"Smack. ”

The slender fingers with neatly trimmed nails neatly knocked a glossy sunspot on the chessboard.

Holding the white is an old man in green clothes, he glanced at the place where the sunspot fell, his brows slowly locked into a ball, and a bright white seed kept rolling between the thumb, index finger and middle finger, and he couldn't fall for a long time.

After a long time, he suddenly raised his eyebrows and smiled, freely threw himself into defeat, and sighed comfortingly: "Childe's chess ability is good, and it won't be long before the old slave is no longer qualified to play against Childe!"

The black man was dressed in a white round-necked wide-sleeved scribe's robe, wearing a purple and gold crown, and a dragon jade pendant hanging from his waist.

He shook his head slightly, and chuckled unhurriedly: "Be modest, in the past, my father used to praise your chess skills when he was still alive, and I want to surpass you, and I will play at least another year." ”

Please speak lightly, but what is revealed is fearless self-confidence.

The old man in Tsing Yi has more confidence in him than he is in himself: "You are modest, with your speed of improvement, at most three months, the old slave will no longer be qualified to play against you." ”

The two of them worked together to clean up the chess game.

This sentence is the turn of the old man in Tsing Yi to go first.

However, before the second game began, a young man in a green coat and a green hat hurriedly entered with a carrier pigeon in both hands.

"Son, my lord, the news from Beiyu County. ”

When the old man in Tsing Yi heard this, his first reaction was to glance at the white-robed boy sitting opposite him out of the corner of his eye.

The white-robed boy picked up the teacup and tasted tea, his face calm.

Only then did the old man in Tsing Yi get up and take the letter from the pigeon's leg, "Stand down." ”

"Yes. ”

The young man bowed and exited the hall.

The old man in Tsing Yi turned around and opened the cloth letter and watched it intently.

"What's the news?"

The white-robed boy asked in a casual whisper.

The old man in Tsing Yi presented the cloth in his hand to the white-robed boy with both hands, and said: "It is a message from Wenqu County, and a large group of people entered Xuanling County in the evening, which is suspected to be the people of the Taiping Society, but the group of people did not play the dragon and tiger flag of the Taiping Society, and there is no record of this team of people passing through in Taibai Mansion, so it cannot be verified for the time being." “

The white-robed boy didn't look at the cloth in front of him, knocked on the tea cup in his hand and sighed for a few breaths, and asked lightly: "Where is Zhang Chu?"

The old man in Tsing Yi shook his head and said: "Zhang Chu has lived in a simple place since he returned to Taiping Town, and his mansion and the water he operates cannot be splashed, so his whereabouts cannot be found. ”

The white-robed boy put down the tea bowl in his hand and frowned slightly.

Seeing this, the old man in Tsing Yi asked with some surprise: "Are you suspicious, Zhang Chu has entered Xuanling County?"

"Quite possibly!"

The white-robed boy nodded, and his admiration for Zhang Chu was undisguised in his tone, "A few days ago, I studied Zhang Chu's life and deeds, and this person can be called both wise and brave, but he is used to taking the initiative to attack when encountering problems, and his actions are supplemented by strange schemes to break the situation. ”

Hearing this, the old man in Tsing Yi quickly went through Zhang Chu's life deeds in his mind, and agreed with the white-robed boy's evaluation of Zhang Chu.

He is good at developing spies and intelligence gathering, and seeing people is not his forte.

"But in terms of the situation Zhang Chu is facing, how can he have the courage to give up the home advantage of Xuanbei County and go to Xuanling County to fight against the Wanshi Heavenly Sword Gate?"

The white-robed boy pondered for a while, shook his head and said: "I don't know, but according to his temperament, if he wants to avoid the edge for the time being, he will never send Wu Laojiu's troops into Xuanling County to provoke the Wan Heavenly Sword Gate. ”

"So you think Zhang Chu will enter Xuanling County?"

"Hmm...... How's it going to have done what you were asked to do?"

"It's done, before this matter is understood, there will be no masters above the sixth grade in Xiliang Prefecture and Yanbei Prefecture to enter Xuanbei. ”

The white-robed boy picked up a white child and flipped it on his fingertips, staring at the chessboard with eyes that were not focused.

I blocked the way for foreign masters to enter and disrupt the situation.

Where is your confidence?

......

It took one day and two nights.

Zhang Chu finally arrived at the hiding place of Wu Laojiu and others in Xuanling County before noon on the eighth day of October.

It is a village more than 30 miles away from the horse road, located in the deep mountains and old forests.

From a distance, Zhang Chu saw Wu Laojiu, who was dressed in a black suit, leading a large number of people in dark robes, running down from the village in a puff of smoke.

"Hey, helper, you're here......"

"Helper, if you don't arrive, your subordinates won't know what to do, eh......"

The old man shouted and rushed down, grabbed the reins of the green horse, nodded with a sneer, and couldn't see the slightest trace of the bearing of the six-grade hero.

If you put on a coarse linen dress, put a rag on your shoulder, and poke at the door of an inn at random, it will be an authentic shopkeeper.

But his bloody aura was so thick that even the battle-hardened green horse felt uneasy, and told Zhang Chu what he had done in Xuanling County......

Zhang Chu ignored him, looked up at the village above, and it didn't take long for him to frown unconsciously.

He saw dead bodies hanging everywhere on the outer walls of the village......

The whole village is like a huge piece of carrion, which continuously exudes the stench of rotting flesh and blood in the mountains and forests, attracting poisonous insects, snakes and ants.

"What is this place?"

Zhang Chu frowned and asked softly.

"Hey, this place is a nest of horse bandits who rob houses and do all kinds of evil, and the brothers just need a place to hide, so their subordinates twisted this gang of horse bandits and got dozens of good horses!"

Wu Laojiu still had the same smirk as a shopkeeper.

Zhang Chu glanced at him, opened his mouth, and closed it again.

Horse bandit den?

Should be.

Wu Laojiu didn't need to lie to him by telling such a lie that could be broken at the first poke.

But what he saw on the outer wall of the village was not all horse bandits who could ride horses and rob houses.

There are also old and weak women and children......

His rules can only bind his brothers.

Wu Laojiu was not his brother.

There's no need to follow his rules.

Besides, he really needs a subordinate who can do the "dirty work".

Wu Laojiu, who is not an eyesore when he is alive and does not matter when he is dead, is just right......

"Da Liu. ”

He tilted his head and shouted softly.

"Helper. ”

The taciturn simple man stepped forward and waved his hands.

"Lead a team of brothers to drag the corpses into the mountains and bury them in a place without water to prevent the epidemic. ”

He can only maintain himself from falling into the dark abyss.

There is no guarantee that he will still be as bright as ever.

Life is inherently the art of compromise.

Good and evil too.

"Yes, helper. ”

Da Liu respectfully responded, turned the horse's head and picked people.

Zhang Chu took off the Shocking Cloud Knife inserted in the saddle and held it in his hand, and walked towards the village, "Where are the two five products of the Wanshi Heavenly Sword Gate?"

Wu Laojiu was really like a horseman, leading the green horse to follow him step by step, and said in a low voice: "In Fu'an County, forty miles away in the southwest, there are quite a lot of people, not only two fifth-rate tycoons, but also three sixth-grade tycoons, and their subordinates have secretly seen them encircling and suppressing a strong watchtower, and they are all difficult......

Zhang Chu didn't care about the retreat in his words, and asked directly, "Did they lose you?"

Wu Laojiu hurriedly responded: "No, I didn't lose it, a team of brothers led them to Xuanling County!"

"It's good that you haven't lost it yet!"

Zhang Chu said secretly.

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