The last trace of the sunset fell into the desert, and the remaining golden yellow of the setting sun all melted into the entire desert.

The man tightened the horse's rope and forced the horse to stop in front of the Northwest Royal City, and he looked up at the majestic castle tower that was glittering with gold by the light of the setting sun, and sighed that the wind and dust had come along the way, and life was really not easy.

The man dismounted, led the horse to the front of the guards guarding the gate of the royal city, and the two guards blocked the man's way with their spears, and asked in a cold voice, "Who?" ”

He took out a jade pendant from his sleeve pocket and placed it in front of the two: "Northwest Palace." ”

"It turned out to be someone from the Northwest Palace, please come in." The guards put away their spears and stood on either side, making way for the man.

The man walked a few steps, stopped, turned back and asked the guard on the right, "Why did the guards at the gate of this royal city suddenly increase?" ”

"The Prince's order." The guard's face was hidden under the cold silver helmet, and his expression was invisible.

The man wanted to continue asking, but seeing that the guards did not want to continue to deal with him, he had to give up and continue walking towards the city.

He led the horse to the door of the City Gate Inn and shouted inside, "Little Er, I'm here to return the horse." ”

"Eh, here we are." Xiao Er's voice came out of the inner hall, and soon, a young man wiped his hands and walked out of the inn, "Guest officer, give me a hand." ”

The man handed the horse rope to Xiao Er's hand, then took out a piece of silver from his arms and put it in Xiao Er's hand.

Xiao Er took the rope and silver with a smile, and bowed to the man: "Thank you!" The guest officer walks slowly, remember to come often. ”

After speaking, Xiao Er led the horse, bypassed the inn, walked to the backyard, led the horse into the stable, and then grabbed a large handful of dry grass from the side and put it in the manger, he reached out and touched the horse's mane, and said distressedly: "Hungry, right?" Look at the skinny one. ”

……

The man looked at the plaque of the Northwest Palace from a distance, thought about it, and decided to go around to the back of the palace and climb over the wall.

He was thinking about what Qin Han said to himself, and he had to quickly convey the emperor's message to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!

Even though he has been lurking in the palace for so many years, he still doesn't know where the so-called dungeon of the palace is, and the man is anxious to wander around the palace, unable to find the dungeon, and can't see His Royal Highness the Prince, what can I do!

Suddenly, there was a conversation between two maids around the corner, and the voices were getting closer and closer, and the man was sure that the two were coming towards him, and he looked around in a panic to see where he could hide, and his eyes finally fell on the low bushes beside him.

"You said that we had some kind of bad luck, the prince actually asked the two of us to go to the dungeon to deliver food to His Royal Highness the Prince."

"yes, I really don't want to go to that spooky and moldy place anymore."

The man peeked out of the bushes and watched two maids in white and pink dresses walk past him, apparently not noticing that there was another person here.

The man who overheard the conversation between the two was overjoyed, and it was really a waste of effort.

He hurriedly flashed out of the bushes before the two maids were far away, and quietly followed behind them.

The man thought that he was very lucky, but in fact he was not, how did he know that the maid of the palace was not an ordinary person, they had already felt the breath of the third person around the corner, but they remembered this Rong Nanfeng's advice: the spy must not know where the palace dungeon is, instead of letting him wander around by himself, it is better to tell him directly, maybe he can help His Royal Highness Xia Yuan something.

The two maids tried to pretend that they were completely unaware of the fact that someone was following them, and walked towards the far side of the palace with a laughing voice.

One of the maids smirked and pouted at the side, saying, "To be honest, it doesn't feel good to be followed." ”

"Tell me softly, don't be heard by him." The other maid stared straight ahead, making her back look less deliberate

"What are you talking about, how can you hear it from such a distance." The maid who spoke looked indifferent, "The prince is really, why did he set the dungeon in such a strange position." ”

"Maybe it's to be less easy to find?"

"There's nothing more conspicuous than this place, okay?"

The man quickened himself slightly, bent down and shuttled through the bushes on the side, and before the two of them, ran to the round gate of the small garden not far away, picked up a stick that he didn't know which careless ghost had dropped on the ground, and hid it behind a tree, waiting for the two maids to go this way.

Fortunately, these two maids are also very cooperative with the man, and they turned into the garden with a smile, and saw that the two were about to walk past the man, and the man grabbed the wooden stick in his hand, ran out from behind the tree, and knocked on the back of the head of the two maids.

Before the two of them fell, the man grabbed the food box in the hands of one of them, placed it on a plate, and dragged them into the bushes.

He blindfolded himself with one hand, took off the maid's coat tremblingly with the other, and kept chanting in his mouth: "Don't look at indecent things, don't look at indecent things." ”

He took off his clothes and draped them over the maid who had been stripped of his coat, then put on his long white pink skirt, scattered his long hair that was coiled high, and walked out of the bushes with his head bowed, covering his face with the shadow of his long hair falling over his vicissitudes.

He took the food box from the maid's hand, turned into the small garden, walked through the round gate, and then fifty miles inside, he saw two guards standing next to the two stone doors with a height of one person, one left and one right, but this stone gate is also a little strange, it is actually open horizontally on the ground, the guard guarding the door saw the man coming this way from a distance, thinking that it was the maid who came to deliver food to Xia Yi, so he hurriedly walked to both sides of the stone gate, and one of them grabbed one side respectively, and pulled the stone door open, revealing a row of steps, Expose this endless darkness to the man's sight. It's just that this stone door looks extraordinarily heavy, but the two of them seem to have no effort, easily pull the stone door open, the man walked past the two guards, the two looked straight ahead, and did not find that the person who walked by him was pretending, he looked at the two people with his spare eyes, and he was not particularly strong, and pondered: Is this stone gate really that light?

The man hurried down the stairs before the two of them could see through him, and unlike the dungeons in the palace, the steps were in a spiral shape, winding down around a pillar of the ground. He took a torch from the wall and followed his path. The only light on the ground quickly disappeared behind him, and only the torches burning on the wall were still dancing slightly when the man walked by, and the swaying light made the whole dungeon even more eerie.