Chapter 17: Mastiffs
Fangcao didn't dare to look back, just stood not close to the two of them and said, "Little master, don't worry, there is Xuanming Hall in front." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”
Shangguan Haiyin looked around, there were messy weeds growing near the palace wall, no matter how it looked, it didn't look like the Xuanming Hall where the queen's mother lived, and the surroundings were quiet, basically no one passed by after walking for so long, would the queen's palace really be like this?
Shangguan Haiyin grabbed Zhang Wenlan, and then motioned Zhang Wenlan's maid to look for someone with her eyes, and Ning Si tiptoed and ran back along the road she came.
Fangcao felt that the two of them seemed to stop moving forward, so she had to turn around, and said with a dodgy look: "Two little masters, come with me, you are already late." ”
Shangguan Haiyin shook his head, his slightly raised eyes narrowed slightly: "This neighborhood is overgrown with wild grass, it doesn't look like the Xuanming Hall of the Queen Mother, where do you want to get the two of us?" ”
Fangcao couldn't hide it, so she had to take off her disguise, hooked her lips and chuckled: "Since the little master of Shangguan understands it, the maid is no longer cautious." The queen did tell the little masters to go to the Xuanming Palace, and we did take the road to the Xuanming Palace, but this fork in the road was not to the Xuanming Palace, but to the Praetorian Guard Camp, so the little master saw that the grass was overgrown and no one cleaned it. ”
Shangguan Haiyin frowned: "Praetorian Guard Battalion? ”
Zhang Wenlan replied for her: "The guard camp is the place where the emperor trains secret guards in the palace, and outsiders only know that this guard camp is hidden in a very secret place in the harem, but they didn't expect that it is just a fork in the road with the queen's palace." ”
Shangguan Haiyin didn't understand why Fangcao took them to the guard camp: "Why did you bring us here?" ”
Fangcao estimated the time, and then the person slowly retreated, and his voice became farther and farther away: "Because this hour is the time for them to let the beasts of the guard camp come out, the two little masters, Fangcao will not be accompanied!" With that, she ran around a corner in the distance and disappeared in front of the two.
Before Shangguan Haiyin could react to what the beast in the guard camp was, he heard: "Whoa! One came from afar, followed by dozens of howls from afar.
Zhang Wenlan's face turned pale with fright: "Sister, what is that?" What is it! ”
Shangguan Haiyin pulled out the soft sword at his waist and protected Zhang Wenlan behind him: "It's okay, I'm here." Although the words were spoken, she had no bottom in her heart, and she had not yet determined what kind of beast this voice was, let alone how to fight against this beast.
A few bags of pheasants were suddenly thrown out in front of the sky, and several large mastiffs rushed out of the path in the distance, chasing the pheasants fiercely.
Looking at the mastiff, Shangguan Haiyin unconsciously grew his pupils, which were too big, each one was more than one person tall, and the fur on his body was extremely black, and at this time, he was grinning at the pheasant running around.
Shangguan Haiyin looked back at the city wall, and when he was thinking about whether it would be difficult to fly up the city wall with Zhang Wenlan with light skills, a mastiff smelled their location, threw the pheasant that had bitten to death aside, and approached them with its fangs exposed.
Zhang Wenlan was so frightened that she slowly paralyzed, and Shangguan Haiyin raised her sword to avoid the mastiff's eyes, she remembered that her master had said that you should not look into their eyes when confronting this animal, so they would think that you were demonstrating, and they could only use their peripheral vision to see if its paws were advancing.
The mastiff stopped when it was more than ten steps away from them, Shangguan Haiyin felt that he could feel the heat it breathed out, and suddenly the mastiff pounced on her, Shangguan Haiyin also jumped up, the blade of the sword slashed through the mastiff's front legs, and a hot blood gushed out.
The mastiff was even more annoyed when his leg was cut, and after landing on the ground, he counterattacked, Shangguan Haiyin kicked the mastiff to the side, and the sword had already been stabbed out, and when he was about to pierce the dog's body, his hand was hit by an inexplicable force, and the hilt of the sword was deflected, and Shangguan Haiyin fell directly to the ground.
The mastiff was even more excited to see her lose, and roared to bite her neck. There was a whistle from behind: "Race the tiger!" ”
Upon hearing the sound, the mastiff looked back and limped backwards. It wasn't until the mastiff completely disappeared into the distance that Shangguan Haiyin breathed a sigh of relief and sat up.
A man wearing a black robe and a silver mask walked out, holding a silver whistle in his hand, and saw Shangguan Haiyin, who was splashed with blood on his face and lying on the ground in embarrassment, and Zhang Wenlan, who was already unconscious, asked in an unkind tone: "Who are you!" How is it here? ”
Shangguan Haiyin gasped and supported his body with his hands, looking up at the man, his clothes were pure black fabric, there was no pattern on it, the mask covered half of his face, he could neither see his face nor his identity, but from the fact that he could control these mastiffs, he should be a very high-ranking secret guard among the guards.
The man saw that Shangguan Haiyin was just panting and didn't have time to answer the question, and carefully looked at the outfits of the two: "Which palace are you the palace maids, so bold to dare to break into the forbidden palace." ”
Shangguan Haiyin didn't want to answer his identity, so he had to say: "We were going to Xuanming Palace, but we got lost and got here. ”
The man obviously didn't believe it, and snorted coldly: "Xuanming Palace? How could Xuanming Hall go to the Forbidden Palace, and get lost and get lost to the Forbidden Palace? And ......" The man in black looked at the soft sword in her hand, the body of the sword was made of fine iron, and the blade was still wrapped in silver steel, so his tone was even more dangerous: "You broke in with weapons, and you still have kung fu on you, do you want to approach the Praetorian Guard Camp?" ”
Shangguan Haiyin hurriedly shook his head: "No...... I'm just defending myself! ”
"Self-defense? As far as you are concerned, are you still talking about self-defense? If I hadn't appeared just now, you would have been eaten by the tiger and there would be no scum left! ”
After hearing this, Shangguan Haiyin was angry, if he hadn't missed her sword with a hidden weapon just now, she would have pierced the mastiff dog, so she stood up angrily: "If you hadn't attacked me with a hidden weapon just now, I would have killed that mastiff a long time ago!" ”
"Hmph, just your broken copper and iron, you can't even pierce the skin of the tiger, and you still kill it? And if it hadn't been for your first sword stab in its leg, it wouldn't have hurt you at all! The man in black sneered, and then his voice became fierce again: "Say, who are you sent to the palace!" ”
Shangguan Haiyin was about to explain, but she heard a voice from afar: "Queen Mother, I have heard it for sure, that Shangguan Haiyin definitely ran to the forbidden palace, if she is really sent by the enemy, it will be over!" The voice...... How does it sound like Ying Wanrou, could it be that she did this play?
Shangguan Haiyin looked at the palace wall that looked like a labyrinth around him, and then looked at the man in black who was standing not far from him, so he changed his tone and said: "This big brother, I am a new show girl who entered the palace this year, and it was an accident to break into here, I hope you will let us go!" ”
The man in black obviously also heard the sound from the other side of the wall, raised his eyebrows unconsciously, and watched Shangguan Haiyin help the unconscious Zhang Wenlan up, looking for a hiding place like a fly. Exit asked: "I see that your swordsmanship is light, who is your teacher?" ”
Shangguan Haiyin pondered for a while, and replied the truth: "Wuling Mountain is an empty mountain Daoist. Before the words fell, Shangguan Haiyin only felt that he and Zhang Wenlan were picked up by a person at the same time, and quickly disappeared from the entrance of the forbidden palace.
"What about people!" Ying Wanrou asked loudly after seeing that there was no one at the entrance of the Forbidden Palace.
The queen mother standing behind her frowned and looked at her: "Then it should be me asking you, what about people?" ”
Ying Wanrou looked at Concubine Ruixian, who was standing beside the queen, but Concubine Ruixian didn't look at her, but pointed to the bloodstains on the ground with some surprise: "Where is it...... How can there be blood? ”
The queen mother glanced at her coldly and replied: "Every day at noon, mastiffs will be released to catch pheasants, and it is normal for some to run to the entrance. After finishing speaking, Yu Guang swept to Ying Wanrou, who was nervous and broke out in a cold sweat: "I hope you had better explain where Shangguan Haiyin is." ”