"The old thief Qin Hui killed Marshal Yue, Young Marshal Yue and my father. Those traitorous villains in the DPRK and China were turtles with shrunken heads when they fought one by one, but they did all the bad things with their consciences when they harmed others, and they took pity on the soldiers of the Yue family army who sacrificed their lives for the country, and their blood was shed in vain. Uncle Xu told me that if I want to learn martial arts well, avenge my father, and avenge the soldiers of the Yue family army who died, I must kill the old thief Qin Hui. Ruomei firmly remembered this sentence, so I practiced martial arts hard, that is, I wanted to one day eliminate harm for the people, avenge this sea of blood, and kill the old thief Qin Hui. It's a pity...... It's a pity that I didn't learn well, and I didn't succeed, but ended up in the fields that were searched everywhere, I am really ashamed of my father and Uncle Xu. I'm just so useless. When Zhang Ruomei said this, she couldn't help but lower her head and cry.

Fang Zi'an naturally reached over and stroked her long hair, and comforted her gently, sighing in her heart for the cruelty of fate. suffered such a tragedy at the age of eight, and after ten years of living in the deep mountains and Taoist temples, there must not be much joy in the days with hatred in my heart. Her life changed completely from the day Zhang Xian was killed. What an unfair thing to her. A girl of her age should have bloomed like a flower, but now she is a wanted criminal by the imperial court, and she blames herself for her father's failure to avenge her father.

"Miss Zhang, don't blame yourself, you have done your best. Zhang Tong will not blame you in the spirit of the sky, on the contrary, he should be very happy to see you so bold. The tiger girl of the door is worthy of Zhang's control in the spirit of the sky. You don't have to cry, the coming day is long, there are many opportunities, what is a miss? You've been waiting for ten years, do you still care about this failure? This also makes you understand that Qin Hui is not so easy to kill, otherwise everyone in the world wants to take the head of the traitor, why is he alive and well? Think about it in the long run. Fang Zi'an said in a deep voice.

Zhang Ruomei sobbed, wiped her tears with a cloth, and said to Fang Zi'an: "What Childe said is true." I'm really sorry, Ruomei lost her temper. ”

Fang Zi'an shook his head and asked in a deep voice, "Are you alone in your family?" You don't have siblings? Is your mother still there? ”

Zhang Ruomei said softly: "I still have an eldest brother who seems to be alive, and the other three elder brothers were all separated on the way to exile to avoid the pursuit of Qin Hui's minions. My mother killed herself after my father was killed. My eldest brother followed his father to fight against the Jin people in the army, I only remember that his name was Zhang Rong, he fought bravely, and others called him Zhang Diwan, which means that he can be one enemy and ten thousand. But when I was young, I saw him for a short time, and I can't remember his appearance anymore, except that he was very tall, very strong, and loved me very much. Every time I came home, he brought me candy to eat. Uncle Xu said that my eldest brother fled from the army after learning that his father was killed, and there was no news of him. Uncle Xu said that even if he is alive, he is still in the land occupied by the Jin people, and he can't go back to the Great Song Dynasty, and if he comes back, he will die. ”

Fang Zi'an nodded slightly, regretting asking her this question, for fear that it would bring back her unpleasant memories again. So he said in a deep voice: "Miss Zhang, don't be sad, I will help you with anything in the future." You can stay here for as long as you want until the day you don't want to live. Although I am not a hero, I respect heroes and want to be them. After you are loyal, I will do my best to defend you, which can be regarded as my expression of respect for them. ”

Zhang Ruomei smiled and said: "Thank you Fang Gongzi, thank you for taking me in, making me feel that I am not a lonely person, a wanderer who no one takes in." Thank you for letting me talk about these things tonight, I have never told anyone about these things, and I feel so much better to be able to say them. ”

Fang Zi'an smiled: "Don't be so polite, the family doesn't talk to each other." ”

Zhang Ruomei's face turned red, and Fang Zi'an hurriedly explained: "I mean, aren't you pretending to be my cousin?" I'm a cousin, isn't that a family? ”

Zhang Ruomei stood up and bowed down: "Cousin, from today onwards, I really recognize you as my cousin." Please also ask my cousin to bear with me. ”

Fang Zi'an was stunned for a moment, and then smiled into a flower. The two talked and talked, and gradually disappeared and became speculative, until the moon was in the middle of the sky before they went back to their rooms to rest.

……

Zhao Gongzi's work efficiency was very high, and in the afternoon of the next day, Qin Xiqing sent someone to deliver a letter, informing Fang Zi'an that the matter of visiting the prison in Dali Temple Prison had been completed, and Fang Zi'an was asked to be ready, and a carriage would be sent to pick him up in the evening.

The letter also said that Fang Zi'an was asked to visit the prison in a different capacity, not a former student of Zhou Junzheng. Of course, Fang Zi'an understood that this was for his own sake, and if he went to visit the prison as Fang Zi'an's student, it would inevitably attract the attention of Qin Hui and others, and it would affect his future. So it's a protection for yourself. Fang Zi'an thought about it for a long time, and decided to go to see Zhou Junzheng as a handyman in the academy, just sending a bowl of rice in to show the heart of the master and servant as an excuse.

Knowing that Fang Zi'an was going to visit the prison, Zhang Ruomei was a little nervous, she was really worried that this matter would implicate Fang Zi'an. She was already uneasy because of the unsuccessful assassination that caused Zhou Junzheng and others to be arrested, and if she spared another Fang Zi'an, it would definitely make her collapse. Fang Zi'an patiently explained, telling him that he had already gone the way, and that he would not show his true face or reveal his identity. Zhang Ruomei was a little relieved.

In the evening, an old man dressed in short clothes and trouser legs came out of Fang Zi'an's room, with dark skin, a rickety figure, and a wrinkled face. This startled Zhang Ruomei, who was pruning banana leaves in the yard, and was ready to fight.

"Hey, that girl, don't mess around, my old bones can't withstand your punches and kicks. Your cousin called me, don't mess around. The old man said busily.

Zhang Ruomei withdrew her hand in surprise, frowned, and said, "My cousin called you here?" I don't even know when you came in. ”

"Hehehe, I'm from the back door, I don't believe you asked your cousin." The old man said.

Zhang Ruomei was suspicious and shouted into the room: "Cousin of the Fang family, did you call this person?" ”

After shouting several times and no one answered, Zhang Ruomei was worried in her heart, and shouted in a low voice: "Who are you?" What did you do to my cousin? He's in the room. ”

"What can I do with him? Your cousin is high in martial arts and handsome, what can I do? If you call him he should not, I call him and he comes. The old man was obviously a little flamboyant, turned his head and shouted into the room: "Fang Zi'an, you come out." ”

Zhang Ruomei stared at the room and listened, no one answered in the room, and when she was about to speak, she heard Fang Zi'an's voice beside her: "It's coming, what's it called?" It's noisy. ”

Zhang Ruomei pointed at the old man in astonishment and couldn't speak, the old man straightened up, and laughed: "How?" Can I still use this disguise method? ”

Zhang Ruomei smiled in surprise, circled around the old man and said, "It's amazing, cousin, you can actually use this method, it's really amazing." I didn't even see it. ”

Fang Zi'an smiled and said in his heart: What is this means? Back then, in order to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, I even pretended to be a woman and infiltrated the borders of other countries, and the locals insisted that I marry him. As a special soldier, the means of disguise is one of the necessary skills. If it weren't for the fact that there was no suitable oil paint here, I could only use the mud and the bottom of the pot ash and white ash rouge to make it myself, and it would be more like three points.

"You can't see it, and no one else can see it. It's almost time, and the carriage should be at the mouth of the alley. I went. Fang Zi'an regained his rickety appearance and walked out the door.

Zhang Ruomei said softly: "Cousin, be careful, I'll wait for you to come back." ”

Fang Zi'an nodded, walked out of the courtyard and walked out of Xinghua Lane, and sure enough, he saw a carriage parked on the side of the road, and a coachman wearing a broken straw hat was looking around. Seeing Fang Zi'an coming out, he hurriedly jumped out of the car and walked over and whispered, "Is it Fang Gongzi?" ”

Fang Zi'an nodded. The coachman whispered, "Get in the car." ”

……

Dali Temple is located outside the Hening Gate on the north side of the Imperial Palace. This is the place where a large number of government offices are located, and the six large and small yamen of the three provinces are all gathered in the flat land carved out at the foot of Ziyang Mountain on the west side of the royal street. Unlike other government offices, Dali Temple is located at the foot of the westernmost mountain, and the single-door courtyard is not adjacent to other government offices. The reason is very simple, Dali Temple is the place where the Great Song Dynasty interrogates prisoners and detains prisoners, and the contact is with some villains who are traitors, and it is inevitable to torture and torture and interrogate, and sometimes people often die in the Dali Temple Prison, so this is a terrifying and bloody place, and it is also regarded as an ominous place, so it is necessary to isolate it from other government offices.

The location of the Dali Temple Prison is even farther away, from the Yamen of Dali Temple to the west to the halfway slope of Ziyang Mountain, a huge cave has been dug on the hillside by virtue of the direction of the mountain, the cave is divided into three layers, and is imprisoned in different levels according to the severity of the crime. The further down, the heavier the crime. At that time, the people called the Dali Temple Prison a three-layer hell, which is why it came. There is only one exit from the entire prison, and that is the entrance to the cave on the upper level. Once the big iron door at the entrance of the cave is locked, it is truly like a dark hell inside. Therefore, as long as they enter the prison of Dali Temple, no one will have the slightest chance of escaping, unless they have a way to break through the mountains and stones.

As the sun set, the carriage crossed the road between the government offices and went up the hill, and soon came to the bottom of the hill near the left side of the prison. Fang Zi'an got out of the carriage and looked around, only to see that the surrounding forests covered the sky and the sun, and although there was still some daylight outside, it was already dark and dim here. From the depths of the woods came the call of ominous strange birds, and from time to time a large number of crows fluttered among the treetops. It was the height of summer, and even in the evening, the temperature was extremely high, but standing in such a place, Fang Zi'an felt a chill on his body, as if he was in the middle of winter ice and snow.