The light under the starry sky was too weak, and Yu Liyan could only imagine that the dozen or so figures who came in just now were all holding bright knives, bending their waists, and walking slowly towards the backyard......

Suddenly, from the direction of the front yard, there was another muffled grunt, as if it had been hit by a heavy object, followed by "Oops! "! "Who?! ”…… A series of screams, Yu Liyan and Yinhua were stunned when they heard it, could it be that the Buddha blessed them?

After the confusion, I heard someone whispering, "There is a mechanism!" This is a wooden pillar that smashed Zhao Laoer. The group cursed in a low voice: "Who did it?" "Come out!".

The group of people scolded for a while, but no one came out, and they didn't dare to light up the torch, the torch just now was just a last resort, and it was extinguished when it was lit. There is a street across the street from the south of the restaurant is the imperial city wall, but there are palace guards guarding it, and the palace guards see it and send a team of soldiers out, then none of them will want to leave.

There was silence again. There were no lanterns in the backyard, and there was no passage between the front yard and the back yard, and the silver bottle trembled and asked, "Princess, is that thief...... Into the backyard? ”

Yu Liyan was just about to speak, but he heard the footsteps of "kicking, kicking, kicking" upstairs on the stairs, and the silver bottle that came over at some point suddenly hugged Yu Liyan, and said incoherently: "Gong...... Lord, Princess......"

Immediately after that, a man's voice said in the corridor outside the door on the second floor: "It turns out that these two cans of anointing oil are here." As he spoke, a dark-skinned man with some gray hair walked in, carrying a knife in his hand, a bow and a skewer crossed behind his back, and two pots of arrows at his waist.

As soon as the silver bottle saw someone coming in, she was about to shout, but Yu Liyan stopped the silver bottle, she had already seen that this tall, gray-haired man was the man who was eating in the restaurant this afternoon. She looked at the man suspiciously, and there was a vague familiar shadow between her eyebrows, except for some black and some white hair......

"Princess, it's only been half a day, don't you recognize the villain?" The man bowed slightly.

"It's you! Princess, he's ......"

"Sure enough, it's you!"

Silver Bottle and Yu Liyan shouted in surprise at the same time, but Silver Bottle was in a hurry to tell the princess the good news to Yu Yu, and Yu Liyan was surprised that his judgment in the restaurant was not bad at dinner. Looking at this, Zhou Nan, who returned to the restaurant in disguise, Yu Liyan asked, "Did you eat in the restaurant at dinner today?" You always seem to love mutton porridge? Yu Liyan's heart was actually as happy as the silver bottle, and his speech was not as unenthusiastic as the previous few times.

"Princess, how do you know it's Zhou Yingying?" After all, the silver bottle is a child's heart, leaving behind the killer in the front yard, shaking Yu Liyan's shoulders, and first asked such a gossip question.

Zhou Nan looked embarrassed, and felt a black line on his face: the two of them seemed to have forgotten that there were many people in front of the courtyard who needed to be dismissed, and they all said something like this.

Zhou Nan coughed first like the head teacher before entering the classroom, and saw the two girls looking at him before he said, "Princess, please avoid the window and door, so as not to be injured by arrows." ”

After listening to Zhou Nan, the silver bottle hurriedly picked up Yu Liyan and left the table, and walked to a flower hall inside, which was the passage leading to the bedroom, where some flowers and plants, bookshelves, and a low table and two stools could also be used as a temporary resting place. From there, although you can't look directly into the courtyard, you can see through the outer hall to the railing outside the door and half of the backyard.

Zhou Nan saw Yu Liyan and the silver bottle hiding there, nodded, and signaled that it was okay. Then he leaned over and picked up the two jars of anointing oil and walked downstairs.

The silver vase watched Zhou Nan walk downstairs in the flower hall, and couldn't help but stand up straight and look down worriedly, but he couldn't see anything. Reflexively looked at Yu Liyan, but saw Yu Liyan smiling, took out tea from a bamboo tube, sprinkled it into the cup, and lit a fire on the small tandoor on the low table, looking at the serious expression, it really looked like a little lady who tried to make tea in the summer night and waited for the word boudoir, and didn't care about the killer in the yard at all.

After a while, Zhou Nan didn't come in, and the silver bottle couldn't help but be a little worried, and couldn't help but go behind the window in the outer hall, and was about to look out, when he suddenly heard a "du" sound, and an arrow was inserted into the pillar on the second floor, only four feet away from the window. Then I heard someone under the courtyard whispering, "I'm here to see the princess." Ask the princess to come forward and see her. ”

Listening to the voice, these people should be talking in the hall, but they were conspired against just now, and now they see that the lights are on upstairs, and they can't figure out the details, so they don't dare to rush in, so they have to use words to explore the way first.

The man below spoke, and after a while no one answered, and the sound of Xixi Suo was heard below, and the silver bottle was anxious, only to hear the sound of a bowstring upstairs, and then a scream came from downstairs, and other people exclaimed: "Zhang Ba has been hit by an arrow." ”

"Sure enough, there is a helper!" A voice said coldly, then raised its voice and shouted upstairs: "Since the princess refuses to come out, the little ones are welcome—give it to me!" ”

I saw a few figures flashing out of the hall, the reflection of the bright blade of the knife was more conspicuous in the night, and they jumped towards the courtyard, the backyard was four zhang wide, and it was a matter of a few steps to rush over.

The silver bottle grabbed the heart at once, and how many people can be stopped with a bow? I only heard the sound of the bowstring upstairs, and in an instant, the figures who had just arrived in the middle of the courtyard suddenly collapsed to the ground, and some of them were moaning in low voices.

The silver bottle clapped his hands happily, ran to Yu Liyan's side, and said excitedly: "Princess, that person is really powerful, he can even send arrows!" ”

Yu Liyan looked at the fire in the stove, the fire was burning brightly, the small copper kettle on the tandoor was hissing and steaming, Yu Liyan said without raising his head: "It's chaotic outside, you sit here, don't run around." ”

"I'll take a look." After saying that, the silver bottle ran to the corner of the window again and secretly looked out. The three figures lying in the courtyard had stopped moving.

"Who's upstairs? Leave quickly, and spare your life, and don't think that if you can shoot a few arrows, you will be able to stop me. ”

Zhou Nan finally spoke: "Downstairs everyone, it must be the people who Yelu has seen, right?" Da Liao is rebellious, and he dares to be so arrogant, dare to offend the princess, and leave quickly, I will not pursue it, otherwise, the officers and soldiers of the city patrol will arrive in a blink of an eye! ”

Downstairs didn't speak for a while, and the silver bottle was about to run to tell Yu Liyan to listen, and when he heard the direction of the hall, the voice just now shouted: "Let's go together!" Leave no one to chance! ”

The thief gave an order, and more than a dozen figures suddenly poured out of the hall, and these people were not stupid, for fear of crowding together as targets, they scattered in the courtyard and rushed upstairs.

(End of chapter)