Chapter Twenty-Three: Buried in the Dark Arrows in the Alleys of the Night (2)

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The next day, Chu Yunxi took the pretext of going to the vicinity of the Hanlin Academy to investigate, and when she saw the envoy of the Hanlin Academy sending a stack of neat stacks of notebooks to the Academy, her heart involuntarily increased the frequency of beating.

Dealing with political affairs is efficient, so according to the convention, the scholars must rush to summarize the handling opinions before today's unitary time, and the book is scheduled to be sent to the emperor before the time of the Emperor, but today's matter is only for the ministers, as for when the emperor will see it, there is no definite number when the book will be sent to the six ministries for execution, which all depends on whether the emperor is diligent or not.

Chu Yunxi continued to observe for a long time, and after the unitary time, the recital that had been reviewed would be handed over to the Hanlin Academy envoy and sealed into the jade box, and presented to the emperor in the inner province. And this work, which did not require pure physical strength without intelligence, was completed by two eunuchs in the library on the south side of the Hanlin Academy, and this was a good opportunity for her to start.

On this day, she went around the verandah from the back to the south of the academy under the pretext of going to the toilet, and through the door of the moon cave she saw a large black tile and vermilion lacquered high house, a black and ebony carved wooden door was located in the middle of the building, and there were cloisters on both sides, in order to maintain the quiet and serious atmosphere of the courtyard, there were no birds and other playthings hanging under the corridor, the pond in the courtyard was scattered with a few decayed double-petaled red lotuses, and the grape vines on the shore hung bunches of grapes as rich as amethysts.

She stepped up the stone steps in front of the door, hidden under the window behind a pillar, the window was always open in the hot weather, she half-crouched down, poked out half of her head to look into the room, and saw that the two of them in the room were busy on the large desk in front of the rows of bookshelves, and there were stacks of notebooks on the desk.

She held her hand against the wall and slowly slid down, glancing at the teapot on the coffee table by the wall before her eyes sank, and she could clearly see that there was no water in it through the lid that had been lifted.

Chu Yunxi decided to brake statically and continued to wait.

As expected, it didn't take long for a tea-serving maid to appear on the verandah, holding a teapot and a teabowl in her hand.

At this time, Chu Yunxi had already hid in the corner of the verandah outside the house and went out, and she heard footsteps. Hurriedly took out a small ingot of gold from his bosom and rolled out along the edge of the corridor. The gold rolls out for a while and bounces off the stone steps, smashing into crisp music.

Due to the sound insulation of the door and the distance between the bookcase and the door, the two people in the house did not hear any movement outside the house.

The palace maid saw a touch of gold flashing in front of her, and heard the unique beautiful sound of gold falling to the ground, so she immediately put down the bracket in her hand, turned around and chased away the gold.

Chu Yunxi quickly turned out, squatted down and opened the lid of the pot, poured some powder into the pot, then changed the tea lid and shook it, and then put it back in place and hidden.

Soon, the maid returned with a smile on her face and a satisfied face, thinking that she had found gold. She picked up her brace again, walked to the door, and pushed it in. The two people in the house were busy in the hot house for a long time, sweating profusely, and when they saw the water, the pedestrians seemed to be lost in the desert, and suddenly saw the oasis, and the two of them picked it up, not even using a cup, taking a sip of me, and drinking a pot of sea.

After the two of them finished drinking, they were not satisfied, and begged the palace maid to get it, but the palace maid had to take it to the door and leave the courtyard.

The power of this medicine for constipation was really fast and good, and it didn't make her wait too long. The stomachs of the two fathers-in-law were like thunder, accompanied by convulsions and thunder. The two of them groaned twice, slipped around the house a few times, opened the door and rushed out impatiently.

When the two of them walked away, Chu Yunxi jumped into the door, and she pressed the upturned corners of her mouth with one hand, but she couldn't hide her childish smile after the prank succeeded. She stuffed Wang Shen's letters, along with the love letters she had written, into a sealed notebook in the jade box, which she had specially selected from the lower part of the jade box, and the author of the notebook was also a member of the Prime Minister's Party. Since he is the prime minister's own person and can pass the review, there is naturally no reason for the review, so she thinks about it.

She descended the stairs and walked out of the courtyard. As soon as these two feet left the moon cave gate, they suddenly jumped back like a rabbit, and their bodies were tightly pressed against the stone wall.

A heroic man in armor and holding a long sword leaned into half of his body suspiciously from outside the door, looking left and right. The rotten lotus leaves and the half-dried sour pond water in the pond filled the courtyard with a dilapidated smell of mud, and the original few noisy frogs only occasionally shouted a slogan in the interval of sleepiness. The man snorted in disgust, retracted his half-doored body, and pulled his armor away.

Due to visual limitations, the man did not notice that there was anyone inside the wall. Chu Yunxi only felt that there was a big sledgehammer in his heart at the moment, and he was almost frightened, but fortunately, there was no danger. If that person just now wasn't Gu Chaomin, maybe she could tell some lies and get by. If he is caught by him, then it will be called a narrow meeting between enemies, even if he doesn't want his life, it is estimated that he will find a crime to pick her skin, so as to solve the scumbag he suffered in the observation tower last time.

She held her chest and ran away, fortunately she didn't meet anyone along the way, and when she returned to the painting academy, most of her colleagues in the painting academy had already left, and the others were also packing up their things and preparing to leave.

For the whole day after that, Chu Yunxi could be said to have lived in dire straits, and the taste of fear mixed with anticipation tormented her heart all the time. At first, the enthusiastic desire to get good news was slowly smoothed out in the undisturbed passage of time, until she only hoped to hear that someone in the previous dynasty could mention this matter, whether good or bad, but unfortunately seeing that the sun was sinking into darkness the next day, her heart also sank into the deep sea of disappointment, and everything she had worked hard had now been torn to pieces by a pair of hands and lying in a wastepaper basket waiting to be destroyed, of course, this is a better result, if those things were not handed over to the emperor but fell into the hands of the prime minister's party, Even if she can't find her head for a while, if she wants to repeat her old tricks in the future, it is estimated that she will only end up in this way.

Due to the distraction of several days, Chu Yunxi was exhausted by Yang Miao's unjust case, and was frightened, and the work of the painting academy was seriously delayed, so she had to work overtime to make paintings until the new moon rose.

Out of the palace gate, but I saw a slight cloud covering the moon in the sky, like a wisp of green smoke wrapped around the pearl, and like a beauty covering her face. A few stars on one side of the sky are shining with the jade toad.

Occasionally, the rose vines on the flower stand in the roadside courtyard wall stick out of the wall, dyed all over the street with fragrance, with the hazy moonlight, as if a glass of aging wine into the stomach, and the slight drunkenness in the half-dream and half-awakening is the most intoxicating.

The night is like a huge bat shaking its wings, the pedestrians on the street are thinning, the heat is dissipating, and the coolness invades the body, which makes people feel happy. Chu Yunxi took advantage of the gray moonlight, lowered his head and walked slowly home.

She walked slowly according to the route that had to be repeated several times a day, the road was very quiet, the summer flowers were very fragrant, and although she had a lot of heavy things like a big stone in her heart, she was quite calm at the moment. This long journey home in the evening is a torture for many people, as they have to rush home to reunite with their families, to rest their nerves after a hard day's work, to deal with unfinished business during the day, and to attend indulgent banquets that can only be held at night.

But Chu Yunxi was completely different, I don't know when, she began to dislike the impetuous and gorgeous day and fell in love with the deep and quiet night. The black night can cover everything, it is like a huge black cloth without boundaries can hide the prosperity and noise in the sun, and let the earth return to tranquility.

Tranquility is the best state to find oneself, and returning to oneself can relax the tense heart that has been disturbed by busy things all day. She is often immersed in this state of completely emptying her brain and cannot extricate herself, as if the whole soul is out of her body, forgetting the difficult situation around her, forgetting the endless troubles, and even forgetting herself, as if she is no longer in this rolling red dust, although she has abandoned the joy of the world but also beyond the suffering of the world.

Turn right at the first intersection directly east of Suzaku Street. Her legs were no longer directed to the left by her brain, and she was almost walking by inertia. But the road was sealed off by a fence dragged from nowhere, and when she passed by the street in front of her, the notice she ignored clearly stated that the road was being renovated. So she took an extra road in vain.

She woke up as if she returned to reality from a trance dream, looked around, and then looked up at the night sky, at this time it was past time, and if she delayed any longer, I am afraid that Lu Yan was worried, and she was indeed a little hungry. In order to get home early, she plans to bypass a few towering buildings on the right and turn to the left, which will save some time.

She set off on the unfamiliar road in the opposite direction, the alley suddenly narrowed, and the warm houses where the husband and wife and mother and son reunited at night were instantly replaced by towering high-rise buildings on both sides of the street.

The tall building of the black hole is like a heavy sword standing on a cliff, as if it will collapse and collapse at any moment and crush her.

The street is windy, the cool breeze in the streets and alleys is not stopped, the hair of the people who blow is erected, although the surface of the high-rise building is quiet, but it seems to be choked by an invisible hand around the neck, and the atmosphere is gloomy and weird.

As the road deepened, she felt more and more strange, so she looked up at the tall buildings on all sides, and when she landed, she only felt dizzy and panicked. The feet unconsciously stood on tiptoe and slowed down.

Suddenly, the silver light on the second floor of the high-rise building on the right flickered, like a few silver stars in the sky falling on the high-rise building. She raised her hand to block the light, and based on her years of experience in sword wiring, she vaguely judged that the silver light was unusual, and it was likely to be the color of the sword with a fierce spirit.

She was shocked, fear crawled into her heart like a clammy and cold poisonous snake, she seemed to have been pierced in the chest by ice on a hot day, and she shivered with cold.

She wanted to rush back to the alley, but a red light rose upstairs on the right side, bright red and dazzling as if the remnant sun reflected blood. The blood-red light looked bloody and cruel in the night, illuminating both her thin figure and the black killer lurking upstairs!

Dozens of men dressed in black stood on either side of the tall building, their hands holding small bows with their handles facing outward, until the red light passed through the black veil and left a red glow on her face like a bloodstain. As if instructed to do so, the killers drew their feathered arrows from the arrows on the ground, mounted them, aimed them, and drew their bows. At this moment, she was like a spotlight source, and the cold silver arrows on the feather arrows were all aimed at her limbs and bones from all angles.

The blood on his body seemed to have been frozen, and the cool air brought by the circulation flowed back to his heart again, and Chu Yunxi felt that his heart was about to be frozen. It was as if someone had lit a firecracker in her head, and she stood stunned.

Losing one's mind at such a critical juncture by sudden danger will only make things worse. Sure enough, her standing still made it easier for the killers to take aim at their targets.

It wasn't until the arrows on both sides were shooting at her that she remembered to block it, but halfway through the swing of her hand, she realized that she had forgotten the basic common sense that a human hand could not resist a sharp blade. She quickly changed her tactics and took off the veil hat on her head, which was used as both a shield to block arrows and a weapon to shoot down feathered arrows.

Her makeshift gave Feather Arrow the time to arrive, and in just a moment, multiple of her clothes had been punctured, and her arms and thighs were rubbed with blood.

She shifted her bearings, turning back and forth as little as possible to show her back to the enemy, and she retreated to the steps of the tall building on the right, as she quickly found a fatal loophole in the ambush - the angle!

In many cases, strengths and weaknesses are directly proportional. The planner of this assassination chose the location in a place with many high-rise buildings, sparse residents, and narrow streets and alleys, obviously to facilitate ambush, conducive to shooting from a high place, and the enemy is not easy to dodge and escape, but he is very secret, ignoring that because the alley is narrow, the killer stands high, so it is difficult to shoot far, and there are eaves and columns downstairs, which can just be used for people to hide, as long as she retreats to the steps on the right, there is an eaves above her head, and a column in front of her is covered, even if the feather arrows are as dense as rain, she is helpless.

The soft-hearted Moon couldn't bear to witness the tragedy of human killing, and hid behind the flowing clouds and didn't dare to come out. The night became darker and darker, and the feathered arrows struck in dense and swift manner, like meteors cutting through the silence of the night sky.

I don't know if it was because of the dim light that made it difficult for the killers to accurately stab her in the vital spots, but the feather arrows still rained down on her in bursts of rain, piercing a lot of skin on her arms and legs.

Seeing that she was about to climb the steps in front of the tall building, a rapid sound of horses' hooves disturbed her mind, and she was slightly distracted, and a sharp pain immediately came from the top of her right chest. A stream of red liquid gushed out of her chest, and when she reached out her left hand and touched it, her nose smelled a thick smell of blood, and when she looked down, she saw that a feathered arrow had already submerged into her body, leaving only half of the tail of the arrow stuck in her chest.

Her eyes were like a black silk cloth, and before she lost consciousness, she frantically reached forward and grabbed it, and as soon as her hand loosened, it fell to the ground like a hedgehog's gauze hat stuck in the ground by a feather arrow. She threw herself into the air, and her right chest seemed to have been hit by a thousand pounds of boulders, so that her legs were unable to bear it, and her whole body couldn't help but fall forward.

A new round of arrow rain is coming again!