Qingyang Town, located in the southeast of Huaiqing City, is a town with only five or six streets and alleys and a population of more than 1,000.

In recent years, bandits in Yujing are frequent, and the towns of Xu You are often plundered by bandits, but Qingyang Town is not big or rich, and secondly, it is close to Huaiqing City, which is heavily garrisoned by officials and soldiers, and it has always been quite peaceful.

However, in recent days, Qingyang Town has been panicked, just because just two days ago, news reached the town, saying that Huaiqing City has been surrounded by tens of thousands of righteous troops from the Jin realm, and the situation is precarious, and it may be broken at any time.

If Huaiqing falls, Qingyang Town will not be able to protect itself. In fact, even if Huaiqing can defend it, tens of thousands of righteous troops will easily sweep Qingyang Town, but it will only be a gesture.

The rebels have always robbed the rich and helped the poor, and the poor people have no worries when they hear this news, and they have no worries about how to live or how to live, while the rich people in the town are unable to sleep and eat, and some have begun to pack up their belongings and hire chariots and horses to prepare to leave the town to avoid trouble.

Ding Zutai is one of them.

Ding Zutai is 8 out of 40 this year and is the richest man in Qingyang Town. The Ding family not only owns hundreds of acres of land around the town, but also has a lot of shops in the town, and the Ding family's mansion is located in the center of Qingyang Town, with a total of more than 20 courtyards, which is the town's premier mansion.

Sixteen carriages, now lined up, were parked in front of the door of the Ding Mansion, ten of them loaded with goods and six with people.

All the gold and silver, jewelry, and antiques that the Ding family could take away were loaded into the wagon, and in the carriage carrying the people sat Ding Zutai's seven sons, six daughters, and twelve ladies and aunts.

Ding Zutai was wearing a green silk tuanhua robe, standing at the door of the house with a big belly, watching the servants of the family carry the rest of the things to the carriage, and the round face without a beard was quite distressed. Not all the property can be taken away, and this escape, the loss of the Ding family must not be less.

But at this moment, I saw a family member running from the road in a panic, and before he came to Ding Zutai's face, he shouted breathlessly: "Oh no! There is a group of people on the avenue, rushing towards the town...... Rush here!"

Ding Zutai's face changed drastically and asked, "Where did they come from?"

Jia Ding said: "From the south...... South ......"

Before he finished speaking, Ding Zutai waved his hand and shouted: "Quick! Turn all the carriages around, let's go north!"

The news that Huaiqing City was surrounded just reached the town yesterday, and he didn't expect that there would be a righteous army to kill him today, Ding Zutai beat a drum in his heart, and only asked Guanyin Bodhisattva to bless him to escape from the town in time.

However, more than a dozen carriages are stuck in the streets and alleys that are not too wide, how can it be so easy to turn around?

Just as people, horses, and vehicles were all huddled together, smoke and dust from far and near had swept into Qingyang Town. With the sound of hooves, hundreds of war horses galloped into the streets, blocking the roads at both ends, and surrounding the sixteen carriages of the Ding family. And the knights on the horse, sure enough, were all sturdy men with long knives at their waists and blue and strong clothes.

Ding Zutai couldn't stand, his fat body slid down the door frame, and he fell on the threshold.

Knowing this result, he packed up two or three carriages and fled lightly overnight, without taking these many cumbersome ladies and aunts. It's good now, being blocked at the door like this, it's like packing up the gold and silver treasures for people to loot, and even the car has been loaded for others!

The dust raised by the horse team had not yet settled, but the sound of hooves could be heard, and several horses had galloped to the door of Dingfu. Ding Zutai knew that it must be the leader of the rebel army, so he hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and mourned: "Little Lao'er's family wealth is loaded on several trucks, you can rob it, the good man is good, don't hurt the little old man's children and family!"

The horses were strangled, but footsteps could be heard, apparently someone had jumped off the horse. I only heard someone say, "Is this the owner of this house?

Ding Zutai looked up, but saw that the person who said it was a man in white, and there were two beautiful women standing beside him, the woman on the left was dressed in short clothes, with a big sword on her back, and the woman on the right was wearing a light gauze long skirt, which looked very enchanting and charming.

"You ...... You're not a rebel?" said Ding Zutai.

The man in white smiled and said: "In Xia Shixiao, the family only does some small business, of course it is not a rebel. But I don't know what to call outsiders?"

Ding Zutai looked closely, and saw that the boy in white was thin and polite, and he really didn't look like the leader of the righteous army. ”

The white-clothed boy arched his hand and said: "It turned out to be a Ding Yuanwai, disrespectful and disrespectful! I came all the way down to do some business in Yujing, and I had to live in this Qingyang Town for a few days." It's just that I have a lot of people in my entourage, and I can't live in the inn, and I see that the courtyard of your house is majestic and wide, and it seems that the family is about to go out, so there must be a vacant house, so I specially came to spend the night, but I don't know if it is convenient for Ding Yuanwai?"

Ding Zutai's stomach was angry! This group of people rushed over inexplicably, so frightened that he almost scattered, and thought that all his family wealth would be taken away by the righteous army, but he didn't expect them to come to spend the night!

He was about to yell "Get out of here", but he heard the white-clothed man say again: "Although the two hundred followers of Young Master Ben all practice martial arts and are some rude people, but when they live in the house outside Ding Yuan, I will definitely tell them to pay attention to them and not damage the furniture and utensils of your mansion." ”

Hearing this, Ding Zutai immediately swallowed back the scolding words, and secretly scolded himself for being confused!

These two hundred people are all carrying weapons on their backs, and their appearance is fierce, even if they are not rebels, they will not be ordinary businessmen, if they are not robbers on the underworld, they are people in the Jianghu sect. And even the members of the Baidao gang are not something that a small squire on his side can afford to offend.

Ding Zutai immediately clasped his fists and saluted: "Shi Gongzi is polite, you and your party came to spend the night, and the members should not refuse, but I heard that the brigade of rebels from the Jin Realm has recently surrounded Huaiqing City, this Qingyang Town is only twenty or thirty miles away from Huaiqing, most of those strongmen will not let go, they will come to rob at any time, and the prince is afraid that it is not safe to stay here." ”

The young man in white said indifferently: "Young Master Ben already knows about this matter, we are just some businessmen doing small business, even if the rebel army is fierce, it will not be difficult to think about it." We spend the night in your mansion, and we can take care of the house for the staff, and when you come back from the trip, we will return the house, I don't know what the staff wants?"

Ding Zutai ran away with his family to avoid disaster this time, and he was ready for the house to be looted by the rebels, and he just wanted to wait for the rebels to retreat in the future and the situation was safe before coming back. Hearing what the other party said, it was right to think about it in my heart, anyway, the deed is in my own hands, and I am not afraid that the house will be forcibly occupied, so let them live in the house, but there are two more free bodyguards to protect the home, so why not?

And listening to the tone of this white-clothed man, he doesn't seem to be too afraid of the rebels, maybe he has something else to rely on.

Thinking of this, Ding Zutai's heart couldn't help but move, and he said at the moment: "Since Shi Gongzi said this, he has no objection outside the staff, just invite Gongzi and his subordinates into the house!"

The white-clothed boy Haha smiled and said, "Thank you for that." ”

He then turned his head and ordered, "Li Hu, order the Thunderbolt Camp to enter the house!"

※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※ Hua Bushi led the men and horses of the "Evil Dog Gate" to Qingyang Town, and it was already eighteen days after the heroic banquet in Huaiqing City.

Ten days ago, Ximen Hitomi returned to Biluo Village alone. Hua Bushi's wind and cold disease had just recovered, and when he saw him, he was really taken aback.

The beautiful young man of the past has become so haggard! His eyes are red, his eyes are bloodshot, his beard is stubble, his hair is unkempt, and his clothes are even more ragged. Ximen Hitomi, who has always loved face the most, is always well-dressed and has no messy hair, is much more sloppy than Li Hu, who has never been raunchy!

On the same day, after discovering the traces of Mo Yu being forced to fall off the cliff, Ximen Hitomi went down the cliff to look for it. A small river at the bottom of the cliff is so strong that anyone who falls off the cliff will be swept away immediately. For three days, Ximen Tong searched all the places in the lower reaches of the river for more than ten miles, but found nothing.

Falling from such a high cliff is originally a life of nine deaths, not to mention that the poison on Mo Yu's body is serious, there is no possibility of survival at all, and it cannot be found in the river, it should be her body sunk at the bottom of the water, or it was washed further downstream by the river.

Three days later, the exhausted Ximen Hitomi had to give up the search and return to Biluo Mountain.

When Ximen Hitomi recounted the events before and after the Hero's Banquet and Mo Yu's death, his face was expressionless, and his tone was lifeless, as if he himself had died. Chu Yiyi, who was sitting on the side, couldn't help but shed tears, but Hua Bushi listened to him, but he was silent for a long time before he spoke: "You are tired, go down and rest first." ”

Ximen Hitomi should claim that it was, turned to leave, but Hua Bushi's hand suddenly patted him on the shoulder and asked, "Ah Hitomi, are you okay?"

Ximen Hitomi said: "Master, don't worry, I'm fine." ”

No one knows Ximen Hitomi's personality better than Hua Bushi, and this stubborn and proud young man definitely doesn't need the sympathy and pity of others, even if Hua Bushi is his master. But it was precisely because of this that Hua Bushi was even more worried, of course he could see how hard Mo Yu's death hit this young man.

Hua Bushi stared at Ximen Tong for a long time before finally letting go of his hand and letting him leave. Ximen Hitomi took two steps out of the door, but suddenly stopped, turned around and said, "There are two things I want to ask Master to help me." ”