Chapter Thirty-Two [The Story of the Stable] Part 1
Tang Lie returned to the two girls in a comfortable state. He whispered: "While their attention is now focused on Qingyue Palace, let's leave here as soon as possible."
Xuan Bo nodded, then remembered that others could not see his reaction in the dark, and said softly: "Yes, we should leave here as soon as possible. They can't find our bodies from the fire scene, and they will definitely launch a comprehensive search. Secretly
It is very possible that the Tao will be discovered."
She grabbed the faucet and turned it counterclockwise. There was a creaking sound on the wall. After a while, she saw an irregular crack on the wall. A weak light came through the crack, and the crack became wider and wider.
Big, a doorway appeared in front of them.
Xuan Bo wanted to walk outside, but Tang Lie grabbed his delicate hand and said with concern: "You guys stay inside first, I will go out to investigate the situation."
Xuan Bo hurriedly shook off Tang Lie's big hand. Thinking of what Tang Lie had just done, his heart pounded. This bastard actually came to catch him without even washing his hands.
At this time, Tang Lie naturally didn't have so many scruples. He carefully walked out of the doorway. A putrid smell rushed towards him, and his feet were soft. He looked carefully and found that this seemed to be a stable. The location where the exit was built happened to be where horse manure was stored.
This place, no wonder the air is so filthy, Tang Lie sighed inwardly, Xuan Sizhe had really thought things through. No one would have thought that the exit of the secret passage would be in a dirty stable, let alone that the noble royal family would pass through it.
Escape this way.
Princess Xuanbo and Wanyue then walked out. Seeing the filthy and filthy scene around them, they screamed. Fortunately, there was no one else around. If they were heard, the consequences would be disastrous.
Tang Lie was not familiar with the terrain in the palace, so he had to turn to Xuan Bo's master and servant. After making sure that there was no one else around, he lowered his voice and said to Xuan Bo: "This should be the stables of the palace. Do you know how to get there from here?"
Going out?"
Princess Xuanbo has always been pampered. Although she has lived in the palace since she was a child, she has never been to the stables. Her knowledge of this place is limited to knowing that the stables are located in the northwest corner of the palace.
Wanyue said: "There is a corner gate not far from here. I have been here before and remember the route to the corner gate."
Xuan Bo said in surprise: "Okay, Wanyue, you come to lead the way, let's leave this place as soon as possible."
Tang Lie smiled and said: "How to leave? Do you want to walk out in a big way?"
Xuanbo said coldly: "Do you have any better way?"
At this time, there was a faint sound of violent coughing and wheezing in the distance. The three of them looked at each other and stopped talking. Tang Lie made a gesture to them, indicating that the two of them should hide in the dark passage again, while he always stayed in the dark corner of the stable.
Among them, I quietly looked out and saw an old man with a hunched and thin body, driving an ox cart filled with barrels slowly toward the stable.
Tang Lie immediately guessed the identity of the old man. Judging from his appearance and attire, he was clearly a commoner responsible for cleaning up horse manure. The old man came to the front of the stable, coughed and gasped a few more times, and then put the people in the car away.
The dung buckets are unloaded one by one, ready for loading.
A bold idea came to Tang Lie's mind. If they wanted to successfully escape from the palace, the dung truck in front of them was their best chance.
The old man came to the stable slowly and started to collect the horse manure with the dustpan in his hand. The moment he bent over to clean it up, Tang Lie suddenly rushed forward and hit him on the back of the neck with his palm. The old man was shaken.
Tang Lie was worried that hitting too hard would endanger the old man's life, so he didn't dare to use all his strength.
Although the old man fell to the ground, he did not faint. He screamed in fear. Tang Lie, with quick eyes and quick hands, covered his lips and threatened in a low voice: "If you dare to make a sound, I will kill you with a knife!"
The old man's cloudy eyes were full of horror, and Tang Lie felt guilty. If he hadn't been forced by the situation, he would never have done such a rude thing.
When Xuan Bo and Wanyue saw that Tang Lie had subdued the old man scavenging, they also walked out of the darkness. Wanyue found a rope, helped Tang Lie tie up the old man, and blocked his mouth with a piece of cloth.
Princess Xuanbo felt deeply unbearable when she saw them treating an old man in such a way. She said apologetically: "Old man, you have been wronged..." She took a hollow filigree pure blond hairpin from her head and placed it in front of the old man.
As compensation for him.
Tang Lie quickly took off his outer robe, took off the old man's clothes and put them on himself, then picked up the bamboo hat on the ground and put it on his head.
Xuan Bo and Wanyue both understood Tang Lie's intention. Xuan Bo looked at the dung bucket aside and thought to himself: "This place is so dirty, how can I hide in it?"
Tang Lie opened the dung bucket and quickly filled it. The two middle buckets only held half of the horse dung. Then he fetched cold water from the water tank in the stable and poured it into the dung bucket. His eyes turned to Xuan Bo and Wanyue.
, as if inviting you to enter the urn.
Xuan Bo bit her lower lip hard. She already understood that there was no other choice except this method. She stepped decisively into the excrement bucket. The cold excrement water stimulated her and she couldn't help but shudder.
The stench that hit her face almost suffocated her. This was the first time in her life that she had suffered such torture.
Wanyue used the short knife she carried with her to cut off the bamboo beside the stable and cut it into two hollow and transparent sections for ventilation when necessary.
Tang Lie loaded all the dung buckets onto the bullock cart, and after making sure there were no flaws, he hunched over and drove the bullock cart towards the corner gate.
When the ox cart passed the corner gate, they saw eight guards standing there holding torches high, shouting from a distance: "Who are they?"
Tang Lie hurriedly bowed and coughed violently. One of them laughed and said, "Who did I think he was? It turns out he is the old man collecting dung..." Tang Lie drove the bullock cart towards them unhurriedly.
One of the guards cursed: "What's in the car? It's so rancid. This old man is getting more and more unlucky. It's all spilled outside!"
Several people stepped aside at the same time, fearing that they would accidentally get caught in horse dung.
Tang Lie wanted them to go as far as possible. Just as the cattle cart passed through the corner gate, he didn't expect that a guard caught up with him again. He said loudly: "It's better to check. There are too many things happening in the palace tonight.
If something goes wrong, we can't afford it!"
Tang Lie's heart was pounding. He was afraid that Xuan Bo and Wanyue in the excrement bucket would be discovered by these guards. He quietly made up his mind to fight them as soon as they discovered them.
The guard said coldly: "Open all the dung buckets!"
Tang Lie had no choice but to open the lid of the dung bucket. The guard looked inside with the light of the torch, but saw nothing unusual. He didn't seem to give up, so he picked up the spear in his hand and started shooting into the dung bucket one by one.
Poke it in.
Tang Lie's heart was already in his throat. If this continues, he will definitely be exposed.
The spear pierced the excrement bucket where Wanyue was hiding, but a burst of laughter sounded from behind. Several guards laughed at the same time: "Zhou Dawu, your ability to stir up excrement is really great. You will definitely be promoted and make a fortune one day."
The guard was laughed at by his companions and immediately gave up the idea of ​​continuing the search. He smiled calmly and said: "I'm just following the orders from above!"
"Come and have a drink, don't let this smelly dung truck ruin your brothers' appetite!"
