Chapter 17: The Truth
From the small courtyard to the ghost courtyard was only a few dozen steps away, Gu Shenwei walked closely against the wall, listening and then looking at every step, as if there was a cliff ahead.
Even so, he still underestimated the tightness of the guards of Jinpeng Castle, and he had just taken more than ten steps before he was grabbed by the back of his neck and lifted up.
The Night's Watch, like a ghost, has been lurking around humans, suddenly appearing when you least expect it, and no matter how much you try to guard against it, it is useless.
Gu Shenwei was suddenly arrested, but he calmed down and whispered, "Let go of me." ”
This night watchman was probably not the same person as the one last time, and he was a little surprised to see Gu Shen so calm, although his face was hidden behind the black cloth, but there was a little less murder in his eyes.
"You violated the curfew. ”
"I come out to do things. ”
"What's the matter?"
"I ......" Gu Shenwei couldn't make up a reasonable lie for a while.
"I let him out. Haruku's voice suddenly came out, and Gu Shenwei thought that he was not attracting attention, but in fact, he was followed early in the morning.
The night watchman didn't expect that there was someone behind him, obviously taken aback, and threw away Gu Shenwei, holding the handle of the knife in his right hand and holding the scabbard with his left hand.
"Who?"
"The remote slave in the courtyard of the Eight Young Masters. Haruku's voice was calmer than Gu Shenwei's, and even had a hint of impatience and reprimand.
"You also violated the curfew. ”
"What curfew is not a curfew, I left something in the courtyard of the Eighth Young Master, and asked Huan Nu to retrieve it for me, what's wrong, isn't this okay?"
Gu Shenwei didn't expect that Yao Huan would suddenly appear and help him lie, and he couldn't help but feel a little grateful, but with Yao Nu's status and status, it may not be easy to send the night watchman casually.
Sure enough, the night watchman didn't take Haruka's explanation seriously, "Follow me to see the sword master on duty." ”
The knife master is the leading figure among the killers of Jinpeng Castle, there are more than a dozen of them, and when they meet the knife master, the violation of the ban will be recorded and punished accordingly.
It's not too serious to go out of this hospital at night, but Gu Shenwei still has a stolen door key in his hand, which is an unforgivable crime, and there is a chance that he will be thrown into the ghost courtyard.
Gu Shenwei had a little hope that he would be imprisoned in a ghost courtyard to find his sister's whereabouts, but Haruku didn't want to.
"Aren't you the killer Liu Xuan? Everyone is a slave of the Eighth Young Master, can they tear each other down? The Eighth Young Grandmother has been in a bad mood recently, you make a big deal about it, is it interesting?"
Yao Nu was able to call out the name of the night watchman, Gu Shenwei and Liu Xuan were very surprised, the night watchman was dressed in black and covered his face, the purpose was not to be recognized.
"Y-How do you recognize me?"
"Alas, what are you nervous about, didn't you serve as the guard in the courtyard of the Eighth Young Master a while ago? I followed Xue Niang to learn martial arts, and I can always see you dangling around, everyone serves the same master, and we should help each other." ”
The night watchman Liu Xuan's eyes rolled, a little hesitant, the night watchman hid his identity in order to enforce the law impartially without scruples, but now he has been recognized, it is a little difficult to think about "impartiality", not to mention that violating the curfew is not a big deal, and it is not a meritorious service to be caught.
"Go back now, and don't come out again." ”
"But I want it now. ”
"That's not good, go back, you go to the Eighth Young Master's Courtyard every day, don't worry. ”
"Okay. Haruku shrugged, as if upset, "Then tomorrow." Then he said to Huan Nu in a dissatisfied tone: "Don't go back quickly, it's really troublesome for you to do something." ”
Gu Shenwei replied vaguely, bowed his head and hurried back to the small courtyard, the night watchman Liu Xuan was recognized as a temporary gaffe, sooner or later he would understand that Yao Nu was bluffing, he really wanted to take anything, and he didn't need to send someone out to follow him, but as long as he passed this hurdle, Liu Xuan didn't have to catch these two young slaves.
Back in the small courtyard, Yao Nu snatched the key and locked the door, and quietly put the key back to Han Jinu's room, and after coming out, he pulled Huan Nu to the west gate, which was the place where the two practiced martial arts, and it was the quietest.
"You're so bold to dare to mess around here. Haruku let out a long breath and whispered.
"Thank you. Good thing you know the killer. ”
"Shh, that's a coincidence, I didn't know it at first, I saw it as soon as he held the knife, everyone has characteristics when he holds the knife, Liu Xuan, this guy's martial arts are not high, but he is easy to show, and his right hand must be raised and shaken before holding the knife. Count his fate as big, if he meets a real master, he will have to die if he throws off his work. ”
Yao Nu has only been studying martial arts for more than half a month, and his actual combat experience is zero, so he actually observed the subtlety and said such a truth, Gu Shenwei was very shocked, and then understood that these words must have been said by Xue Niang, Yao Nu took them to be fried and sold, if he was not familiar with his own details, he really couldn't hear it.
Gu Shenwei's gratitude is sincere.
His impression of Haruka Nu has changed dramatically now, and he even wants to divulge some of his true feelings to him in order to enlist his help.
Although Gu Shenwei was born in a wealthy family and had a lot of slaves around him, he always felt that he was very popular among domestic slaves, but when he became a slave himself, he found that his previous feelings were all illusions, and he didn't know how to survive in slaves, let alone how to have a good relationship.
He has been in Jinpeng Fort for almost a month, but he only heard a few words of news, those few Hu people, the Central Plains dialect is still stumbling, and the various gossips brought back are much more than him, as for the remote slave, he is a master of listening to the news, and his familiarity with Jinpeng Fort is comparable to that of an old servant who has been in Jinpeng Fort for more than ten years.
If there is such a helper, whether it is to find the whereabouts of my sister or to take revenge in the future, it will get twice the result with half the effort.
"Haruka, there are some things I want to tell you, you are in danger, I can help you. ”
Gu Shenwei decided to tell Yao Nu about going mad, as for being able to help him, it was not a lie, just yesterday, he finally passed the first layer of yang energy and practiced the first layer of yin energy.
Although he has been practicing for more than ten years, under the guidance of his father Gu Lun, he has laid an excellent foundation, and once he gets serious, it is easy to make a breakthrough.
Yin energy will not increase the practitioner's internal strength, but it can control yang energy more freely, and if yang energy is the method of increasing strength, yin energy is the trick of using power.
Now that he had reached the first level of Yin Energy, Gu Shenwei felt that he had the ability to help Yao Nu suppress the Yang Energy in his body, delaying and preventing him from going mad.
Haruku shook his head, his mouth was slurking, and he had a smile on his face, as if Huan Nu was a child who said stupid things.
"I'm telling you the truth, you're practicing Harmony too fast, and you're in danger of going mad. Gu Shenwei finally told the truth.
If it weren't for the fear of waking up the people in the courtyard, Haruku would have laughed at this time, but he still laughed out loud, pressed his right hand on Huan Nu's shoulder, laughed for a while, and only when Huan Nu's face showed anger did he say:
"It's not that I look down on you, but you're really not a person who plays tricks, and I want to laugh every time I see you lying. Hehe, but that's your advantage, sometimes naivety is more flattering, don't throw it away. ”
Gu Shenwei's face was flushed, and he temporarily dispelled the idea of helping Yao Nu suppress Yang Jin, "Okay, you did me a big favor, I think I have to repay you, you speak." ”
Haruku's hand was still on his shoulder, "I said, I know you have secrets. ”
"I can't say that. ”
"It's okay, I don't want to know, but as long as I tell others that you know how to do internal skills, and you still have secrets on you, your secrets will never be kept. ”
Gu Shenwei pushed away Yao Nu's hand and began to be vigilant.
In Jinpeng Castle, it is not surprising that a slave will do martial arts, but if this person will know internal skills, it will be different, there are kung fu in this world, but there are few internal skills, and each kind of internal strength is usually the core secret of a certain sect, and it is easy not to pass it on, so it is highly recognizable.
In the eyes of connoisseurs, Hopewell Jin is the symbol of the Central Plains Gu family, which is more reliable than his surname.
"What exactly do you want?"
Haruku took a step closer, he was a little shorter than Huan Nu, but his expression was like he was more than ten years older, "I've always liked you." ”
"Hmm. Gu Shenwei didn't feel this way.
"I want you to like me too. ”
"Huh?" Gu Shenwei took a step back, feeling more and more that Haruku was speaking strangely.
"Don't you understand?"
"Understand what?"
"Hehe, I don't embarrass you, wait until you have served the killer of the machine slave, you can do the same thing with me again, I can be more to your taste than that guy. ”
Gu Shenwei understood what Yao Nu meant, Han Shiqi was one of his most hated enemies, and he was also the person he hated the most, what happened to Qi Nu and Xie Nu was in his eyes, it had been more than ten days since the incident, and the brothers were still secretive about it, Xie Nu would wake up in the middle of the night if he didn't enter, shouting in horror.
What Han Shiqi had done to them, Gu Shenwei naturally couldn't imagine it, but he knew that it must be a very disgusting thing, and now, Yao Nu actually made such a request to him!
The little goodwill and trust that Haruku had just built in his heart was gone.
Provoked but unable to fight back, full of anger but endured, Gu Shenwei deeply felt the pain of being a weakling, and all the humiliations he had suffered in his short fourteen-year career were not as good as they are now.
Gu Shenwei completely gave up the idea of saving Yaonu.
"You die. He said, then turned and walked back to the courtyard.
Haruku leaned against the wall and looked at Huan Nu's back, not taking the other party's threat to heart at all, he held the handle of the young man, all he needed was patience.
"You will come to me. ”
Yao Nu muttered, suddenly a gust of cold wind hit, and there was a vague and indistinct cry from under the corpse cliff, like wind, like a beast, like a ghost, the hair on Yao Nu's body stood on end, and he hurriedly ran back to the small courtyard, closed the courtyard door, and secretly cursed Jinpeng Fort in his heart, such a door to send dead corpses was never locked.