Chapter 60: Over the Wall
The walls in the palace are surrounded by one layer, and they are as high as cliffs. It is difficult to climb up and even more difficult to jump down. The wall of the inner palace is slightly shorter, and it is also more than 20 feet high. Han Ruzi looked up and looked up. Little, the wall doesn't feel high until it is climbed, especially the wall is bare, there is not even a pothole to draw on.
Zhang Youcai led the way, but he didn't find the swordsman. When he got to the wall, he couldn't do anything about it. "The wall here is much higher than the Cining Palace. Brother Cai, can we take a human ladder and send your majesty out?"
Including the emperor, there are six people in total, and the height is enough, but Cai Xinghai did not dare to take a human ladder, "It's too dangerous, and your Majesty can't go down after climbing the wall."
Cai Xinghai looked up for a while and said to the emperor, "Your Majesty, is there a place to go?"
"Of course, as long as you can leave the inner palace, you can go anywhere."
"The Taizu Clothing Room is not far from here, and there are things that climb the wall there."
The Clothing Room is also called the Jing Room. When Han Ruzi first entered the palace, he fasted there for several days. Of course, he remembered that he even counted the holes in Taizu's clothes. "Is there anything that can climb the wall?"
"There is a ladder in the wing. I have seen it, but I don't know if it is still used."
"Go and have a look." Han Ruzi said, but he didn't know which way to go. He always walked the right way in the palace, and he was always followed by a large group of people. Suddenly, he came to an unfamiliar area and could not tell the direction.
"As ordered." Cai Xinghai clenched his fists and led the way.
Han Ruzi and the others quickly followed and asked, "Cai Xinghai, you used to be a lieutenant in the army, right?"
Cai Xinghai turned his head and said with a smile, "Your Majesty sees it right. I used to stand guard outside the fortress, a palace that has been advancing for five years."
Han Ruzi had never seen many soldiers, but Cai Xinghai's body was too strong to be seen without much experience.
Zhang Youcai's excitement never subsided, and then he said, "We all call him 'General Cai' in private."
Cai Canghai blushed, "I'm not a 'big general', I'm just a small captain."
"That's in charge of hundreds of people. Brother Cai fought with the Huns..." Zhang Youcai suddenly shut up for some reason.
If Han Ruzi was a little more mature, he wouldn't ask further questions, but after all, he is only thirteen years old, and his heart is not here, so he asked casually: "Isn't it good to make achievements in the frontier? Why do you want to enter the palace?"
Cai Xinghai laughed twice, "To be honest with Your Majesty, I just want to make a lot of money and make a career, so I reported more when I reported the first level... Two or three hundred, according to the law, just in time to catch up with the court's kindness and the world's amnesty, you can use it. Corruption to atone for sin, I don't want to die, so I entered the palace."
Zhang Youcai said: "Ha, you told me that you reported dozens of heads, but you are willing to tell the truth to His Majesty, it turned out to be hundreds!"
"I can't afford the crime of bullying the king. When we get there, there's the clothing room in front." Cai Xinghai pointed to a small courtyard in front of him.
Han Ruzi's heart moved, and he vaguely understood why Cai Xinghai dared to rescue him. This is a soldier who is used to taking risks, and he will always ask for something after he succeeds in his rescue. Thinking of this, Han Ruzi breathed a sigh of relief. He was accepted by Yang Feng. The influence is too deep, and he always has doubts about helping for no reason. After finding the reason, he trusts the fat eunuch more.
The clothing room is located in a small courtyard, and the courtyard door is closed at this time.
Cai Xinghai whispered: "Your Majesty, let me call the door first, Your Majesty will reappear later."
"Okay." Han Ruzi and Zhang Youcai stood against the wall, while the other three eunuchs stood on the other side of the courtyard gate.
Cai Xinghai raised his fist and knocked on the door, "Old Huang, open the door, Lao Huang, open the door!"
After waiting for a while, a low voice came from the door, "Who?"
"I, Cai Xinghai, can't even hear my voice?"
"What are you doing here?"
"When I came to sweep the floor a few days ago, it seemed that a broom had fallen here, and the number in the cleaning room couldn't be counted. I came to look for it and open the door."
"I don't have your broom here. What the hell is going on outside, how dare you run around?"
There are many courtyards in the area where the queen lives, and she usually guards the door. When there is trouble, the door is closed even tighter, and people outside can't get in, and people inside have no way of knowing how things are going.
"What can be wrong? The palace has arrested people again. Open the door and let me go in and have a look."
"If it's all right, why didn't even the food deliverer come?"
The sun had already set in the west, and the eunuch in the hospital had been hungry for a day. He knew very well that something big would happen outside.
"What's my business with delivering meals? I'm just a sweeper, why don't you believe it?"
There was silence inside for a while, "You better go, today is not the day to sweep, I can't let you in."
Cai Xinghai is a famous martial artist after all, so he was impatient, especially when the emperor was beside him. He raised his fist and was about to smash the door. Han Ruzi waved at him and whispered, "Let him look outside."
"Who? Who else is outside?" The person inside the door overheard.
"Don't open the door for me, okay. Lao Huang, take a look outside."
The door squeaked slightly, and the people inside looked out through the crack of the door, "Old Cai, don't be ridiculous, this is the imperial palace, and every little mistake will be gone... My God!"
Han Ruzi stood in front of the door and whispered, "Open the door for me, I know you, and you also know me."
He had seen so many eunuchs in the palace that Han Ruzi could not remember who Lao Huang was, but he believed that Lao Huang must remember the emperor.
The latch rattled, the two doors opened, and an old eunuch knelt on the ground and said in a trembling voice, "I don't know if Your Majesty is coming..."
"Hurry up." Han Ruzi took the lead in entering the hospital, followed by Cai Xinghai and others, Lao Huang was stunned, and not a single one dared to stop him.
The yard is not big, the main room in the middle is the clothing room, and the side rooms on both sides are some equipments and objects that were preserved when Taizu first built the palace, and the descendants are kept as treasures.
Han Ruzi said to Cai Xinghai, "You go to the ladder, and I want to see the Taizu's clothes."
As soon as these words came out, Cai Xinghai and others became serious, and even walked on tiptoes.
When he got here, Han Ruzi walked straight to the clothes room, pushed open the hidden door, and walked in. He saw two eunuchs crawling on the ground from the corner of his eye. Said: "Taizu has been in the army all his life, and he has experienced hundreds of battles. It is not Xiao Sun Han Ruzi who has to borrow one of your things today. I believe your spirit in heaven will definitely not object."
Han Ruzi kowtowed, got up and walked to the hanger, and carefully took off the sword. The first time he came here to fast, he was very interested in it. He didn't dare to touch it at that time, but now he doesn't have to be afraid of anything. .
The emperor is not afraid of eunuchs.
The two eunuchs kneeling on the ground first stared blankly at the emperor, then suddenly stood up together, threw themselves at the emperor's feet, and cried, "Your majesty can't move your sword, absolutely not."
Han Ruzi ignored the two of them, and slowly drew his sword out of its sheath. After more than 120 years, the body of the sword was still shining with a cold light, and the blade was as white as snow.
"Sure enough, it's a sword." Han Ruzi praised and waved it lightly, and liked it more and more in his heart, "Such a sword should be used frequently. It's a waste to hide it in a box."
When he was about to walk, he realized that his legs were tightly held by the eunuch.
"I order you to let go."
"Your Majesty, Taizu's clothes cannot be moved, let alone taken out of the quiet room. This is the ancestor's instruction, Your Majesty..."
Han Ruzi raised his sword, "Taizu held a three-footed sword to pacify the world. I don't know how many people's blood has been drunk on this sword. It has not been used for many years. It is suitable to use your sacrificial sword."
The two eunuchs froze for a moment, let go of the emperor's legs, stepped back on their knees, and dared not raise their heads again.
Han Ruzi went out with his sword, Cai Xinghai and others also came out from the wing carrying the ladder, saw the sword in the emperor's hand at a glance, and said in unison: "What a sword!"
Han Ruzi couldn't help laughing, his confidence increased, he sheathed his sword and said, "Let's go."
The old eunuch who was watching the door was still kneeling at the door, looking at the emperor who came with his sword, he didn't dare to stop him, he just kept kowtow.
It was getting dark, and the Qinzheng Hall didn't know what was going on. Han Ruzi quickened his pace, followed by Cai Xinghai and others.
The ladder was placed on the top of the wall, and the height was just right. Cai Xinghai said: "Taizu is worthy of being an emperor on horseback. He always thinks about fighting. The ladder is prepared for this palace wall."
Han Ruzi had a different feeling. Taizu seemed to feel that the palace was not safe, so he prepared the fighting equipment, which was used by the seventh grandson more than a hundred years later.
Cai Xinghai climbed up to the top of the wall first, tested the firmness of the ladder, found no problem, and said, "Your Majesty, please come up, Zhang Youcai, protect Your Majesty."
"Don't worry." Zhang Youcai followed behind the emperor, always extending a hand to support him.
Cai Xinghai knelt on the tile on the wall and stretched out his hand to catch the emperor.
It was at this time that the chasing soldiers arrived, "I found it! The emperor is going to flee!" one shouted.
Han Ruzi was startled, turned his head to look, and saw more than a dozen swordsmen dressed as eunuchs running in the alley.
Han Ruzi kicked several times, stretched out his free hand to hold Cai Xinghai's hand, and used his strength to leap up the wall in one step. The wall is covered with a layer of tiles, and it is quite unstable to stand on it.
Zhang Youcai was nimble and came up soon. Han Ruzi shouted to the three people on the ground, "Come up quickly!"
The three of them looked at each other, and one of them looked up and said, "Your Majesty, let's go, let's block for a while."
The three raised their long bamboo poles and prepared to face more than a dozen swordsmen.
Han Ruzi had to urge him again, but Cai Xinghai and Zhang Youcai had already pulled up the ladder and threw it out of the wall.
The two swordsmen at the front arrived, and while waving their swords to block the bamboo poles, they threw hidden weapons at the wall.
Cai Xinghai hugged the emperor, jumped, and jumped out of the wall. Zhang Youcai followed him without saying a word.
Cai Xinghai fell to the ground, feeling only severe pain in his right ankle, but he didn't care to check, he still hugged the emperor and turned his head to look at the wall. Although he is a member of the army, he has a little understanding of the rivers and lakes. If there are many people on the two sides, he is not afraid of swordsmen, but when they meet on a narrow road, he does not have much chance of winning.
As long as there is one swordsman in the wall who can jump out and climb out of the high wall, Cai Xinghai can only fight to the death.
Screams rang out from the wall.
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