After coming out of Fengqi Tower, Lu An walked in the direction of the City Lord's Mansion.

Lu An walked on the street more and more cold, the once prosperous Guofeng City, at this time it became so desolate, the shop doors along the street were all closed, those small stalls and vendors on the street, where can they still be seen at this time, leaving only a piece of chicken feathers, where they are fluttering.

Guofeng City has really changed, this is the first thought that pops into Lu An's mind.

When I first came here, it was chaotic, but it was very humane.

Especially the brawl twice a day, although it looks messy, it can make people laugh out loud.

As the most important city on the border of the Han Dynasty and an extremely important city on the trade route, its prosperity and importance can be imagined.

But now? What else is there here but cold?

The previous prosperity really disappeared overnight, and a large city seemed to have become an empty city.

A warm breeze hit, but Lu An felt a chill, and couldn't help wrapping the placket on his body.

At this time, Lu An noticed that a few small figures appeared at the corner of the street, hiding on the corner, secretly looking at Lu An who was approaching.

Lu An noticed that the clothes on these children were extremely shabby, full of patches, and their faces were also black and dirty, but the eyes were extremely bright, as if they were full of longing.

Then the three children suddenly ran out of the street corner and directly surrounded Lu An.

"Robbery!" a childish voice sounded directly.

Hearing these two words, Lu An's whole person was stunned for a moment, and he was stunned, robbing under the public? Moreover, it is still a bunch of skinny bones who are less than ten years old.

The leader was holding a homemade wooden sword in his hand, his expression was extremely serious, and there was a smaller little girl with pigtails hidden behind him, who was cautiously poking her head out to peek at Lu An at this time.

For some reason, seeing this scene, Lu An laughed directly, and let out the kind of laughter in his heart.

"Are you really trying to rob me?" Lu An pulled out his empty pocket.

The young man with the wooden sword saw that there was nothing on Lu An's body, and his expression suddenly became disappointed, "I can't imagine that he is a poor scholar! As he spoke, he planned to lead the people to retreat.

His old-fashioned appearance Lu An laughed again, "In broad daylight, and on the street, you dare to rob, isn't it too bold?"

The young man glanced blankly and ignored Lu An, "Let's go, change someone." ”

Saying that, the three big and the one small plan to leave.

Seeing that the young man ignored him, Lu An directly took out two copper plates and threw them on the ground.

The sound of the copper plate rolling directly stopped the young man's movements, and they all turned their heads to look at Lu An, the young man was the first to move, and the copper plate on the ground was directly picked up by him, and then looked directly at Lu An, his eyes wrinkled directly, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"Xiaohu, that man has money. Another teenager next to him reminded him, and then he was ready to step forward.

The young man named Xiaohu directly stopped the young man who was about to step forward, and then handed him a copper plate, "One is enough for me and Xiaohua, Ah Qian, this one is for you, you and Xiaofei can share it." ”

"Just let him go?" asked Qian.

Xiaohu nodded, "He should be a master, we can't afford to offend." ”

Ah Qian and Xiao Qi showed expressions of sudden realization, and couldn't help but look at Lu An.

Lu An was amused by these little children who looked like adults, but he only laughed for a moment, and the laughter stopped, because he remembered that he seemed to be like this when he was a child, but he was not so bold that he dared to do such a thing as robbery.

Some broken silver appeared in Lu An's hand, spread out his hand, and said to the four of them, "Come here." ”

The moment he saw the silver, Xiaohu's eyes lit up, and the whole person was refreshed, but in an instant, his brows furrowed, and he began to slowly retreat behind the little flower.

When Qian Xiaoqi saw Xiaohu's movements, he didn't dare to worry about these broken silvers anymore, and retreated directly.

This made Lu An a little surprised, and instantly appeared beside the four of them, handed his hand over, and asked, "Why don't you dare to take it?"

Seeing Lu An suddenly appear in front of him, the four of them screamed in fright.

Xiaohu also had a string of cold sweat on his face, but he still replied in front of the three of them: "Why do you want to take it, we just want to eat with the copper plate, what do we do with the silver!"

Lu An thought for a while, as if this was the case, and took out another handful of copper plates and handed them over, "You can take it now." ”

Xiaohu's eyes tightened suddenly, and after hesitating for a while, he couldn't help the impulse in his heart, put away the copper plate, and then said respectfully: "Thank you, son." ”

"Finally, let me ask you a question, at such a young age, if you come out to rob in broad daylight, aren't you afraid of being caught?" Lu An asked with a smile.

Xiaohu nodded, "I'm afraid, but I'm hungry, we haven't eaten for two days, the streets were full of officers and soldiers with big knives two days ago, and when they saw us, they were finally gone, and they wanted to come out to find something to eat, but they couldn't find anything, and there was not even anyone on the street." ”

After listening, Lu An nodded and smiled, "Don't worry, there will be something to eat, take care of your sister." ”

Xiaohu nodded and tightened the copper plate in his hand, "Well, I will!"

Then Lu An immediately turned around and walked towards the City Lord's Mansion, but the expression on his face became more and more gloomy, and Lu An's monstrous anger could be felt from afar.

Stand in the city

At the door of the main mansion, Lu An eased his mood and then walked in.

At the first glance of entering, I saw Li Guan walking over and welcoming Lu An in.

"It's coming. Li Guan greeted with a serious expression.

Lu An nodded, and followed Li Guan directly to the hall, Li Mu was leaning on the back of the chair at this time, rubbing his temples with his eyes closed, and his face looked a little pale.

"City Lord, Lu An is here. Li Guan whispered.

Li Mu suddenly opened his eyes and showed a stiff smile.

"Are you okay?" Li Mu said softly.

Lu An nodded, "It's okay." ”

Li Mu breathed a sigh of relief, and said in an extraordinarily low tone: "It's okay, it's okay, it's okay..."

Then the three fell silent, and none of them spoke.

After a long time, Li Mu stood up directly from the chair, walked in front of Lu An, and asked, "Do you know what happened last night?"

Lu An nodded, "I know about General Fan. ”

"Who do you think did it?" Li Mu asked directly.

"It's not the Sword Pavilion, it's not the Taiyi Sect, and it's not the Yihuo Gate. Lu An said Mr. Qing's original words.

Li Mu nodded, "So, that's what Wei Wei did?"

Lu An shook his head and said the names of the three people, "Pothos, Xiang Shui, Zhang He." ”

"Who is the pothos?" asked Li Guan puzzled.

Lu An recounted what happened yesterday.

Then Li Guan and Li Mu were silent.

"I can't imagine that there is really a problem with Fengqi Tower, if I can find out earlier, then this thing will not happen. Li Guan said a little ashamedly.

Li Mu waved his hand, "Needless to say, there are not so many ifs." ”

"City Lord, I want to know what we should do next?" Lu An suddenly asked such a question.

Hearing this question, Li Mu's first reaction was to pause, then fell silent, paced up in front of Lu An, and walked several times in a row, but Li Mu didn't speak.

At this time, Li Guan helped Li Mu and said: "Things have come to this point, what to do next should be considered in the long run, and you can't just make a decision in vain." ”

Li Mu nodded at the right time.

Lu An's heart sank directly, "City Lord, if we don't take some action at this point, it will really be too late." ”

Li Mu nodded, but looked at Lu An suspiciously, "What should we do now, and what can we do?"

Li Guan also looked at Lu An suspiciously, what happened in the past two days also made him feel rare confused, especially Fan Chengde's death, he has an unshirkable responsibility, if he made the right decision at that time, then Fan Chengde would definitely not die!

Lu An glanced at the two of them and replied: "Not to mention General Fan's matter, just talking about the fact that the Yihuo Gate was almost completely destroyed, when the elders of the Yihuo Gate arrive, it will probably be a big trouble, if you don't give them an explanation, the City Lord's Mansion will probably be very passive, right?"

Li Mu and Li Guan's expressions sank instantly, they knew that Lu An was telling the truth.

Thanks to Jiang Qiong still alive, otherwise this suspicion would inevitably fall on Lu An again, followed by Guofeng City.

But who knows what Jiang Qiong encountered at that time, and what he would say afterwards?

Li Mu nodded, "Then what do you want to do?" What are you going to give them an explanation?"

"Wei is ashamed that they will not show up easily, and they can't find Wei ashamed of these people, but these people are not so difficult to find, as long as they find one, then they can naturally explain the past, to be honest, these things are the three of them who do it. Lu An said seriously.

"Didn't Xiang Shui protect you before? And that Zhang He still wanted to kill him, why should he be counted?" Li Guan said confusedly.

Lu An squinted his eyes and said: "So many people died yesterday, and a small half of them were killed by him, so I can only say that I was also deceived by him." ”

"Really, how do you know this?" asked Li Guan eagerly.

"Mr. Qing from Fengqi Tower told me, and he also said that Wei Zheng also appeared last night. Lu An replied.

Li Guan instantly felt that he had been hit hard by something, and his face was full of remorse, "Really!"

Lu An nodded.

Li Guan looked directly at Li Mu, and then knelt down on one knee, "City Lord, I made two wrong decisions last night, I didn't find Wei Wei, and even let General Fan die, all of which are to blame on me." ”

Li Mu sighed, not at all to blame Li Guan, and said in an extremely disappointed tone: "Get up, I can't blame you for this matter, it's really time not to treat me, one wrong step, one wrong step, no chance." ”

After Li Guan got up, he immediately asked, "My lord, you just admit defeat like this?"

Lu An also looked at Li Mu, he also wanted to hear Li Mu's thoughts, what kind of attitude he had towards the current situation.

Li Mu hesitated for a long time, and his expression was extremely aggrieved, but in the end he still said the sentence he didn't want to say the most, "We lost this game, and we lost it very completely." ”

These words directly hammered Lu An's heart, Lu An glanced at Li Mu sluggishly, his wheezing became louder, and finally he chuckled inexplicably, and then shook his head.

This laughter was particularly harsh at this time, Li Guan's brows instantly furrowed, although Li Mu's words made him feel a little displeased, but Lu An's laughter made him extremely unhappy, and he scolded with a slight anger: "Lu An, don't be like this!"

Lu An turned his head and glanced at Li Guan, the same

He chuckled, "So the adults agree with this statement?"

Li Guan was directly stunned for a moment, no matter how he answered this question, it was not a good answer.

Yes, he didn't want to just give up.

No, his respect for Li Mu did not allow him to question Li Mu's decision.

So the whole person froze there, and did not answer Lu An's question, but looked at Li Mu, "Is the city lord really no longer fighting anymore? What should Lord Wu Xie say when the time comes?"

Li Mu rubbed his forehead, his pale face became even paler, "My lord, I will explain myself, if he finds that the situation has progressed to this point, he will probably agree with me to do this." ”

Lu An was angry, and said directly: "City Lord, your admitting defeat now does not mean that the other party will accept your admitting defeat, we still don't know what they want to do, Guofeng City because they have already killed a lot of people, and even the Yihuo Gate They dare to start, do you think they dare not do anything?"

Li Mu showed a thoughtful look on his face again, and the whole person suddenly fell into a tangle again.

Lu An continued: " Today I met four people on the way from Fengqi Tower to the City Lord's Mansion, four teenagers under the age of ten, in an alley where no one was around, holding a homemade wooden sword and wooden knife, planning to rob me, and the purpose was for a few copper plates, the reason is that they have not eaten for two days, they have been very pitiful in the past two days, and they have been driven back and forth by people all the time, and they finally survived until today, and they want to go to the city to beg for food, but today's Guofeng City is like an empty city, and there is not even a single figure on the whole street, so they will think of doing this kind of thing。 ”

Halfway through speaking, Lu An's tone became heavier directly, "City Lord! They killed General Fan and killed hundreds of people, so Guofeng City has become this bleak appearance, can they just let them act recklessly in Guofeng City? Today, the four children asked me for money to eat, I'm afraid they will ask me for money to bury their family tomorrow, right?"

Hearing this, Li Guan was instantly shocked, and hurriedly scolded coldly: "Lu An must not be rude!"

After saying all this, Lu An was so excited that he gasped, looked at Li Mu, who was motionless, and snorted coldly, and then immediately turned around and left.

Seeing Lu An leaving, Li Guan wanted to chase after him, but Li Mu directly interrupted: "Let him go, what Lu An said is indeed very reasonable, but we still lost." ”

After Li Guan paused for a long time, he got up directly and said, "City Lord, I'll go find Lord Wu Jie." ”

Regardless of Li Mu's reaction, he left directly.

Seeing that Li Guan also left him, Li Mu was like deflated, and he fell into decay directly, giving people the feeling of being ten years old all of a sudden.

The sun has set, it is nearly dusk, and the heroes are late.

After leaving the City Lord's Mansion, Lu An still did not lose his breath, his expression was still extremely gloomy, he couldn't figure out why Li Mu, who was full of confidence before, was hit like this.

Lu An, who had nowhere to go, shook around a few times, and unconsciously came to the wine shop, without any hesitation, Lu An walked in directly.

Xiao Wu was drinking tea at this time, and when he saw Lu An coming in, he whispered, "Coming?"

Lu An nodded, and then sat directly opposite Xiao Wu, without saying a word.

Xiao Wu suddenly chuckled, "What's the matter?"

"Elder Xiao, do you know what happened yesterday?" Lu An said aloud.

Xiao Wu nodded, and said calmly: "Well, I already know, the other party's plan is very big!"

Lu An instantly sat up straight and looked at Xiao Wu, "What do you mean by this, Old Xiao?"

"First, the other party has finally made a ruthless move, and no less than ninety people died at their hands yesterday. Second, if the other party dares to attack Fan Chengde, then their purpose is basically very clear, eighty percent is targeting Li Mu and Guofeng City. The third and most important point is that you are the scapegoat. Xiao Wu said nonchalantly.

After listening to Xiao Wu's three points, Lu An instantly laughed dryly, "Old Xiao, are you serious?"

Xiao Wu sneered and continued, "Do you think it's exaggerated? Then you may be underestimating them too much, or you are overestimating yourself, maybe one scapegoat is not enough, and you may have to drag another one." ”

"What do you mean?" Lu An really couldn't sit still at this moment.

Xiao Wu's eyes narrowed instantly, "The other one may be Xiaoyao Pavilion!"

Lu An said incredulously: "How is it possible!"

"How is it impossible? In the eyes of others, you are a demon who kills, and the people who died during this time are all counted on your head, you are obviously in the city, and Xiaoyao Pavilion has never been able to find your trace, and some people have begun to make up some rumors, Xiaoyao Pavilion is in a gang with you, lure people over, and then let you kill Shuang, saying that we are your accomplices, do you say that Xiaoyao Pavilion is another scapegoat?" Xiao Wu explained.

Lu An's eyes widened instantly, and his mouth opened slightly to look at Xiao Wu in surprise, "Wouldn't it?"

Xiao Wu took a long breath, glanced at Lu An, and said again: " Some things don't happen if you don't believe it, let's tell you the truth, if things continue to develop, this is a matter of eight or nine inseparable, not afraid of strong grandmasters, just afraid of endless rumors, how many sect dynasties have suffered because of this, and maybe there will be a third scapegoat behind, at that time, I can be sure that Li Mu's fate will definitely be miserable, he did not hold the border of the Han Dynasty, and the impact of the turn is great, this is not a sentence or two words can be made clear, there will be a big thing in the future. ”

Lu An frowned, thought for a while, and said softly: "So Xiao Lao, what do you mean, stop loss?"

Hearing this, Xiao Wu raised his head and glanced at Lu An with great appreciation, and nodded, "That's right, that's what it means." ”