Chapter 379: A Guest at Night
The courtyard door opened, and a group of armor soldiers swarmed in, one wall entered to search, and the other wall surrounded Rong Sleeping Crane and Dong Liang, interrogating the origin.
Dong Liang pinched the cold sweat in his palms, and calmly said the disguised identity, the soldiers did not search for anyone else in the small courtyard, knocked a few words, and left.
Hands and feet neatly tied to the latch, the master and servant returned to the house, Dong Liang swept over at a glance, and found that a few more valuable ornaments were gone, and ten out of ten were cheaper armorers.
However, he didn't bother to care about these details at this time, and said with a solemn expression: "King Jun, although we have some cover-ups, but your appearance is outstanding, and you know that you are extraordinary at a glance. Even if those armorers don't recognize you, when they look back and see Shangguan, they will tell you if they can't say anything. Let's get out of here as soon as possible!"
Rong Sleeping Crane shook his head and said, "I just want to see how they react when they notice me here." ”
Seeing what Dong Liang was going to say, he pointed to the stone table behind the house, "You go and press down the entwined lotus carving under it!"
Dong Liang did as he was told, and saw that the stone table was silently separated, revealing a hole, which was dark and unclear, but there was clearly a wind blowing out, obviously through the ground. He looked at it in disbelief for a moment, then looked up and asked, "This?"
"This is a secret passage to the outside of the city, which was prepared years ago. Rong Sleeping Crane took his hand, walked over slowly, looked at it, and said with a complicated look in his eyes, "If the situation is not right later, let's evacuate from here." When you get to the outside of the city, you and the two of you, like a fish entering the sea, are chasing after thousands of troops and horses, what is there to be afraid of?"
"The king of the county, but the western frontier?" Dong Liang secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the back road, but he was still worried, "Ruru sent a strong bone to love the deer and Meng Boqin to attack the northern frontier, but the new khan Na Fuzhen is still sitting in the king's tent, so it can't be said that he is eyeing the western frontier! If you know that you are not in the western frontier at this time, how can you not take the opportunity to fall into the ground?"
Rong Sleepy Crane said: "Lone was worried about the premature birth of the Junwang Mansion, and a few days ago, he pretended to be injured and secretly went to the northern Xinjiang. During this time, the whole of Western Xinjiang has always been presided over by Mr. Leyang and Yiliu. You only see that King Gaomi has been poisoned for two days, and Chang'an City is in a mess that can't hold on, although this is because of our handwriting, but it is enough to prove that the news that the lonely person is not in the Western Xinjiang already knows!"
"He didn't personally invade northern Xinjiang at this time, most likely because he couldn't tell where the lonely person was, what was his plan? This move shows his jealousy of the lonely person. ”
"This is also human nature, after all, he has suffered too much in his lonely hands before. ”
"But since he has become wary of Gu, even if he knows Gu's whereabouts, he will not dare to rashly do anything to Xijiang unless he completely understands Gu's purpose and actions these days. Because he can't confirm at all, is Lone's whereabouts leaked out of necessity or deliberate?"
He said lightly, "And even if Fu Zhen personally led a large army to attack the western frontier, it would be nothing...... After all, although the world thinks that Lone's foundation lies in the West Xinjiang, Lone has never felt that there is anything that the West Frontier cannot give up?"
Dong Liang was stunned when he heard this, but his frowning brows still couldn't let go: "King Jun, even if you have already made arrangements for the Western Frontier, but the sword has no eyes, this time it is still too risky!"
It's just that he couldn't persuade Rong Sleeping Crane to leave, and if he said a few more words, Rong Sleeping Crane was impatient, and even wanted to send him away first, but he could only shut up.
After a while, looking at the sky, Dong Liang sighed and went to cook.
His cooking skills are just average, but because he was not in the mood at this time, he hastily cleaned up a few side dishes and put them on the table, and he ate the same wax by himself, and Rong Sleeping Crane said: "It's unpalatable!" However, with a pot of rice wine, he ate it for half an hour without delay, and then asked Dong Liang to clean it up.
During this period, Dong Liang's right hand almost never left the hilt of the knife on his waist, but the inside and outside of the small courtyard were always calm.
When it was evening, Rong Sleeping Crane Xu saw that he was too anxious, and reminded: "Lonely is powerless, there are many people who know this." If you want to deal with Lonely, most of them will choose to sneak attack at night, so you might as well go and settle down now, and get up after dark, so as not to have no energy at that time. ”
Dong Liang was originally unwilling, but after thinking about it, he was afraid that he was really too tired, but it dragged Rong Sleeping Crane down, so he went back to the room to rest worriedly.
He slept this time, unconsciously in the middle of the night, opened his eyes and saw the stars in the sky, frightened, hurriedly stayed to find Rong Sleeping Crane, walked out of the door, and saw that although the doors and windows of the main hall were closed, the window paper was clear, obviously more than one or two lights were lit.
Thinking that Rong Sleeping Crane was reading a book or learning calligraphy, Dong Liang quickened his pace and was about to push the door in, but he didn't want to see two figures reflected in the window paper, sitting opposite each other, should be talking.
His heart was awe-inspiring, and he subconsciously clenched the hilt of the knife, and raised his voice to probe: "Master?"
"Dong Liang, you're up just right, go make a pot of tea!" Rong Sleepy Crane's voice immediately came from inside, calm and calm, not like there was any emergency.
Dong Liang had doubts, hurriedly went to the back to make tea, turned out a painted wooden plate, tidied up his clothes, and sent it to the main hall.
Pushing open the hidden door, I saw that the lights inside were filtered by a glass screen, and it was still as bright as day.
Turning the screen, the wenge wood on the top carved grass pattern warped head, Rong Sleeping Crane is sitting a few times apart from a person.
Both of them wore dark colored robes without lines, but Rong Sleeping Crane's face was unconcealed, his black hair was neatly tied in the amber cloud pattern hair crown, and a mutton fat jade gilt hairpin was inserted horizontally, his skin was crystal clear and almost clear under the candlelight, and his eyes were as cold as the stars in the night.
And the man who spoke to him, though he was indoors, still had a wide hat.
A black gauze hangs down the edge of the hat, reaching to the chest.
Even the hands resting on his lap were tightly wrapped in gloves.
If it weren't for the tall figure, it wouldn't look like a woman, and it would be difficult to distinguish between men and women.
Dong Liang peeked at this person for a moment, he couldn't tell if he was friend or foe, so he lightly served tea, stood behind Rong Sleeping Crane, and saw Rong Sleeping Crane waving his hand to signal him to go out, so he was unwilling to retreat.
After he left, there was silence in the room for a moment, and then Rong Sleeping Crane said lightly: "It's hard work, please use tea!"
The man on the other side did not move at all, and said in a calm tone: "It's not early, I should go back." ”
His voice was low and hoarse, and he sounded a little older.
"To be clear, you can come and go at any time. Rong Sleeping Crane picked up the tea bowl by himself, took a sip of tea, and smiled, but there was no smile in his eyes, "What do you think?"
"I'm coming alone tonight, isn't that the answer that the county king wants?" the man said slowly, "Although that person has never been with the county king, but after many years of teaching, after leaving the posthumous Ze, does the county king still have to doubt it?"
Rong Sleepy Crane said: "Naturally, I am suspicious. After all, Meng Guiyu can have today, and his lone contribution is not small, isn't it?"
The man's veil moved lightly, as if he laughed silently, and said: "How can the county king compare himself with Meng Guiyu? Not to mention anything else, the county king, please ask yourself, do you have the hard work you spent on Meng Guiyu? You are just a guide to Meng Guiyu, there happens to be such a person, and it happens that his position can take advantage of the layout, so he added fuel to the fire. There is no Meng Guiyu, there is also Zhang Guiyu and Li Guiyu! And that one, over the years, has only cultivated one Wuyi camp master. How clearly does the name and words he has chosen for you clearly show what he wants from you?"
"King Jun, your suspicion of him, maybe he knows about it and won't care. ”
"But for me and other people...... Somewhat, a little chilling!"
"This is because loneliness is different from you. Rong Sleeping Crane was indifferent to this, and said coldly, "You are the teacher's subordinates, and you are the henchmen who still meticulously carry out his plan after the teacher is gone, regardless of the price that this plan will cost you. But Lone is a disciple of the teacher, and a disciple who has never been told of his will. Lone didn't know if he agreed with the teacher's will...... You can live with a firm goal and die in a daze, but you can't do it alone. ”
The man pondered for a moment and said, "The king of the county is wrong, and we can't be regarded as a student with a firm goal, because I don't know the real purpose of that person, but I just do things according to the instructions left by that person before his death!"
Rong Sleeping Crane said: "Then what kind of life did the teacher give you?"
"The king doesn't have to ask. The man laughed visibly this time, and said, "Since you know that we are the henchmen of that person, you should know that since the one who told you not to tell you, we must keep it a secret no matter what." ”
Seeing that Rong Sleeping Crane's expression was cold, he paused and replied, "I can only tell the county king that it is your mentor." ”
"......" Rong Sleeping Crane's eyes flickered coldly, and the atmosphere in the room was almost solidified.
After a while, he seemed to think of something, and finally spoke, "What about Ruru's invasion...... Did the teacher leave any advice?"
…… When Rong Sleeping Crane asked the guests at night, the wind on the sea changed from slightly cool to soft, obviously it was gradually entering late autumn, and as the fleet moved south, the climate became warmer and warmer.
So much so that Sheng Weiqiao specially asked people to turn his bed to a different position so that it was facing the porthole, so that he could enjoy the sea breeze at night to avoid the heat.
She tossed and turned this night, and she couldn't sleep, because in the afternoon of the day, Xu Lianshan sent someone to tell her, saying that she would be able to go ashore at noon the next day.
Thinking of reuniting with their long-separated families, Sheng Weiqiao and Xuan Yu Feng were both excited.
It's just that the anticipation in the middle of the night was excited, and I unexpectedly saw the mighty Milky Way on the canopy from the half-open porthole, and I thought that in the past July, there was a begging festival related to Morning Glory Vega.
There was a faint self-deprecation in my heart: "The poems of the predecessors said that these two are 'Yingying and water, and the pulse is silent'." However, because of the obstruction of the queen mother, people only see each other once a year. My father and mother obviously didn't get in the way, but since they got married, they have also gathered less and left more, and even at this time, they don't know what year and month the next time they meet?"
Thinking like this, melancholy came up, but the joy of seeing his parents and relatives was diluted, the water vapor between the eyelashes opened and closed was faint, and even the pillow towel was a little tidal, and he was just thinking about all kinds of things since he met Rong Sleeping Crane.
At that time, the two brothers and sisters were commensurate, and they didn't feel very precious when they got along day and night, but now they say goodbye at every turn, and they suddenly feel that they don't know how to cherish it.
The more Sheng Weiqiao thought about it, the more depressed he became, and when it was close to dawn, he fell asleep.