Chapter 33 The Secret Word of the Alliance

Chapter 33 The Secret Word of the Alliance

Lin Zhongtian was speechless when he heard this: "Then why did you create this alliance?"

Zhao Lihe explained: "In order to protect ourselves, we also want to give a home to the descendants of the Qi family army who are unwilling to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, although the Alliance is a bit more powerful now, it is still an intelligence organization in the final analysis, and it has nothing to do with the rebellion, right?"

"...Then do you know what your alliance is doing now?"

"do what?"

"They are recruiting loyalists from all over the country and instigating them to rebel."

"ah?"

Zhao Lihe was a little dumbfounded.

Lin Zhongtian said speechlessly: "You don't know, right?"

Zhao Lihe was a little unjust: "Brother, I am in the sky prison. Not to mention the news from the Alliance, even after I was taken to the sky prison, I don't know what happened to my senior brothers and the others!"

"..."

Lin Zhongtian twitched the corner of his mouth and looked at each other in silence with Zhao Lihe.

After finishing the pot of tea, Zhao Lihe considered it carefully and said, "Brother Lin, I have a way to contact Ding Xiu and the others, but I don't know if Brother Lin is willing to show up..."

"Why don't you want to do this?"

Lin Zhongtian stood up suddenly, picked up the sheathed sword lying sideways by the stone table, and glanced at Zhao Lihe who was still sitting there.

"What are you waiting for? Let's go!"

Zhao Lihe shook his head and said solemnly: "It has only been one night since the Tianlao was robbed, and it is the time when the whole city is under martial law. If I take the risk of going with you, I will only drag you down. Brother, you should go alone. , I will tell you how to contact Ding Xiu and the others, as well as the secret code to verify the identity of the alliance..."

"Wait!" Lin Zhongtian raised his head and interrupted him, saying with a smile, "You don't think that your eldest brother and I are not wanted, do you?"

"You must be wanted, but they don't know your appearance after all..."

"I'm not talking about prison robbery. I was already a wanted criminal by the government before I rescued you."

"ah?"

Zhao Lihe was dumbfounded again and couldn't help but ask: "Brother, what have you committed?"

Lin Zhongtian said lightly: "It's nothing, I just saw a few officers and soldiers killing good people and taking credit, so I couldn't help but kill them."

"several?"

"Only twenty-seven were killed at first. I can't remember how many more we killed later."

"..."

Zhao Lihe didn't know what to say, so he could only lament that a skilled person is brave.

Lin Zhongtian said with a smile: "Don't worry, I see that the armament of this capital is extremely lax. I didn't even cover my appearance when I entered the city. The gate guard not only didn't recognize me as a wanted criminal, he even thought I was a wanted criminal." Some noble prince in the capital welcomed me into the city with flattering greetings, and now that I think about it, I am really laughing my ass off."

Zhao Lihe shook his head: "Brother Lin, you should have just met the new city gate guard. I know the previous city gate guard. He has strong martial arts and excellent eyesight. He can recognize wanted criminals mixed in the crowd at a glance. He also knows all the important figures in and out of the capital, but it's a pity that this guy is a member of the eunuch party and should have been dealt with by Zhu Youjian by now."

"So I just got lucky?"

"That's right."

Zhao Lihe nodded, thought for a while, and said: "Let's do this, Brother Lin, I will tell you the secret message. You go outside Dongzhimen, find a whitebark pine with Y-shaped cracks in the bark, and carve the secret message on the trunk. Once they When you see the secret words, you will naturally come here to see me.”

"no problem!"

Lin Zhongtian agreed enthusiastically, and then asked doubtfully.

"But wouldn't it be a little too obvious to directly engrave the secret words?"

"Don't worry, it doesn't matter even if others discover it, because this secret message is not actually a secret message, it is just a dot on the lower left side of the vertical Y-shaped crack..."

After saying that, Zhao Lihe paused and asked with a smile: "Brother, if I don't tell you how to decipher the secret word, can you figure out the real meaning behind the secret word?"

Lin Zhongtian thought about it enthusiastically, but soon shook his head.

"Add a dot to the lower left of the Y. This symbol can represent too many meanings."

"Then what if I tell you that the Y-shaped crack actually represents the Big Dipper?"

"Big Dipper?" Lin Zhongtian thought thoughtfully for a while, and finally realized, "That's it!"

"Brother, have you figured it out?" Zhao Lihe asked with a smile.

"Of course." Lin Zhongtian nodded and replied with a smile, "The word Y represents the Big Dipper, which means that what you care about is not the spoon, but the handle. The biggest role of the handle in this era is to point the direction and judge the season. If the handle of the bucket points to the east, it will be spring; if it points to the south, it will be summer; if it points to the west, it will be autumn; if it points to the north, it will be winter."

"It's spring in April now, so the direction of the handle is naturally the east. Carving a dot on the lower left side of the handle means that you are hiding in a secret house in the southeastern part of the capital at the moment - what do you think, am I right?"

"...As expected of a big brother!"

Zhao Lihe applauded in admiration and flattered him moderately.

Lin Zhongtian smiled and patted his shoulder: "Wait for my good news!"

After saying that, he jumped up and left the secret house.

The so-called secret house refers to a house hidden in the streets and alleys, with no front, rear, left or right facing the street.

Take the secret house where Lin Zhongtian and Zhao Lihe live as an example. The front and back doors of the house do not face the street, but are next to several shops.

These shops surround the house in the middle, and there are no doors for entry and exit. The only way to communicate with the outside world is by climbing over the wall, or by the hidden secret passage under the bed.

It's like a dark room hidden in the city.

There are not many secret houses like this in the capital, and they are all used by the big shots to avoid disasters.

The secret house where Zhao Lihe lived was actually purchased secretly by King Zhu Yizhen of Qin.

He also sent people from Prince Qin's Mansion to dig the secret passage under the bed.

It is a pity that in the forty-sixth year of Wanli, King Zhu Yizhen of Qin died of illness, and his posthumous name was "Su". This secret house that he secretly purchased before his death became abandoned.

Later, the Alliance's power expanded to the capital and they bought the drug store on the street in front of the house. Only then did they discover the secret house hidden behind the drug store.

As for how the Alliance knew that this secret residence belonged to Prince Qin, it was very simple. They dug up several corpses of servants of Prince Qin's Palace in the suburban woods connected by the secret passage, and also found a piece of stone with the words "Prince Qin's Palace" engraved on it. wooden sign.

I don't know if the people who did it were too careless at the time, or they didn't care at all. They didn't destroy the evidence that could prove the identities of the corpses. They just dug a hole on the spot and buried the corpses hastily.

This was an advantage for the Alliance. After confirming that no one in the Qin Palace knew about this secret house, they immediately took it as their own.

The Alliance still has seven or eight secret houses obtained through similar means.

Therefore, Jin Yichuan and Ding Xiu could not determine the specific location of Zhao Lihe.

At noon, Jin Yichuan finally left the medical center, but what was different from when he came was that at this time, Jin Yichuan had a sachet with a faint medicinal fragrance in his hand, which was a gift given to him by the girl at the medical center.

Smelling the refreshing medicinal fragrance emanating from the sachet, Jin Yichuan couldn't help but reveal a smile on his face.

Fortunately, the vague feelings that were still in the ambiguous period did not affect his behavior.

Before entering Dongzhimen, Jin Yichuan still habitually glanced at the pine forest next to him.

With just one glance, Jin Yichuan's expression changed drastically, and he immediately stopped and checked carefully.

A minute later, Jin Yichuan hurriedly walked into Dongzhimen. Dressed in black Feiyu uniform, no one at the gate dared to stop him.

At this time, Jin Yichuan's face had returned to calmness, but the steps under his feet became faster and faster, and he couldn't help but bursts of excitement and excitement surged in his heart.

"Very good!"

"It turns out that Brother Zhao is in the secret house in the southeastern city."

"I have to find a way to tell my senior brother the news right away."