Chapter 3: Night Investigation of Secrets

  Du He wore night-traveling clothes and was sprinting rapidly on the main street.

  He understood Li Shimin's intention and purpose, and had already made up his mind.

  At this moment, he convinced Li Shimin with a grasp of up to 80%, but 80% after all is not 99%. He still needs some evidence to prove his point.

  So now he needs a bit of luck.

  Night was his domain, and after a long silence, it was time to act. This time, however, Du He's target wasn't the ruthless rich merchants, but the cunning "Radish" nation.

  Arriving at the back door of the Tang Dynasty's guest house for foreign guests, seeing that there was no one around, he glanced at the high wall over a zhang tall and smiled lightly.

  Du He's toes lightly touched, and she leaped into the air, amazingly jumping over a zhang (about 3.3 meters), after confirming there were no guards, she jumped again, stretched out her hand to grab the wall edge, and easily flipped into the post house.

  This is a place where guests from various countries reside. In order to avoid international incidents, it is heavily guarded and groups of sentries can be seen patrolling from time to time.

  It was approaching the end of the hour of Hai, around 11 pm. The night was dark and the inn was shrouded in darkness, with only a few places still having lights shining through, it was unknown who had not yet fallen asleep.

  Du He set out suddenly and didn't have sufficient preparation, so he didn't know where the people of "Tudouluo" country lived, and could only search house by house.

  Fortunately, envoys from various countries live in separate residences; otherwise, going from house to house would be a tiring task.

  In order not to interfere with the private lives of envoys from various countries, the guards of the Tang Dynasty were only responsible for security outside the courtyard, and the guards inside the courtyard were still taken care of by their own national guards.

  So, Du He soon found the place where "Toro" lived, after all, their hairstyles were too eye-catching.

  Du He Xun swiftly arrived at the treetop beside the courtyard, gazing down intently. Seeing the guards surrounding the area, he revealed a solemn expression and secretly admired: "Tuluo" country is indeed extraordinary, no wonder it can become a powerful enemy of the Tang Dynasty in the future, just by looking at these guarding soldiers.

  Those robust bodies and serious expressions of executing tasks all demonstrate extremely high military quality, almost comparable to the soldiers of the Great Tang Dynasty.

  Looking at the room on the second floor with a faint light, Du He knew that was his destination.

  He was only four zhang away from the position he was in, and with his lightness kung fu, it was not enough to fly over the air for four zhang. However, without flying through the air, facing this meticulous Tubo guard, it was really difficult to get close from the ground.

  After waiting anxiously for a short while, the Tibetan guards did not reveal any opportunity to take advantage of, Du He finally couldn't bear his nature and decided to take a risk, because he didn't have much time left and couldn't wait any longer.

  Fortunately, he was well aware of his own inadequacies and brought a long rope over five zhangs in length to use as needed.

  He threw out the lasso with a living knot, and it flew accurately to Du He's specialty. The lasso soared through the air, crossing four zhang of space, and landed lightly on the roof ridge, tightly secured there.

  Then flew away like a bird, quietly and soundlessly arrived at the eaves of the house, hiding itself.

  He aimed at the landing spot, flipped over to the second-floor balcony surrounded by railings under the eaves of the house, hid outside the window, and immediately heard the soft voices of two people talking inside the house.

  It was a lavishly decorated room, and Du He immediately recognized the big fat man he had seen today - Dong Zan, the Grand Duke of Turobolu. There was also another person in the blind spot of his vision, but he didn't know who it was.

  They spoke in low voices, discussing something important.

  His face lit up with joy, he listened intently, but soon showed a disappointed expression.

  Perhaps they were discussing something important, but they were speaking in Radish language, a dialect that spanned across many countries. He was proficient in English, Russian, Japanese and French, yet he couldn't understand this Tibetan dialect.

  Anxiously worried in secret, yet there is nothing that can be done about it.

  After waiting for a long time, he suddenly saw the big monk Dong Zan get up from his seat, take out a silk Tang suit from the wardrobe on one side, and then took out ivory, gold, agate and other treasures from the treasure chest on the other side, and packed them up.

  Du He looked entranced, took a glance at the night sky, estimated the time, it was around midnight, and secretly rejoiced in his heart. Looking at Lu Dongzan's arrangement, he thought that he planned to take these treasures out with him.

  So mysterious, there must be an untold secret!

  Du He felt no despair or anxiety, climbed to the rooftop, overlooking the entire inn. Unless Lu Dongzan could turn into a mouse, it would be hard for him to escape his eyes and ears from this angle, whether he left through the side door or the back door.

  Because according to his estimation, Ludong Zan was impossible to get out in a fair and square manner, after all he disguised himself and did things that couldn't be seen by people!

  As expected, Luk Dong didn't go through the main gate, but instead came to the side door, used a ladder to climb over the wall and disappeared into the night.

  Du He Lingkong took a leap, like a large bird flying directly from the rooftop over the wall in one breath.

  A leap from below would be strenuous for Du He's current abilities, but a leap from above, with his current lightness skills, could be easily accomplished.

  Following Lude Zan's back, Duhe was both delighted and shocked, unfolding his extraordinary physical skills, chasing after him.

  The front of the temple turned eastward, heading straight for the famous Furong Garden in the Tang Dynasty. The Furong Garden is located within Chang'an City, along the Qujiang Pool, covering a vast area, and is a well-known royal garden. It was built in the third year of Emperor Wen of Sui's Kaihuang era and opened to tourists during the Tang Dynasty. The scenery is elegant. However, it was early morning at this time, and there were only mosquitoes buzzing in the dark garden, with no one else around.

  Du He's light skill is outstanding, and he has also been to Furong Garden many times, so he is very familiar with the environment here, which will be of great help in tracking down Lu Dongzan.

  Lucky Dong carried a big bag of precious treasures, looking left and right, cautiously making his way through the forest along the lake, the autumn leaves were red, the scenery was beautiful, but he had no heart to appreciate it.

  Du He followed Lu Dongzan through a small path into the forest, turned several times, and suddenly appeared in front of him a small clearing in the woods, with a wooden pavilion in the middle, inside which stood a slender figure holding a red lantern.

  Du He Ning's eyes gazed into the distance, and due to his internal strength, his senses were sharp and far surpassed those of others. Perhaps not as magical as being able to see objects at midnight, but with just a faint glimmer of light, he could see clearly.

  That slender figure revealed his appearance under the faint light of the lantern!

  "It's him!" Du He was secretly shocked, that person he actually knew. When Du He introduced the horseshoe to Li Shimin for the first time, Li Shimin took him to the Shaofu Supervision Bureau to find the most outstanding craftsman in the Shaofu Supervision Bureau to make the horseshoe.

  There was an apprentice youth beside the master craftsman. The figure in front of him was that very apprentice youth.

  Just as they were shocked, the young apprentice hastily asked: "How come you're so slow, did you bring the things?"

  Lucky Dongzhan put the treasure-filled packages on the stone table in the pavilion and said, "It's all here, where is what I want?"

  The young apprentice pulled over the bundle, laughed greedily a few times, then took off his outer garment and said: "What you want is all written on my clothes. Next time if there's such a good thing, come find me again!"

  He took the whole package and hurried away.

  Rong Dong Zan glanced at the things left by the young apprentice under the moonlight, chuckled and put on his clothes, then hastily departed.

  Looking at Lü Dongzan's figure, Du He's eyes sparkled in the dim light.