Qingzhou, garrison camp (gambling on the fifth day)

Lin Fan held his hands behind his back and kept his eyes on the outside of the camp.

It was now nearly noon, and the front of the camp was as usual, and the wind swept up the dust, and there was no figure in sight.

Xia Ziyan slowly walked behind Lin Fan and said softly, "I see that you have been staring at the door in a daze for the past few days, are you waiting for someone?"

Lin Fan hurriedly replied: "No, I'm just thinking about something." ”

Xia Ziyan couldn't hear this duplicity, but she didn't mind much, and continued: "Thank you for taking care of me these days, now that my injuries have basically healed, I want to leave here today......"

"No!" Lin Fan suddenly interrupted.

Xia Ziyan stared at him motionlessly, Lin Fan may have also noticed his gaffe, coughed lightly and said, "I mean, the poison on your body has not been completely lifted, it is better for you to stay for a few more days to be on the safe side." ”

Xia Ziyan retracted her gaze and stood side by side with Lin Fan, and only after a while did she say leisurely: "Then do you think that I should stay here for a few more days to recover?"

Lin Fan didn't know how to answer for a while, he hesitated for a long time, and said, "This, at least ......"

"At least until the day he comes to save me, right?"

"You, I don't understand what you're talking about!"

Xia Ziyan sneered and said, "Don't you understand? I heard clearly in the house about the bet you made with him that day." Do you still dare to say that you don't understand?"

Lin Fan's face turned cold when he heard this, and he shouted: "Yes! Yes, so what! I just want to prove that no man in the world can snatch you away from me." ”

He walked forward slowly, and only when he was close to Xia Ziyan's face did he say coldly: "Even if it's the Heavenly King Lao Tzu!"

"Someone!"

"In!"

"Miss Xia's injury has not healed, hurry up and ask him to go back to the room to rest!"

The two soldiers respectfully agreed, then walked to Xia Ziyan's side, and said in a cold tone: "Miss Xia, please!"

Seeing that she hadn't moved for a long time, the soldier was about to reach out to grab her, but he didn't expect Xia Ziyan to suddenly attack and kick the soldier out of the distance directly.

Before the other soldier could react, he only heard a "swish" from under him, and the sword on his waist had been taken away.

Xia Ziyan went from shooting, grabbing the sword, and moving in one go, and it was really fast. But the speed of these soldiers was not slow, and in the blink of an eye, Xia Ziyan was surrounded by dozens of heavily armed soldiers.

"Hmph! I've been suffocating these days, and I'm taking this opportunity to move my muscles. After speaking, Xia Ziyan waved the scimitar in her hand and slashed forward.

"Whew!"

Suddenly, a white shadow swept through the sky, the speed was as fast as lightning, Lin Fan saw this figure and shouted urgently: "Yuan Feng be careful!

Xia Ziyan had also noticed something behind her, she hurriedly swung two swords forward, and just as she was about to turn around to resist, suddenly the two acupoints behind her were hit by someone, and then she collapsed to the ground with black eyes.

Lin Fan gently hugged Xia Ziyan in his arms, turned around and said, "Okay, there's nothing wrong here, you all retreat!"

"Yes!"

Inside the house, Lin Fan gently stroked Xia Ziyan's cheek, his eyes were full of tenderness at this moment, and the corners of his mouth were unconsciously slightly upturned.

"When I met you again on the Ghost Mountain, I knew that all this was arranged by God, and I swore that day that I would never let you leave me again this time. Why can't you understand this piece of my painstaking work?"

"Tuk, tuk, tuk!"

A knock on the door interrupted Lin Fan's thoughts, and he carefully covered Xia Ziyan's body with the quilt, and then attached himself to the door and whispered, "Who?"

"General Qiyu, Mrs. Lin of the Qingzhou Prefect, and the shopkeepers of several shops in the city ask to see you!"

"Shopkeeper?" This Mrs. Lin came to see her, Lin Fan could figure it out, as for the shopkeepers of these shops, they rarely come and go on weekdays, why did they come with Mrs. Lin today?

"Okay, I see, take them to the antechamber, I'll be there in a moment!"

"Yes!"

In the antechamber, a sturdy soldier poured a bowl of tea for each of them. After a while, Lin Fan walked in elegantly wearing a light green robe.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the barracks are hard places, and some coarse tea is just some coarse tea, I hope you don't mind. ”

"What did General Lin say, we ordinary people can come to your general's mansion to drink tea, that is the luck of our three lives!"

"Yes, yes, what Shopkeeper Tong said!" As soon as he finished speaking, the other two hurriedly agreed.

Lin Fan turned to look at Mrs. Lin and said, "Auntie, since you brought the person, why don't you introduce it?"

Mrs. Lin slapped the table and laughed: "Hey, look at my brain, I almost forgot about this business!"

"This is the money shopkeeper of Qingzhou Yinhao, this is the Tong shopkeeper of Tongren Pharmacy, and this is the Li shopkeeper of Zhengxin Grain Store. ”

Lin Fan listened, but he was thinking in his heart, just listening to the names of these shops, these people are all from a lot of backgrounds, one is in charge of money, one is in charge of medicine, and the other is in charge of grain, they are simply the "Big Three" of Qingzhou.

He nodded to these people in turn, and said, "What is the matter with those shopkeepers coming to my garrison camp?"

The money shopkeeper was the first to speak: "We want to come and ask General Lin to help us!"

"yes, yes, help us!"

Lin Fan waved his hand to interrupt the words of the other two, he stared at the fat face of the money shopkeeper and asked, "I don't know what you want Lin to help?"

"Recently, a group of bandits have appeared out of nowhere in Qingzhou City, and they are very rampant, our three shops, and more than a dozen mansions have been plundered by them, and the Lin Governor's Mansion does not know where to go, and the officers and soldiers of Qingzhou are helpless against them. In desperation, we can only come to General Lin!"

Lin Fan finally understood the purpose of their trip, he picked up the teacup and took a sip gently, and said, "Please, my garrison battalion is only responsible for defending against foreign enemies, this matter is ...... I'm afraid I can't handle it, right?"

As soon as these words came out, several shopkeepers were anxious, and Mrs. Lin hurriedly said when she saw this: "Fan'er, now that your uncle is no longer in the city, no one can solve this matter now, so you should help them for your uncle!"

"Yes, general, if you don't care about it anymore, then Qingzhou will be in chaos. ”

The shopkeeper Li of the grain store also hurriedly chimed in: "If the general agrees to help us settle this matter, we are willing to give the whole year's salary to the army." ”

"Yes, yes, I do!"

Lin Fan gently placed the teacup on the table, the corner of his mouth smiled slightly, and then stood up and shouted outside the door: "Someone!"

"In!"

"Point 300 soldiers, immediately rush to Qingzhou City to guard the major roads in and out of the city, strictly check the pedestrians, each street in the city has soldiers divided into three posts to patrol all day, from today onwards every night to implement a curfew, if a suspicious person is found during the curfew, immediately arrest him, and those who violate the order to resist arrest will be beheaded!"