Chapter 19 Chapter fifteen
When Di Gong woke up, it was already midnight.Outside the sill window, the moonlight is hazy, and there is no starlight.The city streets are lonely, and the night breeze is blowing, which makes me feel cool.He hastily changed into a set of black tights, single-soled thin boots, and tied a placket low to cover his forehead.The back of the belt is fastened tightly, and the sword of Yulong is inserted against it, and the hilt of the sword is high on one shoulder.
After finishing his attire, Duke Di tiptoed down the stairs, picked up a lantern on the corridor wall, and hid in the second door to listen.The shop was still lit, and there were soldiers walking around.He hastily slipped into the backyard, walked around the stables, unbolted the corner door, and slipped out.Just turning into a cobblestone alley leading to the market, I seem to feel someone is following behind me, but when I look back, there is no one.
The pier on the river beach was shrouded in a white mist, the boats and boats rolled down from the floating pier, and the sound of water lapping on the shore.There are several large cargo ships moored in the center of the river, with towering masts and bright lights.He looked carefully, trying to recognize Zi Qian's sampan during the day.Helplessly, the boats are so dense and pitch-black that they cannot be identified.Di Gong felt hesitant, but suddenly heard footsteps behind him.
"The fifth boat is under the floating stack." —— Di Gong just heard Ziqian's voice, and Ziqian jumped in front of Di Gong.
"I saw you sneaking out of the inn in the middle of the night. I became suspicious and chased you all the way here. It turned out that you wanted to steal my boat."
After Di Gong was shocked, he said seriously: "Miss Ziqian, stop joking, I have something urgent right now, and I want to borrow your sampan."
"Doctor Liang doesn't know how to row a boat. I lent it to you. It was blown away by the wind, or sank when it touched a rock. Can you compensate me?" Zi Qian said playfully, but her attitude was serious.
"I want to go to Canshiji, the waterway is not far away. I think it's okay if the wind is calm at night." Di Gong was unwilling to tell Ziqian his real intention.
Ziqian pursed her lips and smiled: "I don't care where you go or what you do, I only care about my boat. ——If you drown you, don't do anything to me, your mother-in-law will cry."
Before Duke Dee could answer, Zi Qian jumped onto her sampan, went to the floating pier to untie the cable, spread out the oars, and floated to Duke Dee's feet.
"Get on board"
Di Gong jumped onto the sampan, feeling lost in his heart.
"Turn out the lights."
Di Gong quickly blew out the lantern.Zi Qian whistled, and the sampan shot towards Jiang Xin like an arrow.
"Where is Dr. Liang going to see a doctor?" Ziqian asked with a smile.
"When I came to Daqingchuan in the daytime, I saw several medicinal herbs growing in the pine forest in front of Remnant Rock, which were very rare, so I was going to pick some in the moonlight."
Ziqian laughed again: "I'm afraid Doctor Liang is coaxing the children, why is it so urgent to pick herbs? Could it be that you have a private agreement with the third princess in the Bishui Palace, and you can hide it from me with your eyes?"
Di Gong was shocked, but couldn't answer.It just so happened that a violent wave hit, the sampan shook from side to side and nearly capsized. ——The boat is already at the widest part of the Daqingchuan River, the water and sky are chaotic, and the stars and fishing fires cannot be seen.The wind picked up on the surface of the river, and the gleaming black waves picked up one after another, hitting the sampan.At this time, Duke Di was in a state of confusion, fortunately, if Zi Qian hadn't followed her to help row the boat, his blind plan would have been almost helpless.The worry is that Zi Qian, an elf girl, has guessed her intentions.After thinking about it over and over again, I feel that Ziqian has a bright heart and eyesight, is intelligent and sophisticated, she is definitely not a person with ulterior motives.Now it's better to push the boat with the current, tell the truth calmly, ask her for help, or hope for her full assistance.
So Mrs. Di heaved a long sigh, and said: "To tell the truth, Miss Ziqian, I just want to go to the Palace of Clear Water at this time, but it is not to make a private appointment with the three princesses, but to investigate an important public case. The details of the case , I will tell you in detail later. Now I just ask Miss to use her skills to sneak our boat under the water gate in the northwest corner of Bishuiguan, and then hide in a hidden place and wait for me. We will go back in less than half an hour."
After hearing this, Ziqian nodded her head frequently, but didn't make a sound anymore, and flew as if she was paddling her oars.In a short time, the sampan quietly broke into the forbidden area on the river of Bishui Palace.Fortunately, the moon was hiding behind the dark clouds, and the ever-burning lights garrisoned on the palace wall flickered, so there was no trace of a small sampan under my nose.
The sampan paddled under the water gate at the northwest corner of the palace wall, Duke Di jumped off the boat, and asked Zi Qian to wait at the corner, while he waded into the water and sneaked under the water gate, and climbed up the arched ledge of the water gate, tearing the gap in the palace wall Vitex grass and vines hanging from the middle of the palace slowly climbed up the palace wall. ——Dai Ning must have climbed up the palace wall on the same way that day, slipped to the gazebo and stole the jade beads.The bricks of the palace wall have been in disrepair for many years, and they are uneven. It is very difficult for Di Gong to climb up.After a while, he climbed to the battlements outside the palace wall.Looking at it with the probe, it really is outside the gazebo.The tea table with jade beads strings in the corner of the gazebo is still there. Although there are many guards on duty, they are careless and have not noticed it.Di Gong saw it in his eyes and understood it, so he turned his head and crawled down, pretending to be holding a string of beads in his chest. ——When going back along the original road, he had to carefully examine the place where Dai Ning was most likely to hide the beads.
When Di Gong climbed to the arch frame outside the water gate, he saw that half of the water gate was out of the water, and the iron fence inside the gate blocked it.Curious in his heart, he probed into the door and gasped involuntarily—a white arm was tightly gripping an iron gate.
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