It feels a bit funny. We are Bai Jing’s nemesis. He betrayed his motherland and his friends. The gold he had accumulated for more than ten years was captured by us and given to Liu Bang.
It hasn’t been a few days, but my wife and I are pondering over his pearls again
If nothing else goes wrong, the pearls he obtained by colluding with pirates and squeezing the people will be returned to the people by us.
I first quietly opened the thick woolen curtains, and it was dark outside. There was no one in the square. I saw Liu Jiao also hugging his shoulders, lying in front of the window and looking out.
He raised his hand and cut off half of the thick cloth window, shook it gently, and put it on her body.
Half of the curtains are missing, so it's a little brighter inside, but looking inside from the outside, it should still be pitch black.
I saw that on the wall to the side was the wooden frame that I touched earlier. It had three floors and neatly arranged wooden grids. There were full of round pearls in different sizes inside!
The big ones are as big as longan fruits. They are placed in a wooden grid at the end, but there are only eight of them.
The ones next to this wooden grid are slightly smaller than this one, with only a dozen or so. The ones at the bottom are as big as soybeans.
The two diabolo baskets were thrown on the ground, with empty cloth bags inside.
First I picked up the strongest little cloth bag and put the eight largest pearls into it. I thought about it. I will keep five pearls and then give one to each of the three generals. It’s not selfish of me. I really have too many wives.
Some, in the end, it’s just one per person.
I didn't go too far. Together with Liu Jiao, each of us took a small bag and picked out these large and small beads from the wooden grid like picking Chinese medicine, and evenly put some beads in each one.
After we filled all the bags, there was still a lot left on the shelf. This was not collected by Baijing at one time. How could it fit in two baskets?
Liujiao said, "How do we transport these two baskets of things?"
"Don't worry, if these beads can be moved in, we can move them out. It won't be a problem for me."
If it really doesn't work, I thought, I will cut off the iron bars on the window and move out of the window more quickly. When the people in Baijing wake up from their sleep, we can also run across with two baskets of pearls.
It will be easier to hide in the shadow of the stone houses in the empty square.
"who?"
"I"
The low-pitched questions and answers outside scared me into a cold sweat. I didn’t expect that it was so late and the sentry at the gate was still so alert.
Our men sped up and threw all the filled cloth bags into two baskets, and hung the ropes on the poles.
While paying attention to the movement outside, I groped on the wall to see if I could find a crack in the door or a mechanism to open the door.
While I was touching it carefully, suddenly a door suddenly opened in the place I had just inspected! A burst of fresh air rushed towards me.
This surprise was no small matter. I pulled the hexagonal horn and leaned against the wall next to the door.
Only one person came in. He tiptoed to the wooden frame, took out the match rope from his arms, rubbed it, and lit the oil lamp on the wall. It turned out that the oil lamp was right next to the wooden frame.
But after thinking about it, the man blew it out again. I already recognized him as the guard who inspected the goods during the day.
What was he doing in Bai Jing's warehouse in the middle of the night? He must be a thief! Otherwise, he wouldn't even dare to light a lamp.
He directly touched the wooden lattice that contained the largest pearl. Soon, his hand suddenly retracted as if it had been bitten by an insect. He felt empty. There were no pearls inside.
Those best beads have long been hung on Liujiao’s neck.
I gently jumped behind him, and he heard the movement, "No, these are big..." before he could finish speaking, he stood there in a daze, unable to move.
Two more people broke in in the dark. The first person came in too long ago. They came to see what was going on.
Judging from the two people's silence, this is a conspiracy between inside and outside. Either the officials colluded with the sentries, or the sentries colluded with the officials.
I picked up two baskets of pearls with a bamboo pole, wrapped the curtains around the hexagonal body, and went out. There was a woolen curtain beside the door. I reached in and pulled the velvet rope inside, and the stone door closed tightly again without any sound.
So skilled! Rokka couldn't help but praise the two sentries standing guard at the door. I also ordered them to fall down in the fan-shaped warehouse.
To make it all seem more reasonable, I grabbed a handful of pearls and stuffed them into each of their arms, a handful each.
They originally came here for this thing, so they went to face Bai Jing with this thing in their arms.
The cylindrical palace has six gates. As long as there are sentries at each gate, then each sentry only needs to be responsible for a sixty-degree area. This design cannot be said to be unreasonable.
The problem is that something went wrong with the two people due south. As a result, the angle between the southwest and southeast hills became two sixty degrees.
Until we picked up the pearls and walked along the street due south into the shadows of the houses, we didn't hear any movement behind us.
I carried the burden and came to the door of the house. I bent down, grabbed a bag from the basket, and threw it into the yard with a "swish" sound.
"Bah", the small cloth bag filled with beads fell in front of the family's window. She took a look at the crack of the door and pointed to me with a smile:
"The lights are on inside!"
So we went straight to the next one
After a while of busy work, the hexagon got hot, and I took off the curtains on my body and wanted to throw them away. I quickly said, "No, I will use them when I rest later." I took them and put them on my pole.
In this way, the two of us wearing very few clothes walked along the fan-shaped surface between the two streets, waking up each household from their dreams, lighting the lights, opening the doors, and then unexpectedly found a small bag on the ground in front of the window.
Pearls, the pockets have been changed, but the weight of the beads has not decreased.
The burdens on our shoulders are getting lighter and lighter, and we are all in a good mood. This is a very fulfilling thing.
By the time I pulled out the carrying pole and threw the two empty baskets vigorously into the square, it was time for the changing of the guard at the palace gate.
Because both Liujiao and I heard a commotion first from the south gate, and then all the gates. After a while, the whole palace was like a boiling pot, with many lights and shadows, and a lot of people. It seemed that even Bai Jing was disturbed.
"Okay, now it's time for us to rest and let them go to work," I said to Liu Jiao
"Where are we going? It's so late. Are we still going to that house?" We just threw a big bag of pearls into their window.
"No, you can imagine that Bai Jing won't let everyone calm down tonight. If we go back at this time, aren't we causing trouble for everyone?" I said
"Then where to go? I listen to you."
I remembered that there was a slightly taller stone house in the distance. When I was throwing beads, I noticed that the roof seemed different from other houses. Other houses had pointed roofs. Only this house had a flat roof. I said, "Go to the house."
top"
Before Bai Jing's search team rushed out, Liujiao and I had already laid down comfortably on the stone roof. The half curtain was spread underneath. We rolled up the bamboo pole on one side of the curtain as high as a pillow.
The remaining length is just right
"Wife," I asked her
"What?"
"How are you feeling tonight?" I asked.
"It's so exciting!" Rokkaku said, leaning closer to me. At this time, the chaotic footsteps below had already filled every street. Knocks on the door, questions, sleepy excuses, and angry curses were all mixed together.
As we listened, we felt as if we had drank cold water.
The night sky is clear, the stars are twinkling, and the lukewarm wind is blowing. It feels so comfortable when it blows on my body.
In such a sleepless night, we can't just sleep? I turned the hexagon and touched her slightly cold smooth body. She looked at me, as if there was an eager expectation in her heart.
Come and do things with your wife, you will feel at ease and feel no guilt
There were angry shouts under the eaves and on the street just a short distance away, covering up the movements of us on the roof. This experience tonight may not be forgotten by her for a long time. Later, we hugged each other contentedly.
fell asleep
Maybe I was too tired, so I fell into a deep sleep. It wasn't until daybreak that the dazzling sunlight woke me up. I saw that Liujiao was still sleeping deeply, still talking in his sleep.
But I found that her body was hot and her nose was not breathing smoothly. I pushed her, and Liujia just opened her eyes slightly and fell asleep again. Liujia was sick.
Needless to say, the reason was that even though she had caught a cold and burrowed in the underground waterway for so long, and then slept on the roof, she couldn't bear it even though her physical condition was so good.
But what should we do now? It’s broad daylight and we don’t even have any clothes. Only then did I really feel helpless.
I turned her over, first rubbed my hands to warm them, then rubbed them on her back from top to bottom, then from bottom to top, rubbed her arms from head to head, and then rubbed her temples, hoping that she would