Rather be a peaceful dog than a troubled world, this sentence could not be more appropriate for Yun Niang and others.

As early as two months ago, Li Dingguo fled from the north bank of the Yangtze River with Wang Lanping's wife and Yun Niang, escaped from the search of the thieves, and entered the sphere of influence of the Ming army.

Due to Wang's frailty, he couldn't afford to be sick on the way to sleep in the open air, the three of them stopped and stopped, and couldn't walk a few miles a day, simply, Li Dingguo first found a small inn in Chizhou City to stay, and asked Lang Zhong to wait for Wang's body to be well before going on the road, but he didn't expect that this stay was more than a month, and a little bit of loose silver snatched from the small chief flag officer of the Ming Army Water Village on the south bank had already been spent.

Fortunately, Li Dingguo learned some gun skills when he was young, and found a lively street in Chizhou City, played so much, and it was not too difficult to ask for a few copper coins to wrap the stomach of the three people, but the more the money for this house was owed, the three of them all left their hometowns, and they had no relatives in this unfamiliar Chizhou City, and the innkeeper saw that the three people were pitiful and fled, and he was not too embarrassed at first, but as the days went by, he repeatedly asked Li Dingguo and his party to ask for the house money.

Li Dingguo had to desperately find work on the street, but these days, Chizhou City is full of people like them who have fled over, in order to find a place to stay, give three melons and two dates to find a bunch of long-term and short-term jobs, so although Li Dingguo tried his best to solve the problem, he was never able to fill the accumulated house money.

The shopkeeper was furious, and ordered his men to pull the seriously ill Wang from the bed and sue the three of them to the lobby of Chizhou Mansion.

The three of them were relieved from the inn by the officials of the Chizhou Prefecture to the Yamen, and the person in charge of the case was the official of the criminal room in the Yamen of the Chizhou Prefect, in the Ming local government system, whether it was the state capital or the imperial court, there were six departments in the yamen, also known as the criminal work and the military ceremony, but the name was not called the six, but the ministry six rooms, and the affairs under the jurisdiction of each room were similar to the six departments of the imperial court, but the power was limited to the local government.

According to the duties of the prefect of the Ming Dynasty, he has the responsibility of a government, Xuanfeng, and prison lawsuits, and when these torture chambers encounter cases that cannot be handled, they will report to the prefect.

As soon as the three of them passed the court, when they asked who the defendant was, Wang told the truth one by one, and the officials of the torture room were frightened into a cold sweat when they heard it, and the family members of the famous Dingnan Marquis actually appeared here, and he couldn't tell the truth from the false for a while, so he hurriedly reported the matter to the prefect.

Zhao Pu, the prefect of Chizhou, was overjoyed when he heard this, this is a big ingots falling from the sky, and the Marquis of Dingnan is now the authority in the court, and he wants to be a magistrate like the prefect in his dreams, but he is suffering from no one to recommend him, and the family of the Wang family appeared.

Zhao Zhifu respectfully invited the three to the back hall, and after asking about the situation, he was a little worried, it is said that although this Wang Zhuangyuan was from a humble background, but his family background would not be ruined like this, so he politely entertained the three on the one hand, and suppressed the matter on the other hand, and secretly sent someone to the capital to inquire about the news, and it was not too late to report the merits after finding out the details.

Li Dingguo and the three of them were also very surprised, but they didn't expect to enter this yamen but get a blessing in disguise, and they really lived a few comfortable days, waiting for Wang Lanping to send someone from Nanjing to pick them up.

But there are more than 1,000 miles of land in Nanjing in this Chizhou Mansion, and it takes at least ten days and a half to lie back and forth, and before the people of Zhao Governor's Mansion come back from Nanjing, Zuo Liangyu's army has marched to Chizhou under the guise of 'Qingjun Side', and the mountains and rivers in the palace change color immediately, half a month ago, Zhao Governor's Mansion also counted on being able to escort Dingnanhou's family to be promoted, which would be impossible.

Annoyed Zhao Pu immediately sent Wang and the other three to prison after hearing the training, but he also kept a hand, don't look at these people like Zuo Liangyu making such a fuss, but Zhao Pu is also a veteran of officialdom for many years, Chizhou Mansion was plagued by Zuo Liangyu's army, the people saw these soldiers feared like tigers, can such unpopular soldiers succeed, Zhao Pu has no bottom in his heart, to the fact that the Dingnan Hou Zhijun and his fame are widely spread among the people, the people don't care who is the emperor in this world, who can let them live a peaceful life, They will fight who they support in their hearts, maybe these people will not be able to fight Dingnanhou at all.

Therefore, although Zhao Pu put the three people in prison, he did not embarrass them, he ate and drank well every day, and no one was allowed to approach them in prison, and he also ordered the matter to be kept quiet, and sat in Chizhou City to watch the success or failure.

But things always can't contain the fire, and gradually, it began to spread in Chizhou City, saying that the family members of Dingnan Hou were in trouble in Chizhou City, and they were detained by the government, but no one knew about it.

Sometimes it was so coincidental that this matter was heard by a person who had just passed through Chizhou, and this person was Ma Xianglin, who was ordered by his mother and daughter to go to Nanjing to ask the imperial court to send troops to recruit Zhang Xianzhong.

Ma Xianglin didn't know much about the affairs of the court, but he secretly kept this matter in his heart, and still hurried to Nanjing, Xichuan was like a tired egg, and only a small stone stone in Xichuan still belonged to the imperial court, and then he didn't send troops to relieve the siege, and even this land couldn't last long, and Liu Wenxiu, the righteous son of the thief, was leading an army of 30,000 to attack day and night, at this time Shi Yan was still there, and Ma Xianglin couldn't tell clearly.

Ma Xianglin just left Chizhou, Zhang Xianzhong's general Ai Nengqi has already pursued Zuo Liangyu to the territory of Chizhou, the people of Chizhou City have really poured eight lifetimes of blood mold, just robbed by the official army, not stopped for a few days, the thief came again, and robbed a clean, where the army passed, corpses everywhere.

It only took three days, Ainengqi broke through the city of Chizhou, 4,000 defenders or surrendered or died, seven out of ten rich households in the city of Chizhou died, even the prefect's yamen was robbed of the thieves, the prefect of Zhao was blocked in the city by the thieves, hacked to death in the downtown area, all the official silver grain depots and shops in the city, none of them were spared.

The people who were robbed were cornered, so they had to commit themselves to the thieves, join the thieves to compete for others to protect themselves, just in Chizhou a mansion, Ai Nengqi expanded the army of 50,000, he set out from Chengdu only had 100,000 troops, the more he fought, the stronger he became, to this Chizhou Mansion, the soldiers were more than 200,000, and Zuo Liangyu was scared to run to Nanjing without his life.

Just when Ainengqi was about to cross the Chizhou Mansion to pursue Zuo Liangyu again, Zhang Xianzhong's military order reached Ainengqi, and Zhang Xianzhong ordered Ainengqi not to attack lightly and stand by in place.

Ai Nengqi didn't settle down in Chizhou at the moment, smashed open the prison door, and released all the prisoners inside, which is also their usual method, these prisoners hate the government the most, of course, they are the easiest people to pull the cage, as soon as they get out of the prison door, they will immediately rebel from the thief.

It is also a very happy thing to smash open the prison door and release the people who have been wronged by the government inside, but there are not only wronged people in the prison, but also those Jiangyang thieves and criminals, once these people regain their freedom, it will only make the life of the people of Chizhou even worse.

With the door of the prison opened, Wang Lanping's mother and Yun Niang and Li Dingguo also got out of the cage together, Li Dingguo saw the tragic situation in the city, and once again took them on the way to escape, the city and the city were surrounded by thieves, Li Dingguo killed two thieves outside the city, robbed two horses, and found an ownerless broken frame on the side of the road, repaired and repaired, so he put on the carriage and wanted to go east, but he did not expect to attract the pursuit of the thieves.

In a panic, the three of them fled into a forest more than fifty miles west of Chizhou City, at this time, Zhang Xianzhong had already personally led the army to Chizhou, and at this time happened to pass by Li Dingguo's hiding place.