In the dead of night, Mei Xiaoren sat on a chair by the window wrapped in a quilt, she couldn't squeeze through the bunk with a group of men, wanting to take a nap, but her ears were filled with snoring one after another.

Yuehua entered the window, she rested her head against the wall, quietly looking at the moon in the sky, she was thinking how she could find out the details of the Drifting Fire Gang, and it was not a way to sit still and wait for death.

Mei Xiaoren threw away the quilt, got up and opened the door and went out.

Zhuangzi was surrounded by patrolling guards, and when she walked to the gate of the courtyard, she saw a group of guards walking towards her.

She had seen the Forbidden Army and the Living Yama Warriors patrolling, and they were walking in a neat manner with their faces stretched and straight, without smiling, while the patrolmen here were holding torches, talking and laughing all the way, looking leisurely and comfortable.

Hearing them chatting, Mei Xiaoren sat down on the steps and sobbed slightly.

The people seemed to hear her and fell silent. Someone came to her and asked, "Boy, what are you crying here?" ”

"He's new here, look at his milky appearance, I'm afraid he hasn't been weaned yet, and he's thinking about his mother." When the other finished speaking, he burst into laughter, causing the others around him to laugh too.

Mei Xiaoren raised his head and scolded: "What's wrong with being homesick, you don't have a family?" Don't you want your parents and children? ”

As soon as she said this, the people in front of her were silent, and none of them could laugh.

The red-clothed man at the head of the line persuaded in a low voice: "Little brother, don't say this in the future, you will die." He swept the attendants behind him, "Everyone has a hard time. ”

"Thank you, big brother, for reminding me." Mei Xiaoren was embarrassed, "I really can't sleep, the more lonely I am, the more uncomfortable I am, can I walk with you?" ”

"Let's go, we're bored too."

The leader took her around the Zhuangzi with him, and asked as he walked: "Listen to your accent, it's from Xuanzhou, right?" ”

Mei Xiaoren nodded.

The man didn't understand: "Then why were you taken captive here, aren't all the newcomers from Xinyang?" ”

Mei Xiaoren frowned, "You also have a Jiangnan accent, aren't you there?" ”

The man smiled: "We are different, I am voluntary." ”

"Voluntary?"

"There are two kinds of people in the gang, one is the reckless people who voluntarily take refuge in the rivers and lakes like your deputy hall master Cao, and so am I, and the other is a kidnapped minions like you."

"Then can I ask, why did you join the Drifting Fire Gang?"

"Why else, hate the government, I heard that the Flowing Fire Gang is one of the few gangs in the world that dares to be more serious with the government, and many righteous people who have been oppressed by the government have come to take refuge." The man smiled and said, "The rumors are true, we have helped kill a lot of dog officials who are in the way, but the court is not helpless to take us." ”

Mei Xiaoren seemed to be choked by something, it turned out that killing officials could make them so proud......

She was puzzled: "Since there are righteous people who take refuge in the rivers and lakes, why do you still arrest us innocent people?" ”

"The rudder must also be strong, how can it be enough to rely only on the people who take refuge, but the gang can't recruit the gang openly and openly, for fear of attracting the spies of the government, so they can only rely on captivity." The man looked at her and sighed, "If you come, you will be safe, stay here, food and clothing are indispensable for you, no worse than you are looking for a living outside." ”

"Didn't the captive gang leave?"

The man replied easily: "Yes, there are a few of them every time, they want to escape but are caught, peeled and cramped into meat sauce, what kind of tragic ends, don't you just leave when you die?" ”

Mei Xiaoren listened to the creepiness, and couldn't help wiping his arms.

The people of the Flowing Fire Gang frequently stir up trouble and do a lot of evil outside, but these newcomers can only stay in the village and do menial work, and only with their trust can they go to perform any tasks under other hall masters.

On the third day of Mei Xiaoren's visit to the Flowing Fire Gang, before dawn, the deputy hall master urged them to start working, either cleaning or moving, but today's work was extremely heavy, and they had to hang lanterns in the corners of the eaves.

Mei Xiaoren was cleaning in the courtyard with a broom, but his eyes were wandering everywhere.

The place where she was was was just a branch of the Driftfire Gang, not their lair, and it seemed that she had just acquired an old manor from someone else, and she was eager to grow before she caught them from Xinyang.

The people of the Flowing Fire Gang, led by their gang leader, all hated the government very much, like a fallen grass, and they were much stronger than ordinary grass gangsters. But she remembered that Lao Li said that the Flowing Fire Gang and the people in the court also had a somewhat inexplicable relationship, hating and colluding? Mei Xiaoren didn't quite understand what this meant.

At night, all the lanterns in the villa have been lit, and the lanterns are a little grand, and there are suddenly many more female gangsters in the village.

Mei Xiaoren heard the minions talking that the gang leader was coming, and a grand party would be held in the garden tonight, and those female gang members who were like flowers and jade were all people around the gang leader.

The Drifting Fire Gang has always been mysterious, and the most mysterious thing is that they are the gang leader, I don't know what kind of ability they have, they can grow a gang that has just established in two years to the point that even the imperial court has no rut.

A little minion like Mei Xiaoren is not qualified to go to the banquet to join in the fun, but she has roughly figured out the layout of the village when she has been cleaning in the past few days, and she quietly slipped into the back garden while everyone in the village was drinking and having fun.

The banquet was set in a courtyard, accessible only by an archway, outside which stood a line of guards that she could not get close to.

Mei Xiaoren walked around the wall of the courtyard, and found a flower window in the corridor, and looked through the flower window, and could vaguely see the situation in the courtyard.

There were many seats in the spacious courtyard, and behind them sat all the people dressed in red, except for the main seat in front of him sat a man dressed in gold, and his clothes were particularly gorgeous and conspicuous compared to those of the other gangs.

She guessed that it should be the leader of the Flowing Fire Gang, a person named Si Ye, but the person had a golden mask on his face, covering his entire face completely, so that she couldn't see his face clearly, and he couldn't guess his age.

The seat to the right of the main seat was empty, and the owner of the seat seemed to have left the seat.

Mei Xiaoren stood up and walked forward, wanting to find a closer place to take a look. While keeping an eye on the stained windows on the wall, she walked forward and suddenly crashed into a human wall.

"Who, you don't have long eyes when you walk!"

Mei Xiaoren took a half step back, smelled a faint smell of wine, and looked up to see that there was a tall person standing in front of her, which made her suddenly have a feeling of stepping on iron shoes and finding nowhere to go.

God knows, what she bumped into was the prince of the Xia Kingdom who had broken out of the shell of the golden cicada!

While she was glad that it had been done without any effort, she realized that it was not a good thing to bump into the fugitive at this time, and quickly turned away.

"It's you!"

Mei Xiaoren heard the shocked voice of the prince of Xia Kingdom behind her, she panicked in her heart, and accelerated her pace even more, and heard him shouting behind her: "Someone!" Catch the spies, there are the spies of Ningguo! ”