Chapter 2

The scroll is made of a long white silk, which can be seen that Mao Yanshou has drawn a lot of money for this. The silk selected is extremely fine. He wants to use this painting to serve the Queen of Xiangyi, so he naturally has to strive for excellence.

The answer to the mystery was revealed, Cheng Zongyang couldn't help but hold his breath and watched Mao Yanshou spread out the scroll bit by bit

The first thing that appears on the scroll is a scholar. He is carrying a wooden barrel with a few pianos on it, looking dusty. He is raising his feet into the foot shop, and the image painted by Mao Yanshou in the foot shop is more refined, and the characters on the painting are lifelike.

Mao Yanshou said: This scholar entered the store the latest. He said he was a student from the academy.

Cheng Zongyang silently looked at the first person in the picture: Yuntai Academy, Yu Fengwen

Next was a one-eyed strong man. He sat naked on the side of the door, with a bucket beside him, grinding a long knife. Although the strong man looked ferocious, he had a smile in the painting.

Mao Yanshou said: This person is a boxer and is about to return home to get married, so he looks happy.

The second person: Chengnan Martial Arts Hall, Du Huai

On the steps next to the strong man, a blind old man was hunched over, holding a huqin in one hand and a bamboo stick in the other, and was fumbled down the steps.

This is a famous Hu man, and he can't speak with us. Mao Yanshou said: Although he doesn't look at things, his ears are bright. Just shout and give him a copper zhu, and he will play a song.

Cheng Zongyang nodded the third person: the blind old man playing huqin in Jinshi

Then there was the scene in the yard of the yard. The details were confirmed with the ruins of the fire that he saw and Lu Jing that day. It was all in line with that. It was obvious that the yard of the yard was not very large. On one side was a cafeteria and a simple bed. In the opposite side were two upper rooms, Mao Yanshou saw that he looked carefully and smiled awkwardly: He was a little good at painting characters, but he was not very good at scenery, which made the head laugh.

Cheng Zongyang said: That's right. The perspective structure of the building in the painting is slightly flawed, but every stone and tile is extremely attentive, and there is nothing to be picky about.

As he said that, Cheng Zongyang suddenly had a look of his eyes. Two people he had never seen appeared on the painting, holding pottery bowls, tilting his head, drinking water in big mouthfuls.

Cheng Zongyang did not make a sound, just staring at the slowly unfolding scroll. The third figure next to it was a thin and sturdy man with his cheeks full of twisted beards. It was the three of Shi Manzi I had seen that day. There were shoulder poles on the wall next to him, and there were several large baskets at his feet. There were several tightly wrapped bags in them, and a bunch of made lacquerware.

Mao Yanshou gave instructor: These are three porters...

The fourth person: Shi Manzi's fifth and sixth two are brothers Niu Laosi and Niu Laoqi who had never seen him before.

Mao Yanshou continued: It was invited by this shopkeeper Chen.

In the picture, a young businessman with a head cut off in Yanshi Inn. Opposite him is a pretty girl with a high bun, covering her mouth, smiling happily

Yan Xiang saw it next to her, and her eyes suddenly turned red. Obviously, she recognized the identity of the person in the painting.

Cheng Zongyang silently remembered the number in his heart, the seventh person: Chen Feng; the eighth person: Yan Yu

The paintings of these two people living in the upper room were painted by Mr. Chen at that time.

Cheng Zongyang suddenly pointed at an old man who was cleaning in the yard. Who is this person?

It is the owner of the foot shop. Mao Yanshou opened the scroll and pointed out: These couples in the store have a couple with a couple, and an old man doing odd jobs.

Cheng Zongyang looked carefully and found nothing strange. If the target of the visit of Xiangyi Marquis Lu Ji was not a guest, but a family who opened a shop for a living, it really makes no sense.

The following scene made Cheng Zongyang frown involuntarily. On the drawing, there was a wooden fence with a few black fat pigs in it, which reminded him instinctively of the choking stench he smelled when he was searching for the ashes.

Next to the wooden fence is an open-air space surrounded by straw mats. A man is hiding inside sneakily, revealing his head and looking out.

Mao Yanshou had a little more hatred in his tone. It was this thief! At the next glance, he could see that this thief was not a good person. Unexpectedly, he took advantage of the situation and stole the money he was doing in the middle of the night!

The ninth person: Pickpocket Sailu

Cheng Zongyang glanced at Yanxiang, and Yanxiang hurriedly avoided his gaze

Cheng Zongyang suddenly laughed out loud, this shop is good

Everyone in the painting has different postures, cleverly grasping the moment of the characters' movements. Although it is a still picture, it makes people feel as if they are seeing them and sounds. Next, you can see a man sitting upright indoors, with silk on the table in front of him, and was swaying with a calm expression on the ink table displaying pens, inkstones, paints, and an incense burner that exudes auspicious fragrance, just like a god among the gods, when it is obviously his turn, Mao Yanshou worked hard to beautify himself greatly.

Mao Yanshou laughed awkwardly, and the shopkeeper Chen gave him five silver coins, and asked the girl to paint a small picture like this. This was the situation when she was painting that day.

The tenth person: Mao Yanshou

Cheng Zongyang said: Are there two more people?

The two didn't go out so they drew them indoors

The upper room in the scroll is facing the gate where Yu Fengwen entered. It is unfolded here and has reached the last position of the foot shop. In the painting, the two of them are playing chess in the same way. One is an old man with a long beard, and the other is a young man with scars on his face.

Cheng Zongyang looked at these two parties who had never been found in detail. The young man was fifteen or sixteen years old, with a blue scar the size of a palm on his face, extending from his left eyebrow to the present, making people look at it without wanting to see more of the old man opposite him frowned slightly, as if he was a little worried. Cheng Zongyang's heart moved slightly. Although the old man wrapped a black turban on his head, he felt that he was definitely not an ordinary slave. If this was not interpreted by Mao Yanshou when he was painting, he captured the expression of the character and drew it truthfully. The master and servant were very intriguing.

Could it be that he is the person the Marquis of Xiangyi is looking for? The Yan Junping, who disappeared without a trace with a treasure?

Twelve customers and five master slaves who opened the store, all seventeen figures in Changxing Foot Shop that day had appeared in the painting, but the scroll of the painting was only unfolded less than one-third, and there was a thick roll of silk on the scroll.

Cheng Zongyang couldn't help but be surprised, is there any more behind?

Mao Yanshou smiled and said: The previous ones are just introductions. The villain presented paintings to the Marquis of Xiangyi. Of course, he would not only draw these irrelevant idle people.

Cheng Zongyang was excited, and was the Marquis of Xiangyi behind him?

Mao Yanshou was obviously confident in his painting skills and said: Please read it, Master.

The silk painting adopts the painting method of long scrolls, followed by a team of chariots and horses passing by outside the shop. Although the number of people in Xiangyi Marquis I saw in Beimian was much smaller, it was all chariots and horses. Dozens of riders who did not walk surrounded two carriages, one horse like a dragon and a tiger. I don’t know if it was because of Mao Yanshou’s painting method, or because I had seen the dead soldiers under the Xiangyi Marquis, the riders were full of murderous intent and showed a fierce attitude, which seemed to emerge from the picture.

Then the carriage stopped beside the foot shop, the curtains were rolled up, revealing an obese man with hair, who was the Xiangyi Marquis Lu Ji whom he had met in Beim!

Cheng Zongyang looked at the scroll carefully and secretly admired him. Mao Yanshou's painting skills were even more exquisite than he had imagined. He outlined the arrogant attitude of the Hou Feiyang of Xiangyi to a very vivid picture.

A man with two beautiful beards beside the car. Cheng Zongyang still remembers seeing him in Beim. His name is Qin Palace, and he is the confidant of the Marquis of Xiangyi. He was bowing and saying something to Lu Ji. Lu Ji leaned against the window of the car with a proud look on his face.

A group of entourages hugged into the foot shop, and then the carriage ran into the yard. The rest of the riders were scattered in the forest on both sides of the road, hiding their bodies in the shop, from the owner to the residents, everyone was taken out and knelt in a row under the eaves.

What's going on?

The villain didn't know. Mao Yanshou said: That night, a group of people broke into the store and said that the Marquis of Xiangyi came to the store and asked everyone in the store to come out to greet him and some people went to the room to search for the hidden spies.

Cheng Zongyang saw several men wearing familiar iron masks on the painting. They were obviously dead soldiers under the Xiangyi Marquis's ranks. They were sometimes sent to assassinate opponents or even acted as undercover agents. Therefore, they rarely showed their true faces around Lu Ji.

Cheng Zongyang was looking down, but Mao Yanshou stopped and whispered awkwardly: Please ask the head of the family to let others avoid it...

Cheng Zongyang was puzzled, but he still ordered: You retreat first

Poppy girl and Yanxiang stepped down after hearing this. Mao Yanshou continued to unfold the scroll. In the painting, Lu Ji was helped by a group of beautiful girls and walked off the carriage. The beautiful girls were all beautiful, showing an attractive posture under Mao Yanshou's pen, adding a bit of bright color to the scroll.

Cheng Zongyang's eyes were attracted by the scene under Lu Ji's feet. It took him a long time to look up at Mao Yanshou.

Mao Yanshou coughed in embarrassment. This was the case that day, and the villain dared not draw a lie...

Lu Ji was bent with a graceful female body. The woman was wearing a strange leather hood on her head, and her face was not visible. She was wearing an iron chain in her neck. She was pulled by a masked dead soldier. She knelt beside the car with her body on all sides. She used her body as Lu Ji's dismount. Her jade body was naked and her waist was bent by Lu Ji's trampling. Her round buttocks were raised backwards, and a bunch of colorful peacock feathers were inserted between her buttocks.

Cheng Zongyang continued to look down and his entourage brought the brocade couch. The Marquis of Xiangyi, Lu Ji, leaned on the couch. Another woman was wearing a mask. The woman was wearing a mask, but she had a light gauze on her body. Her white body was revealed in front of her. A dead soldier reached out to lift the veil, and his palm reached between her legs. He played with her secret place in front of Xiangyi, and another woman lay beside the couch. The snow buttocks with peacock feathers were inserted into the brocade couch. Lu Ji laughed to the sky, as if very happy.

Although it is just a painting depicted on silk, under Mao Yanshou's pen, the characters are full of impact, and they feel like watching blockbusters Cheng Zongyang said: What is Lu Ji doing?

What happened that night was like a dream now...

Mao Yanshou said carefully: The Marquis of Xiangyi sat in the courtyard, and the entourage closed the door of the shop. Zhang Qi Lantern, Xiangyi seemed to be in a good mood. He ordered people to take out this woman and let everyone in the shop see how the woman was in her health.

Looks good

Mao Yanshou said: I will not hide it from the head of the family. The villain is good at painting characters. He has seen beautiful women in cars. But the beauty of these two women is really the only one who has never seen each other in his life. Although he has never seen each other, his skin is very beautiful.

Who are they?

When the villain heard others calling them sluts, they were mostly private prostitutes in the mansion. The two girls who violated their master for some reason and were taken here to humiliate them.

Yeah?

Mao Yanshou smiled dryly and said: You will know if the head of the family will look at it again.

In the following scene, Mao Yanshou tried his best and drew it vividly. Two stunning private prostitutes were led by dead men wearing iron masks, showing their shame in front of everyone, scholars, boxers, porters, businessmen, pickpockets... Their expressions were either dull, surprised, or excited, and their expressions were different.

Although they could not see the expressions of the two women, from their physical postures, it can be seen that the two women have been trained to be tamed very much, no matter how rich or poor they are, they are well-dressed. Only they can be watched without any inch by others. The beautiful girl next to Xiangyi Hou still smiled and spit on their buttocks, humiliating the two women to the fullest.

Cheng Zongyang suddenly pointed to the Xiangyi Hou on the painting and said: What did he say?

Mao Yanshou was stunned for a moment, and then said: The Marquis of Xiangyi seemed to be waiting for someone. The man had never come. The Marquis of Xiangyi was a little angry and sneered, "The pheasant wants to become a phoenix? Even if he really became a phoenix, he was just a slave to my Lu family!" Then...

Mao Yanshou said hesitantly: Then he ordered to take the two private prostitutes to have a banquet...

Cheng Zongyang looked down and the picture turned into a series of pictures of the erotic palace. Two women were sitting in the simple courtyard. In front of a group of men and women, they took turns to interact with the boxer, three porters, businessmen, pickpockets, and waiters in the hall... They enjoyed their bodies for nothing without spending a penny.

Even through the scroll, Cheng Zongyang seemed to be able to feel the seductive beauty of the two women. In the painting, there were seventeen people, including the master and servant of the old man Sun. Under the temptation of beauty, they all looked like crazy. Cheng Zongyang noticed that the only ones who were not involved were blind huqin, the young maid and Yan Yu in the store. Even the old woman in the store touched the smooth bodies of the two private prostitutes under the temptation of Meiji.

Mao Yanshou stopped again and said with a smile: You don’t need to watch it later, right?

Cheng Zongyang didn't make a sound, and took the scroll directly and spread it out by himself.

A wooden barrel appeared on the drawing, half a person tall, was brought from the car by a dead soldier wearing an iron mask and placed horizontally at the foot of the Marquis of Xiangyi.

Mao Yanshou glanced at the head of the family in fear and explained in a low voice: The Marquis of Xiangyi had not waited for anyone, and got angry. He scolded the prison slave named Qin and laughed and asked someone to bring a wooden barrel... I really don't need to look below...

Cheng Zongyang looked down with an expressionless face, and his eyebrows jumped twice.

The marquis of Xiangyi turned anger and kicked his feet. The wooden barrel rolled out all the way. The straw rope that was tied to the barrel was loose. The dead soldier stepped on the wooden barrel and rolled out several feet. The straw rope had been placed at the end. The old woman in the store opened the wooden fence. The wooden barrel crashed into the dolphin bar next to the toilet. The barrel that had not been glued immediately dispersed and a piece of flesh rolled out from it.

Cheng Zongyang's face became extremely ugly. The body was only a short piece, his hands and legs were gone, leaving only a bare torso. Unlike the two private prostitutes, the woman did not wear a mask, but only closed her eyes tightly. Although her body was incomplete, she was not a girl. Her face was still very delicate. She was outlined by Mao Yanshou, which turned out to be lifelike. She was actually a rare and stunning beauty.

The muddy piece of the snow-white meat rolled out of the bucket like a piece of beautiful jade falling into the mud mixed with sewage. The pig's urine and the mud of feces were stuck on the female body and became extremely dirty.

The Marquis of Xiangyi walked to the fence with his hair disheveled, watching, laughing while the woman closed her eyes, her mouth opened in pain, her smooth body was covered with dirt, and she was squeezed in the middle by several black pigs, struggling and wriggling in the mud

Cheng Zongyang said coldly: Can't she open her eyes?

Mao Yanshou whispered: Yes

Where is the tongue?

The villain doesn't know...

Cheng Zongyang stared at the woman with only the torso on the picture, his heart rolling, as if it was stirring up storm. After a while, he spit out two words, "Human Pig!"

Cheng Zongyang did not look back, rolled up the scroll, stood up with his hands behind his back, looked at the white and powder-painted wall, calming down his mood Since he heard that the empress dowager of the Han Dynasty was named Lu Huizhi, he immediately remembered the way Lu Zhi, the Concubine Qi who was cheated into a human pig, who was tricked into a human pig, and it can be said that it was the most cruel thing in ancient and modern times. Even after two thousand years, it still made people shudder. Unexpectedly, when it was time and space of the Six Dynasties, there was still such a tragedy. This woman who became a human pig is still alive, and he might even see her with his own eyes.

Seeing the woman with a broken body, Cheng Zongyang already understood what happened at Shangtang's foot shop that night. If he was not wrong, that man should have been the work of the Empress Dowager Lu Zhi. He was mostly the favorite concubine of the former emperor, the Marquis of Xiangyi, who was unscrupulous and took her to Shangtang's foot shop. In front of a group of residents with different identities, he was well-known for his domineering and arrogant attitude. It is not surprising that he could do such a thing.

Lu Buyi was cautious by nature. When he learned about this, he immediately sent a killer to silence the old man Sun's family in the store. So the soup happened on the ninth day of the eighth month. The store caught fire. It was only a day after the next day that Lu Buyi learned about his brother's actions and tried to make up for it. The guests staying in the store that day had already scattered. This matter involved the privacy of the palace secret Xin and the Lü family. Once it leaked, it would be a huge scandal. Even if Lu Buyi respected his power, he could not use the government to track down clues. He had to find Yangquan, the Yangquan family, who lives in Luodu, secretly investigated and killed people all the way.

What's ridiculous is that Mao Yanshou. Although he knew the scene he witnessed that night, he knew nothing about the meaning of the incident. He was stolen by Sailu in the foot shop. He was desperate and wanted to use this painting to conquer the favor of the marquis of Xiangyi, hoping to climb the dragon and attach to the phoenix, but he didn't know that he was seeking death.

Cheng Zongyang looked at this master of painting with outstanding skills but not very good character and said sincerely: You are so lucky that you actually made the wrong entrance.

Mao Yanshou heard that almost all the residents in the foot shop were silenced that night, and then he realized that he was obsessed with the ghost and acted too much. Meng Lang felt scared at this time and said with a smile: If it weren't for the head of the family, the villain would have no bones left, and he would ask the head of the family to protect the villain...

The gentleman stayed here for the time being and told the maid to be a slave. Be careful to serve Mr. Mao.

The poppy girl responded delicately: Yes

Cheng Zongyang looked at the scroll in disgust, preparing to let the poppies seal the painting. Suddenly he frowned and suddenly remembered something

He quickly opened the scroll and looked at it inch by inch from the beginning. After a moment, he raised his head. Where is the scar-faced boy and the old servant?

Starting from the two private prostitutes having sex with everyone, the master and servant disappeared from the picture. Whether it was the scene of lust in the courtyard or the Marquis of Xiangyi who brought people to laugh and have fun by the toilet, the two of them did not appear.

Mao Yanshou said: The villain was also wondering that these two people seemed to have left quietly the next day when we left the foot shop, we had never seen them.

Cheng Zongyang said: As shown in your picture, the Jiaodian is surrounded by people from Xiangyi Marquis. How could they leave halfway?

Mao Yanshou smiled bitterly and said: This villain didn't know, he turned his eyes a few times, maybe he left with the convoy of Xiangyi Hou... As he said that, his voice was low, obviously he didn't even believe it.

The more Cheng Zongyang thought about it, the more strange it became. The twelve guests who stayed in the store on the same day were now found one after another. Only this pair of masters and servants. The guests who stayed in the store on the same day knew that they existed, but they did not find any useful clues yet, except for staying in the store on the same day, they had no idea about their identity, origin, and whereabouts.

Cheng Zongyang followed Lu Jing all the way to find people these days. The biggest feeling is: as long as a person lives in society, even if he passes by by chance, he will leave more or less traces like a flying geese stepping on the snow. If he can't find any clues, there is only one possibility: someone is deliberately hiding.

So, what are the master and servant hiding?

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Lu Jing and Simingxin looked at the scroll carefully. Mao Yanshou sat honestly on the side just now and was taken care of by the cold man inadvertently. Mao Yanshou's blood seemed to have frozen. At this moment, he didn't even dare to come out.

When he saw Yan Yu's small statue, Cheng Zongyang and Lu Jing felt that the painter's brushwork was quite smooth. When he saw the scroll, he couldn't help but be impressed by Mao Yanshou's painting skills. Yu Fengwen, Du Huai and others who they had seen were all vivid in the scrolls. It can be seen that the observation skills and techniques of this unscrupulous painter were extraordinary.

Cheng Zongyang couldn't help but sigh, if the one who found Mao Yanshou first, just look for someone directly in front of the scroll, how could he run around with Lu Wu Ge? But the people were almost all found, and then he accidentally met Mao Yanshou and spent a lot of effort.

The scroll opened bit by bit. When I saw the man on the painting, even Lu Jing changed his face. Only Si Mingxin was still expressionless, but his fingers were tightened.

After a long time, the two of them put down the scroll, Cheng Zongyang pointed to the old servant on the scroll and said: Do you have any impression of this person, the fourth brother and the fifth brother?

Lu Jing shook his head, never seen it

I don’t know if I have watched it for a long time, but I think this person looks familiar. Cheng Zongyang is not giving up. Fourth brother, isn’t this really Yan Junping?

Smingxin said with certainty: No

It must be that I have never seen this person before. Lu Jing turned his head and said: Do you think Lu Ji is waiting for someone?

Mao Yanshou hurriedly said: The villain just felt that Mr. Lu seemed to be waiting for someone

Did he say anything else?

The villain can't remember it

If Lu Ji was really waiting for someone, who were you waiting for?

Cheng Zongyang has also thought about this question repeatedly, but he really can't think of why he had to meet someone in a low-end foot shop in a wilderness, and it seems that he hasn't waited yet

Lu Jing said: If those women were from the palace, this marquis of Xiangyi would be too brave even if the empress dowager was in power, it would not end if it leaked out.

Cheng Zongyang suddenly said: Nangong or Beigong?

Everyone looked at Cheng Zongyang together

If those women were from Beigong, what was going on with this veil? Cheng Zongyang took out a veil, and the four characters on it were clearly distinguishable.

Have you ever seen this veil?

Mao Yanshou's face was scared and turned pale. He thought that those women were nothing more than concubines of the Marquis of Xiangyi. Although they were ridiculous, they were just romantic and naughty after hearing the head of the family. They learned that this matter involved the private secrets of the palace. The women were probably the concubines of the late emperor, and they might even come from Nangong. They were the ones around him today. No matter what the possibility is, the life of this person, who is an insider, has already died 90% of his life.

The villain...the villain...has not...had never seen it

Take a closer look

Mao Yanshou took a few serious glances, then shook his head vigorously

Seeing that he couldn't find anything, Cheng Zongyang said to Mao Yanshou: You go down first

Mao Yanshou was so amnesty that he quickly responded: It was a villain who surrendered

When Mao Yanshou left, Lu Jing said: The person surnamed Tang came to urge him again

What did Brother Wu say?

I told him that one of them seemed to have gone to a foreign county, and it would take three days to get news until it was fast or five days to get news until it was slow or five days to get news.

Cheng Zongyang smiled and said: Why not tell him the scar-faced boy and the old servant, and just say that his whereabouts are unknown and ask him to help find him.

Lu Jing raised his eyebrows, that wouldn't it be a sign that smashed our Yangquan Bao family.

What is the idea of ​​Brother Wu?

If the two escaped halfway, the old servant's cultivation would not be too bad at least level 5 or above. Such a master would not borrow Wuming in Luodu. Lu Jing said: Let the Mao man draw a picture of their appearance alone, and I will ask someone to ask.

OK Cheng Zongyang said: The fifth brother went to find someone to inquire about the identities of these two people, where is the fourth brother?

Siming Xin: Enter the palace

Lu Jing smiled and said: Fourth brother miscalculated this time, he put your thing in the box and entered the palace with Lu Buyi, but he hasn't taken it out yet.

Cheng Zongyang was shocked, wouldn't people find out, right? That camera is the only one in the world, and if you lose it, you have nowhere to buy it.

The fourth brother left a ban on the box. If someone opened it, he would find it here.

Cheng Zongyang said: Then I have to get it back quickly!

Simingxin stood up and said: I'll go

Wait a minute! Fourth brother, are you just breaking in like this?

The walls of the Northern Palace where the Empress Dowager is located are towering, and soldiers guard the palace for twelve hours a day. I want to sneak in without knowing it. Even Es Mingxin's skills are not easy.

Don't worry, Lu Jing said: The fourth brother walked around outside the palace in the afternoon, but found a way

Is there a way? Cheng Zongyang's eyes lit up, I'll go Ah too!

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The sky is getting dusk, and the city has begun to curfew. There is no one on the street. Only a few soldiers guarded the intersection and a carriage drove out of the alley. A carriage was inserted into the carriage. The soldiers who inspected the curfew who had purchased a lot of money had checked the flag and then waved and let it go.

Instead of driving towards the palace city, the carriage circled right and entered the road between the two palaces of Luodu, Nangong and Beigong several miles apart. In the middle, the official office and Yuanlin carriage were scattered along the road. A huge arch bridge appeared above the head. In order to facilitate the emperor to travel between the two palaces and avoid disturbing the people too much, after the Nangong was completed, the emperor issued an edict to build this re-road connecting the two palaces.

The road starts from Chongde Hall in the center of Nangong, crosses the Xuanwu Gate to the north, enters the Zhuque Gate in the Beigong, and directly leads to the Deyang Hall in the middle of the Beigong. The road is ten feet wide and ten feet long, and is seven miles long. Although it looks like a long bridge outside, it is divided into three layers inside. The imperial road that the emperor walks in the middle, and the corridors on both sides are for the ministers and waiters to pass through.

The moment the vehicle passed under the bridge, two figures flashed out from the car, sticking like geckos to the inside of the bridge hole. The two palaces on the inside were heavily guarded. Even if they could cross the city wall, it was difficult to avoid the sight of the defenders. The arch of the bridge of the duplex is as high as six meters above the ground. The bridge is also very vigilant. There is a sergeant guarding every ten steps on both sides, but in the eyes of experts like Simingxin, this duplex is the biggest flaw.

The bridge arch is made of bluestone, polished smoothly, and has an inner arch, so it is impossible to climb. However, Simingxin walked under the bridge in the afternoon and easily found a few places where they could borrow strength, although they were inconspicuous.

The two climbed under the smooth stone arch one by one. Soon, they climbed to the underpass of the bridge, Simingxin posted it on the corridor column for a while, and then climbed up quietly, all the way to the eaves above the bridge, and flipped like a cat, hiding under the eaves.

Cheng Zongyang carefully held his breath and climbed up along the corridor column little by little at five steps left and right. There was a soldier from the Yulin Tianjun who was moved and immediately discovered that Cheng Zongyang had finally climbed under the eaves. Si Mingxin climbed onto the tiles at the corner of the eaves with one hand, and his body was erected, and he fell on the eaves. Cheng Zongyang followed him and climbed up the eaves.

Hiding his figure under the eaves, Cheng Zongyang noticed that the eaves above the bridge had three levels, and the eaves were as high as two meters high. The eaves were more than one meter away from the bridge deck. Even if there was a little noise occasionally, the soldiers below might not hear them.

Cheng Zongyang breathed a sigh of relief and made a gesture to Si Mingxin, saying that he was ready to stop. Si Mingxin nodded. The two hid between the first and second floors of eaves, crossing the Fudao without any danger and coming to the Deyang Palace in the middle of the Beigong Palace.

Under the moonlit night, the palace was silent and looked at the layers of palaces under his feet, the towers on both sides, the huge viewing and the patterns of divine beasts of different shapes. Cheng Zongyang couldn't help but feel like he was dreaming that he had just arrived at the former power center of Han Dynasty so easily? This was easier than buying a ticket to visit. Of course, he also understood in his heart that if it weren't for this repetition, if it weren't for the great experts like Simingxin, he might not even be able to climb up the bridge arch.

This was the first time Cheng Zongyang saw the interior of the Han Palace. Looking around from the eaves, he saw a large area of ​​palaces shrouded in darkness. It seemed that no one lived there occasionally, there were lights of candles, and they were also blocked by heavy curtains, and only a trace of light was faintly exposed.

But Si Mingxin was like acquainting with Lao Ma, and rushed north without hesitation. Fortunately, he was not fast, and he stopped from time to time to avoid the guards in the palace so that he could keep up.

Cheng Zongyang whispered: Fourth brother, have you been here before?

Siming Channel: Prohibited

Cheng Zongyang suddenly realized that Si Mingxin did not know the path in the palace, but sensed the location of the camera through the restrictions left behind.

The huge palace ban was silent, which made Cheng Zongyang puzzled himself. It is said that there were no less than ten thousand maids in the Han Palace. Are they all in the Nangong where the emperor lives? Such a large palace is so empty that those who don’t know would think it was an abandoned cold palace.

The two of them walked and stopped at any time. Half an hour later, a huge palace appeared in the field of view. The entire palace was built on a two-meter-high white marble platform. It was more than 40 meters long from east to west. The eaves were arched, and the magnificent giant pillars were painted in vermilion red. On the plaque at the top of the palace gate carved with lacquered gold dragon and phoenix patterns, there were three large characters more than one person tall: Yong'an Palace

Cheng Zongyang was originally worried about whether he would get lost, but when he saw this palace, he felt relieved. Although he was not familiar with the Han Palace, he had also heard of the Queen Mother's bedroom.

The two men appeared from behind a pavilion, then their eyes hopped, and at the same time, they stopped at the same time, and stood quietly. The two teams of servants stood at the front of the team, two light carriages, and the flags in front of the car were Xiangyi Hou and Yingyang Hou.

Cheng Zongyang and Si Mingxin looked at each other and saw each other's surprise. Lu Ji and Lu Buyi entered the palace to pay homage to the empress dowager in the morning, but they had not left until now. What exactly can we talk about for so long?