Chapter 135: Exploring the Deep Palace at Night (2)
"What should I do?" Jiang Xiaolou turned his head and asked Duan Qingcheng, thinking that it would be easier to get in if he removed some guards, but now it seems that things are not as simple as he imagined. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Duan Qingcheng also secretly pinched her sweat, she said: "Don't startle the snake, you must find a way to divert the attention of those guards, maybe there will be a chance to take advantage of it." ”
"So troublesome?" Jiang Xiaolou stared at her in great confusion, "The two of us can't just wait here all the time, it will be dawn when we wait......"
"I'll go to break into the Huaqing Palace, and you try to lure them away." Duan Chengcheng said resolutely.
"Oh...... Yes? Jiang Xiaolou squinted at her, "Why don't you go and lure people away, your martial arts are so much better than mine......"
"Then you don't want to go." Duan Chengcheng looked at him coldly, with an expression of "If you can't do it, I'll do it."
"Okay, okay, can't I go?" Jiang Xiaolou frowned reluctantly, he didn't want to admit it in front of her easily. And since he was a child, he never dared to refuse any request from her.
He quickly glanced at every environment around him, and although he was in the darkness of the night, in his eyes, the scene was not much different from the daytime, but it also provided him with the convenience of easy hiding.
No way, who made him a thief?
A team of roving eunuchs came from the right side carrying lanterns, and happened to cross with another team of patrolling guards outside the Huaqing Palace.
Here's your chance.
Jiang Xiaolou supported the ground with the palm of his hand, and flew out by the overlap of light and shadow, his body was so fast, with a few shadows reflected on the ground, he swept by the wind, disappeared in an instant, and easily extinguished all the lights held by the night patrol eunuchs.
In the dark night, all the lanterns were suddenly extinguished, and there was no light to guide the way, but this small movement made everyone panic.
Not only that, but even the candles in the lanterns did not know where to go, and this strange thing caused by a demonic wind for unknown reasons, which inevitably caused a commotion among the people.
The secret guards around the Huaqing Hall seemed to have been alerted, and after a while, two people appeared, one on the left and one on the right, each holding a weapon and guarding outside the main hall, not allowing anyone to approach a step.
Seeing this situation, Duan Chengcheng was already a little anxious in his heart, what kind of trick did this Jiang Xiaolou play, let him lure people away, but he instead lured people in.
Just when Duan Chengcheng was confused, Jiang Xiaolou didn't dare to stop a step, and in the blink of an eye, he had already come to a deserted old palace.
This old palace was dirty and small, and the perimeter was covered with wild grass, and he had seen that this place was too unsightly compared to the imperial city with carved railings and jade walls.
So he stacked the candles in the corner of the side room without hesitation, opened the fire and lit the candles, and the fire gradually spread, and wisps of green smoke rose and drifted in the cold night.
It was only half an hour before I saw the smoke billowing from the old palace, and the bright light of the fire illuminated the unknown dark place.
Such a fire shocked the chaos in the imperial city, and the people who patrolled the night in the palace led people to put out the fire, and the secret guards who were ambushed around the Huaqing Hall appeared one after another.
Seeing that the fire was coming strangely, six of the eight people were sent to investigate the fire, leaving only two to guard the temple gate, and no idle people were allowed to enter.
Duan Chengcheng looked at the direction where the fire was spreading, as if it was the abandoned empty house she had followed that day.
"This madman!" She cursed in a low voice, and in the bottom of her heart, she was surprised by Jiang Xiaolou's earth-shattering behavior.
Where is he making a noise, obviously trying to burn the entire eastern palace to ashes, right?
But after thinking about it, the dark guard was withdrawn, and this opportunity could not be easily missed. So she took advantage of the lax guards of Huaqing Hall to sneak into the apse very easily.
The figure in black inked her, turned around and borrowed strength, and landed silently.
Different from the ridicule outside the hall, there is no one in the Huaqing Hall at this moment. If I looked around, it was estimated that because of the noise outside, the palace maids and eunuchs who were guarding the hall just now were gone, and the hall was empty at this time.
She had been here during the day, and she knew the furnishings in the hall at a glance, but she didn't know where the hidden mechanism Jiang Xiaolou said was hidden.
There was no better way to find it, so she tapped each wall lightly, concentrating on discerning the differences. But she knocked on almost all the walls, but they were all the same dull sound.
Where exactly is it hidden?
She stood in the center of the inner sanctum, calmly and eagerly looking back and forth at each formation, hoping to find a clue in it.
When the search was fruitless, Jiang Xiaolou, the original murderer who had set fire just now, had already turned back, and just happened to see a few palace maids coming to the Huaqing Palace. He was in a hurry, for fear that Duan Chengcheng would make a mistake, so he simply sneaked in before the palace maids.
"Did you find it?" When he entered the temple and saw Allure, he was already anxious, because someone outside the hall was already coming in.
Duan Qingcheng shook her head, she didn't speak, her steps were eager because of eagerness, and a pair of eyes were still looking around.
Suddenly, there was a slight sound of space from the soles of her feet, she was startled, stopped and leaned over to check, stretched out her hand and tapped the floor tiles, the sound of emptiness came through the cold emptiness, and she was secretly happy in her heart.
Got it!
"This fire is so weird, it's the old palace ......"
"Isn't it? No one has approached that place for years, and it's still on fire on this cold day......"
At this moment, the voices of several palace maids came from the outer hall, and this variable prevented Duan Qingcheng's next move, and it seemed that he would not be able to open this secret grid no matter what today.
"Someone's coming, let's go!" Jiang Xiaolou pulled her in a hurry, and before someone came to the inner hall, the two of them fled to the Huaqing Hall one after the other, and evacuated safely under the cover of the night.
The fire in the abandoned old palace has been controlled and does not continue to burn, but this inexplicable fire made Gong Ling Longyan furious.
"How can it be!" Gong Ling listened to the investigation results of Qi Yu's report, and was furious, "I have set fire to my pillow, it seems that there are really many talented people in this palace." ”
"The emperor is angry, fortunately, there is no loss, but after such a fuss last night, I am afraid that the place will not be able to stay." Qi Yu quietly glanced at Duan Chengcheng, and said half-concealment.
"If you can't keep it, you can't keep it." Gong Ling forcibly endured the anger in his heart and said: "Temporarily integrate those people into the Shenji Battalion, anyway, it will be sooner or later, as for the rest of the affairs, you will be in charge, I am too lazy to listen to it......"
"Yes, my subordinates will do it." Qi Yu took the order, and when he left, he glanced at Duan Chengcheng again, but left without saying anything, looking at his expression, he seemed to be suspicious of her.
Duan Qingcheng stood quietly with a knife on her face, and after watching Qi Yu leave suspiciously, she was also shocked into a cold sweat under her seemingly calm appearance.
It's all to blame for this damn Jiang Xiaolou, he didn't know the severity of yesterday, which led to today's situation.
I was afraid of startling the snake, but now it's good, let alone the snake, even the emperor was angry by his nameless fire...... (To be continued.) )