On this day, the sky was gray, there was no sunlight, and there was a gray lead cloud in the sky, gloomy and depressing, and the weather was cold. In the mansion, a large area of lush locust trees that have just sprouted are gently swaying in the courtyard, and the green leaves are in love with the fun of life.

"Bang", the two huge vermilion lacquer doors of the Li Mansion were slammed open, the figure was longing, a brocade guard team rushed in, covered with a black cloak outside, each with a short knife on his waist, in the blink of an eye, it was already crowded in the courtyard of the house, and instantly neatly divided into two columns to make way, and then two brocade robes appeared, domineering, gloomy, one of the embroidered spring knives on the waist was the most outstanding, the scabbard was black and bright, it was Xu Xianchun, the Fusi of Jinyi Weibei Town.

He was more than a decade older than a eunuch-like man standing beside him, this person's name was Lu Chao, who was in charge of confidential documents in the East Factory, and was low-key and cautious. The Beizhen Fu Division was in charge of secret surveillance, anti-corruption, independent interrogation, arrest, sentencing, detention and counter-espionage matters by local feudal lords and officials. Xu Xianchun was born as a martial artist, attached to Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch of Dongchang Governor, one of the "Five Biao", cruel by nature, frequent prisons, poisonous torture in a variety of ways, and likes to cut the throat bones of prisoners, the so-called interrogation is naked torture.

Everyone was walking straight to the main hall, and the posture was swift. At this moment, suddenly several doors were lifted open by an aura, and the door panels were scattered, flying into the courtyard, blocking everyone's progress. Xu Xianchun and Lu Chao were both taken aback, and stopped for a moment, Xu Xianchun said with a smile: "I heard that Master Li, the left attendant of the military department, is good at the art of qi cultivation, and it really deserves his reputation." Terrible! Terrible! The latter "awesome" tone is elongated. After speaking, he snorted coldly.

Lu Chao glanced at Xu Xianchun sideways, took a step forward, bowed down and clenched his fists, and said respectfully: "Old Li, I'm really sorry to wait for a large team of people to rush into the house to disturb me." Our governor invites you to gather in the East Factory. ”

I only heard the voice of an old man in the room, the voice was not loud, but it was very powerful, and it was sonorous: "This official has always been clean and self-loving, and never set foot in a filthy place for half a step. Lu Chao said again: "Lu Chao does not dare to disobey the order of the governor." The old man replied forcefully: "Li Jin is blessed by the imperial court, and he only listens to the emperor's decree, and no one else cares." ”

Lu Chao had to say again: "The Duke wants to invite you to ......" Before he finished speaking, he saw an old man in a sixtieth suit walking out of the house, walking steadily, and saying as he walked: "What is the Duke of Duke?" A eunuch. A sneer hung on his vicissitudes of life, showing disdain. Xu Xianchun said angrily: "Old man, don't toast, don't drink, ah!" ”

Li Jin sneered: "The old man never drinks. Xu Xianchun smiled cruelly: "Li Jin collaborated with the enemy and treason, quickly restrain his hands and arrest him, follow me into the factory for trial, if he resists arrest and resists, he will be punished on the spot!" ”

Li Jin was furious and reprimanded: "Wei Eunuch Cao disregards the lives of all the people in the world, wantonly brutalizes the loyalty and good of the court, arrests and imprisons, you eunuch lackeys, colluding with each other, is what is attached to Wei Gelding's fart." After finishing speaking, he flew straight to Xu Xianchun.

Xu Xianchun pulled his hoarse voice and ordered: "Take down the Qin prisoner!" In an instant, all the Jinyi guards rushed up, and Li Jin fought with them, thinking in his heart: "Jinyiwei and Dongchang are both under the direct jurisdiction of the emperor, and other officials can't interfere with them at all, and the factory guards can deal with big cases involving court officials and submit them directly to the emperor, so the officials in the court and China are more afraid." From the vassal kings to the common people, they were all under surveillance, and the slightest rebellion led to the destruction of their families and countless deaths under torture.

In addition, Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch of Dongchang, was in power, monopolized the government and excluded dissidents, and a group of upright court officials were arrested and killed, which successively caused the "Six Gentlemen" and "Seven Gentlemen" tragedy that shocked the world. Even if you don't die today, you will not be able to escape the torture in prison in the future, and what is even worse is that it is very likely that the eunuchs will take the opportunity to fabricate false confessions and frame many colleagues more extensively. It is nothing if he dies, but he must not give the eunuchs a chance to take advantage of it. How much can you kill today, try your best to kill desperately, and it can be regarded as eliminating harm for the world, killing one less one. Xu Xianchun took people and horses to the Li Mansion to arrest the rest of the people, and Lu Chao stayed behind to supervise the battle.

Suddenly, a figure flew into the battle circle from outside the courtyard wall, first with a dazzling sword technique, which had the momentum of sweeping thousands of armies. "Master Li! Come with me! Suddenly, a young man shouted. Li Jin was fighting, but when he saw him covering his face with a bamboo hat, he couldn't see who it was, but in such a situation, he still listened to the man's shout. When Lu Chao saw that someone was rescued, he immediately jumped into the battle circle and tried to take down Li Jin in person. The young man retreated to the side door of the Li Mansion while fighting, and Li Jin was being entangled by Lu Chao, and between attack and defense, he also retreated to the side door.

In the corridor of the backyard, Xu Xianchun saw a girl holding an eight- or nine-year-old girl in her hand and was about to flee for her life, and was about to pounce on her to grab someone, but suddenly another figure flew down from the corner of the roof, and swept towards him with a sword on her head and face, and all the brocade guards raised their blades to block the grid. But the man just made a few false moves, disturbing Xu Xianchun's sight, not taking his life, and suddenly grabbed the little girl in the maid's arms, grabbed the back collar, and lifted it, the little girl "Ah" exclaimed, this person jumped on the edge of the wall after succeeding, and ran straight to the side door with the little girl in his arms.

This series of tricks is as fast as the wind, as fast as electricity, and clean. Xu Xianchun chased the general all the way, and Fang Shi saw clearly that the person who came was long and covered his face with a bamboo hat, and then shouted: "Bow and arrow ready!" Take this guy! At this time, the man and Li Jin also retreated to the side door, and suddenly heard a young woman's voice, shouting loudly: "Brother! Let's go! "It was the one who robbed the child, and it turned out that she was a woman disguised as a man.

At this time, she had put the little girl in the bamboo basket behind her back, and while she was talking, a long rope had been thrown down, and it was very strong, wrapped around Li Jin's waist, and then lifted it, the long rope turned sharply, and Li Jin had been lifted into the air, "Kill!" Xu Xianchun shouted.

At the sound of the strings, bows and arrows were fired in unison, "Poof! A sharp arrow pierced his shoulder, Li Jin screamed, and in the dodge, he was still unfortunately shot by a bow and arrow. The woman jumped up, protected the little girl, raised her hand and waved her sword, cutting off the rain of arrows, but seeing that the long rope thrown out had wrapped Li Jin, she swung out of the wall in an instant, and landed steadily on a horse, and she also jumped out of the wall on another horse, beat the horse and whipped, and the two horses rushed straight to the west gate of the capital together.

The man, who was still in the thick of the battle, plunged into the clouds, then swooped down from above, and by the time he passed seven or eight archers, their heads already gone. He immediately rushed to the door, a few ups and downs, had jumped on the horseback of ninety zhang away from the door, Xu Xianchun Lu Chao and others looked at each other in shock, chased out of the side door, but heard the sound of horses' hooves, gradually galloped away, and could no longer catch up. Because Li Jin's mansion is in the XC area and the location is very close to the city gate, Xu Xianchun and the others didn't have time to call the guards to intercept them, and because Dongchang didn't expect anyone to come to the rescue this time, they didn't call for the city gate to be blocked in advance, so the two brothers and sisters successfully rescued people and escaped.

The three of them galloped all the way, and in a blink of an eye they had entered the suburbs, and when they passed through a forest, Li Jin was physically weak, and suddenly fell to the ground from the horse, the two brothers and sisters each grabbed the reins and stopped, turned over and dismounted, ran to Li Jin's side, helped Li Jin up, and asked eagerly: "Lord Li, how are you?" Li Jin gritted his teeth and endured the great pain, and said, "This arrow is poisonous." The two siblings immediately understood why Li Jin fell, and it seemed that he could no longer jolt on the horse.

The man said, "I know there is a ruined temple on the mountainside, so let's go there and hide first." After speaking, he and his sister helped Li Jin to go.

The three of them walked hundreds of steps into the woods, and saw a yellow wall looming in the gap between the trees, which was the temple. Entering the temple, the brother and sister helped Li Jin sit down, and saw that Li Jin's face was pale and faintly blue-black, one was excessive blood loss, and the other was poisoning.

The man squatted down and was about to speak, but when he heard Li Jin ask first, "Dare to ask the two knights, the honorable surname?" I didn't know all my life, but I had to sacrifice my lives to save each other. Li was grateful. ”

The man said, "Junior Fang Zheng'an." This is my cousin, Cheng Yayan. ”

Li Jin saw that this man had a square appearance, a solemn face, and a bookish air between his eyebrows, seeing that this woman had a beautiful face, an ice posture, cold and arrogant, and bright eyes and beautiful eyebrows, containing a wisp of elegant and noble temperament, thinking that these two people were bound to come from a famous family.

Li Jin asked, "Your Excellency's surname is Fang?" Then may I ask the former Minister Fang Congzhe, do you recognize? ”

Fang Zhengan nodded and said, "It's my uncle, and I'm also the brother-in-law of Yayan's mother." ”

Li Jin said happily: "It turns out that the two are Zhongliang. ”

Fang Zhengan said: "Yayan's father and my uncle are friends in the world, in his early years, he served as the secretary of the military department, and he was an official in the court for many years. His father, Fang Xingzhe, was originally the governor of ZJ, but he was persecuted by the eunuchs, and was assassinated by Wei Zhongxian many years ago. At that time, I was still young, thanks to my uncle's adoption, taught me to read and practice martial arts, since I was a child, I grew up in the capital, at the age of eighteen, because of an accident in my uncle's family, he sent me to Dengzhou, and since then, Yayan and I have been together. ”

Li Jin said: "Lord Fang is a pivotal figure in the court, and many people know the reason for what you said. He knew that this was the Fang family's business, and he didn't have to say it.

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