Chapter 6 See You Later

Jianzhou City.

The rain is getting heavier and heavier. Although Jianzhou is not far away from Jiangnan, the rain is not like Jiangnan. The rain comes quickly. It was a drizzle just now, but in the blink of an eye it is pouring rain.

Zhao hid in the rain and waited for Mr. Chen and Eunuch He to leave before emerging from the darkness.

"It's such a good trick. No wonder you dare to kill the imperial envoy. I paid so much money and still didn't say a word. So you are waiting for me here." Zhao Ju coldly snorted, his eyes full of murderous intent.

"When I receive the final payment, I will find a way to send you back to the west."

Then he disappeared into the rain.

Of course Zhao will not return to his original inn. Since he has been found to have killed Wu Xin, his traces in Jianzhou City will definitely be discovered. If he wants to silence him, he will not act on the spur of the moment.

After turning left and right and making sure that no one was following him, Zhao walked into a restaurant not far from the original inn and asked for a room.

When he came to the room, Zhao did not light a candle, but took out the human skin mask in the dark, threw the wet clothes into the space, and put on another set of black clothes.

After everything was completed, Zhao lit the candle and adjusted the human skin mask on his face.

If you want to silence him, you can't let Zhao leave Jianzhou City. The best excuse is to use the excuse that the imperial envoy died and seal the city to find the murderer.

Sure enough, just after adjusting the human skin mask, several groups of guards rushed outside the restaurant, and it seemed that the city had begun to be sealed off.

Zhao took out the Jianzhou map from the space and studied the escape route carefully.

There is a river in Jianzhou, but it does not go through the city. Instead, it goes around Jianzhou City. There is no waterway. Outside the city, there are lush woods and shady trees, but if you can't get out of the city, everything is in vain. Jianzhou is not a big place. If you search one by one, you will be found out sooner or later. Although I have multiple household registrations, there is no time to assign a reasonable identity to the newly made human skin masks. This is the last step. The fatal point. Nowadays, there are many people in the city, and he cannot show his true face to others. Otherwise, once any clues are left, the pursuit will be endless.

So, the goal now is: get out of the city safely without exposing yourself!

Sitting on the bed, Zhao took a White Jade Myogenic Pill and ran the Taiqing Jade Deficiency Meridian, silently digesting the power of the medicine and recovering from his injuries. After a big battle, his injuries were serious, especially his left hand, which could no longer exert its strength, so first, Healing is necessary.

The body is the capital of revolution!

The next day, Zhao slept until noon and then woke up leisurely. After eating, he walked around step by step with his hands behind his back.

Jianzhou has not yet been lifted from the lockdown. I walked around and found that there were more guards in the city than I imagined. According to the laws of Daqi, there are twelve teams of troops stationed in a city, one team has less than 200 people, and one team is for stability maintenance personnel such as police officers. Nowadays, a rough estimate is that there are at least 5,000. It seems that a large place is not an empty talk.

"Alas, the emperor has lost his mind. Everyone in the place has heavy troops. Who doesn't want to sit on the dragon chair?" Zhao shook his head.

After walking around, there was no chance to leave the city. Let alone a person, not even a coffin could leave Jianzhou now!

When we returned to the restaurant, it was already dark and most of the people were sitting in the restaurant. Zhao found an empty table, ordered a pot of rice wine, a river fish, a few dishes of side dishes, and listened to the chatter of the drinkers.

"Tell me, who killed Mr. Jiang?"

"Who knows? But the lockdown is real."

"Master Jiang is also pitiful. He is a third-grade official with less than half a hundred. What a pity..."

"What a pity? Ha" the young man looked disdainful.

"Master Su, please tell me and give my brother some answers."

"Yes, Mr. Su, tell me."

The few drinkers seemed to know the young man and started making noises. The shopkeeper also stopped writing and pretended to think, but was actually eavesdropping.

"You know nothing! Do you know about the Yanyun Rebellion? Nine years, nine years! When the governor of Hexi quelled the rebellion, he only had 40,000 troops. What now? Hexi has an army of 100,000!" Mr. Su took a sip of wine. , and then said: "A few years before the rebellion was over, the military pay was insufficient. The Hexi Army broke into the city and robbed it for three days. Is this an army? This is a bandit! Not only that, this group of people has a way of killing good people and taking credit. Do you still remember the Battle of Youzhou? After a year of siege, we broke into the city and wiped out all the rebels. We reported that we killed 30,000 enemies. Oh, the total number of rebels may not be 30,000!"

Everyone's faces were full of shock.

Mr. Su smiled proudly, "That Jiang Ruhai is just a scapegoat! Think about the fact that the governor of the northwest, Feng Shaobao, both claimed to be ill and refused to go to Beijing. Don't you understand?"

"Jianzhou now is just like Youzhou back then. How can a living person leave the city? Shopkeeper, make a pot of wine." After that, Mr. Su went to the counter to pay.

Zhao, who was sitting next to him, heard clearly that a living person could not leave the city, so could a dead person leave the city?

The people have great wisdom!

Zhao quickly drank the wine in the glass and went upstairs with the wine flask.

After closing the door, he couldn't wait to take out the map of Jianzhou and searched carefully. Zhao really found a place - Yizhuang.

Yizhuang is about the same size as a funeral parlor. This Yizhuang belongs to the government and is specially used to deal with the corpses of executed prisoners. Corpses cannot be left in the city to prevent the spread of the plague, so Yizhuang will definitely pull the corpses of executed prisoners outside the city to rest.

"Hahahahaha, if there is a hundred secrets and a sparse gap, there will be no unstoppable path!" Zhao Jue said excitedly.

Once we have a target, everything will be easy to handle. Yizhuang will take a batch of corpses out of the city every three days. As long as we prepare in advance, no one will know if there are more corpses or less.

For four consecutive days, Zhao kept monitoring the movements of Yizhuang, followed the entire process of pulling the body out of the city, and recorded the process of pulling the body in detail. At the same time, sneak into Yizhuang to get a closer look at the state of the corpse, skin color, hair, nails, teeth, etc.

Returning to the restaurant, he imitated the corpse according to the disguise technique, tentatively planning to disguise himself as a death row prisoner who died of illness. Not only that, Zhao carefully planned the escape route if he failed, and then just waited for the right time.

On the fifth night, it was drizzling, just like entering the city.

Zhao disguised himself as a corpse, put on the human skin mask prepared in advance, took advantage of the night, sneaked into the charity cemetery, wrapped himself in a straw mat, and lay on the wooden bed where the corpse was placed. The tortoise breathing technique was running, and if you didn't look carefully, you couldn't tell whether it was a living person or a corpse.

Everything is ready, just waiting for the right time!

The next day, the lame old man in the charity cemetery walked into the charity cemetery with a young man.

Looking at the corpse, the young man said, "Grandpa, it seems that there is one more."

"No, let me count, one, two... nine, no more, no less, don't try to be lazy, I asked you to move a corpse, either your waist or back hurts, where does your waist come from at such a young age?" The lame old man drank a sip of wine and scolded the young man.

"Oh." The young man did not refute and helped the old man move the corpses onto the donkey cart.

The old man sprinkled a handful of lime and murmured: "May the Great Emperor Zhenwu bless you, and you will be free from illness and disaster. My fellow heroes, let's go on the road~" After that, he sprinkled a handful of yellow talismans into the sky.

The two got on the donkey cart, raised their whips and rushed towards the South Gate.

The captain of the South Gate guard saw the donkey cart carrying corpses, and hurriedly stepped back a few steps, covered his mouth and nose, and said: "Is there anyone with a disease in it?"

"There is one, who is probably dead in prison. Please stay away from him, it's not good to get sick." The lame old man nodded and bowed.

"Go over quickly, don't stand there, you want to kill me."

"Alas, alas." The old man responded.

"Sir, no, I can't report to the prefect." A guard said.

"Come on, go and look for the one who died of illness. Go and look for him. How much is the monthly salary? Why are you working so hard? Boy, the merit belongs to the prefect, but not to the prefect! Go ahead, why are you standing there?" The captain shouted impatiently.

The lame old man didn't waste any words. He flicked his whip and drove the donkey cart out of the city.

After walking two miles, Zhao pushed the corpse away and sat up straight. The two drivers were so scared that they knelt on the ground, kowtowed repeatedly, and shouted: May the Great Emperor Zhenwu bless you.

Zhao threw down ten taels of silver and said, "Old man, if you want to live, go back and pretend you haven't seen me. Ten taels of silver is enough to buy a person to shut up, right?"

Putting down the silver, he ignored the reaction of the grandfather and grandson, performed Qinggong, and disappeared in front of the two.

The sky is high and the birds fly, the sea is wide and the fish jump!

I am free today, and I am freer than a god!

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