Seventy Nights

Yongding Gate is in the south of the outer city, which is a relatively quiet place in Beijing, and at night, it seems to go to bed earlier than other places, and it is already quiet here before the dawn. The night is deep, the sky is full of stars, and the occasional dog barking sounds out of nowhere, which makes this place a little lively. There is a private house in the northeast corner of Yongding Gate, this private house is no different from the appearance, the courtyard gate is not big, the red paint on the door is mottled, several plane trees at the door grow lush and green, occasionally the wind blows, and the leaves flutter gently. In the colorful starlight, no one noticed, and in one of the plane trees, closest to the gate, there were two people hidden, both dressed in black, with black scarves covering their faces, and only a pair of eyes staring at the courtyard. The difference between this house and other places is that the windows in other places are pitch black, but the windows in this house are faintly shining, like a person's sleepy eyes, hazy. The two people hiding in the tree are Chen Shiyan and Ding Si, the two have been hidden for a long time, Ding Si only felt that his body was sour everywhere, and Chen Shiyan had already told him in his ear that the house here looks ordinary, but in fact, there are several places where there may be guards, Ding Si held his breath and stared, for fear of alarming the people inside.

Less than an hour later, the door of the house "creaked", three men walked out of the house, walked into the courtyard and stopped, a man on the left seemed to be unwilling but afraid of alarming the surroundings, and lowered his voice and said: "Lao Tzu really wants to slaughter him with a knife, it's really damn shameless." The man in the middle coughed and said, "Hold back your breath, this person is very important to the master, besides, his mother-in-law is in our hands, he doesn't dare to tear his face with us, let him be arrogant for a few days now." As he was saying that, as if he had touched some wound, the man on the right hurriedly asked, "Zhang Baihu's wound has flared up again?" It turned out that the man in the middle was Zhang Qing of the 100 households in Dongchang. Zhang Qing scolded his mother: "Damn, the gunpowder made by this person is really fucking powerful, and Xu Stall's skills are so good that they are all folded in his hands." The man on the left said hatefully: "Thinking that Xu stall's head was blown to pieces, I really want to stab this king with a knife." Zhang Qing sighed and said: "I thought the same thing in my heart, but I finally caught this person, and the master meant that he would definitely surrender." The man on the right asked, "Then really let his mother-in-law meet him tomorrow?" Zhang Qing smiled and said: "Wait for them to meet tomorrow, if this person is still Qiao, let's use a knife to make that woman's face, see if he dares to play prestige?" The three of them talked in the courtyard for a while, Zhang Qing waved his hand, and the four secret guards flashed out of the darkness like ghosts, and Ding Si broke out in a cold sweat, thinking: If he had broken in recklessly, I am afraid he would have been caught a long time ago. Zhang Qing whispered a few words to a few people, and flashed out of the courtyard door with the two men beside him.

A person who looked like the leader of the secret guard in the courtyard made a gesture, and several of the secret guards quickly hid again, and there was silence in the small courtyard again. Ding Si was anxious, his eyes glanced at Chen Shiyan, and saw that he was motionless, so he had to resist the impulse and lie quietly on the tree. About half an hour later, I saw a man come out of the ear room in the courtyard, clapped his hands twice, and two secret guards came out of the dark shadow, the man waved his hand, and the three of them returned to the ear room together. Ding Si knew that the secret guards inside saw that it was late at night, so he changed his guard in two by two and went to rest. About a quarter of an hour later, Chen Shiyan's eyes suddenly lit up, Ding Sishun looked at him, and saw a black shadow jumping up silently on the east courtyard wall, looking like a cat, the cat squatted lazily on the wall, stretched his waist, and then fell asleep. Chen Shiyan waited for the cat to fall asleep, reached out and took out something from his arms, and threw it in the direction of the cat. Just listen to the sound of "pop", in the silent night sky is extraordinarily loud, the east and west directions of the dark guard flashed out, a few steps forward together, they just arrived at the corner, the cat jumped over with a "meow", but the two of them were startled, while the two of them were distracted with their backs to themselves, Chen Shiyan pulled Ding Si, the two of them jumped lightly, jumped into the courtyard at once, and then jumped a few steps to an empty cylinder under the window, hiding their figures. Seeing that it was a wild cat, one of the guards couldn't help but curse a few words in a low voice, but the other guard turned around and said strangely: "Why do you see that plane tree shaking so much?" It turned out that Chen Shiyan and Ding Si jumped slightly, or shook the sycamore branches, and the branches and leaves swayed a little, at this time, a gust of wind blew, and several sycamore trees swayed together, and the man muttered to himself: "It turned out to be the wind, I thought I was dazzled." At that moment, the wild cat jumped up again for some reason, and one of the guards couldn't help but shout again: "Ahh As soon as the shouting fell, the three people in the ear room had already rushed out and asked loudly, "What's the matter?" The screaming guard was a little embarrassed and said, "One of his mother's cats whined in the middle of the night. The other four let out a burst of scoff. At this moment, I heard a "pop" from the window, and a teacup flew out of it, followed by a loud shout: "You are so excited to eat?" also let me not let Lao Tzu sleep. Ding Si heard the voice, it was Qi Laosan, he was surprised and happy at the moment, when he forgot the fright when he suddenly opened the window just now, the five people in the courtyard held back their anger, Qi Laosan scolded a few words inside, and in the scolding, the three secret guards entered the ear room again, leaving only two secret guards to guard in the courtyard. After a while, I only heard the sound of Xiao Xie in the courtyard, just at this time Qi Laosan's window was not closed, Chen Shiyan and Ding Si turned their bodies and jumped into the house, Qi Laosan in the room was looking at the top of the bed in a daze, and suddenly saw the two of them, just about to open their mouths to speak, Ding Si held his mouth with one hand, and heard Ding Si say: "Senior Qi, Ding Si." ”

Qi Laosan immediately shut his mouth, and after identifying it in the dark for a while, he saw that it was Ding Si, and quickly waved his hand at Ding Si, and muttered in a pretended impatient manner: "It's so unlucky, my good dream has been disturbed." While casually closing the window, he gestured to Ding Si in the dark, and walked to the corner in a few steps. Ding Si followed Qi Laosan to the corner, and Chen Shiyan listened to the movement outside under the window. Ding Si whispered: "Senior, those people in Dongchang are not difficult for you, right?" Qi Laosan also lowered his voice: "No, wait me like an uncle, how do you know that I am locked up here?" Ding Si said: "When the matter at home is resolved, we went to Sanssouci Valley to find the two seniors, and found that the valley was a mess, and I heard that Xu Chengxiong of the East Factory was killed, so I guessed that the two seniors were arrested by the East Factory." Qi Laosan said distressedly: "My tree house must be ruined, right?" Ding Si replied, "We have all cleaned up the house." Qi Laosan turned his worries into joy and said: "Okay, good, I didn't see the wrong person, you little catcher has a conscience." Ding Si asked again: "Senior, now there are only two people outside to take care of you, and the other three are probably asleep, can you go out with us?" Qi Laosan hesitated and said: "But it doesn't work, Huigu is in their hands, if they find out that I am gone, they will probably take Huigu out of anger." Ding Si thought for a while and asked in a low voice, "Do you know why Dongchang locked you up here?" Qi Laosan said angrily: "A few days ago, I only told me to make powerful gunpowder out, and didn't tell me anything, and promised me that I would be rewarded with a hundred taels of gold after I made it." Today I was in a hurry, and then I told me that they had found a mine in the mountains that produced gold, and they wanted to blow it up with this gunpowder. I was annoyed that they used Huigu to force me, and I never promised them, and they promised me to bring Huigu tomorrow. "It turned out that Zhang Qing was worried that Qi Laosan would not do what he told him, so he threatened Qi Laosan with Huigu, but he didn't know that it was self-defeating, Qi Laosan hated others to separate Huigu from himself the most in his life, so he committed a bull nature, and refused to agree to Zhang Qing easily, if Zhang Qing quickly explained his intention and offered a hundred taels of gold, Qi Laosan was too lazy to care whether the East Factory was mining or killing, maybe he would immediately rush to make it, but in this way, Qi Laosan had the taboo of throwing rats, and he didn't dare to leave easily. Ding Si saw that Qi Laosan had no intention of leaving, so he had to say: "Senior, Dongchang is ruthless, you must be careful." Qi Laosan nodded hurriedly.

At this moment, they suddenly heard Chen Shiyan "shh......h He couldn't help but exhale softly: "White clothes." ”

A person immediately jumped in from the window, although he couldn't see it clearly in the dark, but Ding Si recognized that the person was Bai Yi at a glance, and he couldn't help but be stunned for a while, happy and sad. Bai Yi was also startled by a few people in the room, and when he saw clearly that it was Ding Si and the three of them, he immediately lowered his voice and said, "The two people outside and the people in the ear room are all stunned by us, hurry up and follow me." ”

Qi Laosan couldn't help laughing: "You guys are still divided into two ways, which one is this singing?" Okay, I didn't recognize your daughter in vain, and when Aunt Hui and I return to Sanssouci Valley, we will officially recognize our parents and daughter. He said to the three of them: "I can't go back with you today, don't worry, there is no danger between me and Huigu, you can go." With that, he waved his hand and let the three of them leave.

Ding Si and Bai Yi persuaded hard for a long time, but Qi Laosan insisted on refusing to leave, so the two had to give up. At this time, I heard someone outside the window whispering, "Holy aunt, we should go." ”

Bai Yi glanced at Qi Laosan, sighed and said, "Take care of your old man." He said to Chen Shiyan in a low voice: "Mr. Chen, take care." After thinking about it, he said, "You are the same." After saying that, he jumped into the courtyard.

Ding Si also hurriedly said goodbye to Qi Laosan, and jumped out with Chen Shiyan, the five people in white in front of him had already jumped on the wall, Ding Si couldn't help but follow, probably less than a mile, several guards around Bai Yi didn't know whether Ding Si was friend or foe, Qi Qi protected Bai Yi, but the weapon in his hand was aimed at Ding Si. Bai Yi whispered a few times to the four of them, and the four of them stepped aside, and Ding Si also said to Chen Shiyan: "Mr. Chen, wait for me for a while." A few steps later, he came to the white clothes.

The night breeze was like water, the insects were chirping, and Ding Si and Bai Yi were relatively speechless. After a long time, Bai Yi sighed faintly: "Ding Si, I can't live with you." ”

Ding Si saw a little starlight in Bai Yi's eyes, and raised his hand to wipe away her tears, but his hand was raised in the air but he couldn't help but stop, and only said after a while: "Bai Yi, you don't have to be sad, if I change you, I will choose the same path, I don't complain about you at all." ”

Tears welled up in Baiyi, and he called softly: "Fourth brother, we have a shallow relationship in this life, you forget me." After saying that, he hardened his heart and left without turning his head.

The night breeze was blowing, and he heard the call of the white-clothed "fourth brother" in Ding Si's ears, especially the aftersound, the Yiren were getting farther away, Ding Si looked at the empty street in front of him, sighed and turned around, and left with Chen Shiyan.