Qin Zhihong was put home, he was infinitely happy, and he should have celebrated, but because this time also delayed a lot of things, Qin Zhihong set off to buy medicinal materials the next day.

Qin Zhihong had just arrived in the county seat, but he met Zhang Zongqi. Zhang Zongqi was also very embarrassed to see Qin Zhihong, Qin Zhihong also knew the reason, but he also knew that this matter had nothing to do with Zhang Zongqi, it was the old man Zhang who was bewitched by Shan Wanzhao, so he did this thing that hurt the harmony of the two families, and he also lost Zhang Zongqi to work inside and outside in prison, so the two stopped to find a teahouse to talk.

After asking, I found out that Zhang Zongqi was here to find Qin Zhihong, because of this lawsuit, Zhang Zongqi thought that he had no shame to come to Qin's house again, so he heard that Qin Zhihong was going out today, so he intercepted him on the way.

Zhang Zongqi was still spitting and spitting, very embarrassed, Qin Zhihong said with a smile: "Brother Zhang doesn't have to blame himself, I don't blame you for this, and this time thanks to your busy work up and down, I have been spared a lot of suffering." ”

Zhang Zongqi sighed and said, "It's also the old man's ghost, and now I don't have the face to see you." ”

Qin Zhihong said with a smile: "It's okay, as long as there is no barrier between you and me, I have to go and come back quickly to buy medicinal materials this time, so that I can make the goods you will send out next month." ”

When Zhang Zongqi heard this, he couldn't help but be moved, and said: "Brother Qin, the two families are like this, and you still repay your grievances with virtue, which really makes me feel ashamed." ”

Qin Zhihong comforted Zhang Zongqi for a while, then said goodbye and went on the road, before leaving, Zhang Zongqi instructed:

"Brother Qin, the situation is turbulent at this time, it seems that the Qing court will not last long, and now the revolutionaries everywhere are revolting everywhere, and bandits are also on the hills, you have to be careful on the road."

Qin Zhihong nodded with a smile and set off.

Not to mention the things on Qin Zhihong's road, it is already June now, the weather is getting hotter, and the ZP County Ya caught a bandit today, and he was punished more than that, so he was recruited. It turned out that this person's name was Lu Xiaoliu, a CQ person, who was a person in the bandits' den in the mountains and forests of the zp territory.

Lu Xiaoliu's way back to the county seat was to go north along the Daixi River, passing through Hedong Village on the way, and many men, women and children came out to see the excitement. At this time, Ziyi's son Qin Ruizhe was playing on the side of the road, and the prisoner car escorting the prisoner happened to pass by, but Qin Ruizhe was unaware of this, at this time Lian'er was on the side, and couldn't help but be startled, and hurriedly rushed over to pick up Ruizhe, so as to avoid the danger of being run over by the carriage.

Several officials scolded the mother and daughter for "not looking for long-sightedness, looking for death", Lian'er couldn't help but be annoyed, and was about to have a seizure, when she suddenly saw Lu Xiaoliu in the prisoner car, and couldn't help but tremble in her heart.

This Lu Xiaoliu is none other than an entourage under Senior Brother Zhu Honglan, when he attacked Xujialou, he was always in CQ, and he didn't follow Zhu Honglan to the old mansion of Monk Benming in Jinan, so Qin Zhihong didn't know him, but he recognized it.

This Lu Xiaoliu also recognized Lian'er at a glance, both of them were silent, the team escorting the prisoner car passed slowly, Lian'er did not stop, and immediately took Qin Ruizhe home, but his heart was like pressing a stone, and he was at a loss.

As soon as the county magistrate was punished, Lu Xiaoliu couldn't resist it, and truthfully recruited the code of the bandits' contact and the various passes on the mountain. At this time, Lu Xiaoliu suddenly remembered something, so he said to the jailer:

"This official, I still have important information to report, but I want to tell the county lord in person, can you please report it?"

The jailer wanted to scold, but after thinking about it, since this guy said so, this matter must be not trivial, and he couldn't afford it, so he muttered and went to report to the county master.

The county lord was drinking tea in the yazhong, and he had nothing to do in the morning, and when he heard that this bandit had information to tell the county lord in person, the boss was not happy, and thought to himself, and see what important information this thief has, if it is not something important, it is not too late to treat him.

When he arrived in prison, Lu Xiaoliu told him about the Lian'er he saw on the way, and he was sure that this person was the same junior sister of Zhu Honglan, the leader of the Boxers and Boxers, and he was also a boxer.

This time, the county magistrate couldn't help but be taken aback, so he interrogated Lu Xiaoliu carefully. It turned out that after Lu Xiaoliu suppressed the Boxer Rebellion of SD Zhu Honglan and others in the government, many of them escaped, and later came to the territory of ZP County, so everyone gathered in the mountains and forests and made a living by trading without capital. Although they are bandits, they are also righteous, and never bully the old, weak, sick and disabled, and they are also angry about the betrayal of the Boxers by the imperial court, so they specially robbed the convoy of the official mansion so it is within a radius of a hundred miles, and the reputation of the common people is not bad, but the government hates these people deeply.

Now that Lu Xiaoliu has been arrested, the county magistrate can just inquire about the information on the mountain, and then report it to the governor, so that the officials and troops can be exterminated. And this time, this Lu Xiaoliu was able to bite out the Qin family's grandmother, which was really an unexpected gain.

But the county magistrate thought again, this Qin Zhihong must be someone in the court, and he is extremely powerful, otherwise it would be impossible for the Criminal Department to directly send a message to supervise his case last time, and this matter has to be leisurely.

Back at the mansion, the master also saw the county master's concerns, so he said: "Master, in fact, this matter that Lu Xiaoliu said is not difficult to deal with......

When the county magistrate heard this, he hurriedly asked, "Then you should tell me, what should I do about this matter?" ”

In fact, the county master did not like to catch the boxers, but wanted to make a profit from this matter, but he was afraid that this matter would make the Qin family more serious with him, and in the end, both would lose. So the master explained:

"Since Lu Xiaoliu admits defeat and their wife is a boxer, and says that he doesn't know Qin Zhihong, it just means that this Lian'er is a boxer, so we will go to Qin's house to arrest people, only arrest this Lian'er wife, and don't ask anything else. And I also heard that this old man Yang, that is, Qin Zhihong's father-in-law, was the admiral of the year, but the eldest lady Yang Ziyi was his biological daughter, and this one named Lian'er was just one of his righteous daughters, I think Old Man Yang may not be in charge of it sincerely, maybe he still looks forward to this righteous daughter leaving as soon as possible! ”

The county master immediately understood, and said with a smile: "This trick is indeed high, it can not only achieve the purpose of beating the Qin family, but also attack, retreat and defend, I haven't cultivated you for so many years in vain!" ”

Lian'er has been muttering in her heart these days, the more she thinks about one thing, it will definitely happen (this is Murphy's law proposed by Edward Murphy), when the official officials wanted to take her away, Qin Zhihong was still on the way back, and suddenly the Qin family was in a mess.

Lian'er looked at Master Yang, Master Yang made a look, motioned for him to go, the rest was easy to say, Lian'er understood, so she suddenly made a move, and knocked down the two officials at once.

Originally, there were only four officials who came this time, and the county master and the villagers usually felt that Lian'er was like a weak woman, so they didn't take it to heart, but this time there were two officials, and suddenly the other two didn't dare to go forward, and Lian'er rushed out of the door and ran towards the mountains and forests outside the village in the south.

The two servants also hurriedly chased out, and Lian'er ran all the way, although she had not moved for several years, and gave birth to a son, but she still moved quickly and lightly, and soon arrived at the riverbank at the foot of the mountain, which was still a dry riverbed at this time, and then a few puddles were broken.

Lian'er suddenly stopped and said, "Two, what are you chasing?" ”

The two of them were also instinctively chasing out, but at this time, they saw that there was no one in the wilderness, and they couldn't help but be frightened, so they realized that their daring to chase them out was not to chase the criminal, but to send them to death.

Lian'er saw that the two were silent, so she continued: "Since the two of you chased out, then please go back, we will save some face for each other, and the two of you will say that you didn't catch up, and I won't hurt you, and just now the villagers also saw that the two of them were desperate for official business, so why bother with a tendon." ”

The two glanced at each other, and they both knew that this lady was a seasoned practitioner, and the two of them worked as officials in this county government in order to make a living, so why should they take their own lives for this trivial matter, so they also went back with a knife to recover their lives.

Lian'er suddenly sent away the two officials, but her heart was hit by loneliness, and she thought to herself, she didn't know if she could see Zhihong again. But the matter has come to this, he must hide first, presumably the government does not dare to do anything to Qin Zhihong, and when the official took the person just now, he said very clearly that it was Lu Xiaoliu who recognized her. And Lu Xiaoliu and Qin Zhihong have no intersection, when they beat Xu Jialou, only a few leaders and henchmen knew that Qin Zhihong was an undercover agent of Yihequan, and the rest of the boxers didn't know anything.

So Lian'er walked towards the mountain alone, after all, it was safer to enter the mountain, at least it was not so easy for the government to find him, now on the river beach, from a high place, you can see yourself, the goal is too big. So Lian'er quickened her pace and headed for the mountain.

At this time, it was already evening, and when I entered the mountains and forests, the light was even darker, and at this time, suddenly one or twenty people rushed out of all directions, surrounding Lian'er, Lian'er was caught off guard, and thought to herself, I didn't expect the government to move so fast!

But when those people walked in, they saw clearly that it was not the costumes of government soldiers or government officials, but all kinds of clothes, and Lian'er realized that she had encountered bandits.

The first one shouted: "I say, what kind of wife are you, how can you walk such a dangerous road alone, and you are not afraid of encountering wicked people?" As he spoke, the man laughed, and the little minions around him also laughed.

Lian'er saw that these people, although they were all practitioners, but looking at the actions just now, they were all two knives, and there were only a few people, and the movements were indeed experts, so they needed to pay attention, but it was not difficult to get out by themselves, so she said:

"Hades meets a little ghost, what am I afraid of aunt?"

When everyone heard this, they coaxed for a while, thinking that this girl really doesn't know what to do, fortunately our leader doesn't harm the women of the good family, or else she will talk nonsense with her, and go to the overlord in the morning to make a bow.

But the leader solemnly asked, "Who are you?" ”

The more Lian'er listened to this person's tone, the more familiar it became, and at this time, a minion approached Lian'er with the courage to hold a torch, wanting to see Lian'er's appearance clearly. Lian'er is also on guard, if this minion dares to do anything wrong, he will die on the spot.

At this time, the minion seemed to have no intention of attacking, and approached with a torch, and could not help shouting: "Boss, come and see who this is!" This is our aunt, Miss Lian! ”

When I was in the Boxer Rebellion, because most of the people were Zhu Honglan's apprentices, or even apprentices, Lian'er's seniority was also high, although many people were older than Lian'er, but they still called Lian'er "aunt" or "uncle", and a few people of the same generation such as Yu Qingshui and Wang Liyan were called "Lian'er girl".

Lian'er couldn't help but wonder, how could this person also know herself, could it be that he was also a member of the Boxers back then? When the leader heard this, he couldn't help but hurriedly stepped forward, and after a closer look, it was really Lian'er, so he hurriedly fell to his knees and cried, "Grandma, I can see you!" ……”

Lian'er stepped forward to take a closer look, it was none other than Qiu Laokui, the big man who once caught Qin Zhihong with Lian'er. At this time, everyone was also kneeling on the ground, some shouted "Grandma", some shouted "Uncle", Lian'er realized that these were all brothers who escaped under Senior Brother Zhu Honglan, and couldn't help but cry sadly.