Night, Prince Lu's Mansion.
In a large room, three people stood.
One, in a cage.
Two, outside the cage.
Let’s talk about the two people outside the cage first.
Among them, one of them, dressed in brocade and splendid clothes, was the crown prince of Prince Lu's palace.
This person's surname is Zhu Ming'e, the "little prince" we mentioned before. As for why this guy's name is such a rare word, I think I have explained it before, so I won't repeat it here.
This Zhu Huo, who is in his mid-twenties this year, has a face named Zhang, and his facial features are extremely distinct.
That thick eyebrow, big apricot-shaped eyes, a clear nose, a wide mouth... This appearance will strike you in front of you, and you will definitely never forget it.
In terms of body shape, Zhu Yue was also different from the ordinary children of the royal family: most of the descendants of the royal family at that time were fat and weak due to lack of labor and pampering, but this Zhu Yue seemed to have a very strong figure. , although his height is less than 1.7 meters, he can still give people a tall and strong feeling.
Of course, if you want to compare with the other person standing next to him at this moment, then he is far behind...
But seeing that guy, he was a head taller, an arm taller, taller and taller, with beard and hair like a mane... He just stood there, and he was like Arhat Vajra, with a kind of intimidating power.
Who is this?
The person represented in the book here is the leader of the Fire Lotus Sect—Xi Yanzi, who calls himself the "Great Immortal of the Fire Lotus".
Ladies and gentlemen, you can tell from his title that this is not a serious Taoist priest.
Generally speaking, no matter it is a Taoist sect unknown to the world like Xuanqi Sect or the Taoist sects known to the world, they will not have such a Taoist name that is related to corpse evil; only the Demonic Taoism will have something like "Nine Names in the underworld such as "Poison God Lord" and "Yinshan Tianzun".
This corpse man is undoubtedly the successor of the devil, but he is not very powerful, he has only learned a little bit.
His master is quite capable, which we will mention later, but we won’t talk about it here for now.
Let’s talk about this corpse...
This guy is wearing a black robe. The style of the robe looks like a monk but not a monk, like a Taoist but not a Taoist. The fire lotus symbol is embroidered on both sides of the front and the middle of the back of the robe. Combined with his appearance, he looks like the founder of a cult. Son.
So how did such a person get together with Zhu Huan?
No one else...use each other.
Zhu Huo's ambitions are not small, and the mere position of King Lu can't satisfy him, so he wants to use Shi Yanzi's demonic ability and use the "Fire Lotus Sect" as a springboard to pursue another great cause.
As for Xi Yanzi, he would not reject the protective umbrella of "Prince Lu's Mansion" - with Zhu Xu's support, at least in Jining, his Fire Lotus Sect would definitely run rampant.
It can be said that these two people have their own hidden agendas. Neither of them regards the other as a person, only as a cup of milk tea that can be thrown away after drinking.
But on the surface, they still behaved like masters and servants, treating each other as guests, and they were harmonious. After all... they couldn't finish this cup of tea in a while.
"Ha...yes, this is really a strange thing." At this moment, Zhu Huan was walking around the large iron cage in the middle of the room, which was as tall as one person, looking up and down at the people in the cage, and was still mumbling something.
Shi Xuanzi had a bright face and responded respectfully: "As long as the young prince likes it... But to be honest, this one is really rare. I have spent a lot of effort..."
"Hey~ I can't treat you badly." Zhu Huo knew that the other party wanted benefits, so he immediately responded impatiently, "Isn't it the Winter Clothes Festival in a few days? Just find any excuse to let the people burn and offer again 'It's done once, I'm sure."
"Yes." Xi Xuanzi lowered his head and smiled, "Thank you, young prince."
"Huh?" Zhu Ye was not interested in the details of Shi Yanzi's money-making. At this time, his attention was all on the person in the cage, so he immediately asked, "Can he talk?"
"You can only speak barbarian language," said Xie Xuanzi, "no one can understand you."
"Oh..." Zhu Huo looked a little disappointed, "Then if we teach him, can he learn it?"
"It should be possible." Shi Xuanzi replied, "As far as Pindao knows, there are records of domesticating this kind of Kunlun slave as early as the Tang Dynasty. Even if you can't teach him to speak, you can at least teach him to listen."
You may have understood after seeing this that the person they were commenting on at this time, that is, the man locked in the iron cage, was a black man.
As Shi Xianzi said, during the prosperous Tang Dynasty, there was a saying of "Kunlun slaves and Silla maids" in Chang'an, my country. Some of them were black slaves from Arab countries, and some were from Southeast Asian countries and coastal areas. Of course, people at that time couldn't tell the difference between black Africans and Southeast Asians. Anyone with dark skin thought they were "Kunlun slaves."
In the Great Ming Dynasty, where our story takes place, black people in China were even rarer than in the Tang Dynasty.
Although in Europe and the Americas, this was the heyday of the slave trade in the seventeenth century, the imperial court was not interested in it at all, and even had a prohibitive attitude towards it.
The "Kunlun slave" that Shi Xuanzi gave to the young prince was captured by some pirates at sea and entered Dashu from the coastal area of Fujian.
Originally, after a lot of buying and selling, the group of traffickers who bought him planned to transport him all the way to the capital and sell him for a big price. Unexpectedly, he was "cut off" by the Fire Lotus Cult when passing through Shandong.
They had no choice but to sell it to the Fire Lotus Sect at an acceptable price. If they refused to sell it, they would not only lose the money, but also their lives.
"Hmm..." At this time, when Zhu Huo heard that he could "tame" this black uncle, his expression relaxed a little more, "Okay, okay, okay... haha... This is more fun than that bird and beast." He paused. After a pause, he suddenly remembered something and said, "By the way, does he have a name?"
"Most Kunlun slaves have no names." Xi Xuanzi said, and took out an iron plate from his sleeve, "But... this Kunlun slave seems to be something special. The pirate who captured him carved his name on it. On the iron plate, his name is..."
Shi Xuanzi's words stopped abruptly.
He suddenly stopped moving and speaking, his expression suddenly changed, and his whole body froze.
This continued for a full five seconds before he spoke again: "Someone is coming."
"What?" Zhu Yue looked confused and didn't understand what he meant.
Shi Xuanzi could only be more specific: "An outsider... broke into the palace."
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A few minutes ago, outside Prince Lu's Mansion.
In the darkness, a figure lurked silently like dew on the leaves.
This man was dressed in quail clothes and wearing straw sandals. He had a baggage strapped to his chest and a single sword on his back.
This look looks... three-quarters like an assassin, seven-cents more like a thief.
The defense of Prince Lu's Mansion cannot be said to be tight, but it is not in vain. In addition to lanterns lighting up everywhere and guards patrolling along fixed routes... there are also many dogs raised in the high-walled compound.
As we all know, dogs are unique among all anti-theft systems in this world.
I don't care whether you are a martial arts master or an IMF team, even if your feet don't touch the ground, as long as you are discovered by a dog, you will be exposed with the barking.
Of course, it is not difficult to break this "system"...
But he saw the man in quail clothes coming to the foot of the wall. He used his ear skills to identify the position of the guard and confirmed that no one was nearby. He took out a few glutinous rice dumplings from the bag he brought with him and threw them in. into the courtyard.
This skill, basically everyone on the green forest road, generally has two ways to play it——
The first method: mix glutinous rice and women’s hair together, knead it into a ball, fry it in sesame oil, and throw it to the dog. As long as the dog eats it, it will not be able to open its mouth and can neither bite nor bite. Shout out.
The second method is to fry glutinous rice dumplings with sesame oil, but instead of mixing hair in them, you can add medicine directly and let the dog eat them and fall asleep.
What is the difference between these two methods?
It's very simple. The first method saves time. As long as the dog bites the dumpling, the thief can climb over the wall and enter the yard. However, if no one discovers it in time, there is a certain chance that the dog will die.
With the second method, you have to wait for a while after throwing the dumplings. The thief has to confirm that the dog has eaten the dumplings and fallen asleep before he can enter the yard. This increases the risk of exposure, but the advantage is that the dog will just fall asleep and not Life is in danger... Of course, being beaten to death by the master afterwards is another matter.
Maybe someone else is asking, why bother? Wouldn't it be the same as poisoning a dog to death by directly adding poison to glutinous rice dumplings?
This...is against the rules.
As the saying goes, thieves also have their ways.
You may think that the people on Green Forest Road do all illegal things, but they also have their own standards.
It is possible to put poison in glutinous rice dumplings, and the cost of poison is indeed lower than that of intoxicants, but there is a danger in doing so - there may be extra dumplings scattered on the ground, and children may pick them up and put them in their mouths the next day. plug.
If you were born in a new society, you might find it unbelievable to pick up food from the ground and put it in your mouth. It is also unimaginable that there would be ignorant children running around in the yard without anyone watching. But at that time, this was not called thing.
It's okay for a child to pick up the dumplings with mixed hair and eat them, because people can pull out the stuff stuck in their mouths with their hands. If a child feels something wrong after chewing it twice, he will naturally dig it out and spit it out.
As for the drugged one, it can't kill anyone.
But if you put poison into the dumplings, although the probability is not high...but it is possible to accidentally poison someone.
Therefore, there is a rule on the green forest road: don't feed poison to the dumplings who beat dogs. Whoever feeds poison will commit the sin of annihilating their descendants.
This Quail Clothesman also followed the rules. What he threw was the drugged dumplings, so he waited for a while after throwing them. After he confirmed that the two dogs behind the wall were not moving, he turned over. The wall enters the hospital.
such a pity……
This brother counted the guards and the dogs, but he didn't count that in addition to these common anti-theft methods, Prince Lu's Mansion also had an "insurance" - Taoism.
Little did he know that the corpse had already set up a hidden formation inside the wall of Prince Lu's Mansion. As long as anyone who had not touched his "Fire Lotus Cult Incense" came in, the caster would be able to detect it immediately.
This move, Xi Yanzi said to Zhu Xu, was to "protect the young prince", but in fact... he wanted to monitor the palace more to prevent Zhu Xu from secretly summoning someone here without him knowing. People you don’t know engage in some deeds that they don’t know about.
Right now, as soon as this Quail-clothed guest stepped into the courtyard wall of Prince Lu's Mansion, Xie Xuanzi in a room far away in the inner courtyard sensed it, so the latter stopped and looked around intently.
The quail-clothed guest's lightness skills were also impressive. After climbing over the high wall with ease, he quickly and silently passed through the huge courtyard. When he approached the inner courtyard, he tapped his feet lightly, swam up the wall, and moved up with one hand. Climb up the eaves.
A habitual thief like him on the green forest road usually has his own way of analyzing the architectural layout of wealthy families. After all, he has been in as many as 80 courtyards, so he has rich experience.
Furthermore, at that time, there was a regular pattern of dividing the four compartments into the southeast, northwest and northwest. Combined with the distribution of guards in the house, it was indeed not difficult to identify the location of the warehouse.
Therefore, after a short observation, the quail-clothed guest determined the target.
Then, like a gecko, he swam along the eaves when the dark clouds covered the moon, and soon arrived at the door of the warehouse.
A warehouse is a warehouse. Even in the middle of the night, there are two lanterns hanging at the door and two guards standing there.
But... in that era without cameras, it was conceivable how far guards could go if they were lazy.
Let's just talk about the two people at the door of the warehouse. One is holding the spear in his hand, leaning against the wall, with his eyes closed; the other is simply sitting on the ground, throwing the spear aside.
Tell me, if the people who come to take over their jobs see them like this, will they scold them?
Damn, it’s a shift system. When it’s their turn to work the day shift, they will naturally pretend not to notice when others work the night shift.
After all, everyone is working, and it is not easy to make ends meet, so why make things difficult for each other.
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When Quail Yi Ke fell down from the eaves, he landed on the ground without making a single sound. However, when he knocked out the two guards, he still inevitably made a little noise.
Let me make another digression here. The operation of "swiftly hitting someone on the back of the neck with a knife to knock them unconscious" that is commonly seen in movies and TV animations is almost impossible to succeed in reality.
If the blow is light, the person will not faint at all; if the blow is serious, the person may faint, but it may also cause permanent damage to the spine or death on the spot.
Moreover, there is no standard for this strength, because people's physiques cannot be generalized. Even if the same force is hit at the same angle, the results may be different.
In the same way, hitting the chin, temples, abdomen... is also similar.
So the character in our book is the Quail Clothes Guest. How do you explain his operation?
It's easy to say, use internal force to hit specific acupuncture points to ensure coma, but not death.
"You are quite courageous."
Just when Quail Yi Ke was leaning over the two guards to fumble for the keys, suddenly, a voice sounded from behind him.
"You dare to break into the palace." The person who spoke was obviously the corpse, "I think you are desperate for your life!"
"Ha..." Unexpectedly, the man in quail clothes laughed when he heard the sound. He stood up and faced the other party while laughing. "How do you know that I really want money rather than my life."
