Liu Tong was entangled by Wu Ji, so he had to continue to learn from him, Wu Ji's knife skills were proficient, but he didn't have internal force to cultivate, blindly relying on brute force, and when he met a person with strong internal force like Liu Tong, no matter how good the knife skills were, it would not help.

The two were sweating profusely, and after Long Duan'er woke up, Wu Ji took the two to the river to wash up and come back for breakfast.

After entering the house, Liu Tong saw that Wu Xing had been talking to Wang Bing all the time, which was very laborious, but the conversation was unabated.

After dawn, everyone had eaten, and Liu Tong said goodbye to Li Lan and others and prepared to continue on his way. saw Wu Ji also carrying his bags and following out.

Li Lan bowed to Liu Tongyingying, "Son, the first husband was not in a national disaster, leaving this only son, and the concubine was unable to raise him to become a talent, and he was ashamed of the ancestors of the Wu family." Please take Ji'er in, let her serve left and right, follow Gongzi to make contributions, and live up to his father's name. ”

Liu Tong helped Li Lan up, and saw that Wu Xing was also looking forward to it, Wang Bing was smiling, Liu Tong thought to himself, Wu Xing might have told Wang Bing about this just now, Wu Xing estimated that he had been interested in Li Lan for a long time, and it was also a good thing to take Wu Ji away and let them have lovers and eventually become dependents.

"In this troubled world, the sword has no eyes, how can the two of them bear to fight and kill?"

Li Lan said: "The Wu family must not decline from now on, the concubine is incompetent, and I hope that the son will be fulfilled." ”

"The man's fame is taken immediately, how can he wait with me in the barren old mountains and forests." Wu Xing arched his hand.

Liu Tong looked at Wu Xing and Li Lan, the two of them were awkward by him, Liu Tong sighed: "Okay, Wu Ji will be my entourage for the time being." ”

He also said to Wu Xing: "This is a paradise, the gods and their relatives live in seclusion, however, General Wu, Your Excellency is full of martial arts, why not go to Yecheng and have your own martial arts." ”

Wu Xing glanced at Li Lan gently and said, "When Ji'er has some fame, we will go and see each other." ”

Liu Tong was not good at persuasion, so he took everyone to ride away, Wu Ji was reluctant, rode the only horse in the family, and followed Liu Tong and others to Hanzhong.

Hanzhong is named after the Han River, and has the reputation of "Tianhan" since ancient times, known as Nanzheng, Xingyuan, Liangzhou, and Tianhan in ancient times, and is an important birthplace of the Han Dynasty, and also has a direct and irreplaceable relationship with the formation of the title of Han nationality.

Hanzhong is the source of the Han River, the largest tributary of the Yangtze River, the largest city in the surrounding area, the only place from Chang'an to Chengdu, and the main birthplace of the Han and Han cultures. Hanzhong is located in the southernmost part of Shaanxi, north of the Qinling Mountains, south of the shallow foot of Pingba Mountain, forming the Hanzhong Basin, is the "land of abundance", "the land of fish and rice". ”

And when they came out of the mountains, they came to the first official road, and because of the sun, they did not feel tired, thirsty, and hungry. The food and clean water he carried with him had been exhausted, and Wu Ji pointed to the distance and shouted happily: "Childe, look, there is a wine shop!" Liu Tong looked at it, and there were indeed houses on the side of the road in the distance, and the flags were fluttering in the wind.

The four of them marched forward, and Liu Tong saw two big characters on the banner "Yishe". Liu Tong didn't know what he meant, so he dismounted and tied his horse. An old pawn greeted him.

Liu Tong took out a piece of gold and handed it to the old man, and said, "Old man, prepare a table of good wine and food for me, the best forage for the horses, and prepare some dry food and drinking water for me to carry." ”

The old man waved his hand and said, "Son, the righteous sacrifice is not subject to money and food, and the rice and meat are taken by themselves, but they cannot be taken away." ”

Hey, Liu Tong was very strange, he entered the door with his head bored, and the old man went into the house and took out some corn, a plate of side dishes, and a plate of dried meat on the table.

Liu Tong saw that the food was simple and the amount was small, so he handed the gold to the old pawn, "Uncle, it's convenient, take more good food." ”

The old pawn said with a smile: "I am a righteous house in Hanzhong, rice and meat are provided for free, and passers-by measure their stomachs to eat, and it is not appropriate to offend the ghosts and gods too much and get sick." Liu Tong was confused, so he had to give up.

Liu Tong buried his head in eating, and when he saw that Long Duan'er was hungry, he had already begun to eat with relish, so he stopped asking for food and talked with the old man. When the old man saw Liu Tong's appearance as a rich son, he also had to answer all questions.

It turned out that Zhang Lu was appointed by Liu Yan as the governor of Sima, and Zhang Xiu, Sima of other departments, led troops to defeat Hanzhong Taishou Sugu. After Zhang Xiu killed Su Gu, Zhang Lu killed Zhang Xiu again, seized his soldiers, cut off the Xiegu Road and killed the imperial court envoy to stand on his own.

Since then, the five buckets of rice have been taught to govern Hanzhong, and those who come to learn the Tao only need to hand over five buckets of rice, and they are initially called "ghost pawns, and they have been believed by the Tao, so they are known as "sacrificial wine", and the leaders and subordinates; Those who lead a large number of people are "the head of the big sacrificial wine", and they do not place long officials, and manage local government affairs with sacrificial wine. Teach the people to be honest and not deceitful, make the sick turn themselves in, lenient the offender three times, and punish him if he repeats it; If it is a minor offense, then build a hundred steps of the road to atone for your sins. According to the "Decree of the Month", slaughter is forbidden in spring and summer when all things grow, and it is forbidden to drink alcohol.

Righteousness is also its main policy. Anyone who passes by does not need money to eat meat at the restaurant. Liu Tong was very happy in his heart, Zhang Lu was indeed a wonderful person, and he had the style of socialism two thousand years later.

Liu Tong traveled all the way, but when he saw that the people of Hanzhong were simple and simple, and they didn't leave it behind at night, he couldn't help but be amazed, the integration of politics and religion, and the indoctrination had such a contribution!

As for the righteous house, Liu Tong still doesn't like it, there is little food in it, the taste is very poor, and there is no other place to go in the wild. Several people finally came to Hanzhong City.

Hanzhong is extremely prosperous, and it is better than Jicheng. Liu Tong had no intention of browsing, and took a few people to find a home and live in the Tianfu Inn not far from the Hanzhong Mansion. After a long journey, several people fell asleep in the afternoon.

That night, Liu Tong took Long Duan'er to sneak into the Taishou Mansion in Hanzhong, and walked on the rooftops and treetops. Seeing that people in Zhang Lu's mansion came and went, but they didn't know each other, they searched house by house, but to no avail overnight. After that, it was fruitless for two consecutive nights.

"Big brother, we know Zhang Wei and Zhang Wei, we have to follow them to have clues." Long Duan'er yawned and went back to the house to sleep.

Thinking about it, after dawn on the second day, while Long Duan'er was still sleeping, Liu Tong came to the yamen of Zhanglu Mansion alone, found a secluded place, and hid to observe.

At noon, when Liu Tong was tired and sleepy, when he saw Zhang Cheng coming out of it, Liu Tong got angry and ran forward, wanting to arrest Zhang Cheng and torture and interrogate, just walked a few steps, suddenly sobered up, quickly lowered his head to stop his steps, and slowly followed.

I saw Zhang Zhen walking more than 200 meters to the west, entering another high-gate compound, and vaguely heard the porter calling the master. Liu Tong thought to himself that Zhang Shame lived next door to Zhang Lu, as long as he stared at Zhang Shame, he was not afraid that there would be no clues.

That night, Liu Tong took Long Duan'er to Zhang Zheng's mansion, squatted until the unitary hour, saw Zhang Zheng returning from outside, went straight to the backyard, and entered an independent courtyard, which was guarded by soldiers at the entrance of the courtyard.

Liu Tong and the others followed from the roof and saw Zhang Zhen enter the only room with light in the other courtyard. The two of them could hear what one of them was saying from a distance, and the other figure sat still and didn't say a word.

Zhang sat down for half an hour and left. Long Duan'er rushed over, but Liu Tong couldn't stop him, so he had to follow. Pushing the door in, I saw a woman sitting sideways next to the desk, Liu Tong didn't see the woman's appearance clearly, Long Duan'er pounced, hugged the woman and cried.

The woman is Zhang E, dressed neatly and luxuriously dressed.

Liu Tong hurriedly went over and knelt beside Zhang E. Zhang E held Long Duan'er in one hand, looked carefully, and saw that Long Duan'er had grown up a lot, with a round face and the appearance of a noble child, she was very relieved.

Liu Tong raised his head and said, "Mother, you have suffered hardship, let's go." ”

Zhang E shook her head, "Tong'er, let's go, the unfilial son used soft tendons for me, but he never abused me." You are still young, and you will not go out of Hanzhong City with me. ”

Long Duan'er stopped crying, gritted his teeth and said, "I want to kill the people in the Hanzhong!" Saying that, his eyes flashed, Liu Tong saw Long Duan'er signaling, picked up Zhang E and left, Liu Tong was twelve years old, more than one meter and a half tall, slightly shorter than Zhang E, but extremely powerful.

There were already soldiers at the door who came into the door, Long Duan'er was angry, opened the way in front, one palm, and the two soldiers snorted, fell to the ground and vomited blood and died.

The house was suddenly full of fire, and the soldiers chased after him with torches, Liu Tong had to pick up Zhang E and jump to the roof, Long Duan'er saw that Liu Tong's strength was exhausted, and he was lucky to pick up Liu Tong and fall on the roof from behind.

The two ran all the way to the direction of the inn, hundreds of soldiers in Zhang Zheng's mansion chased all the way under the leadership of Zhang Zheng, and kept firing arrows, and Zhang Lu's mansion next door could hear the movement, Zhang Lu's eldest son Zhang Fu and second son Zhang Guang also led troops to chase.

Long Duan'er launched a ruthless attack, took off the dragon tongue bow, and kept firing arrows, and more than a dozen soldiers fell to the ground and died.

Liu Tong got his true anger and rushed away, the pursuers were getting farther and farther, Liu Tong jumped from the roof, and just landed, but saw two figures passing behind him, fluttering to the ground, blocking the road.