Snake Tale

Shen Yuzhu smiled and said: "I remembered that there is an extremely important matter to be done. Please explain to Duanmu, let him wait for me to come back for dinner."

After that, he walked forward.Before he took two steps, he was surrounded by a group of soldiers. One of the soldiers smiled and said: "Mr. Shen, what is the important matter? Just tell me, let the villain do it. Mr. Duanmu specifically told me before leaving, Say that there are murderers out there stalking and trying to harm you, and if something happens to Mr. Shen when he goes out, the villains will not be able to bear it no matter what!" He blindly pretended to evade, but refused to let him go.

Shen Yuzhu said in embarrassment: "What can I do? Why, now I can't even decide where to go? How could Duanmu be so confused? Call Duanmu back immediately, and I will talk to him carefully!"

The soldiers looked at each other, but the leader was unmoved, and said indifferently: "Mr. Shen, why do you have to be as knowledgeable as us vulgar people? Mr. Duanmu only cares about your safety, just in case, so he explained it like this. You don't To make him worry in vain, right? The little ones are also acting according to orders, please don't make things difficult for us!"

Shen Yuzhu couldn't laugh or cry, shook his head and sighed with a smile: "I just want to go to a famous restaurant in Jiangdu to order a table of good food and wine, and when Duanmu comes back to celebrate, how can I expect you to be so pedantic?"

The leader's face softened, and he said: "So that's the case! Needless to say, it's good for the younger ones to run errands, why do you have to work for Mr. Shen?"

Shen Yuzhu smiled slightly, thanked him and returned to the room, pacing with his hands behind his back, thinking in his heart: "This is purely a posture of house arrest! What happened? Did the remaining soldiers of the Luo family find this place? No, they If you want to rescue Luo Yi and counterattack against me, it is better to force the army directly, why is there such a detour? The most strange thing is that Duanmu sent people to watch me, but at the same time hinted that I should escape, what is his intention?"

After thinking about it, he didn't know the reason, but Duanmuyong and the soldiers who bought the wine and vegetables had already returned.Shen Yuzhu had no choice but to put aside his thoughts, and catered to Duanmuyong for a feast and chat.In the past three years, he has developed a sad and indistinct temper. At the banquet, he seemed to have no qualms. He held Duanmu Yong's hand very affectionately, and told him over and over again how happy he was to avenge his shame. Lift the wine cup and drink when you are happy.But half an hour later, he was already so drunk that he spoke incoherently and threw himself on the desk several times, while clamoring for Luo Yi to come up and kowtow to toast.

Duanmu Yongyuan had prepared a lot of words to deal with Shen Yuzhu, seeing this situation, he had no choice but to give up, and asked someone to carry the drunken staggering Shen Yuzhu back to the room to rest, and secretly sent people outside the room to watch.The military soldiers watching people outside the room only thought that "Mr. Shen" was a very bad drinker, and he would make a noise every now and then for someone to bring tea and water, wipe his sweat and wipe his face, and made all the warriors stand on their feet. Word.At first they were still very vigilant, and two or three of them entered the room together to take care of them.Later, seeing that he was really drunk and shameless, he procrastinated and slacked off, and yelled seven or eight times at the top of his voice, only to have a younger excuse, but they all walked in very reluctantly, and tossed the old man inside. After a long time, he came out cursing.

The soldiers on duty at night were standing on the porch chatting and laughing, when the man lowered his head, wiped his clothes and walked out, cursing in his mouth: "What a fool who doesn't know anything, you vomited all over me!"

When people walked up to it, before they could take a closer look, they already felt a sour smell of alcohol and filth hitting their faces.Everyone ducked away one after another, covered their noses and said in disgust, "Come on, go and wash yourself!" Someone looked in the window and saw a person on the couch sleeping like a dead donkey, and there was no doubt in their hearts, and they returned Go ahead and continue talking.

The soldier responded repeatedly, and walked quickly from under the shade of the tree.Turning to the burning place in the courtyard, a face was vaguely reflected, but it was Shen Yuzhu who should be drunk on the couch at this moment.

It turned out that he pretended to be drunk, drugged a soldier when the guards were slack, exchanged clothes, equipped with arm crossbows, and then sneaked out of the room.When I went to the front of the museum, I saw that the soldiers were patrolling very tightly, and it was absolutely impossible for them to walk out in a swaggering manner.I had no choice but to turn around the hall, ponder for a while, and then walk to find Duanmuyong's residence.

He thought that Duanmuyong must know all the causes and consequences of this, but he was worried that some kind of force would not be able to communicate with him.Meeting privately at this moment might allow him to confide a thing or two.There were a lot of soldiers patrolling along the way. Fortunately, the layout of the Liuming Pavilion was created by Shen Yuzhu according to the Qimen Dunjia technique recorded in the half book left by Xuan Weizi. .The group of warriors held torches and walked up and down majestically, sometimes separated from Shen Yuzhu by plants and trees, so they couldn't immediately notice his existence.

When he got to Duanmuyong's door, Shen Yuzhu was about to knock the door, but he finally kept his mind, turned to the window, looked into the room, and couldn't help laughing at himself: "This is my own residence! Who would have thought that one day I would be like a thief and spy on others?"

But seeing the candles in the room were brightly lit, Duanmuyong was sitting in front of the desk in a daze, lost in thought on a letter, sighed for a long time, frowned and meditated, as if he had something very embarrassing in his mind.

Shen Yuzhu stared at him for a long while, and was about to knock on the window to call him, when he heard a sudden knock on the door.Duanmuyong was startled, stood up, opened the door and saw a man dressed as a soldier standing outside the door, and called out: "Uncle Seven!" .

Shen Yuzhu recognized this person as one of the soldiers who came with Duanmu.Because he was born in a square and round area, he was unusually tall and he was the leader of a group of followers, so Shen Yuzhu paid a lot of attention to him.But he did not expect that this person was Duanmu's senior.This makes me even more puzzled, why this person is willing to condescend to pretend to be a martial artist, and let Duanmu Yong order him?

He only heard the "Seventh Uncle" reply reservedly, and asked, "Is there anything wrong with that man?"

Duanmuyong replied: "He drank a lot of alcohol, and now he is completely drunk, what else can happen?"

"That's not necessarily the case," the "Seventh Uncle" retorted in a tone of admonishing the younger generation, "You don't see how he dealt with the Luo family today? You are not good at dealing with such a treacherous murderer. Carelessness!"

Duanmu Yongdao: "Luo Yi is definitely not a good gentleman. Back then he went forward to slander Qingyan in front of the King of Jin, and then he caused harm to others for no reason. He was so tired that Shen Yuzhu suffered three years of unreasonable disaster—"

Uncle Qi scoffed: "Flies don't bite seamless eggs! The right and wrong of this is right and wrong, and you must never believe Shen Yuzhu's one-sided words. Luo Yi, as a public servant, made things difficult for a grassroots man for no reason. He won, but he didn't add any glory; he lost He ended up being ridiculed all over the world—what do you think he is trying to do?"

Shen Yuzhu said in his heart: "Yeah, I don't understand either. If there is a chance, I must invite this old man who is 'expert in human relations' to have a long talk with Mr. Luo, so as to solve the confusion in my heart."

Duanmu Yong remained silent.Seventh Uncle said again: "I know that you have a friendship with him and a fellowship, but since he has committed the evil deeds of deceiving teachers and destroying ancestors, you should also cut off your relationship with him in time and draw a clear line. It is!"

Duanmuyong said shyly: "Uncle Qi, is that... is it true? Brother... Shen Yuzhu, really did it—made it—" He gritted his teeth, and said with deep pain, "Murdering a teacher is such a beast?"

Hearing this verse outside the window, Shen Yuzhu felt like being hit on the head with a stick, his ears buzzed, and he said in horror: "What does Duanmu mean by 'killing a master'...—Master, he—was killed The murderer...is me?!"

Shen Yuzhu's mind was in a mess.But I heard Uncle Qi say: "Xuanweizi personally identified him in full view before his death, how can there be a fake? This person has been in Qingyan Mansion for so many years, and with Xuanweizi's knowledge of people, he has not been found. He actually hides such evil intentions. Once he succeeds, he hid for nearly three years before revealing his traces. He is really a thoughtful and deep-rooted figure! A Yuan, you can no longer hesitate, in case he finds out , I don’t know what other tricks will come out!”

Shen Yuzhu was worried about the life and death of the head of the mountain, and the anger in his chest was so gloomy that he wanted to stand up and protest: "It's really a bunch of nonsense!" Only after hearing the last words of "Seventh Uncle" did he realize it. As if soaked in icy water, he woke up instantly, and thought: "This is an extremely vicious trap! The culprit behind the scenes deliberately framed me as the murderer of my teacher. In the past three years, I don't know how many rumors have been made about me, and I don't know how many rumors there are. People have been deceived? Three people become tigers, even Duanmu knows me very well, and he is not immune to suspicion*, let alone those who have little personal relationship with me? How can I prove my innocence just by me? "

Thinking about it this way, I finally resisted the urge to come out and confront him.He also wanted to listen to the content of the conversation between the two, intending to learn the details of the process of Master's "killing" and his innocent injustice, but he heard a burst of noisy footsteps coming from the flower hall in front of him.It turned out that the soldiers on patrol came to report.

Shen Yuzhu thought about it: "It's not suitable to stay here for a long time. If someone finds out that I am not in the room, there will be a commotion and they will strengthen their security, but it will be hard to escape."

He decided on a plan, turned around and left under the window without a sound.

Here, Duanmuyong and his two discussed for a long time, and the soldiers monitoring Shen Yuzhu over there finally discovered Li Daitao's deadlock plan in the room, and rushed to report to the two.The soldiers at the exit categorically denied seeing anyone going out, but Shen Yuzhu's whereabouts could not be found in the Liuming Hall.Uncle Qi was furious, jumping up and down and insulting the soldiers for their bad performance.After firing the fire, he turned around and saw Duanmu Yong's expression was different, he immediately became alert and said: "A Yuan, do you—do you know where Shen Yuzhu fled to?"

Duanmu Yong hesitated: "I...?"

Seeing his hesitant look, Uncle Qi became more and more angry, and said sharply: "If you know, tell me as soon as possible! If you miss the important matter of the patriarch, see if he will spare you!"

Duanmu Yong shivered, frowned and said: "Uncle Qi! What you said is very strange. I have always wanted to ask, even though our Duanmu family has a deep relationship with Xuanweizi, how do the elders of the clan respond to the arrest of Shen Yuzhu? Are you overzealous? And why are you hiding and not willing to communicate with Qingyan?"

Uncle Qi paced back and forth, finally whispered: "This is related to a big secret in the clan, it will be difficult to tell you for a while, I will tell you in another day - the most urgent thing is that you need to tell me , where did Shen Yuzhu go?"

Duanmu Yong sighed and said, "He should still be in the museum."

Uncle Seven asked, "Then where is he hiding?"

"I guess...he went to find Luo Yi."

Uncle Qi was taken aback for a moment, then he realized in an instant: "He wants Luo Yi to attract troops to besiege this place?"

"I've heard that the Luo family has great skills in governing the army, and has created many semaphore and signals that can transmit messages across the air. I think Luo Yi has not returned for a long time, and the Luo family's private soldiers will definitely be inquiring around here. If they find out..."

Uncle Qi didn't finish listening to Duanmuyong, and ran to the secret room where Luo Yi was imprisoned earlier.When everyone went to the dark room to see, there were two corpses of soldiers and a pair of iron shackles lying in the sill, and another pool of blood meandered and spread to the feet.

In addition, there was no one in the closed secret room.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.Some people were puzzled and asked: "What, what's going on here? Two big living people... just disappeared out of thin air?" There was also a timid Lingling who shuddered and whispered: "Could it be... Can't do magic?"

In fact, Duanmu Yong's speculation was generally correct, Shen Yuzhu really planned to hold Luo Yi hostage as a bargaining chip against Duanmu's military bravery.But what he didn't expect was that when Shen Yuzhu secretly found the secret room where Luo Yi was held half an hour ago, there was already no one in it.

At that time, Shen Yuzhu also stood there in a daze, not knowing what to do.But he quickly calmed down, examined the corpses of the soldiers on the ground, and deduced the cause and effect: "The red pill and my medicine both sharpen the perception and make people happy by speeding up the blood flow. Luo Yi pretended to faint and hid in secret." The dagger cuts the wound and bleeds himself, but he can take advantage of the loss of blood and numbness to suddenly fight a trapped animal." But how Luo Yi could disappear without a trace in this secret room, he was puzzled for a while.

Searching inch by inch in the empty secret room, I happened to see something strange about a floor tile, I bent down and tapped it with my fingers, knowing it well, I pressed it into the gap with ingenuity, and then I heard the muffled sound of my feet, Suddenly, a floor tile was turned over, revealing a two-foot-wide entrance.

He took a step back, looked at the secret entrance that was black like the bloody mouth of a beast, and said to himself: "Shen Yuzhu, Shen Yuzhu, you found such a secret mechanism under your own house, how dare you say that you are not a deep and deep man in the city?" , a murderer with bad intentions?"

Distraught, he glanced at the two dying corpses lying beside him, sighed, grabbed the oil lamp hanging on the wall, and crawled into the entrance.

*Suspicion of throwing Zhu: In the past, I once lived in Feidi, and there was a local person with the same name and surname as him, who committed a murder.There was a rumor in the market: "Zeng Shen killed someone." Zeng Shen's mother replied: "My son will not kill someone." Unmoved, she continued to sit at home weaving.Not long after, someone said again, "Zeng Shen has killed someone." Zeng Shen's mother continued to weave as usual.After a while, another person said, "Zeng Shen has killed someone." Zeng Shen's mother was so frightened that she dropped the weaving shuttle and ran away over the wall.