"What the hell is going on?"

She gasped and asked, answering in the fourth brother's loud and deep voice—he coughed as he said, "This is what the eldest brother ordered me in advance, and he gave me a map of the underground water pipes of the entire Jinling City." ”

Through his narration, Xiao Gu finally understood the reason.

In the court of the earliest Yin and Zhou dynasties, there was a clear pipe buried in the ground to drain away sewage, to the Han and Wei dynasties, major cities were generally set up, at that time the first to use pottery pipes as sewer pipes, but still not popularized, even in the Sui and Tang dynasties when the national strength was strong, there were still only Chang'an and Luoyang cities in this expensive and comfortable thing.

Jinling has been a famous city for all dynasties, after being designated as the capital division by Emperor Hongwu, the officials of the Ministry of Industry also had the ambition to repair the three-layer underground waterway of the open ditch and culvert, but the astronomical amount of silver is prohibitive. In the end, the underground terracotta pipes were laid on the palace and several important streets in the inner city.

Although the fourth brother is now in the Cao Gang, his uncle was once the head of the household department, and he was responsible for raising taxes in Jiangnan, so he knew the vertical and horizontal direction of these waterways well.

"It's only these streets that have this, and if the whole city is covered with cobwebs, I won't be able to remember this elm head."

He panted and said, Xiao Gu realized that his location was actually in the roadside grass outside Pingtian Street, and he could see the yamen of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Dali Temple, and the Three Law Divisions of the Criminal Department from a distance—this is only a long street away from the Jinyi Guard Prison that he just took out.

Sure enough, faintly from the long street came the chaotic footsteps of a large group of people, and the rude shouts of soldiers made everyone's hearts sink: they are not completely out of danger!

"Without further ado, let's get in the car!"

Turning the corner, you will be greeted by a bustling crowd of pedestrians - this is the inner city, ordinary people cannot enter this place unless they hope for an auspicious day, and every inconspicuous pedestrian on the road is a scribe and petty official of the various yamen.

The fourth brother's subordinates hurriedly brought a carriage. It was filled with porcelain jars one man tall – a horse-drawn cart that delivered water at regular intervals.

In the inner city, there is a profession of delivering water, and people come to bring spring water from the mountains outside the city to various yamen and mansions one by one, twice a day in the morning and evening.

Everyone boarded the vehicle, and the pursuers of the Jinyi Guard also appeared half a street away, and even the sound of the collision of weapons in their hands could be heard!

It was dusk, and the streets were not densely populated, except for five or six cars, fast or slow, bringing up a puff of smoke.

"Stop it all!"

The sound of horses' hooves came at a gallop. It's like a thunderbolt in the sky, venting the anger of the comer!

The people on the street were immediately stunned, and when they paused, they saw that it was the Jinyi Guard, and they rushed over with a fierce look, and suddenly panicked and dodged as if they had exploded.

The Jinyi Guards under the leadership of Ji Gang often wantonly arrest officials and set off bloody storms, which is simply a ghost and nightmare in the minds of all officials and wealthy businessmen.

Some people are so frightened that their legs tremble and their bodies are paralyzed, and some people are smart enough to squat down with their heads in their hands, but there are also people who don't know whether they are weak or excited and afraid. He didn't stop, but ran forward desperately, and the originally wide and quiet street suddenly fell into chaos!

"Stop all, violators will be killed!"

The little flag that led the Jinyi guard scolded sharply, seeing that the fleeing crowd and vehicles were still deaf. I couldn't help but feel angry in my heart, and I whipped the horse and galloped away!

Everyone on the street shouted and dodged, and even the honest unlucky ones who had just squatted were trampled on, and several of them were seriously injured and kicked out of the city. Blood and screams only heightened the fear.

"Stop the cars in front of me!"

Li Sheng shouted in a hoarse voice, his whole person was panting like the horse under his crotch, and the violent and murderous aura between his eyebrows could not be concealed!

His sharp eyes were fixed on the speeding carriages ahead. I just felt that they were all very suspicious, and the anger in my chest was blazing, and I wanted to step forward and kick them into powder!

Since the establishment of Jinyiwei, it has never lost such a big face!

First of all, they were all stunned, so that the two little ladies were like no one, and almost robbed the important criminals; Next, the signing room caught fire for no reason, and a group of people rushed to fight the fire and grab the account books, but unexpectedly it was a plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, and that group of people actually joined forces inside and outside, and escaped from the underground hole!

Fortunately, there were old-timers in the Jinyi Guard, and they vaguely remembered that there was a water clay pipe down here, which led directly to the entire long street, and they hurried out, concluding that those rebels had not fled far yet—they might even be hiding in these pedestrians and carriages!

The brocade-clothed guards were all tigers and wolves, and they caught up with all the carriages in a short time, intercepted them one by one, and drove them out to search.

"It's really Sven sweeping the floor, Sven sweeping the floor!!"

A foreigner who seemed to be a member of the household department was also thrown out of the carriage, blushing and about to quarrel, but was tied up by a mouthful of hemp walnuts.

The others were silent, obediently standing aside to be searched, and the whole street gradually fell silent, but the atmosphere became hideous and solemn.

"What should I do?"

Xiao Gu and the others hid in the porcelain jar, and they were all anxious - there were only a few carriages on the street, and they would soon be completely exposed!

Sure enough, the rough-voiced Jinyi guard officer came to the car and shouted, "What are these bottles and cans? ”

Without waiting for the fourth brother to answer, his subordinates had already begun to smash up, and the large vat near the wheel was broken one by one, and the sound of porcelain pieces breaking was particularly harsh, which suddenly made Xiao Gu's heart tighten!

The porcelain jars they were hiding in were placed on the inside of the carriage, but if it went on like this, no one would be able to escape!

"Ah————h

Suddenly someone let out a miserable scream, Xiao Gu really couldn't suppress his curiosity, and peeked from the edge of the vat out of the corner of his eye, but saw that after a porcelain jar was broken, a person appeared inside, curled up and moaning in pain.

Who is this man? Could it be hidden in the porcelain jar of the same carriage?!

Xiao Gu looked at his completely unfamiliar dress and face, and frowned deeply - she only felt that there was something strange inside, behind all this chaos, there was an invisible big hand playing with the situation!

"There's someone in the tank!"

The officer of the Jinyi guard shouted, and immediately everyone gathered around.

Li Sheng was like a treasure, but the man opened his eyes and screamed, jumped off the wheel, and fled in another direction quickly!

"Catch him, live!"

Li Sheng kicked the crossbow arrow in the hand of a lieutenant and roared.

The man was running fast, but his figure looked weak, he wore a black gauze folded scarf, foundation soap boots on his feet, and was dressed in sky blue Hangzhou silk, which looked particularly vivid in the afterglow of the gradually sinking sunset!

The people of Jinyiwei strode to catch up, and the spurs of the military boots clanged, and they were about to catch up, but at this time, there was a slight commotion at the other end of Pingtian Street, and it was another team of people who appeared in front of them. (To be continued......)