Chapter 15: The Night Is Dark (2)
"The bell jumped into the river!"
Han'er's voice trembled visibly.
The bell was kept alone in that small space, and it stands to reason that she could not get out of that place, let alone run to the side of the boat, climb onto the railing of the boat under the nose of the night watchman, and sink her head into the dark water.
Previously, she might have slept for two or three hours, but now it's exactly midnight.
The girl on night duty outside told her about the bell jumping into the river, and Han'er went to the stern of the boat to see that there was indeed no bell there.
Soon after the bell was imprisoned, there was a painful sound, and the night watchman went to check on her, and found that she was indeed wrong, and the bell asked the man to pull her up, and asked the doctor to show her, and the young and beautiful little lady opposite, the night watchman could not bear it, and pulled her onto the deck, ready to get her saliva to drink.
Unexpectedly, a hairpin was inserted into the shoulder and neck socket of the night watchman.
The bell got up and ran.
Someone not far away found the bell and ordered it to stop.
Naturally, she didn't stop.
ran to the stern of the boat in one go, and with the help of a piled wooden box, he turned over and jumped down.
"Bad luck is less...... She...... Hit an arrow. ”
Han'er's face was pale, and she covered her chest, as if she had been hit by an arrow and her life was short.
Han'er Ben held on to the door, walked a few steps tremblingly, stopped for a while, turned back again, and knelt down in front of her.
"Ask the young lady to punish her, the slave is guilty."
"What's the crime?"
The poisoning of lotus root powder, Han'er thought that she couldn't get away with it, she said some details, the overall meaning was that she was negligent, and as early as in Liufu, the bell sometimes behaved strangely, but she didn't report it to the master.
Why?
Because Han'er can't bear it.
Han'er was sold into Liufu since she was a child, starting from the handyman in the lower room, and then went to the stove to help, once to send food to her aunt, she happened to bump into the other party in a bad mood, and was almost fainted, it was the Lin family who saved her, and from then on, she went to the Lin family's yard.
Doing some chores in the Lin family's yard, life is better than before, after a few years, some savings, the old mother of the family came to the door.
The old mother asked for a sum of money for her son to marry her daughter-in-law, but Han'er didn't have that much money, so the old mother said that she could only sell her sister.
When Han'er's mother gave birth to her little sister, she died in childbirth, and her father found a stepmother for them, and the stepmother gave birth to a son. Han'er grew up, and her stepmother persuaded her father to sell her and enter Liufu, but she still found a relationship before selling it.
Han'er didn't say anything about the incident, but mentioned the bell.
Unlike Han'er, the bell is sold by itself.
Bell father went to the northwest with someone, went for many years, so far there is no news, the mother works day and night, barely living, there is a younger brother at home, after a few years, the younger brother should marry a daughter-in-law, for this matter, the bell voluntarily sold himself.
And Han'er said that she was strange, once, the bell whispered to the girl with a raw face, and another time, the bell went to the corner door and pulled and pulled with the little girl.
About the latter time, Han'er asked her.
Bell talked about her life experience, saying that she asked the brother of Jiaomen to bring some copper coins out, and I heard that her mother was blind in one eye.
"Bell is so stupid, she shouldn't have jumped into the river! She must have been threatened, and those people threatened her with her mother and brother......"
listened to Han'er's story.
I can't sleep anymore.
Bell's biggest wish in this life, her younger brother can marry a daughter-in-law, and her mother will no longer work day and night.
The best way to fulfill her wish - she can become an aunt, at least, she can also become a roommate.
The bell looks like a watery spirit, and she is also clever when she looks at it, unlike other quiet, small and delicate maids, she has the energy of "will definitely become the master".
Therefore, Bell is particularly fond of "visiting the door", and always hopes to find some opportunities, for example, to make the eldest aunt's son look at it twice.
The candle blew again.
The room was dark.
I couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning, and when I got up and drank water, I still felt stuffy and panicked.
Han'er fell asleep.
Gently open the door and go down a few steps towards the stern of the boat.
She originally lived in the Peony Pavilion in the middle of the ship, on the second floor of the ship, after the lotus root powder poisoning incident, she changed to a room at the stern, and the front side of the second floor of the ship was a place similar to a pavilion ventilated on all sides, and the name was good, called the Drunken Flower Pavilion.
The first floor is divided into three spaces, one for Liu Jingzhi and one for Steward Zhang, and there is a place on the front and rear sides of the ship leading to the cabin below deck.
This is the main ship, followed by two slightly smaller ships, some items and people who went to Chang'an with her are on it, and the accompanying guards are also there.
Compared to the previous trip, there was no wind at all at this time.
The fog is a little thicker.
The outside is similar to the inside of the house.
"Who? Who's here! ”
There was a shout in vain.
Tightly, she heard the sound of the bow being fired.
The sound came from overhead, and it was supposed to be the man on the mast who was on guard at night.
"It's me. Miss Liu, it's too stuffy in the house, I'll go out for a walk. ”
The following night watchman found her: "Why is Miss here alone?" ”
"I just want to walk alone."
"The night is foggy, Miss hurry back so as not to ......"
The other party's words were ignored by her.
Suddenly, she walked briskly to the side of the boat, lay on the edge of the boat, and waved her hand, as if she could clear the fog ahead.
Ahead, there seems to be a starry spot.
"Miss? If you insist on being here, we can only inform our master! ”
"Look!" Pointing to the side, he quickly said, "It's moving, those lights are moving!" ”
Strange to say, in an instant, the dense fog in front of me actually dissipated most of it, and suddenly, it was much clearer in front of me!
It's not Starlight at all!
It's a torch that's moving!
immediately looked at a few people beside her, but before one of them could react, she slapped him on the head: "Alert!" Sound the alarm! Hurry up, hurry up! ”
At the moment when her voice fell.
"Whoosh-"
A sharp arrow galloped in.
Inserted into the chest of the man next to her, the night watchman collapsed.
She quickly crouched down.
However.
In the next moment, she was picked up by two people, one left and one right.
"Take Miss back to the cabin!"
She was forcibly asked to go to the cabin on the second floor.
But—
Isn't that exactly a target?
Protests are ineffective!
She was quickly thrown back into her room by two men.
"Bang dang!"
The door was also locked.
"Miss? What's going on! With that, Han'er in the room walked to the window, and she pushed the window to see what was going on outside.
It's already messed up outside.
Messy footsteps and noise.
She immediately turned around and blew out the candles: "Don't open the window!" Off—"
The words in his mouth were blocked in his throat.
"Whoosh-"
Familiar sounds.
The arrows were unusually sharp and sharp, piercing the air and flying straight like a beast out of a cage.
No blood, no swear.
Han'er had just opened the window, and an arrow was inserted into her body.
The arrows are still there.
That force, with her, flew backwards.
The candle went out.
Almost at the same time, seven or eight more arrows flew from the same direction.
Significantly inferior to the first.
But one of the arrows that hit Han'er and the other arrows was inserted into the door panel on the other side of the room.
Han'er fell, facing her.
Her mouth was moving.
Couldn't speak, just spat out a few mouthfuls of dark red blood.