Chapter Thirty-Five: Murderous Opportunities

Yue Zhong left the county government overnight and went to Fan Gu's hometown. The next day, the officials of the Zhou Mansion set up a Hongmen banquet to kill Yue Zhong, and suddenly found that he had left, and they were furious. The county lieutenant came to give advice to the government officials, saying that there were many people in the Nanyang area, and the taxes collected every year filled the treasury, and there were many extravagant expenses, so why not calculate the calculations so that there would be no delay in capturing Yue Zhong and the Zhou government?

Fan Gu befriended a group of chickens and dogs, and sneaked into the Zhou Mansion and the county governor's house that night, found the tax silver, and hid it in the county governor's brother-in-law's house. Fan Gu also made people infiltrate the county governor's account office and stole his official seal.

As a result, the whole city exploded, and the county lieutenant lost his official seal, so he ordered people to search the whole process from house to house, and appointed Fan Gu as the person in charge of the search.

Fan Gu deliberately asked his subordinates to search the mansion of the county lieutenant's brother-in-law, and arranged some people to come and watch in advance. The man who was ordered to search was the same person who kept the tax money at night, and soon after entering the house, he found the batch of tax silver with the word 'tax' printed on it in a storehouse. All of a sudden, the matter became big, Fan Gu deliberately pretended to be helpless, so he asked the Zhou Mansion and the county lieutenant to deal with it together.

The county lieutenant knew that he had been tricked, and it was not easy to protect him in front of the people and the Zhou government, and the Zhou government was even more selfless and selfless, and ordered the county lieutenant not to bend the law for personal gain, and he must be severely punished. According to the law at that time, stealing tax money was a capital offense, and the county lieutenant had no choice but to beat his brother-in-law with fifty rods in public, and then sent him to prison. After that, the county lieutenant sent a batch of gold to the top and bought off the important officials of the Zhou Mansion, saying that the steward of his brother-in-law's mansion had done the case with some robbers, and the housekeeper had already recruited people, so he asked for his brother-in-law to be let live. The officials defended each other, and the matter was over.

Everything is over, Fan Gu returned to Xinye's hometown to meet Yue Zhong secretly.

Yue Zhong hugged his fists and thanked him: "Thanks to the rescue of the strong man, please accept the spiritual worship!"

Fan Gu hurriedly hugged him and said, "In this troubled world, I am fortunate to be able to meet Mr. Fan Gu for three lives." ”

As he spoke, he sat down for tea.

"The younger brother has heard of Mr.'s name when he walked with the head of the family, and since Mr. has arrived at the cold house, he will regard this place as his home, don't be polite. ”

Yue Zhong smiled and asked him, "I don't know who the head of your family is?"

"March Sword, Shui Zixin!"

"Senior Sister Zixin!" Yue Zhong stood up abruptly as soon as he heard Shui Zixin, "You are from the March Sword Sect?"

Fan Gu nodded, then his face was gloomy again, and he stopped talking.

"It's been many years, at that time, my sister and I followed Master to travel all over the world, and met her in Yuzhou, she was a disciple of an old master, she was still a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl at the time, more than 20 years old in a blink of an eye, I don't know how she is now?"

Yue Zhong smiled slightly, tears flashing in his eyes.

"It's all over," Fan Gu shook his head, his voice very low, "I'm afraid I'll never see her again." ”

"What, what's going on?"

Fan Gu let out a long sigh and turned his head with tears in his eyes.

"Three years ago, the head of the family was taken captive by her master to Kanto, and then there was no news. Later, I sent someone to inquire about the news, and it turned out ......"

With that, Fan Gu clenched his fist and slammed it on the table.

"The head of the house, burned alive by her master......"

"What!"

Yue Zhong screamed, his legs weakened, and he sat down on the seat.

"The master of the head of the family is the heir of the Xuanyuan Sword, and my brothers and I knew that there was no hope of revenge, so we went back to our hometowns, and the March Sword Sect was disbanded. ”

Yue Zhong's heart was beating straight, and he couldn't calm down for a long time. Shui Zixin's master he had heard Zhou Shiya mention that he was the only disciple with a foreign surname under Xuanyuan Jian Ji En, and the only daughter of the minister Huang Zu at that time, Yuegu. When Yuegu worshiped Ji En as a teacher, she had a marriage contract with Zhou Shiya, and later Huang Zu died unjustly, and Zhou Shiya's sibling Zhou Shijin was accused of being the culprit who framed Huang Zu, so Yuegu hated Zhou Shiya, and the marriage between the two broke up.

At this time, when it came to Shui Zixin being killed and dying in the hands of his master, Yue Zhong never dared to believe it, but life and death were at stake, and Fan Gu would never believe that he would frame the master in charge. Therefore, he was nervous in his heart, thinking that something big must have happened in Kanto.

Thinking that Yang Xi had mentioned to him the day before yesterday that Zhou Shiya had been killed in Kanto, and linking this matter to it really scared him into a cold sweat.

A bad speculation lingered in his heart, and a layer of sweat broke out in Yue Zhong's palms, and he kept rubbing the hilt of his sword, only thinking about his master Zhou Shiya.

"Can there be any other news from Kanto?"

Fan Gu wiped away his tears, "It's a long way to go, and we don't know the people there, so we've only been there once, and there's been no news of it since." ”

Yue Zhong held the sword, got up and left. When he arrived outside the door, he turned back to thank Fan Gu and said, "Thank you brother for the rescue, I still have something to do, you and I will say goodbye!"

Fan Gu hurriedly asked, "But go to find Brother Ling's second son?"

As soon as Zhou Yi was mentioned, Yue Zhong's foot was retracted.

"Why do you ask that?"

"I asked Mr. to come here, just because I have news about Zhou Gongzi!"

When Yue Zhong heard this, he couldn't help but get excited, he grabbed Fan Gu and asked in a trembling voice, "He, where is he?"

Fan Gu said: "Don't panic first, I'm not sure, but there is a general clue." ”

"What clues?"

Fan Gu said: "After you came to surrender that day, I sent someone to check the scene, but I accidentally caught a person, and I learned the news of Mrs. Zhou and Mr. Zhou from him. ”

"You're talking about Yang Xi?"

"Exactly, how do you know?"

Yue Zhong sighed, "It's not a secret, I went to surrender, it was this person's idea, it seems that he still has a lot of hidden secrets that he hasn't told me." And what did he say?"

Fan Gu said: "He said that he was working for a father-in-law in the palace called Guan Rang, and there was another accomplice with him, that is, Yan Hao, the eldest son of the former prime minister Yan Zilong, and the whereabouts of Mrs. Zhou and Zhou Gong were related to this Yan Hao." ”

Speaking of Yan Hao, Yue Zhong is very familiar with it, it was because he killed Yan Hao's son Yan Kui that Yan Hao caused Yan Hao to attack Baihe Mountain. Speaking of Yufu and Zhou Yi's whereabouts related to this person, Yue Zhong couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine. If Yan Xiao knew Zhou Yi's whereabouts, with his temperament, would Zhou Yiyan be able to live?

"You say slowly, where are my senior sister and Zhou Yi?"

Fan Gu said: "Five years ago, the Yan family had a homicide case, saying that Yan Chong's children were killed, and the place where the crime occurred was not far from the west side of Baihe Mountain. That Yan Xiao somehow wanted to put Baihe Mountain to death, so he said that the perpetrator was Zhou Yu, the lord of Baihe Mountain, so after Zhou Gongzi fled, the Yan family sent a large number of people to chase and kill. However, judging from the confession from Yang Xi's mouth, Wu Ye also led people to hunt down and kill Mrs. Zhou and Gongzi Zhou five years ago. At that time, someone in Liuhang Peak saw with their own eyes that Mrs. Zhou rescued Yan Chong's daughter and fled south with her. At that time, Wu Ye was bent on arresting Zhou Gongzi, and then using him as a hostage to force Mr. to hand over the Nine Dragons Jade Flute, so he didn't make a noise, and no one knew about this matter except for the people of Liuhang Peak. Therefore, Mr. should focus on finding Mrs. Zhou and Zhou Gongzi, after all, the Yan family and the people of Liuhang Peak are ruthless, if they find Zhou Gongzi before Baihe Mountain, the consequences may be unimaginable!"

When Yue Zhong heard this, he was anxious, so he hugged his fists and thanked Fan Gu: "A good man treats Baihe Mountain as kind as a mountain, please be sure to be spiritually worshipped!"

As he spoke, he immediately bowed down in front of him.

Fan Gu also immediately knelt down and returned the salute, and helped him up, "I'm done with my words, Mr. can go find the whereabouts of Gongzi Zhou." ”

With that, the two went out, and Yun'er also walked over from the backyard, followed by Fan Gu's wife and two servants, who took a burden and handed it to Fan Gu.

Fan Gu hugged his fists and said: "This is a long way to go to the mountain, I don't know when I can meet Mr. again." Some thin gifts, Mr. as a coiled on the road, passing by Nanyang in the future, you and I will rest as soon as we get drunk!"

Yue Zhong smiled slightly, took the burden, hugged his fists and said: "The mountains are high and the water is long, you and I will have a period in the future!"

After that, he and Yun'er got on the horse and went all the way south.

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On the way, Yue Zhong asked Yun'er about her escape. Yun'er said that she had been seriously ill several times, and most of them couldn't remember, but she only remembered in a trance that when she was in a coma, a eunuch asked Lang Zhong to treat her, and later, the eunuch asked Yang Xi to take her away, and she was tortured for nearly three years.

Yue Zhong was so distressed that he burst into tears, and he didn't ask again.

Yun'er asked him, "Father, since we know Brother Yi's whereabouts, why don't we go back and tell Uncle Shi?"

Yue Zhong said: "Now that your brother Yi and they are being hunted down by different enemies, we can't go looking for them with great fanfare, we can only pretend that we don't know anything, otherwise, they will be in danger, and those outlaws are often unscrupulous in order to achieve their goals!"

Yun'er's face was full of melancholy, although she was precarious all these years, she was not worried about Yufu's mother and son all the time, and now that she can reunite with her father, it is already God's mercy, and the sea of people is vast, and she really dare not think about finding Zhou Yi again. She only hopes that Zhou Yi can be safe, as for whether she can see her again, she can only accept her fate!

Half a year later, they met the people of Liuhang Peak in Xiangyang. At that time, Wu Ye asked his daughter Wu Xin to follow Dong Guo Xiu all the way to chase and kill Yufu's mother and son, and Dong Guo Xiu took Xiangyang as the center, and kept investigating within a radius of 500 miles, if Zhou Yi could not be found, the next stop would be Changsha.

Yue Zhong thought of Fan Gu's words, and thought to himself that the people from the Six Hanging Peaks appeared in Xiangyang at this time, most of them were the news of Yufu's mother and son. At this time, it was not easy to be exposed, so he disguised himself as a pair of peasant fathers and daughters and followed their whereabouts all the way.

After three years of twists and turns in the Hubei territory, Zhou Yi's whereabouts were never seen, so Dongguo Xiu was disheartened, and after discussing with Wu Xin, he went to Changsha instead. Changsha City to the east of the hundred miles away from Longyun Village is Wu Ye in the south of the Yangtze River stronghold, the owner of the village Yao Gui and Dong Guo Xiu are close friends, they have been running for seven or eight years, they have long been tired, this go to Longyun Village just to rest. Just by mistake, Yufu's mother and son happened to live on the side of the tiger's den in Longtan!

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