That morning, because he had been out for half a month, his energy had been somewhat exhausted, so even though he was in a bad mood, Sheng Weiqiao fell asleep very early.
Just in the middle of the night, she was awakened by the patter of rain. She opened her eyes and looked at the wooden jade palace lantern with gold veneer and gold inlay used for night lighting. Because she was afraid that it would be too bright and affect her sleep, she took a four-foot-high The folded gauze screen surrounds it, letting out hazy light.
Between the shadows and buildings, you can see the darkness outside the porthole, and the sound of rapid rain seems to hit people's hearts every time.
- It seems that the whole world is raining heavily in the east at this moment.
I don’t know if the hull of the ship can’t withstand the beating of raindrops, whether it is moving with the waves of the sea, or whether it is shaking evenly and slowly, but against the sound of rain that is as urgent as a drumbeat, it makes people say The boredom and anxiety that don’t come out.
Sheng Weiqiao lay on the couch for a while, but felt uneasy, so he got up, stepped on the rose purple-bottomed bat-patterned golden gauze pavement in the outer room with his bare feet, and planned to close Chunxuan, which was opened a crack.
So I went to the window and listened to the rumbling rain outside. I couldn't help but open it and take a look outside.
The window was opened, and the fishy sea breeze was mixed with rain and water vapor. The place was much further north than Nanfeng County, and it was midnight. Sheng Weiqiao, who was wearing a Chinese coat, suddenly shivered from the cold. He hugged his shoulders consciously.
There was vast darkness outside the window. The rain might have woken her up, but it wasn't that noisy in the east either.
Because there is rain and no thunder and lightning.
But the dark night is like ink that has been repeatedly ground into ink, and it is so thick that it almost solidifies.
The light filtered by the plain gauze screen behind me could not shine outside the window lattice at all. There seemed to be endless secrets hidden in the dark night. It stayed outside the window so silently and gently, like a giant, watching the cabin peacefully. Sheng Weiqiao.
"With such a heavy rain, I wonder if there will be big waves in the sea?" Sheng Weiqiao felt inexplicable fear because of the darkness of the night. He opened his eyes and tried his best to look out, but he couldn't even see the side of the ship clearly.
The sudden wind and rain hit my face. Although it was a bit cold, the boredom in my heart gradually dissipated, and I felt a lot more relaxed.
After thinking about it, she turned back to the couch, took out the jade palace lantern with wood veneer and gold inlay with bird patterns from the plain gauze screen, used it to hold the candle inside to prevent the wind from blowing it out, and carefully took it to the window. Looking outside, trying to see the movement of the sea.
Unexpectedly, the palace lantern was held out of the window, but it could not shine on the sea. It could barely illuminate the east floor - the cabin where the sleeping crane lived - and then she happened to see a black shadow crawling out of the sea. Suddenly he got through the window of the cabin where Sheng Sleeping Crane was! ! !
Sheng Weiqiao was so frightened that her legs relaxed, and the jade palace lantern with gold inlay and bird pattern fell from her fingers!
"My dear, I'm not sleeping in the middle of the night. What am I doing with the window open and the wind and rain?" Just when she was frightened to see if the black shadow was a human or a ghost, a red figure stretched out from the darkness in the east. His legs firmly caught the palace lantern.
Although a mere lamp could not illuminate much of the place and did not even reflect his face, fortunately, the familiar voice remained the same as before. Perhaps it was too late, but Sheng Suihe's tone was not as gentle as usual, as if Contaminated by the coldness of the night wind and rain, he lightly scolded, "Hurry up and lock Chunxuan in and place him properly!"
Sheng Weiqiao was surprised and said: "Brother, I really hate him. Why was I not even in my room that early in the morning? Did I go to the sampan?"
In fact, she couldn't see the sampan clearly. She estimated the distance between the east palace lantern and the window, and wondered if the sleeping crane was on the sea. It was a little lower than the side of the boat. She could guess the situation. It must be a small boat like a sampan.
As for the building boats, there are several sampans for emergency escape in case of unexpected events.
"Lock Chunxuan and place him there immediately, or we'll see how he deals with me tomorrow!" However, Sheng Suihe did not answer her, but repeated what he said again. In the dark night, he could not see his movements clearly, but he could only see the inside of his legs. The light suddenly started to move, and it flew up very quickly. It climbed over the high side of the ship like a civet cat, and after a few ups and downs, it jumped into the room containing the sleeping crane and disappeared.
Sheng Weiqiao was confused and a little angry. After listening for a while, he couldn't hear Sheng Suihe's movements after he returned to the room despite the sound of wind and rain.
Bu Nao was curious after all. After lying down for a while, he rolled his eyes and got up again. When he opened the table, he found a gilt parrot Ganoderma tea bowl. After searching all over the room for a long time, he finally found an empty corner where he could put the rose purple tea bowl. There was a little gap in the bat-patterned golden shu on the bottom, and the teacup was turned upside down to eavesdrop on Didong's voice.
At that time, because the doors and windows were closed, the disturbance of the rain was minimized, and there was sound transmission from the tea bowl to the floor, so it was no longer nothing.
It sounded as if something heavy was being dragged around in Didong, like moving large boxes or moving large items such as screens. This made Sheng Weiqiao feel very puzzled: "It's midnight. My brother is not in the room. He ran away." If Hai is taking a small sampan, what else will he be doing?!"
At that time, for fear of alarming everyone, she really wanted to get up immediately and run east to ask Minghong!
Just as I was thinking about this, I saw that the sound of Dong Dong moving heavy objects finally stopped, and then someone seemed to shut up - the human voice was much quieter than the sound of moving heavy objects, and I was worried that it would be too noisy in the middle of the night. Sheng Weiqiao was not the only one who fell asleep, so when that person shut up, instead of speaking loudly, he deliberately lowered his voice.
This meant that Sheng Weiqiao, who was eavesdropping, could hear the buzzing of shadows even if he pressed his ear hard against the bowl, but could not make out what was being said at all!
The more Sheng Wei Qiao was like this, the more impatient she became. She couldn't help but forcefully took apart a piece of gold teacup with a rose and purple background and a bat pattern, trying to move the tea bowl to find a better position. Then when she did so, she suddenly found a square, square patch on the floor. The wooden block, which is different from other colors, is about the size of a baby's leg, and stands out among the all-white chicken wing wood floor.
Sheng Weiqiao noticed it, felt strange, and pressed his leg, but something terrible suddenly happened!
She didn't move away from the block of wood, but suddenly the space behind her was empty. The floor, which had seemed to be perfectly tight and solid, suddenly opened two doors facing east, and threw the unsuspecting Sheng Weiqiao directly in!
"boom!"
Outside the cabin on the second floor, in front of the rosewood-edged gold-lacquered emerald-glazed screen, Sheng Sleeping Crane had just noticed a strange movement above his head when he saw a figure slamming into Donglai with lightning speed, falling heavily onto the scarlet The fifth son of the earth has passed the imperial examination and picked up the golden thread!
He and the two Dong subordinates who were discussing the matter drew out daggers at the same time!
However, just when they were about to subdue the person first, they were surprised to find that the person wearing Chinese clothes, with messy hair, lying on the bed and moaning powerlessly, was none other than Sheng Weiqiao!
"... My dear girl, am I okay?" Sheng Suihe turned his legs and wrists, put away his weapon, and quickly walked out from behind the iron pear elephant pattern with an upturned head. He checked Sheng Weiqiao's condition in front of him and made a gesture with his legs. Dongzhu left first.
The two people had expressions on their faces and silently resigned. After they had completely left the second floor and returned to Didong's cabin, they couldn't help but laugh out loud: Although the building ship was not owned by the Sheng family, it was Because they had been designated as Sheng Sleeping Crane's exam, they, as Sheng Sleeping Crane's confidants, were arranged on the ship to get acquainted with each other early on.
How could they not know about the small mechanism that connects the third-floor cabin to the second-floor cabin
Speaking of which, the design was unexpected, because the building is divided into three floors, and the top floor is often not suitable for women or family members, and it is often suitable for people who want to live in a tight space, and such people often have no strength to tie a chicken.
As a result, although the third-floor cabins have a very good view and are bright enough, once an accident occurs on that floor, such as a fire, they often have little ability to save themselves.
Therefore, during the construction, a "door" was specially left connected to the second floor, so that the delicate and frail residents could quickly evacuate to the third floor through that method when needed - after all, the door of the third floor cabin was blocked. If it is blocked, please don't have that mechanism. People who live outside can jump out of the window if they want to leave.
So falling from the third floor to the second floor is safer than jumping directly from the third floor porthole to the deck or the sea.
In particular, the cabins on the second floor are covered with a thick layer of mats - so although the design to prevent accidents at that time became Sheng Weiqiao's accident, it should not cause any big problems - having said that, then Is the mechanism located near the center of the room, and is it hidden in the east corner of the room? And does it cover the entire cabin? !
In this way, even if Miss Sheng San mistakenly stepped on the mechanism and was carrying a gauze, there was no way she could have thrown it away - the gauze was so thick that even if she didn't have the hearing power of a sleeping crane, the sound of rain tomorrow night would interfere with it. , and being distracted from the discussion just now, Sheng Weiqiao was walking around in front of him for a long time, but he didn't notice it!
As for Sheng Weiqiao's delicate body, even if he jumped hard in front of him, he couldn't penetrate the 捍湹 and fall to the east
Is it true that the girl actually knew the shortcut and specially lifted the gate to enter the house where Sleeping Crane was sleeping
"Just now in front of the leader, we didn't dare to look at it at all, but at a quick glance, we saw that the lady was not even wearing a coat... The situation fell in front of the leader. The leader sent us away very quickly, leaving a man and a woman alone in the same room. Then...?" The two of them thought it was a bit funny at first, but when they thought about it, their expressions changed. "The leader probably won't tell the lady what he will do tomorrow night. So, before the lady falls and comes east, can she help the house? Is the leader alone here? Can the leader and that lady be brother and sister? We won’t be silenced, right?!”
When the two of them were frightened, in the cabin on the second floor, Sheng Sleeping Crane was twitching the corners of his mouth, looking at Sheng Weiqiao who was very carefree: "Good girl, in the middle of the night, he asked me to arrange things, but I didn't listen. I What are you doing?!”
Of course he knew the mechanism that even his boss knew about - so he knew what was going on at a glance. It was ridiculous to laugh or cry whether it was true. He poked the girl on the ground with his finger, resisted the urge to look up to the sky and sighed, and asked kindly , "How's it going? Are you please? Can you get up by yourself?"
"...I told him to calm down!!!" After a while, Sheng Weiqiao came to his senses. He stopped moaning due to the pain and looked at him with despair - at that time, was Sheng Suihe half Kneeling next to her, the man's sword eyebrows were flying, and his lowered eyelashes looked particularly long and thick, casting a deep shadow in the east of the lamp. His eyes in the shadow were as cold as stars, as bright as the light of the blade when it was unsheathed, which had not yet been wiped out. There was a bit of concern and helplessness in the edge.
Sheng Weiqiao looked at him for a moment, and suddenly felt endless grievances welling up in his heart. He was too lazy to bear it, so he cried directly, with grief and anger in his cry, "Who did that mechanism?! He must be begging to be beaten to death!!!" "