The sky was overcast, and the wind was thick and weak, and the drizzle hit the bare branches, scattered on the grass that had sprouted, and fell on the green wheat fields.

On the official road in Qilin County, a carriage wrapped in a navy blue curtain was galloping rapidly, the windward side of the curtain had been wet by the drizzle, and the other side was very dry, and it was obvious that the carriage had been running wild before the drizzle without stopping.

The sound of horses' hooves slowed down, and the carriage stopped next to an inn next to the official road.

After the coachman stopped the carriage, three people jumped out of the carriage, two of them were tall, dressed in warrior suits, and wore a simple sword at their waists, with gloomy faces. The other was about fifty or sixty years old, some of them were thin, wearing long robes, and they were smiling, as if they had encountered some happy event.

"This ghost weather, with spring rain but cold wind, is really tormenting, I will have to drink a few more glasses of soju to ward off the cold." The man in the long shirt patted the two warriors beside him, and said with a smile: "This way I still have to rely on the protection of the two, my old Hu will remember the feelings of the two, and when I get to Suzhou to become the manager of the bank, I will thank the two more."

This thin man in a long shirt is none other than Lao Hu.

"I've thanked Steward Hu first, but the adults have told us not to delay, we still have to eat and drink quickly when we go in." A warrior laughed dryly.

"There is a wild boar forest in front, uninhabited, and this weather is the most cold in the forest, how can I drink more wine and eat more meat to fill my body?"

Lao Hu looked like an experienced man and strode into the inn.

The two warriors behind him looked at each other meaningfully, and then smiled coldly, the yamen will still let the prisoner eat a good send-off meal, and now Lao Hu's behavior is no different from the prisoner who eats the severed head meal in the eyes of the two of them.

In the inn, Lao Hu and two warriors sat around a small square table, the table was full of wine and meat, Lao Hu was gulping wine and stuffing large pieces of meat into his mouth, as if he was eating the last meal.

"Eh, you guys eat too, you're welcome, I'll treat you as much as you want, and the money is there" Lao Hu wiped the greasy on his mouth, picked up a big bowl of soju and said to the two: "Come, it's done"

Before leaving Zhu's mansion today, Zhu Mian promised Lao Hu to go to Suzhou to let him be the manager of the Suzhou branch of the Tiandi Bank, which is a rich and noble position, no wonder Lao Hu was happy all the way.

But what Lao Hu didn't know was that Zhu Mian also gave the two of them an order to kill Lao Hu, so the two saw that Lao Hu in front of them was full of illusions about the future, and they didn't know that a catastrophe was coming.

"Lao Hu, you will live that carefree and old man-like life in the future, my brothers are very envious of you, come to give you a bowl"

The two raised the bowl and drank with Lao Hu.

However, the two of them were very measured, just taking a sip, on the other hand, the old Hu was dry in the whole bowl, and the eyes of the two looked at Lao Hu more and more like looking at a dead man.

Lao Hu put down the wine bowl, he had already drunk ten bowls, and he was a little drunk, and the two warriors in front of him did not drink more than two bowls of wine combined.

"Pretty cautious"

Lao Hu snorted coldly in his heart, and then he still smiled and picked up a bowl of wine, which was the eleventh bowl of wine.

He has been with Zhu Mian for so many years, although he is mainly responsible for helping Zhu Mian find prostitutes, but Zhu Mian knows better than anyone who he means, he knows that Zhu Mian has more than a dozen lives on his hands, once Kaifeng Mansion suspects Zhu Mian, he is the most critical witness, and Zhu Mian will never let the people of Kaifeng Mansion find him

So today, when Zhu Mian smiled and told Lao Hu to go to Suzhou to retire and avoid suspicion, Lao Hu already knew that he was in danger.

He also knew that the two people around him were protecting themselves on the surface, but in fact they were here to ask for their lives, in order to find a chance to escape, Lao Hu pretended to be a villain all the way, just to confuse these two, as long as these two people relaxed their vigilance, they would have a chance to live.

"Zhu Mian, you bastard"

Secretly scolding, Lao Hu drank the bowl of wine into his stomach in one gulp.

"Lao Hu, you drink less, you will have to hurry later" A martial artist pretended to remind, in fact, he wished that Lao Hu was drunk, so that they would have a lot less trouble when they started.

Although even if Lao Hu was not drunk, it would be as simple as pinching an ant to death for them.

"Ha, don't worry, I'm not drunk, I'm notoriously not drunk in a thousand cups"

Lao Hu looked drunk, danced and poured himself another bowl of wine, and when he poured the wine, he was also very unstable, spilling a lot of wine.

The two warriors glanced at each other insidiously, and they no longer stopped Lao Hu.

After the twelfth bowl of wine, Lao Hu staggered to his feet.

"You two help me look at some baggage, there is a lot of gold and silver in it, I'll go to a thatched house."

Lao Hu patted his personal burden on the table, and walked to the back of the store with three staggering steps.

The two warriors looked at the burden, smiled evilly, and said in their hearts that Lao Hu was not very drunk, and they had already begun to be stupid. However, the two of them did not touch Lao Hu's baggage, anyway, there was more gold and silver in the baggage, and it would be the two of them immediately.

"Little Er, serve the wine"

A jar of wine was drunk by Lao Hu, and the two of them were a little unsatisfied after drinking the wine in their bowls, so they asked Xiao Er again to call for wine.

"Guest, the wine is here"

Xiao Er brought a jar of wine, and while helping the two of them unseal their mouths, they gossiped casually.

"Lao Hu is really drunk today, it looks like he has encountered some happy event, hehe"

After Xiao Er finished speaking, a martial artist said strangely: "Oh, you know Lao Hu"

"Of course I know, isn't he just transporting goods to the big officials in the city, he comes here from time to time to eat and drink, and after a long time, he naturally knows each other."

As he spoke, Xiao Er had already opened the seal of the wine jar, so he bowed down and said, "The two guest officers use it slowly." ”

"Wait"

The other stopped Xiao Er, looking wrong.

"Why do you say he's drunk fast?"

"Don't you know, Lao Hu's amount of alcohol is really powerful, and he doesn't change his face when he drinks twenty sea bowls here on weekdays, but he only drinks a dozen small bowls this time, and he shakes like this, so I said that he is drunk fast." Xiao Er said with a grin.

After Xiao Er finished speaking, the two warriors glanced at each other, and their faces changed drastically.

"The straight lady thief is really a thousand cups not drunk"

With a loud scolding, the two of them got up, one towards the backyard of the inn, and the other towards the door of the inn.

"Fool, he must have ridden around the gate"

The warrior who was facing the gate covered his aching forehead and scolded again, and the two quickly ran out of the inn.

"Not good"

Sure enough, after the two went out, they saw that the horses in the carriage had been untied and disappeared.

"Ran in that direction, chase after it"

After all, the two of them were connoisseurs, and after quickly judging the direction of Lao Hu's escape, they took out a knife and cut the ropes of other guests in the stable next to the inn, grabbed two horses, and chased in the direction of Lao Hu's escape.

"Hey, officer, your baggage"

After Xiao Er chased him out, the two of them had already galloped away.

Lao Hu struggled to whip the horse, and fled for his life in horror, he fled in the direction of Bianjing, not that he wanted to go back and turn himself in, let alone to find Zhu Mian to beg for mercy, just because there was an official road intersection in front of him, and when he arrived at that intersection, he could change direction and flee in the northwest direction.

He has already calculated that the matter has come to this point, not only Zhu Mian will not let him go, but the imperial court will even want him, and he will not be able to mix in the Great Song Dynasty, so he has to flee to Western Xia or Liaojin to make a living.

"Stop"

After a while, Lao Hu was horrified to hear a roar from behind, and when he looked back, he was suddenly scared out of a cold sweat, only to see that the two warriors had already chased after him on horseback, and they were getting closer and closer to him.

"Driving"

Lao Hu whipped the horse hard again and kicked his legs, and only then did he realize the fatal mistake he had made, that is, to untie the horse on the carriage and flee for his life.

Most of the horses pulling the carriage have good endurance, but the speed of running is not fast, coupled with Lao Hu's poor riding skills, it is only a matter of time before they are caught up by those two warriors.

"Stop and die"

The horses of the two warriors are getting closer and closer to Lao Hu, at this time it is windy and foggy, everywhere is gray, and there is no one on this official road, the two warriors have already drawn out their bright knives and aimed at Lao Hu.

"Two heroes spare their lives"

Seeing that the two had caught up, Lao Hu hurriedly begged for mercy.

"Our two brothers are also instructed by others, and they have a debtor, so don't look for us if you are a ghost."

The warrior who had already equaled Lao Hu smiled cruelly, and then raised his sword at Lao Hu.

"Don't"

Sou

Phew

Just as the knife was about to cut into Lao Hu's back, a sudden sound of breaking wind sounded, followed by a dull sound of sharp weapons entering the flesh.

"Ahh

The warrior who raised the knife grabbed his right hand holding the knife and screamed, only to see that the simple knife in his hand was gone, and a dagger was nailed to his wrist in blood.

Just when the two warriors and the old man were still in shock, dozens of black horses appeared on both sides of the official road, and on each horse there was a man in black wearing a hat, and each man in black held a special long knife in his hand.

"Take people"

As soon as the thin man in black at the head gave an order, the men in black divided five people to hold Lao Hu, and the rest pointed at the ground with long knives, and rushed towards the two warriors on horseback.

"It's not good to run"

The two warriors were not ambiguous at all, and immediately turned their horses' heads and fled in embarrassment.

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