Tang riddles

The end of the night is the time when the sky is darkest.The river wind howled and poured into this natural cave eroded by the river water, like countless ghosts crying mournfully.The light is thin, and all the scenes seem to be immersed in ink, revealing a strange and secret horror.The two people on the cliff also felt that they were experiencing a nightmare that they didn't know when they would wake up.

Shen Sui's eyes were fixed on the broken hanging coffin. At the bottom of the coffin, the black and withered hand stretched out, but it didn't move again. It just hung there quietly. After looking for a long time, it unexpectedly I can see a bit of miserable taste coming out.

Shen Sui secretly heaved a sigh of relief, she understood that it was just the corpse buried in the coffin falling out as the hanging coffin broke.

Zhang Ruohan turned her back to the hanging coffin, she couldn't see the scene behind her, but she felt something was wrong with Shen Sui's mood, so she asked softly:

"What's wrong? Did something happen?"

"It's nothing, it's just that the hands of the corpse were exposed in the broken hanging coffin." Shen Sui said calmly.

Zhang Ruohan didn't speak for a while, and after a while, she suddenly said:

"You and I are forced to disturb these people who have long since returned. I feel sorry for them. If we are saved, we will come to rebury the person in the hanging coffin another day, and offer a stick of incense to let them rest in peace."

"Well, I understand." Shen Sui said.

The breaking of the hanging coffin did not stop for a moment, but while speaking, it split another part, the dry and dark hand shook twice, and then suddenly, the entire upper body of the corpse fell out, half The body hangs upside down in the broken gap, the waist is bent at an incredible angle, and the hands are raised upside down, swaying in the river wind.Shen Sui heard a "squeak", like the sound of an old loom.Immediately afterwards, there seemed to be the sound of leather being torn slowly.She knew that the waist of the corpse was slowly tearing apart.Before long, its upper body may break completely and fall off a cliff.

Shen Sui hugged Zhang Ruohan silently, and covered her ears with his left hand.The current scene is too terrifying, she doesn't want Zhang Ruohan to see it, and she doesn't want her to over-imagining this weird sound, so she is afraid.

Shen Sui is not afraid, she has seen too many corpses, all kinds of strange things, all kinds of corpses.At this time, she had already noticed that something was wrong with the corpse hanging upside down. It was a scorched corpse. It was obviously suffocated to death in the fire, and it was scorched by the high temperature of the fire. The ground is wrapped around the bones, crumpled.

However, as far as she knew, there was no custom of making mummified corpses into hanging coffins.After death, the treatment of the body is no different from that of burial.In other words, the person in the coffin died abnormally, and it is very likely that he died in a fire.

Just as she was thinking, suddenly, the hanging coffin under them suddenly heard two "dong dong" vibrations, Shen Sui and Zhang Ruohan were shocked at the same time, Shen Sui withdrew his gaze, and his hands immediately Subconsciously grabbed the handle of Xue Dao.

"What's going on?" Zhang Ruohan asked in a low voice, her voice was very calm, as if she was fearless when she was with Shen Sui.

"Hush..." Shen Sui made a silent mouth, and then slowly pulled out her snow knife, trying not to make any noise.

"Dongdong", "dongdong", "dongdongdong", the vibration sounded more and more frequently, as if the dead body in the hanging coffin sitting under them was beating on the coffin board.The person in the coffin, who had been dead for many years, was woken up, and was angrily asking Shen Sui and Zhang Ruohan to leave his tomb.Otherwise, he will come out of the coffin to punish the rude people who disturbed his rest.

Shen Sui's cold sweat slowly overflowed, and as the knocking sound became louder, her blade was already aimed at the coffin board, and she was about to pierce it in.

"Don't...listen carefully..." Zhang Ruohan took her arm and said softly, "It's not the corpse hitting the coffin board, it's something else."

Something else?

Shen Sui slowly looked down, and suddenly, a terrifying big face appeared under the side of the hanging coffin where they were, with red nose bones, extremely long, pale cheeks, and three grooves on each side. A pair of small eyes shone with a faint light, like ghosts in the dark night.Shen Sui was startled, and immediately raised his knife to stab him.The face flickered and disappeared.

Immediately afterwards, as if Shen Sui's movements had stimulated some kind of creature lurking in the dark night, one after another howling and crying sounded around and echoed in the cave.The sound was extremely loud, and accompanied by the whistling wind, it resounded through the valley and both sides of the river.Zhang Ruohan's body was trembling with fear, Shen Sui hugged her tightly and stroked her back.

Suddenly, a huge black shadow flashed and slid past the hanging coffin that Shen Sui was in. The black shadow seemed to have the ability to fly over the eaves and walls, and quickly climbed up the cliff, and soon came to the side of the charred corpse hanging upside down .

Shen Sui turned his head to look, the black figure stretched out its thick and long arms, grabbed the upper body of the scorched corpse, and then tore it, and there was a toothache sound of bones and flesh, and the upper body of the scorched corpse was crushed by the black shadow Totally ripped off.

The black shadow grabbed the upper body of the scorched corpse and ran away, but the hanging coffin could no longer maintain its temporary balance due to the force of the tearing, and collapsed suddenly, completely rolling down from the cliff, making a loud noise.

The cries became louder, as if to express the heaviest condolences for the fall of the hanging coffin.

Shen Sui's breathing was a little unsteady, the palm holding the Xuedao was sweating, and Zhang Ruohan's breathing was also in sync with hers.This natural cave full of hanging coffins is like a huge joint burial tomb. They are in it, and they are experiencing things in the underworld that are completely different from the yang world.

The hanging coffin fell into the river with a loud bang, the raised dust obscured the sight of Shen Sui and Zhang Ruohan, Zhang Ruohan was choked by the dust, and began to cough uncontrollably.Shen Sui lifted up his skirt and covered her mouth and nose to prevent her from inhaling the dust, while she temporarily held her breath. With her deep internal energy, it would not be a problem to hold her breath until the dust dissipated.

But amidst the dust, a black figure suddenly appeared on the right side of the hanging coffin they were in. This time, it happened to hit Zhang Ruohan's sight.She took a short breath, and subconsciously grabbed Shen Sui tightly, her nails were embedded in Shen Sui's flesh.Shen Sui lightly held the back of her head to bury her in his arms, not letting her see.

The black figure slowly emerged from the dust, still a terrifying ghost face, with a scorched black arm dangling from its mouth.It seemed to be exactly the ghost face that Shen Sui saw before.It came along the rock wall, grabbed the scorched arm, and placed it on the coffin board where Shen Sui and Zhang Ruohan were sitting.Shen Sui frowned with a pair of sword eyebrows, and slowly withdrew the snow knife in his hand.

After the ghost face put its arms on the coffin board, it stared at Shen Sui and Zhang Ruohan for a while, then turned around and quickly crawled away, quickly disappearing into the night.

"It's okay, maidservant lotus. Let me tell you first, there is a scorched black arm a few inches outside your toes, don't be frightened." Shen Sui said softly.

"Hmm..." Zhang Ruohan snorted softly, inexplicably, there was a soft grievance after being frightened in her voice, which made Shen Sui's heart feel as if something had ruptured, and the warmth overflowed.

She looked at Zhang Ruohan and smiled softly.

"What are you laughing at?" Zhang Ruohan seemed a little annoyed by her tender eyes.

"Do you know what that is?"

Zhang Ruohan shook his head.

"It's a mandrill, a kind of ape. It seems that this area is their active zone, and we are now on their territory. Just now the hanging coffin broke, and some corpses fell out. For mandrills, that is their food At first, these guys threw stones at our hanging coffin, trying to drive us away. But seeing that they couldn't drive us away, I held a sharp knife in my hand, which was very powerful, and they could only divide our corpses a little bit." Shen Sui laughed.

"You...don't say it..." Zhang Ruohan felt a little nauseous.

"Okay, I won't say." Shen Sui comforted her back, "Close your eyes and rest for a while, I guess it will take a while for Hutuo to come back."

"En." Zhang Ruohan was surprisingly obedient, closed her eyes, and still tightly clutched Shen Sui's skirt.

Shen Sui's gaze fell on that scorched arm again, she didn't move that arm, thinking that she would remember to take it with her later and have a good test.

……

Qianhe was sitting cross-legged on the cliff, her samurai broadsword was placed across her knees, and the black blindfold hanging down behind her head was slowly swinging under the blowing wind of the river.This night was extremely long, and her perception of time was a little blurred.Although she cannot tell day from night, she has a clearer sense of time than a healthy person.It's just that too many things happened that night, which made her a little tired.

Da Lang and San Niang are still below, Da Lang told her not to shout and keep quiet, there may be enemies ambushing nearby, shouting may attract the enemy.Chizuru was very alert and never dared to relax.

Looking back on the process of Dalang chasing him all the way, I really feel that she is like a godsend.At that time, after reading the news from Night Owl, Shen Sui immediately judged the location.She said that it should be near Yun'an Village in the west of Fengjie County.This Yun'an Village is at the junction of Yun'an County and Fengjie County.There are a large number of shipbuilding craftsmen and fishermen living in this area, and there are dozens of villages, large and small.Qian He still hasn't figured out why Shen Sui has identified Yun'an Village all of a sudden.Due to time constraints, Shen Sui did not explain at the time.

In short, they rushed to the east of Yun'an Zhai in this way, there was still a long distance from the Zhaikou, but Shen Sui abandoned his horse and went into the dense jungle.The horses couldn't run anymore, they could only walk.Shen Sui's lightness kung fu was so good that he disappeared in the blink of an eye, and she and Hu Tuo could only chase after him.She almost lost her way on the way, and finally Hutuo took her to find this place.Dalang and Sanniang are really here, it's amazing.What worried her was that both of them fell to the cliff below, and she didn't know what happened.

Just when I thought of this, I suddenly heard a "click" behind me, as if a tree branch was being trampled.She immediately grabbed the odachi and jumped up from the ground.She stood on a horse stance with both legs, leaned down, her left hand holding the scabbard was attached to her waist, and her right hand was hanging on the handle of the knife, ready to draw the knife at any time.

"Hua La", a violent river wind blew up, blowing countless fallen leaves, and the dense branches and leaves in the jungle made a "rustling" sound, and the long black cloth tied behind her head was blown up.At this moment, she suddenly drew the knife. "Clang", there was a flash of cold light, and in a short while, with a sound of "ding", the sharp weapon was chopped off.The light of the knife disappeared quickly, and it was unknown when the blade would return to its sheath again.Qianhe still maintained the posture before drawing the sword, as if everything just now was an illusion.

"Who! Don't be sneaky, show up if you have the ability!" She said angrily.

There were footsteps sounding slowly, stepping out from the darkness, the person who came was still far away from Qianhe, stopped his steps, and there was a strange sound in his throat, as if he had deliberately changed his voice, it was deep and hoarse, like sharpening scissors General harshness:

"Dongying Juhedao, this is the first time I have seen it. Your listening skills are very good, Yuan Qianhe."

Qianhe didn't speak, her right hand hanging on the handle of the knife was trembling.She adjusted her breathing slowly, immersing herself in her heart.The Juhe Dao she practiced must not be confused, otherwise she will definitely lose.

"Don't get me wrong, I don't mean anything malicious, I just want to test your kung fu. Yuan Qianhe, I hope you haven't forgotten the oath you made when you first came to Chang'an. If you don't want to live your life now, you can come to find Me. Just draw a cross on the wall in the lower right corner of the outer gate of Chang'an Honglu Temple, and someone will come to pick you up."

"I don't know what you're talking about." Qianzuru's forehead was dripping with sweat.

"It's okay, I'm not in a hurry." After saying these words, Qianhe suddenly felt that the pulling energy suddenly disappeared, as if the person just disappeared out of thin air.The feeling of great danger and pressure that brought her disappeared in an instant.

Qianhe knelt down on one knee and breathed a sigh of relief. At this moment, she felt her back was soaked in cold sweat.

The author has something to say: Looking at the comments, many children's shoes think that the black hand belongs to Zhu Dadu.You think things are too simple, forget what I wrote before, Bo people will not be disrespectful to their ancestors, let alone stuff the corpses of their enemies into their ancestors' coffins, that is disrespectful.

This chapter makes a point:

[Iaido] The sword-drawing technique originated in ancient Nara and the early Heian period (basically the same period as the Tang Dynasty), and was formed in the Warring States Period in Japan, also known as the way of drawing the sword.The basic posture of Iaido is mostly kneeling, mainly because this kind of sword drawing technique is practical for indoor assassination and duel.

Habitat and co-existence are mutual terms between opposing parties. (According to my personal understanding, Ju refers to the defender, and He refers to the attacker. The identities of the two are not fixed, and they will change at any time during the confrontation).There are various schools of juhe: drawing sword, juxiang, drawing, sitting, drawing sword, inside the sheath, and benefiting.