Chapter 1225
The front of the old Taiwei's Mansion in Xicheng District, Xuchang was very quiet, not at all like the usual bustle and bustle.Mu Yang knew that there were two reasons for this situation.

One is that the former Taiwei Yang Biao, who had countless former students and younger brothers, had been assassinated by Cao Cao.After almost a month, the situation of people walking away from the tea was gradually unstoppable-almost no one would come to pay homage to the death of their benefactor and boss a month later.

Another reason is that today is the day when the emperor sacrifices to the imperial mausoleum.This grand event with a very obvious political contention has already attracted all the eyes in Xuchang City.The place of the new emperor's mausoleum is [-] miles outside Xuchang City, so a very strange situation occurred today: the bustling city suddenly became deserted, but the outside of the city, which was always deserted, was crowded with people...

Mu Yang felt a little nervous at the moment. To be honest, he couldn't imagine why he, a newcomer who had entered the shadows not long ago, would be sent by the lord to do such an important task.Even, six veteran shadows were dispatched to assist in the cover, and those six veteran shadows didn't even know the reason why they made some noise in Xuchang this time.

There is naturally an element of secrecy in this, but Mu Yang still feels that this is too risky.For such an important task, Mu Yang felt that it would be safe to let any one of the three shadows come under the cover of those skilled and experienced veteran shadows.

However, Mu Yang then remembered when he was in Chang'an, the lord's sincere, trusting eyes and encouraging smile... Mu Yang couldn't help touching his right shoulder. At that time, the lord was patting his In this place, he said to himself with a trusting smile imprinted in people's hearts: "Mu Yang, work hard, I am optimistic about you..."

Poor Mu Yang, he still doesn't know that Ma Chao has said this to almost any of his personal guards.However, even knowing this, he would still fight to the death—because Ma Chao's trust at that time was true.

Thinking of this, Mu Yang took a deep breath, and quietly approached the former Taiwei's mansion. He cleverly used the curve of the eaves and the shadow of the wall to hide his figure in the darkness most of the time.Fortunately, due to people's avoidance of some bad events, the front of the Taiwei's Mansion was too lonely, not even a single person.This gave Mu Yang a good environment for action.

The closer he was to the old Taiwei's mansion, the more Mu Yang realized that the tension of the situation was more and more vividly reflected here: there were 35 guards in the old Taiwei's mansion before, of which 25 were in office and ten were retired.However, since Yang Biao was suddenly assassinated, these private soldiers who were holding Yang Lao's salary were cut off from the source of food and salary, and gradually couldn't bear the cruelty of reality.Mu Yang had secretly observed Gu Taiwei's mansion for three days. When he first arrived in Xuchang, there were only fifteen guards left in Gu Taiwei's mansion.And within these three days, five more guards left one after another.

It is very difficult for ten people to be in charge of patrolling an area of ​​25 people.What's more, the rest of these guys probably don't have the intention of patrolling, and more energy should be put on finding out whether the old man with a famous family has hidden any treasure in the mansion, right?

This was not Mu Yang's arbitrary guess. Within three days, he found that those guards were always befriending the old slave in Taiwei's Mansion, and they were digging holes under strange-looking trees from time to time.Moreover, the five guards who left one after another also looked dejected and angry when they left.

At this moment, only two of the four turrets in the old Taiwei's mansion were guarded at the front, and there were two guards at the main entrance, and the remaining six were divided into groups of two to patrol the T-shaped corridor.Regardless of the patrol interval and density, it is not satisfactory, anyway, it is enough to let people see that they do not forget their old kindness.

Mu Yangyou walked to the outer wall of the north ear room, leaned against the base of the wall and looked towards the turret.The turret at this location is unguarded today, and the rear is the mansion of Gao Yuan who was killed by Cao Cao, and there is not even a human habitation.After confirming that he would not be seen, Mu Yang took out a flying hook from his arms, tied a hemp rope on the hook, and threw it towards the other side of the wall.The flying hook flew over the wall with a swish, and the special iron head of the hook snapped and caught the inner side of the outer wall of the former Taiwei's mansion made of mud bricks.

Mu Yang first listened to the movement around him, and after confirming that it was safe, he tugged on the rope again, feeling that the first hook was secure, and then he took out the second hook and made it in the same way.Next, he dipped some talcum powder in his hands, supported his hands with two hemp ropes, and climbed up with hands and feet.After a while, he climbed to the top of the wall.His first movement was to crouch down, as the patrol happened to be coming from the inside of the wall.The two guards glanced lazily around the yard before turning around.

Mu Yang immediately seized the gap and pulled the two ropes from the other side, hanging secretly to the inside of the wall, which was to prepare for an escape route in case of emergency.At this time, he found that he was not nervous at all.All the contents of the shadow training are all alive in his mind, guiding his actions step by step.

Next, Mu Yang slid down the wall with the help of a rope, and squatted down beside the pillar in the corridor of the ear room.Under the cover of those luxuriant flowers and plants that have not been taken care of for a month, unless someone walks to the pillar and takes a closer look, it is impossible to find that there is still a person squatting here.Mu Yang just waited quietly in such a state of motionless, even breathing gradually weakened, he knew that how long he had to squat this time depended on God's will.

Half an hour passed, and Mu Yang still endured the heat and stood there motionless.But at this time, he rubbed his hands and legs while the patrol soldiers were not paying attention.This is a necessary measure to keep the body flexible. The next moment, he took out three copper needles from his arms and looked at them, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Judging from their shape and size, these three copper needles should not be parts of a certain machine, but more like a tool.Moreover, the tail of the copper needle is just suitable for a person to hold with his thumb and forefinger, and this barb is obviously used for pulling and strapping.In an environment where the overall smelting level was very backward in the Han Dynasty, only the arsenal of the Ma family could produce such sophisticated tools.

These three copper needles are used to unlock the lock, which is what Mu Yang will do next.

The origin of the three copper needles is very interesting. It was when Ma Chao accidentally inspected the casting blueprints of the secret weapons in the arsenal, and saw that the locks in the lock blueprints were all metal reed locks. Instead of praising Han Feng for his prudence, he muttered : "Isn't this waiting for others to steal it?"

Han Feng was shocked at the time. The metal reed butterfly wing iron lock is the strongest lock in this era.But Ma Chao took three brand new copper needles the next day, and under the watchful eyes of everyone, inserted the three copper needles into the keyhole one by one to support each other; then gently swayed one of them in a wonderful rhythm Gen, only heard a click, and the lock opened in response.

Since then, the arsenal has all used the composite sliding tooth iron lock designed by Ma Chao, which cannot be opened by ordinary people unless a specific key is provided.However, for Ma Chao, who was still a hussar general at the time, how he knew how to pick locks became the sixth gossip in the arsenal ranking.It was only later that I vaguely heard the guards around Ma's family say that the lord once said something like 'If the expert in the lock-picking company I know is here, it would be trivial to steal the palace princess's underwear'...

Not long after, this magical lockpicking skill was added to Shadow's training content-although the locks of Ma's house could not be opened, the locks in other places were really useless to Shadow.

Inserting the Sanmei copper needle into the clothes to prevent it from falling off, Mu Yang finally heard a very short sound coming from the front yard in the distance.Then I heard someone yelling for a running figure, mixed with the words "Sure enough, there is hidden money".At this moment, Mu Yang saw that the expressions of the two soldiers who were in charge of patrolling the former Taiwei's bedroom changed, and they hurried to the front yard.

Mu Yang smiled slightly, and suddenly felt a little distressed: he knew that it was two gold horseshoes that fell from the eaves and were found.And those two pieces of gold were the rewards that he made up for when he rescued the horse.This time, it is used as bait, and after falling on the eaves, rubbing the string back and forth with the wind and its own weight and falling, it will become the target of these people's competition, thus creating a unique opportunity for sneaking in.

However, at the same time, those two pieces of gold were completely lost to him... To do this task, he had to pay for it himself. Mu Yang was very distressed, and he felt a little wronged.

(End of this chapter)

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