When the old man stretched out his hand to reach out to his thigh, Huang Ming's scalp was numb for a while, but because he was unable to do anything at this time, he hugged his fists and said to Meng Chong: "General Meng, you don't need to be like a lonely old man, besides, he is your father's old acquaintance, so you have to be forgiving and forgiving." ”

Meng Chong didn't want to be serious with this old man who loved to beg for cheap, but today in front of the three dignitaries, he really couldn't erase this face, and the officials who had drawn it above didn't know what to do, and when he saw that there were steps, he immediately smiled and put away the whip: "This lord, the whip just now was offended, and when he arrived at the restaurant, Meng Mou will definitely punish himself with a cup," Meng Chong looked at Liu Jiu who took the lead again, "What do you think?" ”

"It's all up to the general!" Liu Jiu was quite happy when he heard that he had wine to drink when he entered the door. It's just that I suddenly thought of something again, and I hesitated for a moment but didn't continue to speak.

In this way, Meng Chong spat on the ground, stopped looking at the old man, and went with the three of them. Huang Ming had no choice but to say, "Old man, it's okay." ”

Cai Yan let go of his hand at this time, looked at Huang Ming's ordinary face, wiped his dirty hands on the hem of his trousers, and smiled without saying a word.

Huang Ming looked at Wang Guiyou and the others who were far away, and did not talk to the old man again, just nodded slightly and walked quickly.

It wasn't until he left the city gate a few hundred steps, seeing that the old man was not chasing, that Huang Ming began to gasp for breath and run wildly. Beads of sweat the size of beans flowed down like beads in the curtain of beads with broken threads.

This old man was able to secretly absorb Huang Ming's qi! Even if Huang Ming had already touched the threshold of the ground, he couldn't control the qi in the acupoint surging towards the thighs that the old man's hands were holding. Go so fast that it deserves to be a thousand miles away.

In front of him, there was an old man with an ox cart in Sanjiang City, a fortune teller from Jingpo, and an old pimpy in Huwang Town, could it be that there were masters everywhere at the city gates? Anyway, Huang Ming secretly made up his mind that no matter where he went in the future, he wouldn't care anyone in front of the door.

Sure enough, on the road of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, there are seniors everywhere. Huang Ming's sentence of forgiving and forgiving people is said to Meng Chong, it is simply said to this Lao Cai!

The town is not big, Liu Jiu went to join hands with Meng Chong into a fairly elegant restaurant, asked for a pot of good sorghum wine, and waited for the dishes to be served, while moving chopsticks to carry out mutual testing in the officialdom, but Meng Chong is really not massive, a few cups of belly, Liu Jiu went to know all that he wanted to know.

The three of them stayed in this hotel, and after the subordinates carried Meng Chong away, Liu Jiu went to call the other two to his room, and frankly and unfairly informed the two that there was a little episode in this trip.

"Two, Liu Mouming doesn't say secret words, I am indeed not Daqi's spy, it's just that opening a martial arts hall and walking darts is a kind of favor business, making friends with all kinds of people and things, and it is part of the martial arts business, so this time I came to Huwang Town, I did come to repay my favor, but it just so happened that the favor to be repaid was from the Daqi royal family, and I hope that the two virtuous brothers will not say hello before they are surprised, and they will make amends for their brothers first." As he spoke, he raised his neck and punished himself with a glass of wine.

Wang Guiyou and Huang Ming looked at each other, how could they have anything to do with the Daqi royal family?

Liu Jiu wiped his mouth and said to himself: "It's not a big deal, it is to send an important person of the royal family back to Qidu Cupling City safely and steadily, although Daqi is still martial, the warriors are not the most in each state, so although he is a second-class martial artist, he can take advantage of his father to be the head of the guard army for a few years, so he can also have the honor to enter and leave the palace and teach the old emperor's sons and daughters-in-law some fists and feet." ”

Liu Jiu saw that the two of them were speechless, and then he felt that the time was ripe, and took out a bag from his chest, "Two virtuous brothers, the original intention of the next is indeed just to go to Jingpo to auction the chief to see, but before leaving, a lady in the palace sent this bag and asked me to open it after I arrived in Jingpo." This lady is also the biological mother of the current prince, Concubine Jiang Mi, at that time I did not doubt him, but strode to Jingpo, about the twenty-ninth of the month of Mola, after arriving in Jingpo, immediately opened this bag, and looked at it, there were only a few short sentences and a letter from Jiang Shilang of Sanzhou Kingdom, the two virtuous brothers might as well take a look. ”

Huang Ming and Wang Guiyou glanced at each other, and Wang Guiyou opened the bag, on a brocade with an extremely soft texture, it was written, "Before the fifteenth day of the first month, go to Huwang Town to pick up the prince and return to Beijing. ”

"Brother Liu, do you know where the prince is in Huwang Town?" Huang Ming rubbed his chin and asked.

"Here, on the way from the Cup, I met a few passers-by, after crossing the border, these people lived in this hotel, but these seemingly businessmen's pawn vendors, some nondescript, one of them is dressed in disguise, but still has a straight back, and there are obvious traces of shaking fans in his right hand, it should be a rich child, but I didn't deliberately check the heels of these people at that time, the place where I was separated from these people is in this hotel along the street, now I think about it, there is no doubt that it is the prince."

"Brother Liu said before that the princes in the capital have all learned some boxing and kicking from you, but they have never recognized the prince on the road, could it be that the prince of Daqi is not a concubine?" Huang Ming blurted out.

Liu Jiu went to admire this brilliant Huang brother a little, clapped his hands and said, "Yes! This Sun Changhong became the crown prince, and it was also a palace affair that was widely spread back then, saying that when Concubine Jiang Mi was serving the emperor, the third watch found that there was a thin and long white snake wrapped around his stomach when he got up, and hurriedly woke up Sun Qi, the emperor of Yun'an in his sleep, Sun Qi took out the sword hanging on the edge of the bed in a panic and cut the white snake, but the white snake was broken into two and then healed on its own, and after twisting for a while, the break was transferred to the tail, and then the tail was broken, and the white snake also disappeared into the ground, leaving only the broken tail. Later, Concubine Mi was pregnant that night, and the broken tail was handed over to a disciple of Taiqing Mountain in the court, identifying this snake as a mirage of the Uize giant salamander lake, the most powerful magic power of the mirage is this Li Dai Taozhuang's technique, the tail is the essence of this snake's practice, as long as it is not a fatal injury, it can be transferred to the tail to escape from the ascension, but the mirage is about a zhang long and almost a python, and this little snake can only be called the children and grandchildren of the mirage from the thickness of the tail. Later, there was the case that Concubine Mi was pregnant, so the old emperor sent this royal enshriner to Taiqingshan, asking if he met a mirage at night and beheaded it, was it evil or auspicious? The envoy had to trek to the ancestral mountain, back and forth for more than three months, and the news he got was the word good luck. The messenger explained that this snake is almost a python, but the temperament is gentle and does not hurt people, others cut it, it is against the peace of heaven, and the emperor cut it, it is a prophecy of great luck, the concubine gave birth to a child, Emperor Yun'an was overjoyed, regardless of the courtiers' criticism, and decided to depose the prince who had been established as the prince, and set up Changhong as the prince, but Sun Changhong, the prince, was not well-deserved, and was either assassinated or slandered by the courtiers all the year round, so this time I was escorted back to Beijing, and I couldn't eat the depth of the water inside, so I invited the two brothers to Huwang Town on the way to discuss the matter in front of him. The three stinkers come up with a plan together. ”

"If you are often assassinated, why do you have to go so far?" Wang Guiyou couldn't help but be curious, and asked a question that Liu Jiu couldn't figure out, Liu Jiu went to shake his head and groaned, saying that this matter had to be seen by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to figure it out.

Huang Ming asked, "The old man surnamed Cai at the door, have you ever seen some doorways?" ”

Liu Jiu went to laugh, "Brother Huang went to Jingpo, don't you look at everyone like that immortal predecessor?" Wang Guiyou also nodded in agreement, "There is no doubt that he is an ordinary old man, but he is a little more athletic, if he is a few years younger, it is estimated that he will not be hit by the whip of Mengzhong." ”

"Then Cai Yan touched the bodies of the three of us, so you didn't think there was anything wrong with the tricks?"

Wang Guiyou subconsciously touched his right arm, while Liu Jiu still clasped his arms with both hands, and said with a smile: "It's nothing unusual, it's just that since Brother Huang, you are suspicious of him, these days in the town, it's okay to have less contact with this person." ”

Wang Guiyou nodded in agreement, and Huang Ming didn't pick up the stubble again, grabbed a wine jug and lowered his head to drink slowly.

Late at night, Huang Ming and the others went back to their own room to rest, but Liu Jiu went to an inconspicuous small room in the hotel.

Early in the morning, Liu Jiu went to take the two of them to the stone statue of King Hu in the center of the town to take a look, only to see that the stone statue of King Hu is about two zhang high, King Hu himself is riding on a high-headed horse, dressed in a military uniform, and does not wear it, and his hair is scattered to show his sassiness, but there is a little bookish air between his eyebrows, his left hand pinched his waist and his right hand sword pointed in the direction of Daqi, and there are more than ten pro-soldiers in the group portrait, with different weapons, but no matter what the expression, the eyes are looking at King Hu in the center. Liu Jiu went to take a step forward, clasped his fists with both hands, knelt on one knee, bent down and bowed, Huang Ming Wang Guiyou did the same, at this time, Liu Jiu went to whisper in his ears: "Tonight's second watch, the two virtuous brothers are ready, follow me to meet the prince." ”

Then Liu Jiu took the two of them to use a bowl of wontons, and then dispersed and acted separately, Huang Ming wanted to find some arrows, but this Huwang Town needed the purchase documents controlled by the town to buy weapons, Huang Ming shook his head and had to give up, and saw Cai Yan from a distance when passing by the city gate, the old man was leaning on the stone of the city gate and holding a broken porcelain bowl, he didn't know what he was drinking, and he was still carrying half a dirty steamed bun in his right hand, as if he had noticed Huang Ming's eyes, and Huang Ming met his eyes from afar, grinning, and Huang Ming's heart was hairy, He paid no attention to the man and walked away quickly.

Back at his residence, Huang Ming looked at the remaining spirit beads, sighed and swallowed a Xuan Qi Scatter, knocked open a spirit bead, and silently recited the mantra of Qi Extraction.

At night, Liu Jiu went to call Huang Ming and the others, walked to a secluded corner downstairs, and after pushing the door open, there were four people sitting around the small square table in the middle.

Wang Guiyou, who was in the back, closed the door, a bearded man handed over three square stools, Wang Guiyou and Huang Ming were a little restrained, and did not sit down, Sun Changhong smiled politely: "Neither the people of Daqi, but also a friend of Liu Shi, don't be detained, sit." ”

Huang Ming then looked at this current prince of Daqi, although he is dressed as a scholar, but he does not lose his nobility between his eyebrows and eyes, the people he has seen in this life, in terms of appearance, in addition to the Taiqingmen Kui who went to Beijing, he also counted his grandson Changhong, but Na Kui went to Beijing to see it and annoyed people, and this prince, the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, and his smile was kind, but he couldn't be bored.

Sun Changhong said straight to the point: "Two, last night Liu Shi came here to chat with Changhong for half a night, but it was a little dangerous, it was inconvenient for Liu Shi to talk to a good friend, or it would be more appropriate for me to be the party," Sun Changhong then stood up and waved at Huang Ming and the two, the two hurriedly returned the salute, after the three of them sat down, Sun Changhong pointed the purple porcelain teapot on the table with his fingers, and the people next to him hurriedly got up to pour tea for the three of themAccording to Captain Li, none of the carrier pigeons that contacted the capital along the way flew back, so we canceled the plan to travel to the three continents and returned to Beijing on the same day to avoid more accidents. ”

Wang Guiyou couldn't help but ask: "The prince already has a lot of enemies, why did he come here and do that act of cocooning himself?" ”

Sun Changhong said with a wry smile: "Last night, Master Liu told me that Changhong, like Brother Wang, was also trying to escape from marriage. ”

Huang Ming and Wang Guiyou have no objection to sending the prince back to Beijing, as for the so-called reward, Wang Guiyou and Huang Ming said that they didn't want any reward, they just did Brother Liu a favor. Sun Changhong didn't say much, just glanced at Liu Jiu, and then nodded. Liu Jiu wants Sun Changhong to nod his head, which means that his father's prison will come to an end on the day he sends the prince back to Beijing, how can he not like it? The seven people blew the lamp and got up, went to the counter to settle the payment, and then touched the back door to the stable, where there were already seven good horses that had been fed fine feed for two days waiting there.

Liu Jiu went to the city tower in three or two steps, knocked on the door of Meng Chong's house, which had already fallen asleep, and said with a fist: "General Meng, what I said before, Liu came to fulfill it." ”

Meng Chong took the token with a smile, and took out a letter, handed it to Liu Jiu, Liu Jiu went to understand, and after taking the hand, he went downstairs without saying a word, only to hear Meng Chong shouting upstairs: "Open the city gate!" And the gates creaked open.

When Liu Jiu stepped on the horse, the seven people and seven horses were about to leave the city, Huang Ming glanced at the old man lying in the doorway, muttered in his heart, but didn't think much about it, and rushed out with the team.

Full of horsepower, he gradually let go of his foot power, but as soon as he rode less than a mile, Huang Ming noticed the strangeness of the grass and the roadside, and suddenly shouted: "There is an ambush, retreat quickly!"

At this moment, torches were lit everywhere and the mountains were all over the field. The arrows were shot at the seven people like the flying locusts, and the captain Li who rushed to the front was shot into a hedgehog with his horse, and the horse lost its front hooves, and the people flew forward, and died on the spot. And the retinue in the rear lit a green torch and shouted: "Arrest the traitor Sun Changhong!" Before the words fell, the person had already rushed to the side, and the bearded man scolded: "Zuo Youyi, you traitor, Lao Tzu grabbed you and picked your skin!" ”

Huang Ming opened the curtain of "Duzhong", scattered the incoming arrows with a flick, drew the arrow and pulled the bow in one go, and the arrow shot at Zuo Youyou, who had run hundreds of steps away, with a short buzzing sound, the veteran Zuo Lieutenant was shot off the horse as soon as his stomach was cold, and he lost his breath.

The five people turned their horses' heads and ran towards Huwang Town, the big man named Lu Lu who shouted just now was hit by an arrow on the side of his left arm, and still gritted his teeth to protect the prince's side, fiddling with the arrows while retreating, as for Liu Jiuwen, he also had the spare strength to help the prince while retreating, and everyone pulled out their horses and ran back, but the suspension bridge was raised more than three feet, and the firelight and shouting in the sky frightened Meng Chong on the city tower, and it took a while to shout: "It's the Great Qi Army!" Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Close the gates! ”

Seeing that everyone was only a hundred steps away from the suspension bridge, and the suspension bridge had creaked and raised to nearly two feet, Liu Jiu went to a big hurry and exhaled: "Brother Guiyou!" ”

Wang Guiyou looked back and saw that Liu Jiu had grabbed Sun Changhong's shoulder with one hand, and immediately understood, and threw the prince into the city with the momentum of his right arm and Liu Jiugo, and then the two abandoned their horses and galloped, jumped up and grabbed the door of the drawbridge and rolled into the city, Huang Ming rode on the back of the horse and looked at Lu Lu who had dismounted and drew a knife behind him, and felt a burst of compassion in his heart, gritted his teeth and turned the horse's head with the curtain covering the horse's eyes, ran back, and shouted, "Brother Lu!" ”

Lu Lu saw Huang Ming rushing towards him and stretched out a hand, a little excited, but shouted from afar: "Shaoxia, hurry up and enter the city, I will be behind Shaoxia!" Huang Ming talked nonsense with him, grabbed the back of Lu Lu's neck with one hand and threw it on the horse's back, although the arrows were no longer dense, but the arrows shot were all from the hard bow, ruthless and accurate, Huang Ming turned the gap in the horse's head and the horse's neck was hit by an arrow, and he was paralyzed on the ground without running a few steps, Huang Ming didn't dare to hide his secrets, and carried Lu Lu's secret fortune on the soles of his feet, although there was a person on his back, he was still surprisingly fast, at this time the suspension bridge had been completely raised, Huang Ming shouted, his body rose from the ground, and he first jumped up and threw a man of one hundred and twenty or thirty pounds across the suspension bridge, After landing on the ground, he ran forward two steps and jumped up again, Huang Ming secretly stepped into the air, and wanted to use the soles of his feet to pull up again, but this time he failed.

Although Huang Ming was not panicked, he had already taken out the set of flying knives in his bag, and nailed into the suspension bridge before his body fell, so that the pull could cross the suspension bridge, and Huang Ming did not forget to put away the flying knife before rolling down, but the silk thread twisted and the trajectory was uncertain, and he almost injured himself.

After packing his bags, Huang Ming smiled bitterly, it turned out that the garrison in the city had surrounded several of them.