Book 36 - Chapter 5 – Compassion (1/2)

Under the illuht of stone steps extending froe under the putuan, down into a s square – below

It was precisely like Kou Zhong was joking earlier; this roouise

On the east wall of the roo was only a bit h [reminder: 1 chi is approx 1/3 of a , Kou Zhong, must stoop down and bend their knees to enter

Kou Zhong entered the secret chamber and plopped his butts on a chair in front of a table with aat his own countenance in the copperequip if perhaps when he was in the o out to play?”

Xu Ziling entered the secret roolance toward the dark secret passage first before responding, “If you want to know the answer, you can open these clothing trunks to see whether there are some women’s clothes and ornaainst the ere two large chests Inside were all kinds of clothes, ornaments and costu Ar said, “Touise to leave Chang’an”

Xu Ziling said, “It would be best if we don’t touch anything in here, so that even if shi+ Zhixuan returned, he would not know that we already know the secret that he is Dade Shengseng”

Astonished, Kou Zhong said, “Do you think shi+ Zhixuan will co replied, “shi+ Zhixuan did say about returning to the fray after a period of inactivity in one year, which coincides with this habit of going out of the Pass every year during the Beginning of Spring festival It can clearly be seen that he would hate to lose this Dade identity, which he painstakingly created and built”

“His dried-up Zen identity is practically only used to deceive people,” Kou Zhong re to go out and see people with our clothes covered all over with bloodstain like this?”

Xu Ziling sat on the trunk behind Kou Zhong with his back leaning against the wall Thinking deeply, he said, “You think Yun Shuai could get away?”

Kou Zhong replied, “It depends whether he could seize the opportunity while the Great Tang Army is entirely under our control Yun Shuai really have so; his ability to escape shouldn’t be below ours Why do you suddenly think of hi to hi, Yuanji’s search operation cannot continue indefinitely However, reinforcing the city defense, dispatching ate surely can be easily done Therefore, the best way to leave the city is still via the secret passage inside the treasure house”

“That is indeed the safest way, but not necessarily the best way,” Kou Zhong said, “First of all, if we could slip aith the Gods did not know the ghosts did not perceive, anybody would be suspicious If there is no precursor of usAn Canal and later on reappearing, it ht not be a problem, but now it’s a different story Besides, our responsibility is to draw everybody’s attention away so that Zhandao and the others have the convenience of transporting the precious gold and treasure away”

Staring fixedly at the Night Pearl in the hollow of his pal said, “Let’s look at where the other exit is located first, and then we’ll think of a hat do you say?”

Kou Zhong sprang up and said, “Good idea”

The two focused their power into their ears, and aftersure that there was no one upstairs, they slowly pushed the cover of the exit open Craning their neck to look, unexpectedly it was a study rooe was longer than the two boys thought, it was at least ten zhang long

The Abbot’s room was located at the rear court of the Wu Lou Si, near the eastern external wall Outside the as a side street about three zhang wide Calculating the distance, this study rooht to be located in the courtyard house across the street

Kou Zhong spoke in low voice, “The master of this house must, more or less – have so walked over to theand pushed it open a little; looking outside, he saw the snoas still falling endlessly Fro and horses neighing, apparently the search operation around this area was still growing strong

Kou Zhong came to his side and said, “They must have started house-to-house search; after this is done then they would pull back the troops”

They heard the knocking on the door of the neighboring house, followed by so down cri s this house, our secret passage courtyard”

Kou Zhong cheerfully said, “We ought to attract their attention to search again; if they find the secret passage, Dade Shengseng will beco meat Buddhist monk whose reputation is swept over the floor”

“Let’s go back and talk about this!” Xu Ziling said

Returning to the entrance of the secret passage, they heard faint footsteps co from outside the door The two boys were shocked; just by listening to the footsteps, they knew that the inco person was a first-classin fright, they i the fastest shenfa

As soon as the lid was closed, the study roo’s voice was heard from above, “We are nearly implicated by those two kids to the death; they did not run to other places, yet chose this area to run to Ha! This time it should be difficult for them to escape calamity”

A female voice responded, “Jiaojiao don’t have such confidence like Long shi+shu [martial uncle]; perhaps they already left the city early on”

Underground, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling were greatly surprised; they never iether

It appeared that even An Long hi into the Abbot’s roo Jiaojiao over here to talk

Until now, they were still unclear of Rong Jiaojiao’s relationshi+p with Yin Gui Pai But looking at how close her relationshi+p with An Long was, it could be inferred that Laojun Te closer to shi+ Zhixuan’s side

The relationshi+p aled and co said, “Just now Xuyan had soe already seized the Relics To’an by boat i Jiaojiao said, “Would shi+shu leave together with Jiaojiao?”

Lowering his voice, An Long said, “I still have some business to attend to; IJiaojiao said, “Could it be that shi+shu is going to deal with Zhou Laotan?”

Letting out a cold snort, An Long said, “Zhou Laotan will never give up his a hie’s instruction is for you to take care of Jin Huanzhen; when you get to the Great River, throw her to the water to be fish food, neat and tidy Henceforth Tian Xie Dao [Heavenly Evil Way] will be done for! Ha!”

Suddenly there was the sound of rustling clothes; listening from below, the two boys looked at each other They could not believe their ears

Ashi+shu this and shi+shu that, this ’s arms in passionate e was playing with Yang Xuyan, which e

With labored breathing, Rong Jiaojiao said, “Hearing about killing people, Jiaojiao cannot help being excited”

Laughing lasciviously, An Long said, “If I had known you are a s1ut earlier … You seriously told me to look for a secret place to talk, turns out you only want shi+shu to coine what An Long would look like right now; thinking about it, they felt sick Quietly they sneaked back into the Abbot’s roo?” Kou Zhong asked

Xu Ziling shook his head and said, “Presently we are powerless to defend ourselves If we killed An Long, ouldn’t have the convenience to ride Rong Yaonu’s boat to leave, right?”

“Absolutely right,” Kou Zhong replied, “Rong Yaonu is an unusual character, she has been involved with Yang Xuyan We are using this pretext to go north out of the Pass shouldn’t be any problem, but if we slip away like this, it won’t be any different froe of the treasure house, it would still hed and said, “If you want to attract attention, won’t it be very easy? Let’s talk less nonsense, while we still have a little bit of tih spirit first, and then we’ll see where we can steal two sets of decent clothes, and then we’ll proceed with outthe next day, the City of Chang’an returned to its forate pedestrians and vehicles on the street, neither was there any significant increase in the nu the city

In fact, it was actually loosen-up-the-outside-opening-up-the-inside