While I was silent, Tao Xiyu spoke first: "Senior, why don't we let this junior guess?"
The woman in the small building said coldly: "I'm asking Wang Huan, not you. If he guesses wrong, I will kill you first."
Tao Xiyu's face turned pale instantly. She opened her mouth to help, probably not because she was afraid that I would lose my head if I said the wrong thing, but because she was afraid that I would offend that woman and implicate her, so she wanted to take over the conversation and cooperate with me. Unexpectedly, she opened her mouth This brought about a fatal disaster for himself.
Tao Xiyu said in a trembling voice: "Wang Huan, you have to think carefully before you guess. My senior is a woman, please speak more tactfully!"
Tao Xiyu's meaning is very clear. She wants me to treat the people in Xiaozhu as women.
I seem to have heard: No matter how old a woman is, she likes to be coaxed. As long as you have a sweet talk and the right tricks, women of any age can be coaxed by you.
But I have never coaxed a girl in my life. Besides, how do I know what a thousand-year-old monster is thinking. Instead of being coy and cautious, it's better to just say it openly, and at worst, it will cause her to bleed all over.
I straightened my back, took two steps forward, and said loudly: "Then let me make a bold guess. If I am wrong in something, please bear with me, senior."
The woman in the small building said: "Since I asked you to say it, I am not afraid that you will say it wrong."
I said in a deep voice: "Senior must have made some agreement or bet with Zhuge Wuhou. As a result, senior lost to Zhuge Liang and sealed himself in this dark underground palace. What the junior said Right?"
While I was speaking, Tao Xiyu winked at me repeatedly and almost rushed to cover my mouth several times. It was not until I finished speaking that she looked at Xiaozhu with a pale face.
The woman in Xiaozhu's voice sank: "You are right. Then let me ask you, did I lose to Zhuge Liang because he used a trick, or because I was not strong enough?"
Tao Xiyu said before I could speak: "Of course I fell into a trap by mistake. Zhuge Liang has always been scheming..."
The woman in the small building said sternly: "I didn't ask you! Let me say it again, if you dare to speak in front of Wang Huan again, I will cut you into pieces immediately."
Tao Xiyu could only place all her hopes on me, and kept using her eyes to signal me to continue speaking as she said.
I thought for a while and then said: "Senior should have lost to the gentleman's agreement, and he must have been convinced of his defeat. Otherwise, you would not have sealed yourself in the forbidden land for a thousand years. In this forbidden land, senior can come and go freely, so the person who imprisoned senior should be The principles adhered to by our predecessors.”
The woman in the small building said coldly: "I didn't ask you this. I asked you if I am not as good as Zhuge Kongming."
I said without any hesitation: "Senior is not as good as Zhuge Liang. Zhuge knows you, but you don't know Zhuge. This is the reason why you lost to him."
The woman in the small building suddenly fell silent. This kind of silence where you can't hear the other person's happiness or anger or see the other person's emotions is the most terrifying thing.
The wind passed silently and the water flowed near the small building. The only thing that could be heard was our heartbeats and the increasingly heavier breathing. More than half of the blood guards quietly reached for the scimitars, while the other half touched their hands.
Just when everyone could hardly bear the suffocating pressure, the woman in the small building laughed loudly and said: "That's right! If you had changed your words, you would have died long ago. Zhuge Liang did not Through trickery, I lost to my own ego.”
The woman's voice softened a little, and then she said slowly: "I let you in because I have something for you to do."
The woman said in a deep voice: "My name is Gongshu Siyue, and I am the direct descendant of the Gongshu family."
I suddenly looked up at Xiaozhu.
The public loses to the aristocratic family, the public loses to Siyue
Ye Xun and I focused all our attention on the Mo family from the beginning, but we forgot that there is another inheritance in the world, the Gongshu family.
According to legend, the founder of the Gongshu family was Lu Ban, the founder of craftsmen all over the world.
Lu Ban was a native of the Lu State during the Spring and Autumn Period. His surname was Ji, his surname was Gongshu, and his given name was Ban. Later generations were respectfully called "Gongshu Zi". Because he was a native of the Lu State, he was also called Lu Ban. Although Lu Ban did not create a school like Mohism in his life, he was respected by craftsmen all over the world as the founder and a human god. The "Book of Lu Ban" has been passed down for thousands of years.
Legend has it that during the Spring and Autumn Period, apart from the Mohists, only the Gongshu family was good at using the secret techniques of organs. In a sense, Gongshujia's secret skills are not like the Mohists' emphasis on "all-inclusive love, not offense", but more practical and domineering. Therefore, there is a saying that "Mozi is good at defense, and Lu Ban is good at offense." .
Just when I was shocked by Gongshu Siyue's identity, Gongshu Siyue asked, "You should know about the grudges between the Mo family and my Gongshu family, right?"
I nodded and said, "Juniors know the allusion of 'sticking to the rules'."
No one knows to what extent the secret skills of the Mohist and Gongshu families have reached, but the grievances between the two families are widely known because of the idiom "stick to the rules."
According to legend, the Chu State was about to attack the Song State, and Lu Ban specially designed and manufactured a ladder for the Chu State in preparation for the siege. As a native of the Song Dynasty, Mozi traveled day and night to the Chu Kingdom to lobby the King of Chu. In order to persuade the King of Chu, Mozi personally defended the city and asked Lu Ban to attack. Lu Ban's siege equipment was exhausted, but Mozi's defense strategy was still more than enough. King Chu finally gave up his plan to attack Song.
Gongshu Siyue said: "The world only knows about 'sticking to the rules', but they don't know that the founder and the Mohist family still have a grudge."
Gongshu Siyue didn't wait for me to speak, and continued: "Back then, before leaving Chu, the Patriarch once said to Mozi: I have a way to deal with you, but I won't tell you. Mozi responded: I know how you are going to deal with me. But I won’t tell you either.”
"The King of Chu couldn't understand what they were saying, so he asked Mozi what they meant. Mozi replied to the King of Chu: Gongshuzi wanted to kill me. He thought that if he killed me, there would be no one to help Song defend the city. How did he know? , about three hundred of my disciples have been waiting there for you to attack."
"Hmph!" Gongshu Siyue snorted coldly, "Mo Zhai was too self-righteous and took it for granted that he would accuse the founder of something he couldn't afford to lose. In fact, the founder said at the time that he had more in his hands. Awesome agency."
When I heard this, I couldn't help but frown. If this legend is true, the grievances between the Mohist family and Gongshujia may be due to a misunderstanding.
As the founder of a sect, Lu Ban could not be said to be unrivaled in his magnanimity, but he would certainly not kill people behind his back just because he lost a gambling match.
Gongshu Siyue said again: "When the ancestor brought the mechanism to Mo Zhai for a test, Mo Zhai realized the misunderstanding. After Mozi apologized repeatedly, although he and his ancestors laughed away their grudges..."
Gongshu Siyue's voice suddenly filled with hatred: "But Mozi's disciples actually publicized the defeat of their ancestors for the sake of the name of the Mo family, and even went as far as to smear the Gongshu family to promote themselves, causing the ancestor to be stained for no reason."
When I heard this, my heart sank. Mozi's disciples were indeed mixed, otherwise the Mo family would not have split after Mozi's death.
Gongshu Siyue's voice suddenly rose a little higher and said: "Since then, Gongshu has made a family rule: wherever the Mo family defends, Gongshu must attack."
I couldn't help but gasp. I finally figured out who Zhuge Liang was guarding against in Hanzhong. It turned out to be from the Gongshu family.
Legend has it that Zhuge Liang’s secret skills came from his wife Huang Yueying.
There has always been a legend in Sichuan that "Huang Yueying shocked Zhuge Liang three times". At that time, Huang Yueying used the mechanism technique. Based on this calculation, Huang Yueying is the true successor of the Mohist organ technique.
Zhuge Liang did not show any mechanical skills before his troops left Qishan. It was not until the defeat of the Northern Expedition that he successively built the Zhuge Divine Crossbow and the Wooden Ox and the Flowing Horse. According to historical records, the wooden ox and flowing horse were just wheelbarrows that facilitated walking on mountain roads. However, I believe that Zhuge Liang must have created the magical mechanism described in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". As soon as Wooden Ox and Lost Horse appear, the Gongshu family will definitely get the news that the descendant of the Mohist organization is in Shu.
Lu was in the territory of Cao Wei at that time, and Zhuge Liang's only rival in his life was Sima Yi and Chen Bing on the border, threatening Hanzhong. If the Gongshu family joins Sima Yi's command, Hanzhong will definitely be in danger.
Hanzhong is a place Zhuge Liang must defend, otherwise, he would not have left General Wei Yan in Hanzhong for ten years. Therefore, Zhuge Liang would not let the Gongshu family join Cao Wei's command under any circumstances.
I couldn't help but ask: "Senior, before he joined Cao Wei's command, he was trapped here by Zhuge Liang, right?"
Gongshu Siyue was surprised and said, "How do you know?"
I told what I had experienced, and Gongshu Siyue couldn't help but sneer and said: "What a Zhuge Liang. He knows that our Gongshu family disdains the Mohist secret arts, let alone learn Qimen Dunjia and Eight Formation Soldiers. So I deliberately left such a test. In this way, even if the descendants of the Gongshu family find the secret realm of Dingjun Mountain, they will not continue to pursue it. The people of the Gongshu family will never find me."
Gongshu Siyue was right. At the beginning, I also regarded Zhuge Liang's test as a means of selecting successors. Zhuge Liang's even more clever thing was to release the news that Liu Bei's tomb was in Lianhua Dam.
The Gongshu family was good at building tomb structures, so why would they want to rob tombs and obtain treasures? Even if they guessed that Zhuge Liang left the secret technique here, they would not come to rob the tomb.
I had forgotten about the Gongshu family from the beginning, so I accidentally broke into the so-called imperial mausoleum of Liu Bei and met Gongshu Siyue.
While I was quickly sorting out my thoughts, Gongshu Siyue suddenly said, "Did Hanzhong be lost in the hands of a man named Wei Yan?"
"No..." I said mid-sentence when I suddenly raised my head and said, "Do you think Wei Yan is the successor of the Mohist Mechanism Technique?"
Gongsun Siyue exclaimed again: "Isn't Wei Yan a descendant of the Mo family? Then how could he be sent to build a secret realm?"