At this time, people were noisy in the corridor. Thick smoke poured into the inner room from the outside. Someone in the corridor was coughing violently. There were also people outside the window.
I quickly jumped out of the window. Qinghua was waiting for me outside the window. A group of patrols came out of the alley. They found smoke billowing from the palace and came to support.
"There are two people there." They spotted us and ran toward us, blocking our way. Originally, I wanted to take her to the woman's house to meet Liujiao and then make plans.
Qinghua quietly took my hand and said, "Follow me." We turned around and entered the south gate from the window we just jumped out of.
The sentry at the door also ran to put out the fire. Many people inside the door were carrying buckets and running towards the fan-shaped hall. I was now dressed as a palace guard. Qinghua was originally from here. She pulled me and took advantage of the chaos to pass through people.
In the corridor we were heading to, the carved door had already been opened wide, and someone ran out carrying a bucket. No one noticed us.
We walked around the pool in the middle of the hall and ran to the northwest door. The door was also open. The order here was okay, but there were also a few boss-like people walking back and forth in the corridor. Suddenly, something happened.
No order has been issued yet
Qinghua originally pulled me and ran in a hurry. As soon as I entered the door and saw them, I immediately slowed down and said to one of them, "Why are you still here?"
I followed her. In their opinion, I should have been sent by General Bai to accompany Qinghua to issue orders.
"Is there a fire at the south gate?" the other party walked over quickly and asked
"General Bai asked you to go outside the south gate quickly. The arsonist ran south. Nothing is going on here. Leave it to us first," she pointed at me
When the other party saw that I had a sword in my hand and a bow on my body, without thinking much, he summoned his men and ran directly through the hall to the south. The northwest door was wide open.
"Let's go" Qinghua said
I suddenly changed my mind, "How to enter the second-floor palace of Bai Jing?"
She didn't hear her in her eagerness, so I repeated, "How to get up there? You must know"
Seeing that I was calm and didn't look like I was running for my life in a hurry, she turned around and said, "Let's go"
She led me into the fan-shaped hall next to the corridor. There were neatly placed torture instruments, and there was a smell of human flesh inside. There was a small door next to it. We went in, and there was another square room next to me.
I saw exactly the same thing once. There was a narrow door open next to the wooden bed by the wall, allowing only one person to come in and out.
"From here" she said
"Oh, I know, this is the dormitory of the guards and patrols."
"You're half right, this is the dormitory for female soldiers."
My eyes lit up, "Oh? So those female soldiers sleep here at night, why is there no one there?"
Bai Jing is really good. I have to admire him for actually putting the execution chamber and the female soldiers' dormitory together.
"They should all be up there now. Should we go up next to Bai Jing?"
"Go up! Why don't you go up? As the ancients said, you should not miss a female soldier. Where can you go up? I can't wait!" She pointed at the narrow door.
I got in. There was only a three-foot square space in the narrow door. There was a straight ladder on the wall on one side, leading directly to a long and slender patio above the head.
I was on top and she was on the bottom. We climbed up the ladder. At the end of the ladder was an arc-shaped passage, only one person wide.
Qinghua was behind me and whispered, "Keep it down, this is the troop transport cave around the second floor of the palace. From here you can reach every room in the palace. It can be said that all the troops from the six gates of the palace can be reached from here."
Quickly gathered around Bai Jing."
Sure enough, not far further, there was a woolen curtain next to a window. I pulled the velvet rope inside the curtain without using the blue and white method, and the small door opened silently behind the curtain.
"This door is where Bai Jing receives guests and discusses government affairs."
"The one with the throne," I added.
"Shh-" she reminded me, "there is someone guarding the door." Her mouth was close to my ear, her breath tickled my ears, and she said in a voice that only I could hear.
"Female soldiers" I added. When I came here for the first time, I saw several female soldiers standing by the window disappear in the blink of an eye. It turned out to be such a structure.
"Wait for me here," I was saying. A female soldier with a gun noticed the movement behind me and thought it was one of her own. She turned around and looked at me. Without saying a word, I tapped her acupuncture point with the sword handle.
The force was too strong, and she fell stiffly forward and fell on her back. I grabbed her by the waist and asked her to stand against the wall.
On the handrail of the spiral staircase behind the throne was a silk beige robe with black flowers. It looked like a piece of leopard skin. It seemed to be a white wattle nightgown. It was late at night. He pissed me off. He deserved to be unable to sleep.
The hall is quiet
I looked around, and there were three sentries nearby. They looked at me intently. The clothes I was wearing really worked.
I hurriedly ran up the spiral staircase, as if I had an urgent military situation to report to Bai Jing.
If I happen to meet him, I will save my trouble and just destroy him and capture him to see King Tian.
Hold the sword tightly in your hand and do not take it lightly when confronting a strong enemy
There seemed to be no one up there, and there was a smell of tobacco inside. Except for a big bed, the furnishings were extremely simple. At this time, Qinghua also came in. I spread my hands to her, and she smiled and walked to the bedside.
There was another bead on the bedside. She twisted one of them and heard a "squeak" sound. A skylight opened above her head and a ladder hung down from the window. "From here, go up to the top of the palace."
"she said
I heard from the skylight that there were many people on the top of the palace. There were many women and few men. Bai Jing might be there with many female soldiers.
"Go up?" she asked
"Hey, instead of going up, let's set fire to it." Without further ado, he climbed up the ladder, cut the ladder rope with a sword from the sky window, jumped onto the bed, and lit Bai Jing's bedroom with a match rope.
A fire was set down below, destroying the ladder he used to get down. Not bad.
There were chaotic footsteps at the entrance of the spiral staircase. It seemed that there were many people coming. I stood at the entrance of the spiral staircase and cut off the connection between the ladder and the upper floor with only two swords. The four or five people who had already stepped onto the spiral staircase followed.
The collapsed ladder fell to the ground.
When I turned around, I was a little dumbfounded. The fire was already very strong. How could we get down? The blue and white flowers were also gone. Someone leaned out of the sky window and looked down. It was white thorns.
I hurriedly picked up the bow and drew the arrow. The white thorns flashed out of the way and I hid in the dark.
The bed board bounced open, and Qinghua revealed half of his body from inside, "Still not leaving yet!"
I was so happy that there were so many hidden passages in Baijing. I jumped in and said, "Where does this lead to?"
"You can go anywhere." Qinghua walked quickly in front, and I followed closely behind her. The secret passage was only wide enough for one person to pass, and it was very dark inside. I could only hold on to the back of her skirt to prevent her from dropping it.
But she seemed to be very familiar with this place and walked quickly
At a fork in the road, the light was a little better. When I saw it, I almost pulled off the blue and white skirt.
I saw her twisting her waist to tie it up again, "I, I didn't mean it...Besides, who would have that idea here?"
She didn't answer my question, "This way, we can go to the hill to the northwest. From there we can escape from the palace."
"Escape? Who escaped? Did we escape?" I asked, "From here?" I pointed to another fork.
"Here goes to the dock, where there are special boats for Baijing," she said
Neither direction is what I am eager to go to now. "Where is this?" I pointed to another entrance not far away.
"This can only lead to the rooms on the second floor of the palace."
"Okay, let's go to each room and light a fire, and then go to the hill, and we'll watch the fire from the other side."
When we stood on the hill, the palace not far away was filled with flames, and the flames soared into the sky, complementing the morning light on the horizon. The waterwheels were rowing down the hill in a row, and they were still turning slowly. We looked at them for a while.
Yes, I asked her
"May I ask, Miss, where should I send you? You can't follow me all the time. I have other serious things to do."
She thought for a while and said, "Send me home, I'm finally free."
"Did Bai Jing force you to come?"
"Who would voluntarily live such a life?" She asked me, yes, what kind of life is this?
"We have to hurry up, my wife is still waiting for me."
"Why don't you take her with you too?" Qinghua suggested that if I wanted to go to the woman's house first, I would bring Rojio with me, but after thinking about it, I still felt that it was not appropriate.
What if she gets jealous? Besides, it’s daylight and troops everywhere are mobilizing frequently. I said, “Forget it, I’ll go back quickly.”