Mu Cheng and Bai Ling were quick-eyed, one jumped up and blew out the candle, and the other covered the door with a wooden plank.

Then the two of them turned around at the same time and walked silently to the door.

"You ......" Li Yiru looked at the two of them in a daze, and quickly followed.

The kitchen door was once again pulled open a crack, and the heads of the three men lined up and looked out at the same time - the yard was empty, and there was no one.

Bai Ling and Mu Cheng held their breath and could only hear some noise in the house of the official residence not far away, but it was still generally quiet.

But thinking that Li Yiru could hear the fat officer's conversation clearly from a few tables before, the two didn't dare to take it lightly.

Mu Cheng's nose sniffed, "This doesn't smell right......

"The footsteps are coming!" Li Yiru lowered his voice and said.

After a long while, the door to the backyard of the official residence suddenly opened, and a group of people rushed into the courtyard with torches and quickly opened the door of the backyard.

The officer patrolling outside the gate in the backyard was a little surprised, "Why are you here?" ”

The fat officer also stepped into the backyard at this time, and he walked a few steps to the patrolling officer, "Have you seen anyone leave through the back door?" ”

"No, sir." The two officials outside hurriedly said, "We've been patrolling here, not to mention people, and not a single bird has flown out!" ”

"This is weird!" The fat servant stomped his foot, "Then they were caught by ghosts!?" All three of them were not in their own house! ”

Behind the wooden door of the kitchen, Bai Ling heard a slight disturbance—it was the sound of Mu Cheng slowly drawing his knife.

Suddenly, the fat servant turned around suspiciously and looked at the kitchen.

The kitchen in the middle of the night, black and empty, without a sound.

However, there was a smell of sesame oil wafting through the air, and a faint smell of vinegar.

The fat servant's brow furrowed, and his eyes narrowed with some suspicion.

This expression and movement were quickly comprehended by the officials around them, and everyone turned to the kitchen silently, and more than a dozen pairs of eyes all looked straight at the hidden wooden door.

"Call the crossbowmen." The fat servant said softly.

"My lord, this courtyard is too small, even if you are a crossbowman—"

The fat servant rolled his eyes, and his voice seemed to be squeezing desperately out of his throat, "Call-you-go-"

The officials nearby shivered, and ran out of the backyard as if flying.

"Oh no, it's been discovered!" Li Yiru's voice trembled a little, he looked at Mu Cheng, and then at Bai Ling, "...... Eh, but why are we hiding? ”

"There is a problem with the recruitment of this group of co-operatives." Bai Ling said softly.

"Hmm." Mu Cheng responded with a sigh of peace.

Bai Ling looked up slightly, "What did you just say that it tastes wrong?" ”

"Wind." Mu Cheng replied in a low voice, "There is smoke. ”

Li Yiru gasped, "...... Could it be that these officers and soldiers are fake?! ”

Mu Cheng looked at the slowly approaching team outside and snorted, "It can't be more real." ”

"Someone hiding inside!" The fat officer's index finger and middle finger were together, pointing to the kitchen, "I'll count to three—"

Li Yiru turned around, and quickly ran to the stove and picked up a kitchen knife, but the kitchen knife was short and heavy, and it was very unpleasant.

"One!"

He quickly replaced the kitchen knife with an iron hook for stabbing the stove on the side, this thing was an arm's length, although it was not much lighter than a kitchen knife, but it was a weapon that could fight...... Probably.

"Two!"

Li Yiru ran back quickly, and before he could stand firmly, Mu Cheng and Bai Ling were already on their own side and pulled the door open.

"Wow Li Yiru! So you're hiding here! The fat servant scolded, "What are you holding in your hands!?" ”

Li Yiru was stunned for a moment, laughed a few times in embarrassment, and threw the iron rod in his hand on the ground on the side.

“…… I'm just, hungry at night, and come to the kitchen to find something to eat. Li Yiru's two hands were consciously raised, "My lord, ...... this?" ”

"You come out!"

Mu Cheng made a gesture to him behind the door, signaling him not to panic and walk out slowly.

Li Yiru was as bold as he moved out with broken steps.

"Hurry up!" The fat servant urged.

Seeing that Li Yiru was about to step out of the threshold, Mu Cheng suddenly looked at Bai Ling, "You can run, right?" ”

"Okay." Bai Ling said softly, "You can take care of him, and I'll follow you." ”

Mu Cheng looked out behind the door and said in a low voice, "You ran out in the middle of the night and didn't eat...... Do you want to escape in the dark? ”

Bai Ling responded, and Mu Cheng's words "also" made her frown slightly.

She looked at Mu Cheng, "So just now you treated Li Yiru as an officer and soldier who searched?" ”

"You ......" Li Yiru, who was about to walk out of the kitchen, let out an angry cry for help, "What are you going to do next?" ”

"You go out into the yard." Mu Cheng whispered to Li Yiru, "The closer you get to the backyard wall, the better." ”

“…… Good. Li Yiru settled down and moved out again.

Mu Cheng looked out from the crack in the door, confirming the number and location of the officers and soldiers in the courtyard, he held the knife in his right hand, and a cold blade gradually slipped out of the sleeve of his left hand.

This time, Bai Ling saw it clearly-Mu Cheng's left hand was wearing a hidden blade, no wonder as soon as he put his hand down, the short knife on Li Yiru's neck disappeared.

This is also standard for the fourteenth battle.

The voice of the fat servant outside came, "What about the other two?" ”

"I don't know, I haven't seen anyone else." Li Yiru stammered, he mustered his courage and gently removed the tip of his nose, "That...... I'll eat a little of your bean sprouts, and I can pay you for it, can you ......?"

"Silver?" The fat servant laughed, "You reminded me, someone!" ”

"Your Excellency." The two people next to him stepped forward.

"Search him," the fat servant ordered, "and see if there are any tokens of the remnants of the blue-robed bandits on him!" ”

Before Li Yiru could open his mouth, he suddenly felt that he had been lifted by the back collar like a chicken, and then his toes left the ground - by the time he could react, Mu Cheng had already thrown him onto the low wall in the backyard.

"Run!" Mu Cheng said in a deep voice.

It was the moonlight of the night, and the sword light glowed with a cold shadow, and quickly killed a blank space in the courtyard.

The officials who were hit by the knife screamed and fell to the ground - and then looked down at their "wounds" in a trance.

There are no wounds.

- Mu Cheng used his sword to defend against the enemy the whole time.

Attracted by Mu Cheng's firepower, Bai Ling quickly ran to the courtyard wall of the backyard in the shadow of the kitchen corridor, she stepped on the wall of the stone wall in two or three steps, and was about to flip through it, Li Yiru grabbed her.

"How?" Bai Ling looked at Li Yiru.

“…… Yes, there are people. ”

Li Yiru looked at the empty alley at the moment, and his ears moved again.

Everything seemed to slow down, and with a look of fear on his face, he immediately took Bai Ling's hand and jumped back into the courtyard.

- "It's the sound of a bowstring!" ”

Before he could finish speaking, Bai Ling felt an arrow pass over his head in the weightlessness of the fall.

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