Just as he was hesitating to continue the charge, the soldier who fired the first shot had already loaded his ammunition and started the second shot.

"Bang bang bang" five gunshots rang out, and five more people fell down in a scream.

In just a few moments, twenty people had been shot and fell, and the remaining ten people looked at each other with a look of fear, and the strong man said decisively: "Let's withdraw." ”

After saying that, he took the lead and ran towards the woods.

Zhang Dabiao saw that they were going to escape, and said to Cao Bing: "You take two people to stay behind to protect the adults and rush to the city gate, and I will lead the rest of the people to chase them. ”

After saying that, he led seven soldiers to chase after him into the woods.

Seeing Zhang Dabiao and the others running towards the woods, Zhou Xian shouted behind him: "Everyone pay attention to safety, forget it if you can't catch up, come back early, and go home first." ”

Not long after Zhang Dabiao and his people entered the woods, several gunshots rang out.

After about half an hour, Zhang Dabiao and others caught up with Zhou Xian with two masked men.

Zhou Xian saw that none of them were injured, so he relieved himself and said to Zhang Dabiao: "How is it, have they all been wiped out?" ”

Zhang Dabiao said: "Of course, except for these two, all the others have been eliminated, my lord, you should go back to the house first, and as for these two people, they will be handed over to me for interrogation." ”

Zhou Xian nodded and went back with eight people first, leaving Zhang Dabiao and two soldiers to interrogate the two people.

As soon as Zhou Xian returned to the mansion room, Sun Wu ran over.

As soon as Cao Bing returned to the mansion, he told Sun Wu about the distress just now, and as soon as he knew the news, he ran over.

As soon as he entered the door, Sun Wu knelt down and said, "Let the adults be frightened, Sun Wu should die." ”

Zhou Xian saw Sun Wu kneeling down and hurriedly stepped forward to help Sun Wu up, and said, "No need to do this, didn't I come back well?" Besides, it's no wonder you, who knew someone would ambush me, and I really thank you, if you hadn't insisted on giving me a squad to protect me, I might have really died. ”

Sun Wu stood up and said, "This is still my dereliction of duty, putting the adults in danger, and I am willing to accept the punishment of Master Zhang after I go back." ”

"It's over, don't talk about it, what you need to know now is who wants to kill me, I don't seem to have offended anyone in the capital."

Sun Wu said: "When Zhang Dabiao comes back from interrogation, he should be able to know who it is." ”

Zhou Xian and the others waited for about an hour, and Zhang Dabiao came back.

Zhang Dabiao came to Zhou Xian's room and said to Zhou Xian: "My lord, it has been found out, my group is just some ruffians in the capital, and the one headed by is a descendant of Liu Guang, a fourth-grade official of the imperial court, Shaoqing of Dali Temple. ”

"Liu Guang? Isn't this the fourth-grade official who wants to kill Chen Lufeng? How could he come and kill me? ”

"According to the confession of this Liu Guang's subordinates, that Chen Lufeng actually collected a lot of evidence of his master's corruption and perversion of the law, and handed over these evidences, if it wasn't for some forces of his master to stop him, his master would have been beheaded by the whole house, so he hated Chen Lufeng very much, so he would buy the thieves all the way to chase him down."

Zhou Xian nodded and said, "I see, then why did he kill me again?" ”

Zhang Dabiao continued: "He knew about the fact that we saved Chen Lufeng last time, and he also knew that Chen Lufeng lived in our Monkey Mountain Village, so this time he heard that the adults came to the capital, so he wanted to kill the adults to vent his anger." ”

Zhou Xian said with some anger: "None of the people who want to kill me have a good end, and now we don't have that strength, let him live for a few days, and then arrange someone to kill him after we develop and grow." ”

Sun Wu proposed: "My lord, do you want me to lead a battalion of soldiers to his mansion and destroy them?" ”

Zhou Xian waved his hand and said: "Now we have to continue to keep a low profile, if you do this, the people of the court will find us, and we can't be enemies of the court now." ”

Knowing what happened, Zhou Xian was relieved.

In the next few days, Zhou Xian didn't go around anymore, just went to the store to take a look, and then chatted with the three disciples in the mansion.

Zhou Xian went to the store and brought a medium-sized mirror for each of the three of them as a meeting gift.

Xu Shouyi and the three of them were also surprised to see such a clear mirror.

Xu Yun took the medicine and slowly woke up after a day of rest.

When they learned that Xu Shouyi and the three of them knelt down to beg the pharmacy shopkeeper for themselves to no avail, they blamed themselves when they worshiped Zhou Xian as a teacher, and thanked the three of them with tears in their eyes.

Zhou Xian also came to the room to visit Xu Yun today, looked at Xu Yun Zhou Xian opened his mouth and said: "It's good to wake up, you must not let down these friends of yours in the future, they really took great pains for you." ”

Xu Yun reluctantly sat up and said, "Young Master Zhou's words, Xu Yun will always remember them in his heart, Young Master Zhou, Xu Yun has a reluctant request, and I hope the adults can agree." ”

"It's okay for you to just say anything."

"I also want to worship Young Master Zhou as a teacher, I wonder if you can accept me?"

Zhou Xian was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect that someone would ask to be his disciple, so he didn't hesitate to say directly: "Of course you can worship me as a teacher, but if you start later, you can only be the fourth." ”

Xu Yun was very happy to hear Zhou Xian agree, and hurriedly said, "Xu Yun meets Master!" ”

As he spoke, he was going to give Zhou Xian a salute.

Zhou Xian hurriedly stopped: "You haven't recovered yet, don't be polite, I'm a person who doesn't like etiquette, it doesn't matter if you talk to me casually in the future." ”

Xu Yun lay down again and said to Zhou Xian: "Thank you Master for saving your life, if Master hadn't bought ginseng, I'm afraid I would have died." ”

"This is your life, even if I don't make a move, you will be fine."

Then Zhou Xian turned his head to the three of them and said, "Which of the three of you is the oldest?" ”

Xu Shouyi said: "Master, I am the oldest twenty-four years old, Xu Qiang is twenty-three years old, and Xu Xiaosong is twenty-one years old. ”

Zhou Xian nodded and said: "Okay, in the future, Shouyi will be my Zhou Xian's eldest disciple, Xu Qiang will be the second disciple, Xu Xiaosong will be the third disciple, and Xu Yun will be the fourth disciple." ”

When the four of them heard this, they saluted one after another.

After Zhou Xian asked some more about the situation at home, he suddenly asked, "Do you four still want to continue to participate in the scientific expedition?" ”

The four of them were stunned when they heard this, and they didn't know what Zhou Xian meant by asking.

Xu Shouyi was the first to speak: "Back to Master, we still want to continue to participate in the scientific examination. ”

"What are your plans for after you get in?"

Xu Shouyi said with a decisive face: "After being admitted, we will serve the court and be a good official who works diligently for the people." ”

Zhou Xian asked again: "Do you think this makes sense?" The current Ming Dynasty can be said to be full of holes, and the people are struggling to make a living, can you four small officials change all this? ”

The four of them were speechless and fell into deep thought, Xu Shouyi said: "Even if we can't change anything, we will use our own efforts to benefit the people." ”

Zhou Xian nodded and said: "Shouyi, your courage is commendable, but I still don't think about you, for the sake of you being my disciple, I'll tell you, although the Ming Dynasty temporarily repelled Li Zicheng's army, but it is not possible to sit back and relax, it is a matter of time before it perishes, this is a problem that every dynasty has to face at the end of the day." ”

This is also a question that Zhou Xian only figured out during this time, the Ming Dynasty has experienced more than two hundred years of history, and the nobles of the family have been stereotyped, especially the Zhu clan, these people are not producing, but they can get a lot of silver every year, plus the huge amount, sooner or later it will be empty.

Although he is considered a quasi-concubine of the Ming Dynasty, he can't organize it when the sky is about to die.