The next day, as soon as the sky was bright, Xie Ze, Li Ran and others set off for Qingcheng Mountain.

Jian Dagongzi is a Qingxiu temper, this trip past, it is not suitable for many people, Zhou E, Huo Wencan and others, they did not follow, only An Xiaorui took twenty or thirty people, followed the guards, and the shopkeeper of Shang Da picked four or five people, a long dress, and walked in the front.

The group was very fast, and just after the beginning of the year, they reached the foot of the mountain, set up their horses, and walked up the mountain.

The shopkeeper Shang Da followed Xie Ze and Li Ran, and while walking, he introduced the surrounding scenery, as well as the courtyards near and far, which one belonged to which house, and introduced some gossip by the way, and said while talking, the pace slowed down a lot.

After half the mountain, you can't see much of the other courtyard, occasionally one or two, but also hidden between the green trees and rocks, a picture that I don't want people to see.

"Further on is the other courtyard of the Prime Minister's Mansion."

The shopkeeper pointed to the green in front of him and smiled:

"Jian Xiang's legs and feet are inconvenient, and I heard that I don't like this Qingcheng Mountain, this annex, it was because Mrs. Jian Xiang liked it, so I asked for it.

When Mrs. Jian Xiang was there, she would stay here for a month or two every summer.

After Mrs. Jian Xiang passed away, in this courtyard, there were people who came and went, that is, the second son and one room.

The eldest prince built a few thatched huts in the back mountain, when Mrs. Jian Xiang was in the past, the eldest prince accompanied him, most of the time, he also rested in the thatched hut in the back mountain, after Mrs. Jian Xiang passed away, this courtyard, the eldest prince did not seem to have come to a trip.

The second son, his wife, the two young masters, and a girl all like this courtyard very much.

Every summer, the second prince's wife would take the girl to this courtyard for a month or two months, just like Mrs. Jian Xiang back then.

The second son and the two young masters said that they were busy with official business, and they often came, but they came and went in a hurry. ”

"The location of the Jian family's courtyard is dangerous, can you avoid it?" An Xiaorui, who was walking behind, looked at the Jian family's courtyard from afar and asked.

"Yes, that's what I mean, let's go this way." The shopkeeper smiled and pointed to a stone staircase in the forest that leaned to the other side.

Xie Ze held Li Ran's hand and looked sideways at Li Ran, "Are you tired?" ”

"It's fine." Li Ran replied with a smile.

Walking all the way from the foot of the mountain to here, climbing over half of the mountain, Li Ran's sideburns were sweaty.

"Let's slow down, it's just in time." Xie Ze slowed down.

"Call a slider?" The shopkeeper hesitated and suggested.

"No, it's not far off." Li Ran shook her head.

When he was at the foot of the mountain, Shang Da's shopkeeper said that Jian Mingrui came and went to the back mountain, all on foot, and the Shu officials who went to the back mountain for instructions were also walking up and down, that is, the second son of the Jian's courtyard was in the house, up and down, and they were all on foot.

Since there is this unwritten rule, it is best for her to respect it enough.

The shopkeeper of Shangda heard Li Ran say no, and didn't say a word more, just pointed to the waterfall in front of him and talked about some ancient legends.

Bypassing the courtyard of the Jian family, An Xiaorui secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and the shopkeeper pointed to a turning cliff in front of him and said with a smile: "Turn that corner, and you can see the grass house of the eldest son of Jian." ”

"See, it's almost there?" An Xiaorui asked with a smile.

"Go down a little hill and go up again." As soon as the shopkeeper Shang Da's voice fell, the guide who walked in front did not finish his short warning whistle, and several screeching sounds of knives and guns colliding together sounded.

Xie Ze protected Li Ran behind him, An Xiaorui drew his knife out of the sheath, and gave orders again and again, all the guards surrounded Xie Ze and Li Ran, and An Xiaorui stood at the front with a knife.

The shopkeeper held a long and narrow knife, and the cat leaned over and rushed towards the place where the knife and gun were screaming.

"Follow Shopkeeper Shang and rush up!" Xie Ze pulled out his knife, glanced at Li Ran, who had drawn out his short sword, and motioned to her, "You follow me." ”

Li Ran nodded, followed closely behind Xie Ze, and didn't rush far before he met the black cloth masked elite warrior.

An Xiaorui was in front of Xie Ze's side, Shi Nan and Xiqing were on the left and one on the right, and Sang Zhi and the rest were behind him.

Li Ran watched An Xiaorui catch up with the two black-clothed men who rushed towards him, the long knife in his hand was raised, and he slashed horizontally and picked up, looking not fast or slow, usually, he cut off one of the arms of the man in black holding the knife with a horizontal split, and then provoked and slid through the neck of another man in black, and the knife spurted blood.

Li Ran squinted at the blood spurting out, smelling the rich smell of blood rushing to his face, and was in a trance for a moment.

At this moment, she seemed to be on the battlefield in the past, the gunfire around her was dull, and after an explosion, blood rained down and flesh fell on her head.

An Xiao raised his knife and slashed at another man in black, and when the long knives in Shi Nan and Xi Qing's hands swung out and slashed, Li Ran reversed the short sword, cut the skirt, and tore the finely embroidered skirt outside, revealing the red trousers inside.

Xie Ze heard the cracking sound of Aya Luo tearing apart, looked back at Li Ran, who was throwing down her outer skirt, and reached out to pull her closer to him, "There is me." ”

"Hmm." Li Ran threw away her skirt and held a knife next to Xie Ze.

The more than 30 people who came with them on this trip were the elite of the capture generals, and there were quite a few people in black, but they were uneven.

The wave that rushed to the front and had the most momentum was almost all killed in one face.

An Xiaorui rose and fell, killed the two of them, looked at the second wave of people who were separated from the first wave by more than ten steps, and hurriedly shouted to be careful.

In fact, there is no need for An Xiaorui to remind that the second wave is very different from the first wave, with a bloody atmosphere that everyone is familiar with.

Li Ran looked at the gap of more than a dozen steps between the first wave and the second wave, and subconsciously remembered that when she was about to rush out for the first time in actual combat training, when she was pulled by the captain, the captain's face was full of disdain and arrogance: let them rush, they have no ability, and they have a lot of meritorious service.

"Are you alright?" Xie Ze glanced at Li Ran.

"It's okay, like someone who put it together temporarily." Li Ran stared at the second wave of people who rushed towards them.

"Those just now, they are probably all long-term followers, and they will only fight for power. These people are not bad. Xie Ze looked around and smiled with Li Ran.

In the second wave of people, which is not bad, the same is uneven, and after a round of short-handed combat, less than half of the people remain.

An Xiaorui looked relaxed, standing in the middle with a knife in his hand, occasionally dispatching a sentence or two.

"Leave a few more alive." Xie Ze put away the knife and commanded.

Before Xie Ze spoke, the remaining dozen or twenty elites of the man in black were no longer rushing forward, but retreating tacitly.

An Xiaorui carried a knife and commanded everyone to surround it, Xie Ze pulled Li Ran, and also followed closely, and in front of the black-clothed men who had just chased dozens of steps and fled in a hurry, the fire was rising.

The flames sparked high and urgently, like a fiery snake, rapidly extending from both sides towards Xie Ze and them.

Among the men in black, the few people who fled at the front had already stepped on the flames, and the flames surrounded them almost immediately, and several humanoid fire balls screamed and ran a few steps before falling to the ground.

The man in black behind hurriedly retreated, scolding, but he couldn't hear what he was scolding.

An Xiaorui was a little flustered and hurriedly looked at Xie Ze.

"This is tung oil, let everyone run for their lives." Xie Ze commanded.

The fire was already high all around, and the tongues of fire even licked the treetops, and the smoke was everywhere, far and near, and there were terrified screams everywhere.

When the fire burns, it spreads arbitrarily, and it will not follow the intention of the arsonist, only where to burn, or where not to burn, the surrounding is not dense, but it is definitely not a few other courtyard grass pavilions, Taoist temples, were soon wrapped in the Xiongxiong fire.

It seems that in the blink of an eye, the fairyland that was still fragrant with birds and flowers just now burned into a hell of fire.

Xie Ze pulled Li Ran, retreated to the way the flames had not yet spread, the rugged steps could not go up fast, and they could not go down fast, seeing that the tongue of fire was about to roll up, Xie Ze hugged Li Ran, protected her as much as possible, and rolled down the mountain.

Shi Nan and the others also rolled down the mountain with their heads in their hands.

Li Ran hugged Xie Ze and opened his hands to protect the back of Xie Ze's neck and head, which was better than having no protection at all.

The edges and corners of the stone steps, the large and small rocks, and the sharp branches and shrubs hit the body, pierced the body, from the sharp sting to the dull but bone-deep pain, they could not match the cold flame that fell into Li Ran's eyes between the tumblings.

If they were caught up by the flames, they would be a piece of charcoal in the form of a human in the blink of an eye.

Xie Ze carried Li Ran and fell down a stone staircase that was so steep that it was almost upright, and Li Ran's leg hit a stone that they had stopped to admire when they went up the mountain, and Li Ran almost screamed in a sharp pain.

The blank space of the trees in the section of the steep stone steps blocked the direction of the flames, and the frantically rolled tongue of fire stopped on the steps, Xie Ze hugged Li Ran, ran wildly through a long section of flat after the steep stone steps, looked back at the tongue of fire that did not follow, breathed a sigh of relief, and looked down at Li Ran, who was sweating profusely in pain, "What's wrong with you?" ”

"My leg looks like it's broken." Li Ran pointed to her left leg, she knew what the pain of a broken bone was like, her leg bone was broken.

Xie Ze glanced at Li Ran's fingers, "You bear with me, let's go to the foot of the mountain first." ”

"Hmm." Li Ran rested his head on Xie Ze's chest, closed his eyes, endured the sharp pain of breaking his leg when he ran quickly, and focused his attention on Xie Ze's running speed, the feeling of falling, and the scorching breath of death that was getting farther and farther away.

The steep stone steps were already very close to the foot of the mountain, and Xie Ze rushed to the foot of the mountain in one go.

The entourage of the little servants who had been staying at the foot of the mountain to guard the horses, seeing the smoke of the flames on the mountain, had already gathered at the entrance of the stone steps in a hurry, and saw Xie Ze, whose hair was unkempt, his clothes were torn, and his face was full of black smoke, rushing down with Li Ran, who was as embarrassed as him, and screamed and pounced.

Huai Zhi, who stayed at the foot of the mountain, rushed to the front, Xie Ze saw him, and the person did not stand firm, it was a series of orders:

"Sound the arrow, and send Zhou E to help; The princess had a broken leg, and there were other wounded people, so she went to two people and searched for a doctor in the nearest place; Spread out and defend, you can hold as far as you can, and those who escape down the mountain, as long as they are not our people, will take down everything that can be taken! ”

"Yes!" The acacia branch should sound one after another, and while it should be, he felt out the ringing arrow, ignited it and released it, and the ringing arrow exploded in the sky with a sharp whistling.

This raging fire, the whole city of Chengdu can be seen, the crowd gathered from all directions, the defenders of Chengdu City, the guards of the towns under the mountain guarding the fire tower, also rushed over from all directions.

There were more and more people, and Huai Zhi and the others were scattered very widely, gathering around Xie Ze and Li Ran, vigilant against the crowd around them.

There are people on the hill who are tumbling down or running down wildly.

Li Ran sat on a wooden stake that he didn't know where to find it, tried his best to lay down his broken left leg, looked at the people who rolled down from time to time on the mountain, thinking about An Xiaorui, the shopkeeper, and Shi Nan and others, and his heart was almost breathless.

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Zhou E got up early in the morning, walked around the mansion, went to the stable to take a look, returned to the courtyard of the mansion, just sat down and talked to Wang Ji, drank two cups of tea, and the guard on duty on the corner tower leaned out half of his body, waved his hand and shouted at her: "General Zhou! There was smoke over there, like it was on fire! ”

"Huh? Which? Prime Minister's Mansion? Zhou E hurriedly put down the cup and stood up, and Wang Yi also hurriedly stood up.

"It's not! Qingcheng Mountain! The guard shouted and beckoned, motioning for Zhou E to come up and take a look.

When Zhou E heard the three words of Qingcheng Mountain, her face changed, and she rushed to the bottom of the corner tower in a few steps, and rushed up two steps in one step.

Huo Wencan and Li Qingning were playing chess in the house, and when they heard Qingcheng Mountain, they squeezed out together.

Zhou E rushed up to the corner tower, stared at Qingcheng Mountain where the smoke was billowing up, and then glanced at it, turned around, and rushed down.

When I got downstairs, I met Huo Wencan and Li Qingning, who were squeezing up together, and pushed the two of them away one by one.

"You two watch, I'll take a look!"

Before Huo Wencan and Li Qingning could react, Zhou E had already rushed to the courtyard, shouting at the top of her voice, and rushed to the stable.

The guards who followed, all of whom were old in the army, heard Zhou E's shout, one by one, holding swords, rushed out of the house, and those who lived on the second floor simply jumped off the railing and rushed to the stable.

Huo Wencan was pushed by Zhou E, and finally stood still, Li Qingning sat on the ground with his buttocks, and climbed a few times, but he couldn't get up.

Huo Wencan rushed over to pull him up, and when the two rushed to the yard, the people in the yard were rushing to the stable.

"Let's ......" Li Qingning's face turned pale, holding Huo Wencan, and even his voice was trembling.

"Let's go too!" Huo Wencan shouted, and was about to pull Li Qingning to the stable, when Wang Ji came over and grabbed Huo Wencan, "You can't go all, you have to leave one, you go!" You hurry up and go to Qingxuguan and accompany your grandfather, hurry! ”

"Good!" Huo Wencan dragged Li Qingning, followed in the end, plunged into the stable, and got on their horses, Huo Wencan mixed in the middle of everyone, followed Zhou E to Qingcheng Mountain, Li Qingning took a few small guards and ran to Qingxuguan.

Wang Ji stood in the middle of the courtyard, watching the instant boiling, and then the surrounding area was instantly quiet to the end of the world, and stayed for a moment, put his hands together on his forehead, and prayed anxiously.

The smoke and fire of Qingcheng Mountain must have been directed at the prince and princess......

May the auspicious people be in the sky, and seek the auspicious people's heavenly appearance.

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In the Qingxu Temple, Old Man Xie was sitting in the pavilion in the middle of the mountain, slowly drinking tea, looking at the direction of Qingcheng Mountain, thinking that Rong'an City was concise and sharp when it was still in the capital, elegant and dusty, chic and unrestrained, and talented, but as long as it was dusty, he ignored the world.

He was also secretly happy back then, his eldest son, although he was not as talented as Jian Mingrui, was willing to enter the WTO to bear the ......

Alas, looking at it now, although his unscrupulous son is extremely unscrupulous, he has given him an impeccable grandson, and a granddaughter-in-law who is difficult to get and dare not think.

Their luck in Xie is still much stronger than Jane's.

Aze's trip will definitely go smoothly......

Old Man Xie's chaotic and distant thoughts were interrupted by the smoke rising from Qingcheng Mountain.

Old Man Xie stood up with a breath, rushed out of the pavilion in a few steps, sprinted all the way with the front of his robe, and rushed to the top of the small hill in one breath, looking at the flames in the smoke, staring at his eyes and being stunned.

This smoke, this fire, can only be for Aze......

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In the grass hut that was only separated by a col from the fire sprinkled with tung oil, the long entourage who came in to report the robbery had not finished speaking, and Jian Mingrui, who was standing at the door of the grass house, saw the flames rising suddenly.

"It smells of tung oil, Childe has to leave quickly!" The face of the long man standing behind him was blue.

This fire is coming for Childe?

"I can't burn it." Jian Mingrui's face turned pale, "Go and see where the prime minister is, the eldest young master, the second young master, and where the second master is, and Senator Huang!" ”

Speaking of the three words Senator Huang, Jian Mingrui simply gritted his teeth.

"Yes!" The two little guys said yes and rushed out.

"Send an order to General Cao, one, send someone to protect Qingxuguan, two, send someone to protect the mansion, and third, send all the soldiers to come over to extinguish the fire, go quickly!"

Jian Mingrui then spoke and gave orders.

"You pick some people and go to find King Rong'an and his wife, if you ...... Take care of the corpse, and if you live, tell him that I will be there in a moment. ”

"Yes." A steward agreed, took a few steps back, and hurried down the mountain.

Jian Mingrui looked at the fire that was already burning fiercely on the other side of the col, and after a moment, he turned around and went down the mountain on the other side.

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When Zhou E rushed to the foot of Qingcheng Mountain in one go, Li Ran's leg was covered with herbs and a splint was tied.

An Xiaorui is intact, but only one scalp is scorched with a fever, and the shopkeeper is full of mud from his hair to his shoes, Shi Nan is bare-chested, his back is blistering, and Xiqing and mulberry branches are complete.

The rest of the guards escaped with nearly twenty people, half of whom were wounded.

Seeing Zhou E rushing over, Xie Ze couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, stood up, and commanded Zhou E who jumped off the horse: "Is Huo Wencan here?" ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw Huo Wencan, who was sweating hotly behind him, and then instructed Zhou E: "General Cao of Chengdu City has arrived, you go to him, report, and take people up the mountain to search, don't just look for our people, those who can be saved, all help one or two." ”

"Yes!" Zhou E handed over the horse, followed Shi Nan's instructions, and went straight to find General Cao.

"First robbed and killed, then arson, doused tung oil, those are the assassins who got it, you escort them to the Prime Minister's Mansion, hand them over to the Prime Minister in person, or hand them over to the Prime Minister in person, or to the Grand Duke of Jane, remember, you must hand them over to the Prime Minister in person, or to the Grand Duke of Jane!"

Xie Ze then instructed Huo Wencan.

"Yes." Huo Wencan wiped his sweat one after another, and looked at Li Ran who was sitting on the ground.

"She hurt her leg, it's fine. What about Li Qingning? Xie Ze also glanced at Li Ran.

"It's time to clear the void."

"Well, you go, Xiqing will follow." Xie Ze motioned to Xiqing.

Huo Wencan got on the horse, and together with Xiqing, with more than a dozen people, and four bundles of zongzi-like assassins, hurried to the Prime Minister's Mansion in Chengdu.

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Xie Ze and Li Ran did not return to the mansion, but followed the small house that came to the house on order, entered Chengdu City, and lived in a post house not far from the Prime Minister's Mansion.

At the door of the post house, the doctor who came by order was already waiting, and after Li Ran bathed and washed, the doctor looked at it again, reapplied the medicine, and then tied it up with a splint.

Xie Ze watched Li Ran drink the medicine and rested, and came out to check on everyone's injuries.

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The Prime Minister's Mansion was brightly lit, and people came in and out almost overnight.

Approaching dawn, Jian Mingrui entered the Jian Xiang Courtyard with bloodshot eyes.

Jian Xiang had just gotten up, and it seemed that he was not sleeping well, and when he saw Jian Mingrui coming in, he waved his hand impatiently and motioned for the little people in the room to retreat.

Jian Mingrui poured himself a cup of tea, sat down on the chair next to Jian Xiang tiredly, lowered his head and drank tea, and looked up at Jian Xiang.

Jian Xiang tightened his face and looked directly at Jian Mingrui.

"The eldest brother found it, the person, I can't recognize it, the jade pendant on the body, the name charm, and the jade gourd are hanging around the neck." Jian Mingrui lowered his eyelids.

Jian Xiang's face turned pale, and he stayed for a moment before he asked in a condensed voice, "Burned?" ”

"The mouth was clean, there was a knife wound in the chest, and a knife pierced the heart. Didn't suffer. ”

Jian Mingrui glanced at Jian Xiang.

"He set the fire himself?" Jian Xiang closed his eyes for a moment before he spoke.

"The fire set by the second brother said that it was Huang Can's idea, and when the eldest brother and King Rong'an's people were killing each other, a fire not only burned King Rong'an and his wife, but also got rid of the eldest brother."

The concise and sharp tone is a little stiff.

Jian Xiang sat in a daze, and only spoke for a while, "I ask myself that I have a clear conscience in this life, where did this evil fate come from, my Jian family, actually gave birth to such two beasts?" ”

Concise and sharp, his eyes were silent.

"It's three brutes."

After staying for a moment, Jian Xiang raised three fingers and raised them in front of his eyes, and for a moment, he hung down weakly.

"Four, so are you. The Jane clan is ruined in your hands. ”

"It was for the sake of the Jian family that I invited King Rong'an and his wife to Shu."

Jian Mingrui lowered his eyelids.

"You're old......

"I'm old, are you old?" Jian Xiang interrupted Jian Mingrui very unceremoniously.

"Leping has been waiting for me for years." Jian Mingrui looked out the window, his voice extremely low.

Jian Xiang choked violently in his throat and unscrewed his head.

"The eldest brother and the second brother are not successful, the children of the clan, you have looked at the past ten years, and you have not been able to pick out a person who can support Shuzhong.

The children of the clan, with the upper qualifications, but there are many, if in the Taiping years, the imperial examination is entered and connected into a piece, it is not that it cannot support the Jane family.

I invited Xie Ze and his wife because Li told me that those soldiers who were piled up in a pile in the car and pulled back had their families who hoped for them, and there were people who cared about them, and they had joys and sorrows, and they used to be alive like you and me.

In this way, Leping also said. ”

Jian Mingrui's words paused.

There was silence in the room, and after a while, Jian Mingrui then whispered: "She can pity the ant-like soldiers, and she is willing to try anything for them, Xie Zeken bent over to invite me for her, think about it, she and Xie Ze can also protect Jane's one or two." ”

"It's a joke." Jian Xianggan made a cold evaluation.

"Central Plains, where the destiny lies." Jian Mingrui looked at Jian Xiang.

Jian Xiang's eyes narrowed slightly, staring at Jian Mingrui, who met his gaze without flinching.

"The Jian family, there is no need for anyone to protect them."

"The eldest brother has a son, the second brother and daughter-in-law are also pregnant, and Ruhui is also pregnant."

"Huang Can is full of doors, and chickens and dogs are not left." Jian Xiang was silent for a moment, and said coldly: "Where did the eldest brother get the courage to dare to attack Xie Ze?" ”

"Huang Can asked for forty elites in the army from Han Zhushi, the guard general of Jianmen Pass."

"Kill Han Zhushi, let Hong Hui go, and tell him to guard the Sword Gate." Jian Xiang continued.

"Hmm." Jian Mingrui replied in a low voice.

Jian Xiang leaned back on the pillow, a layer of thick tiredness came up, and waved his hand weakly, "I'm tired, you can go." ”

"Second brother?" Jian Mingrui stood up, looked at Jian Xiang, and asked with some hesitation.

"The Jane family is so corrupt that they can even tolerate fratricide?" Jian Xiang straightened up and asked rhetorically, and after a moment, he leaned back on the pillow, his upper body shrank down, and his expression was discouraged.

Jian Mingrui lowered his eyes, took two steps back, and went out with heavy steps.

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