I spent the night quietly.

The first thing Cheng Yunru did when he woke up early in the morning was to check on Duan Yiming, and when he saw that he was much better and his wounds were recovering, he put his mind at ease, and when Duan Yiming woke up at noon, he ate some dry food to recover some strength, and the three of them discussed the plan to go out of the city at night.

Originally, according to Cheng Yunru's plan, Duan Yiming stayed here alone for half a month, and then swaggered out of the city when the limelight passed. But now because of the martial arts conference, I have to go out of the city in advance. Fortunately, with Shen Fei here, this matter is much simpler, and Duan Yiming is naturally even happier to be able to go back early.

During this period, Cheng Yunru also told Duan Yiming what she heard on the mountainside yesterday about the noble prince and the old man Wang, including her plan to go to the martial arts conference with Shen Fei, Duan Yiming heard about the old man Wang, and naturally wanted to help, but first, he was seriously injured, and it was a burden to follow together, and secondly, the village regarded Duan Yiming as the backbone, if he left, I am afraid that it would not be long before the village could not be saved.

That night, Shen Fei took the two out of the city and rushed to the village. This village is almost more than 20 miles away from the county seat of Shangqiu, and the three of them can arrive in one night.

In the morning, the three of them arrived in the village, and the people who got up early to do farm work saw Duan Yiming and Chen Yunru coming back, and immediately called everyone with great fanfare.

The people in the village chatted together, and Shen Fei was naturally not interested, so he found a place to sleep and slept beautifully. In the evening, a few tables of banquets were set up in the village, both as a reception and as a farewell, and when the people in the village heard that Cheng Yun was leaving, many old people and children were still crying and chirping, and when they heard that it was with Shen Fei, they didn't give Shen Fei a good look. Fortunately, Duan Yiming was rescued by Shen Fei after all, and most of the people were still polite, otherwise with Shen Fei's temper, he might have left that night.

Early the next morning, Shen Fei and Cheng Yunru rushed to Pingyang together. Now the thieves and the imperial court have been stopping and stopping in Pingyang Mansion, and when they arrived in Pingyang, they were basically out of the sphere of influence of the imperial court.

Speaking of the current anti-thieves, it's actually quite chaotic. In terms of the number of people alone, the number of anti-thieves is much more than that of the imperial army, but the vast majority of them are peasants, and there is still a gap between them and the trained officers and soldiers, especially some well-trained and well-equipped elite soldiers, and even fought a record of 20 for 1.

Second, there are many small leaders of anti-thieves, but the general leader does not, every time they get together to discuss something, they all talk about their own things, and most of the time there is no result, and in the end they still fight their own, so it is naturally easy to be broken by each one.

However, these anti-thief leaders are influenced by the folk talk, and they all like to give themselves nicknames, and when it comes to the gathering and discussion, the name of the tiger has the word tiger, there are mountain tigers, mountain tigers, sweeping tigers, pickpocketing tigers, a tiger, king tigers, tigers, land grabbing tigers, Dongshan tigers, etc., called wolves Ma red wolf, blue-backed wolf, one-tailed wolf, little red wolf is also famous, there are other demons and monsters, birds and beasts are not a few, but many of these anti-thieves are knowledgeable and forced to become anti-thieves business giants, scholars, and self-esteem, just listening to these nicknames and not wanting to be with them, there is another layer of gap.

Shen Fei once saw such a notice on the Kaifeng city wall, which roughly means that the imperial court has caught some anti-thieves, and if you want to ask for beheading, the front is still Chen Xuande, Liu Guanzhang, and the back suddenly became a mountain harrier, flying immediately, and a tiger among people, these people are put together, and the first two are afraid that they will not be blinded if they die.

However, these thieves more or less have some Jianghu backgrounds or Jianghu friends, and even most of the leaders turned out to be a certain head and a certain gang, so Wang Shen wanted to use his prestige to gather everyone together and elect a leader to kill the faint king together.

Shen Fei and Cheng Yunru bought two horses, galloped for two days and rushed to Pingyang, and inquired about the martial arts conference. I thought it would take some effort, but I didn't expect the martial arts conference to spread so early that even the shopkeeper of the restaurant heard that they were going to participate in the martial arts conference, so he had to give them a pot of wine.

This martial arts conference is scheduled to be held on the fifth day of the fifth month of May, and it is only the end of March, and the time is still early, and the location is selected in Feng County, Hanzhong Prefecture, Shaanxi, which is where the chief helm of the Sanyang Gang is located.

This place is almost 1,200 miles away from Feng County, and the time is more than enough, so the two of them are not so anxious, and they are at ease while playing on the road.

About half a month later, the two arrived in Xi'an, at this time it was the end of the spring planting period, and there were still some people busy in the fields, although this place was less than 200 miles away from Feng County, and there would be more and more anti-thieves along the way, but Shen Fei and Cheng Yunru saw that these anti-thieves had not committed any crimes against the people, and they were really much better than the court soldiers.

In fact, there are some reasons for this, when the rebels in various places first began to rebel, they would more or less openly and secretly rob houses and houses, including stealing wheat and rice that had not yet been harvested in the fields, after all, there was no food to eat, but it must be solved.

But slowly these thieves found that those princes and generals in the prime minister's mansion are really a lot of money, silver, rice and grain, as long as they take a city, just rob the mansion of an official and the emperor's relatives, the money and rice and grain obtained are enough for the army for a long time, and some of the treasury of the government of the main business roads can even rob the army of rice, grain, money and silver that cannot be eaten for several years, so some of the thieves as long as they capture a city, they directly rob the palace of the emperor and the official's mansion, and some even take the initiative to launch rice and grain after robbing it, buying people's hearts, and other thieves follow suit. They also began to do no crime against the people in the autumn, and distributed food for disaster relief, so this anti-thief is fighting more and more.

Seeing that there were still more than ten days left in the martial arts conference, Shen Fei and Cheng Yunru planned to rest here for a few days.

Shen Fei led the horse, Cheng Yunru sat on the horse, and the two walked slowly to an inn, "Let's settle down here." Shen Fei pointed to the inn in front of him and said, Cheng Yunru glanced at it and nodded. The two were just about to walk in, Xiao Er at the door of the store suddenly stopped the two, and said with a smile on his face: "The two guest officers are really embarrassed, really embarrassed, the store has been wrapped by the general of the Tiger and Tiger, and they don't accept guests. Then he pointed in a direction to the west.

The two looked in the direction he pointed out, said thank you, and walked towards the Four Seas Inn. I didn't expect to arrive at the Four Seas Inn, and I was covered by a Jiao gang leader. Then the two ran a few more houses, but they were all wrapped. The two couldn't help but look at each other, they couldn't find a place to stay, the people who came to participate in the martial arts conference were either the anti-thief leaders or the masters of the gang, and it happened to be in this troubled times, they either brought dozens of disciples or dozens of personal soldiers, and a whole inn was a whole inn to live in, and even some inns were not big enough to live in, so they could only divide a few people to keep vigil outside. Especially these anti-thief leaders and those gang leaders do not deal with each other, for this reason there have been several conflicts in the city, if it weren't for the fact that the old Wang seniors took this situation into account before calling everyone, and repeatedly told them to be their own brothers, and to value peace, I am afraid that before they arrived in Feng County, the anti-thief leaders and people in the rivers and lakes would be able to die Sancheng on the road.

Shen Fei and Cheng Yun didn't want to cause some meaningless trouble at this time, so they asked the store about a few abandoned temples and Taoist temples nearby, and chose the farthest one to live there tonight.

In the evening, the two walked to the Taoist temple, and there was already a light inside. The reason why the two of them picked the farthest one was that they were afraid that there would be other people to disturb them, but they didn't expect that there were still people.

Shen Fei and Cheng Yunru tied their horses to a big tree on the side of the road and walked in together.

At this time, there was only one fire in it, and two rabbits and a field chicken were roasting on the fire, and no one was here.

"I look at the roast and it's almost ready, and I happen to be tired of eating dry food, so I might as well eat this." Shen Fei said with drooling.

"Whose is it, you eat it? After a while, people will let you pay to see what you do. ”

"If you lose, you will pay, and I don't have no money." While the two were talking, a man suddenly walked in. The man swayed and carried two jugs of wine in his hand.

"Compensation? Can you two little babies afford to lose? I spent a lot of effort to catch this old man, but fortunately I came back early, otherwise I would have honored you. ”

The two of them glanced at the visitor, their eyes rolled, and Shen Fei said first, "Senior, I'm really embarrassed, the two of us haven't eaten for a long time, and your roasted food is too fragrant, so I couldn't hold back it for a while." ”

Cheng Yunru also immediately said: "My eldest brother is good at everything, but he is greedy and says the wrong thing, don't blame the seniors." After speaking, he pulled Shen Fei to find a corner and sit down, took out dry food and handed it to him. Then he whispered to Shen Fei and asked, "Who do you guess he is?" ”

"King God? I heard his voice full of confidence, his hands and muscles were almost exposed, and his foreign kung fu may have reached its peak, and in such a place, the eight achievements are him. ”

"Hearing you say this, the ten achievements are him, I heard Brother Duan talk about his appearance."

The two of them were about to say more, but suddenly the king god shouted poisonous, shook off the food in his hand, and immediately crossed his knees. But then he frowned again, vomited a mouthful of blood, couldn't even sit up, and fell over. The incident happened suddenly, and both of them were still surprised, and a middle-aged man walked in outside the door, dressed in purple, with a jade pendant on his waist, and a paper fan in his hand, like a handsome son.

"Gang Master Wang, I'm really embarrassed, I only prepared this colorful centipede, and I didn't want to poison your food, but you actually went out to buy wine, and I really couldn't help it when I left this food." This person said apologetically, completely ignoring Shen Fei and Cheng Yunru in the corner, he walked straight to Wang Shen's side, stretched out his hand, and a colorful centipede jumped out of Wang Shen's feet and jumped into the man's hand.

Wang Shen glanced at the man and said, "Lord Xiao, why are you doing this, are you also being bribed by the imperial court?" ”

At this time, Shen Fei in the corner was groping around in his cuffs, touched a bag and poured out a medicine from it, and was about to take it to Wang Shen to eat, but Cheng Yunru grabbed him and rolled his eyes at him: "Can you detoxify this medicine immediately?" If you can't, you can't beat him, and after cleaning up the old man Wang, you will clean up the two of us, and it will not be wiped out at that time. ”

"That's not it, even if you can't beat it, you can still run away, there are two horses at the door, we can run at any time."

"This senior Wang has helped Brother Duan before, and he is also a person I admire very much, you can't just leave like this, you can help me save Senior Wang first."

"But I can't beat it, it's nice to be able to drag you away."

"Don't you still have that particularly poisonous poison, I have a way to get the Xiao gang leader to take the initiative to eat this medicine." Then he fell into Shen Fei's ear and muttered. After listening to this, Shen Fei thought about it for a while and felt that it was feasible, so he began to prepare.

At this time, the Lord of Xiao Island looked at Wang Shen helplessly, and continued, "Wang Gang Master, money is a thing of the body, I don't value it for a long time, but I can't help it, I have thousands of people on the whole island, if I don't do it, I can leave, and they are afraid that they will lose their lives." After saying that, he sighed.