Just when Xiao Ye was planning to go to the Gravel Fort the next day to pay homage to his parents, in Gansu Town, just after Yinshi, a group of black-clothed men climbed over the wall and entered the Fugui Building with embroidered spring knives.

Boydes, who was sleeping, and the ten red-haired sergeants sent by Xiao Ye, as well as the maids and maids hired by Fuguilou, plus Bades's family, a total of thirty-nine people, were caught off guard by the sudden attack, all tied up, and threw them in the backyard.

These masked men wearing official boots not only searched the account books and cash cabinets of Fuguilou, but also pulled away the five carriages that Baodes was going to send to Lao Yangkou in the backyard.

These five carriages, loaded with the grain needed by Lao Yangkou Tunbao, were just watched and pulled away from the back door.

During the whole operation, these men who acted quickly did not make a sound, and Baodes, who was lying on the ground, was tied to death with his hands and feet tied to death, and he could only stare at his eyes, plug his mouth with a rag, and he couldn't shout.

It didn't matter if the silver tickets and food were robbed, it was bad luck to be robbed, but the ledger was robbed, and Bauders was terrified, and his monthly dividends were recorded in detail in the account.

However, Baudez's worries did not last long, and as soon as the big men in black retreated, a group of masked men came, wearing miscellaneous robes and short hexagrams, into the backyard, searched the people on the ground one by one, unceremoniously raised the long knives in their hands, and killed all these people who were still struggling on the spot.

Xiao Ye's hopeful rich building was destroyed like this; Compared with his previous secret methods, Xiao Ye's scene couldn't be put on the stage at all. The backyard, which was dripping with viscous blood, soon filled with a thick smell of blood.

The sky was bright, Lao Yangkou Tunbao, Xiao Ye rode on a horse, accompanied by a carriage, and slowly walked out of Tunbao; Today, he is going to rush to the gravel fort and go to Houtun to pay homage to his parents.

This time, he took Mei'er and Lina with him, hoping that his parents under Jiuquan could see that he had become a family, and the Ximen family would definitely be able to spread out in the future.

It's a pity that Tian Xiuxiu can't show up openly and stay at home, so she can only look at Xiao Ye sadly, and her faint gaze makes Xiao Ye sweat in her head.

Those who went out with the hundred households not only had ten personal guards, but also five female guards led by Luan Fengying, and Zuo Shi was also wearing iron armor and iron group boots, riding on a horse and following the carriage.

In the carriage, Mei'er and Lina sat in with a maid and muttered, picking up the canopy window and looking around, without the slightest sleep.

At this time, Huang Hanxiang's fifty-person team was stationed in Eagle Claw Fort on the grassland, and there was a horse road stone fort in the back, and he wanted to come to Tartar to touch Shiguantun, which was not something that could be done in a day or two.

By the way, if you want to replenish the personal guard to thirty people, you will have to pick people in this contest of sergeants of each flag team.

As soon as the horse team walked through the fire pier, a sergeant rode up and chased after him, and the sergeant on the sentry fired his gun, injured his foot, and was just sent to Shiguantun.

Zuo Shi, who was red-faced and red-eared, was beaten twice by Xiao Ye in front of his personal guards, and had to turn his horse's head and go back to investigate the situation; He couldn't catch up with the worship this time, so he could only burn paper money on the castle wall at night and worship remotely.

As before, the two guards set off a mile forward, and the guards took a herald and followed behind the team, even when they arrived at Shiguantun, they only acted in secret, trying to shorten the distance with Lao Yangkou, so as to receive the news from Wang Ziliang in time.

Xiao Ye's move for the convenience of contact inadvertently saved the lives of his entire family.

Along the loess avenue planted with Coptis trees on both sides, the horse team surrounded the carriage, rumbling close to the Xilong River, and in the wasteland on the left and right of the road, the large patches of emerald green vines and grasses were eye-catching, and Xiao Ye's mouth was dry for a while.

Now he completely understands that this kind of vine grass called "Jade Teng", fruit pits, branches, stingers and even rhizomes are mainly raw materials for the processing center, but Jade Teng's stubborn and crazy spreading habits determine that other plants that accompany it and animals that inhabit it will never end well.

Sure enough, the war horse approached the north bank of the Xilong River, and Xiao Ye saw that in the distance, there were already sparse vines and vines, almost close to the river. This year, the vine grass began to spread in spring, and the speed of spread and expansion was much faster than last year.

After this summer and autumn, perhaps north of the Xilong River, in the vast wilderness hills and large shrubs and low forests, it will be the world of jade.

After crossing the river, the horse team continued to advance, and just after that time, the horse team that was marching quickly had reached the outside of the gravel fort, and the two probing guards in front of them, leading the war horses, were waiting outside the fort gate; If they continue to ride a few miles in the direction of Gansu Town, they will be able to meet a large group of brocade-clothed guards, who are galloping here on fast horses.

The sergeant guarding the fort gate, Liu Shuihe, the flag officer who led the team, recognized that Ximen Xiao Ye had returned, and today was Qingming, so he didn't have to guess that he was coming to the tomb to worship, so he waved his hand and opened the way, allowing the horse team to enter the tunzi directly.

Entering the fort, looking at the lively military households on both sides, the smile on his face made Xiao Ye feel very useful, at least, no one will doubt himself anymore, he is a casual boy.

In the crowd, Xiao Ye saw Wang Yangwu, it seems that he opened his shop in the gravel fort, well, come back and send someone to talk to him. Glancing at Wang Yangwu, seeing that there was not much expression on his face, Xiao Ye was happy, in this big fart gravel fort, there are already Huang family shops and Han family shops, you Wang Yangwu will join in again, I don't know how much income can be made every day.

When passing by the Thousand Households, Xiao Ye dismounted and personally handed the gift slip to the sergeant at the door, wanting to go in to meet his immediate boss.

He also figured it out, no matter how hard his knees are, he can't win a piece of paper from his boss, in order to make his future path better, my father-in-law is right, today I will kneel and salute you, and tomorrow you will have to kneel and salute me, and see which one smiles in the end.

Don't bully the young man to be poor, thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, just by virtue of his age, Xiao Ye is confident that he will go further than two thousand households, what if there is no backer, no matter how difficult the road is, you can break through if you have the strength.

The strange thing is that after the sergeant went in, he came out empty-handed, "Wang Qianhu and Tian Qianhu are not here, this is Qingming, who has everything going on,"

Also, Xiao Ye didn't think much about it, and took his personal guards and his party through the tunpu and went up the hill from Houtun.

In the backyard of the Thousand Households, in the garden pavilion, Wang Chongli and Tian Guanglin were drinking tea with a middle-aged man in green pants and purple, and Xiao Ye's eldest brother Huang Changzu was also present.

Huang Guanglu, the deputy commander of Wei, was transferred to Taiyuan Mansion after the year, and the commander made Huang Bingbiao in power, and the reputation of the Huang family in Gansu Town was as stable as Mount Tai, but that's it, Huang Changzu, a child of the family, was respectful like a junior in front of middle-aged people, and he drank tea slowly with a teacup.

Playing with the two gift slips in his hand, the middle-aged man with a white face and beard put down the teacup with a smile, he was Zhang Zhong, the supervisor of Gansu Town.

"Let's just say, a small hereditary hundred households, can get such a gift list, it is really on the ship of the Persian merchants, and even the prison army looks at it with three points of heat,"

On the gift list, Xiao Ye gave two thousand households, each with a silver ticket of five hundred taels, the redemption ticket/document of the Huangjia Qian Zhuang, the kind that admits the vote and does not recognize the person. The gift was neither light nor heavy, and it was timely, but unfortunately it fell in Zhang Zhong's eyes.

Wang Chongli and Tian Guanglin glanced at each other, their faces were embarrassed, and they secretly scolded Ximen Xiaoye in their hearts, you are stunned, you don't pull out a hair on weekdays, but now you are giving a gift alive, you are just here to slap your face.

Huang Changzu, who was dressed in a white robe, was originally a spectator, but when he squinted his eyes, he saw the ticket/receipt of his own bank, and his face suddenly fell.

Seeing that several people didn't speak, Zhang Zhong didn't care, took out the white jade snuffbox from his sleeve pocket, played with it twice, picked out a little snuff from the tip of his fingernails, put it in front of the must, sneezed beautifully, and put the snuff bottle away slowly.

The new trend that has just emerged in the Beijing Division, Zhang Zhong himself will not let go of showing off, but he doesn't see the three of them admiring, it is very boring.

"This Ximen Xiao Ye is very bold, he dares to fight with the Mongolian Tatars, and he can gain a firm foothold in the barren mountains and mountains, and he has some skills,"

"However, he has a few records in the Jinyi Guard, I heard that it is very troublesome, plus a few days ago, the chief soldier Lei Zhengtang was stabbed, the horse thief was fierce and not afraid of death, and more than a dozen of his subordinates died in the general soldier's mansion, which is related to the Persians for a long time,"

"He is responsible for escorting the goods from the Persian steppe, and the so-called earth-shaking thunder in it is the murder weapon that killed the general soldier of Lei, even if he is unintentional, he is also an accomplice,"

"Jinyi Wei You Qianhu and Jin Qianhu have already put the Persian goods on the tiger and leopard room," Speaking of this, Zhang Zhong arched his hand towards the south, his face was solemn, "The emperor's will, Gansu Town will set up a royal store to outline a dry Persian goods,"

"It is not easy for the imperial court to compensate us and other border troops, and it is allowed to set up an official store in Laoyangkou to assist the imperial store in paying the tax on goods, and it is not allowed to compete for profit from the people, which hurts the enthusiasm of the merchants,"

The merchant is unwilling to kill chickens and take eggs, but he Zhang Zhong is not afraid of drying up and fishing, even if he digs up the small pond of Xiao Ye, the upstream still has to come with water, as long as the Persians have goods to sell, the water from top to bottom cannot be stained by white civilians.

The lowest-ranking officer of the hundred households, in Zhang Zhong's view, is the same as the ordinary people, and he can be pinched to death by stretching out his fingers.

However, Lei Zhengtang's death made Zhang Zhong see the other side of Xiao Ye, and the horse thief leader Lu Yidao's den on the grassland was ended, which made him reluctant to destroy this hundred households at once.

He is loyal to the emperor, but some people are desperately trying to collect money for a certain prince, and they have also established a Huangshatang, so they really think others are fools; If you don't add some chili water to their eyes, Zhang Zhong has been in the border army for a few years.

Therefore, he politely rejected the suggestion of the two Jinyi Wei Qianhu, and did not directly send a wrestler to arrest Xiao Ye, but wanted to knock out the hidden Persian trade route.

If Xiao Ye knew each other, maybe it would be good to give him a way to live.

In the refreshing pavilion, Zhang Zhong's soft voice made the three people sitting next to him sweat coldly. I don't know if these words represent the meaning of the Son of Heaven, but it's not far off.

Zhang Zhong, who is confident, if he knew the inside story of Xiao Ye's assassination of Jiang Jie's father and son and the killing of hundreds of Zhushanchuan, he might praise a real man, and then sentence him to a military stick to beat him to death; If he knew that Xiao Ye was raising private soldiers on the grassland in order to avenge his personal revenge, he would not have sat so steadily, and he would definitely immediately order to catch and cut off his head.

"That little hundred households, now go to Houtun, after he has paid homage to his parents, he has his own hundred households to talk to him, it depends on whether he is reluctant to give up the wealth in his hands," Zhang Zhong, who smiled, won the praise of the three people opposite in unison, saying that Xiao Ye met Zhang Jianjun, but it was a great blessing, and others would not let Xiao Ye be so generous to be filial.

On the hill where the grass was already green, the tomb of his parents was found, and the offerings were placed, Xiao Ye took his two wives and concubines, burned paper money for his parents in front of the grave, and respectfully kowtowed to comfort.

After a long time, getting up, Xiao Ye picked up a military shovel, cut grass and soil around the tomb, and heard a noise under the hill, straightened his waist, and looked at it, his face showed a trace of doubt.

At the foot of the hill, I saw a wrestler wearing an embroidered robe and official boots, under the command of a burly man, who surrounded his guards far away, holding a long knife with a cold light, and shouting and scolding.

And the personal guards and female guards who were guarding the carriage, under the leadership of Ning Zhongyang, took out the revolver short gun/gun without showing weakness, and confronted each other in groups of three, staring at each other, and even the earth-shattering thunder was in their hands.

"Husband, who are those people? Why do you want to surround Ning Zhongyang and them? Behind them, Mei'er and Lina were also looking up with their maids.

"I don't know," Xiao Ye grabbed the military shovel in his hand, and replied in a deep voice, his eyes were fixed on the crowd, the tall thin man with a long face, from the gloomy face, Xiao Ye felt the smell of unkindness; "Let's go, go down and have a look,"

Walking down the hill along the ramp, Xiao Ye came to the outside of the crowd, and his arrival immediately made the noisy two sides shut their mouths together. Perhaps, Lei Zhengtang's death made these brocade guards have an inexplicable awe of Xiao Ye, an officer of a hundred households.

Throwing the shovel to the guards on the side, patting the dust on his hands, Xiao Ye turned around and motioned to Mei'er and the others to go to the carriage, and walked towards the brocade-clothed guards who stood proudly.

Fang Shanshui, who was standing far away under a pine tree, waved his hand to block the movements of his subordinates, squinting at Xiao Ye, with indescribable anger or excitement in his heart.

After many investigations, this young hundred households not only had nothing to do with the prince of Nanchang, but even had the slightest holiday, and even sent a sergeant to the grassland to force Na Lu to disappear without a trace.

His previous guess had not changed, which made him very angry, but it also made Fang Shanshui, who was angry about the center of the imperial court, secretly happy; The fermentation of Lei Zhengtang's death, in his opinion, is inevitable.

Sure enough, last night, he was ordered to follow the overseer and rush to the Gravel Fort with his men and horses; The news that Ximen Xiao was paying tribute to his parents during the Qingming Festival, although he got it a little late, it was just right, enough for them to rush here overnight.

After waiting for almost half a day under the hill, he finally let him wait for Xiao Ye's arrival, and naturally, his subordinates surrounded him.

Although Xiao Ye, like other military households, recognized the official robe of Jinyiwei, he didn't know the hundred households opposite, walked to Fang Shanshui five steps away and stopped, and arched his hand, "Who is this?" ”

"Ximen Xiaoye, your incident happened, this is Lord Fang of one hundred households in my family, why don't you hurry up and bring your hands to the case," Gou Liangchen, who was standing beside Fang Shanshui, just stood up and shouted loudly.

"What's going on? Bring to justice? Xiao Ye frowned, staring at Fang Shanshui, "May I ask Fang Baihu, what happened to me Ximen Xiao Ye, and which family did I return to?" ”

The meaning between the words, if you don't give a reasonable answer, I'm afraid this matter will be difficult to end, he Xiao Ye is not a master who is easy to handle.

"Hehe, Ximen Baihu, this official is only ordered by the prison army Zhang Zhongzhang to take you to a thousand households, other things, this official is carelessly clear," Fang Shanshui replied vaguely, turned his head and glared at Gou Liangchen fiercely; You idiot, if Ximen Xiao doesn't die this time, you will be the unlucky one.

As he spoke, Fang Shanshui took out a piece of paper, "Don't hide it from Ximen Baihu, now there are two teams of Jinyi Weilishi, who have arrived at Laoyangkou Tunbao and Shiguantun, where the defense should be taken over, don't worry about Ximen Baihu,"

"There is a small night at the west gate of the hundred households of Yonghetun, changing the residence of the hundred households without authorization, relieving the position of the hundred households, and sending them to the thousand households to be investigated," the simple content is stamped with the big seal of the Thousand Households of the Gravel Fort, as well as Wang Chongli's private seal.

In the official / text, there is no connection with the guard, it is purely the internal affairs of the Thousand Households of the Gravel Fort, which is also Zhang Zhong's shrewd hand.

"Ximen Xiao Ye, the eight hundred soldiers in the gravel fort have been assembled, it is better for you to know the current affairs," After letting Xiao Ye read the official / document, Fang Shanshui kindly persuaded him, he was not soft-hearted, but he didn't want Xiao Ye to trouble himself if he had a chance in the future.

As long as he doesn't see Xiao Ye being executed with his own eyes, he won't turn his face easily, this is his way of life, especially knowing clearly that after the murderous things that Xiao Ye did in secret, he was even more cautious.

The ghost knows if Xiao Ye has his own henchmen, in case there are really so few, if there is another explosion in the General Military Mansion, his hundred households will not be able to stand it.

"So, what does Fang Baihu mean?" Xiao Ye saw that Fang Shanshui had put away the official documents, and his heart was already cold, and he asked hoarsely.

"Disarm the weapon, follow me to the Thousand Households, the Lord of the Prison is still waiting," Fang Shanshui said dryly, thinking twice in his heart, and slowly walked in front of Xiao Ye; At this distance, with Xiao Ye's skills, he could pull him over, with the fire/gun behind him, and those wrestlers naturally didn't dare to act rashly.

Taking this opportunity, he can also try Gou Chenliang.

Fortunately, he was right, Xiao Ye did not break out and put on a traitor's hat to himself, but was stunned for a while, and then turned his head with difficulty, "Zhongyang, tell the brothers, take off the swords, guns and firearms on your body,"

"Yes, Baihu," Ning Zhongyang responded loudly, and issued an order to make Xiao Ye regret it for the rest of his life at the guards left and right, "All of them, Baihu order, remove the swords, guns, and firearms on your body,"

With Ning Zhongyang's order, the guards and female guards took off their short guns and crossbows one after another, and put their waist knives and scimitars with scabbards at their feet, and even the earth-shattering thunder in the leather pocket behind them was also taken off and carefully placed on the ground.

Xiao Ye, whose face was tangled, sighed deeply, reached out and took off the waist knife at his waist, pulled out the revolver fire/gun from the leather holster on his waist, and threw it at his feet.

"Wow," With Xiao Ye's action of throwing his gun on the ground, the brocade-clothed guards rushed up, the chains in their hands trembled, and the guards and female guards locked their hands. At Fang Shanshui's signal, Gou Chenliang stepped forward, smiled and took out the iron chain, locked Xiao Ye's wrist, and walked towards Tunbao after holding it.

Mei'er's carriage and daughters were also quickly searched by the wrestlers, and the wrestlers did not embarrass Xiao Ye's women, the wrestlers just took away the five-shot rifle and two boxes of bullets.

Outside the fort wall on the east side of the gravel fort, behind a low earthen platform, Dog Dan and the herald were hiding in the half-human-high barren grass, holding binoculars, looking in amazement at the galloping horses on the loess avenue to the south, rumbling towards the bank of the Xilong River.

The two of them, who had come back to their senses for a long time, looked to the south again, and were stunned to find that under the hills in the distance, hundreds of households were locked up by a group of people and pulled to the tunli, and they were immediately anxious.

"Damn, which dog's daring grandson dares to lock up a hundred households," the anxious dog bullet took out the revolver and was about to get up, but was stopped by the herald.

"Look at that robe, it should be Jinyiwei, let's go in vain," the clever herald grabbed the dog's clothes, "If the hundred households resist, they won't succeed so easily, probably something is wrong,"

"Just now, a horse team went to Lao Yangkou, let's hurry back and pass the news to Xin Xiucai first, and see what he does," the herald's words made a layer of fine sweat burst out on the dog's head, and he couldn't help but say, raised his legs and ran under the earthen platform.

Descending on the flat ground, they pulled over the war horses hidden behind a few pine trees, turned over their horses, and the two raised their whips, shouted loudly, and hurried in the direction of the Xilong River; With a letter whistle in hand, if you run faster, you should be able to contact the secret whistle in the south of Lao Yangkou.

At this time, the knife and his party, which had made a detour in the deep ravine of the big ravine, had already touched a dirt ditch in the southeast of the gravel fort from the wilderness to the south.

Standing on a low mountain, looking around with a telescope for a while, the dusty knife finally breathed a sigh of relief, and smiled at his companions resting in the bushes behind, "Brothers, we are finally almost home, after two big ditches in front, we will reach the right road, and the gravel fort is not far away,"

His words made several companions laugh in a low voice, and without him saying it, everyone could see that this was already the boundary under the jurisdiction of the Gravel Castle, and the faint black spot in the east was not the Gravel Castle; There were two pairs of telescopes, and the others had been looking at them impatiently for a long time.

However, just as the knife was about to put away the binoculars, he suddenly found that in the ditch near the avenue in front of him, a figure was shaking, and he couldn't help but be stunned.

"Hehe, there is movement ahead, could it be that the officers and soldiers have discovered us?" The knife lowered his body and ran down the mountain in a few steps, "First put a cowhide chew on the war horse, let's touch it and take a look,"