The front of the old Taiwei's Mansion in Xicheng District of Xuchang is very quiet, and it is not at all like the usual endless and lively and noisy appearance. Mu Yang knew that there were two reasons for this situation.

First, Yang Biao, a former lieutenant who once had countless protégés and deceased brothers, had been assassinated by Cao Cao. After almost a month, it was finally irrepressible that there was a situation where people were leaving the tea and cooling—almost no one would come to worship a month after the death of their mentor and boss.

Another reason is that today is the day when the Son of Heaven worships the emperor's tomb. This grand event with a very obvious meaning of political confrontation has already attracted all the eyes in Xuchang City. The place of the new emperor's mausoleum is twenty miles outside Xuchang City, so there is a very strange situation today: the lively city is deserted all of a sudden, and the city outside the city that has always been deserted is crowded with people at this time......

Mu Yang's mood was suddenly a little nervous at the moment, to be honest, he couldn't imagine why he, a newcomer who had not been in the shadows for a short time, would be sent by the lord to do such a major task. Even, six veteran shadows were dispatched to help cover up, and those six veteran shadows didn't even know why they wanted to make some moves in Xuchang this time.

There is naturally an element of secrecy in this, but Mu Yang still feels that this is too risky. For such an important task, Mu Yang felt that it should be safe to let any of the three shadow shadows come under the cover of those skilled and experienced veteran shadows.

However, then Mu Yang remembered that when he was in Chang'an, the lord's sincere, trusting, eyes and encouraging smile...... Mu Yang couldn't help touching his right shoulder, at that time, the lord patted his place gently, and said to himself with the kind of trust that was imprinted in people's hearts: "Mu Yang, do a good job, I am optimistic about you......"

Poor Mu Yang, he didn't know that Ma Chao had said this to almost any of his guards. However, even if he knew this, he would still swear to serve - because Ma Chao's trust at that time was true.

Thinking of this, Mu Yang took a deep breath and quietly approached the Former Taiwei's Mansion, he skillfully used the curves of the eaves and the shadows of the walls to hide his figure in the darkness most of the time. Fortunately, based on people's avoidance of some bad events, the front of the Taiwei Mansion is too lonely, and there is not even a person. This gave Mu Yang a good environment for action.

The closer he got to the Late Taiwei Mansion, the more Mu Yang found that the situation was more vividly reflected here: the Old Taiwei Mansion used to have thirty-five guards, of which twenty-five were in office and ten were on leave. However, since Yang Biao was suddenly assassinated, these private soldiers holding Yang Lao Yulu have gradually been unable to endure the cruelty of reality after cutting off the source of food and salary. Mu Yang secretly observed that the Taiwei Mansion had been three days, and when he first arrived in Xuchang, there were fifteen guards left in the Taiwei Mansion. And in these three days, five more guards left one after another.

Ten people are in charge of patrolling the area with 25 people, which is really very reluctant. What's more, the rest of these guys probably don't have the heart to patrol, and more energy should be put on finding out if the old man who used to be a good family has any treasures hidden in the mansion, right?

This was not Mu Yang's arbitrary speculation, within three days, he found that those guards were always close to the old slave in the Taiwei Mansion, and from time to time they dug pits under strange-looking trees or something. Moreover, the five guards who left one after another also looked dejected and annoyed when they left.

At this moment, only two of the four corner towers in the Taiwei Mansion were guarded on the front floor, two guards at the main gate, and the remaining six people were divided into groups of two to tour back and forth in the T-shaped corridor. Both the interval and density of patrols are unsatisfactory, but anyway, it is enough to let people see how they have not forgotten their old kindness.

Mu Yangyou walked to the outer wall of the ear room on the north side, and looked at the corner tower against the root of the wall. The corner tower in this position is unguarded today, and there is a mansion in the rear that was killed by Cao Cao, and there is not even a human population. After Mu Yang confirmed that he would not be seen, he took out a flying hook from his arms, tied hemp rope to the hook, and threw it vigorously towards the other side of the wall. The flying hook flew over the wall, and the special hook iron head snapped and ate the inside of the outer wall of the old Taiwei's mansion made of mud bricks.

Mu Yang first listened to the movements around him, and after making sure that it was safe, he pulled the rope again, feeling that the first hook was already firm, and then took out the second hook and concocted it in the same way. Next, he dipped some talcum powder in his hands, supported his hands by two hemp ropes, and climbed up with his hands and feet. It only took a moment to climb the wall. His first move was to bend down, as the patrol happened to be coming from the inside of the wall. The two guards scanned the courtyard with their lazy gaze and turned back.

Mu Yang immediately seized this gap and dragged the two ropes from the other side, and secretly hung down to the inside of the wall, which was to prepare a way out for an emergency. At this time, he realized that he was not nervous at all. Everything about the shadow training was alive in his head, guiding him step by step.

Next, Mu Yang slipped down the wall with the help of a rope and squatted down next to the pillar in the corridor of the ear room. Under the shade of the flowers and plants that have grown so luxuriantly for a month, it is impossible to find a person squatting here unless one walks to the pillar and takes a closer look. Mu Yang waited quietly in such a motionless state, and even his breathing gradually weakened, he knew that how long he would squat this time depended on God's will.

Half an hour passed, and Mu Yang was still standing motionless in the heat. But at this time, he rubbed his hands and legs while the patrol soldiers were not paying attention. This was a necessary measure to keep his body flexible, and the next moment, he took out three copper needles from his arms and looked at them, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Judging from their shape and size, these three copper needles should not be parts of a certain piece of machinery, but more like a tool. Moreover, the tail of the copper needle is suitable for a person to clamp with the thumb and index finger, and this barb is obviously used for pulling and belting. In the Han Dynasty, where the overall smelting level was very backward, only the Ma family's arsenal could make such a precise tool.

These three copper needles are used to unlock the lock, and they are also the next link that Mu Yang will carry out.

The origin of the three copper needles is very interesting, that is when Ma Chao unintentionally inspected the secret weapon casting drawings of the arsenal, and saw that the locks of the lock drawings were all locks with metal reed structures, instead of praising Han Feng for his cautiousness, he muttered: "Isn't this waiting for others to steal?" ”

Han Feng was shocked at the time, the metal reed butterfly wing iron lock was the strongest lock in this era. But Ma Chao took three brand-new copper needles the next day, and then inserted the three copper needles into the keyhole in turn in full view of everyone to support each other; Then gently swing one of them in a wonderful rhythm, and with a click, the lock opens.

Since then, all arsenals have used composite tooth iron locks designed by Ma Chao, which ordinary people cannot open unless they have a specific key. However, for Ma Chao, who was still a hussar general at the time, how he knew how to pick locks became the sixth gossip in the arsenal rankings. It's just that later, I vaguely heard the guards around the Ma family say that the lord once said something, 'If this is the master of the lock-picking company I know, stealing the palace princess's underwear is trivial'......

Soon after, this magical lock-picking skill was added to the training content of the Shadow - although it could not open the lock of the Ma family, the locks in various other places were really useless to the Shadow.

Inserting the third sister's copper needle on her clothes to avoid falling off, Mu Yang finally heard an extremely short sound from the front yard in the distance. Then I heard someone shouting for a run, mixed with the words, "Sure enough, there is still hidden money." At this time, Mu Yang saw that the faces of the two soldiers in charge of patrolling the late captain's bedroom changed, and he immediately ran to the front yard.

Mu Yang smiled slightly, and suddenly felt a little distressed: he knew that it was the two horseshoe gold that had fallen from the eaves and had been found. And those two pieces of gold were the reward for saving the horse and catching up for it in time. This time it was used as bait, and after falling on the eaves and rubbing the string back and forth against the wind and its own weight, it would become the object of scramble for these people, thus creating a unique opportunity for themselves to sneak in.

However, at the same time, those two pieces of gold were completely out of their own...... To do this task, he had to lose his own capital, Mu Yang was distressed, and he felt a little wronged.