A flagless, dusty carriage hurried all the way to the south gate.

Recently, due to the advance arrangement of Sang Yang and the Humble Prefecture Mansion, the entry and exit of the city gate are extremely strict.

Whether it is a carriage or a horse, people entering and leaving the city will start queuing when they are far away.

All men and women, young and old, entering and leaving the city had to take off their hats and scarves.

After comparing the portraits in the hands of the soldiers, they can only pass.

All items you bring with you also need to be carefully checked. Even the vegetable basket you are carrying has to open the cloth towel and carefully check the contents inside.

On both sides of the city, there were long queues.

At this time, an old man who was queuing up in front of him suddenly adjusted his burden and turned around to walk back.

The soldiers defending the city immediately surrounded them, "Slow down." Put the burden down. ”

The old man who carried the burden looked dodgy, and said hesitantly, "Master Bing, I don't want to go out of the city!" ”

"If you want to go out of the city or not, you have to put down the burden." As soon as he had finished speaking, the soldiers defending the city reached out to remove the cloth that was on the basket.

"Alas! Alas! Alas! Don't be a soldier! Don't! ”

The old man's face was full of anxiety and he hurriedly stopped it, but the more this happened, the faster the soldiers attacked.

The cloth on the basket was uncovered, and there were neatly stacked rows of potatoes in Louzi.

Why are the potatoes hidden and tucked?!

The soldier turned over the potatoes in confusion, but there was nothing underneath.

"Oops! Old man Zhang! Are you stealing our potatoes again? A middle-aged man in the front row screamed with a red face and a thick neck.

After hearing this, the old man's eyes wandered, and his neck shrank even more.

Those who tried to run back halfway through the queue were all captured.

In the past few days of verification, many people who have committed crimes and are on the run have also been unearthed.

The carriages and horses on the other side were also lined up in a long line, and the search was also very careful.

The soldiers over there even went under the carriage to look for it.

It's just that I didn't expect to find a wooden box from the bottom of a carriage.

When the wooden box was found, the owner of the carriage fell to the ground with a face as white as paper.

The soldier cut the lock hanging on the wooden box with a single sword, opened the wooden box, and there was a box full of white official silver.

In each of the soldiers in front of them, someone held a portrait and carefully checked it one by one, but all those who looked similar were led back to the government.

"I heard that all the city gates are being closed for verification today, right?"

"Actually, I was checking two days ago, but today the inspection is getting stricter!"

"I wonder who that portrait they checked was?"

"I heard that it was a portrait brought by Governor Shen."

"Not only the city gates, but also the city began to be inspected from house to house."

I couldn't go, and the line was so long, some people who had been waiting for a long time began to chat.

"My lord! What are we going to do? Driving Xu Fu said anxiously.

Neither advance nor retreat!

Lord Chen in the carriage had beads of sweat the size of beans oozing from his forehead at this time.

He hurriedly took out some fake beards from his baggage, and began to stick them on his face indiscriminately.

The others in the carriage were all sitting upright.

When the carriage of Lord Chen was found, several people were sweating their clothes.

The soldier lifted the curtain of the car, arched his hand and said, "Please move the master in the car, the government will conduct a routine inspection, and please make it convenient." ”

As a last resort, several people had to get out of the carriage.

At this moment, from another team came a slender soldier in silver armor.

Regardless of his clothing and demeanor, this person looks different from ordinary soldiers.

"Please step forward with the gentleman in the back." This soldier will be Yuan Ping.

The man standing at the end suddenly shrank his pupils when he heard Yuan Ping say this.

Although the man's appearance is ordinary, it has some characteristics, that is, the head is a few points larger than ordinary people.

Yuan Ping remembered that Qi Luo was knocked off the cliff by a guard that day.

Although it was far away, I couldn't see the appearance of the guard.

But I vaguely remember that the man's head seemed to be a few points bigger than ordinary people!

At this time, the rest of the soldiers had already taken out a dozen ingots of gold and a stack of silver tickets from the soft baggage on the car.

"It's hot?!" Yuan Ping raised his eyes, and then looked at Lord Chen, who was covered in sweat. "This old man is really rich! Carry so much gold and silver on the road. ”

"The official said with a smile, the villain is a businessman, and this time he just went south to buy goods, sold some of his family wealth, and used it as principal."

"Oh! I don't know, what kind of business is this old man doing? ”

"The villain is nothing more than a cloth business!" Master Chen replied with his head down.

"I don't know what type of cloth it is?"

"It's silk."

"What's your master's name?" Yuan Ping suddenly turned his head and asked the guards on the side.

"Last name...... King...... It's ......! The guard said as he tentatively inquired about Lord Chen with his eyes.

"Master Wang, there are still some questions that the official has not yet been clear, so please come with me to the yamen to sit for a while and drink tea."

"Adult, it's ............ time for the villain to go."

Before Master Chen finished speaking, two feather arrows suddenly shot from the shadows.

Yuan Ping hurriedly rolled backwards, and an arrow shot right where he was standing just now.

The arrow was pointing downward, about three inches into the ground, and the body of the arrow was constantly shaking.

The other arrow was being shot at Lord Chen's chest at this time, and Lord Chen's eyes were frightened and his expression was surprised.

A wisp of blood slowly appeared from the corner of his mouth, and the corners of his mouth opened slightly as if he wanted to speak, but before he could say a word, the person fell to the ground and swallowed his breath.

Yuan Ping drew his long sword and waved his hand.

Immediately, several black-clad dark guards jumped out of the shadows and swept towards the place where the arrows were fired.

The archers hid on the second floor of the teahouse at the gate of the city, and after shooting and killing Lord Chen, they immediately closed the window.

By the time Yuan Ping and the secret guard flew upstairs and broke through the window, the person who shot the arrow was already no longer in the house, and the sword used to shoot Lord Chen was being thrown on the ground in the house.

At this time, people came and went in the teahouse, and the street was crowded.

Thinking that the archery man had already blended into the crowd, so many people were hard to find.

The search was fruitless, and the person who shot the arrow should have left the teahouse. In this way, even if the teahouse is sealed to search, it will be difficult to find this person.

Yuan Ping took the secret guard back to the city gate. At this time, Xu Fu and the rest of the guards were all controlled by the soldiers guarding the door.

looked at Lord Chen lying on the ground.

Yuan Ping walked over and bent down, reaching out and groping around Lord Chen's face a few times.

He also ripped off the beard on Lord Chen's face.

"Ahh Deputy Commander, this is the person! The guard with the portrait exclaimed.