Chapter 55 Section 2 4

That night, the leader of the assassins asked his men to light the fire—they carried coals in bamboo tubes and small resin torches, which are necessary for those who walk at night—and saw that they were There was a large wooden cage beside them, which was within reach, but when it was not lit, they thought it was a pile of firewood.In the middle of the cage sat a little girl.On her neck, on her hands, and on her feet, each carried a wooden stock.If you observe carefully, you will find that these three wooden flails are all heart-shaped.The one on the neck is very small, like an ornament, and the one on the hands and feet are very smooth, a symbol of love.These things are walnut and waxed.The reason Xue Song didn't use teak was because there wasn't much teak and it wasn't enough.The assassin leader didn't look that carefully, he felt very angry: it is too much to put a girl in a cage and lock her up; without asking who she is, he ordered: let her out!

His men rushed to the bars beside the cage, shaking them with their hands.As the little girl (who is the red thread) points out with a smile: It's useless, it's solid.So, they decided to use a knife.As soon as the red thread saw the knife, he said: Don't move!Do not chop!This is my stuff!But someone had already hacked it, leaving a knife mark.No matter how hard teak is, it cannot be as hard as a knife.Before he could make a second cut, Hong Xian pouted his lips and whistled.Then, with an ominous buzz, countless wasps descended from the sky.This is the same as the previous story.The difference is: the hornet's nest is right on top of the gang of assassins, but because of the height, they can't see it.The red thread told them to light a fire, and the wasps, disturbed by the light and smoke, were all angry, and circled the spherical hive, and some were already flying; but the assassins did not see it.It's not their fault, who keeps looking up to the sky when they have nothing to do.When the red line whistles, the hornets come down to sting people together.This time I saw it, but it was a bit late.Those wasps only sting the assassin, not the red thread, because her body was glisteningly coated with beeswax.There are two benefits of applying this kind of thing, first: it is good for the skin after applying it.Second, when the wasp met her, he thought it was his cousin, the bee, and was very friendly to her.In this story, the red thread is quite cunning.It was entirely on purpose that she let the assassin uncles light the fire.When she saw this group of people sneaking around in the dark, she knew they had bad intentions.At the same time, I smelled that they were not covered with beeswax, so I thought of letting the wasps sting them.Even so, it cannot be said that she did something wrong.Because they came to kill her, isn't it only natural to make those who want to kill themselves suffer?

There is another theory about Xue Song's home: it is a continent of teak wood, which can be raised and lowered on eight wooden pillars—of course, through a set of extremely complicated mechanisms, including pulleys, cables, connecting rods, and gears. , There are also worm gears, worms and so on.Xue Song turned a wheel in front of his door, and the wheel drove the whole mechanism, and his garden and house, together with the foundation, rose slowly.Of course, the speed is extremely slow, and it is by no means visible to the human eye.It takes three days and three nights to raise the entire courtyard to the top of the pillar three feet above the ground.It is relatively easier to lower it, but Xue Song easily refuses to lower it, fearing that it will be too difficult to raise it again.According to this theory, the assassins entered Xue Song's house that night, and immediately found a lonely cage on the ground, and Hong Xian was sleeping in it.They lit the lanterns and torches and surrounded the cage, but they couldn't find the entrance, so they asked the red thread, "How did you get in?"The little girl answered very simply: I won't tell you.She was sitting on the futon in the center of the cage and kneading sunflower seeds, far away from each side, so it would be futile to try to chop her with a knife through the gap in the fence.The assassins complained to each other why they hadn't brought a long gun so that they could stab her through a crack in the fence;Red Line said lightly: Save yourself some effort.Teak wood is strong.Those assassins were all furious when they saw that the target they wanted to kill was close at hand but couldn't kill it.Someone hacked the teak fence with a knife, and the red line changed his face after only one cut.Played a whistle.After the second cut, the red thread screamed: Xue Song!Xue Song!Someone answered above their heads: What are you doing?The red thread yelled: Put the house down!Then, with a terrible rattling sound, the sky above the assassins' heads was leveled and snapped.The quick-reacting assassin turned his head in time, was smashed to the ground, and fell to the ground.The one who reacted slowly continued to stand straight, his head was slapped into the cavity, and the cavity was slapped to the crotch again, leaving only the lower body, and continued to stand straight.

To this, it must be added that the house was safe from the red line when it fell from the top, because the teak foundation had a square hole, which fit perfectly into the cage.According to Redline's vision, the house should be lowered all the way to the ground, shooting all the assassins into the ground.But in reality, it stops at waist height.Hong Xian shouted: What's going on?Xue Song said embarrassedly: "It's stuck."There's something wrong with the rails, it's always like this... The red line says: It's useless!She jumped up, threw off the shackles on her body (if any), got out from a dark hole on the top of the cage, and rushed to help Xue Song repair the machine.Those assassins who fell to the ground and survived sighed: So the entrance is on the top.

According to this theory, when the assassins returned to the old prostitute's door, their heads were also red and swollen, but they were not stung by bees, but smashed.According to this account, the head assassin is not the smartest of the assassins.One of his subordinates was smarter than him. When they fell to the ground, the man pulled the leader and said: Let's just lie here and wait for someone to repair the machine and smash us to death?The assassin leader was very dissatisfied with this statement, but he couldn't find a reason to refute it, so he gave an order to retreat.After they crawled out from between the foundation and the ground, the man came up with another good idea: let's go back now, sorry he doesn't have a second-story house to hit us.The assassin leader didn't like others to give him advice, so he bared his white teeth at him.So these people just retreated.

If the team of assassins went back according to this man's idea, they would see Xue Song and Hongxian holding torches and concentrating on repairing those complicated machines. The later development of this story would be very different.Thinking about it seriously, I think those assassins will touch it quietly, grab the red thread and kill it with a knife, capture Xue Song, and hand it over to the old prostitute, let him build a house for Fenghuangzhai under the supervision of the old prostitute , Repair the sewers.Although I don't like this statement, it is also a possibility to be exhausted.