Xuanyuan Ding and Zhai Ling'er, Wen Zefu and another subordinate, after the four of them separated from Zhai Ao, they went east.

In addition to this road, which had been cleared by the Baolong Army before, but now the main streets of Ningdu were lined with soldiers of the Ming clan, and they were planning to go to Zhenchuan Gate from this road.

However, halfway through, he bumped into Ming's soldiers.

It turned out that the matter of the palace had been known to Ming Heng, and this road had also been heavily armed, so this road was basically impossible to walk.

Even if these soldiers don't recognize them, if they appear on the streets of Ningdu in the early morning, they will be caught by Ming's soldiers.

They had to take a detour and take other ways to get to Zhencheonmon Gate.

Continuing eastward, after dodging the strongholds of countless Ming soldiers, they unknowingly came to the Suzaku Castle City.

There is still a detour to Zhenchuan Gate on this side of Suzaku City, but the main road also has a checkpoint, but fortunately, there are only ten people at that checkpoint. As soon as Zhai Ling'er summed it up, she planned to take action, get rid of the people, and then pass.

But what I didn't expect was that there was actually an acquired nine-fold master here!

Although Zhai Ling'er is a congenital one-fold, this acquired nine-fold master is not her opponent.

She thought that she could solve it easily, but she didn't expect that this acquired nine-fold master had a lot of self-protection methods, which caused her to fail to win it in the first place.

After that, he was never able to defeat him, but instead attracted the noise of soldiers from other places.

In order to avoid being caught, she could only give up, leave with Xuanyuan Ding and others, and continue to flee east.

At this time, the sky was already bright, and they fled all the way to Yunyan Street, and the pursuers behind them were in hot pursuit, and the soldiers on this side of Yunyan Street also reacted and rounded up heavily.

When they ran to the gate of Xu's mansion, they remembered Xu Xiang, and this was the scene of knocking on the door in front of the gate of Xu's mansion before.

Xu Xiang was very surprised when he saw Xuanyuan Ding and the others, looking at their appearance and the noisy soldiers shouting and running on the street outside the door, Xu Xiang knew that they might be hunted down.

He was not very clear about Xuanyuanding's identity, only knew that he might be a nobleman, and never thought that he was the emperor of Great Xia.

He subconsciously thought that the Yuan family of this Yuan Gongzi was very likely to be a family against the Ming family, otherwise they would not have been hunted down on the first day of the new year.

"Xu Gongzi!" Xuanyuan Ding stepped forward, "Is there a place for us to hide?" ”

Xu Xiang didn't think too much about the pros and cons, he thought for a while, "You guys should hide in my study first!" ”

There was a secret room in his study, where the official who had sold him the house before hid the silver, and he didn't pay attention to it at first, but it was later that he accidentally touched the mechanism and discovered this secret room.

It's just that this secret room is relatively small and can't accommodate four people.

Taking them to the study, he opened the secret room and said, "Yuan Gongzi, there are up to three people here, and the four of you are ......."

Wen Zefu opened his mouth and said, "It's okay, the two of us don't have to hide in it." ”

Considering that Wen Zefu and the others were not the targets of Ming's search, they naturally didn't have to hide inside.

After Xuanyuan Ding and Zhai Ling'er hid, Xu Xiang heard a quick and rough knock outside the door.

Here's the trouble!

After instructing everyone in the mansion to keep their mouths shut about Xuanyuan Ding and the others coming to the door, Xu Xiang opened the door.

As soon as the gate opened, I saw the soldiers of the Ming clan with impatient faces.

Led by a thick, black-bearded man with a scar on the left side of his face, half a head taller than Xu Xiang, looked at Xu Xiang condescendingly, and asked rudely, "Why did it take so long to open the door?" Didn't you hear the captain's call? ”

is the so-called show talent meets soldiers, and it is unclear whether it is reasonable. Xu Xiang knew this truth very well, so he said with a smile on his face: "Forgive me, this general, we just fetched water in the backyard and delayed some time in the front yard. ”

"Water in the backyard? What kind of water to take? Take the captain to see it! He was just a lieutenant, and when he was called a general by Xu Xiang, he was naturally a little refreshed in his heart, and his tone was a little relaxed.

"Okay, General, please come here." Xu Xiang made a gesture of please.

"What's your name? The captain of this school is Lu Bonian, the captain of Xuanwu of the third battalion of the Zhongshan State Chengfeng Army, not a general, you can call him a captain. ”

"Yes, yes, yes! In Xiaxu Changsha, is a businessman. I see that you are arrogant and domineering, and it is a matter of time before you become a general, I just called it in advance. Xu Xiang had a flattering expression on his face.

Lu Bonian was very happy in his heart, and said in his heart, this kid is quite good at talking. took more than a dozen people to follow Xu Xiang to the backyard, while the others continued to guard the gate.

When he came to the backyard and saw the pressurized water well shown by Xu Xiang, he showed a shocked look in his eyes, he didn't expect that there was such a way to get water.

Xu Xiang handed over a bowl of freshly pressed well water and said, "General Lu, you taste it, this water is sweet and very good!" ”

"Huh?" Looking at the bowl of water handed over by Xu Xiang, he was puzzled, not knowing if this water could be drunk.

Xu Xiang saw the doubts in his heart, so he drank it all and said, "Don't worry, general, this water is sweet." ”

After saying that, I went to pick up another bowl.

Lu Bonian didn't pick it up and said, "No need! The captain is chasing fugitives, have you ever seen a fugitive with three men and one woman? ”

"Fugitives?" Xu Xiang pretended to be surprised, showed a frightened look again, and said, "General, did you mean that there are fugitives who have escaped here?" What does it look like? Isn't it fierce? Are we in danger? ”

Looking at Xu Xiang's scared look, it didn't seem to be a fake.

However, he still had to search, these streets were heavily surrounded by their people, and they had to conduct a carpet search, so that no one could escape.

So he said: "What they look like, the captain of the school doesn't know very well, but as long as he sees them, the captain of the school will definitely be able to recognize them!" You tell everyone in the house to wait in the front yard, and the captain of the school orders someone to search it, if it is not natural, it is better, but if it is found that you are harboring fugitives, hum ......"

"General!" Xu Xiang hurriedly made an anxious look, "How dare the villain harbor the fugitives, and ask the general to quickly search my mansion and return the villain's innocence!" ”

Then he said to Xiao Fan beside him: "Xiao Fan, you go and call all the people in the mansion to the front yard, and let General Lu screen and investigate!" ”

In the front yard of the Xu Mansion, including Xu Xiang and Jiang Shenyu, as well as Wen Zefu and his entourage, there were a total of fifty-six people.

Lu Bonian instructed the soldiers to interrogate everyone's identity, and Wen Zefu and his entourage naturally had identities to hide, which did not make Lu Bonian suspicious.

"Lord Captain, I have been interrogated, and there is no suspicion." His soldiers came over and reported to him.

Lu Bonian glanced at him and said, "Take people to each room and search carefully, don't let go of any place where you can hide people!" ”

"Yes!" Dozens of soldiers began to scatter and search every room, not even the latrines.

And he himself took two soldiers and went straight to Xu Xiang's main house to search.

At this moment, Xuanyuan Ding and Zhai Ling'er were in the secret room of the study of the main mansion, and Xu Xiang hurriedly followed, leading the way for him with a flattering face.

After searching the main house, they still found nothing, and they came to the study again, still no one was found.

Xu Xiang was relieved to see that he didn't find anyone, for fear that he would find the secret room in the study.

"General Lu, look, there's nothing, isn't it?" Xu Xiang said with a smile on his face.

Lu Bonian was silent, looking at an inkstone on the bookshelf, Xu Xiang looked at the inkstone, and said badly!

That inkstone is the mechanism that opened the secret room, Xu Xiang panicked, because the mechanism had not been moved much, there was some dust on it, and when he opened the secret room just now, his palm print was printed on the dust on it.

"He's not going to find out, is he?" He was very nervous in his heart, now that the entire Ning capital was under the control of the Ming family, he directly killed the families who resisted the Ming family, and the people who harbored and opposed him ended up very miserable.

If this affects the entire Xu Mansion, what can be done?

All kinds of possibilities flashed in his mind, if he discovered the secret room, he would definitely arrest himself and the others! His hand began to move back to his waist, there were only Lu Bonian and his two soldiers here, if he wanted to catch himself, should he fight back with a gun?

But now that the outside has been heavily surrounded by Lu Bonian's soldiers, even if he jumps, none of the people in the Xu Mansion will be able to escape.

What to do?

"Xu Gongzi, is it hot? Why are you sweating? Lu Bonian's eyes turned to Xu Xiang, a pair of eyes seemed to lock him up, and said lightly.

"No, no! It's the general, your heroic spirit that makes the villain dare not look directly, so ......"

"Oh......" Lu Bonian let out a meaningful "oh". Then he looked away, and the oppressive aura weakened slightly.

But then Lu Bonian's eyes turned to the direction of the secret room, Xu Xiang's heart suddenly suddenly, he was very sure that Lu Bonian must have discovered something!

"Ahem!" Wen Zefu suddenly coughed twice, Lu Bonian looked back at Wen Zefu, and saw Wen Zefu's right hand raised slightly, making a strange gesture.

Lu Bonian was startled at first when he saw that gesture, and then the expression on his face returned to normal, and he turned to look at Xu Xiang, with a light smile on the corner of his mouth, and said, "Young Master Xu, do you know what the crime of harboring a fugitive is?" ”

"Huh?" Xu Xiang's heart was beating fast, his heart was finished, and when he asked like this, he must have found the secret room.

"King Zhongshan ordered that all the families that hindered Ningdu from resisting Beiyi and guarding Ningdu were judged to be Beiyi spies and would be punished by the Nine Clans. Those who dare to harbor Beiyi spies will punish the three clans! Lu Bonian's voice was not emotional.

Xu Xiang's heart was pounding, and he saw that Lu Bonian's eyes were always staring at the direction of the secret room.

He looked in the direction of the secret room, and was entangled, whether to resist the pressure to protect Xuanyuan Ding and Zhai Ling'er, or to betray them to protect the Xu Mansion?

"This ......"

Xuanyuan Ding and Zhai Ling'er have saved his life after all, but what about the lives of more than 50 people in the Xu Mansion now......

He was very entangled in his heart, with a guilty look on his face, and said in his heart: "Yuan Gongzi, I'm sorry......"