After Song Anping arrived at the Song Mansion, he instructed the servant to bring a set of clean clothes to the old man, prepared hot water, and asked the old man to go to another room to wash and change clothes.

When the old man left, Song Anping ordered someone to prepare a table of food and wait for the old man to come and enjoy it.

Song Anping and Wang Qi came to the living room, sat on the chair tiredly, chatted and waited for the old man to come out.

"What did the old man say in your ear?" Wang Qi suddenly remembered the old man's actions on the street, and couldn't help but ask with some curiosity: "I saw that after you listened to his words, your face suddenly changed greatly?" ”

"He wants me to take him to meet the emperor," Song Anping hesitated, but because he trusted Wang Qi, he told Wang Qi without concealing it.

"What?" Wang Qi jumped up in surprise, pointed to the room where the old man entered, and said loudly: "He still wants to see the emperor?" Then I still want to see the emperor. ”

"Judging from the costumes and accents of the four big men who chased and killed the old man just now, they are obviously northerners," Song Anping said, thinking of what the old man was holding in his arms, and confirmed his opinion even more, "Maybe this old man is in the north, and he has obtained some urgent military information, and he wants to tell the emperor, right?" ”

"Then why didn't you say it earlier," Wang Qi regretted that he let go of those people after listening to Song Anping's analysis, "If you said it earlier, why should we let go of those people?" ”

Just as Wang Qi and Song Anping were talking, there was a noise in the courtyard.

Song Anping and Wang Qi stood up in surprise, and just as they walked to the door of the living room, the housekeeper Lao Li ran in in a panic, almost pretending to be full of Song Anping.

"What's going on out there?" Song Anping looked at Lao Li Tou, with a nervous look, thinking of what happened today, and vaguely thought of something, "Don't panic, speak slowly." ”

"It's not bad! Childe," Lao Li pointed to the front yard and said a little breathlessly: "There are dozens of masked men who have broken into the courtyard and fought with the gardeners." ”

In the front yard of the Song Mansion, more than a dozen masked people were fighting with the gardener guards of the Song Mansion, and several maids were also screaming in fear and running around, and the noise was endless.

However, the methods of those masked men were much higher than those of the gardeners, and in a short time, they completely gained the upper hand.

In just a few moments, the gardeners had already been beaten down halfway, and the rest of the people gradually retreated in fear.

"Stop," Song Anping hurriedly ran over with a simple knife in his hand, and shouted at the masked people.

Wang Qi held a long sword, followed Song Anping and ran over to stand next to Song Anping, glaring angrily at the masked people, and rushed forward to cut a scattered posture.

After a while, Lao Li Tou also ran over panting, waiting for Song Anping's orders.

The masked people, after hearing Song Anping's scolding, also stopped attacking. One of them took a step forward and greeted Song Anping quite politely.

"Originally, you had no grievances with me, and I had no intention of making trouble with you," said the masked man, in a distorted, unnatural voice, apparently for fear of being recognized, and deliberately changed his voice, "as long as you hand over the old man, we will leave immediately." ”

"Oh," Song Anping thought for a while, and suddenly thought of something and said, "Which old beggar are you talking about, after I rescued him, I gave him some silver and left." ”

After Song Anping finished speaking, he gave Lao Li a look.

Lao Li understood what Song Anping meant, so he quietly left the front yard with a few guards and came to the old man's room to protect him.

"Haha, Lord Song" When the masked man said those words, he deliberately lengthened his tone, stared at Song Anping, and said: "I said, I just want that old man, you don't want to make trouble for yourself for someone you don't know." ”

"Are you deaf?" Wang Qi snatched the conversation and shouted: "Brother Song said just now that person is no longer here." ”

"I know, he's in your house, if you don't hand it over," the masked man raised his right hand as he spoke, and put on a posture of being about to attack, and said, "Then we'll have to do it ourselves and search for it." ”

"Oh, are you still going to come to Heng?" Wang Qi took a step forward, glared at the other party angrily, and broke a momentum, she pointed at the big man with her sword, and shouted: "Even here, we won't hand it over, just rely on you people, it's not enough for me to pull it." ”

"Then don't blame me for being rude," the masked man said, waving his raised right hand downward, and the dozen or so masked people standing next to him rushed towards Wang Qi.

Wang Qi was terrified in the face of a dozen or so big men, he waved the long sword in his hand, rushed forward, and fought with them.

Among the dozen or so people, Wang Qi waved the long sword in his hand, moving his body gracefully, and he seemed to be able to deal with those people with ease.

"Brothers of the Song Mansion, drive these hateful fellows out of the house," Song Anping wanted to delay a little longer and wait for the arrival of reinforcements, but seeing that the men in black were moving so quickly, he no longer wanted to be a tower, he shouted, led the gardeners, and joined the battle group.

Those gardeners who were originally lacking in confidence, now with Song Anping and Wang Qi in charge, their morale increased greatly, and they shouted and fought with those masked people.

Song Anping repelled a masked man on the opposite side, found the man in black who had just spoken, and fought with him.

Song Anping and Wang Qi are dealing with more than half of their combat effectiveness. The gardeners of the Song Mansion, although they did not have many means, they used the advantage of having many people to fight with those masked people, and they did not fall into any disadvantage. In this way, the whole battle entered a stage of equal strength.

When Song Anping was fighting with the masked man, he found that the big man's methods were clever, not to mention that the people he brought were also offensive and defensive, and they were obviously a team that had been trained for a long time and harshly.

Song Anping and the masked man, after twenty or thirty rounds, began to lose physical strength, and gradually entered the disadvantage.

At this time, although the gardeners of the Song Mansion had the courage to fight, their skills were really more than enough compared to these well-trained masked men, and after holding on for a while, they immediately entered the disadvantage.

Many of the gardeners of the Song Mansion were cut down to the ground, wailing, and those who were not injured no longer had the courage to fight.

After the masked people dealt with the gardener first, they all went to besiege Song Anping and Wang Qi with their free hands.