"Smack!" The guard's big slap hit the captive on the cheek, and he smiled nonchalantly and spat at the ground with blood dripping from the corner of his mouth. "Something I don't know!" The guard cursed and got up to leave the firewood room.

Zhang Cheng, who was standing on the corner of the side hall, beckoned to him, and the guards walked over. "How?" Zhang Cheng asked with a smile.

The guard was unconvinced: "It's too light to hit him in the mouth, I should still twist this kid's arm off!" As he spoke, he turned around to leave, but was pulled by Zhang Yi.

"Okay, let's go to the two families to judge a cup of tea, and we can't break the rules. Wait, watch me come!" After he finished speaking, he carried a clay pot with a large porcelain bowl upside down.

"Hey, you can come, I don't believe it anymore, if you invite him to tea, he can honestly bow his head?" The guards looked disdainful.

"You'll talk about that later." Zhang Cheng happily put the linen hand towel on his shoulder and walked towards the firewood room.

The door creaked, and the captive looked up and saw a fat white guy with a smile like a Buddha coming in, and he couldn't help but be stunned.

"Come, brother, rinse your mouth first, and then drink some water. Drink more while they allow you, and they won't care about you when you get on the road!" After Zhang Cheng finished speaking, he poured a bowl of tea and held it over: "I'm sorry that this tea is a little cold, you will just have it."

The captive wanted to refuse, but the aroma of the tea made the rumbling stomach uncomfortable, so he spit it out in his mouth, and then lowered his head and drank it with Zhang Cheng's hand.

After drinking two bowls of tea to fill himself up, he leaned back against the pillar to catch his breath. Whispered, "What is this place?"

"I don't know, a temple I came across on the way." After Zhang Cheng finished speaking, he turned back to look at the door: "Little brother, can't you be soft? They're going to send people to toss you endlessly."

"Hmph, I'm not afraid!" The captive sneered, "Since you did this, you didn't want to die well!"

"Alas! You're a backbone, not like me."

"Huh?" The captives looked over.

"It's not a secret, in Xia Lu Jiu, it was originally a scout under the commander of Poyang Lake, Tatehuazi, who told them to catch it and surrender. Seeing that I was literate, they asked me to do a bookstore, which kind of saved my life." Zhang Cheng said softly.

"Oh, so you've been a thief?"

"Ha, you say that as if you're not."

"I'm not a thief!" The captive replied sternly: "We are doing the right thing for heaven. The Emperor of Thieves has usurped the country, and we will take it back and return it to its true owner!"

"Usurpping the country? It's the first time I've heard of this, and Tatehanako also rebelled, but he didn't say that the emperor was a usurper? Didn't he inherit the throne from his father?" Zhang Cheng asked with a puzzled look.

"I'm not talking about the current emperor, I'm talking about his father! He shouldn't have been allowed to ascend the throne back then, and it was only natural that his brother would end up with his brother!

Eryang controls the government, and the two daughters interfere with the country, which is why the world is so dark. Jiangxi, Fujian, Hunan, Guizhou, and Liangguang are all in revolt, and this is the best proof that the emperor is not right!"

"Shh......h Be quiet, don't attract people!" Zhang Cheng made a panicked look, got up and looked left and right at the window for a moment, then came back and exhaled: "Fortunately, this place is a backyard, and few people come near the monks' kitchens."

"Brother, can you find a way to release me?"

"Oh my God, then they'll be the first to suspect me!" Zhang Cheng waved his hand again and again, stopped and said, "It's really not easy for you guys to come out and risk being found out by such a large group.

How did you get here? Is there no official army on the road? This is going to be detained in our Jiangxi Province, not to mention passing through the state, even if there is no way to cross counties, it will be detained early!"

"Hehe, we have a head with us, and the officers and soldiers have to bow their heads and give way when they see it, who dares to intercept it!"

"Is that amazing?" Zhang Cheng blinked, lowered his voice and asked, "Brother, if I want to release you, it's a crime of killing your head, why don't you take me away and introduce me to the gang?"

The captives looked embarrassed: "We are not lake bandits or mountain kings, where do you want to join?

All of us were the children of officials who were persecuted by Eryang back then, because our fathers supported His Highness's accession to the throne

to be convicted. We hate both our country and our family, so it doesn't matter if we fight for our lives. But you ......."

"Yes, yes, there really is no national hatred like you." Zhang Cheng nodded: "But in fact, you don't need to enter your team.

As I just said, we are scouts, but it's actually good to open a small shop outside and continue to be a spy. You see, I'm now following Li Sanlang as a bookstore, and I have to go wherever he tells me to go, and I don't have any freedom at all."

"Oh, that's what you think?"

"yes!" Zhang Cheng became happy: "I saw your leader in front of the battle, that gray-bearded man, I think he is not bad, he shouldn't be such a difficult master, right?"

"Have you seen Sect Leader Hou? He's not like you think, he's a great character, a man who once led thousands of soldiers!"

Seeing Zhang Cheng's somewhat disappointed look, the captive hurriedly said, "But I'll help you speak, as long as you're on the periphery, it shouldn't be that difficult!"

"Good, good!" Zhang Cheng regained his joy: "The monk will be hungry after the morning class, and someone will come to the backyard to fast, and someone will bring tea and rice to the prince. People come and go, and we have a chance!"

The captives were surprised, "Isn't it because there are few people that there is a chance?"

Zhang Cheng shook his head: "Now there are four groups of people in this temple: monks, pilgrims, people from Dingwang and Li Sanlang's subordinates, these people are not familiar with each other, and we just happened to fish in troubled waters.

Bear with me, I'll go find two clothes, and then we'll sneak out while they're eating......

Zhang Cheng came out and made a report in front of King Ding and Li Dan. King Ding's brows tightened, and after listening, he first let Zhang Cheng go down to prepare. After a while, he said:

"I didn't think it was him again! But why did he put so much effort into it? I can understand if it happens to His Majesty, but why is it that he came to me?"

Li Dan walked to the door and called Lu Jiu, and whispered a few words. After a while, Lu Jiu came in with a few weapons, piled them on the ground and went out again.

Li Dan picked up a knife and nodded, then looked at the other two weapons, and then said, "Chitose, please see, this is the weapon we captured after blocking the pursuing soldiers this morning."

King Ding stepped forward, and Li Dan pointed to him one by one. King Ding picked up a sword by himself in surprise, pulled it open and looked, the sword above the sword grid was engraved with the word "Fan".

"What does that mean? King Fan?" He turned around in surprise and asked.

"That's what they want to tell us." Li Dan smiled: "Killing the king, framing the king of Fan, and messing up His Majesty's judgment are a plan to kill three birds with one stone!"

"It's the three of us who are in trouble, but he is enjoying the benefits of the fisherman?" King Ding suddenly understood, and he looked back at Han Xian, whose face was pale: "Master Han, what do you think?"

"It's a lot of work!" Han Xian pressed his chest and sighed, "However, Your Highness is in a hurry now, not the time to investigate this matter. We'd better leave this matter to the Pterodactyl Guard to investigate!"

"The minister agrees with Changshi's opinion." Li Dan said: "This matter involves a wide range of issues and needs to be investigated in detail by the Pterodactyl Guard case. Chitose should return to Beijing safely as soon as possible, and it is not advisable to stay here for a long time. In the first battle before noon, the opponent's losses were not small, and for the time being, they would not take the initiative to attack again.

The host has sent a request for help to the Hu family, and when the Hu family's escort arrives, we will cross the river north to Tongcheng and Lujiang as soon as possible, and get rid of the tracking. It's the safest thing to do."

"Okay, Master Han, tell everyone to get ready, and we will set off as soon as the Hu family's reception arrives!" Han Xian said yes when he heard it, and then went out.

"Are you really going to let that prisoner go?" King Ding's eyes looked at him with some playfulness: "Do you want that person to be an undercover agent just now?"

"A great opportunity to try." Li Dan said: "Even if you can't enter the core, as long as you get on the edge, I think the copper operator will have a way to do it himself, what hasn't he done when he pawns and releases accounts? There is no problem dealing with these people!"

"Yes...... I am afraid that it will be troublesome to let this captive go without permission, and it will reach the ears of others."

"I'll do it all by myself." Li Dan replied with a smile: "You can't do things completely in accordance with the laws and rules, and sometimes you have to deal with them flexibly. If you go according to the plan, the opportunity is lost, and the time is not

Come again."

King Ding helplessly pointed his finger at him: "That is, you, bold and arbitrary!" Li Dan laughed and threw it away, at that time he didn't expect how annoying this matter would be.

The two men quickly crossed the narrow causeway between the waters, then hid behind the reeds and looked back in the direction of the pier. Zhang Yi, who was wearing a fireman's robe, smiled proudly:

"Look, what did I say? When there are a lot of people, sometimes it's an opportunity." After he finished speaking, he pointed with his hand:

"We're two miles away from the temple now, and if we haven't been discovered at this time, we'll probably be safe. How? Can you still run?" After speaking, he took out two buns from his arms and handed them to the other party.

"Great, I was about to say that if I had some food, it would be okay to run ten miles!" The captive took it happily and bit it.

Zhang Cheng couldn't help but laugh dumbly when he saw that this guy had no city government and no guard. "It's okay, I'm not laughing at you. I suddenly remembered that we had both run away together, and I didn't know what to call you!"

"Oh, yes, yes!" The captive hurriedly swallowed the food in his mouth and gave his hand apologetically: "Zhang Xuan, the Xuanhuang of heaven and earth.

My father, Zhang Yeling, was the former right senator of the Shandong Buzheng Division, who was dismissed by Eryang for dereliction of duty, and was arrested by Tiqi on the way home, and his whereabouts have been unknown since then.

My mother and I were rescued overnight by the righteous sent by King Xiang and sent to Xiangyang, I was raised by Chitose and rebuilt with Entong, so I vowed to help Chitose sit on the country since I was a child, and I will not hesitate to spill blood on my head!"

"Good, good." Zhang Cheng nodded: "I didn't expect to save the son of an official eunuch, Lu is lucky. But Childe, what do we do next? Where are you people, and how are we going to find them?"

Zhang Xuan blinked his eyes and thought, "They should be not far from here, watching from afar."

"Not far away?" On the way to his memory, Zhang Cheng once passed a small village with more than a dozen families.

"That's it!" Zhang Xuan slapped his thigh: "Let's go to that village, we will definitely find them!"

The small village was less than three miles away, and after two trips in the morning scared the people away, and the whole village was empty.

Zhang Xuan didn't care, so he found a piece of charcoal and drew a long-tailed bird on the door panel of a house, and drew an upward fist at the bottom. Then he threw away the charcoal and beckoned Zhang Cheng to come into the house and sleep.

"Huh? Go to bed? And then?" Zhang Cheng asked.

"When they saw the painting, they naturally came to us."

He dared to sleep, and Zhang Cheng muttered a little. Lying on the bed and tossing and turning. I don't know how long later, when he opened his eyes and saw a pair of eyes looking down on him, he was startled and sat up suddenly.

The man on the other side was none other than the Greybeard. "Awake?" The man turned his head and asked, "He helped you escape?"

"Yes!" Hearing the voice, Zhang Xuan was startled, only to find that Zhang Xuan had gotten up at some point, and stood respectfully behind Graybeard. He was a little annoyed in his heart, did he ask this young man too much, and he was a little careless?

"It's good that you can get him out. Thank you in advance, old man!" Graybeard raised his hand in motion.

Zhang Cheng hurriedly returned the salute, looked at Zhang Xuan and asked softly, "Hou Jiaotou?" Zhang Xuan nodded vigorously. Zhang Cheng immediately got up and kowtowed and said, "The former Poyang Lake Shuai's subordinates scouted Lu Jiu, saluted Hou Jiaotou, begged the Jiaotou to take him in, and rewarded the villain with a bowl of rice!"

"Well, Ah Xuan told me just now." The gray beard stretched out his hand and said, "It's not difficult for you to stay, but my subordinates will never leave people who are not capable, may I ask what kind of ability Lu Zhuangshi has?"

"Writing and arithmetic villains can do it, and it's no problem to be a shopkeeper and account office."

"Oh, is there anything else?"

"Well, the villain knows the business of pawnbrokers, rental shops, and loans."

"Uh-huh, what's more?"

"Uh," Zhang Cheng looked outside the house, "I don't know if this counts?" Please move outside." So saying, he got out of bed and went to the millstone outside the house, where there was a stone mill against the wall.

Zhang Cheng looked at the stone mill, tied up the horse step, sank into the dantian, first pushed the stone mill with his hand, and then got up to take a breath.

The head of the Hou sect narrowed his eyes as soon as he saw his posture.

I saw Zhang Cheng gently put the stone crookedly, his hand clasped the bottom, and his waist, back, and arms exerted force, "cough!" The ground lifts the stone grinder above his head, soars, soars, soars, steps until he reaches the window, and slowly puts the stone mill back on the ground.

The onlookers whispered, "True divine power!"

"Laugh, laugh!" Zhang Cheng sang a song, and the surprised Zhang Xuan patted him on the back, looking like he was honored.

"Oh, when the master comes back and sees that this mill has moved, he will probably think that some gods and monsters have come, right?" Hou Jiaotou actually made a joke, and then asked everyone:

"If any of you takes the hand, it's better for someone to move them back to their place." Everyone's faces suddenly looked embarrassed.

"No, everyone, you still need to tie the bell to the bell." After Zhang Cheng finished speaking, he squatted down and picked up the mill again and put it back under the wall next to the grinding plate. This immediately attracted everyone's applause.

Hou Jiaotou walked over and invited Zhang Cheng into the house with his left arm, and then asked, "Since Brother Lu is from over there, he should have a rough idea of the route they are taking, right?"

"*** head, they will stay in Tongcheng County tonight, and they will leave for Lujiang tomorrow, and then go to Luzhou Mansion to Fengyang Mansion. It's not clear how the villain will go from here."

"Good, that's enough!" Hou Jiaotou was very satisfied: "I was not sure whether they would take the road of Shucheng or not, it seems that they planned to walk along the west bank of Chaohu Lake?"

"Originally, King Ding planned to go to Shucheng by Beixia Pass, but Li Sanlang was worried that this road was high and dense and easy to be ambushed, so he persuaded him."

"Oh, I see! Hmph, it's a ghost! It's just that he thinks he will be fine if he walks through the Lujiang River?" Hou Jiaotou stroked his beard and thought about it:

"But he reminded me that Lujiang is indeed an important place, and we didn't pay enough attention to it before!" He turned to look at Zhang Cheng, "You're very good!

In this way, you take Zhang Xuan to Lujiang first, find a place to stay, and monitor the actions of the convoy after entering the city. Zhang Xuan knows how to contact me, I may not necessarily enter the city, but if you want to be able to report the news, can you do it?"

"This is the villain's old business, don't worry. The villain took Zhang Xuan first, and you and the other brothers followed behind the convoy, and the villain wanted to write down the information about their accommodation, defense, and correspondence after entering the city and tell you, right?"

"Sure enough, I've been a scout!" Hou Jiaotou gave a thumbs up, and said, "When you go back, you two will stay in Lujiang and be responsible for pulling up the network of informants in Luzhou Mansion, I will leave you a sum of money, and you can find a business to start as a cover."

Zhang Xuan is the bridge between you and me. Except for Zhang Xuan, don't tell anyone else about this matter. Do you understand?"

"True and false, subtle!"