"Saburo, all the rooms...... It's all taken out." Li Tiedao came out of the inn and said.

"Why, such a big family, there is not even one?" Brother Mao looked inside in disbelief.

"Damn, it must be the shopkeeper who bullied him, wait for me to go in, see if he has it or not?" Lu Jiu rolled up his sleeves and scolded, but was pulled by Lu Rui beside him:

"Lao Lu, don't be reckless! Look at his house, guarding this official road, there is no second inn near the left, I can't say that there is some background behind it, and there may be any officials and distinguished guests living in it. We must not be reckless, and we are not playing tricks when we cause trouble to Saburo."

"So, what then? The restaurant just said that he was the only one for forty miles, could it be that we should sleep out tonight?" Lu Jiu roared in a loud voice, and glanced straight into the door with his eyes.

"What about sleeping on the streets? It's not the first time you've fought so many battles and you've camped?" Huang Qin, who was riding on a horse behind, scolded him.

He and Gao Cang, Lai Wubao, and Zhang Cymbal pretended to be guards, Li Tiedao was the leader of their family on the surface, Lu Jiu and Mao Zai were the coachman and Changsui, and Zhang Cheng was pretended to be a housekeeper.

Along with them was Yang Dayi, who was going to report to the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of War felt that it was a pity to put this talent below, so Dong Houyong, who had made great contributions, was promoted to try thousands of households and garrison, and let Yang Dayi enter Beijing to wait for the Ministry of War.

Yang Da commented on everyone's opinions, jumped off his horse and threw the reins to his soldiers, and stepped forward and said, "Wait a minute, everyone, I'll go in and ask, maybe they will give some convenience when they see that I am an official?"

Li Dan hugged his fists and said, "Then it's hard for you to ask, if you really can't do it, it's impossible to do it."

Yang Dayi went in and came out after a while, and was very embarrassed to look at everyone: "Maybe this five-grade is not high enough, Xiao Er said that the person who chartered this store, the five-grade official had to be his housekeeper."

These words made Li Dan and Lu Rui exchange glances, and Lu Jiu was still angry, but Li Dan raised his hand to stop him, saying, "Since this is the case, there is no need to talk about it, I will find another place."

Everyone was about to leave, when suddenly a person dressed as a retinue ran out of it, shouting, "Ride slowly!" After finishing speaking, he ran to the carriage, and Lu Jiu immediately jumped out of the car and blocked the door: "Stop, who are you?"

The man hurriedly stood on his feet and bowed down: "My master caught a glimpse of Your Excellency's carriage upstairs, and sent a villain to ask, is the master from Yugan, Jiangxi?"

"Hey, your master saw the carriage and knew that we were from Yugan, Jiangxi?" Lu Jiu was surprised.

Li Dan leaned forward and looked upstairs at the inn: "Your master guessed correctly, we are indeed from Yu Gan. Because I wanted to stay overnight, I didn't think that the store said that it had been booked. Dare to ask, but your house is the bag?"

"Exactly!" The man saluted again: "My master also asked the villain to ask one more question, can you be familiar with Li Sanlang?"

Everyone was stunned by this question. Li Dan thought for a moment and said, "Down there is Yugan Li Sanlang, who is about to enter Beijing to take the exam because of his participation in the Spring Festival, so he passes through here."

When the man heard this, he quickly said deeply: "It turned out that it was Li Xiaoqi in front of him, and the villain was rude! Please wait, let the villain return to my master." With Li Dan's permission, the man quickly ran back.

After a while, the shopkeeper and Xiao Er came out and asked them how many rooms they wanted, and said that the owner of the inn had already sent a message and asked the store to arrange rooms.

Then a middle-aged Confucian in a long robe and a majestic young man with a sword came out to invite Li Dan in. "I'm in the study, and I'm going to ask Gongzi Li to go for a while."

"......Who is your host?" Li Dan asked curiously.

"Childe knew it at first sight."

Li Dan stepped forward, but Yang Dayi and the others were stopped by the young man with the sword. "Please meet Childe alone, and the others please arrange a room with the shopkeeper." The middle-aged Confucian arched his hand. Li Dan nodded to everyone and asked him to lead the way.

It turned out that there was a hole behind the patio on the first floor of the inn, and a small two-story building occupied the southeast corner of the garden, and the sound of pipa playing and laughter of men and women came from above.

Li Dan swept his eyes and found that there were seven or eight bright or dark shadows standing there silently in the courtyard, wondering who had such a battle when he went out?

If calculated according to rotation, the retinue and family members brought by the master's side

, there should be no less than thirty people! No wonder he wants to take it here.

The young man with the sword stood at the gate of the courtyard and didn't go forward, the middle-aged Confucian led him upstairs, Li Dan hesitated and followed.

"Oh, Master Han is back, what about Li Sanlang?" A girl's crisp voice asked. Li Dan was already standing on the floor slab, and when he heard this voice, he almost turned his head and fled.

"Your Highness, this is Li Sanlang." Master Han pulled Li Dan back and pushed him to the front.

Only then did Li Dan see that there were two people in front of him, the man was medium-sized, with a short beard on his upper lip, and at first glance, he knew that he was not very old, only about twenty.

The man wore a green smoke and black gauze shirt, a goose-yellow dark moire slanted crewneck, dark red trousers, and a pair of low-tipped shoes with thin soles, and a yellow ribbon tied around his waist, on which hung incense sachets, peiyu, and a short knife only a ruler long.

A pair of smiling eyes, the corners of the eyes are a little upturned, and they are looking at Li Dan with interest. The woman's ......, Li Dan only saw a pair of delicate bare feet, unscrupulously on the concubine's couch.

He swallowed and foamed, bowed his head and saluted: "Student, Yu Gan Li Dan has seen and seen His Highness, uh, I don't know which Highness summoned him, so what's the matter?" Please make it clear."

The two people on the other side laughed when they heard it, and they laughed breathlessly, which made Li Dan very embarrassed. "Master Han, didn't you tell him who we were?" The man asked.

"Without His Highness's permission, how dare the minister?" After Master Han finished speaking, he introduced Li Dan: "This person who speaks is His Royal Highness Dingwang, and this is Princess Miyun of His Royal Highness the Ninth Highness."

Li Dan was stunned for a moment. He thought he had met a traveling vassal king, but this ...... This is the emperor's half-brother and half-sister!

He was stunned for a long time and suddenly pondered, no, these two are the closest relatives to the emperor, shouldn't they stay in the capital? "Y-How did you get here?" He blurted out.

The two on the other side laughed again, and then Zhao Jie came over and said with a straight face, "It's not for you? Otherwise, why do you think the superintendent is helping you speak, how can you get out so quickly?"

"Huh? It turns out that His Highness went to Nanchang?" Li Dan was surprised.

"It's just quiet, only Shi Hao and King Peng know about it." Master Han said beside him, and then added: "In the palace of the left chief Shi Han Xian, the one who lifted the sword just now is the guard Zhou Yuanlu."

He smiled and arched his hand: "Because His Royal Highness is out of Beijing in micro-service, I don't dare to reveal my identity, there is something missing, Gongzi Haihan!"

"Where is the long history. Still, Dan didn't understand."

"Hehe, you mean the ninth sister, right?" King Ding explained with a smile: "Of course, you have to have an errand name when you come out, and my name is to take the ninth sister back to Beijing by order." He explained it to Li Dan before he understood.

It turned out that the old King Peng gave birth to the current King Peng in Beijing before he became a vassal, and because his mother died in childbirth, the first emperor took pity on him and took him into the palace and handed him over to the queen to raise.

When he was in the palace with the ninth princess, he used a nursing mother, and later King Peng took the throne to take the nursing mother to Nanchang, and the ninth princess refused to leave the nursing mother, so the queen mother was gracious and let her come to Nanchang with her.

That's why the emperor sent King Ding to take her back to Beijing, and "by the way" asked about the plot of Li Dan's case.

Li Dan listened to and repeatedly expressed his gratitude to King Ding, who said that there was no need to do so, and he smiled and said: "Your Majesty can be said to have the grace of knowing you, you should repay more, Lone is just an errand Bodhisattva!"

If you really want to thank you, it is very comfortable to sit in the carriage you built at Your Majesty's place, why don't you let my brothers and sisters sit tomorrow, then it will be better!"

"Your Highness is also going back to Beijing? Then let's go together, and I'll give up the carriage to the two of you!" Li Dan said very generously, but he didn't dare to look at the couch from beginning to end, and he didn't even figure out the appearance of Princess Miyun.

That night, Li Dan and the others stayed in the west wing on the second floor of the front yard, and next door to him was Han Xian.

In the second half of the night, Li Dan suddenly woke up, he felt that something was wrong, and quickly got dressed. Brother Mao and Lu Jiu outside have also risen. "Signal to wake everyone up!"

Li Dan said as he pulled out his knife and put it on the table, took out two B-II flintlock short guns made by the Ordnance Factory, loaded them with paper packets and inserted them behind his waist.

At this time, Lu Jiu had already knocked out the agreed signal on the wall, waking up the people next door.

"Step, step, step......." There was a slight sound of footsteps from the ceiling overhead.

Mao Zai slowly opened the partition window and looked out through the crack in the window. "Childe, there are men in black on the roofs of both compartments. They're ready to come down!"

"Come down and kill!" Li Dan calmly picked up the knife: "You and Lu Jiu are fighting to catch a living!" After speaking, he walked to Lu Jiu, who was holding a repeater at the door: "I'll go out, you cover, and then Ah Mao will block the door next door and won't let that old gentleman get hurt!"

"And who's following you?"

"I'll go to the backyard and tell Iron Knife to come along. The gate may be lost, Ah Jiu and Huang Qin stopped the thieves coming from the lobby in front of them, and shot one by one!" As soon as he finished speaking, he saw several figures jumping from the eaves into the porch.

"Open the door!" Li Dan shouted.

Mao Zai slammed open the door, and as soon as a man in black turned around, he was shot through the head by Lu Jiuyi's arrow, and then he rushed out and slashed another one with an axe, and raised his hand to shoot down the other one on the left.

Then Li Dan and Mao Zai rushed out one after another. As soon as the house opened, the other three rooms suddenly became lively, and the black-clothed people who jumped into the porch on the west side all fell to the ground in a blink of an eye. The crowd began to expand the results of the battle to the south house and the east chamber.

Li Dan couldn't care about the front yard, he heard the movement and knew that the guards of the palace had also been alarmed, so he jumped into the patio and saw a knife slashing at his head.

He dodged sideways and cut off the opponent's weapon with a backhand. They were equipped with No. 4 alloy steel, which was made by the Armory Factory with hydraulic presses and hydraulic forging machines, and Yusuf promised that it would be comparable to Damascus steel.

Seeing that the weapon in his hand was cut in two, the black-clothed thief was still in a daze, Li Dan had already turned his body half a circle, the guy's eyelids rolled up, and his body fell down softly.

Shouts of killing could be heard everywhere, some of which were clearly coming from the backyard. Li Dan is not worried about his own people, they have all led soldiers, fought on the battlefield, and have martial arts, he is worried about the safety of Dingwang's brothers and sisters.

So he took a step and rushed to the backyard, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw two guys besieging Zhou Yuanlu, and he couldn't get out of the way.

Li Dan raised his leg and kicked away an enemy, moved closer in two steps, and shouted, "Brother Zhou go to escort, leave these two to me!"

The two heard voices behind them, and one of them immediately shouted, "Go kill him!" The other waved his sword and pounced on Li Dan. The Pu knife belonged to the long soldiers, and the tip of the knife was four to six feet long from the tip to the tail.

One inch long and one inch strong, this kid wants to take advantage of Li Dan and not let Li Dan reach him. Who would have thought that he would have a self-generated fire behind him?

Li Dan made a feint and pumped the gun in his hand, threw his body down, and opened the safety machine in his hand, with the medicine bag at the end of the punctured bullet case, and pulled the trigger with a "hidden in stirrup".

After the "bang" sounded, he didn't stop or look at the result, and put the gun in his waist with his backhand and stepped forward with the knife.

The guy who was fighting with Zhou Yuanlu didn't expect Li Dan to suddenly appear beside him, he was taken aback, and hurriedly took two steps back, only to see that his companion had fallen to the ground.

He screamed and slashed hard, Li Dan calmly pushed back half a step and dodged, his hand slightly exerted, and the two knives made a crisp metal collision sound.

The man was so shocked that the knife almost came out of his hand, seeing that his mind was wide open and he knew that it was not good, he subconsciously raised his left hand, it was too late to block with a hand shield, Li Dan took a wrong step and his body was extremely fast, and his backhand "Haidilao Moon", the knife flashed!

The guy's left hand was sliced off his wrist, the tip of the knife slashing across his chest, sending out a burst of sparks, then slicing open at his throat and breaking his jaw in half.

"What a knife!" Zhou Yuanlu screamed in surprise.

"Brother Zhou is smiling, go and protect King Ding!" Li Dan reminded him of his duties, and Zhou Yuanlu turned over and ran upstairs. Li Dan went to the corpse and picked open his clothes with the tip of a knife, and saw that he was wearing a delicate and fine chain soft armor inside.

No wonder there were sparks on the tip of the knife just now, and the tear on his clothes should have eaten Zhou Yuanlu several times, but they were all blocked by this armor and did not hurt the vital point.

Looking at the way he opened his eyes, it is estimated that the thief probably didn't understand why this armor failed to protect him in the end.

"Help!" A woman's screams were heard upstairs. Li Dan looked up and saw the figure of a thief swaying in the corridor of the wing tower, and suddenly realized that it might be the residence of Princess Miyun.

"Oops!" As soon as Li Dan thought like this, he saw King Ding's panicked face appear at the window, and at a glance he shouted, "San Lang, save Jiu Niang, save Jiu Niang!"

"Saburo, we're here!"

Li Tiedao and Zhang Cheng appeared behind him, and Li Dan immediately said, "The Iron Knife Master rescued people from the second floor of the main hall, and the copper operator (Zhang Cymbal) guarded the entrance of the wing, and I went up to save this side!"

Zhang Cheng temporarily took a top door latch without a weapon, and rushed over when he said yes, and instantly knocked down the two people who were about to rush into the wing, and snatched the Pu knife in his hand.

Li Dan quickly went upstairs under his cover, and saw that the two guards had been forced to the end of the corridor by three or four thieves, and the other two were kicking the door.

Just as he was about to step forward, a thief came out of the first door, and a woman who was crying on his shoulder. Without thinking about it at all, Li Dan slashed his stomach open, and then jumped over the heads of the two.

"I've had a bad cold, why haven't I been doing well for almost two weeks? I'm so anxious!"