Brocade tears

Sui'er frowned, and the smell of burning corpses wafting from the Jingle Hall became more and more pungent, and they were currently under the east wall of the Jingle Hall.They had bypassed the main entrance before, and all the way around the back door. Both front and rear doors were locked.Right now, if you want to get in, you have to go over the wall one by one.

Meng Kuang led the way and found a place with a higher ground. The wall here was relatively short, so it was easier to climb over.She first let Sui'er and Qingxu wait aside, she took a few steps back, after a run-up, she jumped lightly, kicked her toes on the wall, jumped high, and quickly grabbed the tiles on the wall with both hands, Pushing on the wall with the toes, it was easily hung on the wall.Probably because they never guarded against someone climbing over the wall and entering the Jingle Hall. There are no anti-theft measures on the outer wall of the Jingle Hall. The wall of the adobe brick city is about ten feet high, and it is covered with wall tiles.The outer wall was painted quite slippery. If it weren't for Meng Kuang's vigorous skills, ordinary people would really not be able to hang on the wall like her.

With both arms, she pulled her body up, sticking her head out of the wall, and looked into the wall.The wall where they are located happens to be the backyard of the Jingle Hall.The lights in the backyard were weak, and only two clusters of torches were lit on the edge of a series of buildings on the north side, barely illuminating the scene around the torches.There was a whole row of kiln caves where corpses were burned. Meng Kuang roughly counted them. There were eight cave entrances, each of which had a closed heavy iron door, but only the easternmost one was open. It was burning, and there was a fire inside, as if something was burning.

Meng Kuang had a very bad premonition. She raised her eyes and glanced behind the entire row of caves on the north side.There are two tall brick towers in the east and west, and there are the rumored two ashes requiem towers.The ashes of internal officials are buried on the east side, and the ashes of court ladies are buried on the west side.There is a very deep well under each pagoda, and the ashes of all the homeless, unaccompanied and unaccompanied palace people are scattered below.

Could it be that the old aunt was pushed into the kiln and burned?This was Meng Kuang's first reaction.But she listened carefully, and seemed to hear someone talking in the front hall of the mortuary on the south side.There was still a faint candlelight shining in the front hall, so there should be someone in it.

Meng Kuang didn't delay anymore, she simply turned over the wall, sat on it, and said to the following:

"Qingxu, give me your hand and send Sui'er up."

"okay!"

Qingxu bows and strides towards the horse, folds his hands and puts them on his thighs, motioning for Sui'er to step on him.Sui'er didn't hesitate, and immediately raised her right foot to step on Qingxu's hand, leaning on the wall and stretching her hand upwards, to reach Meng Kuang's hand that was protruding from above.Qingxu exerted great force, raised his hands together, brought Sui'er's feet to his chest, and let her step on his shoulders.

Sui'er's light weight surprised Qingxu a little.He can send it up even if there is one more tassel at this weight.

When Sui'er reached this height, he happened to grab Meng Kuang's hand above him. Meng Kuang pulled her hard, pulling her up with a terrifying force that Sui'er could not imagine.Sui'er got off Qingxu's shoulders almost instantly, and was dragged into Meng Kuang's arms. Before she could react, she had already turned around and sat on the wall with her back to the courtyard. Meng Kuang's arm was He wrapped his arms around her waist, holding her tightly in his arms.

How strong is this man?How much waist strength, shoulder strength, and arm strength does it take to be able to burst out such terrifying strength in such a place where it is impossible to use strength?

"Sui'er, do you dare to jump?" Meng Kuang asked her.

"Dare..." Sui'er said dare, but her voice sounded weak.The height of the inside of the wall is different from the ground outside the wall, and the inside of the wall is obviously lower. She is on a high place, and she can’t see anything clearly in the darkness below. She is afraid that she will hit something when she jumps, or accidentally step on the wrong place I sprained my foot.

Sui'er encouraged herself repeatedly, turned her body around, crossed her legs over the wall, adjusted her body to face the courtyard, finally mustered up the courage to prepare to jump, and suddenly heard Meng Kuang say: "Forget it, don't jump. I'll wait Let's go down first and follow you." Sui'er realized at this moment that Meng Kuang's arms around her didn't intend to relax at all, and it seemed that she had already seen Sui'er's timidity.

She turned to ask Qingxu:

"Qingxu, can you come up by yourself? Do you need my help?"

"No problem, you take Sui'er down first." Qingxu said below.

Meng Kuang let go of Sui'er's arm, and moved back to distance her from her. With his right arm propped up, his body was suspended in the air, his left leg crossed the wall, and he jumped back and landed very lightly.She quickly came directly below Sui'er, and said:

"Jump, I'll follow you."

Sui'er doesn't want to be underestimated by her, making her feel like a burden.So he just closed his eyes and jumped down regardless.Seeing her like this, Meng Kuang couldn't help but want to laugh.He caught her firmly, and put her on the ground lightly and delicately.Sui Er felt that she was like a useless doll in front of her, being played around by her, she immediately felt very frustrated.She pursed her lips and stared at Meng Kuang, and finally thought to forget it.Why do you want to compete with her? I have other strengths, such as my cleverness and memorization, Meng Kuang can't match her.

In the rear, Qingxu had jumped onto the wall, and jumped into the courtyard very neatly.This simple and honest young Taoist priest can't be seen on weekdays, but he didn't expect that his skills are quite vigorous.Qing Xu has practiced martial arts with Daoist Luo since he was a child to strengthen his body. The Taoist kung fu and killing skills they learned are not comparable to the kung fu passed down by the Meng family's ancestors, but they are more than enough to walk in the world.

These small thoughts are fleeting, and the strange environment in front of her soon makes Sui'er fall into fear, trembling and worry.Meng Kuang led her and Qingxu quietly around to the back window of the front hall.The rear window is paper, it has long been torn and no one has repaired it.Through the broken hole, they could see rows of coffins parked in the front hall. At first glance, there were more than 20 coffins.At the far end, about the southwest corner of the antechamber, two men dressed as servants were surrounding a coffin with a lantern, looking inside the coffin.I don't know what these two people are doing, but their weird behavior made the three of them feel goose bumps all over their bodies.

Listening carefully, you can hear the faint voice of conversation between the two:

"Godfather, will we be punished by God for doing this?" It was the voice of a young servant.

"What else can you do if you don't do this? She's already in this state, and she won't live long. We're going to save her. She will die early and be reborn sooner." A waiter with an old voice replied.

"It's too tragic to burn people alive." The young servant couldn't bear it.

"Then you kill her now?" the old servant asked.

"No, no, no..." The young servant shook his head repeatedly.

"Don't dare? Then she is lying here like this, you save her? Use your little money to get her medicine and cure her illness? If you save her, she is a useless person. Are you raising her? Be careful that Tong Gufeng finds out, and you also take care of her." You grabbed it and crushed all the bones in your body, and then you will be right with this unlucky fellow."

"Godfather... don't bury me..." The young servant was about to cry.

"Oh, don't think about it so much. Let's feed her and send her on the road. After the ashes are scattered, we will offer her incense sticks. It is the best of humanity. Old mother, don't blame us, we have nothing to do You see, we specially cooked eight-treasure porridge, and you can rest when you are full. Close your eyes, and it will pass soon. We are all servants, and we all want this to be happy for a lifetime, so that we can have a good pregnancy in the next life. We are not guilty of this."

At this moment, Meng Kuang suddenly felt that his left arm was being grasped. It was Sui Er. She pointed anxiously at the two servants, and said softly:

"It's her, it's the old aunt in that coffin."

Meng Kuang nodded and said, "I'll lure them away. You avoid those two and go around to the front, and enter through the main entrance of the front hall."

As she spoke, she turned around and came to the only cave entrance with an open iron gate, picked up an iron hook on the side, and knocked on the iron gate with a "clang".In this quiet night, only the whistling of the north wind can be heard in the Jingle Hall, and there is silence all around, which appropriately shows the sense of death that this place of burial brings to people.Suddenly hearing this sound of gold and iron colliding, it was like the ringing of hell bells, shaking people's souls to pieces.

The two stewards of the Jingle Hall in the front hall, one old and one young, were suddenly terrified, and the old servant was holding the coffin out of breath, and was about to fall ill.The young servant was even worse, sitting on the ground with his buttocks, his legs shaking like chaff.

"Go, go and see what's going on?" the old servant said to the young servant.

"I... I, I, how dare I..." The young servant's words were incoherent.

"Oh! Come on, let's go together." After saying that, he pulled up the young servant, and the two pushed and shoved out of the front hall to the backyard.They walked the corridor on the east side, and Sui'er and Qingxu went to the front hall from the corridor on the west side.Meng Kuang was hiding in the gap between the cave and the courtyard wall at this time. Seeing the two servants coming out with lanterns, she held her breath and waited.When the two of them approached, she didn't hesitate, and directly stepped out, and before the two of them had time to scream, she quickly knocked them out.

She dragged the two of them to a colonnade beside the kiln, found a hemp rope in the backyard, tied the two of them firmly to the pillar with the special knot method of Jin Yiwei, and wiped off all the traces on their bodies. Sharp weapons, including those around them that they might use.Immediately afterwards, he randomly found two rags and stuffed their mouths tightly.

After finishing all this, she hurried to the front hall.One step into it, Sui'er and Qingxu were holding a torch and lying in front of the only opened coffin.The faint fire light illuminated Sui'er's face, and Meng Kuang saw her tears streaming down.And Qingxu was taking out the bandage from the bag he was carrying.These first-aid bandages were brought out by him before he left Lingji Hall, in case of emergency.

Meng Kuang rushed to the front and asked, "How?" As a result, she saw the tragic situation inside the coffin.

Inside the coffin lay an elderly woman, her gray and sparse hair was combed neatly, and makeup was painted on her face.But even so, the burn scars covering half of her face still made her look like a ghost, which was extremely terrifying.Her eyelids were slightly open, and her eyes reacted slightly, she probed her mouth and nose, and took a shallow breath.The joints of her limbs were broken in a state visible to the naked eye, and her elbows, wrists, hips, knees, ankles, and even the ribs in her upper abdomen were all collapsed.Qingxu tried hard to use bandages to fix her broken joints, but he himself knew that it was futile, and his head was sweating in the cold weather.

"What's the matter... Qingxu?" Meng Kuang asked again.

Qingxu glanced at Sui'er, and could only grit his teeth and said, "I just had my pulse, and the pulse was extremely weak. When I checked her breath, there was still a breath left. All the joints of her limbs were crushed, and there was no external bleeding, but The blood stasis inside was extremely serious. Especially the ribs were broken and the internal organs were pierced. She... can't be saved..."

Qingxu's words weighed heavily on Meng Kuang's heart like a huge rock.She couldn't help looking up at Sui'er, but seeing that she was sobbing from grief, she still bit her lip stubbornly, trying not to show herself vulnerable and helpless.Meng Kuang's heart seemed to be cracked, and he couldn't help approaching her, hugging her shoulders, and giving her a little warm support.

"Hui... Hui..." The old aunt let out a weak cry, she should be calling Sui'er.

"Old aunt, I'm here... I'm here..." Sui'er eagerly leaned forward, put her left ear against her mouth and nose, and listened carefully to her words.

"Hand...hand..."

"Hands?" Sui'er hurriedly checked the old aunt's hands, and found out a small cloth bag from her clenched right fist, which seemed to contain something hard, and Sui'er took out the contents of the cloth bag.It is two hardwood tokens, which are the tokens of the inner court ladies.One is engraved with "Li Minghui" and the other is engraved with "Qi Yuhe".

"Li Minghui...this is, mother's name..." Sui'er was stunned, then seemed to understand something, leaned up to her and asked, "Could it be... are you Qi Yuhe?"

"Yes... yes..." The old aunt's voice became lower and lower.

"You...you know Niangqin, you and Niangqin...uh..." Sui'er finally cried out.

"Live... Hui... Liberty... Joy... Joy..." The old aunt exhausted her last breath, and tried hard to spit out these heavy words clearly. After she finished speaking, her body suddenly felt like a broken thread The kite, limp in the coffin, is lifeless.