By the time Zhuang Haoming and Xie Yixiang swam back to shore from the lake, it was already dark. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info The shore of Dongting Lake is centered on the destroyed Yueyang Tower, and there are lights along the coast, scattered by many martial arts people, and it is thought that Li Weiyao's cadres are unwilling to give up, and they are waiting for the rabbit to wait for Zhuang Haoming to return to the net.

That Yueyang City was on the east shore of Dongting Lake, Zhuang Haoming and Xie Yixiang just swam south along the lakeside all the way, until they reached the vicinity of Baishui Village in the south of Yueyang City, and saw that Dongting Lake extended eastward, so they quietly climbed ashore by night. There were only a few sporadic torches here in the dark night, and they were just some small minions in Li Weiyao's Jianghai Gang.

Zhuang Haoming and Xie Yixiang took advantage of their unpreparedness, took down these guards, took down two miscellaneous horses, and galloped away in Yueyang City.

Xie Yixiang didn't speak, just followed Zhuang Haoming's horse silently, and as soon as the two horses walked half a mile, they heard that there was gradually movement around them, and naturally they had been discovered by Li Weiyao's people. But listening to the noise getting louder and louder, it came from behind them one after another, and the two of them hurried up, and after about half an hour, the gate of Yueyang City had already appeared in the night.

At this time, behind the two of them, dozens of horses were already following closely, and the knights on the horses were all holding torches, shouting loudly, and their appearance was very arrogant. It seems that now these people are going to die if they don't achieve their goal in order to find Zhuang Haoming to take revenge, which shows how deep the grudge between them and Zhuang Haoming and even the torture room is.

Seeing that she still couldn't avoid these revenge people after all, Xie Yixiang couldn't help but say, "Where are we going?" After a series of drastic changes, her doubts about Zhuang Haoming have become more and more serious, but she heard Zhuang Haoming smile fiercely and said: "Although these fools are arrogant, they are still stupid things in the end. Now looking at the entire Yueyang City, there is a place where they dare not mess around with anything. Although he said this harshly, his voice was faintly trembling, thinking that the internal injuries he had suffered from the repeated battles were not light.

Xie Yixiang heard him say "there is a safe place", and suddenly realized that Zhuang Haoming's intentions were understood. In the current situation, I am afraid that as Zhuang Haoming said, only that place is still safe, and it may be able to avoid it for a while.

You must know that Jiang Wangcai has been entrenched in the area of Dongting Lake, and the imperial court is not able to govern this Yueyang City, and the gate of Yueyang City in front of him has not been closed for more than ten years. The two men immediately rushed into the city at night, and after turning the streets several times, they saw two half-hidden gates, covered with dust, standing in tatters beside the dilapidated streets.

Zhuang Haoming turned over and dismounted, kicked the stone lion that fell to the ground in front of the door, and crashed into the two false doors. With the stone lion rolling down into the courtyard behind the door, Zhuang Haoming had already strode into the door. Xie Yixiang followed him into the courtyard, turned around and closed the two dilapidated gates, and kicked the stone lion against the door.

I only heard Zhuang Haoming shouting loudly: "Lu Zhengtang, Zhuang Haoming of the torture room is here to visit again!" he said as he walked towards the hall in the middle of the weeds all over the ground.

It turned out that Xie Yixiang had been here once in this place this morning, and the people in the torture room had placed Xue Zhiyan's body here before going to the Yueyang Tower. Xie Yixiang couldn't help but sigh when she saw weeds of different lengths bursting out of the cracks in the bricks on the ground, covering most of the ground.

It turned out that this was the Yueyang City Mansion set up by the imperial court in the past. Unexpectedly, the Yueyang City Mansion has fallen to such a point now, looking at a dilapidated hall in the courtyard, it is clearly the long-abandoned Mansion Office.

With Zhuang Haoming's shouting, a bean flame gradually flashed in the darkness, and a little old man walked out of the public hall with his back bent and trembling. I saw him holding an oil lamp in one hand, holding a dagger in the other, and wearing a washed and white official uniform, which was Lord Lu Zhengtang of the Mansion of Yueyang City.

It must be known that the imperial court has sent several officials to Yueyang City, but because Jiang Wangcai ran rampant in Dongting Lake, these officials were forced to be displeasing to both sides, and fled one after another. Now in the mansion of Yueyang City, there is only a small old man like Lord Lu left.

When Zhuang Haoming came to place Xue Zhiyan's coffin in the morning, although he had already met with Lord Lu once, but now the situation is critical, and he has to be cautious when he meets again. At that moment, he shouted sternly: "Lord Lu, how old are you this year? What year did you become an official, and who else are there in the family?"

Lord Lu was a little deaf, and he didn't hear clearly for a while, Zhuang Haoming asked again, and he hurriedly replied: "Xiaguan is forty and eight this year, and he has been in office in Yueyang for less than three years, and he has a wife and two concubines in his family, and his four sons are all in his hometown in Henan to worship the old father and mother of the family. ”

Xie Yixiang couldn't help but sigh when she heard Lord Lu say that she was only forty-eight years old, but her appearance had been etched into a little old man by the years, and she seemed to be older than the sixty-seven-year-old Zhuang Haoming. Zhuang Haoming listened to his answer, nodded immediately, and relaxed a little.

The two have experienced several vicious battles before, although Xie Yixiang can barely support, but Zhuang Hao will be nearly seventy years old next year, and he will be seriously injured in the first place, and it is already the end of the strong crossbow at this time. At that moment, he didn't say anything, and immediately sat down on the spot, and slowly exercised his breath.

Seeing the two of them like this, Lord Lu couldn't help but be puzzled. He was about to open his mouth to ask, when he heard the sound of horses outside the door, and the noise was everywhere, and in an instant, the surrounding of the palace was completely blocked. But seeing the firelight reflected outside the wall, a figure jumped up to the wall and shouted coldly: "Zhuang Lao'er, if you have a kind of get out and say life and death to me, hide your head and show your tail, what kind of man is it." "It is Li Weiyao, the leader of the Jianghai Gang.

Xie Yixiang saw that Zhuang Haoming closed his eyes and didn't answer, and there was a hot steam on his head, so he took a few steps and said in a loud voice: "Gang Master Li, don't deceive people too much, you led the crowd to kill the court officials on the Yueyang Tower before, and you have already committed a capital crime. Now this place is the Yueyang City Mansion, the important public court of the imperial court, if you dare to break in, it is equivalent to rebellion, and it is a great crime to exterminate the nine clans. At that time, no matter how deep your background is, I am afraid that no one will be able to protect you. ”

Li Weiyao couldn't help but snort coldly, what Xie Yixiang said, "Breaking into the mansion is a rebellion" He naturally understood, otherwise he would have called everyone to rush in and fight. Unexpectedly, this Zhuang Haoming actually hid in the mansion of Yueyang City, which was really cunning. However, in this way, Zhuang Haoming naturally became a turtle in the urn, and he could no longer escape, and he was not in a hurry at this time. At that moment, he turned his head and shouted in a deep voice: "Could it be that Miss Feisan really thinks that I am afraid of you?" Everyone respects Xie Fengxuan is a man, so this is the courtesy to you. Hmph, if you really tear your face, just a Xie Fengxuan, I really don't take him seriously. ”

Hearing him say this, he was obviously speechless, so he had to turn around and scold Xie Yixiang to save some face. Xie Yixiang couldn't help but smile coldly and said, "What about Xie Fengxuan? She didn't bother to bother with the other party for a while, but Zhuang Haoming, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground, sighed, opened his eyes and said, "Let's go into the court." ”

At that moment, Xie Yixiang and Lord Lu helped Zhuang Haoming into the public hall together, Lord Lu closed the door in front of the hall, and the shouting and scolding outside the wall immediately became quiet. Seeing that the old man and the young were soaked, with a look of labor on their faces, Lord Lu hurriedly went to the kitchen behind him to take out a few yellow-flour steamed buns.

Zhuang Haoming took two bites of steamed buns, then closed his eyes and fell asleep. Xie Yixiang had something in her heart, although she was tired, how could she sleep? She saw that there was not even a single official in this mansion, and after talking with Lord Nalu, she realized that it was because Jiang Wangcai covered the sky with one hand in Yueyang City and forced away a large and small official, plus the imperial court cut off the relevant affairs here, so now the government can't recruit any servants at all.

At the moment, the two chatted casually, Xie Yixiang saw that Lord Lu was desolate, and couldn't help asking: "My lord, in the current situation in Huguang, and your family is far away in Henan, why do you want to continue to stick here? If Jiang Wang really rebels one day, I am afraid that the first one will use you to sacrifice the flag." ”

Lord Lu hurriedly said: "Third Miss, don't tease the lower officials, everyone is from the imperial court, how can you not understand the hardships of the lower officials? Although it is extremely dangerous for the lower officials to stay here, the imperial court will at least take care of my family...... If the lower officials leave their posts and flee, I am afraid that the court will not only not let me go, but will also affect my family. Speaking of this, he sighed again: "Who is not walking on thin ice as an official in the court now......?

Xie Yixiang felt the same way when she heard it, and she couldn't help but sigh. Since the dynasty ruled the world, most of the heroes have been punished for no reason, even the great achievements of Bi Wuzong and Mr. Qingtian have also died one after another. If it weren't for the fact that the emperor was staring at Prime Minister Ning Mu Cao Ning, who was forming a party and running a private business, I was afraid that it would have been his turn to have a catastrophe for the Xie family.

Thinking of this, Xie Yixiang couldn't help but prick up her ears and listen carefully, but when she heard the shouts outside the mansion, she didn't diminish at all, and her heart sank again. I'm afraid that if it continues like this, those people in the rivers and lakes will sooner or later get carried away and break in to fight, and they will ignore the big crime of rebellion.

She couldn't help but look at the corner of the public court, seeing that the "fair and strict" plaque had been eaten by insects and ants, and stood in the corner with cobwebs, and thought to herself: "Actually, even if Li Weiyao and the others attack the palace, then what's the matter? This place is so deserted, even if the three of them die inside, most of the court will not know." ”