On the second floor of Pengcheng Hotel.
Wang Xiaohai and the other two sat in a luxurious private room, opened the window facing the street, and ordered twenty dishes.
Princess Shu no longer asked the three people whether they could eat or not. She would not make such a foolish mistake a second time.
"The tiger talisman was quite difficult to find. I threatened several officials in the Shangshu Mansion, but they didn't know anything about it," Lincun said. "Later, I caught the Minister of War and found out that he had hidden the tiger talisman outside the palace."
"After dinner, go find the Yulin Army stationed outside the city." Wang Xiaohai handed the tiger talisman to Lin Cun. "Tomorrow, the third prince Zhou Jian will forcibly ascend the throne. We must hurry. If we are too late, we will have to depose Zhou Jian from the throne, which is equivalent to usurping the throne and will not be good for our reputation."
"I understand. I'll do it as soon as possible." Lincun said, "Have you found officials who support you?"
"Do we still need support from all the officials?" Princess Shu seemed to not understand at all.
"Forget it. It doesn't matter if there's no support from the officials." Lin Cun sighed. "When the time comes, we can just kill those who are honest and oppose us. The rest will be fence-sitters and easy to control."
The waiter brought the dishes on a tray.
The three of them ate and discussed their plans. The sky outside gradually darkened. In the middle of the meal, the friend brought a candle and placed it in the middle of the table.
"I'm leaving." Lin Cun finished eating quickly, put down his chopsticks, took a look at the dead mosquito in the lampshade, and left the tavern.
"Why did he look at the lampshade?" Princess Shu asked Wang Xiaohai.
"He may feel that weak creatures like mosquitoes are unaware of the dangers they face and their fate is beyond their control," Wang Xiaohai explained.
"You're wrong. I just feel that the candle is about to go out. How are you going to eat later?" Lin Cun's voice came from the street.
Princess Shu: “…”
After they finished eating, they went to the city gate to wait.
After waiting for an hour, Lincun still hadn't shown up with his men, and it was already completely dark.
"You said it wouldn't take that long to get from Lin Village to the barracks outside the city, so why hasn't there been any movement?" The waiting time was the most anxious, and Princess Shu began to wonder, "Could something unexpected have happened?"
"He won't get into any trouble unless he meets someone of the same faith, but people of the same faith will avoid fighting each other." Wang Xiaohai said, "No, I've overlooked something."
The two waited for three hours, but there was no movement at the city gate.
"Could it be that they thought it was too late and the city gates were closed? That's why they didn't come." Princess Shu was trying to find a reason why Lin Cun hadn't come. "Or is it that the tiger talisman is fake and can't command the Yulin Army? Or is it that Lin Cun looks so unfamiliar that even with the tiger talisman, the Yulin Army generals wouldn't listen to him?"
"Let's find a place to rest. Lin Cun won't come tonight." Wang Xiaohai said.
The two found a hotel near the city gate, and Wang Xiaohai booked a room for Princess Shu to stay.
"Where do you live?" asked Princess Shu.
"I'm not staying here anymore. I'm going to check out the Yulin Army's camp." Wang Xiaohai paid the room fee and left the hotel.
There were far fewer guards on the city walls at night than during the day. Most of the guards set up a tent and played dice. Wang Xiaohai stood on the battlement and looked across the moat.
He couldn't jump from the other side of the moat to the city wall, but Wang Xiaohai could still jump from the city wall to the other side of the moat, because it was from high to low. It was easy for a person to jump from the roof to the bottom, but it was much more difficult to jump from the bottom to the roof.
"Ha!" Wang Xiaohai sprinted two steps, jumped up, and like a roc spreading its wings, he glided across the night sky and flew over the moat.
"Bang."
When Wang Xiaohai landed, he knocked down a tree as thick as his fist, scaring some small animals in the woods and causing birds to fly into the night sky.
Wang Xiaohai had already found out the location of the Yulin Army camp in the hotel, so he identified the location and ran there quickly.
After running for half an hour, Wang Xiaohai finally arrived at the camp of the Yulin Army.
At this moment, the camp of the Yulin Army was brightly lit and crowded with people. The Yulin Army soldiers held torches in their hands, and the flames illuminated their faces and leather armor.
"Everyone, hurry up! We must leave the camp today," a man in silver armor shouted. "If you delay, everyone will be whipped!"
"Yes!" Several soldiers who were sorting out their equipment quickly packed up.
Wang Xiaohai sneaked into the camp quietly, knocked out a soldier who was sorting his equipment with his palm, changed his clothes, disguised himself as a soldier of the Yulin Army, and then approached General Yinjia.
"Which team are you from?" General Silver Armor shouted after seeing Wang Xiaohai's actions.
"I want to ask, where are we going after closing the camp?" said Wang Xiaohai.
"Don't ask questions you shouldn't ask!" The Yulin Army general seemed displeased. "Just follow your captain!"
Wang Xiaohai looked at the direction the soldiers were heading and said, "This direction is not going to the capital!"
"You little soldier, you have so many questions!" General Silver Armor scolded, "Who told you we were going to the capital?"
Wang Xiaohai's heart sank. The thing he feared most had happened - Lin Cun betrayed him and Princess Shu and transferred his troops elsewhere!
"You might have been deceived." Wang Xiaohai said, "I heard from the palace that the Yulin Army is going to escort the imperial army."
"Did you hear what the palace said? Haven't you been living in the barracks?" General Silver Armor drew his sword and pointed it at Wang Xiaohai. "Who are you?"
“Does it matter who I am?”
"It doesn't matter." General Silver Armor slashed at Wang Xiaohai with his sword, "The dead don't need names!"
General Silver Armor's sword moves were sharp and fierce, flying towards Wang Xiaohai's vital points!
Wang Xiaohai dodged sideways the moment the sword touched, and then followed with a side kick, hitting General Silver Armor in the waist. Fortunately, the general was protected by armor and was not seriously injured by the kick, but he also felt a black screen in front of his eyes, spit out a mouthful of blood and fell to the ground. Then Wang Xiaohai stepped on him to prevent him from turning over.
"There's an assassin!" The surrounding soldiers shouted when they saw this, and a group of people surrounded them in an instant.
"Step back, or I'll step on him to death." Wang Xiaohai said sternly.
The soldiers were immediately frightened and took two steps back.
"Can you please let me go?" After falling to the ground, General Silver Armor no longer had the toughness he had just now. It seemed that he would become arrogant and ferocious only when he met someone weaker than himself.
"Where are you going after breaking camp?" Wang Xiaohai asked.
"Qizhou." General Silver Armor answered honestly.
"Who ordered you to go to Qizhou?" Wang Xiaohai continued to ask.
"A man holding a tiger talisman said there was a rebellion in Qizhou and that the Yulin Army was needed to suppress it," said General Yinjia. "So our Yulin Army general and deputy general all went!"
Wang Xiaohai wondered why Lin Cun had sent the Yulin Army to Qizhou. He suddenly felt that Lin Cun's reaction after returning this time was very strange. He blamed himself for trusting Lin Cun too much and not doubting him. He thought that after all, the two of them had been through so much, but he didn't expect Lin Cun to have other ideas.
"Where is that person now?" Wang Xiaohai asked.
"I don't know. He left right after he said that." General Yinjia felt that Wang Xiaohai's feet were as heavy as a mountain, making it hard for him to breathe.
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