The next morning, I came to the martial arts arena, and I tried my swordsmanship with the old man for a while, and after breakfast, the old man led me to a room, which was very large, empty and empty.

Before I could ask, the old man said first, "We have been in this room for the past few days, and we have laid out all the palaces and roads in the palace for you, and I have also invited a carpenter, and I will tell you a paragraph if he makes a paragraph." If you want to be in the middle of the scene, I will also tell you about the defense situation in general. ”

For the next four or five days, the old man and I were in the house, hardly leaving the house except for the time to eat and sleep, and with the help of the carpenter, we sorted out the structure of the whole palace and arranged it into models one by one, until I could see where the hall was next to me when I closed my eyes.

The old man saw that I remembered, and took me to pretend to be a tourist, and reconnoitred the terrain around the palace several times, and walked through several streets of the palace from the old man's mansion.

In the evening, the old man also put on night clothes and took me all the way to the palace wall, although I didn't go in, but it also allowed me to exercise the experience of night travel.

Finally, it was tentatively scheduled that I would enter the palace on the 10th night of the first month of August, because if I waited any longer, the moon would get brighter and brighter, and it would be difficult to hide after entering.

On the ninth day of the eighth month, the old man went out for another day, and came back drunk until very late, came to my house and said: "I finally got their duty schedule today, the defense in the palace is composed of three layers, the first layer is the Imperial Forest Army, they are only responsible for the palace wall, and the defense outside the palace wall, what kind of martial arts do they have, so don't worry about them." The second layer is the Shence Army, they are responsible for the defense of the palace gates everywhere in the palace, and there are many good players in them, so be careful to avoid them and don't directly clash with them. The third layer is the imperial guards, they follow the emperor at twelve o'clock, responsible for the emperor's daily security, which is equivalent to close bodyguards, they are all masters. The Emperor of the Wenhua Palace rarely goes, so there is no possibility of meeting them. Tomorrow I will give you another eunuch's costume, so that if you are found inside, you will have an explanation. ”

When I got up in the morning, the old man told me to familiarize myself with the road of the Wenhua Hall and the room furnishings in the palace, and then went out.

This time I didn't wait until late, at noon the old man came back with a burden, came to my room, opened the baggage, inside is a set of eunuch clothes, the old man let me put on and try on, it looks very fit, and taught me the etiquette in the palace, mainly what people to meet, what kind of tone to speak, and what kind of clothes represent what identity, the old man is tireless to teach me, until I remember all the end.

We agreed to enter the palace when we were ugly, at that time, although there was a moon, but it was also the most sleepy time for the guards, especially the place we chose to enter the palace, the palace wall near the imperial horse prison, and the weakest place in the defense of the entire palace, the old man prepared a night coat and flying claws for me, this is a special flying claw, the claw is wrapped with a layer of black cotton cloth, the old man is afraid that the flying claw will touch the wall to make a sound, the rope on the claw is also silk, although it is thin but the tension is very good, the rope is also dyed black by the old man. Everything was ready to stop, and the old man told me to go to bed in the afternoon, and called me up at dinner.

After dinner, the old man and I finalized the details in detail, to see if there were any mistakes, and agreed that when tomorrow night was ugly at the latest, the old man would go outside the palace wall to meet me. I told the old man that if I didn't come out on time, something would have happened, so I told Zihan and the brothers in the cottage to let *** be the leader in the future. The old man also knows that although we are thoughtful, who knows what will happen, this is the most heavily defended place in the country.

Just after the hour, the two of us changed our clothes and left the mansion, and we also climbed the wall for fear of alarming our families.

At this time, the moon was thick, and we could see clearly from a few steps on the street, and we were afraid of encountering patrolling soldiers. By the shadow of both sides of the street, try to avoid the street, through a few alleys, and soon come to the outside of the palace, we selected this place to the east of the palace, about a hundred zhang away from the Donghua Gate, after the palace wall is the imperial horse prison.

We hid in the big tree outside the palace wall, observed for a while, and found that every half of the incense stick, there was a patrol of soldiers walking by, the palace wall was five zhang high, and the sound of walking and talking came from the wall from time to time. Knowing that the time had passed, the soldiers who came out to patrol came back and forth on time, and the palace wall had been quiet. There is no sound of walking or talking anymore. I'll see it's almost time. He pulled down the sleeve of the old man's shirt, the old man nodded, and patted me lightly on the shoulder, I don't dare to speak here, maybe there is a master not far away, if I hear it, I will give up all my efforts.

When a patrol of soldiers passed, I quietly got down the big tree and came to the palace wall, which was not very simple to throw the flying claws on, and it was not easy to throw the flying claws on it, and it was necessary to not alarm the guards. I took out the flying claws, straightened out the rope, weighed it, and threw it on the palace wall, fortunately, the hard work of these days was not in vain, the old man specially taught me how to throw the flying claws, after the flying claws were thrown on the wall, I didn't move, and listened to the above no movement, so I pulled the rope and climbed to the top.

When I got to the top, I looked down and found that there was no one on the wall, so I put the rope away, and came to the inside side of the palace wall, fixed the flying claws on a wall battlement, put down the rope, and went down the palace wall along the rope, and after collecting the rope and the flying claws, I walked a few steps forward and came to the horse shed of the imperial horse supervisor, there was no figure here, only two lanterns hung at the door in the distance. I looked at the haystack, came down to see that there was no one around, took off my night clothes, wrapped my talons and rope in my clothes, and hid them in the haystack.

The old man once told me that there was a chief eunuch under him, and there were 50 little eunuchs who were responsible for feeding the horses, and it was also the most oil-free errand in the palace, so it was understandable that they were lazy and lazy.

I tiptoed to the room with the lights on, the window was open, and when I looked in from the window, I saw four little eunuchs drinking, it seemed that this was on night duty, and I didn't stay long, I went out of the gate of the imperial horse eunuch and walked in the direction of the Wenhua Palace.