I have traveled through time, who am I afraid of?

Chapter 964 The Image of the Eastern Venezuelan Spy is Ridiculous

Jingyue Capital has a rule: except for urgent battle reports sent to the capital, or important national affairs that have suddenly occurred, and for soldiers patrolling the capital at night, ordinary people are not allowed to ride horses or drive carriages in the quiet night from the third watch.

If you hear the sound of horses' hooves echoing through the street at night, there are only two possibilities:

The sound of horses' hooves was neither hurried nor slow, coming from afar and then from afar again; it must be soldiers on night patrol.

If someone gallops at full speed, or if the sound of horses' hooves is rapid and chaotic, then something big must be happening.

The two men from East Venezuela must have known about the rule and didn't want the sound of their horses' hooves to wake anyone who was sleeping, or disturb anyone who shouldn't be disturbed. Therefore, they traveled the entire way on foot.

This actually made it easier for Xiao Jingyu and Leng Rongyue to track them down.

For Xiao Jingyu, who possesses unparalleled lightness skills, such tracking is extremely easy; it's just a matter of wasting some time.

Xiao Jingyu simply treated this pursuit as a nighttime outing with his little princess.

Not far from the small courtyard in the east of the city where the spy from the Eastern Venezuelan state was hiding, this courtyard, like the other courtyards, had long since turned off its lights and gone to sleep.

A lantern hung on the courtyard gate, with the character "Qin" on it.

Xiao Jingyu naturally knew who the owner of this courtyard was.

Turning his head close to Leng Rongyue's ear, Xiao Jingyu whispered, "This is the residence of Qin Lu, the deputy commander of the Five Cities Garrison. Qin Lu's daughter, Qin Yanyan, is a concubine in the Prince Yi's mansion."

Upon hearing this, Leng Rongyue turned to look at Xiao Jingyu, her beautiful eyes filled with doubt, clearly asking: Does Prince Yi know that his people have direct contact with the beasts of the Eastern Wei?

Xiao Jingyu shook his head slightly, then leaned close to Leng Rongyue's ear again and said, "It seems you don't know."

Otherwise, those beasts from East Venezuela could directly contact Xiao Jingyi, and then Xiao Jingyi would arrange what his subordinates should do, instead of having those beasts from East Venezuela come to see him one by one and give him instructions, as is the case today.

"I suppose... Qin Lu and the others should already know that their offspring have been kidnapped..."

Before Xiao Jingyu could say anything more, the beast from the East had already headed towards the Qin family's courtyard.

After carefully observing the surroundings, the two men from East Venezuela approached stealthily.

They naturally dared not knock on the door, but left the skinny guy to keep watch in the shadows outside the door, while the guy whose head had been slapped into a pig's head by their short, chubby prince simply climbed over the wall and into the yard.

Without hesitation, Xiao Jingyu led Leng Rongyue away from the lookout, quickly turned to the other side of the courtyard, and flew into the courtyard.

The courtyard was quiet and dark, without a sound.

The two looked around... It was an extremely ordinary two-courtyard house.

Two-courtyard houses like this, located in the eastern part of the city, were mostly inhabited by ordinary officials working in the government.

Then there are the merchants who are better off financially.

Because noble families disdain living here and look down on such courtyards;

But ordinary people simply cannot afford to live there.

Xiao Jingyu and Leng Rongyue hid in the shadows of a woodpile, watching as the idiot from the East Committee made his way to the east window of the main house with practiced ease...

It first listened intently, then raised its hand and tapped the window frame three times, neither too hard nor too softly. After a short pause, it tapped twice more... then paused again and tapped three more times.

Is this a secret code?

Leng Rongyue and Xiao Jingyu exchanged a glance, and then quietly moved to the back of the house.

Xiao Jingyu grabbed Leng Rongyue and leaped onto the roof.

After Xiao Jingyu skillfully removed two tiles from the east side of the roof, the two of them bent down and watched the movements below.

Soon, rustling sounds came from below.

In the dim light streaming into the room from outside the window, a figure could be seen emerging from the bed curtains and quickly walking to the table.

Immediately afterwards, the tinderbox lit up, and the lamp in the room was lit by the man's trembling hands.

The person lighting the lamp was a middle-aged man with disheveled clothes; this man was Qin Lu, the deputy commander of the Five Cities Garrison.

A woman's hand lifted the bed curtains behind Qin Lu by half a foot, and a woman's voice came from inside the curtains. The woman's voice was grumpy from being woken up, and it was extremely impatient.

"Who's so annoying, knocking on people's windows in the middle of the night and disturbing their sleep?"

"Shh, stop talking nonsense and go to sleep!"

The man muttered a rebuke, then picked up the lamp, stepped forward, opened the door to the inner room, and immediately turned back to close it.

Qin Lu walked through the main room, his steps noticeably hurried and flustered.

The woman on the bed angrily flung the bed curtains away and closed them again.

As the bed curtains were drawn, the two roof tiles returned to their original positions.

Leng Rongyue and Xiao Jingyu moved like two nimble cats to the roof of the main room, removed two tiles, and looked down.

Qin Lu held a lamp in one hand and removed the door bolt with the other, opening the door to the main room.

As soon as the door opened, Dongwei Pig Head quickly slipped inside.

"You are...you are...my two sons...are they...are they alright?"

Qin Lu lowered his voice, his voice trembling as he asked anxiously.

Dongwei Pig Head did not answer immediately. Instead, he walked to the main hall like a master and sat down in a chair with his head held high.

However, his swollen, pig-like face was rather comical.