Crossing the Passenger Sacrifice

Li Huoyue always pays attention to the situation around him.

No matter which direction you go to track and investigate, you must cross the bridge first.

After the miracle, there was a craze for viewing the river in Kyoto. However, since it had rained and it was night, there were not many people on the bridge.

When he reached the middle of the bridge, Li Huoyue casually glanced at the river.

Without any light, the river surface was as dark as a black snake lurking in a cave. The flow of the river brought a faint sound of flowing water, and there was a damp smell in the air.

Li Huoyue didn't pay much attention to it. By now, the items in the river should have been cleared away, and there would be no "miracles" left. No matter how long he watched...

They were almost across the bridge, but Li Huoyue always felt that something was wrong.

She stopped again and leaned out to look into the river.

There was really nothing remarkable about the river in the dark night, and it was not very clear to begin with. Li Huoyue planned to give up this place for the time being and complete his original purpose.

But at this moment, the rain that was just about to stop started again without any warning.

Without any shelter, Li Huoyue had to leave quickly, cursing in his heart that the rain had really not chosen the right time. He thought the rain in the outer city had stopped and there would be no more heavy rain in the inner city.

As she was cursing, she suddenly stopped.

Yes, it doesn’t rain that hard in the inner city.

The water flow of the Nanxia River, which is surrounded by the inner city, is controlled by the east and west gates. There has been no heavy rain in a short period of time, so why did the water level suddenly rise so much? !

She immediately turned around and wanted to look at the river again. A strong feeling surged in her heart that this must be a very important matter.

"Miss Li!" As soon as I turned my head, I heard someone calling me, and along with the voice, my sleeve was pulled.

Li Huoyue immediately pulled back his sleeves, turned back warily, looked at the purple-clothed woman opposite him, and quietly touched the hidden dagger with one hand, "You are..."

Li Huoyue had too many things on his mind at this moment. He just felt that the woman in front of him looked familiar, but he couldn't remember who she was.

"Xu Lesong." She said the name briefly, with an anxious expression on her face, "Your sister-in-law's childhood friend. We went to the place where Sang Fuqing's house was smashed together that day!"

"Oh, it's Sister Xu." Li Huoyue responded, observing the other person's expression and asked, "What's the matter?"

Xu Lesong grabbed Li Huoyue again, this time by her wrist, "Come with me!"

Being able to play together with the eldest sister-in-law, Xu Lesong is also a man who acts in a hurry. He doesn't care about Li Huoyue's expression at all. He just grabs people and leaves without asking whether Li Huoyue is willing or not.

Li Huoyue was suddenly pulled forward two steps, trying to struggle free, when he heard Xu Lesong say, "Hey! Come quickly and see if that's your second brother!"

"Second brother?" Li Huoyue was a little stunned. Wasn't he kidnapped?

She came to the inner city along this route.

"Yes! Your second brother seems to have been beaten and is hanging in the air!!" Xu Lesong dragged Li Huoyue while shuttling through the inner city and headed straight towards Shengyu Street.

Props were used when the second brother was kidnapped, and even professional spies lost him, so how did she find him?

Li Huoyue did not alert the enemy, but always felt the position of his dagger. He followed Xu Lesong without struggling and ran quickly through the alleys of Shengyu Street.

But soon, Xu Lesong's suspicion was alleviated.

"Hurry, follow me. If you want to sneak into Prince Liang's Palace, you have to go through here!" Xu Lesong lay on the ground and called out to Li Huoyue in a low voice.

Li Huoyue had been to the Prince of Liang's Mansion once before and knew the structure of the mansion and the approximate range of the search for guards. He was silent for a moment and thought that there was no need to feel wronged like this.

"You...you know how to do Qinggong, don't you? How about climbing the wall? It would be a little more...decent." Li Huoyue suggested.

Xu Lesong glared at Li Huoyue in complaint, and said angrily: "Don't I have to take you with me? You can't crawl on the wall. It's a physical job, not just jumping up!"

"It's okay, just take me up, I can hold on." Li Huoyue said again.

Xu Lesong was kneeling in front of the cave entrance in an ungentlemanly manner, with his head slightly lowered, thinking, as if he was weighing the feasibility of Li Huoyue's suggestion.

Before she could think it through, a sudden sound of breaking air came from the yard.

To make such a sound, someone must have used some thin object to wave it quickly in the air.

Then came the sound of flesh tearing, mixed with the sound of cloth tearing, which was particularly harsh in the night.

Li Huoyue grabbed Xu Lesong and said, "Hurry!"

Xu Lesong was still struggling when Li Huoyue suddenly grabbed him up and spoke in an anxious and commanding tone. He didn't know what was going on and just followed Li Huoyue's arrangements in a daze.

By the time she reacted, she had already jumped onto the wall with Li Huoyue according to the position provided by Li Huoyue.

At this point, there was nothing more to say and he could only signal Li Huoyue with his eyes to hold on tight and not fall.

Li Huoyue nodded. If Xu Lesong hadn’t been there, she would have jumped up by herself and wouldn’t have had to go through the trouble of acting out such a scene.

The position for the two was chosen by Li Huoyue. It was very close to the backyard door, so they could take in the entire scene in the yard.

Li Huoyue looked around the yard. There was a broken bronze tripod placed on the spacious flat ground. Judging from the pattern and size, it should be the one that he almost didn't even get into the door last time.

There was a pile of firewood burning under the tripod and a person hanging above it.

From Li Huoyue's direction, he could only see a back.

She slightly widened her eyes, trying to see the man more clearly, and then she thought of another question:

From which direction did Xu Lesong see the second brother being hung up?

The only way to see the front face clearly is from the main stand.

But the backyard was designed like an arena for watching the Colosseum. If Xu Lesong did not appear in the direction of the main stand in his normal capacity, he would definitely be discovered.

The only reason she could sneak out to "tip off" was that... she had just seen Lao Er in the backyard in an identity that would not arouse suspicion.

Li Huoyue reached for the dagger again.

The only way they could avoid suspicion in this situation was because they were in cahoots with each other.

There was another sound of breaking air, and Li Huoyue watched helplessly as a long whip was swung forcefully and hit the hanging person hard.

The person being beaten trembled with pain, but because there was no place to hide or gain leverage, he had to relax his tense body, otherwise he would not be able to hold out for long.

Li Huoyue noticed from the corner of her eye that Xu Lesong beside her moved, as if he was intentionally approaching her. She turned back vigilantly and asked Xu Lesong with her eyes what he was doing.

Xu Lesong saw Li Huoyue looking back, paused in his approach, and asked with his mouth: "How is it, is that your second brother?"

Li Huoyue shook his head and mouthed back, "He didn't make any sound, so I couldn't tell."

Xu Lesong: “???”