The night is deep and bitterly cold.

Luanzhou belongs to the jurisdiction of Yongping Prefecture, and in winter, it rarely snows, which is completely different from the Jingshi hundreds of miles away. Despite this, it was still cold, especially at night, when the ground was covered with a thin layer of ice.

At the third watch, more than a dozen black-clothed masked people suddenly broke into the Dawang Village, all of them were agile, their feet were on the thin ice, and they didn't make much noise, and quietly and quickly rushed towards the manor outside the king.

When crossing the high courtyard wall, the people in the manor seemed to be unaware, and when one of the masked men was ordered to go to the gatehouse, he didn't even find the hunchbacked white-haired old Li, and the whole courtyard was as silent as if something was unusual.

When the men came to the front yard, they immediately divided into two groups. A slender man in black rushed to the second room on the left alone. The rest of the people all gathered in front of the three wings on the right, and under the command of a man in black wearing a yaksha mask, six people were divided into six people to guard the outside of the first and second wings respectively, and the remaining five people followed the man in black wearing a mask, carefully crouching outside the door and window of the last wing.

The man in black wearing the mask looked at the left wing from afar, and saw that the slender figure who was acting alone disappeared in a flash, and had already rushed into the room and began to act. He didn't hesitate any longer, made a gesture to his subordinates, and the six of them smashed through the doors and windows together and rushed in.

This wing room is where Gao Jie and Wukong live, and it is obvious that this group of black-clothed masked people have found out clearly, and their target is Gao Jie.

The masked man at the head entered first, with a cold wind, broke the door, rushed in, and in the blink of an eye, he came to the side of the wide earthen kang, and the long knife in his hand brought out a cold light and slashed on the bed. He rushed in faster than the wind, and when the cold light shone, the long knife had already fallen, and it was lightning fast.

A few muffled sounds sounded, and as he slashed down, the weapons in the hands of the other five people also fell on the kang almost in order, if there were people sleeping on the kang, there would be no luck.

However, from the feeling behind the knife, the leader wearing the mask immediately realized that there were five people on the bed!

All they had with their weapons was two empty bedding.

This turn of events was obviously unexpected, and one of the masked men exclaimed, "Childe, you have been fooled!"

The masked man at the head naturally knew that it was not a second, but he really couldn't figure out what was going on.

He was the man who was talking in the grove outside the village, surnamed Zhang Mingsong, and he was the eldest son of Zhang Guanglin of the Hongyang Sect! This time, he was ordered by his father to leave the base in Gyeonggi with Lin Hongmeng, and took a dozen or so subordinates to disguise themselves all the time, following behind Gao Jie and the others, with the purpose of seizing the White Lotus Holy Sword and the White Lotus Treasure Book.

Although Zhang Song is Zhang Guanglin's biological son, his prestige in the Hongyang Sect has always been suppressed by Lin Hongmeng. There were even rumors in the sect that Zhang Guanglin intended to pass on the mantle of the sect to his most proud and valued female disciple. Hongyang Sect is different from the family inheritance method of several other sects, the first sect leader Han Taihu died at a young age, and had no heirs, so he set a rule, and the sect was passed on from one sect to another, regardless of intimacy, only looking at ability. After inheriting the most powerful lineage of the Hongyang Sect in Gyeonggi, the eldest disciple Zhang Guanglin, it seems that he also intends to pass on the sect to Lin Hongmeng, a beloved disciple with extraordinary talent and the highest prestige, rather than his own son. Zhang Song was naturally dissatisfied with Zhang Guanglin's attitude, and his mother, Zhang Guanglin's wife Tang Junxiang, also complained. However, Zhang Guanglin was a man with great ambitions and uprightness, insisting on adhering to the last wishes of his ancestors, and bent on unifying the Hongyang Sect in a divided state and carrying it forward, without being moved by the affection of his wife and children. Therefore, it is undecided who will eventually become their heirs between Zhang Song and Lin Hongmeng, which also makes these two young people invisibly become competitors and do not buy each other.

This time out of Beijing, Zhang Guanglin ordered their group to be headed by Lin Hongmeng, and all decisions were made under the command of his disciple, so even if Zhang Song was dissatisfied in his heart, he did not dare to disobey his father's order, so he could only protest a few words.

Lin Hongmeng is thirty-two, five years older than Zhang Song, originally a widow, after joining the Hongyang Sect, her performance was extremely good, and her root bone qualifications attracted Zhang Guanglin's attention, and soon became his most proud disciple. Lin Hongmeng is not only strong in martial arts, but also strategic, not as reckless as Zhang Song, which is naturally the reason why Zhang Guanglin is the leader of this operation. From the second day when Gao Jie and the others left the capital, she led her subordinates to quickly catch their tails, and these days she has been following them far away or into the ground, but she has not made rash moves. First, she was worried that Gao Jie's identity was special, not only was he the future successor of the White Lotus Sect, but also the loyal and brave marquis of the Ming Dynasty on the surface, and if he was too close to the capital, he was afraid that he would attract officers and soldiers;

Gao Jie and the others had dinner in Wang Yuanwai Manor before, and when they returned to their rooms, the people sent by Lin Hongmeng had already clearly checked the residence of each of them, so as soon as they arrived at the third watch, they had a clear goal and moved with a clear division of labor. Zhang Song took people to Gao Jie's room to kill people and take things, while Lin Hongmeng had the highest martial arts and took the second wing room on the left where the opponent's martial arts strongest Hou Wang lived, not seeking to kill the enemy, but only to entangle him and buy time for Zhang Song's actions.

Lin Hongmeng's plan is not indispensable, and their actions are not unconcealed and fast, but Gao Jie and Wukong, who should have been sleeping on the kang, are gone, which makes Zhang Song, who is bound to win, difficult to accept and unable to understand, and he was speechless for a moment, and the exclamations of his subordinates did not wake him up from his disappointment and panic.

At this moment, a black shadow suddenly rushed in, as light as a civet cat and as fast as lightning, startling Zhang Song and the others' eyes widened, and they clenched the weapons in their hands.

After seeing the person clearly, Zhang Song secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then said irritably: "Senior sister, Gao Jie is gone!

The person who came was Lin Hongmeng, and she tore off the black cloth of her face, revealing her pale face. At this moment, her eyebrows were tangled together, and a few strands of black hair were sprinkled on the cold front of her eyes, and she said very solemnly: "The Marquis of the Great Holy Gate is also gone!"

Lin Hongmeng is wearing a tight-fitting night dress, with a slender waist, convex and backward, looking at her figure, she is a beauty. However, the face she showed at the moment was very disappointing. The two eyebrows are as thick as knives, almost together, the nose is not big, but it is flat and collapsed, the cheekbones are high, and the whole face is angular and angular, looking more like a man, rough and fierce.

"The Hou Wang is also gone?!" Zhang Song was even more panicked when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "Then what should I do?!"

Lin Hongmeng waved his hand to signal Zhang Song Shao'an not to be impatient, listened attentively for a moment, and then said: "If our actions have been exposed a long time ago, Gao Jie and they have set up a trap for us here, no matter what, they should have rushed over at this moment, they will never be so quiet and unmoved, it is too abnormal!"

Zhang Song said impatiently: "Nonsense, do you still want to say this?!" By the way, is there something strange about the two horses who left at the second watch, and Gao Jie has already run away?!"

Previously, Lin Hongmeng and Zhang Song had been ambushing in the grove outside the village, waiting for the third watch to start. When I first arrived at the second watch, two horses suddenly left Dawangzhuang, and one horse was carrying a burlap bag, which seemed to contain something.

Lin Hongmeng and Zhang Song have profound skills and amazing eyesight, although they are in the dark of the night, the distance is not close, they can still conclude that the two are not the main Gao Jie, nor the Hou Wang, but the other two subordinates who followed Gao Jie. Although I don't know what the two of them are going to do when they leave Dawangzhuang in the middle of the night, since Gao Jie didn't leave, Lin Hongmeng didn't startle the snake and didn't intercept the two people, and still decided to act according to the original plan.

At this moment, the group entered the village and pounced, and in a hurry, Zhang Song naturally thought of the two horsemen who had left before, and accused Lin Hongmeng.

Lin Hongmeng glanced at Zhang Song coldly, his eyes were as cold as a knife in the dark, and he was so shocked that Zhang Song was so shocked that he didn't dare to say any more.

After a while, Lin Hongmeng said lightly: "There is no Gao Jie in those two horses, and our people have already surrounded this manor, Gao Jie and the rest of the people will never escape!" Saying this, she suddenly pushed open the window, looked at the backyard and the Moon Viewing Pavilion, which were also shrouded in darkness, and said to herself: "Could it be that they are here for another purpose? Could it be that there are any secrets hidden in this mysterious manor?!"

When Zhang Song heard this, he was shocked: "You mean... Are they in the back?!"

Lin Hongmeng didn't answer, turned around and went out, leaving only a cold word: "Go! Go to the backyard!"

That's right, Gao Jie's choice to come to Dawangzhuang and choose to stay in Wangyuanwai's manor is naturally purposeful! And it was planned in advance!

Before leaving Beijing, after visiting Doctor Xu in Jinyiwei Prison, Gao Jie convened everyone for a meeting and told him all about his plans and intentions.

First of all, it is the plan to rescue Doctor Xu. Through communication with his uncle Luo Sigong, he thought of a plan to exchange a tanuki for the prince. Doctor Xu Shenyi has a thin body, long hands and long feet, and is quite similar to King Hou, so Gao Jie specially asked Wei Zhongxian to help, transferred King Hou out of Beijing with him, prepared to capture this person on the road, and then secretly sent back to the capital and handed it over to Luo Sigong to exchange Xu Hongru.

Actually, Gao Jie wanted to do it earlier, but because they had a team of Jinyi guards led by Tian Ergeng behind them, they had just left the capital, so it was really inconvenient to do it. waited until near Qinglong Town, which was close to Luanzhou City, before he sent Wang Xi to bring a message to Tian Ergeng and the others, asking them to take the first step and go to Luanzhou City to set up a secret post first.

After successfully supporting Tian Ergeng and others, Gao Jie finally decided to do it tonight.

Originally, Gao Jie was going to forcibly take down King Hou by force, but after seeing this guy forcing Mi Lizhi back with a stick in Qinglong Town, showing his terrifying strength, he immediately changed his mind.

Since inheriting the mantle of Doctor Xu and beginning to study the "Raw Medicine Sutra", Gao Jie has not only learned to refine various elixirs for healing diseases and wounds, but also discovered some other formulas with special effects from the Medicine Sutra. Out of curiosity, after many experiments, he really came up with some strange potions. Moreover, these potions have been tested in practice, and the cats and dogs raised in his Hou Mansion are all his experimental subjects, including tall horses, and even Ji Longfeng and others have been secretly calculated by him, which can be described as remarkable.

When Shicai was dining at Wang Yuanwai's manor, he secretly gave Hou Wang and Shen Jiuling a medicine called "deep sleep" in advance, and the amount of medicine given to Hou Wang was much larger. Sure enough, not long after the meal, Hou Wang and Shen Jiuling, who returned to the room, fell into a deep sleep.

According to the dosage, Shen Jiuling will not wake up until tomorrow morning, and she will not notice their actions tonight. And Hou Wang will not wake up for at least five or six days, so that Gao Jie's replacement plan can be implemented.

After King Hou was overturned, Gao Jie took Ji Longfeng, Wang Rui, Wang Xi, and Yu Hongzhi to his room, first by Yu Hongzhi, who hated King Hou to the bone, removed one of his right arms, cut off the meridians, and abolished martial arts, and then Gao Jie hurriedly stopped the bleeding, and fed him poison that could burn his vocal cords.

Since then, King Hou, a master of the Great Holy Gate with strong martial arts, the fifth protector of the Wenxiang Sect, has been turned into a waste man who has lost all his martial arts, cannot speak, and has a broken arm.

To be honest, in the process of doing this, Gao Jie had a moment of hesitation and soft-heartedness, but when he thought of Xu Hongru who was imprisoned in the Jinyi Wei Prison, and remembered the tens of millions of Wenxiang Sect disciples who were betrayed and killed by Wang Haoxian and Hou Wang, he immediately did not hesitate at all.

Subsequently, they stuffed Hou Wang in a sack prepared in advance, and Wang Xi and Xiong Zhaoqi rode out of the village at the second watch, and said to Li Lao, who was guarding the door, that they were going to do urgent business, and rushed to the capital overnight with Hou Wang.

The reason why Wang Xi was asked to host this matter was because he was an assassin himself, well versed in tracking and lurking, and had rich experience, if there was a secret whistle or other people following him on the road, he could find a way to get rid of the tracking and avoid the matter being revealed.

After the two of them left, Gao Jie waited for a long time before starting the next step.

In addition to the little nun Huijing who stayed in the room to protect Shen Jiuling, Gao Jie, Dong Ge, Wang Rui, Ji Longfeng, and Yu Hongzhi changed into night clothes and went to the backyard under the cover of night.

The backyard, as Lin Hongmeng thought, hides a major secret.