Qin Zhihong stayed in Wang Liyan's house for a few more days and felt bored, and Wang Liyan and Lian'er had already gone to PY County to join his cousin's team, and he didn't know where to go or what to do.

And for a few days alone in Wang Liyan's house, the housekeepers and servants at home knew that Qin Zhihong and his master Wang Liyan were brothers, so they served them thoughtfully and considerately, and did not dare to slack off.

Qin Zhihong finally decided that he should go to the original rivers and lakes by himself and support himself by himself, although the previous experience was a burden, he had to carry it and continue on the road.

So, early in the morning, before the porter and the servants got up, Qin Zhihong packed his luggage, gently opened the door and walked out of the palace.

Qin Zhihong thought of Master Yang's words at this time, and thought to himself, Master Yang has experienced many ups and downs in his life, so he has such knowledge, if he doesn't take advantage of his youth to experience it, he will be in vain in this life, so he made up his mind to go to the capital to have a look.

So Qin Zhihong went north again, and he planned to stop seeing Master Yang and his master Zhao Sanduo, and go directly to the capital. Along the way, he continued to ring the bell to practice medicine, and although he slept in the open air along the way, he was able to support himself.

The autumn leaves were falling one after another, and the weather was getting cooler, so Qin Zhihong took out some silver taels he had saved before and bought a few thicker clothes. But after a long time, he thought about Lian'er and his cousin again, and he didn't know how they were doing now, and he couldn't help but feel that his longing was irrepressible.

When he arrived at the canal, Qin Zhihong rented a boat and went all the way north, looking at the weeping willow pavilions on both sides of the river, and couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion. Although the ship is not big, there are seven or eight people traveling with it, and they are all business trips of the SD and HB generation, and they are bored on the road, so everyone chats with the boat boss to relieve their boredom. And although Qin Zhihong is also the kind of person who likes to join in the fun, but since he left the palace, he has lost something, and he doesn't give up every day, so he doesn't take the initiative to participate in the conversation.

On this day, Qin Zhihong was lying on the plank of the boat room and napping, but he heard people outside talking about Yihequan, and couldn't help but wake up immediately, walked out, and listened to their conversation.

And one of the tall people was talking energetically, and when he saw Qin Zhihong also come out to listen to him, he couldn't help but be interested, so he talked about his experience even more proudly:

"When I came from PY, I saw boxers from all walks of life coming from all directions to support Li Zhuang, the reason is that the landlord did not lend food to the poor in the famine, and also oppressed a local leader named Li Changshui, and falsely accused him of 'making trouble', the government immediately sent people to arrest six of his subordinates, fortunately, this Li Changshui is also good at kung fu, so he escaped, so he invited heroes from all over the country to come to support."

A man sitting next to the boat asked, "What happened then?" ”

"Later, there were boxers from all over the country, what plum blossom gates, and the big knife club all came to support, there were more than 1,000 people, led by the vermilion lantern, he actually brought more than 2,000 people, and this time there were at least 3,000 people." The tall man continued.

At this time, Jiang Kai, the magistrate of the county, led people to patrol Lizhuang, and the boxers surrounded them without saying a word. Fortunately, the vermilion lantern was under the banner of 'Xingqing and Destroying the West', so he only injured two officials, and did not take the life of the magistrate, but it also scared Jiang Kai away. The tall man continued.

A few people next to him asked, "What happened then?" ”

The tall man was also frank and said, "I set off at that time, and I don't know what happened later." ”

Everyone was sorry, but at this time, a person who was dressed more decently than everyone said: "What can a group of rebels do? In the end, Jiang Kai, the magistrate of the county, reported to the SD governor Yuxian, and the governor had decided to send troops to suppress it. ”

At this time, everyone noticed this person, and the captain of the ship was well-informed, and immediately asked the man: "I don't know what this lord is called?" ”

The man laughed and said, "You have a good eye, and I won't hide it, I am the copywriter under the SD Governor Yuxian, and the order of the Governor to clean up the troublesome boxers is still written by me personally!" ”

Everyone couldn't help but get up immediately, and the tall man just now hurriedly knelt down and said, "I don't know that the adult is here, the little one was not ashamed to speak up just now, and said some hearsay nonsense, and I hope that the adult will spare the villain this time." ”

The man said, "What you just said is almost true, but I do hear that you have the intention of supporting the boxers to make trouble." ”

The tall man immediately trembled with fright, and knelt down and did not dare to raise his head, but the official said: "That's it, spare you this time, and don't make a lot of nonsense everywhere next time, lest you die without knowing that you will die on your mouth!" ”

The man retreated, not daring to say anything more, but the governor's scribe then said to everyone: "I can't hide it, this report on the extermination of the boxers has already been sent to Lafayette by telegram, and I am only going to deliver the written papers, and I am not in a hurry, so I plan to take a boat to visit the mountains and rivers around the Grand Canal......"

As he spoke, he carefully took out a document from his bag, opened it for everyone to see, Qin Zhihong recognized the words, and saw that it was indeed the report of SD Governor Yu Xianqing and Righteous Fist, and the payment had the official seal of SD Governor, and it would never be fake.

And the scribe was very proud when he saw that most of the people were shocked, but Qin Zhihong was very worried, thinking that this time his cousin and Lian'er would have a big disaster, but at this time, he was sitting on the boat and leisurely heading north.

Finally, the ship arrived at the boundary of DG County, it was already evening, Qin Zhihong asked the boat boss where he was, the boat boss had been doing business here for more than ten years, and he was very familiar with it, so he told Qin Zhihong that this was DG County. Qin Zhihong said that a friend was going to get off the boat to visit here, and the boat boss was not bad, so he stopped the boat and let Qin Zhihong get off the boat.

When Qin Zhihong arrived in DG County, he didn't dare to stay overnight, so he hurriedly found a hotel and asked if there were any horses that could be ridden, so he spent almost all of his savings to buy a batch of sturdy high-headed horses, with saddle bridles, and quickly whipped the horses and headed south.

Qin Zhihong wanted to go back quickly and inform his cousin and Lian'er of the situation, so that they could take precautions as soon as possible. Besides, the scribe on the boat just now was on the way to the mountains and rivers, and he didn't know how much time it took, and he didn't have time to meet his cousin and them at this time.

So Qin Zhihong was even more anxious, and once he accidentally fell off the horse, fortunately it was on a sandy ground by the river, otherwise he would have to worry about his life, but fortunately, he just broke his arm, and he couldn't care about the swelling and pain, and continued to gallop south.

If you want to go to the RP county where your cousin was, how can this horse get there without eating, drinking, or resting, even Wang Liyan's GT County will never be able to reach it, and even Master Yang's Shilitun will not be able to. But PY County happened to be between DG County and RP County where he set off, when Qin Zhihong went north, he deliberately took XJ and WW counties and avoided PY County, so as not to see Lian'er and Uncle Cousin again, but this made him regret it when he rode back, thinking that if he went to PY County and met Uncle Cousin and Lian'er, he would stay, and he would not be in such a hurry here.

And PY County and DG County are about 200 miles away, and in the early morning, Qin Zhihong didn't dare to let Ma be too tired, so he found a hotel, replenished the forage, and ate some dry food for two hours before continuing on the road.

Finally, at noon, we arrived in PY County. However, when listening to the discussion of the people, it was said that the official army had fought with the boxers in the Senluo Palace, ten miles away from the county seat, and both sides were injured, and then the boxers retreated south under the leadership of Vermilion Light.

When Qin Zhihong heard this, he put his mind at ease, thinking that although the Qing army had begun to exterminate his cousin's Boxer, fortunately, his cousin had also retreated with his men and horses, so Lian'er estimated that he should be fine, so he could finally slow down and slowly find his cousin's team.

But Qin Zhihong was already penniless, so he found a hotel and sold the horse for a similar price to the original price in exchange for silver.

This should be attributed to Qin Zhihong's cousin who taught him how to recognize horses when he took refuge in his CQ home, so when buying horses, he was able to recognize the goods, and he was good at the battle of tongues in buying and selling, and he would not be calculated a lot by the hotel when selling horses, so this trip, in addition to losing some forage money, he didn't lose much.

So Qin Zhihong booked a house in this hotel that sells horses in PY County, stayed there, and then practiced medicine everywhere to inquire about the news. When he learned that his cousin was fine, he was no longer in a hurry, and besides, the local government where his cousin was located must be difficult to find, let alone looking for it alone? So I rested at the hotel in the evening.

Since he learned that his cousin had gone south, he paid for the house the next day and continued to practice medicine in the south.

In less than a day, he arrived in GT County, Qin Zhihong returned to Wang Liyan's house to look for it, but the servant told him that Wang Liyan had not returned, Qin Zhihong knew about it, and did not delay, and continued to go south, and after staying overnight in a broken temple on the way, he got up early in the morning and continued to hurry, but there was no news of his cousin.

For a few days, the team of expressions was like people evaporating, Qin Zhihong couldn't smell a trace of smell, but he thought, no news is good news, at least now Uncle Cousin and people must be in some places to recuperate, and strive to start all over again.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel refreshed, so I continued to ask around RP County about whether there were any horses passing by. However, there was nothing to do in the early morning of this day, he was drinking tea and eating in a teahouse, but suddenly heard the people talking that it was the Yihe Fist that attacked the local church in YC Miaojiazhuang, Qin Zhihong immediately got up, took the tea and dinner money, and set off to go to YC to see what was going on.

YC is located on the south bank of the Tuxiao River, which flows almost parallel to the east of the Yellow River, but because the Yellow River is higher than the surrounding terrain in the SD boundary riverbed, the Tuxiao River does not eventually flow into the Yellow River, but is distributed parallel to the Yellow River and eventually flows into the Bohai Bay.

Qin Zhihong knew that the fastest and most labor-saving way was to take the waterway, which could be reached in less than a day, so he first went north to the Tuxiao River, found the boatman and paid for the boat, and went east along the river.

Finally in the afternoon, Qin Zhihong arrived at YC, but he heard from the people that the boxers of the vermilion lantern had retreated. Qin Zhihong thought to himself, there is no way to find it like this, he always can't keep up, and the government is more well-informed than himself, if he can know the way out of the statement, the government must have known it, how can my cousin wait there? So he decided not to follow the map, but to think about the intention of the expression, so that he could wait for him in one place in advance.

So he decided to go to CQ County, because first, this is the location of his former residence, and his cousin has also been here and is more familiar; The second is that the church here was almost beaten by my cousin, which is a relatively safe place, and if there is any danger, he will definitely come here.

Thinking of this, Qin Zhihong decided to wait for him in CQ County.

Soon, Qin Zhihong heard that RP attacked a church, at this time he was a little shaken in his heart, could it be that he had misestimated, but after thinking about it, if he learned that the RP church was attacked by his cousin, then it means that his cousin is no longer RP now, so he is more determined, and he is waiting for his cousin to arrive at CQ.

However, a few days later, the news came, but it was the news that the Vermilion Lantern RP had been captured by the Qing army, and at this moment, Qin Zhihong's mind was like a thunderbolt from a sunny sky, and his eyes suddenly turned black and he sat down. After a long time, he settled down, thinking to himself, his cousin has not been executed yet, there is still hope to be rescued, and he has not received news of Lian'er, and after the official army caught his cousin, he must have been escorted to JN Mansion, so he didn't say a word, and decided to go to JN Mansion to spy on the news first, and see if there was a chance to go out of Cousin.

Since Qin Zhihong didn't know where his cousin was after he was arrested, he was in a hurry, and he didn't dare to find a place to stay overnight at night, so he just rushed towards JN Mansion.

It was late at night, Qin Zhihong was walking alone on the path deep in the mountains and dense forests, and suddenly heard a few people talking, he slowly approached the past, and through the dim moonlight through the woods, he saw that it was four people, one of whom was tied to a tree. One of them said:

"Little lady, as long as you are obedient, we will definitely guarantee that you are okay."

Another person also said: "Yes, it took so much effort to arrest you, and it's a pity to kill you, it's better to let my brother have a pastime, and it can be regarded as not wasting your body." He laughed again.

The woman tied to a tree was staggered, apparently covered with her mouth and nose, and wanted to scream, but she couldn't say half a word.

Qin Zhihong immediately understood that it was a few bandits who didn't know where to rob the women of good families, and they wanted to do such a hurtful thing in the dark night wilderness, although Qin Zhihong was a calm person, but when he saw such a scene, he was also filled with righteous indignation, so he slowly approached the past.

At this time, the sudden wind blew the woods, Qin Zhihong also seized the opportunity, tore off a piece of cloth on his clothes to cover his mouth and nose, took advantage of this chaotic sound, rushed out, jumped up, his right leg curled up, and his knee hit the left face of one of them at once, the person was defenseless, and before he could make a sound, he fell to the ground and did not know whether he was alive or dead.

At this time, Qin Zhihong saw clearly, it turned out that the three of them were not robbers, but officials and soldiers. At this time, the remaining two saw someone suddenly rushing out, and hurriedly drew their knives and rushed over. Qin Zhihong used the grappling technique given to him by his master, and snatched a person's knife from him in a flash, and slashed at that person's neck with a reflexive knife. Although Qin Zhihong is the true inheritance of Zhao Sanduo, the head of the Plum Blossom Sect, his strength is not very great, even so, the person has already burst out of blood, and he fell to the ground without moving.

Now there was only one officer and soldier left, and seeing that two of his three people would be killed on the spot in an instant, he took the road and fled. Qin Zhihong didn't chase after him, and hurriedly rescued the woman who was tied up, and at first glance it was none other than Lian'er.

Lian'er waited for Qin Zhihong to take off the cloth covering his face, and then the moonlight looked at it and saw that it was Qin Zhihong, who couldn't help but have a mixture of joy and sorrow, and suddenly threw herself into his arms, and cried.