In the evening, Emperor Li Yu once again secretly met with Guo Song in the back house of the Imperial Commercial Bank.
Li Yu wore ordinary clothes and put on a little makeup, turning into an extremely ordinary person. Even if he walked to the entrance of the palace, the guards might not recognize him as the owner of the palace.
Li Yu looked a little worried and hesitated for a while before saying to Guo Song: "Yu Chaoen has eight inner study rooms. One of the study rooms is in front of a century-old locust tree. It is very remote. Yu Chaoen rarely goes there.
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But there is a secret room hidden in this very inconspicuous study, which is built underground. The passage to the secret room is behind the bookshelf. There may be some switch turned on, but I want to tell you, there are twenty-four blocks on the ground in this passage.
A replica, as soon as you step on it, you will fall. There is a gun pit below, and you will definitely die. Even if you don't step on the flap, step on the real board or touch the wall, hundreds of dense poisonous arrows will be shot out from the holes in the walls on both sides. The same
There is no escape from death.”
"But if the passage is so tightly guarded, how can Yu Chaoen get in by himself?" Guo Song couldn't help but ask.
"That's a good question!"
Li Yu smiled faintly, "There is another door ten feet away from this study, that is, in another study. The door is made of thousands of pounds of pig iron. The key is always hung on Yu Chaoen's neck. That door is
The place where Yu Chaoen entered the secret room, and the death door in the study room, are specially reserved for those who care about his secret room."
"Holy shit!"
Guo Song secretly cursed, there is actually a gate of life and a gate of death, "Your Majesty, has Yu Chaoen taken the key off yet?"
Li Yu shook his head, "Never before, but I mean, you still have to go through the door of death. As long as you can pass it, the door of death can also lead to the secret room. That is the way of escape that Yu Chaoen left for himself. In the secret room, you can
The devices in the passage are turned off."
Guo Song knew that Li Yu still had something to say, so he stood aside and listened quietly. In fact, he really wanted to know how Li Yu knew these secrets, but the other party was the emperor! The emperor always has his own sources of information that are not known to ordinary people.
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Li Yu glanced at Guo Song and saw that he was listening attentively and was very satisfied. He continued: "The only way to enter through the study door is to fly through the air without touching the wall or the ground. But people
It is impossible to fly ten feet away, you must hold a rope."
After Li Yu finished explaining the structure of the secret room, he said to Guo Song: "There are two imperial edicts left by the Supreme Emperor in the secret room. I will give you two days to take out these two edicts. It is of great significance. As long as you succeed, I promise to come again."
You will be promoted to the first level of nobility."
The eyelids of Mrs. Gongsun next to her suddenly jumped up. She was promoted to a Marquis, and she was actually the same as herself. She had worked hard for twenty years to get this title. How many months had Guo Song been here?
Although Aunt Gongsun felt a little sad, she was still happy for Guo Song. After all, he was her nephew. She knew in her heart that this task would never be easy to complete.
Guo Song knelt down on one knee and said, "I will definitely not let down your majesty's great trust."
Li Yu was overjoyed. He took out two scrolls and handed them to Guo Song, "These are fakes. After taking the real edict, put the fake edict away. In addition, there are many rare and rare treasures in the secret room. Don't touch any of them."
After Yu Chaoen is killed, you can choose the items in the secret room."
"I have a sense of propriety and will not touch anything without permission."
Li Yu added: "Yu Chaoen is going to the Shence Army camp early tomorrow morning. He is not at home. This is your chance. I hope you can succeed. Your aunt will provide you with the special equipment you need."
Guo Song nodded, "Wei Chen will sneak into Yu Mansion tonight."
Li Yu sighed slightly: "This mission has been prepared for five years, and many candidates have been considered. However, because this mission can only succeed and cannot fail, I have been enduring it for five years. It was not until you arrived that I made a decision.
determination."
That night, Guo Song sneaked into Yu Chaoen's mansion from the northwest corner of Yu Mansion. Yu Chaoen lived in the east courtyard, and the northwest corner was the servant's room. It was a remote place with low status. There were basically no guards here.
In the northwest corner is a long alley, with densely packed houses on both sides of the alley, home to nearly two hundred rough servants of the Yu Mansion.
Guo Song was wearing a black warrior uniform and lying on the roof. On the other side of the roof was the guest house. There were many literati living in the guest house. Yu Chaoen was also arty and kept a group of literati to sing his praises all day long.
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This group of literati lives in the west courtyard. At this moment, they are gathering together to drink, laughing constantly, and it is extremely lively.
There were no patrols in the west courtyard, but there were more than a dozen warriors and several mastiffs in the corridor outside the wall of the west courtyard. Guo Song passed through the west courtyard, then crawled along the roof ridges and jumped over several large houses. He finally landed in the inner house.
On a roof to the west, there is a century-old tree next to it. This house is Yu Chaoen's most remote study room. Yu Chaoen's secret room is hidden under this study room.
Perhaps to give people an illusion of unimportance, there was no patrolling guard around the study. Guo Song observed for a long time and was convinced that there were no patrolling guards, so he turned over lightly.
Early the next morning, Yu Chaoen left the mansion under the tight protection of a hundred warriors and headed for the Shence Army Camp in Bashang.
When the departure horn sounded, Guo Song immediately floated down from the beam. He slept on the beam all night, waiting for Yu Chaoen to leave.
Take out a very heavy bow from the bow bag. This is a copper-tied iron-backed bow stored in the palace. The entire auxiliary bow is made of pig iron, and the bow strings and steel wire strings are used. It is a six-stone bow.
, not many people in the entire Tang Dynasty could pull it off.
The arrows were three iron arrows. The bow and arrow plus the black sword weighed at least sixty kilograms. It was also because of ten years of weight-bearing practice on the cliff that Guo Song was able to carry them like walking on flat ground.
He found the mechanism behind the bookshelf last night. It was deliberately designed to be obvious and easy to find. He turned the switch and heard a "click!" sound coming from behind the bookshelf. He pushed the bookshelf gently and pressed it against the bookshelf.
The door was slowly opened, revealing a passage.
The reason why Guo Song chose daytime was not because Yu Chaoen wanted to leave during the day, but because of the light problem. He must light up the lights at night. When he lights up, he can see the lights outside, but he does not use them during the day. Although the passage is a bit dark, Guo Song
Song still saw clearly.
The passage is made of bluestone, and the walls are polished very smooth, but the bottom and sides are made of false boards. If you take a few steps, you will fall down into a deep pit. Even if you don't climb down, you will be shot by the powerful crossbows hidden on both sides.
kill.
Guo Song stood at the entrance of the passage and took out an iron arrow. Two thin long ropes were threaded through the tail of the iron arrow. This long rope was also in the palace collection. It was made of unknown materials and was extremely tough.
Guo Song took the iron arrow, struggled with his arms, and opened the strong bow with a creaking sound. He could only draw the six-stone iron-armed bow with copper tires twice at most.
After finding the right feeling, he loosened his hand and the iron arrow shot towards the target with a "whoosh!"
His target was a small gap between two large bluestones. With a "click" sound, the iron arrow shot into the gap and was firmly nailed to the wall.
He turned around and shot another arrow, but the second arrow was shot at the wall of the study. The iron arrow was deeply nailed into the opposite wall, and most of it was submerged. He tied the rope firmly to the two iron arrows.
The arrow required drawing a six-stone iron bow and nailing it to the crack of the bluestone ten feet away. It not only required extraordinary archery skills, but also strong arm strength. Li Yu could not find a suitable candidate. He waited for five years until Guo
Song arrives.
With these two arrows alone, probably no one else in Chang'an except Guo Song could do it.
Guo Song put on his deerskin gloves and climbed up the rope gently. The rope sank down to about a foot from the ground. He climbed forward slowly on the rope, and big drops of sweat dripped from his hair.
Rolling down, this is also a huge test. Aunt Gongsun once took the test and none of her subordinates could do it. Even Yang Yu, who had slept on the rope for more than ten years, could not do it. He only climbed the rope and walked away.
Ten steps is the best result of Hidden Sword Pavilion.
If Guo Song hadn't practiced jumping off cliffs for ten years, he wouldn't have been able to do it. Guo Song climbed this short distance of ten feet for half an hour. The door was locked from the inside and he kicked it open.
It's a dark staircase.
Guo Songyi jumped onto the steps, lit a fire stick, found the handle to close the mechanism, and pulled it down hard. He only heard a sound of the mechanism, and soon it became quiet again.
Guo Song immediately took out the third iron sword, turned around and threw it towards the aisle. The iron arrow clanked, but the floor did not turn over. He threw the thirty kilogram iron bow up again, but the floor still did not turn over. He breathed a sigh of relief.
You can go back directly from here later.
Guo Song closed the door, lit a candle, and slowly walked down the spiral stone staircase with the candle in hand.
Walking out of the stone staircase, a secret room suddenly appeared in front of him.