Everyone waited anxiously in the inn for a while, the two swordsmen and Wang Er volunteered to go out to investigate, while the rest of the people nervously carried weapons and guarded the carriage, and if the situation was the slightest mistake, everyone planned to flee to the south gate.

Among them, only Zhu Yuanzhang knew that Zheng Yanfu and his gang would not make a bigger mess again, and he must have followed the arrangement given by Zhu Yuanzhang to let his rebellious people scatter after sharing their belongings, and agreed to reconvene on Hutou Mountain tomorrow morning. Eventually, they will run into Huanglong Mountain, fall into the grass, and lie dormant in the mountains.

If Zhu Yuanzhang needs them in the future, he can go to Huanglong Mountain to find Zheng Yanfu at any time and turn this power into use, but now is not the time.

After a long time, the knifeman and Wang Er who went out to investigate came back, and the results of the three of them were the same, Zhang Douyao's father and son were dead, and the Zhang family was almost killed, and only a few maids and maids escaped by hiding under the bed or in a ditch or other place. The rebels robbed Zhang's mansion and yamen, opened the county warehouse, looted all the silver taels and grain in the county warehouse, and then scattered and fled......

Because the spring tax was being collected at this time, there was a lot of silver in the county warehouse, and Zheng Yanfu and his gang really grabbed a handful of them, and robbed all the taxes in Chengcheng for half a year.

Hearing that the rioters had fled, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and the weapons in their hands were relieved. Zhu Yuanzhang pricked up his ears and listened carefully, and Miss Ma San in the carriage seemed to gasp heavily when she heard that Zhang Douyao's father and son were dead.

"Now we can go back!" A knife hand said: "It is no longer possible to send relatives, let's hurry home and go home." ”

At this time, Miss Ma San was not in a hurry to leave, she said softly: "Although my marriage is gone, there is no reason to stay here, but the young lady of the Zhang family has now been sent to Baishui, and tomorrow she will marry her second brother and become my second sister-in-law." This Zhang family is also our in-laws, since it is the right time, we should go to Zhang's mansion to help appease the surviving maids and family members, help them pick up the family property, and hand it over to my second sister-in-law. ”

"Third Miss...... This is ...... It's better not to rush it, and it's better to come back to it after a while. Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly spoke: "The city is in chaos like this, the nearby guard post must have received the news, as soon as tonight, tomorrow at the latest, the officers and soldiers will arrive...... If we stay here, we're afraid of constant trouble. ”

"It's a good thing that the officers and soldiers are here!" The third lady said innocently: "You can help suppress the rogues and maintain order in the city, can't you?" ”

Listening to the innocent words of the third young lady, Zhu Yuanzhang, Wang Er, and fifteen swordsmen laughed bitterly in unison, can the officers and soldiers help maintain order? This is nonsense, and only a naïve and ignorant young lady can say such a thing. Anyone who knows a little about the world knows that the officers and soldiers of these years are even more terrifying than the rogues, and everywhere they pass, chickens and dogs jump, disturbing the people to the extreme.

There is a saying among the people: A thief is like a comb, a soldier is like a grate, and an official is like a shaving.

What does this mean? When a thief comes and plunders, it is like a comb combed and all the belongings of the house, but there is a large gap between the teeth of the comb, and there are still leaks; The grate teeth are very thin, describing the soldiers who come to plunder, it is clear and clear, there is plenty of time, they scramble carefully, and they hate more than the bandits, unlike the bandits, at least they are afraid that the government will come and have to rush over and leave. There is another half sentence in the back, the official is like shaving, this sentence does not need to be explained, the official came to shave, like shaving his head, there is no grass.

Zhang's Mansion is now chaotic enough, but there are still vases on the ground that the homeless people have not had time to move, and when the officers and soldiers arrive tonight or tomorrow, they will surround Zhang's Mansion to "check the clues left by the thieves", but I am afraid that the last vase will not be found.

Several swordsmen glanced at each other, and one of them said respectfully towards the carriage: "Third Miss, the officers and soldiers are unreliable, let's leave early, those remaining people in Zhang's mansion have nothing to do with us, leave them alone......"

"How can this be done, how can there be a reason not to save when you see death...... They were frightened by the thieves, and it was just when they needed to be comforted. The third lady, who didn't like to argue, actually argued.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who was listening to the side, only felt a softness in his heart, and he thought of Queen Ma again, that is an extremely kind woman, and she has always been obedient to Zhu Yuanzhang's words, but whenever Zhu Yuanzhang raised a butcher knife and wanted to kill someone, Queen Ma would fight with reason and try to save other people's lives, and her kindness made everyone feel warm.

Zhu Yuanzhang stood up and said seriously: "Third Miss, you and the big brothers go home first, and I will stay to appease the Zhang family." ”

He wanted to do something for her, and it was a chance to make a name for himself.

Now that we have made up our minds to overturn the chessboard of the Ming Dynasty and put the flag back on it, we must inevitably embark on the road of peasant uprising. If you want to revolt, you can't do it without your own team, and a large part of the reason why he is unwilling to lead Zheng Yanfu is because that team is not his, but Zheng Yanfu's. What he wants is an army that listens to his own words, not an army that listens to Zheng Yanfu first, and then Zheng Yanfu listens to him, such an army is too easy to centrifuge.

If you want to pull up a team of your own, you must first gain a good reputation, but Zhu Yuanzhang came too late, the first hero in Baishui has long been recognized as the second king, he wants to take off the position of the second king and occupy the first throne, he must do more good deeds and gain more folk prestige.

Now that the third lady has put the problem out, he took the opportunity to stand up and do something good, on the one hand, he can earn a good reputation for himself, and on the other hand, he can also satisfy the wishes of this woman who looks like Queen Ma, killing two birds with one stone, why not?

"You're going to stay?" Miss Ma San hesitated a little: "Are you alone?" ”

"No problem!" Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly: "I'm also a partial hospital manager, and I usually manage a group of people, and there is nothing I can't do when I come out to take care of this kind of thing temporarily." ”

"Oh, that's good!"

The swordsmen naturally had no opinions, only Wang Erluo was a little worried and wanted to stay and accompany Zhu Yuanzhang to do it. Zhu Yuanzhang persuaded him a few words, and a group of porters and brothers asked Wang Er to take care of him, so he had to do it.

After the discussion stopped, the black carriage of the third lady, under the escort of the swordsmen, hurried out of the south gate and went home. Wang Er led a group of porters and also went with the carriage.

Zhu Yuanzhang took another card of the Ma family's worship sticker to prove his identity, took off the blood-stained clothes on his body, and changed into a clean and tidy cotton clothes. Then he walked towards Zhang's Mansion calmly and generously.

The situation in Chengcheng is very different from just now, Zheng Yanfu and his gang have dispersed, and the bold people have begun to take to the streets, asking each other what is going on, and the people in twos and threes have the courage to gather in the center of the city, most of the people are walking in the direction of the yamen, and there are also some good people looking towards Zhangfu.

Most of the doors that had been closed were now open, and the women and children remained in the house and were afraid to come out, but most of the men came out to inquire for information.

When Zhu Yuanzhang walked to the front door of Zhang's mansion, he saw that it was full of people, and many people dared to look inside, but no one dared to walk in. Because there were two Zhangfu family members who died at the door, there were more than a dozen knife cuts on the corpses, and blood flowed sideways, staining the threshold red...... How dare ordinary people get half a step closer.

Zhu Yuanzhang walked over in a row, and said loudly: "Get out of the way, I am a person sent by Master Zhang's in-laws, let me go in to deal with the affairs of the Zhang family." ”

The crowd was originally blind and lively, but when they heard that someone in charge appeared, they immediately separated a road, and Zhu Yuanzhang slowly passed through the crowd, and every step was deliberately heavy, making him look more imposing.

"This man seems to be a steward......"

"Sent by the Zhang family's in-laws? Isn't it the White Water Horse family? ”

"It should be someone from the Ma family, Zhang Douyao sent his daughter to Baishui Ma's house a few days ago, he should only have this in-laws......

"This steward looks quite young, can he be trusted?"

The crowd talked a lot, Zhu Yuanzhang ignored them, and walked to the gate of Zhang's mansion, his brows frowned slightly, and he stepped into a pool of blood at the door, and the blood splashed under his feet.

"Silk!" The crowd of onlookers gasped: "This is so powerful!" ”

"Don't look at people's youth, stepping on the blood of dead people, they only frown slightly, and they look very reliable."

"It's so reliable, it's so reliable, do you dare to walk like this in a pool of blood? I'm afraid that you won't dare to walk on tiptoe......"

"No wonder you can be a steward at a young age, you are a good man......"

In Zhang's mansion, corpses are everywhere, there are Zhang family's family members, there are also Zheng Yanfu's rebellious people, everyone's death is miserable, either the body is stabbed several times, or the head is beaten by heavy objects such as iron plows and hoes, and various liquids such as white, red, and yellow flow everywhere......

There are a group of lucky and undead housekeepers and maids sitting in the lobby of Zhang's house, there are twenty-one people, of which there are only four housekeepers, and the other seventeen are maids. The maids are easier to hide in the backyard, so more survive.

These housekeepers and maids are all in a trance. And his eyes were full of confusion, and he lost his master in a flash, and he didn't know what to do in the future. If they are given a night to think, they may think of running away with their belongings...... It's just that not long after the incident, they are still immersed in the chaos of the aftermath of the catastrophe, and their heads have not yet begun to think about things.

Zhu Yuanzhang stood in front of this group of people, coughed lightly, lifted his breath, and then shouted loudly: "I am Zhu Ba, the steward of the Baishui Ma family, and I am here to help you!" ”