Chapter 423: One Step Late?
As the so-called urgency makes wisdom, Zhu Youzhen's bold idea came out almost instantly. Qi Meifeng and Li Zhenyan carefully tasted this plan and felt that although it was a bit risky, there was no better way to abandon it.
So a few people hurriedly spoke, and the plan was decided. Zhu Youzhen led everyone and went straight to the gate of the palace in a grand manner.
"What for?" When they arrived at the gate of the palace, several guards shouted loudly.
Zhu Youzhen hurriedly smiled and said: "A few masters, the younger ones are the family members of the prefect Master Zhu. Halfway through the road just now, the master ordered us to go back to the house to get something, so we came a step slower, and the master had already gone in first. ”
As he spoke, he took a heavy burden handed over by Li Zhenyan, and said to the guards, "This is it." ”
This burden was deliberately not wrapped too tightly in order to let them see what was inside. A few guards only felt that their eyes lit up, and the white flowers in the baggage were not the silver that everyone loved!
Several people looked at each other, and one of the leaders frowned and said: "Reasoning, you ten or so people are very eye-catching, and you didn't come with your master." The palace is important, and you shouldn't have been allowed to trespass. ”
Zhu Youzhen didn't know what he meant, so he hurriedly took out a few ingots of silver from his baggage, handed one to each person, and said in a low voice flatteringly: "A few masters are convenient, if we delay the master's business, we can't afford to be guilty!" It's weirdly tiring for the villain to hold this big bag of silver, and you can't see it with a few ingots. In the future, I will come and go often, and I hope that a few uncles will take care of it! ”
A few people took the silver, immediately smiled, weighed it happily, and put it in their arms. The leader whispered, "Your little brother can do things too!" While the butler was not there, you hurried in, and the banquet hall was in the second courtyard, and as soon as you entered, you saw it. After finding your master, follow obediently, don't trespass. ”
"That's nature, what kind of place is this, just borrow the villain's guts, and the villain doesn't dare to walk around at will!" Zhu Youzhen coped with it, and winked at Qi Meifeng and Li Zhenyan. The two of them led fifteen special combat team members to enter and pass through the Toudao Courtyard in an orderly manner.
As soon as they disappeared from the guard's field of vision, Zhu Youzhen and the others tried their best to stick to the dark wall to observe the movements in the palace. I saw that the people in the house were coming and going, and there were hundreds of people in Luoyang City. Coupled with their servants, as well as the eunuchs and servants in the palace who were responsible for arranging the banquet, there were at least three or four hundred people in the courtyard and the banquet hall. At this time, these guests only cared about greeting each other, and the servants were also busy preparing for the banquet, so no one paid attention to Zhu Youzhen and them.
Zhu Youzhen was secretly happy in his heart, it seems that this first step to infiltrate the palace has been successful. The next second step is to find out where the red lady is imprisoned as soon as possible.
Obviously, it is impossible for the red lady to appear in such a public occasion, she must be locked in a certain room in the back house of the palace. But this palace is on a grand scale, and there are not a thousand or seven or eight hundred houses, so it is impossible for Zhu Youzhen to search them one by one, which not only does not allow time, but also easily exposes his traces.
So before proceeding with this second step, there is one more problem to be solved, and that is to be able to move freely in the palace.
So everyone immediately went their separate ways according to the action plan. The four special combat team members stayed at the second gate, staring at the movement of the second courtyard and the gate of the palace. Once they succeed, they are responsible for holding the retreat here.
Like a tanuki, Lee Jung-yeon flashed into the nearby courtyards to check if there were any empty houses. At this time, she had already taken off her coarse cloth clothes, and only the black night clothes on her body were leaning. In addition, she walked in the dark shadows of the high walls, and her body was as fast as lightning, so that no one could notice her.
It didn't take long for her to find a suitable room in the second courtyard on the east side. This floor is a dead end, and it is usually used to store charcoal. It was the height of summer, and charcoal was naturally not needed, so the courtyard was empty, and all rooms were locked.
Li Zhenyan finished the observation, so she quietly retreated and reported to Zhu Youzhen. Zhu Youzhen bowed his head slightly after hearing this: "Okay, act according to the original plan!" ”
With his order, Qi Meifeng, Li Zhenyan and the remaining eleven special combat team members scattered and separated, staring at the palace servants who came and went. As soon as they walked alone to the junction of the two courtyards and were out of everyone's sight, the special combat team members quickly stuck to them, raised their palms as knives, and struck hard at the large vertebral points on the back of their necks as fast as lightning.
Zhu Youzhen has very high requirements for special combat personnel, and one of them is that he must have the ability to defeat the enemy in one move. This trick "hand knife" is Yan Ling's own mastery, everyone is practicing every day, and the accuracy and strength are excellent. Pity those palace servants, who didn't know martial arts in the first place, and had no defense, suddenly suffered such a heavy blow, all rolled their eyes and fainted.
Next, the special combat team members formed a circle of four or five, pretending to carry things and walked out, covering the special combat team members in the middle; And the man in the middle dragged the fainted servant forward quickly.
All this takes place quietly in the vicinity of the lively courtyard. Whether it was a guest or a palace guard, they couldn't have imagined that an uninvited guest had mixed in, and they dared to attack. A few people walked face to face with the special operators, but they didn't see anything unusual.
In just ten minutes, the special combat team members had already put down more than a dozen servants and dragged them all to the deserted courtyard. Li Zhenyan had already unscrewed the door lock, and everyone ripped off the clothes of these unconscious servants, tied them firmly, and stuffed rags in their mouths. So that even if they wake up, they can't make any sound.
Next, the crowd changed into the clothes of the servants. Zhu Youzhen left two more special combat team members to guard the cross-hospital, and then led Qi Meifeng and Li Zhenyan to swagger out.
And there are no less than two or three hundred servants in King Fu's mansion, and they are busy at this time, and these more than ten have been dropped, and no one pays attention to them.
At this point, Zhu Youzhen is getting closer and closer to success. However, he still felt that the palace was too big, and even if he pretended to be a servant to search for it, it would still be difficult. So he sent eight special combat team members to search separately, but he stayed in the courtyard of the second entrance, wanting to see if Zhu Changxun, the king of fortune, was in the banquet hall. If he is here, it means that the red lady has not been poisoned, and he only needs to follow this damn big fat man for a while, and he can find the red lady by touching the vine.
At this time, a few servants walked towards the banquet hall with dishes, and when they saw Zhu Youzhen, they complained and said: "What are you doing there in a daze, come over and help, I can't hold it anymore!" ”
Zhu Youxin said that God will help me, and hurriedly went up to take the two dishes, and followed these people into the banquet hall.
The hall was indeed full of friends, but the main seat in the center was not Zhu Changxun, but a young man in his twenties. I only heard him say loudly: "Everyone, my father is not feeling well today, so I can only let Xiao Wang attend on my behalf, and I hope you Haihan!" ”
Zhu Youzhen heard him say this, his brain "buzzed", and he secretly thought: Could it be that he is one step late, and the red lady has already been poisoned by Zhu Changxun?