Thinking of this, Zhou Ping stood up, stretched out his hand to help Li Xu up from the ground, and said with a smile: "Although Li Zhuangshi made some mistakes before, he has already made a mistake for what he did today. For people like you, the court has always been unashamed! ”

Looking at the smile on Zhou Ping's face, Li Xu couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, he suddenly understood that the person standing in front of him was his own kind, and hurriedly lowered his head and said, "Taiwei Houg, sinners are liver and brains, and it is difficult to repay them!" ”

"Someone!" Zhou Ping said: "Take a Hu bed, a small one, and then get some food for Li Zhuangshi, after working all night, I must be hungry!" ”

Li Xu was about to excuse himself, but when he saw Zhou Ping's smiling face, he couldn't speak. I had to carefully sit down on the side of Hu's bed, with my hands hanging down, looking like I was waiting for inquiry.

"Li Zhuangshi, you just said that you have something important to report, I don't know what it is?"

Li Xu hurriedly stood up and looked around, with an embarrassed expression on his face. Zhou Ping smiled slightly, stood up and walked back, Li Xu hurriedly followed, and when he arrived at no one, the smile on Zhou Ping's face disappeared, and asked, "What do you say?" ”

"Tell the captain, the villain has a great wealth for you!" Li Xu whispered a little eagerly.

"Rich? You mean Fang Qifei's whereabouts? Zhou Ping had a disdainful smile on his face.

"Not really!" Li Xu hurriedly shook his head: "Does the Taiwei know Kip Stone Town?" ”

"Kip Stone?" Zhou Ping frowned: "Where is this?" ”

"Tell the Captain, this Kip Stone Town is a small town in Haining County. Before those Manichae thieves came to attack Xiuzhou, they left all their looted property there, and if the captain immediately sent troops and advanced with light troops, he would definitely be able to catch up with the thieves—"

"How far away is Kip Rock Town?" Zhou Ping interrupted Li Xu's words and asked. Seeing that Zhou Ping's interest was aroused, Li Xu's spirit couldn't help but perk: "It's only fifty miles away." ”

"Hmm!" Zhou Ping suddenly stepped forward, almost put his face on the other party's face, and asked, "Wang Tongjun is above me, why don't you tell him about it?" ”

Zhou Ping's sudden question made Li Xu almost out of breath. He didn't dare to avoid the other party's gaze. He could only reply word by word: "Tell the captain, although Wang Tongjun is above you, he does not have the ability to lead the troops, and those belongings in Kipshi Town cannot be delayed." If something goes wrong. On the contrary, it will make him feel that it is a villain who invites credit. Anger on the villain! ”

After listening to the answer, Zhou Ping took two steps back, and suddenly smiled: "Li Xu." You're a smart guy, good! I like smart people, as long as you don't do stupid things, you can get by! ”

"The villain will definitely serve the captain wholeheartedly!" Li Xu hurriedly threw himself to the ground, Zhou Ping didn't speak, walked straight forward, and said loudly: "Come on, order the whole army to prepare to go out of the city to pursue the Mani thief!" ”

Li Xu listened to the footsteps in the distance, raised his head carefully, and looked at Zhou Ping's distant back, only then did he feel a cold feeling on his back.

Fang Qifei leaned on the wall of the car, he only wore a short coat that he got out of nowhere, the fat that was exposed swayed with the shaking of the donkey cart, and the cold wind couldn't help but blow in through the gap in the canopy made of the mat, but Fang Qifei seemed to be unconscious, just a person in a daze.

"Seventh brother, seventh brother!" Chen Antian's voice came from outside the car, he jumped into the car out of breath, and said loudly: "Seventh brother, come out and say something, someone is fighting in front!" ”

"Fighting?" The muscles on Fang Qifei's face twitched, but he didn't come out as Chen Antian asked, but turned his back to the other party and said in a low voice: "Then let them fight, it's good to finish fighting!" ”

Chen Antian was anxious when he heard this: "Seventh brother, how can you say that, the brothers who beat are all brothers in front of the Ming Throne, and they are all their own flesh and blood!" ”

"Brother before the Ming Throne?" Fang Qifei sneered, his voice was as cold as a wild ghost: "No food, no clothes, no charcoal, and running for your life in the wilderness in the moon, don't say that you are a brother in the sect, even if you are a brother, you have to fight." What can I do? I can't conjure up food or firewood. ”

Chen Antian was dumbfounded, after the camp caught fire last night, they lost control of tens of thousands of Manichaeans, so they had to take dozens of people around them to go to the Fang Demon King first, but they didn't expect that the Fang Demon King saw that the situation was not good, so they ran away alone. Chen Antian had no choice but to snatch a donkey cart and lead the dozens of subordinates to escort Fang Qifei away. Abandoned Manichaean corpses were everywhere along the way, most of them killed by fratricidal fighting over food and vehicles. It must be known that it was the cold winter moon, and when these tens of thousands of Manichaeans came, they had already looted the villages on both sides of the road, and by the time they fled back, it was almost a blank field. People didn't eat or drink, they ran wild in the cold winter fields, and in the era when there were no cotton jackets, few people could hold on.

After about half a sound, Fang Qifei said in a low voice: "Don't pay attention to them, it's important to rush to Kipshi Town, there is food and ships over there." As long as there are these, there is a way to advance or retreat. ”

"Hmm!" Chen Antian answered, and was about to go out to give an order, when suddenly there was a panicked shout outside.

"The official army, the official army is here!"

"It's that Yang Scarface! That deadly Yang Scarface is here! ”

Chen Antian jumped out of the donkey cart, only to see that the Manichaeans who had just fought for a few bags of grain and a few donkeys had already scattered and fled, and when he looked back, dozens of horsemen were rushing towards this side, vaguely the same cavalry that had killed them under Xiuzhou City not long ago. Chen Antian shuddered, hurriedly got into the donkey cart, and shouted loudly: "Seventh brother, get out of the car, the officials and soldiers are catching up!" Without Fang Qifei saying anything, he pushed the other party out of the car and got into the grass on the side of the road.

As he spoke, the cavalry had already rushed to the donkey cart. Chen Antian and Fang Qifei were hiding in the grass, and when they heard the neighing of people and horses, the cavalry stopped. The two of them were secretly frightened when they suddenly heard a rough voice.

"Leader Li, how far is it from that Kip Stone Town?"

A respectful voice replied: "Tell Taiwei Yang, this place is still more than ten miles away from Kipshi Town, and it will only take an hour or two to go quickly!" ”

"More than ten miles? Let's go down, add some feed to the livestock, rest and sweat, and then we will rush to Kip Stone Town, where we will have dinner! ”

Following the order of the rough voice, Chen Antian heard a sound of people and horses, obviously this group of knights had dismounted. Then he heard Fang Cai's respectful voice complimenting the leader Ming Jianli. The more Chen Antian listened, the more he felt that this person's voice was familiar, and he couldn't help but look out cautiously from the gap in the grass, not looking at it or worrying, and was startled when he saw it, it turned out that the person who was flattering was Li Xu, who was his colleague not long ago.

"The villain who killed this day, he didn't give up after buying the brothers in the sect, and he actually took the property of Kip Stone Town as his own advancement!" Chen Antian secretly said in his heart: "It seems that this Kip Stone Town is impossible to go, and only by changing the road to Hangzhou to join the Holy Father is the right way!" ”

He looked at Fang Qifei, who was still staring blankly, sighed in his heart, held his breath and bowed down, and prayed silently in his heart: "Mingzun is above, disciple Chen Antian asks Mingzun for protection, so that I and Seventh Brother can escape from this difficulty and avenge tens of thousands of brothers in the sect!" ”

Perhaps it was in the darkness that Mingzun heard Chen Antian's prayers, and after about half a sound, the cavalry rode in the direction of Kip Shi Town, and the two of them waited for the men and horses to go away, and then fled quickly to the southwest.

In the evening of the next day, Kip Shi Town, the earliest is just a grass market next to the canal, every five and ten near the villagers will come to row a small boat to catch the market, with the development of the economy, some traders will set up some grass huts next to the pond where the boats are moored, sell some salt, rice and cloth to eat, after a long time here gradually becomes a market town. Like most other market towns in the south of the Yangtze River, the center of Kip Shi Town is the small bridge that crosses the river, and the earliest shops in the town, such as Chen Ji Tofu Shop, Wangjia Noodle Restaurant, and Xujia Oil Sauce Restaurant, are all near the small bridge, and the rest of the days are always quiet in the town.

But this was not the case in Kip Stone Town at this time, the river at the head and end of the town had been blocked by several boats connected by iron chains, the bluestone roads on both sides of the river were full of armored soldiers, the shops were rudely smashed open, and then the Manichaeans hiding in them were driven out, and a staggering amount of possessions came out, and these were only a drop in the bucket compared to the money on the boats moored in the pond in the center of the town.

"That's a lot! Better! I can't think of so much! ”

Zhou Ping couldn't remember how many times he heard the exclamation of Chang Zongtian on the side, in the open space in front of them, there were rows of burdens and cages, and under the open lid of the cage were either silk cloth or strings of copper coins, and even all kinds of gold and silver utensils and precious utensils. Under the escort of the sergeants, the captured Manichaeans were still carrying new burdens in an endless stream, and they saw that this open space of more than 100 zhang square was almost out of place.

"Brother Zhou!" Chang Zongtian finally couldn't bear it anymore and asked Zhou Ping, "Are you just here to watch?" ”

"Dry looking?" Zhou Ping was stunned for a moment and asked, "Then what are you doing?" Do you have to beware of Manichaean thieves? Didn't you already let Yang Du lead the cavalry to be a sentry? ”

"Which one said the Manichaean thief?" Chang Zongtian had a look of hatred on his face: "I'm talking about those red guys under our hands, money and silk red eyes, so much money is piled up here, anyone has to be tempted, if you don't deal with it quickly, this soldier will not be able to take it." ”

"Then what does Brother Chang say to deal with?"

"In my opinion, there is no need to count, you and I draw a few trustworthy ones, and it is important to load them all on the ship and transport them away?" Chang Zongtian said this, afraid that Zhou Ping would think that he wanted to swallow it alone: "You are the general, you can take half of it, I will take two percent, and the rest will be distributed to the generals, and then everyone will take out one and a half percent in their hands, and it will be appropriate to dot up and down!" (To be continued......)