In the Qianfu Office, Zhang Danian couldn't care about Xiang Baihu's panting and hurriedly asked.

"How. Is Gao Yingxiang's group of bandits gone?"

"My lord, let me take a breath."

After saying that, hundreds of households didn't care that the big face was their own chief's, but the fact was that they gasped for breath.

After exhaling a few deep breaths, Xiang Baihu stopped and looked at Zhang Danian with a smile on his face.

"My lord, congratulations, Gao Yingxiang's group of bandits has left. The brothers under his command asked the surviving women, children and elderly people in the city, and according to them, Gao Yingxiang had been gone for two days.

I guess they're about to arrive in Shanxi by now."

Zhang Da exhaled deeply, and the anxious look on his face gradually dissipated, and he reached out and patted Xiang Baihu's shoulder.

"It's our luck."

After a few laps around the living room, he spoke again.

"Tell the brothers that there is no need for martial law, and that Lao Tzu will invite them to drink wine tonight. As for the others, each of them shall be rewarded with two pounds of coarse grain."

Soon this order was passed down, and the spirit was highly tense for two days, and the people of the thousand households cheered one by one.

They had already heard about what was happening in Lin'an County, and they were afraid that they would be slaughtered by Gao Yingxiang like the ordinary people in Linyang County.

But among these happy people, there was one person who had a sad face, and this person was the old man Xu who had fought with Zhao Bantou before.

As the so-called thirty and standing, forty and not confused, fifty know the destiny of heaven, the old man Gao is 52 years old this year, this age can be said to be a long-lived person in ancient China.

As the so-called old man is old and treacherous, with decades of life experience, Old Man Xu always feels that something is wrong, but he can't say what is wrong. In the end, I could only shake my head and smile bitterly, thinking that I was a human being and thinking a little too much.

And Sun Yihu and Zhao Lei, who were outside the talent institute, also heard the shouts from the Qianhu Institute, and their faces showed murderous aura.

"If they really support us in advance, we don't have to surrender Gao Yingxiang."

With this kind of thinking, the two of them can be said to hate the people in the Thousand Households.

"Zhao Lei, you go and pick up Gao Dutong and Li Dutong now, they should have rushed here by now."

Afraid that Gao Meng and Li Zicheng would be exposed due to the dispatch of the team, Zhao Lei was ordered to go out to respond, while he stayed in place and continued to monitor the thousand households.

About half an hour later, Sun Yihu suddenly heard some footsteps behind him, and hurriedly pulled out a steel knife from his waist.

"Brother Sun, it's me."

And the voice came from Li Zicheng and Gao Meng with a few guards, and when they saw that Sun Yihu was so alert, they hurriedly reminded him.

"Gao Du Tong, Li Du Tong".

Maybe it's because Sun Yihu used to be a soldier, but it's easier to accept Zhao Deliang's ideas. Basically, seeing that most of the people were commensurate with gentlemen, it made Gao Meng feel that he had lost a bit of recklessness.

Several people lay on their stomachs in the dry grass and looked inside the Qianhu House, and when they saw the gate of the Qianhu House, there was no one guarding it at this time, but they gathered together in twos and threes to chat.

"What's going on inside Brother Sun?"

Li Zicheng glanced at the scene in the Qianfu Institute a few times, and asked Sun Yihu.

Li Zicheng and Gao Meng are both the same in terms of position, although Gao Meng was the first to follow Gao Influence, and Li Zicheng is in a state of halfway start. So in terms of relationship, Gao Meng is not close to Gao Yingxiang, but Sun Yihu is Li Zicheng's person.

Although everyone is under the command of Gao Yingxiang, they all know that the people under their hands are the foundation of their own survival, so they can't allow others to point fingers, and everyone understands this truth, and basically will not cause misunderstanding among others because of this.

When Sun Yihu heard Li Zicheng's inquiry, he smiled disdainfully.

"You're late, and if you had been half an hour early, you'd have seen a different scene than you have now.

Do you know what the Chinese New Year looks like? Before that, it was like the New Year."

After Li Zicheng and Gao Meng glanced at each other, they also smiled. bar

"Brother Gao, it seems that we really missed a good show."

Night.

Gao Meng and Li Zicheng's more than 800 people have quietly approached the Qianhu House, looking at the moon overhead, Li Zicheng estimated the time, now should be the ugly time of the night (around 1 to 3 o'clock), it is the time when a person is most tired and sleepy.

"Brother ......".

Li Zicheng called his buddy, stretched out his hand and gestured forward, and everyone drew their weapons one after another and quietly rushed into the Qianfu Station.

Thanks to Zhang Danian's reward, the people and officers and soldiers in the Thousand Households had a delicious dinner. In this era of very poor entertainment, it is their habit to work at sunrise and rest at sunset. If they have families, they can do something to entertain their bodies and minds.

According to the normal situation, this group of soldiers should go back to their respective homes to find their own mothers, but Zhang Dalian was really not at ease about safety, but instead let this group of soldiers rest in the barracks today, so that some people who planned to go home and exercise with their mother-in-law to digest and want to scold their mothers.

Of course, for Old Man Xu, to paraphrase a sentence from later generations, where I am is my home.

Old man Xu is also a military uniform for generations, but it is a pity that the poorer he is as a soldier, the poorer he becomes, and in the end he married a mother-in-law, and as a result, he gave birth to three or four children, and all of them died before one was kept, and his mother-in-law committed suicide by jumping into a well because she couldn't stand this blow. Since then, Old Man Xu has not continued the strings, and he has lived alone until now. In the dead of night, Old Man Xu would always ask himself if the lives of his mother-in-law and children were all on him, otherwise why would he live so long.

Old man Xu also went to bed in the barracks after dinner, but when he slept until midnight, Old Man Xu was suddenly awakened by a nightmare. I touched a lot of cold sweat on my head, and at the same time, I seemed to be in danger in my heart, and I was slowly approaching myself, and my breathing couldn't help but speed up a little.

But looking at the people around him, one by one snoring, I just thought it was my own problem, and after tossing for a while, I gradually calmed down and fell asleep again, but this time I just had a trace of sleepiness, and I was suddenly awakened again.

No matter how stupid Old Man Xu was at this time, he felt as if something was really going to happen, so he slowly touched his waist, walked to the other side of the bed, and gently patted the person on the bed.

"Dog's egg, dog's egg".

The man in the bed was sleepy-eyed and muttered softly.

"Is there anything wrong with Uncle Xu"?

As he spoke, he tightened the quilt on his body.

"Dog, get up, Uncle Xu is looking for you for something."

Goudan is an orphan adopted by Old Man Xu, his parents fled from other places, and went to the Thousand Households to eat, but the people in the talent institute themselves were a little hungry, and naturally they didn't live to let Goudan's parents do it and finally starved to death. And Old Man Xu couldn't bear it, and the dog who was only three or two years old also died because of this, so he took him in, which can be regarded as finding someone to send him to the end in the future.

The dog is very filial to Old Man Xu, and when he heard that Old Man Xu had something to look for him, he quickly slipped away, got up from the bed and put on a few clothes, and followed Old Man Xu out of the door of the room.

"Uncle Xu, do you have anything you want me to do."

Looking at the bright eyes of the dog, Old Man Xu didn't know whether he should say what he was worried about, after all, this was a bit groundless and too unbelievable. Although I really want to tell everyone what I have a premonition, I don't even believe my own feelings, let alone others.

"It's okay dog, you come with me".

By the moonlight, Old Man Xu walked more and more remotely with the dog's eggs, until he came to a place overgrown with weeds and piling up debris.

The dog showed a puzzled look, not knowing why Old Man Xu brought himself here, and just wanted to speak, suddenly there was a burst of shouting and killing from afar.

I saw that the place where I lived was in flames, and there were bursts of screams from time to time. The dog was instantly frightened, and Old Man Xu looked at the place where the fire was shining, and his body couldn't help but tremble a little.

But in the end, it was a person who became old and fine, and soon Old Man Xu grabbed the dog's hand and ran to the pile of debris.

The dog dan shouted to Old Man Xu with a cry, "Uncle Xu......".

"Don't speak".

Old man Xu covered the dog's mouth with one hand and whispered in the dog's ear.

After three turns and four turns, Old Man Xu came to a hidden weed pile. Old man Xu stuffed the dog's eggs into the weeds, squeezed them in hard, and casually covered some debris next to him to the place where he got in.

In the darkness, Old Man Xu shed tears, and the slashing rope lasted for half an hour before gradually dissipating.

But Old Man Xu still didn't dare to go out at this time, and through some small gaps, he could still see the sky-high fire in the distance.

After dawn, Old Man Xu gently pushed aside the haystack and looked at the thousands of households that had turned to ashes in the distance.

Old man Xu smiled bitterly, "Brothers, Old man Xu can only save himself." ”

Carrying the dog egg that had fallen asleep due to excessive fright, he disappeared into the sky, leaving only a lonely shadow.