He Qizhou started talking again: "Who knows how much money he has? Ring a little louder and listen!"
Xu Mu finally came to his senses and started to hit the iron fence hard with the bag of gold coins, making a "bang-bang-bang" sound. When he thought it was not loud enough, he hit it with the silver ingot in his arms. For a while, it was all metal.
The sound made the prisoners in the prison scream again.
"It's so noisy! The money in her hand belongs to our family, and it's useless for you to take it! If you keep arguing, you won't be able to eat tomorrow!" The officer in charge of the key walked out of the room and shouted at the door.
stand up.
Xu Mu took out a gold coin and threw it at the other person's feet. The person took a look at it, did not pick it up, and went back into the room.
Seeing that there was no hope of borrowing money, the cries from various cells gradually subsided.
Xu Mu already knew that He Qizhou was fine, because it was certain that the cell he was in was the only one in the entire prison that was specially made. The other cells would not be able to trap He Qizhou. Now he just had to wait for him to come to rescue him. Once he figured it out
With this in mind, I found a clean place and started practicing the exercises cross-legged.
About half an hour later, gongs were sounded everywhere in the barracks, and someone shouted a few times. Then all the lights in the surrounding barracks were extinguished, and the surrounding area of the cell suddenly became dark. All the light came from two lanterns in the open space in front of the cell.
, one was hung on the flagpole on the east side of the open space, and the other was hung on the flagpole on the west side. The two lanterns swayed violently under the mountain wind at night, making the entire camp become somewhat shadowy.
Another half an hour later, after a strong wind passed, the lantern on the east side was probably broken by flying stones. It was suddenly ignited while swinging, and in the blink of an eye, there was only a pile of ashes. The entire west side of the cell suddenly became ashes.
into darkness.
After a while, someone came out from the dark holding a lantern, lit it and hung it up again. After glancing in the direction of the cell, the person retreated into the darkness.
In the darkness of the night, only Xu Mu watched as a black shadow had quietly sneaked under the eaves of the south barracks and was quietly opening the door...
After about a stick of incense, there was another gust of wind. This time the two lanterns were blown to pieces almost at the same time and then set on fire. After a while, someone came out from the darkness and cursed angrily: "It's windy every day, but today is the most unlucky!"
"I put on two new lanterns, and then I scanned each cell. It seemed that everyone was still there, most of them were sleeping like pigs, and then they hurriedly disappeared into the night.
"Have you changed yet?" He Qizhou asked in a low voice. At this time, he and Xu Mu had sneaked into the south barracks and were in the room of the officer who held the key. There were seven or eight people lying around in the room.
"It's almost done. Just wait for me for a while. Oh, why didn't I think of changing my appearance just now? I was careless, I was careless." Xu Mu said with shame. The two of them had almost changed into the uniforms of the soldiers in the room.
He Qizhou's face was covered with a face that even he hated. In fact, he was also fooled and was imprisoned in the cell where Xu Mu was. Fortunately, that very distinctive face did not require Helian Changji to personally
After checking, he was moved to the most remote cell.
"Let's go to Xiaoyao Tower and capture Helian Changji alive!" He Qizhou said excitedly.
"Weren't you captured by that swordsman?" Xu Mu asked curiously.
"Is that swordsman very powerful? I was caught before he even made a move." He Qizhou said.
"That swordsman is unfathomable, and that city lord is said to have extremely high martial arts skills. If we want to capture Helian Changji alive, we must deal with that swordsman first." Xu Mu said with certainty.
"Then what should we do? They will probably find out that we ran away before dawn." He Qizhou said.
"I'll go to the inn to change my appearance first and then go to Xiaoyao Tower in the inner city!" Xu Mu said.
"Okay, let's go now." He Qizhou said.
"Well, tell me later how you got in?" Xu Mu said.
"Let's go, let's talk after we get out." He Qizhou pulled Xu Mu into his arms and gently kissed his forehead.
"Go away! There are so many people..." Xu Mu whispered and pushed He Qizhou away.
After a while, two men dressed in officer uniforms walked out of the military camp. Sure enough, they heard many people ambushing them along the way. Every time He Qizhou approached a hidden ambush point, he would first softly shout "Shh". It felt like
It was just as if he had to go out to do something important and asked people not to make any noise. In fact, it was just unnecessary. Both of them were wearing military uniforms, so those who were in ambush would not care about them.
After walking out of the military camp, He Qizhou and Xu Mu found a deserted place and took off their military uniforms. He Qizhou said: "Most of them were on guard against people coming in from the outside to rescue them. How could they have thought that we ourselves ran out from inside."
"Well. How is your recovery from your injury? Tell me about the past few days." Xu Mu asked.
"Okay." On the way back to the inn, He Qizhou began to talk about his pursuit experience:
"My skill has probably recovered to about 70%. After chasing me out of Turpan, I expected that guy would run in this direction. After two days of desperate pursuit, I finally found out the whereabouts of Helian Changji. The guy was doing evil and tricks all the way.
There are endless…”
"I know he ambushed you twice. Is his kung fu really powerful?" Xu Mu asked.
"Well, I have gained access to the meridians in a year, and he has not been idle. Last time I was probably at the beginning of the six meridians, but now I have encountered him at the upper level. In fact, I am not afraid of him in a fight. He can be subdued in just a hundred moves.
He killed me, but that guy had a lot of dirty tricks. He personally ambushed me three times, all in busy cities. If he missed a hit, he would use local people as shields; or he would hurt a child and I had to stop for treatment.
In addition, there are many ways to kill people with borrowed knives, and he will always blame me for his crimes, so every time I pass through a city, I will become the target of arrest by the local government. He will even hire local gangs to stop me.
After chasing me, I felt like the guy was holding me on purpose. Every time he passed a certain distance, he would kill a few people and set a fire to let me know the direction in which he was escaping.
When I passed the Night Owl's restaurant, I found traces of fire again. When I asked the woman, I knew that I was about to catch up with Helian Changji. I didn't expect that the woman wanted to use medicinal wine to charm me, so I didn't have the time to deal with them.
I gave him a lesson and chased after him.
When I caught up to the valley outside Burgen City, I was already very vigilant. I saw herdsmen grazing their cattle, so I asked them about the situation in the city. The herdsmen said that Mulati was the emperor of Burgen City and a rare warrior in their Wusun Kingdom.
.When they left the city, they saw Mulati greeting Helian Changji with their own eyes.
This is a military town, how could I dare to enter the city so arrogantly? I asked the herdsmen about the route around the city. I spent a day and walked more than 300 miles, from Beishan to the east of the city, leaving my horse behind in the city.
Outside, he changed his appearance and entered the city, then went to Xiaoyao Building to inquire about the situation.
I happened to listen to other diners chatting. Someone was imprisoned for free prostitution. It seemed that they were talking about Helian Changji. At first, I thought Mulati was a rule-abiding person. After he turned against Helian Changji, he was thrown into the hospital.
In prison, he deliberately ate and drank a lot in an attempt to sneak into the prison, and then he was beaten up by the guards and told that he would have to pay five thousand taels to redeem himself..."
"Oh my God! You ate something worth a thousand taels? No matter how expensive it is, how could you possibly eat so much by yourself?" Xu Mu exclaimed.
He Qizhou said with a shy face: "I haven't eaten for several times. It's not that much. It's only three hundred taels. I ordered some more good wine. When I checked out, I only had one tael more when I dug all over my body. Mainly because I broke it.
The things in the store and a few guards, the ransom money just kept going up."
"That's not right. The swordsman just watched you beat people?" Xu Mu asked.
"I didn't use my internal strength, and then I was deliberately exhausted and was captured by them. On the way to the escort, I heard the guards complain that the swordsman was said to be invincible in the same realm. To deal with any opponent, he would only use his internal strength according to the opponent's realm.
Because I don't use my true energy, he doesn't bother to take action." He Qizhou said.
"No wonder." Xu Mu finally understood what was going on.
"Also, the guards said that this man holds a sword every day, but almost never draws it. He pretends to be a ghost just to defraud the city lord of his wine." He Qizhou said.
"It's definitely not a pretense!" Xu Mu said with certainty.
"In this case, he must be an arrogant person. Why he is willing to look after the brothel is really strange." He Qizhou said.
"Ignore this for now and continue talking." Xu Mu said.
"Then I was deceived into the cell where you were locked up. Those restaurant guards might have caught two of them. They didn't have much hope after seeing my appearance. They went to report and came back disappointed, and then moved me to
The easternmost cell was really smelly, but I knew that Helian Changji would come to the prison most of the time, so I stayed in there for a day and a night, and finally I waited for you, the unlucky guy, who screamed so miserably that I wanted to
People are hitting the wall, I can’t bear to listen anymore.”
"Fuck you, I'm not afraid!" Xu Mu couldn't help but kicked He Qizhou hard on the butt.
"That's right, they are really looking down on others. How can you be worth two hundred thousand taels?" He Qizhou patted his butt and said with a smile.
"Helian Changji is here, why didn't you take action?" Xu Mu asked.
He Qizhou smiled bitterly and said: "How dare you? I have been in that cell. It would be better if you were outside the cell. If I were inside, wouldn't I die if I went out? Fortunately, you brought money. After you understood my hint, I took advantage of it.
You broke the lock on my cell when you knocked on the bars.
You also know what happened later. After the lights were turned off in the barracks, I tapped the acupuncture points of the three fellow prisoners, took advantage of the wind to extinguish the lanterns, sneaked into the officer's room in the dark and held the key, quickly restrained those people, and took the maximum amount of money.
Then I put out the lantern to rescue you, and threw the officer who put on my clothes into your cell. Anyway, it looks like everyone in the cell is asleep."