Chapter Twenty-Four: Fleeing at Night
Yunhua saw that Su Mengtang had already closed his eyes and was napping, thinking that it was not appropriate for him to continue to stay in the Art of War Hall, so he got up and walked out and stood in the narrow passage. He thought about the truth he had just deduced from Su Mengtang, and felt that there was still one thing that he couldn't solve: who was Sango's helper? If it was sent by Shi Miyuan, then why did Shi Miyuan send people to Jiangnan Villa, and when did he send them? Could it be that Su Mengtang has done something in the past two years to make this powerful prime minister notice here?
Yunhua was puzzled, and he decided to have a chance to talk about these issues with Su Mengtang tomorrow. But one thing is very clear - Jiangnan Villa has a person who is not loyal to Su Mengtang, this person is like an invisible black hand, controlling the current situation, and even taking people's lives for this. No matter who he was or who sent him, it would be harmful to Su Mengtang and Liu Ting.
In the Art of War Hall, Su Mengtang was already asleep, and Ziruo felt that it was very bad to let Deng Er's body continue to lie less than a zhang away from Su Mengtang, so he dragged the corpse to the lotus pond under the light hole, and took out a handkerchief from his body and covered Deng Er's face. Suddenly, Zi Ruo heard a sigh of relief coming from the place above his head, the sound was not loud, but it was heard clearly.
Ziruo subconsciously looked up and saw a black shadow flashing through the light aperture above, and the originally dark roof was shining a little faint moonlight from the light aperture at this time, like a piece of mutton fat jade suddenly floating in the ink pool. "Who is it?!" Ziruo shouted. Su Mengtang, who was sleeping, was awakened by this rather threatening shout, and when she saw Ziruo looking up, she already knew what was going on in her heart.
Yun Hua also rushed into the Art of War Hall from the passage at this time, Su Mengtang pointed at him, he understood it, and said to Su Mengtang: I will go up first, you let the others outflank it. With that, he ran out of the cave in plain clothes.
Outside the Xuantie Gate, several people in Ziwen saw Yunhua running out like a gust of wind, and were thinking about whether to ask with him, when they saw Su Mengtang hurriedly walking out of the passage with Ziruo. Su Mengtang instructed Hu Da and them to say: There are people above the Art of War Hall, Brother Yunhua has already gone to chase after it, the right side of that position is a gable, and the three of you are outflanking it from another direction, so you must catch it alive.
Hu Da is the steward of the city tower of Jiangnan Villa, he is about thirty years old, he looks burly and fierce, but he is loyal and honest, and he has never done anything wrong, so he was the first to be appreciated by Su Mengtang and let him take on this important task. At this moment, I heard that someone was in the Art of War Hall, and Hu Da took a breath and walked out of the cave, followed by Ziruo and Ziwen. The three of them first judged the location: it was too late to go around the pine forest, so they decided to climb directly from the rock wall to the left of the cave entrance. The rocks next to the entrance of the Art of War Hall are all whole, wet and full of moss, and it may not be possible for ordinary people to climb such a boulder in one leap, but it is easy for the three of them.
Hu Da first took a few steps back, then knelt on one knee, palms facing up, and folded them on his knees. Ziwen stepped on Hu Da's hand with one foot, Hu Da kicked the ground with his kneeling legs, and threw Ziwen up the moment he got up, and then used the same method to lift Ziruo onto the boulder. The two purple-clothed maidservants climbed up the rock, and continued to climb up, disappearing swiftly into the night. At this time, Hu Da suddenly got up and jumped up, grabbed the vine that covered the entrance of the cave, borrowed his feet from the mountain rock on the right, climbed up, and in a few blinks he went to the top of the cave entrance, and went straight to the place where the incident occurred.
The light inky cloak of Yunhua was very conspicuous in the moonlit night, and he was chasing a man. The man was a man in shape, dressed from head to toe in a night suit that was unrecognizable. It was this person just now, peeking down from above the Art of War Hall. He was about to flee after being discovered by Zi Ruo, but he saw Yun Hua find him very quickly, and knew that he couldn't escape, so he stepped forward to fight. After a few rounds, Yun Hua found that although his martial arts were strong, he had no love of fighting, and he wanted to go to the gable, and Yun Hua was chasing after him. At this time, Ziwen Ziruo arrived, blocked in front of the man in black and said: Who are you?
The man in black saw that his opponent had become three, and knew that he was outnumbered, so he wanted to break out from his right side, but at this time, Hu Da arrived and blocked his way. The four of them surrounded the man in black, looking for an opportunity to make a move, each carefully changing their paces in place, circling each other. Yun Hua stood behind him, and suddenly saw the man's hand touching the back of his waist, and he couldn't help but feel a tightness in his heart: if it was a dagger or a hidden weapon, the situation would become dangerous. didn't have time to think about it, the moment the man in black was about to raise his hand, Yunhua flew up and kicked the back of his hand. Everyone saw a small white bottle fly up from the man's hand, churning twice in the air, the cork withered, and for a while the powder of the full bottle poured out, and the smell was fragrant. Yun Hua suddenly understood in his heart that he had been tricked, and immediately covered his mouth and nose, and Hu Da and the three of them also subconsciously took two steps back and turned their faces to the side.
Taking advantage of this gap, the man in black forcibly broke out from between the purple veins and purple rays, and jumped up the gable: it turned out that the rocks here were steep, and the highest point was not far from the top of the gable. The four men hurriedly borrowed rocks to climb up, but the path on the gable was empty. Hu Da was the first to see a rope tied to the small square mouth on the opposite battlement, and hurriedly ran over to check. It turned out that the man in black had tied an extremely long rope here at some point, and he was pulling down with the rope at the moment. Hu Da suddenly shouted: Where to run?! After that, he was about to jump down in a hurry, but was pulled by Yunhua from behind: this side of the gable is about ten meters high, and if he really jumps, no matter how good his martial arts are, he will also fall and be injured. The man in black had already been confined under the city wall at this moment, and suddenly a cloud covered the moonlight, and nothing could be seen from above, and the four people watched the man in black disappear under the city wall and flee by the mountain.
Thinking that Su Mengtang was in the Art of War Hall at this time, Yunhua and the four of them had to go back first and tell her what was going on here. Su Mengtang was silent after hearing this, and then asked Ziruo: Is this person a family member in the villa, or did he climb up from the outside just now? Ziruo didn't answer yet, but heard someone running in from outside, it turned out to be Pan Si. Pan Si didn't wait for it to calm down, so he gasped and reported to Su Mengtang: Girl, I searched all over the villa, but I didn't find the woman, but several doors said that no one had gone out today. Su Mengtang's brows became more and more frowned, he pressed his hand to the chair, stood up and said, "In this way, Coral was also taken out by the man in black just now. Ziwen stepped forward and said: "Girl, I want to know if the man in black is from our village, and the slave has a way."