Zhang Guangwei believes in Taoism, bent on cultivating immortals, and believes in the six money hexagrams of her senior brother Yuangang Lao Dao, so she firmly believes that Zeng Yu will not die at the hands of bandits, at least one or two days, and more than three or five days will return safely.

Yu Xuandao people are not as optimistic as Zhang Guangwei, the officers and soldiers are fighting against thieves and feather arrows are not long eyes, Zeng Yu is difficult to ensure that nothing goes wrong, anyway, the matter of suppressing thieves can be seen in two or three days, Zeng Yu's family can bear some heart, in case there is really any bad news, remind in advance to bear it hard, so Yu Crisp just said it, lest they guess, and immediately confessed to Zeng's mother Zhou, and told the truth about the matter......

Great-mother Zhou heard Yu Xuandao say that Zeng Yu and Zheng Shi were captured by bandits, and panicked, her eyes and hands trembled, and she said continuously: "How is this good, how is this good-"

Zeng Ruolan's heart also rose sharply: "So where is my brother now?" "I wonder if this Taoist priest is here to spread the news of death

Ah Tong, who loves to cry, saw that the atmosphere was different, and cried as soon as he closed his eyes, Ah Tong loved to cry the most, and now Ziniuniu and Ah Wei also cried, and the three little girls cried more and more sad, as if their carp brother and uncle carp could never come back, which made Yu Xuandao regret coming to Zeng's house, knowing that this was the case in the Guangxin Mansion and waiting for the news, there would be no such things, at this time, I had to hurry up and finish the words, saying that Zeng Yu was safe and sound, and the thieves respected Zeng Yu and wanted to support Zeng Yu as a military advisor, Zeng Yu would plan to help the officers and soldiers suppress the thieves, He also comforted his great-mother Zhou, and they said that Zeng Yu would never be fine, and Qi Zongbing had sent people to mix in with the bandits, and would never let Zeng Yu be harmed, and set up a Shinto religion to move out the real person in Zhangjiao, saying that the real person in Zhangjiao pinched his fingers in Longhu Mountain, Zeng Yu would suffer a little trouble in order to save the hostages, and specially ordered him to rush to help Zeng Yu, even this Miss Zhang was out of the horse, Zeng Yu was definitely not in danger, please let the great-mother Zhou and them be relieved.

Zeng Ruolan looked at Zhang Guangwei, who was sleepy and sleepy, and asked hesitantly: "Master, why does this Miss Zhang work so hard to save my brother Zeng Yu?" ”

This made Yu Xuan not easy to answer, turned his head to look at Zhang Guangwei who was sleeping crookedly, Zhang Guangwei's body became more and more crooked the more he slept, his head suddenly lost support, and he slid to the left, "Ah" woke up, sat upright, calmed down, saw Niuniu three little girls crying, didn't understand what they were crying for, so he said to Yu Xuan: "Take out the pastries and give them to eat." ”

Seven-year-old Niuniu stepped forward with tears in her eyes and said, "Miss Zhang, you save my brother." While picking up the green cloth hat, he handed it to Zhang Guangwei.

Zhang Guangwei touched his head, his hair was scattered, and he heard Niuniu call "Miss Zhang save my brother", and knew that his identity had been revealed, who else was not said by Yu Xuan, glared at Yu Xuandao, and complained: "I want to tell the truth, you want to lie, it's not time to say it." ”

Yu Xuandao bowed down and said: "The little fairy aunt has to teach you a lesson, and the little way is ignorant. ”

Zhang Guangwei got up and greeted his great-mother Zhou and Zeng Ruolan, and said with relief: "Mrs. Zeng and Miss Zeng don't worry, Zeng Xiu will come back safely, I dare to guarantee." ”

Great-mother Zhou and Zeng Ruolan looked at each other, I really don't know how she can guarantee it, this is undoubtedly good-intentioned, great-mother Zhou also learned Yu Xuan's name: "Thank you little fairy girl, thank you little fairy girl." ”

Zhang Guangwei took out the cake and gave it to the three little girls to eat, and while teasing Niuniu to talk, she yawned, and she couldn't help it, she herself felt a little embarrassed, and said, "I didn't sleep last night."

Zeng Ruolan got up and said, "Little Fairy Gu will go to the inner room to rest for a while, there is no other man in the house, I will lead Little Fairy Gu in." ”

Zhang Guangwei excused himself: "I can still survive the sleepiness, don't worry, don't worry." Another big yawn was spoken.

Zeng Ruolan said: "Then let Niuniu take the little fairy Gu to the inner courtyard to have a look, the backyard is blooming just right." ”

Niuniu heard that this little fairy girl could guarantee her brother's safe return, of course she was happy, and stepped forward to take Zhang Guangwei's hand and said, "Little fairy girl, I'll take you to the back garden to see the flowers." ”

Ah Tong and Ah Wei also want to follow, Zeng Ruolan told her not to make too much trouble, the three girls agreed, and enthusiastically led Zhang Guangwei through the corridor on the right side of the hall to the inner courtyard, only to see another bluestone paved patio, behind the patio is a two-story wooden building, Zhang Guangwei pinched Niuniu's little hand, and said with a smile: "Niuniu's hand is so soft." He looked up at the small building again and asked, "Do you all live here?" ”

Niuniu smiled shyly and nodded: "They all live here, little fairy girl, you see, the second room on the left upstairs is my room, but now I still sleep with my mother, and my mother said that when I am older, I will let me sleep in a room alone." He added, "I like one room per person." Niu Niu is very articulate.

Ah Tong said: "The third room on the left is mine." ”

Ah Wei shouted, "The fourth room is mine." "When Zeng Yu moved into his new house in July, his two nieces each occupied a room, although they did not live here for long.

Zhang Guangwei asked Niuniu with a smile: "Which one is your carp brother's carp uncle's room?" ”

Niuniu pointed to the right: "It's the one on the far right, do you want to go up and take a look, you can also see the flowers in the back garden from the upstairs window, it's cold now, and many flowers have withered." ”

Zhang Guangwei was about to agree, but suddenly felt a little shy, although the cultivator is not formal, but he can't be too detached, and said: "You don't need to go upstairs, let's go to the back garden and take a look." ”

Three little girls accompanied the little fairy girl to the back garden, the winter sun shone on the small garden, there are many flowers and trees planted on both sides of the zigzag stone flower fence, except for periwinkle and narcissus, and plum, other flowers and trees are withered, there are a few birds and finches jumping and foraging in the clearing of the melting snow, and there is a snow doll squatting lonely in the garden, and there is nothing to see in the garden-

Xiaoyuan is silent, the cold air is floating with the fragrance of plum, Zhang Guangwei faced Xiaoyuan for a while, and finally dispelled the sleepiness and dreams, it was a nap in less than a moment, she had a dream, the dream was noisy, someone was shouting, "The bandits are coming, the thieves are coming, run away", she rubbed her eyes and saw that she was the only one left in the hall of the Zeng Mansion, the Zeng family ran away, even Yu Xuan, this kid only cared about her own life, she also hurried out, and saw a lot of boats gathered in Lingxi in front of the door, The dense bandits poured up like ants, blocking Zhang Guangwei's way at once, and was panicking, Zeng Yu appeared on a high-headed horse, and ordered the bandits not to be rude to her, and said that the thief army had defeated Qi Jiguang's soldiers and horses, and now they were going to attack Fujian-

She was extremely surprised and shouted, "Zeng Xiucai, do you really want to be a thief military division?" ”

Zeng Yu replied: "It's so majestic to be a military advisor, if you look at my response, isn't it better to be a poor talent."

She asked angrily: "Then don't you want me and Yu Xuan to pass on a message for you to entertain us, how tiring it is to travel all night, do you know the way, I am so sleepy that I can't even open my eyelids." ”

But I saw Zeng Yu smile shamelessly: "Ha Lu Ha, that is my clever plan, I deliberately let the two of you send a message to Qi Jiguang to lure him to set up an ambush on the army, but I led my troops to the back road to make a surprise attack, won a complete victory, and captured Qi Jiguang alive, Ha Lu Ha

She was furious, there was no sword around her, so she picked up a stone and threw it at Zeng Yu, right in Zeng Yu's head, Zeng Yu fell to the ground from a tall horse, and heard the thieves crying, saying that Zeng Junshi was killed, crying while shouting to catch her to avenge Zeng Junshi, she was both afraid and regretful, thinking how could she kill Zeng Yu all of a sudden, how could she give Zeng Yu a chance to repent and reform himself, many cultivators will do some wrong things before they attain the Tao, and being a robber is nothing, After igniting, she was enlightened, but Zeng Yu was stoned to death by her before she could ignite, it was really miserable-

The thieves chased closely, she ran desperately, the weather was really strange, the feet seemed to be a hot red sand, but there was snow in the sky, she was running, a cliff suddenly crossed in front of her, she couldn't close her feet, fell straight down, her body fell rapidly, and she woke up in fright......

Thinking of this ridiculous dream, Zeng Yu, who was a thief and a military division, was stoned to death by him, Zhang Guangwei wanted to laugh a little, heard that there was no movement around him, turned his head and looked, the three little girls all looked up at her with their heads open and their bright eyes were half-open, and when they remembered something, they asked Ah Tong and Ah Wei: "Do you two call Niuniu aunt?" ”

Ah Tong and Ah Wei shook their heads together, and Ah Tong said: "If you don't call me Auntie, just call Niuniu, I'm one year older than Niuniu." ”

The youngest Ah Wei said enthusiastically: "Little fairy aunt little fairy girl, I am one year younger than Niuniu, my name is Sister Niuniu." ”

"Uh-huh, you're good." Zhang Guangwei touched Ah Wei's tiger head hat, thinking to himself what kind of messy title this is, and after careful inquiry, he learned that Zeng Yu and Zeng Ruolan were half-brothers, and he didn't know whether his great-mother Zhou was Zeng Yu's father's stepfamily or a concubine, and Zhang Guangwei didn't care about it.

Children have a lot of questions, and six-year-old Ah Wei asked: "Little fairy girl, are you really a fairy?" ”

Zhang Guang smiled and said: "It's almost time, I will become an immortal sooner or later." ”

Ah Wei asked again: "Will the little fairy girl fly?" ”

Zhang Guangwei smiled and said, "It's almost over, it's not difficult to face the North Sea at dusk." ”

Although sisters Ah Tong and Ah Wei didn't understand what the little fairy girl meant, they also understood that the little fairy girl was about to learn to fly, so she didn't envy it, and her mouth was "tsk".

Niuniu didn't talk much, and then she had to ask, "Little Fairy Girl, when will my brother come back?" Compared with Ah Tong and Ah Wei's ignorance, the sensible Niuniu is more worried about the safety of her brother Zeng Yu.

Zhang Guangwei estimated and said: "It's either the day after tomorrow or the day after tomorrow." ”

Niuniu asked, "Little fairy Gu guarantee?" ”

Zhang Guangwei nodded and smiled: "Well, I guarantee that your brother will return safely." He said in his heart, "As long as he doesn't really become a thief." ”

Niuniu was a little relieved, and suddenly said thoughtlessly: "Little fairy girl, my brother has not yet married." ”

Zhang Guangwei was so strange that he smiled and said, "Hey, I didn't ask you, why did you suddenly talk about this?" ”

Niuniu opened her mouth and finally said, "I thought the little fairy girl was going to ask." ”

Ah Tong and Ah Wei both laughed "Gege", Zhang Guangwei also laughed, and said, "Is there a matchmaker who has come to propose marriage to your brother recently?" ”

Ah Tong hurriedly replied: "Yes, yes, sometimes there are several a day, and Aunt Zhou told them to wait for Uncle Liyu to come back." ”

Zhang Guangwei said in his heart: "It depends on whether Zeng Yudao's heart is firm or not, and whether he is a fairy bone or a vulgar bone—

Zeng Ruochen's maid Meixiang hurriedly came in at this time and said, "Little Fairy Aunt, someone in the mansion has come to invite you back."

Zhang Guangwei returned to the front hall to see a servant standing outside the hall, and when Yu Xuandao saw her come out, he bowed and said: "Little Fairy Gu, Lin Fuzun invited the two of us to go back to the yamen, saying that General Hu sent a shogunate clerk Mr. Xu to Shangrao, and that Mr. Xu wanted to know the details of the relationship between the Daoist and the thief in the Hengfeng Seven Stars Temple. ”

Zhang Guangwei yawned again, and said: "What else is there to ask, everything that should be said has been said, doesn't the person surnamed Xu believe what we say?" ”

The official standing in front of the stairs said: "Mr. Xu Wenchang is Hu Butang's most relied on notekeeper, he is extremely talented and learned, and the articles he wrote for Hu Butang are extremely sensational——"

Zhang Guangwei said impatiently: "It doesn't matter if his writing is long and short, I just don't see it, Yu Xuan, or you can go." ”

Yu Xuan Daoist asked, "Then the little fairy girl is staying here for the time being?" ”

Great-mother Zhou and Zeng Ruolan hurriedly kept Zhang Guangwei, Zhang Guangwei hesitated, compared to the Guangxin Mansion, of course Zhang Guangwei is more willing to stay here, Great-Mother Zhou's is so sincere to stay here, she stayed, Yu Xuandao people went to the mansion with the official to see that Xu Wenchang, and said that he would return to this side after the question of Xu Ji's room.

Zhang Guangwei accompanied his great-mother Zhou's talk, and at this time, just after the first time, his great-mother Zhou's was overwhelmed and said: "I don't know where my fish are now, Guanyin Bodhisattva blesses him to come back safely." ”

Zeng Ruolan was afraid that Zhang Guangwei would be displeased, so she hurriedly said: "The three officials bless Zeng Yu to come back safely and painlessly." ”

Niuniu said: "Little fairy Gu bless my brother to go home early." ”

Ah Tong and Ah Wei also called the little fairy aunt to bless Uncle Carp to go home quickly.

Zhang Guangwei was a little embarrassed and said, "Zeng Xiucai has already left the Hengfeng Seven Stars View at this time

At the beginning of the 14th day of the 39th month of Jiajing, when Zhang Guangwei and Yu Xuandao were in the Lingxi house outside the north gate of Shangrao County, Zeng Yu and Zheng Shi, who were hundreds of miles away, led their mounts and followed the bandit leader Wu Ping down the Zheting Mountain.

Zheng Shi exclaimed: "The Taoist temple is on fire, hurry up to put out the fire, hurry up and put out the fire"

The thieves laughed, where would they go to fight the fire, standing there and looking up at the seven stars watching the fire roaring, talking and laughing, this fire was set by them, the bandits have this habit, they have this habit, they want to set a fire when they leave, and they want to kill people and set fires in a row, it is said that arson is the meaning of breaking through the cage and burning more and more, good luck -

Hengfeng Zheting Mountain, a magnificent century-old Taoist temple, was destroyed in this way

More than 10,000 thieves marched towards the direction of Rao County, about 3,000 thieves have horses, mules as mounts, and more than 100 carts, this way robbed a lot of wealth, 100 carts can not be loaded, many thieves have gold, silver and jewelry with their arms cross-carry, and there are many thieves to rob all kinds of silk and satin flowers and greenery draped on their bodies or wrapped around their waists, one by one bloated and ridiculous, Wu Ping drank the order to put the wealth and silk in the car or carried by the porter, but the thieves said that the car can not be loaded, and those porters can not move, So I had to carry it with me hard, but I was actually worried that I would be divided up by other bandits.

Last night, more than 100 hostages rescued by Zeng Yu at this time or pick or carry all become the people's tips, most of them are indeed poor people, usually they are used to rough work, and do not take shoulders and hands to carry as suffering, but there are twenty or thirty people who are actually foreign merchants, the day before yesterday when the merchant ship sailed away, the servants fled, this foreign place has no relatives and no one to redeem them, if it is not Zeng Yu, these people have become wild ghosts in other places, although they have not carried the burden in the heavy work before, but at this time in order to save their lives, let the flat shoulder swollen and worn out, also gritted his teeth and struggled to hurry-

But the old businessman named Yuan Zhong who was rescued by Zeng Yu from Hua Lao's five knives was old and frail and sprained his foot, and it hurt to walk empty-handed, where to carry the burden, the bandit would not take such a burden on the road, he must have to hack to death and abandon the corpse on the side of the road, fortunately, Zeng Yu secretly told Peng Laoqiu to take care of Yuan Zhong, Zeng Yu said to Peng Laoqiu: "This old customer surnamed Yuan is a wealthy businessman in Zhejiang, with a lot of money, no one came to redeem this time because Yuan Laoke's merchant ship went to Shangrao, Shangrao has Yuan Laoke's brokerage firm, Yuan Laoke is trying to survive, promised to redeem his life with 1,500 taels of silver when he arrived in Shangrao, to tell the truth, I am going to swallow this ransom privately, Lao Peng, you help me, and I will share half of you. ”

Peng Laoqiu was surprised and delighted, it is really good to follow Zeng Junshi, this is about to make a fortune, he has also robbed some property in the past few days, but he has been taken away by the small leaders of Hua Lao Wu, the bag is still empty, only mixed with some wine and food, his heart is uneven, he heard Zeng Yu want to carry him, he was very excited, and said: "How dare the little one share it fairly with Zeng Xiang, Zeng Xianggong looks at the small loyalty and hard work, and he is grateful to the little one for a few taels of silver." ”

Zeng Yu said: "Then reward you with five hundred taels, remember, take care of this Yuan God of Wealth, otherwise I won't be able to change the silver to reward you." ”

Peng Laoqiu was still a bit of a doorman, and he didn't know how he negotiated with the thieves who drove the carriage, so he actually placed Yuan Zhong in a carriage with goods and sat down, and easily marched towards Shangrao.

Wu Ping, the leader of the bandits, knew a little about the way of using troops, and he sent twenty bandits on horseback every half an hour to explore the road first, and if there were ambushes ahead, he would flee to other roads, slippery and tight.

The more than 10,000 thieves marched quite slowly, to the beginning of the afternoon, only to the northeast forty miles away from the Zheting Mountain, Pili Rock, Zeng Yu to Wu Ping said that the soldiers are expensive and fast, should hurry up, when it is dark, just attack Shangrao County, attack if you can attack, if you can't attack it, you can't leave, you can't delay more, you must rush to the junction of Yongfeng County and Fujian before dawn tomorrow, otherwise I'm afraid that the officers and soldiers of Jiangsu and Zhejiang will rush to the joint suppression, and it will be dangerous at that time.

Wu Ping felt deeply reasonable, and ordered to speed up the process, while continuing to strengthen the sentry.