The scene had long been guarded by hundreds of officers and soldiers, and no one was allowed to enter or leave at will.

I was in turmoil at this time, Wen Bao Zhai had become like this, I was more worried about the safety of Uncle Wu and the beggars, so I quickly walked to Wen Bao Zhai, just took a few steps, was stopped by three officers and soldiers with spears and shouted: "The scene of the perpetrator, idlers are not allowed to enter!" ”

At this time, I was anxious to burn my eyebrows, but it was "the house leaked and it rained overnight", and I was so anxious that I couldn't say a word to the officer and soldier for a long time.

I didn't want to explain it for a while, so I was about to break in, when suddenly a man who looked like an officer came and asked loudly, "What are you doing?" Don't want to die? Didn't you see that the officers and soldiers were on official duty? ”

I was so helpless, why was this officer and soldier so verbose and so obstructive, I had to say to the officer: "I am the head of Wen Bao Zhai, I want to go in to check the loss!" ”

The officer looked me up and down and said, "You're in charge?" What are the credentials? ”

This stumps me, where do I find this certificate? I couldn't care so much, and was about to break in, when I saw Uncle Wu stumbling out of it and shouting: "Official, wait, that is the young master of my family!" ”

The officer looked at me and shook his head with disdain before the officer let me in.

I hurriedly flew to Uncle Wu's side, Uncle Wu was limping with a wooden stick, and one leg seemed to be broken, and it seemed that the injury was quite serious. Look at Uncle Wu's body, his sword is also scarred, and the blood is about to stain his clothes red.

I stepped forward and hurriedly helped Uncle Wu and asked, "Uncle Wu, what the hell is going on?" Who did it in broad daylight? ”

I helped Uncle Wu hurriedly into Wenbao Zhai, as soon as I entered the door, I was immediately dumbfounded, the dead bodies inside were even more horizontal and vertical, people were guarded, the hall had already been detained, all kinds of things were crooked, all kinds of cultural relics fragments were scattered on the ground, and it was really a mess to look at.

I pulled up a chair that was still in good condition and asked Uncle Wu to sit down quickly, and after Uncle Wu sat down, he said: "It's terrible, I have been walking the rivers and lakes for decades, and this kind of tragic slaughter scene is really the first time I have encountered it!" ”

I comforted Uncle Wu, and Uncle Wu continued: "After I sent you to Qunxian Building, I hurried back, but it didn't take long to see the pedestrians on the street fleeing in all directions, and I was about to go out to see what was going on, when suddenly four or five hundred people dressed in black stood at the door of our Wenbao Zhai, all with bows and arrows in their hands, and they were already aiming at us. I was so startled that before I could finish my orders, thousands of feathered arrows came at us, killing several of them in an instant.

In the panic, I hurriedly activated the mechanism, sent all the remaining men and maids to the backyard, and then closed the mechanism on the second floor, and sent a signal to summon our hidden people to prepare to meet the enemy. However, the number of opponents was too large, and the feathered arrows were all mounted on strong crossbows, and we tried to rush out several times without any chance, and we also broke a few hands.

The other party shot wave after wave for a full half a column of incense before stopping, and then people rushed in like a tide, with a big knife in their hands, smashing things when they saw them, killing people when they saw them, our nearly 100 guards guarded the lobby to the death, but the other party was numerous, and they were all killers with very high martial arts, and slowly our guards were exhausted, and the number of people was also decreasing a little. It didn't take long for a dozen people to be left on our side, and they were all injured, and they were about to be unable to hold on.

At this time, I saw the beggar rushing in from behind, and the black-clothed killer with two or three rows of feathered arrows outside had already been taken down by the beggar. The dozen or so of us all had the mentality that we were destined to die, and all the black-clothed killers who would commit crimes in the future were blocked in the hall, and a high pile of dead people gradually piled up in front of us.

At this time, the attacking black-clothed man looked at us and flinched, and froze for a while, only to hear a whistle, and the black-clothed killer scattered like a tide.

The beggar left a sentence and said that he was investigating the origin of the black-clothed killer, and followed the black-clothed killer away.

At this time, everyone saw the enemy retreat, a tense nerve relaxed, and they all fell to the ground and gasped for breath. I turned my head to look at the guards, all of them were scarred, there was no good skin on their bodies, they were all unable to move, waiting to die. ”

When I saw this, my heart was like a knife, and if I knew who had done it, I would have to go and tear him to pieces in order to comfort these evil spirits who had died in vain. After calming down, I held back my anger, and at this time I had to calm down in order to stabilize the big picture. So I hurriedly asked Uncle Wu to open the back hall mechanism, release the guys inside, and then go and invite the doctors in the whole city to come over, and spend no matter how much money to save the lives of these people.

When the men and maids came out and saw the scene in front of them, they were so frightened that their legs trembled and collapsed to the ground, and the bold ones could barely say a few words. I found a few clever people to quickly go to the whole city to find a doctor, and everyone was also sad and angry, and everyone worked hard to clean up the mess. How can I explain the mess in front of me to my father? He can sit on one side here, which makes those rats a little afraid, but now, when I first arrived in Xi'an, I was secretly done such a big thing, and it was really not a good feeling in my heart.

An unprecedented level of helplessness in the heart......

At this time, the beggar hurried back from outside, and when I saw the beggar, I immediately stepped forward and asked, "How is it?" Did you find any news? ”

The beggar took a breath and said, "Childe, I'm relieved that you come back safely!" ”

I asked the beggar to sit down first, and the beggar sat down and took a sip of water, and continued: "Childe, what you told me in the ring is right, I just rushed back, and I saw a lot of black-clothed killers besieging our Wenbao Zhai. ”

I nodded and asked, "These Uncle Wu have already told me, you can quickly tell me about your tracking of those black-clothed killers!" ”

The beggar drank another large bowl of water and said, "I secretly followed those black-clothed killers to a ruined temple on the outskirts of the southern part of the city. When they came to the ruined temple, a purple-robed masked man had been waiting there for a long time, and I quietly jumped to the top of the temple and watched their every move! ”

Uncle Wu and I were very surprised when we heard it, what kind of gang is this, and it is really amazing that it is so tightly organized.

The beggar continued: "The black-clothed killer who is the leader reports to the purple-robed man that he has failed the mission and asks for punishment!" The purple-robed man walked up to the black-clothed leader quietly, and in an instant, the black-clothed killer leader collapsed to the ground unconscious, and the remaining black-clothed killers also quickly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.

The purple-robed man waved his hand and said sharply: "This time, let you wait for the time being, wait for the place to lie dormant, waiting for a new order!" ”

The group of black-clothed people kowtowed to the purple-robed people again and again to thank them.

I was about to continue listening to them, but the purple-robed man had very good hearing, and I was already very careful, but the sound of my breathing still alarmed him.

With a flick of his finger, a Yanling dart shot at me, I hurriedly dodged, almost hit, I knew that it was not the opponent's opponent, and quickly escaped. ”

The beggar was also shocked into a cold sweat after speaking.

There is someone in this world who can hear the hiding place of a beggar out of thin air, so what is the level of this person's martial arts, I really can't imagine, even I can barely do this.

I stood up and said to myself: "When I was in the ring just now, I heard Zheng Yuanba whispering about the forty camps, and now you have seen the purple-robed camp master and the Yan Ling dart, is there a relationship between this?" ”

Uncle Wu heard me say this from the sidelines, and a "Ah......hhh

Uncle Wu asked tremblingly, "What did you just say?" ”

I wondered, "What the hell is this?" ”

Uncle Wu said anxiously: "No, it's not this sentence, it's the previous sentence!" ”

I repeated what I had just said to myself, and Uncle Wu said in a daze: "It's really them, it's really them!" ”

We all looked at Uncle Wu strangely!

Uncle Wu eased his emotions a little and said, "Have you heard of the name of the Forty Battalion? ”

The beggar and I both shook our heads and said we didn't know!

Uncle Wu continued: "Then have you ever heard a song of the rivers and lakes: 800 troops in the 40th battalion, the impermanence of the grass does not grow, the wind is frightened, and there are 40 people who hide in the rivers and lakes!" ”

Uncle Wu looked at us after speaking, we also looked at him with a look of confusion, and Uncle Wu said helplessly: "Hey! It's not a person of the same age, and it is reasonable that you don't know many things, not to mention the elusive and ethereal forty battalions! ”

I saw Uncle Wu say this, and hurriedly said, "Uncle Wu, tell us the origin of these forty battalions!" ”

Uncle Wu sighed and said, "Speaking of these forty battalions, we have to start with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom occupied Tianjing, the national strength and military strength were very prosperous, according to the rumors of the descendants who had been in the camp of the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan, after the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan occupied Tianjing, he felt that his status was far inferior to the several princes who had great military exploits, and won the hearts of the people, in order to ensure that his throne could be maintained forever, Hong Xiuquan retreated behind the scenes, regardless of the government, and pushed all the major affairs of the court and government to the East King for ruling, but secretly sent his cronies to select 800 martial arts from the 800,000 army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The battle-hardened young men formed a battalion of Heavenly King's guards, called the Forty Battalions, which alluded to the fact that all the people in the camp were dead soldiers who regarded death as their home.

After the establishment of the 40th Battalion, it was nominally Hong Xiuquan's personal guard of the forbidden army, but in fact it completely obeyed Hong Xiuquan's orders and carried out some espionage and assassination of people who endangered his interests. For a time, the people in the officialdom were panicked, everyone in the government and the opposition was in danger, and the soldiers were unstable. So, Hong Xiuquan took the opportunity to push Yang Xiuqing, the king of the east, to the front of the stage, which eventually led to the Tianjing Incident, the king of the east and the king of the west were killed one after another, and the king of wings fled with a large number of deployments, Hong Xiuquan became the central figure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom again, but all this is also the turning point of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom from prosperity to decline, and Hong Xiuquan, who is in the center of power, is completely unaware.

The situation changed, the incident slowly subsided, and the crisis of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom came one after another, and this mysterious forty battalion was like evaporating from the world and was never mentioned again. Until Tianjing was besieged by the Qing army, Tianjing City ran out of ammunition and food for several months, and after Hong Xiuquan died of illness, a team dressed in black, the eldest son of Hong Xiuquan, broke through desperately, and the forty battalions appeared in people's sight again. How could the Qing army have a large number, this line of more than 800 black-clothed troops was shot by the Qing army artillery and fled in all directions, and finally Hong Tianguifu was also captured in Jiangxi and executed in Lingchi, and the remaining 40 battalions of people were either killed or escaped, and finally disappeared without any news.

In this way, the once terrifying 40th Battalion also collapsed! ”

After Uncle Wu finished speaking, we suddenly realized that there are too few things preserved in this Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and people of our age must not know much.

I asked, confused, "What about then?" ”

Uncle Wu breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Ten years ago, a killer organization appeared in the rivers and lakes, this killer organization, as long as there is money, there is nothing that cannot be done, all of them kill people without blinking, and their name is also called Forty Battalions. According to rumors, it was organized by the people of the 40th Battalion, who were still alive back then, and it happened to be 40 people who could be summoned.

It's just like their name, forty battalions, forty battalions, only forty people!

And it was the forty battalions of these forty people who made the rivers and lakes bloody for a while, and became famous for a while.

The government learned that it was the remnants of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and sent more than 30,000 troops to find and intercept them, but every time the forty battalions disappeared without a trace from the appearance to the completion of the mission, there was no news at all for ten years.

And today, ten years later, it quietly appeared on the ground of Xi'an Mansion, and did such a big move, I really don't know who spent how much silver to do? ”

Hearing Uncle Wu say this, my heart fluttered and jumped, this Zheng Yuanba did not hesitate to use the Jianghu killer organization hidden in the rivers and lakes for many years to attack us, it seems that it has been planned for a long time, but it is a pity that we serious businessmen always have the mentality of making money with harmony, and this time they really hit us hard.

I stood there and watched the scene in front of me, silent for a long time, and the beggar looked at me and asked anxiously, "Childe, what should we do now?" ”

I said categorically: "Blood sea deep hatred, tooth for tooth!" ”

I was startled by what I said, and Uncle Wu said: "Now we have suffered heavy losses, and it will take at least two or three months to cultivate to the original level, not to mention that we don't know where the mysterious forty battalions are now, how to take revenge?" ”

I said, "It doesn't matter if you can't find the killer yet, but we know this employer!" ”

Uncle Wu was just about to say something, when a few guys had already called more than a dozen doctors, and I hurriedly arranged for everyone to quickly carry the injured brother to the backyard for treatment.

After arranging everything, I wanted to go to see how the officers and soldiers handled the matter, but as soon as I walked to the door of Wenbao Zhai, those officers and soldiers had long been nowhere to be found, and only some of the officials who carried the corpses were busy working.

The beggar came up to me and said, "The officer said that they had to go back and investigate the matter again, and we should wait for the news of the specific results, and then we left!" ”

I said angrily: "Is there any natural reason for this, such a big murder case happened, and it ended so hastily, how did our people raise such a group of lazy people with the taxes and silver they worked so hard to pay?" ”

A fellow walked past me and listened to me say this, then stopped and said to me: "Young master, they are not just lazy and lazy, those officers and soldiers can be said to be complicit!" ”

I hurriedly asked, "What do you mean by that?" ”

The guy continued: "In the morning, I went to the opposite side to buy something, and when I was checking out, I accidentally found that the officer and several of his subordinates swaggered to the opposite teahouse to drink tea, and not long after I came back from shopping, I was told that there was an enemy invasion, let us stay in the backyard, if I came back half a beat slowly, then there is still life?" Do you think they are accomplices? ”

After listening to the guy's words, I fully understand why these officers are so perfunctory, maybe the relationship above has already been opened up with silver, just wait for this side to clean up the mess after the matter is over, what to talk about, what to talk about waiting for the result, in the end it is not closed on the grounds of unsolved cases, it seems that the official government in front of us is unreliable, we can only rely on ourselves.

Later, when I thought about it carefully, this government is really cunning in handling cases like this, firstly, it can show the government's ability to handle cases in a timely manner, secondly, it can prevent us from going to other yamen to report the case, and thirdly, it also reflects the reality of today's officialdom being dark and the people are not living well.

After listening to the fellow, I was silent for a moment, then nodded, and let the fellow go about his business, and then let the beggar take care of the scene, and I wanted to go to a quieter place, and think about what happened today and what the road was going to be.

So, I walked straight across the South Gate Street to the teahouse opposite, chose a secluded place, ordered a pot of tea, and slowly thought about it. I think that I was angry in Wubao County for a while, and beat Zheng Yuanba's only son Zheng Shengqiang to death, so that it caused the current tragedy, I really regret it at the beginning.

There are more people in this world who are so domineering, showing off their might, and bullying the market, if they are managed one by one, wouldn't it be a pipe dream, if they endured it at that time, this would not be the result.

But when I think about it, since I live in this world, I have to create a little value for this world with my own ability, if I swallow my anger and ignore the injustice like most people, and live numbly, then there will be more and more injustice in the world, as long as I am worthy of my conscience and the word chivalry, then even if I can't steal my life, I can die with a clear conscience! It's worth the price!

Now, it's not the time for me to complain, let alone the time for me to struggle with right and wrong, I have to readjust my mentality, be ready for what we need to do next, what we need to face, and take responsibility for the troubles I have caused.

At present, the first task is to renovate Wen Bao Zhai and rebuild the secret guard, so that Wen Bao Zhai can resume business as soon as possible; The second is to investigate the whereabouts of the 40th Battalion and the mastermind behind it, so as to comfort the souls of the deceased in heaven; Finally, it's time to think about the centennial celebration in a month's time.

But all of this requires silver taels, and it is a lot of silver taels, and it will not be able to make up so many silver taels for a while, which is a tricky thing at present, and you can't be cheeky to go home and let your father eat the old book, right?

I've got to figure out a way to get this out......

At this time, I only heard the storyteller in the teahouse snap and slapped the shocking wood, and then said: "Today, let's continue to talk about the last chapter, and talk about the forty-sixth chapter of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I don't want Zijing to refuse to hide it for me, but today I really made another accident. How do you make 100,000 arrows in three days? Zijing had to save me! Su said: "The public has brought disaster upon himself, how can I save you?" Kong Ming said: "Wangzi Jing borrowed me 20 boats, each boat needs 30 sergeants, and the boats are covered with green cloth, and there are more than 1,000 bundles of grass each, distributed on both sides. I don't have a good use. On the third day, there were 100,000 arrows. I can't teach Gongjin to know again, if he knows, my plan will fail. Su promised, but did not understand its meaning. reported to Zhou Yu, and really did not mention the matter of borrowing the boat, but said: "Kong Ming does not use arrows, bamboo, feathers, glue paint and other things, it makes sense." Yu was suspicious and said, "Let's see how he responds to me in three days!" ”

There was a crackling sound, and Mr. Storyteller pulled me back to the present world, Mr. Storyteller picked up the teacup and took a sip, and then continued. I was already excited, when I was at a loss, I didn't expect to give me such a good hint, this storyteller is talking about the famous "grass boat borrowing arrows" in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and later generations have a poem to praise and say: "One day the fog is full of the Yangtze River, and it is difficult to distinguish the water from far and near." Showers of locusts came to the battleship, Kong Ming Fu Zhoulang today. ”

No wonder Zhuge Kongming can be called the first strategist of the Three Kingdoms, and such a clever plan will also be thought of by him, which convinces me!

For a moment, a plan to kill three birds with one stone came to my mind......

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