CHAPTER XX

The days in the desert are always relatively long, and now there is no need to light the lights in the restaurant, and the slanting sun shines through the windows, shining the dust in the air. Although it is in the downtown area, there are not many people in this restaurant, and looking down from the second floor of the restaurant, Lin He only sees a lonely place.

But after all, he had just come from the desert, and although he had only seen such a few people, Lin He was still very satisfied.

After the three of them were full of wine and food, they slowly returned to the inn, and after a while, there was a shocking snoring sound in Wu Zhiheng's room. Not long after, in the midst of this snoring, Wu Zhiheng's door was opened.

Through the crack in the door, you can see that on the bed in the guest room directly facing the room, a fat man has his feet facing the sky, his mouth is wide open, and saliva is running down the corners of his mouth. Suddenly, Wu Zhiheng, the fat man lying on the bed, turned over, humming while humming and turning his face towards the bed. Wu Zhiheng, who turned his head, also slowly opened his eyes, and when he heard the sound of the door closing, he immediately jumped up, and couldn't wait for a golden cicada to come out of his shell.

Not only Wu Zhiheng, there were three people in the night, all wearing night clothes, and a few jumped to the backyard of the mansion.

Wu Zhiheng is one of them. He put his hands behind his back, looked around, and suddenly leaned over. He jumped up on the roof beam, and then turned over and jumped into the next room. Lin He and Yu Ji also followed in, this is the kitchen again, Lin He wondered why Wu Zhiheng had to go to the kitchen first every time. Yu Ji looked at the two dead chickens in the kitchen, snorted lightly, and turned his head.

Wu Zhiheng looked around in the kitchen, then squatted down to take a look, then looked down at a stove, just wanted to reach in, but seemed to feel that something was wrong, and took a firewood from the side, reached in sideways and poked it. After waiting for a while and not finding anything abnormal, Wu Zhiheng put his hand in and turned around, and asked him to find a wooden box.

Lin He was looking at the box in Wu Zhiheng's hand intently, only to hear a small amount of tinkering behind him, and then there was a sound of la-la, how Lin couldn't help but turn his head to look. I saw Yu Jizheng take off one of his boots and pour sand outside, and when he saw how Lin turned around, he smiled embarrassedly and said, "It's too much, pour it down." How could Lin be so angry that he didn't know what to say, and a question about Ji slowly rose in his heart: I'm afraid he's not a fool, right?

Wu Zhiheng looked at the wooden box for a while, and checked it with his hand, this box was very light, not like it was equipped with a spring mechanism. The machine spring concealer is generally metal, and the weight will not be so light and fluttering in the hand. Wu Zhiheng is not good at trapping hidden weapons, he is just habitually cautious. Lin took the box, the box was unlocked, she motioned for the other two to step back and take off the studs, her studs were silver. Lin held his breath and stabbed the sharp earrings into the gap in the lid, and the lid was cocked up a small slit. How Lin took out the earrings, and in a moment the earrings turned black. She looked back at Wu Zhiheng, this box was poisonous.

Wu Zhiheng saw a large water tank in the kitchen, so he took the box, held his breath, and put the box into the water tank. As it sank, the lid naturally opened. A stream of red bubbles then emerge and quickly melt into the water. When the box sank to the bottom of the tank, a roll of sheepskin floated out. Wu Zhiheng found a long-handled water scoop and fished out the wooden box and sheepskin. Yu Ji found a rag in the kitchen, wrapped the wooden box, and wiped the water dry. Lin didn't dare to touch it with her hands, she brought a plate and motioned for Wu Zhiheng to put the parchment roll on it.

Yu Ji put the wooden box back in the stove, found some sand and dust, sprinkled it on the place they had just touched, and slowly scattered it very evenly.

Here, Lin slowly opened the parchment scroll with chopsticks, and found that many of the words in it were not clear. So he shook his head at Wu Zhiheng, Wu Zhiheng took a piece of cloth, wrapped the sheepskin roll in it, and put it back in his clothes.

The three men quietly walked out of the kitchen and into the stables in the backyard. The stables are full of dozens of horses, and the stables of the general government will not have so many horses. Several horses huddled in front of a manger, and the horses looked in good spirits, not like they had just finished a long journey. Lin rummaged through the harness piled up on the ground, and the words "All Kinds of Dart Game" were printed on it. Coming out of the stable, the three of them went around the palace again, but there were no useful clues, so they had to retreat from the palace.

The moon outside is very round, the moonlight is all over the earth, and there is a little autumn in the evening breeze. It's good weather for the road. Lin was careful to make sure that there was no one following them, and even if there were, after they ran with all their might, no one could keep up. When they walked to a remote alley, how did Lin stop and whisper to Wu Zhiheng, "Split up?" “

Wu Zhiheng thought for a while, and gave the sheepskin roll to Lin He, "You go back to the inn alone, don't remember... “

Lin He patted Wu Zhiheng's shoulder and interrupted his chatter impatiently, "Don't worry, I can't die." “

So the three of them parted ways here, Wu Zhiheng and Yu Ji got up and went to the Wanyou Dart Bureau, and Lin He returned to the inn.

After returning to the inn, Lin first checked the three rooms and found that the mechanism he had arranged had not been destroyed. Lin He then returned to his bed, lowered the curtain, opened the small bag he had brought, and took out a tool box inside and placed it on the kang table. Rows of tools are neatly arranged in the tool box.

How Lin put on gloves and slowly flattened the parchment roll with a paperweight. Take a thin spatula out of the tool box and use the spatula to gently scrape off the old adhesive on the surface of the parchment roll. He also brought a small steel boning knife, and quickly thinned the leather without words on the sheepskin. Then use a boning knife to hang the surface of the sheepskin from the side, and the thin layer of skin on the surface can let in the light. Once the sheepskin is completely separated, take out an ivory bone piece from the tool box, stuff it under the leather on the surface, and polish it over and over again with a piece of polished lapis lazuli without hurry. After a few times, the part with the words became clearer and clearer. Lin took a two-legged gauge and quickly drew a few lines. Then he carefully traced the ink on the parchment roll with a wolf's pen to the candlelight the size of a bean.

There was a gust of wind outside the window, and Lin kept his composure until the wind fluctuated, and Lin quickly blew out the candlelight and laid the parchment flat in the box prepared in advance. After a while, a small fluffy paw came in, and then a small head poked in. It turned out to be a small squeak. Lin He breathed a sigh of relief, and then Yu Jixue's rooster crow came from outside. Lin jumped out of the bed.

Lin He got off the bed and saw Wu Zhiheng and Yu Ji sitting at the table, throwing some clothes on the ground, and it was already dark outside the window.