Chapter 16 (23)
Chu Menglin said: "Huh, it's not fun!" took a wooden boat and saw a slender mast erected on the ship, and there was a battle flag attached to the pole, and the lines of the flag were slightly raised, showing the windward wave when sailing. Chu Menglin muttered, "This is not good-looking, and there is still a skull missing." She pinched the hull of the boat with her left hand, and slashed the flag with her right hand carving knife, and with a "click", the mast was cut in two. This time, Deshou couldn't bear it anymore and shouted, "Don't move!
Chu Menglin was startled, and then said angrily: "What are you crazy about? You have already ignored things outside your body, you only have work in your eyes, what I have done, you should not be able to see it! Hurry up, don't be lazy." Deshou said angrily: "You...... You ......" saw that her long-term hard work was shattered by her, and she almost had the idea of throwing down the wooden knife and turning away. was emotional, and there were tears rolling in his eyes.
Duoduo said unhappily: "Menglin, don't make trouble for others, come here!" Chu Menglin pouted: "I didn't make trouble, I was just supervising him......" Seeing that Duoduo's face was not good, he didn't dare to make trouble anymore, so he hurriedly dragged a chair and sat next to him, and stretched out his tongue at Deshou again, making a grimace. Duoduo said, "Mr. Deshou, please continue. Deshou's right hand trembled, knowing that disobedience would not do him any good, so he had to continue carving. I wanted to solve the problem quickly, so I sent the two plague gods away first, and then repaired the two wood carvings.
Hu Wei was clinging to the cabinet, half of his body was stiff and numb, knowing that the sound would not reach the hall, but he still didn't dare to relax a little and make a noise. If you are talking and shouting outside, you can also understand the general situation, at this time, everything is silent, and there is always a kind of illusion in my heart, as if someone is walking towards the cabinet, and the next step is to move the copper bowl and find the dark room...... Those pictures must be Prince Yu's secrets, and they are also important evidence for Shen Shiyun to find for everyone, with Chu Menglin's long-term cultivation style in the Demon Sect, once he is discovered, he will definitely be destroyed. When Deshou carved the picture, he looked at the picture carefully, and one foot had already stepped into the coffin, which was even more hopeless.
Fortunately, it is much easier to engrave on wood chips than miniature carving, and there is no need to elaborate carving, and the drawings are curved lines, which are much faster than words. It only took half a morning to move all the drawings on the paper to the wood chips, one picture corresponding to one piece of wood, the number is complete, and the last undeciphered set of numbers occupies a single piece. Deshou put down the carving knife, stacked the wood chips, and held them to Duoduo with both hands, so he dared to turn around, wipe his sweat, and let out a long breath of turbidity, and the whole person seemed to collapse.
Duoduo carefully inspected the wood chips, Chu Menglin was scolded by Deshou for a few words, and her anger was hard to dissipate, and she suddenly said: "Deshou, when you carved just now, you deliberately hid a piece of wood, what is the purpose?" Deshou was shocked and said, "I...... I...... How can there be ...... You are staring at me intently, how dare I play tricks under your nose?" Chu Menglin chirped: "Who wants to stare at you intently? Do you think you look good? I was negligent, you stole a piece, who is the order, and who are you going to report to?"
Deshou trembled all over, half angry, half frightened, Duoduo glanced at him and said, "You don't have to be nervous. She will be negligent, this king is not negligent, and will not easily confuse right and wrong, naturally if you have a slight change, you will never be able to hide the eyes of this king. You've done a great job, and it's a reward for you. He took out a stack of silver tickets and stuffed it into Deshou's hand, and said in a low voice: "Keep your mouth tight, don't mention today's events to anyone." Otherwise, you know the consequences. ”
Deshou said in a trembling voice: "Yes...... Weichen knows, thank you to the prince. "Chu Menglin lives in the palace these days, and she doesn't dare to violate Duoduo's intentions in big and small things, and her nature of playing tricks on people is uncomfortable, so this time she naturally wants to take Deshou to the knife. Thinking that the action of the hidden wood chips is very large, it is not easy to frame them, it is better to say something that cannot be seen on the surface, and you can make it up at will, so he said: "Okay, let's count me as a momentary dazzle." But when you carved the numbers, your eyes were very focused, and you secretly recited in your heart, this matter has nothing to do with you, there is no need to waste your thoughts, and who ordered this?"
Deshou said angrily: "You are messing around! Engrave numbers on the wood chips, how do you carve them if you don't look carefully? When the time comes, there are many mistakes and omissions, won't you have to complain a lot?" Chu Menglin said: "You said you didn't remember, then even if you didn't remember." He approached him and said mysteriously, "Do you want to get rich?"
Deshou was overjoyed and said repeatedly: "Of course, of course, I listen to what the girl says more than anyone else." Chu Menglin pulled him aside, so he said: "But Prince Yu also gave you a reward, if the price I give is ten times higher, and the matter I confess conflicts with him, will you continue to be loyal to him, or will you turn to be loyal to me?"
Deshou is dedicated to the pursuit of "not falling into the air", and said with a smile: "Of course the minister is loyal to the prince...... and he lowered his voice: "I am more loyal to the girl." You sent me to do errands, that is to look up to me, Wei Chen for the girl to go up the knife mountain, down the oil pot, to the soup and fire, do not hesitate!", the same compliment, he had already vouched for the three of them in one day.
Chu Menglin smiled slightly, and said, "Why are you so polite?" Suddenly, her face changed color, her wrist flipped, and with a "poof", a dagger sank into Deshou's chest and stabbed straight into her heart. Deshou was already in his last years, and when he was hit by this blow, he didn't snort, spurted out a few mouthfuls of blood, and was killed on the spot, paralyzed to the ground like a lump of mud. Chu Menglin kicked him in the waist and scolded: "Shameless thing, you deserve it!"
Duoduo was taken aback and said, "What are you doing?" hurriedly caught up with a few steps, flipped Deshou's body over, and raised his finger to probe his snort, but he didn't feel any breathing. He said angrily: "Who allowed you to mess around like this?"
Chu Menglin said confidently: "I'm for your good." Only the dead never leak secrets. My father taught me that if you want to be foolproof, you can't leave anyone who knows. He took out the silver ticket from his bosom and said, "Wouldn't it be better for you to give him so much money and keep it for me to buy me some jewelry?"
Duoduo was indifferent, just looking at Deshou's body and pondering. Chu Menglin put her hands on his shoulders lightly, and said: "I tested him just now, this old thing is so greedy for money, although you gave him hush money, he promised you to keep it secret today, and someone will give him more money another day, but I am afraid that he will say everything." ”
Duoduo thought that what she said was not unreasonable, and his anger decreased slightly, but he was still worried: "He is a close minister favored by the emperor, and the emperor will hear about his death in a few days, how will it end then?" Chu Menglin said: "That's why I want to kill even more." He works by the emperor's side all day long, and the emperor is much richer than you, isn't that even more dangerous? Maybe when he is short of money to spend, even if others don't mention it, he will first come up with the bad idea of using it as a bargaining chip to blackmail the emperor. It's better to think of it as a shipwreck, anyway, after leaving Beijing this time, you also plan to raise troops, and then you will be the emperor......"
Duoduo said angrily: "When did I tell you that I wanted to rebel and want to be the emperor? Now that Deshou has just died, I will leave Beijing privately, what do you think the emperor will think? He must think that I am absconding in fear of crime, and it will be inconvenient to act all the way in the future......" He weighed the situation in front of him repeatedly, stood up and said: "I have no choice, I can only go to the emperor to explain the reason, and I will say...... said that I was going to send troops to fight, and I also had to pay homage to my ancestors along the way. Lay the groundwork for all the changes in advance, so that he will not be suspicious in the future, and I don't know if he can hide it......"
Chu Menglin hurriedly said: "If you can hide it, you must be able to hide it! That's the best, he didn't take precautions when he raised troops to sweep up, and when he reacted, the army was already in the city." I'll go with you, and when you report to the emperor, I'll help you say more good things. ”
Duoduo sighed: "Even if I'm afraid of you, will it be successful? You have caused me so much trouble, and you still want to come to the emperor in front of you? It's better to save it as soon as possible, the words that come out of your mouth are all vulgar words that make people find fault, it is difficult to achieve great things, and I am much more sure of going myself." You go to Xihuamen and wait for me, don't have any conflict with others...... Forget it, if you have poor self-control, then don't let others see you! Just hide at the top of the tenth tree in the left row. Chu Menglin responded: "Okay." "Straighten out the paper, toss it to the burning fireplace, and walk away with Dordor in tow.
Hu Wei didn't dare to take a breath, and only when he heard that they had indeed gone far away, and the interval was so long that it was impossible to return to fetch things, he tried to move. I felt that the side leaning against the cabinet was completely unconscious, and I pounded it up and down, but it was still to no avail, so I had to ignore it for the time being. Following the example of Deshou, he patted the head of the puppet on the outside three times, the cabinet was slowly moved, Hu Wei stood up against the wall, poked out half of his head first, and made sure that the two of them left again before he dared to walk out on tiptoe. With all his strength concentrated on his left foot, his legs went limp, and he fell to the ground in embarrassment, and he got up with a low curse. Walked to the hall and looked around, first saw that there was still a large stack of paper in the fireplace, ran forward and wanted to reach out to get it, a heat wave came to the face, I couldn't help but curse myself for being confused, picked up the firetong by the stove, and clamped the paper out. Looking through it, except for the last one, which was burned by the fire and a large hole, and the other one was blackened by the fire, the rest were intact.
It turned out that the paper was extremely thick after being stacked, and when it was thrown out, the force was so strong that it pressed the fire out. Chu Menglin is shrewd in small things and confused in big things, Duoduo is worried about whether reporting to the emperor will work, both of them are extremely shrewd people, but because they have their own hearts, they don't pay attention.
Hu Wei was overjoyed, when he hid in the dark room, he was really frightened, just hoping to pick up a life, but he didn't think that now he would not only get out of danger, but also get important evidence and make a contribution. Brushing off the soot on the paper, he covered the whole stack in his sleeve, and then saw Deshou prostrate on the ground, his eyes wide open, and he couldn't bat at himself. He was killed by Hu Wei, but he was not panicked, but only a little regretful, looked at him for a while, and sighed: "You got into the eyes of money, and in the end you were killed by money." When you go to the underworld, the brother burns more paper money for you, and you don't need the silver ticket of the yang world, so give it back to me. ”
Unfastened his shirt from his chest and reached out to fumble his way. After touching for a long time, there was nothing except a few underwear he was wearing. Hu Wei thought about it, immediately understood, and couldn't help but scolded in a low voice: "When Chu Menglin, the demon girl, took the silver ticket, she didn't count the number, but took away my filial piety to the old man, making Lao Tzu empty-handed, fucking dead girl, stinky girl!"
In fact, the reason is reasonable, when it comes to murder and robbery, how can anyone take half of it and leave half for the dead on the ground? Hu Weikong was ruthless for a while, and said to Deshou: "I will chase that demon girl, I will definitely get all the money back, and you are grateful, so you gave me both money." Yes, rest in peace, don't stare at me like that. I just wanted to reach out and close his eyes for him, but when I saw his sad face, my eyes rolled and I thought about it.
Duoduo went to Yinxue Palace to report to Fu Lin, but it happened that he was uneasy because of Shen Shiyun's coma, so he nodded without much thought, and then went to meet Chu Menglin in front of Xihua Gate, handed over the drawings to Zhen Ying, and sent her away. The drawings change hands, and they are not too worried, because they have changed beyond recognition, they are equivalent to a piece of waste paper, and the method that could not solve the mystery earlier was inappropriate, but now the method is more "dang" than a hundred times, and it is impossible to solve any information with it.