Chapter 17: The Black Cat
It's already afternoon, and the sun is shining.
After Su Dawei and Di Renjie separated, they carried a bag of money and returned to Chongde Fang along the street.
Nearly sixty pounds of copper coins are not a burden for Su Dawei.
It's just that along the way, even if he has a lot of strength, he still feels a little unbearable.
When passing by the back gate of Lingbao Temple, Su Dawei found that the back door was open. A carriage stopped outside the door, and Master Ming Kong was struggling to remove the bags from the car. Look at the banner on the carriage, it is a carriage for delivering grain.
A man who looked like an attendant stood aside with a coachman, smiling and watching Master Mingkong work.
Obviously, this is food sent from the palace.
Lingbao Temple is now a temple for the monks of Taizong's concubines, and the palace is naturally responsible for all food and clothing. But don't think that the people in the palace will have any good faces. A group of women who have fallen out of favor and have no chance of making a comeback, who cares. The eunuchs in the palace will buy food on time and send it over. But asking them to help, it is impossible.
"Master, what are you doing here?"
Su Dawei hurriedly walked a few steps, came to the carriage, reached out to help Mingkong pick up a bag of grain, and put it at the door.
Master Mingkong wiped the sweat on his forehead and said with a smile: "There is no food in the temple, isn't this just the right time to be delivered, and the poor nuns are unloading." ”
"So much grain? Can you do it alone? ”
Su Dawei glanced at it and couldn't help frowning.
On this carriage, there are hundreds of catties.
Master Mingkong has to carry so much food, and her small body may not be able to withstand it.
"I can, I moved by myself last month."
"Won't the other teachers in the temple come to help you?"
"Everyone has something to do, I'm just idle, don't bother everyone."
As she spoke, she pointed to the inside of the mountain gate with her hand, "As long as you move the grain in, there is a cart inside, you can save a lot of effort." ”
Su Dawei glanced at the chamberlain and the coachman.
The chamberlain and the coachman were also watching him, smiling disdainfully.
"I'll help you!"
"How can you do that, you're still holding something."
"If it weren't for Mrs. Shi's help, my mother and I would have been gone.
My mother also said, let me repay you. If my mother knew about it, if I stood by and watched, she would definitely scold me. ”
Su Dawei said, putting the money bag beside him.
"Mrs. Shi, you push the car over, and I'll help you load the car."
"Ami, thank you so much."
When Master Mingkong heard this, he no longer refused, and smiled and thanked Su Dawei.
"It's nothing, if it weren't for the fact that Lingbao Temple was a nun temple, I would have no problem directly helping Shitai send it to the kitchen."
After Su Dawei finished speaking, he grabbed a bag of grain with one hand and put it on his shoulder.
Master Mingkong did not hesitate, and hurriedly ran back to the mountain gate and put a cart at the door. Su Dawei helped her unload the goods and then sent them to the cart. After the cart was full, Master Mingkong pushed the cart and left in a hurry. Looking at her graceful back, Su Dawei couldn't help but praise in his heart. This teacher is too resilient, and he may not be able to do it if he is a bystander.
"Boy, you're really nosy."
The eunuch stepped forward with an unhappy look on his face and glared at Su Dawei.
Su Dawei didn't care, and said: "My aunt is to the Buddha, and the master has saved my aunt's life, my help is to repay the favor, why meddle in things?" Besides, a group of weak women have already ended up with the green lantern of the ancient Buddha, so why bother to make it difficult again? My aunt said: Choose good people and make friends, choose good books and read, choose good words and listen, and choose good deeds and follow.
Two donors, this is a Buddhist temple.
There are gods in the head, so you must be cautious in your words and deeds. ”
"You ......"
The eunuch's face suddenly became ugly.
He pointed at Su Dawei, but he couldn't speak. The last stomped his foot, turned around and walked to the side, and looked at Su Dawei coldly.
But the coachman listened and seemed to be a little touched.
He looked at the eunuch, and then at Su Dawei, who was unloading, gritted his teeth, and stepped forward to help Su Dawei unload.
"Lang Jun, don't take it to heart, that guy asked Mrs. Shi for a bribe before, but Mrs. Shi ignored it, so he deliberately made it difficult for Mrs. Shi. Lang Jun is right, this is a Buddhist temple. There is a god in the head, this is a good saying, I will keep it in my heart. ”
Su Dawei smiled, glanced at the eunuch, and continued to unload.
A black cat, squatting on a gable.
The green eyes stared at Su Dawei and the coachman who were busy.
After a moment, its head tilted, and its gaze fell on the eunuch. A pair of green eyes, flashing a cold color.
Su Dawei has great strength, and the coachman is also powerful.
The two quickly unloaded the grain from the wagon and piled it up outside the mountain gate.
When the driver saw that the goods had been unloaded, he breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from his face.
"Lang Jun is so strong. Seeing that you look thin and weak, I don't want to have too much strength, I'm afraid I can't compare. ”
"Ha, all the work I do all day long, what is it if I have two strengths? But brother, if you have good thoughts, you will definitely have good rewards in the future. ”
"Haha, borrow your auspicious words."
The coachman glanced at the eunuch and said in a low voice: "I'll go first, next time I will deliver the goods, I will help, Lang Jun don't have to worry." ”
"Thank you very much."
The coachman drove away.
From afar, Su Dawei heard the eunuch arguing with him.
At this time, Master Mingkong came back with a cart.
Seeing that the food was piled up at the door, she was stunned for a moment and said with a smile: "Ami, you are really fast." ”
"Mrs. Shi smiled, I didn't unload the goods alone, the coachman also helped just now."
"Oh? Will he actually help? ”
"Shitai, at the beginning of a person, his nature is good.
That big brother is not a wicked man. Once you wake up, you will repent. ”
Master Mingkong smiled too much, handed Su Dawei a kettle, and said, "Tired, drink some water." ”
"Don't worry, I'll help you load the car first."
Su Dawei said, picked up a bag of grain, and put it on the cart.
The moment he turned around, he saw the black cat squatting on the gable out of the corner of his eye, and he couldn't help but tremble in his heart.
An inexplicable feeling welled up in my heart.
Why does this black cat look so familiar?
"Ami, what's wrong with you?"
"Oh, it's okay!"
Su Dawei stabilized his mind, picked up the food, and suddenly pretended to be surprised and said, "Master, why is there a black cat here?" ”
Master Mingkong was stunned for a moment, looked up, and the smile on his face was even bigger.
"You mean Xiaoyu?"
"Master, do you recognize it?"
"Why don't you recognize it." Master Mingkong said: "Xiaoyu came a few months ago, and I saw that it was pitiful, so I often feed it." It's very well-behaved and not noisy. Sometimes, when I feel in a bad mood, I hold it and talk to it. ”
"Xiaoyu, come here."
As he spoke, Master Mingkong beckoned to the black cat.
I saw that the black cat glanced at Mingkong Shitai coldly, meowed, turned around and walked along the gable.
"This guy is proud."
Master Mingkong was too dissatisfied, and explained to Su Dawei with a smile.
After a while, the cart was full again.
Shi Tai pushed the cart away, while Su Dawei stood outside the mountain gate, looking at the direction of the black cat's departure, and his heart was a little frightened.
Black cats, since ancient times, have been said to be ominous.
Legend has it that after a person dies, the black cat must not be allowed to pass over the corpse, otherwise the corpse will be transformed.
But on the other hand, black cats have the ability to ward off evil spirits and drive away ghosts. In addition, black cats are cold and rarely get close to people, so people are also shy about black cats.
Su Dawei doesn't believe in these folklore.
He was terrified because he felt that this black cat was familiar.
Is there anything like the black cat that killed Wei Shan?
Much like that!
It's just that most of the black cats look similar, and it doesn't seem to have any malicious intent, so Su Dawei can't confirm it.
After helping Mingkong Shitai move the grain, Su Dawei said goodbye and left.
The black cat has not appeared, which also made Su Dawei more or less relieved.
When he returned home, he found that Hong Liang was not there.
Liu Niangzi was sitting at the door mending clothes, and Kurosaburo was lying at her feet very quietly.
When Su Dawei came back, it only raised its eyelids, and then continued to remain motionless. But Liu Niangzi was a little surprised to see him come back.
"Why did you come back alone, that Di Langjun?"
"He has something else to do, let me come back first."
"You kid, why don't you follow Di Langjun, in case something happens to him, you can also help."
"Mother, the eldest brother has his own affairs, and it must be inconvenient for me to follow, so he let me come back first. If I follow with a dead face, he will look down on him. Don't you often tell me that you have to be a human being, and you must not do that shameless thing? ”
Liu Niangzi was stunned for a moment and didn't say anything more.
However, when she looked at Su Dawei's gaze, she was a little more appreciative and gratified.
"There's the salted meat dumplings I made in the kitchen, and they're still hot. If you are hungry, go and eat yourself, and don't bother me anymore. ”
"Got it."
Su Dawei agreed, and went back to the house with the bag.
Putting the bag down, he didn't rush to leave, but closed the door and took out a box from the corner.
In the box, there is a horned crossbow, which is also a weapon often equipped by cavalry in the Sui and Tang dynasties. However, since the peace of the world, the weapon of the horn crossbow is basically no longer in circulation on the market, and most of them are used to equip the army. The horned crossbow was left by Su Saburo, which is smaller than the conventional horned crossbow, and the structure is relatively simple, and it can be shot with one hand.
Before, Su Dawei was afraid of breaking the law, so he kept it away.
But now he has an inexplicable sense of crisis.
The sheep-faced man in the cabinet shop in the West Market, the black cat that resembled killing Wei Shan, and the Tenggen Pupil of unknown origin in his body.
Everything seemed to warn him that danger was on his side.
Wei Shan, killed by a black cat.
It also seems to indicate that there are strange people involved.
A horizontal knife can kill people, but whether it can kill weird, Su Dawei is not sure.
This horned crossbow can give him a little more security, even if it is not useful for weirdness, it is also a kind of defense to carry with him.
In the chest, in addition to the horned crossbow, there are also two copper arrows.
The arrow was opened, and there were twenty crossbow arrows six inches long and the thickness of the little finger.
The cluster of arrows in the crossbow is triangular and sharp. Su Dawei skillfully wound the crossbow arrow, and after aiming, he took a trigger. I heard a snapping sound, and the crossbow arrow shot out of the string, hanging right on the paulownia target on the wall.
A wooden rake two inches thick was directly pierced by a crossbow arrow.
The power of this crossbow is more powerful than you imagined......
Su Dawei breathed a sigh of relief, put the horned crossbow on the table, took out an arrow, and placed it side by side with the horned crossbow.
"Ami, what are you doing hiding in the house?"
"Mother, I'll come right away."
He said yes, opened the door and walked out.
At this time, it was afternoon, and the bright sun shone into the courtyard, which was warm and comfortable.