Ouyang Miaoling and the others found a farmhouse and negotiated with the owner to stay there for the night. The three of them ate a quick meal and took a short rest.

Ouyang Miaoling suggested: "Xiaoyun, you wait here and collect information about the ways for the people to enter the city. Li Jing and I will go to the city gate again to see if we can sneak in under the cover of night."

"Okay..." Li Jing agreed with Ouyang Miaoling's plan. Xiaoyun also nodded in agreement with his master's arrangement.

Taking advantage of the inky night, two dark shadows rushed across the rooftops of houses in the suburbs of Jiangcheng like ghosts.

They moved cautiously and lightly, like ghosts, slowly approaching the city wall of Jiangcheng.

Ouyang Miaoling gestured to Li Qing, asking him to wait there while she tried to climb over the wall and jump into the city. Li Qing understood and responded with a clear gesture. Then he found a relatively secluded place, hid himself, and waited for Ouyang Miaoling's follow-up actions.

Ouyang Miaoling was as light as a flying swallow and as agile as a cheetah. She took out her triangular claws from space and shot towards the city wall like a meteor. After finding a fixed support point, she slowly climbed up along the rope.

Li Jing, who was standing below, saw every move she made. He was secretly amazed in his heart, and was in awe of his master's skills. As he watched Ouyang Miaoling disappear from his sight bit by bit, his heart seemed to be tightly grasped by the disappearing figure, and it was raised to his throat.

Ouyang Miaoling jumped onto the city wall lightly like a ghost. Some of the officers and soldiers guarding the city wall had already fallen asleep, while others were still holding on to their last bit of stubbornness, their eyelids seemed to be fighting, but they still held on to their bodies, pacing back and forth on the city wall to patrol.

Ouyang Miaoling couldn't help but secretly rejoice that such a team was just a mob and would not last long.

So she gave a secret signal to Li Qing at the foot of the city wall, indicating that he could also climb up along the rope.

After receiving the secret signal from his master, Li Qing jumped out from his hiding place like an arrow. Then he carefully came to the rope left for him by Ouyang Miaoling, reached out and grabbed the rope tightly, and climbed upwards little by little.

He also climbed up the wall along the rope surprisingly smoothly. When he came up and saw Ouyang Miaoling, before he could get excited, he saw Ouyang Miaoling made a gesture to stop him at the corner of her lips.

He quickly stopped what he was about to say because of his complacency and waited quietly for Ouyang Miaoling's instructions on the next move.

Ouyang Miaoling signaled him to put away the rope. She was like a light butterfly, using Qinggong to leap up and fly down to the other side of the city wall.

Halfway through, she used the city wall to gain leverage, like a dragonfly skimming the water, to slow down her descent, and then landed steadily inside the city wall of Jiangcheng. Not to be outdone, Li Qing followed closely behind, using the same method, landing lightly inside the city wall like a flying bird.

The two smiled at each other, and walked towards Jiangcheng like ghosts in the night.

They never dreamed that they could jump into the city wall so smoothly, nor did they expect that they could get in so easily. They wandered around the city in the dark like headless flies.

Whenever they encountered patrolling soldiers, they would hide, and as long as they avoided the patrolling soldiers, they would come out and continue searching.

Because it is not easy for them to find food and supplies for the enemy.

"This is not a solution. Why don't we find a place to stay first and wait until tomorrow to see the situation in the city before making plans." Ouyang Miaoling suggested.

"Okay...it's so late, I wonder if there are any inns open?" Li Qing said worriedly.

"We're not staying in the inn. When we came here just now, I noticed there was a dilapidated temple over there. We can stay there for a while." Ouyang Miaoling said.

"Okay..." Li Qing agreed.

"Let's go...remember to leave marks for Xiaoyun along the way," Ouyang Miaoling reminded Li Qing as they walked.

"Put it down. I have left the mark we agreed upon. I believe Xiaoyun will be able to find a way in," Li Qing comforted her.

"Well... I have always been optimistic about Xiaoyun's wit." The two people's voices became smaller and smaller as they walked away.

The next day, at the last line of defense of the city controlled by the rebels, a man and a woman, dressed in beggar's clothes and with dirty faces, supported each other as they walked out of the city to search.

They saw many people leaving the city in front of them, who were beaten black and blue because they were regarded as spies due to some fabricated things.

Seeing such a shocking scene, the two of them couldn't help but secretly swallow their saliva, and then silently said in their hearts: "We must get out safely and smoothly."

When there were only two people in front of the queue to leave the city, and then it was their turn, the two people who supported each other lowered their heads and pretended to be afraid and trembling.

The two people in front passed smoothly, and finally it was the turn of these two people. The soldier in charge of the inspection looked them up and down, and saw that they were wearing tattered clothes with a look of disgust.

Then they started asking, "Where are you going?" They asked in a pretentious tone.

The man between the two men spoke up, "Hello, sir. We are brother and sister. Our house was burned down due to the war, and our parents and relatives were all burned to death. We are now leaving the city to seek refuge with our relatives and find a way to survive. Please, sir, be merciful and give us ordinary people a way to survive when we leave the city." The man bowed humbly.

The two siblings were none other than Zhang Yun and Xiao Yue, who were pretending to be siblings and going out of the city to deliver a letter.

After hearing what Zhang Yun said, the soldier looked at Xiaoyue's face with doubt and said, "You said you are brother and sister, but why do you look nothing alike to me?"

Faced with the soldier's deliberate provocation, Xiaoyue thought quickly and pretended to cough violently, and her body shook violently because of the cough.

After coughing for a long time, suddenly a mouthful of blood spurted out.

The soldier quickly asked: "What happened to her? She was fine just now, why is she like this now?"

Zhang Yun said with a bitter face, "Your Excellency, you don't know that when it rains it pours. My little sister and I are the only ones left at home. Who would have thought that my little sister would have contracted tuberculosis? The doctor said that she would not live long. I am not taking her to live with relatives, hoping that one day, she will not be left to die in the wilderness. She can have a mat to wrap herself up, and it will not be in vain for her to come to the world."

After saying this, they burst into tears, making the people behind them feel sorry for what happened to this family.

They all spoke up to persuade him: "Sir, please be kind and let the siblings go. They are a really pitiful family. Please do some good deeds."

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