With full of eager anticipation, Yan'er cautiously stepped into the arch of the main entrance of the west courtyard, and was suddenly stopped by a sharp reprimand: "What person? How dare you break into this courtyard at night? ”

Then she was nervous, and she hadn't seen any movement yet, Yan'er only chuckled in her heart and immediately stopped, and then hurriedly blew out the light in her hand, and in the panic, she flashed a flash of inspiration, and walked forward a few steps quickly in the dark and flashed into the corridor steps, behind the rockery bushes in the center of the courtyard, squatted down and shrunk tightly into a ball and hid.

Only then did he look timidly in the direction where the sound came from through the branches of the trees, but as soon as he looked up, in the faint light of the stars and moon, he saw two tall red-clothed guards in the corridor, with a lamp in one hand and a sword in the other, and they had already stood on the edge of the steps of the corridor in front of him.

When Yan'er saw it, she immediately held her breath and covered her mouth tightly, the whole person seemed to be about to lose her breath in an instant, and her heart was extremely nervous, and even her small body involuntarily began to tremble.

As soon as the two tall red-clad guards reached the archway, they began to split up, searching carefully near the doorway, inside and out.

After a while, the two of them met and gathered together, and one of the guards wondered, "No, I saw the faint light of the candle flame here, why did it disappear in a flash?"

"Maybe you're wrong, it's possible that someone from the east courtyard next to you is passing by in front of the door, okay, okay, let's go to other places to inspect, let's go!" The other guard explained, and left the door with him, one after the other, and once again passed by the rockery where Yan'er was hidden.

Just as he was about to continue to step onto the cloister and leave to inspect the courtyard, the guard, who had always wondered, and was the first to notice the anomaly at the arch, seemed to be still looking around with some unrelenting eyes. As soon as one of his feet stepped on the steps, he suddenly turned back and caught a glimpse of the rockery under his feet, so he raised his big knife and quietly descended the steps in front of him, and slowly leaned towards it.

Seeing this, Yan'er only felt as if she was about to stop breathing, and hurriedly retracted her head to clench her two tight little fists, trembling through gritted teeth, and muttered over and over again in her heart: "What to do, what to do, what should I do?" Miss, Miss, you have to bless Yan'er, save Yan'er! ”

At this moment, out of nowhere in the darkness, a hand suddenly stretched out to cover her mouth, and before she could react, Yan'er only felt that her whole person had been wrapped in the cold and exciting pool water, as if someone beside her was forcefully lowering her thin body and soaking it in the water, except for feeling her struggle, it was pitch black all around, and she could no longer see a little light, nor could she hear any sound.

After a while, for some reason, Yan'er suddenly quieted down like this, holding her breath and no longer struggling.

And after the rockery, two

As soon as the tall red-clothed guards cautiously approached, they looked at the already empty ground, and looked at each other in shock: "How can there be a light here?"

After a while, when the two of them suddenly reacted, they hurriedly raised the candle flame in their hands to illuminate the pool of water on the side of the rockery little by little, but they didn't want the water surface to be as calm as a mirror, without any waves.

Immediately afterwards, the two of them divided into two ways and circled along the edge of the pool, and at the same time slashed and stabbed indiscriminately with the big knife in their hands into the water at the edge of the pool, but they still did not seem to be at all unusual, and then stopped.

At this time, I don't know who stretched out a few fingers and put them to my mouth, and suddenly the whole courtyard sounded a loud and orderly whistle, and in an instant, countless red-clothed men holding bright torches in their hands came from all directions and surrounded the two of them tightly.

The red-clothed guard, who was accompanied by the whistle, let out an urgent cry: "An assassin has infiltrated and left a lamp, but no one is seen, everyone hurry up and go to find a suspicious person and take him to meet the gang leader."

As soon as the order was given, the people who had suddenly gathered together dispersed in a disorderly manner, and immediately searched carefully inside and outside the west courtyard, in every room, in every courtyard, and in every corner.

At this time, at the bottom of the pool, just when Yan'er felt that time was passing so slowly, her chest was already very stuffy, and her heart was becoming more and more nervous, and she felt that she was about to be unable to hold on, a man without red clothes next to him, who was dressed differently from the people here, saw that the fire on the water finally gradually dispersed, and slowly loosened the hands that were tightly attached to Yan'er's shoulders and mouth, and then passed a hand under Yan'er's armpit, hugged it and slowly surfaced.

As soon as the water came out, Yan'er blinked weakly, lay on the grass by the pool, and began to gasp for breath.

Half an hour later, Fang caught a glimpse of the man who had saved his life who had fallen to the side, with his back against the rockery, sitting on the ground panting, and his arm had been stabbed by the sharp knife of the man on the shore at some point, and the slightly hideous wound was still oozing scarlet blood.

So, Yan'er hurriedly knelt down and crawled beside him, grabbed the man's injured arm, frowned, and said nervously, "Are you injured?"

The situation was urgent, and the man didn't care about his injuries at all, and while he seemed to be a little weak, he struggled to get up: "It's okay, let's get out of here quickly, and they will definitely come back again after a while."

"Wait a minute, your wound is still bleeding, and if you don't bandage it in time, it's time to suppurate