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The gong in the courtyard had already sounded, and the gong outside the courtyard had just sounded, accompanied by the sound of hurried footsteps and horses' hooves in the alley outside the gate, and the interval between them had been nearly an hour.

After a while, a hurried sound slammed against the door.

"Who's knocking on the door outside?" Wang Xingping signaled everyone not to open the door in a hurry, although from the various reactions outside the courtyard, the identity of the person who came could be known, but the play still had to be done enough, just experienced a big war, and there were soldiers in armor in this courtyard and a warehouse with sharp weapons in their hands, as well as the dead corpses in the courtyard, there could not be no tension at all.

But the voice outside didn't answer according to the rules, and a voice roared roughly, "Avant-garde patrol city defenders!" Why the noise in the middle of the night! Open the door! ”

Wang Xingping was not in a hurry, let Xiao Liu ask first, he didn't have a chance to make a move just now, but now it was his own time.

Wang Xiaoliu walked to the door and asked loudly, "Is Fifth Brother Zhang, who is guarding the door at the entrance of the alley in the north corner?" ”

If it is really the avant-garde patrol defenders of Guiyang, they should have heard the news from Rouyuanmen, the speed is considered fast, and there should be cavalry when listening to the sound of horses' hooves, but since they came from outside, they should have seen Zhang Wu who was keeping vigil at the gate of Lifang, and it was also safe to let people who knew come out to answer.

"Zhang Wu was killed." The answer was equally crisp and unexpected.

Wang Xingping thought that the thieves were able to come in smoothly because they were in collusion with the night patrol here, but he didn't expect that they would be directly overturned.

But that's fine, no one on my side was damaged in tonight's battle, and from the outside, it seems that the thief's quality is a little worse, and now the death of an unrelated night watchman shows that the thief's ferocity is extremely vicious.

"Fifth Brother Zhang was killed? So how do you prove yourself? Wang Xingping asked in person, with trepidation in his words, and his performance kung fu was full of ten.

"I'm a testament to your ancestors! Hurry up and open the door to Lao Tzu! The voice outside the door was visibly impatient, and a threat was followed by another banging on the door, which rattled the chains on the door.

Wang Xingping still insisted, ignoring the timidity of the rest of the people, and said, "This courtyard has just entered the thief, and now you have come to call the door again, there is no one to rely on the letter to come, how can it be opened." ”

Having said that, it is estimated that the time is almost up, and here Wang Zhongde and the others are standing in their respective positions, and Wang Xingping is going to let Xiaoliu step forward and open the door.

"This is the granary of Wang Xiaolian's family?" After hesitating for a moment, another voice asked loudly, and the voice was a middle-aged man, who was much more gentle than the one just now. Wang Xiaolian naturally said Wang Laiting, this person knows Wang Xingping and his father.

Wang Xiaoliu heard the accent familiar, and hurriedly went to the crack of the door to take a look, not very sure, and when he looked at it again, someone had already played the lantern outside the door.

This time, he could see it clearly, he had seen this person a few times, and he had helped the Wang family before, he turned around and stuck out his tongue, "It seems to be Xu Tongju in the house." ”

'Xu Ji'?!

Wang Xingping still has an impression of this name, I heard that when his family had an accident and asked Wang Mingde, the first one to help was Gu Congxin, and the other was this Xu Zhi, who heard Wang Mingde say that his relatives are still quite related to Wang Zunde.

Today is his duty in the city, and the people in the middle of the night heard the sound of fighting and came out to watch, but found that Zhang Wu, who was patrolling the night, was killed, so he first went to the city to call the police. Naturally, there was a lawsuit for the death of a person, not to mention that it was still a night patrol, so the sergeant patrolling the city reported to the palace again. The prefect Sun Chongxian was still resting after working hard for days, and this matter fell on him, who actually handled the general judgment of the general affairs of the palace, and to open the city gate at night, at least the prefect or his warrant could be used to remove the fire paint and seals on the gate of the day.

Now it is the autumn harvest season, the nine sides in the north must prevent autumn, and the surrounding areas of Guiyang must also prevent autumn, so the reaction of the officials and troops will be so fast. Xu Ji was born in tribute, and he has always been diligent in his work, so once something happened in the middle of the night, he immediately ran over to check, but he happened to feel that it was familiar with the Wang family's industry. I also heard that there was a fight before and that there was a dead night watchman, and the first thing Xu Ji thought of was that a thief had entered the courtyard.

Since there are acquaintances, there is no need to be too wary, and this play will naturally come to an end.

The iron lock was opened, and the latch was removed, but the people outside were already impatiently waiting.

At first, a big man took the lead in rushing in, and a group of soldiers who followed behind also rushed in, and about twenty or thirty people quickly surrounded the people in the courtyard, and the swords and guns in their hands were all aimed at Wang Xingping and a few people, and they had killed people by looking at the posture.

Wang Xingping was suspicious, didn't he say the guards patrolling the city, how could he be such a character.

Wang Xiaoliu looked at Xu Zhi who was standing at the door, and said 'Don't drive' before he could exit, but Wang Zhongde, who had a look of surprise on his face, took the lead, "Uncle Jiu, why are you?" ”

The military academy student who led the team was white, and he was stunned when he heard this, and after reacting, he smiled, "Who am I, it turned out to be the fourth brother." ”

This fourth brother is not the fourth brother, he is talking with the tone of an elder.

Wang Zhongde also put away Fang Cai's murderous aura, and stepped forward to bow, "Why is Uncle Nine patrolling the city today?" ”

Wang Zhongde's ninth uncle is a big name in Jianzhong, and he has some means in the Guiyang army, not that kind of bastard to eat and wait for death, and he has just participated in the victory of the twelve horseheads in Hongbian, and Wang Zhongde has not bumped into Guiyang several times because of his grandfather's work, but he happened to see here.

As usual, Wang Jianzhong and his subordinates are real combatable soldiers, and they should not have been patrolling the city here, that is, using cattle knives to kill chickens.

But the situation is different in the past few days, Wang Jianzhong said: "It's not peaceful outside, Sun Shoubei is outside to inspect the autumn season, and the city defense of Guiyang Mansion is only a few of my brothers who can barely make it difficult." ”

In the days before the autumn harvest, the new prefect Sun Chongxian has been worried about the stubborn counterattack, so these days he has been particularly careful about the surrounding garrison inspections, and the garrison Sun Kaizuo is his cronies, and it is precisely because of these things that he is not in the city these days.

But this conversation made Wang Xingping feel at ease, Guiyang's new prefect Sun Chongxian was recommended by Zhang Heming, and his generals can be counted as Zhang Heming's cronies, and Wang Xingping remembered that Wang Xingping remembered that he seemed to have mentioned such a person named Wang Jianzhong, and now he is Wang Zhongde's relative, so it is better to get along.

And Xu Ji also entered the courtyard at this time, today he was on duty at night, and he should have been responsible for the police outside the city, but the matter has not yet been clarified, and it is not good to alarm Fuzun and Futai. At that time, the little soldier who came to pass the word only said that there was a police in the north corner, and I heard that a night watchman was killed, which had to attract his attention, especially at this point in time, compared with other locations in Guiyang Mansion, outside the north of the city can be regarded as a densely populated place, where the Han Yi has always been mixed, but because of the many merchants, it is still peaceful. But the north of the city has always been a three-day one, every Mao, Shen, Zi, Wu four days of rush days will be relatively chaotic, the Han people near and far will come to trade their goods, because it is outside the city because there is no city gate to block, although there are fences and night watchmen in the square, but the management is naturally looser than in the city.

It was already Ding Mao Day after the child, and the folk regardless of the Han Yi were called the rabbit field by the zodiac, and the early businessmen must have arrived after three watches. It is not surprising that the gangsters in the market have accidents, not to mention that there are still young people among the merchants, and Xu Jian is also quite uneasy in his heart along the way, after all, Banzhou heard that there has just been a matter of local soldiers intercepting and killing tributary envoys.

But after arriving at the place, except for the night watchman who was killed and the residents of Beiyuli who had been alarmed, there was nothing else unusual, and finally all the focus was on the granary of the Futai, and everyone followed the sound to the outside of the warehouse to urge, and the answer outside the door aggravated his suspicions, and the heart said that this Wang family is really troublesome.

I was tossed up in the middle of the night, and I was naturally unhappy, but I thought that something might happen outside the city, and I was worried along the way, and when I rushed to the place, I found that it was actually related to the Wang family, and I felt a little strange, because I thought about things like this, so I didn't follow up in the courtyard as soon as possible.

But before Xu Ji entered the courtyard and asked, he heard the soldier who went in first ran back to report, "Don't drive, there are many dead people in the courtyard." ”

At this time, the moonlight was bright and the lanterns were also shining brightly, but Xu Ji didn't have the heart to enjoy this autumn scenery, and was extremely surprised when he looked at the dead corpses all over the ground.

If it weren't for the fact that Wang Jianzhong, who led the troops, knew the people in the courtyard, it is estimated that he would have been tense at that time.

Now that the biggest commander in this place stepped in, no one needed to speak, the corpses of the soldiers could be seen everywhere, and it was really not a small matter that so many people had died.

Xu Ji frowned, and Zhengse asked, "What happened?" ”

Before Wang Xingping could speak, Yang Shunqing and Monk Xu, who were holding knives in their hands, greeted them as if they were weak-hearted, and were yelled at by the soldiers beside Xu Yi, and hurriedly threw their weapons to report, "The general judgment is public and tolerant, but it is true that there are thieves who sneak into the warehouse courtyard from time to time in the third watch and try to set it on fire, but fortunately, there is the owner here today, and there are several generals to help, so that the thieves did not succeed......"

The words of the two of them have been spoken, and there is no way to regret it, Wang Xingping smiled secretly in his heart, "Gu Fengming, this is your own death."

Waiting for Yang and Xu to talk about the matter noisily, Xu Jian also remembered Wang Xingping, "What, the proprietor of the Futai is also here?" ”

Having said that, but Xu Jian didn't hear Wang Xingping for the first time, his eyes had already fallen on the thin but extremely stylish young man standing in the center of the courtyard, with heroic eyebrows and eyes with a modest smile, but with a sharp gaze, which seemed extremely discordant with the corpses all over the ground.

Wang Xingping stepped forward and saluted when he heard this, "The student has seen the ...... don't drive"

Xu Ji and Wang Mingde are kind, although they have never seen Wang Mingde's virtuous nephew, but they have heard people talk about it many times, and Wang Xingping also sent his family to ask for thanks after dealing with his Lao Tzu's affairs, Wang Xiaoliu saw Xu Ji once at that time.

"Are they telling the truth?" Xu Ji's question was like suspicion, but Wang Xingping sounded more of a test.

Wang Xingping arched his hand, "If you don't drive back, what Yang Shunqing and Monk Xu said is true, the one who led the way for the thief is a guy on the student counter, and he has been hacked to death by Yang and Xu." As for these generals, they are all student friends, and when I came back to Guiyang on business, I came to visit the students by the way, but I didn't expect to save my family's life again. ”

As he spoke, he briefly talked about Wang Zhongde's relationship with his family.

Xu Jian sighed when he heard this: "I didn't expect these generals to be the strong men of Xifeng, no wonder they are so skilled." ”

Of course, Xu Ji knew that Wang Zhongde's team killed more than a dozen thieves and saved Wang Xingping, but he never knew that Wang Zhongde was Wang Jianzhong's nephew.

He knew that Wang Xingping avenged his father, and knew that he was an old and young man, and he was still from a scholarly family, and he already liked it in his heart, but Xu Sanfu, who has always done things properly, will still do things enough.

"Although it seems that the thieves did intend to set the fire, after all, so many people died, not to mention that you still have firearms, and the official must also take official business, and you have to go to the government with me."

Now that the overall situation has been decided, Wang Xingping is not afraid that Yang Shunqing and Monk Xu will talk back, as for the matter of firearms, it was in the name of experiments to find Zhang Heming to prepare the case, let alone worry, after a little thought, he opened his mouth and mentioned, "This naturally can't be shirked, but there is one more important matter than passing through the hall." ”

Xu Ji's expression froze, "What's the matter?" ”

"Military rations under the dispatch of the Prime Minister of the Army......"

[Note: Regarding the issue of Guiyang's commerce and trade, it is verified from the Jiajing edition of "Guizhou Tongzhi", "There are many Han people in the county, and their trade is based on the twelve branches of the Xiao as the market, such as the rat farm, the ugly day is called the cattle farm, and so on. In time, the Hanyi does not care about the distance and proximity, and each bears its own goods to gather for trade, and those who attach Guo have Mao, Shen, Zi, and Wu. 】