--February 6, 23rd year of Hongwu of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Jijing--

Jijing, is the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the north-south city wall is more than 50 miles long, the east-west city wall is more than 60 miles long, the city covers an area of about 130,000 acres, it is one of the largest and most prosperous cities in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

In the capital of Hebei, there are nine main streets, three in the east-west direction, three in the north-south direction, and the two main streets in the most central and cross-shaped directions, and the rest are secondary streets.

These two main streets roughly divide the whole Jijing into four parts, with the intersection of these two streets as the central point, to the east is the most densely populated East Street.

Because the East City Gate is the first place where you can see the sun rising, as the name suggests, it is called Chaoyang Gate, and of course, the street that connects with it is called Chaoyang Street.

Speaking of Chaoyang Street, it is actually not the most prosperous street in Jijing, but it is undeniable that it is the most lively in the whole Jijing, and it is also the most stable street in terms of public security, after all, the north side of Chaoyang Street is where many large and small government offices are located, and nearly eighty percent of the official offices in Jijing are concentrated here, including the Weiwei Office that supervises the Beijing division and rectifies public security, and even the notorious and large temple prison known as the Living Yama Palace.

In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the treasury was filled with various strategic materials, but since a large number of warehouses were established in the southwest of the city to store national strategic materials, the treasury has become a place where precious metals such as gold and silver and hard currency are simply piled up, and it is worth mentioning that the private treasury of the Son of Heaven is also here.

And on the south side of Chaoyang Street, there are many dwellings, from a few houses to deep mansions, from small people in the market to officials and nobles, but all officials and ordinary people with official positions below the fifth grade live here, after all, the class hierarchy concept of the Great Zhou is very serious, just like ordinary people can not enter and exit the second half of Zhengyang Street at will, because the second half of Zhengyang Street is where the Great Zhou Palace is located.

It is precisely because of such a delicate location in the city that Chaoyang Street is lively and orderly, and the merchants who set up shops on the south side of the street are also law-abiding, after all, the doors of these shops are facing the official offices of Jijing officials.

It stands to reason that no one will dare to make trouble on this Chaoyang Street, but for some reason, today's Chaoyang Street is so noisy.

"Stop! Hold it! ”

In the distance, the people on the street faintly heard shouts from the east, and they turned their heads curiously to look, but saw a young man who seemed to be only sixteen or seventeen years old not far away, desperately squeezing through the crowd and fleeing in confusion.

Behind him, a group of brightly armored soldiers was shouting through the streets.

"What's going on? What happened? ”

"What did that little guy do to provoke so many officers and soldiers to chase him?"

The people of Dazhou are the most lively, and when they saw this, they all surrounded them, blocking the entire street.

Many of them were knowledgeable, and after seeing the armor on the soldiers, they were shocked and said in surprise, "Dressed in black armor and wearing red silk around their necks...... Isn't this a soldier of the Eastern Army's Shenwu Battalion? ”

There are also those who don't know what to do, and when they heard this, they asked suspiciously, "Eastern Army Shenwu Battalion?" Where is that? ”

While the people were talking, the young man had already come to the crowded crowd, and after seeing the dense flow of people, he stopped slightly, and then burrowed into the crowd like a slippery loach, so agile that even the surrounding onlookers did not know what he looked like.

On the contrary, the group of soldiers who pursued the young man either broke the doorpost of the shop or broke up the stalls of the roadside vendors, causing a lot of scolding.

"Damn, where did you go?" The leading general of the group of soldiers stopped in front of the crowd, his eagle-sharp eyes scanned the crowd, and then frowned and shouted, "I am Xiang Qing, the deputy general of the Shenwu Battalion of the Eastern Army, and today I want to arrest one person, I hope you will make it convenient for you, and I will stop blocking the road......"

As soon as the words fell, there was an exclamation among the onlookers.

"Eastern Army Shenwu Battalion?"

"It's really a soldier of the Shenwu Battalion of the Eastern Army!"

"The Shenwu Battalion is not a soldier of Liangqiu Gong of the Donggong Mansion, how can he personally arrest the thief? Wouldn't it be better to leave this kind of thing to the Guards Department? ”

Among the onlookers were those who were amazed, those who were delighted, those who admired, those who doubted, and so on.

Perhaps, the Shenwu Battalion of the Eastern Army does enjoy a very high reputation in Jijing, when the deputy general Xiang Qing said his military number, the onlookers dispersed to both sides very cooperatively, but they did not stay away, and still looked at him with all kinds of admiration and envy, especially some young girls who had not left the pavilion, even the owners of those stalls who were accidentally knocked down by the soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion before immediately dissipated the original dissatisfaction on their faces, revealing a look of excitement.

The only exception is probably the young man just now, I saw him shrinking in the crowd at the moment, observing Xiang Qing quietly.

Take a closer look, I saw that this young man was estimated to be around sixteen or seventeen, his face was thin, his facial features were upright, his eyebrows were thick, his eyes were red, his teeth were white, although he didn't look like Pan An, he was a talent, but he was panting like a cow at the moment, and he really looked a little embarrassed.

This young man's surname is Xie, his single name is An, he is a scholar in the mansion of Li Shou, the king of Anle, to be honest, he is not a prisoner who has committed a crime, it should be said that he has not done anything, and today he is just idle and wants to go out of the palace to walk around the street, but who would have thought that he was not a few steps away from the palace, he was surrounded by this group of soldiers from the Shenwu battalion, and according to the conversation at the time, it seems that he was waiting outside the palace a few days ago.

Isn't that good......

Isn't this Shenwu camp that woman's private soldier? This seems to be very famous in Jijing? How can this foolish plan continue?

In the crowd, a young man named Xie An muttered secretly.

He didn't dare to move, because the lieutenant general named Xiang Qing was scanning the surroundings with his eagle-sharp eyes, and once he made any rash moves, he would inevitably be noticed by the other party, and he could only slip away slowly, slowly.

Thinking of this, Xie An, who was crowded in the crowd, slowly retreated to the right rear side quietly, but fortunately, the people around him all looked at Xiang Qing and the brightly armored soldiers under his command with admiring eyes at this moment, but no one noticed his strangeness.

"Search! Search me one by one! After staring around for a long time but not finding any clues, Xiang Qing was obviously a little impatient, you must know that he had been ordered to ambush in the Anle Palace, as early as three days ago, in order to catch the slippery boy back to the house, I didn't expect that kid to be so vigilant, as soon as he found out that something was wrong, he ran away, causing him to be the deputy general of the Shenwu Battalion of the Eastern Army, who commanded 3,000 people, through the streets and alleys, and lost face.

Stinky boy, if you get caught by me, see how I clean you up!

Xiang Qing licked his lips viciously, and at the same time, Xie An, who was carefully walking through the crowd, felt a chill behind him for no reason, he didn't have time to think about it, he just wanted to leave the place as much as possible, after all, those soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion had squeezed into the crowd and looked for his traces one by one.

If you don't leave now, when will you stay?

Looking back at the smiling people, and seeing that they were all very cooperative, Xie An'an itched his teeth with hatred.

Damn, do you want this?

At this moment, a carriage came diagonally across the street, and Xiang Qing, who noticed the movement, glanced up, and didn't care very much, just waved his hand to let his soldiers and the people disperse the road and let the other party pass.

And in the next second, his eyes suddenly changed, for he saw a handball made of bamboo silk rolling into the middle of the road, and then, a little girl who was only four or five years old ran out on her feet, and after happily picking up the bamboo ball rolling on the ground, she was about to turn around when she saw the carriage rushing towards her.

Where had a four- or five-year-old child ever experienced such a thing, standing in the middle of the road, stupidly watching the carriage get closer and closer.

Seeing that the little girl was only a few feet away from the fast-moving carriage, and in the blink of an eye, Xiang Qing secretly screamed in his heart, and ran forward a few steps.

However, despite his best efforts, the carriage seemed to be faintly faster than him.

Oops!

Xiang Qing was anxious.

At that moment, suddenly a teenager sprang out of the crowd, pounced on the little girl, and after picking up the little girl who was standing in the middle of the road at a loss, he fell to the side, narrowly avoiding the carriage.

Before the people could react, they heard a neighing of horses, and the horses of the carriage suddenly rushed towards the crowd.

Apparently, the horse was frightened by the teenager's sudden intervention.

Just when the people were panicking and running around, Xiang Qing, who was one step late, had already come to them, only to hear him shout, raised his hands, patted the frightened horse on the chest, and stopped it by force.

"Shhh The horse was in pain, neighed sadly, kicked its hind legs, jumped high on its front legs, and saw that it was about to step on Xiang Qing under its hooves, but saw the latter take the first step to hug its neck, and then shouted, so that the horse immediately bent its legs and fell to the ground.

It is said that the frightened horse is extremely fierce, and this is indeed true, even if Xiang Qing hugged his neck, he still struggled desperately.

At this moment, he saw Xiang Qing's eyes glaring, and his eyes revealed an inexplicable fierce and murderous aura.

"Brute, dare to be presumptuous?!"

With just one look, the horse shuddered, and fell to its knees with a cower, its head buried between its front legs.

The people were stunned, and after a moment of silence, the crowd erupted in amazement.

"Divine power!"

"This general is simply born with divine power!"

Facing the many adoring eyes, Xiang Qing smiled slightly, stroked the frightened horse's mane, and then stood up and turned his head to look not far away.

I saw that two zhang away in front of me, I saw that the young man who had acted bravely was lying on his back on the surface, with a gray face, and many places on his body were bloodshot by the uneven ground, however, the little girl who was held in his arms, although she was crying in fright, did not have the slightest scar on her body.

Attaboy!

The corners of Xiang Qing's mouth raised a chuckle, and he walked over slowly, quietly watching the young man comforting the frightened little girl.

I saw that in front of everyone, the young man smiled and stroked the little girl's head, comforting her with gentle words.

"Don't be afraid, little sister, my brother is not a good person......"