The moment Gu Shengchao saw "Hang Yifan", he really thought he had seen a ghost.

They came all the way without stopping, and only rested at the foot of the mountain for a while, and it was impossible for Hang Yifan to be so quick even if he was from the palace.

After a short shock, Gu Shengchao found an abnormality, this "Hang Yifan" looked haggard, and looked like he had just recovered from a serious illness.

His left ear, in particular, is intact, unlike the missing half seen in the palace.

When that man saw Gu Shengchao, he was at a loss, as if he had never seen him before.

"Brother An, who is this?" "Hang Yifan" asked, looking very expectant.

An Zheng was relieved: "The helper from the capital, the Gu Shengchao that Hang Junshou once mentioned is him."

"Hang Yifan" hurriedly tidied up his clothes, and with the support of his cane, he respectfully saluted: "Hang Yifan, the county guard of Pinghua County of the Dawu Dynasty, pays a visit to Lord Gu."

Gu Shengchao saw that he was lame on one leg, and hurriedly stepped forward to help: "Lord Hang is polite, but who is the one in the mansion who is exactly the same as Lord Hang, and who is missing half of his left ear?"

Hearing this, it was true, and the doubts in Gu Shengchao's heart could be explained a lot.

"Sit down and talk slowly." An Zheng found a small table and placed it in the courtyard, and brought a few small stools for a few people to sit down.

An Zheng boiled water and boiled tea on the side, Gu Shengchao helped Hang Yifan to sit down slowly, and Lu Jin couldn't help but run over to help add firewood and boil water.

Hang Yifan sighed and said, "The people of Pinghua County used to live and work in peace and contentment, although it is not said that they will not close their doors at night, but the cultivators have their fields and the dwellers have their houses, and their lives are stable. Ever since a band of bandits appeared on the Golden Bull Peak, they plundered everywhere, and the life of the people began to be unpeaceful."

"Can't the officers and soldiers beat them?" Gu Shengchao omitted the intermediate link and directly asked what he was interested in.

Hang Yifan shook his head and said, "At first, they were evenly matched, but later they found a lot of helpers from outside, and the officers and soldiers were a little overwhelmed."

"What was the reason for the last defeat of the officers and soldiers?" Gu Shengchao pulled the topic to the nearest moment.

Hang Yifan sighed: "I led many officers and soldiers to prepare for a decisive battle with the bandits at the foot of the Golden Bull Peak, they were defeated and began to flee, and we chased into the canyon only to find that we had been ambushed and suffered heavy casualties, and I was unfortunately captured. When I arrived at the Golden Bull Village, I learned that my brother had also joined the bandits. The family is unfortunate, ashamed, ashamed."

In self-blame, Hang Yifan couldn't help sighing.

"It's a twin brother, he should be good at martial arts." Thinking of the other party's rough big hands, Gu Shengchao guessed.

Hang Yifan nodded: "Exactly, my twin brother is named Hang Yizhou, he has not been doing his job since he was a child, he is idle and only loves to fight, and he disappeared after being cut off half of his ear by accident, and he never thought to see him here again."

"No wonder he said that he was injured three months ago, and his muscles and bones were broken for a hundred days, so that it can be corresponded, and no one will doubt him." Gu Shengchao slowly cleared his thoughts.

"Lord Hang, a scholar, how did you escape here in the end?" Gu Shengchao asked.

Hang Yifan recalled the scene: "After I was captured, Hang Yizhou told me in front of me about pretending to be a county guard, and then imprisoned me. More than ten days later, someone secretly let me out while it was dark, he said that all the owners of Jinniuzhai were already drunk, and the guards were lax that night. The man said that he had received my favor and was forced to go to the Golden Bull Village to become a bandit."

"I knew that I could only fall into the net when I went back, but fortunately, I usually had some friendship with Brother An, so I took advantage of the night to find here. At that time, I was just running, and I accidentally fell down the mountain at dawn, but fortunately I was found by the villagers, so I carried me to Brother An's place to recuperate." Hang Yifan told the whole story.

An Zheng boiled the tea, and Lu Jin brought it and put it on the table.

"The bandits are all on the Golden Bull Peak, and we only have a few small villages scattered around Long Bay, most of which are farming and hunting for a living. Hang Yizhou made up his mind to send officers and soldiers here, perhaps because he speculated that the county guard was hiding here, and wanted to catch them all." An Zheng sat down and said.

Gu Shengchao said angrily, "This Hang Yizhou is too hateful, I'll go back and capture him."

A few people chatted while drinking tea, and seeing that the time was not early, Gu Shengchao said goodbye and left with Lu Jin.

Walking out of the mountains, one sword and one sword, Lu Jin finally learned how to control the scimitar in mid-air, she was overjoyed, and her heart blossomed.

"Wait, there's a situation." Gu Shengchao looked at the six roads and listened to the eight directions, and found the strangeness next to him from a distance.

In the wilderness not far away, a woman galloped on her horse, carrying a baby on her back and holding one in her arms, desperately urging the horse forward.

Behind the woman, the three of them chased after them, and judging by their speed, it wouldn't take long to overtake the woman.

The three men also knew the outcome, and separated and chased in an encirclement.

"Shall we go over and help?" Lu Jin stood on the scimitar and approached Gu Shengchao.

Gu Shengchao nodded, and the two of them turned around in an arc.

The woman in front was exhausted, and the three people in the back were chasing closely, and no one noticed that there were two more people in the sky.

The more anxious the woman was to urge the horses, the more she slowed down because she was not harnessing the horses properly, and the three people behind her surrounded her.

"Madame, go slowly, come back to the mansion with us, the county guard is waiting for Madame?" One person reined in and said softly, not daring to make the woman angry.

"Tell him that I'll go to my mother's house for a few days and come back, don't worry." The woman wanted to rush out on her horse, but the two horses stopped in front of her, but she couldn't.

One of them arched his hand and said, "We are also following the orders of the county guard, and please don't embarrass us."

"Get out of the way, none of you can stop me." The woman changed direction, but her riding skills were not good, and she let the other party block the way every time.

"Please don't force us to be rude, Madame, come back with us!" The leader pleaded again and again.

Gu Shengchao and Lu Jin arrived just in time at this moment, and the two of them fell down and stood steadily, and put away their respective blades the moment they landed.

As the imperial court messenger from the capital, they still recognized Gu Shengchao, and gave a salute to the person at the head: "Please Lord Gu to uphold justice, the county guard's wife travels privately, please go back with us, so as not to worry the county guard."

"Okay, the county keeper wants to go back to her parents' house, and there is nothing wrong with agreeing with it." Gu Shengchao pretended to be confused.

The man at the head said with a gloomy face, "The county magistrate might as well be in charge now, and we are also acting according to orders, and I hope that your lord will understand our suffering."

"Yes, you let the horses come, and it is better for me to be at your disposal." Gu Shengchao took a few steps forward.

"Offended." The man at the head waved his horsewhip and threw it at Gu Shengchao.

Gu Shengchao stretched out his hand to grab the tip of the whip and pulled it hard, and immediately the man was reluctant to throw away the whip and flew out and fell heavily into the grass.

"Those who know the times are Junjie, and I won't embarrass you, so go back and recover your life quickly." Gu Shengchao persuaded him.

Gu Shengchao said to the two of them on horseback, and the man who fell in the grass slowly got up, pulled out his waist knife and slashed at Gu Shengchao's back.

Lu Jin had already discovered him, raised his foot and kicked the flying waist knife, and kicked him in the chest.

The man let out an "oops" and flew out again.

"If you dare to be disobedient again, kill." Lu Jin's soft voice was sweet, but the remaining two had to think about it, looked at each other a few times, and turned the horse's head to run towards the way they came.

"Thank you to the benefactor for saving me, can you tell the daimyo that I will be grateful for the coming day." The woman pleaded.

Gu Shengchao didn't answer, but asked, "Dare to ask Your Excellency, but is it the county guard?"

"Exactly, do you know me?" The woman couldn't remember where she had seen them.

"The county guard is not far ahead, so I'll take you over to find him." Gu Shengchao pointed ahead.

Gu Shengchao said this, but the woman took a few steps back, unable to believe him.

"Madam, don't panic, I'm a messenger from the imperial court, and I'm here specifically for this matter." Gu Shengchao took out the tooth tag and handed it to the woman.

After all, the woman is the lady of the county guard, and after verifying the tooth tag, she gave Gu Shengchao an excited voice: "My lord is really still alive?"

"It's true, we just had tea together." Gu Shengchao didn't talk nonsense, and led the way with Lu Jin's sword, but they slowed down so that the woman could catch up with them.

Coming to the foot of the mountain, the mountain road was rugged and difficult, and Gu Shengchao helped hold a child

The woman abandoned her horse and carried another child on her back, and the three of them walked into a mountain village surrounded by terraced rice fields.

When they came to An Zheng's residence, Hang Yifan and his wife were reunited, and the two hugged their heads and cried.

After crying, the woman sent the child to Hang Yifan's arms, and suddenly took out a dagger from her body, which frightened Hang Yifan and exclaimed, "Madam, what are you going to do?"

The woman said with tears in her eyes: "The man who pretended to be the master came back to me, I listened to his lies, thinking that the master had really lost his memory of the past, and only after losing his body with him did he realize that the other party was not the master. But for the sake of the child's safety, I can't expose him, so I have to commit myself to him and steal my life. Last night, I drunk him with wine while he was happy, and I learned in a few words that the old man might be in Huanlong Bay, so I brought my child to look for you early in the morning."

At this point, the woman could no longer weep, and she continued, "The child was delivered safely, and I have long been defiled by that villain, and I can no longer serve the master, so I will go."

With that, the woman stabbed herself in the heart with a dagger in her hand.

"Madame, I can't do it." It is useless to be a scholar, and Hang Yifan is powerless at the moment.

Gu Shengchao and An Zheng stayed away from the woman in order to avoid it, but Lu Jin was by his side, stretched out his hand and pointed at her acupuncture point, and the dagger was inches away from his heart, so he couldn't move.

Hang Yifan gently pushed away the frightened child, pounced on the woman's fingers, and threw the dagger aside.

"Madame has suffered a lot of grievances for me and for the sake of the child, if I go here, I can't live alone. Promise me to live well, the child can't live without you!" Hang Yifan hugged the woman and was relieved.

Lu Jin took advantage of their inattention and quietly unlocked the woman's sealed acupuncture points.

The three of them picked up all suspicious sharp weapons, looked at each other a few times and quietly left, leaving only their family of four in the house.

Looking at the gloomy twilight, An Zheng smiled: "I'm afraid I won't be able to go back tonight, so it's better to stay here for one night, I haven't drunk for a long time."

"Then it's a nuisance." The two looked at each other and laughed.

In the evening, Lu Jin helped make a sumptuous meal, and Hang Yifan and his wife were able to reunite, first toasting An Zheng and Gu Shengchao, and several people drank happily.

Even Lu Jin, who had never drunk alcohol, poured a full glass of wine and joined in, raising a glass to invite.

The woman withdrew early because she had to take care of her young children. Hang Yifan was worried about his wife's safety, so he soon followed.

Gu Shengchao and An Zheng drank all the wine, and then they helped each other and staggered back to the house to rest.

It was late at night when Lu Jin cleaned up the cups and plates, she sat alone in the courtyard and looked at the bright moon without getting tired, and she went back to sleep in a hurry.

When he woke up, it was already dawn, and Lu Jin felt a splitting headache, and the reaction after drinking was only realized at this moment.

She was about to wash up when she heard a "whine" sound outside, which should have been blown by someone.

When he came to the house, he saw An Zheng nervous and said, "Oops, there's trouble."

He picked up his sword and ran out.

Seeing An Zheng running out of the yard, except for the woman who couldn't go out to take care of the child, everyone else followed.

Even Hang Yifan, who was lame, staggered on crutches and tried to keep up.

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