Ma Wu didn't know what he meant, and replied honestly: "Master Hou lives on Wharf West Street. ”

Zhao Han continued to inquire: "Is that the nest of your Lotus Society?" ”

Ma Wu shook his head: "The old nest of the Lotus Society is on South Street, just under the root of the city wall. In the past, there was a great flood, and the northern wall collapsed, and many houses were smashed, and the brothers of the Lotus Society lived in dilapidated houses. ”

Zhao Han asked again: "How many people are in the Hou Ye's family?" ”

Ma Wu said: "It's just his family." ”

Zhao Han said angrily: "I'm asking you, how many people are in the Hou Ye's family." How many men, how many women, and how many old people and children! Is there a home care home? ”

"There is no nursing home, only a mother-in-law who cooks," Ma Wu thought for a while, counted his fingers and said, "There is a Hou Ye at home, his two mothers-in-law, and a few children." Are the children three? Or four? It could also be five. ”

The situation has been found out, and it seems that it can be a shot.

"Stand up and take me over!" Zhao Han scolded.

"Where?" Ma Wu was a little confused.

Zhao Han said: "Go to Hou Ye's house!" ”

Thundered!

The thunder was louder, the lightning was brighter, and the rain was heavier.

When they came to West Street, the Zhao Han brothers and sisters were already soaking wet.

"This is it." Ma Wu pointed to the courtyard gate.

Zhao Han ordered: "Look more clearly!" ”

Ma Wu looked at it intently, he has night blindness, where can he see clearly? He just fooled and said, "I won't admit it with my eyes closed." Little ancestor, I brought the place, can you let me go? ”

Zhao Han tore off the belt of this guy, tied his hands and feet, tore a rag to gag his mouth, stuffed it under the eaves, and said to his sister: "Wait for me to come out, don't walk around!" ”

Zhao Zhenfang nodded and said, "Second brother, I know." ”

The courtyard wall is not high, but it is very slippery after the rain, and Zhao Han is young and short, and he has failed several times and finally gave up climbing over the wall.

He went back to inspect the courtyard door, and found that the crack was so narrow that if he wanted to open the latch inside, he had to insert a very thin blade into it.

The scene was a little embarrassing, Zhao Han made up his mind to kill, but he couldn't even enter the courtyard wall of someone else's house.

Drenched by the heavy rain, the cold rain slapped his cheeks, and Zhao Han's mind became more and more calm. He carefully probed around the root of the wall, trying to find the low part of the courtyard wall, and walked back and forth more than ten times, and saw a small hole not far from the threshold!

This thing is called a dog hole, and cats and dogs can enter and exit, but in fact, the real function is drainage.

At this moment, the rainwater accumulated in the courtyard is rapidly flowing out of the dog hole.

The hole is so narrow that adults can't get through, but small children can.

The dog hole is a vertical rectangle, Zhao Han tried it, and found that he couldn't get in at all while lying on his stomach. So, he lay on his side and rubbed in, the height and width were just right.

The stagnant water gushing out of the dog hole made it difficult for Zhao Han to open his eyes and breathe, and he was almost stuck there halfway and couldn't move.

Finally rubbed in, the sleeves of his shirt had been scratched, and his arms were also worn out with blood strips.

This is a small courtyard house, only the main house (north room) and the east and west wings, and there is no inverted house (south room) built.

There is a big tree in the courtyard and a large stone water tank.

Zhao Han quickly ran to the eaves of the north house, stabbed a lattice of paper, and lay there quietly waiting for lightning.

The lightning came again, and Zhao Han could barely see the situation inside the house by the faint light.

There were tables, chairs and benches inside, obviously not bedrooms, but halls of ancient houses, and he immediately turned around and walked to the next room.

The window paper of the house on the left side was also punctured, and Zhao Han listened closely, and there was a faint sound of snoring inside.

The child's arms were small enough to reach into the lattice, and Zhao Han quickly touched the latch inside. However, because he was too short, he could only use the tips of his fingers to push up, and he dropped the wooden latch after a few clicks.

"Poof!"

The window latch rolled on the ground, making a lot of noise, which frightened Zhao Han and hurriedly hid.

The occupants of the house did not wake up, but simply rolled over.

Zhao Han carefully opened the window sash, climbed into the room through the window, and tiptoed to the bed.

There was only one man on the bed, and the long beard under his chin was faintly visible.

Zhao Han felt that something was wrong, because he learned from Ma Wukou that the "Hou Ye" family has a wife and a concubine, and according to common sense, he should not sleep alone.

He pressed the tip of his spear to the man's throat and pressed one hand to his nose and mouth.

Soon, the man was having trouble breathing and woke up with his eyes abruptly open. He subconsciously panicked and struggled, his neck hurt from the tip of the spear, and he didn't dare to move anymore in fear, afraid that he would be poked in the throat.

"Don't shout, if you obey, hit the bed twice with your foot." Zhao Han said in a low voice.

"Bang bang!"

The man hurriedly lifted his foot and struck the bed with his heel.

Zhao Han slowly let go and asked, "What's your name?" How old is it? ”

After the man was able to speak, he did not answer the question, but begged in panic: "A good man spare his life, a good man spare his life!" ”

Zhao Han pressed the tip of the spear down and asked again, "What's your name?" How old is it? ”

Now he finally became honest and replied: "My name is Zhang Chuncai, and I am fifty-one this year." ”

Sure enough, I found the wrong person!

Zhao Han casually recited a name: "Where is Li Jianguo's house?" ”

"What Li Jianguo?" Zhang Chuncai said in a daze, "I don't know, there is no one named Li Jianguo near here." ”

Zhao Han finally smiled: "Very good, you didn't just point me to a place." Where does Master Hou live? ”

"Master Hou?" Zhang Chuncai reacted suddenly, and hurriedly said, "The hero is looking for Deng Gui, the flower leader?" He doesn't live here, and he has to go two more east. ”

Zhao Han was afraid of making a mistake again, and asked, "How do you recognize the courtyard wall of Deng Gui's house?" ”

Zhang Chuncai thought carefully and said: "The head of his shop is a lion, and the head of my shop is a bat." ”

"What's the shop?" Zhao Han asks a naïve question.

Zhang Chuncai was stunned: "The head of the shop is used to hang the door knocker." ”

Zhao Han asked again: "Is there anything else?" ”

Zhang Chuncai thought about it carefully again and said, "My dog hole is square, and his dog hole is round. ”

Zhao Han asked again: "What about the clothes you changed into?" ”

Zhang Chuncai said: "On the edge of the bed." ”

Zhao Han felt a pile of clothes, first tied his hands behind his back with a trouser belt, and then randomly stuffed a ball of rags into his mouth.

"Mmmmmm

Zhang Chuncai struggled, but it was a stuff that was gagged, and it was his own footcloth.

Zhao Han didn't leave immediately, stayed in the house and rummaged through the cabinets, and soon found a weapon - scissors!

He returned to the bedside, cut Zhang Chuncai's clothes into many slender strips of cloth, and used the strips of cloth to roll into several cloth ropes. Tie the cloth rope to the bamboo spear, tie the scissors around your waist, and swagger open the door and go out.

Ma Wu was tied under the eaves, making noises from time to time, hoping that Zhao Zhenfang could loosen his ties.

The little girl ignored it, and only curled up under the eaves, half of her body being beaten by the wind and rain.

"Gah!"

The courtyard door suddenly opened, and Zhao Zhenfang was pleasantly surprised: "Second brother! ”

"Don't talk, don't run around, wait for me to come back." Zhao Han advised.

"Hmm." Zhao Zhenfang nodded obediently.

Zhao Han walked to Ma Wu's side again, kicked out without warning, and then pulled out the gag and asked, "Hou Ye's dog hole, is it square or round?" ”

Ma Wu said in a daze: "Round...... Round, right? ”

Zhao Han pressed scissors against this person's throat: "Ask again, the square is still round!" ”

Ma Wu said with a crying voice: "Remember...... I can't remember. ”

"Is this really Master Hou's house?" Zhao Han asked again.

Ma Wu was so scared that he died, and said honestly: "I don't know, I have a finch blindfolded, and I can't see clearly at night." ”

"Useless stuff!"

Zhao Han cursed in a low voice, gagged his mouth again, and continued to explore the house next to him.

According to Zhang Chuncai, Zhao Han soon found the target, the door knocker was a lion, and the dog hole was also round.

But this dog hole is too small for Zhao Han to get into, so he can only go back to his sister and let Zhao Zhenfang drill into the dog hole in the rain, and then open the latch for him from the inside.

The brother and sister both entered the courtyard, and Zhao Han simply took the little sister to the porch to take shelter from the rain.

When he came to the main house, he repeated the old trick, Zhao Han leaned into the window lattice with his hand, but this time he took the cloth rope knot in advance. He tied the window latch with a rope to prevent it from falling to the ground, and quietly climbed the window into the bedroom of the main house.

There were three people sleeping on the bed, one large and two small.

In the summer, I don't cover the quilt, but by the glimmer of light, it is clear at a glance that it is a woman and two children.

Zhao Han put scissors against the woman's throat, covered her mouth and nose to wake her up, and said, "If you dare to call, I will kill your son!" ”

The woman was speechless and trembling.

Zhao Han let go of a hand and said in a low voice, "Where is Deng Gui?" Say! ”

The woman shuddered, "I'm here...... in the East Wing. ”

Zhao Han said: "I only want money, I don't want human life, honestly turn over and let me tie up!" ”

The woman did not dare to disobey, but rolled over and lay on her stomach, her hands on her waist.

The cloth rope prepared by Zhao Han came in handy, tying the woman's hands and feet, and stuffing her mouth tightly.

Quickly came to the outside of the east wing, Zhao Han quietly entered through the window.

Sure enough, there were two people lying on the bed, a man and a woman, and the man was undoubtedly Hou Ye Deng Gui.

The two seemed to have had a "fierce battle", and at this moment they were all sleeping naked, and Deng Gui slept on his back and snored loudly.

Zhao Han stood in front of the bed, hesitated for only a few seconds, and then poked it with scissors in his hand.

We must not hesitate to do great things, otherwise we will inevitably suffer from them. Zhao Han doesn't have that capital, he has to fight back and forth with the other party, and he has no chance of winning even a head-on conflict, so he must take the initiative to solve the problem at one time!

The scissors pierced his throat, Deng Gui was suddenly awakened by the pain, and subconsciously covered his neck.

He tried to scream, but the blood rushed down his throat and turned into a cough. This guy grabbed Zhao Han's wrist, pushed the scissors up with all his might, and kicked the bed with both feet for help.

The woman next to her was his concubine, and she said in a daze in her sleep: "Boss, don't make trouble, haven't tossed enough?" ”

"No...... cough cough cough ......"

Deng Gui only spit out one syllable in his mouth, and it turned into a coughing sound again, coughing and coughing out a mouthful of blood.

As for its neck, the bubbling blood had already flowed down and stained a large area of the mat red.

Finally, Deng Gui's struggle became weaker and weaker, his arms hung down, and his whole body twitched.

This villain, who was entrenched in the dock area of Tianjin, specializing in begging, stealing part-time, and occasionally abducting and selling children, died an unknown death, and he didn't even know who killed him.

Maybe the movement was too big, and the concubine next to her finally woke up.

She rubbed her eyes and sat up in a daze, yawning and saying, "What does it smell like?" It's fishy. ”

Zhao Han was so frightened that he hurriedly jumped on the head of the bed, covered his mouth from behind, held the scissors against his throat, and suppressed his voice and said, "Don't shout!" ”

The concubine was completely sober, nodded in horror, and said, "Hmm! ”

Zhao Han slowly let go.

"Ahh

As soon as he let go of his hand, the concubine screamed, and Zhao Han hurriedly covered it again and poked it with scissors.

Zhao Han murdered someone for the first time, and his spirit was highly stressed. He didn't want to kill this little concubine, but he was stimulated by the other party's shouting, and in a panic, he simply killed them all!

"Whew!"

Zhao Han knelt between the two corpses, panting like a bellows, he was also tired enough at the moment.

Moreover, some people are in a trance, as if their murderous behavior is like sleepwalking, and the ghost sends the gods to do such violent and murderous things.

"Hoo ......"

Zhao Han exhaled a breath of turbid air and forced himself to calm down.

Don't blame me.

Yes, don't blame me!

This man wanted to catch himself and his sister, and broke his leg to be used as a begging tool, but he just resisted in advance. And this person has done a lot of evil, killing him is to eliminate harm for the people, and he has no mistakes but merit!

Drying the blood on his hands, Zhao Han returned to the bedroom of the main house again, ripped off the rags from the woman's mouth, and asked, "Where is Deng Gui's money?" ”

The woman was horrified and said, "I don't know." ”

Zhao Han asked viciously: "If you don't say it, you will kill your son!" ”

The woman hurriedly said, "There is a brick in the corner of the wall by the bed, and the money is hidden in it." ”

Zhao Han found a loose green brick in the corner of the wall, and used scissors to pry the brick out, and there was indeed a money bag inside.

"So little?" Zhao Han asked.

There were only a few scattered taels of silver in the money bag, which could add up to ten taels of silver.

The woman hurriedly explained: "That's really all, you have to dot up and down." Officials, officials, and generals, which one can't be fed? Hou Ye's begging for a living at the wharf, getting money every month, fifty percent of them have to go to the tribute guard and Cao Jun, and the remaining three components are given to the officials, and only two percent are their own. Four of my five children are studying, and it costs money to bind their knots and pen, ink, paper, and inkstone. ”

Zhao Han didn't believe it, and said, "It's not a lot of two percent left, right?" ”

The woman said: "Master Hou wants to find a career, and he just sent a few hundred taels a few days ago, saying that he could get an official errand at the dock. There is really only so much money left in the family, and I still have some copper coins under my pillow. ”

"Unlucky!"

Zhao Han not only took away the money, but also took away several sets of children's clothes, and even took away the two pairs of children's shoes in front of the bed.

"What is this?" Zhao Han touched a knife-and-axe-shaped thing on the table.

The woman replied, "Fire sickle." ”

Zhao Han also stuffed the fire sickle into his arms and blocked the woman's mouth.

He rummaged again, found the woman's dresser, and took away all the jewelry. Before leaving, he touched a comb and a grate, and he thought of his little sister's messy hair, so he took the comb and grate with him.

It was still raining heavily at the moment, Zhao Han took his sister out and found Ma Wu not far from the next door. He untied Ma Wu's rope and said, "You go by yourself, Master Hou was killed by me." The way you lead, I am the main culprit, you are an accomplice, do you know what it means? ”

Ma Wu was shocked and hurriedly replied: "I don't know anything." ”

"Clever." Zhao Han said approvingly.

Ma Wu regained his freedom and immediately ran away in a panic.

Zhao Han took his sister's hand and ran all the way to the city wall in the rain, he didn't dare to mix in the dock area, because there was someone covering Deng Gui.

As for the co-optation of the beggar gang, don't talk nonsense, you have to fight some officials and generals, and you have to compete with other beggars for territory. If Zhao Han is an adult, he may still be able to play, but he is only a ten-year-old child now.

The north city wall of Tianjin collapsed dozens of zhang and has not been repaired for 20 years.

The brother and sister waded through the muddy water, climbed through the gap in the city wall, and quietly came to the city of Tianjin.

(PS: Thank you for the reward from the leader of the alliance in Yizi, and thank you for the support of Yanhan Wuxin, Bright Moon Sword Flying, Long Xiang Rising, Heroes Club Hollywood, etc.) After the new book is put on the shelves, an alliance leader will add two changes, which will be stored for the time being, and cannot be updated too violently before being put on the shelves. ）