Zhao Hao and his party returned to the Zhao Mansion in Chunsong Hutong.

Although the east courtyard was empty, they still consciously continued to live in the west courtyard without any intention of occupying the nest.

The past two days have helped Zhao Jin start the journey, and everyone is exhausted. After returning, it is getting late, so they all take a shower and go to bed.

Only Zhao Shixi can't sleep.

Amid the snoring of the sky, he sat on the bunk bed with his legs in his arms, staring at the now empty East Courtyard, feeling a burst of lonely and cold.

He wanted to use a poem to express his mood at this moment, but he was reluctant to regret it when he was writing. After holding it in for a long time, he only thought of "the bright moonlight in front of the bed, and it was suspected that it was frost on the ground. He looked up at the bright moon and thought of his hometown."

Then he got hungry...

This guy has had a quarrel these two days and hasn't eaten much until last night.

He put on his cotton jacket, put on his cotton shoes, and tiptoed out.

Tonight, the moon is dark and the wind is high, and the sky is dark and the sun is covered by dark clouds. Where is the moonlight on the ground?

Only then did Zhao Shixi realize that he had even used Jingye Si's mistake...

At this moment, a light and crisp bird cry suddenly sounded in the shadow behind him.

He hurriedly took out a "mud call" from his sleeve without thinking and blew it.

This is a thing that the soldiers of the Qi family use to communicate with each other at night.

Because the Japanese pirates like to pretend to be an official army to touch the camp at night, Qi Jiguang came up with such a way to solve it.

He equipped all soldiers with such cheap children's toys. He stipulated that they must carry them with them when patrolling the camp at night and identify the enemy and us according to the agreed signals.

Gao Wu completely followed the requirements of the men in Caijiaxiang according to the regular Qi family army, so he naturally matched them with them.

Zhao Shixi felt that it was ridiculous to face a great enemy. But after being beaten once, he had to act obediently according to military rules.

Hearing the signal from his own people, a man from Caijiaxiang flashed out in the shadow and asked him in a low voice, "What are you doing?"

"Peat."

"Get away and go to the cottage."

Zhao Shixi curled his lips, shrank his neck and walked back to the yard.

The west courtyard is a three-entry courtyard with a sedan chair in front. The largest second entrance is the main courtyard where the owner lives, and the third entrance is the back room where the servant lives.

There are five big north houses in the main courtyard, and two east and west wing rooms. Zhao Hao and others couldn't live in one person and one room. The guards also lived in the main courtyard, which would make it easier to protect the young master's family.

But Gao Wu was still very conscious and asked his subordinates to use the kitchen, thatched cottage and warehouse in the back yard to avoid affecting the quality of life of the young master's family.

At this time, the yard was quiet, and the people had already fallen asleep unconsciously...

Zhao Shixi was not here to deal with it at all.

He went straight into the kitchen, touched the black and opened the cabinet, and accurately found a Nanjing salt duck. He didn't make any noise. His movements were so skillful that it made people feel distressed.

Then Zhao Shixi leaned against the still-heat furnace, tearing the duck legs to eat while crying.

He felt very pitiful, lonely, and wanted to go back to his happy hometown...

Just as he was pitying himself and hurt himself, Zhao Shixi suddenly choked.

He widened his eyes and watched the door of the warehouse opposite the kitchen open...

There is no food there, who will go in in the middle of the night?

Zhao Shixi didn't want to meddle in other people's business because he was also committing crimes.

But Gao Wu used a whip to engrave the military rules and regulations in his mind, but dominated his hand to throw away the duck legs, took out the "mud call" from his sleeve bag, and then put it in his mouth, and blew it up three long and two short.

According to regulations, this means thieves.

The bird's screams were very clear, and soon alarmed the man who was patrolling the night in front.

He hurriedly blew the mud and shouted hard, while holding the iron rod tightly and following the sound, he quickly walked to the back yard.

In the warehouse in the back yard, a figure was rummaging through boxes and cabinets, and he also heard the sound of birds outside.

Where can any birds sing in the middle of the night?

He was so scared that he hurried out to check it out and happened to meet the man who was patrolling the night.

"Who is it?" The night patrolman shouted.

The man turned around and ran away in fear. The night patrolman immediately shouted to catch the thief while chasing him.

The thief should be accustomed to stealing, very agile, and has already been optimistic about the retreat route.

Several people moved to avoid the iron rod of the man in Caijiaxiang, and then he ran towards the west courtyard wall!

Although the wall was two feet high, there were ropes hanging down from it, and it was his companion who was responding to his retreat.

The companions lay on the high wall, watching the alarmed people rush out from the house, and waved to him anxiously.

The thief used all his strength to sprint, then grabbed the rope and quickly climbed up the wall.

The man from Caijiaxiang caught up and jumped hard, trying to grab his legs, but his fingers touched the sole of the thief's shoes...

Seeing that the thief was about to escape from heaven, he heard the sound of the bowstring sound.

Immediately afterwards, the man from Caijiaxiang looked at the thief as if he was hit hard, and his body tilted and fell straight from the wall.

The thief accomplices on the wall heard the sound and looked up suddenly. They saw a young man in the distance holding a crossbow and had already put the bowstring back on.

With a whoosh, another arrow shot, and flew over the scalp of the thief on the wall.

The man was so scared that he lost his soul and ignored the shots on the ground and disappeared.

When Zhao Hao heard the sound and came over with his clothes, he saw the man from Caijiaxiang surrounding Zhao Shizhen and was praising him without any trouble.

Zhao Shizhen held a high-backed crossbow and smiled shyly.

"You shot it?" Zhao Hao looked at Zhao Shizhen, then looked at such a unique crossbow, and his scalp became numb.

Before, he didn't know that this little nephew who was harmless was actually hiding a crossbow.

But now is not the time to worry about this, Zhao Hao turned to the thief and asked in a deep voice:

"Diet?"

"No, I fainted when I ejaculated on my butt." The man from Caijiaxiang carried the man over.

Zhao Hao looked at it, but had no impression, so he ordered: "Wake him up."

It was too cold outside, so he went back to the house to wait for news first.

In the cold winter, a basin of ice water fell down, and the thief got up from the ground with a whistle, but it touched the arrow wound on his butt, and even more tragic.

The arrow injury brought great convenience to the interrogation. When the man in Caijiaxiang held the arrow shaft, the thief felt so much that he wanted to die.

"Say, what are you doing?" A man named Cai Ming asked in a question on behalf of Gao Wu.

"We're going to steal things, you Ying Tianjuzi have money..." The thief replied hurriedly.

"Don't let your mother's stinky fart!" Cai Ming spat with thick phlegm and tweaked the arrow shafts.

"This is a third-rank official, you are here to steal it? Don't you want to live anymore? Even if you don't want to live anymore, what are you looking for when you go to the warehouse in the backyard? Can you have valuable things?!"

"How do you know if you don't look for it?" The thief said, "You won't go to the front again."

"I think you're just being dishonest!" Cai Ming twisted the arrow shaft hard, and the thief fainted directly from the pain.

The man in Caijiaxiang rushed to wake up with cold water and continued to interrogate, but the thief was actually a tough guy. He was in great pain, but he just stubbornly stumbled...
Chapter completed!