The night in the mountains is extraordinarily dark; The wind in the mountains is exceptionally cool.

Zou Zhenggang, who was lying under the stable, couldn't sleep for a long time.

The smell of horse manure and sweat carried by the cold wind in the mountains is tolerable, and these smells will fade after a long time, but the snoring in the crowd is unbearable. Not far from him, lay a snoring man. The heavy purr rhythmically tugged at the bellows in his ear, rolling like thunder on the cold, hard ground as if it were going to last all night.

When you are hungry, you will moan day and night, and when you are full, you will be like a dead pig, which is Zou Zhenggang's contemptuous evaluation of these homeless people. As the security captain of the Wanderer Five, it was his privilege to find a loose place to sleep alone without squeezing into the filthy pile. However, there are many people and the courtyard is narrow, and it is impossible for Toast to arrange a house for a group of people named Hanako, so he has to commit himself to the stable.

"Could it be that you made a big mistake, especially at this time?"

This thought eroded Zou Zhenggang's once firm will like the venom of a poisonous snake. Thinking of the homeless people who wept in the wind and snow when they left Beijing, the eyes of the officials outside the Donghua Gate as if they were saying goodbye (Note 1), the smile on the lips of the second prince (Wang Dehua), and the old lady, wife and a pair of children who stayed at home, Zou Zhenggang's heart was like a cat scratching.

Did you fall into a big pit and fall into a game set up for yourself?

No, Zou Zhenggang once again denied his groundless conjecture. Dongchang does things, the emperor's decree is only the beginning of doing things, and the meaning of the factory is the root of doing things. Since he entered the Tao, he has never disobeyed the will of the factory. The death of the former first assistant Xue Guoguan also made a great effort.

At the time of Jingcha, Wu Changshi, the general of Donglin, took over as the head of the ministry and gave Xue Guoguan a large sum of silver. Xue Guoguan did not refuse to come, and they all smiled. Wu Changshi was overjoyed in his heart, thinking that his own affairs were a certainty.

Who knew that the result was revealed, and Wu Changshi was only transferred from the Pedestrian Division to the head of the Ministry of Rites. Xue Guoguan accepted the money and did not do anything, and he did not return the money if he couldn't do it, which violated the morality of the rivers and lakes in the officialdom.

Wu Changshi, who hated Xue Guoguan to the core, and Wu Daozheng, who was punished by Dongchang, were kind, so they found Wu Daozheng to help. Wu Daozheng made a small report to the factory father, and it happened that Xue Guoguan had also offended the factory company, so Wang Dehua took the opportunity to add fuel to the fire. In the end, Xue Guoguan died in the edict, and Dongchang can be said to have contributed a lot.

Zou Zhenggang acted as the head of Wang Dehua's errands, and Mingli ran errands for Wu Daozheng and Wu Changshi, and secretly reported to Wang Dehua. Xue Guoguan, the first assistant of the dignified, hung himself on the beam of the cell for two days before collecting the body and dressing it up, but Zou Zhenggang was promoted to a big position because of his first merit, and he was one step closer to the senior positions of the East Factory: the secretary, the foreman, and even the head of the factory.

Since he is appreciated by the factory father, the factory company sent himself out of this drudgery, is it to take the handle of Jinyiwei? Zou Zhenggang shook his head again.

Dongchang and Jinyiwei are the same master, and they can compete for favor with each other, but it is impossible to fight for their lives. Besides, the three generations of Luo Yangxing are the general constitution of Jinyiwei (Jinyiwei commander), and the power of Jinyiwei is deep-rooted, and he is even more favored by the emperor.

It seems that the top-secret mission of Zhu Pingjin, the prince of the Yin Investigation Shu Domain, is real, Zou Zhenggang said to himself in his heart. It's just that all these analyses and speculations have not dispelled his doubts:

Why does everything before and after departure seem so weird?

According to the factory father, there are two teams of Dongchang Fanzi sent to Shudi.

A team entered Sichuan from Chaotian Pass through Shaanxi, and the specific composition of personnel was personally arranged by the factory official, and Zou Zhenggang was not clear.

The other team is the team led by Zou Zhenggang. There are three people in this team, and they plan to go south to Zhili through the canal, and then cross Huguang and enter Sichuan through Kuimen.

However, after his team set off, everything did not go well. As the boat passed through Shandong, one person suddenly fell ill and was bedridden. First he had a high fever, then he vomited incessantly, and he vomited yellow soup, as if he was infected with the plague. Zou Zhenggang couldn't, so he had to deal with it himself.

When they arrived in Anqing, Zou Zhenggang and his subordinates successfully blended into the westward exile brigade. But when he walked to Qi Huang, the man died inexplicably in the pile of displaced people. Zou Zhenggang searched for a day and finally found the corpses of his subordinates. After an inspection, it was found that he had his throat cut and died, the money and belongings on his body were missing, and even the important Dongchang waist plate was missing. Zou Zhenggang judged that the gangsters took advantage of the night to rob money, and had no other intentions, so he boldly continued to move forward. In order to protect himself, he deliberately showed his strength among the displaced people to dispel the evil intentions of some people. The homeless people were helpless, and when they saw someone who knew martial arts, they automatically gathered around him. Gradually, he became the leader of a group of outcasts. This time, the Shufu army appointed a captain to him, and he must have taken a fancy to this.

The Shu Army, which calls itself the Protector Army. But how could the army of the Shu Domain protect the country and protect Huguang, and how could the Shu Domain willingly accept so many displaced people!

Zou Zhenggang sneered in his heart: Recruiting displaced people to reclaim the famine is clearly an excuse, and recruiting displaced people as soldiers is the real purpose of the Shu Domain.

What is it called?

This is called "the reverse has appeared"!

Whatever, when he arrives in Shu and sees the true appearance of Shudi, he will connect with another group according to the agreement and report what he saw and heard along the way! At that time, you can get out of Shu and return to Beijing......

The mountain wind is getting stronger, and the bonfire is bright and dark. Outside the low and dilapidated mud-brick courtyard wall, a wave of footsteps came from far and near.

Zou Zhenggang knew that it was the Tusi soldiers outside the wall patrolling over. He retracted his galloping mind and returned his attention to the reality in front of him. The displaced people entered the Sichuan, did not go to Kuimen, but passed through the Tusi, it must be that the Tusi and the Shu Wangfu have colluded! If the factory gong played the news of the collusion between the Shu Wangfu and the Tusi to the emperor, with the emperor's temperament, it would definitely set off a monstrous case. And as a starter, he is another great achievement!

If you can get the ironclad evidence that the Shu Wangfu and Tusi colluded to rebel, maybe you can't wait to connect with another group, and you can return to Beijing in advance!

Thinking of this, Zou Zhenggang suddenly felt excited. He quietly looked up and looked around vigilantly, still the sound of the wind, still the same snoring, nothing unusual at all. Only the footsteps outside the hospital, getting closer and clearer.

Capturing a toast leader may be able to torture the inside story. brought it into Beijing, and his personal confession is ironclad evidence!

The idea of action became clearer and clearer in Zou Zhenggang's mind, first take the human card, and then seize the horse and go south. When they arrived at the edge of the Qingjiang River, they grabbed another boat and went down the river. When you arrive in Yidu, you show your Dongchang waist card, who would dare to stop it?

No! Zou Zhenggang fine-tuned the plan in his heart.

The key is to catch the people who matter. As for torture, there is time on board. If Tusi found out, they would definitely link the disappearance of the security captain with the disappearance of their own leader, and it was the Shu Wangfu who was responsible for the black pot at that time. And by himself, he can escort the prisoners and return to Beijing in advance.

So who is the target?

In his mind, Zou Zhenggang filtered several figures one by one. Tian Si, the flag chief who stayed for the homeless Zhang Luo before evening? It is said that his consolation with Rongmei Toast has made Tian Xuan have been related to him for several generations, and if he is taken down......

No, Zou Zhenggang shook his head slightly. That Tian Si is a stupid and reckless man, how can he gain insight into such a top-secret situation?

Flag Commander Tang Hei? Zou Zhenggang vetoed it again, and the person looked like a tough practitioner. It's not easy to capture, not to mention that he's just a general flag, how can he know the inside story?

So who is that? Zou Zhenggang thought hard. Yesan Pass is only so big that there are people who can know the inside story...... It's not rich, it's expensive!

Zou Zhenggang suddenly understood that the person in Yesanguan who knew about Shutu's collusion must be the supreme governor here: Tang Dingbang, the chief flag master.

There is no time to lose. Tang Hei had told him that Tang Dingbang would return to Yesanguan from the Tusi Guanzhai in Hefeng tonight. Thinking of this, Zou Zhenggang's heart finally brightened.

He made up his mind. After years of experience, his thinking quickly turned to the details of the action, such as Tang Dingbang's apartment, the location of the horses, the time of the action, and the response to the obstacles of the Tusi soldiers on the road. You need to know an old saying: wealth is sought in danger, success is in detail!

When the hour comes, it is the time when people sleep most soundly and heavily. Acting at this time can often be unexpected and achieve the best results. The operation ended, just in time for dawn. It is not only conducive to the post-event determination of the situation, but also conducive to the identification of the road and long-distance escape.

Zou Zhenggang's fixed time for action is before dawn. In order for the movement to go well, he had to immediately rest and regain his strength. After many days of exhaustion, he slowly fell asleep. He stretched out in the grass for a while, and the remaining consciousness told him that because he was a one-line activity and the action was improvised, the period before the action must be safe.

However, Zou Zhenggang was wrong.

Although Zou Zhenggang successfully escaped the tracking of the public procuratorate and the law, a large group of people from the grassroots level in Henan Province with rich experience in struggle set their sights on him.

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The sky was overcast and shining, and the biological clock made Zou Zhenggang sober up on time. This night, the sultry grain grass seemed to be particularly warm and soft, as if a woman had melted them with her hot body. In the gentleness, a bad premonition ingested Zou Zhenggang's heart and spleen. Sure enough, when he opened his eyes, a simple woman was smirking at him with drooling, and two dark bare arms were firmly wrapped around his neck.

"Catch the traitor!" Countless voices around the courtyard sounded without losing any time. It's just that there is not much anger in these voices, but a lot of schadenfreude.

Hit the trick! This was Zou Zhenggang's first reaction. He gave up his intention of touching the sword, because those who had harmed him must have stolen his weapon long ago if they could have sent a naked woman to him.

"Meet ......" The woman pouted and twisted her soft body to express her dissatisfaction with Zou Zhenggang's rough behavior. Zou Zhenggang didn't bother with this woman, he just calmly broke the stupid girl's wrapped arm, and a carp stood up.

The Tusi soldiers did not appear, and all the people who gathered were homeless, and there were many more homeless people who climbed over the wall from the horse shop next door, apparently intending to capture him alive. Zou Zhenggang sneered slightly, the contemptible hands and feet are not tied, just with the three-legged cat kung fu you are waiting for, you still want to arrest this official?

Unfortunately, before he could finish sneering, the iron arrow came to him with a scream. said that it was too late, Zou Zhenggang twisted his body and leaned back. It's a pity that he is not simple, and neither are his opponents. Three iron arrows swooped at once, and he dodged two of them, the last one piercing his thigh.

The elated grassroots crowd rushed up, and the weight of dozens of bodies was stacked on top of him, making the martial arts master almost suffocate to death on the spot. Like pigs, they tied Zou Zhenggang's four hooves upside down, and lifted them up with long wooden poles, ignoring his bleeding wounds.

At the gate of the horse shop, the crowd was excited, and the crowd was denouncing Zou Zhenggang's bad behavior of relying on the power to bully others and play with women from good families. Fearing that the situation would get out of control, the Tusi soldiers had already surrounded the displaced people. The tall captain Song Hao was negotiating with the leader of the toast, and the leader looked like a scholar, slightly anxiously reprimanding Tang Hei beside him, and Tang Hei, who was carrying a big bow, could only bow his head and listen to the training. It seems that this scholar is the main owner of the Yesanguan Tusi, Tang Dingbang, the general banner of the Ember Division.

"Careless! I can't imagine that there is a master of arrows in the ravine! Three arrows at the same time, there is no such character in the brocade guard! Zou Zhenggang thought remorsefully. The sharp pain in his lower body did not break his will. He viciously thought of a way to get out, and it seemed that Song Hao's negotiation with Tusi was the only way for him to escape his bad luck. After all, he is the same as him, and his current identity is the security captain appointed by the Shu Palace, and Tusi has no right to dispose of himself without authorization!

Tang Dingbang reprimanded Tang Hei and finally made a decision. The crowd lowered Zou Zhenggang face down to the ground, and the wooden pole was also removed, and the situation seemed to be developing in the direction of Zou Zhenggang's judgment: Tusi really did not want to intervene in the internal disputes of the Shu Palace.

But the situation changed again.

A man with buckteeth screamed and rushed into the crowd saying he had a major discovery to report to his superiors. The man with buck teeth, Zou Zhenggang, knew that he was a homeless in his team. Zou Zhenggang remembered that he was on the road and rewarded him with a steamed cake. But in the face of Zou Zhenggang's angry gaze, the man was just like a dog about to eat hot, exuding a happy and bright smile.

"Adults, folks!" The bucktooth man loudly reported to Song Hao, Tang Dingbang and the surrounding crowd: "The villain has quietly followed this guy for half a month, from Qizhou to Yiling!" I found that the villain always has to touch his arms before going to bed, as if there is something hidden in it! My lord, why don't we search for it! ”

It's not a big deal to watch the excitement.

"Stripped naked!" The crowd shouted excitedly.

Outside the crowd, the joyful silly chick has her eyes on a new target. She grabbed a pair of Li Goudan's paws and firmly put them on her erect chest:

"Brother Dandan, you said it, it's done, you have to marry me!"

Note 1: The Yamen of Dongchang is outside the Donghua Gate of the Forbidden City, so it is called "Dongchang".