The target of the assassination is the fox

After lying on the roof for about half a stick of incense, the people inside had already chatted from embroidery to poetry and songs, and finally took out the chessboard to play games.

The autumn night was cold, and it was even worse in the second half of the night. The tiles on the roof were blown like ice by the cold wind.I licked my dry lips, and then turned my eyes to look around, and found that there seemed to be a small red square corner on the head of the bed directly below, but it was covered by the curtain, so it was not very clear.

There are not many places to hide things in the house, and the box with the torch pattern is most likely placed beside the bed.

And at the moment, there are no candles inside, only an oil lamp is used to illuminate the spacious room, the beating light seems a little weak, and a few sparks will be peeled off from the core from time to time.On the table next to it, black and white chess pieces tapped on the wooden board, and the people sitting quietly at both ends looked focused.

After a long time, the steward seemed to have lost, seeing them say something indistinctly in the original blue language, he smiled and ended the game.Then he got up to say goodbye.

After Xiao Ji sent the steward away, she stretched her waist enchantingly, and called someone to set up a bathtub in the room, surrounded the screen, and sprinkled petals in the hot water, as if she was going to take a bath.Soon, hot mist filled the room, and the red dress slid to the floor.I couldn't help but look away.Although they are both women, they always feel embarrassed.

He turned his head and glanced at the woods, it was still dark and silent, nothing changed.

In fact, it might be easier to get Huo Danshen by sneaking down while Xiao Ji was taking a bath, but the hidden guard didn't give the signal for a long time, and he didn't know what he was worried about, or he had some plans.The princess ordered that you must obey his instructions, and I can't act without authorization.

Maybe we really have to wait for Xiao Ji to fall asleep.I'm starting to regret not dressing a bit thicker tonight.

After waiting patiently for a long time, Xiao Ji was still comfortably soaking in the bathtub, enjoying the hot water with flowers, which was enviable.From my point of view, I can only see half of the back of the head exposed from the edge of the bucket. The thick hair looks softer and shiny after being soaked, and the tips of the side ears seem to be a little flushed.

I felt bored, and was thinking about whether to squint my eyes and rest for a while. From the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of red dots flashing across the woods, and then there were a few vivid bird calls—the dark guard finally sent me a message. signaled.

Picking at this time is obviously not the best time.I hesitated for a moment and decided to make a quick decision.Glancing at the courtyard, he quickly built the roof tiles and turned over to hang them under the eaves. He opened the window like a gecko against the wall, and jumped in silently.After closing the window, he lowered his body and sneaked to the side of the bed, the movement was done in one go.

Looking up, the corner of the bed exposed earlier was indeed a wooden box, which was placed next to the pillow, with the totem of the holy fire printed on it, and most likely it was used by the Shenyue Sect to put Huodan Shen.But there was a strange golden lock on the box. I gently opened the pillow and quilt next to it, but found no key.

Do you want to pry it open yourself?I glanced at the screen, Xiao Ji's back was facing me at the moment, and she couldn't see clearly through the painted embroidered cloth.Take your time, it should work.

I took out a pre-prepared core stick with a hook from my arms, and carefully pushed it into the keyhole, for fear of making the slightest sound.But I am not good at this kind of work, and this lock is quite special, so it will be quite difficult to open for a while.I tried to fiddle with it, and I had to concentrate on paying attention to the movement on the other end, and I almost held my breath.

But after all, there was still no time.In just a moment, the blurry shadow behind the screen has already moved.The person leaning against the wall of the barrel straightened up, followed by the sound of splashing water a few times.And the misty water mist wrapped around the room has dissipated without knowing it, the water is probably cold.

Seeing the curvaceous figure of the woman standing up from the bathtub, she raised her foot and stepped out again.I had no choice but to give up the box and quickly restore the appearance of the bed, rolled sideways, and slipped under the bed.

Soon, Xiao Ji put on her underwear and walked over lazily.The inner jacket is also bright red, with a loose and crisp neckline.Breasts are half exposed.Well, it's beautiful, but it's still not as charming as the princess wearing a red dress.I unconsciously made a comparison, but the next moment I saw a red rope hanging around her neck with sharp eyes, and what was tied to the rope, with a corner half exposed at the moment, wasn't it a golden key!

It must be the key to open the flame box!But she actually, actually hid the key in that part!

Surprised and resentful, I grabbed the clothes at my heart, and through the gap in the tent, I saw that pair of jade feet had come to me, the toes were as white as onion roots, but the toenails were painted with Kodan, which was extremely coquettish.

Then the silk curtain that fell to the ground was opened and closed again, and the bed made a slight sound, it must be that Xiao Ji was lying in bed.Just now I observed her breath and pace, and found that she doesn't seem to be a martial artist.And at this moment, I don't know if she brought a scent of flowers with her after bathing, and she could smell it clearly even when she was hiding under the bed.

Suddenly, I miss the light tea-like taste of the princess.

Hey, why do you miss me?I frowned, but couldn't help remembering that when I was sleepy last night, there seemed to be something lightly attached to my face, soft and warm, lingering for a long time.And what is intertwined between the nose and breath is the quiet smell...

I quickly brought myself back to my senses, held my breath and waited quietly.

What surprised me was that the leader of the cult didn't sleep well, and he was lying on the bed, but he still recited the famous poems of the imperial capital tirelessly, and he even recited all the meanings contained in them!Do you need to work so hard... But the terrible thing is that I couldn't help but listen carefully, only to find out that I recited several capitals wrong!

Ah, it's so painful, I really want to stand up and correct it.

In the end, I couldn't bear this kind of torture anymore, so I took out a small bamboo tube and blew a mouthful of incense towards the head of the bed, covering my mouth and nose with a cloth towel. After a while, the voice became more and more indistinct, and it was strange at first. His tone was tinged with sleepiness, and it sounded a little cute.After the sound gradually decreased until it stopped and my breathing became longer, I slowly crawled out from under the bed.

Well, this person's sleeping appearance is really...unbelievable.I am a little disgusted.The Princess's sleeping position is still cute, like a well-behaved kitten...

I shivered suddenly, shook my head and waved away those strange thoughts, and lay softly on the edge of the bed.Although it was unsightly for this person to lie on a reclining body, the rope of the key hanging on her body was not crushed at all, and it was long enough to reach it directly to open the lock, hehe.

But here comes the problem, how to get the key out of that sensitive and shameful part... I glanced over and felt that it was very difficult to do it.I try to pinch the protruding end and pull it gently.It's so tight...

Inexplicably nervous and guilty.Although she knew that Xiao Ji would never wake up after being poisoned by Mixiang.

When the key was finally pulled out bit by bit, I sighed heavily in my heart, only to realize that there was a layer of cold sweat on my forehead.Immediately, he picked up the key and tried to unlock the lock. With a slight popping sound, the little golden lock was indeed opened.

Heh, it went pretty well.I readily took out a prepared fake fire Dan Shen, stepped back a little, and used it to lift the lid in case there was any mechanism hidden inside, and approached it after I was sure it was safe.

What caught the eye was a row of fiery red branches neatly arranged.I couldn't help but chuckle when I saw it, and quickly reached out to get it.

"Who are you?" Just when I was happy, the voice behind me suddenly made my hands tremble.

No way... My scalp was numb, and I turned around quickly, and was surprised to see that Xiao Ji was fully awake, covering her collar in fright, sitting up and about to shout.I was startled, and immediately rushed forward to touch her acupuncture points, but before I could touch her, a handful of rice flour was thrown towards me.

Although I reacted quickly enough to dodge it, I still inhaled a little, but I didn't expect the meter to be very powerful. Before I could make any other movements, my hands and feet went weak and my eyes went dark, and finally I fell unconsciously on... On Xiao Ji's lap.

The fleeting time is not good... I closed my eyes and wailed in my heart unwillingly, and then fell into darkness.

I don't know how long it took, when I finally felt some sense in my body, I found that I seemed to be tied up by someone, and there was a noise in my ears, someone was talking.My mind, which was still muddled, was aching from the noise.

"Master, fortunately you found it in time, and the twelve fire pills are not damaged." The noise gradually receded, and a calm male voice remained, it was the steward, "Let's hand over this thief to the owner of Yinzhuang."

"Hmph, there are so many thieves who want to steal Huo Danshen, and the owner of Yinzhuang will not care too much about it. But since the thieves have offended me, how can they easily forgive them! I want him to know the consequences of doing so." Another angry female voice sounded, and from the rapping accent, one knew it was a certain female leader.I wanted to open my eyes, but now my eyelids were heavy and I couldn't move at all.

Alas, I feel so ashamed to be caught like this.In vain, the third female killer in Jianghu who claims to be so light-hearted, in the past, she always tried to steal any treasure, and she never missed it, but now she has only spent a few days of leisure with the princess, and she has regressed like this , and fell into the hands of this cult leader who doesn't know martial arts.

However, how could Xiao Ji wake up so quickly after being poisoned by Mixiang?Could it be that his physique is invulnerable to all poisons...

At this time, there were footsteps approaching, and I raised my guard, but a pungent and unpleasant smell suddenly came to my nose, choking me soberly, and my strength flowed back to my limbs in an instant.When he opened his eyes, he saw Xiao Ji's magnified face.

I struggled subconsciously, and she stretched out her hand to pinch my chin, and smiled coldly: "Hehe, don't struggle, now you have nowhere to go, you are being bullied by dogs~"

"..."

"Master, you can't use these words in this way." The steward approached Xiao Ji and whispered a few words in Xiao Ji's ear.Xiao Ji looked a little embarrassed, and just about to take out the booklet from her arms, she realized that I was still looking at her, so she stopped and glared at me angrily: "Tell me, why did you come to steal my things."

"..." I said nonsense, "That kind of medicinal material is priceless. Selling a few of them is enough for me to live in my life. Of course, I have to take risks to steal it."

And she obviously cared more about another question: "Then when did you sneak into the room, and how long have you been hiding in the room?"

"Uh..." I glanced at the forbearance expression of the woman in front of me, and my heart trembled.If she found out that I was watching when she was taking a shower, she would definitely die a miserable death.So he pretended to be unwilling and said: "I was caught by you when I just came in, alas."

"You're lying!" Xiao Ji raised her brows, "You must have seen something you shouldn't have seen! And you would have hidden the key in that place..." She suddenly paused as she spoke, and looked around her slightly unnaturally. Take a look at the sidelines.Then the more I thought about it, the more angry I reached out and touched my chest, as if I had confirmed something, the expression on my face became more ferocious, and I yanked it out of the big red sleeve.Pull out a whip: "Hmph, today I'm going to beat this stinky man's butt!"

I widened my eyes in horror.How can you say that I am a man even after touching my chest!And what does the butt blooming mean? It sounds so scary!

The chief steward carefully reminded: "The leader made a mistake again, it's the ass blooming."

A certain leader choked, and slammed the whip on the ground in his hand, "It's all the same, anyway, I'm going to beat him to the point of paralysis!"

He really is a ruthless cult leader!No, I haven't completed the assassination mission Guangyao Shimen yet, how can I explain here.

So I endured the humiliation and said, "Master, please forgive me once, regardless of the villain's faults! It's all my fault that I am so obsessed with money, that I moved your things beyond my control. But I have seniors and juniors, and my whole family is waiting for you." How about making a living, master, please do your best. I heard that the master of Shenyue is not only beautiful as a fairy, but also has a heart of a bodhisattva. Today, the great kindness and virtue of the villain will be remembered in my heart, and I will never do this kind of stealing again! "

The beauty in red in front of her snorted coldly: "Heh, just say a few sweet words, just to trick me into blooming?"

The steward whispered: "Master, I am very happy."

Xiao Ji froze as she raised her whip, pointing at the steward: "You go out first."

"Master..." The steward was a little embarrassed, he hesitated to speak, at this time a disciple of Shenyue Sect hurried in and whispered a few words in his ear.His face changed, and then he walked up to Xiao Ji and whispered a series of incomprehensible Lan Yuanyu.

"Who is it?" Xiao Ji's expression also changed, she frowned and muttered in a low voice, then turned her head and glared at me angrily, "Hmph, I'll kill you when you come back." After speaking, she threw down the whip and walked out.The two disciples guarding the door locked the door.

Now I'm the only one left in the house.I breathed a sigh of relief, looked over to the window, and found that someone was guarding there now.This Shenyue Sect kills people without blinking an eye. When Xiao Ji comes back later, even if she doesn't kill me, she will still suffer from flesh and blood.I can't sit still and try to escape from here.

I twisted my arms and tried my best to break free from the rope, but those people didn't know what kind of binding method they used, and they couldn't get rid of it no matter what. Instead, they felt that it was getting tighter and tighter.I simply stopped moving, calmed down, and thought of the princess.

The princess should know by now that I was arrested, and she won't just sit idly by.After all, they had a plan, and if I was asked about something, it might ruin the overall situation.Then will she come to save me, or...will she kill me directly?

I was startled suddenly, and subconsciously looked towards the window again.At this moment, I am firmly tied to the chair here and cannot move, and the window is facing the forest. If the hidden guard is hiding in it, it only takes one dart to shut me up forever...

But it's not right, if you come to silence at this time, it will attract more attention instead.I denied this idea, but cold sweat covered my forehead.That day the princess's smiling eyebrows, and the gentle appearance of softly saying "Have some confidence in yourself" jumped into my mind, and turned into vines intertwined and mingled into a ball.

It suddenly felt like everything was a trap tonight.

Before he could think about it any further, footsteps sounded outside again.The next moment, someone pushed open the door.

It's the princess.I stared blankly at her walking in, her expression was calm, she was dressed in a flawless white dress as if covered with clear frost, carrying the wind, the cluster of bright flames in the room suddenly swayed violently, and some bright and dark shadows fell on her beautiful face. shadows.

How did she appear here, and what did she want to do?At this moment, countless thoughts popped up in my mind, but I didn't say a word, letting the strange emotions in my heart grow wildly like weeds, I couldn't explain clearly, and I didn't understand.I watched her walk up to me and slowly pulled out a dagger with a cold look.

Unexpectedly, but within expectation, the person in front of me bent down and cut the rope binding me with a dagger.The soft hair brushed against my face, gathering a layer of quiet fragrance.

"You." As if sighing, her deep eyes reflected the beating light, and said softly: "Let's go, I'm fine."

My hanging heart suddenly fell back to the real place, but a few different sour feelings rose again.He got up and followed her out, and saw Xiao Ji standing there with the steward, but did not stop her.

Xiao Ji still had some displeasure on her face, and snorted coldly.I suppressed my doubts, and at the same time looked away, followed the princess out of the yard with my head down, bypassed the walls, and walked into the flower field path of Hongjin Garden.The clouds in the sky parted and the moon was shining brightly. The sand, gravel and weeds on the road could be clearly seen without a lantern.

I raised my head and looked at the slightly thin back in front of me in the cold wind, but I felt a kind of illusion in a trance.

It seems to be back to that year again, when I killed someone for the first time and followed Master to walk among the barren field ridges in early winter.I gritted my teeth with a sullen face, the hand holding the sword was stained with blood, and trembled faintly, but my heart became extremely at ease when I looked at Master's back.It seems that as long as there is this person in sight, there is nothing to be afraid of.

What happened to this strange sense of security... I withdrew my thoughts and finally broke the delicate silence: "I'm sorry, I missed this time."

The princess stopped and turned to look at me. After a long while, the corners of her mouth slowly curled up: "It's okay, as long as they don't make things difficult for you."

What happened to the princess tonight, she was so gentle... I was a little surprised.The person in front of me paused for a moment, then looked at me sideways, and finally there was the usual slyness in his tone: "What, I saw the rumored female leader, do you think it is beautiful?"

This question broke the inexplicably heavy atmosphere just now.So I also felt happy, and said half-jokingly: "She is very beautiful, and her figure is also very good."

"Oh, that's right." Unexpectedly, the arc at the corner of the princess's mouth disappeared suddenly, and she said coldly: "It seems that my palace redeemed you too early and spoiled your good deeds, and you should have a wonderful night together. "

Pfft, what and what.Sure enough, the more beautiful a woman is, the less she can tolerate others praising others in front of her.

"Don't worry, this servant has to warm your bed for the princess." I put on a serious face: "No matter how beautiful Xiao Ji is, she is not as beautiful as the princess~ the princess is really stunning!"

"Heh, you're smart." A certain princess turned around and continued walking, her hair curled up beautifully behind her, looking a little childishly proud.I followed and walked side by side with her: "By the way, Princess, you just said to redeem me..."

"That's right, I redeemed you with silver. Those Lanyuan people love money, and I also do what they like, and gave a book to Xiao Ji."

Is it enough to redeem with silver?So simple?I can't help but have some doubts.But then the attention shifted to the second half of her sentence.

"What book?" It seemed that there were no books in her room at all.Thinking of some possibility, I raised my eyebrows: "Princess, you don't want to give my obscene poems to Xiao Ji!"

"What lewdness. Poetry, that is the profound culture of the Central Plains." The person beside me gave me a very serious look.

Heh, this black-hearted fox.I raised the corner of my mouth, and secretly took out two red branches from my sleeve at this time, and waved them in front of her eyes like offering treasures: "Princess, in fact, it's not that I have nothing to gain, you see."

"Oh? So you stole two sticks?" She was a little surprised: "Those people didn't search you?"

"So there is no danger. I replaced two before I was discovered. Those people counted the boxes and didn't notice it, so they let down their vigilance."

"Then what about the fake ones?"

"Here." I pulled out another small bundle of sticks and winked at her.

The princess raised her eyebrows and smiled: "Hmm, very good, I paid a lot of money to redeem you back."

...that sounds like something weird.I couldn't help asking: "How much money did you spend, princess?"

The people beside him relaxed: "3000 taels."

"So many." I was suddenly moved, "You are so kind to me, princess."

"The money is deducted from your monthly salary."

"What?!" The excitement just now was shattered in an instant, "I stole two fire pills for you!"

Someone took it for granted: "That was originally a mission assigned to you by the palace, and it cannot be used to offset money."

"But I only have that little monthly salary, how can it be enough for you to deduct it?"

"Not enough?" She looked sideways at me, then suddenly leaned over and stroked my face with a cold hand.The mouth of the sandalwood was opened lightly, and he said slowly: "Then take your time, pay it back bit by bit...for the rest of your life."

After saying that, she turned around casually, put her hands behind her back, and walked briskly into her garden.And I froze in place, unable to recover for a long time.