The scholar made up his mind and pretended to be affectionate and said to Chen Xiaomu, "Haha, brother, if you hear what you said, I might have misunderstood you. There is a Deweilou restaurant not far from here. If not, The abandoned brother is willing to lead the way for the older brother.”
"Hey, brother, I would be very grateful if you could help me show the way. I dare you to help us lead the way again!" Chen Xiaomu quickly waved his hands and declined.
"You know, you know, we are all brothers in the world. It is fate that we can meet today!" After saying this, the scholar turned around and walked in front to lead the way for them.
When they met by chance, the scholar suddenly became overly enthusiastic, which made Chen Xiaomu have to think more. He basically estimated that the scholar had Wei Yuxin's idea. Chen Xiaomu quietly grabbed Wei Yuxin from behind and took out a piece of He handed her twelve taels of silver ingots and warned: "Since you know where the three monsters locked Zhou Huiniang in Zhang Yong's mansion, go and release them now and lead them to this restaurant called Deweilou. Zhou Huiniang is a local Man, if you tell her the location, she will definitely find it. If there are officers and soldiers guarding the mansion, just knock them unconscious. Do not beat them to death or maim them."
Wei Yuxin nodded, took the silver and reached out to stop a passing passenger carriage, and quickly got into the carriage. The coachman raised his whip and shouted "drive" amidst the clatter of horse hooves, and the carriage quickly left Chen Xiaomu's sight.
At this time, the scholar who was leading the way turned around and saw that only Chen Xiaomu was following him. He couldn't help but asked in surprise: "Brother, where is that little lady just now?"
"Is this the little lady that brother is talking about?" Chen Xiaomu asked the scholar pretending to be a fool.
The scholar immediately shouted angrily: "Is that the little lady with you?"
Chen Xiaomu shook his head blankly and said: "I don't know if my brother saw the little lady with me. Today I just went to the city alone to do some errands. What kind of little lady is there?"
"You, you, are talking nonsense! There was obviously a beautiful little lady standing next to you just now." The scholar said as he rolled up his sleeves and rushed to Chen Xiaomu. His posture seemed to be that if Chen Xiaomu could not hand over the little lady today, He was about to have a fight with Chen Xiaomu.
Chen Xiaomu's eyes suddenly turned cold, and he said coldly: "Brother, I just asked you for directions. You insisted on leading me. I thought you were kind, but I didn't expect you were a coward." Bao Tian, if you have an idea for the little lady next to me, get out of here right now!"
At this time, the scholar also tore off the disguise on his face, pointed at Chen Xiaomu and said angrily: "Boy, please listen to me clearly. If you don't hand over that little lady to me today, I will never be done with you."
Chen Xiaomu laughed angrily. He took a step forward and asked, "Oh, tell me, why are you and me so inexhaustible?" Before the scholar could answer, he left the scholar unprepared and punched the scholar with a "boom" His lower abdomen was hit hard.
The scholar was hit by this unexpected blow and screamed "Oh!" and squatted on the ground holding his stomach with both hands.
Chen Xiaomu glanced at him contemptuously, and when he saw pedestrians on the road starting to gather around to watch the fun, he didn't want to make the matter a big deal, so he turned around and left.
Wei Yuxin got off the carriage early in a carriage far away from Zhang Yong's residence. She took out her short knife and cut off a small piece of silver from a silver ingot to give to the coachman as fare. After sending the coachman away, she jumped into the carriage. , like a civet cat, it landed on the branches of the big locust tree outside the mansion and observed the courtyard of the mansion.
At this time, there was no one in the courtyard under the tree. Not to mention the officers and soldiers guarding it, there was no trace of anyone. Wei Yuxin was still uneasy after observing for a long time. She always felt that there were many pairs of eyes secretly watching the mansion. She thought After a while, he used the short knife in his hand to cut off a small piece of dead branch from the tree and threw it into the yard. Then he quickly pricked up his ears to listen to what was going on in the yard.
The dead branch fell on the flower bed in the courtyard with a "click" sound, jumped, and then fell to the green brick ground beside the flower bed.
There was still no movement in the yard. Wei Yu was determined to wait a little longer. She felt that her strange feeling kept making her uneasy, so she jumped into the yard.
Wei Yuxin probably attracted her attention again, and when he looked down, he saw two military attaches in armor, riding two horses side by side, walking towards the mansion side by side. Chatting on the horse.
"Commander Lu, I heard that the emperor had already given this mansion to the second princess, Princess Qing'an, but I didn't know that several people died in the house last night. The emperor thought it was unlucky, so the morning meeting was canceled again!"
Commander Lu smiled and said, "I heard about this at Princess Qingfeng's mansion, but it's such a pity that such a big house is empty and unoccupied!"
"The three people who died last night were really scary. They were all wearing kid masks. Later, I heard from people in the Xinjing Prefecture's Punishment Department that the three people who died were all people from the Jianghu community!"
"Forget it, let's not worry about that. When the people from Xinjing Mansion come over, we will hand over this place to them and just take the people we stayed here last night and leave." Commander Lu said.
Wei Yuxin, who was hiding in the tree, recognized the man called Commander Lu at a glance. He was the military attaché who let them go at the last moment when she kidnapped Chen Xiaomu last night.
The two came to the door of the mansion and got off their horses. The military attaché named Commander Lu came forward and knocked on the door. The entourage behind them took the reins of their horses and tied them to the hitching posts in front of the door.
When the entourage slowly tied up the horse, Commander Lu had not yet knocked on the door. The entourage stepped forward and said, "Commander Lu, please stand back and I will knock on the door. Yang Du probably stayed up late last night with his men." Gambling money, you haven’t gotten up yet!”
After hearing this, Commander Lu stood next to the door. His entourage walked to the door and raised his big fist and punched the door three times, "Bang, bang, bang", and then shouted at the top of his voice: "Yang Du, you kid!" You're dead in sleep, get up and open the door, Commander Lu is here to handle the handover."
From the tree, Wei Yuxin saw the door of the main room in the yard quietly open a crack. A bald man first stretched his head to listen to the shouts outside the door, and then hurriedly retracted his head inside the door.
Wei Yuxin took out the leather mask of Wan Lao Bustard from his pocket and put it on again. At this moment, the attendant outside the door raised his fist and tried to smash the door again. Commander Lu who was standing next to him reached out and grabbed him, and at the same time lightly shouted at him. He shook his head gently, frowned and whispered: "The situation in this yard seems to be wrong. We knocked on the door outside and made such a loud noise. No matter how fast Yang Du slept, his people should have heard it. We have to go back quickly and mobilize troops to surround the mansion again."
The entourage was stunned for a moment, and quickly bent down to untie the horses from the hitching posts. Before they could get on the horses, someone from behind said hello, "Commander Lu, why are you leaving again when you are already in front of the door?" Commander Lu turned around and looked, It turned out that Jia Guizheng, the general magistrate of Xinjing Prefecture, came with more than ten government officials to handle the handover with him.
Commander Lu hurried over to greet him. Just as Jia Gui dismounted and was about to greet him, he was pulled aside and whispered in his ear: "Master Jia, there is something going on in this mansion. I am preparing to go back and mobilize troops to attack." Go in and search carefully."
"What's going on?" Jia Gui was surprised.
"I now suspect that this mansion is the foothold of people from the Jianghu in Xinjing City. When we left last night, we clearly left seven or eight people on duty here, but just now we both broke the door. There’s no movement at all!”
Jia Gui pondered for a moment and then suggested: "Come on, let's go and take a look now. The dozen or so cadres I have brought with me are all good at catching people in Xinjing Mansion. I don't believe that these thieves in the world can do anything." He can handle us!"
Commander Lu shook his head, "Master Jia, it's better to be careful. Most of the people in these rivers and lakes are desperadoes. Think about it, the seven or eight people I left behind last night were also strong soldiers from the Yulin Army. The leader of them Yang Du still had some skills, and was solved without making a sound, which shows that the people in this courtyard now are not just ordinary people!"
"Haha, Commander Lu, when did you become so timid? Let's do this. Since you are so scared, you two will stand guard outside the door. I will lead people to rush in. I want to see what kind of monsters are in this yard. !”
After Jia Gui finished speaking, he turned around and beckoned to several government servants, "You guys go and open the door of this mansion for me. When you return to the government office, each of you will be rewarded with one tael of grained silver."
Several yamen looked at each other, and then gathered together to whisper and discuss. One of them, a fat man with a strong body, walked to the wall next to the gate and made a horse step. The following people stepped on the fat man's shoulders one after another. A human ladder was quickly built, and the top official held his hands on the wall, jerked his body upwards, and rode up.
The Yamen sat on the wall and carefully observed the courtyard. Seeing that there was nothing suspicious, he turned around and grabbed the wall with both hands. His buttocks faced the courtyard and his whole body slowly slid down the wall. Everyone stared at him nervously, fearing that he would accidentally fall down.
It wasn't until they heard the sound of feet hitting the ground inside the wall that everyone breathed a sigh of relief. The Yamen who climbed over the wall quickly opened the courtyard door from the inside, and Jia Gui and Yamen who were waiting outside the courtyard rushed in. , Commander Lu hesitated for a moment, then followed him in with his entourage.
The yard was deserted, not even a living thing could be seen. Jia Gui waved his hand and said, "Search from house to house. After searching the front yard, then search the back yard. I don't believe it. How many big people are there in broad daylight?" Living people can disappear into thin air!"
After receiving the order, more than a dozen government officials immediately began to bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang open the doors of the main room to search. The front yard was quickly searched, and not even a single person was seen. Then they entered the back yard to search. Zhang Yong's residence always has three entrances, one from the front and one from the front. The courtyard that the yamen are searching can only be called the middle courtyard. This middle courtyard is different from the previous courtyard. First, facing the courtyard gate is a row of six main rooms. In front of the main room, It is a corridor with four side rooms built at both ends. The entire courtyard is square with a rockery in the middle.
The Yamen were about to disperse to various rooms to search, when suddenly a man dressed in white flew up from the top of the rockery in the courtyard, like a big bird flying to the door of the Second Courtyard, and closed the door with a "click", and the Yamen They were shocked, and they all pulled out their swords.
"Hoo ho" came a strange laugh from the corridor. A pale, beardless, expressionless, zombie-like bald man in white was looking at them coldly with eyes that could not even move his eyeballs.
"You fucking stop pretending to be a ghost for me. I'm not scared. I advise you to arrest them quickly and go back to the government office with me for questioning." Jia Gui stepped out from the crowd to embolden the government officials and scolded.
The white-clothed zombie didn't answer. He raised his hand and waved a white light towards Jia Gui's head. "Master Jia, be careful!" Commander Lu had quick eyesight and quick hands. He pulled Jia Gui from behind, but it was still a little late. A shiny flying knife was attached to it. He flew over to Jia Gui's ear and cut off a small piece of Jia Gui's ear. Blood immediately gushed out. This scared Jia Gui so much that he covered his ears while diving into the crowd.
The government officials were so frightened that they immediately became a mess and retreated towards the courtyard gate. "Don't panic, everyone, protect Mr. Jia, form a circle facing the outside, defend the enemy on all sides, and prevent them from defeating each other!" Lu Tong leader saw the situation and was overwhelmed! Well, I had no choice but to bite the bullet and stand up and prepare to command the government officials to form a defensive posture to meet the enemy.
Before the stunned government officials could get into position, the flying knives from all around came flying towards them. The unsuspecting government officials fell to the ground screaming and being struck by the swords. In a moment, only Commander Lu was left standing in the courtyard. At this moment, although Jia Gui was not hit by a knife, he was already paralyzed on the ground in fear. At some point, more than thirty zombies dressed like the white-clad bald man under the corridor appeared around him.
"You thief, I will fight with you!" In desperation, Commander Lu raised his sword and killed the bald zombie in white clothes who appeared under the corridor from the beginning.
The white-clothed zombie saw Commander Lu rushing toward him with his sword raised, but his body didn't even move, as if he was locked there. When Commander Lu rushed within a few feet of him, a knife suddenly slipped out of his sleeve. The Qingping Sword danced in front of him in an instant. Hearing only two sounds of "dang, dang", the plain sword in Commander Lu's hand had already been taken away. His body staggered, and he fell to the ground in white clothes with a thump. Zombie feet.
It turns out that this zombie in white was determined to capture this general alive, but now he is murderous. He will kill Commander Lu if he lifts the Qingping Sword in his hand!
"Stop" followed by a shout, a figure rushed over from the roof like lightning.
The white-clothed zombie was stunned. The Qingping sword in his hand had been cut into two pieces by the short knife in the woman's hand.
