The villa has no walls, the houses are scattered in the cherry blossom forest, Dante is often a military expert, at a glance, you can see that these houses are not only scattered, beautiful layout, but also can support each other's fire, each room on the outer floor, the windows are small and beautiful, the direction is outward, can be used as a shooting port, the doors are open inward, obviously have a defensive function, which is equivalent to several pillboxes, the villa is surrounded by a]

"What a clever design." Ding Chang admired in his heart.

Behind a half-person-high flower bed, two sentry posts in military uniforms flashed out, Ding Chang was startled, and listened to Shi Suo and Duan Laosan say that the sentry was not easy to find, and now it seems that flower beds, bushes, and short walls may be hidden sentry posts everywhere, and the guards inside must be densely packed.

The sentry looked at the quartermaster, and then saw a cart of fresh vegetables pushed by Ding Changyou, and greeted with a smile, "Brother, just buy some vegetables, not fish and meat." ”

"Yes, yes, there will be fish and meat." The quartermaster and the sentry grinned and walked into the villa. Ding Changyou pushed the cart and didn't dare to turn his head to look around, but his eyes were not idle, and the surrounding scenery came into view. The roads inside are mostly winding paths, some are paved bricks, some are paved cobblestones, and some are fine sand dirt roads, full of changes, twists and turns, if you are not familiar with it, it is easy to get lost.

On the way, when he met soldiers in twos and threes, Ding Changyou lowered his head and pretended to be honest. After following the quartermaster for a while, he came to a small courtyard, where dry firewood and vegetable jars and other things were piled up, and it seemed that this was the room.

Ding Changyou finished unloading the dishes, but the quartermaster was worried, because Ding Changyou said that he wanted to "measure twenty-eight directions" here, he didn't think about it at the time, so he agreed to come down, now that he thinks about it, it is quite difficult to achieve, he quietly said to Ding Changyou: "Brother, how do you measure these twenty-eight directions?" It's full of governors and guards, and if you walk around, you'll be arrested in a moment, and I won't be able to protect you. What to do? ”

"It's easy to do," Ding Changyou smiled, "You send me to fetch water, won't you?" ”

"Yes, you're right."

The quartermaster found a bucket, and Ding Changyou asked him: "Sir, is there a place where we have strong yin qi here?" ”

"What does it mean to have a strong yin energy?"

"For example, where there are many women, where prisoners are kept."

"Do what?"

"When I was measuring, I had to use that kind of place as the fulcrum, rotate the five elements, and take Kun as the link, so that the hexagram can overlap into a cycle, and guide the two of us to seek wealth and official positions in the future."

The quartermaster listened half-understood and half-understood, but thinking that this was the will of the "gods", there must be a mystery, so he said: "Women, there seems to be no one else here except a few washermen, but there are prisoners, and there are two of them in the Shuiyunxuan by the lake." However, the place was forbidden and no one was allowed to approach it. ”

"Forbidden land, you can't ban food and water."

"Yes, it's okay if you bring two cakes and some food, but you can't talk to the people inside."

"I must." Ding Changyou agreed, picked up a bucket and walked out of the courtyard. Follow the quartermaster's instructions and walk to the well. Along the way, from time to time, I met soldiers and officers who hurried by, but fortunately, those people did not pay much attention to this "handyman" who carried water. Ding Changyou carried a bucket, turned a corner, and carefully observed the location of the houses everywhere, and he found that there was a compound of more than ten rooms, hidden in a lilac bush, the houses were tall, and there were bursts of laughter and laughter from inside, like a synagogue. Outside the courtyard, there were two soldiers with guns.

He didn't dare to approach the compound, and turned to walk away.

An officer walked up to him, glared at him and asked, "How did you pick up water here?" ”

"Sir," Ding Changyou smiled and nodded, "there was a little yellow badger just now, and it was running very fast, and I wanted to catch up with it, but I ran away." ”

"Don't run around, go fetch water."

Ding Changyou didn't dare to turn around anymore, and walked honestly to the well. The well was built in a small pavilion with an octagonal well platform covered with a wooden lid. He looked around, and there was no one nearby, so he lifted the manhole cover, carried two buckets of water, and as he put the manhole cover on, he quietly took a small object from his bosom and threw it into the well.

It was a small ball of honey and wax, encased in poison, thrown into the water, and dissolved very slowly, and the stone lock had been calculated, and the toxin would not spread into the well until tomorrow.

Picking up the bucket, he went straight to the small lake, there are several small houses by the lake, according to the path pointed out by the quartermaster, this should be the "yin" prison, but there are three or four houses, the shape looks roughly the same, it is easy to confuse, where is the "Shui Yunxuan"? Ding Chang is experienced, he observed, and walked towards a ** hut with doors and windows closed and surrounded by thorny roses and rockery.

"Where's the sentry?" Ding often thinks as he walks.

Turning the thorny rose bush, I suddenly found a step under my feet, leading to a half-moon-shaped pit below, it turned out that this ** hut is a two-room small building, the first floor is underground, and the small courtyard outside the house is like a basin embedded in the ground, the basin edge is level with the ground, so that it is easy to monitor from the ground, and it is difficult to escape upwards, forming a small memory with exquisite design.

"Stop," the sentry finally appeared, and a soldier spun out from behind a nearby rockery.

"Sir, the one who delivers food and water." Ding Changyou made a stupid look on his face.

"It's not noon in the ******, who are you going to send food and water?"

Ding Changyou put down the bucket, reached out and touched it in his arms for a while, took out a piece of rice cake, and shook his head, "It's not this." Holding the rice cake in one hand, he touched it in his bosom with the other, and found a blackened corn tortilla, grinning at the sentry, "Sir, they are lazy in the room, I will come out to fetch water, let me bring this cake to the prisoner, and bring some water." ”

The rice cake is white and shiny, sweet and attractive when you look at it, and compared with the corn tortilla, it is even more appetizing, the sentry swallowed his saliva, looked at Ding Changyou with a smirk, and reached out to snatch the rice cake down, "The prisoner is below, you can send the cake." ”

"Pastries aren't for you."

"Less nonsense, go quickly."

Ding Changyou looked aggrieved, muttered in his mouth, carried a bucket of water, and walked down the steps.

There is a door on the first floor of the small building, locked with a large iron chain, and there is a small door open on the door, half a foot square, which is the opening for water and rice in ordinary cells. It can be opened from the outside, Ding Changyou pulled out the iron bolt on the small mouth, opened the small door, handed the tortilla inside, and said inside: "Hey, bring the basin of water." ”

A black clay jug was handed out of the door, and Ding Changyou poured water into it. He put the jug in, closed the small door, and didn't say a word. Silently carrying the bucket, he walked up the steps, and looked at the sentry eating his rice cake with a reluctant expression. The sentry said, "Hurry up." ”

Ding Changyou picked up the bucket and left. (To be continued.) )