When Nalan informed Ling Huzhao of the news that An Lushan's soldiers had arrived in Luoyang City. In the evening, he pondered carefully on the couch, and felt very surprised, in less than a month, he actually hit Luoyang, An Lushan has indeed been planning for a long time, and the comer is not good, so he and Yan'er took a boat through Xiangyang to go down the river to Huating It seems a little urgent. Once Luoyang is captured, the rebels will be able to reach the Cuihan Ancient Road in two or three days, and his personal affairs are small, but once Yan'er falls into chaos, it will be difficult to get out.

The original estimate was insufficient, and I was lucky, betting that An Lushan would not rebel so quickly, if I had crossed the Qinling Mountains from Chang'an, walked the Sword Pavilion, and entered Shu, it would have been estimated that I had arrived in Jingzhou.

He thought of the current emperor again, who killed the princess back then, and he was really indignant in his heart. After returning to Huating, he went incognito, bent on avenging the princess, but the hatred in his heart gradually calmed down with the prosperity of Kaiyuan. Although the princess has great kindness to herself, after decades, she can see that the world is peaceful and the people are healthy, and she gradually agrees with her heart.

But now, the Son of Heaven favors the traitorous ministers, takes his daughter-in-law as a concubine, and indulges in lustful dogs and horses all day long.

Although he is close to old age, his kung fu has not diminished back then, he is old and serious, and he is alert, but when he thinks of the killing on the battlefield, he is still inevitably sad. There were more than 800 people in the Yangzhou camp that year, and he was the only one who survived. Compared with those soldiers of the same battalion who were in different places and were eaten by wolves, he only survived for decades.

In the middle of the night, he inevitably remembered those familiar faces from before, and felt that life was not interesting. He is not afraid of life and death, and the belief that kept him alive was to avenge the princess. He firmly believed that the princess had been watching him in heaven and watching all this in the world. Later, he was for the sake of brotherhood, and his brother treated him well and always treated him well. His nieces and nephews regard him as their father. Thinking of this, if it weren't for Yan'er, he would also be able to carry a Mo knife and charge for Datang again, he believed that this was also the princess's wish.

Soon, Nalan slammed on the door outside the house. He got up, held the lamp, opened the door to greet him, and saw Nalan dressed in a military uniform.

He lowered his voice and said, "Captain, it's so late, what's the matter?" ”

Nalan also said softly: "Don't hide it from the old general, in fact, the post chief has escaped safely, and he is hiding in the town at this time." She told me that the leader of the rebel scouts in Qinglong Town was Murong Cheng of the coffin shop, and I found that Murong Cheng would be arrested when he returned. Tonight, the spies informed that Murong Cheng had quietly returned to the shop when he was in Hai. In view of the fact that I have been fooled many times with him before, I know that the old general has experienced a hundred battles and has the experience of sneaking behind enemy lines many times, so I asked the old general to go to help. ”

"Old and old, it's not that I don't want to go, but I'm afraid that I will become a burden if I go."

"I know it's not in accordance with the rules, but with you, I think you have taken care of me, after all, we don't know the details of Murong City."

"Since the captain said so, I have no excuse to wait for me to change my clothes."

At this time, Ling Huyan asked in the room: "Father, who are you talking to so late?" ”

"It's nothing, I'll talk to Captain Nalan about something, and you can rest in peace."

"Captain Nalan?" After saying that, the lights in the back room also turned on.

Linghu Zhao reprimanded: "Hurry up and go to sleep, don't ask too much about a woman's house." ”

"I'll get up and pour Captain Nalan a cup of hot tea, Father."

Linghu Zhao wanted to be angry, Nalan gave him a look, and said to the inner room: "Linghu lady, you really don't need to bother. I'm looking for an old gentleman to come to my house for some business, and I'll be back later. Close the door and sleep peacefully, and get out of the way. ”

"Oh, well!"

Ling Hu Zhao took out a hufu from his baggage and put it on, Nalan was startled, hid his face and smiled. Ling Hu Zhao was silent, took the whistle stick he carried with him, and went out with Nalan, and closed the door tightly. When he got downstairs, he said: "Don't underestimate Hu Fu, keep tight, and don't get in the way when you fight." ”

Nalan smiled: "I see. When he arrived in the front yard, he knocked on Sima Cuo's door, and when Sima Co opened the door, he looked worried, and saw Nalan dressed in a military uniform, and Ling Huzhao on the side was dressed in a bearded suit and carrying a whistle stick. Not to be surprised, he hurriedly asked: "Captain, what's wrong?" ”

"Please come with us to capture the leader of the rebels in Qinglong Town."

"Who's that leader?"

"You'll know when you get there."

Sima was about to shout loudly to the butcher in the side room, but Nalan covered his mouth and said, "Pavilion chief, be lighter and silent." So, Sima Cuo went to the side room to wake up the butcher with a puzzled face, and wanted to call Li Dao, Wan Buddha and others again. Nalan stopped again: "The pavilion chief can bring the butcher." After saying that, he coughed lightly, and more than a dozen soldiers with blades poured out of the shadows, and it turned out that they had been waiting for a long time.

Nalan whispered, "Go according to the original plan." A few people touched it first, and Nalan, Ling Huzhao, and Sima Cuo then came to a short distance in front of the coffin shop, and a few sergeants around them set up bows and crossbows.

Ling Huzhao asked, "Can someone be arranged in the back?" ”

Nalan replied: "All have been set up, and we must take it in one fell swoop tonight." ”

In fact, behind the coffin shop, Duguyue brought a few sergeants to lurk.

Sima Cuo asked: "For such a major matter, why didn't the captain squeak first, and I would arrange for my people to come to help and surround it into an iron bucket." Seeing that Nalan didn't answer, he said again, "I really didn't expect that this Murong City turned out to be a big fish, and I was negligent." ”

"The pavilion chief doesn't have to blame himself, the word scout is not written on his face, who can see it so accurately." Nalan comforted.

Ling Hu Zhao did not speak, and clenched the whistle stick.

After arranging the situation, Nalan waved his hand, and several torches outside the house were lit, illuminating the outside of the coffin. Several archers preemptively fired a row of feathered arrows into the coffin, "knock, knock, knock", and plunged deep into the wall. The two axemen outside the door slammed their feet and tried to kick the door open, but the door did not open in response. Nalan hurriedly shouted: "Use the Mo knife!! ”

The two sergeants slashed with a Mo knife for a while, the door was too thick, and the Mo knife cut in no more than half an inch, and it turned out to be heavily guarded.

Nalan shouted to the archers, "Use the rockets." ”

After hearing this, Ling Hu Zhao dissuaded: "Captain, no." If the fire is in the wind, the houses in the town may be damaged. ”

"How's that good?"

"Gotta find a big log and slam the door open!"

"But we don't have enough manpower, if we can't surround the scattered people, Murong Cheng may run away."

"Then go find a long axe first."

The butcher departed. At this time, Dugu Yue saw that the attack on the front door was blocked, and she couldn't bear to run to the front door, Sima Cuo saw her and said in surprise: "Dugu Yichang, why are you here?" ”

Duguyue replied: "Pavilion Chief, I'll explain other things later, let's take Murong City first." Have you ever entered his shop, and what is the layout inside? ”

"In the past, this was the ancestral home of a carpenter surnamed Li, and the carpenter later went to Chang'an, and Murong Cheng took down this house. The place where furniture was used to be used was converted into a coffin shop. Qinglong Town has a small population, and there is a coffin shop in Shantangyi, which needs to be transported there immediately, and there is no big problem. When I saw him come to buy a house and said that he was going to make a coffin shop, I muttered that I couldn't sell a few coffins a year, but now I think he came to hide people's eyes. ”

"Without further ado, let's just talk about the layout of his shop?"

"In the past, when the carpenter was there, I used to go to it a lot, and it was a two-in, two-out yard. It's not complicated. ”

"Isn't it complicated to get two in and two out?"

"There is also a well in the patio of the house."

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At this time, the butcher came with an axe, and when he saw the situation, he did not know how to use his strength. Nalan said: "Why are you still stunned?" Hurry up and split the door open? ”

At this time, Li Dao, Mo Si, Wan Buddha, blacksmith and others also rushed over and hurriedly asked the pavilion chief what was going on?

Sima Cuo hurriedly pointed to the door of the coffin shop and said, "Don't ask so much, you quickly find a way to open the door!" ”

The blacksmith snatched the axe from the butcher's hand and rushed over to the gate, but everywhere the axe blade went, it was only a fur wound, and there was no damage to the gate.

Duguyue said: "It's better to make a desperate gamble and burn them to death with fire." ”

Ling Hu Zhao heard it and shouted: "Don't do it, once there is a fire, the whole town will suffer." ”

At this time, Sima Cuo seemed to have figured it out, and strongly advised: "Don't attack with fire!" Don't! Then he shouted to Li Dao and the others: "Why are you still stunned?" Don't even bring a log yet. ”

Li Dao and the others fled silently.

Nalan said to Duguyue: "The post chief, wait for the rabbit after returning to the house, what about us at the front door?" ”

Dugu Yue said stupidly: "If Murong Cheng is allowed to run away today, we will not have the face to stay in Qinglong Town." With that, he went back to the back of the house.

After Li Dao and the others brought a log, Ling Hu Zhao immediately said to Nalan: "Captain, quickly get on a few sergeants and quickly bang on the door." After speaking, he took the lead and hugged the log, and shouted loudly: "Everyone listen to my command, hold on to the wood, and take three steps back." Good! One, two, three, bump! ”

The door "clanged", did not open, but swayed. Ling Hu Zhao called on Li Dao and the sergeants to step back again, and collided again, this time the door frame and door broke in response.

Ling Hu Zhao shouted loudly: "Flash to the side!" ”

After waiting for a while, I thought that there would be cold arrows and hidden weapons flying out of it, but it didn't.

Seeing this, Nalan waved his Mo knife and led several sergeants to kill them. Linghu Zhao and Sima Cuo also rushed into the house, but there was no one in the room with two entrances and two exits, and there was nothing in the front hall except for a few unfinished coffins. The rear wing room is placed as usual, which is the house where ordinary people live, and there is nothing special.

"Where have the people gone? Are you sure he's back in the house? Nalan questioned a sergeant in a cloth coat.

More than a dozen people searched inside and out, but they didn't see anything unusual.

Ling Hu Zhao came to the patio and saw the well in the patio, so he hurriedly asked a sergeant to find a long wooden stick, tied a torch, and stretched it to the bottom of the well. The well was not deep, but the torches burned even brighter at the bottom. When you look closely, the water on the surface of the well is flowing. There are vacancies about three feet high from the water surface to the wall of the well on the east and west sides.

He hurriedly called Nalan, and Sima Cuo also surrounded him. Ling Hu Zhao said: "This should not be a well, but a culvert, a bit like the karez in the Western Regions, there should be a small boat hidden under this well that only accommodates one person, and when in danger, escape from this culvert by boat." We can throw the shavings from the front house into this well, and tomorrow we can look for it in the Qinglong River outside the town, and we will find the exit. ”

Nalan said: "It's all because we are careless, I didn't expect them to be so finely managed, no wonder we always hit a wall." ”

Several sergeants threw the shavings from the front hall into the well one after another, and after throwing them in, they were washed away by the water. confirmed Ling Huzhao's suspicion.

Duguyue, who was waiting at the back of the house and was really anxious, walked into the house at this time and saw that there was no fighting, and Murong Cheng was not captured alive, which was very strange. After Nalan told her about the culvert, he was so anxious that he stomped his feet and had to go down to the well to see what was going on.

Nalan and Sima Cuo couldn't persuade them, so several sergeants found a large bamboo basket, hung it with a wooden hook, tied a rope to her body, let her squat in the basket, and slowly put it down. As she approached the water, she looked at the sides of the hole with her torch, screamed, and jumped in the basket, but the sergeant who was pulling did not hold it, and rolled into the water, and threw herself in the water, screaming in fright. Nalan hurriedly grabbed the rope and pulled it up, and it took a long time to pull her up.

Nalan hurriedly called Nangong Yue, carried him back to the Barberry Inn, and quickly invited Mr. Zhuge to do so.

After sending Duguyue to the inn, Nalan asked Ling Huzhao in puzzlement, why was the post chief so afraid?

Ling Hu Zhao replied: "Actually, there is nothing terrible about this culvert, but the space inside is narrow, and the places where the water comes from and where the water goes seem to be very deep and unfathomable, so people who have not seen it will feel terrified and inexplicable." Although the post chief is a woman, she is no less courageous than a man, and she dares to chase the enemy at night alone, and she is not a problem when she charges into battle. But no matter how powerful she is, she also has something to fear, and this dark ditch is counted. If the captain doesn't believe it, the old man is willing to go down and find out, what ghosts are there. ”

Nalan hurriedly dissuaded: "Don't go, we'll find the exit during the day and then come to patrol." ”

After tossing for a long time, he still let Murong Cheng run away, Duguyue didn't believe it, he was already a turtle in the urn, and he still had this ability, he had to go down to see the culvert, but he was frightened and fell into the water.

Nalan was also very frustrated, the other party's strategy did not lose to him. The most difficult thing is how many people are still in Qinglong Town? The wall is like Huangfu Dan, the owner of the shop, why did she go out on that snowy day, why did the fire in her house keep going, and what happened to the yin? The more I thought about it, the more frustrated I became, and now the post chief is still scared in the water, and this thing is done.

With the help of Nangong Yue, Duguyue changed out of her soaked clothes and covered a few quilts, still trembling. Although she had come to her senses, she was indeed in the narrow passage, looking at the culvert through the torch, and the water was gurgling out of the darkness, and she felt very frightened and frightened, and fell into the water as soon as she stumbled. Struggling in the water, not knowing how deep the water was, he became more anxious and frightened until he fainted.

Mr. Zhuge came, asked about the situation, and after checking the pulse, he took out a bag of cinnabar and a small pinch of wild boar bristles from the consultation box, and asked them to wrap them in cloth and put them under the pillow. In addition, he took out a pack of Chen moxa sticks and told Nangong Yue to find the location of the life gate and put the seven pillars on the ginger moxibustion.

Duguyue asked, "Why do you want to moxibustion?" ”

Mr. Zhuge replied: "I'm afraid it will hurt my kidneys!" ”

Duguyue replied: "Oh, I see." ”

At this time, there was an uproar in the inn again, and Ling Hu Zhao suddenly broke into the door and asked eagerly, "Have you ever seen Yan'er?" ”

Duguyue and Nangong Yue were shocked, what happened to Ling Hu Yan?