Afternoon.

A team of people entered the city from the west gate of Tiandu Mansion, and this team of people and horses immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the city after entering the city.

The procession was escorted by several men at the front and back, and in the middle were five horses pulling five flatbeds, each with a coffin on it.

"Who is this? With so many coffins? ”

"Look at the silver seal on that person's body, this is an official seal with a rank ratio of two thousand stones, either a county lieutenant or a metropolitan lieutenant!"

"Where did the county lieutenant come from in our Tiandu Mansion? Ning Hou is in charge of all the army forces, this is the Xuanwei Captain under Ning Hou's command! ”

This team of people is Wang Cheng and the others who rushed back from Lianyun County after two days.

"My lord, ...... next?" Xu Chao asked.

Wang Cheng said: "Return these corpses to their families first, and then do the work report tomorrow!" ”

"But ......," Xu Chao stopped talking.

He always felt that there was something wrong with this, like returning the dead to their families, shouldn't Ning Hou arrange someone to do it? Will they be mistaken for buying hearts and minds by doing so?

Xu Chao's worries soon came true.

After He Yiming, who was lying on the bed recuperating from his injuries, learned the news, he quickly got up from the bed, found Ninghou Zhou Zhaoguang, and told him about the matter.

"Master Hou! This son is obviously buying people's hearts! His heart can be punished! ”

Zhou Zhaoguang sat on the chair, looked at He Yiming with breathtaking eyes, and said in a deep voice: "You came to find Gu just to tell Gu this?" ”

He Yiming's heart jumped, Ning Hou's tone was wrong, could it be that he did something wrong this time?

"Did you get your head broken? Who is the capital of the world? For whom did he buy hearts and minds? Zhou Zhaoguang said.

He Yiming's face suddenly turned the color of pig liver.

Yes, the entire Tiandu Mansion is the fief of Ning Hou, he is the king here, even if someone buys people's hearts here, what big waves can they make?

He Yiming didn't know how he left, he touched his head, could it be that his head was really broken?

How could he do such a stupid act?

Wang Cheng didn't know that He Yiming had accused him of the black state and returned the bodies of the four subordinates, and now only the last person remained.

This person is also the most difficult for him to face, because in a way, this person is equivalent to dying at his hands, and he is the only one who has died under the dust explosion.

Li Hongxiang lives in the gray alley of Tiandu Mansion, unlike other streets that are paved with bluestone bricks, the road surface here is only sprinkled with a layer of lime, hence the name "gray alley".

This is the most backward street in Tiandu City, and the people who live here are some poor people.

Li Hongxiang's home is a small courtyard, and there are only two rooms in the courtyard, but it is cleaned cleanly, and all the items in the courtyard are neatly placed.

Wang Cheng has been walking all the way, this is the cleanest yard, and it can be seen that the owner is not only a person who loves cleanliness, but also an orderly person.

The gate of the courtyard was open, and a woman with a full head of hair sat by the well and washed her clothes, and there were already several large buckets of laundry around her.

This person is Li Hongxiang's widowed mother, and she makes money by washing clothes for others on weekdays.

Suddenly, a little girl came out of the room, eight or nine years old, with yellow face and thin muscles, but the thin and deformed small arms actually lifted a large wooden bucket containing dozens of catties of clothes.

Pushing the bucket out of the door, she was so tired that she couldn't straighten her waist, and it took a while to look up and see Wang Cheng standing at the door.

Wang Cheng was wearing a black robe, his long hair was still as natural as a shawl, and a silver seal was hanging on his waist.

The little girl looked at the stranger and asked timidly, "Who are you looking for?" ”

Then he shouted to the middle-aged woman who was washing clothes: "Mother! Someone's coming! ”

"Zhen'er, who is it?"

Mother Li shook her hand, wiped her hand clean on her apron again, and then got up.

She walked up to Wang Cheng and saw a silver seal hanging from Wang Cheng's waist, so she immediately bowed, and then asked, "Do you have something important here?" ”

Wang Cheng's eyes turned red, and he lowered his head and said, "Auntie, I'm ...... I'm sorry you guys! ”

Mother Li was stunned at first, and then her feet were unstable, but fortunately she was supported by Li Zhen and did not fall.

"Yes...... Did Hongxiang have an accident? ”

Wang Cheng turned back and shouted into the alley, "Come in!" ”

At this time, Xu Chao, Huang Meiren, Long Tao, and Yang Si walked in carrying a coffin.

Mother Li didn't know where she got the strength, so she rushed to the coffin in three steps and two steps, and hugged the coffin.

Suddenly, there was only one voice left in the heavens and the earth, and it was the sorrow of a mother after the loss of her son.

Li Hongxiang's sister Li Zhen also rushed to the coffin and cried bitterly with her mother.

"Why? Why don't you listen to me? Why would you want to go your dad's old way? ”

Mother Li's thin compass-like hands were constantly afraid of hitting the coffin, like slapping the people inside.

"What's so good about practicing martial arts? You've exhausted your family's resources, and you've only ended up in this end! Why are you disobedient? What's so bad about being an ordinary person? ”

When Wang Cheng heard this, an indescribable feeling surged in his heart.

In fact, he had some understanding of Li Hongxiang's family situation before he came.

Li Hongxiang's father was also a martial arts practitioner, but when Li Hongxiang was very young, that is, a few days after Li Zhen was born, Li Hongxiang's father was killed by the enemy.

In order to avoid the enemy, Li's mother took Li Hongxiang and Li Zhen to Tiandu Mansion before she was confined. Because the confinement was not done well, I fell into the root of back pain, I couldn't do heavy work, I could only do some chores and the like, and I looked like I was in my early forties and in my fifties and sixties.

Li's mother hated martial arts from then on, and told her son Li Hongxiang not to practice martial arts. But Li Hongxiang had already practiced martial arts for several years at that time, laid a foundation, and his father's death made him haunted him, so he studied and practiced harder.

At the age of twenty, his strength has reached three thousand catties, and he is expected to break through to the realm of martial arts at the age of twenty-one.

Of course, to be able to reach 3,000 catties of strength before the age of twenty, in addition to his own efforts, he also invested a huge price, such as buying Qi and Blood Pills.

Qi and Blood Pills were expensive, and all the family assets accumulated by his father were used up, and the originally wealthy family became dependent on the widowed mother to do laundry for people.

This is also the fact that he later ran for Xuanwei, because his family really had no money for him to practice martial arts.

Poor and rich in martial arts, nothing more than that.

The coffin was moved into the house, and Li's mother and daughter Li Zhen finally had to accept this fact, and their emotions were no longer as violent as before.

Wang Cheng took out a hundred taels of gold at this time and said: "Hongxiang is Xuanwei, this time he has made a great contribution, this is the bounty given to him by the Hou Ye, please accept it." ”

Mother Li didn't refuse, maybe she didn't have the heart to think about it now.

Wang Cheng put the gold away, and said: "There is one more thing to ask my aunt, Hongxiang asked me to hand over one thing to Xuemei before leaving, do you know where Xuemei's family lives?" ”

"Xuemei? Xuemei? ”

Mother Li, who was already grief-stricken, suddenly seemed to be crazy, slapped the coffin vigorously with both hands, and roared in her mouth: "Rebel! You rebel! I still think about that woman until I die! Ah......h

Wang Cheng was taken aback, why was Mother Li so excited when she heard the word "Xuemei"? Isn't Xuemei Li Hongxiang's fiancée?

Seeing that Mother Li was too excited, Wang Cheng couldn't continue to ask, and went out of the courtyard with Xu Chao.

didn't go far, a cry came from behind him, but he saw Li Zhen running over with tears on his face.

She ran to Wang Cheng and said, "My lord! I know where Xuemei lives, she lives in the Drunken Red Mansion. ”

Drunken Red Mansion?

Wang Cheng reacted after a while, isn't this the Qinglou that Tiandu Mansion can count?

"It turned out to be a prostitute! What kind of woman does the master think can make a person remember before he dies! ”

Yang Si wanted to continue, but was glared at by Wang Cheng, and he closed his mouth honestly.

"Thank you! Little sister! ”

Wang Cheng touched Li Zhen's head, and said to Yang Si again: "Take out that jade pendant on your body!" ”

Yang Si immediately covered his chest, but when he saw Wang Cheng's sword eyebrows, he still honestly took out the jade pendant, and muttered in his mouth: "Master, the little thing I brought back from Lianyunbao has been scattered by you, and you have to take away even this jade pendant!" ”

Wang Cheng snatched the jade pendant, and this bastard lied to himself again.

He knew very well that Yang Si had taken a lot of treasures from the secret room of Lianyun Castle, and hid them all, and only took them out on the day he came back, and the gold he asked for was not even a tenth of it.

Handing this jade pendant to Li Zhen, Wang Cheng touched her head and said, "This jade pendant is put away, don't let people see it casually, if anyone bullies you, remember to find me in Laohuai Lane, and I will call it back for you!" ”

"Hmm!"

Li Zhen nodded solemnly, her big watery eyes as if she could speak.

He patted her little shoulder again, and it wasn't until she ran home that Wang Cheng straightened up.

Looking at the small courtyard where whimpering came from time to time, he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time, and Mother Li's previous words had a great impact on him.

Life is full of choices, and different choices often have different outcomes.

If Li Hongxiang had listened to his mother's words and been an ordinary person, with the belongings left by Li Hongxiang's father, he would probably have a group of wives and concubines by now, and he would be a happy rich son.

However, many times, people don't have a choice!

Wang Cheng has no choice, go home, save people, take revenge, he is destined to go down the road of martial arts, the enemy in front of him is too strong.

It was so powerful that he didn't know how to face it, and if he could, of course he didn't want to be an enemy of a character like Ning Hou.

But, fuck, he really doesn't have a choice!

"My lord, let's ...... next" Xu Chao asked habitually again.

Wang Cheng waved his hand and said, "It's getting dark, let's go back!" Remember to go to the Hou Mansion tomorrow morning to report on your work! ”

Although the task has been completed, the handover work has not yet been done, especially the property rewarded by Ning Hou is still in the treasury, and he just received a piece of paper.

Old Huai Lane.

The old locust trees are lush and green, with buds on their branches, and in a few days they will be out in March, and the locust flowers will be in bloom.

After many days, Wang Cheng and Yang Si returned to the courtyard again, and the gate of the courtyard was open.

The two of them were about to enter the door, and a fist was rapidly enlarged in front of them!