Chapter 2257 Concealing the sky and crossing the sea
Chapter 2257: Concealing the truth
Gu Yuan dropped the body and left it for Li Cheng to deal with. He did not stay here any longer, but went straight to the garden under the south corner.
After Gu Yuan and the others killed the secret guard on the rockery in the garden, they just hid the body on the spot. His body was not touched again. Moreover, at that time, Gu Yuan and the others did not expect that the secret guard would actually appear in the middle of the night.
There is still a handover of time.
Therefore, it is necessary to intercept and kill the body before the successor secret guard discovers it, so as to avoid exposing the secret.
Fortunately, even the strictly trained secret guards walked before rushing to the ambush point, and they walked slowly and in no hurry, unlike Gu Yuan and others who took shortcuts to climb over the wall in order to save time.
Go to the house.
Gu Yuan squatted on the roof of the woman's bedroom in the outer room, looking at the five courtyards integrated into the outer courtyard, and he really saw the late-arriving secret guard.
According to the information he had received before, Gu Yuan felt that this person should be Zhu Xiaoqi.
At this moment, Zhu Xiaoqi was passing under the embroidered building. Following the fixed route he walked every day, he first walked towards the east courtyard where the maids, maids and cooks lived, and in the direction of the three kitchens.
Behind him, there was a hidden guard who walked slower than him. If Gu Yuan remembered correctly, this person was Wang Tuzi.
Looking at the direction, Wang Tuozi was obviously heading towards the embroidery building.
Gu Yuan didn't care much. He just felt that the secret guard who was going to the rockery must not be allowed to enter the south garden through the east courtyard.
Because whether it was the cooks and maids in the east courtyard or the guards on the high wall next to the garden, there were too many people there. If someone accidentally made a noise, it would not end well.
Simply, Gu Yuan jumped from the roof of the master bedroom to the roof of the east wing across the courtyard from the kitchen, casually throwing stones at the feet of the secret guard.
This was a stone without any malice. It was hit in front of Zhu Xiaoqi with no force. It just served as a reminder. Zhu Xiaoqi didn't think much about it. He raised his head and looked at Gu Yuan who had hit the stone. He instinctively
He thought Gu Yuan had something to do with him.
In order to avoid being recognized, Gu Yuan did not speak and just raised his chin in the direction of the kitchen.
Because all the secret guards covered their faces with headscarves, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed, Zhu Xiaoqi could not tell whether Gu Yuan squatting on the roof was his colleague.
Zhu Xiaoqi just looked at the clothes and thought Gu Yuan was his companion. The job of a secret guard was boring. Occasionally, everyone would have some fun, such as peeking at a maid taking a shower or something.
When Zhu Xiaoqi saw someone looking for him, he stopped and wanted to see what was going on.
Gu Yuan tried his best to lower his voice and called out in a whisper, "Xiao Qi'er..."
The secret guard's name was Zhu Xiaoqi. At this moment, when he heard Gu Yuan calling his name, he looked at Gu Yuan with confusion and asked, "What's wrong?"
Then, Gu Yuan waved his hand, signaling Zhu Xiaoqi to come up.
Just then, the fat chef had prepared the broth. He first used chicken juice, then used century-old ginseng, and finally used spirit animal meat and spiritual plant fungi. The smell of this pot of soup was incredible.
It's so fragrant, and the smell is wafting out of the open window in the kitchen.
Gu Yuan sniffed. When Zhu Xiaoqi saw this scene, he didn't think much about it. He quickly jumped up to the room, squatted next to Gu Yuan, and looked at the lighted kitchen together with their hands folded.
"What are you doing here?
Haha, Master Pang's craftsmanship is really amazing. The soup is so fragrant, it's so fragrant. Hey, do you want to make some more?
Let me tell you..."
"puff!"
A knife penetrated his chest, and Zhu Xiaoqi's eyes instantly glazed over.
Gu Yuanxin said, I am squatting here with my hands folded, you want to imitate me?
I have a knife in my sleeve, and I can only hide it in this way. If you can't pull the knife out, why are you trying to imitate me?
Even until his death, Zhu Xiaoqi could not understand why his companion stabbed him.
After hiding the body behind the ridge of the roof facing away from the courtyard wall, Gu Yuan quickly rushed off the roof and jumped into the embroidered building courtyard.
He rushed down in a hurry because Wang Tuzi, the secret guard who was running towards the embroidered building, had already arrived downstairs and was holding a torch to carefully observe the dark stains at the embroidered building.
Bald Wang sniffed his nose hard and sneezed.
He rubbed his nose and said, "I'm afraid my nose is broken, ah... what's going on, why does this smell like blood?"
Thinking of this, Baldy Wang's eyes changed, "That's not right!"
Bald Wang looked up at the secret guard on the balcony on the second floor, and saw a drop of thick liquid slowly condensing on the outer edge of the balcony, then dripping down.
Baldy Wang sniffed his nose vigorously because his nose was not easy to use. He took a drop of liquid with his hand with a puzzled look on his face, and then twisted it with his fingertips to confirm that it was blood.
Something happened. He quickly put the whistle hanging on his chest into his mouth, took a deep breath and prepared to blow the whistle to warn.
Gu Yuan was shocked by the sight and quickly shouted, "Wang Baldy?"
Wang Baldzi was angry. He hated people calling him nicknames the most. He didn't care about blowing the whistle and turned around and cursed: "Who called me another nickname?
Stop making trouble, something happened!"
Gu Yuan hurried forward in a few steps and came up behind him. The moment Wang Baldy turned his head, he cut off Wang Baldy's throat with a knife.
At this time, Li Cheng, Xiao Yingying and Zuo Zhan finally arrived. The four of them performed their duties, collecting the corpses and cleaning the blood stains.
Gu Yuan also took the time to look at the corpse on the second floor and found that although the fatal wounds were wrapped with a scarf, there was still blood flowing out of the scarf and slowly flowing to the ground.
Fortunately, after this cleaning, there will be no more problems in a short time.
After killing several secret guards in succession and hiding the bodies, Gu Yuan and the four of them sat on the ground in the embroidery building, looking very inconspicuous.
After calculating the number, it is consistent with the number of secret guards killed when they came here. At least the trouble they left behind has been solved.
Now the four of them put on the clothes of the secret guards and covered their heads with scarves, leaving only a pair of eyes. They could basically be regarded as the secret guards who had returned from handover. They looked at each other and saw that there was nothing major wrong with them. Then the four of them walked towards the guard house.
walk over.
On the way back again, with this kind of skin, no matter what kind of guards, maids, servants, etc. I met on the way, they all took the initiative to give up their positions, and no one dared to say anything. He walked in a reckless manner.
But wearing this outfit, they couldn't climb all the way over the wall like they did when they came here, so the journey was no longer a straight line. If they didn't climb over the wall, they had to take the right path, which was a lot more troublesome, and their progress slowed down.
Moreover, these different roads soon brought them to a new secret guard area. When they first met the first secret guard, they were a little nervous.
Because a patrol happened to be passing by, they couldn't take action, so they could only pretend to pass by as if nothing happened.
After passing the second secret guard, they felt a little more confident.
Soon after passing this road, they came to the corridor between the outer ring and the inner ring. Taking advantage of the absence of patrols, they passed this corridor again.