Chapter 236 (1/2)

The battle scene beneath the tree had cales to transport water fro over the barrels, the water splashed out onto the street, cleaning away the dust and blood in an instant, leaving behind wet, clean paving stones

Brocade Guards stood guard all around, and officials from the relevant offices allhouses, so nothing unusual occurred in the T-shaped alley The rear stone wall had been temporarily patched up In a short space of tis the same as they were before

The palace did not ord of this incident to get out After all, wanting to fra Shanhu for Tan Wu's heroic death was somewhat difficult And besides, one had to consider the attitude of the , they prepared to cover up the an to chirp The Brocade Guards raised their heads The sky was discolored, and the birds had risen early Could it be that they knehat had happened?

Hidden beneath the tree, Fan Xian wiped away the cold sweat fro the insomnia that had woken those birds He carefully concealed hiht darkness as the injured ranks of Brocade Guards made their way to the north of the city

No one alking along the long street, and the sound of road sweepers, so common in his previous life, was absent He vaulted across the tall buildings of a neighboring street, certain that no one would discover his tracks

The stretcher-bearers had already , and had entered another courtyard, but he didn't knohether it belonged to the Provost or to the Thirteen Ministries The injured were triaged and sent to different rooms for treatment Covered in blood, a handful of doctors rushed in

Fan Xian went around to the rear of the building, waiting behind soroans came from a side room They weren't loud, but they could be clearly heard After focusing on his breath to calm himself, someone cliish, and after he landed, he carefully straightened out his clothing, presented a token to verify his identity, and then began walking ard

Fan Xian saw that the h his cap was tightly fitted, there were still a few stray strands of white hair poking out As he walked along, the white hair whipped foraze peered out froure walk away, he noticed that his gait was sos were still not recovered from after he had broken theh the quiet streets Although there were guards at each crossroads, Xiao En earing the unifor his pass had allowed hied

And like a ghost, Fan Xian had vanished into the dark night, following hi past those sa house, Xiao En stopped to catch his breath

Behind it, on top of another ordinary-looking house, Fan Xian also rested

Then the two set off again, one behind the other, following in the direction of the fleeting night Making their way through the Brocade Guards' network of checkpoints, they arrived at the western city gates

After the city gates opened, the vegetable faruards had spent the past half hour checking - all rushed in, and Xiao En took advantage of the chaos to sneak out of the tall gate A while later, the old iven a new lease of life, made his ith some difficulty to a dense forest at the foot of the Yan Mountains, west of Shangjing

Fan Xian followed far behind, his sharp eyes fixed on the old man in front of him Aa tattered robe The corners of the robe still had black kitchen grie men often tend to pick up, and on his back, he carried a bundle of firewood that he had somehow picked up froun to rise in the east, and its light illu thethe air

Everyone who saw the old athering firewood at dawn, and had no connection to the spyhout the land two decades previously

Fan Xian stood quietly in a tree, coldly watching Xiao En's crooked figure sloalk ahead He felt a certain ruthlessness rise up in him Xiao En was old, after all Not only was his health not what it was, even his ather firewood in the athered firewood at dusk

It was quiet inside the city as well as outside

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”Did you confir had already taken off his official uniforht a chunk of roasted donkeyfrom his mouth

”Yes sir,” replied the spy respectfully ”A brother ofoutside their quarters”

Shen Zhong was taken aback He placed the donkey rease, on the table His eyes were sunken, and he see and turning, his health troubling hi the truth Has Friar He already gone?”