Creak... The door to the inn was pushed open.

"Hello General, I am Zhang Qi, the owner of this inn, welcome you and your troops, what do you need to serve you?" At this time, a tall and sturdy young man stood in the center of the inn hall, smiling at the leader of the strong men who came over.

"Why is your inn here called the Taiping Inn?" asked the young man with a somewhat hideous face.

"General, please don't get me wrong, how dare we offend you and your Qing Empire troops? We just hope that the current imperial court can be prosperous and strong again, and the whole country can be peaceful as soon as possible, so we named it second, and we want to do a series of ambush work for the Qing army, and jointly crack down on and severely punish the current Taiping ** team's misdeeds... Those of us in the shop are doing this out of allegiance to the Qing Empire!" The young man was visibly excited, afraid that he would make any indelible mistake at this time.

"Oh, is that so?" the brawny leader remained on high alert.

"Well, please let your men provide us with food and lodging tonight, and let your men prepare some food and drink and send them to the prisoner at the door, he is a member of the Taiping Army, and one of our felons, and I have to let him go to the prince's mansion alive to await trial." ”

"Yes, General. After saying that, the young man immediately called the surrounding guys to the kitchen and the upstairs room to arrange the food and lodging of the group for the night.

It didn't take long for the lad to beckon his fellows to bring plates of steaming delicious meals and pots of fine wine to each table, and at the same time, the dishes and chopsticks had already been set up on the dinner table, and the clerks upstairs had arranged the daily necessities in each room.

Well, yes, maybe it's really that I'm suspicious...... The strong man leader sighed in his heart.

"Honorable General, you and your troops are ready to eat, can I go and prepare the food and drink of your prisoner?" "Okay, go, now I don't have anything to do with you here, go and prepare the "dog food". ”

The strong man had gotten a little carried away about this, and felt that things were going as smoothly as he had hoped.

So, the young man first walked into the kitchen, and then after a while, slowly walked out of it, holding the dinner plate with both hands, on the plate was a bowl of beef ramen that seemed to have just come out of the oven, and it was still steaming, and a glass of warm water, the Qing soldiers sitting at the dining table around them couldn't help laughing when they saw this scene, and some people even said: "This "dog food" may not be too rich, it is simply raising a domestic dog!"...

The young man walked out of the inn and approached the prisoner's cart. He saw Xu Wei lying in the prisoner car at this time, his whole body curled up, trembling from time to time, and he seemed to be really weak.

He placed the plate on the ground for the time being, and then gently pushed Xu Wei with his hand, Xu Wei still lay motionless.

So the guy rolled up his sleeves on both sides, ready to use some more strength to try to wake up Xu Wei who was already unconscious...

"Don't call him if he can't wake him up, and when he returns to the capital later, there will be a way to make him wake up completely." The sudden appearance of the brawny general behind him startled the young man.

"Well, I'll trouble you then, General. Then the young man stood up, slowly lifted the plate from the ground with both hands, and slowly placed it in the prisoner cart, Xu Wei's side, and then turned to leave....

In the dead of night, after the strong man general and his Qing soldiers had eaten and drunk, they all went upstairs one after another and returned to their respective rooms to rest, and the hall downstairs suddenly became extremely silent...

"It's time to act, guys. The young lad said to the guys behind him. So he and his men quickly and quietly stood on tiptoe, ran to the kitchen in small steps, took out the sulphur flask and torch that had been prepared before, and went up the second floor quickly and quietly, poured the sulphur from the jar to the ground, and went all the way to every soldier's room, including the room of the strong man who lived in the middle of the corridor, and finally passed through the room where the last soldier was until he reached the staircase of his room... Then the rest of the men all went down the stairs quickly and quietly, leaving only the young man standing at the next step of the staircase, and as his left hand was raised and lowered as fast as he could, the men downstairs ran out of the inn, and he immediately lit the brimstone with the torch he held in his right hand, and then jumped down the stairs in an instant, and rushed out of the inn with all his might.

Immediately, sparks flew on the second floor of the inn, smoke filled the air, and the sound vibrate...

"What's going on?" the strong general smelled a very choking smell on the bed at this time, and shouted outside the bed.

The soldiers all heard the deafening sound and smelled something similarly suffocating. I opened the door one after another, and I was shocked by the scene I saw at this time....

"General, something is wrong, there is a fire in the corridor!"

"What? how can this be?" the strong man general immediately climbed out of bed after inquiry, and quickly opened the door with his upper body naked, ignoring his own clothes.

"What the hell is going on?" the leader of the strong men was unusually angry at this time.

"Report to the chief, we were deceived by the director of that inn!"

"Go, go and show me if this staircase is still there, I'm going down now, kill the director and his guys!"

"Report to the General, the staircase has been completely destroyed by that group of people, and now it seems that the corridor is about to collapse..."

Seeing that the fire quickly burned from the right side of the corridor to the front of his house, the strong man general completely ignored the image, picked up his futon and fled to the left side of his room, fled to the far left of the corridor, and then let a few Qing soldiers jump down from him, and those soldiers were forced to jump downstairs by the strong man general...

He saw that the fire was about to "swallow up" the corridor, he desperately jumped from his eyes wrapped in thick bedding, but fortunately, the corpses of the Qing soldiers who jumped in front of his eyes saved his life downstairs. He then tumbled down from their corpses, and rushed to the door with all his might, by which time all the wood in the corridor had collapsed to the bottom of the building, and the soldiers on the upper floor were either burned to death in the fire or died in the result of trying to jump downstairs.

The strong man ran out of the inn, and it was still silent outside, and he walked away for a while, and found that the prison car where Xu Wei had been held was empty. Then he turned his head and looked at the inn, which was burning in the fire, and at the place where all his army had been tragically buried, and at last he shed his stubborn tears..."Young man, you are awake at last." With the help of the young man, Xu Wei was rescued into a remote wood, and he was arranged, leaning against a lush birch tree, and slowly opened his eyes by the clearer and somewhat cold air in the woods.

"Who are you?" asked Xu Wei in a faint tone.

"I am a member of Taiping Tian**, my name is Zhang Qi, you can also call me Brother Da Qi. Zhang Qi replied with a smile.

"Oh, it turns out that I was really rescued...."Xu Wei trembled, and after speaking, he laughed stupidly a few times, and fell asleep again...