Nightwatcher

Dali Si Cheng left the room and walked down the stairs to the lobby, where Chen Butou, two censors and Yang Yan sat at the table, drinking tea silently.

There are pens, ink, paper and inkstones on the table.

In his early forties, the Prime Minister of Dali Temple, who was still in the prime of life in the officialdom, sat down at the table silently, picked up a pen, and wrote on the rice paper:

"Not a warlock!"

There is also a line of words on the rice paper, which was written by Chen Butou: something is hidden in the right hand.

Then, two censors entered the room to talk with the female spy. When they came out, one wrote "I didn't ask about the case", and the other wrote "I am very concerned about Xu Yinluo".

Yang Yan kneaded the rice paper into balls, and with a little force, the paper balls turned into powder.

He tossed it casually, climbed upstairs with a blank face, and when he came to the door of the room, he pushed it in without knocking.

"The concubine is missing, and the watchmen are mainly responsible for you," the female spy said in a deep voice.

Yang Yan sat at the table, his facial features were like stone sculptures, lacking in vivid changes. To the female spy's accusation, he replied indifferently:

"There is something to talk about."

"Okay!" The female spy nodded, and said slowly: "I'll talk straight to the point with you, where is the princess?"

"What are you holding in your right hand?" Yang Yan asked without answering, his eyes fell on the female spy's right shoulder.

"As expected of a golden gong, I saw through my tricks at a glance." The female spy raised her hand hidden under the table and spread out her palm, where a small octagonal copper plate lay quietly.

"Sitianjian's magic weapon can distinguish lies from truth." She pushed the octagonal copper plate aside. Indifferently said: "However, this is not effective for you who are at the peak of the fourth rank. To identify whether you are lying or not, you need a sixth-rank warlock."

Yang Yan didn't look at the octagonal copper plate, and answered her question just now: "I don't know where the princess is."

The female spy's second question followed immediately: "Where is Xu Qi'an? Did he really return to the capital injured?"

Yang Yan raised his hand and said, "You ask a question, I'll ask a question."

In the cloak, under the mask, those deep eyes stared at him for a moment, then slowly said: "You ask."

"Why did the barbarians target the princess?" Yang Yan's question went straight to the core.

The female spy did not answer.

Yang Yan nodded, "Let me change the question. Chu Xianglong insisted on going by water that day because he was waiting to meet you?"

"Um."

The female spy gave an affirmative answer and asked, "Where is Xu Qi'an?"

Yang Yan shook his head: "I don't know. Why didn't the spies go back to the capital and escort them secretly, and insisted on meeting them at the border of Chuzhou?"

If you don't know, you can say that Xu Qi'an did not return to Beijing due to serious injuries. The female spy said in a deep voice: "We have our enemies. Does Duke Wei know about the princess going north?"

Inseparable from the hand Yang Yan's eyes flickered slightly, and said: "I know."

The female spy left the post station and went to Wanzhou (local military camp) alone without going out of the city with General Li Shen. She rested in a tent. At night, she suddenly opened her eyes and saw someone coming in with the tent lifted.

The visitor was also wrapped in a black robe, with a mask showing only his chin, with a circle of light blue stubble around his mouth, and his voice was hoarse and low:

"I just came back from Jiangzhou City and found two places. One had a fierce battle, and the other had no obvious signs of battle, but there are spider threads left by Jinmube feather spiders. What about your side?"

The female spy responded with the same deep voice:

"It is consistent with the information I obtained from the mission. The Northern Monster Race and the Barbarian Race sent four fourth-ranks, namely the snake demon Hongling, the Jiaobu Tangshanjun, and the Blackwater Tribe Zalmuha, but there is no Jinmu Chief Sirius.

"Chu Xianglong took advantage of Xu Qi'an and Yang Yan's entanglement with the three fourth graders, and asked the guards to take the princess and the maid to evacuate together. In addition, the people in the mission didn't know the specialness of the princess, and Yang Yan didn't know the whereabouts of the princess."

The male spy said "hmm": "It seems that Sirius is waiting for a rabbit. Chu Xianglong is more dangerous than good, and as for the princess..."

In the tent, the atmosphere became tense.

"Wait, you just said that Chu Xianglong let the guards escape with the maid and the princess?" the male spy asked suddenly.

"To be precise, he escaped with the princess, and the guards escaped with the maid," the woman spied.

"Oh, he is not a soft-hearted person." The male spy seemed to sneer, and said something mockingly, and continued:

"It's obvious that the princess he brought is a fake, and the real princess is mixed with the maidservant. It's both clever and stupid. The cleverness is that he confuses the sight, and the stupidity is his behavior. How could he hide it from Sirius? indivual.

"At the critical moment, he took the maidservant to flee for his life. This is to tell them that the real princess is among the maidservants. Well, he has extreme distrust of the mission, or, in Chu Xianglong's view, the mission must have been wiped out at that time."

The female spy nodded and said: "It was Xu Qi'an who blocked Tang Shanjun and Zalmuha, and his real cultivation is probably at the sixth rank."

She recounted Xu Qi'an's recent deeds, and said: "According to what the chief arrester of the Ministry of Punishment said, Xu Qi'an was able to defeat the outstanding disciples of the two sects of heaven and man, relying on Confucian magic books. Chu Xianglong probably didn't expect that he still had them in stock." .”

The man with a hoarse voice spied: "More than that, there is always a time when the external objects are exhausted, and the warriors of the fourth rank are too difficult to kill, and the final outcome is still that Xu Qi'an ran out of ammunition and food, so Chu Xianglong chose to abandon them."

"Reasonable."

The female spy sighed and said worriedly: "What should I do now, the princess will fall into the hands of the barbarians in the north, I'm afraid there will be more than good luck."

The male spy chuckled: "It's not that bad, dispatch four leaders and let them jointly ambush the princess, the barbarians must know the peculiarity of the princess.

"Then, who wants the princess the most?"

The female spy suddenly said: "The leader of the Qingyan Department."

The man's head hidden in the hood moved, as if nodding, and said: "So, they will take the princess back to the north first, or they will share the spiritual resources equally, or they will be promised huge benefits. Before the leader gets involved, the princess is safe."

The female spy agreed with his opinion, and said tentatively: "Then now, we can only inform His Highness Duke Huai to seal off the northern border, and search for Tang Shanjun and the four in Jiangzhou and Chuzhou with all his strength, and take back the princess?"

The man didn't nod or object, and said, "Is there anything else you want to add?"

"Yes! The organizer, Xu Qi'an, did not return to Beijing, but went north secretly. As for where he went, Yang Yan claimed not to know, but I think they must have a special contact method."

"How do you know that?" the male spy asked back.

"Xu Qi'an was ordered to investigate the Three Thousand Miles of Blood Massacre case. He was afraid of offending His Highness Huai, and he was even more afraid of being watched. Therefore, it was the right choice to use the mission as a cover and secretly investigate. A genius who can solve cases like a god and has a meticulous mind has such a Coping is normal, otherwise it would be irrational."

The female spy continued: "Besides, the relationship within the mission is not harmonious. The officials of the third department and the guards are not used to each other. The mission is actually not very useful to him. If he stays, he may be restrained by the officials of the third department. .”

The man stroked his light blue chin, touched his short hard beard with his fingertips, and said in a deep thought: "Don't underestimate these civil servants, they may be acting."

"But if you know that Xu Qi'an stopped civil and military officials outside the Meridian Gate and wrote poems to mock them, you wouldn't think so." The female spy said.

After a pause, she added: "Wei Yuan knows about the barbarian matter of the princess going north, is it related to him?"

The man sneered: "Don't ask me, we can't figure out Wei Qingyi's thoughts. But we have to guard against, um, spread Xu Qi'an's portrait, and once found, we will closely monitor it. The embassy side will focus on monitoring Yang Yan's Take action. As for the civil servants of the third department, let’s figure it out.”

In the early morning of the next day, the princess who was covered with Xu Qi'an's robe woke up from the cave, and saw Xu Qi'an squatting at the entrance of the cave, holding a copper basin made out of nowhere, with her whole face immersed in the basin.

The concubine was still angry, she hugged her knees and watched him lose his nerve, and it lasted a quarter of an hour.

Then, the man turned his back and kneaded his face quietly, before turning around after a long time.

"ah!"

The princess screamed, curled up like a frightened rabbit, opened her eyes wide, pointed at him, and said in a trembling voice, "You, you, Xu Erlang?"

hell?

She had seen this man before, he was Xu Qi'an's cousin Xu Erlang, but why did Xu Jia Erlang appear here?

"What a fuss." Xu Qi'an snorted twice proudly: "This is my unique skill of changing faces. Even a martial artist with a high cultivation base will not be able to see my disguise."

While speaking, he poured out the potion in the copper basin.

"Why did you become your cousin?" Hearing the familiar voice, the princess felt relieved and looked at him suspiciously.

This woman really doesn't have any brains, maybe she's used to being alone in Prince Huai's mansion, no one will fight with her, just like her aunt Xu Qi'an said in a bad mood:

"Are you stupid? Can I enter the city with Xu Qi'an's face? This is the most basic anti-reconnaissance awareness."

Against what? The concubine didn't understand either, she curled her lips: "I'm hungry."

"The porridge is cooked, and there is a freshly beaten pheasant outside, go and repair it, clean it, and then roast it." Xu Qi'an ordered.

"Oh!" The princess went out obediently.

During this period of time, she learned to repair and roast the prey, a whole set of procedures, which of course was requested by Xu Qi'an. The concubine is also used to being bullied by him, after all, she has to bow her head under the eaves now.

Of course, the concubine is also a wicked woman, she never contradicts Xu Qi'an head-on, and often takes revenge in private.

Like hiding his clothes while he's in the shower, making him impotent and furious in the water.

Another example is to apply the guano contaminated on the leaves to the prey, and then roast it for him to eat.

Lately she's contemplated spitting on roasted prey.

The price I pay every time is that I am forced to listen to his ghost stories at night, and I dare not sleep at night, so scared that I almost cry. Or just go without food all day and have to travel long distances.

When I fell asleep at night, the saliva flowed from my mouth.

After a long time, the chicken was finished roasting. After spitting for a while, the concubine smiled sinisterly, put the roasted chicken aside, turned her head and shouted towards the cave:

"The chicken is ready, I'll have porridge."

Xu Qi'an eats meat, and the princess eats porridge. This is the tacit understanding that the two have cultivated recently. To be precise, it is the sequelae of hurting each other.

Xu Qi'an was very angry, so he was not happy to let her eat meat, and the princess was also not happy that he refused to let him eat meat, and retaliated vigorously.

vicious circle.

Xu Dalang, with Xu Erlang's face on his face, came out of the cave, sat by the campfire, and said, "We will reach Sanhuang County before evening today."

The princess looked happy, which meant that the hard journey was finally over.

Xu Qi'an glanced at her, and said calmly: "This chicken is for you."

The princess's face suddenly became dull.

"What, you don't want to eat it? Or did you put bird droppings on the chicken again." Xu Qi'an narrowed his eyes and asked.

"You, don't judge the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain." The princess grabbed the chicken, leaned in front of him, and said sternly, "Look for yourself, where is the bird droppings?"

"Then you can eat." Xu Qi'an nodded.

"" Wangfei opened her mouth and said weakly: "I, I have no appetite, I don't want to eat meat."

"Then eat quickly, don't waste food, or I will be angry." Xu Qi'an said with a smile.

"" Her ordinary face suddenly wrinkled into a ball.

At this time, Xu Qi'an's heart throbbed. After many days, someone in the Earth Book chat group finally passed on the book.

He picked up the porridge, got up and returned to the cliff cave, and said as he walked, "Eat it quickly, or I will throw you here to feed the big worm if you don't finish eating."

The princess grimaced at his back.

Xu Qi'an sat down with his back against the cliff, staring at the fragments of the book on the ground, took a sip of porridge, and a line of small characters appeared in the small jade mirror:

[Two: Daoist Jinlian, please shield everyone for me. 】

After a few breaths, Li Miaozhen sent another letter: 【Xu Qi'an, have you arrived in the north yet. 】

Xu Qi'an put down the bowl, used his finger to write, and entered the information: [We can reach the northern border today, have you found any information. 】

PS: Thanks to the leader of "Second-hand Force King Yang Qianhuan" for the reward, good name! ! !

Thank you for the reward from the leader of "Aaa of Years and Years", okay?

Help correct errors, thank you.