Yue Ji

Chapter 3 Going Black
Wei Luo stepped on the hard soil protruding from the pond, walked to the puddle with his feet, stretched his head, and looked into the water impatiently.

In the clear water, there appeared a tall, fair and beautiful girl about thirteen or fourteen years old.She has a pair of almond eyes, the pupils are very black, so black that there seems to be no impurities.The bridge of the nose is straight, and the lips are not a small cherry mouth in the traditional sense, thick and plump, but unfortunately there is no blood.The person in the water has willow eyebrows and beautiful eyes, with a hint of indifference hidden in the graceful gentleness, and a bit of youthfulness that has not yet bloomed.

Under the cover of her shoulder-length black hair, her skin looked particularly fair, but it was a pity that she lacked some rosiness, which made her look a little unhealthy.

Wei Luo turned his head sideways to look at the reflection in the water, the more he looked at it, the more satisfied he felt.She used to have a beautiful face, but now this face has surpassed her previous appearance before it even opened up.

Looking at it, Wei Luo suddenly found that the ornaments on his head were gone, probably dropped when the big man in sackcloth led him away from the scene of being stabbed.

Wei Luo admired it for a while, then opened the wooden box and took out the bamboo slips.There are about twelve characters on each bamboo slice, and the eight bamboo slices add up to only a hundred characters.Wei Luo thought to himself: The way of disguise?What a mysterious word, but the content is too little, right?

Of these hundreds of characters, the first 20 or so characters are the general outline, and the last seven or eight characters are detailed explanations.It's a detailed explanation, but in Wei Luo's opinion, this is an extremely simple introduction.

Among the hundreds of characters, there are a dozen or so strange-looking nouns.But these nouns, Wei Luo, just glanced at them and knew their meanings.It seems that the original consciousness of this body is still affecting me.

After reading it several times, Wei Luo memorized the content on the bamboo slips by heart.She put the bamboo slips back into the wooden box as before, turned around and walked into the depths of the woods.

I don't know if it was because of being frightened, but Wei Luo didn't eat, but he didn't feel hungry at all.Now she just thinks, quickly change her face first, and then go out to find food to meet the world.

Wei Luo searched for half an hour in the woods, and finally found a stone that is easy to decolorize, and the juice of two plants.There is a piece of bamboo that records the method of using these three things to change the appearance.

According to the bamboo slips, there is one thing that is absolutely indispensable in this disguise technique, and that is honey.In such a hurry, where did Wei Luo find honey?The only effect of the disguise method she was going to use now was to change the color of her skin.

After collecting these three things with leaves, she came back to the pond.

After Wei Luo adjusted those items, he slowly wiped them on his face facing the lake water.It's also interesting to say that this seemingly inconspicuous thing not only has a uniform color after being applied to the face, but it is quite difficult to wipe off when she wipes it with her hands.

Out of caution, Wei Luo painted the neck, the back of the ears, the collarbone and most of the arms. After a while, a delicate dark face with rough skin appeared on the surface of the water.The skin is dark and thick, and the whole person looks particularly thin.Just coupled with her clear black eyes, the extremely rustic country boy in the water added a bit of refreshment.

Wei Luo looked down at his own reflection and thought to himself: It seems that we should pay more attention to the sun.No wonder there is an old saying: One white covers three ugliness. Compared with what I was just now, I am really a different person.

After admiring his face for a while, Wei Luo put on the man's robe.The men's robe is blue, very large and long, obviously it belongs to the big man in sackcloth himself.After Wei Luo put it on, it was like a child wearing an adult's clothes.

After searching in the woods for a while, Wei Luo found half a broken sword edge.Cut some of the robe with an iron sheet, and then shorten the lower skirt, and then tie it tightly with a tie.Although it was torn and cut like this, turning the good gown into a beggar's gown, it finally fit.After putting on the men's robe, Wei Luo looked like a real boy of thirteen or fourteen on the surface of the water.It's just that in the eyebrows and facial features, when you look closely, you can still see a bit of elegance and charming charm.

Wei Luo watched, her brows slowly furrowed, and she thought to herself: This world is so chaotic, it is absolutely impossible for people to see that I am originally a woman.No, along the way, I have learned more about the art of disguise, and found more materials, so I must cover up the delicate look between the eyebrows and eyes.

Wei Luo is cautious by nature, when she changed into this men's robe, she even took off the outer jacket and inner jacket that she was originally wearing and tore them to pieces.It's just that the pair of embroidered shoes on her feet are still luxurious, even inlaid with jade pieces, such shoes are too conspicuous, but Wei Luo doesn't know how to weave straw sandals, so there is no way to change them.

However, the skirt was so big and long that it completely covered the feet.Judging from the water, no matter which angle they appear from, they look like poor teenagers.

Wei Luo reached out and tore off the jade pieces from the shoes, put them away together with the coins, turned around and walked towards the official road.

The direction she was going was the place where the team was robbed and killed.She was very weak and pampered, but it was only three miles away, and Wei Luo walked for more than half an hour to get there.

The scene had been cleaned up by the Chu people, and even the carriage of the dead body was moved away.On the vast grassland, if it weren't for the large bloodstains and the remnants of the broken sword, no one would know that a tragedy happened in this place today.

Wei Luo walked quietly in the blood-stained grass, a wisp of bitterness and helplessness wrapped around her heart.After less than fifty steps, Wei Luo was choked by the smell of blood and turned to leave.She originally expected that there would be some gold, silver and jade ornaments left here, but now that everything has been cleaned too clean, she no longer thinks in vain.

The most important thing at present is to get a pair of straw sandals to put on.and then?The big man in sackcloth made it very clear that there was something hidden about his marriage, and he could not return to the country of Yue.Besides, even if she can return, she herself is a counterfeit.

It is now around two o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun is gradually setting.On the long, dusty ancient road, at a glance, the large tracts of primitive woods are removed, and there is a vast grassland. Where are there any pedestrians?
Although it is an official road, it is full of uneven loess roads full of potholes.Wei Luo made up his mind not to go to Yue.The country of Yue, um, should be the area around Jiangsu and Zhejiang, right?That's the southeast direction.It seems that I can only go northwest.

I don't know where this is?In which vassal state?Well, there is the state of Jin and the state of Yue. Could it be that I have traveled to the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period?
Wei Luo looked towards the west and thought a little anxiously: With my broken body, I'm afraid I won't be able to walk seven or eight miles until the sunset goes down the mountain.

Wei Luo walked with one foot deep and one foot shallow, her wobbly figure dragged for a long time in the setting sun.
(End of this chapter)