Brocade tears

The night was dark, the wind was strong outside, and the rain was pouring.Sui'er and Princess Xinyang Zhu Qingpei are still staying in the restaurant where they stopped at noon. This restaurant also provides accommodation, but there are only two guest rooms, one of which has a first guest. The two of them are lucky to have this only One room left.

They knew in their hearts that Meng Kuang, Guo Dayou, and Qiu Bai were likely to sleep in the wild on Jiulong Mountain tonight. This was something the three of them had already anticipated before they set off.It's just that since Meng Kuang left, Sui'er's heart has been up and down all the time, and she seems extremely uneasy.Standing by the window, she looked at Jiulong Mountain, which was only a hazy silhouette in the distance in the dark night. She let the rainwater come in outside the window and wet her clothes without noticing it.

Zhu Qingpei sat silently on a stool beside her, holding a jug of wine in her hand, and sipping slowly.She looked extremely bored and anxious, already reeking of alcohol.She was very anxious and concerned about whether she could kill Shen Zhe with her own hands.She had to avenge Ban Ruhua and herself.The lover she fell in love with for the first time in her life had such a tragic past. She couldn't bear it. She had to kill Shen Zhe, cut off the past that tortured Ban Ruhua, and cut off her own resentment and sadness, otherwise she would How should the two start?

It was raining outside the store, and the store was silent. The owner of the restaurant dozed off behind the counter. The store door was half-closed, and a small part of the rainwater accumulated outside the house had seeped into the store door.

At this moment, the door of the store was pushed open without warning, with a "squeak", and then a man wearing a coir raincoat and a bamboo hat, with rain dripping all over his body, stepped in and closed the door without any hassle. Standing at the door of the store for a while, he took off the bamboo hat and coir raincoat lightly, threw them at the door of the store, and walked in.

This is a man with the appearance of a scholar, with a long beard, fair complexion, and very handsome eyebrows, especially those black and white eyes, which shine like stars.He was wearing a moon-white silk dress with a straight collar, the hem of his clothes and even the underpants inside were all wet, and the soap boots on his feet were stained with mud.

"Guest officer, are you... a top-notch or staying in a restaurant? There is no room left in the small shop." The owner of the restaurant was woken up, looked at the man, and asked with strange eyes.At this point of time, under such a heavy rain, it is really strange that someone would come to such a remote restaurant.

"It's okay, it's windy and rainy outside, I'm greedy for traveling, I missed the last hotel, and I saw this shop after walking for a long time, I don't live in the guest room, I just rest at the table in this hall for a night, I also pay for the accommodation I will pay." The man said, speaking the official dialect of Jinling, he was elegant and friendly with a smile, and his voice was extremely pleasant.

"The little old man won't charge you this money. Guest officer, you're all wet. I'll boil a pot of hot water for you. Take off your wet clothes. I'll wash them and dry them by the firepit. Don't catch a cold." The shop owner seemed to have a very good impression of this elegant guest officer, and warmly greeted him.

"Since that's the case, I'll trouble you. What do you have to eat? Just a bowl of noodles." He said again.

"Yes, yes, just wait a moment, they will come in a while."

The elegant man saw that there were two female guests in the hall, so he didn't change clothes in the hall, he went to the stairwell with his luggage on his back, hid inside and changed his clothes, and the shop owner here brought him hot water , he wiped his body with hot water, put on dry clothes and clogs, and then walked out.

Sui'er's attention was attracted by them, and for a moment her eyes followed the busy figures of the two, but her mind was still in a trance, and she fell in love with Meng Kuang.She didn't come back to herself until the elegant man in the Qingduan cross-collar Taoist robe came up to her and called out to her.

"Dare to ask girl, are you a guest staying at the hotel tonight?" the man asked.

"Exactly." Sui'er replied.

Princess Zhu Qingpei tilted her head slightly, her slightly drunk face was ruddy, and her eyes were slightly drunk looking at the man.

"Just now the shopkeeper told me that both rooms are occupied, but the guest in the other room is with you?" The man asked again.

"No." Sui Er said, in fact, she has never met the guest in the other room.

The elegant man nodded, no longer asked any more questions, and returned to the seat he had chosen for himself. The store had already served him a meal, and he began to eat.

Sui'er looked at this man in a daze, always feeling that there was something wrong with him, but couldn't tell.After thinking about it for a while, she still couldn't figure out what was wrong, so she decided to continue to observe, so she focused on the elegant man, and then turned her head to look out the window, worrying about Meng Kuang.

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Meng Kuang cut off a piece of old bamboo with a scissors knife. This was a bamboo that she had deliberately picked to grow in a corner where the watchers would not notice it.It happened to grow on the side of the hillside. After the roots of the bamboo were cut off, she slowly leaned the bamboo body on the hillside, trying not to cause any movement.Immediately, she cut down a moderately thick bamboo section in the middle to ensure that the interior of the bamboo section was completely closed, and then she took the section of bamboo section out of the dense forest, and found a place next to the board room where she could borrow a little light. Bamboo joints are reprocessed.

Meng Kuang didn't know what time it was, and her visibility had dropped to the lowest level. With her night vision ability, she could barely distinguish things in the form of shadows in such a harsh environment.That night, she could hardly see her fingers. She couldn't even see the knife in her hand. She touched it with her hand, and the edge of the knife was a little curled. It was caused by her sliding down the cliff with the knife just now.Although distressed, it is also helpless.

Her hands were tingling, she was hurt by the bamboo thorn when she was chopping the bamboo just now, and she couldn't see the wound on her hand, she just groped to pull out the bamboo thorn, and she felt that her hand was bleeding.

Borrowing the faint light of the fire in the board room, she used the same rolled-edged dagger to cut a wedge on the head of the bamboo joint, tried it in her mouth, and ensured that she could block the wedge with her mouth and bite the bamboo. If there is no air leakage at the same time, the preparation is completed.This bamboo joint can allow her to take a few breaths. She tried it, and it can last almost five breaths. After five breaths, the breath she inhales is very turbid, and she will feel unable to breathe.She counted silently in her mind, calculated the time, and calculated the longest time she could last underwater.In the end, she confirmed that she could spend almost half a cup of tea underwater, which was the result of taking into account the consumption of her breath while swimming underwater.She had to complete the dive within the time of half a cup of tea to achieve her goal, otherwise her life would be in danger.

Just as she was getting ready, a person suddenly came out of the board room next to her.He wore an oilcloth on his head to keep out the rain, and when he came out, he went to the side of the board room to untie his belt, and it looked like he was coming out to release water.Then he felt a dark figure flashing by the side of the room, which made him tremble all over, his head and face were numb, his throat was tight, and he couldn't even scream.In an instant, without even seeing the true face of the black shadow clearly, the hapless ghost's throat was cut by a sharp knife, and blood bubbles were gurgling in his mouth. He was supported by a strong arm and dragged away from the vicinity of the board room.

Meng Kuang dragged the unlucky ghost to a hidden location not far from the headland of the bay, and searched the guy's belongings, but nothing seemed to be useful. A bead was found, emitting a soft shimmer in the dark night.

Ye Mingzhu? !This Japanese pirate actually has a night pearl?I really can't underestimate this gang of thieves.

She was so sleepy that someone would give her a pillow. She was so unlucky that she finally met a lucky thing tonight.This thing has helped her a lot, it can help her see things underwater.She collected the Ye Mingzhu and covered the corpse with dead branches and weeds.Then he tied the oil cloth around his waist in long strips, and after checking the direction, he headed for the tide hole.

Since the tide hole is in the Dongsha Fan on the other side, Meng Kuang needs to cross the narrower bay exit first.Fortunately, it was only [-] feet wide, so she plunged into the bay and swam to the other shore.During the swimming process, always pay attention to the movement of the watchtower above.But she knew that in such a harsh environment, without effective lighting, the watchtower could not see the situation in the bay at all, and only the relatively nearby ships docked in the bay would discover her existence .

But Meng Kuang didn't dare to be careless, because she didn't know if there were any strange people in this world who could see things under such weather conditions.In fact, she knew a person with excellent night vision——Luo Xun. Under such an environment, Luo Xun could still see many things that she couldn't see clearly.He has a pair of cat-like eyes, and a body of keen senses trained in the southwest mountains, not just eyesight, his five senses are extremely sharp and can work together.

The high tide seemed to be extremely fierce. The external tide poured into the bay at one go. The current at the mouth of the bay was very fast. The outermost military ship was too close.She could see the flickering lights of the ship and hear the commotion inside when she came ashore.She carefully stuck to the rocky cliff of Dongsha Fan, and quickly walked to the outer tidal cave.

After walking close to the cliff for about a few shots, Meng Kuang finally found the location of the tidal cave, but at this time only a small opening at the top of the tidal cave was exposed, and most of the cave was submerged by the tide.

The tide was hitting the back of Meng Kuang's legs, and she was about to lose her foothold. In fact, she was standing on the cliff of the reef at this time, not the tidal flat below the reef. The flat tidal flat had been completely submerged.

Meng Kuang stood on the edge of the cliff, directly above the tide cave, for a while, adjusting his breathing and physical condition.When her heartbeat stabilized and her breathing gradually sank, she took three deep breaths to fill her lungs with fresh air, then held her breath, bit the bamboo tube tightly, squeezed the night pearl in her hand, and jumped directly into the seawater under her feet.

The icy seawater immediately engulfed her, and her nose was so salty that she couldn't adapt to it for a moment.In an instant, almost without her needing to swim, she was directly sucked into the tide hole by the undercurrent, and ran amok with difficulty controlling the direction. "Puff..." "Gulu..." She unfortunately bumped into the rocky wall inside the tidal cave, causing her to subconsciously spit out a cloud of gas, and almost lost the bamboo tube, but fortunately she kept trying hard to hold on to the bamboo tube hold on.Even so, she still choked on water from her nose.The salty sea water rushed into her brain, and she almost fainted for a moment. Thanks to her strong survival instinct and excellent physical fitness, she swallowed the choked sea water without hesitation, tried her best to adjust her breathing, and began to move vigorously. The flow of water controls its own direction.

For this reason, she wasted the precious air in the bamboo tube once, so she forced herself to prolong the time of holding her breath, and then used the light of the luminous pearl to judge the path of the water flow blurredly, using her feet and the free left hand to move the water flow, and adjust the forward direction Direction, follow the current, and you don't have to swim too hard, you can walk through the tide hole relatively easily.

Fortunately, the length of this tidal hole is not very long. When Meng Kuang used the bamboo tube to breathe for the third time and felt the air in the bamboo tube start to become cloudy and stuffy, she suddenly walked out through a narrow hole. Then the water flow slowed down rapidly, and she found that she seemed to have entered an underground lake.She paddled with both hands, swinging her feet to give power, her body floated up, and quickly floated to the surface of the water. After removing the bamboo tube, she coughed, and exhaled violently through her nasal cavity to clear away the choked sea water.

This is a cave formed by sea erosion, and it is indeed connected to the inner bay, because Meng Kuang can still feel the breeze blowing, indicating that the air inside is circulating.Holding the Ye Mingzhu, she controlled her tingling and limp body to slowly float to the shore, and climbed onto the shore.Panting for a moment, she held up the night pearl and began to look around the cave.

Not long after, she found traces of artificial excavation.From where she was, she walked around a cliff, and she actually saw the fire, and not far away, another tall cave entrance appeared, and below the entrance was a meandering sea current, flowing into the inner bay .A trestle bridge was built not far from the entrance of the cave, and a sampan was docked beside the trestle bridge.

And in the firelight shining from the west side of the cave, Meng Kuang saw a group of people dressed in dark Japanese ninja costumes, surrounding an old man in a typical Japanese samurai uniform.Meng Kuang once heard Guo Dayou illustrate the costumes and equipment of Japanese warriors, and he recognized that the warrior was wearing leather light armor, undergarment locks, shaved crescent hair, wearing a forehead, and two long and short swords tied around his waist.He was discussing something quietly with the ninjas.They were on a high ground in the cave, and the ground was covered with animal skins and mats. They sat on the ground, and there seemed to be a map spread out in front of them.

Since the fire was brightly lit there, Meng Kuang could see clearly that the ninjas and the old warrior had an emblem embroidered on their clothes, with a cross in a circle.

Meng Kuang frowned. She knew that the emblem should be the Japanese family emblem, but she didn't know which family it represented.It would be great if Guo Dayou was here, he has studied these things very well.