Chapter 283 - Counting is Counting
The branches of this locust tree spread out in all directions, but the leaves were all gone, and the bare branches were covered with snow, fluffy, like a large umbrella with only a skeleton left. One of the branches extended not far from the high wall of the courtyard. If you climb on this branch, you can see everything in the yard, even if you can't jump into the yard.
The swift figure of the man in white appeared under the tree, crouching, quietly listening and observing the situation around him. When he was sure that everything was silent and there was no suspicious movement, he took a deep breath, stretched out his old bark-like hands, and grasped the trunk of the tree, like an agile tanuki, and swooped up the tree with two swishs.
When he reached the root of the branch that stretched horizontally into the courtyard, he stopped, curled up at the root, and looked at it from a distance, like a pot of blood piled up on the branches, and no one would have thought that the snow was actually a thin and curled up man in white.
After a few moments, the white-clothed man crawled along the trunk of the tree, like a vigilant squirrel, stopped to observe, climbed a few more times, and stopped. In this way, the figure gradually moved to the treetops.
The branches began to rise and fall slightly, and the snowflakes on them fell in a flutter, although the man in white was small, but after all, he still had weight, and when he reached the treetops, he began to be unable to support his body. And here, the man in white stopped advancing, and his keen eyes looked at the quiet and silent courtyard.
In the small courtyard below where Princess Siyun was imprisoned, a light was lit in the gatehouse, and the other houses were dark, and they all seemed to have fallen asleep, no wonder, it was already midnight at the moment, and under normal circumstances, people had already fallen asleep.
The man in white muttered something that only he could hear: "I thought they were so vigilant, but they were so careless. Even the guards on duty at night were not arranged, and it seemed that the Heavenly Master was too worried. ”
The man in white took a deep breath, and suddenly, his body activated, like a cheetah that had found its prey, and rushed forward on the branches. When the branch fell with its weight to the minimum it could carry, the man in white flew up and swooped into the air with the force of the rebound, and pounced on the high courtyard wall.
The courtyard wall was still more than ten steps away from the branches, and with this jump, he drew a white arc in the air, which landed accurately on the top of the high courtyard wall. His hands were firmly on the courtyard wall.
The snow on the top of the wall was hit by this and fell. But it was silent, and did not make any noise, for the woman's body was extremely light, and she landed on the top of the wall like a tanuki, jumping to the ground, and not making any sound.
The man in white lay on the courtyard wall, as if frozen. There was no movement, and it remained in that position. His gaze scanned warily in every room within the courtyard walls. When he was sure that no one heard the slightest movement of him, he began to move, rolled over and landed in the courtyard, fell down the courtyard wall, and crouched down the wall.
He is very patient, like a cheetah waiting for its prey. At this moment, he used the shadow cast by the high courtyard wall as a cover along the root of the wall, moved forward quickly and quickly, came to the gap between the two rows of side houses, quickly flashed to the middle of the gap, and squatted in the corner of the wall. Observe the movement in the patio in the small courtyard.
In the hollow-shaped structure of the small courtyard, four rows of side rooms surround a lonely house in the middle, where Princess Siyun is imprisoned. It's just that she's under house arrest, so the door isn't locked, and there are no guards walking back and forth, and everything is silent.
The man in white snorted slightly with a slight sarcasm, and at the same time, his nervous expression calmed down a lot.
When he was sure that there was no movement in the four wings, he flashed extremely quickly.
If anyone saw it at this moment, he could only see a white shadow flashing, and he couldn't even see the shape of the white shadow clearly, because the movement was too fast, and as soon as he turned around, he moved from the corner of the wall to the eaves of the middle house more than ten paces away.
He slowly looked up, and through the reflection of the snow in the courtyard, he saw that there was no padlock on the door, so he reached under the door and gently pushed the door open.
The door was held by her hand, and barely made a sound before it was pushed open a crack that was large enough for his thin figure to slip into.
After the man in white got into the gap, he immediately fell to the ground and did not move, observing the situation in the house. The ground outside was covered with snow, and under the reflection of the snow light, the room was still relatively bright.
He found no one in the room, except for a large bed in Kauri with a pair of shoes in front of it.
He quickly flashed to the side of the big bed, lowered his voice, and said in Turkic dialect: "Ashina Siyun, I am your nurse Tugrui, I have come to save you!" ”
Princess Siyun in her sleep was actually not sleeping peacefully, and Lu Jinping's attitude made her very sad.
She originally thought that after her poem was written, Lu Jinping would come to see her and say a few words of relaxation, so that she would have steps, and this matter would be much easier. After these days, Princess Siyun discovered that although she had only met once, Lu Jinping's white jade carved cheeks and talented poetics, as well as her extraordinary light skills, were deeply imprinted in her heart.
She also knew that Lu Jinping also liked to play Go, although Go was not a traditional entertainment for the Turks, but the Turks interacted with the Tang Dynasty, and Go also flowed into the palace, and there were officials from the Tang Dynasty to teach her, and Princess Siyun learned this elegant intellectual game. And the level can be said to be difficult to find opponents in the Turks.
Now that her sweetheart is actually good at Go, she can't help but be even more happy, thinking that if the marriage between the two can be completed in the future, the flowers will be under the moon, and the incense will be burned, how comfortable and sweet it is, and the prince will also have a strange music called the guitar, which makes her even more curious, so she really realized what it means to fall in love at first sight, but she didn't expect to be slapped on the head by Lu Jinping's indifference.
In the past few days, every time I think about it, I secretly cry. On this day, I cried for a long time before I fell asleep. In my sleep, I somehow thought of the vast grasslands of my hometown, the snow-capped mountains, and the herds of cattle and sheep.
The handsome cheeks like the bright moon made her heart pound, and that was Lu Jinping who made her heart sprout. But in the dream, the moon-like white face became gloomy and cold, and a voice came from the sky, "Don't dream, I don't like you at all, it's just that I proposed marriage for the sake of reconciliation between the Tang Dynasty and the Turkic families, and I married you like a vase in the living room, ignoring it, what kind of dreams do you have?" ”
Princess Siyun in her sleep was soft-hearted.
When she was secretly sad, Princess Siyun heard the words of the man in white. The person who practiced martial arts reacted naturally and quickly, and immediately woke up from his sleep. I thought it was the words of my sweetheart in my sleep, but I immediately recognized from the voice that the person who spoke was not in a dream, but in reality, it came from the bedside, and the voice was extremely familiar, it was Tugrei, the nurse who raised me since childhood.
Princess Siyun couldn't help but sigh softly, sat up, lifted the curtain, and through the reflection of the moonlight and snow outside the window, she could vaguely see the face of the white-clothed man squatting beside the bed, full of wrinkles, ravines and ravines, which was a hard-working face eroded by the wind and frost in the north. It was the nurse Tugrui.
Princess Siyun was pleasantly surprised, grabbed Tu Gram's arm, lowered her voice and said, "You, why are you here?" Did my brother ask you to save me? ”
"Yes, princess, please don't say more, you come with me at once."
After Princess Siyun was pleasantly surprised, she immediately felt that something was wrong, and said in a low voice: "You don't know martial arts at all, this wall is tall and full of guards, how did you get in?" ”
"I'll explain it to you when I get out, you come with me now."
"Okay, but I wear iron shackles on my feet, which are extremely hard, and I can't cut them with an axe, and I can't open the keyhole with lead, so I can only walk in small steps, and I can't walk quickly."
"Don't worry, I'll carry you out. There are people outside the yamen to answer us, as long as we go out of the yamen, it will be no problem"
"Okay, let's go"
The man in white squatted down, carried Princess Siyun on his back, and walked towards the door as quickly as nothing.
At this moment, from the beam above the roof head, a robe sleeve suddenly and quickly ejected, like a thunderbolt hit the top of the white-clothed man's head, and he heard a bang, and the white-clothed man fell forward like an electron, and fell heavily to the ground with Princess Siyun on his back.
At the moment when the princess was about to touch the bottom, she rolled forward, stood up at once, looked up, and saw a black shadow falling from the beam of the roof, standing in front of her.
At the same time, the lights came on, the door was slammed open, and a dozen female guards rushed in, swords in hand, and surrounded them.
Immediately afterwards, under the illumination of the lantern, a person slowly walked in, wearing a brocade robe and a white shirt, with his hands behind his back, a delicate face carved like white jade, like a jade tree in the wind, which made people feel swaying, it was Lu Jinping who had appeared in Princess Siyun's dream before.
Princess Siyun knew that the whole plan of the nurse Tuggrui to come in and save herself had been perceived by the other party, so she arranged an ambush in the house and secretly attacked.
Judging from the fact that the sneak attacker was lying on the crossbar, the two of them didn't even notice it in the slightest, this person was definitely a top-notch super-first-class master.
The princess's gaze first stayed on the face of Lu Jinping, the corn lang jun who made him fall in love at first sight, and then turned her gaze away sourly and fell on the face of the black-clothed man who attacked them at first sight.
She is not familiar with this person, but the other party's stunning appearance surprised her, she has also seen many women in Datang, but there are not many who can really compare to this beauty.
Heroes cherish heroes, and beauties will do the same when they see beauties, and they can't help but feel a sense of admiration in their hearts. Princess Siyun is the first beauty of the Turks, and even Lu Jinping, the loyal prince who has seen several beauties, can't help but be dumbfounded, which shows her beauty. (To be continued.) )