3. The Incident - News (II)
"Stop! Don't leave. Qi Lianyu shouted to San Lang behind him.
When San Lang heard Qi Lianyu's voice, he immediately stopped his steps, and then looked sideways at Qi Lianyu behind him, Qi Lianyu seemed to have saved up some strength at this time, and then said to San Lang: "Go over there." ”
Qi Lianyu trembled and raised his right hand, which was only slightly conscious, and pointed towards the depths of the alley.
San Lang also understood what Qi Lianyu meant, and he estimated that there was a secret door or secret passage in the depths of this alley.
San Lang nodded, and then took advantage of the night to walk in the direction that Qi Lianyu was pointing.
"There's a secret door there." Qi Lianyu's weak voice sounded again.
San Lang didn't speak, but just carried Qi Lianyu on his back and walked cautiously towards the depths of the alley, the deep alley, like a huge mouth that devoured everything, kept sucking the little light left here. When San Lang was about to walk to the end of the alley, Qi Lianyu coughed lightly behind him, the sound was very deliberate, not a cough sound made because he was not feeling well, so San Lang knew that his destination had arrived, so San Lang stopped.
After a while, Qi Lianyu's voice slowly sounded from behind San Lang.
"On the right-hand side, the third brick."
When Qi Lianyu said this, he had obviously used too much strength, and his voice became smaller and smaller.
San Lang understood, and then according to what Qi Lianyu said, he began to grope on his right hand.
The wall itself is a little cold and damp to the touch because of its age, perhaps because of winter, the unkempt dead branches cover the wall very casually, which is exactly like this, making it more difficult to find bricks that are originally difficult to find because of the dark sky.
The walls are rough, and the slight edges and corners formed by the wind and rain for many years scratch the palms of Saburo's hands.
Saburo felt the tingling sensation coming from the palm of his hand, and then little by little he groped for what he was looking for.
First, second, third.
The brick body is smooth, which is obviously different from the material of other bricks.
Saburo was secretly happy in his heart, thinking that he should have found the right one.
"Young Master······" Just when San Lang was about to tell Qi Lianyu about this, his hand accidentally pressed down the different brick.
San Lang was startled at first, and then realized that this should be the secret door that the young master said.
Thinking of this, San Lang was a little excited in his heart, and he didn't care about what he was going to say to Qi Lianyu just now, so he pressed it hard.
"Click-" There was a crisp sound, like a pebble thrown on this calm water, and the water surface was no longer calm, showing ripples.
Tap ······ There is a sound. ”
Qi Lianyu's weak and somewhat helpless voice came from behind San Lang.
As early as when Saburo found the brick, he wanted to remind him, but he was weak and before he could say anything, he saw Saburo with excitement on his face and began to assert himself.
The sound alarmed the night of Kyoto Prefecture, and also alarmed the government soldiers who were on night patrol here.
A team of government soldiers heard the sound here, and began to walk here, for the courtyard of Lane 47, those nobles above had already told them to pay more attention, so there was a sound here, so they rushed over as soon as possible.
"Next to it is a secret door, push hard." Although Qi Lianyu was weak, he could still hear the sound of the night guard soldiers coming here, so he hurriedly opened his mouth to remind San Lang.
Saburo looked at it intently, and sure enough, on the side of the brick he found just now, there was a secret door that was not big or small, and the secret door was very narrow, and only one person could pass through.
"Get in, hurry, it's coming." Qi Lianyu said three words in a row, naturally reminding this playmate, who grew up together, not to be discovered.
San Lang came back to his senses, didn't say much, and took advantage of the night to enter the secret door.
Soon, the soldiers had arrived, but they looked at the empty alleys, like this calm night, without a trace.
Tongyuan Inn, as a dark spot under the Yasi Prefecture, countless news flows out from here every day, and then it is collected by people and sent to a courtyard on East Street in Kyoto Prefecture.
Jia Xiuyue, as the person in charge of the dark spot of the Tongyuan Inn, he didn't know what he was going to do with the news he collected every day, and he didn't even know who he was doing things for. He only knew that every night around the hour, a mysterious person would come here, communicate with him, and then give the other party the news he knew.
Every day, never absent.
Jia Xiuyue has never doubted it, and he has never questioned it, because he used to be a soldier, and the mission of a soldier is to obey. So, in the fifteenth year of the Great Calendar, he was removed from the military and then came here.
That year, he was twenty years old.
On the fifteenth day of the winter moon of the thirty-fifth year of the Great Calendar, on that day, Jia Xiuyue got a piece of news, a perhaps important news. He thought about giving the news to the mysterious man, so he waited there.
It was also on that day that the mystery man missed the appointment.
Just after the unitary hour, Jia Xiuyue asked Xiao Er to close the door of the store.
Xiao Er looked at him, and then asked, "Don't wait?" ”
"Don't wait," Jia Xiuyue sighed, and then continued, "It's time to beat the drum, and there will be no one on the street, so close the door, and it is estimated that the person will not come." ”
Xiao Er nodded, answered, and then went to the side to get the door panel blocking the door.
"Shopkeeper, have you heard about today?"
At this time, Jia Xiuyue was sorting out today's accounts, when he heard Xiao Er talking to him there, then stopped and asked Xiao Er, "What did you hear?" ”
"The matter of Lane 47 of East Street," Xiao Er moved the door panel to the door, ready to lean against the door, "Now there is a lot of buzz outside." ”
"I've heard a little bit, but I don't know exactly what happened." Jia Xiuyue did not stop his work because of this.
If Jia Xiuyue knew that the information he collected every day would be collected in that courtyard, he would definitely not be as calm as he is now.
After Xiao Er embedded the door panel, he turned around and continued to say to Jia Xiuyue: "It's miserable, I heard that the door was destroyed by someone." ”
Speaking of this, Xiao Er kept smacking his tongue and regretting, and then sighed: "I don't know who I provoked, it's so miserable." ”
Jia Xiuyue listened to Xiao Er's words, and finally felt a little moved, and sighed helplessly.
Xiao Er finished everything in his hand, then dusted himself with the rag on his shoulder, and then said to Jia Xiuyue: "The shopkeeper, if there is nothing wrong, I will go down first." ”
Jia Xiuyue nodded, and when Xiao Er saw that Jia Xiuyue agreed, he didn't say anything more, and walked directly towards his own porter in the backyard of the inn.
Jia Xiuyue didn't go back to the house to rest, but was in a daze at the counter, thinking about someone, the mysterious person who had never missed an appointment.