The night was as dark as ink, and the moonlight was as clear as frost.

On the north gate of Weiling City, a soldier lit torches along the city wall in turn, and the light of the fire swaying in the wind illuminated the towering city wall. After completing his task, he hurried into the arrow tower as if he was in a hurry.

"Big big—" "Little little little—"

The roar erupted from the arrow tower, and the soldier who lit the torch threw his spear aside, and eagerly squeezed into the crowd around the table, took out a few taels of silver from his waist, and threw it on the table, wanting to join in.

"Hey, Brother Lu, hurry up, don't whet people's appetites, I'll wait to bet." The soldier looked at the bearded man sitting in the village and pressed the sieve cup and did not want to open it, and urged loudly.

"Just you kid monkey hurry, while waiting. The strong man laughed and scolded, turned his face and glanced at everyone, very satisfied with the blazing eyes of the gamblers, slowly raised the sieve cup with his hand, and shouted: "Open!"

The dice on the table showed their true faces, two threes, one two, and they were small. The gamblers around suddenly made two diametrically opposed sounds, and those who won the silver were naturally full of red light, and those who lost couldn't help but sigh, scolding their mothers, and continued to take out money and put it on the table with red eyes.

"Buy and leave, buy and leave. ”

The silver of the white flowers was gathered high in a heap as if they were worthless as stones, waiting for his new master.

The bearded man shook the sieve cup in his hand, and his technique was sophisticated, and he looked like a person who was good at gambling. Everyone's eyes were fixed on the strong man's hand, and his face slowly lifted as his sieve cup rose.

Just as everyone was waiting for the sieve cup to fall, suddenly a soldier ran into the arrow tower out of breath and shouted: "Brother Lu, Brother Lu, something has happened! More than a dozen people have come to the gate of the city to see you." ”

"Grandma's, isn't it just a dozen people, you panicked, I thought the Qiang tribe was calling. He scolded the soldier for the call. Everyone laughed, the Qiang people are 108,000 miles away from Weiling, and it is really a big joke to call.

Don't you see I'm busy? If they want to get out of the city, you can take a few people and blow them away, and report this kind of trivial matter, go out!" The strong man surnamed Lu was disturbed, waved his hand impatiently, and asked the soldiers to retreat.

"Brother Lu, he, they have a talisman. The soldier seemed frightened and stuttered a little.

"What?! you say again. As soon as the strong man surnamed Lu heard the talisman, he instantly threw away the sieve cup in his hand, slapped the table, stood up suddenly, his eyes widened, rushed over and grabbed the soldier's collar, and asked loudly.

The soldier who was lifted up like a chicken, grabbed the strong man's hand so that he could breathe as easily as possible, kicked his legs weakly in the air, and repeated: "They, yes, have a talisman." ”

The gamblers, who were originally noisy, were silent for an instant, and they all listened to the conversation between the two with bated breath in horror.

"Do you see clearly, who is coming?" asked the strong man, throwing the soldier on the ground with a nervous expression.

The soldier knelt on the ground, rubbed his neck with the white mark, coughed twice, and replied: "I don't know the people who came, they don't look like people in the army, and those people are very strange, they are beggars and Taoist priests." ”

Hearing that he was not a person in the army, the strong man breathed a sigh of relief for the time being. But then he became puzzled, who else could get the Tiger Talisman for Troop Transfer, could it be the royal family? It was impossible, if the royal family really wanted to transfer troops, how could there be only a dozen people, or beggars and Taoist priests.

Thinking of this, the strong man surnamed Lu squeezed out the word "Sichuan" on his eyebrows, waved his big hand, and said, "Brothers, don't play yet, go out with me to have a look." ”

"Yes!" the gamblers replied in unison, then put on their armor, took their weapons, and followed the strong man out of the arrow tower in a disorderly manner.

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When the strong man surnamed Lu walked down the city tower, he saw more than a dozen people standing at the gate of the city, both men and women. Just as he said and heard just now, there are beggars and Taoist priests among these dozen people, which makes people wonder where they are coming. However, since there is a talisman, it is definitely not simple, and you still have to be careful when you act yourself.

Soon, the two sides met. The newspaper soldier pointed to Du Chunyu and reported: "Brother Lu, it's that fat man who said he wanted to see you." ”

When the strong man heard this, he was suddenly shocked into a cold sweat, the little soldier didn't know Du Chun, but he had seen Du Chun, before he followed the envoy of the city guard to the banquet, and he had a relationship with Du Chun. He slapped the creep on the head, and the creep sat on the ground with his butt under the force, his helmet rolling aside.

The strong man pointed at the little soldier and scolded: "Open your dog's eyes and take a good look, this is Boss Du, the leader of the Hailan Business Alliance, what are you calling blindly?" After scolding, he saluted with a smiling face, pretended not to know about the military talisman, and flattered Du Chun: "Boss Du, how can you have time to come to me." If you want to go out of town, just let me know in advance, why bother to come in person. ”

Du Chun snorted coldly, straightened the general's belly, and sneered lightly: "Commander Lu Qianfu is really busy with military affairs, and it is not easy for me, a small businessman, to meet him." After a pause, he squinted and chuckled: "It seems that the tiger talisman can't please move your big Buddha." ”

Captain Lu's mouth was dry, and under Du Chun's threat, he was nervous to the point of being unstoppable. The messenger who pretended to be angry kicked his feet and knelt on the ground and kept shouting for mercy, "It's all my subordinate, I didn't make it clear." The tiger talisman is here, how dare you disobey. It's just that the tiger talisman can take a look. ”

Commander Lu Qianfu was still unsure of the existence of the tiger talisman in his heart, and wanted to confirm it. Hearing this, Du Chun took two steps back, and retreated half a step behind Liu Buxiu. Liu Buxiu slowly took out the tiger talisman from his sleeve and showed it in front of Captain Lucenturion.

Captain Lu Qianfu looks unkempt and reckless, but in fact he is delicate and delicate. Seeing Du Chun's actions just now, I was very surprised that Du Chun, a person of this status, was standing behind the young man in plain linen clothes in front of him like a follower, and there were many guesses about Liu Buxiu's identity in his heart.

Speaking of which, Commander Lu should not have a lot of power, and the one who is really in charge of the city guard should be his immediate boss, the prince Lingjie envoy. But this festival is a pervert, lingering in the fireworks and willow alleys every day. In addition, the Weiling Protector had nothing to do, so Wang Ziling directly delegated power to the commander surnamed Lu, who was the most temperamental, and he took over military affairs.

Captain Lu Qianfu raised his palms high, took the tiger talisman from Liu Buxiu's hand, carefully checked it, confirmed that there was no problem, and respectfully returned it to Liu Buxiu.

Commander Lu Qianfu clenched his hands into fists, knelt on one knee, the armor on his body rattled, and said loudly: "Subordinates listen to orders." ”

"Within a quarter of an hour, gather 5,000 city guards to stand by on Suzaku Street outside the Guangde Gate, you have been idle for too long, and it is time for the activity to be active. Liu Buxiu gave orders to the commander, and his words were inevitably full of disdain for the city guard.

"Yes. "Commander Lu Qianfu is a veteran who came back from the battlefield, not like other people in the army who are waiting for death. He knew very well the truth that military orders were like mountains, and he didn't ask more questions that shouldn't be asked.

Liu Buxiu was very satisfied with Captain Lu's performance and nodded. From this commander, he faintly saw the shadows of those iron-blooded soldiers who had been baptized by war in Yuzhou City when he was a child.

Without too much nonsense, Liu Buxiu turned around and stepped on the snowy moonlight with everyone and left the north city gate.

After Liu Buxiu left, the soldiers asked in a low voice, "Brother Lu, what are we going to do here?" ”

"What do you ask! Orders are forbidden, and soldiers can only obey. Captain Lu Qian angrily scolded these rich boys who only knew how to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble, and he still didn't say half a word. He had a hunch that these embroidered pillows were going to see blood tonight.

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A family on Suzaku Street.

The eighty-year-old man got up at night, and before he reached the latrine, he suddenly heard a chaotic sound of footsteps on the street outside the door. tightened the thin obscene clothes on his body, rubbed his sleepy eyes and walked to the door, and looked through the crack in the door.

I saw a group of black-clothed people on the street stacking their heels, all with double axes pinned to their waists, and holding mountain knives in their hands, and the whole group of people seemed to be all dumb, without making the slightest sound, and because of this, the footsteps seemed abrupt and unusual in this silent night.

The old man was so frightened that he took two steps back, almost fell, and suddenly fell asleep. At this time, the old man came out of the house, saw the old man standing in the doorway, and wanted to ask aloud. Seeing this, the old man quickly raised his finger and put it to his mouth, signaling her to silence. Waving his hand, he asked her to come over and pointed out the door.

Puzzled, the old man leaned his face to the crack in the door and looked out. As soon as he glanced at it, he showed the same look as the old man, and whispered: "Old man, this, what's the matter." ”

The old man shook his head and said, "It's none of your business, don't look at it, so as not to get into trouble." Go back to the house, go back to the house, and act as if you didn't see anything, hear nothing. As he spoke, he dragged Lao Suo back to the house and closed the door tightly.

The old man and the old man were lying on the bed, but they couldn't sleep at all. The sound of footsteps on the street outside the door lasted for nearly a cup of tea before it gradually disappeared, and the old man sighed in his heart, I am afraid that there are thousands of people, it seems that Weiling City is about to change.

There are not a few residents who have insomnia like old couples tonight in Weiling City.

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"Xiao Yue, when will your brothers from the boat gang arrive?" Liu Buxiu looked up at the sky with a gloomy face, estimated the time in his heart, and asked.

"Well, here we are. Xiao Yue stretched out his hand and pointed to a moving black cloud on Suzaku Street and replied.

Thousands of boat gangs dressed in night clothes, like a group of bats searching for prey in the night, waved their wings and flew in front of Xiao Yue and his party.

"Miss! The three thousand seven hundred rudder gang has all arrived, please give instructions to Miss. The first man in black held the mountain knife and saluted Xiao Yue with a fist.

"Yes. Xiao Yue nodded in agreement, and pointed at Liu Buxiu very strongly: "Tonight, you are all at the disposal of Shopkeeper Liu, and his words are my words, understand?"

However, the helper said...... "The man in black was obviously worried.

"En?" Xiao Yue raised her eyebrows, her apricot eyes widened angrily, and she glared at the man in black, and the threat was self-evident.

"Yes, let the shopkeeper Liu at his disposal. The man in black relented and replied.

"It doesn't have to be this way, Xiao Yue. It's better for you to be at your disposal as a brethren of the Boat Gang, after all, you are the eldest lady of the Boat Gang. Liu Buxiu said lightly, as if he didn't care about the so-called rights.

"The shopkeeper, it is better for us to directly control the Guangde Gate now, than to let the four princes grasp the opportunity. Yu Xiaohang worriedly gave Liu Buzhi advice.

Liu Buxiu chuckled, turned his hands behind his back, and looked at Du Chun meaningfully.

"Before the play even started, we went on stage. Aren't you sorry for the spectators?"