Chapter 89: Midnight, the night is dark...
At midnight, the night was as thick as ink, splashing on the silent and deserted streets, and the cool breeze quietly passed through the streets and alleys.
The streets that were bustling and noisy during the day now seemed to have lost their souls, and were so empty that it made people feel uneasy.
Gradually, a woman's heavy breathing could be heard from the darkness, disorderly and without rhythm.
The panting sound became clearer and clearer. A woman in a coarse cloth and a short brown shirt suddenly rushed out from the corner of the street, running madly against the wall, stumbling, her hair scattered messily on her cheeks, and her heavy breathing seemed particularly terrifying in the empty night.
If you look closely, you can see that her belly is like a sheepskin bag filled with water, bulging and almost bursting her clothes.
"Catch her! Don't let her run away!" The girl's clear cry broke the silent night.
The woman seemed to be stimulated and ran faster.
There were two figures sticking closely behind her.
The woman looks thin, but she is very fast.
In order to avoid alerting the patrolling yamen runners, the two people chasing her did not choose to take a shortcut on the roof, but actually followed her.
After an unknown amount of time, the men chased to the Wei River. The woman dived into the river without hesitation, like a stone thrown into a deep pool. A few bubbles appeared on the surface of the river, and then there was no movement.
The two of them suddenly stopped and looked at the calm river surface.
The compass in Chen Qing's hand emitted a bright green light, and the needle pointed to the empty river surface. At this moment, the needle slowly turned, pointing to the upstream direction.
Further upstream is the ferry, where several merchant ships dock, and it is always closely guarded by patrolling yamen runners.
Chen Qing and Li Daoxuan looked at each other and walked towards the pier without hesitation.
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Since that night, Li Daoxuan seemed to have settled down. He never left the house and spent the whole day in the room doing nothing except playing with flowers and plants. He was completely different from the busy days before.
It is also a disguised way of fulfilling the promise of "bringing love with you wherever you go."
Chen Qing didn't really care what he was doing, all she wanted was to be with him.
After all, the book said she wouldn't live more than three years. To completely overcome the side effects of rebirth, she had to either sleep with him or stay with him constantly for three months.
The second requirement seems simple, but it is actually difficult.
Not to mention how to be "inseparable", both of them have their own things to do, and it is really difficult to be together all the time, not to mention the inconveniences of cleaning and bathing.
It’s fine for the two of them to live in the same house now. If they return to Chang’an and go back to their respective homes, then all their efforts will be wasted and they will have to wait until they get married.
So Chen Qing decided to try and figure out what it meant to be "inseparable". Was it a literal meaning, meaning they had to stick together all the time, or was there a general range, like sharing the same room, or being within a certain distance of each other?
Besides, if this side effect is gone, there should be a reaction. Otherwise, how can Chen Qing know that he can live for three years?
So Chen Qing decided to give it a try and spent three days like this. Unexpectedly, at midnight on the third night, something unexpected happened. A pregnant woman suddenly knocked on the door.
The woman lay at the door holding her belly, looking miserable as she said her daughter was missing. She asked the two men if they had seen her daughter.
As soon as he finished speaking, the compass on the table lit up.
When Qiu Ren was exorcising evil spirits, he would habitually absorb a strand of evil spirit or blood from the body. When Qiu Ren pierced the insect mother's body with a sword, he sucked a drop of the insect mother's blood. Later, Chen Qing found the compass, and Qiu Ren spit the insect mother's blood into the compass, and the compass was able to sense the insect mother.
So Li Daoxuan drew his sword immediately. The woman also noticed something unusual about the compass, and took the opportunity when Li Daoxuan drew his sword to rush out like the wind.
The two of them chased each other all the way, which led to the current scene.
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On a merchant ship, there was a flickering fire. A group of men in black were holding torches and slashing with swords. In an instant, the people who were kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy were killed.
The leader was wearing a cloak, with most of his face submerged in darkness, and his pale jaw was faintly visible in the firelight.
"Keep looking." He said coldly.
What everyone didn't see was that a woman who was soaked all over climbed up from the side of the ship. She dragged her fat belly and crawled slowly on the ground, leaving a long trail of water.
The others didn't expect that someone would come up right under their noses at this moment, so no one noticed that there was a person hiding in the shadow of the side of the boat.
"Tong'er, my Tong'er, where has Tong'er gone?" The woman's eyes were dull, and she would only repeat this sentence over and over again. Faintly seeing the flicker of fire, she subconsciously crawled towards the source of the fire.
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Several more stateless vagrants who had sneaked across the border were found. They were so scared that they knelt down and cried. Some of them thought they were caught stealing, so they hurriedly took out the things in their arms and tried to beg the group to let them go.
But they were too naive.
Several men shook off the blood from the tips of their knives and were about to take action.
At this time, the leading man in black took off his cloak, narrowed his slender eyes, and as if thinking of something, he raised his hand to stop his men's actions, bent down and carefully observed the "stolen goods" that were taken out by others, and then picked up something from them.
A piece of rag, peeled off, revealed a dark mass inside. If you look closely, you can see that it is a ball of pepper soaked in water, as big as a baby's fist.
Zhou Zhishan held up the peppercorns and asked, "Whose is this?"
No one answered.
He added, "Come out and claim it, and I'll see to it that you don't die."
Now the group rushed to say, "It's mine!"
"No, he lied, it's mine!"
"mine……"
A group of people were arguing over this, their faces red and ears about to fight, but Zhou Zhishan smiled and said, "Don't worry, just tell me where you found this thing, and if anyone else has been there, or tell me where your other companions are hiding, and I will let you go."
A thin man rushed out first and hugged Zhou Zhishan's legs, "Master, I know! I, uh-" Before he could finish his words, Zhou Zhishan raised his knife and stabbed him in the throat.
The men hurriedly carried the body away.
Zhou Zhishan said, "Talking is one thing, but fighting is not good." He had his leg injured by that kid a few days ago, and his leg hasn't fully healed yet. Now someone dares to charge at him, which is obviously seeking death.
When this move was made, the others were shocked and lost their voices in an instant.
Soon, something called the desire to survive began to erupt from the soles of their feet. They knew that if they didn't speak up, they would die even more miserably than their companions.
"At the very bottom of the boat! When we were climbing onto the boat along the riverbed, we accidentally discovered a secret door at the bottom. When we got in, we found a lot of this stuff! I didn't know what it was, so I only took a small piece and left. They hadn't left yet, so they were hiding in that secret door!"
He was one of the many smugglers who discovered this secret door with his companions. Unexpectedly, after entering, they found many waterproof sheepskin bags and several huge pieces of amber. There was no open fire, the bottom of the boat was close to the water, and the environment was extremely humid. They had no way to open the amber to see what treasures were hidden inside, so they could only focus on the sheepskin bags.
When they opened the sheepskin bag, they found that it contained some black powdery substance that they had never seen before. It smelled very fragrant, but tasted very spicy and numbing, and could not be eaten directly. They guessed that it was some spices used by noble ladies, so he and his companions took some and put it on their bodies, thinking that they could buy some money when they went out later.
But after stealing the things, his companions chose to stay in the secret door. They thought it was a safe place and they would be able to avoid the searches of the guards and runners.
He didn't think so. Since it was a place where treasures were hidden, how could there be no guards at all?
His companions refused to listen and stubbornly believed that it was safe here. He had no choice but to go out alone, secretly board the boat, and find a safe place to hide.
After listening to this, Zhou Zhishan sighed and said, "They are really some night mills. Go and find these things." He said this to the people around him.
"Okay, you can go now." Zhou Zhishan said to him.
The man seemed to have not expected Zhou Zhishan to be so easy to talk to. He was stunned for a moment, then he reacted and kowtowed frantically, saying, "Thank you! Thank you!"
After bowing, he ran away without looking back. No one stopped him and he had a smooth journey.
The others felt mixed emotions upon seeing this.
Zhou Zhishan repeated, "Does anyone else want to say anything?"
After the group had reported all the other companions' hiding places, Zhou Zhishan said with a gloomy look in his eyes, "Go, get rid of these 'night grinders'."
"yes."
When they watched their companions die, they realized they had been deceived, but it was too late.
All the "Ye Mozi" who were captured on the ship were killed, including the one who was released first. Zhou Zhishan personally drew his bow and shot the man to death.
After finishing, Zhou Zhishan slowly pulled out the handkerchief hidden in his sleeve, his movements revealing a certain nonchalantness. He wiped the bloodstains from his face. With each wipe, his eyes grew darker, and his mind was rapidly calculating tomorrow's actions.
First, they had to quickly find a body double who resembled Wu Niang in both stature and appearance, so as to deceive those who were watching her. Once they had a body double, they would then take Wu Niang away by sea. The sea route was concealed and rarely patrolled, so they could safely move her without anyone noticing.
Wu Niang has always been delicate and afraid of rainy days, so we must choose a sunny place to place her so that she can suffer less.
No, there can't be no rain at all, because Wu Niang likes rainy days, but rainy days will make her body weaker.
He was silently thinking about where to send Wu Niang, and was completely unaware that someone was approaching from behind.
Suddenly, someone grabbed my arm, and a faint female voice came to my ear: "Have you seen my daughter?"
Zhou Zhishan suddenly woke up, stabbed the person with a sword, and looked back, and saw that it was a woman who appeared out of nowhere.
The woman's cheeks were sunken, her eyes were dark, and her exposed neck and arms were skinny, with bulging blue veins clinging to her skin like dead vines clinging to an old tree. She looked like she was malnourished due to years of hunger.
Zhou Zhishan thought she was the one who slipped through the net on the boat, and frowned in disgust and asked, "What's going on?"
"Have you seen my daughter?" The woman was pierced in the shoulder, but she did not react at all, not even frowning, she just repeated the question.
Zhou Zhishan sneered, "Of course." He slapped the woman's hand away.
A glimmer of hope flashed in the woman's hollow eyes. "Where is she? Where is my Tong'er?"
"Downstairs, I'll take you to be with her." He pulled out the knife stuck in her shoulder and prepared to send her downstairs to see her daughter.
However, his knife was knocked down by someone just before it was about to touch the woman. Zhou Zhishan felt his arm go numb and the knife slipped out of his hand. Then the woman was rescued right under his nose.
He was a man who was wrapped tightly. He picked up the woman and flew away. He was definitely not an ordinary person.
The men were shocked and were about to chase him, but were stopped by Zhou Zhishan. The men were confused as to why, but Zhou Zhishan laughed strangely and said, "Let him go. After all, you little idiots can't catch up with a man who can fly."
He had a plan in mind.
It’s better to be a little messy, the more messy the better. It would be best if everything on the boat could be pushed out at the same time. When they are too busy to take care of themselves, I can go find Wu Niang.
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