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The time is already midnight, and most of the moon is gradually slanting westward, and the sound of "dong dong" in the courtyard of the house is still faintly heard.

Several figures walked to the black lacquer door, "bang" slapped the door knocker, the sound was unusually clear in the quiet night, after a while, the door opened, and a family poked his head out. looked at the person, "Yo, second master, why did you come late at night?" ”

The person who came was the elder brother of the old man, and he said: "Just now, there was an officer in the team who brought an important news, I want to report it to the eldest brother immediately, and you will report it." ”

"Yes." The family walked away, and after a while, the sound of "dong dong" in the courtyard stopped, and Man Zhonghua hurriedly walked over, "Second uncle, what's the matter?" ”

"Let's go inside."

Several people crowded into the gate, and as soon as they entered the door, they didn't take three or five steps before the second son, Man Zhonghua, coughed vigorously.

The coughing sound is an order, Shi Suo followed behind, he had heard Man Zhonghua coughing three times this night, and sure enough, as soon as he coughed, several family members behind him pounced like wolves.

However, this time it was different, these guests who entered the door had already prepared, and suddenly showed all kinds of weapons, short knives and daggers, iron rulers and wooden sticks, all in their hands, Man Zhonghua was taken aback, turned around and ran.

These family members behind Man Zhonghua wanted to step forward to arrest people, but they were dumbfounded when they saw that everyone was holding sharp weapons, and at the same time, from outside the gate, there was a rush of chaotic footsteps, and more than a dozen people ran in, also with weapons in their hands. At the gate of the Manjia compound, there was a big chaos.

Man Zhonghua ran for less than two steps, and a person behind him chased after him, his hand shook, and a thin rope was thrown out, and Man Ergongzi only felt a trip on his leg, and he fell to the ground with a "bang".

At this time, the shouting, fighting, and running sounds in the courtyard were all in one place, and in the silent night, the courtyard of the whole family was like a pot, and the stone lock kicked away the two family members, stepped over in a few steps, assisted Dafeng, twisted Man Zhonghua's arm, grabbed it in his hand, and shouted loudly: "The second son has caught it, what are you still fighting?" ”

Man Zhonghua's subordinates, seeing that the master had been arrested, knew that the general trend had gone, and they were all arrested, and there was a commotion in the courtyard, Man Bohua commanded everyone, lit lanterns, searched for the remnants of the enemy, and cleaned up the aftermath, Professor Wan accompanied Master Man and walked in from outside the gate.

The second son was grabbed by the stone lock, his head was bowed, and he saw his father coming from outside the door, and the eldest brother and others were standing beside him, both strange and scared, rolling his eyes, and not saying a word. Master Man stepped forward and kicked the second son.

"Go back to the room and hold the lamp." Man Bohua ordered his family.

Behind the main house, there is a small garden, with more than a dozen big trees, planted with flowers and plants, and is cut into a mess, a few iron pickaxes are thrown aside, and the newly turned soil is piled up on the side, and the flowers and trees pulled out are thrown everywhere, and the old man is so angry that his beard trembles.

Man Bohua said: "The second child urgently called me back, saying that you are old and sick, and now I think about it, it is estimated that he wants to ask me about the whereabouts of the treasure, but fortunately there is a noble person to save him, and he will have time to make it bad in the future, so he fell into the net, and the trick did not succeed." ”

"I'm going to kill him." Old Man said angrily.

"Mr. Ding, Professor Wan, please sit in the living room first." Man Bohua greeted.

Under the leadership of Man Bohua, everyone walked into the living room, Master Man sat on the chair, his body was still trembling with anger, and he kept saying that he wanted to "kill the second child", Man Bohua said: "Father, today's incident is Uncle Ding and Professor Wan, Shi Suo, Dafeng, they worked hard to save each other, so that my father and son can get out of trouble. ”

"Okay, I'm really confused." Master Man patted his head, "Lao Ding, what's the matter with you?" ”

Ding Changyou hesitated, Professor Wan smiled, knowing that it was inconvenient for him to reveal the military mission in front of everyone, so he said, "Let's talk about it first." Dafeng, you will explain the situation to Master Man. ”

Dafeng told him about looking for his younger brother, and before he finished speaking, Master Man said: "Yes, yes, we have here, there was indeed a Cui Dalong in the past." ”

When everyone heard this, they were overjoyed, and the old man said: "Speaking of this, it has been a few years, at that time, the child Dalong was sold to the house, I saw that he was young, so I let him be with the gardener Lao Zhao, and he was always silent. However, three years ago, there was a bandit, and he had an accident. ”

"Huh?" Dafeng's eyes widened in anxiety.

Old Man said while recalling: "That time, the bandit Liu Mazi surrounded the compound and threatened to wash the family with blood, in fact, the purpose of the bandits, to put it mildly, is still for money, I don't understand the truth of breaking wealth and avoiding disasters, but Liu Mazi opened his mouth, if I relied on him, I would go bankrupt and ask for food naked." Therefore, I made a heart out and fought with him to the end. ”

The family brought tea, and the old man took a breath and continued: "At that time, the thief carried a section of two zhang long, a thick big log, to hit the gate of the yard, I ordered someone to quietly open the door bolt, the gate was hidden, so that the family ambushed in the courtyard, the thief thought that the gate must be bolted, a shout, more than ten people carried the wood, straight to the gate, but did not expect the door was not closed, suddenly rushed into the courtyard, unable to restrain their feet, all fell to the ground. ”

"Haha, good plan." Ding Changyou said with a smile.

"Let me tell you," Man Bohua said when he saw that his father was a little tired, "The thieves fell in a row, and some of them were crushed by the big logs they were carrying, and they screamed wildly, and our ambushers rushed up and captured them. Only two or three legs fast, fled to the door, who knows, Liu Mazi is very cunning, he prepared an arrow team in advance, specializing in archery, when we are capturing the thief, from outside the gate, suddenly shot in a few arrows, several family members, including me, were hit by arrows, and two thieves who had just been captured, were also shot by their own arrows. ”

"These thieves are really shameless." Dafeng said hatefully.

"Yes, at that time, the arrows were like flying locusts, and we suddenly became a disadvantage, and at this moment, suddenly from the side of the gate, a mist of water sprayed out, and the mist sprayed straight out of the gate, and a voice shouted: 'The water is poisonous, look at it.'" ”

Man Bohua described it vividly, and everyone listened attentively, and the situation of the big war at that time seemed to be right in front of him.

"The water mist, is a water dragon sprayed out, the water dragon, is usually prepared in the house for fire prevention, sometimes, the gardener Lao Zhao and the big dragon are old and young, they use it to water the flowers and plants, at that time I saw, holding the water dragon to spray water outward, it is the big dragon, he is not young, but the courage is not small, we are ready to fight the bandits' family, there was no him, because he was young, so let him hide inside, who knows, he actually ran out, with the water dragon to spray bandits."

"What a good boy." Master Man nodded and said.

"The power of the water dragon is not big, but the big dragon shouted 'poisonous in the water', but it really frightened the bandits, the bandits who shot arrows outside the door, fled one after another, we breathed a sigh of relief, seized the opportunity, shouted and rushed out of the gate, Liu Mazi commanded a few subordinates, and we fought for a while, to see if the enemy was invincible, shouted '', and fled to the outside of the village. In this battle, we won a great victory, although a few people were injured, but we captured five or six bandits, and everyone was very happy, but when we were cleaning up the aftermath, we did not find the figure of Dalong. My father was very anxious and ordered us to search repeatedly on the road for the bandits to retreat outside the village, but there was never a clue. ”

Dafeng's eyes welled up with tears.

"Child," the face of the old man showed apologies, and said to Dafeng: "Dalong is here, I didn't take care of it, I don't want to go, in the past three years, we have also tried to find a way, but there has been no whereabouts, we will continue to look for it in the future, if there are clues, you can rest assured, I will not let go." ”

"Thank you." Dafeng said.

Professor Wan said: "Dalong's whereabouts are unknown, it is just an unsolved case, and now it is speculated that it may have been coerced away by bandits." ”

Man Bohua said: "Liu Mazi's group of bandits, we also went to investigate, and tried to contact the official army, suppress the bandits, and find out the whereabouts of Da Long at the same time, but within a few days, a fire between the bandits, Liu Mazi was killed, the bandits scattered, and there has been no news since then." Alas. ”

"It's okay, I don't blame you." Dafeng said with a crying voice.

"Girl," said Master Man, "whether you are strange or not, for three years, I have always had a pimple in my heart, Dalong was only fourteen or fifteen years old at the time, but he came forward bravely and made great contributions, and we are not well protected, and it is difficult to escape the blame." In the future, let's continue to search, Jiren has their own natural appearance, I hope to be able to find, today, even my old life, are saved by you, let's treat each other as relatives in the future, Dalong's business, is both your business and my business. ”

Professor Wan stood up, "Master Man's words, there is no more right, people are based on integrity and sincerity, people who are like-minded are relatives, we meet tonight, it is also fate, in the future, we should help each other, our business, let's end it first, Brother Ding will do your business." ”

Ding Chang nodded a little and said to Dafeng: "I am always running around in the army, if there are clues in the future, I must pay attention to them, and at the same time, Wu Dashuai's subordinates, I have a lot of friends, and I also asked them to help find it." ”

"Thank you."

"Wu Dashuai is okay?" Master Man asked Ding Changyou.

"Very good, he specially asked me to greet Master Man."

Professor Wan suddenly remembered that he and Shi Suo were originally going to find Wu Peifu, and now this Ding Changyou is his subordinate, why not catch up with the line by the way, so as to explore the truth first? So he said: "Brother Ding, don't hide it, we are going to find Wu Dashuai." ”

"Huh?" Ding Changyou was taken aback, "Professor Wan, I see, in this way, you wait for me for a while, and I will finish explaining the business with Master Man, and then we will talk in detail." ”

"Okay."

Man Bohua stood up and said, "Professor Wan, I'll take you to the guest room to rest first." ”