99.
"We can go too." Zhou Buyi knocked on Fang Tinglan's door.
The sky outside the embassy has been dyed transparent red by the setting sun, and the sound of tea qin players can be heard one after another across a few streets. It was clear that they had made an appointment with him to celebrate the Sea God Festival together, but they did not expect it to end up like this. Fang Tinglan smiled wryly, and packed the last document into the suitcase.
Most of the guards in charge withdrew, and the rest were responsible for sending the three of them and their luggage to Yulan Port. Along the way, the sound of tea zithers could be heard floating in the air, and flower petals and ribbons were scattered from the balcony from time to time. After entering the car window, Zhou Buji was in high spirits all the way, at least three girls in the carriage that passed by them threw bouquets towards him.
"What's the matter with you two, you finally returned to Dongzhou, and your face looks like a dead old woman." Zhou Buyi threw the bouquet to the two people opposite, "Take it. The rules of the southern border, everyone's collar on the Sea God's Day You have to get a flower."
Fang Tinglan took the bouquet, but only held it in his hand: "I have a headache when I think about what I have to do when I go back."
Zhou Buyi winked at him: "I don't think you have a headache because of this, but you are worried about your little beauty?"
Fang Tinglan raised the corner of his mouth and did not answer. Instead, he changed the topic: "If we really talk about the rules of the southern border, today we go out to sea to offend the sea god, which is a bad omen. Maybe the gods will punish us, and we don't know if we are directly destroyed at sea."
Qin Weiyu next to him froze when he heard the words, but Zhou Buyi laughed when he saw his timid look, and he stretched his waist: "Don't worry, His Royal Highness, the people of Dongzhou believe in the Lord Ruoshui. If the sea god in the south wants to come to us to avenge our crimes, we must first fight Ruoshui-jun."
While the three of them were talking, the carriage happened to pass by the theater, and Fang Tinglan saw his former writer neighbor among the crowds of people. At this time last year, the young man who was still worrying about the money for his next meal was now dressed in formal attire, welcoming every guest at the entrance of the theater in high spirits, and soon some VIPs who entered the venue chatted with him, and O’Brien smiled cautiously, Take a step forward. On the huge azure blue notice board next to him, there are several large characters painted with paint.
The new comedy "Two Thieves" starts today.
— There are two thieves in the distant Lanlisei, they are a pair of partners and also a pair of lovers.
——A rich man from the north. Legend has it that his land in the Westland is wider than that of the Dragon's Breath King, and his gold coins are more than the treasury of the Zhuojin Dynasty.
——The rich man's only heart trouble is his lost daughter twenty years ago. He put up notices in the city, if someone can find his daughter, he will give away a lot of wealth.
—In three days, a thousand daughters and their adoptive parents appeared in front of the rich man. The two thieves held hands and lined up inside.
With Earl Simona as a pass, Hailian entered the Tisu Palace almost without hindrance. He threw his uniform jacket into the flowers, and nimbly climbed onto the beam. Under the shining crystal blubber lamp, the entire palace interior is as bright as day, and in the banquet hall with fragrant clothes and shadows, Earl Simona is inviting a noble lady to enter the dance floor. He glanced blankly at the beam.
"What are you looking at?"
"I seem to see a little sparrow," he replied.
The noble lady smiled coquettishly: "You really know how to joke, how could there be a sparrow in the palace? If there is a bird, it should be the immortal phoenix that protects Tisu."
"You're right." The count took the first dance step with a smile, and made a slight gesture with the other hand, and saw several attendants who had been guarding the banquet hall leave silently.
In the resplendent palace, there is only one place that is not illuminated by the blubber lamp, and that is the bedroom of the Amber King. There were originally two guards at the door of the bedroom. Hai Lian waited for a while at the concave corner, and then saw Simona's attendants coming from the other side of the corridor. The leader gave the two guards a few words, and the two guards followed. The servant left. The moment the figure disappeared in the corridor, Hai Lian had already come to the sleeping hall.
The room was empty.
The assassin put away his dagger, and looked at King Tisu's bedroom by the dim candlelight in the room. Among the nursery rhymes in the Mud District, the Amber King is the most ridiculed. There are countless songs made up to ridicule him. Even children who have just started talking can sing the line "The red-haired monkey is not Climb a tree, but sit on a chair."
Hai Lian stroked the brocade-covered bed with one hand, and looked curiously at the scrolls and decorations on the wall. In his mind, he couldn't imagine how the protagonist sung in the ballad would live in this gorgeous but empty place. in space.
Just when he was about to look through the documents on the table, there was the sound of uniform footsteps outside the door. Hailian's expression froze, and he quickly hid in the closet. While the closet was closing, he heard a slightly hoarse voice ordering from outside the door: "Get back."
Footsteps left in unison, the door of the bedroom opened again, and a figure walked in slowly.
Through the crack of the cupboard door, Hailian saw for the first time the ruler of this country, the gods that people fear, the evil ghosts in nursery rhymes, the monsters on the caricatures that sneakily pasted on the walls, Abba the Amber King. Le.
The young man was amazed that the Amber King's appearance was so fragile that he didn't even need to use a knife. It seemed that as long as he was strangled by the neck, the opponent could be killed instantly.
The man was not tall, very thin, his lone frame could hardly support the gorgeous clothes on his body, and the overly complicated gold ornaments were worn on his chest like circles of shackles, making his neck slightly tilted due to the overwhelmed burden. The front is stooped; the sneering lameness is hidden under the robe, which does not affect his standing upright at all; his cheekbones are high, but his face is sunken, especially the disfigured half of his face, which seems to be half drooping A skeleton with pink flesh—only his red hair, which indicates his humble origin, is the most enthusiastic color on his body, as if burning blazingly in the night.
Hailian swallowed a mouthful of saliva. Obviously this man was weaker than any of the targets he had assassinated before, yet he felt a suffocating sense of oppression from him. Even for a moment, a thought flashed through Hailian's mind.
Can I really kill him
There are only two people in the huge room now. Abale shuffled his feet, passed directly in front of the cabinet, and slowly came to the window sill—from here he could overlook the entire Jiumeng City. Hailian watched the man's thin, motionless back, and slowly clenched the dagger tightly. The moment he was about to open the cupboard door, he heard Abalé say.
"Come out, assassin."
——The thieves agreed with each other that as long as they could swindle the money into their pockets, they would wash their hands and fly away.
Yulan Port is a royal port. Compared with the hustle and bustle of Hongliu Port, this place can be said to be spotless. The army at the port had already been sent away by Earl Simona, and they were probably already fully armed and ready to go at the foot of Fengyu Mountain. Fang Tinglan got out of the car and looked up towards the port. The first thing that caught his eye was the "Lady in the Cloud". As the coming-of-age ceremony of Princess Longrong, she had been moored at the port for five years, but she had never been out once. Hai, just like Long Rong himself has never been able to escape from the prison of Chuizhiting. Under the huge shadow of the Lady in the Clouds was the red-painted three-masted ship that Fang Tinglan was going to take.
"I've inquired about it. It's called the Red Boot," Zhou Busu interjected. "It's not a new ship, and it's not too broken. It's probably just enough for us to drive to Qianlu Island." He peeled off a candy and threw it into the boat. In his mouth, "Have you arranged the manpower over there?"
"Of course." Fang Tinglan smiled, "As long as you leave the land, the script is beyond Simona's discretion."
Zhou Buyi had candy on the tip of his tongue and didn't answer.
On the other side, His Royal Highness Chen Wang didn't seem to want to stay in Tisu's land for a moment. He immediately asked the sailors to carry his luggage onto the ship as soon as he got off the carriage. Aren't you going on board?"
"I have to wait for someone, you should get on the boat first." Fang Tinglan replied.
Qin Weiyu stared at him fixedly. Tonight is a dark day with no stars and no moon. In Yulan Port, which lacks the festive lights on the long street, the faces of the two are blurred in the night. After a long silence, the man on the boat spoke first.
"If that person hadn't come, would you have waited forever?"
"yes."
——The female thief stole the old diary with dexterous hands, and the male thief won the favor of the maid with sweet words;