Hangzhou is the largest city in Zhejiang, and is the starting point of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the rice transported north in Zhejiang Province must be concentrated in Hangzhou and transported north through the canal, especially now is the time when the rice is ripe in the autumn harvest, every move is more important, so although Ah Shan is a general of Hangzhou, he does not dare to close the city gate of Hangzhou for a long time. In the evening, a large number of rice transported to Hangzhou from all over the province has been piled up outside the city, it happened that the sky that had been clear for several days gradually became gloomy, if the rice is not allowed to enter the warehouse, it is only afraid that there is a danger of being drenched by the rain and moldy, and the Cao rice that is ready to be transported north is also blocked in the city and cannot get out of the city, the Cao Yun Yamen is so anxious that he beats his chest and threatens to bear all the consequences by Ah Shan. Under all kinds of pressure, Ah Shan had to order the soldiers to open the city gate and allow the soldiers and civilians to enter and exit freely, but this also meant that the murderer had a chance to escape from Hangzhou City, which made Ah Shan very depressed for a long time.

The city gate opened, and Wang Yongyuan and Wu Mei, who were blocked outside the city, squeezed into the city with a lot of effort and time, and returned home with rice, autumn tea and silk collected from the rent - by the way, they brought a few poor tenant daughters who couldn't pay the rent and were forced to pay off their debts, Wu Mei, who loved her younger brother very much, originally wanted to give these girls to Wu Yuanming as maids, but after learning that Ah Shan led the army to search the mansion, Wu Mei immediately burst into a rage, "Ah Shan, he is so bold, who gave him the right to search my county lord's mansion?" Wang Yongyuan stumbled to the silver vault to see if his favorite gold, silver and jewelry had been taken by the Qing soldiers.

"Oh my God——!" After Wang Yongyuan entered the silver treasury, he screamed like a pig and a sheep in less than a minute, "My jade horse! My Jade Horse! My white jade horse given to Wu Rui, the king of Changsha, by Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, is gone! Don't look at Wang Yongyuan's martial arts, but his voice at the moment is even greater and farther than the sound of Chen Jinnan, the world's number one master, urging him with internal force, and even Wu Mei, who was talking to Wu Yuanming in the front hall, could hear it clearly, and Wu Mei, who was a raccoon dog with her husband, immediately turned whiter than a dead person, and said in a lost voice: "The white jade horse was stolen?" That's a treasure that my father gave me and Yongyuan, and it's priceless! ”

"Second sister, that thing was also snatched by someone else and given to my father." Wu Yuanming muttered in his heart. At this time, Wang Yongyuan had already staggered into the front hall with an empty wooden box, and cried to Wu Mei with a handful of snot and tears: "County Lord, the big thing is not good, the white jade horse that my father gave us was abducted by those stinky Qiu Ba." ”

"Are you sure it wasn't our own people who did it?" Wu Meiqiang couldn't help but ask distressedly. Wang Yongyuan cried like a woman and said: "Of course not, the person who looks at the silver vault is my cousin, except for him, only the two of us can enter our house, how can anyone else steal it?" Wu Mei said angrily: "Why don't you put such a valuable thing in our secret warehouse?" Do you want to put it in the treasury? Wang Yongyuan said aggrievedly: "County Lord, do you want me to put this in the silver vault?" Last time you took out this jade horse for valuation, and then you never opened the vault, so I put it back in the vault when I came? ”

Wu Mei thought about it carefully, last time Hangzhou came to a Yangzhou antique connoisseur, in order to estimate the value of this jade horse to take it out and ask an antique connoisseur to identify, and then because there were too many things, the jade horse was not put back in the secret vault, and Wang Yongyuan did not have the key to the secret vault at home, so he naturally had to put the jade horse into the silver vault for preservation. Thinking of this, Wu Mei couldn't help but be furious, "Okay, you Ahsan, just search my home for no reason, and even dare to steal the treasure given to me by my father, see how I clean you up." After that, Wu Mei didn't care about Wu Yuanming's younger brother being assassinated and injured, and despite the fatigue of a hard day's work, she beckoned to Wang Yongyuan and ordered: "Yongyuan, let's go to Ah Shan to settle accounts, and we must get the treasure back." ”

After Wang Yongyuan and Wu Mei, who loved money like their lives, left in a hurry, Wu Yuanming asked his nephew Queen Ying'er, who was snickering beside him: "Ying'er, my uncle told you to just take some silver tickets from the silver treasury, how did you take out such a valuable thing?" Look, what did you make your dad mad like? Wang Ying'er snickered: "Uncle, you don't know how stingy my father and mother are, that jade horse is so precious, they must be reluctant to give it to me as a dowry, I have to give me a dowry in the future to find a way." ”

"Sure enough, it's a big woman who doesn't stay, and it's sad to stay and stay, your mother probably dreamed that she would give birth to a little girl like you." Wu Yuanming had nothing to do about his niece's bad temper - in order to seduce Dai Zi with a flintlock musket at any time, Wang Ying'er secretly matched the key to the silver vault. And Wang Ying'er was very dissatisfied with Wu Yuanming's evaluation of her, and hammered Wu Yuanming twice with her pink fist, muttering: "It's not your uncle who taught me to do this, but my father and mother went to settle accounts with the black dog bear Ah Shan, will they fight?" ”

"Don't worry, with your grandfather covered, none of the civil and military officials in the imperial court dare to touch a single hair of our Wu family." Wu Yuanming replied with a smile: "But your father and mother quarreled with Ah Shan, that's for sure, Ah Shan's people can't pay back your family's jade horse, your father and mother will definitely take you back to Yunnan to complain, as long as you get to Yunnan, your uncle will say a few good words in front of your grandfather, let you and Dai Zi handle the family affairs in Yunnan, and you don't have to worry about your father and mother dislike the poor and love the rich in the future - you are not allowed to marry Dai Zi, right?" ”

"Hmph, bad uncle, all the nonsense." Wang Ying'er's face was flushed, and she snorted and said, "Who wants to marry that wooden man?" It's just that you said that it would be dangerous for my father and mother to stay in Hangzhou, and I helped you trick them back to Yunnan in order to save my father and mother from danger. ”

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As Wu Yuanming expected, Wang Yongyuan and his wife went to Ah Shan to settle the account, but they didn't get any good fruit to eat, and began Ah Shan and Yan Yue called all the Qing officers and soldiers who searched the county lord's mansion to Wang Yongyuan and his wife, and asked him face to face whether they had stolen the treasures of Wang Yongyuan and his wife, but those Qing soldiers shouted grievances one by one, and swore that they did not steal Wang Yongyuan and his wife's things. These Qing soldiers are all Ah Shan's henchmen and guards, Ah Shan still believes their words, but Wang Yongyuan and his wife are willing to believe it? Even those who cry and scold must Ah Shan hand over the precious white marble horse. Ah Shan, who had just died of his son, couldn't help but burst out of anger after repeatedly explaining that it was useless, and quarreled with Wang Yongyuan and his wife.

In the midst of the noise, Wang Yongyuan and his wife naturally did not dare to use force on the Ashan territory, but they threatened to go back to Yunnan to go to Wu Sangui to complain more than once, and asked Wu Sangui to call the shots for their husband and wife. Ah Shan was also angry, and also threw out crazy words about what Wang Yongyuan and his wife should do, but his words were tantamount to adding fuel to the fire for Wang Yongyuan and his wife, and the couple decided on the spot to go back to Yunnan the next day and go to Wu Sangui to help ask for treasures. But the matter did not end there, Wang Yongyuan and his wife were on their way to return to their home after leaving the Hangzhou General's Mansion, when they were less than two streets away from the Pingxi Wangjun Lord's Mansion, their carriage was attacked by a group of masked men in black......

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Because the place where Wang Yongyuan and his wife were attacked was not far from the county lord's mansion of Pingxi Wang, so one of the servants Wang Yongyuan brought with him quickly sent the news back to the county lord's mansion, when the news came, Wu Yuanming and Wang Ying'er were in the room to check the injuries of Liu Haozi and Hong Dashan, and heard the servants shouting that the two went out together, and after listening to the servants say that they had been attacked, Wang Ying'er was suddenly frightened and cried, and complained to Wu Yuanming again and again: "Uncle, it's all your bad idea, let my father and mother fall out with Ah Shan and force them to go back to Yunnan, Now I'm forcing Ahsan to kill my father. ”

"Shouldn't it? Ah Shan is not very popular in the imperial court, and he doesn't dare to touch our Wu family if he has the courage to do so? Could it be that I made a mistake in judgment? Wu Yuanming was shocked and suspicious, worried that he had really hurt the second sister who had a very bad reputation but was very good to himself. And the servant who ran to hold the letter urged repeatedly: "Uncle, quickly find a way to save the lord and the lady, those assassins are all extremely vicious, our people are afraid that they will not be able to stop for long, if it is too late, the lord and the lady will be in danger." ”

"There's no way, you immediately ask the housekeeper to gather all the family members and prepare weapons." Wu Yuanming quickly gave an order to the servant, and waited for the servant to leave. Wu Yuanming rushed back to the room to get his flintlock musket, and Liu Haozi and Hong Dashan, who were recuperating in the room, had already stood up from the hospital bed, and Hong Dashan said to Wu Yuanming: "Brother Wu, we will go with you to save your sister." ”

"No, you two are still wanted criminals, and you have injuries on your body, so you can't help if you go, so it's better to stay here and continue to recuperate." Wu Yuanming replied while reloading the two flintlock pistols with ammunition. At this time, Wang Ying'er also ran in and shouted, "Uncle, I'll go with you to save my mother." Wu Yuanming still shook his head and refused: "If you go, you're just doing you a favor, stay here to take care of Brother Liu and Second Brother Hong for me, don't let them go out." Saying that, Wu Yuanming had already loaded the ammunition, and after telling Wang Ying'er, Liu Haozi and Hong Dashan not to move, he left the room with two muskets.

In front of the door, more than 60 members of Wu Mei's family had already gathered at the door with swords and sticks, but because this time they were going to fight to the death instead of bullying the defenseless people, these family members were all trembling and trembling as they stood there. Wu Yuanming had no choice but to boost morale and said: "You go with me to save the lord and the lady, as long as the lord and the lady are rescued safely, each person will be rewarded with fifty taels of silver, and the injured will be doubled!" ”

"Oh!" There must be brave men under the heavy reward, and the family members of Wumei Mansion finally raised some morale. Wu Yuanming took the opportunity to wave his hand and said, "Let's go!" Get the head of an assassin and reward a hundred taels of silver! The morale of the people was higher, and the pace of running with Wu Yuanming also accelerated a lot, and it only took half a cup of tea to run to the scene where Wang Yongyuan and Wu Mei were attacked. At this moment, the scene was already chaotic, more than 20 masked black-clothed men charged towards the carriage of Wang Yongyuan and his wife, and the five or six scum of the rivers and lakes hired by Wang Yongyuan and his wife for silver looked at the face of the silver and stayed around the carriage, but the people on both sides were not very skilled in martial arts, and the fight was not fierce.

"Not the army." Wu Yuanming can also be regarded as an old bird on the battlefield, and he can see at a glance that the martial arts used by the black-clothed people are not from the army, and they don't know how to cooperate with the army to fight-this is why the scum of the second sister's family who were bought by silver can hold on until now. Seeing this, Wu Yuanming's heart immediately relaxed a lot, without saying a word, he raised the flintlock musket and pulled the trigger on a man in black, after a loud "bang", the man in black immediately fell to the ground on his back, Wu Yuanming took the opportunity to bluff: "The Hangzhou Shenji Battalion is here, the thieves surrender quickly, otherwise they will be killed!" ”

Shouting, Wu Yuanming shot again, and immediately knocked down a man in black. But something happened that made Wu Yuanming stunned - a delicate female voice came from the group of black-clothed people and shouted, "The Tartar Divine Machine Battalion is here, run!" As soon as the words fell, the group of black-clothed men lifted their companions who were injured by Wu Yuanming and turned their heads and ran, and now Wu Yuanming brought those evil slaves of the Wu Mei family, and their morale was greatly boosted, and they rushed forward like wolves with a strange scream, "Catch the assassin!" "Protect the lord, protect the lady!" "Catch the assassin, grab a hundred taels of silver!"

"Don't chase it, don't fall for the assassin's trick to divert the tiger from the mountain!" Wu Yuanming was frightened when he saw that those assassins and rookies had reached such a point, for fear that they were playing tricks on the tiger leaving the mountain and setting up another ambush, so he hurriedly commanded: "Be careful of the ambush, don't go to death in vain!" Let's protect the lord and lady when they go home! As soon as those families in Wu Mei's mansion heard that there might be an ambush, they immediately put aside the doubt that they could exchange a hundred taels of silver if they caught an assassin - after all, a small life is much more precious than silver, and as Wu Yuanming escorted Wang Yongyuan and his wife back to the Pingxi Wangjun Lord's Mansion, he closed the front door, the back door, the side door and the small door to prevent the assassin from entering the mansion again.

"Dad, mother, you're not dead, are you?" Wang Ying'er, who received the good news, ran to the carriage crying and cried, and threw herself into the arms of Wu Mei, who had just gotten out of the carriage, and Wu Mei had already been frightened by the turmoil just now, and was pressed to the ground by Wang Ying'er. ”

"Ying'er, don't cry, the assassin who came to assassinate my mother is not Ah Shan's person, but the thief of Mu Wangfu, our great enemy of Pingxi Palace." Wu Mei was born in the gunsmoke-filled Shanhaiguan, and she was far calmer than ordinary people, patting her daughter's hair and comforting softly. Wu Yuanming, who was facing the second sister next to him, was extremely guilty, and hurriedly asked, "Sister, are you really sure that those people are all thieves in Mu Wangfu?" ”

"That's right, those people claim to be Mu Tianbo's descendants, and they only came to us to settle accounts with their ancestors to avenge their ancestors." Wu Mei nodded and replied, and said to Wu Yuanming gratefully: "Brother, thank you so much tonight, if you hadn't arrived in time, my sister and your brother-in-law would have been able to escape tonight." Wang Yongyuan was also frightened and crawled out of the carriage with his hands and feet - his crotch was already wet, and he said to Wu Yuanming tremblingly: "Brother, you are right, it is too dangerous for your sister and your brother-in-law to stay in Hangzhou City without the protection of their father, there are too many enemies of our Wu family, we will return to Yunnan in a few days, no, tomorrow, we can't lose our lives in Hangzhou for silver." ”

"Strange? According to the distance calculation, although the Mu Shenbao brothers and sisters who left Luoma Lake with Liu Haozi and them can now rush to Hangzhou, they can have their temper and faith, how can they go to the mausoleum of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang on September 18 to kowtow, so why don't they go to Jiangning and come to Hangzhou? After careful consideration, Wu Yuanming found that Yu Li couldn't make sense, so he asked Wu Mei again: "Sister, are you really sure that those assassins are the thieves of Mu Wangfu?" Could it be that Ahsan sent someone to pretend to be and wanted to blame King Mu's mansion afterwards? ”

"Uncle, those people are definitely the thieves of Mu Wangfu." A scum of the rivers and lakes sheltered by Wu Mei's house next to him interjected: "I used to see the thieves of Mu Wangfu when I was fighting and robbing in Jiangxi, and the martial arts they used were exactly the same as these assassins tonight, I heard that the martial arts of Mu Wangfu came from the 'iron-backed dragon' Liu Dahong all the way, and it was impossible to use such martial arts in the imperial army, so it should not be wrong." And...... And....... ”

"And what?" Wu Yuanming refused to let go of any clues, and hurriedly asked. The scum of the rivers and lakes twisted for a long time before he blushed and said: "And those assassins should be half-old children, most of them are fourteen or fifteen years old, and their martial arts are not very high, so it is even more unlikely that they are from the army." ”

"It's on par with a bunch of half-grown kids, and you're really enough of a waste." Wu Yuan understood the scum of the rivers and lakes at a glance, carefully recalled the scene just now, and found that those assassins were generally not tall, not like the height of adults, and the female voice that ordered the assassins to retreat was also very immature, and the voice should be about the same as Wang Ying'er, who was only sixteen years old, and should also be sixteen or ten years old. Thinking of this, Wu Yuanming suddenly remembered what Mu Meng had said to him before, slapped his thigh and said, "Not bad!" These assassins are indeed the thieves of Mu Wangfu, but they should be the third generation of disciples of Mu Wangfu, so they are not very old! ”

When they were in Luoma Lake, Mu Meng and Wu Yuanming had revealed some information about Mu Wangfu during their chats, and since the death of the Ming Dynasty, the first generation of Mu Wangfu is the group of Mu Tianbo who died in Myanmar, and Liu Dahong is the only one left in the first generation; The second generation is Mu Shenbao, Liu Tianyou, Bai Hansong and Mu Meng, these people are in the year of fighting, and they are the current core strength of Mu Wangfu; The third generation is the descendants of the martyrs of Mu Wangfu who are not yet 16 years old, and these half-grown children are usually raised and trained by Liu Dahong and other old people, and do not participate in Mu Wangfu's actions in Beijing, Hejian Mansion and Luoma Lake. Combined with the analysis of various situations, Wu Yuanming immediately concluded that the person who attacked the second sister and his wife was a third-generation member of Mu Wangfu, so not only was his martial arts not high, but he also seriously lacked combat experience, so he was easily scared away.

"The third generation of the anti-thieves in Muwangfu is so powerful, if their second generation comes, how can we resist it?" After Wu Yuanming told his sister's family what he knew, Wang Yongyuan and Wu Mei's faces turned blue, and they said together in horror: "Brother, you are right, our Wu family's enemies are all over the world, open guns are easy to dodge, and hidden arrows are difficult to prevent, we can't live in Hangzhou for a long time, let's clean up and go back to Yunnan, Hangzhou must not stay." ”

"It's okay, taking advantage of the fact that their second-generation disciples have not yet arrived in Hangzhou, sister, you should hurry back to Yunnan, so that my father and I will not worry about you." Wu Yuanming nodded, and he didn't want this second sister, who was very good to him, to suffer misfortune in the field. After casually discussing the details of leaving Hangzhou, Wu Yuanming, who was injured, finally couldn't resist the exhaustion, and said goodbye to the second sister's family and went back to the room to rest. My brother-in-law is going to be a big bankrupt now. ”

"Brother-in-law, sister, I'm also for your good, you have to escort them when you go back to Yunnan, and they are willing to work hard when you reward them." Wu Yuanming finished smiling, yawned and went back to his room to rest. Leaving the iron rooster Wang Yongyuan and his wife wailing in the room, "My silver——! ”

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Wu Yuanming, who was tired and injured all night, slept until three o'clock in the morning before getting up, and Wang Yongyuan, who was greedy for life and afraid of death, was already beckoning the servants of the family to pack up the gold and silver, and prepared to load the car and leave Hangzhou the next day, at the same time, Wu Lu and Zhu Fangdan also came back from Dai Zi's house outside the city, telling Wu Yuanming that Dai Zi's brothers and sisters had persuaded their mother to move to Yunnan, and they were already packing their family's luggage, and they could leave with Wang Yongyuan and his wife at any time. The evacuation of Hangzhou went so smoothly, Wu Yuanming was very happy in his heart, and suggested that Wu Mei hire a dart bureau to protect them back to Yunnan. Wu Yuanming then asked the servant to bring a lot of wine and food, and brought them back to his room to share with Liu Haozi and Hong Dashan who were hiding in the room.

The wine and food moved into the room, drove out all the servants and closed the door, Zhu Fangdan had already changed the medicine and redressed the wounds of Liu Haozi and Hong Dashan in the back room, when he learned that Liu Haozi's injuries would not affect his future martial arts, Wu Yuanming became more and more happy, and hurriedly greeted: "Brother Liu, Second Brother Hong, come and eat, you must be hungry, right?" In the face of Wu Yuanming's warm invitation, Liu Haozi sat down at the table without saying a word and ate meat and drank wine, while Hong Dashan politely thanked Wu Yuanming: "Brother Wu, thank you so much for taking care of you." ”

"You're welcome? Sit down and eat. Wu Yuanming affectionately let Hong Dashan to his seat, and called Zhu Fangdan and Wu Lu to eat together, the five people in the room are all rough people, and they are naturally gobbling up when they eat, and after they are full of wine and food, Wu Yuanming asked Hong Dashan: "Second Brother Hong, why did you and Brother Liu come to Hangzhou?" Where are you going? ”

"We are going to go to Taiwan to join President Chen, there is no entanglement on the way, and we originally wanted to do a business with no capital, but considering that if we do this, we will definitely be looked down upon by the heroes of the Heaven and Earth Society, so we are selling on the street and preparing to get together some entanglements to go to sea." Hong Dashan replied honestly. Wu Yuanming originally wanted to ask about Hong Dashan's wife and children, but considering that since Hong Dashan could go to Taiwan without worry, his wife and children were only afraid that they would be more than lucky in the battle that night, so he changed his words and said: "If you think that you can find President Chen by going to Taiwan, then you are wrong, President Chen should not be in Taiwan now, and you will go in vain." ”

"Then where is Chief Helmsman Chen now?" Liu Haozi finally said a word to Wu Yuanming without dirty words, Wu Yuanming first introduced the situation of his meeting with Chen Jinnan in Yangzhou, and then said: "Today is August 30, and in ten days it will be the birthday of my Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang. ”

"It makes sense, if we were the helmsman of Mr. Chen, we would definitely go to the Ming Tomb to pay respects and kowtow." Liu Haozi and Hong Dashan nodded together, agreeing with Wu Yuanming's analysis. Wu Yuanming said again: "Brother Liu, Second Brother Hong, I will leave for Jiangning tomorrow, and I am also going to kowtow in front of the Ming Tomb, how about we walk together?" ”

"The little traitor also has the face to kowtow in front of the mausoleum of my Ming Taizu?" Liu Haozi sneered. Wu Lu next to him was furious and shouted, "What did you say? Zhu Fangdan shook his head resolutely and said, "Wu Gongzi is not a traitor, I can see it." Hong Dashan also went to pull Liu Haozi and persuaded: "Brother Liu, from Luoma Lake to the present, you have also seen with your own eyes what Brother Wu has done, if he is a traitor, then I am afraid there will be no Ming loyal minister in the world." ”

"Then why is he a subordinate of the big traitor Wu Sangui? What is not a little traitor? Liu Haozi continued to sneer. Hong Dashan, Wu Lu and Zhu Fangdan were speechless, and Hong Dashan came up with a reason for a long time, explaining: "Maybe Brother Wu is in Cao Ying's heart in Han, otherwise he wouldn't be so incompatible with Tartar." But Liu Haozi immediately said: "If he wants to prove that he is not a traitor, then he will go and cut off the head of the big traitor Wu Sangui, so that I can believe that he is in Cao Ying's heart in Han." ”

"You say, can you kill Wu Sangui?" Liu Haozi pointed at Wu Yuanming's nose and asked. Wu Yuanming smiled bitterly and shook his head weakly. Liu Haozi sneered even more, "Sure enough, it's still a little traitor." ”

At this point, the atmosphere in the room, which had been quite lively just now, immediately became as if it had solidified, and it became extremely heavy. But at this moment, Wu Yuanming's second sister Wu Mei's joyful voice sounded outside the room, "Brother, brother, come out quickly, sister has good news for you." Wu Yuanming, who was worried about how to persuade Liu Haozi, the donkey, had a headache, replied angrily: "What's a good thing? ”

"Sister just bought you a beautiful maid, more beautiful than your girl in the middle of the house, you kid took a big advantage." As soon as Wu Mei's words fell, Zhu Fangdan immediately pushed open the door like a tiger going down the mountain and rushed out - the action was so fast that Chen Jinnan would be amazed by his light skills. Frightened, Wu Yuanming hurriedly jumped out of the door and closed the door of the room, so as not to be seen by Wu Mei Liu Haozi and others. And Zhu Fangdan's strange scream then came to Wu Yuanming's ears, "What a beautiful girl!" This girl, seeing that your face seems to have a hidden disease, she is a little familiar with medical skills - known as a miracle doctor, please let you diagnose your pulse. ”