The night was deep, pitch black as ink, and clouds shrouded it.

Zhao Ta sat in the middle hall, the candlelight was red, the shadows were full of shadows, and it was hazy.

He picked up the teacup and took a sip gently, then looked at the high pet next to him: "What time is it?" ”

Gao Pet's face was slightly red, there was a trace of excitement, and when he heard this, he hurriedly ran to see the incense leak, and then came back and said, "Master, it's already three o'clock." ”

Zhao Ta nodded: "Let's change clothes." ”

"Okay!" Gao Pet was very excited, and immediately opened a small bag beside him, took out a black night coat and changed it, and covered his face with a black cloth.

Zhao Ta also changed into black clothes, which also covered his face.

Gao Zhong said: "Master, are you going to kill Cai Jing?" ”

Zhao Ta glanced at him: "Do you still have to go at night to kill Cai Jing?" ”

Gao Pet rubbed his hands and said: "Yes, that old dog can be killed when I hit him while walking, why do I need to be at night." ”

"Just follow me." Zhao Ta said lightly.

The two went out of the mansion from behind, and then walked against the wall, avoiding the forbidden army on night patrol, and went straight to Xicheng.

Zhao Ta was going to go to the house where Hu Sanniang went back during the day to find out who was there and whether it was Lin Chong.

After halfway through the journey, the two changed their way forward, no longer hiding the shadows on the wall, but climbing over the wall and going up, and the cat's waist stepped on the ridge of the roof and flew forward.

Zhao Ta had already taught Gao Pet the Divine Shadowless Footwork, but as Dai Zong said, this footwork could hardly be practiced after the age of ten, and there was no blessing from the armor horse, so even if Gao Pet learned it, it was not much faster.

However, after that, Zhao Ta passed on his time-shifting Hundred Ghost Night Walk, which is easy to practice, but because there is no shadow blend of Dacheng's Divine Travel, Gao Pet can't merge the Divine Travel, which is extremely fast in speed evasion.

Zhao Ta's body at this moment is like a wisp of green smoke, flying over the eaves above the house, even if someone in the road passes by, he can't see it clearly, he only thinks that it is a big bird such as an eagle owl and flashes away.

Gao Zhong is a lot slower, he is born with divine power, he originally walked extremely heavily, and he always had an awkward feeling about this kind of light body martial arts, so he was left far behind.

Seeing that the residence where Hu Sanniang went back during the day was approaching, Zhao Ta waited for Gao Zhong for a while, and when he came up, the two of them went around to a secluded place next to the house, and then climbed up the wall, saw that there was no one around, and fell gently.

This house is four halls deep, and more than two houses in Tokyo City are considered large mansions, so this house is worth a lot of money.

At this time, it was dark all around, there were no lanterns in the house, and the sky was covered by dark clouds, so I couldn't see much clearly.

The two of them hid for a moment before cautiously moving forward.

There are a lot of flowers and plants in the house, but many of them are messy and dense, as if few people take care of them, but the middle of the house is very clean, and the stone well is damp next to it, which is the traces left by drawing water every day, and it is obvious that there have always been people living there, as for the flowers and plants, there are not many people who should live, and there is not much time to prune.

Zhao Ta and Gao Pet tiptoed around first, and found that there was no room with lights on, Zhao Ta thought for a few breaths, and finally came to the third house.

Listening to the window for a while, Zhao Ta couldn't help frowning, there was not a trace of movement inside, with his current half-step great master's exquisite martial arts, it was silent in the middle of the night, and he could definitely hear the sound of breathing in the room, but no.

Even he heard the crouching sound of rats on the beams, the whiskers of crickets under the bed, and the crawling sound of some small insects on the four walls, but there was no voice.

...... in the room Nobody?

Zhao Ta frowned, quietly came to the door and reached out to touch it, but he found a lock, and the door was locked.

Then he went to the side rooms on both sides, the door was still locked, Zhao Ta thought for a few breaths, and then took Gao Zhong to the other three houses to check, no accident, all of them were the doors of General Tie.

There is a problem, there is indeed a problem, Zhao Ta frowned and said, "Go to the front door of the house and take a look." ”

Gao Zhong went over as he said, and came back after a while: "Master, the door of the house is not tied inside, but it can't be pushed open when it faces outward, and it is obviously locked outside." ”

Zhao Ta nodded, this is an empty house, Hu Sanniang is not in it, and there is no one at the moment.

This was noticed by the other party, otherwise all kinds of traces in the house showed that there had been people living there, but after he and Hu Sanniang met, all the people living in the house moved away.

Zhao Ta thought about it, judging from Hu Sanniang's past behavior and today's performance during the day, he couldn't leave so neatly, so it must be someone next to him who heard today's events and made the decision to move out quickly.

Then who is on the other side is already about to come out, it must be Lin Chong!

Since it was Lin Chong, the question arose, Lin Chong should have gone away and flew high, but he took the risk to return to Beijing, and it seems that he has been hidden for a long time, so what does he want to do?

Regardless of whether he wants to be disadvantageous to his own family, or wants to kill Gao Yu to take revenge, the time is far beyond it, last winter Hu Sanniang drove to the vegetarian tea shop to buy hot drinks, and at that time he may have been in Tokyo for a long time, and now nearly half a year has passed, and he has not seen any movement in Lin Chong.

For such a long time, I waited for any opportunity, but I didn't say anything at all, Hu Sanniang actually went to the play leisurely, which makes no sense.

"Master, what now?" Gao Zhong asked, although Zhao Ta didn't say what he was doing with him, but now he also saw that Zhao Ta was here to find someone.

"Now......" Zhao Ta narrowed his eyes.

Lin Chong ran away with Hu Sanniang, and he didn't even want the house, most likely he escaped from the city.

After all, no matter what they wanted to do after staying in Tokyo for so long, since they didn't even want a house, they sensed the danger and felt that it might be against them, so leaving Tokyo was the best policy.

However, it may not have been possible to go out, but the reason cannot be guessed, for example, Lin Chong came back late, knowing that the four gates of Tokyo were closed during the day, and he couldn't get out of the city if he wanted to.

There are also some things that Lin Chong has not done, and he is anxious to finish these things before leaving Tokyo.

If it's the latter, then what else does Lin Chong do? He and Hu Sanniang had been dormant for a long time, and Zhao Ta couldn't think of what he had been waiting to do, but he knew that killing Gao Yu must be a heavy matter for Lin Chong.

If he hadn't left the city, would Lin Chong have gone to kill Gao Yu?

Zhao Tan frowned as he thought about it......

At this moment, just south of the Imperial City, near Shangshu Province on the right side of the Royal Street, two people were walking carefully in the dark.

After turning into an alley, one of them spoke: "Sanniang, this side is Gao Yu's mansion, you find a place to hide, I will go in and kill the old dog and come out to meet you." ”

"Husband, I want to go with you!"

"If you go in that little bit of martial arts, it will only become a burden, and when the time comes, you will not be killed, and you will fall into danger, and you will regret it!"

"I ......"

"Just now I saw a thick tree a little higher up outside the alley, you go over there to hide, if I haven't come out for an hour, you should immediately go back to the previous place to stay until dawn, and as soon as the city gate opens, go out immediately, go away and fly high, and never come back."

"Husband......

"Go! Don't delay my revenge! ”

The two were Hu Sanniang and Lin Chong, Hu Sanniang heard Lin Chong's decision at this time, and knew that her family couldn't help much, so she had to turn around and go out of the alley, cautiously walking towards a big tree not far away.

Lin Chong watched her walk away, his expression became gloomy, and he walked forward dozens of steps close to the wall of the alley, and then his hand shook, and he couldn't see anything shooting, so he hung directly on the wall.

The courtyard wall of Gaofu is extremely high, about one and a half zhang, in fact, it was only one zhang at the beginning, but a few years ago, Zhao Ta sent people to throw a small note of Gao Yu's ashes into it, and used pots and pots to water filth, and then Gao Yu ordered to build half of the wall of this mansion again, and it became what it is now.

I saw Lin Chong grasping the silk-like object hanging on the wall with one hand at this time, his body jumped upward, and then he raised his foot and borrowed force on the wall of the house several times in a row, and the person reached it.

Then he lay on the wall and did not move, listening carefully to the movement inside, he had been to this high mansion before, although he had entered the White Tiger Hall by mistake, but at that time he saw a lot of soldiers patrolling on the road, and he thought that there should be more at night at this moment.

Hearing that there was no special sound in it, he cautiously jumped off the wall, and then with a shake of his arm, there was a red thread with a cold silver needle at the head that went straight into the bracer.

Then he continued to walk close to the wall, and in a moment he saw the light in front of him, and there were lanterns in many places in this high mansion, but the side of the palace wall was still dark, and few people paid attention to it.

At this moment, every once in a while, there are soldiers patrolling the house passing in front, and after this team of soldiers passes, another team in the distance is inserted horizontally, and the gap in the middle is extremely short, once you go out from under the house wall, it is difficult not to be discovered by the other party.

Lin Chong hid by the wall and thought for a while, Gao Yu was easy to kill, but it was not easy not to alarm others.

After all, Gaofu is too big, and he doesn't know where Gao Yu sleeps, so he needs to look for it a little bit, but under this search, he may be seen, and once he is seen that there are only two ways to go, he will run away directly, or kill him by force.

Run away and don't talk about it, but if you forcibly kill Gao Yu, I'm afraid it will be difficult to get out of the city tomorrow.

His original plan was to sneak into Gao's mansion, kill Gao Yu unknowingly, and then hide the body, and leave Tokyo with Hu Sanniang as soon as the city gate opens tomorrow morning, and at this time, it is estimated that the Gao family does not know that Gao Yu is dead.

But the forcible killing is different, Gao Yu is the captain of the court, the commander of the palace, even if it is midnight, but once he is forcibly killed and dies in the palace, I am afraid that it will immediately alarm the court, and it may be possible to search and arrest the whole city immediately.

He has been targeted by Zhao Ta here, and then Gao Yu died again, and if he was searched in the city, it would be difficult to get out of the city.

Lin Chong pondered for a long time, and felt that it was better to assassinate, the assassination first had to find Gao Yuda's residence, and then act at the opportunity.

Although the mansions in Tokyo vary in size and have different landscapes, the most basic layout is similar.

That is, there must be a back house and three halls.

Needless to say, the back house is the master's bedroom and study in front of the back house, followed by the back hall, the middle hall, and the front hall.

The distance between these three halls is very close, and some are extremely far, depending on the size of the mansion, and some other palaces and pavilions are probably built around the three halls.

Lin Chong's misguided entry into the White Tiger Festival Hall is next to the middle hall of the Gao Mansion, Gao Yu himself is still the envoy of the National Army, so there is a White Tiger Festival Hall in the mansion, but the Festival Hall is only a false title in the Great Song Dynasty, it is a kind of qualification glory, so this section hall actually has no effect, and it is not important, as for the so-called Lin Chong breaking into the White Tiger Festival Hall to peep at secrets, it is just an excuse to punish him.

Lin Chong, the head of the 800,000 forbidden army, has more than 200 of the two divisions and three yamen of the front division of the palace and the pro-military division of the guards.

And these leaders are not officials, but they have military positions.

The so-called officials need to have quality, and the officials of the Great Song Dynasty have one to nine products, and only when they enter the product can they really be regarded as officials.

In the army, from the squad leader, squadron leader, to the head of the army, and even to the commander of the army (battalion) in charge of 500 people, they are not officials, because they have no character.

Only the commander of the small army who is in charge of 2,500 people is an official, because at this time he is not called a commander, but a commander, and he must have a grade to be called by this name, and if he does not have a grade, he will not be able to sit in this position.

It is extremely difficult to be an official in the Great Song Army, even in the Western Army, taking Han Shizhong as an example, Han Shizhong is currently in charge of thousands of soldiers and horses, but he is only an eight-grade.

As for the first few lieutenants of a certain road, it sounds very big, but in fact, it is only about seven grades.

As for the economic strategy, Fu Shuai's official position is high, just because he is a civilian manager, a simple military position, and almost the fourth grade is over.

Including Zhao Ta and Gao Yu are the same, there are many soldiers in the two divisions and three yaguans, and the yamen is big enough, but except for the two of them, in fact, the highest in it is the fourth grade.

Because Zhao Ta is a prince and has the title of three dukes, he is a positive product, Gao Yu is the same as the third division of the opening of the palace, so he is from the first product, as for the military attaches below the government division, they directly fell off a cliff to the appearance of four or five grades, which shows how difficult it is to be promoted in the Great Song Army.

And Lin Chong is not an official at all, nor is he a low-level military attache in the army as later generations talked about, he just has a military position, a position appointed in the army, and he is not considered an official when he is taken outside.

So Gao Yu actually wanted to pinch him too simply, and he sent it to Kaifeng Mansion under the excuse of Baihutang, which was impossible for a high-ranking official.

If a person with official rank commits a crime, he will not be directly escorted to Kaifeng Mansion for trial, but will be reported to the Emperor Jun for approval, and the Daojun Emperor will designate which yamen, or several joint interrogations.

As for the crimes committed by officials in the outer prefectures, they must also be reported to the imperial court, and the border army is looser, but if it is not wartime, it also needs to be reported.

Lin Chong slowly looked for the location of the White Tiger Hall along the wall of the mansion at this time, according to the layout of the Tokyo Mansion, since the White Tiger Hall was near the middle hall, it was also in the middle of the entire mansion.

He was very impressed by Baihutang, after all, if it weren't for this incident, he would not have been convicted and assigned, and he would not have changed his fate out of thin air, and there were those tragic events later.

After about a quarter of an hour, he finally locked the direction of the White Tiger Hall, after all, the lights in the middle hall were very bright, and it was very easy to see.

Then Lin Chong walked back and confirmed the location of the back hall, and after the back hall was Gao Yu's study and bedroom.

But there were many houses here, and the arrangement was more complicated, and he couldn't really see the position on the wall, so he looked at the patrolmen.

It was late at midnight, and many of the soldiers yawned and squinted, but moved numbly forward, not looking much at all as for the movement on either side.

Lin Chong took a look at the vacancy, and his figure swept forward from under the palace wall like a ghost, and disappeared under a flowerbed without making a sound.

In fact, he was very close to those soldiers at the moment, but his body was like a black shadow, so that the soldiers didn't notice it at all.

Seeing that the soldier walked a little farther, he continued to loot away without the slightest movement, as if his fleshless body was like paper, fluttering and approaching the houses in the back house for a short time.

Then he flicked his wrist, and the flying needle thread was placed on the eaves of a house, and then he swept up lightly and went up to the ridge.

At this moment, he breathed a sigh of relief, it was easy to go up to the roof, and the soldiers patrolling below were all sleepy, and they would not look up at all, and it was impossible to find him.

He looked down carefully, there were lanterns everywhere below, and he could vaguely see clearly, and the Gao Mansion was sparsely populated, and many courtyards were idle and uninhabited, which could be seen at a glance, and it would definitely not be Gao Yu's residence.

Gao Yu must live in the most luxurious place, but the study or bedroom is not easy to say, if both are not there, you have to trouble looking for the back house.

Lin Chong crossed over the roof, and finally saw a courtyard after a while, there was a big room in front of this courtyard, he carefully observed for a long time, and determined that the big room should be the study, and the courtyard behind it was very likely to be Gao Yu's bedroom.

After thinking for a while, Lin Chong decided to go to the courtyard first, after all, most people would sleep in the bedroom, not in the study.

This courtyard is very large, and when I got to the top of the roof, I saw that there were two entrances in the front and back, which was in line with the pattern of the main bedroom.

Lin Chong cautiously went up to the roof of the second room, just wanted to hang a beaded curtain upside down, and looked in from top to bottom, but suddenly saw two people sitting in front of the door of the room napping.

The two men, a boy and a maid, were leaning against the door, seemingly asleep.

Seeing this, Lin Chong was even more sure that Gao Yu was in the room, otherwise Gao Yanei would be dead at this time, and no one in Gao Mansion would be able to have the treatment of being served at night.

But he was a little troubled in his heart at the moment, these two people were leaning against the door, how could they enter their house?

But think about it carefully, this boy and the maid are no better than the soldiers patrolling outside, as long as they don't alarm others to kill them, they will be killed, and then find a place to hide, but it also saves the worry of finding Gao Yu tomorrow morning and wondering about checking.

Having made up his mind in his heart, Lin Chong took a closer look at the outside of the courtyard from a high place, and saw that the soldiers had not patrolled, so he grabbed the eaves with one hand and jumped to the ground lightly.

Then he slowly walked towards the boy maid, and when he saw that the distance was about the same, his wrist was slightly raised, and his fingers flicked, and suddenly two hairs shot out.

The light was extremely fast, outrageous, and there were red lines falling behind it, and it shot into the throats of the two of them in the blink of an eye.

The boy and the maid didn't even have time to open their eyes, and their bodies trembled, and they died on the spot.

Then Lin Chong cautiously stepped forward, probed the two of them to snort, moved the body aside, and just wanted to open the door, he heard a hoarse old voice from inside: "Mingyue, Mingyue, take the tiger to ......"

He was suddenly shocked in his heart, but then he reacted that it was Gao Yu who called the boy, so he didn't speak, looked down and saw the "tiger" on the side, and gently pushed the door into the room after lifting it.

There was a small night light in this room, but it was a light that could only dimly distinguish the human form of things.

I heard Gao Yu talking to himself on the side of the bed: "Old, old, I always want to get up this night......

Lin Chong stepped forward with the "tiger", stood still when he arrived at the couch, his eyes fell on Gao Yu, Gao Yu was much older than when he left the capital, his face was full of wrinkles, but although those eyes looked dim, there was still a treacherous intent in them that could not be concealed.

"Why don't you put the tiger down!" Gao Yu's voice was a little annoyed: "Are you waiting for the old man to pick it up!" ”

Lin Chong showed a smile on his face at this time, and he owed: "Captain, is this what you are talking about?" ”

He raised his hand slightly to reveal the "Huzi", a long porcelain jar in the shape of a tiger, which is used to get up at night.

"You ......" Gao Yu felt that something was not quite right at this time, although he had slept in a daze before, but at this moment he heard that the voice was not Tong Mingyue's at all, and he couldn't help but snort and raised his head.

It didn't matter if I looked up, I suddenly saw a face covered with scars.

Lin Chong had already taken off his mask at this moment and looked at Gao Yu with his original face.

"Ah......" Gao Yu was so frightened that he was about to shout loudly, Lin Chong's wrist shook, and a red line silver needle flew out and pierced Gao Yu's mouth like lightning.

Gao Yu was speechless for a while, but his body could still move, and he was about to sit up when he fluttered.

Lin Chong flicked his fingers, and several silver needles shot out, respectively fixing Gao Yu's limbs, Gao Yu immediately felt numb all over his body, and he couldn't move.

His face was full of horror, his eyes were full of fear, and his mouth made a faint sound like a rat's chirping.

Lin Chong slowly sat on the edge of the couch at this time, his expression was a little weird, and he said in a low voice: "I'm afraid the captain can't recognize him anymore, right?" ”

Gao Yu was so frightened that he wanted to die, not to mention that Lin Chong had already broken his face and was disfigured, even if he was not disfigured, he would inevitably not recognize who the other party was when he suddenly appeared on the side of the couch.

Lin Chong stretched out his hand and gently stroked his scarred cheeks, which were full of furrows and ravines, as if earthworms were everywhere, and he sighed lightly: "Taiwei, this is all thanks to you!" ”

Gao Yu didn't know what he meant, and couldn't help but make a faint voice again.

Lin Chong glanced at him, suddenly stretched out a hand and grabbed his neck violently, and brought his face closer: "Taiwei, I'm Lin Chong, I'm Lin Chong!" ”

Gao Yu felt out of breath when he grabbed his neck, and suddenly twisted his head and struggled, but as soon as he heard the word "Lin Chong", he stopped suddenly, and then looked ahead in disbelief.

"The Captain doesn't recognize me, does he?" Lin Chong smiled: "I was ruined by the Taiwei and ruined, and I was reckless, and the Taiwei didn't recognize me!" ”

After he finished speaking, he suddenly raised his fingers and poked at one of Gao Yu's eyes.

Gao Yu's body trembled, and he was about to shout in pain, but the silver needle was in his mouth, but where could he shout.

I heard Lin Chong shake his head and continued: "Taiwei has eyes and no beads, like me Lin Chong and other characters, Taiwei does not promote and reuse, but instead comes to inflict harm, but it is just that, Lin Chong walked in the green forest, and it is okay to suffer a lot, and then I followed Liangshan to recruit An, why did Taiwei poison his back again, let the dog thief Song Jiang secretly ambush, and wanted to put me to death?" ”

Although Gao Yu could hear Lin Chong speak at this moment, he couldn't express his meaning at all, he just kept shaking his head.

Lin Chong sighed: "Lin Chong has always wanted to serve the Taiwei and go to the soup to fight the fire, but unfortunately the Taiwei is a mustard ant for me, this is not what it is to have eyes and no beads!" ”

After he finished speaking, he raised his hand and pointed again, poking Gao Yu's other eye.

Gao Yu was about to faint in pain at this time, Lin Chong raised his hand and shot out another flying needle, but it was nailed to Gao Yu's person, Gao Yu trembled, and his head was a little sober.

I heard Lin Chong say faintly: "Originally, I didn't want Taiwei to die so easily, I wanted Taiwei to try all the sufferings I suffered, but I'm afraid I can't, this is really a pity." ”

After he finished speaking, he carefully looked at Gao Yu for a moment, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then he shook his head and let out a long sigh, then picked up the "tiger" and hit Gao Yu's head fiercely.

I don't know how many hits, until the "tiger" finally fell on the pillow, and Gao Yu's head had been knocked off.

Lin Chong stopped at this time, then sat on the edge of the couch for a while, with a dull expression on his face, stood up, wrapped Gao Yu's body in the quilt, and stuffed it under the bed.

Then he lingered in the room for a while, and then he slowly walked out of the door, found a place to hide the bodies of the boy and the maid, and then climbed up the ridge, looked back at the courtyard, and went out of the house the way he had come......

(End of chapter)