After a cup of tea, Xu Liang returned to the courtyard of the prefect's yamen and approached the lobby of the prefect's yamen unhurriedly.

The officials on both sides of the hall stood straight, but there was no loud noise in the hall, and there was an oppressive silence. Xu Liang raised his feet and entered the lobby of the prefect's yamen, and the eyes of more than a dozen officials sitting in the hall fell on Xu Liang with different expressions.

Xu Liang looked at his eyes and saw a person sitting on the left side of the hall, about forty years old, wearing a yellow robe, embroidered with some patterns that looked like pythons and not pythons, like dragons and not dragons, with teeth and claws.

Xu Liang, the python robe of the court, had seen it at Wang Tiqian, the head of the Dongchang stall, and its specifications and styles were very different from what this person was wearing. Xu Liang's gaze stayed on the man for a while, and he suddenly remembered the origin of this person. Flying fish suit, embroidered spring knife, isn't it the dress of Jinyiwei?

Xu Liang quickly retracted his gaze, walked calmly to the hall, and said to the prefect of Hong: "Xu Liang, the former magistrate of Xiaguan Town, has seen Lord Futai. ”

Hong Chengchou, the prefect of Pingliang, has been paying attention to Xu Liang since Xu Liang came in, and after Xu Liang gave a salute, Hong Chengchou stared at Xu Liang and said in a deep voice: "Lord Xu doesn't have to be polite. As he spoke, he raised his hand towards the man in the flying fish suit: "This is Xu Changqing, the master of the Qianhu of the Fusi of Beizhen, well, Xu Qianhu asked you something, Lord Xu must cooperate, and you must not slack off." After speaking, Governor Hong stared at Xu Liang closely, and the warning in his eyes was very obvious.

Xu Liang smiled gratefully at Governor Hong, then turned to Xu Qianhu and said, "I've seen Lord Qianhu." ”

Hearing this, Xu Changqing got up, slapped his body twice, and grinned at the prefect of Hong: "Since the main lord has arrived, Xu will not disturb the prefect and the lords, and take his leave!" After that, Xu Qianhu didn't look at Xu Liang, raised his feet and walked away.

The two Jinyi Guard captains stepped forward and brought Xu Liang out.

When he came out of the yamen of the palace, there was already a black carriage waiting outside, and the captain in brocade who was escorting Xu Liang pulled the car door and said coldly to Xu Liang: "Lord Xu, please." ”

Xu Liang stepped into the carriage, and then looked back at the prefect's yamen behind him, and saw two Tsing Yi guards not far away passing in front of the yamen dressed as passers-by, one of them nodded slightly towards Xu Liang, and left quickly.

Xu Liang relaxed slightly, turned around and got into the carriage. The interior of the car is simple and clean. Then the carriage went into action. Xu Liang felt that the carriage was moving forward and wanted to find the window, but after knocking twice, he found that the window had already been nailed, so he had to give up immediately.

I couldn't see the scene outside, but I guessed that it was heading outside the city, but I could hear the noise in the city getting quieter and quieter, and when I got to the city gate, the carriage stopped for a while, probably to be checked by the guards, and then the carriage started again, and finally I could not hear the cries of the small traders in the city, and instead there was the monotonous sound of horses' hooves.

After walking for a while, the carriage suddenly stopped.

A Jinyi guard captain got into the carriage, took off the black gauze hat on Xu Liang's head, took out a set of iron chains, and locked Xu Liang's hands with iron chains.

Xu Liang was shocked: "This official is still an official, and he has not been convicted and sentenced, why did the captain tie me up?" ”

The lieutenant snorted coldly, ignored Xu Liang, and got out of the carriage. I only heard Xu Qianhu laugh outside the carriage: "Xu Liang, an official like you who committed a crime, Xu personally caught not hundreds, but dozens of them, and at first on the road, he always had to say some messy reasons, hehe, you don't want to think about what our Jinyiwei does?" The people who can use our brocade guards to take people are basically accountable in this life. You can honestly follow me into Beijing, and you will have to endure less hardships on the way. ”

Performers? When Xu Liang heard this, he was anxious in his heart, and hurriedly shouted: "Lord Qianhu, is it not a mistake, the sesame official in a small remote county of Xu, if he does not deceive the monarch and does not commit crimes, how can he go to Beijing to be tried." ”

Xu Qianhu said: "Hey, this Qianhu only knows how to listen to orders to take people, as for the trial and interrogation, then I can't care about it." Today, when the official saw that you kid saw our Jinyi Guard, he was not shocked or afraid, but he was also a man. That's why I've told you this, otherwise, even if the prisoner next to me begs me for advice, we won't be too lazy to waste our tongues. ”

"Yes, yes," Xu Liang hurriedly said: "Although Xu has never been to the capital, he also knows that the people of the Ming Jinyi Guard are all heroes. ”

Xu Qianhu laughed when he heard it, causing several Jinyi lieutenants next to him to laugh too, no matter what, he should always laugh if he can hear words praising himself from other people's mouths.

Xu Liang could tell clearly in the car, this time he escorted his Jinyi Guard, including that Xu Qianhu, there were a total of eight people, in fact, with Xu Liang's current skills, if he wanted to make a sudden attack and escape, it was not that he had no chance of winning. It's just that in this way, Xu Liang will only have the road to go in the future, and he must not go on the opposite side of the court unless he has to. But what's going on here?

Due to the suddenness of the incident, there was no warning in advance, and Xu Liang couldn't find any explanation for this incident. Now that Wei Zhongxian's case has long been closed, even if someone turns over his old accounts in Jianchang County, Jiangxi, it should not alarm Jinyiwei. I really don't know which way the gods collided again!

Xu Liang suddenly thought of Lu Chengyuan, the director of the Ministry of Industry who was far away in the capital, that could be described as his rival, if someone could secretly play a black hand and turn over his own black materials, it was Lu Chengyuan. Thinking like this, Xu Liang suddenly gritted his teeth with hatred for this sanctimonious Lu Chengyuan.

But I don't know if Xing Zhongshan and the others, who returned to Zhenyuan, received the instructions that they took the opportunity to go to the toilet to let the Tsing Yi guards send them back, would these people who followed him closely follow the instructions to do so? In case they learned that they were being escorted into Beijing, and they impulsively thought of sending troops to rescue them, robbing people or something halfway, and making the situation irreparable, it would be really bad!

I don't know if Feng Suqin was put back by the fourth young lady Li Ting? Xu Liang sat in the dark carriage, staring at the slight light shining through the crack in the door, and his mind was thinking about the people and things in Zhenyuan.

In fact, this time, the fourth lady did not break her promise, and Feng Suqin had already returned to Zhenyuan City safely.

The young lady returned safely, everyone in the Xu Mansion was extremely happy, the housekeeper smiled and commanded the people in the house to clean the Xu Mansion inside and out, the eldest girl Huan Chun'er took out the newly prepared sheets and bedding, and decorated the room of the young master and the young lady, and the kitchen guys prepared the most exquisite banquet early, to be presented to the young lady who had a false alarm, even Dai Yingying knew that Feng Suqin had returned safely, and actually left the old father Dai Feng who came from Jianchang and ran to see Feng Suqin.

Feng Suqin took out the demeanor of the housewife, met with everyone in the house, briefly said some things after leaving, and asked the subordinates to invite Hu Xiaoyong, Xu Qing, Luo Baiguan and others who were still in the city to come to the mansion for a while, and after everything was properly explained, Feng Suqin sent people to Pingliang Mansion to inquire about the news of the Liang army who went on the expedition.

On the tenth day of the fourth month, I heard that the Liang army had arrived in Pingliang and would be able to return to Zhenyuan immediately. Feng Suqin took the people from the palace to the gate of Zhenyuan City to greet him early in the morning, and hundreds of people waited until the sun was about to set in the morning, and finally saw the banner of the Liang army slowly getting bigger and clearer at the end of the official road.

The people who greeted him couldn't help cheering, and when everyone got closer, Feng Suqin eagerly stepped forward to check, looking at Xing Zhongshan, Hu Xiaoyong and a few generals, but he didn't see his own father-in-law Xu Liang.

Feng Suqin was a little anxious, and asked Xing Zhongshan and the others: "General Xing, why didn't you come back with Xianggong?" ”

Xing Zhongshan hurriedly explained: "Madame, don't worry, originally Lord Xu was going back to Zhenyuan with us, but he was temporarily summoned by Lord Futai to discuss matters, and he will be able to come back three or two days later." ”

"Oh, I see." Feng Suqin nodded, hearing that Xu Liang was just discussing in Pingliang Mansion, she felt a lot more relieved.

Suddenly, Luo Baiguan behind Feng Suqin pointed to the Liang army team that entered the city one after another and exclaimed: "I remember that the Liang army of 3,000 people went out of the city, why only more than 800 people came back today?" ”

Luo Baiguan was in charge of the Liang army's grain, grass and silver, and was extremely sensitive to numbers, and he realized that something was wrong after roughly counting the Liang army's troops entering the city.

As soon as Luo Baiguan's words came out, everyone was suddenly startled, and their eyes fell on Xing Zhongshan in unison. Cheng Huang Daozhou of Zhenyuan County asked, "General Xing, what's going on?" ”

Xing Zhongshan, Hu Xiaoyong and several other generals darkened their faces, and Xing Zhongshan said in a deep voice: "In the first battle of Maling, our Liang army suffered heavy casualties, and more than 2,000 brothers died on the spot......

"Ahh

The crowd screamed.

Then Xing Zhongshan told the Li family's army about the attack on the camp that night, which naturally skipped the matter of secretly cooperating with the fourth lady Li Ting.

Feng Suqin knew the inside story clearly, she didn't expect that after she went down the mountain with the fourth young lady Li Ting, so many things happened on the mountain, and more than 2,000 Liang soldiers lost their lives, so she felt guilty, put away her worries about Xu Liang, and hurriedly arranged manpower to resettle the wounded of the Liang army.

After another two days, Xu Liang still did not return.

Feng Suqin was anxious, and sent Tsing Yiwei to Pingliang to inquire about the news. As a result, the people sent happened to meet the people who Xu Liang arranged to come back to report the news, and the two groups rushed back to Zhenyuan to report the news.

Only then did the people in Zhenyuan know that Xu Liang had an accident again. Xing Zhongshan carefully pacified the army according to Xu Liang's instructions and prepared for contingencies, and on the other hand, he hurriedly sent people to Pingliang Mansion to inquire about the news again.

Soon, the Tsing Yi guard Pegasus, who stayed in Pingliang, rushed back to Zhenyuan to deliver the message, and Xu Liang, the county governor of Zhenyuan, was escorted into Beijing by Jinyi Wei!