Chapter 02: Covert Maneuvering

In the morning mist, the cries of vendors walking the streets and alleys have begun to rise and fall, and most of the store owners are busy directing their subordinates to make preparations before opening stores.

Although Luoyang is no longer prosperous, for most people, life has to go on.

On the depressed street, two figures in robes and hats hurried by.

One high and one low, one large and one small.

They all hurried away with their heads bowed and didn't say a word.

Leaving the street, they plunged into the alley, and the pace of the two of them accelerated even more.

Turn left and right, and stop in front of a seemingly inconspicuous Ruyi door.

Knock on the knocker.

In the middle of the night, a dull voice came from inside: "Who?" ”

"A distant cousin from Kannai."

"What are you doing?"

"Come and sell carp."

There was no movement for a while.

After a while, a crack was opened in the door, and a girl with a double-ring bun, wearing a dark green skirt, and dressed as a maid leaned out and greeted: "Come in, my sister has been waiting for a long time." ”

The two went into the courtyard and shed their disguises.

Yang Ying, who was dressed in black, and Yan Muling, who was dressed in blue.

"I'm sorry, Miss ordered: only Childe can come in."

Yang Ying looked back at Yan Muling and nodded.

Yan Muling looked disdainful and turned her head: "Cut, I'll give you one-third of the time to burn incense." ”

Yang Ying smiled, turned back to the maid and said, "Please lead the way." ”

The maid glanced Xiao Ling up and down, looking at her in a capable tights, with a horizontal knife and a leather whip hanging from her waist, and she had a disgusted expression. Only respectfully to Yang Ying: "Childe, please here." ”

The courtyard is small, but it reflects the warmth of family life everywhere: flowers and shrubs are planted everywhere in the courtyard, goldfish are raised in a large water tank, and a birdcage hangs at the end of the cloister, in which a talking starling is raised.

Yang Ying passed by and teased the bird, but unexpectedly it would only say "spare your life!" "It's really interesting.

Transferred to the lobby, which was equally clean and tidy.

Strangely I didn't see a single maid butler.

Yang Ying didn't ask much.

It's just that I'm here for the joint, so there's no need to know too much.

If you ask, you probably won't be told anything.

Keep going all the way and head straight to the back of the lobby.

Yang Ying finally couldn't hold it back: "Girl, you didn't make a mistake?" ”

The maid looked back at him, rolled her eyes, and then smiled: "Childe is really the same as my young lady described." ”

"What?" Yang Ying was a little strange. "Does she have anything special to say about me?"

"The young lady said: The person who is coming this time is an old acquaintance, and he specially asked me to prepare a big gift."

"A big gift?"

"Yes, the gift is in the back."

Yang Ying was even more confused.

As he spoke, he had already arrived in front of a hut in the deepest part of the courtyard.

"Alright, Childe, please come in!" After the little maid said this, she evaporated and disappeared without a trace.

"Hey, hey, hey?" Obviously, I'm only doing reconnaissance, how can I come here and feel like I'm being played by you.

The windows were all covered with black cloth from the inside, and I don't know what to do.

The small red door of vermilion paint, Yang Ying gently pushed, and then slid open with a squeak, and it was not locked.

It was obviously broad daylight, but it was dark inside, a large screen blocked the view, and the inside was faint, and the candle flame was shaking.

Yang Ying moved in inch by inch, his right hand clenched the hilt of the knife at his waist.

"Is there any?" After Yang Ying tentatively made a sound, he frowned and pricked up his ears to listen carefully to the sounds around him.

Behind the screen was a couch, covered with pink and crimson curtains, with golden magpie quilts and turquoise jade pillows, and cigarettes curling from the bronze incense burner, and clothes, belts, and scattered rose petals scattered everywhere......

A small, cold hand stroked the back of his neck from behind.

Before Yang Ying could turn around, he was pressed against the handle of a copper pipe, and two soft plumps leaned on his back through his clothes. The leg was also entangled and could not move.

Attached to the ear, she called: "Yang Lang, can you miss me these days?" "In addition to the smell of tobacco, the smoke ring is also mixed with a gentle carmine.

"Sister Bing, Gao Huan's attempt to assassinate the emperor in Yueqilou has been crushed by me, and now I need information and instructions for the next move." Yang Ying relaxed the handle of the knife, but closed his eyes and said like a wooden fish.

"Oops." The bewitching beauty wears only a tulle all over her body, and her graceful curves loom in the background. "You're always so serious, can't you just take a moment to talk to me about personal matters?"

"Gao Huan's army is pressing, and the situation is imminent."

"Then why do you take a little girl with you everywhere you go?"

"She's my adjutant and her job responsibilities."

"Hahaha, what a job responsibility, I'm watching the little girl get more and more smart."

"Xiao Ling, her kung fu is not under me."

"Oh~~~ You call her Xiaoling~~~" Sister Pipe's voice melted bones. "Come on, you call me Bing'er too, how about it?"

Yang Ying was silent.

"Come on, come on, shout Bing'er and I'll tell you what to do next."

Yang Ying remained silent.

Da Xibing's cool little hand was already dishonest on him and began to slide around.

Yang Ying blushed, and finally: "Bing'er...... Sister ......"

"I can't hear clearly, be louder."

"Ice ...... Sister. ”

"Isn't that right?" Da Xibing pretended to be surprised.

"Sister Bing'er." Yang Ying finally made up his mind.

Caused a giggle: "Interesting, so interesting!" As he spoke, he left Yang Ying's body, twisted his waist, turned the big copper cigarette stick, hooked the clothes on the ground with his toes, stirred his long black hair, exposed his snow-white neck, spit out a smoke ring, turned around in a gorgeous and exaggerated way, wrapped his belt indiscriminately, cocked Erlang's legs, sat on the edge of the bed, revealing two slender legs, and took another puff of cigarette. Finally, I added my sister, but it was also called. ”

Yang Ying could never organize a decent language in front of her.

"How does it feel to revisit the old place and face the Imperial City of Luoyang?" Da Xibing looked at him playfully.

"Not impressed."

"No wonder, it's been so long. Have you ever gone to see your fiancée? Da Xibing had a teasing smile on his face. I heard that she has become a great beauty! ”

"I don't remember anything like that." Only this one thing, denial is fast.

"Hehehehehe......" Da Xibing seemed to hear the funniest joke of the year, and he couldn't stand up straight on the bed. It's simply the most disobedient thing I've ever heard in my life. ”

Yang Ying didn't respond, just looked at her quietly.

"Good, good. You are a righteous man and a gentleman, I forced you" I don't know when, Da Xibing has changed into a cold expression. "Willow leaves! Take out the Tiger Talisman! ”

Although her clothes were not yet dressed, when she was sitting in a precarious position, she was a little not angry and threatening.

Yang Ying was also secretly surprised in his heart.

The green-clothed maid presented a vermilion lacquer box and held it high above her head.

Da Xibing got up and tapped the box with a copper pipe: "Yang Ying of Jingyang Bingfu listens to the order!! ”

Yang Ying took out his talisman from his bosom in disbelief, stepped forward, opened the box, and tried to put the two halves of the jade together.

Picture perfect.

Hurriedly took two steps back, knelt down on one knee, bowed his head and clenched his fists: "The last general Yang Ying is here!" ”

"Command the commander! Ordered Yang Ying to immediately contact Dugu as he wished, to assist him in guarding the Jingshi, if under Gao Huan's strong attack, the mission failed, then he turned to try to hijack the emperor into the customs, there must be no mistake! ”

"The last will be ordered!"

Yang Ying didn't dare to look up for a long time.

Da Xibing looked at the top of Yang Ying's head, sighed, and flicked his sleeves: "That's it, you go." ”

"The last general obeys!" Yang Ying maintained her posture and retreated.

When Yang Ying withdrew from the house and returned to the lobby alone, he had just put away the tiger talisman when he was stopped by Yan Muling. "Brother Shadow, you've figured it out. I'm worried about you! ”

"Don't worry, what can I do." Yang Ying understated it, and just walked out with Xiao Ling. I was still thinking about how I could see Dugu as he wished.

"That bad woman didn't do anything to you, did she?" Xiao Ling didn't seem to be at ease.

It's no wonder that Yan Muling has always been wary of Da Xibing since she was a child.

If you have to say why, it's probably a woman's intuition.

The two put on their disguises and left through the gate as if they had come out of their own door.

Unlike when I came, when I left, the yard was empty, as if it was lifeless.

Yang Ying didn't forget to gently close the door with her backhand.

There was a bang.

"Sister, you just let him go?" Waiting for Yang Ying to leave the room, the maid was talking a lot.

"What if it weren't?" Da Xibing didn't raise his eyes, but silently took another half puff of cigarette.

"It's a waste that you've prepared so much ......"

"I don't know who to put on a new dress, I have no choice but to ...... the night is long" Da Xibing's eyelashes trembled, his eyes flashed with a trace of resentment, he got up and tied his belt, and after tidying up the sarsa, he put on the robe handed by Liu Ye. He didn't turn his head back and left, but just threw down a sentence coldly: "Keep up after cleaning up." ”

Without looking back, he left the room, went around the back porch, went straight out the back door, got into a carriage that had been waiting outside, and mixed in with the traffic.

The green-clothed maid named Willow Leaf hurriedly pulled out two large wooden barrels from under the collapse, and sprinkled the oil full of oil in them everywhere. I opened the large wardrobe casually, and there was an old couple inside, tied tightly with rope, and a rag in their mouths. After watching it for a while, it turned out that people can struggle and squirm like silkworms. When he came back to his senses, he didn't dare to delay any longer, poured two scoops of oil, brought the wardrobe door, deftly jumped out of the window, took out the fire fold, threw it back into the room, patted the fluff on his hands, walked out of the back door, lifted his horse, lifted the reins and beat the whip.

"There's a fire! It's a fire! Fetch water! The chaotic neighbors were holding all kinds of pots and pans into a pot, and the water dragon cart of the yamen was a whirlwind, and was pushed past Yang Ying by four strong officials. Yang Ying lowered his hat and sped up his pace to leave as if he was out of the way.

Yan Muling couldn't suppress the curiosity in her heart, "What's going on all of a sudden?" "Looking back, there was really a private house, and the fire was blazing. The location seemed to be near where she had just been. "Brother Shadow, how could there be a fire early in the morning?"

"Stealthy maneuvering, that's the style of doing things."