Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 349 Ebony Escort Agency

Long Mohan had already stated that he had brought his sister to live with relatives, so the waiter naturally treated them as outsiders who were unfamiliar with the local situation and introduced them enthusiastically: "The most famous escort agency in the capital is the Wumu Escort Agency. It is said that they are very successful in both the black and white worlds. They have the full support of Lord Tang from above and all kinds of people from all walks of life from below. Whether you are guaranteeing people or goods, as long as you hand it over to them, they will never fail. If you look from the window, they are right opposite." As he spoke, he pointed enthusiastically in the direction of the window.

Regardless of who the Mr. Tang the waiter was talking about, Ji Annie followed the direction of the waiter's finger, stretched her neck and looked, and sure enough, she saw a neat gray wall.

Looking over the wall, you can see people training in the square, just like a military unit.

"Wow, this is a really big escort agency." It was the first time that Ji Anni saw an escort agency with real guns and swords. It was very novel.

"Of course it's big. This is the headquarters, with three or four hundred people." The waiter seemed to be showing off his own business.

Ji Anni nodded half-heartedly, thinking that if there was a "headquarters", there must also be "branches". Being able to turn the escort agency into a "chain store" must mean that the family must be a solid brand.

"Ebony Escort Agency..." Long Mohan murmured these words with a gloomy look, as if he had heard of this escort agency.

"Sir, what's wrong?" The waiter also noticed that there was something wrong with Long Mohan's eyes.

"It's nothing. Go get the medicine first." Long Mohan immediately withdrew his gaze from the escort agency and waved to the waiter.

After the waiter left, Ji Anni asked curiously, "Brother, have you heard of this escort agency?"

Long Mohan almost got goose bumps when Ji Anni called him "brother" and said, "When no one is around, you'd better not call me brother."

"What should I call you? Your Majesty? That's too dangerous. We have to get into character and address each other as brother and sister no matter when and where." Ji Anni knew that there was no one on the other side of the wall, so she spoke louder unconsciously.

"I'm afraid that once you get used to calling me that, you won't be able to change it even if you return to the palace." Long Mohan glared at Ji Anni, but his eyes were not fierce at all, instead, they were mixed with a hint of doting.

Ji Anni read some affection in his eyes, but she didn't pay much attention to it. She just thought he was confusing her with Zhao Ji again, so she changed the subject and asked, "Brother, since you have already told Xiao Er that we are siblings who came to seek refuge with our relatives, if Lai De comes to our house later, how should we cover up the lie? We can't say that Lai De is the relative we want to seek refuge with, right?"

Along the way, Ji Annie and Long Mohan left road signs for Lai De. Even outside the inn where they were staying, there was a small arrow carved to remind Lai De that they were staying inside.

Long Mohan thought for a moment and said, "Let's just say he is their attendant."

Anyway, anyone who could produce a banknote of such a large denomination as "Cang Gui" must be a rich man, so it's not surprising that he has one or two servants around him. And in fact, Lai De was originally a servant of the royal family, so it's not a lie.

Ji Anni felt something was wrong and asked, "But Lai De is still wearing a guard uniform. You can tell at a glance that he just escaped from the palace. And now the palace is sealed off, so it's impossible for a soldier to escape. So the guards who are still stranded outside the palace are most likely the stragglers who got separated from the main force when the rebels broke up the bride's escort team yesterday. I'm afraid that once Lai De comes looking for us, our identities will be exposed..."

Guards usually follow high-ranking officials and dignitaries. If Lai De came specifically to look for Ji Annie and Long Mohan, he could guess their noble identities by following the clues.

After Ji Annie's reminder, Long Mohan also became worried and stood up and said, "Then I'd better go find him and ask him to change his clothes first."

I wonder if Lai De has found the mark they left behind. Maybe he is still wandering around in the woods and hasn't found his way. Ji Anni really wanted to see Lai De as soon as possible. When she heard Long Mohan say that he was going out to look for him, she urged him without stopping him, "Okay, go quickly and come back soon. Otherwise, if Lai De, who has a poor sense of direction, runs into the rebels' base camp, it will be a disaster."

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Not long after Long Mohan left, the waiter brought the ointment for the foot injury. While Ji Anni was applying the ointment on herself, she curiously looked towards the Ebony Escort Agency across the street.

At this time, the collective exercises had ended, but there were still many people staying in the large square for martial arts performances to practice techniques such as archery, wrestling, and fencing. It looked very lively.

Watching them sparring in twos and threes, Ji Anni's heart began to itch, and she couldn't help crawling to the window, watching them sweating in the sun. Suddenly, she even forgot about the rebellion and the chaos in the palace. Because from the orderly training of the Ebony Escort Agency, there was no outside influence at all.

Although the Ebony Escort Agency is located in the imperial city, no matter how chaotic the area around the imperial palace is, the Ebony Escort Agency seems to be detached from the world, having nothing to do with it and being unaffected in the slightest.

Turning around to look at other shops, most of them were closed and no one was seen, forming a sharp contrast with the bustling Ebony Escort Agency.

"Ebony Escort Agency, so there is such a place inside the Imperial City..." Ji Anni murmured to herself, unconsciously recalling the expression on Long Mohan's face when he heard about the Ebony Escort Agency just now.

There are only two possibilities for Long Mohan's reaction to the name of this escort agency. One is that this escort agency is indeed very famous and well-known to everyone in the world, but if that were the case, the waiter would not have had to specifically introduce this escort agency just now; then there is only the second possibility, that this Wumu Escort Agency may have some dealings with the royal family, so Long Mohan, who is in the deep palace, would have heard of it.

Ji Anni was lost in thought when she suddenly saw a beam of white light coming towards her. Before she could see clearly what the white light was, she heard a "whoosh" sound and something hard pierced into the head of the bed.

Ji Anni, who was applying ointment to her ankle, was so frightened that she almost smashed the medicine bottle to the ground. When she came to her senses and turned her head, she found that the white light nailed to the head of the bed was not light, but a strange arrow.

The reason why this arrow is strange is that the word "ebony" is clearly written on the feathers, and it is obvious that it is a special arrow of the Ebony Escort Agency. But the practice field of the escort agency is across the street from Ji Anni's room, and the other party should not find out that I am peeking at their training. Even if they are peeking, they won't shoot an arrow to warn me, because I am not trying to learn their unique martial arts.

Just when Ji Anni was feeling indignant, she suddenly heard a burst of wild laughter coming from the training ground of the escort agency opposite.

Looking from a distance, I could vaguely see that most of the people on the training ground were focusing their attention on a person holding a bow and arrow.

I guess the arrow that missed the target and flew across the street was shot from that person.

Amid the laughter of the crowd, the man pulled the bow and arrow again.

Ji Anni curiously went to the window to watch, but she heard another "swoosh" sound. After the arrow was released from the man's hand, it seemed to have eyes and flew straight towards Ji Anni.

"Wow!" Ji Anni screamed in fear and turned to hide. If she hadn't dodged quickly, I'm afraid that pretty face would have been scarred.

"It can't be that weird..." Ji Anni looked at the two arrows with "ebony" written on them stuck on the head of her bed, feeling a little amused. If you say that the man's archery skills are poor, it's not easy to shoot into her room twice; but if you say that the man's archery skills are good, his sense of direction like a headless fly is really not commendable.

Ji Anni grabbed the arrow feather and tried to pull it out from the bedside. But after a lot of effort, the arrowhead was deeply stuck in the bedside and could not be pulled out. It seems that the archer's arrow control ability and sense of direction are too poor, but his amazing strength is also a good thing.

Anyway, Ji Anni was bored, so she competed with the two arrows and vowed to pull them out. While pulling them out, she heard laughter coming from the practice field. Ji Anni was afraid that the archer would shoot a third arrow during the laughter, so she quickly moved away from the wall.

After waiting for a while, the laughter stopped, but the third arrow was still not fired.

When Annie finally plucked up the courage to look out the window, she found that the man who shot the arrow had disappeared. He must have retreated quietly amid the laughter.

I thought this adventure ended here, but after a while, Ji Anni heard a knock on the door.

Thinking that Long Mohan had returned, Ji Anni limped to open the door. But after the door was opened, she discovered that the person outside the door was not Long Mohan or the waiter, but a strange face.

It is a bit wrong to say "one sheet", it should be "half sheet".

Because the other half of the face was blocked by the hair hanging from the forehead, not to mention the eyes, even the bridge of the nose was almost invisible. All that could be seen was the pale skin, a chin and a mouth.

Although I couldn't see his face clearly, I could tell from his tall stature that he was a thin man.

"You, you... who are you..." Ji Annie looked at him carefully, fearing that she would encounter a pervert. With her injured foot, she couldn't run fast even if she encountered a pervert.

The man outside the door bowed respectfully to her and said kindly and politely, "Excuse me for disturbing you, young lady. My name is Tang, and I am an escort from the Wumu Escort Agency across the street. I came here to ask you if the two arrows that were shot off just now were shot into your room?"

"Oh, so you shot those two arrows just now?" Ji Anni raised her voice in surprise and joy, thinking, no wonder this guy missed the target so badly, his hair has completely blocked his eyes, it would be strange if he could see the bull's eye. But what's even more strange is that how could a person with such poor eyesight that he couldn't even see the bull's eye see those two arrows that missed the target and shot into his room?