readx;?readx; Chapter 299 A gentleman should not work

"The chicken is perched, and the gentleman does not work. Pen, fun, pavilion www.biquge.info people set, unitary time. In the distance, there was a faint sound of more hymns in the palace, which also woke up Qin Lei, who was asleep.

"Don't work for a gentleman," rubbing his sleepy eyes, Qin Lei muttered, "I'm going to work all night." As he spoke, he bounced up from the bed and washed his face with the cold well water in the basin, and the bone-chilling feeling immediately dispelled the tiredness and refreshed his spirits.

The inner palace is guarded by the Ouchi guards, and the Imperial Forest Army can't get in, because the bright yellow armor has no effect, and it is taken off by three times and five divided by two, leaving only the close-fitting soft armor. He opened the baggage he had brought into the palace, revealing a night suit and a few pieces of special equipment.

Rubbing the delicate repeater arm crossbow, Qin Lei placed it aside, and began to put on the night suit in an orderly manner. Shen Qing on the side had already put on his night travel equipment and sat in the dark waiting for him.

Shen Bing was not in the house, and it wasn't until Qin Lei tied the last dagger to his calf that he pushed the door in, shook the snow all over his body, and whispered to Qin Lei: "It's snowing again." ”

Qin Lei laughed and said, "Good thing. Shen Qing got up and added a white blouse to Qin Lei, nodded and said, "The chance of being found is much smaller." ”

Qin Lei asked softly while tying the straps of the smock, "Are you optimistic about the route?" ”

Shen Bing nodded and said softly: "There is only one mile from here to Hualin Garden, and then from Hualin Yuan to the palace over the wall." Although going around in circles, there are far fewer guards. "Hualin Garden is the Royal Racecourse, where Yongfu Palace and Changshui Pavilion are located, but now Emperor Zhaowu and Princess Yongfu are not in the garden. The crown prince wanted to strengthen the garrison of the forbidden palace, so he transferred most of the guards who were not many here.

Qin Lei stretched out his right hand with leather gloves, clenched it into a fist, pursed his lips and chuckled, "Good luck, brothers." Shen Bing Shen Qing's face was pale, and he also stretched out his fist, collided with Qin Lei's three fists, and said respectfully to Qin Lei: "Good luck, Lord Wang." Thumbs up, the three of them looked at each other and smiled, and they walked out of the hut.

There is snow and no wind tonight, and the snow is falling one after another, and there is silence all around, only the sound of rustling snow falls, as if countless spring silkworms are gnawing on mulberry leaves. Shen Bing opened the way in front of his head, and Shen Qing took a small broom to clean up the traces behind. Qin Lei was protected by the two of them in the middle, and the cat's waist followed the root of the wall, and quickly slipped out of the barracks.

Xue Naijun had already carefully explained the rules of the patrol of the Royal Forest Army to Qin Lei and them, and Shen Bing went out to verify it again, and found that it was accurate, so he was relieved to lead the way in front.

Between the barracks and Hualin Garden is a vacant land more than one mile wide, and there is a Jinshui River more than two zhang wide in the middle. At the four corners of the outer wall of Hualin Garden, there is a watchtower, if it is usual, you can have an unobstructed view of the open space of this mile, even at night, hundreds of torches are burning, and the field can still be illuminated like a white ground.

The designer of this defense system can be described as meticulous, but he has overlooked one thing: who can stand on a watchtower with no shelter around it in the cold winter and the dripping water turning into ice? It's better to talk about it during the day, for fear that the officials will see it, even if it is cold, the soldiers have to grit their teeth and persevere.

But as soon as night came, several soldiers on duty, wrapped in the thick tattered quilt of the bed, shrank in a corner of the tower and shivered, leaving only one person standing there to stand sentry. They don't dare to hide all of them, and if a thief really slips through, the derelict will be beheaded everywhere.

The unlucky soldier was the youngest of them. There was wind in the high places, and the snow particles fluttered on the face, and the fire hurt so much that I couldn't open my eyelids, let alone look down with my eyes wide open. Naturally, there was no way to find that on the snow, there were several figures that were also white, crawling forward, slowly crawling.

Qin Lei and the three of them climbed down the Jinshui River smoothly, followed the river to the root of the palace wall, and then lay on the ground to rest for a while. He took off the skin covered with a white cloth from his waist, poured it on his head, and the spicy old burn went down the throat into the stomach, making the somewhat frozen body warm up again. Only then did the three of them put their heads together, and Shen Bing whispered: "Behind the wall is a thorn forest, which is specially designed to prevent climbing over the wall." This was said to Shen Qing, among the three of them, he was the only one who had never entered Hualin Garden.

Qin Lei laughed quietly: "Last time I stayed here, I came to volunteer to weed every night and opened a two-foot-wide path. From the first day he entered this palace, he had a premonition that there would be a day when he would fly off the wall, a woman's sixth sense.

Saying that, he motioned for Shen Bing to get out of the way, and he climbed to the low water gate, stroking the arm-thick railings, and finally stopped at the second one on the right. Seeing his left hand stretched back, Shen Bing hurriedly handed him a small saw.

I saw Qin Lei's right hand rubbing the iron rod, and after a while, he paused two inches at the upper end, and his left hand stuck the small saw on the railing.

Shen Qing rubbed his eyes and found that the thin saw blade had completely submerged in the iron rod, and he was about to cut it off. Shen Bing saw him with his mouth wide open, and whispered in his ear: "The prince has already sawed off this railing by eighty percent...... Shen Qing then understood what it meant to 'take precautions and be prepared'.

In less than a quarter of an hour, I heard the prince whisper: "Okay." As soon as he finished speaking, he slipped through the sawn opening. After Shen Bing and the two got in, he reconnected the unloaded railing, and wrapped the cloth tightly, before turning around and leaving.

Carefully identifying the next direction, Qin Lei took the two of them to the shore, and pulled away a sour jujube branch that had been pressed with a boulder, revealing a two-foot-wide path.

The three of them crawled down and looked around, only to see that there was silence in the empty Hualin Garden, and they couldn't see a single figure. Qin Lei breathed a sigh of relief, stretched out his hand and pointed to the birch forest in the west, and the three of them followed the thorn fence and the cat's waist to the forest, and walked through it without stopping, but they arrived at the edge of the racecourse.

After walking along the perimeter of the racecourse for a while, I finally arrived at the three-zhang high palace wall. The three of them entered the grass under the wall, and Shen Bing was about to shoot out the flying claw spear hook, but was held down by Qin Lei. He was immediately alert, and lay down on his back in the ditch, holding his breath motionlessly, when he heard a small group of soldiers on the night patrol laughing from a distance.

Several soldiers whispered about the cold weather, and walked quickly, and when they saw that they were approaching, they heard only one person say in a rough voice: "***, I drank too much and asked for urine." Someone on the side laughed and said, "Beware of freezing the stick, my sister-in-law will be to blame." Someone else answered: "Just go to serve the ladies, and the province will come out to suffer in this cold day." ”

I heard the man laugh and scold: "Get out of your mother's eggs, some people can't pee when they see it." As he spoke, he walked to the side of the road, and began to untie his trousers.

Qin Lei and Shen Qing looked at Shen Bing with their mouths wide open, and the position where he was hiding seemed to be a bit clever...... I saw a golden arc falling from the sky, one end connected to the soldier's small finch, and the other end followed by Shen Dusi's face that was whiter than snow......

That bastard soldier may have been holding back for a long time, and he didn't finish sprinkling, and the hot water column repeatedly washed Lord Shen's face, but fortunately, Shen Dusi practiced a breath-holding kung fu in Qingchuan Lake......

Listening to the sound of the rushing water, Qin Lei and the two kept drawing the cross in their hearts, praying that Shen Dusi would not be annoyed and angry, startling other people's finch. His worries were obviously unnecessary, until the bastard soldier comfortably shook off and stuffed the thing back, and Shen Bing didn't move at all, as if he was asleep.

When the team walked away, Qin Lei and the two hurried over, picked up Shen Bing with the smell, and wiped his face with the snow in his hand. It took a long time for Shen Bing to come back, bite his lower lip and say, "I remember, it was a pockmarked face and rosacea...... Bah, what a shame......" He wiped his face and neck vigorously with the snow in his hand, smiled helplessly at Qin Lei, and then raised the spear hook again, aimed and pulled the trigger.

There was a soft 'whoosh' sound, and the claws catapulted out with thin ropes, over the courtyard wall. Shen Bing tugged on the rope hard, felt the tightness from the flying claws grabbing the courtyard wall, nodded at Qin Lei, and climbed up first.

The three of them successfully entered the inner palace. After Shen Bing retracted the rope, the three of them glanced at each other, knowing that entering the forbidden palace with dense guards, the chance of being found increased greatly, and they had to be vigilant.

Among the three people, only Qin Lei had entered the inner palace, and he took the lead to open the way ahead, lightly led the two of them into the rockery, and walked along the path in the garden without hesitation. Seeing his confident appearance, Shen Bing's two expressions were calm, and the slight nervousness disappeared.

As everyone knows, although Qin Lei has entered the palace many times, there are a large number of eunuchs and guards every time, except for Cining Palace and Jinyu Palace, he has never been anywhere else, how can he recognize where this is, the only basis is Qin Lin's description.

After a while, the three of them arrived at a three-way intersection, Qin Lei stopped and asked softly, "Left or right?" "The Shen family brothers who followed behind almost fell to the ground, and said in their hearts: 'Why are you doing this?'

I saw that the prince took out a piece of money from his waist, threw it gently, and when it fell on the snow, the side of the engraving was facing up. Qin Lei picked up the money, pointed to the right, and walked over.

Although it was a cold winter, the Shen family brothers still had a lot of sweat, and they knew that the prince said that 'if you are sure of it', it turned out that it was not a fool.

Perhaps seeing Qin Lei asking for help from himself at a critical moment, God felt quite embarrassed and pointed out a somewhat Shinto path for Qin Lei and the three of them. Walking down this path, I rarely encountered patrol guards.

The three of them arrived at an unguarded courtyard unusually smoothly, Qin Lei looked at the plaque on the door, only to see the words 'Pujia Courtyard' written on it, and after recalling it carefully, he knew that this was the residence of the sixth mother and Zhou Guiren. This concubine was born as a palace maid in the Huanyi Bureau, and Emperor Zhaowu had a rare bestial attack, which made her pregnant, so she was promoted to a nobleman, got rid of manual labor, and became a member of the emperor's harem who was coldly neglected.

Emperor Zhaowu was extremely indifferent to women, and after Zhou Guiren was promoted, the emperor was never fortunate again, because he was the least valued by everyone in the palace, and even the Pujia courtyard with her was extremely deserted, and even the prince was too lazy to send someone to guard it.

Qin Lei climbed over the wall and crept into the courtyard, and the people in the courtyard were already asleep, only the lights were still on in the east wing. The three of them slipped under the wall, and they heard voices talking inside......

"Why doesn't the mother let the child out? My little brother and Aunt Jin are grounded, how can I not go and take a look? This was Qin Zhan's voice, "The fifth brother treats me like a junior brother, and I can't let him look down on him." ”

A gentle female voice sounded: "If you want to save them, stay here honestly." "Obviously Zhou Guiren's voice.

I only heard Qin Zhan ask in a low voice, "What's the use of sitting here?" ”

Qin Lei had a flash of inspiration in his mind, got up and pushed the door in, and said with a smile: "It's very useful." ”

The mother and son in the house turned their heads to look at the door in surprise, and when they saw that it was Qin Lei, Qin Zhan was about to shout in surprise. saw Qin Lei's index finger on his lips. Qin Zhan hurriedly covered his mouth, but the joy in his eyes couldn't be stopped.

Qin Lei grinned at him, and Shen Qing also followed, closing the door and letting the three of them speak.

Qin Lei saluted Zhou Guiren and said, "Meet my aunt." Zhou Guiren smiled and said, "No." Is the prince okay? ”

Qin Lei said softly: "Auntie only needs to call me Xiao Wu." Said and smiled again: "The kid came by stepping on the snow, and my aunt didn't seem surprised?" ”

Zhou Guiren got up and poured tea for Qin Lei and said, "Because I heard the Queen Mother say it, I was not surprised. ”

Qin Lei's mind suddenly appeared in his mind that the old lady claimed to be able to pinch the mysterious appearance of the time, and couldn't help but shudder, and said with a forced smile: "The imperial grandmother is clever." ”

Zhou Guiren is a fair-skinned southern woman with gentle eyebrows, and she spoke softly: "Three days ago, the Queen Mother suddenly sent her father-in-law Qiu to pass the word. As he spoke, he recalled the situation of the day and said: "The Queen Mother said that the palace has changed greatly, the four gates have been blocked, and there will be rebels besieging Cining Palace soon, but my small courtyard is allowed to survive because of its remoteness." ”

"The Queen Mother said that Her Royal Highness the Fifth Highness may visit the Forbidden Palace at night, and the time will be three days later, that is, tonight." Zhou Guiren explained softly: "The queen mother said that the prince is a person who cares about the overall situation, and he will definitely enter the palace tomorrow morning. Glancing at Qin Lei with admiration, Fu Yifu said: "I can't imagine that the prince is really disregarding his own safety for the well-being of my Great Qin, which is really admirable." ”

Qin Lei smiled and said, "It's ridiculous." "It's really a false compliment, he originally intended to borrow a few eunuch clothes so that he could blend in with the big interior, which shows that there is destiny in the dark. He asked softly, "I wonder what the imperial grandmother has arranged?" ”

Zhou Guiren said softly: "The Queen Mother said that the prince doesn't have to worry about her safety, and the specific situation after three days is not something she can predict." But there are only two ways to solve it, capture the thief and capture the king, or rescue His Majesty. ”

Qin Lei lost his voice and said, "Is Your Majesty still safe?" After speaking, he felt that something was wrong, and said: "I am concerned and confused." ”

Zhou Guiren smiled generously and said: "Lafayette said that the prince is strategic, and the most lacking thing is courage. He explained: "The crown prince said to the outside world that His Majesty is seriously ill, and the elders are coming to visit. ”

Qin Lei nodded, pondered for a moment, and asked in a deep voice, "Where is the Taoist priest?" ”

Zhou Guiren shook his head and said: "This has to be found by the prince himself, and the queen mother can't know everything." ”

Qin Zhan on the side interjected: "I know, he has a good match, not in the Zichen Palace, just there with her." ”

Zhou Guiren frowned when he heard this: "What is good, foul language." ”

Qin Zhan stuck out his tongue and said: "It's expedient, when my little brother and I were traveling at night a few days ago, I saw that old man sneaky, so I followed all the way, and I found out." ”

Qin Lei said happily: "If I can catch that guy, I will credit you!" ”

Zhou Guiren glanced at Qin Zhan with disgust, took out a crested arrow from his sleeve, presented it to Qin Lei with both hands, and said solemnly: "Except for the guards of Zichen Palace, Cining Palace, and Jinyu Palace, it is the East Palace guards, and the rest are the internal guards. This is a token of the Queen Mother, with which you can order most of the guards. Said seriously: "The Queen Mother hopes that the prince will focus on the overall situation and not let my royal losses be too heavy." ”

Qin Lei nodded, took the arrow, put it in his arms, and asked Qin Zhan where Nanhuazi was. Afraid of causing trouble for this mother and son, he quietly left Pujia Courtyard and retreated to the rockery with Shen Bing to discuss.

Shen Bing said softly, "Do you need to change your plan?" ”

Qin Lei pondered for a moment and said slowly: "As a last resort, we can't startle the snake, we still have to follow the original plan." ”

Shen Qing whispered: "Yes, the original plan is the greatest. ”