The soldiers set up camp on the other side of the stream. Bian Lingbai has not told everyone what was in the cave so far. He was very careful about money. Duan Ling was out of the way and waited outside for him to come out. The two walked aside and stood behind the big tree that Duan Ling had set on fire earlier. Wu Du first bowed, washed the powder on his hands, and said to Duan Ling, "Beads."
Duan Ling took out the golden bead, and Wu Du put it on the ground. The golden bead gradually stretched out and returned to the shape of a centipede. It got out of dormancy and began to forage around.
Immediately afterwards, it seemed to have found something, climbed along the creek, and quickly sank into the grass.
"It's called 'Golden Crow'." Wu Du patted Ben Xiao casually, put it aside to graze, and said, "After being bitten, you can't speak or move. The heat was unbearable, and the internal organs melted and died."
Duan Ling remembered that when he saw it for the first time, it was Wu Du who put the golden bead on the counter to scare him. However, after learning about Wu Du, he knew that Wu Du would definitely not kill an innocent child indiscriminately. Just kidding him.
The powder that bounced into Bian Lingbai's neck before must be the medicine powder that attracted the centipede, and Wu Du once fed him a medicine, most likely when the centipede felt that Duan Ling was his own and would not be held in his arms. , suddenly popped up and bit him.
"How long will it take?" Duan Ling asked.
"It's almost time." Wu Du said, "I'll be able to bite him at the moment of a stick of incense."
The golden centipede had already got into the cave at this time, climbed rapidly in the mountain wall, and slid into the treasure. At this moment, Bian Lingbai was instructing his subordinates to separate the boxes and move them outward. The gleaming gold bars made him almost unable to open his eyes. The centipede had already attached to his boots and flew up along his waist, drilling towards his neck like lightning. He went in and dinged lightly behind his back.
Bian Lingbai felt the numbness spread rapidly, and he didn't even have time to call out. He fell forward and landed on his golden mountain. The gold bars rolled down, and the centipede was still sticking to his ribs and began to suck blood.
"General?"
"General!"
"Not good! Come on someone!"
When his subordinates heard the sound, they rushed over. Bian Lingbai's face instantly turned red, foaming at the mouth, and he couldn't say a word. The guards rushed him out of the cave.
Duan Ling and Wu Du were still waiting, and when they saw the guards across the stream carrying Bian Lingbai over, Duan Ling was still chatting and laughing with Fei Hongde for a moment, and when he saw Bian Lingbai appeared, he shouted in front of the soldiers: " Uncle! I'm back!"
Bian Lingbai was carried across the creek by the soldiers. Everyone suddenly felt that something was wrong and rushed forward. Duan Ling panicked: "Uncle!"
"Let him go!" Wu Du said.
Bian Lingbai's mouth was full of foam, and his face was flushed. Wu Du was busy giving him a pulse diagnosis himself. Duan Ling shook while Bian Lingbai said loudly, "What happened in the cave?!"
The soldiers who followed Bian Lingbai were just ordinary soldiers, and his cronies were stopped by him. The soldiers stammered and explained their passage, to the effect that he was checking the treasures in the cave, and he suddenly fell unconscious. At this moment, Bian Lingbai's eyes were staring, and he didn't even have the strength to raise his hand. His eyes were full of fear, as if he couldn't understand why "Zhao Rong" who had been kicked into the abyss by himself would appear again.
He looked at Wu Du again, and realized something in an instant, but it was too late.
"Quickly send the general back to the mansion." Wu Du replied, "The things in the cave are poisonous, let someone keep it here, temporarily seal it up, and don't move it!"
So Bian Lingbai was moved into the carriage, Fei Hongde personally guarded the carriage, Wu Du and Duan Ling rode on horseback and rushed back to Tongguan.
Dark clouds came over and rolled towards Tongguan, the mountains were cloudy with thunder, and the weather was extremely sultry. As soon as they arrived at Tongguan, everyone moved Bian Lingbai into the room, and the doctor came to diagnose. Taking advantage of this time, Duan Ling said, "I'm going to untie my uncle's clothes. It's too boring."
He found the centipede nailed under Bian Ling Baili, and with a light touch of his fingers, the blood-sucking Golden Crow curled up into a ball and fell into a dormant state. After sucking blood, its hard shell revealed a dark red color. lustrous, beautiful and enchanting.
The doctor came. At the beginning, Shi Ling was afraid that the doctor could see that he was poisoned, but the doctor in Tongguan could not see anything. Up to now, only a few lieutenants and a chief clerk among Bian Lingbai's cronies knew about Bian Lingbai. No one dared to publicize the injury, and each whispered outside the door.
"The general has a fever," said the first doctor.
"Fuck your heat!" Duan Ling roared, "Does it look like you have a heat stroke?"
The doctor was startled and hurriedly said: "Small medical skills... I'm not good at it, it's not as good as the adults..."
"Let's go!" Duan Ling said, "Give him some money and let him go back!"
The doctor had to leave, and Vice Admiral Wang was so anxious that he came in and said, "What should I do now?"
Duan Ling looked helpless and said to Bian Lingbai, "Uncle, can you hear me?"
Bian Lingbai just opened his eyes and didn't move.
Duan Ling felt that Bian Lingbai must be very frightened at this time, because he didn't know what he was going to do with him, so he could only lie on the bed and wait for death without any struggle.
"Stabilize the soldiers." Duan Lingchao's deputy general said, "Don't spread the news."
Vice Admiral Wang sighed and asked, "What exactly is in the cave?"
Duan Ling was silent for a moment, then Deputy General Wang said again, "Why don't you send someone in to take a look? Maybe you can find some clues."
Duan Ling glanced at Wu Du. When Wu Du was pondering, Duan Lingchao's deputy general said: "Tonight, I have summoned all the generals. I have something to say to you."
Deputy General Wang then withdrew, and Fei Hongde came over.
The three stood in the white room of Bianling.
"How long can he last?" Fei Hongde said, "Now you shouldn't just stay here, you must prepare quickly to avoid a mutiny at Tongguan after his death."
"Twelve hours." Wu Du replied, "The medication can be extended for a period of time after that, but it is determined that it will not last for eighteen hours."
Fei Hongde nodded, Duan Ling couldn't help but glance at Bian Lingbai. When he kicked himself off the cliff that time, Duan Ling had no sympathy for him, but just thought it felt strange.
Wu Du took out the imperial edict and handed it to Fei Hongde. The three of them stopped after their discussions and started to act separately. Duan Ling got the handwritten letter from Mu Kuangda and went to find Helianbo. Helianbo was fidgeting, not knowing what was going on. As soon as the two met, Helianbo immediately greeted him.
"For you." Duan Ling said, "The imperial court has promised me, now, look, Chen and Liangyong are brothers and will not fight each other."
Helianbo took out the letter, but he did not expect that Duan Ling actually brought Mu Kuangda's letter, and he believed him so.
At dusk, the last setting sun was in the hospital. Helianbo called a guard and told him to quickly bring the letter back to Wuwei and present it to Xiliang Prefecture, preparing to reopen the Silk Road with Nanchen and forcing Helianda to withdraw.
"In four days, the new governor of Tongguan will arrive here." Duan Ling said, "I have ordered the news to be blocked. I will send Yao Jing to marry tomorrow, and take you out of Tongguan to return to China."
Helianbo replied, "I'll stay, with you."
Duan Ling said: "Don't delay, you can leave quickly, so I can feel at ease. No one knows if your uncle will suddenly attack."
Bian Lingbai had been abolished, and his death was just around the corner. If he could no longer attack Helianbo, it would be safe. Duan Ling was afraid that the 20,000-odd army would suddenly attack.
"Let's go tomorrow." Duan Ling said seriously, "Promise me, next time we meet again, we will be able to catch up with each other well."
Helianbo had to nod, and Wu Du came to pick him up from outside the hospital. After waiting impatiently, he coughed. Duan Ling smiled at Helianbo. The two held hands. Duan Ling pressed the back of his hand, pulled out his hand, and turned around. Leave in a hurry.
Returning to the white room of Bianling, while waiting for the Tongguan senior guards to gather for a meeting, Fei Hongde said to the two: "There is another person, outside of our plan, it may cause variables, and we should not take it lightly."
If Fei Hongde didn't say it, Duan Ling still couldn't remember it. At this time, he suddenly woke up - Helan Jie!
If Helan Jie was sent by Xiliang, it meant that he would most likely go to tip off and tell Xiliang that the plan had failed and other actions needed to be taken.
How to do it
"Wuluohou Mu went to chase and kill him." Wu Du replied on his behalf, "The two have a mortal hatred."
Fei Hongde frowned slightly, nodded and said, "Wuluohoumu."
"I met him at the lonely peak of Qinling Mountains." Wu Du said.
"It turned out to be him—" Fei Hongde smiled shrewdly, taking Duan Ling's apprehension into his eyes.
"Did you say anything?" Fei Hongde asked again after turning around.
"No." Wu Du replied, then glanced at Duan Ling, motioning him to show Fei Hongde the Buddha beads in his hand.
"What made him travel thousands of miles to come here?" Fei Hongde asked thoughtfully.
Wu Du replied, "Maybe it's because Zhao Kui's treasures contain relics from the White Tiger Hall."
Fei Hongde nodded and did not speak any more. At this time, two lieutenants in Tongguan, the chief clerk, the guard officer, and the school officer all came, waiting outside the hospital, and there was a lot of discussion.
Duan Ling was very nervous, Fei Hongde whispered: "Don't panic."
Wu Du stroked Ling Bai's eyelids above, stepped forward to open the door, Fei Hongde let out the bed, Duan Ling sat beside the case, and the officers came in one after another.
"Uncle was on his way to Qinling and suddenly fell ill with a fever." Duan Ling said to the crowd with a very ugly face, "According to the doctor's diagnosis, it is a heatstroke. The generals can take turns to see if they can think of anything."
Bian Lingbai closed his eyes, his lips were trembling, the redness on his face had subsided, but the centipede's heat poison had spread into his internal organs and limbs.
"How could this disease suddenly occur?" Vice-General Xie stepped forward and looked at Bian Lingbai's eyelids, but he couldn't see why, but the news had spread to everyone's ears, and Vice-General Wang watched him enter the cave with his own eyes. At that time, there were also many soldiers who saw Duan Ling and Wu Du rushing in, and Fei Hongde was in charge, so no one suspected Wu Du and Duan Ling at all.
Bian Lingbai didn't believe anyone, he seldom told the generals about things, and everyone didn't even know why he ran all the way to a mountain stream deep in the Qinling Mountains, and was carried back after a sudden fever.
"In the past few days." Duan Ling said, "Everyone must strictly guard the border to avoid any changes. Tomorrow, I will send the entertainment officer out of the gate on behalf of my uncle."
Everyone has no objection, Bian Lingbai's situation is very bad, and they see it in their eyes, and they can't even say a word. After the crowd dispersed, there should be discussions. Duan Ling also guessed that the city will be full of storms, but he still has second-hand preparations. After the meeting, he left Vice-General Wang and Vice-General Xie behind.
Bian Lingbai was still lying on the bed, Duan Ling said, "Two uncles."
"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be." The two lieutenants hurriedly yielded. Although they were from Duan Ling's generation, they did not dare to pretend to be elders in front of Bian Lingbai.
"Tonight, please take the two of you to the cave during the day, transport the contents out of a box and bring them to the main hall." Duan Ling ordered, "But please don't make it public, and don't leak the rumors."
The two looked at each other with a calculation in their hearts. Fei Hongde and Duan Ling saw at a glance that the two lieutenants knew that there were gold bars hidden in the cave. When Bian Lingbai suddenly fell ill and was sent out, everyone would interrogate the soldiers. How could the soldiers dare to hide it? If it wasn't for Duan Ling's instructions, the two would take advantage of the night to secretly divide the treasure and flee in the dark night.
"There should be no danger in the cave." Duan Ling said, "Perhaps the secret room was not ventilated for too long, and my uncle was stimulated by a fever, but in any case, please be careful when you enter."
Wang and Xie took orders to do it. Once this box of gold bars came, Duan Ling could use it to distribute rewards, stabilize Tongguan's military heart, and get the money, who would rebel rashly? Anyway, Mu Kuangda didn't know how many boxes of gold bars there were, and divided them into two or three boxes.
"Tongguan soldiers have been in poverty for a long time." Fei Hongde said to Duan Ling, "Since the previous emperor was relieved of his military power at the foot of General Ling, Da Chen cut his funds. Zhao Kui was corrupt and he was rich in his own pockets. It is wonderful for the young master to do so. a move."
"I'm helpless too." Duan Ling said with a smile, "I hope someone from the DPRK will take over soon, otherwise, looking at the appearance tonight, I'm afraid something will go wrong. That's all, let's go down and rest, and we'll talk about it tomorrow."