The sky was about to shine, and the rain was falling tricklingly, pouring on the grief-stricken Wang Ran. Wang Ran came back to his senses, understood that he could only accept the reality, got up and went to the ruins of the grass house to find the half-burnt medicine hoe, walked to the bamboo forest in front of the mountain, found a vacant lot, and began to dig a pit. After digging for a long time, he saw that the pit on the ground had been formed, so he returned to the fence courtyard and carried the corpses of Master and Sister Xiaocui, put them into the pit, and then picked up the soil piled high next to the pit with both hands and gently covered the pit.

Wang Ran looked at the two grave bags in front of him and couldn't help but cry again. After crying for a while, he wiped his face and said softly: "Master, Sister Xiaocui, Ran'er is useless, I can't save you." Since I have survived by luck, I must swear that I will slay my enemies with my hand to sacrifice your souls in heaven. ”

Wang Ran kowtowed a few times, stood up, and walked away step by step.

The showers came and went as fast as they could, and in the blink of an eye, the sky began to clear.

The county order and the old man in the hood are of course Wang Ran's enemies, but the two of them are guarded by healthy guards, and it is easy to get close, so they have to figure it slowly. Although Zhang Xiaoliu is dead, and it seems that the situation has nothing to do with the county order and his group, he should obviously be locked up in the county jail, how can he run to the mountains to set fire, there must be something strange.

Worried that the county order still had eyeliner nearby, Wang Ran didn't dare to walk from the main road, so he had to cross the mountains and forests and cautiously sneak near Hengqu Town. Wang Ran smeared some mud on his face, and saw that the clothes on his body that were scratched by bushes and thorns were still not dirty enough, so he took off the hairpin on his head, rolled on the ground a few times, and made it look similar to a beggar on the side of the road, and then quietly sneaked near Zhang Xiaoliu's house to listen. I saw that the door of Zhang Xiaoliu's house was closed, and there was an old woman in the courtyard who cried and scolded from time to time, it should be Zhang Xiaoliu's wife, only to hear her scold: "Xiaoliu, this evil obstacle, in the past, it was just a mess, how dare you commit adultery with others, and now I am in prison, how can I live as an old widow." ”

Wang Ran, who was hiding outside the wall, understood in his heart that Zhang Xiaoliu should have been secretly released, and before he could go home, he had to go to Yongkang County Prison if he wanted to have any more clues. Wang Ran found the county jail, squatted on the side of the street opposite the prison gate, lowered his head and looked at the movement from the corner of his eye. Most of the passers-by on the street avoided him when they saw his dirty and messy appearance, but there were also wealthy old women and children in the family who threw some cooking cakes or money in front of him, and Wang Ran hoarsely whispered auspicious words.

Suddenly, a group of errands approached, Wang Ran hurriedly lowered his head, and the first person came up and kicked him, saying, "Dare to beg for food in front of the official mansion, get away." ”

Wang Ran rolled up the copper coins and cooking cakes on the ground and shrunk away, and when he saw that the servants were far away, he slipped back and continued to stare. After about an hour, the door opened, and a man in a jailer's uniform came out, stretched, and walked out into the street, and Wang Ran quietly followed.

The jailer first went to the wine shed and bought a pot of wine, then went into a restaurant, ordered a bowl of soup cakes, and ate the wine, and after eating, he burped and walked to the end of the street, and wandered into the shrimp alley.

Wang Ran knew that the alleys were full of corner prostitutes who were engaged in the leather and meat business, and there were few people during the day, and there was usually no movement inside, and no one around was willing to go to watch. He quickly followed, crept up behind the jailer, grabbed his neck with his left hand, and put his right hand against his waist with a branch he had picked up in the mountains, and said viciously, "I dare to shout and insert you." ”

The jailer was shocked, closed his mouth wide open, and whispered again: "Strong man spare my life, I still have some money on me, just take it." ”

Wang Ran thought about it, he was homeless now, and he always needed money to be around, so he handed the branch into his left hand, put it against the jailer's neck, and took out a handful of iron money from the jailer with his right hand and carried it into his arms. Then asked: "Who released Zhang Xiaoliu?" ”

"Oh, the strongman was going to ask about this." The jailer, who thought it was a robber, silently felt sorry for his money, and then continued: "That was done by our leader, it's none of my business." ”

"Why did your leader let him go?" Wang Ran said sharply.

"I heard that the third master of the Xu Mansion sent someone to find the leader, and he wanted to take Zhang Xiaoliu to interrogate, and he will be sent back in two days. What kind of identity does the third master of the Xu Mansion have in the town, he is very close to the county magistrate on weekdays, and he is generous, and he stuffed a large amount of money for food and wine for our head, and the head asked the man to take Zhang Xiaoliu away. The jailer hurriedly explained.

Wang Ran thought about it, slashed the jailer with one palm, threw him into the alley and walked away.

It turned out that the third master of the Xu Mansion heard that Zhang Xiaoliu was arrested, so he went to inquire, and learned that Wang Ran blocked him in Gouwei Lane and beat him, causing him to be caught by Sun Youshi for his adultery with the Hou family, which alarmed the county order, and then he was imprisoned. Xu Sanye thought about it for a few days, and came up with a plan, so he sent someone to the county prison to investigate, and took advantage of Zhang Xiaoliu's assassination to mention him to give him some advice.

It is said that Xu Yongyan, the third master of Xufu, was originally a concubine, and his mother was a partial house of Mrs. Xu, but her mother was shrewd and charming, and her status in Xufu was not low. Originally, Xu Yongye was born frail and sickly, and he looked sick all day long, Xu Yongyan hoped that he would die early and that he would inherit all the family property. Who knew that ten years ago, there was a man named Wang Zhichuan in the town, with exquisite medical skills, so the old lady Xu invited him to the house to see Xu Yongye's illness, Wang Zhichuan diagnosed and prescribed a conditioning prescription, and Xu Yongye gradually improved after taking a few medicines. In recent years, he has completely recovered from his illness, and he has added Ding one after another, and Mrs. Xu, who was originally half-cut into the ground, happily ate several bowls of rice that day, and her complexion is getting better day by day. Xu Yongyan was angry and vomited blood, and he had already hated Wang Zhichuan in his heart.

This time, Wang Ran put his subordinates in prison again, old hatred added new hatred, how could Xu Yongyan not be evil to the side of the bold. Zhang Xiaoliu hated Wang Ran to death, and when he learned that he had the opportunity to take revenge, he was also ruthless, and he was bound to destroy Wang Ran's family. took the fire fold given to him by Xu Yongyan and sneaked near Wang Ran's house. Zhang Xiaoliu was used to stealing chickens and dogs, and hid behind the grass house, and no one in the house could find out. When the moon was dark and the wind was high, Zhang Xiaoliu took out a fire fold and blew it, lighting the dry branches and straw that he quietly piled up on the wall.

Wang Ran figured out the reason, and went to Xu Yongyan to take revenge, walked to the front of Xu's mansion, looked at the magnificent gate, and remembered that there were many people in the mansion, even if he mixed in with his familiar face, and stabbed Xu Yongyan, it would be difficult for him to get out, and he said that he still needed to think about it in the long run.

Wang Ran returned to the mountains, hastily ate the begged cooking cakes, and found a clean place to rest in the bamboo forest. From last night to now, he has been physically and mentally exhausted after all the hardships, but he can't sleep. It was dark, and Wang Ran, who had barely taken a nap, also woke up and patrolled the neighborhood carefully. Suddenly, he heard someone's voice, so he hid his body and observed. I saw two people dressed as servants quietly touching the vicinity of the fence courtyard and seeing an ember in the courtyard. The two looked back and forth, whispered a few words, and went down the mountain.

Wang Ran had a plan in his heart.

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On this day, Xu Yongyan, the third master of the Xu Mansion, sat in the room to enjoy the coolness, and his heart was bored for a while, and he couldn't raise his appetite for the cool ice and snow Leng Yuanzi on the table. The escort date was approaching, and the prison boss Dai Qing came to Xu Yongyan for Zhang Xiaoliu for three days, and Xu Yongyan gave him someone to give him, and stuffed some money and sent him away first. It is a big crime to release people privately, and according to the law, they must be served, if the incident happens, Dai Qing confesses him to the crime, and Xu Yongyan can't bear it.

That day, seeing that Zhang Xiaoliu had not come back for a long time, Xu Yongyan sent someone to wait until it was late to quietly go up the mountain to find out. The next person came back and told that the grass house had burned down, but only found a covered charred corpse in the ditch behind the house, and he couldn't identify who it was, and he didn't see anyone else, which made Xu Yongyan puzzled, could it be that Zhang Xiaoliu set fire to the grass house and went back to bury it? Then why are the bodies of the other two missing? Why didn't Zhang Xiaoliu come back to his life? He promised him to wait until he went to the Chungju prison camp to serve his sentence, and then he would go there to ask for money, or he would be released back in a few months. If the corpse belonged to Zhang Xiaoliu, why didn't I hear that someone in Wang Zhichuan's family went to report to the official.

Xu Yongyan was thinking about it, and the subordinate Cai Zong suddenly came in, asked for peace, and then handed him a note, saying that there was a childish boy outside the house and handed it to the concierge and asked him to hand it over to the third master of the Xu family. Xu Yongyan asked if he knew whose child it was, and Cai Zong replied that he belonged to the Li family teahouse on the opposite street. Xu Yongyan opened the note and saw that it was written:

"Please meet the third master in the bamboo forest in front of the Fengqi Mountain Cottage at noon tomorrow."

The payment is Zhang Xiaoliu. Xu Yongyan sneered and asked Cai Zong to find the child who sent the note and interrogate him carefully.

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At noon the next day, Wang Ran was sitting in the bamboo forest, and suddenly heard a sound of footsteps, hid his tracks and followed the sound, only to see a dignified, well-dressed man into the bamboo forest, it was that Xu Yongyan. Wang Ran waited and saw that there was no one else, so he quietly leaned forward. The forest was silent, no matter how light Wang Ran's footsteps were, he couldn't hide Xu Yongyan's ears, Xu Yongyan turned around suddenly, stared at Wang Ran and sneered, as if he had expected it, and with a whistle, four people with sticks suddenly rushed into the bamboo forest and surrounded Wang Ran.

"Sure enough, it's you, young master, I'm calling it a desire to capture first." Xu Yongyan got color.

When Wang Ran saw that the four servants were coming to arrest him, his face was panicked, and his eyes suddenly lit up, and he shouted, "Master." ”

Xu Yongyan was shocked, but he remained silent, still staring at Wang Ran. Hu Cong didn't have this scheming, looked around, Wang Ran took the opportunity to find an air to escape from the encirclement, and ran towards the depths of the forest, Hu Cong came back to his senses and wanted to chase, Xu Yongyan shouted: "Pan Laosan stays, you three go to chase." ”

The three of them chased after Wang Ran's back, and before they could run a few steps, the person who hit the head suddenly had empty feet, and then fell to the ground and hugged his feet and screamed. It turned out that he stepped on the trap arranged by Wang Ran, and there was a big pit hidden under a layer of fallen leaves and soil covered with the ground, and there were dense sharpened bamboos inserted in the pit, and the person who hit the head had two sharp bamboos on his feet, and he was about to faint in pain. The other two were startled, slowed down, explored the way with wooden sticks, and cautiously searched for them.

Following Wang Ran's footprints and going about a hundred steps deeper, the two of them were looking down to explore the way, and suddenly the ground next to them cracked, and it turned out that Wang Ran was lying in the pit and covered his body with dead branches and fallen leaves. Wang Ran jumped up violently, pierced a person's stomach with a sharp bamboo in his hand, turned around and ran. The other person came back to his senses for a long time, and when he was shocked, he didn't dare to chase anymore, hesitated for a while, dragged up his half-dead companion, and prepared to withdraw to find Xu Yongyan and the others. Suddenly, with a bang, an arrow feather burst through the air and was nailed to his leg. Wang Ran, who was holding the bow in the distance, was lucky, and in addition to arranging traps in the past few days, he also secretly returned to the grass house to pick up some arrowheads, sharpened the bamboo into poles after sharpening the tip, and sneaked into the town to find a rope and came back to make a bamboo bow. Helplessly, he didn't know archery, and this bow and arrow was quite shoddy, even if he practiced hard every day, he missed nine out of ten shots, and the arrow that hit was not very powerful, so he didn't shoot Xu Yongyan directly with an arrow, so he could only be prepared to disturb the enemy. I didn't expect this first shot to have a good result. Wang Ran put away his bow and arrows, ran forward and picked up a wooden stick, knocked the two unconscious, and then turned back to look for Xu Yongyan.

Xu Yongyan heard the screams of his servants in the depths of the forest, and knew that something was wrong. Order, let Pan Laosan drag the injured servant in the ambush, and slowly withdraw from the bamboo forest with him. Wang Ran chased after him and raised his bow to shoot, but he missed nine out of ten shots, and after the arrow was shot, it only wiped Pan Laosan's face.

It turned out that Wang Ran found someone to hand a note to Xu Yongyan on purpose to sell a flaw, thinking that Xu Yongyan was conceited and smart in the past, and he was likely to personally bring someone to arrest him, as he expected. Just now he deliberately appeared in front of Xu Yongyan in order to find out how many people Xu Yongyan had brought, and he originally thought that there were no more than two or three, but unexpectedly, Xu Yongyan's cunning actually led four servants, and Wang Ran only put down three of them when he exhausted his means. Seeing that there was nothing to be done at present, Wang Ran gritted his teeth and had no choice but to fight for his life.

rushed over and slapped Pan Laosan with a stick, the two of them came and went, Wang Ran saw the opportunity to bully the past, blocked the wooden stick with one hand, and took out the kitchen knife pinned to his waist with the other hand and slashed out, finally injuring Pan Laosan. Pan Laosan abandoned the stick and dragged Wang Ran, the two were tearing, Wang Ran suddenly had a sharp pain in his waist, and turned his head to see Xu Yongyan holding a short dagger in both hands at him, and the dagger was covered with blood. Wang Ran kicked Xu Yongyan away, pulled the wound, and grinned in pain.

The injury stimulated Wang Ran's ferocity, broke free of Pan Laosan's hand, slashed left and right a few times, and finally put down Pan Laosan, turned around to capture Xu Yongyan, but his leg was suddenly hugged by someone, and he looked down to see that it was the servant who was injured in the foot, and it was useless to hammer a few punches on his head. Xu Yongyan, who got up, had a few cuts in his chest, and Wang Ran had to stun the man with the back of the knife before he got out. Turning his head, Xu Yongyan had already run out of the forest like a rabbit, Wang Ran threw the kitchen knife fiercely, and finally nailed Xu Yongyan to the ground.

Wang Ran walked to Xu Yongyan holding the wound on his waist, Xu Yongyan on the ground begged for mercy while crying out in pain, Wang Ran didn't hear a word in his ears, picked up the dagger on the ground, ended his life, and then staggered out of the bamboo forest.

At this time, it was three o'clock in the afternoon, the scorching sun hung in the air, and the evil should be ambushed.