The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

In the middle of the night, Su Jin led Dynasty Ma Han, Zhang Long, Zhao Hu and four other martial arts experts, climbed over the wall behind the inn and went out quietly.

In the middle of the night, the streets of Huizhou were silent. Occasionally, a team of horses galloped past. They were patrol horses patrolling the city at night.

The crowd walked along the shadows of the street corners, and walked in secluded places such as alleys and alleys. Due to the unfamiliarity of the terrain, they walked through several dead ends and gradually arrived at the entrance of Beicheng Street.

The farther you go to the northern city, the sparser the houses and shops are, and the roads are lined with tall trees, a scene of decay overgrown with weeds, which is completely different from the prosperity of the southern city; , but there are cow dung and horses drowning everywhere on the road, obviously there are often cars and horses passing by" ".

Turning around a forest at the corner of the street, suddenly lights came on in front of them. Su Jin and others shrank in the bushes and looked around. They saw an empty square not far away, and a walled city stood opposite the square. During the daytime, two arrow towers standing at the entrance of the tall village can be seen from a distance, and under the light of the big wind lamp hanging on the arrow towers, one can faintly see someone walking back and forth on the arrow towers, obviously they are soldiers on guard at night.

Under such open terrain and bright lights, it is extremely difficult to get close to the barracks. Ma Han asked softly if he wanted to take a closer look, but Su Jin firmly stopped him. The task tonight is not to get in, but to To find out whether this is a place for grain storage, you need to know the rules of the guards' patrolling activities.

Su Jin looked at both sides, and the distance to the west seemed to be a tall building in the dark. If he went up to the tall building, he should be able to overlook part of the barracks, so everyone moved horizontally to the west, and they came to the side of the tall building in a short while. , Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a pagoda in the backyard of a temple. It looked more than six or seven feet high, but it looked dilapidated, and it creaked and shook when the wind blew.

Although the pagoda is in the backyard of the temple, separated by a wall, this one is not difficult for Su Jin and others. They quickly found a difang that they can climb into, and quickly climbed over the wall and entered the backyard of the temple. The trees in the courtyard are dense and cool, and there are many tombs in the open space. There are night birds flying over the branches, and the sound of their wings breaking through the air is extremely frightening.

Everyone sneaked to the front of the pagoda. The two wooden doors were closed tightly with an old lock hanging on it. Su Jin was overjoyed. This meant that there was no one living in the pagoda, so people would not notice it; Ma Han When he was about to break the lock, Su Jin quickly stopped him and asked him to remove the wooden door from the door mortar, wait for everyone to enter the tower, and then push the door panel into the door mortar, so that there would be no sign of entry from the outside.

Everyone dared not light the fire, and stared wide-eyed in the dark. They found the stairs by the dim light outside the wooden window, and climbed up the pagoda step by step carefully. Along the way, countless bats flew and ate a lot of dust. My face was completely covered with spider webs, and I finally reached the uppermost floor of the pagoda; but I felt the strong wind blowing, and the whole wooden pagoda made a creaking sound.

Everyone had no time to take care of this, and looked around one after another. Under the bird's-eye view of the high tower, the scene of Zhouwei could be seen in full view. To the south was a dark urban area. Occasionally, a few places were brightly lit. It was either the residence of the dignitaries or the place where the feasting and laughter were played; To the north is a large brightly lit military camp. Standing on a high place, you can see the busy scene inside the military camp. About hundreds of people are carrying bags of things under the bright lights to load the carts parked in the open space of the camp. , it seems that tomorrow another batch of grain and grass materials will be shipped to the front line.

Su Jin secretly called it a fluke, but fortunately Meiyou approached rashly, otherwise he would have thrown himself into a trap, and there is also good news that if the car is loaded today, it is very likely that the car will not be loaded tomorrow night, and it is more likely that, like The brightly lit scene tonight may also change; the night when the car is not loaded, it can't be so bright as day.

Everyone leaned on the tower and observed carefully. The entire barracks was backed by a tall city wall as the rear wall. The three sides in front were made of slightly shorter adobe buildings, forming a standard rectangle. A wall divided the entire rectangle into two parts from east to west. The two squares seemed to separate the entire barracks into a front and back yard.

In the square in front there are rows of houses, and in the square behind are tall and round grain stacks; Su Jin estimated that the front must be the garrison, and the rear is Ziji's target. Such a design is indeed true. It is difficult for people to enter, and even if they enter the backyard, it will be difficult to get out.

There are a total of six arrow towers in the camp. The two towers visible on the ground just now are the ones at the entrance, and the other four towers are located in the four directions of the backyard, which can basically cover the entire grain stacks behind, and the observation range can cover The whole barracks.

Everyone's brows were twisted into knots. It is almost impossible to get in and do things in such a layout. How to get in has become a big problem.

"My lord, this matter is a bit tricky. You see, it is difficult to enter the front gate alone, not to mention the storage place at the back. It is also a problem to get out after you succeed. The two sides are within the shooting range of the arrow tower. , There is a barracks in the front, and the city wall behind is even more unacceptable, there are soldiers on the top of the city guarding to hear the news, and the city wall is too high to climb." Wang Chao raised the anxiety in the hearts of everyone in a series.

Su Jin waved his hand and stared down without blinking. Everyone followed him and looked down, only to see a group of patrolling soldiers holding torches passing by slowly in front of the gate of the village, gradually disappearing into the blind spot of sight.

Su Jin said softly: "Remember Shijian, start counting."

Everyone hurriedly counted secretly until they counted to 360 breaths, and another patrol team happened to enter the field of vision, and continued several times in a row without missing a second.

"The patrol team on the outer square of Xia Bing patrols every 360 breaths, and the 360 ​​breaths in the middle are enough to do a lot of things." Su Jin said softly.

"But, I can't get in. There is an arrow tower at the door." Ma Han said anxiously.

Su Jin stared at the square below and remained silent. Suddenly his eyes lit up and he said softly, "So that's how it is."

Everyone hurriedly looked, but saw a group of soldiers coming out of the camp, handing over torches to a group of soldiers who came, and after saying a few words, they joined the patrolling queue; The team entered the camp unimpeded, and went to rest in one of the rows of houses.

Su Jin licked his lower lip and said, "So that's it, we can go in."

Everyone went in without knowing it, and hurriedly asked: "How to get in?"

Su Jin said: "Did you see that? The patrol team doesn't patrol all night. It's probably divided into the first half of the night and the second half of the night, or it's not known if there is a round at a time. If we want to go in, we only need to..."

"Patrol in disguise!" Mahan's IQ turan exploded, and his voice was a little excited. Everyone was startled and hurriedly looked around to see if there was any change. Fortunately, there was no change around. His throat was blowing so that he didn't know where to go.

Chao Chao slapped him on the head and cursed: "The ghost is called Shime? If something goes wrong, you are the sinner of Song Dynasty."

Ma Han rubbed his head, with an excited expression still on his face: "My lord, this plan is very clever. Let's take a camera and overturn a patrol team, and then change their clothes to patrol. When the handover is over, we will go in with a big swagger. Young Master, Zhuge Zhiliang is really alive."

Su Jin scolded with a smile: "Shime Zhuge Zhiliang, don't talk nonsense, Zhuge Liang has a short lifespan, I don't want to be that."

Ma Han said: "Yes, yes, then it will be Jiang Zizhi's tooth. That old guy is said to live a long life."

Everyone rolled their eyes and were speechless.

Next, everyone carefully checked the number of patrols, routes, and discussed the countermeasures after entering. They didn't rush down the pagoda until the sound of Geng Leak knocked at [-] o'clock and [-] o'clock, avoiding the early risers and sneaking back. Among the inns.

Su Jin patted off the dust on his body, pretended to just wake up, and asked Xiao Er to fetch a bucket of water for a bath, just got up and changed clothes, and planned to lie on the bed for a good sleep, when a sound came from outside the door There was a knock on the door.

Su Jin hurriedly put on the robe, opened the door and saw that it was the little princess Li Ari.

Su Jin smiled and said, "Your Highness woke up really early, how did you sleep last night?"

Li Ari asked with a face covered with frost, "Are you from Shime?"

Su Jin smiled and said, "We are businessmen, what's the matter?"

Li Ali posted: "Don't lie, there was a mouse in your room last night, I got up to look for you because I was afraid, and wanted to ask you to drive it away, but the two people at the door refused to let me come to you. I say they're not going to open your door and you're not even in the house."

Su Jin said: "So what? I didn't sleep in that room last night. The smell in the room is too bad. It's shimeqiguai again."

Li Ali reached out to pick up a package, and said in front of Su Jin: "Then this is shime? Why do you have so many gold, silver and jewels? There is also a dagger in the package. Since you are businessmen, why are you carrying a murder weapon?" ? And why is there so much gold and silver?"

Su Jin secretly scolded Ziji for being stupid. She let Li Ali sleep in Ziji's room last night, but didn't pack up Ziji's things. However, there are a few things that appear to be the property of the Song Dynasty officials, which are careless, too careless.

"Tell me, did you come to my Great Xia Kingdom to steal? How could you do this?"

Su Jin was dumbfounded, it turned out that Li Ali just misunderstood Ziji as the gentleman on Liang.

"You think too much, I'm in big business, so naturally I bring more gold and silver, what's wrong with that?"

"Still sophistry, you are not in the house in the middle of the night, is it not stealing or shime? You should give me an explanation." Li Ari said angrily.

Su Jin rolled her eyes and said, "I really want to tell you the truth, but I'm afraid you won't be able to bear it."

Li Ali blushed and said: "Tell me, I want to know the truth, even if I die, I will never help the tyrant."

Su Jin said: "This is what you want me to say, don't regret it after you hear it."

Li Ali said: "I will never regret it."

Su Jin said: "Since you are so curious, I will tell you the truth. I did not sleep in the room last night, because I went to a difang. There are not only clean beds, good wine and food, but also little songs to listen to. More importantly, there is Niuer sleeping with me; are you mingbai?"

Li Ali's complexion turned pink instantly, and the disdain in his eyes could not be concealed. He spat: "Shameless, you are really a bunch of dirty and shameless people." close up.

Su Jin chuckled, turned around and entered the room, hummed a little tune and fell on the bed, and soon began to snore.