Chapter Twenty-Three: Exploring the Fox King's Palace at Night
Another dark night came, and the black clothes and black veils seemed to have merged with this night, and they were disguised again, and the black clothes and black veils went into battle.
Passing through a small fence, they first jumped to the top floor, where they shuttled through the neat and layered brick and red tiles. It was already late at night, and the sky was full of stars shining on this blood-gathering mountain, and the three figures looked clear and flexible in the light of the moon.
The guards had begun to doze off and seemed to have let their guard down.
At the front of the palace, the three of them jumped from the roof, looked at each other and nodded, and each stood in a different position. Prepare to go into the palace of the new fox king to find out.
The lights of the palace were still as dim as last time, and I heard someone whispering to the new fox king as much as last time.
"Strange, who is this new fox king talking to every night about something?" they wondered.
They listened quietly, but they couldn't hear anything clearly, and after a while, there was silence in the palace, the candles in the palace had been extinguished, and they couldn't hear the new fox king and who were whispering.
"Who?" Just as Shi Yingjun, Lang Shixun, and Xia Gongzi quietly leaned against the wall to listen, and looked to see if the new fox king in the palace had really fallen asleep. Suddenly sensing someone around them, they quickly turned around.
"Shhhh Ruth took off the veil from her face and gestured with her hand to signal them to be silent.
"Why are you here?" Quartz Jun's surprised expression was already drowned out in the dark night, what they didn't expect was that Ru Qing, Ru Si, Shi Ziying, Mu Butterfly, and Xia Girl all came.
What was supposed to be the action of three people suddenly became the action of eight people. The crowd was easily noticed, and they each looked at each other and nodded, and dispersed to act.
Ru Qing and Ru Si summoned the sleepy elf, and with a flick of their fingers, the guards at the door instantly fell asleep.
They avoided all the guards and entered the Fox King's palace, and suddenly all stopped. Stand in front of a painting.
The woman in the painting is wearing a black winged cloak, her face is tilted sideways, her head is slightly tilted, her skin is white, her slender hands, her palms are upward, dragging a piece of falling black feathers, the long green silk is vertically down like a waterfall, and the high bridge of her nose is inlaid with a cherry-red mouth, and her red eyeballs are so beautiful that you will never forget them as long as you look at them.
"It's ......"
"It's beautiful..."
"It's beautiful..."
Everyone was amazed by the beauty of the woman in this unforgettable painting, and stood in front of the painting and looked at the woman in the painting motionlessly. Even Ru Qing and Ru Si, who are as beautiful as fairies, cannot compare with the women in the painting.
"Look, what's that?" the attentive Ru Qing seemed to have noticed something, pointing to the half of the white cloth exposed in the room in the distance.
Everyone's thoughts were instantly pulled back by Ru Qing, and they looked in the direction that Ru Qing pointed to, and vaguely saw something.
The palace of the fox king is very large, and there are many inner halls in front of the outer hall and the side halls. The sound of soft footsteps echoing through the palace could be heard widely.
"It's a puppeteer...."
Following the direction pointed by Ru Qing, he took a closer look and found that a piece of white cloth was pulled out on four red sandalwood trees, standing in the empty hall, and there was a puppet on each side of the white cloth.
"Look at the appearance of this puppeteer, have you seen it anywhere?"
"The woman in the picture. ”
"Could it be that this is the fox king and the woman in the painting?"
"The appearance of this male puppet is not at all the same as the appearance of the new fox king we saw at the gate of the palace a few days ago, this male puppet is handsome and delicate, and the new fox king is a little handsome, burly without losing the aura of a general, but it is completely different from the face shape. ”
Everyone guessed suspiciously, but they couldn't be sure whether the handsome male puppet in the pair of puppeteers was the former fox king?
"This male puppet should be the former fox king, so who is the woman in this painting?"
"No wonder we arrived at the gate of this palace a few days ago and heard someone whispering to the fox king inside, it turned out that the new fox king was pulling these two puppets to perform a puppet show, talking to himself. ”
They followed this inner sanctum to another connected inner sanctum, which was empty and very simple and deserted.
The beautiful carvings on the walls are estimated to be old, and they look a little old.
At this moment, the sound of several coughs echoed through the empty temple. It's like the sound of a person coughing with a stroke disease. From the palace of the new fox king in the distance, it came out.
They nervously leaned against the wall and looked around, but there was no movement.
A familiar scent of flowers instantly attracted their attention, and as the incense searched, a plate of smoking incense leaves lit in the side hall, which felt so familiar that for a moment they couldn't remember where they had encountered it.
Ru Qingrusi looked at the moon outside the window, the hour was almost up, and the spiritual power of the summoned sleepy elf was almost gone.
"Let's go, don't be discovered. ”
Eight people quietly walked past the guards along the wall, and returned to their place of residence safely, only to remove the veil from their faces and sigh softly.
As soon as it was daylight, the masons began to carry all kinds of stones and sand to the outer aisles of the palace.
The strong man stretched his waist with a whip, and continued to lie on a smooth rock with his legs crossed, a weed between his teeth, leisurely enjoying the morning sunbath.
The three of them carried the rocks to the side of the Fox King's palace as seriously as ever.
At this moment, a young man carrying a large rock slipped the stone he was carrying to the ground, covered his heart with his hand, and squatted on the ground, sweat running down his frowning brow.
"Makes you lazy. The strong man picked up the whip in his hand and threw it over, hitting the squatting young man hard.
The young man gritted his teeth, so painful that he didn't raise his head, and he couldn't say a word, and when the strong man raised the whip again, he was pulled by Quartz Jun.
"I say, carry your sand and gravel, don't be nosy. The strong man spit out the grass in his mouth and looked at Quartz Jun with a smile.
"I'm going to be nosy today. Quartz glared at the strong man.
The strong man threw the whip at Shi Yingjun fiercely, and at this time, Lang Shixun and Xia Gongzi pretended to pass by, summoned spiritual power to roll the rock on the side, and smashed it on the strong man's feet.
"Ouch, who did this?." The strong man was so painful in an instant that his feet jumped up and down for a while, shouting unevenly.
The people around saw that this usually domineering strong man was hit by a stone, and they were quietly happy, but they didn't dare to laugh.
"If I find out who did it, I'll see if I don't clean you up later. The strong man limped away as he spoke.
"Are you okay?" Lang Shixun looked at the young man squatting on the ground, holding the position of his heart with one hand, Lang Shixun checked his pulse, judging from the pulse, his heart was beating a little slowly, and it was estimated that his life would be short.
"My name is Guo Sijiao, I live in Guojia Village, 40 miles away from the blood gathering mountain, there is a persimmon tree in front of my house, now the persimmons on the tree should be ripe, my old mother loves to eat persimmons, I am not at home in the days, I don't know if my elderly parents can pick the persimmons on the tree. The father is disabled and has inconvenient legs and feet, and the mother is blind and has no one to take care of her. Guo Sijiao said with tears in his eyes. My heart is full of homesickness. I was thinking about the two old people in the family.
"Did they arrest you?"
"Yes, I heard that the new fox king is going to rebuild the palace, and recently captured a large number of young and strong people to come to the blood gathering mountain. ”
"Were you also captured by them?"
Quartz Jun, Lang Shixun, Xia Gongzi, nodded in an instant with tacit understanding, and glanced at each other, although they were not caught by the fox clan to gather blood in the mountain, but they could not easily reveal that they were in the blood gathering mountain, otherwise they didn't know what kind of trouble they would encounter.
The young man who looked young and strong, who had a broken heart disease since he was a child, could not be tired or physically worked, but he did so many days of physical work in the Blood Gathering Mountain, and that night, Guo Sijiao died because of his slow heartbeat.