Looking at the labyrinthine road in front of him, Chu Minghui looked at Liu Fan with a confused expression, and said blankly: "Brother, these roads and buildings should have been transformed, if you don't know the correct route, don't want to go out for the rest of your life, how should we go now?" ”

Liu Fan closed his eyes and recalled the route in his mind, and then he said softly: "Let's set up a maze array for them first, big brother, let's go to the alley on the left first, and throw Mu Richuan's clothes in that alley." ”

"Okay, let's go." After saying that, the two went to the alley on the left, and after throwing their clothes in an alley, the two returned to the gate of the courtyard.

Standing in front of the door, Liu Fan closed his eyes and recalled, and then, he opened his eyes and pointed to a sandwich road on the right, he said to Chu Minghui as he walked: "Brother Chu, go over here, go straight along this sandwich road for one hundred and thirty-six steps, turn right at the intersection, walk seven steps, and turn into a narrow alley."

Out of the alley, in front of you is a road paved with stone steps, and your boots will make a soft sound when you step on it, and walk along the stone steps for five hundred and eighty-nine steps, and there is a smell of feces in that block, and then, walk one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six steps to the left, and then go to the right, where it should be a bumpy path, and it will be a little shaky to walk......"

In the courtyard where the Hongru Club stayed, a strong man, a girl in purple, a middle-aged Confucian student, and behind him stood a man wearing a double knife at his waist, who was discussing in the living room at this time.

It turned out that this middle-aged Confucian was Zhao Shengwu, one of the two vice-presidents of the Hongru Society, and it is rumored that Zhao Shengwu was taught by the great Confucian Peng Yixian of the previous dynasty.

At this time, Zhao Shengwu was deploying to exchange Chu Minghui for the details of Wen Taoluo, and suddenly, a henchman ran in, and after entering the house, the man said in an anxious tone: "Vice President, it's not good, the two people detained in the firewood room are gone." ”

"What's going on?" Hearing the content of the report, the strong man and the woman in purple all showed a trace of anxiety, the man with the double knife at his waist flashed his eyes, and his wrist subconsciously held the handle of the knife, but Zhao Shengwu looked calm: "Don't worry, speak slowly." ”

"Yes." Answered, the henchman calmed down for a while, and then replied with a little anxiety: "When the subordinate just went to replace Mu Richuan, he found that he was not standing guard at the door of the firewood room, and no one answered after shouting a few times, and the subordinate felt bad, when the subordinate entered the firewood room to check, he found that Mu Richuan was lying unconscious on a pile of firewood, and the two boys imprisoned inside were all gone. ”

"Mu Richuan is infinitely powerful, and with his skills, ordinary people can't put him down at all. But how could there be no movement at all this time? Could it be that Chu Xiongcai sent a master to the rescue? The strong man wondered.

The woman in purple shook her head: "It's unlikely, we are full of eyeliner from the town, and there are many secret sentry and traps along the way, only one safe passage can pass safely, if there are outsiders sneaking in, it is impossible to be silent." ”

"Don't worry about that for now, send someone to chase it immediately, the roads and buildings here have been modified by Brother Taoluo, as long as you take the wrong intersection, you will lose your way, whether someone rescues them or they flee by themselves, I don't think they can go far."

Speaking of this, Zhao Shengwu instructed: "It's really not easy to build this rudder, don't go wrong in the end, gather all the brothers around you, and go all out to search for those two boys, if you let those two little masters run out, you won't be able to stay here." ”

……

"Twenty-three steps to the left, turn right, there should be a garbage pond here, I remember smelling a rotten smell when I came in, yes, this is it, after this garbage pond let's walk three hundred and forty-eight steps south, there is a strong smell of feces.

Stop, what's that sound? Liu Fan and the others were walking, and suddenly heard shouts around them, and at the same time there was the sound of horses' hooves, after hearing this sound, Chu Minghui's face changed: "It's bad, they are chasing after me, what should I do?" Where to go? ”

"Big brother, don't panic, let's hurry forward, we must rush to the place where there is a smell of feces before those people come, if I guess correctly, this is the place where these people dump their excrement, and there is only that kind of place to hide right now."

After urging this sentence, Liu Fan continued to guide Chu Minghui to escape. The two of them ran all the way, and finally came to the place that Liu Fan said, and sure enough, there was a big pit here, and a lot of excrement was dumped in the pit, and there were hundreds of dung buckets on the edge of the pit.

As soon as the two of them came here, they suddenly heard a horse barking from next door, seeing this, Liu Fan pushed open the courtyard door next to him, dragged Chu Minghui to hide in, and as soon as the two closed the courtyard door from the inside, four or five Hongruhui believers on horseback swept past the door.

After those people chased away, they chased several waves of people in a row, because it was dirty and smelly, and there was a dung pit next to it, so those who were in charge of the pursuit did not stop, and they didn't even bother to check when they passed by here, and just skipped over.

After evading more than ten waves of pursuers, the two continued to run forward, but after running a few steps, they saw a group of believers searching for them, and they were worried that they would be discovered by the other party, so they had to turn around and hide in another abandoned courtyard.

ran two miles like this, surrounded by people searching for them, seeing this, Chu Minghui couldn't help but scolded in a low voice: "Damn, there weren't many people in that courtyard before?" Why are so many people popping up now? ”

"They should have been scattered and hidden before, and they usually lived in seclusion around that courtyard, and once they encountered an emergency, they would gather in an instant, it seems that this place may be a secret stronghold of the Hongru Society." Liu Fan was thoughtful.

"Brother, there are too many people searching for us at the moment, right? Now let's hide in a nearby yard first? After nightfall, the two of us sneaked out quietly, and in the dead of night, there was a cover. Chu Minghui proposed.

Although Chu Minghui's proposal was very reasonable, Liu Fan shook his head and refused after hearing it: "Big brother just said the opposite, although the current situation is a little dangerous, as long as we are careful, we should be able to deal with the past."

The real danger is after we leave, compared to the immediate threat. Once we escape from here, there will be no cover on the road, and when we get to that point, the more daylight it will be, the more advantageous it will be.

Because of the large public, the road is bustling with pedestrians, and there are officers and soldiers patrolling along the way, so even if the Hongru Society sends people to hunt down, they will not dare to be overly arrogant in broad daylight, but once they enter the night, they will not have so many taboos. ”

"Yes, yes, what you said makes sense, let's take advantage of the dawn to escape." Nodding in agreement, Chu Minghui poked his head out of the door, and saw that the surrounding pursuers had gone to search elsewhere, he waved his hand and continued to flee with Liu Fan out of the town.

……

On the edge of Beiling Gang, Liu Fan and the others were tying up a lone pursuer, and when Liu Fan walked out of the town with the route of his memory, Chu Minghui threw himself to the ground with Liu Fan's admiration, and praised Liu Fan with a thumbs up.

Just as the two were polite, a believer on a horse chased after him, and saw that the man had a horse, Liu Fan acted as a bait, and Chu Minghui was ambushed on the side, just when the man jumped off the horse and was about to capture Liu Fan alive, Chu Minghui knocked the person out with a dull stick.

After knocking the man out and tying him up, and leading the horse that the man was riding, Chu Minghui jumped onto the horse as soon as he turned over, and after dragging Liu Fan onto the horse, he shook the reins hard, and then drove the horse to run in the direction of Yangzhou City.

Not long after the two escaped, the purple-clothed girl led the other believers to search over, and when she saw her companions trapped on the ground, she was anxious and angry, and scolded: "Damn, they really let them run away, how did those two guys escape?" There are so many dark sentinels along the way, why didn't one of them find their whereabouts? ”

Doubts are doubts, but the purple-clothed girl didn't dare to slack off, she ordered the people around her: "They must have fled in the direction of Yangzhou, and immediately sent a signal to order the brothers outside Yangzhou City to intercept along the way." They have just left, and they are not far away, so you go after them at once, and whoever can recover them will be rewarded with ten thousand taels of silver. ”

There is a way to be a brave man under the heavy reward, with the purple-clothed girl an order, dozens of horses chased out in the direction of Yangzhou, when everyone left, the girl secretly thought: "This place has been exposed, you must immediately evacuate this rudder." ”

……

Escaping from the rudder of the Hongru Society, Chu Minghui looked extremely excited, he turned his head to look at Liu Fan who was lying on horseback, and asked loudly: "Brother Liu, what is the one thing you want to do most after returning to Yangzhou City?" ”

"I want to gather a group of martial arts masters." Liu Fan said loudly.

"Why?"

"Because I don't want to be robbed by the people of the Hongru Society anymore." Liu Fan said.

Hearing Liu Fan's answer, Chu Minghui smiled: "I'm afraid this is a little difficult, the imperial court has an order, except for officials, it is forbidden for the people to recruit samurai privately, and the number of family guards shall not exceed 100, and violators will be punished according to treason and rebellion, you don't want to be beheaded by the whole house, right?" ”

"Such a great sin? Then I'd better forget it. Liu Fan said this, but he secretly made a calculation in his heart, the experience of being exiled this time was a wake-up call for him, this place is heavy on literature and light on martial arts, and there are scholars everywhere who are powerless.

If he meets someone from the Hongru Society again, it is estimated that he will have to be taken captive, although it is still peaceful, but the appearance of the Hongru Society does not indicate anything at all? If he didn't take advantage of the current accumulation of strength, when the danger came, he would not have the slightest power to protect himself.

With this experience, Liu Fan was secretly alert in his heart, he couldn't be so comfortable, he must form a force of his own, at least so that forces like the Hongru Society would not dare to provoke him easily.

If you want to cultivate power, you need identity, since ordinary people can't recruit samurai privately, then they will participate in the imperial examination to gain fame, once they have fame, then they can cultivate power in the name of recruiting bodyguards.