Before the water leak had passed, there was a sudden commotion outside the main hall. With the sound of hurried footsteps, Yao Runeng walked in with Wen Ran in his arms. Wen Ran was draped in a light blanket, a little wary of the unfamiliar environment, and let the man next to him push forward.

Most of the scribes looked up at her, their eyes complicated. This should be Wang Zhonghe's daughter, right? It's finally back! It was this woman who made them work overtime and not be able to participate in the lantern festival until now.

Yao Runeng brought Wen Ran to Li Mi, but before Li Yu could speak, Yao Runeng took the first step over and said in a low voice: "This girl is not Wang Yunxiu, her name is Wen Ran." ”

Li Mi was stunned when he heard this, he thought that this matter had finally been explained, how could it be extraneous. He said with a cold face: "Who is Wenran?" ”

Yao Runeng said: "I have asked clearly on the way, she is the owner of the Wenji incense shop in Dunyi Fang." According to her own account, she was attacked by the Bear Fire Gang, went to Wang Yunxiu for help, traveled with Xi in a car, and then was attacked by thieves and held hostage all the way to Changmingfang - so it may ...... Uh, we got it wrong from the start. ”

This is a sad misunderstanding. It turned out that he was hijacked by the wolf guard, and he had been smelling and dyeing all the time.

"What about Wang Yunxiu?" Li Mi glared at her.

Wen Ran felt that this man was very fierce, so he quickly shrank back behind Yao Runeng and shook his head. Since the car accident, the things around her have become more and more weird, and she can't keep up with the situation at all, let alone pay attention to Wang Yunxiu's traces.

Li Mi lost interest in her, and he asked Yao Runeng to leave the woman for questioning, and let her go if there was no doubt. Yao Runeng was about to leave with Wen Ran in his arms, but Li Yu suddenly remembered something and stopped them again: "Do you know Zhang Xiaojing?" ”

Wen Ran heard the familiar name, and his eyes revealed a hint of joy: "That's my father-in-law." ”

Li Mi's eyes showed a sudden look, he waved the dust, and sneered at Xu Bin: "No wonder Zhang Xiaojing insists on searching again, it turns out that what he is looking for is not Wang Yunxiu, but this smell!" ”

Zhang Xiaojing's obsession with Changmingfang's search again just now made Li Mi feel very strange all the time. Now that he saw that he had found Wen Ran, Li Mi immediately keenly captured the subtle connection in it. Looking back now, Zhang Xiaojing insisted that it was Wang Yunxiu who was robbed in the Zhengfang Workshop, and I am afraid that he was deliberately misleading from the beginning.

Li Mi was annoyed and disappointed. Yes, Zhang Xiaojing did not care about his life to stop the Turks, and this misdirection did not delay the business. But this small action has destroyed Li Yu's unconditional trust: does he have any other behaviors to hide? Will there be similar behavior in the future? This creates a cascade of problems and pitfalls.

"Detain her to the apse cell and interrogate her about her relationship with Zhang Xiaojing!"

Li Mi sternly revised the order. Yao Runeng thought that he had misheard, and that he was left behind and detained, two terms of completely different natures.

Seeing that he hesitated, Li Mi paused the dust on the desk and made a "bang" sound. Yao Runeng had no choice but to drag Wen Ran and dragged his head back a little apologetically.

Wen Ran didn't know what to do, so she had to firmly grasp Yao Runeng's arm, which was the only person in the entire hall who made her feel at ease.

After they left, Li Bi closed his eyes, and he had already made up his mind. As soon as there was progress on the side of Yining Fangjing Temple, Zhang Xiaojing was immediately recalled. In the rest of the operation, he was not sure if he could continue to trust the man.

Xu Bin, who was on the side, didn't know that the chief's attitude towards his collaborators had changed subtly, and he was working hard to write without distractions.

Because the opportunity he had been waiting for had come.

There are two gates leading to the outside world in Jing'an, a main gate and a corner gate, all guarded by soldiers of the brigade army. Anyone who enters and exits here must show a bamboo certificate, and if there is no nationality, it will be regarded as breaking into the palace ban, and the soldiers can kill them on the spot.

From today's day, a large number of people are constantly entering and exiting these two gates, and it is an urgent matter that cannot be delayed. This hectic situation lasted until the time of Shen, when the candles were hung high, the soldiers were already exhausted, and the attitude of checking the bamboo books was perfunctory.

A long-faced official walked out of the corner gate of the Jing'an Division, holding a bamboo book. The soldier guarding the door looked at his face and recognized it as Pang Lushi. He often traveled back and forth between the Jingzhao Mansion and the Jing'an Division through this corner gate, and was responsible for accessing all kinds of files. Today alone, he has made no less than a dozen trips. So the soldier didn't bother to check the bamboo book, passed his hand slightly, waved his hand and let him go.

Pang Lushi crossed the threshold and entered Jingzhao Mansion. He looked left and right, and instead of going straight to the yamen where Silu had joined the army, he turned a corner and got into the horseshoe passage between the main hall and the wall. This sandwich road is very narrow, only allowing one horse to drop its hooves, so it is called the horseshoe sandwich road. There are all kinds of miscellaneous items piled up here, and there are few people who usually come.

He walked to the middle of the horse's hoof path, bent down, and pulled a roll of paper from his bosom. Suddenly, a gong sounded, and a row of lanterns lit up on the wall, and the entire mezzanine was brightly lit. Xu Bin stood at the other end of the road with his hands in his hands, looking at him regretfully.

"Lao Pang, I didn't expect it to be your ......"

Pang Lushi panicked: "I, I'm here to relieve my hands." Xu Bin smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Hey, don't let me go, Jing'ansi's latrine, isn't there enough pit?" He walked over, snatched the scroll from Pang Lushi's hand, and opened it to see that it was actually a list of food.

Pang Lushi smiled and said: "Lao Xu, you also know me, the toilet in Jing'an Division is too dirty, so it's convenient to come here." This paper roll wipes the buttocks, which is more comfortable than the toilet - there is "Cherish the Word Order", and you can't carry people on your back in this matter. ”

The imperial court promulgated the "Order to Cherish Words", requiring respect for paper and cherishing words, and strictly prohibiting the use of paper on which words have been written to go to the toilet. Pang Lushi wiped his ass with a food list, strictly speaking, he also had to be hit by the board.

Xu Bin said: "Hey, Lao Pang, you are too worried, the law is strict, how can you arrest someone because of a piece of broken paper?" Then she handed him back the scroll. Pang Lushi breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to pat his shoulder to express his affection, but Xu Bin dodged away slightly, and his face turned serious: "If you want to arrest it, it is also because of the leakage and leakage of military information." ”

He is honest, and when he talks about this kind of aggressiveness, he stammers and has no authority. When Pang Lushi heard this, his face was displeased: "Old Xu, you can't slander your colleagues like this." It's wrong for me to use paper for convenience, but your accusation is too much, isn't it? ”

Xu Bin winced for a moment, then sighed, and found that his aura was really not suitable for stabbing and raping. He flashed his body to reveal a person behind him. Pang Lushi looked at it by the candlelight, and it turned out to be the guard guarding the corner gate, who had been tied up with five flowers, so his body began to tremble.

The silence in the mezzanine is inversely proportional to the hustle and bustle outside. Only Xu Bin's voice sounded weakly:

"I know there's a spying on the division, but I'll have to wait for an opportunity. Wang Yunxiu returned to the hall just now, but was found to be another woman. I deliberately copied this message to all officials. It's too important, and the mole will definitely send it out as soon as possible. Those who leave their seats at this time to go out, uh, must be the most suspicious. ”

Xu Bin sincerely explained the trap he had set, lest Pang Lushi would not understand.

"I've been wondering how Jing'ansi's mole should pass through the main gate or corner gate, hey. Then I found out that I had fallen into a misunderstanding. This person doesn't have to be the one who walked through the door, but it could also be ...... Well, gatekeepers. When Xu Bin said this, he puffed up a breath, and his tone became more confident, "I have seen it just now: you walked through the corner gate, handed over the news to the soldiers guarding the door while checking the bamboo book, and left innocently; The soldier guarding the gate then passed to the person outside, and continued to guard the door innocently. This method is very good, and if you check any of you, you will be innocent. You have to be together to see the fame. ”

Pang Lushi made a "coo" and sat down in the middle of the tunnel. Xu Bin ordered the bad people on the left and right to go over and get him, Pang Lushi hurriedly raised his face and begged and said, "I: I'm doing things for Feng Pavilion......

Fengge is the province of Zhongshu. He took the initiative to admit that he was Li Xiang's person, and hoped that Xu Bin would be merciful. But even if he is as dull as Xu Bin, he also knows that Li Xiang will never admit to this, let alone protect him, Pang Lushi's career is over.

Pang Lushi also realized this, and pulled Xu Bin's sleeve: "I want to see Li Sicheng!" I'm just delivering news, and I've never delayed the affairs of Jing'ansi! ”

When Xu Bin heard this, he was a little angry: "Hey! Don't admit it, if it weren't for the secret communication between you and Fengge, the fire in the distant merchant house would have started? Can Cui Qi rebel? Pang Lushi was stunned when he heard this, and then shouted: "Cui Wei's matter is true that I passed it on to Fengge, but I haven't passed it on to the merchant inn from afar!" ”

"Huh?"

"Do something for the Turks, that's to kill the head! It's no good. Pang Lushi was indignant.

After he reminded him, Xu Bin found that the two leaks were actually completely different in nature. The distant merchant store accidentally caught fire, and the Turkic wolf guards who stole the map in the Xifu store benefited; In response to Cui Qi's co-optation and rebellion, it was Li Xiang who benefited.

No matter how shameless Pang Lushi is, he will not eat two of them.

"Do you mean...... In fact, there are two moles? Xu Bin stood in the middle of the passage and couldn't help but shudder. When did Yasuyasu become a sieve? Any sediment can seep in.

He stared at Pang Lushi, staring at the latter until his hair straightened. However, Pang Lushi soon discovered that Xu Bin's short-sighted eyes were actually staring at the blank paper scroll used to untie his hands. He handed it over cautiously: "If you want to use it......"

Xu Bin suddenly jumped up, turned around and ran towards the outside of the mezzanine. It's hard to believe that he is past middle age, and his legs and feet are still so dexterous, so he disappeared at the end of the road in a flash, leaving behind Pang Lushi, the guards guarding the gate, and a few bad people who held them to look at each other.

Xu Bin gasped, but his brain was about to explode. He just thought that there was another better transmission channel in this Jing'an Division!

The four streets near Guangdefang are all brightly lit. Those huge lampstands emitted thousands of golden rays of light, illuminating half of the sky.

This is a rare magnificent scene for tourists, but it is the most troublesome disturbance for the watchtower placed by Jing'an Division in Zhufang. Thousands of candles were burned, the noise was heard all night, and the watchtower, whether it was beating drums or raising fires, was almost ineffective.

For this reason, Wu Hou on the watchtower had to cover the lantern with two layers of purple paper to distinguish it from those huge lights. If an immortal were to look down on Chang'an City, he would see a shimmering sea of golden light over the city, and if you had to distinguish it carefully, you could see that there were many faint purple dots mixed in it—like a stingy shopkeeper sprinkling a little sesame seed on top of Biluo cake.

At this moment, the purple light on a watchtower near Guangdefang suddenly went out. However, compared to these colorful lanterns as brilliant as the sun and the moon, this little bit of rotten firefly light is so inconspicuous that no one will pay attention to it at all.

Soon the lights of the second watchtower were also extinguished.

Third, fourth, fifth...... In dozens of snaps of time, the purple dots of the watchtower around Guangdefang all dimmed, like a dark rope, gradually wrapped around Guangdefang's neck.

Yao Runeng locked Wen Ran in the prison in the apse, came out and stood in the courtyard, and let out a long breath. Wen Ran refused to return to the cold and dark environment, and kept asking Yao Runeng what was going on. He was good at talking about it to calm her emotions.

This ordinary girl has gone through so much torture today, it's really pitiful. Li Sicheng just asked to lock her up like a prisoner, which made Yao Runeng a little unhappy.

He confessed to the guards who guarded the cell, and placed an extra candlestick and a copper basin filled with clean water in the cell—the hair and face were already dirty and needed to be cleaned up.

Arrange it this way, and when Zhang Duwei comes back, I can finally give him an explanation. Yao Runeng thought to himself.

This woman called Zhang Xiaojing as a benefactor, and I don't know what the story is between these two people. Yao Runeng is now full of curiosity about Zhang Xiaojing's life, and he is eager to see this person clearly, and smelling and dyeing should be an excellent way to understand.

Yao Ru asked Wen Ran to clean himself, he took this time to go to the courtyard to breathe, clarify his thoughts, and then go back to interrogate Wen Ran - well, not an interrogation, it was an inquiry, he corrected his words.

The backyard prison of Jing'an Division is connected to the left side hall, and there is a small courtyard in the middle of the two places, where the original owner placed a rockery full of vines, like a secluded mountain scene. Yao Runeng slipped into this small courtyard, and was looking down in contemplation, when he suddenly saw that behind the rockery, there seemed to be a figure shaking. Yao Runeng's eyes narrowed, and he vigilantly pressed the iron ruler on his waist: "Who?" ”

"It's me, Cui Qi."

The figure walked out, and Yao Runeng's eyes widened, which was really unexpected.

"Oh, isn't this General Cui of the Right Guard?" Yao Runeng sarcastically emphasized the word "general". He thought that he would never have to see this face again in his life, and he didn't expect him to be cheeky and return to Jing'an Division.

Cui Qi's face was dark, lifeless: "I have something to do with you." Yao Runeng continued to taunt: "Arrest me back? It's a pity that General Gan only restricted Zhang Duwei, but didn't mention me, a nobody. ”

Cui Qi gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "It's not this matter, let me tell you, Jing'an Division may be in danger!" ”

Yao Runeng almost wanted to laugh, this guy was even funnier than Hai You, who danced the military drama. Jing'an Division is planning to defend the capital, is it dangerous? Its job is to find out the danger!

"No, you listen to me. I don't have much evidence right now, but I have a strong premonition that something is wrong. ”

Cui Qi's tone was a little impatient. He had served as a soldier in Longshan and had a natural instinct for danger. From just now, he suddenly felt restless. The footsteps of the people in the hall, the flow of the wind, the noise outside, and the frequency of transmission, I always felt that something was wrong, but I couldn't say it.

"Of course you're looking forward to something happening to Yasuyashi." Yao Runeng pouted.

"You bunny, how do you talk?" Cui Qi was furious, stretched out his palm and slapped the rockery violently, "Yes!" I am a traitor! I'm getting into it, but is there any benefit in me making up this lie? ”

Yao Runeng looked at his face, and his expression slowly became serious. This person may be cowardly and despicable, but he is not very good at hypocrisy. He seems to be in a real hurry now.

"Since you are so kind, why don't you just go and tell Li Sicheng and Xu about them?" Yao Runeng said suspiciously.

"Traitors, they won't believe it." Cui Qi replied with a wry smile, "But Xiaoyao, if you go and issue a warning, it's different." Listen, I'm not for Yasuyashi, I'm for myself. If something really happens to Jing'ansi, I can't be spared. ”

That's true. If it was possible, he would have run away early, but with the military order of Gan Shoucheng, he could only stay where he was.

Yao Runeng said: "Then you have to make it clear what is going to happen, just feeling it can't be, how can you let Jing'an Division take precautions?" ”

Cui Qi hurriedly said: "Let's transfer a few teams of brigades first, it's always right!" ”

As soon as the words fell, the two of them heard eager footsteps at the same time. They followed the prestige and found that the sound was coming from the back garden farther away.

Xu Bin ran back to Jing'an Division from Jingzhao Mansion in one go, and then ran from Jing'an Division to the back of the courtyard. This is a large garden, the place is empty, only some retreats, thatched toilets, falcons, etc., and the watchtower of Jing'an Division is also set in the center of the garden, surrounded by a ring of towering gables.

It stands to reason that this is a dead end, and there is no exit. But Xu Bin suddenly remembered that there was actually another passage in this garden.

Aqueduct.

Why is the location of Kwong Tak Place so important? Because the three channels in the west of Chang'an, Guangtong Canal, Qingming Canal, and Yong'an Canal, happen to converge here and then flow into the imperial city.

Three canals enter the workshop, so that the waterway inside Guangdefang is wide and deep. In this back garden of Jing'an Division, there is a water gate on each of the east and west walls. The water that flows into the main canal from the east wall is bent into a bow in the middle, which happens to be half-wrapped around the retreat chamber of Li Mi, and then discharged into the main canal from the west wall. In this way, there is a living water in the garden, as long as one of the three canals is not dry, there will always be clear water flowing here, and the feng shui is good.

Xu Bin saw the paper scroll in Pang Lushi's hand, and suddenly thought that the traitor didn't have to enter and exit through the second gate at all, as long as he ran to the back garden under the pretext of going to the toilet, threw the oiled paper into the drain, and then arranged for someone to pick it up with a fence outside the west wall. The flow of water completes the transmission of information, which is reliable, fast, and extremely safe.

This technique is worthless, but it is more practical than Pang Lushi's method.

Xu Bin deliberately released the news that Wang Yunxiu was infected, and for another traitor, it was also information to be sent immediately. In other words, Xu Bin hurriedly ran over, maybe he could block him by the canal—at worst, he could also catch the people who were collecting information next to the western wall and block the road.

He was followed by five bad guys. Xu Bin asked the two of them with the best physique to climb over the wall from the other side as soon as possible, blocking the other side first, and he and the other three ran into a fan shape and moved closer to the canal.

Xu Bin hadn't exercised like this for a long time. His lungs ached hotly, and he gasped for air, but he didn't dare to stop at all. After Pang Lushi was arrested, the traitor might be in hiding, and now is the only chance to catch him.

They ran into the back garden and made their way down the gravel path, where they soon saw the shadow of the retreat standing in the darkness. There were no lights, so there was no way to see more clearly, only the sound of water rushing from the canal.

Hey? How could there be no lights?

The large watchtower of Jing'an Division is located nearby, and it has to receive news from all directions of Chang'an, so the scale is twice as large as other watchtowers, and it can hold eight martial arts on it. At nightfall, there should be sixteen purple lamps hanging overhead.

Xu Bin raised his head and found that it was pitch black on the big watchtower, and there was no light.

Not good!

An extremely ominous premonition, like a poisonous snake bouncing in the shadows, bit Xu Bin's heart fiercely.

Two screams came from the other side of the wall, and they were two bad people who had just climbed over. Xu Bin's complexion changed sharply, and he hurriedly poked his neck to look, but his eyesight was powerless in the dark, and he fell to the ground with a knock on his feet.

At the same time, a shadow stood up from the canal, and the bad people were startled and pulled out the iron ruler from their waists. At this time, more than a dozen shadows emerged one after another, climbing onto the bank of the canal, like evil ghosts emerging from the water.

They stood in a row in black water and crossbows, keeping a terrible silence. Not far away, under the western wall, the water fence had been torn down, and it was from where these people should have swam from. A dark figure stood at the edge of the western wall, looking indifferently at this side, playing with the straight-handled horse tooth file in his hand.

The remaining three bad guys timidly stopped and tried to run back. Several short crossbows moved, and they killed two people on the spot. The last man was about to shout a warning, but a crossbow bolt suddenly flew above his head and pierced through his heavenly spirit cover.

A dark figure poked its head out of the watchtower, confirmed the target's death, and gestured.

The black shadows took off their water support, rewound their short crossbows, and then divided into several teams and quickly rushed towards the main hall of Jing'an......