"Oh, what a grind, what a request, let it go!"

Lin Ling'er was already waiting impatiently.

"That...... Originally, I came to report to Li Guiren today and ask her to find a way to escape, so, you see, can you ......"

Xiao Zhengzi swallowed, as if he was afraid that Tuoba Jiuxiao would not be able to bear it and get up and beat him.

However, unexpectedly, I only listened to him:

"Yes, we can take the noble people with us, go out of the city, and go our separate ways."

Lin Ling'er was also very surprised, she really didn't expect that a person as cold-hearted as him would actually agree to Xiao Zhengzi's suggestion, but the question was only in her heart, and she didn't ask it.

Xiao Zhengzi looked at him in surprise, and quickly knelt down and kowtowed:

"The slave thanks the prince for his great kindness, and the slave thanks the prince ......"

"Get up."

Tuoba Jiuxiao said coldly.

Xiao Zhengzi got up at this time, sat down again, and began to work out his plans one by one.

Early the next morning, as soon as the sky was bright, the streets and alleys of Jintan City began to sound with the sound of gongs:

"When, when, dang......"

The official of the Jintan Mansion who struck the gong held the gong in his hand and shouted loudly at the top of his voice:

"There is an order from Jintan Mansion that all my people in Daegu, whether you are farming, selling vegetables, or opening your door to do business, or living behind closed doors, whether you are men, women, or children, have pricked up your ears to hear clearly. If you catch the court prisoner with your own hands, you will be rewarded. If you don't report it, you will sit with your co-offenders! ”

"When, when, dang......"

The officials walked the streets and alleys over and over again, and there were officers and soldiers patrolling the crowd everywhere in the streets and alleys, comparing the portraits of Lin Ling'er and Tuoba Jiuxiao one by one, as long as they were of similar stature and similar age, they would not let go of one, and they were all escorted to the yamen.

Officers and men carried out carpet searches from house to house, turning the good city of Jintan upside down, and everyone was in danger and had no peace.

In the Jintan Mansion, Nangong Jue's left arm was hanging and hidden in a cloak, and the imperial doctor said that he was seriously injured, and if the other party used a little more force, his left arm would be useless.

He didn't sleep all night last night, and today he sat in Jintan Mansion early in the morning, and he had to see all the men and women who were arrested, because Lin Ling'er and Mu Jiuxiao were likely to be disguised, and he must find them out in person.

At this time, the men and women who were arrested had already lined up in two long queues, and these people looked like ordinary people, but he would rather catch one by mistake than let go of a pair.

Nangong Jue stood in front of the women's team, and every woman who was escorted up, he would personally check their faces, trying to find out the flaws in the disguise, looking forward to the next Lin Ling'er.

The man was inspected by his lieutenant Shen Cheng, but the look in Shen Cheng's eyes was often disappointed.

Nangong was not reconciled, in addition to using his own army, he even mobilized all the land guards and beggars in Jintan City, so that the officers and soldiers disguised as ordinary people to blend into the crowd, his eyes have been all over Jintan City, he does not believe that they have escaped.

There are a total of sixteen gates in all directions of Jintan City, and the city gates were closed last night, but the daily life of the people must continue, and if they want to escape from the city, no matter which city gate will always be the only way to pass, which is also a way to trap them.

The guards at all the gates were strengthened, and those who entered and exited the gates were searched by officers and soldiers, and everyone's face had to be pulled back and forth by them, hoping to tear off a piece of skin.

The entire Jintan City has already laid a net of heaven and earth, just waiting for them to appear, Nangong definitely thought that he had arranged it very tightly, but the rivers and lakes are so big, how can there be no fish that have slipped through the net?

At this time, there is a place in the city of Jintan, like the small hole broken in the fishing net, although it has not yet been discovered, but it does exist zài, that is, the incense delivery room.

In the past, it was not as good as in modern times, there were flushing toilets, and there were public toilets, and it was impossible to set up public toilets in the palace, so the disgusting and smelly buildings were absolutely not suitable for building in the palace, so the people in the palace used toilets.

The toilets used by the lord, the queen and the concubines are more exquisite, and they are more beautiful, and some are even decorated with precious materials, but no matter how beautiful and precious, it is an unclean thing after all, which contains human excrement, so these excrements must be handled by a special department, that is, the incense room.

Every day, the person who delivers the incense will go to the palaces and courtyards to collect the bedpan, and then send it to the incense delivery room, and the incense delivery room will pour out the excrement in the bedpan and collect it into special utensils, and then someone will be responsible for sending these excrements to the special field of the palace, and the food grown in the special field is exclusively for the lord and the concubines to eat, and the organic fertilizer is applied, which is also the fertilizer water does not flow into the field of outsiders.

Finally, the empty toilets will be pushed out in trucks and sent to the river to be cleaned, then loaded and pulled back and put back in place.

No matter who thinks of it, this is probably the most disgusting profession in the world, hands have to carry and clean the bedpan every day, and some people even feel so disgusting that they don't want to look at their own excrement, let alone someone else's?

It is precisely because of this that the incense delivery room has become a forgotten and neglected corner of the world, and of course such a stinky place will not be located in the palace, one is unclean, and the other is unlucky, so the incense delivery room is built in an extremely remote place in the west of the palace, and no one cares about it.

The people who lived in the courtyard of the incense delivery house were old and disgraced, or guilty eunuchs and palace maids, who were treated as a plague, forever isolated and forgotten by the world, and they were considered to be the lowest people in the world, and no one would ever ask about them, although they were indispensable people in the palace.

On this day, there were three more eunuchs in the incense delivery room, one tall and two short.

Although Gao was tall and looked like he was capable of work, he had a dark complexion and a face full of black moles, especially the one at the corner of his eye, which looked extremely disgusting.

The other two were short, one of them had a yellow face and thin muscles, and at first glance he looked not well nourished, and the other was chubby, and the fat on his face was falling down, and his neck was almost submerged, and his body was so bloated that it looked like a soaked corpse.

There is a steward in a place that is no longer welcomed, no matter how oily and water-free the place is, the steward can always be fattened, and the steward of the incense room is no exception, the one hundred and ten eunuchs here, each person's salary is already negligible, but the Xia Gonggong who is in charge still has to deduct a part of each person's salary every month to fill his own pocket, fatten him, and pity the people below.

"Grandpa Xia, how have you been doing lately?"

"Yo, Gonggong Zheng!"

When Xiao Zhengzi swaggered into the steward's room of the incense delivery room with three newcomers, the steward of the incense delivery room, Father-in-law Xia, hurriedly got up to greet him, and the flattery seemed to be the queen's arrival.

Although he is also the father-in-law in charge, Xiao Zhengzi's identity is much higher than that of the housekeeper in the incense delivery room, and no one in the palace knows that Xiao Zhengzi is a popular person next to the queen, and everyone respects him for three points, for fear that if he offends him, he will suffer disaster.

"Gonggong Zheng, why do you have time to move me to the incense room today? Did the queen have any commands? ”

Father-in-law Xia asked flatteringly.

Last night's incident has not yet reached the incense delivery room, first, the housekeeper's father-in-law does not have to go to the palace to say hello, and the second is that when the person who sent the incense room went to the palace to collect the toilet, no one would talk to them at all, everyone covered their mouths and noses and handed the toilet to him, and then quickly drove the person away, as if the person who sent the incense room was stained with poop.

Xiao Zhengzi straightened up, completely different from the way he always bowed in front of his master on weekdays, he rubbed his fingers under his nose, and then looked disgusted, and then glanced at the furnishings of the housekeeper's room, picked up a stool casually and sat down, and then said slowly:

"Father-in-law Xia, I was waiting in front of the queen, and I came out so much because I was busy, so I made a long story short."

Gonggong Xia stood in front of him, nodded with a busy smile:

"Yes, yes, your old nobleman is busy, if you have any orders, just say it."

The chubby little eunuch behind him lowered his head and secretly rolled his eyes, "You are old", Xiao Zhengzi is only sixteen years old, this Xia Gonggong looks at least in his forties, right? It is not uncommon to be able to find a steward in the incense delivery room.

Xiao Zhengzi continued:

"That's right, recently a friend asked me to find an errand for a few acquaintances, but you also know in this palace, how easy it is to come in and be an errand? That's why I thought of you. ”

He pointed to the three people behind him and said,

"It's these three, they all cleaned up at an early age, but unfortunately they were unlucky, they didn't get mixed with any serious errands, no, now they are sick again, the face is full of scabs, the doctor said that he has some incurable disease, see no, those scabs on his face are tumors, but you can't touch them!"

As he spoke, he approached Grandpa Xia's ear, and mysteriously lowered his voice,

"And that fat guy, I heard that something in his stomach is broken, and it takes a lot of trouble to pee, and the thin and small one is not sick, but your face is enough to choke."

Father-in-law Xia completely believed his words, his eyes grew bigger and bigger, and finally directly pulled Xiao Zhengzi away, as if he would be infected if he got too close.

"Gonggong Zheng, they, their disease is not contagious, right?"

"Look at what you said, if it's contagious, do I dare to bring them with me personally?"

Xiao Zhengzi, who was a head shorter than Father-in-law Xia, patted him on the shoulder,

"Don't worry, even if you are sick, you won't infect others."

"Oh, that's good, that's good."

"I, I can't help it, who made me agree to others? This incense house is a place for the elderly, you don't have to take special care of it, just give them food and some work, and it is estimated that they will not live for a few days......"