On the blue river, there is a square ship sailing with the wind. It only took three days and two nights to drive through the mountains and rivers.

The blue waves were rippling ahead, and everyone on the boat didn't know that there was already an undercurrent somewhere on the river.

At the junction of the Wangchao River and the West Sea, there is a mountain peak surrounded by water on three sides and facing mountains on one side. It is called Lion Tiger Mountain.

On the top of this beautiful Lion Tiger Mountain, there is a cottage called Lion Ridge.

It faces the Wangchao River, backed by the black hat rock, the peaks are numerous, the orange groves are surging, and the cliffs are green.

In this lion hill, there are so many bandits. Some of them are prisoners who have fled here from various countries, and some are displaced people who have been forced to flee for their livelihoods. They dominate the mountains and are so uncomfortable.

Right now, the council hall of the Lion Ridge is discussing important matters.

Zhang Kui, the big boss of the lion wall, sat on the high platform with a big slash, scanning the subordinates arranged in order below, and the sound was like Hong Zhongdao.

"Brothers, now we have a great opportunity, if it is done, maybe we can become a big official and make a fortune!"

As soon as the words fell, the people below instantly exchanged heads and talked about it.

"The big boss might as well say it directly!" Wang Biao, the third master sitting on his right hand, got up and motioned to everyone below to stop whispering.

Zhang Kui coughed dryly and said, "Listen to me, there will be an official ship of Yunqi passing by our Lion Tiger Mountain in the near future, and it is said that the ship is still carrying countless gold and silver treasures!" ”

These words are undoubtedly like a drop of water dripping into a pan of oil, causing the bottom to boil.

"Big boss, what are we waiting for! When the sand boat comes, we'll do it! ”

"That's right, when the sand boat comes, we'll take it down in one fell swoop!"

"But, are we capable of officers and soldiers?"

"Mao Ergou, can you not always grow the ambition of others and destroy the prestige of your own people!"

"Labor and management haven't finished speaking, they all listen to me if they are arguing one by one!" Zhang Kui, who had endured it for a long time, slapped the armrest, and then roared angrily.

"The big boss hasn't finished speaking, what do you guys look like one by one!" Wang Biao also frowned and accused.

"Big brother continues!" Sitting opposite him, Cao Zhen, dressed as a scholar, smiled and played a round game.

Zhang Kui sat back on the chair, shook his beard and said, "It's not very sure whether this matter is true or not, so I have to work hard for a few days and take turns to guard halfway up the mountain." As soon as they come, we'll take it in one fell swoop! ”

After speaking, he gestured to Cao Zhen's eyes.

Cao Zhen nodded, got up and looked at everyone: "If this matter is successful in one fell swoop, we will no longer be vulgar bandits!" ”

"If we don't become bandits, can't we all be emperors?" A small leader named Niu Er coaxed.

Before the words fell, the laughter in the hall was not heard.

Looking at the people who were laughing forward and backwards, Cao Zhen was annoyed and angry: "Don't you want to be an official and make a fortune?" Do you want to be a bandit on this mountain all the time? ”

The sky was getting dark, and the shadows of the trees in the distance were sparse. There is a wind that carries the heat of the day, coming from the bank of the Wangchao River.

It looks like a heavy rain is coming......

At this time, the Mengjin ferry port was still flickering with fishing fires.

On the reedy shore, there were already eight carts and a dozen people waiting there. After the gangplank was stretched out from the boat and set up on the shore, the dozen or so people followed the gangplank and carried the large boxes from the boat to the board car.

When all the boxes were moved to the cart, the moored boat went down the river again, and did not stop at the end of the Wangchao River.

The time has passed, and there is already silence around Qishui County, only the barking of dogs from time to time comes from afar.

The inn, which was still bustling with activity, gradually quieted down. Only the occasional whisper, bits and pieces floated out of the candlelit lattice.

"I have heard that Xiwu is very desolate, and there is no end of yellow sand as far as the eye can see."

"You're here again! Although Xiwu is not as rich as Yunqi, it should not be much worse. ”

"I have someone I know who has really been to Xiwu! He said that when he got there, his eyes couldn't be opened by the yellow sand. ”

"Tut, if you say so, then wouldn't we, the delicate Princess Zhaoyun, suffer when we go there?"

"Who's to say it isn't? What a pity! ”

A few guards sat around the table, chatting and chattering while knocking melon seeds.

Unbeknownst to them, two dark figures had escaped their sight and were tiptoeing down the corner of the escalator and disappearing into the corridor.

The two black shadows on the second floor were Pei Da and Hu Laosan, who had some roe heads and rats.

When the two of them slowed down and sneaked up to the second floor along the wall, they saw that all the wings were already pitch black.

Only on one side of the wall, on the candlestick that hung every few steps, there was still a slight flickering of the fire.

In the dim corridor, the two glanced at each other, and they both spied a hint of joy in each other's eyes.

Looks like they're all asleep! It's just the right thing for them to get their hands on.

The two of them lightened their steps more and more, and tiptoed to the innermost room.

As everyone knows, when they passed by a side room, there were a pair of eyes that were slightly closed in the dark, slowly opening.

At this moment, Pei Da and the others suddenly heard a faint sound of footsteps coming from behind them. In a panic, the two slowly grasped the dagger hidden in their waists and quickly turned around.

Then I saw a maid with wide eyes and a look of horror on their face. When she saw the faces of the two of them, before she could open her mouth and scream, she was suddenly covered by a large palm.

When I wanted to exert all my strength and struggle a few times, I suddenly felt a chill in my neck.

Noticing a sharp blade against her neck, she froze.

This maid is Ruyan, who was sent by Changde to monitor Zhaoyun. Just now she was about to come to Zhaoyun's wing to take a peek outside, but she didn't expect to come so unexpectedly, she met Pei Da and the others.

Now, she is being held hostage by Pei Da, and she doesn't dare to move at all. I had to follow them to the innermost room.

Isn't that Princess Zhaoyun's wing? Her eyes rolled, and a hint of complexity appeared on her face, which was flushed with nervousness.

Who are they? Could it be that they want to save Princess Zhaoyun?

Ruyan was thinking uneasily, and he noticed that the blade that was originally tightly pressed against his neck was loosening a little.

It turned out that Pei Da connected the dagger in her hand and handed it to Hu Laosan, who was preparing to attack.

Pei Da used his fingers to gently buckle a small hole in the paper pasted on the door. He took out a thin tube from his waist and slowly stretched it through the small hole.

After the smoke in the thin pipe was lit for a while, he knocked on the door with his fingers and gave Hu Laosan a look to the side.

"Princess, open the door! The slave has something to tell the princess! Hu Laosan pinched his throat, and the camouflaged shrill female voice sounded in front of the door.

A sound of rustling came from far and near.

Pei Da hurriedly pulled the dagger out of Hu Laosan's waist and hid it behind him.

Ruyan also felt that the dagger on his neck was gradually tightened, and his heart was suddenly very nervous.

With a crisp click, when the door lock was opened from the inside, I saw the strong man who had held her hostage before hurriedly stepping into the door, and stabbed the person who opened the door without saying a word.

Unexpectedly, the man dodged and hid aside, and Pei Da was puzzled, only to feel that he was numb.

Shouldn't the people in the house be weak from his drug?

Before he had time to think about it, Pei Da dodged the oncoming palm wind and fought with him with his bare hands.

Hu Laosan, who was outside the door, couldn't see the situation inside the house, and when he heard the crisp sound of the dagger falling to the ground, he was shocked. When he was worried, he didn't notice that the dagger resting on Ruyan's neck had already relaxed.

Ruyan noticed that her captors had relaxed their vigilance, and hurriedly squatted down to dodge, pulling out their legs and trying to escape. But she obviously underestimated Hu Laosan's strength.

She had just escaped to the escalator around the corner when she was about to call. was covered by Hu Laosan, who came in a hurry, from behind, and only cut his life in the neck.

Zhaoyun, who was hiding behind the door and eavesdropping, didn't hear the sound of a fight not far away, mixed with the sound of a muffled snort falling to the ground, and his heart was already tightened.

She quickly poked a small hole in the pasted paper on the door, and looked out through the small hole.

I saw Ruyan lying on her side in a pool of blood, and her eyes were staring in her direction.

Zhaoyun hurriedly went to wake up Mingcui, who was still asleep on the side.

The little girl yawned, and was about to ask, but Zhaoyun covered her lips.

"Shhhh

The sound of intermittent fighting came from not far away. At this moment, Ming Cui was completely awake, her eyes widened, and her face was terrified.

Only then did Zhaoyun loosen his grip on her palm, and hurriedly stuffed the package that had collapsed into Mingcui's hand.

In the wing room, the fight is in full swing.

Pei Dagang almost dodged the swept leg wind, and turned his elbow towards Bai Yi's ribs with his backhand. Unexpectedly, he grabbed his elbows, and the person in front of him instantly flipped into the air and turned behind him.

"Who are you?" Bai Yi took the opportunity to ask.

"Murderers." After speaking, Pei Da took his left foot as a point, and his right foot drew an arc on the ground, and quickly turned around to attack Bai Yi.

Bai Yi hurriedly blocked the big palm that was slashing across the air with his arm, and said hurriedly: "You are here for Princess Zhaoyun!" ”

"How do you know?" Pei Da withdrew his hand and looked at Bai Yi, whose face was half of his face in the moonlight.

"It doesn't matter how I know, it's important!" Before he finished speaking, Bai Yi curled the corners of his mouth slightly, and reached out to sweep the vase on the table next to him to the ground.

The sound of porcelain breaking instantly resounded throughout the corridor.

A few guards downstairs were guessing about boxing, when they suddenly heard a voice coming from upstairs. looked at each other and hurriedly went upstairs.

Zhaoyun, who was eavesdropping on the door, heard a rush of footsteps coming from the steps, and looked at Ruyan, who had just been dragged into the wing room by her and Mingcui.

Smoke lay on the moonlit ground, and the blood on his neck had dried up. If you ignore Mingcui, who is squatting aside, wiping the blood on the ground with a handkerchief, and closing his eyes like smoke, it really seems as if he has just fallen asleep.

Zhaoyun frowned, looking at the dress that had been changed into Ruyan, and a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind.

Hurriedly took out a thing from his clothes, squatted down, and tied it around his waist. He hurriedly snatched the blood-stained silk handkerchief in Ming Cui's hand, crumpled it into a ball, and threw it out along the wide open window.

Only then did the sound of swords facing each other come from the wing room in the distance, and Zhaoyun hurriedly opened the door with a thin slit, and after looking around a few times, he took out a fire fold and lit it, and threw it on the collapse covered with soft satin.

In an instant, the flames burst out, and the teeth and claws gradually devoured the entire soft collapse.

Zhaoyun hurriedly took Ming Cui out of the door, went downstairs and went straight to the stable in the backyard.

Several recumbent horses were tied to the stables.

Zhaoyun threw the package in his hand to Ming Cui, and untied the two tied horses with a gloomy expression.

She was about to pull one of the brown horses out of the stable when she suddenly heard a lazy female voice coming from not far away.

"If you don't go to bed in the middle of the night, where do you want to go?"

The two of them chuckled in their hearts and hurriedly looked at the person who came.

I saw that Xingniang was lazily leaning against the door panel of the backyard, twisting a pipe in her hand. In the flickering light, a curling cloud of smoke slowly spit out from between her lips.

Seeing her swallowing clouds and spitting out mist, she was charming and colorful, Zhaoyun hooked her lips and smiled: "Didn't you go to bed too?" If you know, why ask! ”

"It seems that you are much more powerful than I thought, Princess Zhaoyun!" It's a compliment, but it seems to be squeezed out between your teeth.

"I don't know why you're so hostile to me." Zhaoyun handed the horse rope in his hand to Ming Cui, lowered his eyes and touched the horse's sideburns, "But now I don't have the time to entangle with you too much, please get out of the way." ”

Xingniang spat out the last puff of smoke and looked at the master and servant who were glaring at her.

Although the woman in front of her was dressed as a man, her eyes were like stars in the sky, and they were extremely bright in the moonlight.

And the little girl who was leading the horse behind her was looking at her with an angry face, but she looked extremely loyal.

"Let's go, may you always have such good luck!" Xingniang left this sentence, turned around and disappeared into the dark night.

"Let's go quickly, don't be discovered by others!" Zhaoyun was only in the dark, and glanced at the direction where Xingniang left, so he hurriedly opened the door of the backyard and said to Mingcui.

After closing the courtyard door from the outside, the two immediately turned over and clamped the horse's belly.

They glanced at each other, and then the horses under them disappeared into the endless night like arrows from a string.

Behind a large locust tree standing in front of the backyard, a dark shadow flashed out of it, looking in the direction they were heading away......

Zhaoyun and the others fled overnight, but they didn't know that the Guangyuan Inn had already become a mess.

A quarter of an hour ago.

Pei Da and Hu Laosan are uniting to deal with Bai Yi.

At first, Bai Yi alone could still cope with the offensive of the two, but then he was obviously a little powerless, and he was forced into a corner after retreating.

At this moment, the reinforcements led by Song Qi broke through the door and showed their swords one after another, surrounding them.

Seeing this, Pei Da and the others quickly glanced at each other, pulled up the sweat towel around their necks and covered their mouths and noses. said that it was too late, Pei Da shook his body and snatched a guard's knife with his hand.