Everyone's footsteps stopped immediately, and the horse thieves who were still relaxed just now also disappeared in the dark in the blink of an eye, Xu Zizhen waved his hand, Bao'er understood, and quickly came to the wall, jumped and reached out against the wall, and turned over with a little force.

Xu Zizhen was standing by the door, listened attentively, and looked at Bao'er, Bao'er was lying on the wall, her left hand stretched out two fingers down, Xu Zizhen nodded, and suddenly reached out to pull the door and pulled it gently.

There was a soft creaking sound, which was particularly harsh in the silence of the night.

"Who?" The person outside the door was obviously startled, and hurriedly turned around and asked.

But the door did not move at all, and what answered him was a sudden feathered arrow, which hit the throat impartially, and the man fell to the ground without snorting.

There was another person beside him, his eyes stopped on the huge ball that fell in the air, but he didn't expect to turn around and see that his partner had died, and he was so frightened that his soul was about to fly, and he cried out loudly: "What ......"

Before the word "human" could be spoken, the door suddenly opened, and then a black shadow jumped out, and then a cold chill on his neck forced him back from the rest of his exclamation.

"What kind of yard is this, and what are you putting it in?" The voice of the black shadow sounded in my ears, low, eerie, and murderous.

"Don't kill me, don't kill me, the villain is just a handyman, he doesn't know anything!" The handyman was so frightened that he sat down on the ground with a thud, tears and snot coming out of his eyes, and if he hadn't had a knife around his neck, he would have kowtowed.

Xu Zizhen raised his eyebrows: "Don't know anything?" Then I'll kill you. ”

"Ah no, I know, I know." The handyman replied in a hurry, "This is the place where the craftsmen's yard stacks up the utensils and miscellaneous items, to the west is the dyeing and weaving house, and to the east is the priest ......."

Xu Zizhen slapped him on the head: "I didn't ask you so much, I only asked you, where is the dormitory that Wu begged to buy?" ”

"Huh? This...... This villain really doesn't know, the hero spares his life! "The handyman almost fainted directly, he was really unlucky, he was just finished and was about to come back to sleep, but he actually ran into an assassin?

"Okay, spare you." After Xu Zizhen finished speaking, he withdrew the knife, and the handyman just breathed a sigh of relief, only to feel a dullness in his temples, and then fainted in front of his eyes and fell in the snow.

"I'll spare you, it's none of my business to freeze to death." After Xu Zizhen finished speaking, he took out a hand-drawn map from his arms, which was the map of the palace that Wan Yan Ang had secretly given him earlier, he looked at it with the torch on the wall next to him, and then waved his hand, "Go." ”

The falling hot air balloon is scattered on the ground like this, after there is no heat, this is a big stall of sheepskin, Xu Zizhen doesn't care about him, let such a big stall be lost, there are two people over there, one dead and one alive, if someone finds out, it's going to make trouble in the palace today.

"Over there." Xu Zizhen discerned the direction and pointed to the southwest, Bao'er took the bow back, he was small and clever, and took the lead in exploring the way, Xu Zizhen and the other eighteen people followed.

The snow began to get bigger again, and the surrounding buildings became more and more difficult to distinguish, Xu Zizhen scolded his mother in his heart, this broken weather made him fly into the palace unconsciously, but now he has to find a way to find a way, it is white everywhere, even if he has a map, it is not easy to use.

But fortunately, the palace of the Jin people is not big, and it is easy to find some, if it is replaced by the palace left by the Manchu Dynasty, it will be over, not to mention the snow day, even if it is daylight, it will take half a day for him to walk half of the Forbidden City.

They continued to walk forward according to the instructions of the map, and encountered two patrolling forbidden troops along the way, Xu Zizhen did not directly meet them, chose to hide his figure, and waited for them to walk away before continuing to move forward, he had not yet determined the direction of Wu Qimai, and now he started to alarm a large number of people and horses against him.

After a while, they came to a garden, and the imperial garden of this season was not worthy of its name, there was no green in the garden at all, the grass was all dry, not to mention, even a few pine trees were covered with snow, and from a distance it looked like a rockery.

Xu Zizhen's spirits lifted, and he walked through the garden to the southeast to the imperial study, and to the northeast should be the residence of the emperor and the concubines.

Suddenly he stopped again, and there were a few muffled grunts in his ears, and the sound of weapons clashing, although brief, but he heard it very clearly.

"Let's take a look." Xu Zizhen no longer hesitated, and quickly rushed to the side, there was no ghost here, and he was not afraid of being discovered.

After walking not far, there is a moon cave door in front of the door, and behind the door is a pond behind the imperial garden, Xu Zizhen hid by the door, poked his head out to look, and saw that there were several dead people lying on the ground.

Xu Zizhen put his hands to his mouth and shouted in a low voice: "Second brother or big brother Bu?" ”

Sure enough, someone soon answered, "Me." ”

When the words landed, more than a dozen black shadows flashed out of the darkness, the first one was burly and tall, with bright eyes, but there was only one arm, it was Wu Song.

Xu Zizhen breathed a sigh of relief, but he didn't have time to gossip at this time, so he waved his hand and said, "Follow me, I've found my way." ”

Twenty people became forty people, this time it became Xu Zizhen and Wu Song to open the way in front of the head, Bao'er followed secretly with a bow, and crossed through the imperial garden, only to go out of the garden and meet a group of patrolling forbidden army squads.

The heavy snow obscured the vision, and the forbidden army and Xu Zizhen didn't see each other until they met face to face.

Wu Song's reaction was the fastest, raising his hand and smashing the first person with a punch, and then wiping it with a knife, and another person fell to the ground.

Xu Zizhen saw Wu Song's killing methods with his own eyes this time, there were eight people in the forbidden army in that squad, Wu Song held the steel knife horizontally in one hand, his body was slightly low, and he rushed past the enemy's team, and every time he passed, the person's throat was cut.

There was just about to open his mouth to warn, Xu Zizhen and the others had already surrounded him, covering his mouth with one hand and cutting his throat with the other, and the poor team of well-trained forbidden soldiers was slaughtered in the blink of an eye.

As just now, everyone did not delay, continued to move forward, and after walking more than a hundred steps, a turn, a courtyard appeared in front of the left, and there were twenty forbidden soldiers standing on both sides of the courtyard gate, and in the courtyard was a two-story building, and there were lanterns hanging in the corridor downstairs.

Xu Zizhen raised his hand, and everyone stopped, hiding in the darkness and looking at the courtyard from afar.

There are no lanterns hanging anywhere else, but there are so many hanging here, is Wu Qimai here? Xu Zizhen was a little uncertain for a while, and wanted to go in to investigate, but he was afraid of startling the snake.

What the, is Wu begging to buy the bottom there? Why don't you go in and have a look?

Xu Zizhen was entangled.