Chapter 7: Good News and Bad News
"You figured it out?" Min Qiu, who was pretending to load and unload the goods in front, turned around. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"If you have someone important, where will you be held?"
"The most unexpected place and the most guarded place." Min Qiu groaned.
"Isn't that what this is?" I'm spreading my hands.
Wu Jian muttered, "This is not a prison, I really can't think of it; There were also a lot of guards, and it was really well guarded. ”
Min Qiu still didn't believe it, "According to convention, the dungeon in the palace is the most difficult to rob. ”
"But do they have so many troops to guard such a large area now? You still have to guard the city gates, you have to maintain order in the city, and you must be imprisoned in the soldiers' dens. I struggled to explain.
"So how do you know for sure?"
I did not answer, but watched as the soldiers who collected the grain poured the grain from the cart into the basket, pulled a money bag from his waist, and scattered a few strings of copper coins and broken silver into the wheat without anyone noticing.
"What do you do?" Min Qiu was puzzled.
"I'll give you an opportunity in a while, you have the highest kung fu, take the opportunity to sneak into the courtyard, with your ingenuity, I believe you can find the prince." I'm towards him?? Eye.
He said helplessly: "I didn't expect that my dignified Min Shuai would want to be a scout for you, just get the "Heavenly Soldiers", remember to divide me a few pages." ”
Seeing that our cart of grain was poured onto their baskets, loaded into the cart and about to be transported to the courtyard, as soon as the cart entered the courtyard gate, I cried and rushed over.
"What for?" Inside and outside the door, two teams of guards immediately surrounded the door with spears and knives and blocked the door.
I squinted and cried, "Grain cart, grain cart, wait a minute!" ”
I snot and tears welled up: "Big brothers, open grace, let me go find my money." I must have fallen into it while I was carrying wheat just now. ”
I held up my empty money bag and said, "This is the money I saved for three months to treat my blind brother!" ”
As soon as they heard that the money had fallen from the wheat, the soldiers' eyes lit up, and the leader smiled maliciously and said, "Okay, then you go to find it, and our brother will also help you find it, okay?" ”
The rest of the people followed suit, and the spears that stood in the way were slightly retracted.
I squeezed to the grain cart in the courtyard, and pretended to be aggrieved: "That's life-saving money, uncles, be merciful." ”
Those people also crowded to the side of the grain cart, and seven or eight hands reached into the wheat to dig and dig, and suddenly someone shouted: "Hey, there is really money!" He held up three copper plates in his hand.
I heard the other person say, "Hey! And the broken silver, this stinky guy, and a few more money. So saying, he put the money in his pocket.
There were still a few guards standing guard around him, and when they heard the noise, they gathered around and dug in the wheat pile.
I cried even louder: "Officials, leave me some!" My eldest brother's life depends on this little money! ”
In the chaos, a figure flashed and quietly slipped into the courtyard.
We left one person to pick up Min Qiu outside the office, and the others left first and found an inn not far away to stay.
Wang Fatzi is responsible for going to the city to find the joints of other bandits who have infiltrated the city.
Wufeng is responsible for finding the people in the city who were previously loyal to the king of Shu,
I ran around a few streets and alleys, and finally found a gouache shop and bought a bunch of incense powder.
I found a few more people and went to the empty farmhouse and came back with a few shovels and hoes.
In the middle of the night, Min Qiufang returned.
He smiled as usual, lifted his robe, sat down on the couch with a big grin, looked at our anxious eyes for a long time, raised a hand and said, "Tea!" ”
Wuqian made tea early and brought it over.
Min Qiu drank a cup of cattle first, smacked his lips and said disdainfully: "Chen tea, it's all scum." ”
Then he looked at us and said, "There's good news and bad news, which one do you want to hear first?" ”
"Good news." I replied.
"The good news is that I can be sure that the prince is being held in a hut in the back courtyard of the public courtyard." Min Qiu tapped the lid of the tea bowl with his knuckles, and said confidently.
I put down my hanging heart and asked without worry, "What about the bad news?" ”
"The bad news is that there are four secret guards in the side yard, six open guards, two guards at the door, two guards in the house, and one shift per hour. And outside the courtyard is the soldiers' quarters, and I roughly calculated that there are about a hundred people at any one time. ”
Everyone gasped, the defense was so tight.
"What do you have in mind?" I saw that he looked at ease, and knew that he must have ideas.
He smiled, took the empty tea bowl, held it up in front of me, I pouted, went to the table to take the pot and refill it for him.
He said, "As long as we don't alarm the guards, we can steal the prince out." ”
"Nonsense." I gave him a blank look, "Then how can I not alarm the guards?" ”
"You go with the two of me, I have my own way." He winked at me.
I looked at him suspiciously, swallowed back the question mark, and he continued: "When I finish speaking, there is another good news and bad news, which one do you listen to first?" ”
"Bad news." Wang Fatzi replied quickly.
"The bad news is that the prince is locked in an iron cell inside the house, with shackles on his hands and feet, and the key is not on the interior guard, and I tried, the walls of the cell are two feet thick."
"And what about the good news?"
"The good news is, I have this." Min Qiu's eyes flashed, and a knife slipped out of his sleeve, it was the knife he used to cut the rope for me that day, he rubbed the scabbard, and said: "This knife sharpens iron like clay, can"
"Cutting jade knife!" Before he finished speaking, I blurted out.
His eyes lit up, and he stared at me like lightning, and said, "How do you know? ”
I was also stunned, yes, how do I know?
But when I saw this knife, the name automatically came to my mind.
"I," I muttered, "I've heard my grandmother say that he who sharpens iron like clay cuts jade with a knife." ”
Still staring into my eyes, he said, "I gave it a new name, Ruyue." ”
He drew his sword, and the blade was curved, glowing with yellow light, like a crescent moon.
I was a little uncomfortable with him, and urged, "Let's hurry up and agree on a plan." ”
Since ancient times, robbing prisons has been nothing more than two tricks: open robbery and secret escape.
We can't rob it openly, we can only come to the dark.
Escape is nothing more than two ways: to heaven or to earth.
Escape from the gate? That's pretty much the same as robbing.
We thought about it and finally decided on the only feasible solution: digging a hole and stealing people.
There are still three issues to be addressed:
How can you dig a wall without being noticed?
When to start stealing?
Where to flee if you steal it?
Today's event came in handy.
He looked at me with admiration, and said happily: "Today, according to Sister Yuliang's instructions, I found three people who are still in the city and loyal to the king and prince of Shu, one is the imperial cook, and he happened to go home on the day of the slaughter of the palace; One was the nurse of the prince when he was a child; There is also a singer in the former palace. ”
"Can you trust it?" Min Qiu questioned.
"What are they doing now?" I asked.
"The imperial chef opened his own restaurant, the nurse is at his son's house, the son is a langzhong, and the singer is now the proprietress of a brothel."
"The nurse is good, his son is Langzhong and can still be cured." Wang Fatzi interjected.
"But the nurse has feelings for the prince, and his son may not be." Min Qiu frowned slightly.
I thought about it and said to Wuji: "Tomorrow, you take me to meet them, I will look at the face and the feng shui of the house, and then make a decision." ”
We did what we said we would do, and that night we took action and dug a hole first and admitted to the hospital.
Min Qiu and I came to the outside of the wall behind the office, and Min Qiu pointed to the location of the courtyard and the hut on the other side of the courtyard.
This wall is full of bushes inside and out, just enough to cover us.
Just as he was about to start, he heard the sound of a sentry post passing by in the courtyard.
We listened quietly for a while, and found that the patrol guards of the outer courtyard had passed by in less than a moment, and it was not a matter of two hoes to dig out a large hole for people to pass through, and the movement of digging the wall was so loud that it was strange that the guards did not find out.
Everyone looks at each other, how is it good?