The Cao family hired many warriors to serve as guardians, and these guards would patrol the courtyard in shifts, even at night. The Cao family's nursing courtyard is divided into two kinds, one is in the light and the other is in the dark, in the bright courtyard one by one holds torches and patrols around, and in the dark courtyard lurks in the dark, quietly moving, waiting for the thief to appear.

The strength of these courtyards is generally not weak, basically all of them are martial artists, there are no ordinary people, and the strength is generally around the second or third heavens, among which there are two particularly powerful people, who are responsible for guarding the Lingquan Court, which is difficult to deal with. Zhao Zheng's strength is comparable to these people, as long as Cao Xuan, who has a private lover, does not come back, he can steal the imperial wine relatively easily.

Zhao Zhengyun was buoyant, his whole body was light, his weight seemed to have lost by half, his footsteps were almost silent, and the only sound was absorbed by the cloud boots. Hiding in the shadows at the base of the wall, he moved forward slowly, scanning his surroundings as he went, observing the wind and grass. It's a pity that he didn't reach the realm of the Five Heavens, he didn't have the ability to "be deaf and clear", and his observation and perception were slightly inferior.

A team of courtyard guards came over with torches in hand, and the jumping firelight illuminated the courtyard as if it were daylight, and the dry flowers imprinted ghostly shadows on the ground under the light of the firelight. There were a few people in the nursing team chatting, commenting on a few girls in the Qinglou, and the captain couldn't stand it anymore, so he scolded a few times, telling everyone to cheer up, saying that they were guarding the wine for the emperor.

Zhao Zheng quietly hid in a bush of flowers, curled up in a ball, and waited for the team of guards to walk away. before jumping out of the flowers. Keep moving. He found out by observation. The defense of this courtyard is relatively weak, there is only one team in the open courtyard, and there is not a single nursing home in the dark.

He jumped all the way to hide, and passed through the doorway of the first courtyard without any danger, and came to the second courtyard, where there were three places lit with fires, and it seemed that there were three teams guarding the courtyard in Ming, which was much more tightly defended than the previous courtyard. This indirectly proves that the information provided by the valet is indeed correct. This is indeed where the Lingquan Court is located, and the closer you get to the Lingquan Court, the tighter the defense in the courtyard becomes.

Through two more courtyards, you can reach the Lingquan Garden, this small courtyard is located in the wrapping of layers of courtyards, no matter which direction you sneak into, you will inevitably encounter those courtyards, there is no shortcut.

There were two teams of guards walking towards the door, and the flames spread rapidly in this direction.

Zhao Zheng needed to find a place to hide, and he glanced around twice to take in the situation around him. After confirming that there was no dark whistle, he jumped towards a rockery flower bed. Quietly fell into it.

Both teams of guards came, one of them patrolled around the houses in the yard, and the other patrolled around the courtyard wall, the courtyard patrolling around the house was no threat to Zhao Zheng, but the courtyard that walked around the courtyard wall would pass by where Zhao Zheng was hiding.

Zhao Zhengyi was bold, not afraid at all, quietly waiting for the team of nurses to approach, and when the guards were about to shine on him with fire, he began to move to the other side of the rockery, which could avoid the firelight. From time to time, he looked back to check the situation of the rockery on the other side, and suddenly found a figure in the other rockery, which seemed to be a secret whistle.

That dark sentry must have not discovered Zhao Zheng yet, otherwise he would have shouted a long time ago, how could he stay silently in place.

If he continued to move forward, he was likely to expose the target, so Zhao Zheng had the courage to lower his waist, quickly bypassed the rockery, and jumped into another rockery flower bed at once. There was no movement in the dark sentry on the opposite side, and the team of guards also bypassed the rockery flower bed where Zhao Zheng had stayed before, and there was a conversation between a group of people.

Zhao Zheng secretly said that it was dangerous, and relying on the cover of the rockery, he successfully escaped the team of guards. He had the intention to take advantage of the team to go away and knock out the dark whistle, but after hesitating for a moment, he dispelled this idea, the dark whistle will also change shifts, if someone finds that there is a dark whistle that is knocked out during the shift change, it will definitely alarm everyone, and it is better not to shoot at these dark whistles until it is absolutely necessary.

He lurked behind the rockery, carefully observed the surrounding situation, found an inconspicuous secret sentry, and worked out a safe route according to the surrounding situation. Taking advantage of the absence of a nursery, he quickly sprang out of the rockery, first with one foot on a flower bed, then jumped onto a roof, and climbed the eaves with both hands. With his arms strained, he slowly showed his head to make sure that there was no one on the roof, then he turned over and jumped up, lowered his waist and walked to the other side of the roof.

He stopped and jumped, jumping over two roofs in a row to reach a roof near a courtyard wall, which he could jump over to reach the next courtyard.

The opposite yard was blazing, and it looked much more heavily defended, and the yard was much larger than this one. Lingquan Garden is located in the middle of this large courtyard, and is wrapped in layers by this large courtyard.

The two courtyards moved quickly, and Zhao Zheng squatted for a long time, and then he seized a good opportunity and jumped on the opposite wall at once. There were also sharp nails buried in the wall, and he was careful to avoid them when he landed, stepped on the edge of a bare wall, and rolled over and jumped into the darkness of the courtyard.

Through this courtyard again, you can reach the Lingquan Garden, and victory is in sight.

This courtyard is larger, with more houses and flower beds, and correspondingly more hiding places and places where it is easy to bury secret posts, so you need to be more careful.

Zhao Zheng hid under the corner of the wall and observed for a while, and found all the secret sentinels around, and there were as many as three. When he was moving, he needed to avoid the eyes of these dark whistles, as well as the windows of the house, which was quite difficult. With great difficulty, he worked out a route forward, and once again chose a roof that was easier to avoid his sight, and with a series of clean movements, he jumped up, grabbed the eaves of a small three-story building, and jumped towards it.

When jumping to the top floor, Zhao Zheng showed his head to observe, and then jumped up. As soon as he stood on his feet, a head peeked out from the side and looked at him. The head was sticking out of a dark whistle, and he usually stayed on the rooftop. Because the roof is in the shape of a slope of a ridge. Zhao Zheng couldn't find him just now.

Zhao made a decision. An arrow stepped forward, and when the Dark Whistle had just made a little sound, he covered the Dark Whistle's mouth, and with the skillful technique of a small grappler, he turned over the Dark Whistle's body and buckled the Dark Whistle's throat. He leaned into the whisper's ear and whispered, "Don't move if you don't want to die." ”

The Dark Sentry was agitated, though he heard the threat. But there were still two whines in his mouth.

Someone from the nursing homes passing by here heard the movement and raised his voice and asked, "Huzi, why are you making such a strange movement, is there a situation above?" ”

Zhao Zheng choked the courtyard nicknamed Huzi, and threatened in a low voice: "Tell them that there is no situation, if you talk nonsense, today will be your death day." "He's gambling, if this nursing home is really so tough and would rather die than give in, then he can only go home tonight. Don't fight the idea of this imperial wine again. Without the wine, his next move would be much more troublesome. But it's not that it can't go on.

The hand covering Huzi's mouth slowly loosened, Huzi's eyes moved, he hesitated again and again, and finally chose to compromise, pretending to be casual and replied: "I had a toothache just now, there was some strange movement, it's not in the way, everything above is as usual, nothing happens." This is the territory of the Cao family, how dare ordinary people fight the ghost idea here. ”

"You have to endure the toothache, don't make any more noise." One of the guards below shouted, and after saying that, he continued to patrol with the people.

Huzi wanted to lower his voice and beg Zhao Zheng behind him for mercy, but before he could say anything, he was hit by the acupoint and fainted.

Zhao Zheng put Huzi down and squatted on the roof for a while, making sure that this little episode did not cause a bigger commotion, and then he breathed a sigh of relief and continued to move forward. He advanced on the roof, dodging the guards, and finally reached a small courtyard in the middle of the large courtyard, above the courtyard gate, hung a plaque of the Lingquan Garden.

As the name suggests, there is a spring with clear and sweet water in the Lingquan Garden, and it is from this spring that the Cao family uses this spring to brew the world's unparalleled best Jiujiu spring wine. Next to this spring is a winemaking workshop built by the Cao family, as well as a wine cellar for storing wine. In this small courtyard, there are no more buildings other than a well, a workshop and a wine cellar.

The imperial wine that Zhao was about to steal was in the wine cellar.

The wine cellar is an important place guarded by the Cao family, and there are two powerful warriors guarding it, one guarding the door and the other guarding the wine cellar. If the reality is consistent with the situation in the game, both of them should be the strength of the four heavens,

There were courtyards everywhere outside the Lingquan Court, but the inside of the Lingquan Court was very deserted, and only the Quadruple Heavenly Martial Man was guarding the door. This man was in his forties, with a calm bearing, sitting cross-legged next to the well, meditating quietly. Defeat this man and the man in the cellar to get the wine. With this man on the sidelines, if you want to enter the cellar, you can only defeat him, and there is no second choice.

Moreover, this battle must be resolved quickly, once it drags on a little longer and alarms the guards outside, it will be impossible to steal the imperial wine again.

Zhao Zheng hid behind the wall, pondered for a few breaths, his eyes were awe-inspiring, and suddenly he burst out from behind the wall, drew his sword and attacked the martial artist in the middle of the Lingquan Court. Almost in the blink of an eye, he killed the warrior's approach, the golden light on the sword body flashed, the cold light was incomparable, and the strong internal force turned into sword qi, swallowing out, like a golden dragon spitting water, unstoppable.

The martial artist felt the strong wind coming towards him, and suddenly opened his eyes, flashed to the side with a frightened face, and barely dodged the sword, and a strand of hair on his forehead was cut off by the sword qi and fell to the side. He just wanted to take off the metal wine jug hanging from his waist to fight back, when the golden sword qi immediately turned around and chased after him, stabbing his palm directly, if he continued to probe his hand, this hand would have to be cut off!

The warrior was so frightened that he hurriedly withdrew his hand and retreated backwards, and at the same time used the Cao family's family heirloom "Liquor Burning Technique" to digest the wine he drank at dinner and temporarily enhance his strength. His complexion instantly turned red, as if he were drunk, and his hands became hot. There is a killer move in the spirit burning technique, which can dispatch the alcohol in the body to the palms, ooze through the skin, and ignite it with the hot internal force, and attack with the burning palms, which is extremely powerful.

As soon as Zhao Zheng made a move, he tried his best, and his speed and internal strength were completely above the martial artist, not giving the other party a chance to breathe or counterattack at all, and another sword slashed horizontally, forcing the martial artist to dodge with an iron plate bridge over his body. He seized on the flaw and threw a punch at the warrior in pursuit, his fist bursting with golden light. Extraordinary. Right in the middle of the warrior's lower abdomen.

The warrior only felt his stomach churning. The internal forces in the dantian were in a mess, his eyes were black, and he almost fainted.

Zhao Zheng stepped forward to make up for it again, and slammed twice towards the two acupoints on the martial artist's chest, all of which were heavy hands, and the internal force penetrated through his fingertips, reaching the acupoints, and he was deeply submerged in them. He hit the two acupoints of lethargy and paralysis. As long as one of the acupuncture points is hit, the warrior can be restrained.

The martial artist was hit by the acupoint, his body no longer obeyed the call, he really fainted, and he couldn't wake up for a while.

This fight, the lightning and flint, it only took a few breaths before and after, and except for a few soft sounds, no sound was made.

Zhao Zheng was very successful and grabbed the unconscious warrior. Clicked the acupoint twice again to stabilize the acupoint effect. Then he dragged the sleeping warrior back to his original position and put on a posture of sitting cross-legged to practice, so as not to attract attention later. He didn't stop, he hurried to the side of the cellar, swung his sword to cut the door lock, opened the door and flew in. Although the range of his movements was large, the movement he made was very small.

As soon as the door was opened, there was a brightly lit room inside, and there was a ladder leading to the underground wine cellar under the house, and there was a person guarding in front of the ladder, just like the person just now, who was also the master of the Cao family who was responsible for guarding the Lingquan Court and the imperial wine. He was older than the man outside, with a broad face, holding a book in his hand, reading with relish, when he saw someone rushing in, he quickly put down the book and looked at it fixedly.

"Who are you?" The martial artist of the Cao family asked in surprise.

"The man who buys the liquor." Zhao Zheng blurted out, the sword in his hand beckoned, and while attacking, he hooked the door with his foot and closed the door again. His sword was as domineering as just now, leaving no room for the other party, as if he wanted to take someone's life on the spot.

Seeing that the situation was not good, this Cao family martial artist hurriedly dropped the scroll in his hand and dodged to the side, the situation was the same as that martial artist just now, they were all the same embarrassment.

Zhao Zheng made a series of moves, forcing this Cao family martial artist into a corner, and he had no power to fight back.

Although Zhao Zheng's martial arts realm is the same as this Cao family martial artist, they are all four heavens, but the gap between the two is very large. Zhao Zheng has already cultivated to the middle stage of the Four Heavens, and he is cultivating the top-grade martial method "Nine Veins and Six Yuan Sutras", his dual-element internal force is more powerful than the internal strength of ordinary martial artists, and it is already close to the five-fold heavenly martial arts, so Zhao Zheng's strength must be firmly suppressed by this Cao family martial artist.

With the improvement of Zhao Zheng's realm, the advantages brought by cultivating the Nine Veins and Six Yuan Sutra will become more and more obvious, widening the gap between him and the martial artists of the same realm.

Of course, there is more than one top-grade exercise in the world, and there is not only one of the "Nine Veins and Six Yuan Sutras", but there is no top-grade exercise, if Zhao Zheng encounters an enemy who also cultivates the top-grade exercises, he will not be able to gain the upper hand, and if he encounters a martial artist who cultivates the best-grade exercises, he will fall into the disadvantage.

This Cao family martial artist was a little more powerful than the one outside, although he was also suppressed by Zhao Zheng, but he took the time to take down the metal wine jar on his waist and used this strange weapon to defend, which made the battle situation change slightly.

Zhao Zheng was worried that this Cao family martial artist was yelling, and seeing that the situation was not good, he immediately accelerated the offensive and performed the killing of the overlord Chang Tu. The broad sword body slapped on the wine jar of the Cao family martial artist with a sweep, and the internal force of the strong and powerful force was transmitted from the wine jar to the hand of the Cao family martial artist, which shocked his wrist numb, and as soon as his hand was loosened, the wine jar fell to the ground.

Zhao Zheng fell into the well, raised his foot and kicked out, kicking the Cao family martial artist into the wall, and knocking the wall into a crack, which shows the fierceness of the force. It's not that he is too heavy, it's just that he has to deal with the Quadruple Heavenly Martial Artists, if he starts lightly, he won't be able to achieve the goal of defeating the other party at all.

The Cao family's martial artist had a salty throat and spit out a mouthful of blood, and his face, which had turned red from the burning of the spirits, turned a little whiter.

Zhao Zheng repeated his old tricks, and used the acupoint technique to stop the Cao family martial artist, dragged him to the side of the chair, and put him on it.

Although the two martial artists who were in charge of guarding the Lingquan Court were not lightly injured, they were not fatal injuries, and they had no worries about their lives, so they would be able to raise them for a short time. Zhao Zheng just wants to steal the wine he needs and doesn't want to kill anyone.

"Whew, everything is going well, then you just need to take away two jars of imperial wine, and leave a small amount of money as money to buy wine." Zhao Zheng looked at the unconscious Cao family martial artist and thought to himself.

His action was still a bit risky, and after taking down two of the most tricky warriors, he could finally breathe a sigh of relief. After he got two jars of wine, even if he was really discovered, with his ability, it was enough to leave safely. The biggest hurdle has been overcome, and the rest is easy.

He lit the fire and went down the ladder, deep into the ground, to an underground passage, and walked some distance to the heart of the cellar, where there were many doors on either side, and behind each door were wines of different quality. Most of them are ordinary nine-brewed spring wine, and only the deepest part of the imperial wine is for the emperor to drink.

When I opened the deepest door, there was a large simple room, and there were many dark brown wine jars on the floor, all of which were pasted with red paper.

Zhao Zheng didn't go directly to get the wine here, because these were just ordinary nine-brewed spring wines used to hide people's ears, and they were not genuine. He counted in place for a while, found the fifth wine jar in the second row, walked over, grabbed it, and under the wine jar, there was an obvious square mark, and he smashed it according to the square trace, and this square mark immediately sank, and it turned out to be a mechanism.

I heard a loud noise from the wall, and a secret door opened, revealing a secret room. The wine stored there is really reserved for the emperor to drink, and the wine jar placed here is just to hide people's eyes and ears, and it is the last line of defense made by the Cao family.

Zhao Zheng happily walked into the secret room, shining around with the firelight in his hand, looking for the trace of the imperial wine, but after only two glances, he was dumbfounded, stopped, and showed a look of disbelief.

The secret room was empty, and there was nothing! (To be continued.) )