At this time, someone in the hall happened to shout: "Senior Brother Zhu has arrived!" ”

Everyone entered the hall together, and the young man thought to himself, it's over, but I didn't expect that the people I just said would temporarily let him live for a while longer, and this life-urging ghost surnamed Zhu came.

Not to mention this young man, I saw a man wearing a straw hat, wearing a cloak, and pressing a sword in his left hand strode into the hall of the inner mansion. The person surnamed Yu saluted at the same time as the surname Wang, and this "Senior Brother Zhu" also returned the salute, at this time, the person known as "Senior Brother Zhu" saw the woman Lian'er, and hurriedly said:

"Senior sister, what's wrong? Why am I depressed when I see my senior brother? ”

Lian'er didn't salute her senior brother either, but said: "There is a kid who is sneaky today, wandering back and forth at our door, and a few senior brothers and I caught him in, and when he asked him, he always pretended to be deaf and dumb, and he didn't know what to do, and said that he was your relative, and he had to bet with us, if we lost, we would ...... I'm so! ”

Everyone laughed when they heard Lian'er say half of what they said, and the person surnamed Zhu wondered: "Has Xu Jialou sent a spy over there?" How did they know about this? ”

The man surnamed Yu said: "Senior brother, I have also interrogated with Senior Brother Wang, but this person doesn't seem to know anything, we were going to give him a little hardship and let him recruit, but he suddenly said that it was your relative, and Senior Brother Wang and I didn't dare to make a mistake, for fear of accidentally hurting our own people, so we had to tie him up there first, just wait for you to come over and see it." ”

The surnamed Zhu smiled: "Oh, there is such a thing? My parents died when I was a child, I walked the rivers and lakes alone for so many years, and the government chased me for so many years, but I didn't expect anyone to climb relatives with me, okay, go and see! With that, he led the group into a stride to the backyard.

For a while, all of a sudden, the torches and lanterns were bright, illuminating the entire courtyard like daylight, the vermilion lantern walked in front, followed by Lian'er, as well as the big man surnamed Wang He Xingyu, and a monk, that is, the sincere monk who had just treated Lian'er and a group of people. Vermilion Light walked slowly to the boy tied to the tree.

At this time, the young man couldn't help but be frightened, lowered his head and didn't dare to speak, and didn't dare to let the vermilion lantern look at him, feeling that his trick could be exposed a moment later, and he thought to himself, it seems that at this moment, he is powerless to return to heaven, he was killed by these people, and he didn't know where the corpse was, and he had nowhere to reincarnate if he died.

Zhu Honglan walked in, looked at the young man, and said, "Boy, I heard that you are my relative, raise your head and let me recognize it." ”

The boy didn't look up, maybe he felt that he was at a loss, and he didn't dare to look up in shame, or he might feel that one more moment was a moment, in short, the boy didn't seem to hear the words of the vermilion light, and he still lowered his head, and his messy braid hung down from his right neck.

Lian'er said very proudly: "Boy, didn't you say that Senior Brother Zhu is your distant relative? Why don't you recognize each other now, if you lose, you'll have to let your aunt send you on your way later! ”

Zhu Honglan waved his hand, thinking that it was too hasty to kill people casually, if it wasn't a spy, wouldn't it be a careless disregard for human life? So he personally raised the young man's head with his hand, looked at it, and suddenly said:

"Chi-Hung, is that you? Excel! ”

The young man suddenly heard Zhu Honglan call his name, he actually knew his name, and he also widened his eyes and looked at Zhu Honglan carefully, and suddenly recognized it, it turned out to be his cousin!

This change came suddenly, and the people around were shocked, and Lian'er was even more speechless, and ran back to the house with a shake of her hand. Zhu Honglan didn't know why, and he didn't know why his junior sister reacted like this, but he didn't have time to ask, so he hurriedly said, "Uncle, how is he?" Is my cousin and sister-in-law okay? ”

The young man immediately burst into tears, threw himself into the arms of his cousin Zhu Honglan, did not answer for a long time, and finally got up and sobbed and said:

"My grandfather died a few months after you left, and there was a famine in the family, so my father took the whole family to a relative's house in Changshan County. But the relatives couldn't help our family, so my mother dismissed all the maids and maids, and then let our men also come out to make a living. I was going to go to SS County to find you, Uncle Cousin, but I didn't expect to meet you here, it's really an endless road! ”

Saying that, the young man howled and cried again, and the red lantern held the child in his arms and comforted him for a long time, and the young man finally stopped crying again.

It turned out that this young man's name was Qin Zhihong, and his grandfather was the uncle of this vermilion lantern. This vermilion lantern was originally named Zhu Fengming, also known as Zhu Zhanao, called Tianlong, his parents died early, he had apprenticed to Jiang Yixian, the head of the Plum Blossom School, to learn art in his early years, and learned a good kung fu, and was arrested by the government for offending the powerful, but he was skilled, and the government never caught him.

Later, he followed his uncle to study medicine, and last summer, his home SS County was flooded, and he went to his uncle's house to defect, at this time Qin Zhihong was already fourteen years old, and he admired Zhu Fengming's kung fu so much that he followed Zhu Fengming every day. But I heard that after the flood in his hometown, Zhu Fengming also said goodbye and returned to his hometown, but he didn't expect that on the way back, he met a lot of foreign bullies, in the name of mission, in the fish and meat township, bullying the people, so he gathered all the brothers and sisters, and found his former friends, opened an altar and set up a field, practiced martial arts, and prepared to fight foreigners and resist foreign religion.

Among them, the surname Yu Qiu is called Yu Qingshui, and the surname Wang is called Wang Liyan, the two are not Zhu Honglan's brothers, but several people's teachers have a very close past, and now they are anti-foreign to eliminate bullies together, so they are also called brothers and sisters, Zhu Fengming is now forty and nine, the longest, so he is a senior brother, and he is famous in Shandong, so he has become the leader of everyone.

As for Lian'er, there is no doubt that Zhu Fengming's sister is the same family, but the master was already old when he included this junior sister, and the plum blossoms' kung fu was taught by the senior brother Zhu Fengming and several other senior brothers.

And the courtyard where all the heroes gathered is a courtyard before the monk Xincheng became a monk, and now he is also willing to fight against the foreign religion with Zhu Honglan and others, so everyone discussed gathering together in the house of the monk Xincheng today, and then worked together to figure out how to pull out the churches in Xujialou and other places and eradicate the bully forces that are complicit with the foreign religion.

However, after nearly half a century of infiltration, many Chinese in Chinese mainland already believe in foreign religions, including the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement before, also under the guise of foreign religions, Hong Xiuquan claimed to be the son of God, the younger brother of Jesus came to win people's hearts.

So in the face of the pervasive eyes and ears of foreign religions, Zhu Honglan and several other organizers were also worried about the sound of walking, and it happened that during the day today, Qin Zhihong was walking here and asked the priest in the church on the side of the road how to get to SS County, and Lian'er on the side of the road happened to see it and knew that the senior brother Zhu Honglan happened to come from that direction, so he was suspicious. At this time, Qin Zhihong found out that Lian'er had noticed her, so Lian'er hurriedly hid in the alley, but she didn't expect Qin Zhihong to come over and dangle in front of the door of the sincere monk's house. Finally, at dusk, when the sky was dark, Lian'er decided to come over with a few martial artists to clean up this spy, and then escorted Qin Zhihong to the backyard of the house and tied him to a big tree.

Later, Lian'er told Yu Qingshui and Wang Liyan about Qin Zhihongru's behavior of inquiring about the route of the vermilion lantern and how to sneak into his brain near the house, which aroused everyone's suspicion.

Originally, through these acts, Wang Liyan and Yu Qingshui felt that he could basically be identified as a spy, and he was ready to kill this kid forever, but suddenly Qin Zhihong claimed that he was a relative of Zhu Honglan, which made people hesitate, thinking, although Xu Jialou would send someone to the whereabouts of Zhu Honglan in the hall, but if it was really Zhu Honglan's relative, he would also do it, and he would know more about Zhu Honglan's situation than Xu Jialou, if it was really his relative, wouldn't he kill the wrong good person?

Thinking of this, she planned to wait for the vermilion lantern to make a decision, but Lian'er saw that Qin Zhihong was lying, so she forced Qin Zhihong to say the bad trick of betting. It can be said that Qin Zhihong is crooked at all, he doesn't know that this Senior Brother Zhu is his cousin Zhu Fengming, even if you sue him for Zhu Honglan, he doesn't dare to think that it must be his cousin, although he has seen his cousin's kung fu and integrity.

Monk Benming hurriedly arranged for a servant to help Qin Zhihong, whose legs were already numb to stand, into an upper room, so that he could serve him and not slack off. Zhu Honglan restored his feelings, and brought everyone into the main hall to discuss the specific arrangements and details of the attack on Xujialou. But after talking for a long time, I didn't see my sister Lian'er, and hurriedly asked everyone:

"Why didn't Lian'er come? Why didn't she come to participate in such an important action? ”

Everyone looked at each other and smiled, and Zhu Honglan saw that there was something greasy in it, and said, "What's the matter?" Senior Brother Yu, you say, what's wrong with Lian'er? ”

Yu Qingshui smiled, and instead asked Zhu Honglan and said, "Senior Brother Zhu, did you let this Qin Gongzi come to you in advance?" ”

Zhu Honglan said: "What's the matter, I got along with him for more than half a year, and then I left his house and left, this time he looked for me, I didn't know at all." ”

Yu Qingshui asked again: "Then have you let the people in the rivers and lakes know about your tuba?" ”

Zhu Honglan said frankly: "Look at what you said, I, Zhu Fengmingxing, will not change my name, and I will not change my surname, why can't I say anything to others?" ”

Monk Ben Ming was sensitive, and hurriedly said: "Senior Brother Yu means to ask, Senior Brother Zhu, did Qin Gongzi know about the name of your "Vermilion Lantern" half a year ago? ”

Zhu Honglan hurriedly waved his hand and said: "This is impossible, we were not together at that time, and I didn't plan to fight against foreign religions with everyone, the name Zhu Honglan was newly used by me, it was created to fight against foreign religions, I didn't know this name half a year ago, how could Zhihong, this kid know?" ”

Yu Qingshui smiled, Monk Benming also stroked his beard and smiled, Wang Liyan was a little puzzled, and said, "What do you mean by discussing this name?" ”

Yu Qingshui said with a smile: "This point is very important, it seems that Qin Gongzi doesn't know that Senior Brother Zhu is his cousin, and the words he just told us are all made up by himself." ”

Wang Liyan immediately asked: "So this kid has taken shit luck, and he has found the right cousin of Senior Brother Zhu?" ”

Yu Qingshui nodded and said: "Yes, it's also thanks to Gongzi Qin's courage and knowledge, dare to say this, or we wouldn't have killed him earlier?" ”

Wang Liyan nodded, he was a little scared when he thought about it, and couldn't help but say: "Thanks to him for saying this, if we kill Gongzi Qin, even if we kill ourselves in front of Senior Brother Zhu, we will not be able to redeem ourselves!" ”

Zhu Honglan waved his hand and said, "Don't talk about the past, I'm asking why Lian'er didn't come, why are you asking my name?" Does it matter? ”

Yu Qingshui only cared about talking to Wang Liyan, but forgot about this matter, so he said with a smile: "Senior Brother Zhu doesn't know, just now Gongzi Qin made a bet with us in order to survive!" ……”

At this time, Monk Benming interjected: "I think that this Qin Gongzi is destined for our Lian'er girl!" ”

Zhu Honglan was wondering, Yu Qingshui told him about the bet between Qin Zhihong and Yu Wang and Lian'er just now, Zhu Honglan laughed, and then Lian'er came into the hall, sat down and said:

"Senior brother, I don't marry your nephew, and besides, I'm still his elder! ......" Zhu Honglan and everyone laughed, Zhu Honglan said: "I can't control your affairs, but the things on the rivers and lakes are just a word of faith, haha, but the love of children is long, senior brother, I can't be the master......" said and laughed again.

After the idle talk, everyone together together how to deal with the Xujialou church, everyone agreed to start in June, but before this to do a good job of investigation, because the church and the local landlords and bullies have formed the same party, their village and the church also have many private armed guards, once the grass is startled, it is not easy to deal with, you need to send someone to mix in to investigate the various intersections, the number of garrison troops in each place, when to change shifts, whether there are organs, In the end, Li Yingwai took the Xujialou and the nearby Hedong Turtle Church in one fell swoop.

"So who should be chosen to spy on?" Wang Liyan asked.

Zhu Honglan said: "I'll go, I will practice medicine, you can use this as a cover to go and inquire about ......"

"No!" Monk Ben Ming immediately retorted: "Senior Brother Zhu, although you can use practicing medicine as a cover, but the government has a portrait of you, and I believe that your appearance has long been known. ”

Yu Qingshui's eyes lit up, and he said to Monk Benming and Zhu Honglan: "Judging from the appearance of Gongzi Qin tonight, I think he is brave and strategic, and he is not chaotic, and he is not well-known, he is the best candidate for this espionage mission!" ”

Monk Benming smiled and said, "This person recommended by Brother Yu is exactly what I want, but I don't know if Senior Brother Zhu can tell him to help us." ”

Zhu Honglan thought for a long time and said: "Based on my previous observation of Zhihong, I think he has a lively brain, but he is the only seedling of my cousin, the only grandson of my uncle, I am afraid that something will go wrong, I am sorry for the Qin family; Besides, if he doesn't want to, I can't force it. ”

Yu Qingshui smiled and whispered in Zhu Honglan's ear: "Senior Brother Zhu, don't worry, if Gongzi Qin doesn't want to go, let's find a way, even if you don't move him, Miss Lian'er will definitely be able to move him." ”

Zhu Honglan nodded in agreement, smiling silently.