When I took the first step, I almost screamed

The cold wind poured into my lungs, the whole city had stopped for a long time in the night, the clouds in the sky had been blown apart, the moon was as cold as a silver scythe, and the snow city was reflected in the moonlight, and the noise like an unattainable goddess came faintly from the hotel downstairs, as if it were from another world

There was no movement from the chimneys above the roof, and there was no movement on the whole roof, and the building was very high, and I glanced down a little, and saw two soldiers passing under my feet, and we were five stories tall here, and the wind was already a little strong, and I couldn't stop shaking

Just now in the room, Giovanni tore open a few wooden boards, and now that place has not been strictly repaired at all, it can only barely block the snow, but there is no way to lock people insideGiovanni just removed the wooden plank, a column of white moonlight sprinkled in, at this time, as long as someone opens the door and comes in, they will definitely be able to see what we are doing, the whole room is shrouded in a faint light, the cold air suddenly came, Giovanni wrapped his clothes tightly, he used a knife to cut the white sheets, He tied those white strips of cloth to his clothes, and he told me to do the same, and we were two monsters covered in white stripes, and it was hard to be seen as long as we were in the snow

Decades ago, when the Wikibians attacked a weak ethnic group in the North Bay, they suffered a big loss, and the people there tied all the white cloth on their bodies, and waited quietly in the snow, although the Wikibians were strong, the soldiers were like black tides, and the horses were like rushing rivers, but they were finally defeated under the tactics of the Snowmen, and since then, the Wikiians have learned how to disguise themselves

The Wiki people are a people with winter, and the ancient prophecy tells people that all the enemies of the Wiki will die in the cold winter, but now it seems that this statement has been overturned by the Berks: the Berks have occupied a large part of the Wikiasian land, and they have not ruled badly, which has made the Wiki people humiliated, but in the land of the East, it is not very meaningful to deny the charm of the Berks, and no eastern kingdom can have a dazzling array of goods like Burke, So many brilliant poets and painters were born, and so many wealthy cities and villages were scattered

But it is impossible for the Berks to conquer the Vikians, and the Berks look strong now because the winter of the Vikians has not yet arrived

One day, when all Wikibians are determined to maintain their independence and freedom, when all Wikibians have clear ambitions, when all Wikibians begin to set their sights on the whole world, the winter of Wikibians will come to the earth, and the ancient language will become a reality: all Wikibians' enemies will die in the cold winter, and Wiki will be as immortal as winter

But now, I feel like I'm probably going to die tonight

My legs were shaking, and I wanted to tell Giovanni that I wanted to go back, but he was already leaning against the wall and slowly moved out, and I opened my mouth, but all the words were blown away by the wind, and I could only stick to the wall and follow him out

There was a narrow wooden frame for footholding, and there was snow on it, like white cheese, and when I walked over, the snow would be kicked down, and I nervously watched the white snow drift away, until it fell to the ground, and the two soldiers almost followed my footsteps, and these snowflakes fell above their heads, and I saw a soldier touch his helmet, and then looked curiously upstairs and down, my strength was almost gone, I was afraid that he would see me, But fortunately, in the end, there was no circumstance, and the two soldiers said this, and walked to the end of the street corner, and disappeared

Giovanni coughed, and I turned my head cautiously to look at him, and now he had walked to the edge of an attic windowsill, where there were some bright windows that were safe, because the people in these windows looked out of the window in pitch black, so they could not see us; If it's a room where you sleep with the candles out, the windows will be the brightest source of light, and it's too easy to see us

Giovanni grabbed the windowsill, then quickly turned around, put the other hand on it, he squatted down, moved a little bit, passed under the windowsill, and then, he disappeared on the side of the windowsill, I followed his example, one hand grabbed the window-sill, but I couldn't hold it, I could only hold on steadily, and hold on to a flower pot on the windowsill with my hand, trying to borrow a hand

The flowers in the pot were gone, only a few craggy dead branches, covered with a layer of snow, and it looked like no one had taken care of them for a long time

I took a breath, and with a little force on my hand, I wanted to turn around and grab the window frame with both hands, but at this time, the flower pot loosened, and the groove under it was not fixed at all, and the flower pot flew out, and it fell straight down, crashing on the window sill on the third floor, shattering into several pieces, and then falling into the street with a loud roar

The whole world seemed to fall silent, and I heard a dog in the distance being alarmed and barking, and the people in the window seemed to be seeing something, and the laughter suddenly stopped

Next to mine, the window opened

My heart was pounding

The warm air blew out, the giggling laughter of women and the exaggerated singing of clowns filled my ears at once, and I smelled the aroma of cinnamon and onion soup, and the pungent smell of mint

"Hell, what's going on?" A man said a foot or two next to me

"What's wrong, dear?" A woman asked in a soft voice, "What are you doing with the window, it's cold?"

"I heard something," said the man, "and there was a thud like a stone was falling."

A huge head was exposed, and the man bowed, his face red and the smell of alcohol filling my nostrils

"What is it?" The woman inside asked curiously

"It looks like your flower pot or something, what used to be placed here?"

"It's a flower pot," the woman was no longer interested in this, "What is it for, a few copper coins, that flower pot is also ugly and tight, if it's gone, it's gone, it's probably blown down by the wind."

"It's not like it, the wind isn't that strong," the man looked towards Giovanni, but the wall was a bit curved, and he couldn't see Giovanni at all, but if he turned his head, he would be able to face me, "The snow on the window frame has been swept away a lot, I guess it's a cat"

"We don't have any cats here," said the girl with a grin, "but there are a lot of cats that come to steal fish."

The man was suddenly interested, and he looked back, "Really? ”

A white hand reached out, pinched the man's nose and pulled him in, and the window slammed shut

My legs trembled, if the man just saw me, before he could make a move, I would have been scared to fall, I knew that if I stayed here any longer, my courage would be exhausted, I must get out of this place quickly, I put my hand into the groove where the flower pot was placed, twisted hard, turned around and grabbed the window frame, just like Giovanni just now

The window frame began to tremble, and the window shook again and again, and there was a man's laughter and a woman's exclamation, and the man was pushing the woman against the window to do a good deed, my hands were shaken and numb, and I felt like I was going to fall, hell, Tom Brown's childhood did look a little miserable, I don't know what he was doing now, and he was also doing good deeds with the Burke girl, I remembered, Valankov's room also seemed to have windows

I moved slowly, and soon I crossed the window, I looked sideways, and I almost fainted, there were three identical windows in front of me, Giovanni had already reached the bottom of the last one, he saw me, nodded, and told me to hurry up, and there were no flower pots on the back windowsills, I buckled the grooves like just now, and climbed through one window after another, there was no light in two windows, I don't know if there was anyone inside, and in the last window there was a woman singing, and the voice was very good

I suddenly remembered that Messira was in the Romanov Fort in autumn, standing on a wooden platform with a group of red-faced girls, and the Goths frowned and reprimanded them for singing a syllable wrong; The fat cat was running around; Jack was downstairs tinkering with the roof; Outside the door is the wilderness of the whole autumn, and the memories are so sweet

My fingers were frozen, and I finally came to a corner

There was a stake sticking out of the stone wall, a few abandoned swallow's nests left in ruins, and beside it there was a small platform with dozens of cages of pigeon lofts, but all the pigeons had been sent to the house, and here there were some wooden poles, with thick ropes wrapped around them, where people would dry their clothes when the weather was fine, and the underwear, skirts and stockings of the girls were a bright sight Tom once described to me that kind of pomp and circumstance, in the midst of a sunny day, The men would be restless, running from afar, pretending to pass by, and then watching the women change and dry their clothes, and Tom's job was to bring them over and make them do something else

Giovanni whispered, "What was the sound just now?" ”

"I got the pot down," I was shocked, "almost being seen, where are we going now?" ”

"Go get my money back" Giovanni shrank down, his foot reached a stake below, then he continued to shrink down, jumping to a stake below, his head gradually disappearing, he said, "Keep up, that old pervert of Vidotuc is in the innermost room on the second floor, I watched us enter through the next room when I went downstairs"

The idea was so crazy that I thought I would be able to leave when I got here, but Giovanni was going to take me to the center of danger once again

I walked over, the soles of my feet slipped, and kicked down a large cloud of snow, which hit Giovanni's hat, and he looked up and whispered a few curses, telling me to be careful that these stakes may not be a very troublesome obstacle for Giovanni, but for me, these pillars are not very good, they span a lot, they are as long as my legs, and every time I go down, I only dare to hold on to the wall, afraid of falling

An old woman on the third floor was pouring urine out of the window, and the night pots were full, and there was an old man inside who was handing her the night pots that had been collected from the various rooms, and fortunately we didn't go any further ahead, and if we had climbed down from the stake in front of us, we would have been wetted by this time

It's a pity that when I got to the second floor, the wind was a little strong, and all that damn urine was flying all over the sky, no wonder Giovanni was crawling as fast as a monkey just now, and he was probably doused too

I moved over as if I was on the roof, and Giovanni was in front of me, carefully checking that the front of the windows was locked, and we couldn't get in from those places, and if we wanted to find Tuke, we had to go straight through his window, which would be too dangerous

After a while, Giovanni stopped, and he waved his hand to signal me to stop

It turned out that the soldiers had returned, and we were now outside the second floor, and they would have been there if it weren't for the white strips of cloth on our clothes that were no different from the walls

The two soldiers stood on the side of the street for a while, and one of them saw the broken flower pot, and he looked up at the upstairs curiously, and I tried to stick to the wall, hoping to turn into a stone and dissolve into it, but the soldier had been patrolling for a long time, and he was already tired, and he didn't bother to study it, so he rubbed his hands, took a sip of wine, and went away with his companion

I moved to Giovanni's side

He tried the window with a dagger and said to me, "Two windows, one is bolted, only one is open, I can't get in" He stood up and squinted inside, "I can't see clearly, you go to Tuke's bag, it contains my purse, you go get that thing out"

I immediately refused, "No, I won't get caught and die."

"The two of us are beggars now, and if we don't go, we won't have a place to escape," Giovanni opened the window with a dagger, little by little

The sudden sound of talking on the street, my body was numb, the two soldiers seemed to hear something, and ran down the street to the other side under the leadership of the third soldier, and the sound of the three people running provoked the barking of dogs Fortunately, their target was not us, Giovanni was also frightened just now, his face turned white, he spat and continued to open the window

"Hurry up, Victor I'm waiting for you, if there's anything, you run towards the window"

I begged him for a long time, but to no avail, in the end, I had to bite the bullet and began to climb the window, he pulled me and made me turn around, and then I climbed up to the windowsill, and there was no light in the window, and if the people inside woke up at this time, they could see me at a glance I pressed my hand against the window frame, and my feet slowly leaned down, and after a while, I stepped on a stool

Giovanni closed the window, he was worried that the air conditioning would wake up the people inside, and he was also worried that the night watchman would inadvertently see the window, and now Giovanni had turned into a white cloth, standing tightly against the outer wall

I tiptoed and moved carefully

With every step I take, I feel the earth-shattering roar of the floor under my feet, like the loudest horn, which will wake up the person in my dream, I saw a few pieces of iron lying next to the bed, I heard Konstantin say that these pieces of iron are placed next to the bed to prevent thieves, and once someone walks in and steps on it, there will be a clanging sound, I carefully bypassed these pieces of iron, and continued to walk inside

My eyes adjusted to the darkness, but I couldn't see where Tuke's package was placed

I could hear someone on the bed, in the dark night, the sound of snoring and throat clearing came intermittently, my hairs stood up nervously, step by step, I kicked a small bench, I didn't see it first, click, this bench overturned, I was too scared to move, the person on the bed seemed to turn over, talking in a dream, muttering something

I stayed for a few moments before continuing on my way

On the cabinet next to the bed, I saw a pile of clothes, men and women all had a woman's thick ** leg stretched out from under the curtain of the bed, and there were a few pairs of loafers on the ground, and under the clothes, there was a leather corner, although I couldn't see it really, but I was sure that it was Tuke's bag of money today, and I tiptoed over

The woman rolled over, coughed a few times, and then grabbed the quilt and put it over herself, an action that made the man mumble a few words

I gently picked up the clothes, held them in my arms, and slowly looked at the leather bag underneath, and when I picked it up, I almost cursed: the bag of this leather bag was tied to the wall table, and it was still knotted

I could only put my clothes on the ground and reach over to untie the rope It looked like Tuck had worked as a sailor before, and he had tied the knot in a sailor's knot, which was simple and strong, and if he couldn't untie it, he would tighten it tighter and tighter on the Falcon, and I had learned to tie the knot for a while, but I didn't quite understand it, every sailor has many ways to tie the knot, and if he learned them all, it would take a long time

My fingers were sweating, the leather rope was rubbing between my fingers, and soon after a hissing sound, my hands were loosened, and the two knots finally parted

I weighed the bag, it was still heavy, I hung it around my neck, it hurt my neck a little and then I tied the rope and started to retreat, I retreated to the side of the window, and tapped my finger on the window and told Giovanni to open it

At this time, there was a sudden sound on the bed, and the female boss glared in a daze and said, "It's so cold" She stretched out her hand to grab her clothes, but she didn't find her, poked her head out and looked, "Damn, why did the clothes fall to the ground"

She jumped out of bed, and the white fat flesh stepped on the ground with a bang, and the female boss picked up a blanket and draped it over her shoulders, covered herself, and then kicked on her shoes and walked over with a click

My heart was in my throat, and I hid in the shadow of a cupboard, not daring to move

Giovanni, don't open the window at this time

The landlady pulled out a night pot from under a partition, sat down on her ass for a while, and the sound of peeing came, she hiccuped, yawned in confusion, and then she took the night pot back and walked towards the bed

"Go back and fall asleep," I prayed in my heart

The landlady was about to walk to the bedside, and then, she saw the clothes all over the floor, and the empty cabinet, she seemed to suddenly be a little sober, and looked back at the room, she frowned, feeling a little strange, but she hadn't thought about waking Tuk yet, this was her shop, and most of the thieves and pickpockets were her own people, and she probably hadn't thought of going there yet

She looked around, and finally, her eyes locked on mine, and I tried to shrink back towards the cabinet

She was puzzled, step by step, she stepped on the piece of iron, provoked Tuke to sigh in a daze, as if she was about to wake up The female boss walked in front of me, I saw her fat body pressed over like a snowy mountain, she was facing me sideways, looking at the window curiously, her head was getting closer and closer I heard that Giovanni was opening the window with a dagger, and the sound of squeaking and rattling came intermittently

The landlady was probably fully awake, and she was about to turn around and call Tuke over to take a look, just as she turned around, she saw me

I had Tuk's purse on my chest, crouching in the shadows with a terrified face

"You" the female boss opened her mouth

"What's wrong?" Tuke asked with a grunt

"Oh my God" As soon as the female boss's hand loosened and the blanket fell, she was about to scream

I stood up and punched her in the nose, sending her backwards and falling to the ground

"What's the matter" Tuke was fully awake, and he sat up on the bed, scrambling to get dressed

I stood on the stool, opened the window, and Giovanni was standing there, I handed him the bag, and he quickly moved away, I held the windowsill with my hand, and slowly leaned down, and a fat arm grabbed me, and the boss's angry face twisted, and I bit her, and she let go again

I quickly moved in the direction of Giovanni, and while shouting in the confusion inside, we had reached the wooden stake, and began to climb up, and when we reached the top floor, we jumped from the roof to the top of the building, and most of the houses in Xiaodonghu City were connected to the roof, and we quickly fled along the stone path and the wooden windows

A poignant voice pierced the night sky behind us, "There are thieves and there are thieves".

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