In the mid-autumn season, seven thieves above the Ningdan stage formed a sworn alliance with Luoshui and were named the Seven Saints. They tried to break through the Black Tower, rescue the thieves and disturb the Jing'an Tower, and become famous all over the world.
After all, Jingantai won a complete victory in this battle. In the absence of King Cao Huangshu, they were fearless in the face of danger, organized well, calmly formed a large formation, and fought effectively. They successfully killed one person before the grand master turned back. , capture one person alive.
In particular, the person who was killed was actually killed by the most basic four-phase formation with a sword from Hei Shou, who acted as the eye of the formation. It was a hearty experience.
And Bai Yousi, the second best swordsman in the list of talents, did not lose his momentum. In this battle, he cut off the left hand of a master of the same level and captured another one, which was extremely majestic.
But in the end, what impressed everyone the most was the absolute dominance of the Grand Master himself. One of the four masters of condensation may have already become a pill, but in the end, they were unable to resist in front of this furious Grand Master. , captured without hesitation.
Among them, Wanli Lonexing Zhou Wuji, who was ranked fifth on the black list, was cut in half and died on the spot.
Among the seven top masters who were able to dominate the world, except for one Nan Di Guan Qi Dao, nicknamed Mang King Kong, who saw the opportunity quickly, he came up and chopped off a corner of the black tower and then fled quickly. The other six were either dead or injured, and all of them had no results.
Of course, this group of people still gained something. Mang King Kong, who had no criminal record, successfully entered the black list, replaced Wanli Lone, and became the fifth existence on the black list. He was very majestic and famous. The world.
Whoever sees him in the future will not give a thumbs up and call him a hero?
In the blink of an eye, Jing'antai was also in a mess by this raid.
Those bastards, after all, were masters at the level of alchemy and above. They suddenly attacked, and a corner of the tower collapsed. Many people were injured, and houses everywhere collapsed. The most embarrassing thing is that when these people first came in, they actually broke into the tower while the formation was not formed, and walked back and forth several times. The doors and windows didn't matter, the key was the files and documents inside. , and the relevant clerks were indeed seriously injured.
Moreover, the corpses also polluted the environment of Jing'antai. Blood was scattered all over the sky and the ground. Large-scale dredging work was forced to begin on the pools that had not been cleaned for many years.
As for Zhang Xing, due to manpower problems and the current special situation, he was officially transferred and began to assist in the small courtyard to handle various matters that the Black Tower was originally responsible for. The person he contacted was a man named There are five layers of black ribbons in Chen's tower, and they basically do the work of the minister.
By the afternoon of that day, when the weather turned cold, he had been sick and worked and served the people of Wei for three consecutive days... For three consecutive days, he did not fish for fish, but devoted himself to serving Wei and Jing. Antai was heartbroken.
"Thirty-five corpses rushed out, are they all human?"
In the evening, the sky was already dark. Because the wing room also had holes, Zhang Xingzheng, who was forced to work in the open air in the small courtyard, endured the pain and discomfort all over his body and continued to sit down for the last shift. "Brother Wang Qi is not joking?"
"I'm not kidding." A member of the group sitting opposite, Bai Shou, raised his hands in response. "Zhang Sanlang, do you know why this matter is so difficult? It's not human bones. Human bones are nothing in Jing'antai. Who hasn't killed someone? The problem is that we don't know who the bones in the mud belong to." ? Maybe it’s an accident on our island, but it’s more likely that they were rushed over from the Imperial City and Xiyuan. Can the bones rushed over there be examined? But in broad daylight..."
"I understand what Brother Qi means." Zhang Xing held his chin and thought for a moment, then settled down. "Okay, don't put your brothers in trouble. While there is chaos now and it's dark, just pretend they are livestock bones and quickly stuff them back into the mud and take them outside the city to be used as fertilizer... I won't do anything here for now, everyone. Let’s see if we can fool him. If someone asks more seriously, you’ll have to report to me, and I’ll have to say that I’m so busy that I forgot... I won’t embarrass my brothers, so hurry up!”
"Thank you Zhang Sanlang for helping me put the shoulder." Bai Shou stood up immediately, cupped his hand heavily, and then turned around and left.
As soon as the person left, Zhang Xing couldn't help but frown. After all, who would have thought that there would be dozens of human bones under the pond where he thought he was so beautiful and alive?
Just like this, while thinking about it, he picked up the tea cup and prepared to take a sip. However, he found that the tea in the tea cup had been frozen hard by himself unintentionally, so he called Xiao Gu to change the cup and water.
Xiao Gu was also used to it, so he quickly replaced it with a glass of boiling water and took the ice shavings away.
And a moment later, just as Zhang Xing was waiting for an opportunity to get up, another person suddenly sat over him, but it was an old acquaintance.
"Li Twelve Lang." Zhang Xing couldn't help but be surprised when he saw it was Li Qingchen. "What kind of work do you do today, and how do you come to me?"
"Don't mention it!" Li Qingchen was furious after sitting down. "Is there tea?"
Zhang Xing hurriedly handed over the untouched water. Li Qingchen brought it over and saw that it was boiling water. He handed it back again. Zhang Xing said nothing and stretched out his hand to squeeze the tea cup. The hot water quickly cooled down and then he put it down.
Li Qingchen picked up the herbal tea and drank it first before speaking: "Zhang Sanlang, do you know what I was asked to do at the Black Tower today? They asked me to fish!"
"Touch the fish in the pond?" Zhang Xing was startled for a moment, and then he realized that this was something he suggested to the tower last night. The reason was that the road in the kitchen was blocked due to dredging in the past few days, so he didn't arrive in time. Buy meat.
"Yes." Li Qingchen was extremely helpless. "Give me such a good job? I said that I was on the field and had never touched fish, but the black ribbon was just impatient. He said that the island was in a mess, even the black tower was broken, and I still had a white ribbon. It was ridiculous to shirk business, and then he just walked away. I had no other choice, so I went to find some official servants to catch fish. In the process, I got into an argument with Wang Qilang from the third group, who was responsible for dredging. …”
"Did you pick it up?"
"Picked it up."
“Are there many or few fish?”
"It's scary..." Li Qingchen took a long breath. "There were more than a dozen carts, and there were frogs as big as plates. The officials and servants were reluctant to throw them away, saying they were very tender after being stewed."
"Then what?" Zhang Xing was quite puzzled.
"Then I went to find the black ribbon, and he asked me to take him to the kitchen."
"Then go." Zhang Xing became increasingly puzzled. "Isn't this the end?"
"I don't want the kitchen, I don't want it even if I die." Li Qingchen finally got to the crux of the problem. "It was only at this moment that I remembered that half a person fell into the pool, and no one dared to clean up the frogs and catfish, and no one would eat them."
More than just half-drawing people... Zhang Xing was speechless when he thought of the more than thirty bones in the mud before: "Actually, this matter is simple. The reason why we need to catch fish is that the mud blocks the road and the kitchen cannot buy meat... And Li Shi Erlang, you are not short of money. If you want to save trouble, just go home and ask the servants to go outside the city early tomorrow to order some pigs, sheep and vegetables."
"Is that enough?" Li Qingchen raised his eyebrows. "Don't I have to take care of those dozens of carts of fish and frogs that no one dares to ask for? When the half-hearted people came down, everyone in Taichung saw them. Who dared to eat them?"
"Someone didn't see it." Zhang Xing said with a smile. "Ask the servants to take you to Chengfu Fang and Guiyi Fang before the gate is closed, and hang a sign. The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, and Jing'an Terrace will be dredged. Fish and frogs will be given away for free. The military and civilian families can just pick up the car tomorrow morning. …”
Li Qingchen suddenly understood, patted his thigh and left.
Mr. Zhang took a breath and looked at the getting later and later. He gritted his teeth and stood up. However, he was not in a hurry to go home. Instead, he walked cautiously towards the Black Tower with his arms folded.
When they came to the foot of the tower, they didn't dare to go in and disturb Zhong Cheng, who was very angry recently. He only asked the official servant Xiao Gu to go in and call the black shou surnamed Chen out.
"Thank you for your hard work these past few days, Xiao Zhang."
Chen Heishou brought Xiao Gu out to see Zhang Xing again, and was not surprised at all. "Is everything in order?"
"Anyway, everything sent to us has been dealt with." Zhang Xing seemed a little embarrassed.
"That's really remarkable." Hei Shou answered with his hands behind his back. "You do things for me, and I'll take care of yours... take them away later!"
Zhang Xing quickly bowed his head and saluted.
"No need." Hei Shou waved his hand immediately. "You have worked so hard in the past few days to get it, and his guilt is not big. Besides, I know roughly why you want this person in the black tower. It's not a shame... Xiao Zhang, you must know that the superiors are still looking after you. Your... In short, it's useless to talk too much. After he is taken away, don't have anything to do with Jing'antai. Everything will be handled within the Ministry of Punishment... Please sign the paperwork."
After saying that, Xiao Gu finally pointed at the document from the side. Zhang Xing nodded repeatedly and quickly signed the document in his hand.
Then, the black ribbon collected the documents and went into the tower. Zhang Xing didn't go in either. He just raised his lips to signal Xiao Gu to go back, and then waited outside alone. And a moment later, a tall man was led out of the black tower wearing a blindfold and came to the outside of the tower. As soon as the two black tower jailers let go, the man stumbled to the ground and almost collapsed.
Zhang Xing stepped forward and grabbed the opponent's rope, exchanged greetings with the two jailers, and then dragged the person out and staggered out.
When they came to the bridge, Qin Bao was waiting there again, holding a knife. The two of them walked one behind the other without saying a word. They just walked south with the prisoner in their arms. They didn't know how long they walked. It was already dark, but they arrived at Nancheng again. under the city wall.
Qin Bao went up to call someone, but he saw Xu Wei, the manager of the city wall, came directly to meet him, took the three people to the gate of the city wall, and then used a huge basket to hang the three people down three times - it can be seen that , This basket is a professional one, and Guan Xu has always been involved in the business of smuggling and releasing people at night.
The three of them went down to the city under the half-full moon. Zhang Xing continued to lead the man for seventy or eighty steps before finally standing still. Then Qin Bao stepped forward and untied the prisoner's rope and blindfold.
"Brother Hong, do you still remember me?" Zhang Xing asked with his hands behind his back.
It turned out that this prisoner was Hong Changya, the wave-breaking swordsman who came to challenge that day.
Hong Changya was silent for a while after hearing this, and then he spoke: "When you first came out of the Black Tower, you were chatting with the jailers, and I knew it was you... Why? You think I'm not dead, so you want to deal with it privately. me?"
"Why should I deal with you in private?" Zhang Xing said with a bitter smile in the dusk. "Brother Hong, that night, I did have the intention of sending you away with words, but it was definitely not to kill someone with a knife. How could I have imagined that you dared to challenge Moyun Golden-winged Dapeng? When I heard the news, I felt sorry for you. It's worth it, I just want to fish you out. But what happened next, you must have heard some comments in the black tower in the past few days. There are a few masters who don't know the heights of the world like you, but they dare to attack the black tower... and they are angry. With our Zhongcheng, you can be killed or imprisoned... For this matter, we didn't dare to delay, so we hurriedly used some favors and silver to replace you."
Having said this, Zhang Xing touched his arms and walked towards the other party.
And when Hong Changya saw the other party like this, he was so frightened that he staggered back... He didn't know what he had gone through in the past few days?
However, Zhang Xing still successfully took out the thing in his arms, and it turned out to be a handful of broken silver. He then dragged the other party forcefully, stuffed the silver into it, and then said in his mouth: "I have packed it with the Ministry of Punishment, remember. Live, I am an innocent person released from the Ministry of Punishment... Go home. When you return to Taiyuan, you will still be a good man... It is really not easy to live here in Dongdu, let alone think about giving you something to hate. Brother's revenge, you will never be Cao Zhongcheng's opponent in this life, but you will die in vain."
With that said, Zhang Xing finally let go and headed towards the city wall with Qin Bao, who was constantly vigilant.
"Qin Erlang...have you thanked me?"
Seeing this, Hong Changya, who was in a mess, finally believed that he had left Dongdu alive, but he couldn't help but hold the silver in his hand and hold it in his hand.
"You're welcome." Zhang Xing didn't look back in the dusk. "Go quickly, go quickly... It's dark today, just pretend you haven't seen me, and you haven't lost face... and forget about Dongdu in the future."
Hong Changya nodded, turned around, clutched the silver, and ran staggeringly under the moonlight for a few steps. Suddenly, he felt his nose was sore, and then he shed tears, and he couldn't help but squat down and cry into his arms.
As the saying goes, men don't shed tears easily because they haven't reached the point of sadness. Looking back at the Eastern Capital, the moon is not setting, and it is really difficult to be alone in the world.
PS: I wish everyone a happy fishing tomorrow.
