Chu Nian was right, when it was nightfall, the pursuers arrived.

The unconscious Tao Jinyan and Yurong were hidden in the secret passage by the secret guards, and Chu Nian and the others had already laid an ambush, just waiting for the people sent by Prince Lu to enter the City Lord's Mansion.

This vigilance is nothing else, Prince Lu is not a fool, although he has a royal family covering him, which can be used for him to secretly act as a blessing, but if Chu Nian really makes this matter public, even the Wang family may not be able to protect him.

Besides, the Queen Mother's side was already eyeing Chu Nian and the others, and now she has also gotten the news that Ming Xiu has secretly left the palace, if Prince Lu is fully prepared, then tonight, waiting for Chu Nian and the others, it must be a bloody battle.

Chu Nian didn't intend to be blatantly hostile to Prince Lu, she just wanted to collect evidence and simply go back to Beijing to secretly give Prince Lu a knife, but she didn't expect that there were variables in this world after all, and now even if she wanted to avoid it, she couldn't hide it.

At night, the City Lord's Mansion was silent, and the originally bright lights were all extinguished at this moment, and the City Lord's Mansion in the darkness was like a man-eating beast, waiting for its prey to obediently get in.

Dozens of figures quickly shuttled through the dense forest around the City Lord's Mansion, and soon, their figures had approached the wall of the City Lord's Mansion.

Hiding on the trunk of the tree at the head of the wall, a man dressed as a leader hurriedly waved his hand to signal his subordinates behind him to stop, and a group of men in black hung on the trunk like this, staring intently at the behemoth below.

The leader was a lean man, dressed in a night suit, with only those long, narrow eyes that looked extremely shrewd. He narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the silent City Lord's Mansion in front of him, looking down on the past, only the middle room was lit with a candle flame that seemed to be precarious, this candle flame was faint and inconspicuous, but it was scorching and shining against the surrounding darkness.

"Empty city?" He squinted his eyes again, leaning idly against the trunk of the tree, fingers touching his chin, "Interesting, but ...... Lord County, today you invited Zhuge Liang to come, and you can't escape from the palm of my Buddha! ”

As soon as the words fell, he waved his hand behind him, and hundreds of black-clothed people flashed out from the other side of the wall.

The leader's figure flashed, and he went straight to the only room with the light on, "Today, I will also be called the third master of poison to see and understand, what is the ability of the famous unparalleled county lord!" ”

The dark shadows that shuttled through the darkness soon approached the surroundings of the house, which was a small courtyard, and there were all kinds of flowers and trees planted in the courtyard, which were very dense on this windy day in the north of Huaibei.

At this moment, it was the moment when the breeze was blowing, the candles in the house were flickering, and the people in black stood at the head of the wall and looked at the house coldly.

Then the candle flame hit the light on the window, and the figure of a slender woman in the room was faintly visible, she was dressed in plain white clothes, her posture was graceful, holding a bamboo flute, standing quietly in the room, as if waiting for someone to arrive.

Poison San sensed that something was wrong, he waved his hand, and separated ten people from the black-clothed people on the wall, "You guys, go down and explore." ”

The ten men did not think about it, but they all answered in unison, and then they fell to the ground, as if they were afraid of disturbing the people in the house, and the ten men moved forward cautiously, and soon approached the house, as if there was no danger at all.

The leader narrowed his eyes, "Could it be...... Is the unequaled county lord giving up hope? ”

As if to answer his question, he had just finished speaking, when he saw the feet of the ten people who had come to the window suddenly empty, and the ten people did not have time to scream, and they all fell into a huge pit that appeared at some unknown point.

Because of the suddenness of the incident, the ten black-clothed people did not take precautions, so they didn't have time to react, and when the poison squinted his eyes, he saw dozens of sharpened wooden stakes in the hole, and ten corpses were lying densely on them, all of which were pierced by the wooden stakes, and a burst of blood was dripping.

Poison San laughed clearly, "I'll just say, how can the Wushuang County Lord be completely defenseless?" However, she didn't expect that I would send someone to test it, and now I can be considered prepared. ”

As he spoke, he looked back at the remaining nearly 100 black-clothed people beside him, "Brothers, you can go up, but be careful, otherwise, you will die!" ”

As soon as the words fell, he rushed out first, and went straight to the flickering candle window, the journey was extremely short, and he didn't care about anything else, and the poison slammed open the wooden window, and before he landed, he heard a scream outside the window.

He looked along the hole he had knocked out with some surprise, and saw that countless arrows appeared outside at some point, nearly a hundred people, in the dense flying arrows, only a few dozen people survived, and these dozens of people finally got into the house, showing embarrassment.

Seeing this tragic appearance, Poison San gritted his teeth with hatred, he raised his eyes, but saw a screen leading the landscape, behind the screen, the slender figure still stood silently, as if turning a deaf ear to what happened to Poison San and his men.

All the masters were brought, but they had already lost most of them because of Chu Nian's trap, and the poison three grinded his back molars and clenched his fists, but he didn't dare to rush forward, for fear that there would be a trap behind this screen.

At this time, the figure behind the screen seemed to move slightly, Poison San narrowed his eyes, and his voice was clear, "Wushuang County Lord, even if we have suffered heavy losses because of your conspiracy and tricks today, but with this, I can't defeat my Poison Three, and persuade the county lord to be arrested, otherwise it's too late, don't blame Poison San I'm welcome." ”

The one behind the screen moved slightly, she seemed to be laughing, and her slender figure trembled slightly with a burst of clear laughter, "Poison Three?" It's really a good name, but I don't know which big family your Excellency is from in the martial arts, but now it seems that Prince Lu has indeed made a bloody investment for me. ”

Hearing the carelessness in this voice, and then looking sideways to see his few remaining remnants, Poison San seemed to have been insulted, blue for a while, white, and finally gloomy, he gritted his teeth and sneered, "I didn't expect the Wushuang County Lord to be able to guess that I am a martial arts person, anyway, the county lord is already dying today, and I am not afraid to tell the county lord that I am the next head of the Lan family, Lan Miao, nicknamed Poison Three, and please ask the county lord to listen to my name and be arrested quickly, my Lan family came to hear about the county lord's righteous deeds, and I still admire the county lord in every way." ”

Still the graceful posture behind the screen, she moved her lotus step slightly, and the poison three suddenly took a step back vigilantly, but the person behind the screen seemed to sit on the chair next to her without any care, she picked up the teacup, and her movements were faintly light and elegant, "Lan family? Now the bones of people in the martial arts are soft like this? Acting for corrupt officials? ”

Poison San's eyes flashed slightly, "My Lan family is only asking for some gold and silver treasures for Prince Lu, where is it like our alliance leader, almost the entire Tao family is going to fall into the hands of the peerless county lord, isn't it?" If my Lan family is a soft bone, then isn't the Tao family even more? ”

The shadow behind the screen paused slightly, and she put the teacup to her lips silently, and after a while, she chuckled, "I don't need to correct the name of the Tao family, the righteous people in the martial arts will distinguish between right and wrong, and besides, since the third master of the poison is the young head of the Lan family, haven't you heard of what has happened to the Lan family recently?" ”

When these words fell, Poison San suddenly showed a puzzled face, and then saw the person behind the screen put down the teacup, and said softly: "Yesterday, I broke into Prince Lu's last gambling house in Chunyang City at night with the alliance leader, which was mixed with the Lan family's thugs, and once I returned to the city lord's mansion, the alliance lord had already sent the news to the Tao family, Your Excellency the young family master, what do you think if the people in the martial arts heard the news that the Lan family was beating Prince Lu?" ”

Poison San's face was stunned, and after a while, his eyes were slightly sunken, "County Lord, the sound is striking the west?" ”

The man behind the screen chuckled, "Where is it, it's just that the Alliance Leader has solved their own family affairs, and we have solved our own family affairs." ”

"Family Affairs" once summarized the martial arts and the imperial court, and divided the matter carefully, the implication is that even if Tao Jinyan participates in the court politics, it is just to "pick out" those martial arts people who are mixed in the court to help corrupt officials work hard.

As early as the time of the modern martial arts alliance leader, he signed an agreement with the imperial court, unless the emperor took out the alliance leader order, he could call the martial arts once, otherwise the martial arts and the imperial court must not interfere with each other, but now the alliance leader order has long been returned to Tao Jinyan by Chu Nian, and there should not be any relationship between the imperial court and the martial arts.

Outside the screen, Poison San's face became colder and colder, he frowned slightly, as if he was weighing the pros and cons, and after a long time, he said coldly: "The county lord should not shake a little bit, Prince Lu just told me that the alliance lord had been seriously injured earlier, and there was no chance for a peach family to send a letter. ”

"Huh." A chuckle came from behind the screen again, as if he had heard some cold joke, and the voice seemed playful, "If you tell you that Tao Jinyan is fine, do you dare to bring so many people to arrest me?" ”

When the words fell, Poison San's face suddenly turned stunned.

What the Wushuang County Lord said was not unreasonable, he dared to appear here with such a big thorn, it was nothing more than because Prince Lu was seriously injured by Tao Jinyan, if Tao Jinyan was not injured at this moment, he really didn't feel that these people he brought were half useful.

At least, in his heyday, Tao Jinyan was still a person he couldn't hurt at all.

The voice behind the screen was still playful, but this time it was a little cold, "People in officialdom have always been cunning, not to mention Prince Lu as the royal family, the head of the Lan Shao family, you have to think clearly, dealing with people in officialdom, selling is not just your life." ”

Poison San was a little entangled at the moment. Listening to the words of the Wushuang County Lord, the Lan family must be in danger at this moment, but if he goes back now, it will not make any difference, but if he doesn't go back...... Tao Jinyan is still alive, and he may not be able to please him if he forcibly arrests the Wushuang County Lord back at this moment.

What's more, there are only a dozen people left who are brought out...... He glanced sideways at the men gathered behind him.

When I went back like this, I didn't say anything, and I lost nearly a hundred of my subordinates, I am afraid that I will be laughed at if I say it, besides, the Wushuang County Lord has always been cunning, and if she can't do it, now she is just bluffing.