Lin Liangyou, Yang Fang, and Jiang Jianxue set off for Beijing almost at the same time, although the destination was the same, the road was different.

Lin Liangyou took Xiao Gong'e out of Xin'an County all the way, and he felt vaguely in his heart, always feeling as if someone was following him, but he poked his head out to see, but he didn't see anyone.

He sat in a carriage, leaning on a knife, with sachets and bells hanging in front of the window.

The carriage drove steadily on the official road.

"Where are you from?" In the carriage, he took a sip of wine, put down the wine jug, and asked Xiao Gong'e opposite.

Xiao Gong'e opened her big eyes and shook her head: "Slave...... There is no home. ”

"No home?"

"For as long as I can remember, slaves grew up in the palace." Xiao Gong'e said.

Oh, then, it should be the children of the palace servants, or, they were sold into the palace.

"Then you should have a name, right?"

"It's okay for the official to call Nu Xue'e." Xiao Gong'e said.

Sure enough, I grew up in the palace since I was a child, although I am not very old, but I am quite mature and sophisticated in my speech, and I don't have the shyness of the girl's family at all.

After all, it is a palace, and that kind of environment, if you are not mature and sophisticated, it is difficult to survive.

"Xue'e, this thousand treasure banknotes, half of each of us," Lin Yanyou casually divided half of the stack of treasure notes that Zhu Youxi rewarded him, and handed it to Xue'e, "Take it, find a place to settle down by yourself!" ”

Xue'e's eyes widened: "Official, won't you take me away?" ”

"Didn't I already take you out of the palace?" "With this money, you can start a new life." ”

Xue'e didn't take the treasure money: "A weak woman with so many treasure money, she can't walk a few miles, she must have been killed and robbed, don't the officials put the slave in a dangerous place?" ”

"How do you say that?" Lin Liangyou was a little embarrassed by her, "I saw that you were not treated by Zhu Youxi, and I was afraid that there would be no good life if you stayed in the palace, so I kindly took you out." "The main thing is that I pity the fragrance and cherish the jade, and I am impulsive, and I don't think about it so far-reaching.

Careless!

"That's not what slaves mean...... The slave said the wrong thing, and asked the officials not to blame. Xue'e said weakly, "The slave is afraid that the officials will leave the slave, and he ......is in a hurry."

"I didn't mean to abandon you...... "I'm afraid I can't support you!" Even if life in the palace is not good, food and accommodation are better than following us! You see, in the summer, there are natural air conditioners and rosewood refrigerators, like we can only hide under the grape trellis to enjoy the cool, and watermelon wine can only be put in the well water ice.

"His Royal Highness the King of the County rewarded the slave to the official, and the slave is the official's person, and please don't dislike the official, don't leave the slave." Xue'e begged, after staying in the deep courtyard of the palace for so many years, she has no other skills except serving people, and the outside world is really a little strange to her.

"You...... What will you do? Lin Liang asked.

"Laundry, cooking, making beds, stacking quilts...... As long as you can follow the officials, you can ask the slaves to do anything. Xue'e said.

"This is ......" Lin Liangyou's heart moved, it is better to try the trial tonight and see if the probation period can be passed, so he lifted the curtain in front of the carriage and said to the coachman: "It's getting dark, the market town in front of you will stop for a while, and you will stay there tonight." ”

"Come on, officer! I'm going to speed up! The driver readily agreed, flicked his whip, and sped up the car.

Although it was summer, it was getting dark late. But on this day, it will always be dark.

When it's dark, it's always bright.

At this time, although the sun has set, the wind carries the residual heat of the day and the slight coolness of the night.

Will night.

The wilderness was silent, and only then did I realize that the cicadas that had been noisy just now had dissipated at some point, and only one or two occasionally flew in the nearby woods, letting out a scream of "know--".

"Get down!" Suddenly, Lin Liangyou let out a loud shout, pressed Xue'e on the other side of the head into his arms, and fell on top of her.

The carriage shook for a while, and the coachman was secretly laughing at the guest for being so anxious, and several feathered arrows flew "whoosh" and were nailed to the carriage, two of which ran through the body and shot from the rear to the front of the carriage, one of which was stuck in the back of the coachman's head and came out of his mouth, and one was nailed to his back, and half of the arrows and feathers remained in the carriage, buzzing and trembling against Lin Liangyou's scalp.

The carriage was out of control, and the horses pulling it were frightened, and with a long neigh, the man rose to his feet, overturning the whole carriage.

At the moment when the carriage toppled over, Lin Liangyou broke out of the window with Xue'e in his arms, and at the same time reached into his arms, took out a bamboo tube thumb and unplugged it on the top, and threw it on the ground, and white smoke rose in an instant......

Fortunately, the smoke bomb has been improved, and the smoke can be emitted when the plug is pulled, otherwise, holding a girl would not be able to light the fire.

I am also very pleased that my invention has finally been put to use, and when I return to the capital, I will see what Zhang Ben has to say?

However, according to the gunpowder priest's teaching, three spoonfuls of sugar were added, and this power was really great! The smoke continued to flow, choking him and Xue'e both coughing, and tears were smoked in their eyes.

Could it be that your own sugar-added spoon is too big?

Lin Liangyou raised his sleeves to cover his mouth and nose, protecting Xue'e—to be exact, Xue'e hugged him tightly—and carefully moved to the edge of the smoke.

Fortunately, Xue'e is petite, otherwise it would be really inconvenient to act.

As soon as half of their bodies poked out of the smoke, a few feather arrows shot towards them, and several people ran towards them while releasing arrows, led by Zhu Youxi's personal guard!

Lin Liangyou swung his knife to split the feather arrows that were shot, and the rain of arrows was menacing, and he could only retreat back into the smoke.

There seemed to be footsteps all around, slowly approaching them, and feathered arrows kept falling from above, fortunately there was smoke as a barrier, and they lost their heads, but there were still a few crooked shots aimed at them, and they were all knocked out by Lin Liangyou's sound of identification.

But hiding in the smoke with such a shrunken head is not a way, and you will choke to death if you are not shot.

Looking at Xue'e's little face, it was already red.

Lin Liangyou was about to kill out, when he suddenly heard a few coughs in the smoke, and it was estimated that it was the coachman, this guy's life was quite hard, obviously the blood was rushing out so much, and it was the position of his head that the arrow shot! None of this is dead? But Lin Liangyou couldn't take care of him, took out two bamboo tubes, rushed out of the smoke, threw one in the direction of the guards, and threw one to the right hand, broke away from Xue'e's iron hoop-like hand, and said "Follow me", and swung his knife to the left to kill......

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Yuan Jiang and his gang were imprisoned in the Qiantang County Ya Da Jail. Yang Fang wanted to see them several times, but was stopped by Chen Ge persuading Ye Zongxing, the county magistrate.

Ye Zongxing said: "Isn't it boring for Mr. to go to see them? I still don't want to watch it! ”

"What are you going to do with them?" Yang Fang asked.

Ye Zongxing said: "This can't be the master in the next place, you have to wait for Han Tiegong to come back, and you have your own to say." ”

But he didn't know that Zhou Xin, the Duke of Han Tie, was also locked up in prison at this time - Yuhang County Ya Prison.

Yuhang is also Zhou Xin's inspection area, knowing that Yuhang County is rotten and collects money and is coercive to the people, Zhou Xin has just returned from inspecting the flood in western Zhejiang, and before he has time to take a breath, he took off his official uniform and dressed up as a civilian to go to Yuhang County to inspect the micro-service.

Coincidentally, he bumped into Yuhang Zhixian whipping the people on the street, Zhou Xin stepped forward to scold, Yuhang Zhixian didn't know his identity as an honest envoy, and ordered the officials to arrest him.

Zhou Xin was not in a hurry, nor did he defend his identity, but took the opportunity to learn about the situation from those prisoners in the prison and grasped the crime of corruption in the county.

It is said that there is a cell head in the Yada Prison in Yuhang County, also surnamed Zhou, and his name is Jili. In addition to learning about the situation from those prisoners, Zhou Xin also obtained a lot of information from Zhou Cell.

But it was not him who asked, but Zhou Cellhead took the initiative to confide.

It's not to confide in Zhou Xin, but it has no intention of saying it.

Because of Jili's usual bragging this week, listening to him has become a great pastime for the prisoners.

Zhou Jili: "You prisoners! Lao Tzu tells you to listen, one, the prince and the general are the seed! Second, there will be more celebrations in the house of goodness! Third, do your best and obey the destiny of God! ”

He also said to his fellow jailers, "The greatest fairness in this world is unfairness. The life and death of the country is profitable, and the family inherits the responsibility of my generation, this sentence is repeated in my heart every day. ”

Jailer: "Taught, taught." ”

Zhou Jili also did what he said, and that sentence was not only repeated in his heart every day, but also kept repeating in his mouth, which seemed to have become a mantra.

Not long after Zhou Xin entered, he heard him say no less than three times.

So he asked, "So, the cell boss, your family is unusual?" ”

"You're not talking nonsense?" Zhou Jili saw that there were prisoners who questioned him, and he was even more energetic, "Do you know the new envoy?" He will come to us soon, his surname is Zhou, and my surname is Zhou, you understand? ”

“…… Understood, "Zhou Xin," but not particularly understood. ”

"Heh, I can explain it to you as a prisoner, that's weird!"

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