The river wind suddenly became strong, pouring into the small pavilion in the heart of the river, a tall and thin vase on the window sill swayed uncomfortably in place for a moment, and fell headlong, the long beard on Old Yu's lips that hung down to his chin floated to the base of his ears. , opened his eyes suddenly.
At this moment, a hand reached out very quickly and firmly supported the fallen vase.
It was a woman's hand, with the tips of her ten fingers, and the nails dyed with bright-colored Kodan, which looked a bit eerie when exposed to the moonlight.
The woman seemed to know very well that Yu was always a senior mother. She pushed up the window that had been blown open by the wind, stood on tiptoe, carefully followed the small circle of traces left by the vase, and put it back tightly. Then he breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and said hello, "Uncle Shi."
Yu Lao frowned and asked in doubt, "Kou Dan?"
If it was Zhou Fei and the others who were here, they might not know that there was a woman named "Kou Dan" in the village. Even if she saw it with her own eyes, she might not have known her. In the past ten years, she has almost never appeared in front of people. , is the only one in the entire forty-eight villages that is not integrated with other families, but an indispensable link - Mingfeng.
Kou Dan is the current head of Mingfeng.
It is precisely because she is one of the founders of the pull machine that she can pass through the trap of Manjiang quietly.
"I heard that the master is gone, I'll come and see how the machine is doing." Kou Dan said, she sat down in front of Mr. Yu, took out a piece of silk from her bosom, and wiped a cup carefully , poured himself a glass of water.
She is middle-aged, and her once plump cheeks sag slightly. When she smiles, there are lines at the corners of her eyes that cannot be concealed, but she still has a different kind of beauty—not the natural beauty of girls, nor from the Feather class. Mrs. Nishang's scorching beauty, her facial features are not flawless, but when she looks over with a faint smile, it is difficult for others not to be sucked into her eyes, from the pupils outwards, her eyes seem to be It is composed of layers of overlapping secrets, which are indescribably mysterious and moving.
Old Yu's eyes slowly fell on the silk she had used, and Kou Dan immediately understood, and neatly folded the silk into a small square and placed it at the corner of the table.
On the contrary, Lao Yu was tortured all day long by the casual boss Li and Zhou Fei who was deliberately making trouble. He was a little less accustomed to others following him, and Lao Yu coughed a little embarrassedly and said, "I'm actually not that much. There are many things, you can do it yourself."
"Don't dare," Kou Dan said with a smile, "in our line of work, licking blood on the tip of a knife, each has its own paranoia and weirdness. This little paranoia is like the common people who encounter difficulties and ask God to worship Buddha. The sustenance of others. It’s not surprising that others don’t know, how can a niece follow outsiders and be ignorant?”
Yu Lao's eyes swept across her bright red nails, and there was a rare miserable smile on his face. He put down his two crossed legs, withdrew his five-hearted posture, and nodded with some emotion. : "I haven't lived that kind of life for many years. Since Mingfenglou retired from the forty-eight villages, it has been no different from washing hands in a golden basin. Now I'm just an idler watching the fish pond, and these old problems can't be changed for a while. No need to acquiesce.”
He said, reluctantly suppressing the force in his throat, and deliberately reached out to disrupt the positions of several cups on the table.
Kou Dan saw his stubborn expression, shook his head and smiled, and then began to put the cup in order again: "Uncle, the country is easy to change, but the nature is difficult to change, why do you embarrass yourself? I'm not an outsider."
Yu Lao paused, looked at her with a half-smile, and asked, "If you're not an outsider, how can you learn to speak to your uncle?"
Kou Dan seemed a little embarrassed, and his eyelids drooped slightly: "Uncle Shi-I call you Uncle Shi, the master is also called Uncle Shi because of your friendship with the old village owner. In this way, I am taking advantage of it, but I sometimes think that people like us are not the same as people like the big bosses. They live in the blue sky and the sun, and we live in the dark night, sneaking without a trace, and we are incompatible with each other, why bother Are you going to get together in one place?"
Yu Lao smiled and said, "Young man, when you hear the sound of the waves outside, you can't stand your loneliness."
Kou Dan licked the corner of his mouth lightly, and whispered meaningfully: "Uncle Master, have you ever heard that assassins say 'avoiding trouble', for assassins, the more chaotic the world, the better. Isn't it? When you and my master had to retire to the Forty-eight Villages with the old village master, my niece had doubts - the knife has been kept for a long time, but it will rust."
Yu Lao nodded, noncommittal: "Yes, the decision to retire was made by me and your master. Now your master is gone. After so many years, you are the owner of this Mingfeng Tower. What do you want, I will also I won't interfere too much. If Mingfeng really wants to leave the Forty-Eight Villages and establish his own business, then it's not difficult. Master Li has always been free to go and stay.
The smile on Kou Dan's face remained unchanged, and his voice was sweet, almost with a hint of coquettishness. I know that's not what my niece asked about."
Yu Lao looked at her, the smile on the corner of his mouth gradually subsided, and his drooping cheeks looked a little stern for a moment.
Kou Dan stretched out her long, slender fingers, and saw a small water ripple mark on the nail of her thumb, which was printed when Kodan's flower juice was not dry: "This is the one my master didn't let anyone touch when he was alive. His private seal, the old man never told me what it was, uncle, I also know that there is more than one person in the world who has this seal, but you are all secretive. And this stamp has…”
"Kou Dan," Yu Laojie interrupted her, and said coldly, "If you want to go, leave. If you dare to mention the water ripple, don't blame me for turning your face on you."
Kou Dan was taken aback: "Uncle Shi, I..."
Yu Lao stood up and opened the door: "It's very good to lead the machine, you have seen it, this will be able to cut them into pieces even if Beidou comes in person, it's getting late, you go. "
Kou Dan sighed, bowed his eyebrows and stood up to salute: "Senior nephew is talking too much, so don't blame him."
Yu Lao stood by the door with an expressionless face.
Kou Dan glanced at him quickly, as if he was afraid of making him angry, he stepped forward and said softly, "The osmanthus wine made by the disciples this year is good. I will give you two more jars to try someday."
Only then did Lao Yu's expression ease a little, and he nodded at her almost incomprehensibly.
Kou Dan took a step forward again. At this time, a strange smile slowly appeared on her face with her head down, but her voice became softer.
"Since master and uncle decided to stay back then, there must be a reason, and they certainly won't hurt us. Since I can't say it, I won't ask. My niece will wipe the nails when I go back. I will also..."
When she said the first half of the sentence, Yu Lao inevitably recalled the past, sighed vaguely, and his eyes drifted away for a moment. But just for such a moment of distraction, Kou Dan seems to want to reach out to help him, and Xianxiu's palm is attached to Yu Lao's waist—
The next moment, Old Yu was shocked and swept out with a palm of his hand.
However, Kou Dan seemed to be prepared, he made a few spins with his feet flutteringly, and ducked two feet away unscathed. Her fingertips flashed with a small needle of cow hair with a faint blue light, and she took her own voice in a leisurely manner: "... keep it well."
The world's top assassins attacked extremely ruthlessly, leaving no room for silence. Seeing that the poisonous blood sealing the throat, one nailed into the blood vessel, and the other nailed into the meridian. A palm instantly accelerated the poisonous hair, and in the blink of an eye, the black gas had already filled his face. He stared at the woman who was still laughing with him in disbelief. He wanted to say something, but was startled that his tongue was numb. , his limbs trembled uncontrollably.
Kou Dan tilted his head slightly, a slight smile appeared in the corners of his eyes, and said softly, "A man like Uncle who has been silent in a cold river for twenty years, if he doesn't want to say anything, he won't say anything. Also, presumably the secret of the sea and the sky can't be obtained from you, so I won't ask."
In an instant, Yu Lao's face was pale, his whole body was stiff, and he could clearly feel that starting from his waist and abdomen, his body was dying bit by bit.
Kou Dan stepped forward, like a filial junior, "helped" Lao Lao, helped him to a chair, and made a meditation posture for him, and then stood respectfully to the side.
The wind from the river is getting stronger and stronger, blowing the tangled threads on the water, sometimes making a small beeping sound. The two people in the pavilion are sitting and standing, silent to each other, as if they are frozen in the night. painting.
Finally, the old man twitched very slightly, stuck in his throat with one breath, and slowly opened his turbid pupils.
Kou Dan methodically inspected his heart, neck, and neck, and determined that the person was no longer alive, so he pulled out a long needle from his arms and wedged it into Lao Yu's Tianling cover, as if to seal the possibility of him cheating.
Then she took a step back orderly, gave Yu Lao a kowtow, and said, "Uncle Master, if you have a spirit in heaven and meet my master, don't forget to say hello to him and me. It's fine for the old man to retire by himself. Now, in order to keep the blueprints of the forty-eight villages from falling into the hands of others, I worked tirelessly to get me back ten years ago. I finally found a nice man, and I wanted to be an upright man, but it was all destroyed by his old man's hands. Go on. Well, since this is the case, the niece has to come back to be a ghost, and it can be considered that he will live up to his old man's trust, don't you think?"
Of course it was impossible for the dead to answer her again, Kou Dan smiled lightly, his long sleeves swept away the dust on his body, turned and pushed away a wall of the Jiangxin Pavilion, the huge and intricate hearts that were pulling the machine in the water were all in it, she seemed to be picking Just like the makeup, he moved it a few times, and the machine in the Ximo River let out a deep sigh and slowly sank into the dark and boundless water.
This ferocious and vicious dog fell asleep silently.
In the dark night, the shadows that had been lurking for a long time jumped down from both sides of the Ximo River. Kou Dan let out a sigh of relief. She had been waiting for this day for a long time. If it wasn't for Li Jinrong's ignorance, he would have to come forward. Receiving Wu's family, "over there" may not be willing to give up blood to move this solid forty-eight villages.
She raised her head and smiled at the rope hanging from the visible stone walls on both sides—
Having said that, in the crack of wind and rain, can a corner of Taoyuan really last for a long time
That would be too naive.
At this time, in the small town down the mountain, Xie Yun opened the window that had been blown by the wind again, squinting his eyes and looking at the direction of the forty-eight villages from a distance, turned his head and asked Zhou Fei: "Every day in your village, people come and go. , there are patrols everywhere, are the birds so easily frightened?"
His voice fell, and another flock of birds rose up into the sky, migrating birds circling in the sky like migratory birds, and the shrill sound of birdsong came from far away.
Zhou Fei subconsciously clasped Wangchun Mountain around her waist.
At this moment, the lights of several sentries went out one after another, and the Forty-Eight Villages not far away were suddenly pitch black. There was only a shadow left in the night. Zhou Fei couldn't help holding her breath.
Xie Yun turned his ears slightly and murmured, "Is this the sound of the wind or..."
Zhou Fei stopped him immediately: "Shh—"
The distant wind pierced through the mountains and dense forests, and it was already very sharp, and one had to distinguish it carefully to hear a faint whistle.
Although Zhou Fei didn't know the reason, her heart suddenly jumped like hysterical hysteria, and a cold sweat broke out on her palms. She turned around and ran upstairs to smash the door of Ma Jili's guest room.
Those who are qualified to escort Li Yan, in addition to winning Li Jinrong's trust, naturally have their own abilities.
Although Ma Jili was woken up by Zhou Fei in the middle of the night and still smelled of alcohol from a drink, she immediately woke up after listening to her explanation in a few words.
Except for Li Yan who was still rubbing her eyes in an unknown situation, even Wu Chuchu was alarmed and alarmed.
"Put things down first," Ma Jili ordered one of the accompanying people to stay and look after the horse's luggage, and then said, "The others will leave immediately with me."
Zhou Fei finally hesitated for a moment, and for the first time put forward her opinion in front of Ma Jili: "Uncle Ma, Chu Chu and A Yan..."
Her voice fell, and Wu Chuchu's slightly pleading gaze fell on her. Wu Chuchu thought for many times that she was used to the life of running away late at night, maybe the few months since she met Ma Jili and others in Shaoyang was too safe. She was unavoidably panicking in another unexpected situation, and instinctively hoped to go with Zhou Fei.
Zhou Fei understood what she meant and hesitated for a while.
Ma Jili said decisively, "Follow me, the boss ordered me to escort Ayan, and I have to stay on the road. If something really happens in the village, the town may not be safe. Is the horse ready? Everyone, hurry up. point!"
Zhou Fei felt vaguely inappropriate in her heart, but she also admitted that Ma Jili had a point. In Huarong City at that time, didn't she also feel that the inn where Senior Brother Chenfei and the others were staying was impregnable
But what happened afterward
Zhou Fei had no objection, and Li Yan and Wu Chuchu would not have any. Xie Yun was inconvenient for outsiders to speak. He frowned and took out a small box of silver needles from his arms while others were not paying attention, and put them on his cuff. .
At a very momentary time, they didn't care whether the brand name brand that entered the mountain had been checked, and the group quickly hurried to the direction of Forty-eight Village, and ran to the bottom of the mountain non-stop.
It was now close to midnight.
Zhou Fei's heart sank—there was no one at the guard post on the first floor!