Chapter 41: Leaving the Palace
Wei Xiaobao took two sets of clothes that he had worn, handed them to Fang Yi and the little county lord, and said, "You two women disguise themselves as men, pretend to be eunuchs, and go out of the palace with us." Fang Yi and the little county lord took over the clothes, while Wei Xiaobao and Xiang Yan hurriedly packed two burdens with silver tickets, gold and silver jewelry, a large bag of sweat medicine and a bottle of corpse powder.
After a while, the little county lord changed his clothes first, and Wei Xiaobao praised: "What a handsome little eunuch, I'll help you with braids." After a while, Fang Yi also changed his clothes. Fang Yi's figure is taller than Wei Xiaobao, and Wei Xiaobao's clothes are tight on Fang Yi's body, which is very ill-fitting. Fang Yi couldn't help but laugh as soon as he looked in the mirror.
The little county lord smiled: "Let Brother Bao help me with the braids, and I'll help the senior sister with the braids." Wei Xiaobao braided the little county lord's long hair. The little county lord looked in the mirror and exclaimed, "Oh, it's so ugly." No, I'll have to do it all over again. Fang Yi said: "Little county lord, if the braids are ugly, they will be ugly!" Brother Xiang is already in a hurry, so don't waste any more time. The little lord pursed his lips and gave up the action of putting his braids back on.
Wei Xiaobao smiled again: "You two are too beautiful, let's rub some mud and sand on your face!" The little county lord was a little reluctant, but when he saw Fang Yi stretching out his hand to wipe the dust on the ground on his face, he did the same.
Fang Yi took a step and felt a pain in his chest. Wei Xiaobao hugged Fang Yi's crisp waist, half-supported and half-hugged, and walked forward. The four of them went out of the palace from the back gate of the forbidden palace city, Shenwu Gate, and the guards guarding the door saw that it was Gonggong Gui and Gonggong Xiang who took the two little eunuchs out of the palace.
Xiang Yan came out of the palace, and after walking out of more than ten zhang, he looked back at the palace gate, with mixed feelings, as if he was a person from another world. I shouldn't come back in the future, and in the future, I will practice martial arts with Mao 18 in Taizhou! Well, I don't know what my martial arts qualifications are?
Wei Xiaobao hired four small sedan chairs on the side of the street, ordered them to be carried to West Chang'an Avenue, and then hired a small sedan chair to get off the sedan chair outside Tianshuijing Hutong in Dongcheng. Wei Xiaobao led the three of them to the alley, and came to a big house, and someone in front of the house led the four people in. Another old man came out, and the old man was dressed like a man.
The old man invited the four of them to sit in the hall, served tea, pulled Wei Xiaobao aside, and whispered quietly. After a while, Wei Xiaobao came over and said, "Xiao Yan, Brother Mao went to Wutai Mountain last night. Why don't we go to Wutai Mountain to find him? Xiang Yan said helplessly: "Okay." Wei Xiaobao said to Fang Yihe Xiaojun Lord: "Your friends from Muwangfu, you rushed to Wutai Mountain overnight with the people of the Heaven and Earth Society last night. Where can you go? I'll ask one or two reliable friends to escort you there. ”
Fang Yi said: "I'm afraid that something has changed in the matter of Wutai Mountain, we have to rush over to remind the little grandfather." Wei Xiaobao said: "You have an injury, and it is inconvenient for your daughter's family to hurry, so don't go." You can rest assured that the emperor sent us to Wutai Mountain, and Xiao Yan will also go to Wutai Mountain to find Brother Mao, and when we go to Wutai Mountain, we will remind the little grandfather. ”
Fang Yi said: "You are not from Mu Wangfu, you don't know the unique secret of Mu Wangfu, and you may not be able to find the little grandfather soon." The little county lord also said: "I haven't seen my brother for a long time, I want to see him." Wei Xiaobao said: "Okay, let's go to Wutai Mountain together." But don't be in a hurry in advance, let's rest first, and then leave when we are full. ”
The people inside brought four bowls of noodles, and after the four of them finished eating, Wei Xiaobao said to the old man: "Third Brother Xu, let me introduce you to three friends?" These two are the tall feet of the 'iron-backed Canglong' old man Liu, this one is Miss Fang, this one is Miss Mu, and she is the little county lord of Mu Wangfu. This is Xiao Yan, Brother Mao promised to accept him as a disciple, I specially brought him to apprentice, but unfortunately I didn't meet him. He said to the other party Yihe Xiaojun Lord: "This Brother Xu knows both Old Man Liu and your little grandfather." It was a little bit of a holiday, but now the beams have been revealed. ”
The old man's name is Xu Tianchuan, that is, he had a dispute with Bai Hansong and Bai Hanfeng brothers in Muwangfu because of their support for Tang and Gui, and they killed Bai Hansong by mistake. Later, Wei Xiaobao rescued Wu Lishen and the other three, which resolved the dispute between the Heaven and Earth Society and Mu Wangfu.
After the four of them greeted each other, Wei Xiaobao said: "Third Brother Xu, a few of us are also going to Wutai Mountain, can you please escort us?" Xu Tianchuan said respectfully: "Yes." Wei Xiaobao handed Xu Tianchuan another three hundred taels of silver tickets, and said, "Third Brother Xu, I have a good brother in the palace who killed the Tartar guards, and I brought his ashes out to give him a good burial." Please send someone to buy a coffin immediately. ”
Xu Tianchuan agreed to go. In addition to choosing a wooden coffin, he also had other shrouds, ash altars, lime, cotton paper, oilcloth, spirit tablets, spirit flags, paper money and other things. He also bought clothes, shoes and hats for Fang Yi and the little county lord to change into men's clothes, dry food and snacks used on the way, and also called a servant and a lacquer maker. By the time everything arrived, the four had slept for two hours.