Chapter 215: Cowardice Outside the Palace Walls
The shadow of the river bridge instantly hung upside down, and the cold wind with water vapor choked directly into the throat......
Gao Wei, who was originally leisurely commenting, screamed, and then, found himself sitting on the floor of the arrow tower.
A few soldiers who rushed to the top floor at the sound of screams stopped at the door for a while before leaving.
Wu Chang, who only led the way, left a smile on the two young people in the building cautiously, stretched out his hand to close the windows that opened wide one by one, and instructed in his mouth: "Two sons, don't open the window when the autumn breeze is cool, you can really only see through the window here, in case you provoke the nobles, it will be troublesome......"
The nearest building near the palace is not once or twice to meet the curiosity of some rich and idle sons and buddies to spy on the beauties of the palace. They have been mixed in Xiakou for many years, and they have collected all the money they can rest assured, such as the second young master who is sitting on the floor, they all know their roots.
But obviously, the young man who came with Young Master Gao today was not very hospitable.
Wu Chang, who was coldly glared away by Xiao Hong, muttered quietly while picking up the stairs from the upper floor, and secretly considered whether to return the money in his heart, or even notified the Gao Mansion to pick up someone.
The arrow tower with the doors and windows closed gradually warmed up, and Gao Wei, who was sitting on the ground, also came back to his senses in the warmth.
Daxiao, who burst out of his chest for a while, had an uncontrollable cough, which suddenly made his pale and ghostly face flushed.
"Xiao Hong! You don't dare to kill me! Can't! Today, you and I travel together, but I said it clearly at Lord Liu's banquet last night, and my father and Xiao Shizi both nodded. There were all the people watching along the way, and there was a soldier guarding downstairs...... You can kill me, kill a few more people to destroy the evidence......"
Gao Wei, who staggered to his feet in laughter, walked up to Xiao Hong's and pressed his shoulder, bringing back the same self-satisfaction as a cat playing with mice.
Xiao Hong in front of him is the same age as himself. But he was at least two inches taller than himself, and his body was blocked in front of him, just like in his memory, like a cold shadow that couldn't be waved away from the upper body of the cage. There were only the two of them in the building, and Xiao Hong, who was full of hideous face just now, directly pushed him out of the window, almost making him fall.
But he was not afraid of him anymore. Because it was the jealous man on the other side who pulled him out of danger again.
"The first time we met, it should be in the Zheliu Pavilion in the western suburbs of Luojing? When I bid farewell to Uncle Friday, ......". mentioned the bright childhood that was not buried many years ago, and Gao Wei, whose eyes flashed with nostalgia, unconsciously changed his tone to a much softer, "At that time, I felt that your courtesy to the fifth uncle was too much and did not conform to the rules. ”
"I don't understand what you mean. Something to say! Xiao Hong, who was leaning against the wooden wall, crossed his arms and drank coldly, trying his best to suppress the turbulent waves in his chest, not wanting to let himself really kill under impulse. Just as Gao Wei said. From the initial invitation to leave until now, too many traces have been left behind. He wasn't afraid of getting into trouble for himself, but now his brothers were in the same city.
"If the fifth uncle hadn't passed away so early, maybe Zhou Manyun would have been my wife by now!" , Gao Wei deliberately glanced at Xiao Hong, who was expressionless, provocatively, and said, "But it's okay!" She is now your fiancée, and whether she lives or dies in this palace has nothing to do with me. ”
"Nothing to do with you?". Xiao Hong's gaze fell on a scroll of paintings placed in the window case.
The scroll is spread out, and on the paper is a sketch of the palace in light ink and color. It is obviously a copy of Gao Wei's fake public wealth from his father, who originally supervised the construction of the palace. But now, the painting is secondary, focusing on the ebony shaft head on the side of the painting shaft, the wooden shaft of the cylinder has a dark grid, and a dagger with black moire is hidden in the lattice.
Latent, Zhou Manyun has never left the haze.
If it weren't for Gao Wei's treat, he played a small hand of "picture poor dagger". Then Xiao Hong wouldn't have followed him here.
In the past, he couldn't even keep the belongings that he borrowed for a while and would get them back, which shows that Zhou Manyun's situation should be really bad! Thinking of the figure he had seen on the bridge from afar, Xiao Hong opened his lips tremblingly, and then. The flickering eyelid closed slightly, and he jerked his head away.
"The palace gate is as deep as the sea, and Xiao Lang has become a passerby. Isn't that you? The reluctant expression of the person on the other side pleased Gao Wei even more, and the smile on his face became even stronger.
"But it doesn't matter, Brother Xiao has a good family background, he is young and handsome, and without such a water-based Yang Hua's fiancée, he can hire a famous Shuyuan again. Since then, she has climbed the dragon bed and become her palace concubine noble, and ......"
There was a loud bang, and Gao Wei, who was talking, was slammed to the table.
"Where is she supposed to be?" , A scabbard pressed Gao Wei's head that had been against the scroll lower, Xiao Hong sneered: "A sketch of the palace, an arrow tower that is convenient for peeping, and a chatter and provocation, all you ask for is to let me throw myself into the net." Now that is the case, tell us where she is! ”
A trembling finger tapped with difficulty on the Yurun Palace in the corner of the palace.
The cold sword came out of its sheath, slashed past Gao Wei's face and pulled straight across the scroll, and a pig-killing scream soared again.
"You're not afraid of death?" , Xiao Hong snorted coldly, pushed Gao Wei's hair bun to the side, returned the sword into the sheath, and slammed the sheath tail into Gao Wei's lower abdomen.
Looking at the man who was no longer noisy like a dead dog on the ground, Xiao Hong raised his foot and kicked it hard, before exhaling a long and vicious breath that had been suffocating in his chest for a long time.
He can't kill people, but he can't hurt them. Even if this is in Xiakou City, where the Xiao family brothers have only been here for less than four days.
Xiao Hong cut off both sides of the silk drawing, then took the haze from the hidden lattice of the shaft, wrapped the drawing on the dagger, put it in his arms, and ran downstairs with a puff of smoke.
The fat captain, who was more attentive than the guys in the restaurant, bowed with a smile on his face, and wanted to say a welcome word at the door of the building, but the words were not spoken, and the people were gone.
"Ghost-like!" , not like the fat Wu Chang who received the reward in the past, he smacked on the ground, only to remember that there should be another upstairs.
However, after a while, the top floor of the arrow tower sounded the cry of the fat chief ghost crying wolf, as if showing the special special special skills of the Xiakou Protector to defend against foreign enemies......
The streets of Xiakou are crowded and very lively.
The holy car is here, whether it is the bustling flow of passengers in the world smelling the interests, or the prosperity of a city deliberately maintained with a leather whip, in short. Rise in the sun.
In the crowd, only Xiao Hong, who had been clutching his chest and walking with erratic steps, felt that the road ahead was bumpy.
The pain that had been accustomed to it in the dark night suddenly became insignificant, and the pretty face with a slight sorrow on the Fishing Moon Pavilion was like a sword, and it was slashing at him hard.
Xiao Hong followed his eldest brother Xiao Ze to Xiakou City four days ago, and the third brother and eighth brother were also there. Originally. He had already obtained Xiao Ze's consent, and secretly crossed the river the day after tomorrow and made a trip to Huocheng. Xia Koucheng watched a song and dance to calm down, but it was full of dangers, and at this time, he left them and left, and he had already taken up all the unfilial piety.
However, the Zhou Manyun he was looking for was actually in the palace. Gao Wei, who was injured and left in the arrow tower by the river, should not be lying, but just dug a trap that he had to jump and forced himself to jump.
The latent mist in his arms burned his skin like a soldering iron, and the air was faintly filled with the smell of burning. A fist was raised and placed on the lips that were oozing blood from the chapped ground. Pressed firmly, Xiao Hong, who was blurry in front of him, was afraid that he would not be able to help but scream out on the street.
How can there be a stupid woman like Zhou Manyun in the world! And he is even more stupid, stupid, and hopeless......
"Yurun, Yurun...... If you are caught trespassing on the palace ban, it is not just two people who want the jade to be broken......"
A mouthful of blood gushed in his throat, and Xiao Hong's swaying body slammed into a black-skinned boy in a green robe, and he took two steps back before swaying zhanzhu.
"You don't walk with long eyes!" , I don't know why the black-faced boy with the same red eyes raised his big fist and gritted his teeth fiercely. Holding back his strength, he seemed to rush up and beat the person who hit him in front of him.
"Liu Da!" A hand grabbed the black boy's thick body from behind him. A handsome young man with wheat-skinned eyes glared at a group of soldiers patrolling the streets not far away.
"Phew!" , spit on the ground, and the black boy retracted his fist in annoyance.
"Where's that guy just now?" Seeing that he had pacified his companion, the young man standing beside him put away his nervousness and looked at the other side with some doubts.
"The guts thief slipped away while the master was unprepared! If you hit someone, you won't even fart. I'll skin him next time I'm caught......", the black boy who was looking for the object of anger scolded on the street, venting his anger at the shameless rumors he had heard in the restaurant before.
That person just now was a little kind. The young man who was half-coaxing the black boy quickly passed over the person he knew in his mind, and then shook his head helplessly.
"As long as it's not a court eagle dog!" Familiarity is just a glimpse of the feeling. He didn't even see it clearly.
The Yunzhou army, under the banner of escort, rushed to Xiakou City four days ago with a number of rogue heads cut off along the way.
The garrison in the city is full, and the imperial forest army that follows the emperor will not let the bloody foreign soldiers of the feudal town enter the city, and the Yunzhou army is stationed in Puzhen, which is sixty miles northeast of Xiakou City, and Xiao Yuan, the third son of the Xiao family, who has always liked to mix with the lower-level soldiers bare-chested, stayed in Puzhen directly, so he did not plan to enter the city to deal with the troubles of seeing the driver.
Xiao Ze only took his two younger brothers, who were still curable in terms of etiquette, to live in a small courtyard in the city, and only went through the motions, and left the dangerous place after seeing the people he should see.
Emperor Taiye is a good piece of meat, but there are few wolves and more meat, and the Xiao family has not planned to be the first to be the first to get angry for himself.
Therefore, since Xiao Hong traveled with the jackal surnamed Gao in the morning, Xiao Ze did everything he could, waiting for the sixth brother to come back in the study. Last night, at the banquet where Liu Renfu, the reign chief of the dynasty, greeted the guests, how did Gao Wei, who privately asked Xiao Hong to toast, persuade his younger brother, and he was also anxious to find out.
"Lord Shizi! The sixth master is back! ”
Xiao Ze, who was holding the scroll and watching quietly, heard the personal guard report and nodded.
"As soon as the sixth master came back, he called for water and said that he wanted to bathe and change clothes." , Estimating that Xiao Ze had plans to summon Xiao Hong to see him, the guards hurriedly reported the current situation.
originally thought about waiting for a bath, but Xiao Ze chose to come to the door in person after waiting for more than half an hour.
The sound of a banging knock on the door and Xiao Ze's anxious shouting sounded like thunder outside the door, and the room was silent, dead and silent.
Xiao Hong couldn't hear it.
His face was stuck in the cold water, as if he wanted to drown himself like this. All of this made him timid...... (To be continued......)