately returned to Liu's house.
"Are you sure?" In the side room, Xu Zhenguan also looked shocked after hearing what he said.
"I'm not sure yet, so I'm going to take a look." Zhao Duan said seriously:
"Your Majesty, your injury has not healed and you need healing medicine. I am also stuck at a bottleneck. If it is really the monster's treasure house, the contents in it will definitely help us!"
Xu Zhenguan's eyes were also bright, and then he said worriedly:
"But if the demon is hiding there to recuperate, it would be too dangerous for you to go there hastily. Let's go together."
"No, Your Majesty will stay outside. I was able to kill him back then, but I am not afraid now."
Zhao Duan pressed down Zhenbao who wanted to go with him. If it comes to other warlocks, Zhao Duan is not confident yet, but if it is to bewitch real people... Haha, it can only be said that the great tonic in human form has been delivered to the door again.
"But..."
"Have you forgotten, Your Majesty? At this critical moment, you can ask God Pei Niannu to descend." Zhao Duan reminded seriously.
The empress reluctantly nodded:
"If you don't come back for a long time, I will go to help you. By the way, you bring Tai'a sword."
Zhao Duan did not refuse and laughed at himself:
"Perhaps I'm wrong, but that's not necessarily the case. How could it be such a coincidence? We were running away, and we just happened to bump into this?"
Xu Zhenguan pondered for a moment, then suddenly shook his head and said:
"No, maybe it's not luck, but luck. I chose that day to be enshrined because it is the day with the brightest star and the best luck for me this year. Unfortunately, it was forcibly changed by others as 'losing the god' Luck, tampering with luck to the lowest point...
But this kind of tampering is not without cost. In addition to the backlash that must be suffered by the caster, my 'luck' that was covered up at the beginning will gradually recover... As the emperor, my luck is equal to the fate of the country, and I am much better than ordinary people. ”
Zhao Duan was stunned for a moment:
"Your Majesty is saying that it may not be a coincidence that we bumped into this temple, but that the luck that was reversed by the god of death that day has accumulated and exploded now?"
"It's possible, so we can escape smoothly. However, the influence of luck is limited after all. It depends on man-made things. Good luck is always accompanied by bad luck." Xu Zhenguan said hesitantly:
"Always be careful."
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Involving the word "luck" is too metaphysical.
But Zhao Duan, who had personally experienced the seven-day curse, did not dare to take it lightly.
After the two agreed, they waited silently for dark.
When the sun went down, Zhao Duan quietly climbed out of the window and left, drifting like smoke, like a ghost, and rushed towards the back mountain.
……
The back mountain temple is not close to Baihua Village, but with Zhao Duan's current cultivation level, he hurried on with all his strength, and soon he arrived outside the abandoned temple on the dilapidated mountain road.
A full moon hung high in the sky, emitting a cold, mirror-like brilliance.
Zhao Duan raised his head and saw that the archway outside the temple had been broken. There was no name, only the word "three" was vaguely left.
"If the treasure house is really located, the so-called 'ghost' is probably some kind of deception arranged here by the real person to prevent mortals from entering."
Zhao Duan thought for a moment, reached into his arms, and poured out a stack of talisman paper from the space of the scroll. This was also applied for from the Yamen before going south.
"Let me look for it...the spell to see through the formation is...the Sky Eye Talisman, that's it."
He pulled out a piece of talisman paper from a pile, entered the Qi machine to ignite it, and touched the burning talisman paper between his eyebrows.
Suddenly, his eyes pierced with a clear blue light in the dark night, just like when the emperor was upstairs, the empress opened his eyes for him to observe the gods of heaven and earth.
"My guess is indeed correct!"
At this moment, Zhao Duan quickly discovered that there was indeed a maze formation in this ruined temple, but there was no killing formation.
"Yes, if you kill someone, it will easily attract the attention of the government. The maze is enough."
Zhao Duan jumped up to the southeast corner of the ruined temple and cracked a stone pillar with his palm, revealing a silver bowl buried inside.
Putting the silver bowl away, the formation was immediately broken and lost its effectiveness.
Following his memory, Zhao Duan entered the temple and stopped behind a Buddhist niche. He tried to explore and activate the "mechanism" hidden behind the Buddhist niche.
"Zazaza——"
One side of the wall suddenly cracked, and with the sound of gear hinges rubbing together, a secret passage opened!
“That’s right!”
Zhao Duan's eyes lit up, and he took out another "lighting talisman" and put it on the top of his head. The cinnabar of the talisman lit up like a flashlight, tearing through the darkness and illuminating the way forward.
He held Tai'a Sword and walked up the steps into the secret room.
No one!
There is only one secret room that is the same as in the memory!
As he entered, the beads inlaid on the walls of the secret room lit up one after another. On rows of wooden shelves, the most conspicuous ones were a pile of gold, silver, jade, and a book.
There are various objects piled on the ground, which look extraordinary at first sight.
In the open box on the ground are bottles containing elixirs, and armor and weapons that are of extraordinary quality are hung on the walls.
However, after careful comparison, I found that the items in the secret room were nearly half less than what I remembered!
Especially the elixirs in the boxes and the items on the shelves that seemed to be treasures were reduced the most!
"It seems that Master Bewitching is indeed not dead. After I killed him, I was afraid that this guy would be seriously injured and resurrected again, and then he came here and took away a lot of things. Damn it, they are all mine..."
Zhao Duan smacked his lips, but thought that the benefits of killing the demon after fattening it up might be greater, so he lost his temper.
"I don't know many things, but Zhenbao is well-informed and must know them."
Zhao Duan was unceremonious, like a rat burrowing into a treasure mountain, he picked up precious pieces and stuffed them into the space of the scroll, especially the pills, completely emptying them!
His movements were swift and swift, almost like a breeze.
After a while, the treasure house was completely cleared, leaving only a few things that were of low value and took up space.
"Good fellow of the Demon Dao, this journey of escaping consumes too much. Thank you for the airdrop sent by Bewitching Old Tie." Zhao Duan was a little moved.
At first he was rushing to give away his soul power, and now he is giving away the treasure house. If anyone says that the old Taoist is actually a spy sent by the imperial court, he will believe it.
"Justice!"
Zhao Duan was still not satisfied and groped around in the secret room again, and suddenly found that there was a hidden secret door inside.
"Squeak——"
Pushing open the secret door, it suddenly became clear that there was a small courtyard blocked by walls on all sides!
"What is this..."
The yard is very small, with only a pool in the middle, where warm spring water is gurgling. In a corner of the square pool, there is a small black and white tree that is intertwined with each other.
The leaves of the tree are like jade texture, with fiery red color flowing through them.
Zhao Duan was stunned, and suddenly recalled the jade leaf that the demon had taken from the treasure house, which was strong enough to withstand the attack of the gods.
"According to Pei Niannu, it is Kunshan jade... So, is this tree also some kind of natural treasure?"
……
Baihua Village, inside the Liu family's small house.
Xu Zhenguan was sitting in the side room, pacing back and forth anxiously. The candlestick on the table swayed with orange flames, reflecting her shadow on the wall.
The empress couldn't hide her worry on her face. Suddenly, she turned to look at the backyard. As the window was opened, Zhao Duan jumped in.
"What happened?"
Xu Zhenguan looked him up and down first. Seeing that he was not injured, he breathed a sigh of relief and asked immediately.
Zhao Duan pulled off the black cloth covering his face, walked to the table, picked up the teapot and poured a lot of water. Then, with bright eyes, he placed the silver scroll on the table:
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"Returning with a full load..."
He quickly recounted his experience in retrieving the treasure. Xu Zhenguan was stunned for a while while looking at the various elixirs, magic weapons, and rare objects piled on the table. His eyes were filled with joy and weirdness.
"It's a pity... that tree is rooted in the spring water, so it's difficult to get it out." Zhao Duan said with regret on his face again, talking about the black and white trees.
After the empress heard this, her eyes suddenly lit up: "Double black and white trees?"
"Your Majesty knows about this?" Zhao Duan was curious.
Xu Zhenguan's eyes truly showed the rare joy along the way. She took a deep look at the confused Zhao Duan and said:
"Your opportunity to advance to the worldly realm is here!"
(End of chapter)