said that Zhu Wen visited Huang Chao and returned to his mansion, and was about to give orders to let people take poisoned wine, which resulted in Huifeng and other criminals. Suddenly, a dark dart pierced through the window, and with a bang, it was nailed to a pillar in the room, and the maids who were waiting by them screamed and knocked over the tea in their hands. Zhu Wen was also taken aback, and was about to shout for help, but he saw a note embedded in the dart, and he hurriedly took the note, only to see that it read: "Retire from the people, there are important matters to discuss."

Seeing that the visitor was not malicious, Zhu Wen deliberately stretched his waist and said that he wanted to rest for a while, so he asked the maids and maids around him to retreat. After a while, a man in black jumped from the beam of the room, dressed in black, with black pants and black hat, covered his face, and his face could not be seen clearly.

When Zhu Wen saw the man's disguise, he was very surprised and asked, "Who is Your Excellency? Why did you sneak into my mansion alone, what did you do?"

The man in black did not answer his question directly, but said in a low voice: "I have heard that General Zhu is strict in governing the army, invincible, and invincible, how can he be willing to be a small city defense general? I don't know what the general's plans are in the future?"

Zhu Wen smiled slyly, and said deliberately: "I'm a soldier who leads the army to fight, stealing life in the rain of swords, guns and swords, it's not a day at a time, maybe one day is gone, what long-term plans can I have?"

The man in black smiled: "Everyone says that General Zhu is thoughtful and unfathomable, and it seems to be true today, I think it's better for Ming people not to say dark words, it's more refreshing!"

Zhu Wen sneered a few times, and asked rhetorically: "Your Excellency can't show your true face, is it considered a Ming person's doing?"

The man in black saw that he couldn't talk about Zhu Wen, so he had to say: "Forgiveness is not able to reveal his identity at the moment, this will be beneficial to himself and General Zhu, otherwise he will be in a dilemma!"

Zhu Wen saw that the man in black was talking about him left and right, and he was a little impatient for a long time, and asked: "Then what is the important matter for Your Excellency to find General Ben? If you don't say anything else, General Ben will send off guests!"

Only then did the man in black say: "The villain came this time mainly to make a big deal with the general, I wonder if General Zhu is interested?"

Zhu Wen asked, "What kind of deal is it?"

The man in black said: "General Zhu thinks that King Huang will go to the south of the Yangtze River this time, what are the chances of winning?"

Zhu Wen replied: "This is a military secret, what does it have to do with buying and selling?"

The man in black replied: "Don't hide it from the general, this is the capital of this transaction, and the general hasn't answered me truthfully?"

Seeing that the man in black was honest, Zhu Wen replied: "According to General Ben's judgment, the odds of victory are predestined, and there should be a fifth of them. ”

The man in black praised: "General Zhu is really high-minded, since people are calculated plus heaven, and the chance of winning this southward journey is only five or five, so has General Zhu considered what will happen in the future if this southern expedition fails?"

Zhu Wen nodded yes, and said to himself: "Your Excellency has a long-term view, if the rebel army fails to go south this time, where should I go?"

The man in black laughed: "General Zhu is a person who understands, why don't you take advantage of the fact that you still have heavy troops in your hands and find one more way to survive?" For example, make more friends, and one more friend will give you one more way to survive!"

Zhu Wen immediately understood, and said tentatively: "Your Excellency, is it that General Ben secretly betrays the Yellow King and defects to other forces?"

The man in black hehehe: "General Zhu's words are serious, now is the troubled times, all kinds of forces are competing against each other, no one can be sure who this world belongs to in the end, the so-called cunning rabbit three holes, is the most common way to protect oneself today, and besides, I did not let Your Excellency immediately betray the Yellow King, but while the general is loyal to the Yellow King, he also secretly contacts some other forces, in case the righteous army loses, the general will not have an additional way to retreat?"

Only then did Zhu Wen understand, he felt that the man in black had analyzed some truth, and then asked, "Then what should I do next?"

The man in black said: " Now in addition to the Yellow King in the righteous army, there are Shang Rang and the general is a competitor, but Shang Rang's current power is still relatively strong, but he is too righteous and angry, should not be worried, but the current Yellow King has one more young chivalrous warrior Xu Zhi, this person is not only superb in martial arts, but also far-sighted, and he is the Yellow King's concubine, in the future, he will inevitably replace the Yellow King, become the leader of the Righteous Army, this will also be the main opponent of the general in the future, the general wants to control the entire righteous army, must first remove Xu Zhi, and then separate the relationship between the Yellow King and the monk, and then you can replace the Yellow King。 ”

Zhu Wen secretly thought that this person's plan coincided with his own plan, and he was really taken aback by what the hero saw. But on the surface, he was still very peaceful, and bargained: "Listening to your words, I have studied for ten years, and Zhu is willing to make an unidentified friend of you." But getting rid of Xu Zhi, I'm afraid it's also your purpose, after all, Xu Zhi is still the Yellow King's concubine at the moment, how easy is it to get rid of Xu Zhi, I take the risk to do this, what kind of benefits can I get from your side?"

The man in black saw that Zhu Wen was indeed more difficult to deal with than he imagined, so he had to say, "How about we exchange the secret of a strange book with Lord Zhu?"

Zhu Wen smiled deliberately: "A broken book, what's the use of me breaking the book? Don't you know that I, Zhu, don't know a few words?"

The man in black smiled: "What if it was a broken book that could predict the future of the world and determine the future of General Zhu?"

Zhu Wenqi said: "Is there really such a strange book in the world? If there is, then I can consider cooperating with you!"

Seeing that his goal had been achieved, the man in black turned around and jumped on the beam of the house and took his leave.

At this time, the housekeeper Zhu in the mansion hurriedly came over to tell Zhu Wen and said: "Huang He, the chief housekeeper in the Yellow King's Mansion, brought a message from the Yellow King, inviting the general to go to the Yingbin Building to discuss important matters going south, and I heard that a banquet has been set up in the Yingbin Building to wait for the general's arrival!"

Zhu Wen listened, and hurriedly went to the door to greet Huang He, Huang He did not greet Zhu Wen, directly explained the intention, and invited Zhu Wen to the welcome building to have a banquet and talk in detail, Zhu Wen and Huang He usually do not have much contact, but this time Huang He personally came to invite Huang He on behalf of Huang Wang, it was inconvenient to refuse, as long as he brought dozens of guards to the appointment.

Zhu Wen and Huang He left the General's Mansion for a while, and when it was close to noon, Zhou Yuanzhi, Xu Zhi, and Shang Rang came to Zhu Wen's Mansion with dozens of soldiers and the will of King Huang, and asked Zhu Wen to accept the order, and the housekeeper hurriedly came out to greet him, saying that Lord Zhu had gone to the Welcome Building with Manager Huang.

Zhou Yuanzhi said with a smile: "General Zhu is not here? In fact, there is nothing important, but in order to improve the combat effectiveness of the army, General Shang asked General Shang to gather the guards in the generals' mansions every day for drills, and then send them back to the generals' mansions at night."

Steward Zhu was still a little hesitant, thinking that he still had to make a decision with Zhu Wen, but when he saw that Zhou Yuanzhi took out the Yellow King's gold medal arrow, he didn't dare to openly disobey, so he had to agree on the one hand, and secretly sent someone to the welcome building to show Zhu Wen to Zhu Wen. Shang Rang gathered more than a hundred soldiers from Zhu Wen's mansion, and then announced the order of the Yellow King, and took them out of the general's mansion.

Zhou Yuanzhi and Xu Zhi showed the housekeeper the will to see Huifeng, and Steward Zhu was very embarrassed, because Zhu Wen had instructed that no one could see Huifeng on death row without his order. Just as the housekeeper was hesitating, Zhou Yuanzhi raised her willow eyebrows and shouted: "Why do you dare to disobey the Yellow King's decree." ”

Steward Zhu hurriedly knelt down and said with a sad face: "Little one, don't dare......!

Zhou Yuanzhi said sharply: "It's just what? Don't lead the way yet." ”

Steward Zhu had no choice but to take Zhou Yuanzhi and Xu Zhi to visit Huifeng on death row. Zhou Yuanzhi and Xu Zhi saw that the butler first ordered his men to light a torch and light the way in front, and then carefully descended the steps leading to the underground, lighting up several dim oil lamps on the earthen walls around the death row, and the oil lamp stands were covered with cobwebs, indicating that no one had been here for a long time.

When the inmates on death row heard the footsteps outside, they seemed to see hope for life, and they all howled loudly, making indistinct sounds, which was terrifying.

It turned out that this death row was set up in a dark and damp underground, and the prison was full of filthy and smelly groundwater, and there was no sunlight all year round, and the air was very turbid. Zhu Wen treated death row prisoners very cruelly, soaking these prisoners in water prisons for a long time, and after a long time, the wounds of the prisoners' whole body would fester, and maggots were covered from the waist down, so these death row prisoners could not survive the autumn and were beheaded, and they died in prison early.

Xu Zhi and Zhou Yuanzhi were at the end of death row, and finally saw the dying Huifeng, only to see that he was pale, covered with wounds, his skin had already been tortured by Zhu Wen, his hands and feet were chained, unable to move, and he was soaked in red water from the waist down, panting heavily, looking very painful.

Xu Zhi shouted: "Senior Brother Hui, is it you?"

Hui Feng "purred" in his throat, which was an answer, Zhou Yuanzhi saw it, and he couldn't bear it in his heart, so he quickly asked the housekeeper to open the cell, Steward Zhu hesitated for a moment, but reluctantly took out the key, opened the prison door, and replied in a low voice:

"Princess and colt, don't embarrass the villain, you hurry up here and say a few goodbyes to your friends, just leave early, this is not your place after all!"

Zhou Yuanzhi agreed: "Steward Zhu, please show us the way, we have some goodbye words with our friends, we have to say in private, can you avoid it for a while, we will come out in a while." ”

Steward Zhu hesitated for a moment, feeling that what Zhou Yuanzhi said was reasonable, no matter how much she couldn't offend the princess, and besides, Huifeng was a seriously injured living person, and it would be difficult for them to take them away from death row, so he agreed.

Zhou Yuanzhi saw that Steward Zhu and the others were far away, took Xu Zhi's hand, entered the death row, saw that Huifeng still had some breath and heartbeat, and knew that he was at least alive, Xu Zhi approached Huifeng, pressed his ear and said:

"Senior Brother Hui, I made you suffer, big brother came to save you!"

Huifeng listened to Xu Zhi's words, opened his eyes with difficulty, and whispered back in a hoarse voice: "Okay, Brother Xu, you also saved other innocent witnesses by the way, they are in the cell next door!"

Xu Zhi didn't think of saving so many people at first, and while he was thinking about the method, he deliberately babbled to Steward Zhu: "Brother, why are you so confused, how can you kill someone? Murder is a capital crime!"

Xu Zhi said and spoke, and finally thought of a way, he gave Zhou Yuanzhi a look, then took out a piece of clothing and put it on Huifeng, and said: "Brother, we have nothing to give you, you can take this dress!

After Xu Zhi finished speaking, he took the oil lamp on the wall with his hand, deliberately accidentally knocked over the oil lamp, and lit his clothes, which had already been wrapped in a large amount of gunpowder saltpeter and other fire-igniting things, Xu Zhi danced the burning clothes, as if he was at a loss to extinguish the open flames, but secretly set fire to the wooden fences of all the prison doors, while exclaiming that it was on fire, and at the same time struggling to cut the chains on Huifeng's hands and feet with a sharp sword. Zhou Yuanzhi also drew her sword and protected the prison door.

When Steward Zhu and a few servants saw it, they immediately panicked, were shocked, and hurriedly shouted for firefighting, but the fire in the death row was blazing, the smoke was billowing, and the fire was very large, and the wooden fences of several cells had been burned down in an instant. Steward Zhu and the others stopped this, but they couldn't stop that, Zhou Yuanzhi and Xu Zhi saw that it was an opportunity, and quickly took advantage of the chaos, leading Cheng Yingying, Li Zhen and other death row prisoners, and rushed out to the exit of the underground cell.

Steward Zhu led a group of subordinates to see Xu Zhi and Zhou Yuanzhi robbing the death row prisoners, and hurriedly blocked the underground exit to block it. Xu Zhi arrived quickly, didn't have time to think, stretched out his right hand and pointed at the phoenix tail point under Steward Zhu's shoulder, Steward Zhu screamed, only felt sore, and sat on the ground, unable to get up again.

Xu Zhi saw a subordinate pounce on him from the left with a wooden stick, and hit the man's temple with a fist with his left hand, killing him on the spot. Seeing Xu Zhi's fierceness, the other family members knocked down several people in a row, and they no longer dared to stop them, so they had to shout: "Go and inform General Zhu that the princess and the concubine pretended to transfer the order of the Yellow King to rob the death row and let the death row prisoner go!"

Besides, Zhu Wen was talking and laughing with Huang He in the Welcome Building, and when he was staggering, Zhu Wen saw that Huang He blindly persuaded him to drink and eat, and his words were a little obscure, and he didn't get into the main topic for a long time, so he was very strange and puzzled in his heart, so he asked Huang He tentatively:

"The stakes are very high for the rebels to go south this time, Chief Huang, why is this banquet only invited one of his subordinates to participate, and why don't other generals invite one?"

Huang He hurriedly said: "This is what the Yellow King meant, the matter of going south is still being prepared, and it is inconvenient to inform all the generals." In addition, Zai Xia also admires General Zhu very much, and also wants to make friends with the general in private, don't be surprised. ”

Zhu Wen saw that Huang He's preface didn't match the afterword, so he secretly had a heart, deliberately not strong enough to drink, and wanted to say goodbye to go out for convenience, Huang He saw that Zhu Wen's eyes were confused and drunk, so he had to agree. Zhu Wen took the opportunity to leave the welcome building, and returned directly to the general's mansion with dozens of soldiers with him, and on the way back, he met the family who reported the news, and the family quickly told Zhu Wen that Zhou Yuanzhi brought the monk Xu Zhi to the general's mansion, removed the guards, and went directly to death row.

Zhu Wen heard this, shouted that it was not good, and hurriedly commanded the soldiers to hurry back to the mansion, only to see Zhou Yuanzhi waving a long sword and opening the way in front, Xu Zhi carried Huifeng on his back, and led a large group of death row prisoners to go out of the door, Zhu Wen broke off: "What kind of madman is it, he pretended to be a princess and a colt in broad daylight, came to my house to rob the prison, and everyone came to surround me!", After speaking, he commanded his soldiers to hold knives, guns, bows and arrows to surround Xu Zhi and Zhou Yuanzhi and others.

Zhou Yuanzhi hurriedly took out the Yellow King's gold medal order arrow from his arms, and said loudly: "All the soldiers have seen clearly, this princess was ordered by the Yellow King to extract the criminal Huifeng and others, if there is any obstruction, it is disobeying the king's order!"

All the soldiers didn't know if it was okay, they all looked at Zhu Wen with their eyes, waiting for his order, Zhu Wen smiled and said: "Soldiers, don't be blinded by this wild girl, she is a fake princess, and her arrows are also fake, I just saw the real princess in the Huangwang Mansion, don't hesitate, kill me!"

Zhou Yuanzhi saw that Zhu Wen was cunning and ferocious, and she didn't even pay attention to herself, so she was angry and didn't know what to do, so she had to shout again and again: "Zhu Wen, you, you, actually slandered this princess as fake?"

When those soldiers saw that Zhu Wen had testified that the princess was fake, they boldly put away their arrows, and suddenly the arrows rained down, Xu Zhi hurriedly waved his long sword in front of Zhou Yuanzhi, blocking the first wave of arrows for her, among which several death row prisoners couldn't dodge, and they were hit by several arrows and killed on the spot.

Just as Zhu Wen ordered the second wave of arrows to be released, he heard a person behind him shouting: "Stop me, my General Shang shouldn't be fake!", with a wave of his hand, more than a hundred disguised tiger warriors hidden near Zhu Wen's mansion held sharp blades and surrounded Zhu Wen and others, Zhu Wen was taken aback, and quickly asked his archers to stop releasing arrows.