In the early spring, the capital woke up very early, and almost in the moment of dawn, the streets began to be bustling. Outside the Xizhi Gate, the people who entered the city lined up in a long line, slowly moving towards the city gate; Compared with normal days, the checks at the city gate today seem to be very severe, and from time to time people are dragged out of the line and dragged to the barracks near the city gate to be examined.

On the moat bridge outside the city gate, two men on horseback slowly entered the city in the crowd of people entering the city, the bamboo hats on their heads were pressed to the tips of their eyebrows, and their bodies were draped in black daze, and the texture was precious cloth, but the daze was tattered in several places and full of mud, and there were a few thin branches hooked in the holes, like two people who had climbed from the mountains all night.

The two of them looked tired, and from time to time urged the people in front of them to carry baskets and baskets to walk quickly, and the horsewhips in their hands also hovered over the heads of the people in front and behind, intentionally or unintentionally, causing bursts of eyes and secret curses from the crowded people around.

Behind the city gate, a Jingying Qianhu who was on duty at the city gate stared at the two men on horseback with more than a dozen personal guard soldiers staring at the two men on horseback like falcons, and turned back in a low voice and asked the people around him: "Is it them?" ”

"Back to Qianhu, it seems to be them, one tall, one short, one fat and one thin, look at the big style on their bodies, which is exactly the outfit of Dongchang Tiqi."

The thousand households groaned: "Go and pass on my orders, let Yang Baihu stop them, arrest them, and ask." ”

The guards agreed to the promise, quickly ran to the gate of the city gate, and said a few words to a hundred households in the Beijing camp who stood with their waists crossed, and the hundred households looked back and gave up their hands.

Two men on horseback anxiously followed the flow of people into the city gate hole, loudly urging the people in front and behind to walk faster, their voices were full of anxiety, but suddenly found that more than a dozen soldiers were surrounded by them, and an officer stopped in front of the horse with his waist crossed and looked at him coldly.

"You, you, get off the horse and be examined." The officer shouted.

Immediately, the two looked at each other, and the short and stout man on the horse in front of him said in a deep voice: "I have something important to enter the city, please be accommodating and accommodating, and there will be no delay." ”

"Who calls you brothers? I don't think it's a good thing to look at the two of you, look at your sneaky appearance, I'm afraid that you are stealing chickens and dogs, take off your hat, dismount and be inspected, and then I won't be polite to you. ”

Immediately, the two of them were obviously a little angry, and the stout man whispered, "Brother really doesn't give face? ”

The officer said, "What's the matter? Want to disobey the order and break into the city gate? As soon as the words fell, more than a dozen soldiers around him unanimously put their hands on the hilt of the knife at their waists and slowly dragged their blades out.

The stout man slowly removed his hat, revealing a mottled face full of potholes and scars, which made people almost vomit. The ugly man whispered, "Which battalion are you from?" Do you know who we are? How many heads do you have if you dare to delay our big event? ”

"What nonsense! What about you? We are the soldiers and horses of the Fenwu Battalion, and we are the subordinates of Admiral Zhang, the little grandfather of the British Mansion, what are you going to do? I have the ability to go to Admiral Zhang to complain. ”

"You guys!" The short man was furious, and he was about to have a seizure, and the tall and thin man on the horse behind him hurriedly came forward and bowed his hand.

"Brothers, we do have something important to do when we enter the city, we are the people of the Dongchang Yamen, and we are rushing back to the capital to supervise the main business, and you are accommodating, and you brothers will take these taels of silver to drink tea." The tall and thin man took out a large ingot of silver from his arms and threw it to the hundred households in Beijing.

The hundred households stretched out their hands to take it, weighed it in their hands, threw the silver on the ground with a pop, and sneered: "Is Lao Tzu called Huazi?" Lao Tzu dutifully guards the city gate, and don't play these tricks with us, what about the people in Dongchang? I will find you today. ”

"Don't you give Grandpa Liu's face? To tell you the truth, this matter is a big deal, and if you delay me and wait for this matter to be heard, I am afraid that you will all lose your heads. The tall and thin man shouted.

"Hahaha." Yang Baihu of the Fenwu Camp laughed, pointed at the two of them and shouted: "Look at these two guys, they are even more arrogant than our Fenwu Battalion, who is Gonggong Liu?" Do you know each other? ”

Several soldiers laughed and said, "What is Gonggong Liu and Gonggong Ma, maybe he knows us, but we don't know him." ”

The short scar-faced man scolded angrily: "It's the other way around, you dogs, even Gonggong Liu of the Inner Court dares to insult you, when will my Dongchang Tiqi enter the city and need to be interrogated?" Listen, if you delay the important things we are waiting for, I will teach you to die one by one without a place to be buried. ”

Yang Baihu pretended to be scared and raised his hand and smiled: "Oh, Lao Tzu is so afraid." Immediately, his expression turned cold, and he shouted: "Brothers, listen, I suspect that these two people have infiltrated the capital as traitors, and they have taken them down for me." ”

More than a dozen soldiers suddenly agreed, and they were about to pull the two off their horses in a hurry, and the short scar-faced man reached out to pull out the blade at his waist to resist, but the tall and thin man hurriedly stopped him, and pointed to the nearly a dozen soldiers on the left in the city gate cave who bent their bows and arrows, and the short scar-faced man knew that there was no good result in hard coming, so he had to give up resistance and let the soldiers pull the two off the horse.

The soldiers pushed and shoved the two to the barracks on the left, and the scar-faced man shouted: "I want to see you officials, you dogs with no eyes." The soldiers smashed a lot of fists and kicks on him, and taught him to suffer a lot of hidden losses.

In the midst of the noise, the Qianhu in the barracks stepped out and asked, "What are you doing with the noise?" ”

"Lord Qianhu, I caught two suspicious people, and insisted that they were Dongchang Tiqi, and the brothers didn't look like it, so they were directly arrested and planned to torture them." Yang Baihu replied.

Qianhu of the Fenwu Camp looked at the two people in front of him suspiciously, frowned and asked, "Are you from Dongchang?" How does this look like? How can you be so wolf-bèi in Dongchang Tiqi; This cloak is the style of the East Factory, but it is tattered, and I don't know which tattered pile it came from, so dare to pretend to be this? ”

The soldiers laughed, and the scar-faced man shouted: "Take out the waist card on your waist, you gang take people indiscriminately, and your subordinates are disrespectful, I am afraid that disaster is coming." ”

The thousand households will be suspicious, so that the eyes of the people to search, Yang Baihu personally did it, and sure enough, he found two waist cards on the two of them, the thousand households looked back and forth carefully, and said in amazement: "It turned out to be the head of the East Factory Cao and the head of the Zheng service, you are really the East Factory Tiqi." ”

"It's like a fake." The short man said angrily.

"It's rude and rude, I am the prince of the thousandth household of the Fenwu Battalion, and my brothers don't know the two brothers, isn't this the flood that washed the Dragon King Temple? Grandma's, a bunch of guys messed around, and they didn't let go of the two Dongchang brothers. ”

The soldiers hurriedly loosened the hands and feet that were tightly clamping the two of them, and the short and fat man snorted angrily: "You wait and see, Lao Tzu has no time to settle accounts with you now, and I will come back to you to reason, what about our horses, we won't bring them over." Brother Zheng, we have to do our best, the early dynasty is about to start, and we won't be able to see Gonggong Liu if it's late. ”

The two of them hurriedly got on their horses and left, but they heard the Qianhu named Wang Zicheng shouting, "Who let you go?" ”

"Wang Qianhu, let's talk about it later, now I have something important to report to Father-in-law Liu, and I can't delay." The two soldiers looked back and asked.

Wang Zicheng smiled and said: "I said that I am not allowed to go, I am not allowed to go, if you want to come hard, don't blame me for not giving you face, my Fenwu camp is not under the jurisdiction of your East Factory, come over obediently, although my subordinates arrested you by mistake, but even if there is a misunderstanding, there are procedures for releasing people, the two of them are business, we are also business, and we are also on business. ”

The two fans said angrily: "What are the procedures for arresting someone by mistake?" ”

The prince said: "My little admiral's military discipline is very strict, there is no need for you to turn back and trouble us, and several of my brothers will also be punished, but without your confession, how can we prove that they did the wrong errand?" ”

"I haven't heard of people who have been mistakenly arrested and still have to record confessions, what kind of bird rules are you?" Humpty Dumpty Chief Cao scolded angrily.

Wang Zicheng sneered: "If I let my Admiral Zhang hear this, you two are afraid that you two will be beaten in the mouth, the rules of your Dongchang are the rules, and the rules of my Fenwu camp are not the rules?" ”

The short and scar-faced Cao Shou shouted, "I don't have time to talk to you, Brother Zheng, go quickly." ”

The two shook the reins and were about to gallop away, only to find that dozens of soldiers were already blocking the road, each showing their blades and staring at them. Seeing the opportunity, the tall and slender Zheng Servant was very quick and shouted: "Wang Qianhu, if I don't hold your subordinates accountable, this incident will be treated as if it never happened." ”

Wang Zicheng said with a smile: "That's not possible, isn't it that the two commanders of the sect have suffered a dumb loss, and some people will spread rumors that I am bullying the people of Dongchang in the Fenwu Battalion, and we can't afford it." ”

"Wang Qianhu, what is the reason for you to be so confused, do you want to delay the official business of the two of us? I have something important to report to Father-in-law Liu, if you miss this matter, Father-in-law Liu will not spare you. Humpty Dumpty finally saw a clue, this morning's events are really strange, these people are doing it as if they are deliberately delaying time, seeing that the hour is approaching, I can't see Grandpa Liu, and what happened in the Xiangshan Courtyard and at the foot of Xiangshan last night can't be reported to Grandpa Liu, it's a big deal.

Wang Zicheng was furious and said: "The two really don't know how to lift, the people of Dongchang are so domineering, come to them, take them, this thousand households suspect that their waist cards are fake, take people to detain, and then go to Dongchang Yamen to verify their identity." ”

"How fucking dare you!" Scarface Commander Cao finally became furious, pulled out the blade at his waist and pulled a knife flower.

"Take it!" Wang Zicheng shouted violently, and the soldiers swarmed up, and the two commanders finally did not dare to take it seriously, and watched their blades being taken away, and were accused for the second time. At this time, I finally understood that I would never see Gonggong Liu today anyway, and when I thought of what happened last night in Xiangshan Villa, my heart was cold.

Wang Zicheng was actually very worried in his heart, the order issued by the little grandfather to intercept all the Dongchang soldiers in Xizhimen was a little puzzled, and it was clear that he was against Liu Jin, and I don't know what the little grandfather thought. The matter has come to this point, it is useless to think about it, follow the order of the official to block the Xizhi Gate.

"Yang Baihu, with his brothers open their eyes wide, but whenever Dongchang Fanzi enters and leaves, they will all be detained."

"Obedience."