Xia Fanxing raised his head.

Outside this Jingyao Gate is the outer Guocheng of the capital. Waiguo City is the largest part of Chang'an City, which functions as a residential and commercial area, and also serves as the periphery of the national capital, guarding the security of the imperial palace. The huge city walls stretched as far as the eye could see, making it difficult for Xia Fanxing to imagine that mortal hands could build such a magnificent scene.

The garrison on the tower of the castle saw a fast horse riding below, exchanged a few words, and after making sure that there was no curfew tonight, they all dispersed. When the blind man was about to approach Jingyao Gate, he suddenly tightened his horse's head, dismounted and tied it to the side of the road. Pulling Xia Fanxing to a hidden woods.

"Now I'll call the bird. I know an lieutenant in the garrison, and I sent him a letter to ask if anyone had been out. Qin Blind put his finger to his mouth and let out a loud finger whistle. Xia Fanxing saw that spirit bird flying from the sky again, as if he had been following them.

"If we block him, we won't be able to arrest people in front of so many garrisons, otherwise it will have too much impact on Jade Zhai, and it will not be easy for us to clean up on our own side. Is that the reason?" Xia Fanxing asked.

"Not bad. Later, if he comes, we will hide here and make a surprise victory and arrest him. Don't let them find out!" Qin Blind nodded, "I don't know that person very well... Oh no, I didn't bring pen and paper!"

"Hmm, didn't you use a wooden sign to send a message to your friends in Xiudefang before?" Xia Fanxing asked suspiciously.

"That's Lao Tzu and him, old friends from the past, the wooden sign is the same as our code, and they can understand what each other means!"

Xia Fanxing looked at the blind Qin who was a little anxious, and said, "Don't be in a hurry. I can use aura as pen and ink, but without paper. ”

Qin Blind had a smile on his face, "What is this", and tore off a piece of fabric at the cuff and threw it in front of the speechless Xia Fanxing. "Write quickly, and ask if a young man in his twenties has ever been out of the city gate tonight!"

The spirit bird brought Qin's blind man's armcloth into the city tower - although Xia Fanxing didn't know how a bird was going to send a message to the people in the city tower. Soon after, however, the swallow-like bird did fly back from the city walls, with a short note wrapped around its feet.

"Only five people are out of the inner city tonight... Without him!" Qin Blind raised his head abruptly and said excitedly to Xia Fanxing.

"That's good... In my opinion, if he had a brain, he would not have gone east and west, and would definitely flee to Jingyao Gate!"

"I think so too... After all, he must also know that Lao Tzu has a lot of friends around him, and if he wants to escape, he will flee to the outer city, it is not easy to be caught, and it is once and for all. ”

"But I don't think he could think of a way to mix real and fake jewelry to delay time, and he was willing to cheat such a large sum of money less. In my opinion, there must have been someone behind this surnamed Li who instructed him to do these things. Xia Fanxing calmly analyzed-Indeed, this young man surnamed Li cheated other people's money without a bottom line at the beginning, and now he has resorted to this trick of getting rid of the shell of the golden cicada, no matter how you look at it, it is not something that a miser can do. If there is really someone behind him, then this matter is not simple.

"Hmm... Boy, you have a bit of a point!, where did that stupid boy come up with these tricks to get out?And I never thought this person would do these things before......" Qin Blind muttered, and suddenly pressed Xia Fanxing, "Don't make a sound, someone is coming!"

Xia Fanxing was a little surprised, this blind ranger's hearing was actually better than that of his own body refining person?

Sure enough, soon there was the sound of footsteps outside the dense woods. Slowly and urgently, as soon as you hear it, you know that there is a ghost in the heart of the person who comes. Xia Fanxing quietly poked his head out to see that the person who came was a lean man, twenty years old, carrying a very heavy-looking sack on his back. On the way, Huang Gui had already roughly described the appearance of the young man surnamed Li to the two of them, and Xia Fanxing felt a burst of excitement in his heart - this person is not fake!

He stabbed Qin's blind man in the arm and told him about the situation. "Are you sure? Lao Tzu is a blind man, you give me something reliable, if I catch the wrong person, my reputation will be ruined!" Qin Blind said seriously.

"I can't be wrong, I can't be wrong! The appearance is extremely similar, and he is carrying a ** bag on his back, and he looks like he came out to escape for his life. Xia Fanxing looked at the people again—the light on the city tower was already very faint, but it was enough for him to see clearly. The man was digging something into his bosom, and looked sneakily up the castle tower, and as soon as he saw the soldiers stationed there, he hurried forward a few steps, for fear of being seen. After glancing at the defenders at the gate again, and seeing that none of them had looked, the young man continued to stop and look for something in his chest, looking very anxious.

"Let's do it, while no one is paying attention to us. And he's going to get over quickly!" Xia Fanxing said, stepping forward at the same time.

Qin Blind took a deep breath, and before Xia Fanxing could run out of the grove, he jumped up suddenly!

But the man's reaction was very quick, and as soon as there was a sound in the grove, he immediately stopped looking for something from his bosom and ran desperately to the west.

Xia Fanxing's secret path is not good, so it is easy to attract the attention of the garrison!

However, the next skill of Qin's blind man really taught him a good lesson.

Under the cover of night, the man's figure was actually moving very quickly. But the blind man Qin jumped very high, and it looked like he was three meters tall. As he flew in the air, he tapped the branch next to him with his left foot, and with the help of the thrust, he took a step closer. Half a second later, he pounced forward like a tiger. Although he was blind in both eyes, he was very accurate in his location. What's even more amazing is that a series of movements that should have made a loud noise seemed to fly through the cracks between the leaves, just like a shocking gap, without sound. Qin Blind Man pounced on the young man with the help of a huge thrust, and at the same time slapped his right waist, shaking out a barb-shaped hidden weapon and pinching it in his hand; with his left foot kicked in the air, a flying knife originally hidden in his shoe shot out, accurately stabbing the man's right shoulder.

The young man heard the sound of the blade breaking through the air behind him, and subconsciously lowered his head to dodge, which made his escape from Qin's blind tiger pounce a little slower. The figure of Qin's blind man in the air enveloped the man on the ground, and the hidden weapon in his right hand slashed hard at his back, and the sack cracked a huge opening, and the contents fell to the ground with a bang. As soon as the blind man heard the sound of touching the ground, he knew that it was some pearl jade, and he basically determined the identity of this person. A moment later, the blind man landed on the ground and steadily pressed him to the ground.

The young man surnamed Li saw that the situation was not good, and just as he was about to yell for help, the blind man Qin slammed his old fist on his mouth. Blood flowed down, and the shouts in the boy's throat were squeezed back, and it became a muffled snort of pain. Qin Blind seized this opportunity and smashed another heavy punch into his head, knocking him unconscious in an instant. The whole action was so smooth and perfect that the garrison on the tower did not notice any movement inside the city gate.

At this time, although Xia Fanxing, who ran to the ground, was full of amazement and envy, he also calmly began to pack up the scattered jewelry and stuff it into his storage bag. Qin Blind carried the knocked unconscious boy on his shoulder, and ran back into the woods with a smoke.

"Hero, you are really skilled!" The garrison on the city tower was still surprised why the guy who was carrying the sack just now didn't go out of the city again, and Xia Fanxing, who had just slowed down in the woods, praised from the bottom of his heart.

With such a smooth movement, he solved the teenager without any delay. What's even more rare is that the blind man Qin looks like he is already middle-aged! Xia Fanxing asked himself that although his Dao attainments are good, if he doesn't use any Dao techniques, he still can't reach the realm of the blind Qin with his tempered body alone!

"The punches and kicks I use are all heavy and not heavy, so they look coherent and have two strokes. But to be honest, if you practice more, you will naturally learn. The only thing that Lao Tzu is proud of is a pair of palms that he has tempered, which is a martial art that is beyond the appearance and can be used to understand the gods. Qin Blind threw the young man to the ground, reached out to take the wine gourd, and said lightly, as if nothing had happened just now.

"Daxia is too modest, isn't it!" Xia Fanxing said with a smile, "Do you want to wake him up now?"

"Hmm. According to what you said before, if there is someone behind this guy's back, ask him something as soon as possible. Qin Blind drank the thin wine in the gourd and said.

Xia Fanxing put his hands together and pressed them on the chest of the young man surnamed Li, and green aura poured into his body. Soon after a sharp cough, the boy jumped up from the ground and looked around in horror. When his brain came back to his senses, he saw the blind man Qin sitting on the side with a stern face, and he actually cried directly.

"Cry, cry to Lao Tzu now!Before you do these things, where did you put your pig brain?" Qin Blind scolded bitterly.

"Boss ......"

"Don't call me Lao Tzu Boss, Li He, you don't want to look at what you are now!

A slap slammed into Li He's face, he lowered his head, his face was full of shame and indignation, and he didn't dare to say a word.

"If it weren't for the reputation of Jade Zhai, who would give the fuck care about you? Report it directly to the yamen! A slap on you, fifty slaps on you is considered light! Do you want to try the feeling of the water and fire sticks in the yamen hitting your buttocks?"

"It's... Be... Who are you?" Li He turned his head to see Xia Fanxing standing aside, and asked with some confusion.

"Don't talk nonsense, it doesn't matter who I am! If you have some questions to ask you, answer them honestly!" Xia Fanxing pretended to be fierce.

"Hero, I really can't help it... You know that I was originally from Fanyang, and later came to Chang'an to live... The reason why I did this, my sister died of illness in her hometown some time ago, and the family had no money to bury her, so I can only do this......"

"I know where you're from, fart! If you put these words on the yamen, you will wait to be beaten with dozens of sticks!" Qin Blind was still angry, and he couldn't stop scolding.

When Xia Fanxing heard the word Fan Yang, he asked, "Wait, Fan Yang, Fan Yang who made An Lushan guard?"

"yes... Shaoxia, Dao Chief, it's not a human life over there... We, the Han people, simply have no place to stand...... I came to Chang'an two years ago, thinking that I could earn some money to support my parents... Where did you think that there are so many taxes and miscellaneous taxes here, and you can barely make ends meet, how can you take care of it..."

Blind Qin interrupted him and said, "Hey, Xia Shaoxia, Xia Daochang, time is pressing, if you want to ask these words, let's talk about them after tonight!"

"Understood... Well, you stop talking this nonsense. I think you're just a shopkeeper who doesn't know a lot of words, can you think of the plan to get out of your family's golden cicada shell?And you're very smart, you knew early that Qin Daxia and I would come to arrest you tonight?To be honest, did someone instruct you to do this?" Xia Fanxing said seriously.

"It's... This..."Li He panicked, he didn't expect this matter to be seen by this Taoist priest and the blind man of Qin, what should I do, those people borrowed his money to bury his sister! How can you say it......

"Li He, in the past half month, the big family in Dongxiang has bought a whole ten taels of gold jewelry in Jade Zhai, if it is found to be all fakes at the wedding banquet, how do you want your boss to live?

"Hero... They lent me money and helped me bury my sister... I... Seeking ......"

"Don't give you a shame. Listen to me, turn back to the shore. If Qin Daxia and I really report to the government, you will have to lose your skin if you don't die. No matter who helped you, you will definitely be found out. Listen to me, you're really not worth it like this!" Xia Fanxing said unceremoniously. He is now occupied by the word Fan Yang in his heart - the jurisdiction of An Lushan is actually such a struggling appearance?

"Alas... Qin Daxia, then you must save me! My father and mother are still here, they can't live without me anymore..."Li He seemed to be moved, and begged with tears.

"If you're on our side, after the incident, although you won't be able to stay any longer, I can help you find a way out. Qin Blind said lightly, giving Li He a glimmer of hope.

"Well... Good... There were only a dozen of them I came into contact with, and they were all apprentices in some kind of shop. There seems to be a very remarkable figure on their heads, preaching to them that troubled times are coming, and at this time, take the opportunity to steal, and when the chaos passes, there will be a world amnesty... And organized a large group, with three religions and nine streams, and everyone in the three religions and nine streams, specializing in these things of stealing chickens and dogs... The power is very large, so it attracts more and more people. Many people like me, who can't make a lot of money, believe in their evil. And they will help you plan how to deceive people and steal, and then help you get out... Not only in Chang'an City, but also in many other places..."

"But they all say that the head is a very mysterious figure, and those of us at the bottom don't have a chance to listen to his name. I was a little confused at first when I heard this, and according to them, there were some other organizations in this head, all of which were against the imperial court yamen. But after the boss left some time ago, I listened to their plan several times, and it was successful, but then my house was stolen......, and the stolen jewelry was stolen again!

"Hero, Dao Chief, I don't dare, I really don't dare anymore..."Li He looked at the two with gloomy faces, and begged for mercy again and again.

"Troubled times, I'm afraid it has a lot to do with the envoy of Na'an Jiedu, right?" Qin Blind said coldly, "Your sect, why do you want to help such shameless hooligans?"

"Hmph, anyway, if the troubled times really come, what kind of bullshit does it have to do with the Taoist priests in your sect who want to cultivate to become immortals, or with me, a wandering knight?" Qin Blind said sarcastically.

Xia Fanxing's face was hot when he heard this, and he didn't know how to answer. In fact, he didn't expect that An Lushan would be in chaos even under his own rule.

And Li He couldn't understand what they were saying, and after being silent for a while, he said cautiously: "Hero, Dao Chief, most of the people I met before have left Chang'an City... However, there are still a few people still in the Stability Workshop, do you want to..."

"Shut up!" Suddenly, the sound of heavy horses' hooves sounded on the wide avenue. Qin Blind snorted softly. Xia Fanxing probed out slightly, only to see cavalry appearing one after another on the originally empty avenue, and forming a large queue at a very fast speed, each holding a bright torch in his hand, illuminating the inside and outside of Jingyao Gate as if it were day. The cavalry at the back of the queue was patrolling and searching, as if it were a curfew patrol. Xia Fanxing quickly told Qin Blind about the situation, and he said with some surprise: "It's bad, this is the situation of checking the curfew." Damn, there's no curfew in Andingfang today! Is it a temporary enactment? But it's been a long time!"

"Then what should we do?" Xia Fanxing panicked, listening to what Huang Gui said before, the recent curfew punishment is extremely severe!

"That's... Then we have to go out, and it will be even more ugly to be caught here. Qin Blind quickly calmed down, "With my face, we won't be so miserable, let's go, there's no way." ”

After that, he first pushed Li He, who was already walking on thin ice, out of the grove, and then stepped out by himself, followed by Xia Fanxing. Soon, the cavalry at the front of the queue spotted several people standing on the road. Several horses quickly lined up and surrounded the trio.

One of the cavalrymen at the head showed them a token, "There is an emergency curfew tonight, and the Three Towns Festival will make Lord An Lushan pass on the holy decree on his behalf, and all those who meet on the road before dawn must be brought back to the Yamen for trial." The three of you, come with me to the Yamen of Xiudefang. ”

"What's going on?" Xia Fanxing wondered. According to the time calculation, it will take at least more than a month to complete the construction of a large platform to worship the sky. An Lushan should still be in Fan Yang and Wang Yunming and other disciples sent by the Tu Feng Sect to build a great platform to sacrifice to the heavens, why did he come to Chang'an City from afar now? It seems that he has also gone to face the saint, don't you know that rumors have already spread in the outside world, saying that he has been plotting against him for a long time?

At this time, the blind man Qin took a step forward, and after the cavalry led by him recognized his face, he said with some words: "You... You are Qin Daxia, I was rude just now. However, Qin Daxia appeared here at this time, violating the curfew..."

Blind Qin interrupted him with a smile, "Since the three of us have violated the curfew, you don't need to say more. The five of you escort it, it's best to have a horse to prepare, or to prepare without a horse, go to the yamen on the side of Xiudefang. ”

“... Please!"