Brocade tears

Sui'er leaned against Meng Kuang's arms, staring ecstatically at the tiny red light shining between the cracks in the charcoal in the charcoal basin in front of her.This pot of charcoal was basically burned to ashes, the cave was not ventilated, and the smoke from burning charcoal permeated the cave, choking people was secondary, but now it already makes people feel a little dizzy and nauseated.

Sui'er knew that it was carbon gas, which was poisonous, and if he stayed in such an environment for a long time, his life would be in danger.

But they can't get out now, Li Laosan has been pawing at the entrance of the cave, looking out from the gap between the big rocks at the entrance of the cave.The chasing soldiers have been searching nearby and have not gone far. From morning to evening, it is now dusk. It is hard to imagine that they will stay in the cave for another whole night. If they cannot leave here as soon as possible, they will soon be suffocated. died in the hole.

Among them, Sui'er has the weakest physical ability, so she reacts the most.She was so weak that she couldn't sit still.Meng Kuang let her lean in his arms, while Meng Kuang himself leaned against the cave wall.The two tried to hold their breath as much as possible, reducing the breathing rate and the number of times they inhaled carbon gas.

Meng Kuang's condition was slightly better than Zhu Yan's, but he felt short of breath between his chest and lungs and slightly dizzy.And Zhuyan was better than Sui'er, she could still bear the pain, and squatted next to Jiang Yunping's corpse to study something carefully.

Jiang Yunping's corpse was placed in a folded shape by her, making the upper body and lower body of the corpse present an arc. This is because the corpse will gradually become stiff with the passage of time. If they want to put the corpse on a horse for transportation, the stiff corpse will not be able to hang. On horseback, it is bound to cause inconvenience.At low temperatures, the natural development of rigor is slowed down, but the moisture inside the body freezes, also causing some degree of rigor.Zhu Yan knows medical skills and also has research on the changes of corpses.

Because Li Laosan has been leaning against the entrance of the cave to observe, he inhales less carbon gas and is in the best condition.

After an unknown amount of time, Zhu Yan came over and sat opposite Meng Kuang and Sui Er.The two could see clearly what she was holding in her hand through the faint light of the charcoal fire.Through the glove, Zhuyan pulled out the silver needle that had stuck into Jiang Yunping's left thigh, held it in her hand, and waved it in front of Meng Kuang and Sui'er, saying:

"The poison on this, I preliminarily judged that it should be snake venom, but it may not be just snake venom, but also mixed with other plant toxins. This kind of poison will kill you if you touch it, even if you just scratch the skin, it will take a few breaths to touch this poison. There is no one in between. Zhang Yunxiu does not know where to get this kind of poison, and this kind of poison often comes from the mountains in the southwest."

Meng Kuang and Sui'er didn't speak. Perhaps Zhang Yunxiu had been to the southwest, but it was more likely that someone from the southwest came to Liaodong. In short, he must have a way to get this poison.

"I'm a little puzzled. Zhang Yunxiu has been in Jin Yiwei's hands for so long, hasn't Jin Yiwei searched him? Why didn't you find such a poisonous needle hidden in his body?" Zhu Yan wrapped the poisonous needle in a handkerchief and sent it to him. It entered into a bamboo tube hanging on her waist. It is said that this bamboo tube was made by her specially for collecting some poisons. The mouth of the tube has a very delicate seal and lock.

Meng Kuang and Sui'er didn't speak for a while, because they didn't know the details.After Zhang Yunxiu was arrested, Meng Kuang did not participate in his escort, and she was also arrested.Zhang Yunxiu first went to Beijing with Sui'er and the deputy of the princess, Qiu Bai. After entering Beijing, he was directly detained by the prison in secret to a dark room. For three months, all the people in charge of guarding him were also from the prison. Mainly Jiang Yunping, these people are all under the jurisdiction of Sun Jianxing and Sun Qi, a thousand households in the prison.

And Sui'er didn't see any suspected poisonous needles on Zhang Yunxiu's body along the way, and she didn't search him at all.Qiu Bai probably checked his luggage briefly, but he didn't see the silver needle.

"Maybe he hid in an unexpected place, and Jin Yiwei didn't find him." Sui'er said.

"This thing is highly poisonous, and he doesn't panic when he hides it on his body. Where can he hide it? The soles of the shoes or the pants/crotch? Could it be in the hairpin? The first thing Jin Yiwei did after he caught Zhang Yunxiu was to put him Stripped from head to toe, all the clothes on the body have to be changed again, the clothes and accessories that have been replaced must have been searched carefully, I don't believe that he can hide things under Jin Yiwei's nose. What's more, this highly poisonous silver needle Hiding it on your body, if one accidentally breaks it and stabs yourself, you will die too unjustly." Zhu Yan was a little disbelieving, "I feel that he should have gotten this silver needle recently, so he avoided it." At first, Jin Yiwei searched him."

"How is this possible? He has been with Jin Yiwei all this time, so there is no chance of getting the silver needle." Meng Kuang frowned, "Unless... there are traitors in Jin Yiwei who help him."

Speaking of this, the cave suddenly fell into silence.Meng Kuang's heart skipped a beat, and he thought to himself, could it be true that there are traitors in the Jinyiwei team helping Zhang Yunxiu?

Who... who is that traitor?

Meng Kuang went over the whole process of Jin Yiwei's detention of Zhang Yunxiu after he was arrested, and it seemed that there was nothing unusual, but the three months of Zhang Yunxiu's detention in the prison were indeed blank, and the outside world could not know the details. Only the prison people know.From the beginning to the end, there was one person who was always arranged to accompany Zhang Yunxiu, and this person was Jiang Yunping.

Meng Kuang's gaze involuntarily shifted to Jiang Yunping's corpse lying quietly in the darkness not far away, and for a moment he felt it was unbelievable, and repeatedly denied his thoughts.

At this time, Sui'er suddenly spoke weakly: "Could it be Jiang Yunping..." After finishing speaking, he coughed slightly.

Sui Er's thoughts coincided with Meng Kuang's again!

Meng Kuang helped Sui'er caress his back, and said slowly: "It is reasonable to say that if a prisoner is to be detained for a long time, the usual practice is to change the detainees on a regular basis to prevent the prisoner from infiltrating or controlling the detention. The thinking of the personnel took advantage of the loopholes. Generally speaking, if there are enough personnel, they will be replaced every day, and the same person may not get another turn until ten days later. Or maybe they will directly choose to keep the prisoner silent and not let him speak But it seems that Jiang Yunping has always been in charge during the process of detaining Zhang Yunxiu. At first, I thought it was because Sun Qianhu, who was in charge of the prison, trusted him and gave him full responsibility. But now it seems that there is a It needs to be re-examined."

"That's right, why did Shuerhaqi's people just ambush in the direction where Jiang Yunping and Zhang Yunxiu were escaping, and even figured out the location of the ambush? Even if it is based on the judgment of the terrain, it cannot be [-]% sure. I feel that there is something wrong with it. Besides, Jiang Yunping said that he ran into Li Chengliang who was on patrol when he was releasing falcons outside the city. When he saw Li Chengliang, he didn’t react at all. Didn’t he have any doubts? The message he sent said that there was no abnormality in the east gate. Is there anything unusual about that? A large number of people are ambushing at the east gate, ready to go, clearly in a state of armed combat, as a well-trained Jin Yiwei, can't he detect the slightest sign?" Sui'er said in a breath , Some slightly out of breath after finishing speaking.

Meng Kuang whispered in her ear: "Take it easy, don't talk so much."

"It's okay~" Sui'er shook her head obediently, and slipped into her arms again.

"In that case, it seems that Sun Qianhu who is in charge of the torture station is also not clean?" In the darkness, Zhuyan raised her eyebrows and asked.

Meng Kuang didn't answer for a while, but Li Laosan came back at some point and said:

"Sun Qi will have no problem. This person can't be a traitor, let alone join forces with Zhang Yunxiu."

"Why do you say that?" Zhu Yan asked.

"Because Sun Qi is from Liaodong, his father was beheaded by the Jurchens in the war with the Jurchens, and only brought back a headless corpse. The second uncle who replaced his father deserted and was beheaded by Li Chengliang's army. The other men in the family He was even seated and removed from the military. He himself was an 11-year-old boy at the time, and his leg was broken by Li Chengliang's men. If his mother knew how to set bones, he would have almost become a lame man. He has a very close relationship with his father and uncle. Well, the death of these two people was a huge blow to him. He, the Jurchens and Li Chengliang all had vendettas. Their family was very miserable. There were only a few women and children left. The grandmother and mother took him Begging all the way from Liaodong to the capital with her younger siblings, he was the only child left to survive. Her grandmother and mother supported their children by helping others grind tofu and making tofu cubes. He, too, died of overwork one after another. In the end, he wandered around the casino, relying on his ability to read people's faces and clichés in the casino, he was spotted by thousands of households in the prison at that time, and he was specially recruited into Jinyiwei." Li Laosan said.

It turned out that Sun Qi had such a past, and everyone couldn't help but sigh after hearing this.

"Then what's going on with Jiang Yunping? This kid is so young, and he doesn't look like he has a past that he can't bear to look back on. How did he join forces with Zhang Yunxiu?" Sui'er couldn't help asking.

Li Laosan grinned and said: "You ask me, how would I know? But there are no more than three situations, either the ears are soft and bewitched, or there is a handle in Zhang Yunxiu's hands to be coerced by him, and the third Three situations... That is, he did have an unknown past with Zhang Yunxiu. It is possible that he fought for Zhang Yunxiu to guard Zhang Yunxiu. Sun Qi should trust him too much, but committed a taboo , something went wrong. Or maybe Sun Qi could see that something was wrong with Jiang Yunping, but still deliberately went along with him, maybe he wanted to use Jiang Yunping to find out about Zhang Yunxiu."

"As far as I know, Sun Jianxing really trusts Jiang Yunping very much and regards him as his successor. Sun Jianxing has no son himself. He only has one wife and three daughters. After the youngest daughter is born, his wife can no longer have children. Sun Jianxing Because he was brought up by his grandmother and mother when he was young, he was very affectionate and considerate of his wife, so he didn't marry a concubine. Jiang Yunping's personality is very similar to Sun Jianxing's. On the surface, he is resolute and cold, but on the inside he is a tough guy and soft-hearted. He is also outstanding in torture and investigation. Sun Jianxing treats him Like parent and child, this is what Lao Guo told me. Therefore, Sun Qi handed over all the detainment of Jiang Yunping to Jiang Yunping, and I didn't notice anything wrong." Meng Kuang added following Li Laosan's words.

Hearing what Li Laosan and Meng Kuang said, Zhu Yan seemed to remember something, got up again and went to Jiang Yunping's corpse, and took out a crescent-shaped stone from the leather bag at his waist.A hole was drilled on it, and a red string was threaded through it. A Wanli Tongbao folded in two was tied to the other end of the red string, and the back of the money was engraved with a moon pattern.She took this thing over and showed it to everyone, saying:

"This is what I found on him. I don't know if it is something of special significance."

"This stone... is Gouyu." Li Laosan pointed to the stone and said.

"What is Gouyu?" Meng Kuang asked, but Sui'er and Zhuyan didn't quite know.To them, the stone looks like half of the Yin-Yang Tai Chi diagram.

"Gouyu is an accessory of the Japanese people. Of course, this thing has to be traced back to the source, and it may have originated from the land of China. North Korea also has it. I saw Koreans selling this kind of small pendant at the market by the Yalu River. This thing seems to be It is a kind of sacrificial offering, which can be used to communicate with the gods, and I don't understand it very well." Li Laosan explained.

"No matter what Gouyu is, it should have some special meaning anyway. Let's put it away first and see if we can find any clues about the relationship between Jiang Yunping and Zhang Yunxiu from this point." Meng Kuang concluded.

At this moment, there was a sudden knocking sound from the big rock at the entrance of the cave, and the four of them froze suddenly.Li Laosan made a gesture of pressing down to signal for everyone to be quiet, and he moved slowly towards the entrance of the cave.Meng Kuang tightened his grip on the dagger beside him.

Li Laosan looked out from the gap, dusk had passed, and the light outside was dim.He heard a familiar voice:

"Thirteen, it's me, Lao Guo, if you want to be inside, just answer!"