He made a gesture to Tang Ji, who was sitting on the ground, and then turned his head to look around in the direction where the night fragrance car was going, judging that there was no one nearby, Liu Wei suddenly jumped out of the roadside, crossed his waist with one hand, raised his other arm and pointed at the night fragrance car, and shouted at the coachman: "Stop!" ”

The driver was a middle-aged man with a white beard, who walked beside the car, waving the whip in his hand from time to time, and making a "oh oh" or two.

In the darkness of the night, a man suddenly jumped out of the spur and stopped in front of him, startling the man, and he hurriedly grabbed the donkey who was driving the cart and stopped the cart.

Stopping the donkey cart, the coachman looked at Liu Wei carefully from head to toe, and saw that Liu Wei was covered in water stains, and the clothes on his body were also burned black, and he couldn't distinguish his identity for a while, and asked a little timidly: "Dare to ask this ......?" ”

"What this and that!" The coachman was only halfway through his words, and Liu Wei waved his hand at him with an impatient look, and asked angrily, "Who are you?" It doesn't seem to be you who pulls the night incense on weekdays, isn't it that you saw the water in the palace today, murdered the person who pulled the night incense, and wanted to take the opportunity to steal some treasures? ”

Liu Wei is still young, and his voice is still a little sharp when he speaks, and his arrogant attitude is really a bit like the attitude of the eunuchs in the palace towards miscellaneous servants on weekdays. What's even more coincidental is that he was blind and mistaken, and he really let him be blinded, and this coachman is only the third time to enter the palace today.

As soon as he shouted like this, the middle-aged coachman was startled by him, looked Liu Wei up and down, and saw that although the clothes he was wearing had been scorched, they looked like eunuchs' clothes, and when he heard his sharp voice, he thought that he was really a eunuch in the palace, so he hurriedly hugged his fists and bowed down and said, "What is this talking about, master?" The villain is really the coachman selected by the Shaofu to pull the night incense, if the lord doesn't believe it, at least the government can investigate. ”

"Humph!" Liu Wei crossed his hands on his waist, snorted coldly, cocked his chin slightly, put on an arrogant appearance, and said to the coachman: "In the middle of the night, what do you want me to go to Shaofu to investigate?" A little yellow door like me, where can I go to Shaofu to see who is pulling the night incense? Tell me, what is your name, and where does your family live? ”

"Back to the old man!" Frightened by Liu Bian, the coachman was already in a cold sweat on his spine, and he hurriedly bowed down and said to Liu Bian: "The villain Zhang Hu lives in the workshop between Yongmen and Jingangya Temple. The family has been transporting night incense for the palace for generations, and it was the villain's brother who served in the palace earlier, and he also invited the lord to see it. ”

When he bowed down to speak, Zhang Hu's eyes were secretly glancing at Liu Wei who was blocking in front of him, and there was a trace of uneasiness in his eyes. But as long as a miscellaneous servant works in the palace, there is no one who is not afraid of eunuchs, although there is only a small yellow door standing in front of him, but if he says something bad behind his back, a coachman who pulls night incense cannot afford to be guilty. Zhang Hu didn't dare to offend Liu Wei, and obediently answered his questions.

"It's a bit like that!" Liu Wei pinched his chin with one hand, nodded slightly, waved his hand at Zhang Hu and said, "That's it, the master just put out the fire, and he was injured a little, and his heart was not very happy, but he made you feel wronged, go ahead." ”

Zhang Hu, who was frightened by Liu Wei in a cold sweat, hurriedly thanked him, shook the whip in his hand, and drove the donkey to leave.

As soon as he walked past Liu Bian, Liu Bian turned his head and shouted to him: "Stop!" ”

was stopped by Liu Wei again, Zhang Hu was shocked, and quickly stopped, cold sweat broke out on his already nervous forehead.

Walking in front of Zhang Hu, Liu Wei tilted his head, looked him from head to toe, and asked in a strange way: "On such a cold day, you can sweat, you must be a thief!" Because the master's interrogation was detailed, his heart was empty! ”

"Master, you have been wronged!" was entangled by Liu Wei, Zhang Hu's wronged face turned green, and he said with a bitter face: "The villain is really a good family living in Yongmen West, master, look, this is the waist card to enter the palace." ”

As he spoke, Zhang Hu took out a small wooden card from his waist and handed it to Liu Wei.

took the wooden card and looked at it, the black and swarthy couldn't see what was written on the wooden card, Liu Wei put the wooden card in his hand and shook it twice, threw it back to Zhang Hu and said to him: "Since you have a waist card, okay, and believe you once." It's just that you have to tell the master, when should you enter the palace and when should you leave the palace? Which gate in the palace to go out of, which gate to pass through, is the nearest way out of the city, the lord wants to see if you are lying! ”

"Back to the old man!" When Liu Wei asked this, Zhang Hu breathed a long sigh of relief, and hurriedly replied: "The villain enters the palace when he is a son, and he leaves the palace when he is in Yin." From the west gate of the palace, go out of the palace, along the west market, all the way to the west, you can see the Yongmen. Out of Yongmen, through the King Kong Cliff Temple, and then walk forward a mile, is where the villain pours night incense. ”

"You're really not talking nonsense, go ahead!" After listening to Zhang Hu's narration, Liu Wei pinched his chin with one hand and waved his other hand at Zhang Hu, asking him to leave quickly.

After figuring out where to leave Luoyang City after leaving the palace, and figuring out the time when the coachman entered the palace, Liu Wei had already got all the information he wanted.

Zhang Hu threw down the whip, whipped the whip "crackling", and drove the donkey to drive forward, Liu Wei's eyes flashed with a trace of entanglement and unbearability at this time.

When Zhang Hu and Liu Wei passed by, Liu Wei suddenly stepped forward, hooked Zhang Hu's neck with one hand, covered his mouth with the other, and dragged him to a dark corner.

Zhang Hu, whose mouth was covered and didn't expect to be attacked at all, opened his eyes in horror, and with a burst of "hmm" screams, his legs kicked desperately and he was dragged to the bushes on the side of the road.

Liu Wei didn't want to kill people at will, especially not to kill an innocent unarmed coachman, but at the moment, he and Tang Ji were like fish on a chopping board, and Dong Zhuo could take their lives as long as he moved his fingers.

In order to live longer, Liu Wei had no other choice, and after dragging Zhang Hu into a dark corner, he slammed his arms and twisted Zhang Hu's neck violently.

Zhang Hu's body spasmed twice, his legs kicked, his waist straightened, and he stiffened for a second or two, and then his body went weak and cut off his breath.

Throwing Zhang Hu's body on the ground, looking at Zhang Hu lying on his stomach, Liu Wei sighed softly and said in a low voice: "Uncle, don't blame me, you can only blame your bad luck." In this era when human life is as low as grass mustard, if I want to live, I can only kill innocent people like you! ”

"It's time for us to leave." Ripping off the clothes on Zhang Hu's corpse and throwing them on the ground, Liu Wei stood up, took off the burnt and water-stained eunuch clothes on his body, and said to Tang Ji, who was standing on the side, soaked in cold sweat and still trembling slightly: "You are so nervous, you must not be able to deceive the eyes of the guards, if you want to successfully escape, I am afraid that I will wronged you." ”

As soon as Liu Wei said this, Tang Ji's lips trembled, and he replied in a trill tone: "Your Majesty has a need, and the concubine will never give up." ”

"I'm not going to let you die! It's just that you're going to be wronged. Liu Wei picked up the clothes he had just taken off from Zhang Hu's corpse from the ground, and said this to Tang Ji while putting them on his body.

After changing Zhang Hu's clothes, Liu Wei bent down and reached out to untie the waist card from Zhang Hu's waist, and then took off the gourd used to drink water.

Pin the waist card, pour water from the gourd, wash off the charcoal ash on the face with water, and then throw the gourd to the ground, stack the fallen leaves from the ground on the side, and simply cover Zhang Hu's body and the gourd thrown on the ground.

The night flavor of the whole barrel was very strong, Liu Wei pinched his nose with one hand, opened the lid of the barrel with the other, and only relied on his mouth to breathe. Even so, he couldn't open his eyes and his breath was uncomfortable.

At the tail of the night incense cart, there are still two empty barrels that are not filled with night incense. Liu Wei held his breath, picked the night incense bucket with both hands, and dragged the bucket full of night incense on the side out, stuffed the two empty barrels into the middle of the donkey cart, uncovered the lid of one of the buckets, and said to Tang Ji: "I want to wronged you to hide here for a while." ”

Although the night incense barrel is very clean, it can be used to pull the night incense all year round, and the smell has penetrated into the barrel wall, and it still smells a little smoky.

With Liu Wei's support, Tang Ji climbed into the carriage, grabbed the edge of the barrel, and pitifully turned her head to look at Liu Wei, who was standing under the car, holding her buttocks with both hands and pumping them up.

Liu Wei nodded at her and looked at her with an encouraging look. Tang Ji was encouraged to lift her legs, flip into the bucket, and squatted down with her nose pinched with her hands.

After covering the bucket where Tang Ji was hiding, Liu Wei brought two large stones from the side of the road, put the stones into another empty bucket, and pressed the empty bucket to prevent it from making a sound different from other barrels when the donkey cart was moving.

"Stop!" As soon as the donkey cart arrived at the gate of the imperial city, an officer guarding the gate stopped in front of the donkey cart, stretched out his hand to stop Liu Wei's pace, looked him from head to toe, and asked in a weird way: "Isn't it Lao Zhangtou who sends night incense out of the city on weekdays?" Last time I heard that he was making trouble, please follow the family business, who are you? When did you enter the palace? ”

"Back to the military master!" Seeing that the officer blocked the way, Liu Wei hurriedly stepped forward, bowed slightly, with a thick smile on his face, untied the waist card from his waist, handed it to the officer with both hands and said: "The villain is the grandson of Lao Zhangtou, and the villain's grandfather is now old and paralyzed, and he can't be a messenger who pulls the night incense. Look, this is the waist card for entering the palace. ”

I have to say that Liu Bian's luck is good, the palace night guard has changed three shifts and one change, this team of guards has just been handed over, and they don't know that it was not Liu Bian who went to the palace first.

After taking the wooden waist card from Liu Bian's hand, the officer looked at it carefully, and then looked at Liu Bian again, then nodded, pinched the waist card in one hand and circled around the night fragrance car, and asked Liu Wei strangely: "Is there all night fragrance in this car?" ”