Chapter 56: Night Shadow

Tonight, it was dark and heavy in the stone shed, it should have been a full moon and a bright night, but the moonlight was covered by thick clouds, and the earth seemed to be covered with a black curtain, and it was difficult to see things as far as people's eyes could see.

On the steep hillside outside the stone shed, there was a man in a dark night robe lying silently motionless, his eyes fixed on the patrol at the gate of the stone shed.

This person is Gu Laosi, he has been lying here for two hours, and now it is more than half of the hour, and it is already the second half of the night. There was a sound of talking at the gate of the wall, and under the light of the torches, a few men came up from under the wall, talking to the training soldiers of several regiments who had been patrolling the wall, and the scene seemed to be changing shifts.

Gu Laosi moved at this time, and he took out a flying tiger from his arms to grab it. The flying tiger claw is black all over, apparently blackened to prevent reflection at night, and the three claws of the flying tiger claw are wrapped with cloth to prevent the flying tiger claw from making a loud noise when it falls on the grabbed object.

Gu Laosi took the rope of the flying tiger's claw, quickly pulled it a few times, and threw it out with a "whoosh", and with a soft "click", the flying tiger's claw grabbed a no-man's land on the east side of the wall. Gu Laosi tried it, and felt very strong, so he tied the other end of the rope to a big tree with a clever live buckle, put his hands on the rope, and with a hard effort, his two feet also put on the rope, his body hung upside down on the rope, his hands changed frequently, and his thin body was like an ape, moving forward quickly along the rope, and after a while, he went up to the wall.

Gu Laosi carefully climbed up the wall, picked up the flying tiger's claw, and shook it slightly, and the live buckle at the end of the rope tied to the tree was opened. Gu Laosi carefully wrapped the rope of the Flying Tiger Claw around the head of the Flying Tiger Claw and took it into his arms.

Gu Laosi glanced back at the patrol men who were still chatting freely, jumped over, and jumped off the wall. Gu Laosi jumped down from the wall more than two zhang high, rolled forward, and landed silently. If anyone sees him climbing the wall with the claws of a flying tiger, and then jumping off the wall and being silent, they will definitely know that he is a lone thief who is accustomed to nocturnal activities.

Gu Laosi glanced around, judged the direction, and ran briskly towards the house behind the village, and lightly avoided a few sentry regiments on the road.

Gu Laosi came to the large area of houses behind the village, and saw that the houses in the stone sheds were divided into several pieces, and in the distance, near the large area under the stone dumping ridge, there were hundreds of houses made of earth and stone, which were obviously the residences of the coolies in the quarry, and there was no goal for him tonight. Of the two houses nearby, the west side is a neat dozen large mud and stone houses. Gu Laosi used to be a flying thief who used to touch the house and enter the courtyard, and he had a lot of experience, so he judged that it must be the barracks for the training of the stone unloading shack regiment. The houses on the east side were all detached houses, with five or six rooms, and they were supposed to be the residences of the stewards of the Quarry of Unloading Rockling.

Gu Laosi pondered: Since the surname of the leader of the regiment is Cui, and Liu Xu has some relationship with the Cui family, he must not let Liu Xu live in the barracks where those big-headed soldiers live, he should live in a guest room among the five or six houses in this area, but he has no way to judge which one it is, so he can only find them one by one.

Gu Laosi walked silently, tiptoeing to the house closest to him. Put your hand in your mouth and dip it in saliva, gently wet the window paper with your fingers, and then poke it hard to make a small hole. Looking up, the room was pitch black, with only a glimmer of light, but Gu Laosi was born with cat's eyes, and with the faint light, he could see clearly that the human body on the bed was fat, and it must not be Liu Xu.

At that moment, Gu Laosi came to a house in the east, and it was concocted in the same way, and after seeing it clearly, it was still not Liu Xu.

Gu Laosi was very patient and continued to look for it at the moment. He walked back from the path on the east side of the two houses, trying to look for the houses in the back.

As soon as he turned the corner of the house, Gu Laosi suddenly froze, and it turned out that there was a giant dog lying on the east side of the building. Fortunately, Gu Laosi was a habitual thief, unusually alert, and walked lightly, so he never woke up the giant dog.

Gu Laosi took out a bun sprinkled with drunken powder from his arms. With a "whoosh", the bun thrown by Gu Laosi was accurately thrown to the nose of the giant dog.

Gu Laosi hurriedly dodged behind the corner.

The giant dog was awakened by the sound, saw a bun in front of him, got up and looked around, saw that there was no one, lowered his head and swallowed the bun tightly in his mouth. After a while, the giant dog fell to the ground.

Gu Laosi breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly came to the window of one of the two houses in the east, and poked a little eye in the same way, seeing that it was still not Liu Xu in this room, he couldn't help but feel a little anxious. At that moment, Gu Laosi was patient, and lightly came to the house on the west side of the row of houses behind, or first used his spitting fingers to gently poke a small hole in the window paper, and looked over with his eyes, and through the faint light, he could vaguely identify Liu Xu's face.

It turned out that it was Liu Xu who slept in the house, from last night to today's daytime, continuous tossing, Liu Xu's body was almost collapsed, and he finally came to the stone unloading shed safely, and he slept with confidence. Since Liu Xu finished chatting with Cui Feng, he came to this room to sleep soundly, and he has been sleeping until now. I didn't even eat the dinner sent by Cui Feng, and it was still on the table. Liu Xu didn't know that in the place where he felt absolutely safe, there was a person outside the house who was preparing to cut his head!

Gu Laosi couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw that it was Liu Xu in the house, and hurriedly took out a bamboo pipe from his arms.

Gu Laosi took out the bamboo pipe filled with smoke, he was afraid that it would be easy for him to kill Liu Xu, but if there was any movement, he was afraid that he would not be able to get out of the stone unloading shed, so before coming, Gu Laosi prepared the smoke, and planned to stun Liu Xu and then gently and skillfully cut off his head.

Gu Laosi gently stretched one end of the bamboo pipe through the small hole in the window into the room where Liu Xu was, and was about to gather his breath to blow out the smoke, when he suddenly heard a loud shout: "Who is it?" Gu Laosi couldn't help but choke on the qi he gathered and coughed repeatedly. But at this time, Gu Laosi couldn't cough, and hurriedly looked up at where the voice came from, and by the faint light, Yi Xi saw that it seemed to be the man surnamed Cui who he saw in front of the stone unloading shed during the day today.

It turned out that the man who asked loudly was Cui Feng. He slept until midnight, woke up in a hurry, came out to solve it, and happened to see Gu Laosi dressed in black, sneaky there, and couldn't help but ask.

Gu Laosi reacted quickly, threw away the bamboo pipe, took out a short knife from his arms, and rushed towards Cui Feng. Cui Feng saw that Gu Laosi didn't say a word, so he pounced on him with a knife, and he was in a hurry in the middle of the night, only wearing a middle coat, unarmed, so he had to dodge to the side, and at the same time used his empty-handed kung fu to grab the white blade, wanting to grab Gu Laosi's wrist and snatch his short knife. Gu Laosi was also very flexible, and he missed the stab, and then the blade flipped up, cutting Cui Feng and trying to grab his right hand. Cui Feng had to dodge again. As soon as he stood firm, he swept his feet towards Gu Laosi's legs, and Gu Laosi dodged back and avoided it.

Gu Laosi saw that he couldn't kill the person in front of him for a while, and he was afraid that this person's real kung fu was still above him. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a torch not far away, showing that the regimental training villagers in the village were coming, knowing that he couldn't kill Liu Xu tonight, he immediately made a decision, pulled away and ran away, and if he didn't leave, he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to leave. As a habitual flying thief, he is still quite keen to grasp the timing and observe the situation.

When Liu Xu heard the shout, woke up from his deep sleep, rubbed his eyes with his clothes on, and went out to see the situation outside, he would see the back of Gu Laosi turning around and running away.

Cui Feng saw Gu Laosi turn around and flee, and immediately yelled "The thief is leaving" and chased after him.

Gu Laosi followed the road he came from and rushed all the way to the wall. Although Cui Feng's hard kung fu may be stronger than Gu Laosi, Gu Laosi's body is light and dexterous, and Cui Feng was pulled away a lot by Gu Laosi. Seeing that Gu Laosi was about to go under the wall, Cui Feng shouted loudly and asked the people on the wall to catch him. Several patrolling regimental trainers on the walled wall couldn't help but look down at the wall, and in the faint light, they saw a black shadow rushing under the wall, but they couldn't see it really.

Gu Laosi ran to the bottom of the wall, threw out the flying tiger claws, hooked the edge of the east wall, and climbed up the wall as fast as a spirit ape.

It was not real in the dark, Cui Feng chased after him again, and everyone did not dare to release arrows. A regiment of soldiers ran to the east wall, and saw Gu Laosi climb up quickly like a black shadow, and immediately stabbed with a spear, Gu Laosi dragged the rope grabbed by the flying tiger, flashed sideways, and at the same time reached out to grab the spear, pulled it violently, and climbed over the wall with strength. And the regimental training soldiers were unexpectedly dragged by this, their footing was unstable, and they fell from the wall more than two feet high.

Gu Laosi got up to the wall, stepped over the wall that was not wide in three steps and two steps, jumped down, and after landing, he rolled on the ground, got up and ran wildly.

The regiments on the wall were training and were busy shooting with bows and arrows, but they were not very accurate in the dark, and they did not shoot Gu Laosi, allowing Gu Laosi to escape.

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