Yun Ming opened his eyes. Judging from the brightness of the light shining into the room, it was already morning.
"Huh? The timing is wrong."
This thought flashed through Yun Ming's mind. He subconsciously lifted the quilt, rolled over and walked to the desk. He dipped the half-dried ink in the inkstone and wrote a line of words on the rice paper with a brush: Second login may cause timeline abnormalities.
Yun Ming remembered clearly that the second before he left the world in the book, he was lying in bed with his clothes on in a room in the west wing. It wasn't long before the five people gathered at that time, it was probably Chou hour. And looking at the way the room was filled with light at this moment, no matter what time it was, it definitely couldn't be the middle of the night.
After putting down the pen, Yun Ming belatedly pinched his left arm and right leg and moved his body. After confirming that everything was correct, he added another sentence on the paper: Physical damage in the real world is not reflected on the soul level.
"Very good, this will make it much easier to move around in the book world." Yun Ming folded the rice paper and stuffed it into his arms with satisfaction: "If my legs and feet are still broken, I'm afraid this trip will be in vain."
Previously, Yun Ming was placed in the east wing of Pu Mansion, living next to layman Wharton. But on the morning after the latter was assassinated, Yun Ming got in touch with Zhong Yi, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, and was naturally arranged by Pu Chai Shi to live in the west wing only for his family. Zhong Yi also left behind a disguised ghost who was good at disguise, pretending to be Yun Ming, maintaining the illusion that he was still in the east wing, and engaging in "fish" activities.
The subsequent development was exactly as Yun Ming expected: Chu Zongyang sneaked into Pufu to kill people, but fell into a trap. It's a pity that this person was not captured alive or killed on the spot. He was only seriously injured by Jiang Yao and is now missing. This powerful killer is Yun Ming's number one concern and must be eliminated.
After summarizing the above two basic laws of the world in the book, Yun Ming found nothing else in the room. He freshened up briefly, then opened the door and went to find the young master of the Pu family.
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The Book of Self-Redemption designed the area of Pu Mansion to be quite large. Generally speaking, the houses of princes, wealthy families, and official families only have three entrances and three exits. Although the Pu Mansion is not short of money, Mr. Pu cannot and does not dare to go beyond the rules and create a pseudo-imperial palace with n-in and n-out. Therefore, the number of courtyards in Pufu is not too exaggerated, but most of its rooms are planned to be very spacious. Even the "lining" style functional buildings such as firewood sheds and toilets that foreign visitors will never visit are generously built. Square, fully showing the profound heritage of the Pu family.
The so-called "three in and three out" means that you enter the courtyard through the gate, and there is a second door inside. After entering the second door, you are still a courtyard, there is another door inside, and there is another courtyard after entering. Every time you enter the yard, there is a small door for entry and exit. A house with three entrances and three exits has three courtyards. Each courtyard has a main room, a wing room, a lower room, and even a rain corridor, etc. Each courtyard is called For a "progress".
It is on the basis of this "three entrances" that Pufu builds houses horizontally, supplemented by pools of lotus flowers and rockeries and rocks that can be seen everywhere in the courtyard, creating a fresh and elegant scene of lingering mountains and rivers, exquisite halls and pavilions, and luxuriant flowers and trees. It's everyone's weather. However... someone was dismissive of this place:
"Are all these rich people full of food? Why do they make their home look like a park?"
Yun Ming is not a blind person, but at this moment he is really not in the mood to appreciate this rare private garden-style residence because he got lost in Pufu.
In fact, if you really want to calculate it, Yun Ming has stayed in Pufu for a long time, but he could only temporarily live in the relatively peripheral east wing as a storyteller, and he was not familiar with the residential area to the west. And since he moved to the west wing, he has been busy painting Chu Zongyang's wanted poster. He has no time to visit the Pufu without leaving the door.
In order to reflect their status, the residences of Mr. Pu, his wife, and Mr. Pu are not in the west wing where ordinary people with the surname Pu live. Yun Ming has to go deep into the house to find them. At the same time, because he did not want to cause trouble, Yun Ming did not ask the passing servants for directions, and just wandered around the house like a headless fly.
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Wandering around.
However, if you wander around for a long time, you will always meet someone you know. Zhuo Jing, who had just finished morning exercise and was walking back to the house with a spear, stopped Yun Ming: "Mr. Yun, where are you going?"
This Zhuo Jing is no ordinary woman, but a warrior with extraordinary skills. She has a nickname of "Pear Blossom General", which not only refers to Zhuo Jing as a daughter, but also hints at her weapon - a red-tasseled pear blossom spear.
In ancient times, long cold weapons with "stabbing" as the main attack method, such as guns, spears, daggers, etc., their quality mainly depends on the hardness of the end of the weapon and the strength and toughness of the shaft, which is almost the same as the appearance of the attack part. Nothing to do. For example, it is the same "spear". When other conditions remain unchanged or similar, there is not much difference in use between the Zhangba Snake Spear and the ordinary pointed spear. Therefore, the head of Zhuo Jing's red-tasseled pear gun has nothing eye-catching in its shape, and the secret inside is actually the barrel.
Pear gun refers to a gun whose shaft is made of huanghuali wood. Unlike ordinary white wax, which is the raw material for gun shafts, huanghuali wood has particularly good elasticity and can give full play to the characteristics of the gun. But huanghuali is a relatively precious wood, and the only thing that can be used to make a gun shaft is its wood core. Therefore, such a gun is really rare, so it has the special name "Pear Blossom Gun".
Zhuo Jing has good martial arts skills and can be ranked as the second-tier head strength in the world. On the surface, she is the gun and stick teacher invited by Mr. Pu to the Pu chariot attendant; but behind the scenes, Zhuo Jing has another identity - a member of the Jinyiwei Baihu, receiving a salary from the Ming Dynasty.
During the last time travel, Yun Ming had some interactions with Zhuo Jing. Although the latter didn't know why Yun Ming met his immediate boss, the commander of the Jin Yiwei Zhong Yi, she was basically certain that he was considered "one of our own" and there was no need to Beware of everything. Seeing Yun Ming's anxious look, Zhuo Jing took the initiative to talk to him.
"Miss Zhuo." Yun Ming clasped his fists and saluted. He had imitated the tone of speech of characters in ancient movies: "I have something important to do this morning. I want to disturb Mr. Pu, but I don't know where he lives. I accidentally entered here. Can you please help me?" Girl shows the way.”
"Mr. Yun is too polite. There is no need to be so clear-cut between you and me." Zhuo Jing quickly asked Yun Ming to stop using formal words.
Logically speaking, Yun Ming is just a storyteller. It is normal for him to be polite to the official in front of him (last time he came to Yun Ming, he knew that Zhuo Jing was affiliated with Jinyiwei), but Zhuo Jing stopped him. this behavior. In the final analysis, Yun Ming still took advantage of Zhong Yi.
Of course, Yun Ming is happy to see Zhuo Jing's understanding. Firstly, his skills in classical Chinese were barely adequate; secondly, the friendly attitude shown by Zhuo Jing was very helpful for his next actions. "Okay, girl, please speak quickly, so I'll tell you straight to the point, where does Puche's attendant live?"
Maybe it was because Yun Ming jumped from classical Chinese to vernacular too quickly, Zhuo Jing was stunned for a few seconds before she realized: "Ah... If you want to find the young master, I can lead the way, but he shouldn't be awake at this time."
"As expected of him." Yun Ming thought to himself that this book of self-redemption could even copy the real-life routine of the Pu Chai Attendant. "Then when will he get up?"
"Master Pu... usually sleeps until noon (11-13 o'clock)."
"What time is it now?"
"It's just past four quarters of the hour."
Yun Ming silently calculated the time: "At four o'clock in the morning, that is, early eight o'clock in the morning, I can't wait for a few hours. But I can't determine the memory status of Pu Che Shi at the moment. If the book of self-redemption changes his brain Whitewash, then the foundation laid by the last time travel is useless. If I rashly wake up Pu Chai Shi, he doesn’t know me at all, and he might kill me on the spot while I’m angry..."
"Mr. Yun, what are you thinking about?" In Zhuo Jing's eyes, after receiving the answer, Yun Ming suddenly became no different from a wooden man.
"Ah, I'm sorry." Yun Ming came back to his senses. In just a short while, he had already thought of plan B: "Forget it, let's wait until Pu Chai wakes up. But Miss Zhuo, I just have it now. I want to ask you for help with a few things..."
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Half an hour later, four servants led their horses out from the back door of Pu Mansion. They carried a package of dry food for several days, and after leaving the capital, they chose a road and galloped on different official roads. Those four official roads lead to Chengde, Tianjin, Baoding and Datong respectively. Of course, based on the amount of money and food the servants carry, unless they sell horses and beg for alms all the way, they will never be able to reach these places by normal means. place. However, Yun Ming's purpose was not to determine whether the people he sent out could reach their destination. He only asked the four of them to stay as far away from the capital as possible, calculate the cost of the round trip, and return when the supplies reached their limit.
Zhuo Jing, who arranged this matter, and the four servants who carried out the task were all confused and could not guess what Yun Ming was going to do. Of course, they couldn't understand Yun Ming's intention - he was testing the boundary of the world in the book, where the "air wall" was located.
Just like open world games such as "Call of Duty", "Assassin's Creed", and "GTA5", Yun Ming believes that the "Ming Dynasty" map created by the Book of Self-Redemption is absolutely impossible to extend infinitely. As early as Chapter 127, Yun Ming conveyed similar speculation to Pu Che Shi and Zhong Yi, and now he finally has the opportunity to verify it.
Yun Ming didn't need his servants to cross mountains and seas and go to the ends of the earth. After all, that was unrealistic. He only needed to confirm whether there was only one capital city on this map.
After seeing off the four servants who shouldered important responsibilities, Zhuo Jing led Yun Ming to the small school grounds of Pu Mansion. The small school field is where the martial arts practitioners of Pufu practice their weapons. It is more than thousands of square meters in size, with flat land and a wide view. This is Yun Ming's first time here.
"The house next to the small school field is the armory." Zhuo Jing pointed to a tiled house not far away and introduced: "There are some ordinary swords, guns, axes and axes in there. I don't know if any of them are suitable for you."
"That's good. I don't know how to use strange weapons."
A few minutes later, Yun Ming had a Yanling knife on his waist. The blade of this knife is straight, with a curvature at the tip and a reverse edge. It is named after its shape resembling a wild goose feather. The shape of the Yanling Sword was created in the Tang Dynasty and became popular in the Ming Dynasty. Its influence on later generations is even higher than the famous Xiuchun Sword of the same period. There was no particular reason for Yun Ming to choose the Yanling Saber. He was not strict about meat and vegetables when it came to weapon selection, as long as it was reliable.
Yun Ming's borrowing of weapons has nothing to do with exploring the rules of the Book of Self-Redemption. He just felt that it was difficult to predict what emergencies he would encounter in the future that would force him to take action. It was better to prepare for a rainy day. With someone on hand, he would not panic.
"I will also help you pay attention to the last thing." After coming out of the small school grounds, Zhuo Jing and Yun Ming had nothing important to do for the time being. At this moment, they were walking side by side by the rockery pond: "Although Peng Ou escaped, but He is injured, and he will never be able to leave the capital on his own. What's more, the portrait you made has been plastered all over the walls and notices everywhere. No matter how powerful the Peng Ou is, he can't escape with his wings."
"Yeah." Yun Ming nodded and didn't say much. Before time travel, he had already learned from Xiao Qi, the author of the book, that the real name of the killer Peng Ou was Chu Zongyang. He was about the strength of a quasi-first-line master in the world, and he had the sword Xichen, one of the four divine weapons, at his side to deal with him. It's not easy to get up. However, Yun Ming cannot share this information with the outside world, and it is inconvenient to reveal it to Zhuo Jing of Jin Yiwei, at least not now.
"correct."
"how?"
"How did the commander deal with that plain-hand lady?" Yun Ming suddenly remembered that there was someone living in Pu Mansion who had a relationship with Chu Zongyang.
"Ruan Dandan, she is still living in the guest room in the east wing. The injuries on this woman's body are indeed real. She is estimated to be very weak. Although the Lord only sent a few guards to guard her, it is more than enough."
"Locked up?"
"right."
Yun Ming stopped and stretched out his hands to rub his face vigorously, as if this up and down movement could help him think. After a few meaningless movements, Yun Ming made up his mind: "Excuse me, Miss Zhuo, please lead the way."
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