Chapter 52: The Misty Moon Returns
In the middle of the night, the guards at the gate of the ancestral hall of Kao Village saw a black shadow flashing, and immediately shouted: "Who is coming?" ā
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The man who came, without saying a word, shot an arrow, and if this arrow was an ordinary family, I am afraid that he would have already been hit. However, the guard dodged the arrow very easily, drew his sword and stabbed at the shadow, who quickly leaned over and bypassed the guard, trying to take the door and enter.
He hadn't taken a few steps, but he was grabbed by the guard's shoulder, and the black shadow struggled to break free, but was caught up by the guard. The black shadow was so entangled that it couldn't get out, and with a wit, he pretended to be defeated and fled out, and the guards chased after him. The fleeing black shadow suddenly turned around and struck with a crossbow, catching the guard off guard, and the silver string of the crossbow almost cut the guard's throat. The guard dodged in a hurry, and the shadow took the opportunity to slap the guard in a series of legs, causing the guard to sting and fall to the ground. Seeing this, the black shadow hurriedly seized the opportunity to run towards the door.
Unexpectedly, another guard was already waiting for the rabbit at the door, and with a 'whoosh', the long sword was unsheathed, and the black shadow saw a cold light flashing in front of him, and quickly took three steps back, and the guard behind had already caught up.
"Stop, stop, stop, stop fighting, I don't have the strength!" The shadow raised his hands and stopped.
Only then did the two guards see clearly that it was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl.
The girl stared at their clothes for a long time, and then asked hesitantly, "Are you officers and soldiers?" ā
"Yes, who are you, and why did you break in the middle of the night?" One of the guards asked.
"Well, if I said it earlier, I wouldn't have wasted my strength fighting you. It's a misunderstanding, it's all my own. My name is Haze Moon, and I'm your adult's sister, so take me to meet you! Oh no, go to the kitchen and get me something to eat first, I haven't eaten in two days and I'm going to starve to death! ā
"Hazy Moon, this name is so familiar!" The other guard said.
"Today Yuan Gongzi, isn't the person who led us out to find it called Ha Yue?" The previous guard said, "In this way, you are guarding here, and I will go and inform Yuan Gongzi first!" ā
After a few moments, all the lights in the room were on.
The group came out.
At the forefront is Ru Yan.
"Brother!" Hazy Moon called.
"You girl, where have you been in the past two days, you?" Ru Yan's eyes turned red as she spoke.
"Yes, Sister Hazy Moon, Childe is worried about you!" Pothos also said.
"I'm sorry, I acted too recklessly and worried the big guy!" Hazy Moon apologized, "However, can you not talk about this for now, can you go to the kitchen and get me something to eat?" I've been hungry for two days now! ā
"Oh, I'll get you something to eat right away!" Pothos said.
Looking at Hazy Moon gobbling up, Ru Yan couldn't help but feel heartache, "Eat slowly, don't swallow!" ā
Hazy Moon swallowed a mouth full of food, whining and whining, pointing to the teapot.
Luluo hurriedly poured her a glass of water, and Hazy Moon took it and drank it all, and finally took a breath, "You don't know, I've been hungry for two days, and I suspect that I will starve to death!" ā
"Where the hell have you been?" Ru Yan asked.
"I'm on the altar!"
"Altar?" Yu Heng asked puzzledly: "The sacrificial platform is full of people coming and going every day, and I don't see you?" ā
"Down!" Hazy Moon continued, "That night, when Yi Lang did the Soul Restoration Dafa to revive the peony, I walked into the Shentai and saw that something was wrong! ā
"Something is wrong with Shentai? What's wrong? Yu Heng asked.
"The board of the shrine is actually a very delicately made movable mechanism. Actually, I wanted to talk to you that night, but everyone was already tired, so I wanted to tell you again the next day. But that night, I lay on the bed tossing and turning and couldn't sleep, I would be enchanted when I touched something like that, and I was afraid that they would destroy it the next day to cover up the facts, so I sneaked away to the altar to inspect it alone. And then, I was locked up inside! ā
"With your usual research on mechanical arts, you shouldn't be trapped so easily?" Ru Yan asked.
"Alas, sure enough, they destroyed the mechanism of the Shentai the next day, and I couldn't get out. However, I have not been trapped in vain in the past two days, and I have already figured out several of their secret paths. Some of these hidden passages are very long, and even pass through the Zijiang River. I searched and searched, and finally found a secret passage to the dock, and this is how I came out! Hazy Moon replied.
"So the Yilang and the messenger who escaped are also hiding in these secret passages?" Yu Heng asked.
"Childe, then I'll take someone to search for it tomorrow!" Yuan Feng said.
"It's useless, it took me two days to figure out only two of their secret passages. I don't know exactly how many of them have built, and these secret tunnels are connected to each other into a network, which is very intricate, and people who are not familiar with it can get lost in it if they don't pay attention. The mechanics who built these secret tunnels are really great, and as an obsessive with tricks, it is really a blessing to see such an exquisite design in my lifetime! ā
"It seems that the ancestors of this Kao Village are really not simple!" Yu Heng sighed.
"Whether it is their ancestors, their descendants from generation to generation should not be simple, because I clearly see new repairs in the dark passage." Hazy Moon replied.
"Hazy Moon, you just said that the Shentai is a movable board? In other words, the things on the platform can fall into the tunnel, and the things in the tunnel can also be transported to the platform? Ru Yan said.
"Yes!" Hazy Moon replied.
"So, the soul restoration technique is fake at all, and the current peony is disguised by someone else?" Ru Yan said.
"I think so too, when Yi Lang was doing it that night, the lights suddenly went out, in fact, they took advantage of the darkness to open the mechanism on the altar, pushed the body of Peony on the altar down, and then the person who pretended to be Peony in the tunnel came out and lay on the altar again. It's a pity that when I went down, they had already transferred the corpse of the real peony! Hazy Moon analyzed.
"But where are they going to find this person who looks exactly like Peony to pretend to be?" Yu Heng asked puzzled.
"Big brother doesn't know that there is a kind of dress-up technique on the rivers and lakes that can completely turn two people who are not similar to each other into the same person. I have a friend who has done a lot of research on this! Ru Yan replied.
"Big brother?" Hazy Moon said in surprise, "Brother, when did Yu Gongzi become your eldest brother?" ā
Ru Yan was a little embarrassed.
Yu Heng replied: "Yes, my second brother and I have already married. In the future, I will be his eldest brother, and he will be my second brother! ā
"Then I'm the third brother!" Hazy Moon replied.
"You're a woman, don't join in the fun!" Pothos said.
Hazy Moon noisily chased after the pothos to play her head.
"Okay, are you full, when you're full, I'll tell the pothos to be put away!" Ru Yan said.
"Don't, don't, I'm going to eat it again!" Hazy Moon replied.
"By the way, aren't our carrier pigeons always intercepted by Yilang and can't be sent? Where did these reinforcements come from? Hazy Moon asked, "And they're not ordinary soldiers, they're all masters, and even I can't run away!" ā
Ru Yan glanced at Yu Heng.
"Oh, these are all friends that Yuan Feng invited on the rivers and lakes. In fact, that day, Yi Lang invited us to a banquet at Gongzhitai, and Yuan Feng was late, so he went to contact those friends. We usually don't use carrier pigeons for communication, so Yilang didn't pay attention. Yu Heng replied.
Yuan Feng also nodded.
Hazy Yue looked at Yu Heng suspiciously, and then at Yuan Feng, "Friends on the rivers and lakes? Yu Gongzi, you are bullying me stupidly, right? Will the friends on the rivers and lakes be the same as the officers and soldiers of the imperial court? ā
"The second brother is an official of the imperial court, if I don't let my friends pretend to be officers and soldiers of the imperial court, won't I be dressed up all of a sudden?" Yu Heng replied.
"Oh, so that's the case, but Yu Gongzi, if you let the court know that you are pretending to be an officer or soldier of the court, you will be miserable! will be ......", Hazy Moon made a head-killing gesture.
Yu Heng made a 'shhhh ā
Hazy Yue shook her fingers, squinted at Yu Heng, and said mischievously: "Sure enough, the chicken thief!" I like it, though! ā
"However, the costume skills of this person dressed as a peony are really high, so many of us have watched it closely, and we have not found any traces!" Ru Yan said.
"What's not just high? I think it's really high, even higher than Sister Zifeng's skills! Don't be afraid, though! Hazy Moon said and took out a bottle from her waist, "With this manifest water that Sister Zifeng gave me, I will let her have nowhere to hide!" ā
"When did Purple Wind give you the manifest water? Isn't she the least fond of being exposed by others? Ru Yan asked.
"Hee-hee-hee, okay, I'll admit it, I actually took it secretly!" Hazy Moon replied with a hippie smile.