To repay the kindness and Gao Henian, the relationship between him and Li You, is father and son, friends, master and servant or others, very complicated but very intimate, he followed Li You on the expedition this time, and took the initiative to come to Fujiwara Jing, just to protect the safety of the princess and Pei Dilan, no matter who has an accident with these two people, the prince will definitely regret it for life.

Gao Henian also knew the purpose of the Tang Dynasty mission, and he would also go out tonight to find evidence of the conspiracy of the Japanese slave people against the Tang Dynasty mission and Monobe Kazuki. However, he has a lot of experience, and he will not go out until after two o'clock in the morning, which is when people are most sleepy.

At midnight, Monobe Akimoto left the house, saw that there was no one around, and walked in the direction of the imperial palace to the north of the city.

Fujiwara-kyo is a system of jo bo, the so-called seven jo four bobo, four bobo are the residences of the imperial court institutions and magnates, and are lined up on both sides of Suzaku Avenue in front of Fujiwara Palace, and then there is the famous Rashomon, and the outside is the residence of ordinary officials, commoners, and other people, as well as workshops and commercial establishments.

Monobe Akimoto lives in Minami Nijo, where there are no walls, and the boundaries of each strip are divided by streets, so this area is unguarded.

After Monobe Akimoto went out, he specially chose small alleys and shaded places to walk, and it was true that he didn't see any soldiers setting up cards everywhere, so he didn't encounter any problems along the way.

In front of it is Suzaku Avenue, and the gates of Rashomon and each fang are guarded, and Monobe Akimoto can only climb the wall of the fang and try to get to the guest house. He prepared to cross Suzaku Avenue and go around to the square where the concierge guest house was located.

Just as he was approaching Suzaku Avenue, several dark shadows suddenly flashed on the corner of the side street, and someone shouted, "Stop, who is it?" ”

Monobe Akimoto didn't expect that there would be guards here, and when he saw those people with swords and guns in their hands, he knew that they were officers and soldiers of the imperial court.

It turned out that in order to ensure the blockade of news from the Tang Dynasty mission, the eldest brother and the prince also sent a large number of people to set up secret posts at the intersections of various blocks at night.

In order to climb the wall, Monobe Akimoto carried a rope on his body, and there was a note in his pocket to report the news, if this was seen by the officers and soldiers, his life would be confessed.

Seeing the officers and soldiers walking towards him, his first feeling was that he wanted to run, but he knew that he could not outrun these people at all, and he didn't know if there were people in ambush in other places.

He broke out in a cold sweat, looked around the environment, to see if there was any possibility of escape, suddenly he found the drainage ditch on the side of the road, he had an idea, "oops" scream, pretended to be frightened and fell to the ground, and took the opportunity to throw the rope in his hand into the drainage ditch. Then, he quickly pulled out the note from his pocket, stuffed it into his mouth, and swallowed it vigorously.

The note was stiff, cutting his throat painfully, and he couldn't care about it so much, so he swallowed it in two bites.

Several soldiers ran over and pointed knives and guns at him and asked, "Who are you?" What are you doing so late? ”

Monobe Akimoto pretended to fall hard, and while he struggled to get up, he said, "Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm ......"

At this time, he suddenly found that only half of his rope was thrown into the sewage, and half was still exposed, and the terrible thing was that the flying claws on the head of the rope were also exposed.

He sat up vigorously, pointed with his hand in the opposite direction of the ditch, and said, "Over there, over there." ”

The soldiers subconsciously looked in the direction of his finger and said suspiciously, "What over there?" Who the hell are you? ”

Monobe Akimoto stood up, facing the gutter, and the soldiers' attention was on his face, so no one paid attention to the gutter.

Monobe Akimoto said with a smiling face: "The military master is hard, and he is still on duty at such a late hour." I'm Akimoto from the Ikuzu cloth store. ”

The soldiers on duty were all locals, and someone knew him and said, "It's the shopkeeper of Akimoto, why are you going so late?" ”

When the soldiers saw that it was an acquaintance, they put down their swords and guns.

Monobe Akimoto had already thought about what to say in case he was interrogated by someone on the road, and he said: "Alas, my little daughter is sick, and Lang Zhong in the article can't see it, I know the Watanabe Imperial Doctor in the palace, and I want to go to him to take a look." ”

The soldier who knew him said, "Shopkeeper Akimoto, you better go back." There was an order from above, no one should go in the direction of the imperial city. ”

Monobe Akimoto still wants to give it a try, although there is no rope, and when he gets there, he may be able to climb it with the help of a tree. He said: "Oh, the military master is okay, my daughter is very sick, and it will be dangerous if you don't see it again." ”

The soldier said sympathetically: "Shopkeeper Qiuyuan, it's not that we are not accommodating, it's useless for us to let you go here, I don't know how many secret posts there are in front, they don't know you, they will arrest you, you better go back quickly." ”

When Monobe Akimoto heard this, he knew that the precautions ahead were stricter, and it was impossible for him to get close to the guest house where the Tang Dynasty mission was located, so he could only wait until dawn before thinking of other ways.

He muttered, "How good is this?" So saying, he walked towards his lodgings.

The woman of Monobe Akimoto knew that her husband was engaged in a dangerous job, and every time she went out, it was possible to say goodbye, and when she saw her husband come back in a good way, as before, she couldn't help but shed tears of surprise.

Guest house.

At two o'clock in the morning, Gao Henian came to the edge of the wall of the guest house, and the soldiers of the Flying Tiger Army who were in charge of guarding saw him coming and asked in a low voice, "My lord, who are you?" ”

Gao Henian made a silent movement with his fingers to his mouth, and also whispered: "I have a task, I want to go out for a while." ”

Gao Henian came to the edge of the wall, jumped up, put his fingers on the wall more than a foot high, and then, his body also went up the wall, his movements were light, like a raccoon cat, almost no sound.

The officers and men of the Flying Tiger Army have also practiced the skill of climbing over the wall and skipping the ranks, and when they saw Gao Henian's skills, they all admired them very much, and they really couldn't imagine that the correction master of the dignified military medical school would have such good kung fu.

Gao Henian leaned on the wall, and did not go out immediately, he threw a small pebble into the shadow across the street, and soon found that there was a figure shaking there. After a while, he changed direction and probed again, only to see that someone was watching the place as well.

Although Gao Henian is skilled, but under the surveillance of so many people, he can't get in and out without being discovered, so he has to give up, and he has to wait until dawn to find a way.

General's Palace.

It's been a long time, and the giant black maro hasn't had a good night's sleep, insomnia and nightmares have become his norm, since he knew that Her Majesty the Empress asked Qianyu to marry Prince Pei Dilan of the Great Food Country was fake, he couldn't sleep with excitement, and Qianyu's delicate and lovely face kept appearing in front of him, looking forward to the beautiful life that was coming.

At the third watch, he finally fell asleep in a daze, but a nightmare woke him up again, covered in cold sweat, and sat up all of a sudden.