Chapter 31: A Sudden Change
September 13. There are two days left until the night of the full moon of the fifteenth.
After Jin Ting sent the paint, Yanyun Villa began to paint the exterior of the house on the same day, although there were many courtyards, but because enough workers were employed, the progress was very fast.
One of the reasons why Sun Yanyun decided to paint the house was that he didn't want to waste the 200 barrels of paint, and the second reason was that he wanted to hold a wedding for his son after repairing it. Of course, he didn't forget what Mr. Cen said when he was telling the hexagram, but he thought: It's just a delay, sooner or later he can still marry his daughter-in-law and hold his grandson, so it's the same to brush early and late, and if the house can be repaired, it would be the best.
On this day, the second miss of the Yun family also placed an invitation as promised, inviting the two Miss Sun to live in the suburban garden for a few days, and Sun Zhilan and Sun Zhihui began to pack their things and prepare to go to the appointment the next day.
The old lady of the Sun family, that is, Sun Yanyun's mother, heard that the Yun family was going to hold a ceremony in Ciyun Temple, and they would also invite a monk to give a lecture on the scriptures.
Because Yanyun Villa is being renovated, the personnel are mixed, and the paint is pungent, so all the maids and servants in the house can follow the lady and miss. Even Sun Yanyun's concubines who don't believe in Buddhism are clamoring to listen to the scriptures, but as a result, only two concubines and four maids were left in the house, a total of six female dependents, and the rest left home as they wished.
Canghai finally got dressed. Although Shi Shuoxi is still wearing a bandage head, his "leg tremor" has improved significantly. This night, Canghai found Shi Shuoxi over, lay on the bed and asked him for a favor very seriously, and then Shi Shuoxi pulled out eight square wooden boxes under Canghai's bed, but they didn't look very sturdy, and each box had a mark on one side with "this side up". Needless to say, Jin Ting, Lu Shopkeeper, and Hua Ye are deep, and even the little shell who accompanies Canghai almost all day long doesn't know where this box came from.
Canghai mysteriously asked Shi Shuoxi to put these boxes in Yanyun Villa, and specially instructed that the boxes must be scattered in the courtyard that has been painted and few people go, and must be close to the painted railings and pillars, and the marked side must be facing up, and it must be properly covered up so that no one can find it. The most important thing is that you must never open it to see it, otherwise it will not work.
Shi Shuoxi was stunned and asked what was in this, Canghai smiled leisurely, and said: It is something that can make Sun Yanyun vomit blood.
Although Yanyun Villa is now crowded and chaotic, it is almost an impossible task to blatantly send eight large boxes into it and scatter them. However, our invincible Rogue "Double Happiness" was successfully completed. In fact, he used to do similar tasks like this, except that he used to "take it out" and now "put it in".
September XIV. There is one day left until the full moon night of the fifteenth.
Morning. Shi Shuoxi reported to the Xuanzi room on time, Canghai was having breakfast, and the small shell was not there.
Shi Shuo said happily: "Have you noticed that the young master always leaves early and returns late recently?"
Canghai is chewing slowly and elegantly, in fact, he is still very elegant and ornamental when he usually eats. Except, of course, when you're hungry and snacking.
Canghai swallowed the food in his mouth, scooped up another spoonful of white porridge, and said casually: "I found it." He took a sip of the spoon, his lips moistened. He raised his eyes and said, "Have you eaten?" "There was a birdsong or two outside the open window. The air is fresh. The morning breeze is slightly chilly.
Shi Shuoxi went to close the window first, then sat down at the table, took a steamed bun and took a bite, and said, "Then do you know what Young Master Lu Daobiao is doing?"
Canghai thought for a while and said, "I don't know the way, but I know the way." β
Shi Shuoxi twisted his eyebrows. "What do you mean?"
"I guessed it. But since he doesn't want people to know about it, then I'd better not say it. β
Shi Shuoxi was silent, he filled a bowl of white rice porridge, suddenly remembered something, looked at the room a few times, and said, "Why didn't you see Jinting today?"
Canghai said: "He went to help me buy something." β
Shi Shuoxi looked at Canghai with a helpless expression, and smiled a little bitterly.
The little shell came back and slapped a piece of paper on the table, followed by Jin Ting, who was carrying a few small packages.
Xiao Shell said: "What are you asking Jinting to do to buy these?"
Shi Shuoxi saw that the paper was like a prescription with a lot of things, such as Hetian jade, amber, antlers or something, and even a "white otter pith". ,
Canghai had finished breakfast and was elegantly poking holes in the remaining steamed buns with chopsticks. After listening to Xiao Shell's question, he replied as a matter of course: "Make ointment." β
"What kind of ointment?" Xiao Shell frowned, and hurriedly rescued the remaining few intact steamed buns from under the chopsticks in the sea.
"A scar-removing ointment, of course. Canghai stretched out his right hand and pointed behind his left shoulder. "The doctor sewed it so ugly, like a centipede. He pouted as he spoke.
The little shell rolls his eyes.
Shi Shuoxi couldn't help but say, "It's not-" He paused in time and quickly changed his words: "A big man is afraid of something!"
"No, no, no, I'm ugly! I'm going to marry a wife in the future!" he slapped the table with his right hand and didn't obey. As soon as he stomped his foot, he pulled the wound and grinned in pain.
Shi Shuoxi wanted to ask what this had to do with you marrying a wife, but in the end he decided not to entangle with him. Experience has shown that this is a wise move.
Xiao Shell pursed his lips helplessly and said, "'White Otter Pith' is too expensive, and there is nothing on the market for sale. β
"Don't even have our 'Xinglin' and 'Orange Well' two major pharmacies?"
"Nope. Shell shook his head.
Canghai frowned, bit the thumb of his right hand, and said heavily, as if he had made a big decision: "Then it seems that I have to go to the ghost doctor." Jinting, you just take your things, make the ointment and come back, and by the way, help me keep an eye on the injured craftsman. Also, you must keep the ointment every step of the way, ignore him no matter what the ghost doctor says, and be sure to do exactly what is written on the prescription. β
Jin Ting nodded awe-inspiring with the heavy responsibility on his shoulders, and embarked on the road with firm and powerful steps.
And tonight's Smoke Cloud Villa is quiet. The ladies in the house are basically gone, and only six servants are left, and the workers have painted all the houses, received their wages and left, and the remaining servants who don't have to serve people are also idle, either sleeping in the house or sneaking out of the house to play. In fact, there are not many people left in the house.
In the quiet mountain villa, the black-clothed Shence was still sitting in the dark, and the black-clad left attendant stood quietly aside. In fact, I am also very curious, how does Shence solve the problem of eating, drinking, and Lazar, and is it the same as ordinary people? What does he usually do to entertain him? After coming out of the darkness, what will he look like? What kind of mentality and expression will he use to face this world?
Oh, the gods seem to have moved. The smell of paint all over the courtyard, spitting like a poisonous snake, swam greasy through the columns, squeezed through the gaps between doors and windows, poured in from all directions, climbed up people's necks, and then burrowed into their nostrils. Well, that's a bit creepy.
However, these days, the workers who are cleaning the house have not noticed that there are people in this big house, just like the family members of the Sun family, for so many years, except for Sun Yanyun and Steward Di, no one has ever noticed the other duty of this villa and those uninvited guests hidden in the secret. It's not that the "drunken wind" is good at covering up, and it's not that the Sun family is demented, but most of the people in the world are ordinary people, and they just want to live ordinarily, except for the fact that Sun Yanyun has many strange friends, they don't want to know what Lu Dao does, and they don't want to understand anything, or they don't think it's strange at all.
The smell of paint, along with the restless atmosphere, lingered in the darkness, writhing and reveling like a wandering ghost. I wonder if Shen Ce has sniffed out? Does Shen Ce have immunity to the smell of choking people's souls? Does Shen Ce not speak or move anything? Is it to intensify this restless and irritable atmosphere? Or is it ......
"Oh no!" Shen Ce slapped the table and stood up suddenly. "Prepare the car! Then inform Sun Yanyun!"
Sun Yanyun and Steward Di were taking a leisurely walk in the courtyard, because the air outside was moving rapidly, and the smell was better than that in the house, and one thing was that he wanted to personally review the results of the workers' work these days.
Walking to a relatively remote courtyard, I suddenly saw a pile of straw under the eaves, and there seemed to be something hidden underneath.
When Sun Yanyun was talking and opening it to take a look, the left attendant found him wearing a black cloak and a black hood.
Sun Yanyun's face changed greatly when he heard this, and Steward Di was busy supporting him, but his face was also pale and cold sweat was like rain.
Sun Yanyun trembled his lips and said, "Just, just blast out, just go?
The left waiter said, "No." As long as it is done naturally, it is fine. β
Half an hour later, the Smoke Cloud Villa was plunged into darkness.
"Childe!" Hengchuan was sweating profusely, panting, and his face was heavy, and he slammed open the door of Canghai. "Childe, it's not good!"
Xiao Shell was stunned for a moment: "Huh, why are you back?" glanced at Canghai, who lay at the end of the bed with an indifferent face, waiting quietly.
Shopkeeper Lu, Shi Shuoxi, and Hua Ye Shen were all there, Hengchuan didn't greet them, lay on the side of the bed in Canghai, and said hurriedly: "Son, Master! Yanyun Villa has been completely painted, but the lights have all been extinguished just now! They also said that there are not many people in the house, so they don't need me to carry water, so they blew me out! I heard that there are some other handymen who have also been given leave and released them! When I came out, I saw several cars parked at the door, and they were moving things from the house to the cars! They were all such big iron boxes! It was a bit similar. Kind of like ......"
Canghai slowly continued: "It's a bit like the box where we keep the files, isn't it?"
"Yes! yes!" Hengchuan nodded vigorously, "So what do we do?"
There was silence in the room. Everyone is thinking deeply. Only Shi Shuoxi looked ignorant, and after a while, he asked weakly, "Someone...... Can you explain it to me?"
After a while, Xiao Shell Fang sighed and said, "I guess it's probably like this: the paint sent by Jin Ting has more flammable ingredients, as long as it touches the fire, it will ignite, and then it can spread to the entire Yanyun Villa, and it will be burned to ashes at the end, which is equivalent to destroying this branch of 'Drunken Wind'." And Hengchuan stayed in the villa to carry water as an internal response, and it turned out that the three water porters were probably also drugged by Hengchuan. But now, Sun Yanyun has discovered our purpose, not only blasted out Hengchuan, but also extinguished all the lights, so it will be even more difficult to burn Yanyun Villa now......"
Not only Shi Shuoxi was listening, but all the people in the room pricked up their ears, and then looked at the sea at the same time. It seems that everyone knows that it is also speculation, and at this time it needs a positive answer.
Canghai said: "You all guessed about the same. β
"I wanted to burn Yanyun Villa, but Hengchuan shouldn't be considered an internal response, just like Sun Yanyuncha, I punished him to carry water, so I asked him to drug the three water porters at the same time. β
Countless black lines were drawn on the foreheads of the people in the room.
"However," Canghai continued, "it is precisely because Hengchuan has no specific mission that they can't think of what I am going to do, and they don't even have a clue to guess. And our plan to calculate the fortune and send the paint is so seamless, so natural, it can't be more natural, of course they can't think of burning the house there. β
Hengchuan said: "But, they know the Tao now?"
Canghai actually smiled. "Zhilu Dao is Zhilu Dao, but it was not discovered by Sun Yanyun, there may be another master behind him, it is likely to be a figure like the leader of the 'Drunken Wind', otherwise he would not have thought of moving the file away and putting it in a safe place,"
"Another point, they only know that there is a possibility of fire in Yanyun Villa, but they don't know how to prevent it, so they blast out the idle people and others to reduce the possibility of accidents,"
"But there's no way they're going to be able to keep me off. β
"You mean, even if the smoke cloud villa doesn't catch fire, it will definitely catch fire?"
"Of course. Canghai replied affirmatively, smiling confidently and calmly.
"So, what method do you use?"
"I can't tell you. Do you believe it or not, even the lights of Yanyun Villa were extinguished, which was expected by me?" looked at everyone's expressions, smiled and turned his eyes, and said slowly to himself: "If the lights don't go out, the game won't be fun." β
The flat tone stirred up the listener's infinite hope. Now in everyone's hearts, the feeling of excitement should be exactly the same.
"Go to bed early, tomorrow is going to be wonderful. β
It's so exciting.
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Shence isn't stupid, is it? After all, it's the opponent of the sea, so what's the point of being too faced?
Alas, in fact, I have been a little unhappy in the past two days...... Looking at the computer for a while will cause dizziness, nausea, chest tightness, and shortness of breath