Counting from the day of the Spring Festival, unconsciously, Bian Yao, who is alias Ye Xiaomei, has been in the palace for half a month. In recent days, after dinner, he always likes to run to the cleaning room, where there is a new friend of his, a boy who is only a year older than himself.

The real name of "Little Dog" is He Xin, but no one in the palace cares about his real name at all, and Little Dog is his only name. The puppy entered the palace last year and was assigned to the clean room. Because he is the youngest and has a very loyal and honest character, he is always bullied by others, and the leader of the cleaning house also assigns to him the most difficult place in the whole house to clean, and it is also the place that people are most reluctant to go.

Bian Yao and the little dog met three days ago, that morning, the little dog ran to the small courtyard where the chores room was located with a red face, saying that he needed someone to help clean the ground in the "nursing yard". As a result, Bian Yao didn't think about it and was the first to say yes, and the eyes of the other people in the chores room at that time became a little weird, and everyone had a gloating look on their faces.

"Kitten! It seems that you have a fate with the puppy in your previous life, and you are destined to become a difficult brother in this life! You must take care! Haha......" The leader Zhang Fu said to Bian Yao in a joking tone, and when it was over, he laughed with the others.

After hearing the strange words of the leader, Bian Yao deliberately made a stupid and stupid look, raised his hand and touched his head, and then walked towards the little dog with a smile, and the two left the chores together.

The guards of the Nu Mansion lived in two large courtyards, both of which were in the former mansion. One is located in the northwest corner, referred to as the West Nursing Courtyard, and the other is located in the northeast corner, referred to as the East Nursing Courtyard. The guard's residence was the dirtiest place in the palace, and it could also be said to be the most dangerous place for ordinary people.

Speaking of the guards in the Nu Palace, although the number of people is less than 100, but each of them has absolute loyalty to the palace! Those guards have been homeless orphans since childhood, because they have the qualifications to cultivate dreams, they were found by the people in the palace and taken to a secret place, where they concentrated on cultivation and training, until they broke through to the realm of dream madness and were transferred to the palace and became a palace guard.

The miscellaneous room is relatively close to the West Nursing Home, so Bian Yao and the little dog went to the West Nursing Home to clean it first. On the way, the little dog apologized to Bian Yao vigorously, saying that he had no intention of harming him, but he called someone to help because his shoulder hurt and he was too busy to be alone. The little dog also repeatedly told Bian Yao, so that he should not look around when he meets people after he arrives there, and if the guards do not speak, do not take the initiative to speak, just bow their heads and concentrate on cleaning, otherwise they will be easily scolded or even beaten.

The little dog's words and look made Bian Yao feel extremely curious, and after repeated questioning, he learned something he had never heard of before. It turned out that when the puppy was cleaning up the debris in the "nursing yard", he was often teased and laughed at by the guards, and in the process, if he showed the slightest dissatisfied look or behavior, he would be abused by them.

Although in a sense, the guards belonged to the same subordinates of the palace as Bian Yao and the other people in the various errands, after all, they also had another identity - dream cultivators! Even if those guards killed the ordinary subordinates of the palace, they would not be punished very severely. Almost every year, there will be ordinary people in the palace who are killed by the guards.

On the Dream Immortal Continent, cultivators often disdained to do anything to ordinary people, and some were reluctant to even speak, because in this way they could reflect the cultivator's superior status. But for those guards in the palace, they can only stay in the palace all day long, except for patrolling, eating and cultivating, life is very boring and monotonous, and it is also interesting to find someone to play around when they are free. They are also cultivators, and they are very different from those loose cultivators who are free outside! In addition, these guards are all dreamers, and it is known that among all the dreamers, dreamers are the most irritable and irritable kind.

When the two were cleaning up the courtyard that day, they were really teased and abused by several guards, and Bian Yao listened to the advice of the little dog, and at the same time, in order to avoid the exposure of his identity, he played a cowardly subordinate who was obedient.

After cleaning the east and west nursing homes, on the way back, Bian Yao expressed his willingness to help the puppy clean up the debris together, and asked him to call himself early in the future, so as not to be called by other errand people.

Bian Yao's words made the little dog feel grateful to him, but seeing the tears shed by the little dog, Bian Yao felt a little sorry for him in his heart, because he did not do it completely out of his intention, but for other ulterior reasons. Since that time, Bian Yao has become familiar with the puppy.

Early in the morning, it was just dawning. Bian Yao was lying on the bed with his eyes open and thinking about the problem, when he suddenly heard footsteps outside, his heart moved, and he hurriedly jumped off the bed.

"Kitten, are you awake?" After a few slight noises, there were two low calls outside the door, and there was two knocks on the bedroom door.

Bian Yao opened the door, smiled at the little dog, and said, "I have already woken up and dressed, and I am waiting for you to call me!"

The two walked to the bedroom of the leader of the chores, Bian Yao knocked on the door, and shouted loudly: "Head, the little dog called for me to help clean the nursing home!"

"Got it!, get out!" the reply from inside the room was visibly dissatisfied, as if Bian Yao's shouts had awakened his sweet dream.

Bian Yao turned his head and made a grimace at the little dog, without saying much, he walked directly to the entrance of the courtyard and picked up two brooms and a dustpan, while the little dog carried a large wooden barrel, and the two walked side by side in the direction where the West Courtyard was located.

The chill of early spring has not subsided, and at this point in the early morning, most of the people have not yet gotten up, and there is no figure to be seen walking in the palace. While passing by a garden, Bian Yao suddenly said mysteriously, "Hey, let me ask you something." ”

"What's the matter?" you ask. The puppy stretched out his left hand and tightened the placket of his shirt and whispered back.

"You said that you have been working in the palace for a year, and from the beginning to the present, you have been in charge of cleaning the nursing home. You should know a lot of guards, then?"

After a moment's hesitation, the little dog said with a sad expression, "I know almost every one of them, and I even remember their names. There were ninety-four people in the West and East Homes combined, and only seven of them had never scolded me or played tricks on me. ”

"Don't be sad, it will always get better!" Bian Yao moved the dustpan on his right hand to his left hand, and gently patted his thin shoulder with his free right hand, and comforted him.

After being silent for a while, the two walked out of the garden, and Bian Yao said again: "I heard from our head that he was once beaten by a guard named Duan Tianliang, and said that that the person was tall, dark and vicious, do you recognize this person?"

"I know! This person scolded me the most! He also kicked me, causing my ass to hurt for nearly half a month. He looks very fierce, his eyes are always wide like a pair of iron bells, and every time I see him, I feel scared!"

Bian Yao didn't say anything when he heard this, but the corners of his mouth curled slightly.

"Hearing you say that, I really want to see what that man looks like?" said Bian Yao as he walked, seemingly muttering to himself.

"He lives in the second courtyard of the West Courtyard, and he was among the guards who patrolled the night yesterday, and you may have a chance to see him today. The puppy's face was a little gloomy.

"How do you know he went on patrol last night?" Bian Yao said curiously.

"The guards who were in charge of night patrols would return to their quarters after dawn, and they would be on duty separately and in turn, as if each of them had to be on duty for half a month, and the remaining half of the month would only patrol during the day, and stay at the residence at night. After a long time, I naturally remembered the time when each of them was on night patrol. ”

"I see, you have a good memory!" Bian Yao laughed.

After passing through several rockeries, bypassing a pond with thin ice, and turning past a dark gray courtyard wall, the two stopped talking when they saw that they were about to reach the West Courtyard.

The palace courtyard is a rather peculiar place, almost no one takes care of it here, and even the chief guard rarely sets foot here. The King of Fury was especially gracious to the guards, as long as they did their duty when they were on duty.

Located in the northwest corner of the former mansion, the West Courtyard covers an area of about one acre and is divided into four connected courtyards, where dozens of royal guards live. Each courtyard has a three-story pavilion, the ground floor is inhabited by the early dreammania, the middle floor is the middle dream, and the later dreamer occupies several attics on the top floor.

Bian Yao and the little dog cautiously stepped into the first courtyard, which was silent, and a faint smell of wine that had not completely dissipated wafted into the noses of the two of them, and the bones of animals could be seen everywhere in the courtyard, and some of them still had residual meat on them. Although Dream Cultivators could survive by eating spirit fruits alone, they did not refuse to drink meat and meat, and the delicacies in the eyes of ordinary mortals also attracted them.

There were no flowers, no trees, not even a stone in sight, and there was nothing in the courtyard, or ornamentation, except for an isolated pavilion. In fact, these yards were originally planted with flowers and fragrant dream trees, and there were some rockeries, but they were often destroyed and ruined by those guards, and then there was nothing.

"It's cold now, but when it gets hot, the smell will be terrible! Flies and mosquitoes are flying everywhere. The little dog gently lowered the large wooden barrel on his shoulder, and then leaned closer to Bian Yao's ear and muttered quietly.

Bian Yao's expression froze for a moment, then he smiled, bent down to put down the dustpan, and handed the puppy a broom.

This is the second time he has come to the courtyard to clean the ground, and what he has to do is nothing more than to sweep up the debris in the courtyard and pour it into the wooden barrel, and then carry it to the canteen where the people eat, and all the sundries and garbage in the palace are placed there and transported out of the house by special personnel.

The two of them swept the garbage on the ground into piles, then put it in a dustpan and poured it into a wooden barrel. By the time they had finished sweeping up all the garbage in the first yard, it was already getting dark.

Then the two took the tools to the next yard and continued to sweep the ground. He was halfway through the cleaning when he heard a jumble of footsteps coming from the previous yard.

"Kitten, be careful! It should be Duan Tianliang who is back. The little dog shouted in a panic at Bian Yao.

The footsteps quickly turned to the courtyard where Bian Yao and the others were, and there were four people in total, wearing the same guard uniforms. The leader was a tall dark-skinned middle-aged man, his face was full of ruthlessness, his gray-black beard was unusually thick, covering almost half of his face, and his pair of iron bell-like eyes were wide open.

"Hey, there's an extra puppy!" the middle-aged man in the lead was the first to speak, and his rough voice was very disgusting. As soon as the man's words fell, the three people who followed him let out a series of strange laughs.

His name is Ye Xiaomei, he just came here this year, and he was originally assigned to the chores, but I asked him to come over to help. The little dog stopped what he was doing, and hurriedly turned around and bent his head. Bian Yao was still unhurriedly cleaning the bones on the ground.

"It was a dog, but now there's a cat, it looks like you've got a good brother this year!" the gruff voice continued to laugh, followed by another burst of laughter. The puppy didn't dare to move, and stood aside, smiling with embarrassment.

Bian Yao suddenly turned around, his gaze quickly swept over the face of the leader, then lowered his head slightly, and sneered: "The new cat has seen a few adults!"

"Haha, yes, yes, do you think this cat seems to be more interesting than the dog?" the middle-aged man laughed and looked back at the person behind him, getting a few echoing answers.

"If you don't, I might go to the chore room to invite you." The middle-aged man in the lead smiled at Bian Yao and took the lead in moving towards the pavilion.

"I'll come often!" Bian Yao replied in a low voice, regardless of whether the other party heard it or not, and then secretly watched a few people with his spare eyes. He found that two of them lived on the ground floor, the other on the middle floor, and the middle-aged man in the lead went up to the top floor and entered one of the rooms.

"The bearded man in the lead is Duan Tianliang. When the figures of those people disappeared behind the door of the bedroom, the little dog gasped loudly.

Bian Yao said "um" without answering, raised the broom and continued to sweep the ground, an imperceptible smile flashed in his eyes, he had secretly written down the room where Duan Tianliang lived.

The target has been locked! This man is a key figure in the plan made by the Night Corpse!