Chapter 605 Backyard

Neither the turmoil at the front nor the undercurrents in the temple could reach a small village on the southern outskirts of the imperial city.

There are more than 60 households in this village, all of them are farming honestly. They seem to be farmers, but if you go in and take a look around, you will find that the people here have a vicious vigor. And there are quite a few men with missing arms and legs, but these people's faces don't have the gloominess of physical incompleteness at all, they should smile or stare.

People around Zhuangzi call it "Wuzhuang", because the residents in this Zhuangzi are all men who have retired from the army, and they live here. And there is a very big official living in Zhuangzi. It seems that the surname is Yang, but the people in the countryside can't tell exactly how old the official is, anyway, it is much older than the officials in the yamen.

But the well-informed people in the imperial city know that this "Wuzhuang" is unusual, because the farmers in this village are all retired from the army, and many of them have noble titles and their wealth is not inferior to the small rich. But he chose to be content with farming in the fields, just to guard one person.

In the middle of Zhuangzi, there is the only courtyard with a courtyard wall. The boulders in the mountains were smashed and piled up, and they look very solid and large, but they don't have the red-painted gates of ordinary rich families, and they look ordinary.

The servants in the yard are almost all men, and all of them are strong and powerful, even those who clean up the flower garden or do odd jobs. If there are people who know how to practice here, they will know that these people are all monks, and each of them has a high level of cultivation.

There is a small field in the backyard, about half an acre, with several kinds of vegetables planted on it, and it seems that the growth rate is very good, and some of them are ready to be harvested.

A man with the appearance of an old farmer was carrying a dung bucket to fatten some uncooked vegetables in the field. Standing beside him were three people, one of whom was waiting with herbal tea, and the other two had short knives pinned to their waists. , and the momentum is extremely strong.

After the old man finished his work, he harvested another basket of vegetables in the vegetable field that could be harvested. These vegetables had been fattened up for several days, and it was time to eat them.

A guard on the side scooped water from the nearby water tank to wash the old man's hands, after which another guard quickly handed herbal tea, and the rest fanned him attentively.

"I asked you to go to Butcher Zhang's to cut some meat yesterday, did you cut it?" The old man sat down on the stool, drank a few sips of herbal tea and asked.

"Returning to my lord, I have already cut it in the morning according to your instructions. It was killed this morning. The meat is very fresh, with four hooves, and there are about ten catties of high-quality pork belly. The pig's ear was also brought back for you. "

"Okay! Take the pig's trotters and pig's ears and let the back kitchen marinate them. The pork belly is left, and I will go to deal with it later. By the way, the immortal brew in the cellar will be chilled right now."

"Okay, my lord. But there are only two jars of Shenxian brewing. Would you like to put some Wuliangye on the ice?"

"Wuliangye? Forget it. That thing is enough for drinking and playing by yourself, but it's not good enough for entertaining guests. The man's drinking capacity is also average and he's not good at drinking. Two jars are enough. By the way, I'll go to the town to cut a roast chicken and come back." Have a drink."

"Good sir."

One took the order and left. The remaining two men with knives stood behind the old man.

After a cup of tea was finished, the old man said, "What about the wood?"

"My lord, everything is normal. The medicine was added as usual this morning, and all the golden needles were checked. Everything is normal." The guards replied firmly. They do this by themselves every day, and they can't make mistakes.

"Very good. Let's go and have a look. It should be used in a few days." The old man got up from the stool and walked towards the front row of houses with his hands behind his back. Two guards followed, and one of them helped the old man take the freshly received food.

After walking for a while, he opened the door and went in. There were two guards inside the door. When they saw the old man coming in, they all bowed and saluted. The old man waved his hand and said, "Open the door."

After that, the two people in the room took out a key each, and combined them with the two keys of the two guards beside the old man to form two pairs of twin keys. Finally, they inserted the keyhole into a secret compartment and twisted it at the same time, forming a secret door. After opening it, you can see a section of stairs going down through the door, without bottom.

One of the guards at the entrance touched the wall at the entrance of the stairs, as if some mechanism had been twisted, and then beams of dim lights lit up on both sides of the stairs.

The old man walked down with his hands behind his back, followed by two guards. During the period, there were two corners in the stairs, both of which were screened by formations. The two guards took out the waist card and opened the secret method to pass. It can be seen that their waist badges are in the style of the military guards, but on the back there is a feather relief like a sword.

This is the badge of Yuwei.

Yuwei and Xuanqingwei are the same as the personal guards of the chief officer. There is even a saying in the Ministry of War that "the best of the best" will generally follow the serving Minister of the Ministry of War.

In this way, the identity of the old man who walked in the front was ready to be revealed. It was Yang Yansi, the general of the Zhu Kingdom, who had been ordered by the emperor Yang Xiusheng to seal his cultivation base with the method of cutting off the veins and was turned into an empty shell.

After Yang Yansi entered the tunnel, the old-fashioned temperament on his body began to change. In a few breaths, he changed from a decrepit look to a radiant one. Even with gray hair, it is difficult to press the word "old and weak" on Yang Yansi at this time , It's a different person from when I was outside.

After walking down for tens of feet, I came to the door of a long corridor. Inside were stone rooms, each of which was locked by a formation.

Two guards opened one of the stone chambers, and Yang Yansi walked in with his hands behind his back.

The stone room is not big, and the inside is only three feet square. There is nothing else, just a person standing in the middle, like a statue, with a slightly undulating chest and abdomen indicating that this person is alive. This man was well dressed, including all the accessories on his body, a jade pendant pinned to his waist, and a small and exquisite golden sword inlaid with gold on the jade pendant.

However, more than ten gold needles were pierced into this man's head. I don't know how deep it is, but the only exposed part is four or five inches long.

The old man is wrong, it should be Yang Yansi who walked around the man in the middle of the stone room with his hands behind his back, carefully looked at every gold needle on the man's head, and then put his hand against the man's vest, as if to use his true energy to cross Enter the opponent's body to investigate the situation. It took a while to stop.

"This man's body is a little weak, give him some pills to satisfy his hunger. You must also control the amount of soothing soup, so that nothing will go wrong." Although he was very worried about his two guards, Yang Yansi couldn't help it. Again and again.

Then, after confirming that there was no problem with this person for the time being, Yang Yansi came out of the underground secret room, turned around and went to the back kitchen, where he would personally cook some dishes for the banquet today.

As the sun went down and night fell, Yang Yansi's dishes had already been prepared, heated in a warm basin, and there were two jars of chilled wine beside him. The noodles are also simple, just set in the gazebo next to the vegetable garden in the backyard, three meat and three vegetables.

"You came?"

Suddenly, Yang Yansi looked out of the pavilion with a smile, and a tall and thin figure arrived in the backyard at some time, less than ten feet away from the pavilion.