Lanting prelude

Chapter 22 Rescue
After Xiao Junmo proposed to go home that day, Li Ke asked several imperial physicians to check his body the next day. It turned out that although the wound was healing well, it would take time to fully heal, so the imperial physician suggested a few more days of recuperation.For this reason, Li Ke forcibly kept him for another three days.Xiao Junmo frowned and complained endlessly.During the period, Huan Dieyi came to see him several times, and he also vented his anger with Li Ke, insisting that he would not let him go.

On the afternoon of the third day, when Li Ke came to see him, Xiao Junmo pulled his face down and said that I was so idle that I almost grew hair, if you don't let me go, I will start a hunger strike from now on!Li Ke had no choice but to call the imperial physician again.After examination, the imperial doctor said that the wound has basically healed, as long as there is no strenuous exercise after going out, it should be fine.Li Ke nodded and agreed to let Xiao Junmo leave the palace and go home.

Xiao Junmo was amnesty, when he walked out of Chengtianmen, he took a deep breath, and said to Li Ke who sent him out: "Freedom is so precious! If you are not free, you would rather die!"

Li Ke said with a smile: "You are a scholar after all, and you speak so rough?"

"The words are rough and the rationale is not rough." Xiao Junmo said, "In the future, if I see someone trying to kill me, you must not save me. I would rather die than be your prisoner."

"Treat yourself like a donkey with good intentions!" Li Ke scolded with a smile, "I saved your life and took care of you for so many days, in exchange for your words?"

Xiao Junmo stared: "I saved you twice and didn't hear you thank me! Just say that the time you were pressed by a bear, didn't you still scold me for meddling? Said that even without me, you can deal with it yourself , Did you say that?"

Li Ke scratched his head and said with a smile: "It's alright, alright, let's go, I don't feel good about keeping a wild crane like you in the palace."

"This is like a human saying!" Xiao Junmo also smiled, and punched him on the shoulder, "Let's go!"

Li Ke gave him a fat and strong black horse.Xiao Junmo got on the horse, lifted the reins, and let the horse spin around in place a few times, suddenly feeling a little bit reluctant.

Because he knew that this might be the last time with Li Ke.

Today is the first day of the new year, and it is also the only time for Mi Mancang to go out of the palace to buy things once a month. Xiao Junmo will go straight to the East Market to find Mi Mancang, and tell him to inform Chu Lisang to get ready and rescue her tonight He went out of the palace with Biancai.If it goes well, I will leave Chang'an tonight and go far away.

Xiao Junmo rode on the horse and looked up at the sky, only to see the changing clouds in the sky, just like the vicissitudes of life and the impermanence of the world. Thinking of the scenes of fighting with Li Ke, his heart became more sad, and he said loudly to Li Ke: "Li Ke, If one day you can't find me, will you be bored?"

"This is the best, I'll be clean!" As soon as Li Ke finished speaking, he noticed that Xiao Junmo's eyes were a little strange, and then realized that there was something wrong with his words, "What do you mean by that?"

Xiao Junmo knew that he couldn't go on, so he laughed a few times and said, "Li Ke, there is something I have to tell you, it's very important."

Li Ke frowned, and hurriedly asked: "What's the matter?"

"You can sing out of tune! Really, you all ran from Chang'an to the Western Regions." Xiao Junmo laughed and said, "Stop singing from now on, you won't win battles by singing out of tune military songs." He patted the horse and galloped away, only throwing a series of loud laughter to Li Ke.

Li Ke was angry and funny, watching his back gradually going away, a trace of inexplicable uneasiness suddenly arose in his heart.

On the first day of May, the sky was full of stars, except for the moon.

Xiao Junmo met Mi Mancang in the bushes of the Forbidden Garden as usual, changed into eunuch clothes, and then the two caught some fireflies together, put them into two paper cages, and then each carried a paper cage, dangling Walked into the Xuanwu Gate.

The guard sergeant just glanced at them, and didn't bother to talk to them anymore.

These days, according to what Xiao Junmo taught him in advance, Mi Mancang would take one or two eunuchs to the Forbidden Garden to catch this and that from time to time, saying that Chu Lisang wanted it.The sergeant asked several times, but finally got annoyed, and simply stopped answering.

The two passed through the Xuanwu Gate smoothly, and then went straight to Foguang Temple.

According to Xiao Junmo's plan, he must first try to rescue Biancai, then rush back to Ningyun Pavilion, then rescue Chu Lisang, let both of them change into eunuch clothes, and finally leave Xuanwu Gate and enter the Forbidden Garden on the grounds of catching more fireflies. Escape from the hole in the wall of the drinking horse gate.

However, Xiao Junmo at this time did not know that this day was the day that Li Shimin and Biancai agreed to answer the "three questions" every three days.Originally, Li Shimin had already arrived at Foguang Temple at this moment, but there happened to be an earthquake in Jinyang a few days ago, and Li Shimin was delayed as soon as Zoubiao arrived today.

Jinyang was Li Tang's place of prosperity, so Li Shimin naturally paid special attention to it, so he called relevant officials into the palace to discuss disaster relief and aftermath.At this time, in the Liangyi Hall, Li Shimin was listening to the official's report, while glancing at the moment not far away from time to time, a little absent-minded.Compared to the Jinyang earthquake, he obviously cared more about debates...

There is another factor, which Xiao Junmo did not expect in advance, that is, Mi Mancang is always going in and out of Xuanwu Gate these days, which has already aroused a person's vigilance.

This person is Li Anyan, the general of Zuo Tun Wei Zhonglang who is in charge of the safety of the palace.

Just about a moment after Xiao Junmo and Mi Mancang passed Xuanwu Gate in a hurry, Li Anyan brought a forbidden army to patrol here.He asked the sergeant guarding the gate: "That eunuch named Mi in Ningyun Pavilion, is he still going in and out these two days?"

"Yes, General," replied the guard sergeant.

"What the hell is he up to?"

"Back to the general, I heard that Chu Lisang asked them to go to the Forbidden Garden to catch things every day."

"What are they all?"

"All kinds of flowers and plants. In addition, butterflies, fireflies, crickets, everything."

Li Anyan frowned: "How many people usually come in and out?"

"Not necessarily, sometimes two, sometimes three."

"Did they go out today?"

"When I went out, I was not on duty, but when they came in just now, I saw it."

"How long have you been in?"

"About...about a moment."

"Several people?"

"two."

"Besides the one with the surname Mi, what's the name of the other one?"

"This... please forgive me, the general, I didn't ask about it in a humble position."

"Then what does he look like?"

"I didn't see this... this humble job, I only knew that he was tall and big, but he kept bending his waist and lowering his head."

A suspicious light shot out of Li Anyan's eyes, he pondered for a moment, and waved to the patrol team behind him: "Go, go to Ningyun Pavilion!"

Foguang Temple is a royal temple inside the imperial palace. It is equivalent to the emperor's private Buddhist hall, so it is smaller than the general temples outside. There are no side halls and other courtyards on both sides. There are only three front and rear entrances on the central axis. The front is Maitreya Hall. In the middle is the Daxiong Hall, in the back is the Sutra Pavilion, and at the end are several Zen rooms, and Biancai lives in one of them.

Also because it is a Buddhist hall in the palace, there are no permanent abbots and monks in Foguang Temple, only a few eunuchs who are responsible for cleaning incense and candles.Normally, if the emperor invites an eminent monk to the palace to give lectures, he would let the eminent monk and his followers live here, but since Biancai moved in, Li Shimin of course did not invite the eminent monk to come in again. Right now there is only one monk in the temple, Biancai.

Because Foguang Temple is located deep in the palace, surrounded by many palaces, Taoist palace gates, and heavily guarded forbidden troops, it is difficult for debaters to fly. Therefore, Li Shimin only arranged six guards from the forbidden army in the temple, and there were five or six permanent guards here. Eunuch, there is no one else.

Xiao Junmo had ordered Mi Mancang to find out all these situations in advance, so according to his plan, he would climb in from the back wall of the temple, avoid the six imperial guards in the front hall, and directly enter the meditation room. At most, he only needed to deal with a few eunuchs. Then the eloquence can be rescued.However, that night, when Xiao Junmo and Mi Mancang rushed to Foguang Temple panting, they were dumbfounded—there was a row of Imperial Guard soldiers standing under the courtyard wall, and there was one person every ten steps.

Xiao Junmo and Mi Mancang looked at each other in shock.

Of course they didn't know that since the debate began to answer questions three days ago, Li Shimin suddenly had the idea of ​​strengthening the defense, so he sent an additional 100-strong imperial army to surround the entire courtyard wall around the temple.At this time, Xiao Junmo and Mi Mancang held the lanterns, lowered their heads, pretended to pass by in a hurry, and circled the entire temple, but they were all desperate.In the end, the two hid in the bushes opposite the main entrance of the temple, staring blankly at the soldiers under the courtyard wall, not knowing what to do.

"You, your gold, gold, really, really bad, earn!" Mi Mancang went around repeating these words.

"Why are you complaining!" Xiao Junmo glared at him, "Don't you say you have figured out the situation? Where did so many soldiers come from?"

"I, I..." Mi Mancang blushed, but didn't know what to say.

Of course Xiao Junmo knew in his heart that the emperor's mind was unpredictable, and he must have had some ominous premonition, so he sent these additional imperial troops.Faced with this unexpected and unexpected situation, Xiao Junmo was a little helpless. Thinking that he had already boasted Haikou in front of Chu Lisang, he really felt ashamed.

The most important thing is not one's own face, but no matter whether the debater can tell the secret of "Lanting Preface", both father and daughter will die in the end, it's just a matter of time.And the instigator of all this, in the final analysis, is himself.In a sense, he was the murderer who killed Chu Lisang's family.

Thinking of this, Xiao Junmo felt ashamed and regretful, and really wanted to bump his head to death!
After complaining about himself for a while, Xiao Junmo slowly calmed down and began to calmly think about countermeasures.There is no turning back when you open the bow, even if there is only a slight possibility, you must do your best to fight to the death!He weighed it for a while, and it was probably not feasible to climb over the wall from the backyard, because even if he successfully killed a few soldiers and tore a gap to climb over the wall, but he had no martial arts, and if he tried to get him out of the wall, he would definitely make a noise , This is bound to alarm other soldiers.

So the only way left is to enter and exit through the main entrance.

Just now he counted carefully, there are ten soldiers at the main gate, two are standing at the gate, and four are standing under the left and right courtyard walls.Since there is no moon tonight, except for the lantern hanging at the gate, the courtyard walls on both sides are almost completely dark, and each soldier is separated by ten steps, so they can hardly see each other, and can only respond to each other by sound and noise .

Xiao Junmo made some estimates, and with his own skills, he quietly touched the courtyard wall on one side, and it was possible to kill four soldiers one by one without making any noise. Unfortunately, these people were all innocent, and he had some Can't do it.Moreover, even if he did it cruelly, there was still the biggest difficulty, which was the two soldiers facing each other at the door.

How to kill these two people at the same time without making any noise?
Unless there is another martial arts master to cooperate with him, and each of them is responsible for one, otherwise this is impossible.

It would be great if Mi Mancang knew martial arts. The problem is that this guy has no strength to restrain a chicken. Let alone kill a soldier of the imperial army, even if he puts a pig in front of him, he probably can't kill him.Thinking of this, Xiao Junmo couldn't help feeling very frustrated.

"Go back, go back, sleep!" Mi Mancang began to mutter again, "This money, no, I won't earn it!"

"You go, I will find a way by myself." Xiao Junmo was upset, but he still didn't want Mi Mancang to die with him.He was just asking for money, and it wasn't fair to him to put his life on the line.

Unexpectedly, when Mi Mancang heard the words, he hesitated again: "You, are you not leaving?"

"Leave me alone, you go back to Ningyun Pavilion and stay. If I can rescue Biancai, I will go and meet you again."

Mi Mancang hesitated.

"Don't think about it, no matter whether this matter is accomplished or not, the gold belongs to you."

Mi Mancang was a little surprised and looked up at him.

"If I die, remember to come and see me every Qingming Festival." Xiao Junmo tried his best to look nonchalant, "Pour a few cups of Lang Guanqing on my grave, and I will be satisfied."

Suddenly, Mi Mancang was a little moved, spit on the ground, and said repeatedly: "No, it's unlucky! If you don't leave, I, I won't leave either. Let's do it together!"

Xiao Junmo looked at him, feeling a little moved, and was about to tell him that there was no need to die together, when he suddenly noticed some movement not far away, he quickly lowered Mi Mancang's head, and fell down himself, motioning him to be quiet.

In the darkness, Xiao Junmo opened his eyes wide, and saw two black figures jumping over from the west corridor, and quickly hid in the bushes on their left.

What kind of people is this? !

Xiao Junmo was puzzled and could only observe quietly.

The two black figures seemed to poke their heads out quietly for a while, and then jumped out of the bushes, not only at an astonishing speed, but also with almost no sound.Xiao Junmo was greatly surprised, and immediately concluded that the skills of these two people were by no means inferior to his own.At this time Mi Mancang also saw the two black shadows, covered his mouth in fright, and looked at Xiao Junmo in astonishment.

"Let's go and take a look." Xiao Junmo whispered, pulling up Mi Mancang's collar, and then the two of them stooped and followed the two black shadows out of the bushes.

In Liangyi Hall, several officials were still chattering about something to Li Shimin.

Li Shimin's expression was a little anxious, but he could only suppress it forcibly, and glanced at Lou Ke from time to time.

Zhao Dequan, who was standing by the side, knew what the emperor was thinking, but he didn't dare to say anything.

The few officials seemed to have talked about some key issues, and they all rushed to speak, but they actually started arguing.Li Shimin frowned, becoming more and more impatient...

On the first floor of Ningyun Pavilion, six or seven eunuchs are surrounding a table, enthusiastically playing with "Xianpu".

This is a board game that originated in the late Han Dynasty and prevailed in the Tang Dynasty. It can be used for gambling. The dice used for throwing colors in the game were originally made of Acacia wood, so it is called Acacia.There are five dice in total, black and white, with different designs and colors, called "five woods", which can produce twelve different permutations and combinations through throwing, and the highest color is called "Lu".Therefore, players often yell when throwing five woods, hoping to get "Lu".This is the so-called "hulu", which later became synonymous with gambling.

"Lu, Lu, Lu!" At this moment, six or seven heads were gathered together, shouting, and they didn't realize that the solemn Li Anyan had already walked in from the door.

"How about letting me take a bet?"

The eunuchs were shocked at the same time, turned their heads in a hurry, and saw Li Anyan and a dozen soldiers of the imperial army looking at them coldly, and were immediately embarrassed.Although there is no decree in the palace to prohibit the game of scorpion, it is strictly forbidden to gamble with it.The leading eunuch hurriedly apologized and said with a smile: "General Li is joking, our family is just playing casually, there is no gambling money."

"I don't care if you gamble or not." Li Anyan said coldly, "I just want to remind you to keep an eye on the people upstairs. If something goes wrong, your heads will have to move, and I will eat too." Can't walk around."

"No, no, don't worry, General, Miss Chu is fine, she is absolutely safe!" The eunuch repeatedly laughed apologetically.

Li Anyan glanced at them: "Who is Mi Mancang?"

"Mancang? Mancang, he went to the Forbidden Garden to catch fireflies, Miss Chu ordered."

"I know this, but he has already entered the Xuanwu Gate just now, why, didn't he come back?"

The eunuchs looked at each other and shook their heads.

"Does anyone know where he went?"

The eunuchs shook their heads again.

Li Anyan frowned, and said in a deep voice: "So, how dare he leave his post without authorization?"

The eunuchs dare not answer.

"Go, take me upstairs to have a look!" Li Anyan said to the head eunuch.

"Yes, General please."

In the embroidery room on the second floor, four court ladies were sitting around eating snacks, chatting and laughing in low voices.Chu Lisang was sitting on the bed reading a book with calm eyes.These days, she has long been familiar with these court ladies.At the beginning, the maids were still very reserved, poking there like four sticks every day, not daring to move or speak, but since Chu Lisang helped them ask for rewards, they often gave them all kinds of fruit snacks given by the emperor After eating, the maids were grateful to her, and soon warmed up with her, every day the elder sister and elder sister called shortly.

"Sister Chu, you are so kind!" A court lady smiled obsequiously while biting a pastry, "Sisters all say that you are a living Bodhisattva, you are beautiful and kind-hearted, we only met because of the virtues we accumulated in our previous lives and you!"

Chu Lisang smiled lightly: "Of course you want me to be a Bodhisattva. Just like in the temple, the fruit and snacks are said to be offered to Bodhisattvas, but in fact, they are all eaten by the offerings?"

The maids covered their mouths and laughed.

"It's my sister who said she didn't want to eat it, and now she's blaming us." The maid just now smiled and picked up a piece of shortbread and asked for it.Chu Lisang waved his hand: "Eat it, I have no appetite." The maid made a face at her, and took advantage of the opportunity to stuff the cake into her mouth again.Chu Lisang smiled and gave her a blank look: "Greedy cat!"

These pastries were brought in from outside the palace by Mi Mancang in the afternoon, not a gift from the emperor.Mi Mancang secretly told Chu Lisang that Xiao Junmo arranged for the Mongolian sweat medicine in the cake, and he came to rescue their father and daughter out of the palace tonight.Chu Lisang was surprised and delighted.After looking forward to it for so long, it finally came to this day, so before the sun set, her heart started to jump.After finally waiting for the night to fall, she became more and more excited and nervous, so she found a Buddhist scripture and pretended to read it. At the same time, she kept telling herself to be calm and not to show any flaws at this juncture.

Mi Mancang said that after eating the pastry, it will take about half an hour for the medicine to take effect, and then the maids will sleep until dawn.According to Xiao Junmo's arrangement, Mi Mancang also prepared food and wine for the eunuchs downstairs, and put medicine in them.As long as these people upstairs and downstairs are all fascinated, they will be able to act.At this moment, Chu Lisang saw the maids biting the shortbread one bite at a time, and couldn't help becoming nervous again, for fear that they would not eat enough and the medicine would not be effective.

At this moment, the eunuch suddenly led Li Anyan to push the door in. The maids were startled, hurriedly put down the cakes in their hands, and stood up one by one.Chu Lisang groaned secretly in his heart, he was really afraid of something.

Li Anyan glanced at the food table, walked over, picked up a piece of shortbread from the food box, brought it close to his nose and smelled it.

Chu Lisang's heart suddenly started beating wildly again, wondering if the Mongolian sweat medicine smelled or if he could smell it.

"General Li, if you want to eat, just say so, and I won't stop you, but what do you mean by hearing that?" In desperation, Chu Lisang had no choice but to turn defense into offense.

Li Anyan was a little embarrassed, so she had no choice but to put the cake back into the food box.

"Do you still want the sisters to eat the cake that the general took with his hands?" Chu Lisang asked again.

The four maids couldn't help laughing secretly.

Li Anyan became more and more embarrassed. After thinking about it, she had to wrap the cake with a piece of paper and put it in her arms: "Then...then thank Miss Chu for the cake."

"You're welcome." Chu Lisang said coldly, "It's so late, and the general barged in rashly. I don't know what it means?"

"Miss Chu, please forgive me." Li Anyan cupped his hands, "I suspect that people in this building are moving strangely, and I am afraid that the girl might make a mistake, so I come up to take a look, it has no other purpose."

Chu Lisang was startled, and hurriedly asked: "The whereabouts are strange? Who is the general talking about?"

"The warehouse is full of rice."

Chu Lisang's heart suddenly sank.It's over, before the operation started, he was targeted by the general of the forbidden army, how can he escape tonight? !

"What happened to Mi Mancang?" Chu Lisang asked.

"He came back from the Forbidden Garden a long time ago, but he didn't go back to the Ningyun Pavilion, and now no one knows where he went, doesn't Miss Chu feel a little strange?"

"What's so strange about this?" Chu Lisang sneered, "Can't he have diarrhea, go to the toilet and so on?"

The maids couldn't help laughing.

Li Anyan coughed: "Even so, it's been a while."

"Does the law of my Tang Dynasty stipulate how long it takes to go to the toilet?"

"This... this is not."

"Since there is no such thing, is there any need for the general to be suspicious?"

Li An was at a loss for words, so he had no choice but to cup his hands: "It's getting late, please rest early, miss, and I will leave." After speaking, he strode out.

Chu Lisang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Li Anyan's back: "We sisters will undress and go to bed immediately, the general don't barge in in the middle of the night again!"

Li Anyan paused at the door, and left without saying anything.

The maids couldn't hold back any longer, and finally burst out laughing.

Outside Foguang Temple, Xiao Junmo and Mi Mancang were sticking to the wall on the west side of the gate, slowly moving towards the gate bit by bit.

It was so dark that it was almost impossible to distinguish.However, Xiao Junmo's night vision ability has always been better than ordinary people.When the two black shadows rushed over from the west corridor just now, he had already seen it through the dim light of the lantern in the distance. They were both dressed as eunuchs, but he didn't know if they were fake like him.

After they came out of the bushes just now, they rushed directly to the courtyard wall of Foguang Temple. Xiao Junmo expected that their target was the same as his own, they were eloquent talents, but he didn't know whether they came to save him or kill him.

After walking ten or so steps forward in the dark along the base of the wall, Xiao Junmo's feet bumped into a soft mass.

Xiao Junmo's heart skipped a beat, knowing that those two people had done something that he had just sketched in his mind but hadn't implemented in time.He knelt down and took a closer look. Sure enough, this was a soldier whose neck had been twisted silently.

Being able to kill someone with bare hands in an instant without making any noise is definitely a master among masters!
Xiao Junmo couldn't help feeling a little palpitated.It seems that the skills of these two people are even better than their own. If they want to save their eloquence, then God has eyes, thank them for doing me a big favor!But if they wanted to kill the eloquent talent, they would definitely not be able to stop it on their own.

Next, Xiao Junmo and Mi Mancang continued to move towards the gate. Every ten steps, they would meet the corpse of a soldier. They all died in exactly the same way as the previous one. There were four corpses in total.The method of killing was so clean and neat, Xiao Junmo couldn't help but marvel in his heart.After a while, Xiao Junmo and Mi Mancang gradually approached the gate of the temple, the light gradually brightened, and the two assassins in front could be clearly seen moving close to the base of the wall.

Xiao Junmo signaled Mi Mancang behind him to stop, and the two stayed in the darkness, observing their next move.

The two soldiers standing face to face at the gate were the biggest difficulty for Xiao Junmo not to act rashly.Of course, Xiao Junmo is very clear that this is not a problem for the two assassins in front.

Sure enough, in the blink of an eye, the two men reached the bottom of the steps, jumped out at the same time, and each grabbed the head of a soldier. Before they could yell, the two assassins twisted vigorously at the same time, and the two soldiers' heads The head hooked down, and the body went limp like an empty sack.

All the movements are smooth and smooth, in one go!
Xiao Junmo was amazed in his heart, and at the same time realized helplessly again that he was no match for these two assassins at all.

In the Hall of Liangyi, several officials finally finished their high-spirited speeches and heated debates, and after listening to Li Shimin's concise orders, they saluted and retreated one by one.

Li Shimin got up quickly, and said impatiently to Zhao Dequan: "Let's go, Foguang Temple!"

Zhao Dequan glanced at Leu Ke, and whispered: "Everyone, it's almost ugly..."

Li Shimin glanced at him sharply.

Zhao Dequan's heart trembled, and he hurriedly shouted to the other eunuchs in the hall: "Your Majesty, get up—"

On the first floor of Ningyun Pavilion, Li Anyan said to his soldiers: "Two people stay here, and the others follow me." After speaking, he led most of the soldiers out.

The remaining two soldiers stood on both sides of the gate, one left and one right.

The eunuchs looked at the soldiers, then at the food boxes on the case, and then at each other, feeling helpless and annoyed.

The food box contained food and wine, which Mi Mancang specially bought to reward them. He wanted to eat it after playing with the clams, but he didn't want to be disturbed by Li Anyan and his group.

In the embroidery room on the second floor, the maids yawned while eating shortbread, and their eyelids were fighting.

Chu Lisang was still sitting on the bed with a book in his hand, a smile flickered across his mouth.However, the eunuchs downstairs didn't move at all, apparently they hadn't even touched a drop of alcohol, which is not good!

Xiao Junmo and Mi Mancang stepped back and entered the Foguang Temple through the gate.

According to what Xiao Junmo knew in advance, there were two Imperial Guard soldiers in each of Maitreya Hall, Daxiong Hall, and Sutra Pavilion.With the skills of those two assassins, it was easy to kill these six soldiers.

Sure enough, as soon as he entered the Maitreya Hall, Xiao Junmo saw the two soldiers fell to the ground. Their bodies were lying down, but their heads were almost turned half a circle.It was dark outside just now, and he was anxious to come in. Mi Mancang only knew that someone was dead, but he didn't see anything clearly. Now when he saw the horror of the death, he immediately took a few steps back in fright.Xiao Junmo sighed, stepped forward to help the two soldiers close their eyes, and then quickly ran towards the Daxiong Palace.

Mi Mancang was stunned for a moment, and quickly followed.

The subsequent situation was similar to that of the Maitreya Hall. Two soldiers fell in the Daxiong Hall, and another two fell at the door of the Sutra Pavilion. Xiao Junmo also saw the bodies of three eunuchs one after another when he came in from the outside.

Looking at the tragic scenes, Xiao Junmo suddenly had an intuition—these two assassins were probably not here to rescue Biancai, but to kill him!

On the first floor of Ningyun Pavilion, six or seven eunuchs were sitting and dozing, while two soldiers were still standing upright at the door.

Chu Lisang suddenly walked down the stairs.

The two soldiers were startled and looked at her suspiciously.

Chu Lisang ignored them, but went straight down the stairs, stopped and looked at the eunuchs.The leading eunuch subconsciously raised his eyelids, and when he saw her, he hurriedly stood up: "Miss Chu, it's so late, why haven't you rested yet?"

Chu Lisang smiled sweetly: "Can't sleep. My stomach is growling with hunger, and the shortbread was eaten up by those greedy cats upstairs again. I just wanted to ask if you guys have anything to eat."

The leading eunuch was overjoyed, and hurried over to open the food box: "Miss Chu, this is for everyone from Mimancang, you can pick whatever you want."

At this time, the other eunuchs also woke up, and they were all secretly happy when they saw this, knowing that they would have some wine tonight.

Chu Lisang came over and glanced at the food box: "Hey, why are you reluctant to eat so much food and drink?"

The leading eunuch smiled and pouted towards the door.

Chu Lisang also glanced at the door, and said loudly: "What are you afraid of? Everyone is here to help this girl on duty at night. It's been a lot of hard work. Who will be in the way of drinking a few glasses of wine? You drink, I decide!"

The eunuchs beamed with joy, and hurriedly took out the food and wine from the food box.Chu Lisang asked for a chicken leg, and the head eunuch graciously pulled two for her and put them on a plate.Chu Lisang asked him to pour two more glasses of wine, then walked up to the two soldiers with a glass in one hand, and said with a smile: "The two military masters have worked hard, how about a drink?"

The two soldiers looked at each other.A soldier said: "Thank you Miss Chu for your kindness. The superiors have stipulated that drinking is not allowed during duty."

"I won't let you drink too much, just this one!" Chu Lisang passed the two glasses of wine forward respectively, "Come on, give me some thin noodles."

At this time, the eunuchs behind had already started drinking, and the strong smell of wine wafted over, and the two soldiers couldn't help it anymore.Chu Lisang looked at them: "Why, are you still afraid that I'll put medicine in the wine? Two big men, don't even dare to drink the wine toasted by a little girl like me?"

Speaking of this, how can these two people not drink?Quickly thanked and took it, and drank it down at the same time.Chu Lisang smiled, and took another pot and stuffed it into the arms of a soldier: "Take a sip when you are tired, so that you will be energetic!"

Afterwards, Chu Lisang asked the eunuchs to drink slowly, then picked up the plate containing the chicken legs, and went back upstairs lightly.

In the embroidery room on the second floor, Chu Lisang opened the door and came in, and saw that the four maids had already slept soundly on the table, snoring one after another.She smiled secretly, hoping in her heart that the two soldiers could not resist the temptation and drink a few more sips of wine.

In Foguang Temple, Xiao Junmo and Mi Mancang hurried to the door of the Zen room where Biancai lived, and heard voices coming from inside.Xiao Junmo quickly took Mi Mancang and hid behind the flowers opposite the door.

Looking in from the open door, the meditation room can be seen at a glance.Biancai was sitting cross-legged on the futon with his eyes closed, and a sturdy eunuch stood behind him, who could easily break Biancai's neck with a single move.Another tall, thin eunuch was standing in front of Biancai, talking to him.

"Biancai, is there anything else you want to say before you die?" the skinny eunuch asked.

Biancai opened his eyes: "Death is nothing to be afraid of, the poor monk just doesn't want to die for no reason."

"I don't always like to talk about things, but since we are all brothers of the Tianxing League, I will make an exception and let you understand!" The skinny eunuch laughed, "To be honest, it is Xuanquan Sir sent us."

Xiao Junmo was startled: It's this Xuanquan again!

Of course Xiao Junmo didn't know at this time that these two were assassins sent by Xuanquan under the order of Mingzang. Their superficial identities were eunuchs in the palace, but their real identities were Xuanquan's capable subordinates. It has been hidden in the palace for many years.

Biancai smiled lightly: "It is said that Xuanquan is like a fish in water in the court, why did he want to kill me?"

"Mr. wants to kill you. You have your own reasons. Biancai, your biggest mistake is that you have been foolishly loyal to that old monk Zhiyong all your life. As the leader of the alliance, he is stubborn and stubborn. He doesn't want to revitalize the great cause of the alliance. He didn’t let Mr. Mingzang take over, and destroyed all the yin seals of the sub-helm. Isn’t this self-destructing the Great Wall? As a result, the entire Tianxing League was torn apart by him! Just such a crazy monk, you still follow him wholeheartedly, you What exactly are you drawing?"

Xiao Junmo heard every word clearly outside, and was greatly relieved.It seems that my conjecture is correct, it is precisely because Zhiyong destroyed all the Yin seals in those wine glasses that Ming Zang was eager to find the authentic "Lanting Preface" in order to copy the Yin seals and regain control of the torn Heavenly Punishment League.

Hearing what the skinny eunuch said, Biancai couldn't help smiling wryly: "It seems that your rank is not low, and you know quite a lot."

"To tell you the truth, I am Mr. Xuanquan's envoy."

"Xuanquan sent a person of such a high level to kill me, I still think highly of the poor monk!"

"Biancai, it's your own fault for getting to this point, don't blame sir."

Xiao Junmo was listening intently, when Mi Mancang pulled his sleeve suddenly, and said in a low voice: "I'll go, untie, untie my hand."

"The lazy man has a lot of shit!" Xiao Junmo glared at him, "The eloquent is almost dead, if you don't help me save him, what will you do at this time?!"

Mi Mancang wept bitterly: "Hold it, I can't hold it back."

Xiao Junmo didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and waved him to go quickly.In fact, even if Mi Mancang stayed here, he wouldn't be able to help at all.Seeing that the conversation in the room was coming to an end, Xiao Junmo couldn't help feeling anxious.He knew that even when he was in his best condition, he might not be a match for the two people in the room, let alone his injuries had not healed yet.However, until now, even though he knew he was going to die, he could only rush forward, because he couldn't just watch Biancai die in front of him.

Inside the room, Biancai said to the skinny eunuch: "The poor monk still has something he doesn't understand, and I want to ask the right envoy."

"Say."

"Kill me, and no one will know the whereabouts of "Lanting Preface". Didn't Mingzang always want it? How could he be willing to let me die?"

"Of course, Mr. Mingzang doesn't want you to die. It's just that you are now in Li Shimin's hands. If you are allowed to live, the secret of the Heavenly Punishment League will be revealed to the world. Therefore, Mr. would rather not want "Lanting Preface", and must let you live forever." Shut up!"

The eloquent came to a sudden, nodded: "Since that's the case, the poor monk has nothing to say, thank you for your frankness."

"You're welcome. After all, you are a brother of the League. I can't let you be a fool."

"Okay, I've wasted a lot of time for you, let's do it!"

The thin eunuch looked at the eunuch, and showed admiration on his face: "You are worthy of being a member of our Heavenly Punishment League, who has already seen through life and death!"

Biancai smiled lightly and closed his eyes.

When the last moment came, a dagger slipped from Xiao Junmo's sleeve into his palm.He clenched his dagger tightly and was about to rush in when suddenly, Mi Mancang's voice came from not far away: "Don't kill me, don't kill me..."

Xiao Junmo was taken aback.

The two assassins in the house were also shocked at the same time.The thin eunuch signaled his subordinates not to do anything for now, and rushed to the door, only to see a sixteen or seventeen-year-old eunuch holding a kitchen knife on Mi Mancang's neck, pushing him over step by step.

The little eunuch shouted: "Don't move, if you dare to move, I will kill him!"

The thin eunuch looked puzzled.

Xiao Junmo couldn't laugh or cry immediately, it turned out that the little eunuch regarded Mi Mancang as a gang of assassins.

Perhaps the thin eunuch saw that this person was too young and wanted to tease him, so he raised his hands and said with a smile: "Okay, I won't move, come here, I will hand over the eloquence to you."

"Are you serious?" the little eunuch asked naively.

The thin eunuch nodded.

The little eunuch really pushed Mi Mancang to the door.Xiao Junmo knew that he had to show up, and then he rushed forward, grabbed the kitchen knife in an instant, and hit the little eunuch on the head with the handle of the knife, and the little eunuch immediately collapsed to the ground.Mi Mancang was so frightened that he sifted the chaff all over his body, his face was pale, and he hurriedly hid behind Xiao Junmo.Xiao Junmo glanced inadvertently, and saw that the hem of his front was wet, obviously he was incontinent because of the fright of the kitchen knife, and he was angry and funny at once.

The thin eunuch saw another eunuch jumping out from the dark place, shook his head and smiled and said: "You idiots, if you hide well, you can survive, but you jump out one by one to die!" He obviously regarded Xiao Junmo as a member of this Foguang Temple .

Xiao Junmo stared at him coldly: "Your mission is over, now it's time to hand over the person to me."

The thin eunuch was startled: "Who are you?"

Xiao Junmo put his hands behind his back, with a look of arrogance on his face: "The first teacher has Mingzang."

The thin eunuch was shocked: "You...you belong to Mr. Mingzang?"

(End of this chapter)