When Bao Zhu received Wu Yingxiong's letter to him and Zheng Chunyou, he suddenly felt sad in his heart, and for the first time, he felt that killing Wu Ciyou's mission was really hurtful...... He has been following Wu Sangui for more than ten years, and has become a personal guard with his martial arts and the credit of fighting tigers and saving drivers. Wu Sangui was already generous in hand, and every time he was rewarded, he was the first one, and he was tens of thousands at every turn, and he didn't even suffer a word of heavy words. Wu Yingqi's sons and nephews all respect him as "uncle". When he ran an errand for Wu Sangui, he never gave the slightest discount, nor did he doubt whether Wu Sangui's intentions were legitimate. But in the past few months with Wu Ciyou, Baozhu seems to find that he is a little uneasy in his heart: this scholar is both talented and upright, heroic and uninhibited, why did he kill innocents indiscriminately? Baozhu regretted that he didn't do it immediately when he caught him, at least at that time he would not be condemned in conscience. But now that I have received a letter from Wu Sangui, asking him to deal with it as soon as possible and go north to Beijing, what should I do?

"General Baozhu," Zheng Chunyou lit the lamp after reading the letter, and watched it turn to ashes, seeing that Baozhu was still stuffy and only cared about eating and drinking, Fang smiled, "This is really a great pleasure." raised him in the mansion for more than half a year, and there should be a haircut, and everything is at the disposal of the general. ”

Huangfu Baozhu was startled and said secretly: "What's wrong with me?" Liu Xuanchu and Xia Guoxiang often say that I am rigid on the outside and soft on the inside, and I am easy to be bullied, do you really want them to talk about it? He looked up at the dim light, and then at Zheng Chunyou, who was lying on the chair with a relaxed face, gritted his teeth and said, "I want to hear your old Zheng first." ”

Zheng Chunyou is also full of worries, but he is good at covering it up. He was born in a scholarly family, and relied on his true skills to be admitted to the Jinshi in the third year of Kangxi. Later, because he took the path of Lao Huang of the Internal Affairs Office, he had to release a fellow acquaintance. Seeing that sycophants like Mingzhu, shitholes like Suo Etu, and old rotten people like Xiong Cilu are all climbing high, but their full stomach has nowhere to show! He joined Wu Sangui on his own, in order to make a great career in the cause of "restoring my Han family's crown" and become a founding minister. But he is now in the mainland, and he is an official of the imperial court, so he can't compare to the pillar in front of him, and he can walk with a pat on his buttocks. Zheng Chunyou smiled and said: "The meaning of the prince is very clear, we will interrogate and interrogate him again, if he still can't ask, he has to be killed." Now the imperial court has appointed Mo Luo as the secretary of the military department, and he is still restrained and peaceful. It seems that it's about to start, and it is impossible to have no one in front of the forehead. ”

"I'm in a hurry, too!" Bao Zhu said with a smile, "The prince has sent me a letter in Beijing to urge me several times, and this time the prince has urged me again. The scholar kills people without a trace, so how about entrusting this matter to you? I'm on my way tomorrow. This is what Baozhu came up with after thinking about it for a while. As long as your hands are not stained with the blood of Wu Ciyou, you can talk about **.

Zheng Chunyou snorted and took a few puffs of cigarette, and suddenly laughed: "I can't see that you are a fierce general, but you are a bit like the overlord of Chu, with the kindness of a woman - you have to go, just go." But I'd like to dispose of him first and give you a meal! ”

"What if Wu Ciyou is willing to listen to persuasion?" Baozhu asked.

"That can't keep him either!" Zheng Chunyou calmly smoked a hookah, the muscles at the corners of his mouth twitched, showing that there was murderous intent in his heart, "It is a disaster to let him go out of my mansion, and it is difficult to stay here-" He leaned forward suddenly, and said in a hoarse voice, "Don't forget what the prince said in the letter, the emperor has sent someone out to visit Wu Ciyou, maybe it will be near Yanzhou Mansion!" He gasped as he spoke.

This is the truth, at this moment, Li Yunniang and the green monkey are eavesdropping through the window. Man, who is truly the spirit of all things, is incomprehensible, and woman is even more incredible. Originally, on the fourth day of Wu Ciyou's erroneous entry into the Yanzhou Mansion, she secretly came back to investigate once. The people in the government and even the idlers on the street knew that there was indeed a Mr. Wu who came to visit the lord. Taizun treated him with courtesy for one day, so that he could be sent to the provincial capital in an official sedan chair the next day. Yun Niang heard that the official sedan chair was escorting, and she didn't suspect anything else. I originally wanted to revisit the old place once and then return to the mountain to seal the knife, and never go down to the end of the South Mountain. Who knew that when she inquired about the provincial capital, she didn't see Wu Ciyou come to the province at all, and the governor, the feudal department, and the people from the Xuetai Mansion heard her ask about Wu Ciyou, and they also asked Wu Ciyou about his whereabouts again and again. Knowing that things had changed, she returned to Yanzhou, where she and the green monkey had come to the mansion several times to investigate and find out that Wu Ciyou was indeed imprisoned in the garden of the mansion. Helplessly, the entourage of the pillar was very strict and couldn't do it.

"Come on!" Zheng Chunyou raised his voice and shouted. Several family members heard the order in the east chamber and hurriedly went in to answer the order. Yun Niang and the green monkey outside the door hurriedly flashed aside. Zheng Chunyou blew out the paper coal in his hand with a "poof" and said, "Please come over here, Mr. Wu!" After a while, Wu Ciyou walked in calmly and said to the two:

"I, Wu, have already put life and death out of the way, please!"

"Sir misunderstood!" Zheng Chunyou said with a smile on his face, "I received a letter from the prince yesterday, and the prince has decided to withdraw the feudal domain, congratulations, sir, you can leave the mansion tomorrow!" ”

Wu Ciyou sat comfortably in the chair, just smiling and not answering. Bao Zhu thought that he was about to suffer a catastrophe in an instant, laughed dryly, and said to Wu Ciyou almost in a pleading tone: "Your strategy of withdrawing the feudal domain is useless. Let's play chess, and you'll spare me a few more - if you give me a little bit of it, it won't spoil your dragon's big business! ”

"That's different." Wu Ciyou smiled, "What do I have to you?" It's hard to rest assured about the Wu Sangui behind you! I see that you have a very good temperament, and you are a good general of the country when you take the right path, I really don't know why you want to covet Wu Sangui's little favor, and it is really a wonder that the world is big. ”

When Bao Zhu heard this, his nose was sour for some reason, and he turned his face away. But I heard Wu Ciyou say again: "If you are talking about friendship, lecturing on knowledge, playing chess and drinking tonight, you might as well sit down." Listening to what Mr. Baozhu said, it seems that the prince's letter didn't just say to let me go of Wu Ciyou, so there is no need to talk about it. With that, he stood up.

"Where, where! Of course, I had to let him go—but there was one thing that Mr. had to say yes. Zheng Chunyou saw Wu Ciyou raise his head arrogantly again, stood up with a smile, poured out a glass of wine, and said, "Mr. Zheng is here, it's really not Zheng's intention. After the gentleman went out, he must not mention this part of his association with my brother to outsiders—if the gentleman would agree, he would have drunk the glass of wine! ”

"This is still reasonable," Wu Ciyou thought to himself, this is not a harsh and unacceptable condition, so he took the cup and drank it with a deep sigh, and said calmly, "What is in front of you and what is behind you will come from heaven - this matter with me can be regarded as a personal relationship, and it can be written off." ”

"But I'm a villain. A gentleman can be bullied, but a villain cannot be bullied. This, you should understand - I can't believe your husband's words after all, you know, you can cut me off a family of nine clans with one word! Zheng Chunyou's face changed suddenly, sat down with a cruel smile, lifted Erlang's legs with a stilt of his robe, and stopped talking.

"So what do you say? I, Wu Mou, am here-" When Wu Ciyou said this, he suddenly felt a hot pain in his throat, coughed dryly, the pain became more and more intense, and he suddenly realized that he had fallen for this old treacherous and cunning man! He trembled all over, holding the back of the chair with one hand, and pointing at Zheng Chunyou with the other trembling, his face was blood-red, and he couldn't say a word.

"Dumb medicine!" Zheng Chunyou laughed proudly, "You have read so many books in vain!" Is death the only way to seal up, and you don't even know that? Although this medicine is only effective for a few days, it only takes two days for me to use it! The government is going to execute a group of prisoners tomorrow, so please come and have a good time! In order to avoid you talking nonsense when you return to the West, I will use a little trick and be lazy, sorry, sorry! ”

A cloud of anger rose sharply from his heart. He will never forget this scene for the rest of his life. He has experienced a hundred battles and killed countless people in his life, but he has never seen Zheng Chunyou so ferocious and vicious! Huangfu Baozhu didn't turn his face, he couldn't bear to watch this tragedy again.

"Someone!" Zheng Chunyou shouted viciously.

As soon as the words fell, a young man entered, stood at the head of the door with his sword, and asked, "What do you send?" ”

"Who are you?" Zheng Chunyou heard that the voice was wrong, and hurriedly turned around and asked.

"Li Yuliang!"

"Master Green Monkey!" Another one came in.

The two of them signed up loudly, and at the same time raised their swords to take the security pillar, they knew that if they couldn't defeat this person, it would be difficult to save Wu Ciyou.

Seeing that the swordsmanship of these two people was light, he forced himself to turn over, turned over and leaned back, and the red iron frame used to hang clothes and hats in the corner of the hall in his hand, dancing loudly, and striking over. Yuliang took advantage of the situation, only listened to the sound of "bang", and the fire burst out! Bao Zhu's hand was also shocked and numb, and then he remembered the person who had competed with internal strength in the Windward Pavilion. In a moment's whack, the blue monkey's sword approached. Baozhu hurriedly lowered his body, picked up a zhang of red and swept it towards the feet of the two, only to hear the sound of "snort", and the clothes on his back had been torn apart.

Bao Zhu was suddenly furious and shouted: "The guards come to protect Lord Zheng and Mr. Wu, I'll take these two thieves!" Zheng Chunyou was so frightened at first that he couldn't possess his body, but when he saw that it was a void, he quietly slipped out of the yard from the door, and shouted in a loud voice: "The front and rear doors are sealed, and the mansion has come to take the thief, take one, and reward three thousand taels of silver!" ”

Li Yuliang rose up in the siege, jumping up and down, picking and smearing, beckoning and vicious, seeing that there were more and more people, it was difficult to show in the house, and she jumped out of the window with a carp flying pond. Yu Liang caught a glimpse of the green monkey also retreating to the courtyard, surrounded by four big men and fighting. Although he tried his best, he finally seemed unsteady because of his poor ability. Li Yuliang shouted: "Green monkey, go quickly!" As he spoke, he raised his left hand, and several silver darts shot at the same time, and the four people besieging the green monkey had been knocked down by two. The green monkey was sweating hot, feeling that it was difficult to support, and when he heard Yun Niang shouting, he thought that Yun Niang was also going to quit, so he took advantage of the two people to dodge the silver dart, and climbed the eaves with both hands, and then a harrier turned over and went to the roof. He threw two darts back, hit the two guards who were fighting with Yuliang, and shouted, "Master, I've escaped, you should go quickly!" After saying that, he jumped from house to house and walked without a trace. At this time, the government has become a pot of porridge.

The people in the courtyard surrounded Yuliang and beat him in the middle of the fight, when he suddenly heard Yuliang sneer, jumped into the air with his feet, and actually got out of the circle of people and returned to the house. The crowd was at a loss when they heard two screams in the flower hall, and then two bloody heads came out of the window. It turned out that Yuliang killed the two officials guarding Wu Ciyou. When everyone exclaimed and rushed into the flower hall, they heard a "boom", the back wall of the flower hall had collapsed, and Li Yuliang had jumped out of the back wall with Wu Ciyou on his back and escaped from the flower hall.

"All roads are blocked," Zheng Chunyou roared, "don't let them go!" As soon as the words fell, a female wall was knocked down by Yuliang with a gentle elbow push. It turned out that she didn't distinguish the right way, and she broke through the wall.

Baozhu had a calm face, snatched the bow and arrow of a person next to him, and shot an arrow towards the gap in the female wall. In the dark shadow, I saw Li Yuliang stumbling, and everyone let out a burst of shouting, and when they rushed to take a look, they saw a pool of blood on the ground, and the two of them had long since disappeared.

"Spread the news that all classes of officials will be dispatched together to search the whole city!" Zheng Chunyou was in hot sweat and cold sweat at the same time, and shouted angrily.

"Slow!" Kong Lingpei, who was standing behind him, grabbed Zheng Chunyou's arm, "Taizun, the stolen gongs and drums can't be beaten!" Baozhu also wiped the sweat from his face and said coldly: "Forget it! I'll leave right tonight. Lao Zheng, you should go too! ”

The green monkey broke out of the encirclement, waiting for Yun Niang in the west of the mansion, for a long time, only to hear the "boom" two sounds, it was expected that Yun Niang broke through the wall and came out, and was happy, but heard the voice shouted in unison: "The arrow is shot down, take it quickly!" Then there was no sound. He looked at it for a long time, but no one rushed out to chase after him, and after thinking for a while, he thought that Yun Niang must have fallen into the hands of others. When he returned to the store, he didn't see any trace of Yun Niang, his legs were weak, he sat on the ground with his buttocks, his mouth pouted, and he cried loudly, crying while complaining: "Auntie...... What's so good about Wu Ciyou's sour scholar? That's good, even you call people ......."

"What Wu Ciyou, where is Wu Ciyou?" Someone behind him suddenly asked. The green monkey was crying sadly, and was suddenly startled by this sound, and when he looked back, he was a man in the prime of life, and he couldn't see this person's face clearly in the dark ground. The green monkey jumped up and said, "Grandpa is crying here, what's your business?" The road is facing the sky, half of the people are on each side, get out of your eggs! ”

"Dai Liangchen, who is spreading wild over there?" Another question was heard in the distance.

When the green monkey looked at it, there was a woman in palace clothes surrounded by four pairs of palace lamps on the left and right, and there was a man in military uniform following him with a sword - this woman was Kong Sizhen who returned to the south. She had just settled in Yanzhou Mansion. The green monkey straightened his waist and said, "Who are you, can you control whether I am wild or not?" Dai Liangchen hurriedly bowed down and said, "Master, this hairy boy just cried and said what Wu Ciyou." ”

Kong Sizhen couldn't help but be startled when she heard this, took a step forward, shook the shoulders of the stunned green monkey with both hands, and her voice trembled a little with excitement: "Good boy, tell me, have you seen Wu Ciyou?" ”

"Who are you?" The green monkey struggled vigilantly, took two steps back and asked with a glare.

Kong Sizhen saw that the child's clothes were torn to shreds, his belly was exposed, his face was blue and purple, his eyebrows were dark, but he had a serious look, he laughed with a "poof", turned his face to Sun Yanling behind him and said: "It's really better to be in a hurry than to be in a hurry, but I didn't expect to inquire here." Sun Yanling replied with a smile: "Yes, as the saying goes, 'There is nowhere to find when you step on iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it!'" Kong Sizhen said to the green monkey gently: "I am Wu Ciyou's cousin, I have been looking for him for several years, but I can't get any news." Good boy, since you know his whereabouts, tell your aunt, okay? ”

The green monkey stared at Kong Sizhen's eyes without blinking, seeing that he was the same as Yun Niang, flashing a loving gaze at him. After a long time, the green monkey lowered his head, wiped his tears with his sleeve and said, "I told you, what is the way?" My aunt and Mr. Wu are both ...... Let the family take it...... Tomorrow's ......"

"Don't cry, think about it." Kong Sizhen soothed, "What's your name?" Come, follow my aunt on the boat, and talk slowly......" As he spoke, he dragged the green monkey towards the canal bank with persuasion.