Gujia Village is twenty miles away from Gansu Town in a straight line, but there is no official road here, and the mountain road between the hills is continuous and coiled, although it is not difficult to walk on the gravel ground, but it is very tormenting people's foot strength to go down the ditch and uphill.

The knife party that went out of Gujia Village overnight, although there was a hand lamp in his hand, but when he rushed to the outside of Gansu Town along the mountain road, it was already dawn, and the sky was dark and he couldn't see his five fingers.

They have not been here once or twice in Gansu Town, and they have seen the terrain outside the town early, so that they will not be blinded by knives; After finding a corner outside the city wall, and waiting for the sergeant on the night patrol above, the four of them climbed up with their hands and feet, and a few turned over and flashed into the alley under the city.

Entering the city, the sky above their heads began to white, and Qin Shi led the three of them to the main street, and followed the shadows under the eaves straight to the south.

The lights in the town of Gansu are bright day and night, regardless of the solar terms, where people come and go, Qin Shishi has been there, but he can only pass by in auspicious pretenses, drooling enviously outside, and spitting a few times.

As long as you catch a spring guest who goes home outside the toon building, the location of the Huang County Ling family will be known, and if you can't ask, you will have to arrest two more, there are always cowardly guys who are afraid of death.

In the Jinyi Wei Hundred Households, the lights in the backyard study were dim, and Fang Shanshui was waiting for his bloodshot eyes, drinking strong tea cup by cup, waiting for news from the spies outside.

Last year, in the gravel castle during the Qingming Festival, Zhang Zhong belittled Ximen Xiaoye, killed his personal guards, and then united with his boss You Guda, and directly copied Ximen Xiaoye's lair.

guessed the back/scene of Ximen Xiaoye wrongly, it was already a step late, but then Gou Liangchen, whom he secretly sent, simply died on the official road, which made him furious, and it depends on the owner to beat the dog, and your Ximen Xiaoye family seems to have gone all the way to the dark.

In the next year, whether it was Zhang Zhong or the Tian family, or even the newly settled General Military Mansion, several waves of killers quietly dispatched, Fang Shanshui saw it in his eyes, and he was almost eager to try.

But the dozen or so strong and shrewd players quietly disappeared after passing the official store tax card in Shiguantun, which made Fang Shanshui uncomfortable again; The good fat is in front of you, you can't eat the taste in your mouth, and no one can sleep well.

There are already nearly thirty of his subordinates who died under Xiao Ye's gun, and in order not to chill his subordinates, there is no room for relaxation; Therefore, Xiao Ye must die, and Shu Tan, who can't die yet, spit out the Persian source, and cut it with a thousand knives.

Fang Shanshui, who can mix with the hundred households of Jinyi and Wei, has no hot-blooded lord, and is very good at patience, gritted his teeth and rectified his flag team, and the spies were scattered, regardless of the caravan or monitoring along the way, he stared at the horse road checkpoint with all his might.

The spies of the people who went to the horse road checkpoint in all caravans would try their best to remember their faces, in order to prevent Ximen Xiaoye's people from going south; He still didn't believe it, and Simon Xiao would hide on the edge of the grassland at night and no longer look south.

That's almost a year.

Last night, there was a quick Ma Lai report, there were four strangers in the Tian family caravan at the Madao checkpoint, but the sergeants from the Gravel Fort were transferred by the Jinyi Guard, and after surrounding the camp of the Tian family caravan by the river, they did not find the four people; As for the people who interrogated the Tian family, hehe, Fang Shanshui would not make enemies everywhere, let alone let others guess his intentions.

Now there are people on the official road who are monitoring day and night, and the gravel castle is the focus of monitoring, once the four men show their figures, they will be caught in the net.

Fang Shanshui didn't believe that Ximen Xiao Ye dared to openly confront Jinyiwei, and his wrestlers were not military households, but they had a short fire/gun made by the Huang family in their waists, and the outcome of the fight was clear at a glance.

However, a day and a night had passed, Fang Shanshui wrapped the leather jacket on his body, looked at the charcoal copper basin under his feet, leaned on the recliner and kept thinking, perhaps, they didn't go to the Gravel Castle, where did they go?

Ximen Xiao Ye's people are related to the glory and wealth of the rest of his life, even if he can't catch him for the time being, it is a great achievement to be able to catch his subordinates; At this time, Fang Shanshui would not delusionally take credit alone, but could only be a capable pawn first.

Not only Zhang Zhong, but even You Guda has already set his sights on that Madao Stone Fort, so he can only strive to be a pioneer and find an opportunity to give himself another benefit.

He even calculated that after catching Ximen Xiaoye, he would secretly rescue him, and while gaining Ximen Xiaoye's trust, it would be best to find the best source of Persian goods; At that time, he will personally cut off the Simon family in public and feed it to the dogs.

At the very least, the thing called the letter whistle, he wants to get his hands on it, the more the better, and the fire/gun, and the umbrella, and so on, and so on, and he is so red when he thinks about it.

Thinking about it, the tea in his hand was also cold, and there was already the sound of bangzi on the street outside, Fang Shanshui got up and shook his sore waist, and walked towards the hot kang with a blurred look; Ass just sat on the edge of the kang, "Huh? Could it be, Gansu Town? ”

A bright light suddenly flashed in his mind, Fang Shanshui was full of excitement, and quickly looked out the window, only then did he slowly exhale, took out a bright short fire/gun from under the pillow, opened the magazine to see and closed it, and rubbed it in his hand.

"Someone," Following Fang Shanshui's voice, a wrestler on night duty outside came in and knelt on the ground, "Hundred households are adults, small ones are here,"

"Go, bring Zhang Sheng and Han Yun here, the official has something important, go and do it quickly,"

"Slow down, after meeting, let the two of them quickly gather the flag teams, and patrol the streets immediately at dawn,"

After explaining to the wrestlers, Fang Shanshui's sleepiness just now was completely gone, and he kept pacing in the study, his eyes flickering with cold light.

"Ximen Xiaoye, do you dare to risk the world's condemnation and shout for Gansu Town? Hmph, you don't dare to lend you a pair of dog guts,"

If it weren't for the lack of evidence, and the ruckus of the New Year, which made people criticize, he would have sent someone to notify the county government and the thousands of households to send people to search door to door.

Moreover, on the big day when the supervisor Zhang returned to Beijing to report on his work, the next time he left the capital, he went to the south, so he could only calm the ground under the pretext of regretting the delivery, and by the way, he would search the south of the city first, which was the only way for Zhang Zhongdong to return.

The sky was dark, and Zhang Sheng and Han Yun, the chief flag officers of Jinyiwei, hurried to the hundred households with the sporadic sound of firecrackers on the street; At this time, a team of brocade-robed wrestlers, carrying Xiuchun knives, had already gone to the street, patrolling from the north of the city to the south of the city.

Outside the Qianhu Office in the north of the city, in the prison army mansion separated by a wall, Zhang Zhong also sat in a cotton sedan chair and went out of the mansion accompanied by a group of guards.

Zhang Zhong heard about the things that Ximen Xiao did in Gansu Town at night, and for the sake of safety, he did not set off after the fifteenth, but hurriedly went on the road on the third day of the Lunar New Year; With tens of thousands of taels of silver tickets in his arms, and two carriages pulling local products behind him, he looked quite shabby.

Ten miles to send, how can there be money to afford.

The news of returning to Beijing has long been spread to the officials who should know, and the etiquette of the journey that should be collected has also been obtained, and everyone is busy during the New Year, although he is a little uncomfortable, but Zhang Zhong is already satisfied, the emperor's praise for himself is a great favor, and the filial piety sent by Zhang Rang in the past few years has not been in vain.

When the team passed by the inconspicuous Jinyi Wei Baihu Office, Zhang Zhong saw from behind the sedan curtain that Fang Shanshui of the Baihu household with the chief flag officer respectfully kowtowed to each other, and then looked at the wrestlers on both sides of the main street, and couldn't help nodding secretly.

On the straight street from north to south, because of Zhang Zhong's two hundred guards riding tall horses, the households avoided both sides from afar, and no one dared to stand still after seeing the two flags held high.

Even the homeless people hiding at the mouth of the alley obediently knelt on the ground and did not dare to raise their heads.

Kneeling with the people on both sides of the street, Zhang Zhong was a little emotional, and a little worried, he was worried that after he left, the overseer army would not be able to suppress this place where horse thieves and swordsmen were rampant, not to mention more and more outcasts.

Of course, as soon as he returns to Beijing and meets the emperor, he must give the emperor a fresh look at the Persian goods, and then he can make an order to kill the damned Ximen Xiaoye.

When the team passed by the county office, the vermilion gate that would not have opened the door fifteen years ago was opened with a creak, and four strong men with packages on their backs strode out, just in time to meet Zhang Zhong's team head-on.

"Well, who are you and why are you in the county office? Huang County's order, I haven't come out to send my family supervisor yet," the leader of the guards guarding Zhang Zhong's sedan chair swept the four big men with cold eyes, and when he saw that they didn't kneel on the ground, he immediately became angry.

With his voice, he directly made the four strong men who stepped out of the high threshold shrink their eyes suddenly, and the four eyes stared at the green cotton sedan chair.

"Dare to ask, but where is the prison commander Zhang Zhong and Lord Zhang?" The black-faced strong man at the head put his right hand into his arms and asked loudly.

"Bold, you dare to speak in the name of an adult, you don't want to live, come on, take them down," the leader of the guards stared, his big hand pressed on the waist knife, and the guards on both sides shook the reins, and the war horses broke in.

Zhang Zhong, who was sitting in the sedan chair, frowned, as if he didn't notice the noise outside, and picked up a miscellaneous history boredly.

At dawn, the six people of Qin Shi and Daozi entered the official mansion of Huang Xianling, and Huang Xiankao's family and his nephew Huang Wenli were grabbed by the hair and thrown on the ground in their sleep, and the cowhide rope trapped their hands and feet.

Who dares to open his mouth and shout, two slaps break his teeth, and if he shouts again, he will be served with a short knife, and he will not shout if he picks his tongue.

The bloody housekeeper with his mouth, coupled with the headless corpse, this living example made Huang Xiankao's family quite well-behaved, kneeling in the courtyard and not daring to move.

Huang Xiankao's reputation in Gansu Town is not bad, and if he does not harm the people, he is a clean official, so his net worth Qin Shi did not move, but in front of him, he cut off Huang Wenli's head, and he had the face of a swordsman.

"The toad wants to eat swan meat, this is a lesson for you," After leaving an unclear sentence, he blocked the mouths of more than a dozen members of Huang Xiankao's family, found a coarse cloth to wrap Huang Wenli's head and put it away, and the four of them went to the front yard.

The two scribes and servants on night duty in the front yard didn't let Qin Shi do anything with their knives, but just forced them to go to the treasury, filled them with some official silver, tied them up and left.

All this seems to be four bold swordsmen, and the bloody case that was done with a fever in the brain has nothing to do with others.

After running all night, the four of them didn't want to climb over the wall again, so they simply swaggered open the gate of the front yard, and wanted to take the opportunity to wander in the market and find an opportunity to wait for Zhang Zhong.

As for what happened in Gansu Town after dawn, Qin Shi and Dao couldn't think about it so much, so it was a big deal to hide outside the city.

Before he walked out of the gate, the sharp-eyed Qin Shi saw more than a dozen brocade guards nearby, and he didn't have time to warn the knives beside him, and the angry shouts of the leader of the guards immediately came from his ears.

In the face of the knife's inquiry, the shouting and scolding of the leader of the guards undoubtedly confirmed that the upright Zhang Zhong himself was sitting in the sedan chair.

Qin Shishi's eyesight of the knife had seen it, but the speed of his gun made Qin Shishi's eyes widen.

"Bah, Bah," the box cannon with the nose wide open, like a delicate toy in the hand of the knife, the muzzle of the gun sprayed a faint smoke of gunpowder again and again, directly blasting the head of the nearest guard leader, and the red and white brains splashed everywhere.

The other two guards were not ambiguous, and they pounced on them with their feet, and the box cannon slanted slightly, and shot out a series of bullets, knocking out the guards who were trying to surround them.

The spears that Qin Shi and the three of them were carrying and wearing cloth covers, and they watched the three companions rush into the horse team in public, and they could only take out a short fire/gun from their arms, and approached the green cotton sedan chair parked on the ground.

The four palanquin men were frightened by the sudden gunshots and fell to the ground, and the three big men who came up made them close their eyes tightly.

The dozen or so eunuchs who followed the sedan chair didn't have time to scatter and run away, "Peng Peng, Peng Peng," the short fire/gun directly shattered their heads, and also shattered their dream of going to Jiangnan to enjoy happiness.

On the street where people were shouting and neighing, Zhang Zhong's personal guards and the brocade guards on the street began to surround them with knives, and even if they were knocked to the ground by bullets, they also drew their knives with red eyes, trying to block the four assassins with their flesh and blood.

When the three of them rushed into the guards, more than 20 of Zhang Zhong's guards in front of them had already fallen off their horses, and the three of them quickly jumped on their horses, turned their horses' heads and galloped towards the south city gate; From time to time, bullets hit both sides from the horse, and the brocade guards who blocked the three fell to the sides one after another.

Holding the hot short fire/gun, Qin Shi lifted the cotton curtain of the sedan chair and looked at the panicked middle-aged man inside, well, his face was white and beardless, and he thought it was the eunuch Zhang Zhong.

"Lord Zhang, my family has a New Year's greeting for you, a gift for you," as he spoke, Qin Shi took out the earth-shaking thunder, pulled off the fire rope, and thorned the sky-shaking thunder emitting white smoke, and casually stuffed it into Zhang Zhongxin's beheaded white collar.

From the first gunshot to Qin Shi's lifting of the cotton curtain, in just a few breaths, Zhang Zhong, who was still holding a book in his hand, noticed that there was an abnormality outside, the cold air swept away in front of his face, and there was already a heavy iron lump in his underwear in his arms.

"Let's go," took two steps back, Qin Shi jumped on the war horse beside his companion, lying on the horse's back with his waist low, and before he had time to exert his legs, he heard a dull explosion in the sedan chair.

"Boom," the four-person sedan chair was torn apart, wood and cotton brocade rags flew sideways, and a foot-long wooden stick smashed on Qin Shi's back, making him scream, and his palm slapped on the back buttocks of the war horse.