Chapter 16 Chapter Fourteen

Tong Shui also woke up. He straightened up and wanted to jump up, but fell heavily again.Unwilling to give up, he continued to struggle and twist...like a fish trapped in the shallows. Li Qichen felt that there was a heavy knock on the wall on Tong Shi's side, which seemed to be a warning to Tong Shi not to move around, which meant that besides the driver of the chariot, there were other people riding horses to protect him. Li Qichen knew that Tong Shi must be the same as himself, bound tightly, unable to see, hear, or speak, so he breathed heavily and moved closer to Tong Shi's face.

Sure enough, after all, they were brothers for many years. Tong Shu felt Li Qichen's breath and calmed down, but his breathing was still heavy and his body was trembling. It seemed that he was extremely angry and could not accept this reality. Li Qichen stretched out one leg, put it on Tong Su's lap, and gently moved it like a caress, Tong Su gradually calmed down.Li Qichen only felt a heat in his palm, and it was Tong Shu's hand that reached out, and the fingers of the two of them were tightly clasped together. After a long time, Li Qichen slowly let go of his hand, turned his wrist vigorously, twisted his fingers, and wrote two words on Tong Shu's leg: "Don't be afraid." After a pause, seeing that Tong Shu didn't respond, he wrote again. again.Because I use my left hand, I feel very inconvenient.This time Tong Shui responded, he pinched Li Qichen's big thenar, stretched out his hand, and wrote two words on Li Qichen's leg: "Don't worry!"

Li Qichen also pinched Tong Shuai back, and wrote: "Wait and see." Tong Shui replied again: "Yan Wei?" Li Qichen replied: "I don't know." In this way, the two people came and went, talking by writing their fingers on their legs, and gradually straightened out the procedure: first put a few fingers on each other's body and press them to represent a few words, and then write them out one by one.If the other party doesn't recognize it, don't move. If they recognize it, just pinch the writer. If you are not sure, rewrite it and ask the writer to confirm.

People are in the dark, and their sense of hearing is deprived. In this situation, the sense of touch will be extremely sharp. The two of them have a tacit understanding, so you come and go, becoming more and more proficient, almost treating this as a game.Especially Tong Shu, who is very ticklish, every time Li Qichen writes, he can't help twitching, if he can speak, he will laugh into a ball. Li Qichen just felt like he was back in his childhood, learning swords with Tong Shui, sleeping and lying together, only the discomfort in his mouth and the tightness of his arms reminded him that he was still in a cage, and the surroundings were full of dangers.

The car stopped suddenly. The two of them also fell silent. Tong Shui clenched his hand into a fist and stuffed it into Li Qichen's palm. That fist seemed to be a small animal seeking shelter.Li Qichen stretched out his five fingers, wrapped the fist tightly, and conveyed a sense of safety. After waiting for a long time, there was no movement. Just when Li Qichen thought that nothing would happen, he suddenly felt the breath of a person rushing towards his face, and he grabbed his shoulders with both hands, pulling himself up to sit up.As soon as he let go, Tong Shu's fist left his palm.

Then, the cloth in his mouth was taken out, Li Qichen tapped his teeth, moved his stiff tongue, and asked, "Who are you? What do you want to do?" Because the ears were blocked, the voice came from the cavity to the ears Yes, it sounded like it was coming from a far away place. It was not like my own voice at all, and it was a bit funny. No one answered, and there was no sound at all... Li Qichen then remembered that his ears were plugged, even if the other party answered, he would not be able to hear him, and Tong Shui must have been unable to hear his own question. A little downcast.

After a while, I felt a hand supporting the back of my neck, and a bowl reaching between my lips and teeth. It was the aroma of millet porridge.Li Qichen was already feeling hungry, he must have been in a coma for a long time, so he was not polite at this time, and swallowed heavily.The porridge was neither thin nor thick, and the temperature was neither too hot nor too cold, just right for the mouth, and it was finished in just a moment. The man took another glass of clean water, Li Qichen also opened his mouth to drink it, and then a cloth was stuffed into his mouth again.Li Qichen thought about it carefully, and suddenly felt that judging from the amount of water and the shape of the cup, the water was actually for rinsing his mouth, not for drinking, which was even more strange.I have been imprisoned before. At first, I was imprisoned in the inner city, guarded by servants in black, and later thrown into prison. No one has ever been so careful and considerate to prisoners. What are the origins of these people?

From the movement around him, Li Qichen could feel that Tong Shui was being manipulated in the same way. I thought everything was over, but the man turned around and pulled Li Qichen up, picked up his clothes, and stuffed a chamber pot.Li Qichen was a little dumbfounded, he could feel the man's hand touching his lower body skin, the hand was not very rough, the inside of the fingers seemed to have calluses, it didn't feel real... There was no obvious smell on the man's body, just With a little chill of early spring. Li Qichen didn't intend to urinate, and the man was not in a hurry, he just waited quietly for a while, then removed the chamber pot, followed by Tong Shi again.

Everything settled down, and the car continued on its way. Neither Li Qichen nor Tong Shui made any movement. It seemed that there were too many unexpected things just now, and the two of them couldn't get around for a while. In the end, it was Tong who couldn't bear it first, and wrote on Li Qichen's lap: "He saw it." Li Qichen was secretly amused, and this guy didn't know what was going on in his head, and he didn't know how to answer it for a while. Tong Shui continued to write: "Lack of salt, tasteless." Li Qichen didn't know how to answer, so he just patted his arm lightly with his hands, like beating a drum.

Tong Shu also stretched his legs narrowly, and slapped Li Qichen's legs in the same rhythm.The two wrestled together. After what happened just now, since they didn't feel too much malice, both of them seemed to relax, a little bit like putting their lives on the line. Waking up again, Li Qichen suddenly felt sounds in his ears: birds chirping, leaves rustling, flowing water... It seemed as if the whole world came alive again. The eyes are wide open, and the surroundings are full of blue color, as if sealed in a huge piece of jasper, the light is like a thin needle, piercing the eyes, making people cry.Li Qichen raised his hand to block the light, only to feel that the binding on his arm was also removed.

Li Qichen knew that if he blindfolded his eyes for a long time, he would feel glaring if he opened them suddenly, so he covered them with his hands, lowered his head, and slowly adjusted to the surrounding light.It took a while before I gradually got used to it. When I saw the surrounding situation clearly, I couldn't help but be surprised. This is a bamboo house with a radius of one zhang, surrounded by moso bamboos as thick as arms.And these moso bamboos are all natural growth!Dense and dense, forming a circle, formed this uncanny bamboo house.Where the bamboo is closest to each other, only a ray of sunlight can leak out, and where the gap is slightly larger, only a palm can be inserted. There are tangled bamboo roots on the ground, as well as pile marks of felled bamboos, which must have been carefully cared for manually.Looking up, the bamboos are tens of feet high, and the tips seem to be clustered together, too far apart to be seen. The sunlight is filtered into a thread by countless tiny gaps, and sprinkled down from the top, forming dots of light spots, which is so beautiful that it makes one's heart palpitate. The only furnishing in the bamboo house is a bamboo bed, light brown, made of mottled bamboo, exquisite and compact, and Tong Shi is sleeping soundly on it.Li Qichen shook his head, and said to himself: "Every time I sleep so hard..." I haven't spoken for a long time, and my voice sounds strange and not fluent. Li Qichen sat beside Tong Shu, and narrowly inserted two fingers into Tong Shu's nostrils. Sure enough, the long breathing stopped, and Tong Shu's hand instinctively lifted up, and it was like lightning, snapping at Li Qichen's veins.Li Qichen pulled out his finger, turned his hand to press Tong Shu's eyes, and said in a deep voice, "It's me." Tong Shu's hand stopped halfway, and he slowly relaxed.Li Qichen said again: "The sun is dazzling, don't open your eyes all at once, take your time..." It took a while for Tong Su to fully open his eyes.Seeing this bamboo house, I was also shocked by the wonder of the fusion of nature and man-made, and opened my mouth wide for a moment, unable to speak. "Is this a prison cell? I think it looks like a bird cage, where our two birds are locked up." Tong Shu's tone was like a sigh, like a complaint, with mixed feelings that he couldn't describe.It seemed that he had been teased by someone from the very beginning, but he couldn't see or touch it, and Li Qichen also had an indescribable feeling in his heart, what is this?It would be better to have a bright sword and a bright gun. Tong Shui suddenly raised his head, pointed to the top of his head and said, "The superiors don't know what's going on, maybe they can get out." Li Qichen shook his head and said: "The person who built this bamboo house must have thought of this floor, there will be no flaws left on it." Tong Shui also shook his head and said, "That's not necessarily the case. Ordinary people can't climb that high, and it's not easy to use strength at high places. Even if there are guards above, it must not be tight. You have to go up and have a look." Clothes belt, you have to do it. Li Qichen stopped him and said, "Let me do it!" Tong Shui smiled and said, "Could it be that you are better than me?" As he spoke, he squinted at Li Qichen's injured leg. Li Qichen smiled, and put his hand on that leg unconsciously. It was very humid here, and his leg was slightly sore. Tong Shu didn't say anything, it was nothing, but when he mentioned it suddenly, he felt even more painful, but he didn't want to be outdone: " Every time you wake up later, it only shows that your internal strength is insufficient!" Tong Shui laughed and said: "The bamboo of more than ten meters can be climbed in the blink of an eye, so you don't need to exert your internal strength?" The bamboo has knots, which are easy to step on, and the large gap between the two bamboos can accommodate hands, so it is not very difficult to climb up.But Li Qichen knew that this was Tong Su's many years of skill, and it would be difficult for ordinary people who don't know martial arts to climb up so easily.Seeing that Tong Shui was climbing higher and higher, Li Qichen was also concentrating on protecting him carefully. Finally, Tong Shui seemed to have reached the peak, covering a piece of skylight, and the bamboo house suddenly became dark. Li Qichen looked up, but he couldn't see it clearly.Suddenly, Tong Su seemed to have lost his hand, like a fallen leaf, fluttering down.Startled, Li Qichen hurriedly put on a horse, stretched his arms, and concentrated on his luck. Unexpectedly, Tong Shou stretched out his foot to step on the wall of the bamboo house, flew out sideways, stretched out his hand, and flew out again, like a dice bouncing back and forth in a dice cup. fell to the ground. Li Qichen lightly punched Tong Shi on the shoulder, and said with a smile, "I thought your hand was slippery, so you were playing tricks on me." Tong Rate said with a smile: "It's true that my hands and feet are very sore, so I can get down faster this way." "How? What's the situation above?" Li Qichen asked. Tong Shu shook his head and said, "Every bamboo on the top is tied up with hemp rope, very dense..." Li Qichen said: "I just said there will be no loopholes, this is where people are concerned." Although trapped in a cage, both of them are very relaxed.I don't know if it's because the situation at this time is a hundred times better than before when I couldn't hear, see, or speak, or because the green bamboos, warm sun, and birdsong formed a peaceful scene that made people forget their worries. Tong Shi said: "If there is a guy who can handle it, go up and slowly grind the hemp rope, it will be a way of life." After speaking, he naturally stretched his hand to his waist, but his bronze sword, which never left his body for a moment, was gone. gone. The two looked around, and there were only bamboo shoots and shells on the ground, because it was spring, there were still a few new shoots with sharp corners, and there was the bamboo bed, but it was very humid here, if the bamboo shoots were removed Bamboo beds are used as tools, and they sleep on the ground. I am afraid that they will not be able to survive for two or three days. Tong Shui suddenly clapped his hands, smiled slyly, and said, "Did you notice that there is a big hole in this bamboo house!"