From the red mountain pass forty miles south of Shouzhou to Luzhou City, there are nearly 100 miles, Rao is Su Jin and others rode a horse is a well-trained horse, this run also ran for nearly three hours, until the end of the fifth watch, this is faintly seen Luzhou City's black and tall north gate.

Running not far from the city, Su Jin and the others turned over and dismounted, but the three horses fell to the ground one after another, foaming at the mouth, and couldn't get up again.

Su Jin secretly rejoiced that the horse was human, and he ran to the place before he fell, if it was finished halfway, he would want to cry without tears.

"Horses, thank you for your efforts, and I will build a tomb for you to bury when I go back." Su Jin stroked the horse's mane and muttered a few words, and walked to the city with two personal guards.

The sky has gradually turned white, and through the faint light, you can see that the tall city gate is closed, and it can be vaguely seen that there are soldiers patrolling the city, coming and going.

Su Jin's heart tightened, and he said in his heart: It's broken! In the past few days of the New Year, the cities of the major state capitals are open all night to facilitate the people to travel back and forth; Even in normal times, after the halfway point of the fifth watch, the city gate is open, which is as tightly closed as it is now, and it looks like it is heavily guarded; It is very likely that Zhu Shiyong closed the city gate and searched for himself.

Thinking like this, Su Jin's heart suddenly sank to the bottom, and the cold was biting, if it was really as he thought, the people in the family were afraid that ......, Su Jin didn't dare to think about it.

"Master Su, what should I do?" The two relatives also felt that something was wrong, and asked Su Jin softly.

Su Jin thought for a while and said: "No matter what, you have to hurry into the city, I can't come forward, you go forward to try your luck, if you can open the city gate, I will get some sludge and black my face and mix in." ”

A relative nodded and said, "It's okay, let's try it, and the lowly post said that it was sent by Shouzhou to deliver the letter." ”

Su Jin looked at the official clothes on the two of them, nodded and said, "You can give it a try." ”

Before dawn, when the sky was still dark, and when he approached twenty or thirty paces, he was found on the top of the city, and immediately someone shouted, "Who is that?" Don't go close. ”

"Master Jun, I'm going to enter the city, please open the city gate, it's time to open the city gate, how can the city gate be closed."

"Hurry up, today on the orders of Lord Fuzun, the whole city of Luzhou Mansion is strictly prohibited, and it is strictly forbidden for idle people to enter and exit, leave quickly, don't come to bother."

"Forbidden? Which one is strict about the prohibition of the New Year? ”

"Why are you so verbose, you said that if you don't let in, you won't let in, and if you are verbose, the brothers on the city tower will invite you to eat kebabs."

The relatives naturally knew what 'kebab' meant, that is, the meaning of a sharp arrow piercing the heart, and immediately smiled with a smile: "This brother, I am an official sent by Shouzhou City to deliver a letter, you look at my clothes, I also came on official business, can you be accommodating, how about letting me wait to go into the city?" ”

The soldiers in the city looked at him for a long time and said: "Brother, it's not time to come, Governor Zhu has issued a strict order, no one is allowed to enter the city, the city is searching for death row prisoners, if we open the city gate, if the fugitive is not caught, will we have to blame it; If you really come to deliver the letter, you will wait outside the city, and after the handover, brother, I am willing to go to the government office for you to deliver a letter; If the prefect lets you in, it won't be too late for you to come in again. ”

The relatives begged for a long time, but the soldiers in the city were unwilling to open the door, and in desperation, they had to retreat; Tell Su Jinyi about the situation, and the three of them are at a loss for what to do.

Su Jin frowned and thought hard, it was a decisive plan to break through, how could he think of a way to enter the city without knowing it, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he remembered that part of the Shushan Lake outside the west gate went deep into the city, and it was unknown if he could detour to the west of the city and enter the city by water; It's a stupid idea, but it's better than being stuck in this place.

After making up his mind, Su Jin took two relatives to walk west around the city wall, and after walking for a few miles, he heard a sound of ropes in the long grass in the ditch in front of him, and some people hid in the grass in a panic.

As soon as Su Jin squatted down, before he could hide, he heard Ma Han's voice from the wild grass on the ditch: "Son, master...... It's ...... Childe! ”

Su Jin was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly stepped forward, only to see the four of Ma Han, Zhang Long, and Zhao Hu of the Changcaoli Dynasty walking towards him with a large bundle of wild grass.

Su Jin was depressed to death, thinking that these four foodies had come back early and had already mixed into the city, but he didn't expect that these four guys were still wasting time in the barren grass outside the city, and he was really angry, and scolded: "You still have the heart to sleep in this barren grass, but you really have the leisure." ”

Wang Chao and the others were surprised that Su Jin came so quickly, and when they heard Su Jin's words, their smiles suddenly disappeared, and they said aggrievedly: "Master, where did we sleep." ”

Su Jin pointed to the barren grass they were holding in their arms and said, "Isn't this a woven straw curtain as a cover?" ”

Ma Han hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Ye can misunderstand, we just arrived less than an hour, in the north of the city ten miles Ying, our horses were all tired to death, we walked ten miles to get here, but the city gate is closed and can't enter at all, so the four of us combined, simply use these wild grass to make a rope ladder to climb up to the city, you see, just braided." ”

As he spoke, he shook off the wild grass in his arms, and sure enough, it was a grass ladder that rolled tightly together.

Su Jin scratched his head and said, "Master is in a hurry, the four brothers are wrong, can this thing be done?" ”

Zhao Hu said: "Don't worry, you can definitely do it; When I was in the division, the cliff behind the mountain was thousands of feet, and I made up a rope ladder to go up and down freely. ”

Su Jin said: "Without further ado, let's hurry up and try it." ”

Wang Chao said: "Don't worry, the patrol has been over for a while, wait a while, and wait for a new group of patrol soldiers to pass, then we will have about half a pillar of incense, which should be enough for us to climb the city wall." ”

Su Jin secretly blamed himself for caring about the chaos, and he was in chaos so quickly, fortunately, they were still meticulous in their experience, otherwise they would have to return in vain.

A few people waited quietly in the grass, and after a while, a patrol team of seven or eight people walked over the high city wall and gradually disappeared into the distance; Wang Chao said softly: "Master, it's time for us to move." ”

Su Jin waved his hand, and the seven people jumped out of the grass and rushed straight to the root of the city wall; Before rushing out of twenty or thirty steps, everyone was dumbfounded, and there was a moat more than two zhang wide in front of them, and the rivers and mountains were also thin with a layer of ice.

Su Jin couldn't wait to slap his mouth, how could he forget this stubble, didn't there be a wide or narrow moat around the ancient city, and he was so stupid that he didn't have anything to deal with it.

"Master, what should I do?" Dynasty asked.

Su Jin's face was expressionless, he reached out to unbutton his cotton robe, quickly stripped off the clothes on his body, wrapped them up and held them above his head, and stretched out his feet to step into the biting ice water.

Everyone secretly admired, the prince seemed to be weak, this decisive decision was absolutely unambiguous, and he didn't frown when he stepped into the ice water on a cold day, and ordinary strong men couldn't do it.

Stunned, Su Jin had already arrived in the middle of the river, and everyone hurriedly drew a scoop according to the gourd, and all of them took off their clothes naked and lifted their clothes and swam across the river.

After leaving the water, as soon as the north wind blew, everyone suddenly felt like they were in an ice cellar, Su Jin said with blue lips: "You must dry the water on your body before you can wear dry clothes, and the clothes will be fine as soon as you put them on." ”

Everyone hurriedly wiped their bodies with their coats, and hurriedly put on their clothes, and there was a sound of footsteps in the distance above the city, obviously because the delay was too long, and the patrol came again.

Su Jin made a gesture, and everyone lay motionless under the base of the city wall, and heard someone at the head of the city: "Hey, Lao Ge, look at the water in the moat, why did it turn over so many blisters, isn't there a big fish?" ”

Su Jin was startled, and several of his people stepped on the sludge at the bottom of the moat to cross the river, and this time the river water turned over, naturally it was bubbles, but he didn't expect the patrolling people to be able to see it.

Another voice said: "What's the matter, it's the ripples of the wind, isn't it okay, aren't you hungry again, and you can't eat a carp hot pot?" ”

The man laughed and said, "Don't you want to eat?" I heard that Sun Erniang, who is next door to the barracks, cooks a hot pot and eats you every night, and it seems that you are tired of eating. ”

The rest of the soldiers laughed strangely, and someone chimed in: "That hot pot can be warm, you can eat and drink and warm the birds, and you can take two sips when you are thirsty, it's so beautiful." ”

The old man said angrily: "You grandsons, if you have the ability, you can also find a concubine, damn it, see that Lao Tzu is open to the sky, beware of Lao Tzu turning his face, kicking you down the city, and killing you a king and eight calves." ”

Everyone laughed and said forgiveness, giggling and gradually walking by, Zhang Long nested under the wall, the wind blew, a shiver on his body, his nose and eyes were itchy, and he suddenly opened his mouth wide, and saw an earth-shattering sneeze about to explode.

Wang Chao's eyes were quick, and he pressed his face into the unkempt rope ladder, and a muffled sneeze was still clearly recognizable; Su Jin and the others were so frightened that they held their breath and listened; The patrol in the city was obviously intoxicated with the fun of teasing Lao Ge, and they giggled away without noticing.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and when the patrol team went away, Wang Chao slapped Zhang Long and scolded: "It's almost a big deal, the prince can hold it, but you can't hold it; Bun like. ”

Zhang Long was ashamed and wanted to die, and was about to apologize, Su Jin waved his hand and said, "Go to the city quickly, the sky is about to dawn." ”

Wang Chao didn't say a word when he heard this, grabbed a rope ladder, compared it to three or four feet long, tied a fist-sized bluestone at one end, picked up his arm and turned it around a few times, and let go; Then there was a whoosh, and the stone flew straight to the head of the city with a straw rope, and landed on the head of the city wall with a click.

Wang Dynasty took the rope and moved along the city wall, until the rope was moved to the crack between the two battlements, and then slowly pulled the rope down, and after a while, I heard a click, and the bluestone was firmly stuck between the battlements, and it became a rope to climb.

Zhang Long made up for it, tightened his trouser belt, held the straw rope with both hands, and kicked the city wall with both feet, and in the blink of an eye, he had already gone to the city.

The crowd cheered, and one by one climbed up, and then quickly set up a rope on the other side, and fell into the city.

When the patrol passed by again, Su Jin and the other seven people had quickly disappeared into the streets.