Chapter 18: Dark Grid
Back in the courtyard, Qin Ze had only half a life left. However, Erhu and Cheng Huailiang have come down this way, but they are still alive and well. And then there was the horse, which kept snorting all the way, listening to Qin Ze is belly fire.
There is no clue about the house, even Cheng Huailiang has nothing to do, they are in the dark in the dark. If you want to find the other party, you can only wait for the other party to make the next move, but after this time, presumably they will not act rashly.
After thanking Cheng Huailiang and comforting Wang Fu a few words, Qin Ze entered his own courtyard with Erhu.
After this incident, both of them sat on the stone steps in front of the court, both of them looked to the side in a daze, not knowing what they were thinking.
However, as long as Qin Ze raised his head, he would see the ten copper coins he had won in the room, and he instantly felt that the whole person was even worse.
The feeling of a duck flying to its beak is really maddening. It's not that Qin Ze doesn't have sympathy, it's just that in his consciousness, these ten runs belong to him.
Qin Ze of Wuxian Temple has some impressions, this temple built in Puchangfang is the predecessor of the famous Ci'en Temple in later generations. And these ten times are estimated to be thrown in, and they will not bubble up.
After thinking about it, Qin Ze was in pain for a while, so he simply turned his head and stopped looking at it.
got up and told Erhu to go to Dongshi to buy two Hu cakes and prepare to make dinner. Anyway, now Qin Ze has no interest in cooking, let alone Erhu, it is not bad if his cooking is not dead.
These days, Qin Ze sleeps until three o'clock in the morning, so he usually doesn't eat breakfast. And the second tiger is different, as soon as the drum of the city opens at three o'clock in the fifth watch, this guy gets up.
Fetch water, clean the courtyard, practice boxing, and cook for yourself when you're done. Qin Ze saw the cooking he cooked, that is, he mixed some noodles and put them in the pot to cook.
Erhu called this a jade dumpling, and he also ate it with relish, looking like he was enjoying it, which made Qin Ze wonder if this guy's tongue was different from his own.
So if he didn't want to eat Erhu's jade dumplings, Qin Ze had to let him buy the Zhang family's mother-in-law's Hu cakes. Her family's Hu cakes are all made of mutton, spread layer by layer in the mixed wheat flour, and then put peppers and tempeh in the compartment of the cake, pour the whole Big Mac cake with ghee, and then put it in the oven to bake, and when it is five ripe, take it out and eat it. Wheat, mutton, ghee, pepper and tempeh, the fragrance is thin.
And Zhang's mother-in-law is also different from other Hu cakes, that is, he will send a small plate of his own pickled vinegar garlic, which is very comfortable to eat sour and spicy. Especially with the steaming Hu Cake, it makes people feel comfortable.
Qin Ze is not used to eating five ripe Hu cakes, so he tries to let the Zhang family's mother-in-law bake it for a while every time, although the mutton tastes a little elastic like this, but it is also another enjoyment.
A Hu cake is the size of an iron pot, I don't know if it's because the Tang people are so able to eat, such a giant specification, but it is sold very tightly. At least the second tiger can eat one and a half alone, and of course the half eaten is what Qin Ze is leftover.
When the second tiger left, Qin Ze waited for a moment and then sat up from the ground. After carefully looking around, he hurried into the room and got under the bed as soon as he leaned down.
This room had a compartment, just in the wall below Qin Ze's bed, which Qin Ze had only discovered by chance.
There is not much space inside, only 20 cubic decimeters. When Qin Ze first discovered it here, it was already empty, and it was already covered with a layer of dust, and it seemed that he didn't even know about the last scholar who lived here.
Only a person like Qin Ze, who is full of a sense of crisis, can think of doing a secret grid in this place.
Inside the dark compartment were three small wooden boxes, charcoal, sulfur, and saltpeter, which were the components of black powder. In the past few days, Qin Ze has quietly equipped these black powders every night while the second tiger is leaving, which is why he has to sleep until noon every day.
Now that the black powder has been exposed, although no one except the second tiger knows about it, Qin Ze knows that this thing must not be kept now, he doesn't think that the five people who chased him have disappeared mysteriously, and no one will come to investigate.
Taking out the three wooden boxes, Qin Ze went directly to the root of the backyard wall, and found the drain that connected to the outside ditch, Qin Ze directly lit the wooden boxes, and after they burned out, they were mixed with soil and thrown into the drain. At the end, I was still not at ease, and I carefully lifted up the weeds that I stepped on one by one, so I was relieved.
After doing all this, Qin Ze estimated that the second tiger was about to come back, so he cleaned up and returned to the room. stuffed the remaining two pieces of money into the dark compartment.
This is the safest measure. Even if the secret grid is discovered, these two pieces of money can be used as a cover-up.
When the second tiger came back, Qin Ze had already recovered to his original state, lying on the steps of the courtyard in a daze, looking at the vast sky.
Zhang's mother-in-law's Hu cake is wrapped in lotus leaves, and I don't know how many lotus leaves she has dried, but she can make lotus leaves to wrap Hu cakes in this March day.
It is this lotus leaf that adds a different fragrance to the Hu cake, especially in winter, being able to hold the lotus leaf makes people feel comfortable.
Although because of the delay along the way, the Hu Cake no longer had its previous crispiness, Qin Ze still ate it with relish and enjoyed it very much. Because he can't guarantee that it will not be the last meal he eats.
When the two of them are alone, they don't look like a young master. Anyway, in Qin Ze's heart, he didn't regard Erhu as a subordinate, so the two of them could lie down together, and they would eat Hu cakes with the clouds in the sky.
Coming to Datang, Qin Ze found that he liked thinking more and more. It's not that purposeful thinking, but rambling, maybe it's thinking that you've flown into the sky, or you're going to die in this haunted mansion, or you're back in your familiar home.
Every time Qin Ze was so distracted, Erhu would leave Qin Ze far away and do his own thing. This was also the last time he interrupted Qin Ze, and after he lost his temper inexplicably, the second tiger became smarter.
Although he wanted to ask Qin Ze now how he attracted that divine thunder, looking at Qin Ze's expression of not approaching, Erhu still felt that he should not be bored.
The light grew darker and darker, the clouds in the sky faded little by little, and a bright moon rose from the newly sprouted treetops, and the cold moonlight spread out in all directions.
It wasn't until the hoarse sound of a louder person came from the street that Qin Ze woke up slowly. The second tiger on the other side also secretly breathed a sigh of relief after hearing Qin Ze's long sigh of relief.
Qin Ze's state just now was very terrifying, and he couldn't see a trace of anger in those eyes, just like a cold stone.
Seeing Qin Ze wake up, Erhu hurriedly stepped up and put the robe he was holding in his hand on Qin Ze. Brought another bowl of ginger soup for Qin Ze to drink, and then waited for Qin Ze to sleep.
The weather in March is still a little cold. Fortunately, there was a bowl of ginger soup to warm his body, which made Qin Ze recover a little.
Lying on his bed, Qin Ze did not feel a trace of sleep. He was lying on his side, his eyes wide open to the wall, and there were seemingly chaotic horizontal bars on it, which no one could understand except Qin Ze.
It was night, the time of the third watch. The originally silent courtyard was filled with an inaudible creaking. Hearing this clear sound, Qin Ze, who was still in a daze, immediately woke up, and tried his best to listen to the movement outside with a pair of ears.
I saw a figure flash out of a house, and the slender shadow was stretched extremely long by the moonlight. The figure first looked around, and then walked towards Qin Ze's room.
In the room, Qin Ze still pretended to sleep with his eyes closed, as if he was really asleep. For this approaching footsteps, it is as if it is unheard.
The figure came to Qin Ze's door, but it was also standing still. The two of them seemed to be sure of something, and finally the figure outside the door moved, and left the courtyard. Climbed directly out of the courtyard wall and disappeared into the night.
At the moment when the figure disappeared, Qin Ze suddenly opened his eyes, and then used his hand to draw a few more horizontal bars on the wall. Only then did he lie down again.,But still holding on to your eyelids.,Don't let yourself sleep.。。
The figure who left was none other than Erhu, who was already living in the courtyard. Qin Ze had already discovered that every night, the second tiger would sneak out of the courtyard after he was asleep.
There is no need to think about it, Qin Ze also knows where the second tiger went, he must have gone to report to Yu Wuchang. And Qin Ze has been recording the time when the two tigers left, and it is through this that Qin Ze slowly determines where the two tigers and their stronghold are.
On the other side, the two tigers shuttled through the street, and they came to a small house with three entrances. This is the west side of Shengye Fang, and unlike the princes and nobles in the east, the people who live here are ordinary people.
It's also a place where fish and dragons are mixed, and even the bad people who are in charge of law and order are too lazy to hang out here.
The place is safe because it's messy.
Knocking skillfully on the door, the door of the courtyard opened leisurely, revealing a head, which was the reckless cow that Qin Ze had encountered earlier.
In the main hall, Yu Wuchang sat under the lamp, holding a piece of charred wood in his hand, and the thin eyebrows of the willow leaves were tightly wrinkled, and he was observing the wood in his hand by the light.
This piece of wood is nothing else, it is the wreckage of the carriage that was shattered by Qin Ze with flames today. As he thought, if he smoothed everything out, the most he could do was delay for some time.
These pieces of wood were dug out of the deep pit that had been buried. Yu Wuchang was very curious about how Qin Ze killed those five people and left such a strange scene.
When the second tiger appeared, Yu Wuchang was in a state of bewilderment. As soon as he saw his appearance, Yu Wuchang handed the wood in his hand to Erhu and asked directly what happened today.
Erhu took the wood and looked at it, and then said thoughtlessly: "Immortal, he said he is an immortal, will it be ......?"
"That's what he said?" Yu Wuchang's face suddenly turned cold, like the ice of the poor winter wax moon, full of forest cold.
At that moment, the second tiger told 1510 what happened today, especially when it came to the thunder from the sky and directly destroyed everything. Erhu still showed deep jealousy, in his heart, it was heaven's punishment, that was God's punishment for those people.