Liu Tugou put away the formation flag, and jumped down from the bronze flagpole carved with strange patterns in three or two strokes.

He glanced at the silent Hundred Rider Commander Zhang Kite, and heard Old Man Chen babbling to himself.

"Lingying Marquis Seal, this Misty Fox Valley is actually a fief of a Martial Marquis?"

"It's just that why have you never heard of this Hou Ye?"

"If it's a serious title, why use illusions to hide people's eyes?"

Ignoring this old man who loves more seriously, Liu Tugou looked at Zhang Yuan and said, "Mr. Zhang Qi, it's not appropriate for so many of us to go in in a big way, right?"

The look of the hundred cavalry commander when he faced the second master was obviously much more solemn, but his tone was still unquestionable: "I am here to follow the military order of the captain of the cloud cavalry, and it is impossible to turn back halfway!"

He looked at a group of subordinates, his long eyebrows that were obliquely inserted into his temples were about to fly, and he said loudly: "What kind of spirit should be the marquis, Ben Jiang has never heard of it, and he even pretends to be a ghost and confuses people with witchcraft, it must not be the Son of Heaven himself." If you are really a self-reliant traitor, after being exterminated, everyone will be able to become an official and become a knight and be crowned a wife and a son! Even if you are a prisoner of sin, you will definitely be forgiven, and you will not be sent to the border to die again, and you will become a lonely ghost and a wild ghost, and you will not be able to return to your hometown!"

After Zhang Yuan finished saying a few words, whether it was a soldier or a prisoner, everyone's expressions changed subtly.

Chen Hongyu is old and his scholarly spirit has not diminished, and when he heard this, he nodded and exclaimed: "The majestic Great Zhou, there are so many heroes!"

Liu Tugou saw it in his eyes, and said in his heart that this hundred horsemen was really a character. It's a pity that most of these poor people who are used to explore the way in front of them can't wait for the day when they will make contributions and return to their hometowns.

With the slaughtering knife in his hand that had been exposed in front of him, he turned and walked forward, walking quietly in the forefront.

After only a few moments, ten Cloud Cavalry Guards crossed Liu Tugou under the leadership of a chief, and they all looked excited, obviously very excited about the errand of being able to catch the vanguard.

Liu Tugou didn't stop it, he didn't forget the five masters who had already stepped in first, although I don't know what method they used, but since it was premeditated, this phantom array would definitely not be able to stop them.

As soon as the illusion is broken, there is always a moment when the road will come to an end.

After a short walk, a magnificent manor house appeared in front of everyone.

I saw a pair of priceless black jade unicorns on both sides of the front of the stairs, two black lacquer beast head gates were suddenly opened, and two big red lanterns were quietly hung in front of the door, but there was no candle in the inside.

The deep black and silent red are really impressive.

There was surprisingly no plaque on the door, and there was a huge shadow wall standing in the door, but there was no fresco on it, and the yellowed white wall was covered with years of dust, hiding a few lines of dull cursive writing, which was dimly invisible.

Under the dark yellow moonlight, the gate was haunted by a faint mist, deep and quiet, like a ghost.

The soldiers who were the first to explore the way stood on the stone steps, looking at the scene at the door and froze, and the people who arrived later also looked at each other.

Zhang Yuan looked at Liu Tugou: "The fugitives from the edict prison are inside, if you don't enter at this time, when will you stay?"

The second master smiled when he heard this, raised his leg and stepped over the threshold, and entered the shadows in the foyer that the moonlight could not touch.

He looked up, and vaguely recognized the handwriting on the shadow wall:

How is the way of heaven, there are many haters.

You have made up your mind, what shall I say?

Seeing these two lines as if the two were talking, and as if one person was babbling a scribbled book, Liu Tugou suddenly felt an inexplicable loneliness in his heart.

He shook his head vigorously and walked around the strange shadow wall.

In the eye, the eaves and arches and pavilions are continuous. In the wide courtyard is a main hall, carved railings and painted buildings, magnificent, it is indeed the atmosphere of Houmen Gaodi.

The courtyard is paved with bluestone, and weeds have grown between the cracks in the stones, and there are two flower ponds under the front steps of the main hall, which are full of moon seasons, and the petals in the left pond are rare green, and the right side is pink.

Because no one prunes for a long time, the moon season in the flower pond has grown into a lush flower tree, which is two people high, and the branches and leaves are stretched, such as green walls and pink walls, which are gorgeous and warm and distinct, connected into a very irregular arched flower door.

There was a person standing under the flower gate, dressed in prison clothes and not hiding his nobility, it was the hidden Shen Dagongzi.

The second master grinned and said, "Yo, isn't this the eldest prince Shen? ”

Shen Dagongzi didn't smile, bowed his hand, took out a token that was similar to Liu Tugou's, and said seriously: "Shen Yue, the edict of the prison guest, has been waiting for you here for a long time. ”

Liu Tugou was stunned for a moment: "Prison Keqing?"

While speaking, Zhang Yuan, Chen Hongyu and others had already walked into the courtyard one after another.

The commander of the border army, who was the most disdainful of this kind of conspiracy and calculation, sneered: "Presumably you know more than this bullshit deputy envoy, what kind of place is this place, and what are the plans of the edict prison? If you still want to play tricks, you won't mind slaughtering two more dogs!"

Shen Yue smiled self-deprecatingly and said: "I was born in a declining family, I have been familiar with wild history since I was a child, and I know some partial techniques, but unfortunately my family is in the middle of the road, and I was found by the edict prison, so I had to be this guest." ”

He turned his back to the crowd, looked at the main hall behind him, and continued: "The Marquis of Lingying was a person who was knighted two hundred years ago, and for some reason that he was not an outsider, it was not recorded in the golden book of the imperial court. This Lost Fox Valley is his fiefdom, which is isolated from the inside and outside by him with supreme supernatural powers, and has been hidden to this day. He is long gone, but it is said that before he died, he left behind a great treasure that would be born 200 years later. ”

Shen Yue was silent, but the meaning of his words was already very clear, he was an errand for the edict.

Liu Tugou went through it in his mind, and although he didn't know whether what Shen Yue said was true or false, he could justify it, so he asked, "What are you deliberately bringing us here for?"

"The Misty Fox Valley Spirit should be sealed in the world, in fact, there is not much danger, the original plan of the edict was to cover people's eyes and ears in the name of escorting prisoners, and when they passed through this place, they secretly came in, and took away the treasure unknowingly. But for some reason, Nan Tianzhu moved first, and Gao Ziyu rebelled behind, and the whole plan was disrupted. ”

He looked at Liu Tugou and Zhang Yuan, and said bitterly: "Xu Xun went to hunt down Nan Tianzhu, but Gao Ziyu suddenly rebelled, and there is a strong reinforcement to help, it is difficult for me to complete the mission on my own, I can only attract you, muddy the water first, and wait for reinforcements while looking for opportunities." I didn't go far after I escaped, and I accidentally found you, the deputy envoy Xu and Gao, who I didn't know, and as for how the military department intervened, it was really beyond my expectations, but the matter has come to this point, and there is nothing to complain about. ”

Liu Tugou glanced at Zhang Yuan and said with a smile: "With that Yunqi captain here, I'm afraid the reinforcements from the edict prison won't be able to come." ”

Zhang Yuan didn't answer the second master's words, and if the reinforcements from the edict prison can't come, it means that his reinforcements can't come either, at least not soon.

He looked at Shen Yue and said, "Nan Tianzhu should have been your person?"

"His ancestors have been sword catchers in the edict for several generations, and for some reason he always refuses to be promoted as a ghost pawn, as for whether it is our person, I really dare not say at this moment. ”

He looked at Liu Tugou again: "Just like this second master said that he is the deputy envoy, I also can't distinguish the truth from the false." ”

The edict and the military wrestled their wrists, Nan Tianzhu, Gao Ziyu and the young man with his forehead were unclear, plus Shen Yue Shen, who was difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood, and Liu Erye, who was inexplicably involved in it, felt that his brain was a little insufficient for the first time.

What a mess!

Liu Tugou pointed to Chen Hongyu on the side, and said with a very unkind smile: "Don't talk about you and me, even if this old man who doesn't have the slightest cultivation, who dares to guarantee that he is not a pawn of a certain force?"

Chen Hongyu sneered: "Speaking of which, the second master hid deeply, and endured until the last one before jumping out!"

Liu Tugou grinned at Old Man Chen, revealing a mouthful of fine white teeth: "The second master didn't come to kill you, can you use such bitterness and hatred?"

Chen Hongyu snorted coldly and stopped talking, thinking that he was lazy to waste his lips and tongue with the second master.

Zhang Yuan said impatiently: "In this case, how about cooperation for the time being? I would rather kill by mistake than misplace, first deal with those few troublemakers who don't know the roots, and then rely on their own abilities, in the end, today is just a small dirty affair between the edict and the military." ”

Shen Yue smiled when he heard this: "Happy, what did the second master say?"

Liu Tugou said: "I'm just a deputy envoy, and Xu Xun is in charge of everything, but Gao Ziyu must be a traitor, if you want to kill this 'bamboo cane to support the sky', I can help." ”

The second master's words were very decent, Shen and Zhang glanced at each other and nodded their heads.

First, he left people to watch the horses, three more scouts died on the road, and then cut out the other seven scouts who were destined to be more than lucky, and Zhang Yuan still had more than 70 elite soldiers available.

On the side of the edict, four soldiers were first attacked and killed by the young man and Gao Ziyu, and then six unlucky people were killed in the ensuing short melee, and now there is only one chief and eleven soldiers left.

In addition to the cruelty of Gao Ziyu and the young man who wiped his forehead, I have to say that none of these prisoners are good at stubble, and they are so ruthless that they don't even leave a seriously injured living mouth.

It's just that they didn't get a bargain, they were first beheaded by Gao Ziyu, and seven were killed on the spot in the melee because of the inconvenience of moving their hands, and two were killed by Zhang Yuan to Liwei, leaving only Chen Hongyu and the seven corpses alive.

This kind of scum is difficult to rest assured when used to explore the way, so it has to be handcuffed again and left in this courtyard.

Liu Tugou was rarely kind-hearted, and ordered all the remaining prison guards to stay, nominally to take care of the prisoners, but in his selfish heart, he didn't want these people to be sent to death, and he could protect Old Man Chen.

The surviving chief of the edict is the one who was kicked away by Liu Tugou before, and the second master's kick can be said to have saved him. Because of this, these soldiers were willing to obey the orders of 'Deputy Envoy Liu', and did not pay any attention to Shen Yue, a guest secretary.

Such an arrangement fell in the eyes of the hundred horsemen, which inevitably made this seemingly short-tempered but meticulous guy have some doubts. So Zhang Yuan deliberately proposed to leave a group of people to help take care of it, which can be regarded as the response to the break.

Everyone looked at each other and tacitly agreed.