"This, I'm afraid it won't work!"

After a pause, Zhao Tieniu shook his head gloomily.

"Do you know that since the ancestors of the Zhang clan moved here more than a hundred years ago, in order to be able to resist the Jin Dynasty tartars, they began to build the North Castle, which is where the Zhang clan now lives. And after several generations, especially when the Jin Dynasty collapsed decades ago, the patriarch at that time strengthened it, which led to the current North Castle. ”

Luo Min listened quietly, thinking to himself: "So that's the case? ”

Before he came, he had been to the north castle where the Nazhang clan was located, its internal roads were crisscrossed, and it only took a quarter of an hour to reach the periphery from the center of the city, and the houses were also radial, and the outermost houses were all made of bricks and stones, which could be described as quite solid.

The entire North Castle was built quite rigorously, and someone must have done it deliberately.

"That's right. Otherwise, why can't we help each other? It's because the north castle is so strong, how can it be opened without artillery?" Zhao Tieniu shook his head helplessly, his eyes were gloomy.

For Zhang Feng, who is entrenched here and is powerful, they have not thought of a way, but every time they are blocked by this strong castle.

Luo Min didn't give up, and continued to persuade: "Even so, I don't think they can be without shortcomings. You have to be in contact with the outside, don't you?"

"Well, that's true. Every autumn and October, the north castle is opened to allow us to pay our taxes. ”

Zhao Tieniu's eyebrows were furrowed, and he still felt worried: "But at that time, they will also gather the prime of life in the clan to prevent changes." If we want to take advantage of this time, it is impossible to take the North Castle with our words alone. ”

"Huh. This time we're not attacking, we're just stealing, it's nothing. And at this moment, a large number of young and middle-aged people are dispatched, and there must be emptiness inside, but it is a good opportunity. Luo Min's eyes lit up, and he immediately had an idea.

"No, I can't. It's still too risky, and if it fails, you don't care, but we're out of luck. ”

Zhao Tieniu still couldn't believe it, he was too unfamiliar with Luo Min.

Luo Min had no choice but to take out something from his arms, but this thing was a small sword, and complained: "If you don't believe my words, you have to believe Zhou Peiling's words." ”

"Is this the wooden sword I gave him?" Zhao Tieniu's eyes lit up, and his rough big hand took the wooden sword, and rubbed it with nostalgia.

On this, there is also a big buffalo carved by him.

Luo Min nodded, looking at Zhao Tieniu with burning eyes: "That's right." Before leaving, he told me where it was hiding. ”

"Okay. Since it's a hill, then I'll trust you once. Zhao Tieniu gritted his silver teeth and immediately made up his mind.

The serious expression on his face was relieved, Luo Min felt a little happy, and hurriedly said, "Thank you then." It's just that before we act, we still need to determine where that Zhang Feng kept this account book. It's a pity that I don't know anything here, I don't know if you have any doorways?"

"It's-"

Zhao Tieniu hesitated: "It's not that there is no way, but I don't know if she is willing?"

"Who?"

Luo Min's eyes narrowed slightly, and he took Zhao Tieniu's expression into his eyes, and the flash of tenderness made him a little puzzled.

"It's Emerald Flower. ”

Zhao Tieniu's face showed a hint of nostalgia, but his hands were clenched suddenly, and his teeth bit his lip, "It's just that she was forcibly accepted as a concubine by that Zhang Feng design." ”

"This. I'm sorry to remind you of something sad. Luo Min lowered his eyes to show his grief.

Zhao Tieniu's face was bitter, and he replied dejectedly: "It's nothing." And even if it weren't for you, maybe I'd have to go to her. After all, I owe so much to her—"

"Okay. Then you go ahead, I'll wait here for your news. Luo Min nodded.

If you don't make all the preparations, you will act rashly, in addition to grabbing the handle for the other party, it will be easier to startle the snake.

Zhao Tieniu nodded and appealed, "That's good." It's just that this matter is not urgent, and Zhang Feng is strict on weekdays, and he can't come out at all. But now it's almost autumn, and in order to feed the silkworm babies, they will go to the mulberry forest three miles away every morning to pick suitable mulberry leaves. That's our chance. ”

In addition to grain, the product of Chunhua here is also silkworm cocoons, and thousands of acres of mulberry trees are planted nearby as a food source for silkworm cocoons.

At this time, many weaver girls in the North Castle will come out and go to the mulberry forest to pick fresh mulberry leaves.

Otherwise, if those silkworm babies are hungry, it will affect their income.

Because of the development of Chang'an's textile industry, this silkworm cocoon has become the largest income of the Zhang family.

With a pair of eyes on each other, Luo Min and Zhao Tieniu accompanied each other and ran to the mulberry forest together. This mulberry forest covers an area of more than 1,000 acres, which can be described as quite luxuriant, and there is no one around to guard it, in fact, because the area is too large, the North Castle does not have much manpower to guard.

After a night, when the morning sun fell, I saw nearly 100 women walking in the distance.

Among these women, there were old women in their fifties, girls in their teens, and the most numerous were young women in their twenties and thirties.

From a distance, it can also be seen that these weaver girls are dressed in clothes, they are also divided into classes, among which the old woman in the middle is the most noble, with a big red silk shirt on the outside, a jade pendant hanging on the waist, and a hosta on the top of the head, and the most people around it, there are about twenty people.

In addition, there are more than a dozen women with good looks.

Although these women do not wear gold and jade, they are all wearing fine cotton clothes, and there are more or less maids around them, there are seven or eight of them, and only three or four of them are few.

As for those maids, of course, what they wear is ordinary linen clothes, not to mention the old clothes, it is okay to be able to patch them, after all, some women directly wear rag clothes to cover their bodies.

"The woman in the middle is Zhang Feng's wife, the daughter of the owner of the nearby Wenjiazhuang, and the rest are Zhang Feng's concubines. ”

Pointing to these people, Zhao Tieniu introduced that although these women were smiling, he looked anxious, searching among these women, as if he wanted to find the cuihua he said.

Luo Min raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked in a low voice: "Didn't the lord have issued an order prohibiting concubines?" This Zhang Feng is still so bold?"

"Who doesn't know. But he is a parliamentarian, and his hands and eyes are all over the sky, so naturally no one dares to track him down. Otherwise, how could Cuihua be taken away by the other party?" Zhao Tieniu opened his mouth and scolded.

"Alas. It seems that you are also a hard worker. ”

Luo Min sighed secretly, tried his best to hide his body in the canopy, so as not to be discovered by these weaver girls, and asked again: "That's right." What does that emerald flower look like?

Zhao Tieniu's eyes lit up, and he immediately pointed to a person and said, "It's her!"

"Is it her? Your vision is also unique. ”

Luo Min tugged at the corners of his mouth, before this he was still in a reverie about what the emerald flower looked like, which made Zhao Tieniu so haunted.

However, as soon as they met, Luo Min was disappointed, his thick waist and tanned face really did not meet his aesthetics, but Zhou Zheng's facial features, in this countryside, were attractive enough.

Village flowers or something, after all, it's just a reverie.

When the two were talking, something seemed to have changed in the distance, that Cuihua knelt on the ground, and kept kowtowing to that Zhang Wen, as if apologizing, but that Zhang Wen refused to stop, but took out a thorn and kept hitting Cuihua's back.

Although Cuihua's body was strong, she couldn't help but be beaten like this, and her clothes were also torn, revealing her bloodstained back.

"This thief woman actually treats Cuihua like this. ”

Zhao Tieniu couldn't bear it, his eyes began to breathe fire, and he wanted to rush out.

Luo Min hurriedly grabbed it and persuaded in a low voice: "Be quiet, have you forgotten the purpose of the two of us?"

In the air, there was a faint sound of scolding from the other party, and if you listened carefully to most of the insulting words such as "" and "prodigals", they felt uncomfortable even when they heard it, let alone the parties involved.

After about a while, the Zhang Wen family gave up and let all the maids and those concubines act together to pick mulberry leaves, and she was the only one who stayed in the shade and began to rest.

This matter of picking mulberry leaves is manual work, and with Zhang Wen's body now in his sixties, he naturally can't continue to do it, so he can only monitor the other party here.

Seeing all the weaver girls scattering, Zhao Tieniu and Luo Min were overjoyed, Luo Min was confused about how to call the green flower, but saw Zhao Tieniu covering his mouth with both hands, but he made a cry like a cuckoo.

It's already close to the forest, so it's no surprise that there are some birds.

But after hearing this, the cuihua obviously showed a trace of joy, just swept the people around her, and quickly reined in, and then secretly avoided everyone, and came to the hiding place of the two of them.

"Is it Zhao Tieniu?"

With a "rub", Zhao Tieniu jumped down from the tree and landed in front of Cuihua.

"It's me, I'm coming for you. ”

Cuihua was overjoyed, and immediately felt frightened, and only after looking around to see that there was no one did she breathe a sigh of relief, and complained: "Why did you come here?" Don't you know that the master has been tracking you, and if he finds out that you are here, you will not be able to escape at all. ”

"Of course I do. ”

Zhao Tieniu nodded, the desire in his eyes was uncontrollable, and he couldn't help but climb Cuihua's hand and said, "But I miss you." ”

"What's wrong with you? The iron tree is blooming, and you can say such sweet words?"

Cuihua's body trembled, the expression on her face melted a lot, Zhao Tieniu's heart was pounding, it was difficult to suppress his impulse, and he hurriedly hugged Cuihua in his arms.

Just a little bit of force, Cuihua immediately screamed, and a lot of cold sweat flowed from her forehead.

Zhao Tieniu remembered the previous scene, and immediately took off the Cuihua coat, leaving only a belly pocket around his chest, and on the swarthy back, several fresh blood stains were oozing blood stains, in addition to more than a dozen old scars, just like the ferocious dragon, lying on Cuihua's back, greedily devouring her vitality.

"Tell me, what happened to the thief woman?"

Zhao Tieniu's voice was raised suddenly, and then he was pressed down again, for fear of waking up the people in the distance.

Cuihua's face was bitter, and she kept shaking her head: "Tie Niu, forget it." However, Zhao Tieniu's determination was still the same, and Cuihua had no choice but to persuade: "Listen to my advice, you better leave here, hurry up and get out of here, is it okay?" Speaking of the back, it was already with a crying tone.

"I don't. If you don't tell me why, I won't leave. ”

Zhao Tieniu stiffened his neck and did not intend to compromise.

If Cuihua was treated normally, he might have forgotten it, but Cuihua was devastated, how could Zhao Tieniu accept it?

The corners of Cuihua's mouth twitched, full of sadness: "This, isn't it because of the master? And she is the master's wife, what do you want me to do?"

Zhang Wen's family is a jealous person, if he sees the maid and Zhang Feng too close, he will naturally be beaten badly, and call it a family law, but Cuihua was included in the door by Zhang Fengqiang at the beginning, how can he avoid Zhang Feng's bullying?

"That's right. You'd better tell us why, and we'll give you an idea, won't we?" At this time, Luo Min also walked out.

Cuihua was obviously stunned, and when she saw Luo Min's detached attitude, she couldn't help but wonder: "Zhao Tieniu, who is he?"

"Little Mountain, do you know? He was sent by Little Mountain to help us take down the Iron Seal. Zhao Tieniu looked quite happy.

Cuihua was also full of disbelief, looked Luo Min up and down, and asked, "Are you really sent by Xiaoshan?"

"Of course. It's just the two of you, are you just seeing each other today just to show your heartfelt feelings?"

Luo Min nodded, and immediately looked at Zhao Tieniu, as if he meant something.

Zhao Tieniu's heart was slightly tight, but he was stunned, it was obvious that Luo Min wanted him to put forward the request that the two had discussed before, but in that case, Cuihua would inevitably have to contact that Zhang Feng, in this case, I was afraid that I would be beaten by Zhang Wen's again.

In this case, he really couldn't accept it.

Cuihua noticed the change between the two of them, and immediately asked, "You guys, do you have anything to say to me?"

"This-"

Zhao Tieniu was a little scared, he raised his head slightly, looked at the girl in front of him carefully, and then said: "This, you also know that the iron seal has always been a disaster for the countryside, we dare to be angry but dare not speak." So, I-" I kept all the unspoken words in my mouth, but I didn't dare to tell the woman in front of me seriously.

Zhao Tieniu was really scared, if Cuihua had a case, then what should he do.

"Tell me what the hell is going on. ”

Cuihua smiled, and her bright smile was full of warmth, which made Zhao Tieniu's body feel cold because of the overnight stay full of warmth again.

"Well, that's what I'm going to say?" Zhao Tieniu was a little apprehensive, but in the face of his beloved, he couldn't deceive him, so he told the plan one by one.

When Cuihua heard this, she was also thoughtful: "Is that the case?"

"That's right. As long as I get the account book, I will definitely report this matter to the Virgin, and with the temperament of the Virgin, I will definitely make Zhang Feng pay the price. Luo Min complained.

He knew that Xiao Feng's prestige among the people had always been very high, and if he used Xiao Feng's name, he would naturally be able to convince the two.

Cuihua leaned down and bowed: "Then please leave it to you." ”