readsfreenovel Chapter 661 Visiting Mo's Homeland
Chapter 661 Visiting Mo's Homeland
The two of them ate and talked, and before they knew it, three or four hours had passed.
It was getting dark early, almost evening time.
Xuanying finally stood up and said, "General Mu, lead me over now."
Mu Longguang agreed, and asked the guards to prepare horses, and rode with Xuanying to the Mo family garden. Mu Longguang didn't want too many people to know about this, so he didn't bring other guards with him.
When the two of them arrived at the Mo family garden, Mo Haodong was already waiting at the gate. Behind him were no longer servants, but two very sturdy men. The two men looked somewhat similar, and they should be brothers. One of them had very short eyebrows and looked a few years older.
The two servants had ferocious looks in their eyes, like wolves that had not eaten for a long time.
These two people were none other than the Wu brothers Wu Dadan and Wu Daxiong who had fought with Chu Xiaomu.
Mu Longguang glared at him, and Mo Haodong bowed to Xuanying reluctantly.
When the Wu brothers saw that their young master actually bowed to a young boy in his twenties, they looked unhappy. Wu Daxiong even frowned and snorted heavily.
Xuan Ying didn't even raise his eyelids, ignoring Mo Haodong and the other two. This made the Wu brothers even more furious, clenching their fists and wishing they could rush up to fight him.
Mu Longguang asked: "Haodong, have all the people in Xiyuan been cleared out?"
Mo Haodong replied: "My godfather, all the people there have been cleared out. I even drove away the dogs myself. There is not even a single mouse left."
Mu Longguang frowned, thinking to himself, "My brother Mo Shiyuan is such a noble man, how could he have such a bastard son like you?" He said, "I want to go with General Xuan to take a look. During this period, no one else is allowed to go there. Do you hear me?"
Mo Haodong agreed, but what he was thinking in his heart was, "Granny, this is my Mo family. I can go wherever I want. What's it to you?"
Mu Longguang didn't say much to him. He asked someone to prepare a torch and took Xuanying to the west garden of the Mo family garden.
After passing a large and dense forest, we saw a cluster of neatly built houses.
Mu Longguang pointed to the house and said, "This is the Mo Family West Garden. The ruins of Emperor Xuanzong's old house are also mainly in this area, but the scope of the ruins is much larger."
As they walked, he told Xuanying the approximate scope of the ruins of Xuanzong's old residence.
This barren mountain is not small, but it is not high either. Xuanzong's old house was mainly built on the flat land halfway up the mountain, and the demolished Mo family's West Garden only occupied a small area.
The terrain on the south side is slightly higher and is a dense forest. The terrain on the north side is lower and a pond of more than ten acres has been built with some lotus flowers and aquatic plants planted in it.
Mu Longguang said, "General Xuan, to be honest, my brother-in-law and I have searched this place for hundreds of times, but unfortunately we have not found the entrance to the secret room. Later, my brother-in-law passed away, and my adopted son did not know that this was the site of Emperor Xuanzong's old house. Seeing that the weather here was good, he planned to build a West Garden. I wanted to stop him at first, but then I thought that when the construction would involve digging up the soil and rocks, maybe we could find the secret room, so I ignored it. Unfortunately, the house was built, but we still found nothing."
Xuanying and Mu Longguang did not speak as they inspected the old site, but instead focused their attention on the Tianguan to observe the surrounding terrain.
The two of them walked and talked, bypassing the west side of the Mo family's west garden and coming to a grassy path that looked like a road but was not a road. There were shady trees on both sides, and it was pitch black in the middle of the night.
Xuanying noticed that there were many large rocks protruding from the forest, so he asked, "Where is this place? Why are there so many rocks?"
Mu Longguang said: "Mo Shiyuan and I guess that this should be the garden of your Xuanzong's old house. These stones are fake stone mountains." As he spoke, he took Xuanying to a large stone that was nearly two meters high and a full meter wide.
Xuanying looked at the large rock covered with moss and weeds, crawling with wisteria, and exuding an ancient atmosphere, and couldn't help feeling deeply moved.
According to his father Xuan Ding'an, when Emperor Xuanzong moved out of Baijun City, there were 600 to 700 people, including not only the Xuan clan, but also many servants and soldiers. After moving to Lixuan Island, the number grew to more than 1,200 people more than 400 years later. Unfortunately, today, only Xuanying and Xuan Youzhu are left.
Mu Longguang continued, "We have carefully examined these artificial stone mountains and found that they were all transported in for decoration. They are not naturally generated stones. Unfortunately, there is no secret under the stones." Then he smiled and said, "Such large stones must have taken a lot of effort to transport them in."
Xuanying suddenly said, "General Mu, please go too. I want to see it alone."
Mu Longguang was stunned for a moment, then he realized that Xuanying didn't want others to know how he found the entrance to the secret room, and he would not let others know where the entrance to the secret room was, so he had to say goodbye and leave.
Before leaving, he wanted to leave the torch to Xuanying, but Xuanying shook his head and said no.
Mu Longguang thought that after opening the Force, people's vision would become very sharp, but they still needed some light. But tonight there were no stars or moons, and this descendant of Xuanzong did not need the help of torches. The Force was indeed much deeper than his own. He could not help but admire Xuanying even more.
In fact, Xuanying did not need the help of light, but he preferred darkness. In the darkness, his celestial observation ability was more acute and more accurate.