Following the tall and straight ladder, Zhou Jun and Hua Yue returned to the vault in the middle of the lantern tower.
Liu Xiaoxian stood in the corner of the arch, while Jin Youji squatted by the stairs with his head in his hands.
Zhou Jun looked at these two people, and then looked down through the window next to him. He saw that there were armed guards patrolling the gates and walls of Shangyang Palace, and said to himself: "
No matter what, at least they are safe here in the Denglou."
Huayue: "Why don't I go find Liu Yushi now, tell him everything that happened here, and ask him to bring in reinforcements."
Zhou Jun: "Liu Yushi is surrounded by the enemy's spies. He is injured and has difficulty moving. Moreover, today is the Lantern Festival. By the time he moves in from the palace to rescue troops, the enemy will have already arrived.
."
Huayue: "It seems that we can only spend time here tonight."
Zhou Jun still wanted to say something, but Liu Xiaoxian walked out from the corner, came to the former, and said, "Mr. Zhou, Xiaoxian has something to say to you alone."
Zhou Jun frowned and replied: "If you have something to say, just tell me."
Liu Xiaoxian glanced at Hua Yue and saw that although this maidservant was as graceful and graceful as a cold dew lilac, with exotic sentiments, she was still too young and weak in stature, so she gently lifted her collar and exposed her breasts.
The white snow in front of him said softly: "Zhou Lang has not married yet, and he only has this young girl by his side. I am afraid he will be very lonely without a beautiful woman to accompany him all night long."
Hearing this, Hua Yue was stunned for a moment, then glared at Liu Xiaoxian angrily.
Zhou Jun smiled bitterly and shook his head, and said to Liu Xiaoxian: "Liu Duzhi, don't be so careful."
Liu Xiaoxian came closer to Zhou Jun and said: "Whether your thoughts are small or big, you can only know if you try... As long as Erlang agrees to find a place for me, Xiaoxian will not dare to boast about his ability to serve others.
comparable……"
Huayue spat, and her whole body looked like a leopard about to explode.
Zhou Jun said seriously to Liu Xiaoxian: "Liu Duzhi, if you want to use sex to induce profit, you are probably looking for the wrong person. Your current situation is not an exaggeration to say that your life is hanging by a thread. I would like to advise you, instead of thinking about these things
It’s all nonsense, it’s better to go see the Holy Spirit earlier and there’s still a glimmer of hope.”
When Liu Xiaoxian heard this, his eyes turned cold, he closed his collar, snorted coldly, and turned around to leave.
Jin Youji, who had watched it from beginning to end, looked painful, came to Zhou Jun, bowed his hands, opened his mouth but didn't know what to say.
Zhou Jun waved his hand, remembered something, and asked: "You once said before that you asked your friends from the same country to help you find a ship to return to Silla?"
Jin Youji: "Yes."
Zhou Jun: "How did your friend reply?"
Jin Youji: "He refused at first, but then he came over and asked me where I wanted to go and where I wanted to go."
When Zhou Jun heard this, he faintly noticed something was wrong, and asked again: "Did you tell him?"
Jin Youji was a little at a loss: "Yes."
Zhou Jun: "How did he reply?"
Jin Youji: "He said it was no problem and it would be arranged in a short time. In order not to miss the sailing date, he also asked me to contact him as soon as possible about boarding the ship."
Hua Yue listened on the sidelines and said anxiously: "In the first month of the year, most of the Tang Dynasty's workshops and trading houses have holidays. Only foreign ships enter the Tang Dynasty. How many Tang ships go out to sea? He is obviously lying to you!"
When Jin Youji heard this, his body trembled.
Zhou Jun clenched his fists and asked Jin Youji: "Let me ask you, did you tell him about taking your daughter back to the lantern tower?"
Jin Youji's face turned pale and he was about to collapse: "I met him on the way back, and he told me that the ship had been docked. I was so happy that I told him about the lantern tower."
Zhou Jun took a breath of cold air, stood up and walked to the window. Looking downstairs, he saw that the military guards around Shangyang Palace had disappeared.
Huayue felt nervous and asked Zhou Jun: "What should I do? Do you want to rush out now?"
Zhou Jun shook his head and whispered: "We are in the light and the enemy is in the dark. If we rush out now, we will only be ambushed."
Huayue: "What should we do?"
Zhou Jun: "Wait, the enemy can't keep calm and will naturally launch an offensive first. Also, please invite Master Mao Shun down. I have something to say to him."
Huayue responded, and with a quick step, she rushed towards the ladder of the watchtower.
While Zhou Jun was observing the topography of the lantern tower, Mao Shun and Huayue followed the ladder to the middle arch.
Zhou Jun pulled Mao Shun to a remote corner and roughly explained the current situation.
Mao Shun's first reaction was to send people to move reinforcements. Zhou Jun told him that since the enemy was well prepared and sent away the armed guards, there must be a heavy ambush outside the wall. No matter who went out at this time,
It's a dead end.
While Mao Shun was still thinking, Huayue, who was standing by the window, suddenly shouted: "Someone is coming!"
Zhou Jun looked down and saw dozens of masked men wearing night clothes and holding sharp knives, climbing over the palace wall and running quickly towards the entrance of the lantern tower.
Seeing that the situation was urgent, Zhou Jun asked Mao Shun: "Mao Jiang, when you designed this lamp building, could you leave a backup exit just in case?"
Mao Shun nodded and said: "The Ministry of Industry requires that when designing a lamp tower every year, in order to prevent fire, an emergency escape must be left. This year's Taishang Xuanyuan True Immortal, the emergency exit is located on the top of the watchtower.
It’s a rope ladder that can be retracted and folded.”
Zhou Jun said hello and asked Mao Shun in a low voice: "Mao Jiang, when you wanted to burn down this lamp tower, where is the tung oil stored in the arch now?"
Mao Shun pointed to the top of the arch.
Zhou Jun looked up and saw many pipes and boxes built on the vault.
Zhou Jun: "Where is the mechanism that releases the tung oil?"
Mao Shun whispered: "On the inner wall of the watchtower, pull down the red wooden pole at the top."
Zhou Jun said hello, and while listening to the footsteps coming from downstairs, he said to Mao Shun: "Master, take all the craftsmen, put down the escape rope ladder, and escape from the watchtower as soon as possible. After landing, remember to hide first
Get up and don’t leave the palace.”
Mao Shun: "What about you?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Zhou Jun: "We stay here to delay, and we will come soon."
Mao Shun nodded, turned around, called all the craftsmen, and climbed up to the watchtower.
Jin Youji and Liu Xiaoxian also saw the men in black downstairs. When they saw everyone leaving, they followed the crowd and fled towards the watchtower.
Zhou Jun and Hua Yue pushed and pulled the debris in the arch, blocking the exit to the watchtower.
After doing all this, before the two of them could take a breath, they heard a group of people rushing into the arch and searching everywhere.
Zhou Jun made a gesture towards Huayue, and the two of them climbed up the wooden ladder carefully, trying not to make the slightest sound.
More than halfway up the climb, when I was about to reach the exit, the debris under the wooden ladder was lifted, and someone discovered the wooden ladder leading to the watchtower.
Soon, the enemies climbed up the wooden ladder one after another and chased up quickly.
Zhou Jun and Huayue quickly stepped up, climbed out of the wooden ladder, and came to the watchtower.
Without enough time to take a breath, Zhou Jun first closed the movable door panel at the entrance of the watchtower, and then together with Hua Yue, they pushed down the cabinet on the side and covered the door panel.
First, Zhou Jun let out a long breath and walked into the inner room of the watchtower. He saw a red wooden pole hidden in the corner at the top of the inner wall.
Zhou Jun grabbed the wooden pole without hesitation and pulled it down hard. He heard a huge clang from inside the entire lamp tower, and there were faint sounds of cracking and running water in the middle.
Immediately afterwards, looking down from the watchtower, I saw huge and fierce flames that swallowed up the entire arch in an instant.
Screams and curses kept coming from under the movable door of the wooden ladder, and some people even tried desperately to knock on the tightly pressed door in order to survive.
Zhou Jun took Hua Yue to open the ceiling of the watchtower and saw a rope ladder hanging from the side of the fifteen-story lantern tower, swaying in the wind.
Standing on a high place and looking down, Zhou Jun felt a little dizzy, and even his feet felt a little shaky.
Knowing that he could not delay, he plucked up the courage to climb up the rope ladder, closed his eyes tightly and climbed down section by section.
When the two of them reached the ground below the lantern tower, the lantern tower of Taishang Xuanyuan Zhenxian was already on fire. The fire was so intense that it could be clearly seen from miles away.
Thinking of his experience in the high altitude just now, Zhou Jun's body softened and he sat on the ground, his legs and feet trembling slightly.
Huayue looked at the craftsmen around her, then at Jin Youji and Liu Xiaoxian, and said, "It won't take long before the lantern tower is burned down. Someone from the palace will be sent to take a look."
Liu Xiaoxian woke up from a dream, struggled to get up from the ground, and walked towards the gate of Shangyang Palace. He also said: "I can't stay, I won't go to see the saint, and I don't want to live in fear all my life."
Among them!"
Zhou Jun wanted to stand up, but his legs and feet still refused to obey him, so he had to yell: "Come back!"
Hearing Zhou Jun's shout, Liu Xiaoxian's footsteps became faster. She smiled and said: "As long as I escape from here and go to a place where no one knows me, I can use a new name to start a new life...
"
Liu Xiaoxian had just escaped to the palace gate when an arrow shot through the air into her chest, shattering her smile, her life and her vision like a phantom.
Standing at the door of Shangyang Palace, Liu Xiaoxian stretched out his hand, trying to catch the bright moon in Shangyuan night sky.
When the five fingers were closed and opened, looking at the nothingness in the palm, Liu Xiaoxian smiled and shed tears, and finally closed her eyes unwillingly.
Jin Youji screamed, quickly ran to Liu Xiaoxian's body, held him in his arms, and burst into tears.
Faced with this sudden scene, Hua Yue asked Zhou Jun at a loss: "Erlang, what should we do now?"
Zhou Jun let out a long sigh, closed his eyes and said: "Liu Xiaoxian is dead, and those people have no reason to chase us anymore. Moreover, there is a fire in the lamp tower, and the palace will send someone to check it out soon. What we should do now is to leave as soon as possible."
here."
Master Mao Shun said to the craftsmen around him: "Although there is a cause for the fire in the lamp tower, it is not our fault. But the palace will not listen to the craftsmen's excuses. After getting angry, it will be either exile or death penalty. If you stay, you will just commit suicide."
It’s just asking for hardship, it’s better to escape far away from home.”
The other craftsmen, who were already working in Mao Shun's hands, heard this and said yes.
When everyone fled Shangyang Palace, Zhou Jun passed by Jin Youji and asked him: "What are you going to do in the future?"
Jin Youji turned a deaf ear and just picked up Liu Xiaoxian's body and murmured in a low voice: "Since Chunying doesn't want to go home, then Aye will accompany you and stay in the Tang Dynasty together..."
After saying that, Jin Youji hugged Liu Xiaoxian and walked slowly towards the lantern tower that was burning with fire and was collapsing.
When Hua Yue saw it, she couldn't bear it and wanted to step forward to stop it.
Zhou Jun stopped Hua Yue and shook his head gently.