Chapter 3, Ning Qiang Gambling House (4)
Gu Ming hugged Dai Er and didn't move for a long time. Until Chen Yuandao pressed his hand on his shoulder: "Follow his wishes." ”
"Is it really just left unburied?" Gu Ming's deep voice trembled a little.
"He is free, there is wind here, there is sun, there is rain. Don't confine him in the dirt and lock him up. "Chen Yuan said," Besides, he said that he wanted to beat Zhu Ning on Huangquan Road, and he had to find it if it was far away. After speaking, he patted Gu Ming.
Gu Ming slowly followed the second momentum and put him on the ground. stood up and said, "Second brother, don't worry." I must have found his master, brought it here, and ended up with him. Then he put the long knife in his sheath and turned to leave
Chen Yuan and Gu Ming found a lock, locked the door of the gambling house, and posted a note on the door saying "Closed today", neither of them wanted anyone to disturb their brother's peace today. In a moment, two more carriages were found, and the children were picked up, and one by one drove out of the city. No one spoke along the way, except for the "creaking" of the wheels of the two carriages, as if they were discussing whether the road outside the city was as flat as the city.
When the carriage swayed to the Ji house in Houjiachuan, the day was already three poles.
"Big brother! The kid can't be found, it's the one who opened the door for us! As soon as Yanqi opened the door, he said to Chen Yuan in a panic.
"It's okay, you were with us just now." Tatsu Yuandao.
"That's fine, that's fine......" Yanqi repeated babblingly, "this kid, when did you run out!" I don't know what's sinister. Yanqi said again.
The women brought by Dai Er moved the two cars of children into the house one by one with tears in their eyes, and some even fainted on the way, and they didn't know whether they were tired or scared.
"I don't know if I'm lucky or unlucky." Yanqi sighed, tears raining down.
This is often the case in the world, and I am most afraid of comparison. A blind man is feeling sorry for himself on the road, if a blind man with two eyes comes to him, he will more or less feel that he can still see, the world is north, the four seasons change, all kinds of beautiful scenery is more or less related to himself, go home and see his wife's face, but also watch his children grow up day by day. He will look up and see the sunset today.
Chen Yuan and Gu Ming didn't say anything relieved at the moment, no matter what they said, they seemed to be a little standing and talking without backache. The two came to the courtyard, looked at the busy crowd, and sat on the stone steps under the eaves.
"Brother Yuan, just ......" Gu Ming was about to speak.
"Wait." He was interrupted by Chen Yuan again.
"What are you waiting for?" Gu Ming asked.
"Wait until it gets dark." Chen Yuan said, and at the end he said: "Eat more for a while, and you have to be full for dinner, maybe you won't be able to eat for two or three days." ”
"Will there be officers and soldiers going in?" Gu Ming said worriedly.
"No, there aren't many soldiers in this city, and it's enough to maintain law and order." Chen Yuan said, "Besides, it's the territory of Yixiaotang, and no one will go in the short term, so I can't wait to walk around." "Chen Yuan is very sure.
Ji Tongcheng's house supplies are not ordinarily sufficient, and the people in this courtyard eat and drink openly for half a month, and they may not be able to eat half of them. After lunch, Yanqi asked Chen Yuan to accompany him and came back with a cart full of medicinal herbs from the city. The injured children can't be taken care of for a while, and Yanqi seems to be the eldest sister in this house, and she is the support of these children.
The dinner was sumptuous, like a celebration of escaping the devil's cave. Children forget things very quickly, and the younger they are, the less they know what hatred is, and the less they can realize the despair and sadness that can drain people's energy. Some of the children have already started to fight, and the girls rescued from the pillow spring courtyard have a shallow smile on their faces. Most of the time people are still very strong, and some people can certainly lick their wounds until they heal. But a group of people who have suffered the same disaster get together, share joys and sorrows, and even if they are silent, they can always better encourage each other and help them out of the haze.
Chen Yuan explained that Yan Qi locked the door and disappeared into the night with Gu Ming.
The crickets chirped one after another, as if the mothers-in-law of two villages were gathered in one place, arguing and arguing. The small wild animals on the hillside not far away, swaying in and out of the bushes, making a clicking sound from the fallen leaves, occasionally "snapping" to break the dead branches that fell on the ground, and then suddenly all the sound was gone, and they stopped there motionless, to see if the movement was heard by the predators, and to hear if there was any approach. There was no abnormality for a moment, and then it staggered back and forth. The bird on the branch stood on the branch and swayed back and forth like a drunk, dozing off, and when it was about to fall, it woke up with a "coo", grasped the branch firmly, and slowly closed its eyes again.
Chen Yuan and Gu Ming have been lying on the roof for two hours, from the distance the street is brightly lit, the sound of drinking and fisting comes from the restaurant, only one or two are still on at this moment, and the people who are closer to them have already snoring, and the two of them have not moved. A cat jumped into the room, did not dare to approach it at first, but after observing it for a while, it circled around each of them, and found it bored, and called twice and walked away.
The ruins in the moonlight were very clear, yes, the two of them were lying on the roof of the only room left in the gambling house, staring unblinkingly at the place where the explosion had occurred during the day.
It seems that no one has come, and Daiji's body is still lying there, not moving. Zhu Ning's corpse was also not far away, two corpses, one large and one small, lining the miserable white night as quiet as death.
The two of them didn't know how long they had been lying on their stomachs, but they felt that the tiles under them were covered warm. The crickets stopped croaking, and the jungle was silent with the sound of fallen leaves and dead branches. At this moment, a faint "popping" sound came, Gu Ming's eyes widened, staring at the hole in front of Dai Er's corpse, and the sound came from there! I saw that the floating soil at the entrance of the cave was strangely slowly protruding, and slowly slid down from the middle to the two sides. Gu Ming's hairs stood on end, he clenched his fists nervously, and slowly stretched out the hilt behind his head. Finally, with a "bang", the rubble on the floating soil was pushed away, and a human head slowly came out of the hole. The human head was covered with pitch black, it should be dirty, and when he opened his eyes, only the eyes were bright on a black face under the moonlight, shining with a terrifying light, like a ghost from hell. Gu Ming held his breath, his eyes widened, while Chen Yuan narrowed his eyes, and the corners of his mouth finally showed a light smile. Suddenly, the head turned, and he looked around. Whoever came in at this moment and saw such a rotating head on the ground in the moonlight, and was not scared out of the green, that person was not without guts, but he must not have eaten leeks. The head suddenly turned to the direction of the house, and Chen Yuan and Gu Ming hurriedly shrank their heads. After waiting for a while, the sound of "bang-la-la" came, and the two of them showed their eyes again. The people in the cave have slowly climbed out of half of their bodies, and their kung fu legs have also been taken out, and they slowly stand up, patting the soil on their bodies, and "crunching" to move their muscles and bones.
The "ghost" finished his activities, looked at the two corpses next to him, and laughed "sneering". didn't speak, tied up the posture of light work, and wanted to kick the ground and leave. Suddenly, a voice came to mind, like a thunderbolt in this dead night, and the "ghost" froze its body. What he heard was a "goo", that is, people who have been hungry for a long time and still don't feel it, and their stomachs can't help but make a sound of reminders. The ghost looked around in horror, his eyes flustered, as if he was convinced that there was a ghost around him, but even if he broke his neck, he couldn't see it anywhere. "Smack!" A large, powerful hand grabbed his ankle fiercely. The ghost was so frightened that he was scared out, and he suffocated it hard, but he still inevitably squeezed out a few drops, his legs were weak, and he collapsed to the ground.
"Damn! Almost starved your dad to death. Daiji's "corpse" was buried face down on the ground, making a dull sound.
The ghost knew who had caught him, and suddenly he was no longer afraid. Bend your other foot and kick Daiji's head with all your might. A scream of "Ahh In the afterglow of the ghost, he saw a white light from the roof of the house next to him, like the first rays of light from the sun jumping out of the horizon, and no one could avoid it. The foot that he kicked towards Daiji was pierced, and a dagger pierced his foot nail to the ground, and it hurt heart-rending after a little movement. With the white light came two figures, one of them stepping on the dagger, as if he was afraid that he would pull out his feet. Another mid-air pulled out a long knife from behind his back, and as soon as it landed, it just landed on his neck.
"So impatient, I thought I would have to lie down for two or three miles!" Chen Yuan said with a smile.
"Haha! Lao Tzu almost snored, and almost broke the big thing. Daiji's corpse got up with a smile, patted the dirt on his body, and spat a few dirty things on his lips.
"What's going on?" This time, Gu Ming was in a hurry, watching the two of them talking and laughing, Gu Ming felt that he was a rammer for the first time.
"Your brother is really Zhang Fei embroidery, thick and fine. Don't look at it usually, it's the same as putting your brain in Lingyun Hall and not bringing it out, it's all fake. Hahaha......" Chen Yuan said with a smile.
"One of them can use their brains, and they are all very tired." Daiji digs his nostrils.
"Are you very confused about Daiji's actions during the day?" Gu Ming asked.
"Yes, he took the vial and bit off the cork, poured half of the bottle in Zhu Ning's mouth, and then dropped the bottle." Gu Ming said, "I don't understand what you can only bet like this." ”
"So you want to ask, but what did you do by pouring the medicine in the dead man's mouth, and then why did you drop the other half again." Chen Yuan asked Gu Ming with a smile.
"Yes." Gu Ming said.
"Those words were spoken to him." Chen Yuan pointed to the ghost on the ground and said, "Just when he heard these words, he thought that Daiji had drunk the medicine in the bottle. ”
"I don't understand what he's doing, but when you interrupted me, I knew it wasn't that simple, so I went with you." Gu Ming said.
"It seems that sometimes blind trust is really a good thing." Dai Er said and glanced at Chen Yuan with jealousy.
"Your brother is really not simple, you think about it carefully, what he does is really intriguing, and his mind is very thoughtful." Tatsu Yuandao.
"What's the secret, a muscular man." Gu Ming said angrily.
"You're really out of sight." Chen Yuan said, "Do you remember, in Houjiachuan, after we found out that Ji Tongcheng and Wang Pin were poisoned, he immediately thought of the child who took the key, and he didn't know that he was Zhu Ning at the time, he said that the child would also be poisoned, and ran over to slap the child on the back, so that the child vomited, which made us both laugh." ”
"Is this careful?" Gu Ming said.
"No, he had already thought of a possibility at that time, this kid had come into contact with Ji Tongcheng." Chen Yuan Zhengse said, "He immediately thought that this kid had also come into contact with Zhu Qiang. And he believes in your sense of proportion as much as I do, so at that time, he was already suspicious of that child. After Chen Yuan finished speaking, he looked at Dai Er, and Dai Er stopped smiling, and looked at Chen Yuan's eyes with extra solemnity.
Gu Ming didn't speak, he looked at Dai Erdao's eyes, and he also became solemn.
Chen Yuan continued: "He used to seem to pat the child's back comically, but in fact, he had already probed Zhu Ning's four acupuncture points one by one, including Fengmen, Luhu, Duyu, and Shentang. ”
Daiji regained his expression, scratched his head and said, "Yes, I didn't find the strength of the wandering at that time." ”
"At that time, you didn't know that he was practicing such evil skills, especially since it was fifty days and eighty-one days. Half of the energy has already dried up, and it is all restrained to save his life, and he will not always wander in the big hole. "Chen Yuandao.
"I can't see it, second brother, you still have this heart." Gu Ming said with a smile.
Dai Er laughed embarrassedly twice and didn't argue with Gu Ming.
"Later, after the three of us got out of this dungeon at the same time, he discovered the irrationality with me." Chen Yuan said, seeing that Gu Ming didn't ask, he said: "After Zhu Ning judged that he was going to die, he told us two more things, one is that Wang Yunshan was not killed by him, and the other is that there is a person who pretends to be a dead corpse. Why would a man who was bent on killing the three of us be kind enough to tell us this? Is it just to make me want to break my head? ”
Seeing Gu Ming looking down and thinking about something, Chen Yuan continued: "Whether what he said is true or not, Wang Yunshan was not killed by him, so who killed it?" The person who died was not Wang Yunshan, who was that? We tried our best to investigate this matter, naturally we didn't want the truth to slip away in front of our eyes, so we naturally wanted to go to someone immediately to see where Wang Yunshan was. Chen Yuan paused, waited for Gu Ming to follow his train of thought, and said, "He said again, when I entered the dungeon with you for the first time, there were eight corpses, and the second time the three of us went down together, there were only seven corpses left." In other words, after the first time we came out, the "corpse" came out. I asked the children in the room with Dai Er, Xiao Ming, you are digging a pit in the courtyard, which means that if he comes out of the only exit, then he must only hide in that room, as soon as he comes out, he will be discovered by you. And this man was only able to run after we went into the dungeon together for the second time. So when Zhu Ning wanted us to know that when he told us the news, this person may not have run far. Maybe you are hiding on the top of a hill not far away, watching the situation in the yard. Zhu Ning felt that I would definitely think of this, so I could separate someone and look around. ”
"Was he even calculating something before he died......" Gu Ming muttered to himself.
Chen Yuan continued: "Now there is only one person left, so he cheated to death, tricked one person to investigate, and then bit him." Taking advantage of the fact that we just analyzed it not long ago, he poisoned Ji Tongcheng by putting poison on his teeth to make the people who were bitten by him think that they were also poisoned. Then we were specifically reminded to look for an antidote. ”
"Why does he have to find a way to get rid of the three of us?" Gu Ming asked.
"Naturally, there are people who need us to leave as soon as possible." Tatsu Yuandao.
"Is that him?" Gu Ming looked at the ghost and said.
"It's him, and if he hears us leaving, he'll run away. Even if we didn't leave at that time, even if something was entangled with us, probing Wang Yunshan, or looking for the eighth person, in short, we wouldn't have paid attention to it here anymore. Chen Yuan said, "But I didn't expect it to be so deep at the time, I actually brought Zhu Ning out and found the antidote from him." After speaking, he looked at Dai Er, "Fortunately, Dai Er made up for my mistake in time, grabbed the medicine and poured it into Zhu Ning's mouth, and after a while, he opened Zhu Ning's shirt and let me see the bulging blood vessels in his chest. Convinced that it was poison, he smashed the other half of the bottle and said those words again. The people in the underground can hear that this third person, even if he is not taken away, will not live long. Because he knew that the bottle that Zhu Ning was holding was poison. ”
"Are you so sure that Zhu Ning's teeth are not poisonous?" Gu Ming asked.
"Of course, he was so complacent, so confident that he could keep the three of us underground, and he was absolutely confident that he would be able to escape. How could he put poison on his teeth at the moment when he was about to break the ground? Chen Yuan said with a smile.
"But Zhu Ning was already dead at that time, how could he still help Dai Er test the poison?" Gu Ming asked.
"Do you remember, I said that he was angry and destroyed his dantian. The heart is still beating, but it is also unconscious, and at most it can live for half a quarter of an hour. Chen Yuan asked.
Gu Ming nodded.
"As long as the heart is still beating, the qi and blood are still running, and naturally you can test the poison." Chen Yuan glanced at Dai Er and said to Gu Ming: "You brother, your medical skills are not bad." ”
"Then we left, why didn't he come out right away?" Gu Ming asked.
"Because we lost our brother, we don't have the heart to care about what Wang Yunshan is, and we have to settle those children." Chen Yuan said, "And if we believe what Zhu Ning said, if someone runs away, it is likely that he is observing nearby, then we may come back at any time to take a look." He didn't know when we would be back, so he waited until the dead of night to come out. ”
"Actually, I'm not sure if the person is in the cave, I don't know if there are other dark rooms or anything here, it's just that Zhu Ning is so anxious to break us away, that person must still be in the courtyard." Chen Yuan continued.
"And the person who I wish to protect rather than die must be very important." Gu Ming said.
Chen Yuan nodded and said, "True and false, false and true." Lies can only be more deceptive if they are based on the truth. Then he glanced at the person who had been stuck on the ground and had been silent, and said, "Of the three things Zhu Ning said before he died, two of them were true. First, one person escaped by pretending to be a corpse, but instead of escaping from the dungeon, he took the lead in hiding in the hole behind Zhu Ning. Chen Yuan said here and smiled, and said slowly: "These two are the people who died in this county ya, and they are really not Wang Yunshan." After speaking, he looked at the silent ghost on the ground and asked, "Is that right?" Lord Prefectural Order! ”