Chapter 205 The Mantis Catches the Cicada (Part 1)
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Huang Hu walked out of the frost and snow tornado wearing armor and covered in wounds.
Mo Tingfeng had already summoned the Dharma Sword Qi, but he took it back after seeing his appearance.
Huang Hu covered his heart with one hand, which was bleeding. The other hand prolapsed unnaturally and seemed to have been broken. Every time he took a step, there would be a few more drops of bloody plum blossoms on the ground.
"Yun...Yun'er..." He called her in a low voice.
"Song Weichen" was originally held in Mo Tingfeng's arms. When he heard his voice, his whole body shivered, and then he trembled uncontrollably. He hurriedly poked his head out from between Mo Tingfeng's arms to look for the voice. Just one glance, and she was already running towards the man covered in blood.
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Oddly enough, when "Song Weichen" ran towards Huang Hu, although her clothes did not change, her facial features did. She was clearly the young Huang Meiyun.
The Buddha said that all appearances are false, but lamented that people in the world are willing not to reach the Bliss and not see the Tathagata, but only seek all the appearances for the one appearance in their hearts.
The yellow tiger's oil was exhausted and the lamp was dry, and it fell to the ground.
Huang Meiyun arrived, threw herself at his side and tried hard to lift the man on the ground, but it was in vain. How could she move him.
"It's really you... I just didn't look away... so good..."
He tried hard to raise his hand to touch her face, but he couldn't lift it several times. Getting up, Huang Meiyun held that hand - what kind of hand was it? It was scarred, the calluses on the palm were worn out, and the nails were full of blood.
She took that hand and put it against her face and rubbed it gently. It was bitingly cold, but it made people's blood boil.
"Brother Tiger, the acacias are blooming, shall we go home?"
"Okay...home..." Huang Hu responded, opened his mouth, and blood flowed out of his mouth uncontrollably.
"Here you...roast the flower fish..."
He tried hard to smile at Huang Meiyun. The smile was worse than crying, but it was something Huang Meiyun had never seen in most of her life. The best smile ever.
She gently wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and carefully smoothed his hair, and found that his temples were slightly white with frost...Have they not seen each other for so long?
"Two days ago, I tidied up the patch of land in the yard and planted some loofahs. They should be ready to eat soon. There are many moths in spring, and they always lay eggs on the leaves of tomatoes. I can't grow them well. Oh yes. "Yes, Brother Yang sent a lot of dried rabbit meat two days ago. When you go back, you can bake it and drink it." On a normal night, it was as if the two of them had never been apart.
But his hands couldn't help but tremble, and he carefully covered the place on his shoulder where the armor coat had been cut open by an unknown weapon, revealing a bloody wound.
"Yun'er...thinks...I miss you so much..."
There is a blood hole in his chest, and blood comes out every time he speaks, and there are rumbling lung sounds in his voice. Among them, he was already on his deathbed, holding on for his last breath.
Tears flowed silently all over his face, but there was a smile in his eyes. Huang Meiyun gently stroked his cheek.
"I think about you all the time. You look so thin and disfigured. You are going to be a father, so you can't not cherish yourself so much."
Huang Hu's eyes gradually became lifeless. She lit up for a moment, and her lips moved as if she was struggling to say something, but nothing came out.
"Well, Brother Tiger, we are going to have a baby. It has been more than three months. By this time next year, you can hold the baby and visit the whole village."
Huang Hu never responded. He closed his eyes, his expression happy and calm.
A gust of wind and snow blew by, and snowflakes fell in the air - not just snowflakes, but also some yellow velvet flowers as big as rice grains were mixed in, and they fell together with the snow gently and softly around the two of them.
Huang Meiyun was also very calm. She knelt beside Huang Hu, bent down and gently pressed her cheek against Huang Hu's dirty and bloody forehead, and gently hugged him.
She sang the first ballad that Huang Hu taught her when they were still babies -
The moonlight shines on the pond,
Riding a bamboo horse, crossing the Hongjiang River .
The Hongjiang River was too deep to be crossed,
The younger sister punted a boat to pick him up.
Ask the master, ask the master, ask the master,
Ask the master how often he returns to his hometown after leaving home?
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Huang Hu gradually faded to gray in her arms, and his body slowly dissipated little by little, but Huang Meiyun didn't seem to notice, still maintaining the hugging posture, singing the nursery rhyme over and over again.
The yellow velvet flowers the size of rice grains have disappeared, and the snow is getting heavier and heavier. Pieces of frosty goose feathers fall from the dome. The fallen yellow tiger armor is stained with frost, and both of their heads are white...
< br>Well, if they are exposed to snow together, they will grow old together in this life.
Mo Tingfeng just watched from a distance, standing tall and motionless, as quiet as an ancient tree that has coexisted with this ice and snow since ancient times.
In fact, he has been using magic to try his best to maintain the stability of this ice field illusion, wanting to give the two of them even more time to spend together. He couldn't tell what he was thinking or doing. This was something he would never do before he met Song Weichen.
It's a pity that the silver cracks on the dome are getting bigger and bigger, and the cracks are beginning to peel off, and the ground is shaking like a group of super-large creatures running together.
The collapse of the illusion is imminent and has reached a critical point.
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In the ghost market, the Seven Cave and the arched mountain wall suddenly rumbled and trembled!
A lot of dust fell from the wooden eaves of the seven holes, and the clusters of lighting candles on the arched mountain wall were also shaken to the ground. One of them burned and rolled into the pile of dead branches on the roadside. , and the flames burst into flames in a blink of an eye!
A pair of elegant brocade boots appeared in time to stamp out the fire. You didn't even have to look to know it was Zhuang Yuheng. The Grudge Breaker next to him followed closely and nipped in the bud any fire risks that might be caused by falling candles.
There is something strange happening here. Could it be that the spiritual consciousness is returning?
Zhuang Yuheng looked at Song Weichen, who was still motionless by the ditch, and found that the "color" on her body seemed to have returned somewhat, and was not as lifeless and gray as before.
With hope, Xuansi checked her pulse again, but found that contrary to her gradually recovering complexion, her heartbeat was obviously weak and on the verge of death.
Zhuang Yuheng secretly thought that something was wrong, so he took out the soul-returning incense that he had prepared in advance and lit it. He surrounded Song Weichen and used the incense to draw the soul-soothing talisman according to the position and order of the innate eight trigrams, hoping that through the power of the five elements of heaven and earth and the soul-returning The medicinal properties of the incense stabilized her heart.
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"Brother Yuheng, Mianmian has found you!" From a long distance away, as soon as he could see the faint outline of Zhuang Yuheng, "Ruan Mianmian" shouted, and his voice echoed in the seven trees. The sound spread far away from the underground river near the cave.
Ding Heran was extremely angry. Why did this aunt come to the ghost market? Is it to report identity information to the thugs and informants in the ghost market, or to add obstacles to their handling of the case? She really didn't know how dangerous their situation was right now!
Two awning boats have been tied to the dark river near Qidong. When Ding Heran came back this time, he keenly discovered that the draft of the boat was much lower than before - indicating that there were people in the boat, and the number Quite a few, probably more than a dozen based on the size of the ship. This does not include the thirty or forty people who were lurking in the surrounding dark alleys and mountain gaps before, and this is only the scale of thugs near the seventh hole.
And along the way down the underground river, Ding Heran said that he and "Ruan Mianmian" blocked three sneak attacks - a poisonous needle, a cold arrow, and a hand-to-hand encounter in which someone pretended to be mistaken and took advantage of the road.
It is already a clear provocation.
Due to the excessive commotion caused by the last rescue of Sang Pu in Pingyang, the number and force value of the "Public Security Management and Prevention Team" in the ghost city have increased by a lot.
They were eager to deal with this group of grudge-breakers on the grounds of interfering with the orderly operation of the ghost market before they officially revealed their identities, which would also establish a prestige for this lawless place - ghosts The city is not a place where one can just intervene.
The real reason why the ambush thugs have not taken action is known only to the leader in charge. The four major bosses have different opinions on this, so they have always been on standby.
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The name "Ruan Mianmian" is so good. Not only Zhuang Yuheng and her own identity were exposed, the identity of Ding Heran who was protecting her was also exposed - the guardian around the noble must also be exposed. Not ordinary people.
Looking at Ding Heran’s expression of vehemence and fear, “Ruan Mianmian” just wanted to laugh out loud! She has been in the ghost market for more than two months. How could she not know about the "security upgrade" of the ghost market, especially when there are obvious problems around here? But that's why she did it deliberately. The more chaotic... the better the chance for her!
Finally meeting Zhuang Yuheng, "Ruan Mianmian" pulled the restraints on her hands, twisted her body and complained.
"Brother Yuheng, look at Commander Ding. He tied up someone for no reason and made Mian Mian's hand hurt so much. It's too much..."
Ding Heran was about to explain but was stopped by Zhuang Yuheng. He would never protect her unprincipled just because she was his cousin. What's more, the ghost market is dangerous, so there must be a reason for Ding Heran's behavior.
Seeing that Zhuang Yuheng was unmoved, Magpie was just about to continue stirring up the muddy water when a commotion came from the ditch and disrupted her rhythm - several resentment-breaking masters restrained the man in black and pulled the belt under the hem of his robe. The "young man" who was bleeding but still conscious came in a hurry.
This scene made the magpie both excited and nervous. I am so excited that this drama has finally reached its climax. Monsters and monsters, you will sing and I will appear!
The "Young Man" who took the puppet potion really lived up to his expectations. His injuries were not fatal, but they were the "fatal injuries" of the man in black!
The reason for being nervous is that the man in black has also been kidnapped. The magpie has a physiological stress fear of him, for fear that he will be exposed.
While he was thinking about it, the leader of the Resentment Breakers came over and wanted to tell Ding Heran what happened on the twenty-eighth hole at that time, but was stopped.
Ding Heran looked at "Ruan Mianmian" and hesitated for a moment, then finally untied her restraints and ordered her to be taken into the Seventh Cave with the other two people to take care of her carefully. Then he invited Zhuang Yuheng to listen to the whole story. , and told him the reason why he doubted "Ruan Mianmian".
...Half a quarter of an hour later, everyone's information was aligned.
"Jun Yuheng, I dare to conclude that one of the three of them must be a magpie!" Ding Heran was the first to conclude.
“Take a step back, even if we do nothing, everything will be clear after a few hours when the potion fails. It’s just that it would be better if we could confirm it in advance. Yu Hengjun and Miss Ruan are the most familiar, can they identify each other? Method? ”
Listening to Ding Heran's words, Zhuang Yuheng's eyes never left Song Weichen.
Her life was in danger and he couldn't tell Ding Heran clearly. At this moment, he really didn't want to leave her side at all. After careful consideration, Zhuang Yuheng whispered a few words to Ding Heran, asking him to ask "Ruan Mianmian" and at the same time bring the "young man" to the ditch. No matter who "he" was, he wanted to stop the bleeding and treat the injury first, and then other things. It’s never wrong to think long term.
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In the seven caves, the masks of the three of them have been taken off. "Young Lang Jun" was taken to Zhuang Yuheng for treatment of his injuries. Ding Heran had a few conversations with "Ruan Mianmian" She was just asking about her daily life with her cousin when she was young, and then he left. Apart from the grudge-breaker guarding the guard in the corner, she and the man in black were left tied and sitting together in the room.
Although Magpie looked like Ruan Mianmian at the moment, her instinctive fear of him could not be changed. She could only feel the thorns on her back as if she were sitting on pins and needles. No matter how careless the man in black was, he would be able to detect something strange.
The Grudge Breaker obviously treated her like a noble person and had a completely different attitude towards him and that "injured stupid son", but yet she was tied up and imprisoned here like him. Such a contradiction was unreasonable and made him treat her cruelly. When he became curious and observed carefully, he found that she was extremely frightened - this was a hunter's natural intuition about his prey.
“Are you afraid of me?”
The magpie shook uncontrollably. His brain was short-circuited and he didn’t know how to answer, so he just shook his head like a rattle.
The man in black suddenly approached the magpie and sniffed at her shoulders and neck. She seemed to be "forcibly controlled" and could not move at all - thinking of the cruel and cruel things he brought to her many years ago. The long dark night, along with the lower half of her body was torn apart, along with the rest of her life.
It was he who planted the first twisted and evil seed in the young and ignorant magpie. He was the source of the magpie's eternal malice.
"This taste is unmistakable."
The man in black looked at her with eyes as cold as a snake.
"This is the smell that people exude when they are in extreme fear. If you have never seen it before, why are you so afraid of me? So... you must have dealt with me."
Black Clothes The man smiled sinisterly. Although he didn't like to use his brain and couldn't figure out the many weird things, he was born to be a killing machine, especially he had the most sensitive sense of smell for his prey.
He suddenly whispered into the ear of the immobile "Ruan Mianmian".
No one except Magpie heard what the man in black said, but the resentment-breakers stationed in the seven caves all saw "Ruan Mianmian" screaming miserably as if she was possessed by a ghost, shivering desperately away from the man in black.
The childhood nightmare was the most torturous. She vomited uncontrollably and her emotions completely collapsed.
The man in black looked at her with a playful expression, "Do you want me to say it again?"
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"Did she really say that?"
By the ditch, Zhuang Yuheng couldn't help but frown after hearing the answers Ding Heran brought back from "Ruan Mianmian" - the questions he asked Ding Heran to ask were indeed so private that only he and Ruan Mianmian would know. The details of getting along with each other and the answers are completely correct!
It should be said that not only is it completely correct, it is even more accurate than Zhuang Yuheng's memory.
And this is what is suspicious!
Ruan Mianmian has been pampered by the entire clan since he was a child. Such people are more likely to remember the embarrassment and anger when they don't get it, rather than what they deserve when they get it.
The past episodes he asked about were too wishful thinking and commonplace, so it was impossible for her to remember them so clearly - details such as what kinds of drinks were on the banquet table at that time, what brocade material the table runner was made of, What kind of elixir her nails were dyed that day, and she even remembered clearly which jade pendant Zhuang Yuheng wore around his waist.
This kind of clarity is the biggest "mistake". Only the personal attendants and maids who pay great attention to their masters can have such discernment.
Magpie never expected that her deliberate use of a large number of details to prove her identity would become the most convincing falsification material.
Zhuang Yuheng looked in the direction of Qidong and spoke quietly.
“She should be a magpie.”