Chapter 106: Night Calamity
The scent rises from the top of the incense burner, with a unique tranquility.
The third old lady sniffed the smell, but what came to mind was the figure of the Song family.
The incense pill she asked Chunping to send into Song's house was pitch black and tasted like sandalwood, but it was not as simple as sandalwood. A variety of spices are crushed together and pounded into a fine powder, the wine is drained and dried, mixed with a little white honey, and formed into a small ball-shaped. Just one pill takes a lot of effort.
It's a drug, but it's better than a drug.
On her calm face, there were already slight fine lines at the corners of her eyes, and she was still old after all. Over the years, Shengsheng has been forced to grow old by her mother's family.
But at this moment, the smug smile on the corner of her raised mouth still added a bit of youth and flamboyance to her.
She had never even given birth to a child, and the heart in her chest was still young. Those who have not experienced the pregnancy in October will never know the strong bond between mother and daughter, mother and child, which can transcend everything.
Suddenly, the smile on her lips froze.
The aroma was like a cold little snake, gradually lingering on the tip of her nose.
It doesn't taste right!
Familiar but unfamiliar, strange and strange.
She panicked and tried to reach out to cover her nose, but suddenly realized that her body had frozen with the smile on the corner of her mouth. However, her consciousness was more awake than at any other time. This sobriety came fiercely and coldly, making her burst into tears.
But even these tears are only in her consciousness.
Lying on the couch, she was smiling and her eyes were closed. looks like he is sleeping very well and fragrantly, where is there still a sober posture.
The third old lady was anxious. I tried to open my mouth to call for spring and autumn, but she bent between her lips in a graceful arc. But not a word was revealed.
- Chunping!
- Autumn Joy!
She shouted in her heart again and again, but no one could hear her but herself.
This smell is fragrant, the smell is mild and quiet, but it can't be more domineering. It is better to say that it is incense, but it is better to say that it is medicine. She sniffed for a while, and then she became like this. This is the ecstasy incense she made herself, except for the first time she tried it on Chunping, this is the second time she has used it. The results are so fast. The effect was so wonderful, she should have laughed triumphantly.
But this time, the fragrance lingered on the tip of her nose, and the effect was revealed on her body, and she could still smile.
What went wrong, and how could this smell come to light in your own room?
She clearly instructed Chunping personally to bury the incense pills in the incense burner in the Song family's house, how could she appear here?
Qiu Xi said that Chunping was in the thatched house, is it also a lie? Could it be that she had betrayed herself early?
The third old lady was startled by the thoughts that suddenly popped up in her heart. Scared and annoyed.
There is no way, she can only comfort herself, fortunately, this incense will not wait for the dawn, it should be invalid. It's just a matter of surviving these hours. After all, what was originally arranged was still arranged in the Song family. Don't mess with yourself again.
As everyone knows, the people who stayed in the Song family's house tonight. But it was not the Song family, but the little girl Xie Shuning who she had never paid attention to at all.
It was raining heavily. There is no moonlight and no starlight.
On such a night, Xie Shuning didn't feel sleepy at all.
Similarly, the moon white is even more not.
Xie Shuning sat up half-leaning, and after a little thought, he stuffed the dagger he had been holding tightly in his hand to Yuebai. Yuebai is older than her, taller than her, and physically stronger than her. If it's really time to use the knife, it must be the right moon.
Yuebai was frightened, and he didn't know whether to let go or hold on to the dagger.
"Yuebai, you guts, you really should practice hard......" Xie Shuning sighed faintly in the dark.
"Slaves are not afraid!" Yuebai took a deep breath and clenched her hand, "Mama Jiang told the slave maid to take care of the young lady, and the slave maid can't be afraid!" ”
Xie Shuning smiled, "That incense pill, you might see what it is for?" ”
Yuebai was embarrassed, and said in a low voice: "The slave maid can't see it, and it doesn't seem to be poisoned on it." ”
But she only dared to say that it seemed that she was too scared to notice it before. Thinking like this, Yuebai couldn't help but feel more and more guilty, before she asked Xie Shuning to put the incense pills by herself, if there was really any problem, she would be to blame.
At this moment, out of nowhere, a soft sound suddenly sounded.
Both of them stiffened.
Then, Xie Shuning realized that the sound was not coming from outside the door, but from the back of the house.
The back of this row of side houses is close to the mountain wall, and the middle can accommodate about one and a half people. Someone is shuttling through this narrow corridor!
Xie Shuning's heart sank, and she dragged Yuebai and signaled her to get ready!
Both waited with bated breath.
Xie Shuning stared at the window near the mountain wall, and didn't dare to blink.
Slowly, behind that window, there seemed to be an additional figure. Not low, seems to be a man. Person. The man waited outside for a while, then tapped his hand on the lattice of the window, and waited again. Seeing that there was no sound in the room, the window was finally pried open.
"Babbling", a head poked in from outside the window.
Xie Shuning stared and was stunned.
How is it a bald scoop?
Before she had time to think about it, when the man turned over and jumped in from the window, and turned around to close the window, she rushed over with Yuebai.
Unexpectedly, the people in the room would be prepared early, and the man was about to flee quickly, and then his hand climbed up to the window lattice, and he was already pressed against the neck by the dagger in Yuebai's hand.
"Spare your life, spare your life......"
It's really a man. Person.
Xie Shuning lowered his voice and said, "Let him kneel!" ”
Yuebai will rely on the strength to protect his own young lady, but his courage has also been strengthened a little, and when he heard this, he kicked the knee of the person who came here, kicking the person to the ground with a muffled snort, but he didn't dare to struggle. Although the dagger was small, it was cold when it was around the neck. You don't have to think about it to know that it's extremely sharp.
Xie Shuning personally went to take the lamp, took it and put it on the ground.
The lights are low. It is inconspicuous from the outside of the house, but it happens that the location is hidden.
"Are you a monk in Puji Temple?" There was a faint glow of fire. Xie Shuning saw clearly the kneeling man in front of him. Person. On his bare head, his scalp was still blue, as if he had just shaved his hair. He was wearing monk's clothes, but there were no traces of incense scars on the top of his head.
Xie Shuning's eyes narrowed, and he affirmed, "You are not a monk in the temple!" ”
"How do you know?" The kneeling man Huo Ran raised his head, stared at him and blurted out. After saying that, he lowered his head again in annoyance.
Although the monks in Puji Temple are wealthy, they are still good at abiding by the rules. But there was a smell of alcohol in the person in front of him.
Xie Shuning pursed her lips, suddenly got up, and went to fetch a purse. Then he opened it, stretched out two fingers and pulled out a grain from it, and quickly stuffed it into the mouth of the fake monk while people were unprepared.
The rain roared, and the fake monk was shocked, sweating like rain.
As soon as the grain entered the mouth, it immediately dissolved, and melted in the mouth.
He swallowed hard. There was a "grunt" in his throat, and he asked in a hoarse voice, "What did you feed me?" ”
Xie Shuning "giggled" and said, "Poison." ”
The fake monk was busy picking his throat, but he was held against by the dagger in Yuebai's hand. He didn't dare to act rashly, and his face was as anxious as dirt at the moment. Bisheng stood in front of him, looking at her condescendingly, Xie Shuning had a smile on her face. At a young age, he is as terrifying as a ghost from the hell of Shura.
He forced himself to compose, "You're talking nonsense. You little girl, where will there be poison! ”
"Oh? You don't believe it? Xie Shuning narrowed her eyes. Do you think that thing is extremely sweet, and now it is so sweet in your mouth? ”
The fake monk subconsciously smashed his mouth, it was really sweet, he had never eaten such a sweet thing in his life!
Xie Shuning didn't miss the changing expression on his face at all, so he let Yuebai remove the dagger, and said casually: "Since you don't believe it, you can leave immediately." ”
Yuebai hesitated, and finally took the dagger away.
The fake monk didn't dare to move.
The more casual he looked, the more he felt bottomless. If that thing wasn't poisonous, how could the dagger be removed...... He already thinks it's poisonous......
"You give me the antidote!"
Xie Shuning took a step back, "You can explain what I want to know clearly, and I will give it to you." ”
The false monk was silent.
"If you don't want to say it, if there is no antidote, in an hour, you should be poisoned." Xie Shuning said nonsense, "Maybe you've heard that I have an uncle outside the gate...... There are countless strange poisons outside the gate, I want your life, can you still run? ”
The fake monk gasped.
He guessed that the little girl in front of him was the eighth lady in the third room of the Xie family, and of course he also knew that she had an uncle who was indeed outside the gate.
"Someone sent me to tarnish the innocence of Mrs. Six." He didn't dare to believe it, so he could only hang his head and whisper.
Xie Shuning gritted her teeth, "What did that person say?" ”
The little girl in front of him was only about ten years old, but the words that came out of his mouth made him dare not answer.
"She asked me to come, saying that Mrs. Six had no way to resist and would let me do whatever she wanted."
When Xie Shuning listened, he naturally thought of the incense pill.
She hated it tightly, paced in place, and said, "Are you from the Chen family?" ”
Hearing this, the fake monk quietly lifted his eyelids and glanced at her, silently.
Xie Shuning immediately came to his senses, snatched the dagger in Yuebai's hand, and leaned over suddenly, the dagger was against his heart, so heavy that it seemed that he was going to poke it in the next moment, "An hour is too long, I'm afraid I can't wait!" ”
There was only a little girl in front of him, and if he resisted, he would not be able to escape, but then he would have begun to believe in the poisoning, and his tongue was dry and his head was dizzy.
"The slave is the descendant of the Chen family......"
Xie Shuning laughed, "How many benefits did she promise you?" ”
"One hundred taels of silver......
Xie Shuning sneered, "I promise you twenty times more, plus an antidote!" As long as you do one thing for me, should you? ”
The fake monk looked at her in surprise: "What's the matter?" ”
"It's nothing, I just want you to do what she told you to do to Mrs. Six to that stingy ghost who is only willing to promise you a hundred taels." Accompanied by a childish timbre, her smile is like a tiny white flower in the dark night, blooming faintly. (To be continued......)
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