Nanjing has been an important town in the south of the Yangtze River since ancient times. The poem says: the beautiful land of the south of the Yangtze River, the imperial state of Jinling.
By this Yongtai period, "Jinling" was already an ancient name, but some local wealthy families would still mention this word when introducing their lintels to show their long family history.
Jinling Sword Palace is one of them.
Speaking of the Dugu family, they have been ups and downs here for many years. Including the time of Wanyuan Sect, they have experienced countless crises of being almost wiped out, but they have still continued to rise and fall.
What must be mentioned here is that although the name of the mansion contains the word "Sword King", and it is indeed a famous martial arts family whose family has excellent martial arts skills for generations, the name of the Sword King's Mansion Lord, but not every generation is qualified to be king.
After all, martial arts talent is more random than genes. Even if both parents are martial arts prodigies, it is possible for a child to be born who cannot even perform basic punches.
Furthermore, people have many talents, and it does not mean that only martial arts talents can be called talents; for example, the previous generation of the master of the Sword King's Palace, Dugujiu, who died in the Wanyuan Sect's disaster, if he were to become a A teacher, or a diplomatic envoy... must have achieved a lot, but he was born into a martial arts family, which was very helpless.
Fortunately, his son, the current master of the palace, Dugu Sheng, is indeed a martial arts material.
In Dugu Sheng's generation, especially in the period after Xiao Zhun's death, the name of "Sword King" is almost worthy of his name.
Anyway, among the swordsmen currently active in the arena, the number of swordsmen who can challenge Dugu Sheng in terms of overall strength can be counted on one hand.
In addition, his son Duguyong's talent is even higher than him. After experiencing the battle at Wujian Villa, he even has a faint tendency to catch up with him...
So Jian It can be said that there is no need to worry about the strength of the next generation of the palace.
However, Dugu Sheng still has troubles in the past few years.
In the past, when his son was still young, he was worried: Will this boy rely on his talent to not work hard in martial arts?
Now that his son is thirty-five or six, he feels that his son has worked too hard. At this age, he is still obsessed with martial arts all day long, and he has not even mentioned the marriage.
In those days, some people could become grandfathers at the age of thirty-six, but Dugu Yong didn't seem to be in a hurry at all.
He ignored the matchmaking for him. The last time he came back from Wujian Villa, he learned a slang saying "women will only affect the speed at which I draw my sword".
That Dugu Sheng was so angry.
Oh, I didn’t expect that this matter has taken a turn for the better recently...
Let’s talk about Dugu Sheng having a fairly good relationship with an old friend. The two of them would exchange letters from time to time. , that one, there is a daughter in the family, who has a strong personality and extraordinary martial arts skills. She is in her mid-twenties and is still unmarried.
Originally, that person was also worried. I happened to see Dugu Sheng complaining in a letter a while ago.I asked him something about his son, and then he suddenly had an idea and proposed a plan in his reply - let's set up a trap together and agree on a date. You lie to your son that you have something to do and bring him to my place. What about me? , just choose that day to hold a competition to recruit a bride, and then arrange various actors to control the scene. In addition, with the two of us sitting in charge of the fire, we will definitely be able to put the two young ones there. When the time comes, your son will even "go back and ask for instructions." There is no excuse for "parents" to get out. We will solve the problems of our two families together and we will be one family from now on.
Ordinarily, if this had been done ten years ago, Dugu Sheng might have hesitated, wondering if the other party was trying to reach a higher level? But now, his idea is... is there such a good thing? Okay, okay, as long as she is a girl from a good family, it will be fine. This daughter of yours is a martial arts practitioner, so the conditions are still high. Lao Gao, why didn't you tell me earlier?
Then the two old men showed the energy of instigating martial arts conspiracies like seniors from famous families, strategizing and perfecting the details of the plan in various correspondences.
Just when they reached the stage of "picking a day to start"... By coincidence, something happened in Lao Gao's hometown.
So where does Lao Gao live? It is estimated that many people have already guessed that it is in Cangzhou City.
The two old men took a look and realized that this was God’s will. If there was anything that could alarm the Lord of the Sword King’s Mansion to go see the excitement in person, it would be less than the level of “the negotiations between the Murong Family and the Ba Fist Sect”. It was credible. The degree is not enough.
This matter seems quite big now, but it is not dangerous to others, and it happened to happen in Cangzhou.
Dugu Sheng took this as a reason and said that he would go to Cangzhou with his son. Dugu Yong would not be suspicious at all.
In this way, this spring, Dugu and his son set off from Jinling and headed north to Cangzhou.
Although these two men have a great business, they do not take any servants with them when they go out. There are no fixed rules in the world, it is just a matter of habit... Some When people go out, regardless of the distance or whether the work they are doing is dangerous, they must be followed and served by servants or disciples. Even if one or two are not enough, they must bring a group. Some people feel that it is not enough to go out. When someone is serving someone, there is no sense of "walking around in the world", or they just think that the followers are a burden, that is, they just don't take them with them if they can.
It is said that Duguyong and his son left Nanjing in light casual clothes, crossed the Yangtze River one day and night, bought horses and set out again.
Originally, after crossing the river, it would be fine if they bought two high-speed rail tickets, traveled by car, or rode horses leisurely along the official road... But Dugu Sheng this time because of his heart Something happened, and for fear of delaying the plan, I was a little anxious, so I asked my son to cut a path with me and ride a fast horse.
As a result, at dusk that day, the two of them were trapped in a place called "Zhimaling".
This place name makes sense - some of the roads here are nothing when you first walk in, but as you walk, they become "You can still walk on foot, but the farther you ride on a horse, the harder it becomes."
Dugu and his son went from riding a horse to leading a horse, and finally had no choice but to let the horse go and changed it to Carrying the luggage alone,
Even so, the two of them still couldn't go out when the sun went down.
There's nothing to say, it's just a night in the forest... ...Anyway, the weather is not too cold now, and they are both highly skilled in martial arts. They can just find a sheltered or leaning place to cross their legs and adjust their breathing, half asleep, until dawn. Even if a ferocious beast attacks during this period, they will I am also confident that I can detect and respond in time.
There was no words in the first half of the night until around midnight.
Suddenly, a gust of wind blew through the forest, stirring up Dugu Sheng. Shivering for a while, he instinctively opened his eyes.
Dugu Sheng thought: Now that he is awake, he might as well get up and pee.
This man has reached a certain age. , that's it, no matter how awesome a martial arts master he is, he will still get up at night.
Dugu Sheng naturally will not urinate on the spot where he and his son rest, so he does. After getting up, he stretched his muscles a little and walked towards the forest a little further away.
Dugu Yong naturally heard the noise and guessed that his father was probably going to relieve himself, so it was nothing.
About two minutes later, Dugu Sheng came back after urinating, but his steps and breathing... were accelerated. This was a bit strange. Why was he still peeing better than before? Why are you so anxious?
Dugu Yong realized at that time that his father might have discovered something. He quickly opened his eyes and stood up, met Dugu Sheng who was returning quickly, and asked first: "Dad, what's wrong? ? "
"Shh-" Dugu Sheng stretched out his hand to signal his son to lower his voice, then lowered his voice before replying, "Look over there..."
Dugu Yongxun Looking in the direction of his father's finger, he spotted a strange light at a glance.
Although the light source was far away and blocked by layers of trees, it could still be seen that it was colorful. , as bright as a rainbow, you can tell at a glance that it is not the light that ordinary torches and lanterns can emit.
But in the middle of the night, in the deep mountains and old forests, there is no doubt that someone is holding a lantern festival in this mountain, right?
Everything that goes wrong must have a monster. The father and son are both old people, and they are brave people who are skilled in art. When they see this situation, it is impossible to ignore it, because even if they ignore it , there is no guarantee that the source of this vision will not come to them.
"Go and find out? "So, a few seconds later, Duguyong asked in a low voice.
"I'll go ahead, please pay attention behind you. "Dugu Sheng didn't say much. After replying this sentence, he took the lead to go to the luggage area and picked up the weapons.
Dugu Yong also reacted in the same way, and then the two of them walked towards each other one after another. The light source was sneaking up.
The light seemed strange just now, but when they started walking, it was surprisingly close. The two of them had just passed by a tree that exuded fresh air. After walking a few feet,The source of the light became clearly visible to the naked eye.
After walking a few feet and pushing grass through the forest, an ancient house in the mountains suddenly appeared in front of their eyes. The seven-color light came from the walls of this mansion.
"Something's wrong..." Dugu Yong murmured, "When I was choosing a resting place earlier, I went to the tree to confirm the surrounding terrain, but I didn't see the house at that time."
p>"Could it be that it was dark at that time and the lights were not bright here, so you missed it?" Dugu Sheng put forward a very reasonable hypothesis.
"This..." Dugu Yong thought for a moment, "It's not completely impossible."
But after he finished his reply, Dugu Sheng did not answer any more words. There was silence for a moment.
Afterwards, it was Dugu Yong who spoke first: "Dad, are we going to knock on the door?"
"Well..." Dugu Sheng groaned, and then said, "Son Ah, maybe my father is getting older and has more ideas... I think this house is really weird, I'm afraid..."
"Dad, you mean...you're worried that there are ghosts here?" Duguyong answered.
"Yes." Dugu Sheng and his son had nothing to deny. He continued, "As a father, I know that you never believe in this..."
"No, no, no. ." Unexpectedly, Dugu Yong interrupted at this time, "I believe it now."
"Huh?" Dugu Sheng can't stand it now.
"It's not so much a letter as I'm basically sure it's true." Dugu Yong added without waiting for his father to react.
"It's not...you...this..." Dugu Sheng was suddenly startled and hesitated to speak, "When were you sure of this? I didn't hear you tell your father about it. "
"I thought you didn't believe this. Besides, we don't usually encounter this kind of thing, so I didn't tell you." Dugu Yong said, "I was at Wujian Villa before. After the war, I heard about it from brother Huang Donglai from Huangmen in Shuzhong."
"Is he... reliable?" Dugu Sheng was still doubtful.
"He is the direct disciple of the deputy head of the Xuanqi Sect in Navawu Mountain...I don't think his words are true." Dugu Yong said again.
"Oh..." Dugu Sheng nodded, "He didn't run away, so... let's run."
After saying that, Lao Deng immediately changed direction and prepared to run away. Take your son and escape from this ancient house.
However, even if Dugu Sheng made a wise choice at this moment that the protagonists in ordinary horror movies would never make, they have all come, how can it be so easy to leave?
Just when the father and son were about to run away, the sound of harps and the chirping of silk pipes suddenly started to sound in the ancient house.
Bursts of strange music, like a pair of invisible hands that can capture the soul, stretched out from the ancient house and grabbed the father and son instantly.
For a while, Dugu Sheng and Dugu Yong felt dizzy and sluggish, as if they were drunk, like they were in the middle of a nightmare...
When they came back to their senses,, the two of them staggered to the door of the ancient house.
At this time, they saw clearly that the two doors of the house were open. The two "colorful" lanterns hanging at the door had the word "Peng" written on each.
Then, another gust of wind blew from behind them, and with a "whoosh" sound, they were "pushed" into the door. The transcoding has been serious recently, which makes us more motivated and updates faster. Please use your little hands to exit the reading mode. Thank you