"I didn't expect Lao Zhang to be so magnanimous, you can really support the boat in the prime minister's belly." Zhao Xiu hurriedly complimented.

"Lord Wang, what you said is really inappropriate, how can I compare with the prime minister?" Zhang Jin's flattered look made Zhao Xiu embarrassed.

For a while, the tense atmosphere just now disappeared in an instant, and the two of them complimented each other, Zhao Xiu's heart couldn't help but become more and more bottomless, "Why hasn't Meng Xin found out that old ghost Zheng Xinshi, is it really guessed by me, damn Zheng Xinshi didn't stay in Zhang's Mansion at all?" He is so bold that he dares to act wantonly and live wantonly on the boundaries of Nanning? ”

Zhao Xiu's smile became more and more embarrassed, and he suddenly found that Zhang Jin was looking at himself with a fool's eyes. While Zhao Xiu secretly said that it was not good, his heart was full of thoughts.

"Lao Zhang, I'm here today to apologize to you, and since the words have been spoken, then I'll leave." Zhao Xiu nodded after speaking, turned around and walked in the direction of the gate of Zhang's mansion.

"The old minister Zhang respectfully sends the prince." Zhang Jin stood in place and bowed.

Zhao Xiu couldn't wait to leave this place quickly, he felt that he was so impulsive for the first time, and when he heard that Zheng Xinshi had come to Liaozhou, his judgment ability was almost lost.

When Zhao Xiu saw Meng Xin again, his heart fell into a trough again, the two of them glanced at each other, Meng Xin shook his head slightly, and all the meaning was in his eyes.

Meng Xin and Zhao Xiu got on the horse again, and they were still in high spirits an hour ago, but the two of them at this time were full of frustration. The more than 300 palace guards behind him were also dejected, like defeated roosters.

Zhao Xiu held the reins in his hand, slowly marching on the street, his eyes couldn't be opened, from yesterday morning to now, he had not closed his eyes for eighteen hours, he was extremely tired.

Meng Xin was better, panting all the time. "Fuck, I'll fuck it." Meng Xin couldn't control his emotions anymore and scolded loudly.

"I'll take it, I've searched all the thatched houses, the stables, the firewood room, and even the concubine's house in the backyard, and I went in and searched it, but I didn't find anything, not even a hair. I'll go. ”

Zhao Xiu looked up at the sky, and what Meng Xin said didn't take much to heart. The sky above Zhao Xiu's head was very blue, and white clouds like tulle were slowly drifting by.

"Zheng Xinshi is not in Zhang Jin's house, why can't I think of it? How could he be in Zhang Jin's mansion? In Shi Hongzong's eyes, Zheng Xinshi is much more important than Zhang Jin, and Zheng Xinshi himself is an arrogant person, how can he be willing to succumb to other people's roofs? Zhao Xiu thought about it, the reins in his hand gradually loosened, and the horse under his crotch slowed down.

"Two possibilities, Zheng Xinshi came to Liaozhou, Zhang Jin knew that Zheng Xinshi would assassinate me, but according to Meng Xin's trial, Zheng Xinshi may not have time to meet with Zhang Jin, if he and Zhang Jin met and discussed countermeasures together, according to Zhang Jin's character of either not moving or killing with one blow, it is impossible to agree to Zheng Xinshi's assassination without being sure, unless the two people are absolutely sure, but it turns out that these two people have not done absolutely." Zhao Xiu let go of the reins and scratched his head with both hands.

"There is another possibility, Zheng Xinshi came to Liaozhou, but Zhang Jin didn't know! Will it? Zhang Jin has worked hard for Shi Hongzong in Liaozhou for many years, and he will bypass Zhang Jin to arrange Zheng Xinshi's action? Shi Hongzong began to distrust Zhang Jin? Or is Shi Hongzong in a hurry, and he doesn't even say hello in a hurry, and wants to cut through the mess quickly? Zhao Xiu thought about the boss, and felt that his brain was not enough at all.

Zhao Xiu didn't think about anything else at all, his mind was full of thinking about where Zheng Xinshi was? What broke Zhao Xiu's contemplation was a rapid sound of horses' hooves, and it was one of the twelve demons of the earth branch wearing a mask who rushed to Zhao Xiu, the mask on this person's face was a black human face, and there were many protruding pustules on this person's face, as if they were scars burned by fire, as if the person in the mask was thrown into purgatory. Although it was extremely painful, there was a frightening smile on the corner of his mouth.

He grabbed the reins the moment before he crashed into Zhao Xiu, causing the front hooves of the divine horse under his crotch to leave the ground and raise his head to the sky and roar.

"Lord Qiqi, we have found a suspicious place, very much like a stronghold." The person wearing the mask is Lian You-san.

Ah San's words gave Meng Xin and the others a fierce medicine, and Zhao Xiu hurriedly asked, "Did you catch anyone?" ”

Ah San shook his head and said, "When I rushed there, there was no one left, only some clothes and weapons that had not yet arrived and had to be disposed of. ”

Zhao Xiu couldn't care so much, kicked the horse's belly lightly, and said to the more than three hundred people behind: "Hurry up and keep up!" ”

Ah San rushed to the front, taking Zhao Xiu, Meng Xin and others to the east, there was a panic on the streets of Nanning, and the people on the street were in turmoil, Zhao Xiu was like grasping a straw, constantly being led by this straw.

Ah San led more than 300 people around the corner after turn and ran into the alley. Stopped in front of the gate of a small deserted courtyard, the alley was very narrow, and the royal palace guards on horseback could only form a column, turned over and dismounted, and surrounded the whole courtyard.

The small courtyard was full of weeds that had been trampled on, and the courtyard wall had collapsed not like a courtyard, Zhao Xiu walked behind Ah San and entered the only wooden house in the courtyard.

The courtyard was stained with black-clad demon guards, but only the bloody faces were nowhere to be seen.

As soon as Zhao Xiu entered the courtyard, he asked, "Where is the blood?" Why isn't he here? ”

"Xuemao went to chase them, this yard was discovered by Xuemao first, our people noticed that this small courtyard that no one lived in, suddenly there was cooking smoke, indicating that someone was making a fire here, and it was just at this time, so Xuemao came to check, but I didn't expect to find that all the people in the yard had disappeared, the stove in the house was still hot, and the pot was still hot with white flour steamed buns."

Ah San took Zhao Xiu and Meng Xin into the house, the house was very gray, the roof was still falling dirt down, the stone bricks on the ground were all cracked, the smoked black stove was still bubbling with the aroma of steamed buns, and the house was full of uncleaned cobwebs.

"There are some of their clothes and arrows in the back room." Ah San took Zhao Xiu to the back room, and the huge kang was disorganized, with torn clothes, torn pants, and miscellaneous things piled up all over the earthen kang.

Ah San pointed to the short arrows that had been sorted out and placed on the edge of the kang, and said to Zhao Xiu: "These arrows we found are exactly the same as the short arrows fired by the gang that stabbed you yesterday with a strong crossbow, and it can almost be concluded that the gang that assassinated you lives here." ”

Zhao Xiu frowned and looked at the short arrow in front of him, took a breath and asked, "Do you estimate, how many people can they have?" ”