In a remote corner of the back room of Shang Pharmacy, Ji Yin gritted his teeth and endured the pain to pull out a crossbow arrow from his buttocks. Then he pressed hard on the wound in the hope of stopping the bleeding as soon as possible.

At this time, in the garden of Shang Pharmacy, the Yulin Army was searching everywhere to capture this "fugitive".

He found a relatively safe place to hide, preparing to treat his wounds first and then find a way to escape from here.

Today is the sixth day of the first lunar month, and it is the day for Ji Wei to get the news. The secret agents of the Restoration Army have several fixed locations in the palace to transmit news, all located in some relatively hidden corners. For the sake of safety, the location of transmitting news will be changed according to different dates. The location to receive the news today is near the Shang Pharmacy.

The timing today was also very coincidental. During dinner, the princess was in the mood to drink a little wine to relieve her boredom, so she called a few servants and palace maids around her to accompany her in drinking. While drinking, they also played drinking games. Probably only the princess's palace dared to play like this. In the end, Ji Ying used his superb drinking game skills to get the princess drunk. Of course, he also pretended to be too drunk and went back to his room early to wash up and go to bed.

At the hour of Hai, Ji Yin pretended to have gone to bed and sneaked out of the princess' palace. He had calculated this departure time so that he could avoid the night watchmen's patrol on the road. To be on the safe side, he also prepared a token of the princess' palace and carried it with him. If he was encountered by the night watchmen on the road, he could show the token and find any excuse to get away with it. For example, today, if he was stopped by some night watchmen on the road, he could say that he was sent by the princess to go to the Shang Pharmacy to get some hangover medicine.

Before each action, Ji Yin would make sufficient preparations, and he felt that these preparations were flawless. But when he went out today, his right eyelid twitched violently, as if the sixth sense in addition to the five senses was warning him of something, and the closer he got to the place of action, the stronger this ominous premonition became.

So before he reached his destination, he followed his instincts and decided to turn back.

But it was too late. His ominous premonition did have a source - there was an ambush of Yulin troops near the location where the information was obtained, and there were several masters of the inner court.

As soon as those people showed up, he noticed them. After weighing various possible escape plans, he immediately decided that running away was the best option.

However, he was accidentally hit by a crossbow arrow while escaping. Finally, he climbed over the wall and escaped into the garden of Shang Pharmacy.

That's why he is trapped here with an arrow wound.

He went there to deliver the news placed by the secret agent named "Nanmen". If he encountered an ambush here, then something must have happened at "Nanmen". The secret agents placed by the Restoration Army in the palace include palace maids and servants like Lu Yi, as well as Yulin Army and guards. They are all loyal and brave warriors who will kill themselves and destroy key objects when encountering a situation. Ji Wei can only make the best plan that they will not betray... and the Yulin Army wants to catch him by waiting for him, which also means that he has not been exposed. It is very likely that "Nanmen" exposed this location when delivering the news.

The key issue now is how to escape from here without being caught... Ji Yin has never been a indecisive person, but at this moment he felt a lot of regret: he shouldn't have insisted on his own way and ignored Lu Yi's advice to receive the news in person. It might even be a mistake for him to risk entering the palace to be a eunuch.

His mind was confusedly thinking about the subsequent escape method, when suddenly a figure flashed before his eyes. Ji Yin quickly stood up, rushed forward at lightning speed, pushed the man against a wall, and strangled his throat tightly.

After the other person's throat was strangled, he could hardly speak, and could only make a few soft sounds in his throat: "Fu...zhi, it's...me."

"How do you know it's me?!" Ji Yin was shocked when he heard him calling out his name, because his face was covered with a black cloth at this moment... He had found an opportunity to cover his face with the black cloth when he was escaping just now.

While asking questions, Ji Yin also identified the person who came, it was Wang Bingyu.

Wang Bingyu opened his mouth, but this time no word uttered, because when Ji Ying heard him calling out his name, his hands tightened involuntarily and he increased his strength... as if he wanted to strangle the person to death and silence him.

When Ji Ying saw that he was unable to speak, he realized that he had used too much force, so he quickly relaxed his grip a little to allow him to make a slight sound.

"I... I smelled the scent on you. I was born with a very sensitive nose. I can smell the scents of different people, just like... a dog's nose." Wang Bingyu replied in a very weak voice.

"What did you say! There is such a supernatural power? Did you find me by smell?" It was the first time that Ji Yin heard that someone had a nose as sharp as a dog. He was surprised and half-believing and half-doubting.

"No, no, no, I... no matter how good my nose is, it's only useful when I'm close to you. Because I just happened to pass by here... I could smell your scent when you got close to me."

"Oh? Passing by here? What a coincidence?" When Ji Ying heard him say this, the doubts in his heart increased instead of decreased.

"I have some hemostatic medicine on me, would you like to take one quickly?"

"How do you know I'm injured? Did you smell the blood on me?" This time Ji Yin was not as surprised as before, but deduced the cause and effect by himself.

"Well... I just saw you pulling out the arrow, and the Yulin soldiers checked the eunuchs from head to toe when they saw them in the garden to see if there were any injuries on the body. They said they were looking for a fugitive with an arrow wound. Fuzhi, I know you want to escape, let me go, and I will find a way to help you escape." Wang Bingyu noticed the suspicion and hesitation in Ji Yin's eyes when he spoke, so he continued to persuade him every second: "Now there are guards outside the wall, and even on the top of the wall in some places. The garden is full of Yulin soldiers, and I just overheard that they have ordered people to bring two hunting dogs to the garden to search for people. You are injured and bleeding, and the hunting dogs can smell blood, so if you want to escape, you have to hurry. Because you saved me, I want to save you too." The last time Ji Yin saw this person, no sentence he said had more than three words, but this time he blurted out so many words, as if he had become a different person. After a moment's hesitation, he completely released the hand that was holding the man's throat... At this moment, he couldn't believe it but he had to believe it, because he had no choice but to take a gamble - if this man ran away and called for help to summon the soldiers, then he would admit defeat, but what was his bet? Did he help him beat up the villain, or did he like him?

Seeing Ji Ying let go of his hand, Wang Bingyu quickly took out a pill from his pocket and handed it to him. This time, Ji Ying did not hesitate at all. He took the pill and put it into his mouth... He had already entered the "gambling game" and there was no turning back.

"Do you know where Xiyuan Pharmacy is?" Wang Bingyu asked.

"I know. I'm very familiar with the roads here." Ji Yin was familiar with the terrain of many bureaus when he was in the Horticulture Bureau.

"There are three osmanthus trees in the southwest corner of Xiyuan Pharmacy. From the third osmanthus tree in the north, walk straight south towards the backyard wall. When you reach the base of the wall, you can see a pile of gravel. Pull aside the gravel and you will find a hole hidden underneath that is larger than a dog hole. The hole leads directly to the outside of the courtyard wall. If you can get out of the hole, you can escape from the garden. It was dug by a few traitors in the police station in order to steal medicinal materials. I accidentally discovered it, but the hole is a bit small..."

"I can definitely get through such a big hole." Before Wang Bingyu could finish his words, Ji Yin interrupted him, as if he couldn't wait to get through the hole right away... Since he had decided to take the gamble, he decided to completely trust the person in front of him. At this time, let alone asking him to get through a dog hole, even if there was a rat hole he could get through, he would probably give it a try.

Wang Bingyu didn't show much surprise when he heard him say this: "But there are several Yulin soldiers guarding the road in that direction."

"How many?" When Ji Ying asked this question, he began to weigh the feasibility of this method in his mind. Given his current situation, could he kill several Yulin soldiers by himself?

"There are several, but I can help you lead them away."

"Lure them away? How can you lure them away?" Ji Ying asked with a puzzled look on his face.

Wang Bingyu did not reply, but took two steps back, then bent down to pick up something on the ground - the arrow that Ji Ying had just pulled out of his body.

"What are you going to do with this? Without the crossbow, it's just a piece of waste wood."

No... this thing can also be used for pitching pots... Ji Yin felt that he might be possessed by a demon, as he could still think of pitching pots at this critical moment.

"After I lead those people away, you should quickly get out of that hole. After you get out, it all depends on your own luck." Wang Bingyu said as he retreated with the arrow in his hand.

Ji Wei saw that the expression on his face seemed to be a bit resolute, and that feminine face actually surged with an extremely masculine aura: "No, Wang Bingyu, come back and explain it to me clearly..."

Before Ji Ying could finish his words, Wang Bingyu turned around and ran with the arrow, rushing into the dark night.

"Wait, Wang Bingyu, come back to me!" Ji Yin growled twice in the direction where he disappeared.

He had an ominous suspicion in his mind - this Wang Bingyu might be trying to pretend to be himself to lure away those Yulin soldiers.

Ji Wei had no time to think about it, and quickly set out to find the "dog hole" that Wang Bingyu mentioned. Sure enough, along the way, he heard the shouts of officers and soldiers not far away: "Caught! Caught!" "Look, there's blood on him!" "Oh! The arrow is still stuck in his butt!" "It's him, it's definitely him!"

Ji Yin suppressed the inexplicable emotions in his heart and quickly found the "dog hole". During this period, he did not encounter any danger because the "fugitive" had been caught by the Yulin Army.

He used his bone shrinking skill to get out of the "dog hole". After getting out, he was actually a little grateful to those who did sneaky things in the palace. There was no defense on the wall outside the dog hole. He found a secluded place to wait for a while, because if the news of catching the fugitive spread out, the additional defense on the road would be removed, so it would be safer to go back.

The journey back was very smooth. He deliberately went to the Horticulture Bureau and hung a black cloth strip on the branches of a camphor tree outside the backyard wall of the Horticulture Bureau. There was a special knot on the cloth strip, which was his signal to report his safety to Lu Yu. Because "Nanmen" failed, he, code-named "Qianmen", was caught again, so he had to quickly convey the news of his safe escape to Lu Yi to prevent him from doing anything dangerous.

On the way back, Ji Wei was like a stretched string, and the unspeakable emotions in his heart were hard to calm down: if it was his own assassins who did this, he would understand, but why did Wang Bingyu risk his life to save him? Was it because he really liked him?

(End of this chapter)

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