The breeze blew the veil, and Ji Jiu leaned on the railing and looked at the flower beds in the morning mist in the small courtyard.

As usual, the purple and red flowers are gorgeous, and then apart from this, I can't see any other special places, and I don't know where that person is interested, and he is very interested in this garden of flowers.

Hearing the voice of the girl in the dart game behind him calling him, Ji Jiu turned around and moved away from the railing.

The plan I made last night was to leave for Yubei early this morning.

She planned with great interest to go to see the wind and grass, and also encouraged him to get rid of Sister Li's level, saying that she wanted to take this opportunity to see the riding skills of a Sealand woman.

The footsteps stopped at the door of her room, Ji Jiu stretched out his hand and bent his fingers, and gently knocked twice on the door panel, but there was no response.

He listened silently to the movement, and once again reached out and tapped a few times, this time with much more force than before.

The strange thing is that there is still no movement.

A hint of surprise flashed in his eyes, and Ji Jiu whispered, "Xiaolin, it's time to get up." “

He was answered by the silence in the room, and at last he hesitated for a moment before pushing open the wooden door.

The quilt on the bed was neatly folded, and there was no trace of opening, and even the gauze tent had not been put down, and it was still well tied.

There was no one in the room at all.

He stood there and looked around, and after a short pause, he walked briskly out of the room and downstairs

I was sleeping soundly, and my face was touched by a fluffy paw, and I don't know which naughty cat came running casually and playing with me.

I reached out and pushed the paw off my face, and laughter rang faintly in my ears.

I opened my eyes in a daze, and I realized. What a cat's paw, it's clearly a brush, and it looks like a tool used to rest things.

My mind flashed back to last night, and I pushed the brush away in disgust, got up lazily and yawned.

The scar-faced man crouched to the side. A pair of eyes looked at me and smiled, "You can sleep so well in this kind of place." "What you know is that you were hunted down last night, and those who don't know think that you lived here in the first place, and this is your home."

I glanced at him and said, "yes, I have a lot of advantages, and this is one of them." “

He looked at me with a smirk. I rubbed my head and asked, "Do you still count what you said last night?" "Don't tell me, the guys at the inn will deliver something to your yard this morning." "You told me that you could let one of them, who is familiar with you, go out quietly with me?" "It's still early, look outside."

The scarface man pointed to a small window in the stairwell and said, "It's just dawn." It would take about a quarter before they would deliver something. “

I walked over and opened the window to see the scenery outside, and the morning fog on the water had not yet lifted.

"The Sealand officials who live upstairs?" I turned to look at him and asked. "Well, there are a lot of people coming, but not many people living in this courtyard."

"Strangely, they don't act in one place. Yuzhou City is not big, how many places do you need to live? ”

"Some of them live directly in the Yamen of Yuzhou, and these days they are conscripted. You know about conscription, right? “

He frowned and paused, looked at me and asked. "Nonsense, how can I not know, I have heard it a long time ago when I was in Hengcheng, and at that time the conscription had begun, and I saw that the carriages entering and leaving the gate of Hengcheng had to be checked." "I'll tell you the truth. It's easy for me to get in, but it's a bit hard to get out. "Hengcheng?" A look of confusion flashed in his eyes. Stared at me and repeated.

It seems that he took a different route than me. Probably didn't pass through that place. "That's right, Hengcheng, it's not too far from here, haven't you been there, so where did you stop at your last stop?" "It's all small places in the countryside, I haven't stopped in big places, and the rest is to keep on the road." "No," I thought for a moment, and felt that his words were very problematic, "the last time I met you, it was close to the border of Sealand, why I have lived in the eastern courtyard for many days, and I have stayed in the city on my way. "You said that you only stayed in a small place in the countryside, and the rest was to keep hurrying, so according to what you said, now you must have arrived in the capital of Zealand, why are you still in Yuzhou?"

Sounds unreasonable. "I lived in the countryside for half a month."

He put his hands behind his head and leaned his back against the wall: "The village at the foot of Li Mountain, I don't want to leave if I am comfortable, the girls there are beautiful, the nearby big lake produces delicious fish and shrimp, and there is also good wine made by the locals." “

I looked at him speechlessly, and it took me a long time before I said, "Your brother really has a good errand for you." “

Just his lazy energy, how can he be a subordinate? Don't be afraid of delaying important things! "You know what." He had a faint blue-black color that he hadn't slept enough underneath, and his tone was as casual as usual, "I want to do things, and I have to do things at the right time." "I stayed in Lishan for half a month, just to calculate the time to go to Hengcheng."

He said with a bit of ridicule in his words: "You think you enter the palace casually, if it's just right." ”

"Wait for the opportunity to meet them, neither sooner nor too late."

I swept the morning fog slowly dissipating outside the window, nodded and said, "This sentence makes a lot of sense." "Anyway, it's always good for me that you can enter the Sealand Palace, and I will have a good idea when the time comes."

I didn't expect to meet him again in a place like Yuzhou, I thought that after the last time I said goodbye and separated, there might not be a time to meet next time in this life, so the world is impermanent, and anything can happen.

Sometimes, you can't guess! "How did you figure out how to get in?"

He turned back to last night's topic.

I shook my head and said, "My method is much more laborious than yours, and most of my hope is pinned on others, not for me to decide." “

The scar-faced man looked at me delicately, his gaze locked on my face.

He turned around and began to sort out the tools scattered on the floor in the room, most of them were the household goods that the carpenter needed, and some of them were the things that the painter needed.

Things look pretty complete.

He opened a wooden box. Carefully putting the sorted tools into it one by one, I became curious, and walked over and crouched down to look at the pile of tools that were about to become his eating guys, and they didn't look new.

It is made of good wood, and the edges are smooth and textured. It's been some years.

With such a set of tools in his hand, and his young appearance, it seems that it must be a family heirloom.

I suddenly thought of the scar on his face, the master craftsman has a scar, not abrupt at all, quite reasonable!

He's done putting it away. Closing the lid of the wooden box, he slowed down his tone and said, "You have to remember that when others decide what you want for you, most of them will be variable, and you have to rely on yourself to do it." "I get it. It's just that I'm not as good as you. I glanced at him embarrassedly.

"You can actually repair things, you can be a craftsman, what can I do, I want to enter the palace, I really have to think about it."

He snorted and said, "You don't know how to order the medical skills of a three-legged cat, you may not have a chance." "The craftsmen in the palace and the imperial doctor are two different things, and the Tai Hospital over there in Sealand must be a master, you also said it." I'm a three-legged cat's doctor, what can I do. ”

"It's better than not, and don't be presumptuous."

I hung my head. After being silent for a while, he raised his head and looked at him and said, "You're right, it's better than not, you see that my disguise technique, although it's not as good as others', but it can also make do with it." “

There is a little benefit to talking to this person. For example, he listened to my various methods and ideas for entering the palace, but he didn't ask me why I was going there. Also a wonderful person!

The morning fog in the courtyard finally cleared completely, and I heard footsteps in the distance. Passing the pontoon bridge from the courtyard gate, there is the sound of stepping on wooden planks.

"The innkeeper has delivered something." The scar-faced man spoke briefly.

"The officials who live upstairs are all delivered from there every day?"

I'm thinking, there are only a few people I have seen in the inn for a few days, and the shopkeeper is really inconspicuous!

"The shopkeeper you are talking about is just the shopkeeper of the courtyard where you live." The scar-faced man explained for me, "There are several doors in the inn that lead to the outside, such as this courtyard, which has been going south through the stone bridge over the water, and walks alone from the south gate. "I've never seen the shopkeeper you described."

This discovery stunned me, beyond my comprehension.

How could there be such a strange inn in Yuzhou City!

After a long time, I reacted and answered, "Is the person you said about delivering things there?" ”

"I'll see," he said, putting down the wooden box in his hand, and walking to the small window in the stairwell overlooking the courtyard, and I squeezed in to see after him.

The small group that walked on the pontoon bridge numbered six, carrying either plates or baskets.

The scar-faced man's gaze swept over the line, landed at the end and said, "Look, it's that woman, who comes to me every day to deliver food, and she is the second from the bottom." ”

The body is slender, the face is pale, and the facial features are very ordinary, belonging to the kind of people who will never attract attention in the crowd, in fact, the people in the whole team are similar.

"When she comes, I'll tell her and ask her to find a chance to take you out."

I carried two empty baskets, followed the woman, and walked out of the courtyard.

As I walked on the pontoon, I wondered if there would be someone lurking there outside the courtyard wall waiting to catch me.

But then I thought about what the scar-faced man had told me, and he said that he didn't even dare to recognize me when he saw me last night, and now that I have washed my disguise, this has increased my confidence.

From the time I got out of the yard to the time I walked in two ways, from beginning to end, the woman who spoke to the scar-faced man in the corridor in a low voice never said a word to me, and she didn't even say a word when I thanked her when we broke up.

After passing through the woods, I reached the boundary between the two courtyards, I walked quickly past a flower garden, and then bypassed the pool, and I saw Ji Jiu standing by the courtyard wall at some point, looking at me fixedly. (To be continued)