Chapter 5: Night Talks Outside the City
Early the next morning, the bell rang loudly in Mingcheng, and groups of soldiers roamed around the city, breaking into the houses on the street from time to time, rummaging through boxes and cabinets, and shouting to search for key criminals. For a while, the people's resentment in the city was boiling, and every house was closed, and the once prosperous streets suddenly became deserted. Fu Ning looked far away, and saw that there were also a large number of city guards stationed at the city gate, and every passerby had to be strictly checked, as if he was searching for something, so he quickly slipped into an alley, picked a private house and climbed on the roof, avoiding everyone's sight.
"Could it be that I thought too much? This Liang family really only found out that I was missing now?" Fu Ning was puzzled, so he simply stopped thinking about it, turned over and leaned against the roof to bask in the sun.
On this day, the people of Mingcheng finally remembered the fear of being once dominated by the Qing army, and the humiliation of being wantonly instructed by the children of the Eight Banners. On the pretext of arresting criminals, the city defense army wantonly searched and interrogated the prisoners in the city, causing panic and complaints in the people for a while. The chaos lasted until midnight, and the culprit was the sun on the rooftop for a day.
"Oh, stopped?" Fu Ning woke up from his sleep and saw that the city guards had withdrawn, so he stretched his waist and jumped off the eaves. The sun was so comfortable at noon that he couldn't help but be sleepy, so he took a nap on the roof, but he didn't expect to sleep until dark.
"It's time to get out of the city, whether it's a trap or not, this Ming City can't stay any longer. Fu Ning walked through the still wide open gate and into the woods.
Along the way, Fu Ning was suspicious several times, and often had to turn back to investigate after walking a distance, but he never found anything suspicious.
"Could it be that this is really the custom of Mingcheng?
"Then should I go back to Liang Mansion and go back to a few valuable things before leaving?" Fu Ning was full of malice and bared his teeth and smiled evilly. He was obscene all the way, and before he knew it, he walked a few miles, and when he came back to his senses, he had returned to the place where he had been separated from his senior brother.
The senior brother was still nowhere to be seen, so Fu Ning climbed the tree, took the package from the tip and jumped down, picked up some dry wood around, lit a bonfire, and sat quietly and waited.
It was not until the ugly hour that a flame floated in the woods, and it seemed that he had seen the fire under the tree, and before he got close, there was a complaint: "Where did you go, boy, and told you to go and fetch a pot of wine, and you have been fighting for three whole days!
Liu Liu said as he walked, but his face was worried. When he approached the bonfire, when he saw the scars on Fu Ning's body, his face suddenly sank, and Sen Ran said, "Who did this?"
Fu Ning's heart was slightly warm, a layer of mist appeared in his eyes, and he quickly turned his back and said, "It's okay, it's a small injury." ”
"I also said that it's okay, your physique is recovering so slowly, others are afraid that they will have a fracture, but fortunately, the master is not there, otherwise I will die of distress. Liu Liu sat down, threw the torch in his hand into the fire, and said.
"Senior brother, aren't you distress......ed?"
"Laugh at the fart, I don't feel distressed! You kid deserves this crime and let you get into trouble. Liu Liu stared down at the fire, muttering in his mouth, but took out a small porcelain bottle from his arms and threw it to Fu Ning.
Fu Ning applied some of the gold sore medicine in the bottle to the wound, and then turned out a piece of white flour bun from the package, scorched it on the fire, broke it and threw it into his mouth.
"If you want to eat, eat quickly, rest early after eating, and we will leave Mingcheng at dawn tomorrow and go to Jinling to find your senior sister, so that you will not have trouble here again." Liu Liu waved his hand and refused the steamed bun handed over by Fu Ning, and said.
"It's okay, brother, I've slept all day today, I'm not sleepy, I'll chat with you. Fu Ning smiled.
"Slept for a day, asked your kid to go to drink, you were fine, you ran to sleep! Hurt me......" Liu Liu stopped when he said this.
Fu Ning smiled and said, "That's not it." So he told Liu Liu all the experiences of these days.
Liu Liu listened quietly and didn't interject again, but when Fu Ning talked about the Liang family ancestral hall, his face moved, but then he covered it up again, and his face was expressionless. Fu Ning was eating bread and couldn't see this, so he continued to talk to himself.
Half an hour passed, Fu Ning finally finished speaking, and looked up at Liu Liu. Liu Liu was silent for a while, and said, "No wonder I haven't been able to meet you, it turns out that this is the case." In the past few days, I went out to look for you at dawn, and I didn't come back until midnight, and you came back during the day, so I was wrong with you. ”
Fu Ning waited for a while, and when he saw that the senior brother stopped talking after saying this, he said, "Then what?"
"What, then?"
"Opinion, I just said so much, and you don't have any opinion at all?"
"Okay, boy, then I'll tell you. Let me ask you, you said that when you went to that black shop to drink, you saw that there was something wrong with those two people in the morning, so why didn't you take action first?"
"They didn't make a move against me at that time, if I did it first, if I blamed them for the wrong, wouldn't it be a matter of carelessness?" Fu Ning argued.
"Hmph, confused, if you don't make a move, wait for others to make a move first, can you still have a chance to win?
"Didn't I suffer much loss from this......" Fu Ning's voice gradually lowered, muttering.
When Liu Liu saw him like a bear, he waved his hand in hatred and said, "I won't talk to you about this first! Let me ask you again, since you know that this is a black shop, and you don't want to hurt people first, why don't you retreat quickly?"
"Since it's a black shop, and I've run into it again, I'm naturally going to do my best to eliminate harm for the people. ”
"! Now in this world, the sea of traitors and criminals has gone, which round will get your kid to fill the big-tailed wolf, and also eliminate harm for the people, and I can't do anything I can't help myself. I didn't see that the number one faction can only block the mountain gate now, and I don't dare to go out!" Liu Liu scolded when he heard this.
"Senior brother, you just try your best to slander Hengyue Mountain, isn't it just that the second disciple robbed your favorite junior sister, is it necessary to talk about everything?" Fu Ning pursed his lips and said sarcastically.
"! What kind of thing is he Yue Lin, and he deserves me to talk to him? It's not the same thing at all! Forget it, I can't tell you, I won't mess around with you bastard. Liu Liu's face was overwhelmed, and he suddenly became angry, got up and climbed the big tree, and said, "If you don't sleep, I'll sleep, and I'll call me tomorrow morning!"
Fu Ning stuck out his tongue and sat alone under the tree looking at the fire in front of him. The flames jumped and jumped, swaying lightly in the wind, and from time to time they exploded a few sparks and broke the charcoal a little. Fu Ning gathered the fire with a wooden stick and added some firewood to it.
The night sky in late autumn was exceptionally clear, and the stars in the sky were twinkling one after another, Fu Ning looked up, only to feel extremely attractive, and gradually lost in the depth of the starry sky......
(To be continued)