The fourth lady was robbed, and someone immediately reported it to the palace. Wu Zetian was drinking and dancing with a group of high-ranking officials and nobles, and when he heard the urgent report, he hurriedly waved his hand to let the song and dance retreat. Wu Zetian said: "The fourth lady was robbed, what happened? Do you have any good plans to catch this thief as soon as possible? There was no answer. Princess Changping said: "It's better to search the whole city, go door to door to check, and see where he can hide." ”

Li Xian said: "Outlaws like this can't be dealt with in normal ways. I think it's better to ask Princess Changping and Marquis Wuqiong to be in charge of the hunt. The emperor doesn't have to worry about these things on the rivers and lakes, if necessary, I will ask Ximen seniors and Lin Feiyun to help. ”

Wu Zetian thought about it and felt reasonable, so he said to Princess Changping: "Changping, are you willing to take this responsibility?" At this time, it was no longer Princess Changping's turn to refuse, so she had no choice but to say: "Weichen obeys the order, and the murderer must be arrested as soon as possible." ”

After Wu Qiong returned home, she frowned. After Yanmei was injured, she has been recuperating at home. Seeing his father like this, he asked what happened, and Wu Qiong told the matter of the fourth lady. After listening to this, Yanmei said: "Father still has to be careful, if you meet each other, try not to fight them head-on." I'm afraid there will be a bloody storm in the capital, and the other party will not show mercy. ”

While the father and daughter were talking, Wu Yanxiu came in, and after asking about Yanmei's injury, he said: "I didn't expect that the other party to be so vicious and hurt my sister like this." Yanmei said: "If it weren't for Ling Tang, I wouldn't be like this." As you talked, I went into the room. Then he turned and left.

Wu Yanxiu asked: "The emperor handed over the arrest to Hou Ye, I don't know what arrangements Hou Ye has?" Wu Qiong said: "I discussed with Dan'er just now, but I don't have a clue yet." I don't know if you have any suggestions. Wu Yanxiu said: "Let's take the troops to search door to door, and we can always find out." Wu Qiong said: "This is not good. One is that the forces are scattered, and the other is that the movement is too great. It is easy to startle snakes. Wu Qiong said: "Strengthen the city gate inventory first, and wait for news before deciding." Everyone is ready to take turns to make rounds. ”

Feiyun and the others rested for a day, and at night, everyone sneaked outside the walls of Changqing's house, and Feiyun and the others went up to the roof of a nearby house first, observed the situation in the courtyard, and did not find any special guards. It is estimated that he didn't expect Feiyun and them to come to the door so quickly. Feiyun said, "The three of us will go in, and you will be answered outside by a few people." Liangchen said: "The three of you are too few people, or I will go with Meijing, you will go down when the time comes, and we will meet you on the roof." Meijing said: "That's fine, there are four people outside to deal with it." ”

So the five of them quietly entered the Changfu and walked towards the central hall. When I got closer, I heard someone talking. Feiyun motioned for Liangchen Meijing to fly up to the roof, and the three of them climbed onto the beams of the corridor, listening carefully to how many people were inside. Inside, the evergreen couple and a son were talking, talking about the abduction of the fourth lady.

Ma Chu saw that there were not many nurses patrolling back and forth in the courtyard, so he made a gesture to greet the red English incense and landed at the door together. Ma Chu Ben was the first to enter. Shi Shouxin noticed that someone had come in and asked, "Who dare you break into my house?" At this time, Wen Xiang came in and stood beside Ma Chu, while Hong Ying was monitoring the courtyard outside at the door.

Ma Chu said: "Old horseman, my name is Ma Chu. I came to settle accounts with you. When Shi Shouxin heard this, he was shocked, and immediately stood up with his son and said, "You and I have no grievances, what kind of account are you looking for me?" Ma Chu pulled out the arrow that shot the autumn frost and said, "This is your arrow, right?" It is engraved with stone characters, and you have special arrows, right! Shi Shouxin said: "The people in our family haven't been there in the past few days, you misunderstood." But you are a key criminal in the court, and you will be sent to the door to take you down. And when he had finished speaking, he was to call someone.

Ma Chu couldn't help but be even more furious when he saw that he still wanted to hold him. A palm slashed over, and suddenly a strong palm force pressed Shi Shouxin, Shi Shouxin suddenly felt that it was difficult to breathe, and he could still open his mouth to call people. Shi Shouxin hurriedly used his right palm to usher in Ma Chu's left palm. As soon as the two palms touched, Shi Shouxin was suddenly hit upside down and hit the screen behind him and fell to the ground. Mrs. Shi and her son attacked from both sides, and Wen Xiang swung out a sword, instantly slashing her son to serious injury. Here, Ma Chu also swung his sword and cut Mrs. Shi into two pieces. followed by a sword that stabbed Shi Shouxin in the chest, killing him instantly.

At this time, movement had been noticed outside, and shouts were everywhere.

Ma Chu and the three of them hurriedly rushed out of the hall, and saw that there were already many nursing homes standing outside the courtyard, and shouts came from afar. Ma Chu said to Hong Yingxiang: "Fight quickly and get out." The two nodded. The three of them swung their swords and slashed towards the courtyards, and suddenly the three swords came out together to cut down a large number of people, and the courtyards dodged one after another. The three of them were out of the courtyard in a moment, and flew onto the roof, and the good idea threw tiles behind them, beating those who tried to shoot arrows to the head, and they could have shot arrows or chased them. After the five people converged, the red English fragrance took the lead, followed by the beautiful scenery of the good day, and Ma Chu left the hospital one after another, and left with Chun Tao and the others. By the time Gao Huailiang and Gao Qiong arrived with their troops, Ma Chu and the others had long since disappeared.

Gao Huailiang entered the hall of the Shi family and saw a few words written in blood on the wall: blood debt and blood repayment. Signed by Ma Chu. It turned out that Ma Chu deliberately left his name to intimidate Zhao Kuangyin. Gao Huailiang saw that the three members of the Shi family had been killed, and after arranging for someone to restrain him, he hurriedly entered the palace to tell Zhao Kuangyin. When Zhao Kuangyin heard this, he was shocked. Shi Shouxin was the number one hero who supported him as the emperor back then. Now that he was killed by Ma Chu, Zhao Kuangyin gritted his teeth with hatred.

The next morning, Zhao Kuangyin gathered the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, and Gao Huailiang kowtowed to ask for guilt. Zhao Kuangyin said: "Prince Shi Shouxin is an important minister of the state, and he was innocently killed by thieves. Gao Huailiang has an unshirkable responsibility, thinking of his past achievements, he is now only removed from all official positions and goes home to think about it behind closed doors. Gao Huailiang thanked and retreated. Zhao Kuangyin said to the ministers again: "Now that this traitor Ma Chu is killing more and more indiscriminately, what do you think?" The hall was silent, and no one answered. Zhao Kuangyin said angrily: "Could it be that my Great Song Dynasty has no way to take such a thief?" Prime Minister Zhao Pu came out of the class and announced: "Long live Qiyu." This kind of charlatan thief, sending a large army to search is not of much use. Wechen suggested that two sets of parallel schemes should be used at the same time. Zhao Kuangyin said: "Oh, then tell me, what are the two sets of methods?" ”

Zhao Pu said: "On the one hand, special personnel were ordered to be responsible for patrolling the capital, especially at night. The number of thieves is small, and they can only rely on the cover of night to act. The second is to form a group of masters to track and crack according to the traces on a full-time basis. Zhao Kuangyin thought for a while and asked, "Do you have any other opinions?" Huyanzan came out of the class and said: "Now this thief is wantonly killing, but he can't know the reason, so he can't guess where his next target will be, so the old minister suggested, first, the palace will strengthen the security force from now on, and second, the ministers' mansions will increase guards." Zhao Guangyi understood in his heart, because he arranged for someone to imitate Shi Shouxin's arrow, and ordered someone to kill Meijing and Qiushuang with a secret arrow. Ma Chu will be the first to kill Shi Shouxin, so that his conspiracy to frame and cut off Zhao Kuangyin's wings can be realized.

Zhao Guangyi also said: "According to the situation of Shi Shouxin's family yesterday, it seems that Shi Wangye and the thief had a personal vendetta that led to the murder. At present, it seems that only the prince Zheng En's family and the thief have an enmity in the capital, so the younger brother estimates that the next one may be the Zheng family. Also invite Prince Zheng and Princess Tao

Pay special attention. At that time, only Zheng En was in the court, and Zheng Yin was on the front line to guard against the Southern Tang Dynasty. Zheng En said: "It's just right that this thief came, and the old man directly took it and handed it over to the emperor's second brother." Zhao Kuangyin said: "Prince Zheng can't underestimate this thief, Mrs. Zun has lost to him." Or do what King Jin wants, and strengthen the guards. Zhao Kuangyin paused and asked, "Which Aiqing is willing to lead the troops to patrol the Beijing Division at night?" "For a while, no one took the initiative to stand up. Zhao Guangyi said: "The scope of the capital is huge, and many people must be responsible for night patrols. Wechen suggested that one person should be in charge of the east, west, south and north respectively, and the palace should be guarded by me and Dexiu in turn. The east of the city can be in charge of Huyan Pixian, the south of the city is in charge of Gao Qiong, the west of the city is in charge of Zheng Yin, and the north of the city is in charge of Dezhao. I wonder what the emperor thinks? Zhao Kuangyin said: "The city patrol, but also add one person to supervise and respond. It was Murong Yanzhao who took care of the matter. Murong Yanzhao and the other four hurriedly accepted the order.

Zhao Guangyi said again: "Do you want Princess Qingxiang and Princess Tao to choose people with strong martial arts skills and track their traces full-time?" Zhao Kuangyin said: "This matter will be discussed after the meeting is dispersed." So Zhao Kuangyin discussed with the ministers about the march into the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the generals Cao Bin and Pan Renmei prepared. In addition, Gao Huaide guarded against the Khitan, and Huyanzan guarded against the Northern Han.

After the dispersal of the dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin brought Zhao Guangyi and Princess Qingxiang to discuss the matter of tracking Ma Chu full-time. Princess Qingxiang said: "Then let Erchen take the four of them like clouds, rain, water and dew." Zhao Kuangyin said: "Last time, the three of you and the eight maids failed to win, how can the five of you deal with them?" Zhao Guangyi said: "You can add Princess Tao and the third prince Delin." and then send two delicate and clever people to assist, then the strength will be strong. Princess Qingxiang said: "Uncle Huang, Gao Dan's arm is broken now, and he also needs someone to take care of him. Don't be transferred if you're smart. I'll pick four more martial arts from among the maids. Zhao Kuangyin said: "That's it, but you must ensure your own safety." Don't do anything after finding their lair, and wait until the army arrives at Da. Princess Qingxiang agreed, and went to prepare for action.

After Ma Chu and the others returned to Zhou's house, they asked Chun Tao to go to Desheng Building to listen to the news. In the afternoon, Chun Tao came back and told Ma Chu and the others about Zhao Kuangyin's arrangements. Ma Chu asked Liangchen, "Now how do you think about it?" Liangchen said, "We are in the dark, and they are in the light." Tonight will strike them another blow, and they will be terrified and terrified. Aren't they afraid of death to strengthen the guards of the mansion? , then we will not go to the mansion to assassinate. We divided our troops into two ways, one route was led by Chun Tao to harass the Kaifeng Mansion, do not attack at close range, only launch rockets from a distance, set the Kaifeng Mansion on fire, and then leave as soon as possible. They will definitely go to put out the fire, and the situation will be chaotic. We also robbed and killed Murong Yanzhao on the way to rescue the government office, and he must have been caught off guard. We try to kill with one hit. Do you think that's okay? ”

Hongying said: "If it's just Chun Tao, the four of them go to Kaifeng Mansion, isn't it weaker?" Do you want Wenxiang to go with them? Liangchen said: "It was just a small act of us to disturb them, and after setting fire, they left." Then go to their grain and grass warehouse and set fire, the same is far away, don't touch them face to face. And we must concentrate our efforts to kill Murong Yanzhao in one fell swoop, and this is the key. Chun Tao hurriedly said: "Master, don't worry, isn't it just arson?" We don't fight them. Hongying listened to Liangchen's explanation, so she was speechless.

Chu said, "Okay, then let's go." I hope that the county lord will not be involved in the future. This time, I will return you a favor as the Ma family. The three of them then turned and went into the woods, met with Hongying and the others, and hurried back to the house. Entering the mansion, Wen Xiang took out the Feixiang Sword and looked at it, it was really a good sword, the sword aura was compelling, extremely sharp, and extremely hard, and the sun and moon swords could not be damaged. The hilt of the sword is engraved with the word flying incense. Hongying then looked at it and said, "I heard that Zhao Kuangyin once built eight particularly good swords and rewarded them to several female generals, named Feihua, Feixiang, Feidan, Feihong, Feiyun, Feixia, Feixiao, and Feixue. It seems that this is the Flying Incense Sword. ”

Ma Chu said: "This sword is really good, I slashed it hard just now, but I didn't cut it or break it." When I have a chance, I will snatch those handles and give them to you to use. This Feixiang sword is used by Wen Xiang, but unfortunately I don't know where there are still a few others? Wen Xiang said: "My Fangfei sword is also good, let's use it for Liangchen!" Liangchen said: "This sword has even been engraved with your name, and it is destined to be yours." Besides, the sword is very useful in your hand. In addition, the elder brother also said that he was going to grab the others. We'll have it all then, and you'll just need it first. ”

Hongying said: "What Liangchen said is that you take it first. I think that today, Chu'er alone used the double sword to open the Songtao swordsmanship, and the power was extraordinary. You wrap the Fang Fei Sword around your waist, and you use this Feixiang Sword every day, and in a critical moment, you can use the combination of two swords at any time. Wen Xiang saw that her aunt had said this, so she stopped talking.

Liangchen said again: "I remember hearing Linglong say that Gao Dan's sword was also given by Zhao Kuangyin, and it is estimated that hers is the Feidan sword." Meijing said, "How do you know?" Liangchen said: "This is simple, you think this Qingxiang uses the Feixiang Sword, and it ranks second, and the Feidan Sword ranks third, Gao Dan is known as one of the three female masters in the capital, and her sword is naturally the Feidan Sword." And the flying flower sword is estimated to be in Tao Sanchun's hands. The others can only ask Meng De to inquire, or to ask the Yanmei County Lord, I haven't seen her for many days, but I miss her a little. Brother Master, why don't we go see her now? ”

Ma Chu is actually very concerned about the glamorous county lord, and he and others killed her father, and now she is imprisoned. Although there is no fear for her life, she is always indebted to her.