Chapter Eighty-Four: The Prologue to the Great War

Wen Dao said: "I'll say the last sentence again, after I finish speaking, whoever speaks again will be the turtle king bastard." Do you agree?"

No one spoke.

Wen Daochang continued: "If everyone doesn't speak, they just acquiesce. I think my brother is a stingy, miser, and very stingy. Okay, I'm done. Three, two, one, begin. ”

In front of so many people, he was slandered by Wen Daochang as a stingy ghost and miser, Mao Daochang was so angry that he scolded: "Hold the grass, you penniless, nameless poor ghost and idiot, without me, you just wait to eat!"

"Haha...... Haha......" Daochang Wen laughed so hard that his stomach hurt, "Senior brother, you have been fooled." You've spoken, you're a turtle bastard. ”

Mao Daochang was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "Didn't you also speak?"

The people in the room were speechless, both funny and helpless.

Li smiled: "Whoever speaks again is a turtle bastard." Three, two, one, begin. ”

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When the fourth watch was "dog thief". Except for the last two big men in the room, everyone else was in a deep sleep.

The last two big men stumbled to get dressed, tiptoed to open the door, and with a creak, the door opened. The two big men were startled, and when they turned around, they saw that the others were still asleep, and they were not alarmed, so they put their minds at ease. The two slipped out of the door one after another, did not close the door, and before the dog barked in the nursing home, they climbed over the wall, moving quickly, "in one go".

Mao Daochang was alarmed, and Yu Qi noticed that two people were out of the door. He lay on his side on the bed motionless, sensing the air fluctuations in the doorway. Xindao: These two guys are sneaky, could it be to go to the toilet?

Normally, humans only pay attention to the five senses that are close to them – sight, hearing, smell, taste and skin. Humans do not have the ability to perceive from a distance, or their ability to perceive from a distance has deteriorated.

Through cultivation, Qi Refining Cultivators can gradually enhance their perception abilities. However, in normal times, even if they could sense the situation at a slightly distance, the Qi Refining Cultivator would automatically block this ability. Any form of perception consumes time and energy.

Through perception, Mao Daochang detected that the two big men who went out quietly put their steps very lightly, and later, they came out of the wall one after another. These two have reached the late stage of cohesion, and they can fly the eaves and walk the wall.

The two big men went straight to the south gate of Yuanyang City. The main gate of the south gate and the small gates on both sides have been closed.

Previously, after a long period of stability, the gates of Yuanyang City were often not closed day and night. After the great drought in the central region, in order to prevent the gathering of victims in the city, the gates of several city gates were closed, leaving only the small gates on both sides of the gate for the people to enter and exit Yuanyang City. After that, two hundred-man teams were added to each gate, and four shifts were implemented in the morning, afternoon, first half of the night, and second half of the night, with one team of 100 people in the morning, one team of 100 people in the afternoon, and a total of 100 teams in the first half of the night and the second half of the night, so as to strictly prevent the victims from mixing into the city and preventing public order disorder in the city.

Since Ma Baiyu and Zhou Dongcang conspired to seize Hua Zhongxian's authority, the small gates on both sides of the city gate will be closed after dark and a curfew will be imposed. The number of guards at each gate increased to one hundred and eighty during the night.

At five o'clock, the twilight drum is sounded to prohibit entry and exit, and at five o'clock, the morning bell is ringed and the passage is prohibited. After the dusk drum and before the morning bell, people walking in the streets will be interrogated and arrested. If there is really an emergency, you need to hold the "brand seal" issued by the head of the workshop and kept by the head of the license before you can pass.

It was three o'clock in the morning, and the two big men approached the south gate, and under the wind lamp, dozens of guards were standing guard at each of the two small gates. The third watch took over, and at this time it had been an hour and a half, and the guard by the small door slipped away for more than half of it.

A young guard also wanted to leave, but he was worried that he would be held accountable if he left his post without permission before the handover. It's a big bad thing to lose a job. After all, in times of famine, it is really difficult to find a promising profession as a city gatekeeper. He was very anxious and said to the gatekeeper: "Boss, the time for the shift change has already arrived. Lao Li, did they oversleep?"

The gatekeeper leaned his back against the frame of the small door, drooped his head, and muttered, "Those lazy dogs." Again...... Wait a minute. "It's sleeping when you go home, it's sleeping here, it's sleeping. Sleeping against the door frame is the basic skill of the doorman.

When the questioning guard saw that the gatekeeper was talking with his eyes closed, he moved his hand up and down several times in front of the gatekeeper's eyes. The gatekeeper said angrily, "What are you doing? You think I'm asleep?"

"No...... No. I want to say that Lao Zhang and they are gone. ”

The gatekeeper broke away from his sleepy eyes and looked at the rest of the people, who were only seven or eight young guards. He yawned and said, "You young people can still be relied on." When I retire, I'll choose a successor among you. ”

Several young people suddenly came to their senses.

"Still, it depends on your performance. The gatekeeper stretched his waist and was much more energetic, and then said: "Don't be like Lao Zhang, relying on old qualifications, disrespecting the leader, leaving as soon as you say it, and not saying hello to me." These old guys are all defeated under me, and they know why I am the head of the door, aren't they? If I hadn't been clever, hard-working, courageous, and married the daughter of Yang Qianhuguan, I would have been like them, and I would not have been able to mix with a half-official position. In this case, you young people do a little more, and I'll go back first. He took out a pamphlet and said, "This is the shift roster, you write all the names of the people in the team." If you don't come, write it down. After saying that, he squinted his eyes and left.

The guard who questioned him was extremely angry with the shift roster, and secretly scolded: A group of old immortals know how to cheat and cheat. He pressed the shift roster against the small door under the windlamp, and by the faint light, began to turn the pages and transcribe.

Another guard said, "The old men guarding the gates are all horns smeared with lardβ€”sharp and slippery. ”

"Boat to bridgehead car to station. The confidence of the old qualifications is harder. ”

"These seniors are paid half as much as I do. ”

"Not to mention the salary, the rice bought from a month's salary is not enough for the whole family to eat for ten days. ”

"This salary can only make ends meet, how can I support my family?"

"Does the court of the Great Xuanguo care about us low-level people?"

"The court can't control us, and the presiding minister's office is our employer. ”

"Now guarding the city gate, the presiding minister's mansion doesn't even care about food. ”

"The Principal's Office is not about saving money. ”

"I'm guarding him. It's better to go home early and hug your daughter-in-law. Anyway, the time for the shift change has already arrived. ”

A figure flickered. The word "what ......" was not uttered.

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The guards who had questioned the gatekeeper had been copying the names of the previous day's shifts. He didn't know much and wrote very carefully, and he was extremely engaged. As he was writing, he suddenly felt that his surroundings became very quiet, and the person who spoke suddenly lost his voice. He asked, "Well, why don't you speak?" He kept his head down and copied carefully.

The others did not answer the guard's question, as the bodies of others lay on the ground, bleeding all over the ground.

The scribe guard turned his head to look for his teammates, all lying on the ground. A great sense of fear hit him, he took down the wind lantern hanging on the small door, and illuminated it to his teammates on the ground, horror, fright, the wind lamp in his hand fell to the ground and shattered, and his head fell to the ground.

In the darkness, a big man was wiping a blood-stained knife on the deceased's clothes.

The small door on the other side of the gate was twenty paces away from the small door on this side. You can't see, you can hear.

One of the guards asked, "Hey, what's going on over there, how did you get the wind lights out?"

Another guard said, "I'll go and have a look." ”