Chapter 4: The Assassins
I slept until midnight, and I vaguely heard someone shouting, and there were figures coming and going outside the window.
As a cat, a lazy cat, unless the ship sank, nothing could affect my sleep, not to mention that my shovel officer martial arts were so good, I naturally didn't have to worry, so I rolled over and planned to continue sleeping. When he turned around, he found that Qingyue was no longer in bed.
My curiosity struck, and I leaned my ear against the window to hear what was going on, only to hear a few people standing on the deck talking.
"Steward Liu fell into the river."
"How did it fall? What are you running around in the middle of the night? β
"Who knows? I heard that he almost died, but fortunately, he grabbed the iron lock on the edge of the boat and drifted with the boat for several hours before he was discovered by the martial artist who went out to relieve himself and fished it up. β
ββ¦β¦ Why do I want to laugh. β
"You're not kind, but so am I."
Not to mention them, I'm a little happy in my heart, this bad guy, I guess I want to go to the stern dark room again, but I ended up falling into the sea, hahaha.
But...... What did I say before I went to bed, did I say it again? I was feeling a little confused.
Just thinking about it, Qingyue had already entered the room, stretched out her hand and pulled the quilt over, and covered me with another quilt, so we fell asleep again.
Early in the morning of the second day, I took a catwalk to the deck of yesterday's dark room, and it was really difficult to find that there was a dark room here, but there was still a little sawdust pried out by the knife yesterday, and I saw some sundries scattered next to it.
I was thinking, I didn't pay attention, but this Liu Ziwen suddenly squatted beside me with a haggard face, he pretended to tease me again, and hurriedly wiped off the sawdust with his hands, and kicked the nearby debris away.
I gave him a disdainful look and walked away.
Liu Ziwen stood up, saw that no one was paying attention, stretched out his foot and wanted to kick me, I had already noticed it, swooped to the top of the cabin, and stared at him condescendingly.
Afraid of being noticed, he glared at me fiercely and walked away.
In the next few days, he tried to get close to the dark room many times, but no matter day or night, I kept an eye on him, screaming a few times from time to time, not giving him a chance, although I didn't know what he wanted to do, but such a nasty person, not letting him get his wish, after all, would make me feel happy.
After this period of wandering around, I found that today's Taishi Liu has been demoted, and although there are a lot of servants and maids who go with him, the most responsible ones are Liu Ziwen and Qingyue.
Liu Ziwen studied with Liu Taishi in his early years, so he has always called Taishi a teacher, and Liu Taishi has many protΓ©gΓ©s, but after a few years of Liu Ziwen, he realized that he was not an official, so he asked for this housekeeper position by having the same surname as Liu Taishi, and he has been doing it for many years.
In fact, Liu Ziwen's work ability is still good, and he keeps Liu's house in good order, but he is a careful person, and in the discussion of the cooks, this Liu Ziwen is the master who is angry when he even eats a piece of meat when eating, so the people gave him a nickname called Xiao Qiwen behind his back.
And Qingyue, who should have grown up beside the Taishi since he was a child, has followed the Taishi's son to practice martial arts since he was a child, and he doesn't like to talk, but the level of martial arts is not low, since the death of the Taishi's son, he has been responsible for the safety of the house, and he has been conscientiously protecting the Taishi all the time, although the martial artists in the house are older than him, they are also very convinced of his work arrangement.
"Porridge." Qingyue's voice reached my ears.
β¦β¦β¦β¦ I walked over with some reluctance.
Tell me a name, can't you come up with something nice? Porridge? Is this like a cat's name? It's just a kind of food, and it's also a food that doesn't interest cats.
But when I saw the freshly fished fish in Qingyue's hand, I was happy again and buried my head in eating it.
"Qingyue, Qingyue." Liu Ziwen ran over again with two dark circles under his eyes, and pouted his lips in disgust when he saw me.
Hmph, I turned away from him.
"Qingyue." Liu Ziwen said: "Lord Zhang of Hexi Mansion has arrived at the dock, and he still doesn't want to see the teacher, you go and talk to him, don't offend everyone, then the son will not be a good person in the capital." β
Qingyue looked down at me eating, ignoring him.
"It's easy to block open guns, but it's hard to defend against dark arrows." Liu Ziwen continued: "Now that the Taishi has lost his power, it's better not to offend people. β
Seeing this, Qingyue turned around and took out a box of books from the cabin and put it next to Liu Ziwen.
Liu Ziwen seemed to be a little speechless, so he had to ask someone to move the books and get off the boat.
I thought to myself: I'm afraid this is another collection of annotations compiled by the Taishi, and the Taishi doesn't know how many of these books have been sent along the way.
Qingyue seemed unaffected, leaning against the outer wall of the cabin, watching the movement on the dock.
I saw that the visitor and Liu Ziwen exchanged gifts and saluted each other, and the visitor did not seem to be obviously dissatisfied, and after a long time, Liu Ziwen came back and ordered to prepare for the boat.
Qingyue suddenly stretched out her hand and waved, and a dart flew to the shore, landing in front of a person in the jungle, the person seemed to be startled, and after a moment's pause, he also flew up three darts,
Qingyue jumped up, dodged them all, and backhanded a few darts.
The man was struck by a dart, turned and ran, followed by two more people in the nearby jungle.
Qingyue was about to jump forward to chase after her, when a sentence came from the cabin: "Stop chasing." β
Qingyue received the order, did not chase, stood at the stern of the ship to be on guard at all times, and ordered the martial artist to step up patrols in the past few days.
I was lying on the roof of the cabin and was a little puzzled, Taishi Liu was so old, I am afraid that it would be impossible to return to the court this time, and who would send an assassin here?
Looking down and seeing Liu Ziwen, he seemed a little nervous, and couldn't help but think of the coffin in the dark room.
The size of the coffin is not like an adult's use, but it seems to be for a child, and there seem to be some hollow patterns on the front and back of the coffin, which is not quite in line with common sense, and the coffin looks a little warm, which makes people look at it, and they don't feel the gloomy feeling that ordinary coffins often have.
In short, it doesn't look like an ordinary thing, and this Liu Ziwen wants to open it so much, I can't help but be a little curious. This thing is on the boat, Liu Ziwen is afraid that people will find out where they have gone, so this thing Taishi must be clear, I don't know what it is? Isn't it some gold and silver jewelry that Taishi Liu brought?
"Steward Liu, you will be able to go to the Qianzhou Mansion Pier tomorrow morning." The captain shouted haughtily.
"Okay, everyone has worked hard, arrive on time, and the Liu Mansion will definitely be rewarded." Liu Ziwen also promised.
"Thank you Steward Liu, thank you Mrs. Liu." The crew was even happier when they heard it.
I was lying in the sun and napping, and I saw that Qingyue had turned around and entered the cabin, and I followed lazily inside, wanting to tickle it once, but I saw him enter the cabin of the Taishi.
"Taishi." Qingyue said: "These darts seem to be used by the Jinyi Guards in the capital. β