After leaving the city for a while, Chen Kan suddenly reduced his horse's speed.

Then silently put the soft armor that was taken off when he was too hot in the morning to slowly put it on his body.

"My lord, what's wrong?"

Zhang San and Fang Xu guarded Chen Kan tightly on the left and right.

Chen Kan frowned, looking at the official road in front of him who couldn't see the end at a glance, and was silent.

"Zhang San, you are familiar with the surroundings of the Beijing Division, you find a small way to go back to the Beijing Division, and ask Shi Wen to bring out all the people who can be drawn from the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, quickly."

Chen Kan quickly finished explaining to Zhang San, and the ominous premonition in his heart became stronger and stronger.

Regarding Chen Kan's words, Zhang San has always been regarded as a guideline, and without saying a word, he turned the dock and jumped into the field on the side.

Fang Xu asked, "Master Hou, why is this?" ”

Chen Kan shook his head: "I suspect that this is a serial trap. ”

"Serial traps?"

Fang Xu looked dazed: "Then shall we still go to save Her Royal Highness the Princess?" ”

"Go."

"But not now."

Chen Kan didn't say much.

His instincts had always been accurate, and he had a hunch that if he continued to move forward, there was a good chance that he would never go back.

In the morning, he heard that Bao Qian Si had been attacked, because the big-eyed cute girl was still in the wooden house villa in the nameless valley, which made him lose his mind for a while.

But after being intercepted while leaving the city, he gradually came back to his senses.

Chen Kan didn't dare to say how smart he was, but at this juncture, he still instinctively felt that something was wrong.

At the beginning, the other party sent people to attack the bank to assassinate him, but he simply thought that the other party was attacking the east and west, so that the eyes of the princes and ministers of the palace would stay on the Jingshi and buy time for them to loot the treasure banknote division.

But if the target of those people is only the new firearms newly developed by the imperial court, they can loot the treasure money division and leave.

Why did you plant a killer at the gate of Jingshi?

Isn't that redundant?

There are too many unreasonable places.

Combined with the scene of those killers rushing towards him without fear of death.

Chen Kan thought about it and could only come up with a reasonable explanation.

That is the purpose of the other party is not only the treasure bank, but also his own life.

It's a serial kill.

What kind of person wants his life, and what kind of person wants to think of seizing the new weapons made by the imperial court?

It seems that everything is already self-evident.

The goal of those people was him.

And if that's the case, maybe the big-eyed cute girl will be spared.

After all, killing him is completely different from killing the princess of the empire, and they should not be completely reckless.

At this time—

Zhu Gaosui and Ji Gang had already led people to the nameless valley where the Treasure Money Division was located.

The first thing that catches your eye is a corpse in a place.

Zhu Gaosui looked at the scene of the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood in front of him with a gloomy face, and his eyes almost wanted to breathe fire.

A whole thousand households were wiped out, and not a single living mouth was left.

This is already the case in the mountain pass, but what is the miserable situation in the valley?

Zhu Gaoxu didn't dare to imagine it.

"Let's go!"

He didn't say much, and went straight into the valley with the Jinyi Guard and the captain of the Five Cities Terraiga Division from the small mountain pass.

Ji Gang held an embroidered spring knife in his hand, and stood by Zhu Gaosui's side with a guarded face, not daring to take a step away, for fear that something would happen to Zhu Gaosui.

As expected, the valley was a mess.

"Search the valley to see if there's anyone alive."

Ji Gang gave an order, and countless brocade-clothed captains instantly separated in all directions.

A moment later, a captain in brocade clothes suddenly shouted: "Report, lord, commander, there are living people, and there are living people......

"Where?"

Zhu Gaosui hurriedly walked in the direction of the brocade-clothed lieutenant who made the sound.

"On the other side of the river, they're wary of us."

The captain made a report, and Zhu Gaoxu also saw the small wooden house villa opposite.

It can be seen that countless craftsmen are guarding the courtyard of the villa with a frightened face, holding various strange weapons such as chisels, planers, sickles, etc.

"This official is the third son of the emperor, Zhao Wang Zhu Gaosui, don't be afraid."

Afraid of stimulating this group of craftsmen who had already broken psychologically, Zhu Gaosui had no choice but to report to his family patiently.

"He said he was His Royal Highness King Zhao?"

"Don't believe him, let's wait for Master Hou to come over."

There was a sudden discussion among the craftsmen, but looking at Zhu Gaosui's eyes, his eyes were still full of vigilance.

The commotion of the craftsmen alarmed the maidens in the cottage.

He vaguely heard words like His Royal Highness King Zhao.

"Third brother?"

She stood up and was about to go out, but was stopped by the female officials and maids of the princess's mansion on the side.

"Your Royal Highness, be careful, it's dangerous."

"Yes, Your Highness, such a big thing has happened here, let's wait for the Hou Ye to come over."

"Master Hou must have gotten the news, and now he may be on his way here."

Looking at the worried look on the faces of the people, Zhu Yuelan's little face was also frightened and frightened, and all kinds of expressions were intertwined.

For a while, she was not sure whether to open the door, what if she opened the door and the thieves hadn't left?

Moreover, the other side of the river is more than two miles away from the wooden houses and villas, and even if you go out, you may not be able to see what the people on the other side of the river look like.

"By the way, the slave maid remembers that there is a clairvoyant mirror at home, which was used to observe the Houshan Waterfall when the Hou Ye was there."

"Where?"

"Go get it!"

Soon—

The maid found a clairvoyant mirror from upstairs.

Zhu Yuelan impatiently took the glasses, looked at the gap opened by the maid in the window, and saw Zhu Gaosui's face, which was not a few years older than Chen Kan, as black as the bottom of a pot, and was talking fiercely to the craftsmen on the other side of the river.

"It's really the third brother."

Zhu Yuelan exclaimed, threw away the clairvoyant mirror, pushed open the gate and ran towards the river.

"Third brother, third brother......"

Hearing the shouts on the other side of the river, Zhu Gaosui narrowed his eyes: "Chang Ning? ”

Seeing the girl running towards him clearly, Zhu Gaosui couldn't help but be surprised, scared and happy.

After being surprised, I was afraid that Chang Ning would appear here, but fortunately, Chang Ning was not poisoned by thieves.

Otherwise, with the degree of his father's affection for this little sister, he really didn't dare to imagine how angry his father would be after the little sister's accident.

"Chang Ning, why are you here?"

"Send someone back to tell my father and Chen Kan that their little sister is fine."

Turning his head to Ji Gang and instructing, Zhu Gaoxu didn't bother to care about the group of visionless craftsmen now, and hurriedly led people to run towards the girl rushing towards him, so anxious that he didn't even leave the bridge, and directly waded through the half-human deep river.

"Third brother, third brother, I'm afraid."

Zhu Yuelan threw herself into Zhu Gaosui's arms, and her tears instantly became uncontrollable.

"Don't be afraid, the third brother is here, the bad guys are gone."

Zhu Gaosui gently patted Zhu Yuelan's shoulder to comfort her.

The children born to Zhu Di, except for the three brothers who don't like each other, the relationship between the brothers and sisters is not bad.

Especially Zhu Yuelan, who has been eccentric since he was a child, not only Zhu Di spoiled him, but the three brothers were more distressed than one by one for this little sister.

At this time, seeing this little sister who was regarded as the pearl of his palm crying so much, Zhu Gaosui's heart instantly became angry, and he couldn't help but swear secretly in his heart, and after he went back, he discussed with his father about going to the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division.

Then control the power of the Five Cities Terracotta Division to get back this justice for the little sister.

After coaxing for a long time, Zhu Yuelan finally stopped crying, just covered Zhu Gaosui's chest with a small head, sobbing and asked, "Third brother, what about the husband, why didn't he come?" ”

Hearing this, Zhu Gaosui frowned, and suddenly felt a trace of dissatisfaction with Chen Kan in his heart.

What is this Chen Kan doing to eat, how can he leave his sister alone in such a dangerous place?

However, thinking of Chen Kan's tragic situation, Zhu Gaoxu still comforted him softly: "He encountered some things on the road, so the third brother brought someone over first, and he should be on his way here now." ”

"Tell the third brother first, what's going on here?"

Zhu Yuelan didn't doubt him, and sobbed: "I don't know, I just heard a group of people shouting slogans such as the birth of the white lotus in the vacuum hometown of the childless old mother and rushed in and started to kill people, and the craftsmen of the treasure money division saw that this was wrong, so they ran to me......"

"By the way, I remember that they rushed past the treasure money division and killed them towards the backmountain waterfall, and there were many craftsmen there."

Hearing this, Zhu Gaosui couldn't help but chuckle in his heart.

Others don't know, but Chen Kan knows very well about the experiment of the new firearm in the Treasure Banknote Division.

Could it be that the thieves are coming for the new firearms?

"Ji Gang, you quickly send someone to the back mountain to have a look."

There is no need for Zhu Gaosui to order such a thing, Ji Gang has already sent Jinyi Guards to search everywhere.

As the commander of the Son of Heaven's pro-army, he knows better than anyone how much Zhu Di values those things.

It is no exaggeration to say that Zhu Di once bluntly said that whether the grassland can be included in the Ming Dynasty in the future depends on whether Chen Kan's research can be successful.

As he spoke, a brocade-clad lieutenant rushed towards the place where the two of them were, sweating profusely.

"Newspaper, newspaper... Lord, my lord, the finished products of the fire gun in the back mountain are all ... It's all gone...."

"What about the craftsman?"

Ji Gang lifted the collar of the brocade-clothed lieutenant, and jumped off the lieutenant with a vicious look.

"Work... Craftsman... The core craftsmen were all taken away by the thieves, and the rest were killed, and the subordinates... The subordinates found this in the cave. ”

The lieutenant gasped as he clarified the current situation in the back mountain.

Ji Gang grabbed the thing in the captain's hand and pushed the captain aside.

Then he looked at the thing in his hand, and the whole person breathed a long sigh of relief.

Bad news came one after another, and no matter how good Zhu Gaoxu's cultivation was, he couldn't help but change his face at this time.

"The craftsmen are all dead?"

"The prince is angry, things haven't developed in the worst direction yet, you calm down and be sensible."

Lychee, how do you let me do Lychee?

Zhu Gaoxu turned his head to look at Ji Gang, and scolded viciously: "You'd better find out which direction the thief is running away, otherwise, don't blame this king for participating in you." ”

Ji Gang's heart was dull, but when he thought that the other party was the prince, he had to hold back the anger in his heart.

"The prince is angry, the minister has already done the matter of tracking down the whereabouts of the thief, but the minister suspects that they may have only taken away the core craftsmen involved in the development of the new type of firecracker and a few firecrackers used in the test, and the real core things, they have not been able to get them."

Ji Gang hurriedly handed the things in his hand to Zhu Gaosui, and then persuaded him to calm down.

What Ji Gang handed over was a piece of paper that had been burned two-thirds of it, and Zhu Gaosui took the paper: "What is this?" ”

"Drawings, drawings of the new firecracker, if the minister didn't guess wrong, when the thieves attacked, the craftsmen involved in the research and development burned the drawings at the first time."

"As long as they don't get the drawings, even if they kidnap the craftsmen who participated in the research and development, and snatch a few firecrackers used in the test, it won't help."

After listening to Ji Gang's explanation, the angry emotions in Zhu Gaoxu's heart still did not ease in the slightest.

He forced the ninja and said angrily: "Whether it is useful or not, their actions are provoking the majesty of the court and provoking the face of the royal family. ”

Seeing that Zhu Gaoxu finally calmed down, Ji Gang couldn't help but wipe the cold sweat on his forehead.

He knows very well that what he is most afraid of in the current situation is that his pig teammates will stir up the situation, and he will command blindly without understanding anything, and in the end he will not say anything if the thing is not done, and he will have to take the blame.

"Don't worry, even if the minister is chased to the ends of the earth, all the thieves will be arrested."

Hearing Ji Gang's packing ticket, Zhu Gaosui's face turned slightly pale.

Seeing this, Ji Gang hurriedly struck while the iron was hot: "Lord, Her Royal Highness the princess was frightened by this, did you arrange for someone to send Her Royal Highness back to Beijing to recuperate, as if Your Majesty was safe?" ”

Zhu Gaosui groaned: "The other people are not at ease, this king will personally send Chang Ning back to Beijing, and this place will be handed over to you." ”

Ji Gang laid so much foreshadowing in front of him, and what he was waiting for was this sentence, and he immediately summoned a team of Jinyi lieutenants and ordered: "Wait for your Royal Highness King Zhao and Her Royal Highness the Princess to return to Beijing, what went wrong, this official will ask you." ”

Zhu Gaosui thought for a while and did not refuse Ji Gang's kindness.

Although he brought many captains of the Five Cities Terracotta Division, he could clearly see at this time that the combat effectiveness of these captains of the Five Cities Terracotta Division was obviously not on the same order of magnitude as Jinyiwei.

Seeing the two brothers and sisters go away, Ji Gang secretly said in his heart that he finally sent away the two plague gods.

Subsequently, the whole person regained the majesty of the commander of the Son of Heaven's army.

"Come on, first take all the craftsmen of the Bao Qian Division and the people of the Hou Mansion into custody."

"With such a large gathering of people, they must not be able to run far, chase me ......"

One order after another came out of Ji Gang's mouth, and the captain of the brocade clothes under his command acted quickly, and not long after, a captain came back to report: "Commander, have found the traces of their escape......

At this time—

On the official road outside Nanjing, Chen Kan was counting the time with his fingers.

At this time, Zhang San should have returned to the city, counting Shi Wen's gathering of people, and then going out of the city, it will take an hour anyway.

But if there were any interceptions against themselves on the way, those assassins might not have waited that long when they saw that they had not arrived.

I don't know what happened to the big-eyed cute girl?

The anxiety in my heart is indescribable.

After thinking twice, Chen Kan decided not to wait any longer.

With so much to do, he didn't want to let any of the Assassins go.