After Feiyun and the others watched everyone leave, they rode their horses to the east. The four of them traveled all the way to the mountains and rivers, but they were very happy. On this day, he entered the famous Yangzhou City. Sure enough, it is a famous city in the south of the Yangtze River, the streets are crowded with people, bustling, and there are many shops on both sides of the street, a prosperous scene.

The four of them walked while enjoying the scenery on both sides. Suddenly, I saw a restaurant in front of me, with the words Mingyue Building written on it. It was bustling inside, with people coming in and out, and it was lively. Tianxiang said: "Big brother, it seems that it is a restaurant, let's go and have a look!" Feiyun nodded. The four of them came to the gate of Mingyue Tower, Tianxiang and Feiyun got off the horse, and Liangchen and Meijing also got off the carriage.

A guy came over and asked, "Does the guest officer stay in the hotel or eat?" Liangchen asked, "Do you have food and shelter?" The guy said: "Of course, we have luxurious rooms in Mingyue Building, delicious meals, and exquisite singing and dancing. "It seems that this guy has been rigorously trained and has excellent eloquence.

Feiyun said, "Then bring us four upper rooms." Also helped us take care of the horses and carriages. The man said, "Guest officer, please, horses and carriages, you can rest assured, we will settle in the backyard in the courtyard of the horses and in the stables." Ma Chu said to his fellows, "Settle your horses and wagons, and then come and eat with us." The two agreed, and followed a fellow.

Another guy came over and led Feiyun and Tianxiang to the private room by the window on the second floor. Feiyun asked the guy to introduce the food in Yangzhou, and the guy said more than ten kinds in one breath. Liangchen hurriedly said: "Don't say it again, my saliva is dripping." Feiyun said, "You pick ten kinds of this dish and serve one each, and if it's not enough, it's good to add more." The man hurriedly went down to inform the kitchen. After a while, the meal was complete, and everyone tasted it one by one, and it was indeed a delicious dish, very delicious.

After the four of them finished eating, the guy took Feiyun and the others to the guest room. After resting for a while, Ma Chu gathered a few people together and said, "Next, we have a few things to do, one is to understand and familiarize ourselves with Yangzhou, and the other is to inquire about the situation of that Ma Xi. I heard that he was a corrupt official, and since we met, we naturally had to inquire about it. What do you say? ”

Liangchen said: "Big brother is right, I think so, we will split into two ways, Mei San, I and Meijing San went to inquire about the situation of that Ma Xi, and Big Brother and Tianxiang went to learn about Yangzhou and the surrounding situation." In this way, in a few days, we are familiar with Yangzhou. If you find out that Mahi is indeed a corrupt official, then come and discuss how to kill this thief. Naturally, everyone had no objections, so they acted separately according to Liangchen's opinion.

Feiyun and Tianxiang came out to the street, looked and asked questions while walking, and after a while, they came to the canal. Tianxiang said with emotion: "I didn't think this canal was really lively. It is also thanks to that Yang Guanghua who spent so much effort to dig such a river. ”

Feiyun usually doesn't like to read, so naturally he doesn't know these things. He hurriedly asked, "Tianxiang, what did you say, was this river dug out by hand?" Tianxiang said: "Yes, for the sake of this river, Emperor Yang of Sui also put his life and family life into it. Feiyun suddenly became interested, so he pestered Tianxiang and asked her to tell her. Tianxiang also told the story of Emperor Yang of Sui to Feiyun on the edge of the canal.

Emperor Yang of Sui was the second son of Emperor Wen of Sui, and it was not his turn to be emperor. But he bribed many ministers and let them frame his brother to get the throne. Yang Guang was originally a person who liked to lead troops to fight, and led troops to pacify Nanchen when he did not ascend the throne.

Yang Guang, who became the queen, used tens of millions of people's power to dig the canal in order to facilitate him to go to the south of the Yangtze River to play. The people did not have enough to eat, they did not have warm clothing, and they had to work hard, and countless souls fell on both sides of the Grand Canal. The people couldn't survive, so they had to raise troops to rebel, and Yang Guang was eventually killed by his subordinate Yu Wenhua in Yangzhou, and was casually buried by the canal.

After Feiyun listened, no wonder people said that Yang Guang was a tyrant who was extravagant, and it was true, he dug such a big river and killed himself in order to play, and he deserved it.

Tianxiang said again: "Although Emperor Yang of Sui has a very bad reputation, he still has a different opinion on this Grand Canal. Feiyun said, "There won't be anyone else who says digging it, right?" Wen Xiang said: "There is a poet who wrote a poem, you listen to it: the end of the Sui Dynasty is this river, and it has been thousands of miles to this day." If there is no water temple dragon boat matter, Gongyu will not have much merit. What he meant was that the world believed that the Sui Dynasty died because of the Grand Canal, but the canal played a great role in the development of later generations. If Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty had not used the canal to cruise, the exploits of opening the Grand Canal could be compared with Dayu's water control. However, the reason for the fall of the Sui Dynasty was the tyranny of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, and the construction of the Grand Canal was only one of its tyranny, not the root cause of the fall of the Sui Dynasty. In fact, everyone has their own opinions, depending on what you think. ”

Feiyun said admiringly: "Sister Tianxiang, you are so powerful, you can understand so much." Tianxiang smiled: "If you read more books in the future, you will also know." Feiyun said: "Then you should read it, just read it and tell it to me." When I picked up the book, I had a headache. The three of them played for a while, and then returned to Mingyue Tower.

Seeing that they had returned, Ma Chu asked, "What do you think of the guards of the horse thief's house?" Meijing said: "It seems that there are not many masters, and the defense is not tight." Dong Xue also said: "What Sister Wen Xiang said is, I think he thinks he thinks very highly of himself, and I didn't expect that someone would dare to stab him." Ma Chu said, "Why don't we go tonight and wait for an opportunity to kill this person?" Liangchen thought for a while and said: "That's fine, let's go tonight, if you have the opportunity, you can start, if you don't have a chance, you can also learn about the security situation at the door of his house at night." When it was nightfall, everyone changed into their night clothes, put on their veils, and went straight to Ma Xichong's mansion.

When they arrived at the wall, Ma Chu and the others flew up to a roof next to them and looked inside the Ma Mansion. Seeing that it was quiet inside, only some street lamps hung on the corridor on the ground. In the front yard, two groups of soldiers were patrolling each other. Ma Chu said softly: "Wen Xiang and I will go in, and the four of you will answer here." Liangchen said: "Senior brother, let's do this, let Dongxue and Dongmei answer here, and I will go in with you with Meimei." Wen Xiang said: "That's fine, but when we go inside, you can lie on the roof, you don't have to come down, you are only responsible for monitoring." Ma Chu said: "Well, that's it, Dongxue and Dongmei will monitor here well, and also cover our evacuation when the time comes." ”

So Ma Chu, Wen Xiang and Liangchen Meijing floated into the courtyard of the front yard, quietly walked forward, came to the side of the hall, and saw that Ma Xichong was talking to two people. The four of them jumped onto the roof again and looked down.

After a while, he saw Ma Xichong walking out of the house, followed by two strong men. Wen Xiang saw that he was busy and touched Ma Chu, Ma Chu understood, the two of them drew their swords out, flew down, and landed in front of Ma Xichong. Ma Xichong was startled and hurriedly stopped. Just as he was about to ask, Wen Xiang was stabbed with a sword. The two guards behind immediately jumped to intercept. Ma Chu immediately followed. A guard swung his knife and slashed at Wen Xiang's long sword, Wen Xiang's wrist flipped, the long sword was wrapped, and he immediately avoided the big knife, and stabbed it with a backhand, which was already in the chest of the guard. Wen Xiang's skills have increased greatly at this moment, and he is already a super-first-class master. The strength of a sword is extremely powerful, and the guard will fall to the ground when he is hit by the sword. At the same time, Ma Chu swung the Sun and Moon Sword, knocking the other guard to the ground. In the blink of an eye, the two guards were eliminated.

After all, Ma Xichong was born as a military general, but he was not shocked and shouted: "Who are you who dare to break into this mansion at night to commit murder?" Ma Chu scolded and said, "Old thief, you killed my father, I came to recover the blood debt from you on his behalf, look at the sword." After Ma Chu finished speaking, a sword stabbed out, and Ma Xichong had already drawn his sword in his hand at this time, and asked, "Who is your father?" Don't slander people. Ma Chu said: "Ma Xiguang of Chu State, do you remember?" Ma Xichong was shocked, and knew that he could not be good today, so he raised his sword to meet him. The two swords collided, and Ma Xichong's sword was immediately cut in two pieces by Ma Chu. Ma Chu immediately slashed down with a sword, Ma Xichong dodged and dodged, but he didn't expect that Ma Chu's left palm had already struck out, and a palm hit his chest, and Ma Xichong suddenly fell to the ground.

At this time, the shouts of the fight had already alarmed the entire Ma Mansion, and a person in front rushed out of the front room with a sword, and the guards and guards surrounded him when they heard the sound. The man cried out, "Father, how are you?" "Apparently Ma Xichong's son. As soon as he saw that the two guards were killed, his father was injured and fell to the ground and hurriedly flew to the rescue, Ma Chu jumped up, and the Sun and Moon Sword used the Standing Split Taishan of the Earthquake Sword and slashed at him, and he had to stabilize his body and raise his sword to meet him. And in such a slow effort, Wen Xiang had already rushed to Ma Xichong's side, and stabbed with a sword, Ma Xichong struggled to move his body and avoided his heart, but the long sword still stabbed his chest, and Wen Xiang drew his sword. Suddenly, blood flowed from Ma Xichong's chest. Wen Xiang was about to split again, and guards attacked from both sides. Wen Xiang had to retreat and dodge, and met him with a countersword. Another guard immediately protected Ma Xichong.

Ma Chu is facing Ma Xichong's son at the moment, the two are entangled together, Ma Chu is not the culprit, and his father's murder has nothing to do with him, so he did not make a ruthless move, but just blocked him to save Ma Xichong. Ma Chu saw that Wen Xiang had succeeded, and the guards rushed over, so he screamed, telling Wen Xiang to withdraw quickly, and also informed Liangchen Meijing to prepare to respond. Wen Xiang understood, one hand Flying Phoenix Sword, one hand Fang Fei Sword, two swords combined, all his strength to open the peach Li Fangfei swordsmanship, suddenly silver light, the guards surrounding him hacked to death and injured several people, the rest were forced to take a few steps back, Wen Xiang jumped and flew onto the roof.

Ma Chu saw that Wen Xiang was out of trouble, so he used the Overlord Seven style to sweep in all directions, and suddenly the sword qi surged, forcing Ma Xichong's son back a few feet, and with a push of his left palm, he knocked down several guards who were about to chase Wen Xiang. Ma Chu then kicked his feet, jumped up, and went to the house. Ma Xichong's son was about to chase after him, but Liangchen Meijing grabbed the tiles with both hands and threw them behind Ma Chu, and he was forced to turn over and avoid them. Seeing that there were still people on the roof, he ordered the guards to release arrows, and in an instant arrows rained down.

Ma Chu and the four of them danced their swords to block it. Ma Chu hurriedly moved to the front and said: "Wenxiang opens the way, the beautiful scenery of Liangchen is in the middle, I will break off, go quickly." The four of them flew to the front yard in turn, but fortunately, most of the front yard guards had rushed into the back yard, and there were not many guards in the front yard. Wen Xiang swung his sword to kill a way out, and when he reached the wall, the three of them jumped up and climbed over the wall. Ma Chu stood by the wall, the Sun and Moon Sword in his right hand and the colorful sword in his left hand, attacking in a row, cutting down a large number of the chasing guards and forcing them back, and the rest retreated in shock. Then Ma Chu jumped and crossed the wall and joined Wen Xiang and them. The guards in the front yard were about to catch up, but they were blocked in the courtyard by more than ten branches thrown out by Dongmei and Dongxue. After Wenxiang and Meijing walked away, Ma Chu said to Dongmei and Dongxue: "You guys quickly follow Wenxiang and withdraw together." I'll block it and I'll come. Dongmei and Dongxue hurriedly flew away, caught up with Wen Xiang and retreated towards Mingyue Tower.

Ma Chu stood on the wall, and with a swing of his double sword, he hacked more than ten people to death in the courtyard within a few zhang, and everyone turned around and fled in fright. Ma Chu then jumped, jumped over the wall, and rushed towards Mingyue Tower. By the time the guards had climbed over the wall, they had lost track of the Assassins. Ma Xichong's son was busy checking on Ma Xichong's injuries. Ma Xichong was already seriously injured and died.

Ma Chu and the others returned to Mingyue Tower, checked it, and saw that everyone was not injured, so he said: "It's still early at the moment, everyone goes back to their rooms to rest, and waits for Tianming to discuss the next move." And they had no objection, and went back to their rooms to rest without mentioning it.

When it was dawn, he could only hear the officers and soldiers coming and going outside, so Ma Chu asked Meijing to inquire about the news. After a while, Meijing came back and said: "Yangzhou has closed the city gate and is checking the people who enter and exit. Ma Chu asked her to call Wen Xiang and Liangchen to discuss the next step together. After a while, both of them came to Ma Chu's room. After listening to the beautiful scenery, Liangchen said: "Then we will continue to live in Yangzhou for a few days, and then we will go out of the city and go to Hangzhou after they have checked and relaxed." Last night we walked in masks, and they couldn't figure out what we looked like, so we went out with a little change of identity, and we didn't go out as characters in the rivers and lakes, so as not to attract attention. Wen Xiang asked, "Then in what capacity will you go out?" Liangchen said: "The senior brother can dress up as a boy who comes out to play in the mountains and rivers, you can pretend to be the newlywed wife of the son, and the four of us can dress up as the accompanying maids." Wen Xiang said: "Isn't that wronged you?" Liangchen said: "Then why don't we change it?" Wen Xiangjiao said angrily: "I won't change it with you." So the plan stopped, and he went to prepare.

Liangchen went to the shopkeeper to inquire about the most famous scenic spot in Yangzhou, Yangzhou Twenty-four Bridge, and came back to Ma Chu and said: "Senior brother, we can go to the Twenty-fourth Bridge to have a look, there are many people there, so it is convenient for us to inquire about the news." But we can't take our swords with us, so you two can only go out with soft swords. ”