(Ask for collection)

The Shangyuan Festival is approaching, the atmosphere in the shop of Yong'an Fang is warm again, for more than a dozen Fangding on duty at night, the three days of the Shangyuan Festival every year to lift the curfew are the only holiday, and the Fangding can only enjoy the normal life of people in these three days, and the rest of the time is day and night upside down.

Wang Yuan is also looking forward to the Shangyuan Festival, not because of these three days of vacation, in fact, at his suggestion, he and Huang San privately implemented a shift system in the middle of the night, and both of them are much more comfortable. Like the incident of taking in the other fang to make extra money, Huang San was against it at first, but after tasting the sweetness, he never said a word again.

Wang Yuan was looking forward to it because the fourteenth day of the first lunar month happened to be the day when he had been a full-month shopkeeper. In Wang Yuan's plan, the two monthly examples are to be used to support some of his own ideas, he is very eager to get this money, maybe he can use the money to buy some paper and pen to write some poems to sell, it seems that there will be some market in Datang, Wang Yuan is actually not sure, but he always wants to give it a try.

On the eve of the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, after the sub-hour, Wang Yuan came to the Fang Ding shop on time as before, Huang San explained a few words and then went home to rest, Wang Yuan carried a lantern alone in the area under the jurisdiction of the empty Yong'an Fang South Fang Gate.

It was dark, and the sky was full of dark clouds, obscuring the full moon that should have hung high in the sky. The northwest wind blew very violently, whistling when it blew through the treetops, and bursts of wind swept up the fallen leaves and dust on the streets and alleys, and Wang Yuan's eyes couldn't be opened several times.

Wang Yuan wrapped his coat tightly and shrank up to speed up his pace, after inspecting the Nanli Fourth Lane west of Nanfang Gate, and after confirming that everything was peaceful, Wang Yuan hurriedly turned around and walked to the Fang Ding shop on the cross street, where he could take a short rest and drink a few sips of hot water to bake the fire for a while.

However, just as he was walking along the fang wall towards the main street in the fang, Wang Yuan seemed to hear a strange sound coming from the fang wall in front of him. Against the backdrop of the faint light of the sky, Wang Yuan clearly saw a black shadow flickering on the square wall above the oblique sky.

Wang Yuanyuan's skin began to tighten, he had been a fangding for a month, and he had never really encountered a situation, and when he was hesitating whether to avoid it, he suddenly heard a 'bang' sound, as if there was a sound of heavy objects falling to the ground.

"Who?" Wang Yuan shouted in a low voice.

Below the walls, there was a sound from the rope, but there was no response.

Wang Yuan was calm, holding the lantern in one hand and holding the wooden stick in the other hand and slowly moving forward, coming to the sound of a few steps away and stretching the lantern forward to take a closer look, where the light illuminated, a pair of frightened big eyes and Wang Yuan's gaze were in one place, so frightened that Wang Yuan retreated a few steps back, and almost screamed.

It was a man in black leaning on the edge of a bush, his head and face covered with a black cloth, revealing only a pair of eyes. One hand was on the ground, the other was on his shoulder, and a feathered arrow was nailed to the shoulder socket, bleeding slightly from the gap in his palm.

Wang Yuan was so frightened that his heart was pounding, and reason told him that he should hurry up to report this matter to Captain Ding and Li Zhengfang, it was obvious that this was an uninvited guest who broke into Yong'an Fang. Wang Yuan's first instinct was to get the gong on his shoulder, which was used as a warning tool, but suddenly, he faintly heard the rumbling sound of horses' hooves and shouts coming down the street northeast of Yong'an Fang.

Wang Yuan listened with bated breath, the noise was getting closer and closer, and it was along the streets around Yong'an Fang all the way to the southwest, and the shouting and cheering could be heard intermittently and clearly: "Each fang...... Night Watch...... Listen, there are assassins fleeing to ...... Zuo Jinfang District, Jin Wuwei ...... General Gao Meng, the envoy of the city patrol...... There was an order, and all parties were ordered to immediately search for suspicious persons, etc., and report suspicious clues immediately. The streets to which Jin Wuwei belongs, Wuhou Pu, Wuhou, need to immediately block all streets...... Prevent the Assassins from escaping. ”

Wang Yuan's heart was like a mirror, and the person in front of him was afraid that he was the assassin who Jin Wuwei was chasing outside, and he had no way out to break into Yong'an Fang. Wang Yuan looked at the masked night walker on the ground, and saw that the man's eyes were full of horror, and he should have heard movement outside.

"Ask for ...... You...... Save my life. The masked man suddenly spoke, his voice delicate and delicate, as if it were a woman.

Wang Yuan hesitated, and reason told him that he should ring the gong immediately to announce the news, but he seemed unwilling to do so.

"Please...... I'm really not an assassin...... I was hunted down, and if you could save my life, I would be grateful. The masked man gasped with difficulty, and this time Wang Yuan concluded that she was a woman.

In the noise, there was movement in the houses near the left, and the windows of several houses were lit up, obviously the people had gotten up to watch the situation, the masked woman gasped violently, and suddenly her body fell to the ground softly, Wang Yuan was startled, and probed her snort and found that she was still breathing, and her black night clothes were already wet and full of blood, presumably unconscious.

"All the fangs and fangs immediately searched for the assassins, Yong'an Fang, Yanfu Fang, Feng'an, Xuanyi, and Dunyi Fangfang are immediately going to the Wuhou Pavilion on Qingming Street to see the city patrol envoy General Gao...... "Outside the fang wall, the shouts of the Jinwu Wei cavalry galloping past are already in the ears, and the streets of the main street of Yong'an Fang also resounded with a mixed number of footsteps, obviously the fangding have received the news and are assembling.

Wang Yuan frowned and thought for a while, gritted his teeth and bent down to pick up the unconscious woman in black, ran along the familiar alley, and came to his small courtyard a few minutes later. Looking around, there was nothing unusual, Wang Yuan quickly entered the house, put the unconscious woman on the bed, hurriedly tore up a tattered garment, and simply bandaged the wound on the woman's shoulder, and pulled the futon to cover it tightly.

After doing this, Wang Yuan was already panting, his face was pale, and his heart was pounding nervously. He knew that there could be no more delay, that the outsiders had already gathered, and that if he didn't show up, he would arouse suspicion. Before going out, Wang Yuan did not forget to carefully wash the blood stains on his hands, tidy up before quickly running to the Nanfang Gate.

When Wang Yuan arrived, the Nanfang door had been opened, and more than a dozen Fang Ding were gathering in the open space inside the door to talk about it, and Huang San, who was standing at the end of the team, saw Wang Yuan arrive and finally breathed a sigh of relief. Fang Ding Chen Tou'er scolded angrily: "Wang Erlang, where are you lazy?" Don't you hear anything outside? ”

Wang Yuan covered his stomach and smiled: "How dare you be lazy, it's just that your stomach is frozen, and you can't do it in a hurry, so you have to go to the toilet to solve it." What happened? ”

Chen Tou'er reprimanded: "You ask me, who am I going to ask?" Sleeping well was noisy, Zhao Fang was going to meet the city patrol envoy, everyone was waiting here, I heard that it seems that an assassin escaped from the Fang District under the jurisdiction of Wannian County in the east, and disappeared near our Yong'an Fang. ”

"Assassins? It's amazing. Wang Yuan stuck out his tongue and shrank in the shadow at the end of the team.

Zhao Fang is taking a few Li Zheng out of Yong'an Fang to the Wuhou Pavilion on Qingming Street in the east to meet the street patrol envoy. Everyone could only stretch their necks and wait for news in the cold wind, and from the open door, they could see the figure of Wuhou riding a group of horses holding torches on the street outside, and the atmosphere was very tense.

Wang Yuan was secretly surprised in his heart, such a big battle, it seemed that the masked woman he saved had committed something serious, and he didn't know what kind of consequences he would have if he saved her impulsively, but Wang Yuan did not regret it, on the contrary, after a month of boring days, the sudden appearance of this incident made people a little inexplicably excited.

About half an hour later, Zhao Fangzheng finally came back breathlessly with seven or eight Li Zheng of Yong'an Fang, and after ordering the Fang Ding to close the door, Zhao Fangzheng conveyed the order of the Jinwuwei City Patrol Envoy.

"Ladies and gentlemen, some assassins have escaped to the left and disappeared, and the city patrol envoy Gao Menggao has mobilized Jin Wuwei to patrol the city and have blocked all the streets in the six squares near the left. General Gao ordered each workshop to search the workshop on its own first. You all have to search carefully, and don't let the assassins hide in my Yong'an Fang, otherwise you will have to take on a big responsibility. From now on, the east, west, north and south will each have their own responsibilities, and all the Zhengfangding will participate in the search, and if they see suspicious clues, they will report them in time, do you understand? ”

Everyone shouted in unison: "Understood." ”

At that moment, Zhao Fang was taking the lead, and the people in the Zhongli Fang lit torches, assigned search personnel according to the familiar night duty area, and scattered into all corners of the market after a while, and began to search carefully. For a while, the chickens and dogs in Yong'an Fang jumped, and the people were panicked and not peaceful.