Chapter 42: Behind Bars
In the Yuzhou cell at night, a figure in a night suit sneaked quietly along the roof of the cell. As he deftly dodged the heavily guarded cell door under the cover of night, he gently carved a small hole in the wall of one cell, and then sprayed incense at the two jailers who guarded Ling Wanli in the cell. After the two jailers slowly collapsed on the table, the man in black entered the room through the window, and then he quickly opened the iron prison door where Ling Wanli, who was covered in bruises, after searching for the iron door key.
Ling Wanli opened his eyes groggily, and the man in black in front of him also removed the face towel from his face. Looking at the face in front of him that was extremely familiar to him, Ling Wanli suddenly became a little emotional.
"Hurry, hurry, please go to Chengdu to save Xiaorou, Zhou Xuan's people are afraid that they will not let her go, now only you can keep his bloodline for Brother Chu." Ling Wanli held the hand of the man in black tightly, and pleaded with tears in his eyes, "I'm really damned, in a trance, I involuntarily revealed some news about Xiaorou in front of Zhou Xuan's dog thief, I am really ashamed of Brother Chu's dying entrustment!" ”
"Brother Ling, don't say anything, I'll take you out of here first!" The man in black had Ling Wanli, who was tortured and bloodied on his back, and then kicked open the door of the cell with a strong kick. Some of the guards who heard the movement quickly rushed to the door of the cell and surrounded the black-clothed man who was carrying Ling Wanli on his back, but the black-clothed man used the "snake shadow phantom step" in the maneuver with the guards, and his body instantly seemed to be possessed by a fast-moving spirit snake, and he quickly dodged and shuttled under the sword swing of the guards. When the guards were dazed by the wind-like pace of the man in black, the man in black quickly cleverly escaped from the guards' pursuit, and then he and Ling Wanli gradually disappeared into the dark night outside the walls of the cell.
"Quick, order someone to immediately fly the pigeon and send a message to Lord Zhou, inform him of the sudden situation here!" A cell guard shouted orders to several jailers beside him.
After escaping from the sight of the pursuers, the man in black supported Ling Wanli and carefully rested under a tree on the side of the road.
Ling Wanli still held the right hand of the man in black and urged him to go to Chengdu to protect Chu Birou in an eager tone, and then after the man in black's eyes were a little moist and agreed, he handed the man in black a silver ring inlaid with turquoise jade. Ling Wanli told the man in black that as long as he handed over this ring to Chu Birou, he should be able to gain Chu Birou's trust. Subsequently, the man in black also asked Ling Wanli where he planned to go after he left.
Ling Wanli closed his eyes and breathed his body for a while, and then he thought that under normal circumstances, he would most likely go to his cousin, Zhongzhou Taishou Ling Zhan as soon as possible to help, and at the same time, he would also be able to get in touch with his son Ling Rui, because he had temporarily entrusted Ling Zhan to raise him for Ling Rui's safety a few years ago. But he thought about it again, since Zhou Xuan had found out about his relationship with Ling Zhan before, then his whereabouts were probably very likely to be mastered by Zhou Xuan's detailed work in Zhongzhou, so he didn't think it was appropriate to contact Ling Zhan directly at this time.
Just when he felt a little anxious, he suddenly remembered that he had been entrusted by the Lord of Chu Pavilion to bring an important object to Qingshan before the destruction of the Water Heaven Pavilion, and perhaps it was time for it to reappear in the rivers and lakes.
"I'm going to the Clear Mountain Firmament Palace!" Ling Wanli suddenly opened his eyes and said categorically to the man in black, and then he tried to stand up and bowed deeply to the man in black, "Brother Qiuying, today's favor Ling will be repaid in the future, Xiao Rou, she will be handed over to you, take care all the way!" ”
After Ling Wanli finished speaking, he rode on his horse and ran in the direction of the northeast of Yuzhou, Qiu Ying looked at Ling Wanli's old and emaciated back and couldn't help but sigh deeply.
On the other side, Zhou Xuan and his subordinates entered the city and came to the Thousand Medicine Hall after getting rid of the entanglement of the Black Eagle Village, but at this time, the Thousand Medicine Hall was already empty, so Zhou Xuan ordered his subordinates to search for Chu Birou in the whole city in a bit of anger. When he sat down on a chair in the hall of the Thousand Medicine Hall and rested for a while, an officer also led a group of soldiers into the Thousand Medicine Hall.
Zhou Xuan was a little frightened by the formation of these soldiers, and in order to hide his eyes and ears and avoid unnecessary disputes, he told the officers during the officer's questioning that he was just a patient who came to see a doctor, and he didn't know the reason why there was no one in the Thousand Medicine Hall. The officer told Zhou Xuan that there might be a wanted criminal at the imperial court level hidden in the Qianyao Hall, and then he ordered someone to drive Zhou Xuan and the others out of the Qianyao Hall. Immediately after, with his order, a large number of soldiers began to carefully search around the Thousand Medicine Hall.
Zhou Xuan felt a little uncertain, because in his impression, his action to track down Chu Birou had always been carried out in secret, and he didn't think that he had made any mistakes in this operation and alerted Xuanwuwei to come. Faced with such a large formation of Xuanwu Wei, Zhou Xuan, who originally wanted to enter the inner courtyard of the Thousand Medicine Hall to check, had to give up this idea for the time being, and instead tried to continue to lurk in Chengdu City and wait for his subordinates to find clues about Chu Birou's whereabouts.
When the Xuanwu Guard soldiers were rummaging through the empty Thousand Medicine Hall, Chu Birou led everyone to the three-story building that Ling Rui and Ouyang He had rented before, but fortunately, this building had not been rented by others for the time being.
After Feng Qian helped Gao Che, who was seriously injured, to the bed, Chu Birou opened her toolbox and prepared to repair Gao Che's damaged meridians, and the whole process would take about an hour, according to her. She left Xiahou to help clean all kinds of tools in the room, and then she told the rest of the people not to enter the room to disturb them during this time, otherwise the whole process would be forcibly interrupted, which would greatly endanger Gao Che's life.
Originally, the whole process was peaceful, and Zhou Xuan also rushed back to Yuzhou with his subordinates after receiving a letter from Yuzhou about Ling Wanli's escape, but who would have expected that the eyes and ears deployed by Xuanwuwei in Chengdu City would be so well-informed, and it didn't take long for the officer in charge of searching for Gao Che and Feng Qian to get information from an informant that this three-story small building was very suspicious.
When the officer ordered the soldiers to hide in the shops on both sides of the road, and he himself climbed up to the second floor of an inn on the side of the road and looked far away in the direction of the small building, he saw Lu Lingxuan and Feng Qian standing by the pillars on the balcony on the third floor, and he noticed that they were nervously watching the movements around the small building. The officer then smiled with satisfaction, and then he ordered the archers who were in ambush not far from the small building to release arrows towards the third floor, and at the same time ordered his soldiers to take advantage of the situation to attack the third floor under the cover of bows and arrows and capture Gao Che alive.
In an instant, dozens of bows and arrows struck together in the direction of the third floor, and Lu Lingxuan and Feng Qian quickly waved their weapons to try their best to resist the bows and arrows shooting from the sky. And because there are too many bows and arrows, from time to time several bows and arrows will pierce the window paper and shoot into the room, which frightened Xia Hou Cheng to hug his head and cry quietly. Since there was a wall in the back room of the room that blocked the bow and arrows, Chu Birou, who was calm and focused on repairing the meridians for Gao Che in the back room, was not too affected by these bows and arrows.
Immediately afterwards, dozens of heavily armed Xuanwu Guard soldiers successively followed the stairs to prepare to attack the third floor, but they fell into the mud trap set by Xiao Wu on the second floor, and it was difficult for everyone to pull out after stepping into the seemingly ordinary mud with their legs, so this trap was relatively successful in buying time for Chu Birou's treatment.
Seeing that the assault had taken some time had not worked, the officer immediately ordered the building to be filled with hay around the building, ready to light a fire and smoke the people in the building.
Seeing that the soldiers were preparing to light the fire, Lu Lingxuan jumped from the third floor of the small building with light skills to kill several soldiers who were about to light the fire, and Xiao Wu also took the opportunity to take out the water stored in the small building and splash it on the haystacks around the small building one after another.
Although the threat of fire attack was temporarily resolved, Lu Lingxuan was surrounded by the Xuanwu Guards at the moment. She reached into her pocket and prepared to throw the smoke bomb as before, only to find that the smoke bomb in her pocket had been thrown away without she even noticing.
"Hehe, I can't believe that I would fight until now for a sister I just met, is this really me?" Lu Lingxuan showed a self-deprecating smile and said to herself, "Dad, my daughter is willing to fight to the death in order to be able to protect others, I wonder if you can expect more from your daughter now?" ”
As the soldiers surrounding Lu Lingxuan gradually moved closer to her, Lu Lingxuan gritted her teeth and opened her formation, ready for a desperate battle. However, at this moment, a faint scent entered her nostrils, and although she felt that her whole body had become much more comfortable under the breathing of this fragrance, her consciousness gradually became blurred. Although she quickly realized that it was a misty incense and quickly held her breath, she quickly collapsed to the ground with weak legs, and before she lost consciousness, she only saw the figures of the soldiers walking up the small building one after another and the feet of the officers slowly walking in front of her.
After an unknown amount of time, Lu Lingxuan gradually woke up, and she found that she was leaning on Chu Birou's body, and Chu Birou and Xiahou regret were still in a coma at this time. She stood up slowly and looked around, and by the faint light of the fire on the stone wall, she saw that the three of them were in a dark, damp cell, and in the corner not far away, there was even a fluffy rat staring at the three women.
Suddenly, Lu Lingxuan seemed to realize something and looked at herself, and a large piece of her clothes had been stained red with blood. She turned her head to look at Chu Birou, who she was leaning on, and after feeling a little wrong, she gently squatted down and turned Chu Birou's body over a little, and then a wound on Chu Birou's back that was cut by some kind of sharp blade really startled her. Looking at Chu Birou, who was still unconscious after shaking herself vigorously, Lu Lingxuan was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, after all, she was very afraid that Chu Birou would pass out like this.
Lu Lingxuan carefully took off Chu Birou's clothes one by one, and then evenly applied the golden medicine she was carrying on the wound on Chu Birou's back. Seeing Chu Birou's brows move slightly a few times due to the relatively strong pain, Lu Lingxuan's tense nerves were able to relax a little, and then she tore off a piece of fabric from her close clean clothes to help Chu Birou bandage the wound.
"Sister Lingxuan, Sister Birou, what's wrong with her?" I don't know when, the little girl Xia Hou regret had already woken up and watched from Lu Lingxuan's side to help Chu Birou bandage her wounds.
"It's okay, Sister Birou has a little injury, I've already helped her deal with it, don't worry!" Lu Lingxuan comforted softly.
Looking at Chu Birou, who was still unconscious beside her, Lu Lingxuan didn't dare to guess what happened in the small building after she inhaled the incense and fainted, so that Chu Birou, who was extraordinary in martial arts, could be seriously injured. At the same time, she looked indifferently at the dark cell beside her, unable to know what fate awaited them next.