Zhao Bufan and Zhu Lian followed Zhu Bocai to Qingzhou quickly, and the three of them quickly whipped their horses, and whenever the horses couldn't run, they went to the nearest post station to change horses. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info post station was originally opened by the imperial court to ensure the smooth flow of the main official road, and Zhu Bocai carried the token of the Imperial City Division with him, so he could change horses at will at various post stations.

Most of the urgent documents of the imperial court relied on this way to transmit, if only one horse galloped continuously, it would not take long for the horse to be exhausted to death, so it was necessary to transfer along the way, so as to ensure that the "800 miles expedited" documents could be delivered to the destination in time.

In this way, the speed of the three of them was very fast, and at noon two days later, Zhao Bufan arrived near Qingzhou Feilong Castle.

Feilong Fort is actually a small Zhuangzi, far less grand than Zhao Bufan's Juxian Zhuang, so it cannot form a town, and the tenants are scattered everywhere, and the Zhuangzi can only provide Yan Zhennan's own family and cronies to live in, but it is built more distinctively, and it is a typical Oriental-style small manor.

Zhao Bufan and the three of them rushed to the outside of Feilong Castle, but they saw that the gate of Zhuangzi was closed, and the entire courtyard was silent, and they all had some doubts in their hearts.

A farmer happened to pass by outside the village gate carrying timber, Zhu Bocai turned over and dismounted, and gently stepped forward and asked, "Old man, it's just noon, why is the gate of Feilong Castle closed?" Have you seen anyone in the village today?"

The old man seemed to have some doubts, looked around, and suddenly said mysteriously: "I'm afraid something happened to Feilong Castle, last night, there was a fierce fight inside, many tenants heard it, at first thought there was a thief, everyone rushed to help, but at that time there was a man in Tsing Yi standing outside the door, saying that there were people in the rivers and lakes who were fighting, let's not meddle in things." We tenants all know that Yan Zhennan is from the rivers and lakes, and has accepted a lot of apprentices, since it is a matter of the rivers and lakes, we people don't dare to take care of it, so we go home. But since then, the gates of Wyvern Castle have never been opened, and no one has rushed to knock on the door to ask!"

"Thank you, uncle!" Zhu Bocai smiled and arched his hand, watching the old man carry the wood away, and the smile on his face gradually dissipated. "We're still late!"

"It's late?" Zhao Bufan and Zhu Lian looked at each other.

Zhu Bocai sighed helplessly: "This is not the first time, there is absolutely no living mouth in Feilong Castle, you all go in and have a look, you will always see a lot of this kind of thing in the future, it is good to be prepared!"

As he spoke, he slowly walked to the red lacquer gate of the Flying Dragon Castle, and suddenly made a move, his hands flashed with a metallic luster, and he slammed into the red lacquer gate.

"Bang!"

The huge red lacquer door was blasted out of a large hole.

Zhu Bocai shook his head and walked in first.

Zhao Bufan and Zhu Lian followed through the gate, but as soon as they entered the courtyard, Zhu Lian was stunned by the tragic scene inside.

The Flying Dragon Fort has been so badly damaged that many of the beams have collapsed, and traces of fighting can be seen everywhere, and the corpses are even more unrecognizable, lying on the ground, men, women, and children, in different forms.

While checking the corpse and the scene environment, Zhu Bocai said indifferently: "Lian'er, since you have the heart to do things in the Imperial City Division, you must look at the details more at this moment, don't be confused by the tragedy, do you remember the methods I taught you?" If you analyze according to what I said, then you can see that the massacre here should have happened last night, there were about a dozen murderers, and the martial arts were not bad, among them there was a master with a sword, his sword was very fast, so fast that some people did not see where the sword came from when they were dying, which can be seen from the eyes and posture of the deceased, and the master used a soft sword, elastic feet, which can be distinguished from the wound and those sword marks. ”

"This person's internal strength is still very high!" Zhao Bufan suddenly answered.

Zhu Bocai turned his head in surprise and saw that he was staring at the sword hole on a stone, and immediately smiled: "Your vision is good, that person's internal strength is indeed very high, at least the internal force of the seventh grade, otherwise it is impossible for the soft sword to pierce such a deep hole in the stone, and it is comprehensively inferred that this person's actual strength is between the sixth and seventh grades, then it should be the female killer nicknamed the Mountain and Sea Scorpion!"

"Mountain and sea scorpions?"

Zhao Bufan frowned and looked at Zhu Bocai strangely: "Since you know this person, why don't you send a master to chase him?"

"How do you know that we didn't hunt down? But do you think it's that easy? She's not an ordinary master, she's a killer who is proficient in stealth and disguise, Tong Guan spent so much money to cultivate, how can people catch it so easily?"

Zhu Bocai said, and suddenly looked at Zhao Bufan with a smile: "Do you think you are very shrewd in the incident of defeating Luo Ash in Yantou Village?"

Zhao Bufan was silent.

Zhu Lian took over the words suspiciously: "Isn't it?"

Zhu Bocai didn't care about her, still smiling and looking at Zhao Bufan's face. "Do you remember that old bustard in Huayuelou? Luo Ash's little lover? You also coerced and lured her to try to make her betray Luo Ash and turn to you, and she even revealed to you that Luo Ash was a distant relative of Tong Guan's hometown!"

"Of course I remember, what's wrong with her?" Zhao Bufan wondered.

"She's dead! Two days ago, she was assassinated!"

Zhu Bocai sighed, and said leisurely: "She is the detective of our Imperial City Division, responsible for secretly protecting you in Yantou Village, originally she should not have participated in the fight between you and Luo Ash, just play her own role, but she helped you, and the result was quickly exposed, and she has died regretfully! To tell the truth, you did that thing very jerky, if it weren't for your luck, Cai Jing tried to protect you, and someone also secretly protected you, you would have died a long time ago! You are too young, and you have been involved in the power struggle at the top early, which is not a good thing!"

"Someone is secretly protecting me?" Zhao Bufan wondered.

Zhu Bocai shook his head: "I don't know, but what I can be sure of is that this person is very old-fashioned, but so far, we haven't found out who this person is!"

Zhao Bufan was so shocked that he found that he couldn't keep up with the rhythm of these old foxes.

Zhu Bocai smiled slightly: "However, what you did the most is that you infiltrated the beggar gang to divide the rudder, this matter was too sudden, instantly breaking the layout of all forces, that day when you and Zhu Lian suddenly disappeared from Yantou Village, I was investigating in Cangzhou, and I was surprised to hear that Lian'er left Yantou Village at the same time as you, and I was so anxious that I rushed over immediately, but I really don't know where you went." It wasn't until Lian'er ran to the Bazhou Mansion for help that we didn't know about your plan and hurried to the rescue, in this matter, you did it very suddenly, and you were very powerful, worthy of the nickname of the Nine-Tailed Divine Fox!"

These words really made Zhao Bufan a little inexplicably bitter.

"Master Zhu, listening to you tell so many secrets today, I feel like I am a frog at the bottom of the well, and I can't afford the nine-tailed divine fox!"

"No, don't be presumptuous, the most important thing is your age and your military talent, that's why they call you that, they have foreseen how terrible you will be when you grow up!"

Saying that, Zhu Bocai walked over with a smile and gently patted Zhao Bufan's shoulder: "You will become the backbone of the Great Song Dynasty in the future, but you still have to be cautious now, the things you are exposed to now are still the tip of the iceberg after all." Not to mention anything else, Cai Jing is optimistic about you, in order to ensure your growth, the price he paid is not that you can buy it back with 10,000 yuan you give him, and the battle in the court is far more complicated than you imagined. There is a saying in the rivers and lakes that it is said that people are in the rivers and lakes, and they can't help themselves, unless one day, you have the final say in this rivers and lakes, otherwise reviving the dynasty is not so simple as talking, people will die, and many people will die!"

Speaking of this, Zhu Bocai suddenly smiled: "Do you know why Cai Jing likes you?"

"Why?"

"Because you behave a lot like him when you were younger!"

"When he was younger?"

"yes, you didn't expect that, did you?"

Zhu Bocai put his hands behind his back, and his eyes were a little wandering.

"Cai Jing is very bad now, the people hate him to the bone, but he has come to this day, there is no way back, but when he was young, but with Wang Anshi's bold innovation, launched a change, at that time he was in his prime, wanted to rejuvenate the country and strengthen the army, but in the end? hit his head and bleed, and he was secretly scolded by the people as one of the six thieves, the little calculation in your heart, not only I know, Cai Jing also knows, don't you just want to use him to get on the throne? Don't you have the great ambition of rejuvenating the country and the people, and then punish the traitorous ministers? But you have to remember that very few people are born to want to be traitors, the environment will change people, and it will corrupt people, I am not afraid to tell you, I am also very greedy, this Great Song Dynasty is rotten, who can be left alone? Your road is still very long, if one day you can really revive the dynasty, can fight me to the ground, that is the blessing of the Great Song Dynasty, I admit it, I will not hate you!"

Zhao Bufan was silent.

It took a long time to calm down from the shock, and said with a wry smile: "Then why don't you kill me now?"

Zhu Bocai looked into his eyes. "We ourselves have come over like this, we have also been young, you are the former us, why do you want to kill you? If you are really determined, then let us all feel that you have the ability to change this world, when you reach our age, to our point, you can still revitalize the Great Song Dynasty, and you can stick to your heart, then you are worthy of leaving a name in history and being admired by all people!"

These words made Zhao Bufan feel the contradiction in Zhu Bocai's heart, and felt that he was mentally worried about the country and the people, but in reality he couldn't help himself.

After a long time, Zhao Bufan said in a deep voice: "Master Zhu, why are you telling me so much!"

"Be my son-in-law!" Zhu Bocai only said one sentence.

"What?" Zhao Bufan was dumbfounded.

"Daddy, the more you talk about it, the more outrageous it becomes, I have nothing to do with him!" Zhu Lian next to him also blushed instantly, feeling incredible.

Zhu Bocai's face was calm.

"Marriage matters, that is the order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker, I am in charge of your marriage!"

Zhao Bufan shook his head lightly: "Lord Zhu, this is not good, I think we should respect Zhu Lian's opinion, there is no love between men and women!"

Zhu Bocai's expression was indifferent: "How to decide is your business, you think about it yourself, but you have to remember that only by marrying Lian'er can you get the support of our Zhu family, I have told you a lot just now, you can't fight on your own, even if Cai Jing likes you now, but one day you threaten him, you will still die, we all understand your thoughts, we all know that, we came here like this!"

After saying this, Zhu Bocai turned around and left. "Okay, you two go to Bazhou alone, I want to rush back to Cangzhou, that is the main battlefield this time, the situation in Bazhou is not serious at all, if it weren't for Lian'er's safety, I wouldn't be bothered to come over, and now Tong Guan's evidence can't be found, I'm meaningless here!"

The words fell, and in the stunned eyes of Zhao Bufan and Zhu Lian, Zhu Bocai flew up and jumped onto the roof, and disappeared from view in a few flashes.

After a while, Zhu Bocai came to the secluded wilderness, smiling.

"Master Su, how can a Qing official like you follow people?"

A figure slowly walked out of the forest, it was the second son of the late minister Su Shi, who is now a member of the Shangshu driving department, and had a relationship with Zhao Bufan in the Dragon King Temple, and was particularly surprised by Zhao Bufan's appearance at that time.

At this time, he slowly walked to Zhu Bocai's side and said with a smile: "Master Zhu, you are really good at calculating, are you not afraid that Zhao Bufan will settle the account in the future?"

"If we don't help him, can he still have a future?" asked Zhu Bocai lightly.

"But you didn't discuss it with a few of us, what does it mean to marry your daughter to him first?" Su Yu said with a smile.

Zhu Bocai raised his eyebrows: "This is called the first strike, I risk my whole family's life to do this, when the time is ripe, his life experience will be unraveled, my daughter can guarantee a lifetime of wealth and glory, what's wrong with this? Although I have promised to help him with you, but this matter is often a big crime of the three clans, why can't I repay it first, as a father, I think about my daughter, is it wrong?"

"Okay, I won't talk to you about this, Zhao Bufan still needs to be honed, it's too jerky, it's too early to talk about that, we have to rush to Cangzhou now, King Xian is trapped!"

"What? King Xian is trapped?"

"Well, Tong Guan personally arrived in Cangzhou!"

As they spoke, the two quickly disappeared into the woods......