Chapter 190: Broken House, Wild Dogs, Wild Cats, and Eunuch Mu San in the Palace

Chang'an City is too big, so even if it is prosperous, there are still shabby places in the most hidden corners. At the end of 16th Street in Dongcheng is an abandoned mansion that is said to have once been the residence of a noble family. Later, the family fell into Chang'an City and could no longer mix, so he transferred the house to a wealthy merchant at a low price. Not long after, there was a murder in the rich merchant, and the family was poisoned, although it was later found out that the real culprit was his business competitor, but the house was no longer inhabited, and I don't know how many years the road was deserted.

Because Chang'an City is too big, it is obviously too hard to choose an elegant name for all the streets, so in simple terms, the streets in the east-west direction are called strips, and the streets in the north-south direction are called streets. The shop rented by Fang Xie is in the East Twenty-Three Strips, which is still some distance from the East Eighteenth Street where the house is located, and it takes at least an hour to walk.

Half of the moon was obscured by a cloud, and the broken moonlight shining into the house through the tattered windows made it even more shattered. During the day, there may be brave children who climb over the ruins to play, and at night there are eerie people who come in and scare themselves.

The snow has not yet completely melted, especially under the remnants of the wall, which is almost still the same as it was on the day of the heavy snowfall.

An ownerless wild cat squatted on the wall and curled up in a ball, and it couldn't find warmth in the cold night of the middle of winter in Chang'an City. I don't know if it's because I'm hungry and out of energy, or if it's too cold to move, when the big bird-like black shadow flies down in the yard, the wild cat doesn't react, and when the black shadow slowly floats into the house and touches a piece of wood, the wild cat is frightened and screams and runs away.

The shadow ignored the wildcat, shook his robes and slipped through the half-hidden door. The place was private enough that he seemed satisfied.

The room was so dark that I could barely see my fingers, except for the moonlight that seeped in through the broken window and had some earthly atmosphere, the rest of the place felt like a netherworld.

The black shadow didn't seem to be disgusted with this deep darkness at all, he slowly turned his head and glanced at it, and chose a corner with some straw and walked over, and when he was about to get there, he suddenly paused, looking at the faint two cold spots that suddenly appeared in the corner. It was a wild dog, and there were still a few puppies lying in the kennel of the straw shop that had not yet opened their eyes, and those two cold rays were the fierce and vigilant gaze of the female dog.

The moment the opened her mouth and bared her sharp fangs to growl, the man's eyes widened. The who was guarding her cubs was so frightened that she whined and crowed a few times, and fell on the ground shivering.

The black shadow slowly walked over to the and crouched down, reaching out to stroke the's dirty hair.

The lay on her stomach on the ground, as if she had collapsed with fright.

The man's eyes softened, and he reached out to grasp the's mouth, but the wanted to open her mouth but couldn't, and squeezed out a few pleading low sounds. His hand holding the dog's mouth shook suddenly, and the dog's head was suddenly broken. The brush broke off from the neck, but strangely there was not a drop of blood coming out.

Under a ray of moonlight, you can faintly see that there is a crystal ice ballast on the broken part of the female dog's neck.

He tossed the dog's head aside and kicked the dog's body away. The man squatting by the kennel had the moonlight shining on his face, and he could faintly see that he did not seem to be very old. His face was dirty, with black stains all over his mouth, as if he had just finished gnawing on a pork leg that had been greasy, and there was still a lot of residue left on his face.

However, he didn't eat anything, he just hadn't washed his face for a long time.

It wasn't oil stains that remained on the corners of his mouth, but blood stains.

Sitting down in the straw kennel, he picked up a puppy that could only make a faint bark, and held it in front of his eyes for three minutes. Then he sighed faintly, put the puppy to his mouth, and bit it by the neck.

What's even more bizarre than twisting the neck of the female dog is that the puppy was bitten to death, and the blood was not frozen but not a drop fell, and the man greedily sucked all the slightly hot dog blood into his mouth like a big gulp. In the darkness, his Adam's apple floated up and down, and the sound of grunting water squeezed out of his throat.

After about two minutes, he sucked the blood off the pup's body.

He seemed to enjoy the food, his blood-red tongue sticking out and licking his lips as if it were an aftertaste. Then, he began to eat meat. Even the cub has fur even if it is small, but like a vicious wolf, he tears open the dog's skin and begins to swallow the viscous entrails.

In the silent darkness, the chewing sound of the bar chirp seemed so clear and audible.

He ate slowly and carefully, without wasting a single piece of flesh and blood.

After filling the belly with all but the skin, he pinched a still immature bone and wrote a word on the wall with the remaining blood, and then he stretched out comfortably and lay down in the kennel, as if enjoying the warmth left by the.

Although the remaining two puppies smelled blood, they were hungry and cold, so they still looked for the temperature and slowly squeezed next to his head. In this way, two puppies and a man who had just eaten a puppy snuggled up to each other and fell into a deep sleep.

I don't know when the wild cat returned to the wall. It glanced fearfully at the huddled figure in the dilapidated room, and after a long struggle, ran away again. Maybe it saw the dog's head, maybe it saw the skin of the pup.

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At least an hour and a half before the sun rose, Fang Xie had already made a punch in the small garden of Sanjin Houfu. Sweat soaked through his clothes, and if you looked closely, you could see a pale white heat coming out of his body. After the body warmed up, Fang Xie simply took off the single clothes on his upper body. The moon hung low, and the moonlight reflected a faint brilliance on his muscular body.

There is a fine layer of sweat on the angular pectoral and abdominal muscles, which looks like a metallic dark sheen.

Fang Xie pulled out the broken knife from the ground, first with his right hand and then with his left hand. After half an hour of one-style knife practice, his breathing was still very smooth and even. After practicing the sword technique, he habitually sat down cross-legged again and tried to sense his dantian qi sea, and after five minutes, he opened his eyes and smiled, not disappointed.

It's become a habit, and there's still any disappointment.

Still can't feel the sea of air.

He had asked many people that when he sensed the sea of qi, his internal strength would hover in the sea of qi, and there would be a feeling of warmth in his lower abdomen, which was a luxury for Fang Jie.

Lifting his clothes, Fang Xie slowly walked to the well, shook up a bucket of cold and biting water, soaked the towel and wiped his body carefully. When all was said and done, it was even darker. The darkness before dawn always seems to be deeper than in the middle of the night, when most people sleep soundly.

Fang Xie returned to his room, changed into a clean martial arts academy uniform, and did not wake up the big dogs, and went out directly to find the coachman who was already waiting at the door, the carriage was ready, the coachman patted the horse's buttocks, the horse snorted and spewed out two puffs of white gas, stepping on the last piece of moonlight to accelerate forward.

There were already many officials outside the gate of Taiji Palace, and there was still some time before the palace gate opened, and the adults got into the cars of acquaintances and friends, and chatted together. Outside the palace gate, two rows of flying fish robes and nails stood in two rows of Ouchi guards, and the guards wearing big red cloaks and pressing horizontal knives were motionless like stone statues.

Fang Xie asked the coachman to find a place to pull over and stop, he calculated the time and estimated that the palace gate was about to open, and he didn't let the coachman freeze here with him, but let him go back first. The coachman thanked him and drove the carriage to the procedure. It's still early, and he can catch up on sleep when he goes back.

This was the first time that Fang Xie had taken a close look at the Taiji Palace at night, and the forbidden soldiers on the palace wall were patrolling back and forth with torches. In the distance, the sound of beating the watch can be faintly heard.

It's a very quiet and peaceful picture, and Fang Xie is a little fascinated.

This kind of picture is vaguely familiar, but it only exists in the scenes of those costume TV series in my memory. Fang Xie couldn't help but look down at the hospital uniform on his body, and said in his heart, will he become a TV character in a few years? It's a boring but wonderful feeling, and cranky thinking always passes the time.

After waiting for about twenty minutes, the adults got off the train and stood outside the palace gate according to their grades. Fang Xie watched them warm their hands one by one, and then looked at their single clothes, so he was a little proud. After a person has reached a certain level of cultivation, he will not be afraid of the cold and heat, and he will not be able to practice but his health is good enough, so he will not feel so cold in the middle of winter like ordinary people.

The palace door creaked and was pulled open from the inside, and the eunuch on duty came out and sang a few times according to the custom, and then led the adults in.

And Fang Xie waited for them to go in before going inside, and found that the little eunuch Mu San was already standing in the doorway waiting for him.

"The slave and maid give a salute to Lord Xiaofang."

The little eunuch who was so cold that his face was flushed looked at Fang Jie's tall figure with envy, and said in his heart, Is it really not cold for him to wear only a single coat?

"Why should my father-in-law be polite, I'm tired of waiting."

Fang Xie smiled and returned the salute, and when he walked up, he stuffed a bag of things into Mu San's hand: "When I came, the Sun Ji hanging oven baked cakes in the East Twenty-Four were already cooked, and I brought you some by the way, eat them while they are hot, they are very fragrant." ”

The little eunuch Mu San weighed the weight of the small package, and knew that it was definitely not just a few worthless hanging oven baked cakes. He didn't shirk either, stuffed into his cuffs and took the lead in walking out of the hall to lead the way: "Last night, Your Majesty almost didn't sleep, Zuo Wuwei General Yu Manlou, Zong Lianghu, the soldier of the military department, and Pei Yan, the waiter of the Yellow Gate, just came out of the Dongnuan Pavilion not long after......"

It's like chatter, but it's soft.

"Your Majesty seems to have lost his temper last night and dropped something...... When Lord Zong Lianghu entered, he was holding a thick stack of official documents, but he didn't know what the road was. The general Yu Manlou came out to go to the toilet, and his face was not very good-looking. However, Master Pei has not spoken much, and he has no different reactions. ”

"Hmm"

Fang Xie nodded, thinking in his heart what kind of attitude he should have in front of His Majesty?

PS: I haven't taken the college entrance examination, and I haven't felt that atmosphere. But I can understand the state of mind of the students, who have been studying hard for 12 years and fighting hard in these two days. Come on, I wish all the teenagers who took the college entrance examination can get their wish and bless you.