Chapter 4: The Legend of Cats and Ghosts (2) - Iron Cave
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She heard footsteps echoing behind her, and by the smell she judged that it was a group of women, and from the sound of the footsteps she could tell that they were twelve. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
She hurried to quicken her pace, hoping to find a place to hide,
She fumbled back and forth with her hands, hoping to find something with her keen touch. Sure enough, she felt a handle, and it was an iron door, and the door was unlocked, so she quickly pushed open a crack and got in.
The dark room was so cold that she shivered and took a deep breath.
The air in her mouth was filled with a strong scent, an eerie smell she had never smelled before.
She hated the feeling she felt now, but it was a mission.
She bit her lip and began to probe the ground with her cane.
As a child, when she first started to use her four senses to see the world, she tripped over a stool, hit a wall, and once almost rolled down the stairs. However, with her extraordinary skills, she overcame the obstacles that darkness brought to life early.
Now, she shouldn't have been afraid.
I thought it was like this, but I don't know why, the fear that overflowed from the bottom of her heart made her not want to take another half step forward.
Despite her thoughts, the movement did not stop. The cane finally touched the end of the ground, making a "bang, bang" sound.
She touched the iron wall with her cane, but when she looked to the side, her hand fell short, and her hand swung back and forth in the empty air until it touched something.
She mentally sketched the message of the touch, that it was a boxy cave, an iron cave, empty.
She continued to touch the side, touching the walls on both sides, and she realized that there was a whole row of the same caves.
Then touch up and down, empty iron holes.
What the hell is this?
Just when her heart was full of doubts, there was a cold touch in her hand, and there were bumpy shapes.
Her hand was retracted as if electrocuted.
It's people!
Dead people also smell, but she didn't smell it.
Only the strong smell wafting through the air.
She raised her hand to touch the man's face, and it was still shaking.
She was sure that the person was dead, it was a corpse, but there was no smell of corpses.
She withdrew her hand and continued to touch the other holes, most of which were empty.
Touching down again, she had to kneel on the ground.
Reaching into a cavern, which was supposed to be a human face, she didn't touch her cheeks, nose, hair, her fingertips were crusted blood clots, nothing else.
No head.
Such a discovery scared her to sit down. Suddenly, she felt extremely unwell, the strong smell, the touch of death just left on her hands, stimulated, her stomach churned, and the nausea made her vomit uncontrollably.
It was then that the iron door was pushed open, and the room suddenly lit up.
The blind eye can feel this strong change.
"What's the matter?" the woman's voice rang out, and then more voices came, "Why is a blind woman here?"
The cramps in her stomach made her sick, and she clenched her nails hard in her palms to hold back the feeling of nausea.
When the inquiry rang out again, someone answered.
"Judging by the color of her clothes, she should be a blind woman with lights on the upper three floors. ”
She wiped the dirt from the corners of her mouth, and said tremblingly: "I remember the wrong way, old body, and somehow I came here." ”
"Misremember?" the voice was immature, and when I heard it, it was a woman who was not very old.
"Yes......" the blind woman quickly agreed.
The previous people did not give up: "The rules in the building are strict, and this matter must be severely punished! The person in charge of the upstairs will also be punished!"
"This woman actually touched the corpse!"
There was a commotion in the crowd.
At this time, someone heard the faint sound of the door opening behind him, turned his head to look, and hurriedly shouted, "Senior sister!"
"What's the matter, what are you doing in front of the iron cave door?" a woman's voice came.
More than a dozen white-clothed figures at the door immediately made way for the people to come out.
A beautiful woman in white walked in, she was plump and her waist was thin. When he walked, his waist swayed very specially, like willow branches fluttering in the wind.
"Who is this man?"
The blind woman can imagine that the woman with such a voice is by no means a kind person.
Someone next to her replied: "She is the lamplighter on the upper third floor, and she said that she got lost and broke in." ”
The beautiful woman raised her eyebrows and asked rhetorically: "It's not that there are no rules in the building, since it's a person from above, send it back and let it be dealt with by the top!"
As soon as someone wanted to say something, they heard the beautiful woman scold: "Why are you stunned for me? Why don't you send people away? Leave a few people to clean up this place for me!"
"Yes, Senior Sister!"
Someone put a cane into the blind woman's hand, lifted her up and walked out the door, her head hung down, and her pale face was full of helplessness and despair.
Passing by the door, I suddenly heard the beautiful woman's voice sink and said, "Stop!"
The blind woman suddenly felt a burning pain behind one ear.
It's like being stung by a wasp.
She was shocked, but behind her came the soft laughter of a beautiful woman.
The blind woman opened her eyes vigorously, and as a new image flashed, she gradually realized that the image did not come from her eyes, but from her own memory.
She struggled, her cane slipping from her hand.
A creeping sense of dread rose in my heart, and I couldn't feel my arms, which hung at my sides as if they didn't belong to me.
Unable to move, there was a strange low insect chirp in his ears, buzzing.
The smell of saltiness, the constant foaming of the mouth and the sticky feeling are an indescribable nausea, more sad than touching a corpse.
The white-clothed women around all stared at the blind mother-in-law, and they all reacted in this way when they were hit by the bee venom of the senior sister.
After a while, I saw the blind mother-in-law's eyes were flat, her pupils were dilated, there was no expression on her face, and she muttered: "My surname is Lu, and my name is Lao Gu...... My son's name is ......"
She couldn't control her mouth at all, and continued to lose herself, and the vast fragments of memories flashed in front of her, causing her to fall into a state of distraction.
Seeing that the mother-in-law was still talking about something, the beautiful woman walked up to her, shook her head and sighed, "Stop, stop! I'm not interested in knowing about your ancestors' eight generations." Now I'll ask, and you will answer!"
She nodded involuntarily.
With a smile flashing in her eyes, the beautiful woman asked, "Who sent you?"
The consciousness of the blind woman did not disappear completely, and when she heard this, a trace of the gods came to her senses, because the person who casually said what he wanted to do would be fatal!
You can't say it! You can't say it, you will be killed if you say it!
But she still heard her own voice and spit out two words: "Monk." ”
"Monk, where is the monk, what's his name?"
"The ...... of Daxiangguo Temple," she covered her head, and an extremely painful expression appeared on her face, "...... I don't know what it's called!"
The beautiful woman muttered, "The monk of the Great Xiangguo Temple?"
"I lit the lamp in the Buddha hall, and the Buddha saw that I was good at craftsmanship and asked me if I would like to make a lot of money...... "After the last struggle, the mother-in-law said, "He said that as long as I can enter the white building and light the lamp, my ancestors and grandchildren will be able to live a good life for generations." ”
A woman next to her asked, "Senior sister, this mother-in-law is a spy, what should I do?"
"Let's take her down first!" the beautiful woman looked at her mother-in-law and sighed, "Why do you want to do such a risky thing, wouldn't it be better to go home to the kitchen and sit by the cradle of your grandson?"
On the lowest floor of the white building, idlers and miscellaneous people are strictly forbidden to enter, and there are people in white who come and go everywhere and are busy with something.
The beautiful woman shook her waist and passed through several narrow doors and entered a strange room.
Throughout the wall of the room was a large wooden cabinet with hundreds of small drawers, each numbered.
She walked to the front of the cabinet, opened a drawer, and with a "bang", another narrow door appeared in the corner of the room.
When I walked in, I saw a woman in Tsing Yi standing next to a large platform.
The beautiful woman knew that the woman in Tsing Yi was extremely focused at this time, but she still asked softly, "Why are there so few corpses left in the iron cave?"
After a long time, I didn't hear an answer.
The beautiful woman snuggled against the door and continued, "You know that the master didn't let this corpse be moved, why did he sneak here?"
The woman in Tsing Yi didn't look back, and said lightly: "Senior sister, don't tell me you're not curious!"
The beautiful woman rolled her eyes, her face was full of smiles, but her mouth said angrily: "You have to get it, who let my senior sister hurt you, I will accompany you to be punished when you go back." The words were full of gentle and loving words, and there was no harsh criticism when he mentioned the rules of the White Mansion just now. She still smiled bitterly in her heart, Master is very strict, the two of us touched this corpse without permission, I don't know what kind of punishment we will suffer in the future?!
Eventually, however, she closed the narrow door and walked towards the large platform in the center of the room.
The room has six sides, and on the hexagonal wall hangs a strange lamp, which is made up of twelve delicate bronze lamps stacked into a pagoda-like shape, and behind each bronze lamp there is a bronze mirror, and the distance between the copper lamps ensures that the light focused on the center of the room does not overlap each other, so that the light gathers into a very strong pillar of light, which can make the room twelve times brighter.
In the center is a large table covered with a green velvet tablecloth, on which a corpse rests. The corpse's face was distorted, and the expression on its face could only be seen in extreme fear.
The beautiful woman said in her heart: What did he see before he died, and was frightened like this?
"He didn't have a single wound on his body, how did he die?"
"Look. The woman in Tsing Yi used the knife in her hand to cut a piece of meat in the open abdominal cavity of the corpse, and the piece of meat was filled with a viscous liquid and black.
"Poisoned?"
"Poisoning. She slashed the meat with the tip of her knife a few more times, and said, "Look carefully." ”
The beautiful woman looked closely, and the black liquid shimmered dimly in the light. If you don't look closely, you won't notice that there are a few extremely fine and smooth sand grains hidden inside, with a slight metallic luster.
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With Rang Sue popularizing common sense for Chris, Chris finally figured out that the Song Dynasty implemented a lunisolar calendar. At the beginning of September, it was actually late autumn. But the streets of Bianliang City are bustling and still lively.
Chris changed into Ouyang Feng's outfit and left the Gao family's old mansion with Gao Zunhui. Today's appointment was invited by Qin Yujiu, and the two went to Xinle Building.
There is a storyteller named Lao Jiao in Xinle Building, he doesn't talk about anything else, he talks about the anecdotes of several big thieves in the Great Song Dynasty, today he didn't talk about the popular "incense thief Hejiulang", but talked about the "Liang Shang Monkey" Kan Wen, how to fly the eaves and walk the wall, steal the treasures of rich merchants, and then mix a little stealing incense and stealing jade meat jokes, let him say the painting and color, so fragrant or not, some listeners let him say the heartbeat, bowed slightly, and the mind was in a reverie.
Chris said in his heart: Qin Yujiu himself is a well-known "incense thief", and it seems that this restaurant has a lot to do with him. It was a bit bold to dare to tell the story of the flying thieves in the store.
The little servant showed them the way and went upstairs. The door of the private room was pushed open, and Qin Yujiu was sitting in the main seat waiting, and there was a woman in white standing beside him.
"Miss Xiangling is there, too!" said Chris.
Xiangling was surprised, and said in her heart: How did he know my name?
Qin Yujiu's clear eyes were staring at the two guests with a smile.
Qin Yujiu had doubts about Ouyang Feng's identity before, but now that he saw his every move, he had a lot of guesses about Ouyang Feng's true identity in his heart.
In Shamen Island and his party, Ouyang Feng ostensibly wanted to save the righteous sister of the Hong gang leader, but in fact, it was not. On that day, when the big man who appeared out of nowhere pulled Wang Shu to whisper to the side, Qin Yujiu pricked up his ears and eavesdropped. Qin Daguan is not an ordinary businessman in the end, but a "incense thief", although he was injured at that time and could not gather his true qi to use his own light skills, but he has profound internal skills, and his ear power is still good, so he can naturally listen to the conversation between the two clearly. Na Ma Mo actually said that he was ordered by the "Queen Mother", and said that not only would he not rob Brother Jin Qing of the credit, but also asked for credit to the beggars and raft gangs. Once upon a time, the imperial court would put the people in the rivers and lakes in their eyes, and even if the people of the green forest were powerful, they could not cover the government, so why should they be recorded for their exploits?
In the few days before and after the island, he had never seen the shadow of the master Ma and the sailor officer, but he knew the situation on the island well, and even the identity and background of the people who went to the island were very clear. Just as the deputy lord Chang Yutong is Wang Xu's inner line, there is obviously a person on the island who cooperates with Lord Ma. Among these people, who is most likely to be the internal response of the government? The first person who appeared in his mind was the unidentified Ouyang Feng, who was dressed strangely.
The Queen Mother's Secret Order! This made Qin Yujiu immediately think of the exact same fragrance on Lan Yuanxiao and Ouyang Feng. Now the most popular in the mouths of the people in the capital is this chamberlain called "Little Blue Lord", who says that he is in the limelight and is a popular person in front of the Queen Mother. Lan Yuanxiao is the younger brother of Lord Lan of the Imperial City Division, and Qin Yujiu heard that he has recently become the "special envoy" of the Imperial City Division, and his identity is extremely special.
Qin Yujiu vaguely felt that an invisible force was brewing in the capital, and he couldn't even guess the riddle. (To be continued.) )