"The rivers and lakes are sinister" is an old saying that is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but just how sinister the rivers and lakes are cannot be explained with just a few pale and empty words.
Ruan Dandan felt this way at the moment. It is true that she is not a newcomer to the world, but in the past three days, her understanding of the meaning of the words "dangerous world" has undoubtedly deepened a lot...
On the night of the second day of May, Ruan Dandan was first besieged by a group of black-clothed masked men with good martial arts skills for no reason. If Chu Zongyang hadn't come to the rescue with a knife, she would have died in the capital that night.
Before Ruan Dandan, who was seriously injured, had time to recuperate, Chu Zongyang told her a shocking secret: the people who surrounded and killed her that day were actually people from the two major righteous sects in the world - Xi Jian Sect and Sixiang Sect. This reality made her unable to believe it. Ruan Dandan felt that he had no enmity with these two sects in the past. After thinking about it, the only possible motive was the fight for the sacred treasure. Two famous martial arts sects actually killed themselves, who were both members of the righteous camp, in order to eliminate dissidents. Ruan Dandan successfully reached a new level in accepting the ugly faces of some righteous people in the world.
Then, Chu Zongyang, Ruan Dandan's "savior", eagerly asked her to reciprocate her kindness. In order to force her to submit, he even used a knife. Ruan Dandan didn't know why this famous assassin who had been famous for many years went crazy. He inexplicably asked him to help him kill a storyteller who didn't know martial arts. But the situation was stronger than the people, so she finally agreed to go to Pufu and play a trick to lure the tiger away from the mountain.
Then it was a few hours ago. Ruan Dandan's sword manual was successfully presented, but Chu Zongyang's chain fell off. He was so injured that he was able to escape from Pu Mansion, which was a tribute to his ancestors. But Ruan Dandan is not good anymore. The injuries she sustained during the siege the night before have not healed properly. She cannot move at all and cannot escape. After the assassination incident, she was directly placed under house arrest in the Pu family until now.
"What's this all about..." Looking at the solemn-looking guards in the courtyard, standing at various key positions in the east wing with swords in hand, Ruan Dandan shook his head and closed the window.
Although her internal injuries have not healed, her "ear power" is still there. Ruan Dandan can clearly hear that there are several Jinyi guards squatting on the roof of this room at the same level as the guards in the yard. "Why are people from the official family involved? Although the Pu family is a wealthy family in the Ming Dynasty, they don't have this kind of influence..."
As I said before, Ruan Dandan, a lady with no hands, is a master of concealed weapons. Since she specializes in this art, she must first learn to "receive" hidden weapons before "distributing" them. As we all know, concealed weapons are not big in size. In addition, the object flies in mid-air very light and fast. It is difficult to track the target with the human eye alone. This requires the warrior to mobilize the other five senses to make up for it. Visual deficiencies. Ruan Dandan's ear skills were developed through the practice of picking up darts day after day. How good is her hearing? Let's put it this way, Ruan Dandan is sitting in the house now, but through two wooden doors and a distance of twenty or thirty meters, she can hear the movement outside the "second door".
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The "two gates" here refer to the second gate in "the main door does not go out and the second gate does not step forward", also known as the Chuihua Gate. In the old days of Beijing, generally wealthy families lived in single-family courtyards with two or three entrances. The hanging flower door is equivalent to the gate of the inner house. Together with the courtyard wall, it separates the front yard and the inner yard. It is also the dividing line and the only passage between the inner house and the outer house. Because it is the facade of the courtyard
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, represents the taste of the entire courtyard, so it pays great attention to architectural aesthetics and strives to be graceful and luxurious in decoration.
A "screen door" is also installed on the inside of the hanging flower door. The screen door is closed most of the time and is only opened when major family ceremonies are held. Because women usually live in the hanging flower gate, this screen door just blocks the view of the visiting guests from looking into the inner courtyard. The two wooden doors I mentioned above, one is the door, and the other is the screen door that will not be opened all year round.
On the bluestone road outside the second door, Yun Ming and Zhuo Jing were walking hand in hand. When the two got closer, Yun Ming unexpectedly met a "most familiar stranger" here.
Ladies and gentlemen, don’t think that I suddenly started writing youth trauma literature. There is absolutely no problem with me using the attributive term “the most familiar stranger” to describe the relationship between Yun Ming and Ji Ling’er.
What? You ask where this Ji Linger came from? Don't worry, just listen to what I tell you.
Ji Ling'er, who was eighteen years old, was the number one in Lianxiang Pavilion, a brothel in the capital. She was actually one of the 100 Jin Yiwei, and like Pu Che Shi and Zhuo Jing, they all ate the royal food. From this day onwards, she was ordered by the commander Zhong Yi to strictly guard outside Ruan Dandan's yard.
When Yun Ming last traveled through the Book of Self-Redemption, the role of Ji Ling'er was rejected by Jiang Yao, so to be precise, this is the first time Yun Ming and Ji Ling'er met, and the two theoretically did not know each other. of.
But Yun Ming did enough homework before this time travel. He wrote down all the characters and their settings in Xiao Qi's works. Although he had never seen Ji Ling'er with his own eyes, it did not affect Yun Ming's ability to compare the appearance, age, clothing and other details he observed of the woman from outside the sect with Xiao Qi's written description, and then determine the woman's identity.
However, even after recognizing Ji Ling'er, Yun Ming walked silently with his head down. He needs the other party to react first so that he can act accordingly.
It was Yun Ming's luck. Ji Ling'er actually greeted Zhuo Jing first: "Miss Zhuo, Mr. Yun, what are you doing here so early in the morning?"
"Being able to call my last name accurately shows that Ji Ling'er, who was replaced in the last time travel, still retains some of Jiang Yao's memories in the Book of Self-Redemption." Yun Ming thought to himself: "But she has no brain. The question has been processed by the Book of Self-Atonement, and the memories before and after the awakening have been erased, so this makes sense."
Although Zhuo Jing was an official in the same dynasty as Ji Ling'er, she rarely walked around due to various practical and objective reasons. At this time, she lowered her posture of guarding hundreds of households and said politely: "Miss Ji, I Mr. He Yun has some questions that he would like to ask the Sushou lady in the sect, so I would like to ask the girl to make it easier for him."
"Um...interrogation..." From Ji Ling'er's tone, Zhuo Jing couldn't tell what kind of emotional tendencies she had towards her request, but it was obvious that she wouldn't let him in easily: "Is it a male? Yes. private?"
Yun Ming took over the conversation at this time: "It's public and it's private."
"What do you mean by this?"
"Then Ruan Dandan must be inextricably linked to the mysterious killer." Yun Ming opened his mouth and raised the nature of Ruan Dandan's crime from "accessory" to "accomplice": "In public, the killer escapes and harms one party; in private, I am the master of suffering, and it is reasonable to want to catch the murderer as soon as possible."
"Well……"
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Through Zhuo Jing and Ji Ling'er's friendly attitude toward him, Yun Ming guessed that they may still retain some fragments of their intimate conversations with the commander of the Jinyi Guard in their memories, which allowed Yun Ming to feel free to tease others. Tiger Skin: "Don't worry, Master Yue and Mr. Pu are close friends!"
In a sense, there is nothing wrong with Yun Ming's words. He does have a good relationship with Zhong Yi and Pu Che Shi. Of course, the Jinyiwei commander Zhong Yi does not exist in the book world at this time. The current commander is named Yue Kuohai. Like "Ji Ling'er", "Yue Kuohai" is also the real name given to the character by Xiao Qi. Yun Ming will not make the stupid mistake of calling Master Yue by the wrong surname.
Maybe Yun Ming's rhetoric did make some sense, or maybe Ji Linger really felt that Yun Ming was one of her own who couldn't do anything wrong. Anyway, she pondered for a moment and decided to let it go: "Okay, but I have two conditions."
"you say."
"First, I can only give you half an hour."
"Okay." Yun Ming nodded. He had already typed up the draft for the inquiry on the way here. One hour was more than enough for him.
"Second, if you ask, I won't interrupt, but I have to listen."
From Ji Ling'er's point of view, her request was understandable. Don't be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of the worst. Yun Ming's origins are unknown. Who knows if he will do anything bad. Ji Ling'er had to keep an eye on Ruan Dandan because of her responsibilities. She must follow him into this house.
But similarly, Yun Ming also has his difficulties. In the real world, Yun Ming asked Xiao Qi and got the basic context of this martial arts world, and he was well aware of the next plot direction and several possible endings. It can be said that after mastering this kind of information that spans dimensions, Yun Ming is almost invincible no matter how the story advances.
But what he actually wants to do now is to destroy the original plot and his own first-mover advantage. This kind of self-destructive operation can easily make Yun Ming passive in the subsequent development.
If we think of Book of Self-Redemption as a program, its function is similar to an "automatic article generator." User Xiao Qi inputs the type, background, frame, and characters of the article into it, and determines the beginning and middle paragraphs of the story. The subsequent parts are completed by the book of self-redemption. It is true that due to Yun Ming and others' last time travel, the established plot was forced to be modified (such as the early deaths of Gu Mingkong and Qin Cu), but Yun Ming's behavior of asking to see Ruan Dandan will undoubtedly trigger another change in the plot.
So after learning that Ruan Dandan was banned from Pu Mansion, Yun Ming weighed the pros and cons several times before finally deciding to meet. His plan was to ask Ruan Dandan about Chu Zongyang's whereabouts, even if it was just ordinary information; and in order to reduce the impact of this matter on the plot, Yun Ming was planning to meet him alone. His idea was: Ruan Dandan was seriously injured anyway and could not leave the Pu Mansion, so it would not have much of a butterfly effect on the outside world, but... Ji Ling'er's joining would probably make things different.
Prolonged embarrassment, silence or explanations are all unnecessary. No matter what kind of reaction, it is superfluous. On the contrary, it will make the guard girl in front of her, who is occupationally suspicious, suspicious. Therefore, facing Ji Ling'er's conditions, Yun Ming agreed without hesitation:
"Of course, Miss Ji, please."
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