Zhu Tingfang called Lao Xi's guard, a middle-aged man in his early forties, with a thin figure, his appearance is not good, and even his hair is a little gray. If you put it on the street, most people will think that this is an ordinary person with a poor family. However, if someone sees him smiling and delicate, they will never think so.

However, at this time, Lao Xi put away the signboard smile that he had shown when he met people a few days ago, and stood beside Zhu Tingfang, his face full of solemnity. He and Zhu Tingfang were standing in a dark alley at this time, and a low house was faintly revealed at the end.

It is one of the areas where Cangzhou City laborers gather, but there are also many unemployed and unemployed people who live by crooked ways and live here.

However, Zhu Tingfang, who was standing in it, did not have the slightest difference. He knew that there were two of his own guards watching on the other side of the alley, and even if someone wanted to take a shortcut to get here, they would have to take a detour because of the two "drunks" who were fighting. At this moment, he narrowed his eyes and said thoughtfully: "It's only been a few days since we arrived in Cangzhou, and you have done a good job." ”

"Childe praised it, in fact, many things are also coincidences...... So I whispered a letter to you, but I'm still not sure. After all, the time is too tight, and although the clues all point there, I am only seventy percent sure at best. ”

Lao Xi has been swaying freely between the three sects and nine streams in Cangzhou in the past few days, and at this moment he has all lost his mind, not only a little cramped, but also a little unspeakable: "Even if this is really the hiding place of the guy who claims to be the staff of the Great Prince, he will directly dispatch the third class of the county government...... No, wouldn't it be better to just send out the Sharp Cavalry Battalion to capture him? ”

Seeing that Zhu Tingfang was noncommittal, he hurriedly suggested: "At least, wait for the others to come over to meet, and it's not too late to go over." ”

"No need." Zhu Tingfang smiled and said, "I'm here, if I don't go to meet this guy who hides his head and tail, isn't he going for nothing?" Moreover, it was also in vain that people transferred the tiger away from the mountain and made trouble for the county government. Tell the two of them to guard the back door over there to prevent people from escaping. With you with me, that's enough! ”

Seeing that Lao Xi's face was full of disapproval, but he didn't dare to persuade him again, and after saluting, he hurriedly went there to call someone, Zhu Tingfang touched the saber on his waist, and the ease on his face was gone. When Lao Xi went and returned, he took the lead and walked forward.

When the two of them walked out of this dark alley one after the other, they saw that the road in front of them had completely lost any horizontal and vertical appearance, and it was twisted to the extreme, as if they were just barely leaving a path for people to walk when building a house everywhere.

There are all kinds of foul-smelling garbage on the roadside, and I don't know how long it will take to clean it up. The low-rise houses were either made of wooden planks or scrap bricks and stones, and there were many low thatched huts. Some of them have rotted away, as if a gust of wind could blow them down.

It's afternoon now, but there are not many people around, there are no prime of life, only a few old and weak - Zhu Tingfang knows that just like on the grassland, the prime of life is a warrior, and the old and weak are doing odd jobs. In the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, it seems to be peaceful and rich, but the real bottom is still so cruel.

Lao Xi's pointing voice came from behind, and Zhu Tingfang looked at a seemingly ordinary wooden house on the side of the road. The only thing that stood out was that among the few clothes drying on the clothes pole at the door, there was a long gown that was rarely seen in this area.

"It's because someone has seen a similar blue or cyan robe appear here a few times, so they keep it in mind, and after I pinched Luo Laosan, the beggar leader of Dongcheng, behind my back, I heard about it, so I asked him to send someone to keep an eye on it. It is said that a laborer came to a relative, and he was a poor talent who tried and failed. There were several people who came in and out last night. When I heard the news, I rushed to see it, saw the opportunity to knock one of them unconscious, and asked them to make a big trouble in the county office, so I urgently sent a letter to you, the eldest prince, but ......"

"No need to persuade me, I've made up my mind."

Zhu Tingfang raised his hand and told Lao Xi not to explain, but his eyes swept around a few times, and then he strode forward. He didn't wear any splendid clothes today, but as the eldest son of the Duke of Zhao's mansion, General Mingwei, who was in charge of Cangzhou affairs this time, the worst of the clothes he brought was this set of muslin clothes that were easy to move, and he was incompatible with others when he walked here.

What's more, Zhu Tingfang wore a sword on his left waist, a quiver on his right waist, and a bow on his back. The two of them are one after the other, and everyone will think that they are asking for debts and finding faults...... Or revenge-seeking!

When a woman who was still outside beating her dirty clothes with a wooden stick, she realized that something was wrong, and she didn't even want her clothes, so she hurriedly avoided it. And the two older boys who were chopping firewood also hurriedly returned home with firewood, and after a while, there was no other figure around.

Zhu Tingfang walked straight to the wooden house without squinting, but stretched out his hand to stop Lao Xi, who was about to shout, and shouted in a deep voice: "Come out of the house, if you don't see anyone within three breaths, then don't blame me for being ruthless." ”

Seeing that no one agreed, Zhu Tingfang stretched out his hand to untie the bow and arrow on his back, and took out an arrow from the quiver he was wearing, and waited for Lao Xi on the side to hurriedly light the velvet with flint, and then brought the velvet up, he said unhurriedly: "Since I am reluctant to come out, then I have to use a special rocket fire to attack!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, an angry roar came from the wooden house opposite.

"Zhu Tingfang, you dare! If you have read the books of the sages, are you not afraid that your arrow will burn down the houses where countless people depend for their survival and leave them homeless? ”

"Even if I did burn down these improvised wooden huts, I could build them a better house."

Zhu Tingfang's tone was flat, as if he was just talking about an insignificant matter.

The people inside are hiding here in the name of the eldest prince, if it is true, in order to capture the damage caused by this troublemaker, the eldest prince should naturally come up with money to make up for the losses of the people here. And if it is fake, after all, it is the eldest prince who has brought so much trouble to the people of Cangzhou, of course, he should also come up with money to help these unlucky poor people.

Therefore, Zhu Tingfang took a breath lightly, and then said unhurriedly: "I count to three, if you don't show up again......"

Although Lao Xi on the side had just lit the velvet himself, the whole person was tense at this moment. In his opinion, Zhu Tingfang is not an unscrupulous person to achieve his goal at all, regardless of whether there are people in the surrounding houses, and no matter how much property damage will be caused, he insists on setting fire to force people out, this is simply not impulsive, but reckless!

Isn't it all the prisoners who are about to be arrested who do not hesitate to set fire to disrupt their vision in order to escape, and then take the opportunity to escape? Why is it that now it is reversed, it is the arresters who threaten to set fire? Wait, it's ......

Lao Xi's hand shook, and the lit velvet almost ignited the arrow, and when he saw Zhu Tingfang, he just glanced at him, and did not reproach, but began to count slowly and leisurely, he knew that Zhu Tingfang might be afraid that someone would set fire to the house first, so he came to this trick. Sure enough, the next moment, he heard an angry voice.

"Zhu Tingfang, hello...... You think you've won, don't you? ”

Hearing a loud bang, the side of the wooden house facing them collapsed violently, followed by a middle-aged young shirt scribe, and more than a dozen men in strong suits with sharp blades, however, compared to the scene that the other party had obviously prepared, Lao Xi was most frightened that there were two strong men in the middle of the two crossbows!

"Zhu Tingfang, do you think I'm really afraid of you? Hey, hey, do you think your overly clever subordinates have found out about me? I took the initiative to expose the flaws for him to discover! Using the warehouse to set fire to the tiger and divert the tiger from the mountain to lure you out of the county government is just the first plan, let those foolish people go to besiege the county government to ask for justice, that is only the second plan, as for the third plan......"

The green-shirted scribe laughed fiercely, "The third plan is to trick you, a conceited fellow, into throwing himself into the net!" Most of your people have gone to the warehouse to check, and there are only a few people around you at most! You're killing yourself! ”

Zhu Tingfang's left hand holding the bow did not even tremble in the slightest, and his right hand was still on the bowstring, and the arrow between his fingers was also firmly there. He didn't seem to see Lao Xi's cold sweat and nervous expression on the side, and said slowly: "My sister once told me the story of the gang of traitors from the Linhai camp when she was in Rongshui Village. ”

"That commander named Ding Hai is also the same as you at the moment, just thinking about playing cat and mouse with a few wealthy children who have no power to resist, and he sulked in his heart, but he talked too much, and was seized by my sister and future brother-in-law to turn the tables."

When he said this, when he saw that the middle-aged green-shirted scribe had an extremely ugly face, he laughed and said: "I have been planning for so long, which led me to fall into your trap, if you don't say it, show off, it's like walking at night in brocade, it's really not unpleasant, right?" ”

"Zhu Tingfang! Don't get carried away, now you're in my hands......"

Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Zhu Tingfang with a smile: "Hehe, my future brother-in-law once said a word to Ding Hai when he caught him. As a villain, you should be conscious and be a man of action, otherwise, the villain will definitely die of talking too much! ”

As soon as the words fell, he suddenly bent his bow like a full moon, ignoring the velvet in Lao Xi's hand, and suddenly shot the arrow. And at the moment when the arrow was off the string, he grabbed Lao Xi with one hand and jumped to the side.

Almost instantly, two crossbow arrows passed through where he and Lao Xi had just stood. Lao Xi, who landed on his feet, almost broke out in a cold sweat. Even on the battlefield, he did not face the danger of life and death, and there were more than one such a narrow scene, but there were always other robes around him at that time.

Unlike at this time, there was only one Zhu Tingfang, and the other two guys didn't know where to go, and they didn't know how to come out to support at such a critical juncture......

The next moment, he suddenly thought of the arrow shot by Zhu Tingfang, and hurriedly raised his eyes, only to see that the middle-aged scribe in the green shirt just now was squatting on the ground covering his right shoulder, and his voice was already deformed: "Your arrow...... Isn't this arrow a rocket? ”

"I'm sorry, I'm not a rocket at all, some flint velvet, it's just a show to bluff you." Zhu Tingfang saw Lao Xi looking at him with a stunned face, so he bowed his head slightly and said, "You can deceive your own people before you can deceive the enemy." ”

The middle-aged scribe in the green shirt was already so angry that his face turned blue, and he roared angrily: "Hurry up...... Kill him, kill him! ”

Seeing that those men in strong suits left two of them to take care of the injured middle-aged scribes, the others were rushing towards them, and the two with crossbows were trying to wind up again, Zhu Tingfang saw that Lao Xi had already taken out his sword to protect him. When he heard someone shouting the sentence "Childe, you go first", a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"I'm not going anywhere! It's not just people who set traps in this world, and I will do ...... Where is Commander Du? ”

With this loud shout, Zhu Tingfang put Lao Xi aside, shot three arrows in a row, and then threw the bow and arrow in his hand to Lao Xi, not retreating, but advancing, he actually drew his sword and directly killed the group of men in strong suits, and Yu Er was blood splashed. Lao Xi was only stunned for a moment, and hurriedly dropped his bow and went up to help, but he didn't understand the meaning of the words Commander Du.

But the next moment, he heard a stiff voice: "Zhu Tingfang, I know your Uncle Lang!" ”

Du Heng was indeed angry to death. When Zhu Yi came to deliver a letter to him, his first reaction was that Zhu Tingfang had found him a big trouble! However, Zhu Tingfang made it clear in the message that if he didn't go, he planned to go straight to Huanglong alone, and leave life and death to fate! Although he had the intention to let Zhu Tingfang take two more stabs at this time, and it was best to be seriously injured, he still had to join the battle group with a few henchmen.

Faced with this scene, the middle-aged scribe in the green shirt finally turned pale. He saw that the stunned Lao Xi hurriedly stepped forward to help, and saw that the three Zhu family guards were outflanked from behind, and there was one more person than expected, so he had to roar angrily. Seeing more than a dozen men in strong suits pouring out of the surroundings, he felt that he had the upper hand in numbers again, and he was a little relieved.

He staggered to his feet over his shoulders and smiled viciously, "Do you think I'm just going to ambush all the way?" Zhu Tingfang, Du Heng, both of you will die here today! ”

"I said, you talk too much!" Zhu Tingfang's sword rose and fell, when his chest was straightened, he simply and rudely stabbed the two of them, paid the price of the two knives on his body, and then frowned impatiently, and suddenly made a sharp whistle. With this voice, I saw a figure descend from the sky, like a goshawk predatoring into the crowd.

At that moment, Zhu Tingfang glanced at Du Heng, who was stunned next to him, and then said in a deep voice: "Uncle Hua, if you don't leave any of them, kill them all!" ”

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