Shen Haolin and Shen Cha walked out of Uncle Yan's yard hand in hand and braved the heavy snow to go to the main courtyard of the Duke's Mansion, where the old Duke and his wife lived. In this courtyard, there is a very mysterious place that few people even know about, even from the Duke's Mansion.
Entering the ancestral hall dedicated to the ancestors of the Shen family, Shen Haolin and Shen Cha respectfully kowtowed to the tablets of their ancestors, lit incense, then turned around the memorial tablets and came to the ancestral hall through a secret passage. back door. After opening the back door, you entered another courtyard, as if you were in another world.
This courtyard looks deserted and unpopular, but in fact it should be the most tightly guarded place in the entire Zhenguo Palace. Once an outsider enters, they will definitely die.
Although this courtyard is large, there is only one room, or only one warehouse, which is the legendary Duke's Mansion Armory that houses hundreds of varieties and nearly a thousand magical weapons.
Although the description of the magical weapons is a bit exaggerated, each of these nearly a thousand weapons has a great background and carries the hard work of several generations of princes, even at a high price.
Except for a very small part that was a reward from the late emperor and Song Jue, most of them were trophies, taken from the hands of the Liao and Jin generals, and some of them were famous weapons that ranked relatively high on the weapon spectrum. And this armory was also built for them.
The people responsible for guarding the armory are the private soldiers of the Duke's Mansion. Because they wear armor and masks all year round, everyone is accustomed to calling them armored guards. There are a total of one hundred armored guards here. They are the best among the best soldiers, and they can achieve excellence in every assessment. Any one person can fight one against a hundred. Unless there is a particularly urgent battle that requires their support, most of the time, their responsibility is to guard the armory. With them around, it would be difficult for even a fly to fly in.
"My lord, general!" When the four armored guards guarding the entrance of the armory saw Shen Haolin and Shen Cha, they all knelt on one knee and saluted.
"Everyone, please get up." Shen Haolin raised his hand, and together with Shen Cha, handed their tokens to the armored guards for inspection.
The little leader guarding the gate picked up two tokens and walked to the left and right sides of the gate. He put the tokens into the secret slots on both sides. When the gate slowly opened, the little leader took out the two tokens and held them respectfully. In front of Shen Haolin and Shen Cha.
"My lord, general, please put it away!"
"Thank you for your hard work!" Shen Haolin took back the two tokens and looked at Shen Cha, "Let's go!"
The entire armory is divided into an above-ground floor and a basement floor. The above-ground floor is empty, with only two weapons placed in the most conspicuous position. One is the Crescent Slash used by the old man during his lifetime, and the other is The old lady's eight-foot-long snake spear.
Everyone in Daxia thought that although the old lady was born in a general family, she had not learned the kung fu passed down from her family. People who think this way are actually all wrong. The old Duke's wife's kung fu is no worse than that of the old Duke. She can dance with a snake spear that is eight feet long. She followed the old man in the north and south, and later stationed in Jiaping Pass for many years, and killed many foreigners. However, the old man’s wife always kept a low profile and did not like to be in the limelight. Her military exploits were all added to On the body of the old man. Both the late emperor and Song Jue were very clear about this.
Shen Haolin and Shen Cha knelt in front of Xinyue Zhan and Zhangba Snake Spear again and kowtowed. Then they walked next to Xinyue Zhan and gently turned a wolf head sculpture on the shelf. The wall on the left slowly It split from the middle, revealing a mysterious secret passage.
Shen Haolin and Shen Cha walked into the secret passage and found another wolf head sculpture in the door. They twisted it and saw the secret door slowly closing. Then they turned around and left, walking down the stairs to the underground of the armory. layer.
Although the path down was a bit dark, when we finally reached the underground level of the armory, our eyes suddenly opened up. There were a hundred bright lamps lit inside, illuminating the place as if it were daytime.
"My lord, general!" The leader of the armored guard saluted Shen Haolin and Shen Cha, "You two are here today, what do you want to see?"
"We are here to pick up something like that today!" Shen Cha smiled, "Take us there!"
"Yes, you two, please come with me!" The leader nodded clearly, "This way, please."
"Unknowingly, the armory has already collected so many things." Shen Haolin took Shen Cha and walked all the way to look at it. He said with emotion, "The more weapons collected here, it is equal to the number of foreigners we have killed." The more.”
"The more foreigners who have status are killed, this belongs to Jin Kingdom General Wan Yanlun. I still remember the shock on his face when he was beheaded by his brother. He couldn't believe that he had fought for so many years. , to be defeated by a young general." Shen Cha took Shen Haolin's hand and chuckled, "However, Wan Yanlun's weapons are weird, and I have never seen him use them. When he goes to the battlefield, he always uses a scimitar like an ordinary soldier. How he uses this unique weapon of his own seems to be a mystery."
"This thing is actually very similar to a mace, and the usage is probably similar, but it has a mechanism. How to use this mechanism is very important. If you don't do it well, you will hurt yourself." Shen Haolin took a look. The guard leader said, "When this thing was put in before, some of them used it out of curiosity. Fortunately, they were quick and avoided it quickly, otherwise they would have been seriously injured."
"The Duke is right." The guard leader nodded. The three of them stood in front of the strange weapon. He pointed to the front and back. "There are mechanisms on both sides of the front and back, and they can shoot very thin weapons." Silver needles, press the button, and dozens of silver needles will be ejected. The most important thing is that we later checked and found that every silver needle is poisonous. Therefore, even if we are interested in it, we will not It hasn’t been moved.”
"Well done!" Shen Haolin and Shen Cha nodded at the same time, "Safety is the most important thing."
The three of them walked and watched, and the memories of the battles over the years slowly came to mind. Shen Haolin and Shen Cha felt a little emotional. Although one of them was twenty-two years old and the other was about to celebrate his eighteenth birthday, they were They have experienced too many things in just twenty or ten years. They have experienced the ups and downs, joys and sorrows of life, and they feel much older than their peers.
"arrive!"
After walking for almost a cup of tea, the three people finally arrived at the destination of their trip. This area was full of famous bows and arrows, almost a hundred of them, all of which came from the Liao and Jin generals. The goal of Shen Haolin and Shen Cha was the heavy bow that was completely black and hung in the middle of the middle row.
"Take it down!" Shen Haolin pointed to the heavy bow made of black gold and smiled softly, "After going around for so many years, this bow and arrow has finally returned to Uncle Yan's hands."
"Yes!" Shen Cha nodded and reached out to take the bow and arrow held by the guard leader. "When you hold it like this, this bow weighs more than a hundred pounds. If you don't have any strength, you really can't pull it open." She stretched out her hand. Hold the bow string, pull it to a full string, and release it gently, you will hear a "pop" sound, and the candle placed not far away for supplementary lighting will be extinguished in an instant. Shen Cha raised his eyebrows and couldn't help but praise, "What a great bow!"
"Great work, General!" the guard leader praised. "This bow weighs one hundred and twenty kilograms, and half of the armored guards cannot draw a full string."
"The bow of the general of the Jin Kingdom is still a little lighter than that of the general of the Liao Kingdom. Last time I was in Wuma Town, I weighed the bow of the old general Wanyan Zesheng. It was much heavier than this, weighing at least two hundred kilograms. I can only reluctantly draw a full string." Shen Cha took the guard leader's box and carefully put the bow in, "Okay, it has been here for so many years, it's time to return it to Uncle Yan. .”
"No, Uncle Yan got this bow back then. However, a lot of things happened at that time. He was severely hit and couldn't draw the bow at all. My father could only put it in temporarily. Armory. Now that the knot has been resolved, it can be returned to its original owner."
"At that time, Brother Xiao Tian said that he wanted to send a gift, so I thought of this. No matter how much money I give, this is not as good as this one. After all, Uncle Yan is not short of money, right?"
"Yes, we have a good understanding, and we came together." Shen Haolin patted the guard leader on the shoulder, "Go ahead, let's go out on our own."
"Congratulations to the Duke, and to the general!"
Carrying the box containing the heavy black gold bow, Shen Haolin and Shen Cha returned the same way and returned to the ancestral hall through two secret passages.
"Father, mother!" Shen Haolin put the box on the ground, knelt on the futon with Shen Cha, and kowtowed to the souls of the old man and his wife, "Today is a good day, a great joy for Uncle Qin and Uncle Yan. Days. They had been separated for many years because of a misunderstanding, leaving a knot in each other's hearts. Many years later, the misunderstanding was solved and the knot disappeared. They decided to work together to spend the last stage of their lives. Father, mother, please Bless them!”
"Father, mother, my brother and I decided to give this bow to Uncle Yan as a gift, hoping that they can live in peace and harmony in the future. They are our relatives and elders, and my brother and I will be filial to them. Don't worry. Bar!"
After saying that, Shen Haolin and Shen Cha kowtowed three times to the memorial tablet, stood up, picked up the small box and walked out of the ancestral hall.
"Shall we put this back in our house?" Shen Cha pulled Shen Haolin towards Huqiu, "When the time is almost up, how about we find an excuse to sneak out and give them a surprise? "
"Okay!" Shen Haolin smiled fondly, "I'll listen to you."
The two of them walked back to Huqiu hand in hand, returned to their bedroom, and hid the box in the secret compartment behind the bookshelf.
"Let's go, I want to see if Xiaoyun, Qi Qi and Shi Qi have any good ideas to embarrass my master."
"Aren't you worried about your master being angry at all? For so many years, no one has dared to tease him."
Shen Cha closed the door, looked at Shen Haolin with a smile, pulled him and said, "My master is very generous. He doesn't care about harmless jokes at all. Besides, I dare to bet you." , he will definitely play more energetically than us!"
"I hope so!"
Shen Haolin and Shen Cha returned to Uncle Yan's yard and saw three people squatting under the eaves at a glance. When they left, these three people were squatting like this. An hour later, these three people were still like this. Squatting without even changing his position.
"You three..." Shen Cha first pulled Song Qiyun up and threw him into the house, then picked up Ying Shiqi and Ying Shiba, "Don't you feel cold? What if you get frostbite? By the way. , where is Mei Zhu?"
"Sister Miao Miao asked someone to come over and say that she doesn't have enough manpower there and needs to find Sister Xiaozhu and Sister Xiaolin."
Shen Cha stood under the eaves and shouted toward the roof, "Fifteen, go get a few bowls of ginger soup. Remember to bring your own."
"Okay, wait for me for a while and I'll be right back!"
Shen Cha watched Ying Shishi swish away, turned around and entered the house, and saw Shen Haolin bringing two charcoal basins to the three naughty children. She conveniently put the hand stove she was carrying into Song Qiyun's hand, and took two more stoves from the table and handed them to Ying 17 and Ying 18.
"You three are quite capable. Are you really not afraid of being frozen into an iceman?"
"Sister Xiaocha, we're not cold at all." Song Qiyun held the stove and smiled at Shen Haolin and Shen Cha, "Even though our legs are a little numb, we don't dare to get up. What did you two do?"
"This is a secret. You will know when the time comes." Shen Cha smiled and turned around to see Ying Shishi running in with a food box. "Slow down!" She took the food box and put it on the table. Take out the ginger soup inside and give it to everyone. She saw other people frowning at the ginger soup in front of them, raised her eyebrows slightly, drank her own bowl while holding her breath, and then placed the empty bowl on the table. "I'm done!"
Shen Haolin was the second to finish the drink. After finishing the drink, he took out a small purse and took out two pieces of candy. He ate one himself and stuffed the other into Shen Cha's mouth.
When the other four people saw Shen Haolin and Shen Cha, no matter how reluctant they were, they had no choice but to pick up their bowls, hold their noses and drink the ginger soup.
"It's so spicy!" Song Qiyun put the bowl back on the table and also ate a piece of candy. "Look at how sweaty I am. The little bit of chill I had just now is gone."
"You three have been squatting there for a long time. What good ideas have you come up with?" Shen Cha leaned against Shen Haolin, "Don't think of anything!"
"We just have a hard time making a choice." Song Qiyun held out a finger, "First, ask the deputy commander to tell the most touching thing that happened between the two of them. It's okay not to say it, but you have to drink it. Three cups of hot ginger tea, dogwood tea and garlic juice tea. Second, please ask the deputy commander to make an affectionate confession to Uncle Yan. Otherwise, you can use a set of boxing techniques, or you can not use boxing. Wait for Uncle Yan. Come out and carry Uncle Yan all the way to Nuan Pavilion."
"Only two?" Shen Cha raised an eyebrow, "That sounds pretty good, but forget about those three cups of tea. My master has just recovered from his illness, so he shouldn't eat such irritating things." The things that moved them were okay. Forget about the affectionate confession. Unlike Brother Xiaotian, they were very thin-skinned and could not do such a thing. The one who carried Uncle Yan on his back to Nuan Pavilion was very okay. This I agree with one point. But...it's not difficult for you, I have a really good idea."
"What?" Everyone's eyes were focused on Shen Cha.
"My master hates eating celery the most. He can't stand the taste, so..." Shen Cha raised his eyebrows, "We can prepare celery for him. We don't need too much, one stick is enough!"
"Cha'er..." Shen Haolin patted Shen Cha's arm, "You are truly my disciple!"
