Chapter 193: Life and Death
Li Jin came to the designated location of the courtyard according to the agreement, there was no special person waiting for her here, just a gate that was also hidden, and it seemed that it should be a shortcut to somewhere. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Without half a minute of hesitation, Li Jin walked through there quickly. It's all because of the puzzle just now. The next moment Li Jin saw the riddle on the screen, he solved the riddle very well, or understood the old princess's intention to play such a trick.
Who will solve the butterfly dream, Lao Zhuang has no sun and moon.
Kuafu's father only waited for the Japanese track to be near, and Qiu Mingdu dealt with it with virtue.
The puzzle, the puzzle is all a warning to Li Jin - self-knowledge, do what you can, in other words, it is to warn Li Jin not to measure himself and try to pull the Huaiyang palace into the water.
It's just that Li Jin can't help but laugh at it in his heart, where he is involved in unrelated people, this is just self-preservation as a last resort.
But since there is such a warning, it also shows that the old princess does not want to make a big deal about it, that is to say, after that, it is probably the specific things that the two meet to discuss. That's why Li Jin dared to walk through the alley like this.
After passing through the side door, it seems to be a place similar to a back garden, and at this moment, because it is early winter, there are naturally no people here to enjoy the scenery, and the snow is naturally not cleaned.
But such an inaccessible scenery also reveals a different kind of natural beauty. The pool of thin ice in the courtyard does not seem to be very thick, and there are even places where there are still some places that have yet to freeze. And although it is said that the pool on the opposite bank can be seen, Gu Li Jin's rough estimate is also the size of 20 zhang smaller. It must have taken her half an hour to walk from this end to the exit at the disgraced end. The design here is also peculiar, only the two entrances and exits are facing each other like this, and you can see the opposite side at a glance from this end. The best views on both sides are at the farthest ends from the entrance. It seemed that the whole yard was lying horizontally in front of Li Jin like a flattened egg.
Is this a hint that Li Jin has to bypass half of the courtyard and go out from the other side to meet the old princess?
Since no one asks for directions, you can only search one step at a time according to your own understanding. Li Jin took a step forward and slowly walked towards the opposite shore in the curved corridor on the shore. It may be that few people come here before winter, at least the owner of this mansion is not very here, as can be seen from the dead leaves on the bluestone ground along the way.
On the side of the pond, although there is a small amount of snow blowing into the porch, walking on this winding path around the edge of the pond does not wet the hem of your clothes and shoes. On the inner side near the trees, it may be because of the foliage that the snow falls less. At this time, you can only see some dead branches and fallen leaves scattered on the road that have not been cleaned, and dirt and rocks that have been blown in by the strong wind.
There are still dwarf shrubs planted next to the railing near the inside, some of which Li Jin can name, but most of them are unrecognizable because there are only dead branches left. But if you look at the planting location and the specially pruned branches, you can imagine that it would be a beautiful place in the middle of summer.
Just when Li Jin walked halfway to the farthest end from the exit, the snowflakes suddenly began to fall without wind, almost at the same time, Li Jin's ears sounded the squeak of tree branches rubbing, just when she reacted enough to someone around her to rush out, she also felt a strong hand in her back, and before she had time to turn around and see whether the person behind her was male or female, Li Jin had already flown out of the ground with both feet.
Because this is the closest place to the pool, and it is also the narrowest part of the verandah—it is as wide as the two of them can walk side by side. Therefore, if someone suddenly exerts force, he will not have time to find the fulcrum under his feet, and he will fall into the pool water outside the verandah.
And the ice surface that was originally slightly condensed because of the early winter has now broken a big hole because of Li Jin's impact. Although it hurt, it didn't hurt Li Jin too seriously because it wasn't too thick ice, but because it was close to the shore, a thin layer of ice had been connected to it, and Li Jin's sudden fall into the water only smashed a somewhat round hole in it, and the rest of the place was still very intact.
At this time, after falling into the water, Li Jin was startled by the impact and the cold pool water, and the whole person was in a somewhat wooden state, only feeling that his eyes, ears and nose were constantly pouring water inward, and he instinctively swam upward, but he seemed to be isolated from the water.
With all the strength of his body, he couldn't help the clear ice layer on his head that seemed to be harder than rocks.
In a hurry, his heart became clear, and Li Jin knew that the only way to get himself off the line at this moment was to find the hole that was smashed out of the water before he lost consciousness. No longer doing useless struggles, Li Jin tried to hold the hot breath in his chest, and dived to a slight distance from the water, his feet could basically reach the bottom of the pool, fortunately, the pool water was clear, and today was a sunny day, and the sunlight was refracted to the bottom of the water through the ice crystals on the water surface, so that although the vision was not very clear, he could roughly distinguish where it was brighter.
Li Jin carefully chose the position where he wanted to float, because he knew that he was pushed into the water on the shore, so now he should not be far from the place where he just fell into the water, and the two brightest positions closest to him happened to be at the same distance, but the direction was far from each other. In one place, the ice is not thick enough to let in such light. It's just that with Li Jin's hands and feet that are gradually paralyzed at this time, I am afraid that if I choose the wrong direction at this moment, I will not be able to smash the ice crystals on the first layer of Nabobo.
With the loss of time, Li Jin's hands and feet became more and more stiff, and his lungs were burned unbearably because of the breath holding and the pool water that had just been poured into his mouth.
At this time, reason does not remember which direction he fell into the water, and he can't tell the direction of the front and back, left and right. But there was no more time to tell, Li Jin made up his mind and tried his best to swim towards one of them with his feelings. But at this moment, her luck obviously no longer favors her. The hands that were trying to reach out upwards actually touched a layer of slightly prickly things, which should be Mao Cha under the water that had just begun to freeze.
Li Jin smiled bitterly in his heart, could it be that he was going to be drowned in this pond today? It's funny, he swore that he must not be in danger of his life.
It's just that even if Li Jin's reason has given up hope of survival, instinct is still not controlling Li Jin's body. The hands took turns to smash the ice on the water, and the gradually numb hands couldn't even feel the stinging pain at this time, just when Li Jin felt that his limbs were numb, there was no trace of feeling, and the originally bright eyes seemed to suddenly fall into darkness, and then there was the feeling that the heavens and the earth were hanging upside down.
Before Li Jin's consciousness finally came out of his mind, the last thing he thought of was that the Huaiyang Mansion was afraid that this black pot was decided, and he was afraid that he was dying, and he didn't know who the person who really harmed him was.