The old man looked stunned and snorted: "The grass people have something that they want to ask the Hou Ye to forgive themselves. ”

"Come on." Zhang Rudao.

The old man said: "Master Hou forgives, Master Hou doesn't agree, and the grass people don't dare to say it." ”

Zhang Ru said awe-inspiringly: "You tell me what is the matter first, and it will not be too late for Benhou to agree." Otherwise, if you have done something wrong, how can this official agree in advance. ”

The old man patted his chest and said, "The grass people guarantee with the head of the item, this matter is definitely not a matter of harming heaven and reason. As long as the Hou Ye agrees to let my young master go, the grass people are willing to die. ”

Zhang Ru thought for a while, and agreed with some embarrassment.

After the old man saw him nod in agreement, he said, "My young master joined the White Lotus Sect, so he knows these unknown secrets. Those people want to rebel, but the young master of my family does not want to rebel, so the grass people dare to ask to see the Hou Ye, just to atone for their sins. ”

"If I knew that I had joined the White Lotus Sect, this official should not have rashly agreed to you." Zhang Ru smiled bitterly.

The old man looked nervous: "Master Hou has to regret it!" ”

Zhang Ru shook his head and said: "Don't hide it from my father-in-law, I really want to regret it, but it's hard to retract it, and the words are all said, if you regret it again, I'm afraid I can't live up to your kindness."

Giving a suitable reason makes me feel nothing more than human affection outside of the law. ”

The old man said: "It is worthy of being the Dingbian Marquis of the imperial court, saying a sentence is a sentence, admire!" My young master joined the White Lotus Sect, and there is really another secret.

I am a servant of the Li family, a coal merchant in Datong, and the young master is the only son of the Li family.

The prefect of Datong coveted my Li family's wealth, secretly ordered his wife and brother to lead people to forcibly occupy my Li family's coal mine, and then even designed to kill my master.

The young man is just a scholar, although he has a talent and fame, but he has no strong backing, and it is worth swallowing.

For this reason, my old lady cried blindly, and the young master could only leave his hometown to join the same friends in this Datong Mansion City. It's just that the same friend was under pressure and didn't dare to take it in, and after giving a few dozen taels of silver, he no longer asked me about life and death.

After that, the young master felt angry when he thought of the prefect who was powerful and blessed, and it happened that at this time he had married Du Shanbai, a rich son, who was a scholar and had many common languages with my son-in-law.

After going back and forth, the two sides were familiar with each other, and every time Nadu Shanbai asked about the situation in the son's family, the son was always vague. Once drunk, Nadu Shanbai asked again, and the son was a little confused after he was drunk, so he told him about it.

After the two parties sobered up the next day, Du Shanbai came to the cold house with a son named Mu Tong, saying that he had the opportunity to be ashamed of his son.

The poor boy is even dreaming of revenge, but the enemy is too powerful and his ability is limited. This time, someone sent the opportunity to the door, and he naturally didn't want to let it go, the old slave said it many times, but the son refused to listen.

The Li family's Nanjing is only the son left, and the old slave has taken care of the Li family for two generations, since the head of the family has said that he wants revenge, how can I object.

It's just that I never expected that Mu Tong and Du Shanbai would be from the White Lotus Sect. They first paralyzed the young master's carelessness, and then tempted the young master step by step to join the White Lotus Sect.

After the young master came back last night, he was a little uneasy, and the old slave asked many times before he learned the truth from the young master.

Please be merciful and save my young master, he is also bewitched by traitors, and he doesn't really want to join the White Lotus Sect to subvert the government. ”

After listening to the old servant's narration, Zhang Ru was a little stunned, he didn't expect that such a thing would happen in the first place where he piloted. As early as a few years ago, when he participated in the first battle of Datong, he launched a purge of certain officials in Datong, and some officials with bad deeds were directly kept away from politics by him. However, only a few years have passed, and new corruption has reappeared, and it is still a high-ranking Datong prefect.

With such an ending, I have to say that it makes Zhang Ru feel chilled.

"The circumstances are excusable, the law is not merciful, do you say that this official should be spared or not." Zhang Ru asked with some hesitation.

This seems to be asking himself, and it seems to be asking the old servant of the Li family.

Of course, the old servant of the Li family would like Zhang Ru to say mercy, after all, he has already taken a great risk to come here, if Zhang Ru does not forgive, then Li Xiaoyi's family will be in a dilemma.

"Meng Fu, take a few people, go home with him, bring people back safely, and be sure not to leave any traces." Zhang Ru made a decision to relax him in the hunchbacked old servant's nervous mood.

The hunchbacked old servant saw the vitality, his eyes were full of gratitude, and he immediately nodded and led Meng Fu outside.

Before the early morning, Li Xiaoyi's family was sent to the Datong Thousand Households Station, Zhang Ru looked at this weak young man and said: "Three days, I will give three days, and if the White Lotus rebel does not attack within three days, your head will shake with the flagpole." If the White Lotus traitor attacks within three days, this official will grant you a lifetime of glory. ”

Li Xiaozhi raised his hand and bowed: "Dare to ask Master Hou, but you still need staff!" ”

Zhang Ru was surprised: "What are you asking for?" ”

Li Xiaozhi explained: "Although filial piety is not a talent of heaven and earth, but it is a little clever, if the White Lotus Sect attacks within three days, please also ask Hou Ye to give a chance to let filial piety show his strengths." ”

Zhang Ru left Li Xiaozhi a back: "I'll talk about it in three days." ”

In the next two days, I didn't see any movement from Zhang Ru, anyway, these two thousand people stayed in the Datong Thousand Households Station, and no one left at all.

Li Xiaozhi couldn't help but be a little worried, and wanted to remind Zhang Ru several times, but he couldn't muster up the courage after all. On the one hand, his understanding of Zhang Ru is just hearsay, and on the other hand, he wants to see if Zhang Ru is worthy of his own service.

If it is worth it, he will stay, even if Zhang Ru is unwilling to let him stay, he will die and beg to stay, after all, it is difficult for a man to encounter a second opportunity to show what he has learned in his life.

If Zhang Ru was just famous, and in fact had no ability at all, he would naturally choose to leave after three days.

On the third day after Li Xiaoyi's family came to live in Qianhu, the scout suddenly came to report that there were many strange faces around the station, and that these people seemed to be ordinary people.

Zhang Ru told them to calm down for a while, narrowed the defensive area to a mile around the station, and if someone approached, they immediately warned them, and if they didn't listen to the warning, they would be killed.

Half a day later, about 7,000 bewitched people formed a siege around the station, the oldest of whom was about sixty years old, and the youngest was only seven or eight years old.

Zhang Ru personally climbed the arrow tower to direct the battle, standing on a high place, the wind blew his clothes to the sound of hunting, and two small command flags fluttered in the wind in his hands.

Zhang Ru, who had a panoramic view of everything from a high place, saw all this, and his eyes were about to burst into flames.

These god-damn animals turned out to be a group of young men with weapons driving those old and young women and children towards the front, and his astonishing eyesight even saw the hand of an old man walking in front with a shovel trembling violently.

"Stick bearer, aim, shoot." Hewei was a hundred steps away from the station, and Zhang Ru waved a flag on the arrow tower.

The arrows that were originally aimed at the chests of those ordinary people changed their positions, and the archers began to look for a suitable position for attacking, and each arrow was aimed at the chests of those young people who were holding weapons in their hands, and they were sure that they would be killed, so they struck.

The honest people had never seen such a situation, and for a while, dozens of people walking in the front were so frightened that they were lying on the ground and trembling.

Du Shanbai, a bandit and horse bandit hired with more than 300 silver, pressed the formation behind, and Mu Tong, a scholar who was as shrewd as a loach, did not even miss a face.

The two of them found out about the abnormality in Li Xiao's house in the morning, and they thought that Li Xiaozhi ran away because they were afraid, but they didn't expect that Li Xiaozhi would run to Zhang Ru to report the news.

Uncreative attacks, loose formations, and low combat effectiveness directly determined the defeat of these rebels.

Li Xiaozhi, who was already standing outside waiting for the result, was very indifferent, while the hunchbacked old servant looked a little anxious.

"Childe, are you really going to follow this Hou Ye?" The hunchbacked old servant said worriedly.

Li Xiaozhi said: "This person is thoughtful, and he advances and retreats in a certain way, with 2,000 people against 7,000 people, he can still be in danger." Knowing that many people were being threatened, he ordered to shoot those with weapons, which proved that he was a man of proportion.

Kindness, not foolishness, and great things are also done. ”

The hunchbacked old servant said: "What the son decides, the old slave is not easy to say, anyway, what the son does, the old slave follows him." ”

"Uncle, let me just go back to the countryside, and I will be nameless for a lifetime, I am really unwilling." Lee Hyo-zhi seems to be explaining.

But the hunchbacked old servant didn't listen to his explanation anymore.

A chaotic battle ended in chaos, and the only wounded on the side of the imperial army still twisted his foot, and he simply took down the chaotic people without much effort.

Du Shanbai, who was lucky to survive the chaotic battle, was captured alive under Zhang Ru's deliberate orders, looking at the corpse next to him, the blood had already stained his face, and Du Shanbai at this moment was stunned.

After being thrown to the ground, Zhang Ru slapped him in the face a few times before he came to his senses.

He looked at Zhang Ru with a frightened face, and kept saying in his mouth: "Dead, dead, save me." ”

Li Xiaozhi came from behind and looked at Du Shanbai condescendingly: "Brother Du, it's easy to go." ”

Du Shanbai came back to his senses and grabbed Li Xiaozhi's robe: "Li Xiaozhi, you don't have to die well, I won't let you go if I am a ghost." ”

Zhang Ru said with a smile: "This person is handed over to you to deal with, whether you kill or stay, it's up to you." ”

Li Xiaozhi was stunned on the spot.

After a while, he said, "Master Hou, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to do this!" ”

"Don't be suspicious of employing people, don't use suspicious people, I want to use you, so this opportunity is given to you. The people around this official are all military generals, and there are very few scholars, and you will suffer alone, but Ben Hou suggests that you stay alive. As for taking the wooden boy who didn't show up, kill it. Zhang Ru said lightly.

Li Xiaozhi looked at Du Shanbai on the ground with an expectant face, and began to struggle in his heart.