There was a whimper of the river in the darkness, thousands of zhang away in the north, the ice and snow of the wide river had completely melted, the faint sound of water hovered around the village, and the sky in the east had a faint hint of fish white, which was the darkest hour before dawn.

The torches burning to the end on the village were emitting the last heat, and there was no half figure on the ear wall, and the guards who were huddled in the corner tower for the night made a soft sound.

Under the darkness of the south, a black shadow flashed under the wall of the village at great speed, listened for a long time, and the breath caused by the extreme speed quickly stabilized, and looked back, with a trace of hideousness and determination on his resolute face.

Climbed up the wall, took a quick look, quietly without a sound, turned over, without the slightest hindrance, and quickly flashed to the west of Zhuangzi.

In the westernmost part of Zhuangzi, among the patchwork plum forests, there are several quaint wooden houses, which are familiar with the road and under one roof~~

Bangbang, two rhythmic tapping sounds in a row, "Xue Niang open the door." A low call rang out.

A moment later, there was a soft creak, and a shadow flashed into the room.

Under the night, a fair-skinned but healthy young woman looked at the night walker in front of her with a surprised face: "Yun Cheng, you, didn't you go with the second master to find friends......?"

The figure hurriedly said: "Xue Niang, go and inform the young lady that the second master is in trouble." ”

A moment passed, in the inner hall of the house, the beautiful young woman had tears on her face, suppressed her sadness, and looked at the man in front of her blankly.

"Yun Cheng, the second master was ambushed like this?"

Xue Niang hugged the young woman and asked crying.

"The second master was ambushed by the little prince of the county king's mansion, and after a hard fight, he was seriously injured and captured. Yun Cheng was incompetent, the second master found out in advance that something was wrong, in order to avoid the little young master and his wife being implicated, he sent me back to report the news, and asked the young lady to make plans as soon as possible. ”

Xue Niang looked at Madame and said hurriedly: "What can I do about this......"

After a while, the young lady took off a jade pendant around her neck, and on the pale golden silk thread, two jade pendants like water droplets, one bright and one dark. Separated the bright jade pendant, silently turned around, and tied it to the neck of the sleeping child on the bed.

packed a small package, took off a sword on the wall, and said softly: "Let's go......" Although it happened suddenly, after all, it was not a layman, and the young woman had also practiced martial arts, and her foundation was still there.

Yun Cheng and his wife hurriedly got up, "Quick, Xue Niang, go back to the house and bring Lei'er with you." ”

After a stick of incense, a man, with two women and two children of four or five years old, quietly left the plum garden in the cold wind and dived along the Zhuangxi trail to the north of the Yusu River.

The sky is slightly bright, a wide and luxurious courtyard in the easternmost part of the village, the door is a pair of mighty and domineering stone lions, at this moment, in the lobby, an old man in his fifties is restless, anxiously waiting.

A stout man in the hall was striding in the hall, but he couldn't hide the anxiety on his face, and the candlelight on the candlestick, which had almost exhausted his life, was crumbling in the morning light.

"Dad, if it doesn't work out, don't go wrong, Jiao'er can't be a little boy's guard in the county king's mansion. Let's frame the second young master, the patriarch knows it, but he won't die. ”

"Shut up," the old man shouted angrily

"Idiot, the old thing is out looking for medicine, his second brother is very brave, if he doesn't take this opportunity to get rid of it, how will he compete for the position of patriarch in the future. ”

"What's more, he has been going for thousands of miles, and he doesn't know when he will come back, you and my father and son have done everything well, and they can't find any flaws in discipline, not to mention that even if he comes back, he will be looking for trouble with the county king's mansion, hehe, does he dare......"

A rush of horses' hooves disturbed the quiet village before dawn, and a team of more than 100 government guards broke into Zhouzhuang with great force, but the leader was an old man with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks.

went straight into the mansion in the east, "Hahahaha, Heisan, the eldest son of your family, bullied the women in Yunque Mountain, stole the magic medicine of the county government's medicine garden, and has been taken down on the spot. ”

When an old man and a young man in the hall heard this arrogant reprimand, they showed a smug smile, stepped out hurriedly, and welcomed the deputy head of the county king's mansion in.

"Hei San'a, the matter is in charge, the medicinal materials of your Zhou Family Medicine Garden every year can't be sold to other families, and you don't have to forget my share, otherwise, hum ......"

"Don't worry, as long as my grandson can enter the county king's mansion and be a guard for the young master, everything will come according to your and me's agreement, and I will sit on the patriarch of the family this week, and I will not forget the support of the steward."

"Dad, the second young master still has a small family in the village, in case he knows, it will not be good to go back to Suzhou to move the rescue soldiers. ”

The house steward said: "Oh, what's so difficult about this, catch it together, and send it to the wilderness"

Wednesday Ye said: "Although the Zheng family is far away in Nanbo Prefecture, although the mountains and rivers are far away, in case ......"

The house steward said: "What are you afraid of, as long as you do it secretly, how can they detect it, not to mention that if you don't cut the grass and eradicate the roots, when will the madman Zhou come back~"

That's it, it's not a poisonous husband, and I asked Fang Ye to send someone to arrest the two mothers.

"Come on, take a team of armor soldiers to arrest the remnants of the bandits"

A squad leader with twenty government troops hurried to the plum garden in the west of the village, and the one who led the way was the son of the third master of the Tang Dynasty, named Zhou Yunshe.

This person is greedy for money and lustful, and he is timid and afraid of things, but he loves to be in the limelight, and he was not on good terms with the second master Zhou Yunqian in the past, and he coveted the beauty of the second young lady, and he was cleaned up once.

Today, I was empty, and I took advantage of other people's momentum and wanted to do wrong, so I hurriedly became a guide.

A group of people rushed to the plum garden and broke in, but found that the room was extremely cold, and there was no one.

So I rushed back to report that the person was gone.

"What, what about people? You idiots, don't you hurry up and look for it" For a while, the chickens and dogs jumped, alarming the old and young in the village.

There was no news for a long time, and then he hurriedly gathered together to discuss, and the house steward's face was not good: "Hei San, don't say that Lao Tzu didn't remind you, this must be a leak, no matter what, these two people must be removed, otherwise hum ......"

The sweaty Zhou Ye, the originally black face turned white, this week there are more than 1,000 people in the village, not he alone can act arbitrarily, in case people know that he and the government designed to frame the next patriarch and persecute the widows and orphans, then he can still control this family business, how to enjoy this drunken gold fan, no, we must remove the hidden dangers.

"Master Fang, you work hard. As he spoke, he painfully took out a stack of silver tickets from his arms and stuffed them into the hands of the housekeeper.

The housekeeper glanced at it, let alone four or five thousand taels, and put it in his arms, so he didn't rush and said, "The top priority is to know where they are fleeing."

Zhouzhuang is not big or small, more than 200 households, more villages and towns go to the south, densely populated, to the west is a wetland swamp, to the east more than 100 miles is the estuary, a horse flat river is not blocked, only to the north is a big river, there is a small ferry.

He sent men to pursue him on all sides, but the orphans and widows had no horses, and they could not run far.

In a moment, twenty people from each of the four directions, under the leadership of the team leader, chased out.