Mu Juzheng's slightly casual words echoed in the alley for a moment, and after his words fell for a while, the mouth of the alley he was staring at was still empty, without a trace of movement.

With a slight sigh, he turned around again, ready to bend down to pick up the bag of steamed buns he had just put down.

It's just that at the moment when Mu Juzheng bowed, a stone suddenly hit his head quickly from the mouth of the alleyway, and he squatted suddenly, turning his head to dodge it.

Looking back, seven men in cloth clothes had already appeared at the mouth of the alley, all of them covering their faces at this time, making it difficult for people to see clearly, and each holding a wooden stick in his hand, of different lengths.

"If you want to come, hurry up, just accompany a morning exercise."

Without asking them where they came from, or who instructed them, looking at the stone just now and the wooden stick in their hands, Mu Juzheng stood up, touched the back of his head, and walked towards the seven people.

When these people saw that Mu Juzheng was not in a hurry, their eyes flashed with surprise, and they exchanged their eyes with each other, but they didn't speak, as if they were afraid of being heard.

The leader of the seven was a burly strong man, and when he saw Mu Juzheng leaning towards them by himself, he no longer hesitated, picked up the short stick and took the lead and rushed towards Mu Juzheng quickly.

The few people behind him didn't watch the play, and followed his footsteps and swarmed up.

The sound of treading water sounded one after another in the alleyway, and the turbid rainwater accumulated in the potholes also splashed in all directions.

The man who hit the head rushed to Mu Juzheng's side, and seeing that he was defenseless, he swept towards his neck with both hands holding a wooden stick, this blow was very strong, and the air around the wooden stick also made a howling sound due to tremors.

In the midst of the lightning and fire, seeing that the short stick was about to touch Mu Juzheng's body, I saw him suddenly lunge to his side to dodge, and at the same time, his right fist condensed, and then burst out.

The sudden blow hit the strong man's abdomen hard, and the impact made the man arch his waist back in an instant, and he immediately felt a sharp pain coming from his lower abdomen.

Mu Juzheng didn't give him a chance to breathe, grabbed the placket behind his back with his left hand, and used force with both hands at the same time, lifting the man up forcefully, and throwing it on the left wall, the already broken fence collapsed, stirring up a burst of mud.

This change happened in an instant, and the six masked men who followed closely behind the strong man immediately slowed down a few points when they saw this, and a trace of surprise appeared in their eyes.

Looking at each other again, the six chose to shoot at the same time.

But just as they approached from all directions in front of Mu Juzheng, a bright light flashed in front of several people's eyes.

A strong wind blew, and a scratch appeared on the arm of their arm that was holding the stick in front of them, and bright red blood slowly seeped from the wound, running down their arm and backwards into the sleeve of their shirt.

Everyone's pupils constricted, their feet stopped, and the hands of the person in front of them were still shaking.

They looked at Mu Juzheng's hand, his originally empty right hand was holding a long rope at some point, and on the other end of this rope was a dart head made of unknown metal.

The sharp blade of the dart head was a little dark red, and it was naturally hanging vertically at the moment, and it turned out to be a rope dart.

"There was a son of eight years old, who used to play with a certain and such and such a child, and struck with a small stone and a cane. If you wait for this trip just to have a fun with someone, you have no time to accompany you. ”

……

"Brother-in-law, is this really what my father said?"

In the Huaiming Mansion, Situ Xi and Zhong Liwu had finished communicating, and at this time he was sitting in the pavilion in Zhonglimo's courtyard, leisurely eating a plate of dried fruits, and he was waiting for Fan Lao to leave together after communicating with Zhong Liwu.

"Yes, I may have to trouble you to teach me how to practice bows and arrows recently."

I didn't expect that I would also be educated by children one day, this is the master as a teacher.

"It's on me!" Zhong Limo patted his chest excitedly, he was very excited that he could finally go out and play.

"Brother-in-law, when are we leaving, there is a small ranch in Nanshan at home, if you want to practice archery, it is better to go there."

This is the young master of the Kuo family, Zhong Limo said this very casually, but the content of his words was showing off his wealth nakedly.

Speaking of which, although Situ Xi has just moved to a new house, he has not yet prepared a carriage and horse to travel, and Nanshan is still some distance away from Xuan'an City.

"Then it's set for these two days, Brother Mo, you have time to find someone to prepare two carriages, and then I will come to look for you with your sister."

"That's tomorrow, brother-in-law, without further ado, I'll go and let someone arrange it!"

Hearing this, Zhong Limo immediately got up from his chair, dropped a word and jumped down the steps of the pavilion, and ran out of the courtyard in three steps and two steps.

……

After sitting in Zhong Limo's courtyard for about a quarter of an hour, Situ Xi received the news that Fan Lao had finished talking to Zhong Limo.

When he met him in the front yard, Situ Xi found that Fan Lao finally had a relaxed smile on his face.

"Old Fan, it seems that I have some good news."

"Thanks to the blessing of the Nine Kings, Duke Huaiming promised to send someone to hand over the grain prepared by Lao Zhuo directly to the official in charge of this grain collection, and he could also arrange for Lao Zhuo to meet with him, which is enough."

Looking at Fan Lao, who was frowning, Situ Xi felt that this old man was not easy, it seemed that he had a really good relationship with the junior he wanted to save, otherwise he would not have worked so hard for it.

Zhong Liwu's reply was also expected by Situ Xi, Zhong Liwu would only help him to this point at most, and would not guarantee him, let alone mention saving people.

After all, in Zhong Li's eyes, Fan Lao was just a traveling businessman, and he didn't know each other before.

Fan Lao's trip is to save people, and since he wants to rescue people from the hands of the official, it shows that some of the previous actions of the person he wants to save are not in line with the will of the official, Zhong Liwu will not disobey His Majesty for the sake of a strange businessman, this is a matter of attitude.

"Okay, then I wish Fan Lao a smooth achievement in the future, the kid is still waiting to talk to you about a big business."

"The Nine Kings don't want to call themselves brats in front of the old clumsy, this is really embarrassing." Seeing Situ Xi smiling and wishing himself success, Fan Lao waved his hand again and again, not daring to give him this gift.

"Where is Mr. Fan going next, I recently moved to a new house, and I don't live in the east of the city anymore, if you have something to find me in the future, you can go to the water."

After a few more words of greeting with Fan Lao, Situ Xi opened his mouth again and left him his new address.

"The old man is going to go to Jinsefang."

Jinsefang, hearing these three words from Fan Lao's mouth again, Situ Xi suddenly began to wonder what the relationship between this old man and the flower shaking shadow was, and he felt that they had frequent exchanges between them.

"Fan Lao, how did you and Hua everyone meet?"

"Don't hide it from the Nine Kings, I met Hua everyone in Li State a few years ago, and we met again in Chu State a few months ago. She seemed to know a lot about the magnates of Xuan'an, and she had provided some useful information to Lao Zhuo, who thought that he should go and thank her again. ”