Chapter 179: Treasure Hunting at Night
Today may be the auspicious day of her Kang Yufei's zodiac, and when she first arrived, someone hurried into her palace. Seeing the person coming, Kang Yufei couldn't help but be overjoyed, and quickly led the person into the hall.
"The girl's current identity, the old slave doesn't dare to sit, so she has to salute first, and salute Zhao Guiren first."
Kang Yufei stopped and pressed the person on the chair, "Aunt Liao, don't be polite to me, if it weren't for your help, how could I have this blessing." β
Aunt Liao Hongling of Baihuayuan is a person who can read her face, seeing Kang Yufei's sincere face, she is not stubborn, and she sat down peacefully, but she didn't dare to take the gesture of a benefactor, she still smiled politely at Kang Yufei, "The noble master and the emperor are destined by heaven, and the old slave doesn't dare to say anything to help or not." β
Kang Yufei also smiled, but she didn't have the heart to listen to these nonsense clichΓ©s, so she approached and asked Aunt Liao, "Auntie is running around this hour, but she has something to give me?" β
"Uh-oh." Aunt Liao didn't expect Kang Yufei to be in such a hurry, so naturally she couldn't delay, so she hurriedly took out the things and handed them to Kang Yufei, "Someone from outside the palace brought it in, saying that it must be handed over to you." β
It was a simple wooden box, sealed with a note on it. Huang Yumin has a lot of heart in this matter, not like her style, it must have been Du Ruo's idea.
"The old slave didn't dare to slack off, and immediately sent the things over." Aunt Liao continued, her tone didn't seem like a gesture, like a gossip between friends, quite real.
Kang Yufei didn't dare to express her excessive nervousness, which made Aunt Liao suspicious, "Thank you, auntie, this is the jewelry that I asked someone to bring in from outside, and the gold is more expensive, so those people said that." β
"Oh, it's time for the noble master to put some thought into dressing up, so it's troublesome to ask someone. If the master can trust me, leave it to me. β
Kang Yufei smiled, "That's great, it saves me the effort." β
After sending Aunt Liao away, Kang Yufei returned to the room and couldn't wait to open the wooden box, just as she expected, it was indeed the key she wanted to open the armory room of the Internal Affairs Office.
It is better to choose the day than to hit the day, and today everything is going well, but it is a good day to do things conveniently.
She changed into a night dress, just after the sea, the sky was already dark, the moonlight was faint, jumped out of the window, went up the rockery, and then jumped off the palace wall, no one noticed it at all.
All the way to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it was already the night shift time of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. She had heard that most of the little eunuchs on night duty in the Internal Affairs Office were lazy, either dozing or gambling in the room, and few people would make serious night patrols, which gave her the courage to visit the Internal Affairs Office at night, after all, it takes a long time to find something.
She took out the key, stuffed it into the keyhole, and heard a click, and the door lock opened smoothly. She entered, closed it gently, and took a few steps inside.
Outside the door, she glanced at them a few times last time, but she didn't see a few swords, and it seemed that those swords had been put on the last side.
Here, she didn't dare to light the lamp at will, and she didn't even dare to turn on the fire fold, so she could only smear and explore the way forward.
Weapons, nothing more than swords, guns, swords, halberds, axes, hooks and forks, those guns and halberds generally stand in the corner of the wall, and there are knives, swords, and axes on the cabinet in the middle. Relying on these two items, she read the middle two rows of cabinets, and none of them were what she was looking for.
Further inside, there were many more elaborate sidearms that she needed to examine more closely. As if her eyes weren't enough, she reached out her hands and groped for it.
There were daggers and short knives in this column, and it was estimated that there was nothing she was looking for, so there was no need to waste much time here. She was just about to pull her hand out, but the tips of her index finger and thumb touched a certain blade, and a wave of pain welled up, and she suddenly withdrew her hand, accidentally touching something next to her, and there was a bang, and then there was a thud, and it was the sound of something slipping off the cabinet and hitting the ground again.
The movement was so loud that she shuddered into the corner, crouching down, hoping that no one would hear the noise.
Half an hour passed, no one pushed the door in to check, and there was not even a sound of people moving outside the room, so she dared to take a breath and slowly leaned out of the corner.
The people who came to this internal affairs office were really lazy, and there was no one to guard them.
She was bold enough to pull the door open and go out to see, there was indeed no one around, not even the porter not far away.
Back in the armory, her tense heart relaxed a lot, and she walked around a few more places, but she couldn't find what she was looking for.
She suddenly thought that since there was no one around here, there was no need to be so timid, so she simply lit the lamp and looked for it, so that the action was quicker, but it was not easy to be discovered.
She found a small candle, took out a fire fold and lit it, and covered some of the light with her hands, held it, and rummaged through the rest of the cabinets, even the big boxes in the corners, but unfortunately, she still did not find anything.
This is the last and greatest opportunity, and if she can't find it here, she really doesn't know where to look for it next.
She sighed, blew out the candle, and put it back in its place. No matter how depressed she is, she still has to cheer up and get out of here safely, otherwise all the worries and fears of these days will be in vain.
As soon as she reached the door, and was about to open it, she glanced behind the door like a ghost. This glance fell there fixedly, and I couldn't take my eyes off it for a while.
Looking at the shape, it was a sword lying horizontally on the ground, lonely behind some copper hammers, very inconspicuous.
The door was ajar, and the moonlight peeked in, landing right on top of the sword. There is not too much ornamentation on the scabbard, and the hilt is very ordinary. The all-over plain color makes it look unremarkable. In such a treasure place, naturally you don't get any good treatment.
Kang Yufei swallowed her saliva, and for some reason, she was extremely nervous and panicked, and even her palms were sweating a little. She came closer, ignoring the blood on her fingers, and reached out to grasp the scabbard tightly.
The familiar feeling calmed her heart, and she took the sword in both hands and took it into her arms.
This cold touch, as if the heavy snow in the north fell on her body, she could vaguely hear the shouting command in the military camp in the north of the town and the cordial call, Yu Fei, Kang Yu Fei......
She condensed her mind, she didn't have too much time to lament at the moment, since she had found the blood book iron edict that the whole mansion of Zhenbei Hou Mansion had been thinking about, she had to think about it, how to send it out of the palace safely.
First of all, should I bring it back to my dormitory first? Kang Yufei hesitated. She had just moved into Qingning Palace, and she didn't know much about where to hide things. And, if you take it tonight, will it attract the attention of the Ministry of Internal Affairs? If you think about it this way, you have to put it here first.