31. Old things about collecting books
Han Chong lit a fire candle, crossed a row of sandalwood shelves with his waist bent, waved one hand behind his back, and whispered to Mo Yu: "Keep up!" ”
Mo Yu lay on the ground with his hands and feet, and the light of the candle flame shone in front of her, which was already very weak. She couldn't see the path clearly, and reached out to grab the corner of Han Chong's clothes, barely keeping up with his footsteps.
Han Chong grabbed her hand with his backhand and pulled her to walk in the narrow passage. Mo Yu's palms were sweating, and Han Chong only felt that his palms were slippery, and he was about to lose his grip on her little palms. The bookshelves, which usually turn left and right, take a long time to find, arrived so quickly today. Han Chong took a deep breath: "Little ballad, just go one step further." He pulled her around a few more times before bringing her back to where she was.
Mo Yu fumbled around the bookshelf and opened it, the light was dim, and the handwriting on the scroll could not be seen clearly. She beckoned to Han Chong and told him to bring the candlestick in a bit. The candle shadow swayed, and the ink rhyme was pointed with his fingers, and he read it word by word: "Supplement yang with yin, double cultivation and harmonious ......"
"What a book did you take?" Han Chong knocked down the scroll in her hand, and he didn't know if it was the candle flame or something else, and his face turned two strange reds.
"You brought me here, why do you still talk about me?" Mo Yu glanced at him, tugged at his sleeve and asked him to take down a scroll of books to read.
Most of the information recorded on the silk handkerchief was copied by Su Tian himself, and he remembered every word after writing it once. Mo Yu hurriedly flipped out the scroll marked with Yun Jiang, urging Han Chong to raise the candle flame a little higher.
According to the records in the book, five years ago, Yun Jiang came to Shouchun with his mother to be elected to the palace. In the autumn of this year, Yun Jiang suddenly had a serious illness and had a high fever for several days. Half-asleep, Yun Jiang said that the Qin people attacked Hangu Pass.
The palace people who accompanied him did not dare to hide it, and hurriedly reported the news to the king of Chu. That night, the military report of the Qin people's attack on Hangu Pass reached the Shouchun Palace.
In the spring of the following year, Yun Jiang entered the palace to learn astrology and divination, and once again said amazingly: "The assassins of the Qin State plotted to assassinate the former general." Five days later, the guards of the former General's Mansion really caught the assassin from the Qin State.
Yun Jiang can predict everything, but she almost never misses what she predicted.
Mo Yu read the events predicted by Yun Jiang several times, and these things are not big or small. On a few things, Su Tian made a mark with ink dots. Before and after those few events, there were other major events in the history of the Chu State, and Su Tian once asked her to memorize them.
"Is that ......" Mo Yu muttered to herself, she had had a lot of speculations about the possibility of spies, until she read this record, a new idea, and then jumped into her mind.
"What's wrong with that?" Han Chong leaned over, "Let me tell you, this record is not interesting, but it is interesting to talk about the Empress Dowager Zhaoxiang." ”
Mo Yu rolled up the book and knocked it his head: "Seeing that Ye Shi is so energetic, how could General Huang choose you to study?" ”
Han Chong touched the bag above his head and smiled: "It's not all for studying, General Huang has always been good friends with Su Gongzi, he can't trust the guards of the King of Chu, let me mix in the entourage and protect Su Gongzi thoroughly." ”
"Really?" Mo Yu's eyes lit up, Han Chong's skills, she had seen them in Lingxiao Pass, and they were no longer what they used to be.
She showed a flattering smile, pulled Han Chong's sleeve and asked, "Is there any way to contact you that day?" She wants to verify her guess first, and once it is confirmed, she will immediately notify Su Tian. If it is too late, you can only notify Han Chong first.
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The two sedan chairs entered the cloud platform, and a team of guards stood along the steps, and it turned out to be all women, wearing long knives. Ying Shi and Yun Jiang stepped out of the two small sedan chairs respectively, and entered the cloud platform one after the other.
Ying Shi entered Shouchun, originally to replace the younger brother as a hostage, and after visiting the important ministers of Chu State, he personally went to Yunzhao Mountain to meet Su Tian.
Mo Yu climbed on the branches, silently remembering the direction of the two small sedan chairs. On the small sedan chair of the two, there are koi fish patterns. Mo Yu used phosphorus powder to wipe a handful on the small sedan chair that Yun Jiang was riding, and then quietly returned to the cloud platform.
She quietly retreated down the hallway, climbed over several fences, and was met by Ying Shi and Yun Jiang coming towards her.
"Hey, who's this?" As soon as Yun Jiang saw the ink rumors coming in and out of the Yuntai, he spoke in a weird manner, "This time, you have to serve the hot water well, don't bump into the distinguished guests of the Qin State again, my cousin is the most polite person, don't defile his Yuntai." ”
Mo Yu didn't want to have an argument with her today, so he quietly lowered his head and got out of the way: "What the princess said is, no matter who it is, be careful. ”
There is such a thing as quarrelling, but if one party backs down, the other party will feel bored. Yun Jiang was bored with himself, snorted with his nostrils to the sky, and walked in front of Mo Yu with his sleeves flicked.
Ying Shi looked at Mo Yu carefully a few times, and remembered that Xiao Zhen was pinching her neck and warning herself not to touch her, and the anger in her heart became stronger and stronger. She has been in the palace for a long time, and the more angry she is in her heart, the more she will not show any of her face, but she takes a few steps forward and holds Mo Yu's wrist: "You should be careful, who can guarantee that someone always happens to come to the rescue." ”
Mo Yu's heart trembled, and she could still hear the warning and disgust in Ying Shi's tone. She didn't know where she had provoked the princess, so she could only hang her head lower and lower, and watch the tips of her shoes go away.
No matter how you look at it, it's all a yellow-haired girl, what's so good? Ying Shi has always been conceited, beautiful and intelligent, but now she wants to compete with such an unremarkable little girl for a man, how can she not be angry. The fingers were clenched tightly, and there was a slippery touch between the knuckles. She looked down, the phosphor powder glistening between her fingers.
Ying Shi groaned slightly, the corners of her mouth suddenly rippled with a bewitching smile, she beckoned to the little maid who followed closely beside her, and commanded in a low voice: "Send a message to Xuanwu, on the way back today, someone will follow me and let him kill him." The little maid was originally the person sent by Xiao Zhen to her side, and when she turned around and was about to leave, Ying Shi stopped her again, and added with a smile: "The matter is urgent, notify Xuanwu first, let him do it, and then notify Xiao Zhen." Millions, millions, remembers. ”
The little maid named Qingyin was ordered to leave quietly. Ying Shi smiled more and more charmingly and elegantly, and when Xiao Zhen arrived, Xuanwu should have already succeeded, at that time, Xiao Zhen's expression must be very interesting.
Mo Yu waited at the door of Yuntai for more than an hour before he saw Su Tian personally send Ying Shi and Yun Jiang out. She climbed up to the eaves in twos and threes, and hid behind the beasts in the corner of the eaves. When the ceremonial officer sang "up", the sedan chair and the team of female guards slowly moved down the mountain. Mo Yu silently counted the time, estimating that they had already gone away, and Su Tian should also go back, so he slipped down from the eaves and chased all the way down the mountain.
The sky is getting darker, and the two small sedan chairs are almost identical, and one of them has a koi fish pattern that exudes a faint blue light. It was a mark made in advance by Mo Yu, and Yun Jiang sat in the sedan chair.
Coming to a fork in the road, two small sedans continue along different paths. Mo Yu wondered in his heart, how to win the poem's sedan chair instead went in the direction of the altar. Before she had time to think about it, she hurried through the grass with her waist bent over, following the small sedan chair with phosphorus powder.
The sedan chair came out of Yunzhao Mountain, and it was already completely dark. As soon as he walked onto a small path, two black-clothed men suddenly jumped out on both sides of the road, holding bright swords in their hands.
Could it be an assassin? Mo Yu shrank into the grass, revealing only a pair of dark eyes, staring at the movements of the two men. Before she could see the situation clearly, one of the men in black had already raised the sword in his hand and stabbed at the place where Mo Yu was hiding.
The tip of the sword was already pointed to his throat, and Mo Yu stood up and took a few steps back, and the general dodged the sword. At this time, the guards who had been guarding around the sedan immediately changed their formation and surrounded the soft sedan chair. A shrill female voice shouted, "There are assassins! Protect Princess Winch! ”
Girl? Win the princess?
Mo Yu was stunned for a moment, those female guards, their clothes were originally very close to ordinary guards, it would be dark, and her attention was all on the phosphorus powder on the sedan body, and she didn't notice it until this time. However, she is obviously following Yun Jiang's soft sedan chair, how did she become a winning poem now?
She couldn't think about it too much, and more sword light had already forced her into a corner. Although Mo Yu was forced out by the man in black with a sword, in the eyes of those guards, she and the man in black appeared almost at the same time, and it was very likely that they were accomplices. The guards only protect the princess's safety, where will they carefully distinguish whether they have wronged someone, and the swords and swords will pierce her to the core.
The two men in black, while resisting the attack of the guards, retreated on the other hand, always intentionally or unintentionally blocking Mo Yu's retreat.
Mo Yu originally just wanted to follow Yun Jiang to the altar of the gods, she only had a short dagger with her, plus she hadn't learned kung fu for long, it was when she was half-baked, and it was difficult to even resist in the wilderness, let alone fight a bloody way to escape. It didn't last long, and the shoulder, lower abdomen, and forearm were each hit with a sword.
Ying Shi sat in the soft sedan chair, with a sneer on the corner of her mouth, listening to the movement outside. She knew in her heart that those two men in black should have been sent by Xuanwu and would not hurt herself. But she can't go out, as long as she doesn't see with her own eyes that the people outside are ink rumors, even if Xiao Zhen asks about it, she can push it all away. She didn't believe it, everyone was dead, what else could Xiao Zhen do.
From the phosphorus powder stained on her hands, she guessed that Mo Yu wanted to follow Yun Jiang. When she went out from the gimbal, she deliberately knocked over the incense burner held by the maid and stained Yun Jiang's soft sedan curtain. Yun Jiang was going to the altar of the gods, and it was rude to ride in a dirty sedan chair, so Ying Shi took the opportunity to exchange a soft sedan chair with her.
Mo Yu has retreated to the edge of the cliff, behind which is the downstream tributary of Xiangshui, the water is not deep, and the height of the cliff is not high, but the weather is not warm at this time, and it is estimated that if you don't fall to death, you will freeze half to death.
One of the men in black took out a small bow and crossbow from his arms and quietly aimed it at Mo Yu. The cluster of arrows shone a little silver in the moonlight, just sweeping in front of Mo Yu's eyelashes. The arrows burst through the air with a piercing sound, and Mo Yu gritted his teeth, his feet loosened, and he fell backwards.
Rather than stay here and wait to be killed by guards and people of unknown origin, it is better to gamble, maybe there is a way to survive under the cliff.
The wind whined in his ears, and Mo Yu used the short knife in his hand to poke several times on the cliff to slow down the momentum of the fall. With a loud "bang", the icy river water suddenly poured into his mouth, and he was surrounded by biting cold on all sides.