The uneasiness in his heart made Tang Ming's mind uncertain, and the elegant style of the past was also thrown on the dog, and even the defenders who opened the city gate for him in the middle of the night were not polite, showing his identity and taking out the token that Yao Guangxiao did not take back, and swayed in front of the leader of the defenders, and urged everyone to go on the road.

Of course, this style is not pleasant, and the leader of the defenders looked at Tang Ming's back as he walked away, with a dissatisfied look on his face. I thought that I would be kind enough to open a city gate and get some benefits. Now he didn't get the benefits, not to mention that he didn't even get a good face for his work, he kicked the city gate twice, muttered curses in his mouth, and went back to rest.

The city was so quiet that not even a single bark of a cat or dog could be heard. Even a few of Zheng He's cronies sensed that something was wrong, and after a few people glanced at each other, they tacitly protected Tang Ming and the others in the middle.

The big gold-lettered signboard of 'Drunken Immortal Building' had already appeared in sight, Tang Ming urged the horse forward to the door, and looked up at the three-story wooden building, where there was no light at all. The whole building gave people a lifeless feeling, and the anxious Tang Ming didn't bother to greet the people behind him, and rushed to the backyard with his legs between the horse's belly.

Lingyi, who realized it later, also felt that something was wrong at this moment, jumped off the carriage, ran a few steps and climbed over the courtyard wall to enter, and several of Zheng He's cronies nodded and praised it with his agility. Three of the six people followed closely behind Lingyi and climbed over the wall, while the other three continued to drive the carriage in the direction of Tang Ming.

When Tang Ming arrived in the backyard, he didn't have time to knock on the door, but the door suddenly opened, startled, and only breathed a sigh of relief after seeing that it was Lingyi by the faint moonlight. Just as he was about to step on the door, a cold blade appeared silently on Lingyi's neck like a ghost.

A deep voice then sounded: "A bold thief, he dares to break into the drunken immortal tower at night, report his name, and there are no nameless rats under the uncle's sword." ”

Tang Mingzheng wondered when there was such a person in the eldest brother's family, but he heard Lingyi shout in surprise: "Netherworld Sword, Yanyang Huayan Uncle, it's me Lingyi!" ”

As soon as Lingyi's words fell, the blade on his neck disappeared silently, and a tall figure appeared behind him, only to hear him say in a muffled voice: "Lingyi boy, the three rats on the roof are your companions?" ”

Lingyi immediately turned around, glanced up at the dark roof, and knew that it was Lord Zheng He's subordinates hiding on the roof, so he nodded and said, "It's a companion, Uncle Yan, where did the senior brother's family go, why is the whole courtyard empty?" ”

Yan Yanghua didn't reply to Lingyi's words, but kept looking at Tang Ming, who had just entered the door, his eyes were full of doubts? Seeing this, Ling Yi immediately pointed to Tang Ming and introduced him: "Uncle Yan, he is Tang Ming, the younger brother whom the senior brother just recognized. ”

Pointing at Yan Yanghua with his hand, he introduced Tang Ming again: "Big brother, this is Uncle Yan." The friend of the senior brother's life and death, Yan Yanghua, who is known as the 'Nether Sword' in the rivers and lakes, is unrivaled in his swordsmanship in the rivers and lakes, and is the person that the younger brother admires the most. ”

Lingyi, this kid usually doesn't look like a person who can talk, but he didn't expect to pat himself on the back, and he even had a set of things, but after Yan Yanghua heard his praise, his face was full of useful expressions.

"You are Tang Ming, and you do have some similarities with your brother. Okay, let's all go inside and talk, and don't stand here in the middle of the night to attract attention. After Yan Yanghua finished speaking, he turned around and walked towards the hall.

Tang Ming's brows were already twisted to the point of knotting, and from Yan Yanghua's tone, he had already guessed that something must have happened to the eldest brother's family. I didn't bother to arrange Chen Jialan in person, so I just told Lingyi to follow and walk towards the hall.

Lingyi is not stupid, of course he knows that something must have happened to his senior brother, and he also wants to follow and listen, but Tang Ming took the lead and was ordered to entertain Chen Jialan's master and servant, and he had no choice but to obediently greet the carriage outside the door.

As soon as Yan Yanghua entered the hall, he lit a lamp, and without waiting for Tang Ming to ask, he said bluntly: "Your eldest brother had an accident, and the whole family, together with more than a dozen people, was tied up in the prison by a group of brocade guards in the morning. I came here in the afternoon and learned that I went to visit the prison once, and I thought about calling a group of friends from the rivers and lakes to rescue him, but I was refused, and asked me to come here and wait for you to come back before making a decision. ”

"Jin Yiwei?"

Muttering to himself, Tang Ming asked, "Why was my eldest brother arrested by Jinyiwei, did he do anything?" Where are you being caught in prison now? ”

Tang Ming's repeated questioning made Yan Yanghua digest it for a moment before he reacted, and said with a wry smile: "I heard Tianhao say that he was affected by that Yan Zhifu, it seems that it is because it involves the affairs of Jianwen Yu's party. The whole family of Yan Zhifu has been slaughtered by Jinyi Wei, and everyone who has anything to do with him has now been arrested and taken to the prison of the government office, and he has been interrogated since the afternoon, until the evening I saw dozens of corpses transported out of the government office. ”

Tang Ming's face suddenly turned from pale to pale, no one knew the methods of Jinyiwei, and no one knew about it, starting from Zhu Yuanzhang's establishment of this spy agency. It can be said that the reputation that makes people talk about it now has been killed all the way, especially after Zhu Di ascended the throne, and his power has reached a peak.

This is precisely what fuels their more unscrupulous killing, only to Zhu Laosi, the emperor's Jinyi guard, when they are handling cases, all the people involved, no matter how big or small, will die under their bloody butcher's knife.

If those who can die happily are lucky, like those who have offended them or are remembered by them, which one of them has not been tortured to extract confessions, cut by a thousand knives, and died a miserable death. What's more, he was made worse than dead, when he thought of such a scene, and then thought about the eldest brother's family in his hands, how good could the encounter be at this time, inexplicably, a nameless fire went straight to his head.

I finally have a home and relatives who care about each other, but I haven't had time to enjoy this family relationship. But Jin Yiwei shattered this dream, he had lost a home in his previous life, and the regret in his heart was too late to mend. For the sake of this family now, he will never let himself have a chance to regret it again.

Tang Ming's mind at this moment kept flashing the appearance of Tang Tianhao talking to himself after drinking, the kind smile of his sister-in-law, being urinated when he was playing with his nephew, and the warm picture of the whole family playing and making fun of him, a twilight flashed in his mind, but it was like a knife stabbing at his body.

Turning around and stepping out of the house, the moon, which had been emitting a faint light, hid in the clouds at some point, and it was so dark that it was almost so dark that I couldn't see my fingers. The dark night at this moment was just like Tang Ming's thoughts, and an evil thought in his heart was constantly growing and sprouting.

Looking at the dark night sky, Tang Ming gritted his teeth and muttered in a low voice as if he had sworn an oath: "If my eldest brother is injured by him this time, I, Tang Ming, swear to the sky that I will slaughter all of you Jinyi Guard, and whoever dares to stop me will be killed." ”