When the night gradually covered the earth, and the stars scattered a faint light on Mianshui County with the cooperation of the moonlight, the footsteps of pedestrians on the road also quickly accelerated. Because of the entry of the Zhu Chamber of Commerce, it has indeed brought a lot of vendors to Mianshui County, even if it is dark, there are still many vendors on the roadside who continue to do business.

Among them, especially in the evening market in Dongcheng, due to the recent increase in population and the humid and hot weather, this evening market was specially ordered by Zhao Xingjie at the suggestion of Chen Wansan and others. The holding of the evening party has also added a lot of benefits, and the daily taxes and fees collected here alone will be more than 10% or 20% more than before. The most important thing is that it greatly increases the convenience of life for people inside and outside the city.

For example, the woodcutter used to have to carry firewood early the next morning to sell it at the morning market when the city gate was opened. Now, after the evening market, the woodcutters no longer have to get up early, they just need to be greedy, work a little overtime, get the money, and sleep well the next day, and then go up the mountain to chop wood in good spirits.

Even the usual small traders have paid the land occupation fee, and put on one or two lanterns at night to continue to do some business in the evening market. For these hawkers who don't have strong assets and a tough backstage, this evening market is simply a great benefit, although the daily income has actually only increased a little, but after a month, it can still subsidize a lot of expenses for the family, anyway, even if they go home, there is nothing important, it is better to continue to do some business to make money, by the way, you can also see the new things of the day, lively.

At the evening market, every few days, there will always be something strange and new. A few days ago, there was a hunter who, for some reason, actually killed a tiger, and for several days in a row, brought a large amount of tiger meat into the city every day, and changed his career to make a barbecue. It is said that just a tiger skin, to Orion in the city to earn a small house, the hundreds of pounds of tiger meat, is to let Orion send a sum, now has changed careers again, in Xicheng opened a small teahouse, although the business is average, but compared to the hunting career that is not even easy to solve the problem of food and clothing, it is a world of difference. This incident alone made the vendors, who also did a little business at the evening market, red for a while, and even hunted tigers when they were sleeping and dreaming at night.

Most of the people in the city will be attracted to the evening market in the east city after nightfall, and a few rich children will go to several Fengyue places in the south city to drink some flower wine and enjoy the so-called goddess in their hearts.

Of course, there are also some poor scholars who think they are literati and ink writers, most of them are backward people, but they are unwilling to give up the ten years of cold windows they have experienced, and they often come to these places at night to drink a little wine, and use the strength of the wine to spill ink, otherwise they are high-spirited 'pointing the country', and they can't hate to be loyal and good generals.

Of course, most of these people are still self-aware, at least they will bring enough money for wine, and those scholars who have the idea of drinking overlord wine are lucky enough to be exempted from the meager wine money by a certain girl that night, and the unlucky ones are generally carried out of the door mercilessly by the thugs hired by the boss, and even beaten again that they think are wronged.

When the time was approaching, it was basically time for individual customers to close, and some rich people, drunk and hazy, threw out some silver, and went to the backyard to stay overnight with their favorite girls. And those scholars who had no money had to watch their 'opponents' leave with a sad and angry face, and then left with a lonely face with a good cabbage that made the pigs arch, and then several 'like-minded people' met by chance, borrowed wine on the silent road to sigh about the injustice of the world, and cried to each other about the bitterness in their hearts. Then, after hearing the movement of the night patrol officer, he immediately disappeared drunk, lest he be invited to tea and pay a sum of money that seemed to them to be 'rich', and before the messenger caught him, he scattered towards the surrounding streets and alleys, and the silent road naturally returned to calm again, leaving only a few barking dogs caused by the sound of fleeing footsteps, which were close together, and finally caused the sleeping people to curse.

At this time, the vendors who cleaned up their stalls at the evening market were also ready to leave, and many of them were mixed with some night owls who were idle and wandering around the crowd. Whether it is Nancheng or Dongcheng, without the officers noticing, there are more than a dozen men with wooden expressions, who will always suddenly burrow into a small alley without the attention of the people around them, and then find a corner, and quickly take off their outer robes, revealing a black tights with strong muscles, in a dark corner, such a dress can always integrate them into the environment and become a part of the darkness.

"Huh?! What is this? A scholar who had just escaped from the palm of the night patrol in Nancheng regained his drunken face again, and just turned a corner that must go home, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he saw a pair of shiny things in front of him, and he couldn't help but be stunned, and he actually reached out to touch the bright light, and at the same time exclaimed in a low voice: "Why is it still hot. Squishy. ”

"Uhhhhh As a brighter 'lightning' flashed in front of him, a pitch-black blood arrow flew up, and the scholar who felt a chill on his neck just subconsciously covered his neck with his hands. But the rapidly flowing qi in his body was gradually unable to support his body.

A gust of night wind swept around the corner, and the scholar's extremely thin body seemed to be unable to withstand the force of the gust of wind, and slowly fell to the side. With a "poof", the scholar who fell to the ground twitched weakly a few times, and after a few difficult 'cooing' sounds from his throat, he became the first victim of the night with a face full of pain and a blank look in his eyes.

"If you want to blame, blame you for being unlucky!" The man in black who melted into the night glanced at the corpse on the ground expressionlessly, his expression was indifferent as if nothing had happened just now, and the indifference in his eyes was more like he killed not a person just now, but a corpse on the ground that had nothing to do with him, raised his feet and stepped over the obstacles on the ground, the man in black did not take another look at the ground, just left a cold snort without any feeling, then turned the corner, leaned against the wall, and blended into the night again.

In the entire Mianshui County, in more than a dozen different streets and alleys, more than a dozen black shadows are running at the same time, like a swift cheetah. They all moved in the same direction, and finally, they gathered under a large tree on the side wall of the Zhao Mansion not far from the center of the city.

None of them spoke, and after looking at each other, it only took a few seconds for more than a dozen black-clothed people to nod at the same time, take out a strip of black cloth prepared in advance from their waists, and quickly cover their faces.

The courtyard wall of the Zhao Mansion, because the usual order under Zhao Xingjie is very good, has not been heightened, only less than one zhang high, with the skillful tacit cooperation between the people in black, easily climbed the wall, and then turned over and fell into the Zhao Mansion.