49. (forty-nine)
Hurt......
The pain caused by the contact between his back and the ground quickly spread throughout his body, making Su Muxian couldn't help but โกโก softly.
Just as they were about to be discovered by Lu Sheng and the others, a hole suddenly opened in the ground under the table, swallowing her without warning. The entrance was a ramp, and she tumbled on it for a while, and then slammed it to the ground, the pain from behind her making it difficult for her to move even a little finger.
As for why the ground at the good end suddenly cracked, Su Muxian thought about it and felt that he might have met the legendary mechanism.
In the gossip of the rivers and lakes, it is said that the general house has set up a tunnel to build a tunnel is nothing more than to hide or escape, although it is not clear why there are tunnels in Qiyun Temple, but it is undoubtedly a blessing for her.
At that time, she hid well under the table, if she hadn't suddenly heard that the little fat man was suspected of being caught, and a mouse happened to crawl past her, she would not have been exposed because she was frightened for a while.
But fortunately, it was not discovered in the end.
Su Muxian sighed in a low voice and stood up as he groped around the stone walls.
The tunnel was a little narrow, and she could only stand alone, and the stone wall above her was only an inch higher than her, as if she was about to bump into it when she looked up.
There is no light here, it is pitch black, and nothing can be seen with the naked eye alone, and there is a faint wind blowing, which teaches her to be a little flustered. And I rolled a long way just now, and it's hard to say whether it's the same Zen room above my head now.
The most important thing is that if Lu Sheng and the others find out that she is missing, and they suspect that their secret has been leaked, they will not let her go even if they dig three feet into the ground. Even if they didn't chase it down themselves, they would send someone to wait outside, so the safest way for now was to follow the tunnels to an unknown location.
And what lies ahead of the darkness in the end, no one knows.
Su Muxian grabbed her hair irritably, stared at the place where she fell and hesitated for a moment, then took out a fire fold from her pocket and lit it. The faint glow of the fire dispelled a small patch of darkness centered around her. She pursed her lips and stepped into the bottomless tunnel.
She opened the mechanism by mistake, and she was confused by the second monk and didn't know what she had encountered, and naturally there was no way to guarantee that Lu Sheng and they wouldn't crack the mechanism, so if you can escape now, you should seize the opportunity to escape.
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I don't know how long the tunnel is, as if it will never end.
Su Muxian held on to the stone wall and gasped, but still didn't hold his feet and fell to the ground.
There was no light here, and she didn't know how time passed, but she felt as if she had finished the road she had to walk for the rest of her life, and the road was still long.
Who built this road for what?
Wouldn't it cost money to repair it for such a long time!
Shopkeeper Su complained dissatisfiedly, the physical pain and mental exhaustion made her a little sleepy, and she wanted to take root on the ground immediately.
Seeing that the dark and silent environment behind her didn't look like someone was chasing her, she blew out the fire and stuffed it into her sleeve, intending to rest here for a while.
Maybe I was too tired, and I was just going to take a break to recover my body, but I closed my eyes and fell asleep.
This time it seems to be a continuation of the content of the previous dream, but the location has changed. She looked up at the five big words "want to fight out" posted on the wall, and instantly realized that it was in her inn.
It was afternoon, and the lobby was deserted, and there was not a single guest. Jiang Yuanzhong sat on the threshold with his back to her, half of his body leaned against the door, grabbed a piece of peach wood in one hand and looked carefully at the sun, and casually asked behind him while watching, "What tricks do you like from the shopkeeper?" โ
She stood behind him with her hands behind her back, looked over, her eyes lingered on the short knife and peach wood in his hand for a while, and said suspiciously, "You really want to do it yourself?" โ
She just said it casually at the time, but she didn't expect that when he came back, he really found materials, saying that he had to make her a unique hairpin to apologize - although it was very contrary to his intentions when he heard it.
"I haven't done it before, but it shouldn't be that hard to think about." Jiang Yuanzhong said with great confidence, and also brought Su Muxian's other hairpin as a reference, "Wait, it will be done soon." โ
With that, he made a shallow outline of the dagger on the peachwood.
"It's not me who strikes you, but I advise you to wipe the table again if you have time." The upright shopkeeper Su said.
Jiang Yuan shook his head and didn't speak, the dagger in his hand changed angles and quickly slashed the peach wood, as if he had made up his mind to prove it to her. Su Muxian couldn't help him, shrugged his shoulders and returned to the counter.
When she finished reading half of the script, Jiang Yuan spoke again.
"Shopkeeper, is there Jinchuang Medicine in the store......
There was a subtle hint of embarrassment in his voice, just like his expression at this point.
Su Muxian: "......"
Su Muxian: "I told you a long time ago that if you don't have that diamond diamond, don't work on porcelain, why don't you listen, you stupid roe deer." โ
She rolled her eyes, and despite the sarcasm, she honestly took out the wound medicine from under the counter and handed it to him.
"Don't carve it, you're going to get hurt, and the cost of lost work at the end of the day is more expensive than my hairpin."
Jiang Yuanzhong couldn't see that she was hard-mouthed and soft-hearted, but she was worried about her hand, so he put away the dagger and responded with a smile: "Yes, I know." โ
The matter was revealed here, but a few days later, Su Muxian received a brocade box from his own Xiaoer.
A red silk backing with a simple peach wood hairpin on it. The workmanship is not good, but the edges and corners are polished very smooth, and a small "immortal" character is engraved on the inside, which shows the intentions of the people.
The brocade box was placed directly on the counter, and Jiang Yuanzhong himself was not there. She was curious to see what he was doing, so she secretly walked to the backyard with the brocade box. The door of Jiang Yuanzhong's house was wide open, and a young man in rough clothes was cleaning the remaining wood residues, and when he turned around, he saw his shopkeeper standing in front of the door with a brocade box in his arms.
"You ......"
She had only said a word and was truncated by Jiang Yuan.
"It's a little bit worse, but it's the highest level I've been able to do so far." Young Master Jiang, who has always considered himself omnipotent, admitted for the first time that he did have things that he was not good at or even hard work on.
Su Muxian looked at the accumulated waste, and guessed that he had secretly spent a lot of effort practicing in the past few days. I felt a little touched and a little funny at the same time.
"Who told me it wasn't difficult?" The corners of her mouth curled up as she said this, "I told you a long time ago that you don't have to pay for it, it's just a hairpin, if it's broken, it's broken, why waste so much effort." โ
She casually glanced into the room, but saw a doll-like thing carved out of wood on the table, and couldn't help but ask curiously, "What is that?" โ
"What?"
Jiang Yuanzhong looked at her suspiciously, saw the puppet at a glance, his expression suddenly changed, and he stood in front of the table in a flash and hid the puppet.
"It's nothing, it's just a gadget to practice your hands."
Su Muxian saw his stern expression, and couldn't help but tease: "Could it be carved for his sweetheart?" Well...... Could it be that Miss Zhao? โ
The last sentence is a pure joke.
Jiang Yuanzhong turned his head helplessly: "How could it be her ......?"
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It hurts a little when my head rests on the stone wall, and I wake up naturally when I dream of this.
Su Muxian hugged his knees and sighed deeply, suddenly missing Jiang Yuan's return, and his desire to see him became extremely strong at this moment.
Although he has been hiding his identity when he is at the inn, the sense of security he brings to him is irreplaceable. It seems that as long as he is there, a qiฤ problem can be solved.
"No, no, no, this is too dependent on him, and I have no problem on my own."
Su Muxian covered his head and shook his head, cheered himself up in a low voice, and was about to stand up and continue walking, when he suddenly heard the sound of gentle footsteps coming from the tunnel.
Her heart was suddenly clenched by an invisible hand, her back was tightly pressed against the stone wall, and cold sweat broke out instantly.
After walking for so long, could it be that Lu Sheng and the others came here?
This thought frightened her immensely, but the tunnel was so narrow that she couldn't avoid it. What the consequences of the auspicious road meeting will be, there is no need to say much at all.
But the next moment, her high heart relaxed.
A familiar voice rang out in the darkness, accompanied by steady footsteps that soothed her nervous feelings.
"Shopkeeper, are you there?"
It's Jiang Yuanzhong, he's coming to her.