Chapter 41: On the Night of the Assassination

The lively mansion in the middle of the night finally gradually died quiet, the aroma of fine wine almost enveloped the entire courtyard, the drunken envoys had been sent back to the room one by one, and the candles that lit at night like the same day were also blown out one by one, leaving only a wisp of green smoke slowly floating in the air. The men began to walk in the direction of the courtyard where they lived, and the guards on duty at night also completed the change of guard and began to patrol. In the silence of the night, there was no sound except for the occasional chirping of geese and the footsteps of the guards.

A woman's house belongs to the West Courtyard, and the time will pass. In the end, the two old servants on duty at night blew out the candles in the side room and finally fell asleep. About half a moment later, I heard the soft creak of a window, and under the half-dim moonlight, a figure in a black night suit rushed out of the courtyard wall, and ran straight in the direction of the courtyard without the slightest nostalgia. Look closely at the rather thin figure, jumping up and down, as if I had seen it somewhere, this person was weak earlier, and went to bed early before the time came.

I saw her thin figure constantly shuttling between the eaves of the roof, and when she reached the high house where the moonlight could shine on the figure, she bowed down and raised her head slightly, and immediately swayed from side to side to glance around, and after the figure swished, she suddenly ran to another place where the roof was slightly shorter and the figure was not illuminated by the moonlight, and she fell down for a long time, silently thinking about her position in her heart.

Although the road is on a high place, the number of guards in this west courtyard is inevitably too small. Isn't this Han king afraid of his daughter's assassination? Zhi Ning, who had been experimenting several times in other prefectures along the way, was curious. Her mind moved, and she was about to run forward again, but when she saw two more guards walking from a distance and chatting casually, Zhi Ning hurriedly lowered her body and pressed her body tightly against the eaves to prevent the outline of her body from being seen. But the heavens don't seem to be on Zhining's side, at this moment she just jumped to a high roof, a gust of wind suddenly blew, and the hem of the clothes worn by Zhining was suddenly blown up by the wind, at this time the two guards were about to walk to the feet of Zhining, just look up slightly to see the corners of the clothes that were blown up, and in desperation, Zhining hurriedly reached out to hold down the corners of the clothes, but under this movement, the eaves tiles that were close to the arms were brought up a sound. Click, the crunch in the silent night sky was especially loud. Two careless guards also heard it.

"Third Brother Wang, I really want to hear movement on the roof, do you want to call someone to come and have a look." A shorter guard raised his head and scanned the half-height roof left and right.

"Bullshit, seeing that your kid is new, you have to make a fuss when the wind blows through the tiles, you don't look at what kind of place this is, even someone on this roof should be on the roof of the main courtyard, will anyone else take this risk to come to the west courtyard to assassinate a few people?" The person who was called Third Brother Wang looked at the guard who had just spoken with disdain, and laughed in a low voice.

"Aren't the West Courtyard all women? I guess there must be a thief picking flowers coming? Seeing that he was being ridiculed, the diminutive guard argued quite unconvinced.

"You kid thinks that flower thieves have the same taste as you, and like old ones that are about to lose their teeth? His grandmother's. ”

"No, there are still a few ......"

"Okay, okay, let's just pretend, anyway, now this prince is easy to talk, and he really shouts out in a while, you kid is the first to hit it."

"Forget it, I still have a family at home who is pointing to me to feed me." The short guard waved his hand repeatedly.

"That's it, I can't make a fuss that affects the nature of you and my brother's bragging, come on, where did you just go? By the way, you kid said that the proud ...... of the concubine in the Red Fragrance Garden. The two of them put their arms around each other, and the more they talked, the farther they went.

Zhi Ning, who was a little worried on the roof, was still afraid that these two people would find out what they were pretending to deceive and preparing to call someone over, and when they heard what the two people said, the more filthy they became, and their ears were hot when they heard it. Hurriedly stopped following the two of them, and jumped straight to the roof in front of them.

After jumping back and forth several times, Zhi Ning had already walked out of the West Courtyard. I went in the direction of the main courtyard, and I didn't find it until I arrived at the main courtyard to Ningfang. Originally, although this place was nominally called a palace, the strictness of the security should not be underestimated. I just heard the two guards say that there were only some old women living in the West Courtyard. Zhi Ning had a contempt along the way, who knew that when he arrived within the guard range of this main courtyard, if he hadn't learned some stealth camouflage techniques before, he was afraid that he would have been discovered by the sentries patrolling back and forth with spears at a post of twenty steps. Even if she was as bold as her, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart.

This line is divided into several courtyards, the route between the courtyards is extremely lingering, ordinary people are difficult to turn from the west courtyard to the east courtyard even if they turn a few hours, fortunately, the sedan chair man is afraid of countless thresholds after entering the palace to Ning, so the pace of the foot is extremely slow, but let her take a route to the main courtyard to remember most of it, sitting in the sedan chair surrounded by curtains on all sides, some slightly larger trees and other signs are also used to prepare carbon wood on the paper a lot. Half an hour before the break, Zhi Ning sent someone to ask in advance, and the next person came back to report that Eunuch Zheng had not yet returned to the residence of the East Courtyard, and I heard that he was left by the prince to talk with Eunuch Zheng at night. It seems that this trip only needs to go to the center of the guard, but this is the kennel of the Han King thief, so there should be a lot of precautions in the place where he lives, and he needs to be careful. At this moment, most of the servants who served had also fallen asleep, and the place where the dog thief was located should be the brightest place in the house now. Zhi Ning thought about it, and ran to the highest fourth-floor moon viewing platform in the mansion.

There were also patrolling guards in the four-story viewing platform, and it was obvious that the officials who arranged the defense must have thought of what Zhi Ning was thinking about just now. I saw that there were four guards guarding the door at the entrance of the high platform, but there was no one guarding the high platform at the moment. It's so dangerous, why is there no one guarding this high platform, but if there is a person on the high platform looking down on the whole house, I will definitely be seen by people jumping between this roof. Could it be that the guard changed guards? Or maybe you're lazy and asleep? God help me avenge Eleven. I'll have to move quickly, and I don't know when the guards from above will show up.

Zhi Ning's heart moved again, and he hurriedly hid in the grass in the dark and carefully observed the defenses around the platform, and sure enough, less than half a cup of tea, another team of guards turned from the corner of the wall, and the leader of the team waved to several guards in front of the door, and the team of people spared from behind the platform. Zhi Ning had suffered a careless loss just now, looked up to see that there was still no one on the top of the platform, and waited patiently for a while, only to see that after another tea and a half, the team of people who had just gone around to the back turned back from the corner of the wall, and it seemed that this group of people was indeed the only one here to patrol around. Now that the number of people has been determined, Zhi Ning's body slowly retreated from the hidden grass without making a sound.

When the team turned out of the main gate for the third time, Zhi Ning saw the position and hid behind a giant tree that the team would pass by, and when the team had just passed through the giant tree, when Ning Deng stood on tiptoe and slowly followed behind the last guard, there were originally six guards in the moonlight, but after Zhi Ning joined, the shadow was still six, only the shadow of the last guard was slightly swollen, but if he didn't stop and look closely, he couldn't see it at all. It turns out that Zhi Ning makes this body method similar to the pickpockets and thieves in the rivers and lakes in the stealing and the leeward, although the body is almost close to the person, but the person walking in front of him does not feel it at all, even in the night road The person who clings to the back will also hide the shadow in the shadow of the predecessor, unless the person suddenly turns back, he will be scared half to death by the latter who has no time to shrink, otherwise it is difficult for ordinary people to find out.

These sturdy sergeants strode under their feet, and only walked less than a hundred steps from the side of the moon viewing platform to the back of the platform, but the distance of these hundreds of steps was quite difficult for Zhi Ning, but fortunately, none of the guards in this team turned back, otherwise they would have found Zhi Ning walking almost jumping behind him.

Finally walked to the shadow of the high platform, calculated in advance that Zhi Ning's figure hiding in the shadow of the guard moved, and he had already jumped to the corner of the wall, watching the guard turn from the other side, Zhi Ning jumped to the eaves with a hard kick under his feet, seeing that his body was above the roof, she stood on the eaves on her toes lightly, at first Zhi Ning moved so lightly just to prevent the tiles from falling and alarming the guards, who knew that when she stepped on her toes, a flash like iron suddenly flashed in front of her, Zhi Ning hurriedly stretched her hands and stood on one foot, Hold your body and look down at your feet. I saw a row of blades standing brightly where the right foot was about to land just now, whew~ I really underestimated this palace, Zhi Ning couldn't help but gasp, no wonder there were only a few people guarding below, it turned out that there were still these means on this eaves.

At the moment, there was only one place to stand, and in a few moments the group of men and horses would turn around again, but there were no guards on this floor, so they could only take the risk. In the darkness, Zhi Ning's heart froze, leaned over and picked up a tile and threw the tile from the farthest direction of his right hand with all his strength, followed by the rope hook in his hand and hooked it to the pillar of the moon viewing platform at the same time, only to hear a click in the distance The sound of the tile breaking, the hook lock thrown by Zhi Ning grabbed the wooden pillar at the same time, and the two sounds were almost in equal order. In the distance, several pairs of footsteps seemed to be heard, running towards the place where the tiles had fallen. Zhi Ning, who would be found on the eaves overnight, immediately stepped on his left foot with his right foot, and his jade leg slammed into force, and his body flew away along the hook and lock held by both hands, and a burst of dust was raised, and Zhi Ning was already coiled on the cylinder like an octopus. At this time, the team under the wall where Zhi Ning landed just now was still patrolling, and the local guards had just turned around. This hand really makes it urgent and dangerous, that is, if Zhi Ning flies out of the time calculation, half a mistake will be discovered by these tiger-backed guards, but fortunately, there are old servants who come to clean up on this moon viewing platform from time to time, and the dust is not big.

Zhi Ning Qiang held back the coughing sensation of dust burrowing into his nose, and slowly explored his feet and stepped on the floor, but fortunately there was no blade defense on the floor. It was so light that it couldn't be asked anymore with a squeak. Zhining's feet have successfully stepped on this high platform.

Walking slowly up the stairs of the building, it was about to reach the fourth floor to look into the distance. A strong smell of wine came from the surface, and Zhi Ning was a little puzzled, and suddenly stepped on a somewhat soft thing under his feet and made a murmuring sound. I only heard a drunken voice from a slightly hazy man: "Old Song is blind, you step on ......." Zhi Ningdeng, who reacted vigilantly, hit his elbow and hit the place where the voice came from, and the voice wanted to speak again, but it was beaten by Zhi Ning and fainted.

It turned out that there was no one on this high platform, but these two people helped me in the dark. Zhi Ning thought to himself.

Half an hour later, a few people came to ask questions from far away under the high platform, and the guards guarding the door seemed to shake their heads, and those people had no choice but to go.

At this time, Zhi Ning had already found the courtyard illuminated by the lights. But to her surprise, there was not a single guard in the courtyard surrounded by heavy guards outside, and there was no one in the main hall with lights on. It's strange that this place is a fake bed like a suspicious grave. How much did this Han King dog thief do to be so cowardly. Zhi Ning scolded in his heart.

But soon, a burst of laughter from the side study broke her doubts, oh yes, they were in the study every day. It seems that after staying on the island for a long time, I forgot about this stubble. Zhi Ning shook his head and laughed at himself.

Somehow, this burst of laughter became stronger and stronger, and a smile began to appear on the face under Zhining's mask, this kind of enemy was close at hand, and the pleasure of revenge made her almost can't help but laugh out loud.

A nocturnal cloud gently obscured the semi-circular moon, and it seemed that even the wind was whining.

Standing in the courtyard, Zhi Ning's eyes suddenly changed after this burst of laughter, and the smile disappeared from his face in an instant, and a cold breath suddenly drifted from his body. She pulled her legs and tried to move forward, but the patience she had cultivated over time stopped her almost open legs. Take a look and see if it's the thief of King Han, who has reached the last step, but don't go wrong.

Standing on tiptoe slowly walked towards the side window of the study with the light on, as the footsteps got closer and closer, the sound of neither high nor low inside also came from Zhi Ning's ears, and the hearty laughter of Zheng and Zheng Eunuch had come out of it, only to hear him say: "Lord, there is still something unknown in this prison, and I ask the prince to teach me." ”

Zhi Ning poked a hole in the window paper, and saw the two people in the room sitting on the left and right, and Zheng He, who was sitting on the right side, looked at the other man who was about to answer with a smile.

Rajah? It's just that he's right. Zhi Ning slowly took out the kunai from his bosom that he had quietly looked for a craftsman to make a few days ago, so that Li Yunlan and the others would bear the anger of the imperial court.

The moon is dark and the wind is high at night, when people are killed and set on fire.

A black shadow was about to shoot out.