On the evening of 14 February, righteous men from all over the country entered Rong County one after another.

Rong County, all of a sudden, there are so many more people in the rivers and lakes, and it will also attract the attention of most people.

Especially a master like Yuan Shen, after he had just secretly arrested a person who took the lead in making trouble with Li Yanzhi, he saw people who entered Rong County with weapons one after another.

With his keen insight, he can naturally see that these are Jianghu people with martial arts.

At that moment, he followed one of them into a restaurant.

Yuan Shen has been following Master Xiao Ming for so many years, and he is only active in the north all the year round, and he rarely comes to the south, so he doesn't know much about the Jianghu people in the south, and among the people who followed, he only knew the first person named Tao Lin.

This Tao Lin is a native of Shunzhou Mansion, he once did a head hunt in the Shunzhou Mansion, and was ordered by the government to encircle and suppress the grass in Dongshan, but according to unknown reasons, after the government failed to encircle and suppress several times, he suspected that he had an affair with the Penghu grass robber, and was dismissed.

Later, a big boss in Penghu Eighteen Villages invited him to join the gang, but he politely declined.

Of course, the people in the rivers and lakes on this side of the south have rarely seen him, but when the Snow God Sect destroyed the Eighteen Villages of Penghu, it did not affect his reputation to spread here.

After Yuan Shen followed the group to the restaurant, he sat on a table next to the group, asked for a pot of wine, and poured it alone.

Following this group of people all the way, he finally knew that these people had gathered in Rong County to 'kill thieves'.

Now there are a lot of people in the rivers and lakes who have entered Rong County, some of them are single-handed, and some are in groups, so this group of people doesn't care much about him.

"Tao Zhuangshi is righteous and Boyun, and he issued a 'thief killing order' in Jiangnan, and after I received the 'thief killing order', I rushed to it non-stop."

"This is a good time for us to be famous, if we can kill this thief, it can be regarded as truly relieving the hundreds of thousands of unjust souls in Liangzhou."

"Brother Ren, don't be too full of words, isn't Tao Zhuangshi anymore, this thief is afraid that his martial arts are extraordinary, and he can kill He Sinan, the overlord of Qingzhou, that strength is not something you and I can compare."

"Hmph, no matter how high his martial arts are, there are so many of us, are we afraid that we won't be able to kill him alone?"

"Yes, I think even the Demon Sect Leader Xiao Ming, Meng Cheng and other figures, under so many sieges from us, it will be difficult to retreat! No matter how high his martial arts are, he can still be higher than these two, so why be afraid of him. ”

"You don't have to argue, Tao Zhuangshi knows better than us, let's let him first!"

After everyone finished, they looked at Tao Lin, who had not yet spoken.

Tao Lin smiled and toasted a glass of wine to the people present, and said with a bold smile: "We have a lot of strength, everyone's opinions are good, everyone gathered here to discuss how to kill thieves, so if you have suggestions, you can put them forward, and then everyone will discuss them together." ”

"Tao Zhuangshi, since you issued a thief killing order, then you must already know a lot about this Zhang Mingheng's situation, let's listen to your opinion first!"

Tao Lin arched his hand and said: "Don't hide it from you, there is a friend here, and he also told me that this Zhang Mingheng is in the cluster, and now the imperial court is collecting grain, this Zhang Mingheng is the grain envoy of the Pingzhou government, and he came to Rong County for the grain collection affairs of Rong County, and now I only know that he lives in the county government, and the people of Rong County are stiff because of the grain collection and the county government, and he is also having a headache now!" ”

"Oh, then I don't know where this friend is Tao Zhuangshi? Please ask him to come out of the situation. ”

Tao Lin said with a smile: "This friend of Tao's institute, everyone may have heard of it, he is Xiangzhou Silver Spear Yue Changzhong. ”

"It turned out to be him." One of them laughed.

"I didn't expect it to be this Yue Zhuangshi, after the Xiangzhou loyal and brave general Miao Yanzhang died in the battle in Liangzhou, he left a pair of lonely wives and children no one cared about, it was Yue Zhuangshi who knocked on the Xiangzhou Mansion and avenged the grievances of the lonely wives and children, and finally passed to the Bianjing Imperial Court, Miao Yanzhang was also posthumously awarded the title of Loyal and Brave General by the imperial court, and the wives and children were finally treated well by the imperial court. ”

"Yue Zhuangshi is strong in martial arts, if he is here, this Zhang Mingheng will definitely be unable to escape."

"Yes, with Yue Zhuangshi here, the opportunity for us to kill the thief is even more foolproof."

"I don't know where this strong man Yue is now? Could you please introduce Brother Tao? ”

Looking at the people who were discussing and smiling, Tao Lin said with a smile: "Brother Yue also wanted to come to meet you today, but I have something important to do temporarily, so I can't come today, tomorrow, tomorrow I will bring him to introduce you to you, just to discuss the plan to kill the thief together." ”

"Well... Come, drink..."

It was at this time that a scruffy man with a beard and a red tassel gun on his shoulder came up from the staircase.

The man was a burly man, and he attracted a lot of attention when he walked up.

But looking at his appearance, everyone can also see that he is a Jianghu person.

It's just that no one knows him, so no one greets him.

The man ignored everyone present, and walked to the empty table next to Yuan Shen and sat down with an expressionless face.

Yuan Shen, who was pouring himself a drink, glanced at the man slightly, and frowned slightly.

To a first-class master of his level, through breathing, pace, etc., he can roughly perceive the strength of every Jianghu Rao.

This man carrying a red tassel gun is more dangerous to him than all the people in the rivers and lakes on the second floor of this restaurant combined.

This person is full of anger, and his expression is not revealed, which is somewhat similar to him.

However, Yuan Shen showed a sense of domineering because he had killed countless people, and he also had the arrogance of his own superior strength, just like a lion, and this burly man was more like a vicious wolf hiding in the shadows.

At first glance, he is a ruthless character who has been dying all year round.

Yuan Shen tried hard to find a memory of this man, but after thinking about it, he didn't know who this person was.

……

Early in the morning, the slave carefully dressed Zhang Xiang.

Since Zhang Xiang came to Nanchu, the first person he saw when he woke up was a slave, and during his initial recovery period, he was always a slave to take care of him, yes, for Zhang Xiang, in addition to the size, she almost knew more clearly than Zhao Hanyan.

The girl dressed Zhang Xiang, and after comparing back and forth, she was satisfied with a bowl of porridge and handed it to Zhang Xiang: "Oh... Horse, you were busy all night yesterday, and you didn't eat much, this is the slave maid boiled for you early in the morning, you can warm your stomach, but this Rong County is not as good as the horse house, there are a lot of delicious things that can't be made, so you can only eat these first. ”

Zhang Xiang said with a smile: "When you go out, Tsing Yi vegetarian is good, we have been here for so long, haven't we always eaten like this!" ”

"But the slave maid found that the concubine had lost a lot of weight recently, and the princess knew about it, so he had to punish the slave and maid." The girl stuck out her tongue.

Zhang Xiang smiled and said: "Then before I go back to Pingzhou, I ate myself fat, and the princess won't find out." ”

"Pony, how can you have it, you can get fat if you want to."

"Then every time you give me more food, if I don't eat, you force me to eat."

"If the horse doesn't eat, the slave can't help it!"

"Then you will be angry, I will be with you, I'm the person, I'm most afraid that girls will be angry."

"Gurgle... The slave and the maid will not be angry with the horse! ”

Looking at her serious appearance, Zhang Xiang laughed.

During these days in Rong County, in addition to the grain requisition, the only fun is to talk to this girl and tease her.

In this tense life, this rare dull and quiet time can be regarded as the only pleasure to relieve boredom.

After a while, Li Yanzhi came to look for him and talked to him, and then Zhang Xiang went out with him.

When the two came out, they also met Xu Songwen and Peng Shuhuai.

Xu Songwen said to him, Liyang County, where Yan Tongju is located, has also seen people make trouble in recent days, and many people have no food in their homes, he learned that the horse has been in Rong County, and the situation of the people in Rong County has temporarily calmed down, so he sent someone to send a letter, wanting to know how the people's anger in Rong County has calmed down.

In fact, Xu Songwen and Peng Shuhuai also felt strange about this matter.

After Zhang Xiang came to Rong County, there was basically no action, except for going to the streets, and then going back to the county courtyard to work, and rarely told them to do anything, just let them continue to open warehouses to collect grain, and collect as much as they could, even if they received one or two loads, it was progress.

However, just because of this, in the past few days, there have been fewer and fewer people reporting to Rong County for trouble, and no people at the gate of the county government have come to gather to make trouble.

Although Xu Songwen and Peng Shuhuai didn't know what was going on, they could guess that it was the horse's means, but they didn't dare to ask.

Yesterday, Xu Songwen received the news sent by Yan Tongju in Liyang County, and he dared to ask this question today.

After listening to him, Zhang Xiang just smiled: "You reply to Yan Tong's sentence, let him close the gate of the county government first, don't do anything, don't arrest people, don't conflict with the people, this Rong County, Liyang County, Yuan County, Ning County and Hexian County should all be the same means used by someone who deliberately colluded and used in one go, but Rong County happened relatively early here, and now those counties have just started to act, as long as the matter here calms down, knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger, the people in those counties will also be honest." ”

"But, colt, do nothing? How to calm down? Peng Shuhuai was puzzled.

Zhang Xiang said: "Just do what I do, you continue to guard the granary, continue to send people to the door to visit the people to give food, it doesn't matter if there is food or not, this is an attitude of our grain collection, go through a process, let the people understand that we will not give up and leave if we can't receive food." ”

"But how can the people harvest if they don't have food?" Xu Songwen continued to ask.

Zhang Xiang's face turned cold and glanced at him.

Xu Songwen hurriedly avoided his gaze.

Zhang Xiang said slowly: "You just do it." ”

ended, Zhang Xiang took Li Yanzhi out of the county office.

Peng Shuhuai also bowed his hand to Xu Songwen: "Then Lord Xu, the lower officials will go down first." ”

Xu Songwen nodded, and after Peng Shuhuai left, his gaze became a little confused, puzzled, and slightly panicked.

Zhang Xiang and Li Yanzhi went out to get into the carriage and drove away.

Not far away, Yue Changzhong, who was sitting in a teahouse, saw him go out, so he also put down a penny and followed his direction.

Since these days, Yue Changzhong has come here every time to stare at Zhang Xiang.

After blocking him from the people of Narong County, Yue Changzhong wanted to know how this Zhang Xiang would seek justice for the people of Rong County.

So from then on, he would secretly follow Zhang Xiang, he didn't tell his friends Han Guangyi and Zhang Zhao, nor did he tell Tao Lin, he knew that these three people didn't like the imperial government, Han Guangyi and Zhang Zhao had been bullied by the government, and Tao Lin was dismissed as the head catcher of the Shunzhou Mansion, and he didn't have a good impression of the government, and telling them would only make them scold the government for being hypocritical.

But Yue Changzhong doesn't think so, he still hopes that the court has people who can really do things for the people, if not, then the little hope in his heart will be dashed, he is determined to serve the court in the army, for the people to seek a peaceful and prosperous world, if the court and the government are such a group of people, then he doesn't know what the meaning of his army is?

Therefore, he very much hopes that this Zhang Mingheng is a good person.

If not, even if he dies, he will not hesitate to kill him.

Yue Changzhong martial arts, since the practice of family guns, at the age of eighteen years has been called the silver gun general by the Xiangzhou people, these years to break through the rivers and lakes, hoe the strong to help the weak, but also for themselves to fight for a good reputation, by the rivers and lakes called Xiangzhou silver gun, its martial arts have already entered a quasi-popular particle

Tracking Zhang Xiang's carriage on foot all the way, he did not fall into the disadvantage at all.

Gradually, Zhang Xiang's carriage drove to the remote area of Rong County, this area is the old housing area of Rong County, most of the houses have long been damaged, no one lives here, here at night, it is basically gloomy, it is rumored that there have been haunted here, so Rong County people rarely come here.

After a while, Zhang Xiang's carriage passed through an alley and stopped in front of a half-collapsed house.

After Li Yan knocked on the door, the door opened, and Zhang Xiang walked in.

There was a lot of humidity in it, and there was a rancid smell in the air, and Zhang Xiang, who walked in, couldn't help but cover his nose.

Most of the dead babies in Li Yanzhirong County were abandoned here, so over time, there would be these rancid smells here.

Soon, in front of a spacious room, Zhang Xiang saw thirteen people hanging here, as well as the two guards guarding them.

After seeing Zhang Xiang, the two guards hurriedly greeted him.

Zhang Xiang nodded, and then observed these thirteen people, these thirteen people were the people who Li Yanzhi had secretly arrested recently and led the trouble.

At this time, these people were covered in bruises, and they were basically dying.

Zhang Xiang frowned and asked, "Didn't I start with a light?" ”

Li Yanzhi hurriedly said: "Back to the horse, these people are not honest if they don't fight, they made a lot of noise when they were first arrested, and they were honest after this beating." ”

"You're not hungry, are you?"

"No, I'll give them something to eat."

Zhang Xiang nodded, then motioned for a guard to walk in front of the nearest one, raised his chin, and asked lightly, "Do you know why you were arrested?" ”

This person seemed to have been scared these days, and looked at Zhang Xiang's eyes with a slight sense of fear, and shook his head.

Zhang Xiang said: "It doesn't matter if you don't understand, every day like this will continue, don't worry, I'm a reasonable person, if you don't take the initiative, I won't force you to ask, until there is one, until you want to." ”

"My lord, we really don't know, I beg your lord to let us go!"

"yes, we don't know anything!"

"My lord, I have been wronged..."