The shopkeeper sighed, and he didn't know how important this old man was, and he was guilty of risking his life, but seeing that Zhang Yuntian was young and heroic, he must have been a good person for him.

He had to nervously admonish: "Since the intention of the guest officer to go north has been decided, I hope you will set off quickly, don't delay the hour, fear of change!" ”

Zhang Yuntian secretly wondered, even if he really had an old man's acute illness, he was so anxious that he didn't even have time to drink a bowl of tea, right?

The shopkeeper saw Zhang Yuntian's question, and whispered: "Don't hide it from the guest officer, bandits have been rampant in this area recently, especially on the way to the Daimyo's Mansion, many of the merchants who come and go have suffered big losses, and the small ones see that you are kind-hearted, so I advise you to leave as soon as possible, and then go west to bypass the Daimyo's Mansion, so as not to suffer from the villains!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a man in his forties who looked like a scholar stumbled over, the package behind him was cut wide, and the books and clothes were scattered all over the ground, shouting as he ran: "Hurry up, hurry up, the bandits are coming!" ”

This is a coincidence, what is really what to say, before Zhang Yuntian can react, I saw that the shopkeeper was so frightened that he simply didn't even want a tea set, and ran into the forest without looking back with his money bag.

Zhang Yuntian himself has the ability bonus of plane fusion, plus he has a pistol by his side, but he is not very afraid of the bandits, but he just took out a tranquilizer gun and pushed the syringes filled with the corpse guard vaccine one by one, looking fearless.

This scholar is very smart, he saw that Zhang Yuntian heard that there was a thief, and he didn't leave, so he knew that this person would definitely have some skills, so he ran to Zhang Yuntian's side and begged: "Hero help, hero help!" Someone is trying to harm me! ”

After a while, the sound of horses' hooves came from far and near, and four bandits dressed in cloth clothes and armed with steel knives galloped towards on horseback, and the four horses stood at their four corners, surrounding Zhang Yuntian and the scholar in the rightful place.

These four people were born with big shoulders and round waists, dark skin, and green tendons on the back of the hand holding the knife.

The first bearded man, his eyes were like torches, and his voice was like a bell: "Master Qian, don't come to harm!" Heavenly King, he old man, you think you are tight! ”

Qian Junshi? King? Zhang Yuntian quickly recalled in his mind that the Heavenly King should refer to Hong Xiuquan, the leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, as for Qian Junshi... Could it be Hong Xiuquan's right-hand man Qian Jiang Qian Dongping?

Zhang Yuntian's heart moved, if it was really this person, it would be God who helped him achieve hegemony.

According to records, Qianjiang was Lin Zexu's guest, advocating resistance to foreign invasion, and once organized thousands of people to fight against the British army in Guangzhou, but was dismissed from his post by Yi Libu, the minister of the Qing Qin Mission, who presided over the foreign affairs, and joined the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom a few years later.

It was with his assistance that the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom reached an unprecedented period of prosperity, and it is no coincidence that it was also during the Tianjing Incident that Qian Jiang was completely disappointed in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and quietly left, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom began to decline step by step.

Although it is said that the decline of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was affected by multiple factors, it is not an exaggeration to say that Qianjiang was the mainstay of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, if he was still in Jiangning, at least the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would not have fallen so quickly.

As for why he came all the way from Jiangsu to Zhili now, Zhang Yuntian can't understand this point thoroughly.

"I had no idea what you were talking about! How many times have I told you about the former military division and the rear military division, I am a showman, and I really don't know anything about marching and fighting! ”

The scholar had an innocent expression on his face, and he was so aggrieved that he was about to cry.

"Pretending to be!" The bearded man took out a portrait from his bosom and threw it in front of the scholar, and said, "Look at it, who is not you but on this portrait?" ”

The scholar opened the scroll tremblingly, only glanced at it, and shouted: "Where is this half like me, let this strong man judge and see if the painting on this portrait is below?" As he spoke, he handed the scroll to Zhang Yuntian.

Zhang Yuntian was also very curious about the identity of the scholar, unfolded the scroll to take a look, and saw a rough portrait painted on it, in which the eyes and nose were indeed somewhat similar to the scholar, but the corner of the mouth of the person in the painting had a black mole, this mole was painted extremely strangely, although it was also black, but the ink was newer than the lines of the portrait, if you didn't look carefully, you would never see the clues.

Zhang Yuntian wiped it with his hand, and actually smeared the black mole together, so that he was a little more sure that the scholar was Qian Jiang himself, so he shook his head and said: "The picture scroll is really not like this person!" ”

Qian Jiang secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said to the bearded man, "How is it?" Now you can believe it, right? If you recognize the wrong person, even if you arrest me, it will be useless, in case any of your heavenly kings sees that you have arrested the wrong person, and blames him, can you afford it? ”

If these words are said to others, they will naturally be suspicious and dare not act rashly, but this bearded man has an upright temperament and does not have so many crooked brains, he waved his hand and said nonchalantly: "No matter what others think, anyway, I think it is like, it is like, as for whether it is right or not, naturally someone will judge, take this scholar down for me, and escort him back to Jiangning!" ”

The title in his mouth is no longer Qian Junshi, but scholar, which just shows that he is not very sure about the identity of this person, but Xiucai met a soldier, and he couldn't explain it clearly, this bearded man was unreasonable, and it was useless to say anything.

The two thieves turned over and dismounted, holding a steel knife in one hand and a rope in the other, and slowly pressed towards Qianjiang from front to back, so frightened that the latter asked Zhang Yuntian for help again and again: "Hero save me, hero save me!" I really don't know them! ”

Zhang Yuntian smiled and said, "It's not difficult to save you, but you have to promise me one thing!" ”

Qian Jiang saw that the shape was in danger, how could he still have the strength to bargain, and hurriedly said: "As long as you don't violate your conscience, don't say one thing, a hundred things are fine, and ask the strong man to help quickly!" ”

"Okay, the big husband has said it, and the horse is hard to chase!"

Zhang Yuntian said as he picked up the anesthetic gun with a pop, and it was into the left leg of the bearded man, who fell off the horse with a thud.

The other three saw that the artifact in Zhang Yuntian's hand was very strange, with a dark appearance, slender and long, not any weapon they had ever seen, but somewhat similar to a foreign gun.

Because foreign guns can only fire one bullet at a time, and they need to reload from the muzzle after each shot, they naturally think that Zhang Yuntian's current guns are useless, so they shouted and rushed over together.

Facing three enemies at such a close distance, even if you don't need to aim, you can hit, so Zhang Yuntian easily rewarded three more people, one person with one syringe, and only blink of an eye, four ferocious bandits, just so easily subdued by him, Qian Jiang's eyes straightened.