In front of him was a large dark courtyard, with only two maddening lanterns hanging from the porch.
Because the paper pasted on the outer wall is too thick, the light is dim and can only illuminate a small area.
The eaves on all sides are good places to hide, but because it is too good, Meng Qi can't choose, otherwise, he will have to face the rabbit who is about to hit the stump.
As for the stump—
The cellar below this yard is the place where morgues have traditionally been used.
There are generally no major cases in Xuncheng Yamen, but Ningtai is after all the most prosperous place in Jiangnan except Qiantang County, there are many foreign merchants, scholars and so on. Usually murders also happen to these people, the money is looted, and the bodies are stored in the cellars, waiting for the city's business houses, fellow townsmen's associations, and literary associations to send people to take turns to recognize the bodies.
Those who are recognized and those who have money at home will buy a pair of coffins and ship them out.
After the others were put aside for a while, they were pulled to Yizhuang and thrown into the mass grave.
Qiu Si and these attendants are all people without relatives and no reason, and no one would think of preparing a coffin for them.
Mo Li took out the purse and sighed at the scattered silver coins inside.
"doctor?"
"… nothing."
In fact, Mo Li didn't care much about the idea of going to the ground for safety. Under the circumstances at that time, it was impossible not to kill those servants. It was just in the middle of the night when no one was there, thinking of those servants who were confused all their lives and finally thrown into the wilderness. inexplicably complex emotions.
These attendants who were kept by Qiu Si through various screenings, even if they were not as talented as Cheng Jingchuan, were definitely not weak in martial arts talent.
Putting it on the rivers and lakes, if nothing else, it is definitely much taller than the real Bai Yu who colluded with the Thunder Hall in Fengxing Pavilion.
"I'm just thinking, if there is no Qiu Si, they may be ordinary people like ordinary people, or they may live with difficulty, or they are like a Jianghu person, wandering around the world."
Either life may be unsatisfactory, and there will be misfortunes, but it's better than dying silently as someone's vassal.
Mo Li quickly abandoned this emotion and laughed at himself: "It's too boring to say this, it's a bit ridiculous, I killed them..."
A hand reached out and covered his mouth.
Mo Li looked at it in astonishment.
He has seen people who scolded others for shutting up, interrupted others, and even dumbfounded people, but he has never seen people who "do it" directly.
"Ali, I know you don't like killing people, unless it's a last resort, or the person is heinous." Meng Qi glanced at his pocket, it was empty, there was no money or cakes, otherwise he would stuff a piece into the doctor's mouth, not only sweet The mouth can still be sweet to the heart, "I will take care of these things in the future."
Mo Li was dumbfounded, feeling that Meng Qi was coaxing him as a child.
After leaving Zhushan County, it became easier for him to immerse himself in the misfortunes of life and death in the world. He couldn't see the truth of the world as transparently and openly as he did a year ago. This is probably the trouble of joining the WTO.
He used to be able to persuade Meng Qi, but now he wants Meng Qi to comfort him.
"...What is the difference between what you do and what I do?" Mo Li blurted out.
Meng Qi's eyes lit up when he heard the words, and Mo Li immediately regretted his faintly proud look.
How can something like that be said to make someone squirm.
"The Autumn Pavilion Master is right. After a person dies, all the grievances and grievances are gone. It is meaningless to leave the corpse with grief and sigh. It can only be fed to snakes, insects and ants. It is better to burn it clean." Mo Li changed the topic and returned his mind to the original On the matter, "Leave the matter here, and cremate them."
Meng Qi was about to speak, when there was a slight noise in the distance, and someone came towards him.
The sound comes from the tiles, which is negligible for ordinary people.
Several figures swept across the roof quickly and looked down.
The night walkers on the roof jumped into the courtyard when they saw no one around. They spread out carefully, some guarding the courtyard gate, some looking around, and some preparing to push the door to enter the house.
Meng Qi shook his head while looking at it, how could he be so careless, what if there was a mechanism installed at the door
Besides, he and Doctor Mo are not the only ones who want to wait for the silly rabbit to hit the tree stump!
In fact, Meng Qi found out that there was an ambush here, but the other party was guarding in the courtyard, and he also arranged some bowmen who were not skilled in martial arts outside the courtyard gate. influences.
Isn't this a ready-made "stump"
Meng Qi immediately opened one eye and closed the other, letting those people ambush under his eyelids.
At this moment, this group of night walkers had no scruples and was about to break in. In an instant, they were shot by the darts thrown out by the agency and screamed again and again.
These darts penetrate deep into the flesh, with pointed barbs that are extremely difficult to pull out, and the infiltrating Nightcrawler is immediately injured and unable to stand up.
"Drag down."
Someone in the dark commanded in disdain.
Those night walkers still wanted to resist with their knives, but they were hit in the acupoints by the flying stones, and they fell to the ground and stopped moving.
Several soldiers dressed as yamen entered the door tremblingly, dragged the uninvited guest who lay down, and cleaned the yard thoughtfully, wiping away the blood that had just shed, and carefully picking up the darts that fell on the walls and the ground.
Meng Qi changed his posture on the eaves to watch the play, and the second wave of people who came next was even more useless.
Ink carp: "… "
Come on, Meng Qi didn't need to say, he also knew that these two groups of people could never be the King Wu spies they were waiting for.
As someone who has personally experienced Fengxing Pavilion's close investigation, Mo Li is sure that without Lu Yin and a perfect identity disguise, he cannot escape so many eyes.
The more Mo Li thought about it, he even felt that there was another resourceful and talented person hiding in Ningtai City.
Maybe not as tossing as Qiu Si, but maybe he knows martial arts
Where did Qiu Si really lose? Isn't it just because he doesn't know martial arts? If he is like his daughter, he can learn internal skills fairly well. Although he can't avoid the end of old age and death, at least his body won't be so bad, and his body won't deteriorate so fast. five or six years.
When Meng Qi Mo Li came to the door, he was not sure that he could escape in time and would not be blocked in another courtyard.
A martial arts master who wants to hide from people, maybe even more slippery than a loach, plus the advantage of the location, Meng Qi really can't dig out people so easily.
Ink carp looks serious, one book -->>
Seriously put forward this idea to Meng Qi. He is smart and not afraid. If he knows martial arts and has a bright mind, he will die.
Looking at the opponents they have always encountered, none of them have both.
Qiu Si didn't say it, Qingwu ancestor didn't say it, and Ayan Puka actually had good brains and martial arts.
It would be very difficult to have a military minister of King Wu, who is capable of military affairs, and who knows how to keep a low profile.
Meng Qi was also worried when he heard this.
Fortunately, he quickly reacted. There are capable people on King Wu's side, which does not mean that capable people are squatting in Ningtai City.
Martial arts masters are not Chinese cabbage, how can they be so easy to meet! That is to say, they were in trouble along the way, or were found by trouble, and they bumped into so many masters. Ordinary people wandered around the world and never wanted to meet one in their lifetime.
"Ali, that's not what you said. In addition to being resourceful, there is another possibility to hide your identity."
"Um?"
"His identity is so special that no one thinks of checking or suspecting him. Or the person in charge of checking his identity is not clear himself, and it is not uncommon for them to get the handle."
Mo Li felt that what Meng Qi said was very reasonable, and was about to think about it when another group of people came.
This group of people was completely different from the way in front of them. They went to the roof first, looked around for a while, and soon fought with the ambush archers and yamen.
They seemed to be very familiar with the terrain, and it didn't take long for them to solve the ambush outside and cautiously entered the hospital.
Just when they dismantled the door mechanism and were about to enter the cellar, a sudden change occurred.
"cough."
The sound from the corner startled everyone, and the hidden weapons in their hands almost shot together.
"Our tree stump has appeared." Meng Qi said to Mo Li enthusiastically.
Ink carp: "… "
The man who intercepted the Nightcrawler before and only made a sound without showing his face, finally stepped out of the veiled darkness.
His face was white and beardless, and he had an expression of smirking but not smiling. He looked at people like flies staring at carrion.
Just by looking at the clothes, you can tell that he is not an ordinary person. In this weather, people who wear embroidered brocades are either fools or masters of internal strength. Because the embroidery is too thick, it is almost equivalent to the second layer of fabric, which is thick and airtight. , enough to pass out the heat.
"Huang don't drive?"
Biejia is a high-ranking official in the state or the palace. The official system under the jurisdiction of King Ning is chaotic. Meng Qi does not know how many officials are Biejia in the yamen, so he raised his eyebrows and whispered: "It seems that he is still famous. tree stump."
Mo Li was almost amused, but finally held back.
"You are already the seventh wave of guests that Huang received tonight." Huang Biejia said calmly, and Mo Li knew that before Meng Qi came with him, it was already very lively here in the middle of the night.
Huang Biejia held an iron fractured fan in his hand, but at the moment, the fan face was missing, and it looked strange.
The leader of the Night Walkers sneered, and said in a stern voice: "It seems that one of the people is more difficult and damaged Huang Biejia's fan. It's not a secret that the city patrolling yamen has a few pounds or two taels. The rest of the people who come to eat and eat are straw bags, and I am afraid that you are the only one who can barely get it. I am afraid that the people who came to visit before are not as polite and polite as we are, and I don’t know if Huang Biejia has it. Didn't get hurt?"
"what."
Huang Biejia laughed, squinted his eyes and said, "You should be polite and polite. You can't see it when you look up and look down. If you kill me without saying hello, I won't be able to save face. Thank you for your concern, but I don't know how You, who received your salary in a yamen, were sent by Fengxing Pavilion to eat as a scumbag, or were you just a sham?"
"You—" The leader of the night traveler was shocked and immediately covered up, "What are you talking nonsense about?"
Meng Qi was about to speak, but Mo Li covered his mouth with his backhand and said first:
"Don't say that rabbits are transformed from tree stumps."
Meng Qi looked innocent.
Huang Biejia didn't intend to let the leader of the overnight pedestrians go. He sighed and said regretfully, "There is one thing I don't understand very well, why some people are obviously not capable of lying and their brains are not very bright, but they always want to go. Doing big things is still a big thing, such as betraying the brothers to Bai Yu Zhenren, secretly contacting Pili Hall and taking refuge in the God-given King…”
"Bullshit!"
The leader of the night walkers was very angry, but the people around him showed surprise and took two steps back unconsciously.
The leader of the Night Walker was even more angry. His face was covered with a black veil, and all he could see was a pair of eyes that seemed to breathe fire.
Huang Biejia knocked on the fan bone in his hand and said with a smile: "The betrayal is real, and I said it casually to seek refuge with the God-given King. There are too many visitors tonight, I'm really tired, and I don't want to worry about who you are. It's not who is arguing. Jin Chau Kuai... Or Jing Shan Hu, you didn't hide your identity well enough, I already knew that you were sent by Feng Xing Pavilion. Let's open the skylight and speak eloquently, you are all about following Feng Xing The elders of the pavilion went to the dark and did not listen to the command of the master, but your senior brother and the master, Mr. Bao, are not fuel-efficient lamps. How long do you think you will be exposed? I heard that the master has a bad temper and is stubborn by nature. , Even Mr. Qiu couldn't persuade him to come to Ningtai, but just kidnapped the apprentice he had worked so hard to teach. Like Jin Zhaokuai, he was thinking about glory, wealth, and wealth, but he didn't remember the relationship between his teachers and his family. Generally, he didn't end well. "
The leader of the Night Walker was panting heavily. If his eyes could be turned into blades, Huang Biejia would have been stabbed into a sieve.
Meng Qi gently broke Mo Li's hand and whispered in the latter's ear: "It's not a rabbit, it's a tiger who can't get along with the mountains."
The ink carp could not laugh or cry.
However, Huang Biejia continued to say maliciously: "The people from Fengxing Pavilion have actually come here once, and who is Jin Zhaokuai coming here to investigate?"
"What are you..."
Jin Zhoukuai couldn't help but want to ask how his identity was revealed, but as soon as he said it, he felt rude and quickly shut up.
Hearing this, Huang Biejia laughed, tapped the handle of the fan on the palm of his hand, and joked: "When people are in a panic, the words that you say out of your mouth are the best way to expose yourself. If you are from the rivers and lakes, you shouldn't call me Huang Biejia, just like you As I said, there are not many decent martial arts masters in the Xuncheng Yamen, so I am a fool, and I can guess one by one."
Jin Chau Kuai simply took off the mask and said coldly, "I turned my back on my teacher, do you mean Huang Yang? When Mr. Qiu was here, you were restless and headed to King Wu's camp early. Changed the family, thinking that no one else knows? Everyone is looking for a way for glory and wealth, so don't say it so badly."
Oh wow.
Meng Qi rubbed his fingers and thought, it turns out that there is really no need to catch the rabbit, just pull out the stump.