Chapter 40 second quarter

Time: At noon, the first engraving (according to today's timing, it should be 12:15 noon). Location: Unknown Villa, Lingxi Bieyuan. From early in the morning till now, Ning Xin'er's hands seemed to grow on the binoculars, and she never left for a moment.The third young master sat under the plum blossom tree, holding a scroll in his hand, but his eyes looked at Ning Xin'er from time to time. The third young master said: "Xin'er, don't you feel tired after seeing so many hours?" Ning Xin'er replied: "I can watch here all day long." "What did you see?"

"You want to know? I won't tell you." The third young master was bored, so he could only flip through the book in suspense, but Ning Xin'er said again: "You beg me, you beg me hard, I still refused to tell you at first, so you beg me even more pitifully, I see You are really guilty, and if you soften your heart, I will tell you." The third young master closed his eyes and said, "Alright then, I beg you." "No," Ning Xin'er shouted, "You are not allowed to perfunctory me like this, you have to look at me very sincerely, your voice trembled, your eyes fluttered, as if you were about to cry."

The third son made several expressions in succession, but none of them satisfied Ning Xin'er. He smiled wryly and said, "It seems that I can only beg you not to tell me what you saw." "Give up so quickly, you are not funny at all. What I saw was much more fun than you. I saw a man in the woods flirting with a woman. I didn't expect that woman to know martial arts. In turn, the man I was beaten up; there was also a middle-aged man selling deep-fried dough sticks who secretly blew his nose into the frying pan while no one was paying attention. I saw a thief stealing a rich young master's wallet, and was discovered, so I ran away, followed by many people, so I aimed my binoculars at him, and kept looking down. He ran through one street after another, passed through I could see all the alleys clearly. There was a dead end in front of him, but he didn't know it, so he went straight in. The pursuers caught him right in the dead end and turned him over to the government. Anyway, I can see everything they're doing, and they don't even know I'm watching them, which is so funny."

"See no evil. It is immoral for you to spy on others like this without permission." "I don't care. I don't want to harm them. I just take a look. It doesn't hurt them at all." "Give me the sky-watching pupil, and let me see it too." "There are only telescopes here, no sky pupils." "Yes, please borrow the small telescope for a while, okay?" "Okay," Ning Xin'er said, "but wait until I have seen enough. Besides, spying on others is immoral." The third son was bored, so he had no choice but to open it again and flip through it aimlessly, but he couldn't read a few words, so Ning Xin'er called again: "Boy Cao, come and take a look."

The third son said: "You are not lying to me, you are so nice to me all of a sudden, there must be some deceit." Ning Xin'er paused and said, "Come here quickly, I really didn't lie to you." It wasn't until the third son held the binoculars in his hand that he was convinced that Ning Xin'er really wanted him to see something. Ning Xin'er said: "Look, to the west of Su Causeway, at the northwest corner of Lixi Lake, there is an official ship." According to the direction Ning Xiner pointed out, the third young master found an official ship belonging to the Ministry of Punishment in the shadow of weeping willows.The place where the boat is moored is very hidden, it is impossible to see it from the flat ground, even if you look from a high place, you can only see it if you are on a lonely mountain.Dozens of big men in fish skin jumpsuits stood on the boat, jumping into the water one by one without saying a word.As soon as the big men jumped into the water, they dived to the bottom of the water and never showed up again.Sitting on the bow of the boat was a strong man with a bare upper body, his hair was tied in a mess on the top of his head, and his unkempt beard made his face look fierce.The man turned over an hourglass at hand and started timing.

Ning Xin'er snatched the binoculars, looked at it, and asked, "Where's the person?" "They all went into the water." "Why haven't they come up for so long? Are they still suffocated underwater?" "Back then there was a hero in Liangshan in Shuipo, known as Langli Baitiao Zhang Shun. It is said that he could stay under the water for three days and three nights. Stay underwater for about a quarter of an hour. The man at the bow is timing them, as if training their water skills." "Are they the criminal police?" "It seems not."

"Then how dare they use the ship of the Criminal Ministry?" "I'm wondering too." "This matter is very strange. There must be some kind of conspiracy. Should we send people to the government to report the case and arrest them all?" "They can use the public boat of the Ministry of Criminal Justice in an open manner. Even if they are not the arresters of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, they must have a lot to do with the Ministry of Criminal Justice. It is better not to meddle in their own business." "It's boring. They got into the water and haven't come out yet. I don't know how long they will stay in the water."

"They confiscated your money and let you go to the theater for free, and you still complain." "It's not a good show, of course we'll be booed." "Are they out of the water yet?" "Not yet, wait a minute, it's out, out, they're finally out of the water." "Let's see if the hourglass has just leaked out." Ning Xin'er aimed her gaze at the hourglass, and sure enough it happened to run out, so she wondered: "Others burn incense to keep time, why does he use an hourglass?" The third young master said: "Because he needs absolute precision. The timing of burning incense can only be roughly calculated. The wind force, cold weather, etc. will have a non-negligible impact on the speed of burning incense. The reason why he uses the hourglass to time is to The amount of time they spend underwater is perfect."

Ning Xin'er said: "Then how long did they stay underwater?" "Exactly a quarter of an hour." "He pinched the time so precisely, so why?" "It's time to ask him. He must have his reasons." "Nonsense, if you say it, it means you didn't say it." Ning Xin'er said angrily. While speaking, the big men had already boarded the boat, the boatman rowed the oars, and sailed to the depths of the willows, disappearing in the spring scenery, Ning Xin'er searched with binoculars, but the boat and people were no longer found trail.