After leaving the entrance to Beijing, it was dark. Although there are lights shining, the road is still not as easy as the daytime.

More than a dozen carriages lined in the middle, and there were guards on horseback in front and behind. The lantern flickered and could only be seen in the distance. The surrounding trees are forested, and the black shadows overlap and overlap, and when the wind blows, the hula sways. Although the nursing home that opened the way in front of him was a little skilled, he still felt cold in his heart, and while vigilantly observing the surroundings, he complained in a low voice: "Why do you choose to go out at this time?"

Another guard next to him glanced back at the carriage behind him, and also lowered his voice, and said, "Yes, this is pitch black, the road can't be seen, and the people around don't know." If this bumps into Liu Shenzhou's people, it will be a dead end. ”

These people are all good hands of the Southwest Horse Gang, they have gone through thousands of mountains and rivers, and their skills and courage are top-notch, but when they meet Liu Shenzhou, they are still not enough to see.

Sun Xin happened to ride a horse forward, and when he heard this, he snorted coldly and said, "Liu Shenzhou will be in Huaiyang, and he can't fly here even if he has wings." Why do you go out when it's dark? It's just right to go out when it's dark, and it's pitch black, who dares to walk at night? We are afraid, but those who rob houses and houses are not afraid? We are afraid of them, they are afraid of Liu Shenzhou, and what about the Red Lotus Sect. After seeing it clearly, they could just set up an ambush in front of them and rob them as they wanted! Except for the bad road, which other thing is bad? We hurried overnight, and when we arrived at Liuzhen in front, it happened to be dawn. The next road has someone. is not afraid of robbery. Go this way. It couldn't be more secure. ”

The two nurses who spoke in front of them couldn't help but look at each other when they heard Sun Xin's words. One of them nodded and said, "It does make sense." ”

Sun Xin said again: "Since it is reasonable, you guys don't talk nonsense, cheer up, your eyes are wider, after this forest, you can go ahead." ”

The nurses responded one after another.

After passing the woods, the road was much better. When the sky is bright. They rushed to Liuzhen. Sun Xin beckoned the person leading the way in front to stop, beat the horse to the dusty carriage in the middle, and shouted respectfully through the carriage curtain: "Grandma, it's time to Liuzhen." ”

Zhang Xing lifted the carriage curtain and looked at it a few times, nodded, and said, "Let everyone stop and rest." ”

The convoy stopped. Sun Xin found a tea shed and gave the tea boss a few taels of silver. The tea boss took it with a smile, and took Mother You and a few other mothers-in-law to borrow the stove to boil some hot water.

After eating dry food, the convoy was about to set off, when a lot of people suddenly appeared on the road in front. Sun Xin didn't know what was going on. Stopped a person and asked, "Dare to ask Brother Tai, where are you going? Is there something going on in front of you?"

The man drove the cart and said, "You're from Jingkou, aren't you?" There was already a fight on the Jiangling side, and the Red Lotus Sect killed the county guard and occupied the yamen. The people in the patrol battalion over there have all run away, and you still have to go where you come and go back, Gangneung is too bad to go. ”

Sun Xin was startled, thanked him, and immediately came back to Zhang Xing.

Zhang Xing didn't know that this would happen, and she couldn't make up her mind for a while.

Sun Xin said: "Grandma, why don't we hurry back to Jingkou?"

Zhang Xing shook his head, "I can't go back to Jingkou." Since this happened to Gangneung, the road can't be walked. If so, no matter how much it costs, let's lease it first. If we can't go on the road, let's take the waterway. ”

Sun Xin received the order and went down half. The crowd continued to stop at the tea shed. The tea boss heard that the Red Lotus Sect was reversed, and he was also worried about the safety of his family, so he hurriedly collected the tea table, took his mother-in-law home, and left an empty pavilion for Zhang Xing and them to continue to rest.

In the gap between Sun Xin's search for a ship, Xiao Deyu asked Gu Yu to go out to inquire about the news.

More and more people are running here on the avenue.

The Red Lotus Sect began to rise up last evening, and there were internal responses in the county guard's mansion and patrol camp, and as soon as there was collusion between inside and outside, it broke out in the middle of the night, the county guard was killed, the yamen was occupied, and the Gangneung patrol camp was also dispersed. The Red Lotus Sect won Gangneung overnight, and the people who ran out said that now the streets and alleys of Gangneung are full of Red Lotus Sect people, who wear red scarves on their heads, sing songs about the sky is dead, and red scarves are in charge, promising all kinds of benefits to invite people to join the religion, and those who do not obey will either be beaten or robbed. Gangneung was already in chaos, many people ran out, and some hid.

There was more and more news, and everyone was restless, and most of them returned to Jingkou.

Zhang Xing didn't speak.

After a while, Sun Xin returned. He rented two boats.

Liuzhen is not a big town, and the ships docked at the dock are not the kind of big ships with a few bars and several layers, and they have a lot of people and things, so they must not be able to load them all. Sun Xin came up with an idea, because Zhang Xing insisted on going back to Zhuangzi. The ship can't fit it all, so it leaves things behind. People take away.

Sun Xin just talked to the tea boss for a while, knowing that his family lived nearby, and his parents lived in the same house, and he didn't look like he was too poor to live, and the house must be a little big. The things left behind will be left at his house for the time being, and more silver money will be given, and the left and right are just some coarse cloth, and no matter how valuable they are, they are not as strong as human life.

Zhang Xing agreed.

Sun Xin went to find the tea boss again. The tea boss's house is a big house of four or five rooms, and there is a fenced yard. He heard that he was going to put some things in his house for the time being, and he was given enough money. I immediately agreed.

Sun Xin discussed the price with the tea boss on the day of releasing the goods, and it was already beginning to unload the goods. The matter was agreed, and all the things were moved to the right wing of the tea boss.

Everyone got on board.

The boat went around Jiangling, and as expected, the streets and alleys were red, and the sound of music shook the sky.

Zhang Xing watched silently and said nothing.

Bypassing Gangneung, the boat turned into the mountains, and after another cup of tea, it stopped. Not long after abandoning the ship and walking into the mountains, I saw a manor house near the mountains and rivers. It covers an area of about twenty or thirty acres, surrounded by a wall about half a person high, and there are a few gray roofs hidden in the green inside.

Gu Yu followed Zhang Xing here, pointed with his hand, and shouted happily: "It's here, it's here." ”

The door of Zhuangzi is closed. Gu Yu knocked on the knocker and shouted again: "Shopkeeper Du, we are here." ”

There was a rush of footsteps at the door, and the door opened. came to open the door, but it was not Du Huiming, but Xiao's mother. She wore her hair and rushed to Zhang Xing at once, and said with a trembling crying voice: "Madam, the one in my family went to Jiangling yesterday and has not returned yet, please save his life." ”

According to Zhang Xing's words, Du Huiming began to reduce the trading of tea shops and jade shops in Jiangling more than a month ago, and successively moved the goods of several shops there to Zhuangzi, and it was almost busy in early April. When the news of Liu Shenzhou's entry into Yuyang came out, all the transactions of Zhangji on the Jiangling side were closed.

Because Zhang Xing revealed it to Du Huiming, at about the same time, she would also come to Zhuangzi here. Du Huiming thought that if Zhang Xing came, he would probably stop in Jiangling, so he mostly waited in the courtyard during the day. It was the same yesterday, Du Huiming took a few guys, and a girl and a mother-in-law, to Jiangling. As a result, something happened in Gangneung at night. Du Huiming has not returned yet.

Xiao's mother has already sent someone out to inquire about the news. The gates of the city over there have been closed, and occasionally there are people who escape by boat, saying that there is chaos in Gangneung City.

Xiao Deyu hurriedly picked up Xiao's mother and said, "Mom, don't worry, the person hasn't come back now, Xu is on the way." Madame has been on the road for a few days before she arrives, so you can let her breathe a sigh of relief. ”

Xiao's mother found that most of the people who came in were haggard, she quickly wiped her face and said, "It's me who panicked, and I ask my wife to understand." ”

Zhang Xing raised his hand and said, "Don't worry, maybe it's just as Deyu said, maybe this person will be on the road." She turned her head to look at Sun Xin.

Sun Xin immediately said: "Madam, don't worry, I'll take a few people out to have a look." ”

Gu Yu also stood up and said, "I'll go too, I'll go too, I'm familiar over there." ”

Zhang Xing nodded. Sun Xingu Yu brought two more nurses, and before he had time to drink hot tea, he went out.

Xiao's mother felt a lot more settled.

Although the things were not brought, so many people still had to be settled.

Xiao Deyu asked Zhang Xing's opinion, and installed all the nursing courtyards brought by Sun Xin in a small courtyard in front of Zhuangzi, and another small courtyard on the right of the shopkeeper Du's family. Zhang Xingzi lived in the main courtyard.

After the personnel arrangements were in place, it was dark. Ate a dinner meal. Sun Xin has not yet returned. Zhang Xing was also a little uneasy.

It was windy outside, like it was going to rain. Although the door was closed, the light was still uncertain. Zhang Xing pierced several stitches, but did not pierce the original drawing line.

She stopped what she was doing, rubbed her eyes, and suddenly it was dark in front of her, and she thought that her eyes were not good, but it turned out that it was just a gust of wind, which almost extinguished the light.

Sun Baozhu also stopped.

It was Xiao Deyu who came in, her face was bloody, and she trembled and said, "Madam, Steward Sun is back." ”

Zhang Xing stood up, and Sun Baozhu hurriedly put a coat on her.

Xiao Deyu replied as he walked: "...... Steward Sun and the others also brought back a person, and I heard that it was the person who went to Jiangling with the shopkeeper Du, and this person was released by the people of the Red Lotus Sect to deliver the letter......"

Du Huiming fell into the hands of the Red Lotus Sect. They originally thought that if they couldn't wait for anyone, they would return to Zhuangzi in the evening. As a result, before they could go out, the people of the Red Lotus Sect made a commotion, the city gates were closed, and the streets were shouting and killing chaos, and dead people lying on the ground were everywhere. Du Hanming and the others didn't dare to go out, so they had to close the door, thinking that the outside would stop a little, and it would not be too late to escape again.

Before dawn, the Red Lotus Sect people came to the door, forcibly broke open the door, scraped away the contents of the house, and took the people with them.

Zhangji has food and money, and everyone here in Jianghuai knows it. The people of the Red Lotus Sect smashed all the shops in Zhangji, and without getting anything they wanted, they simply detained the person and released one of them to pass on the message. (To be continued......)

PS: Tomorrow I will make up for the updates I owed in the previous days