In this case, if they want to have a good life, on the premise of being loyal to Wu Shixian, it is necessary to moderately please Wu Shixian's first seven righteous sons.

And among all the methods they could to please Wu Shixian's first seven righteous sons, the starling who stood on the same side as them and helped them secretly target and squeeze out Qiao Heng and Qiao Heng was obviously the most beneficial.

Qiao Heng was used to being treated like this, if it was in normal times, he would just wait here honestly.

Anyway, whether Wu Shixian wants to see him or not, the porter who went to pass him on will eventually give him an exact reply.

After all, even if they wanted to please Wu Shixian's first seven righteous sons, they would not dare to hide it in the middle, and they would not help him pass it on at all. They can delay the time to embarrass him Qiao Heng, but they don't dare to assert themselves and violate Wu Shixian's taboo.

However, today Qiao Heng didn't plan to continue to be honestly embarrassed, he glanced at the busy gatehouse, and then directly took a few of his guards, including Yun Zhao and Zhen Xiaomei, into the City Lord's Mansion.

"Hey-" The last porter who stayed in place just wanted to stop it, Qiao Heng flew over with an eye knife, and the other party immediately shrank his neck and swallowed what he originally wanted to say.

Qiao Heng snorted coldly, and strode towards the inner part of the City Lord's Mansion.

Yun Zhao and Zhen Xiaomei, who followed him, one of their eyes were always shrouded in Tao Jianye, and the other was silently leaking out a little medicinal powder from their little hands whenever they touched a group of high-level martial artists.

Qiao Heng had previous experience, and this time he deliberately quietly noticed Zhen Xiaomei walking behind him on the right, but Zhen Xiaomei's movements were too hidden, even if he deliberately paid attention, it was still difficult to accurately capture Zhen Xiaomei's small movements because of the perspective of the situation.

A few people followed Tao Jianye from a distance, all the way to the courtyard where Wu Shixian worked daily.

Although Qiao Heng's identity as "Wu Shixian's righteous son" is very watery, this identity can make him appear in Wu Shixian's City Lord's Mansion reasonably.

Because of this, the guards and servants in Wu Shixian's mansion did not have suspicion or vigilance against them.

It wasn't until they could all hear the conversation between Wu Shixian and Tao Jianye that one of the guards who was responsible for protecting Wu Shixian appeared and stopped Qiao Heng and the others outside Wu Shixian's courtyard.

He bowed to Qiao Heng very perfunctorily, "Ninth Master, the city lord is discussing with the Seventh Master, and he has no time to see you for the time being." ”

As for inviting Qiao Heng to the courtyard next to him to sit down and wait, and even bring him some tea, snacks or something, Qiao Heng said that he was sorry, he had always enjoyed this kind of hospitality in Wu Shixian's City Lord's Mansion that might be very common in other places.

Wu Shixian's henchmen, guards, and servants, none of them regarded him as a so-called "guest" who needed to be given the most basic respect.

Qiao Heng returned the salute very calmly, "Thank you for informing." Then I'll walk around here for myself. ”

Wu Shixian is very good at enjoying this huge city lord's mansion, although only he, the city lord, is a serious "master", but he still paints the carved beams of the city lord's mansion, step by step, and the scenery is full of luxury and exquisiteness.

Not only did the back house of the City Lord's Mansion have several small gardens and a large garden for Wu Shixian and his beautiful concubines to use as a pastime, but even the front yard of the City Lord's Mansion was watched by Wu Shixian to repair two gardens, one large and one small.

The big one is next to the guest house, usually Wu Shixian is there to entertain guests, reward Yizi and subordinates, and the small one is outside the courtyard where Wu Shixian works every day, Qiao Heng's so-called "go around here casually", which means that he wants to go to the small garden to spend time.

The guard just wanted to stop Qiao Heng and prevent him from disturbing Wu Shixian and Tao Jianye, but as for how he was going to pass the time, the other party didn't care.

He arched his hand towards Qiao Heng, "Please take care of yourself." ”

Qiao Heng returned the salute, and then took Zhen Xiaomei and the others to the small garden outside Wu Shixian's yard slowly.

After entering the small garden and making sure that there was no one else around, Qiao Heng turned his eyes to Zhen Xiaomei and Yun Zhao.

He knew that Zhen Xiaomei and Yun Zhao's strength was far from being comparable to him and his guards, in this place, he and his guards might not be able to hear what Wu Shixian and Tao Jianye were saying, but Zhen Xiaomei and Yun Zhao were very likely to be able to hear clearly.

Facing his little eyes with hope and expectation, Zhen Xiaomei bowed slightly at him, affirmed his guess, and met his hopes and expectations by the way.

She eavesdropped openly with her ears open, while silently picking out important content to retell.

Qiao Heng had never learned such an unpopular skill as lip language, but after Zhen Xiaomei deliberately slowed down her speech speed and supplemented it with certain movements, he was able to guess some of the messages she wanted to convey.

Wu Shixian and Tao Jianye actually didn't say anything big about it, what Zhen Xiaomei and Yun Zhao heard at first was that Tao Jianye reported the battle situation to Wu Shixian with a frustrated face, pleaded guilty and argued for himself by the way, and then Wu Shixian's inquiry, scolding and follow-up instructions.

The most critical content in this is the follow-up instructions given by Wu Shixian, but since those who fought with Tao Jianye before have a lot to do with Qiao Heng, Qiao Heng will inevitably care about the first half of the conversation between the two.

Zhen Xiaomei caught the worry that couldn't be concealed from his eyes and expressions, so she kindly relayed Tao Jianye's content about the previous battle situation for him.

According to Tao Jianye, the reason why they lost their troops and did not make an inch of success in this anti-chaos operation was because they fell into the trap of the enemy.

The main purpose of the other party's attack on the big grange they were sixty miles east of Ganzhou City was not to rob the Zhuangzi or grab the grain, but to lure them out of the city to ambush them.

The other party chose a dense forest between the grange and Ganzhou Prefecture as an ambush site, and as soon as Tao Jianye and them entered the forest, countless organs inside were launched at the same time, taking them by surprise.

Tao Jianye was actually at the forefront of the team at that time, but at the moment when the danger came, he used his high strength to quickly jump from the most dense place to the back of the team one after another.

He also took the same action as the other high-level martial artists in the team, but not every one of these high-level martial artists was as lucky as Tao Jianye.

The vast majority of them died in the first wave of enemy attacks, and the few who survived were killed, and about half of them were lost in their hasty escape.

(End of chapter)