Phantom Heaven was about to freeze to death, and this was the tenth consecutive day that he had been waiting in front of the gate of the Dongou King's Palace.

The worship of Dongou Kingdom and the guards around Liu Bi, the king of Wu, have two brushes, and Phantom Tian was found twice when he sneaked into the palace. One of them was almost injured, if it was in such a place. That is sure to be hanging, because the streets are full of Dongou King and King Wu's men, and there is no place to run.

Back at his quarters, it was the courtyard of a farmhouse. Illusory is a mute who has fled here, as his northern accent would reveal his whereabouts.

"The dumb man hasn't found a job yet, wash and eat, you're thin and dumb, of course it's not easy to find a job."

A slender woman spoke to Phantom Sky with a basin of water, with a thick Sichuan accent in her words. Her name is Wu Lan, and she is the daughter of the landlord of Phantom Sky. The landlord of the Phantom Sky rental is a medicinal herb merchant surnamed Wu, who is a native of Bashu.

Perennial from Shuzhong to sell medicinal materials to Dongou , but also sell some medicinal materials to the Han Dynasty. Although it was a little hard, the benefits were considerable. I bought a small courtyard in this Dongou City, because I am not at home all year round. The empty wing room was rented out, and Phantom Sky was the first tenant.

The women in Shuzhong are spicy and generous, and they take good care of Phantom Sky. often let Huantian eat at her house, and it can be seen that Wu Lan likes Huantian a little.

"Ahh

"Okay, don't be embarrassed, come and wash your hands and eat."

After Wu Lan finished speaking, she put the basin in her hand in front of Huantian.

Phantom Tian squatted down to wash his hands, and took the soap corner next to him and wiped it on his hands. It's all stinky problems that have been cultivated in the Yun family. Wash your hands with soap.

Wu Lan looked at the appearance of Phantom Heaven washing his hands, and her eyes narrowed. Then he flicked his big braid and splashed the water that Phantom Heaven had washed his hands in the canal outside the door.

The dinner was very rich, and it was a large porcelain bowl that was a specialty of Donou. There is a large bowl of stir-fried shepherd's cabbage inside, and a few slices of bacon are dotted with it.

"Sit here and eat."

Wu Lan pointed to the mat on the floor.

"Grandma, it's time to eat."

Wu Lan shouted into the inner room again. Wu Lan's father returned to Bashu, and there were only Wu Lan and her sick mother at home.

"Dumb, you haven't found a job to do. How can a very big man be so unproductive, he can't support himself. You have to pay your rent early next month, otherwise who knows if you will miss the bill at the end of the month. And also. If you eat my family's food, you have to pay for the meal. My family runs a pharmacy. It's not a good church. ”

Wu Lan's mother speaks a little mean, and people are even meaner. Huantian has heard him gossip about scolding Huai these days. Phantom Tian nodded his head continuously, but kept chewing the rice in his mouth.

"Grandma, don't do this. People are guests. Everyone has a time when they are in trouble. ”

Wu Lan ignored her mother. Sandwiched a piece of bacon in Phantom's bowl.

"Girls are outgoing. Always talking to outsiders. ”

Wu Lan's mother muttered and ate the rice in the bowl, and knocked off the bacon on Wu Lan's chopsticks with a chopstick, for fear that she would give it to the dumb man again. Quickly pick it up and put it in your mouth. There is a clattering sound of chewing.

Phantom didn't speak, just gulped down the rice in the bowl. The amount of food in Phantom Heaven was very large, and the bowl full of rice with a large head was eaten by him.

"It's a waste of food to eat so much without working all day. The big-bellied man is still lazy, and he will definitely starve to death in the future. ”

Huantian didn't hear it, and smiled at Wu Lan as a thank you.

"Put the bowl there, I'll brush it together later."

Phantom Tian returned to the house, and the winter in Dongou was very cold. The kind of cold that belongs to Jiangnan, the kind of cold that is wrapped in frost from body to mind.

Wrapped in a tattered quilt, he fell asleep. Tonight, he was going to visit Dongou Palace again, and if he really didn't have a chance, he was ready to go back. Yun Xiao's order to him was to come to reconnoitre, and at the same time to test whether he could kill Liu Bi, the king of Wu. If you can kill it, you can kill it, and if you can't kill it, you will go back to Yueyang after listening to some news. Zhang Shisan was ordered to build a city there, and Xiang Yong's family members are now settled in Yueyang City. Yueyang City, which is like a ghost, is now gradually becoming lively.

Xia Xuanyue only revealed a crooked crescent, and the phantom sky sat up from the collapse of the earth. He washed his face with the water he had saved, put on his night clothes, took his sword from the beam of the house, and sneaked through the darkness to the palace in Donou.

The royal palace in Dongou is very large, and Huantian came twice but did not find the residence of Liu Bi, the king of Wu. After bumping and walking, he was discovered by the worship in the Dongou Palace. This time he decided to enter from the northwest, where the whole palace had not yet been explored.

The security was very tight, and it was not long before a few soldiers stood guard. Patrol soldiers even carried lanterns and walked between the pavilions and buildings. From a distance, it looked like shiny centipedes crawling inside the palace. It seems that the continuous exploration these days has attracted the attention of the Dongou King, and the last time he came to guard it was not so strict.

Taking advantage of the gap just passed by a group of patrolling soldiers, Phantom Sky ran a few steps and flew upward. He put his hands on the edge of the wall, tugged his abdomen and twisted his waist upwards and climbed onto the wall. Seeing that there were no soldiers and vicious dogs below, he jumped down in a hurry. The palace walls are not a good place to stand and be discovered.

Tiptoeing to the back of a house, he stood under the back window and eavesdropped.

"Big brother, can we still go back to Jiangdu? General Xiang was beheaded, and the water bandits in Dongting were also exterminated. We won't stay in Dongou for the rest of our lives, my wife still doesn't know what to do in Jiang. ”

"Hey, I didn't expect General Xiang to win the first battle and be defeated and die so quickly. Brother, I guess we won't be able to go back to Jiangdu. Now Jiangdu has been completely controlled by the imperial army, and the king of Jiujiang and Changsha have also controlled Dongting Lake. According to the military report that has just come today, the army of the imperial court has built a city in Yueyang. I'm afraid that there will never be water bandits in Dongting Lake in the future. ”

"Then big brother, let's ......"

Huantian nodded secretly in his heart, since King Wu's subordinates are here, then King Wu must also live here.

With the help of the dark night, Phantom Sky slowly moved his body against the root of the wall. The barking of vicious dogs was heard in the distance, and it was not good to see that there were vicious dogs ahead. Phantom Heaven took out a rabbit kept in a cage from his arms, which was a life-saving trick last time when he was hiding from the pursuit of the Heavenly Machine Pavilion.

The barking of the dog gradually approached, and Phantom Tian threw the rabbit in his hand far away. Then crouch in the dark and wait for the results.

The two vicious dogs suddenly broke free from the ropes in the hands of the army and pounced into the darkness. Phantom Tian smiled slightly, and after the soldiers chased after him with shouts, he sneaked inside.

In front of him was a palace complex, and Phantom Heaven was sure that King Wu was in one of the palaces. However, he couldn't be sure which temple he was in, so he could only follow a person who looked like an attendant in the hope of discovering the location of King Wu.

The chamberlain entered a temple, and as soon as Phantom stepped on the railing of the corridor, he climbed the pillars of the corridor. Hold the beams between your legs, lean forward and dip your fingers in the saliva to gently wet the window paper, and then pierce it.

This is not the dormitory of King Wu, but the residence of two high-ranking chamberlains.

"Big brother, the prince is going out of the city tomorrow to greet someone. I heard that there has been a lot of trouble in the past few days, who would let the prince take such a big risk and go to the city gate to greet him in person. ”

"I heard that it is a person from the north, a general under General Xiang. Now the only army near Jiangdu is in his hands, but it is small enough to fight against the imperial court. The prince is ready to recruit troops and horses in Dongou and return to Jiangdu as much as possible. Otherwise, if you stay like this for another year and a half, people's minds will change and they don't need to be levied by the imperial court. The people around King Wu ran away. ”

"Yes, I also heard that there is a powerful general in the imperial court. Originally, General Xiang had already captured the king of Jiangdu and almost captured Jiangdu. But this general came and turned the situation around in just a few months. The prince was so angry that he almost vomited blood, but he didn't have the slightest solution. I heard that even Tianji Pavilion suffered a big loss this time. ”

"Really, even someone as powerful as Tianji Pavilion has suffered a big loss. It seems that this time there is really no hope. ”

"Sleep, tomorrow I will accompany the prince to Beicheng to drink the wind."

Hearing this, Phantom Tian no longer hesitated, and gently jumped off the beam, landing on the ground without making a sound. Returning along the same route, he had just passed the Moon Gate, where the vicious dogs were ambushed, when he heard the barking of dogs and the scolding of the soldiers in the distance. Apparently very annoyed by the behavior of vicious dogs chasing rabbits.

Phantom Sky secretly screamed in danger, and then turned over and jumped onto the wall. Then under the cover of the dark night, I returned to my Wu house. Jumping into the fence and returning to my own house, I suddenly felt wrong. It was as if someone was watching him from behind, and he slowly turned around with his hand on the hilt of his sword. There was nothing behind him, only the dim moonlight shining on Wu Lan's window opposite.

A swordsman is very confident in his sixth sense, although he is not perverted to the point of being blind, but if someone peeps at him in the dark, he can still feel it.

There was an unpleasant sound of metal grinding, and Phantom Heaven pulled the sword out of its scabbard extremely slowly. The long sword reflected the cold light in the moonlight, and this sword of his was specially made for him by the disciples of the Gongpai School with steel with a changed ratio. Even in the face of sharp sabers, there is a fight. If it is an ordinary iron sword of this era, it can be cut with a single slash with all your strength.

Since using this iron sword, Phantom's offensive moves have changed. Originally, when using a sword, the blade of the sword was used to cherish the weapon and the blade of the sword was not handed over to the other party as much as possible. Now, he specializes in handing over the blades of the opponent's sword and then winning with the advantage of his weapon. From this phantom sky, his moves are becoming more and more like Dai Yu using a saber. Sometimes Phantom Tian thinks that he should go back and replace his sword with a saber.

I glanced around in the darkness in front of the rooftop room on the opposite side and a suspicious place, but I didn't find a single person's shadow. And the feeling of being peeped at was even stronger, which made Phantom Tian feel creepy. (To be continued......)