It was eight or nine black shadows flashing in a row in an inn in Yangzhou City at night, and several ups and downs jumped into the small building, and the plaque was faintly visible in the moonlight , It was a brothel, which few black shadows went straight to the small room on the east side of the second floor, a thin man took out a knife, quietly pulled out the door bar, two people went in, others guarded outside, a moment later from the room came two heavy knocks and a low scream, two people in black carried a cloth bag out, a few people nodded and turned out of the window, turned and rushed to the south city, stopped in front of a big house, a person climbed the big tree next to him and observed for a while, beckoned to the people below, and the others immediately jumped over the high wall and went in, this house has two in, several people went straight to the backyardThe owner of the yard in the main room in the backyard seemed to hear something, and he half-got up from the bed and looked out, when suddenly a rope sleeve stretched out from the top of the bed, and one put his neck around him, and then he was violently pulled up and dropped him on the beam, and at the same time, a black shadow stood up from under the bed and solved the other woman on the bed with a knife.

The next day, the streets and alleys of Yangzhou were all over the place, and five officials died in Yangzhou at once, from Wang Ping, the general of the forward battalion, to the chief of the Yangzhou Soldiers and Horses Division, all of them became headless corpses, which was terrifying.

In the back hall of Hangzhou Daotai Mansion, Feng Jingxian picked up the teacup and slammed it to the ground, "Lawless, a bunch of lawless maniacs, a bunch of unfamiliar white-eyed wolves, a bunch of messy things." The officials kneeling down below did not dare to say anything.

"Dare to assassinate the court official, it's just bold, lawless, and don't kill him, the general hall doesn't know the history of Feng someone" Feng Jingxian threw another tea bosom, and the slag splashed on an official's face, scratching blood, but no official even dared to wipe it.

"This can't be done, please focus on the overall situation," a fat official said, and a group of people below whispered, "Please focus on the overall situation."

"The overall situation is important, the overall situation is important" He picked up a post on the table and said: "Ma Dahong has made a post, please meet me in Liangzihu, you take the overall situation as the priority, which of you will go for me, who will go for me."

"This ............" No official dared to agree

"The overall situation is important, I think it's true that you are greedy for life and afraid of death, and you usually show loyalty more than one is more diligent, and when it comes to using you, none of you dare to be angry"

"Such a big responsibility, how can we take on it, I think Ma Dahong is sincerely talking about peace, not the Hongmen banquet, except for you, who else can clean up this mess, and please sympathize with my colleagues in Jiangnan Province, we all regard adults as reborn parents", the officials behind him kowtowed more than a group and said: "Please be compassionate to adults"

Feng Jing stood up first, walked to the window and stood for a while before saying, "Are the tribute things you are looking for ready?"

"Go and send it to the little prince, I'll meet Ma Tianhong"

"Lord Xie" officials saw them off.

The next day, Liangzi Lake and Jinguawan, fifteen horses walked through the underworld

"But which grass pavilion is in front," Feng Jing asked first

"Exactly, sir," a sergeant replied

After arriving at the grass pavilion, more than a dozen guards guarded in several directions, Feng Jingxian with his hands behind his back, standing in the pavilion, after a pillar of incense, a small boat came to the lake, the boat was standing with a burly man, two pulpers before and after, the boat docked, Ma Tianhong walked over to the grass pavilion, he entered the grass pavilion, knelt down on one knee and saluted: "The grass man Ma Tianhong has seen the adult"

"Okay, okay, don't engage in these false things" Feng Jing waved his hand first, Ma Tianhong stood up and said: "Fang Jin Ming Fang has explained the truth to me, the adult is the heart of the salt gang, we will keep it in mind, and we should knot the grass ring to repay the virtue of the adult."

"It's good if you know how to repay morality, in the future, you will have to be a man in the salt gang, abide by discipline, and do more good things for the court and the people"

"Yes, the grass people must restrain the people, and the annual tribute still follows the old practice, and does not dare to be slow," Ma Dahong said

"The emperor is going to come to Jiangnan to inspect in a few days, do you know what to do?" Feng Jingxian looked at Ma Dahong and said

"The villain understands, the emperor must see that the south of the Yangtze River is peaceful" Ma Dahong turned around and took out a box and presented it to Feng Jingxian: "This is a little heart from the salt gang to thank the adults for their great virtue, and I hope that the adults will accept it."

Feng Jing took the box first, opened a crack and glanced at it: "If you have this heart, I will be disrespectful, I hope the salt gang will take this as a warning, and I will wait for the parents and officials in Jiangnan to think about the people, I will go first, you can do it yourself."

"Congratulations to my lord" Ma Tianhong turned around to see him off, and Feng Jing waved his hand first and left.

After Feng Jingxian and the others walked out of more than a mile, the two boatmen came ashore and walked to Ma Tianhong's side, which were Zeng Asheng and Lin Xiong

"Call Ximing back, revenge has been avenged, people have been killed, this matter is over, the salt gang still has to make a living"

A few days later, when the setting sun was sprinkled with red glow in the sky of Wyvern Castle, Wu Xiao returned with a team of horses, going out with fifty people and one hundred horses, and returning nine people and eighteen horses, plus fifteen heads. Ma Tianhong led the leaders of the Salt Gang to stand on the observation deck in front of the school in the lobby, Wu Xiao took the nine horsemen all the way from the bottom of the Xiashan Mountain slowly, they seemed to feel that the temperament of this Wu Xiao and these nine people was completely different, as if they had changed a group of people, when they went, they were a group of rough men, and when they came back, they were nine mountains.

"Did we make it?" Xiao Jing spat out his flue

"Earned, Xi Ming and these nine people will be the king of the Salt Gang in the future," Ma Tianhong affirmed

"I'm afraid these people won't have anything to do with the Salt Gang in the future," Xiao Jing said

"It has a relationship, as long as the red fish is there, it has a relationship," Ma Tianhong said slowly after a long time.

When the ten people arrived at the outer wall, there was already a group of salt gang members here to greet them, seeing Wu Xiao's horse coming over, Zhaohu stepped forward and grabbed the horse's head, stretched out his big hand and said: "Bring the head", Wu Xiao looked at him, and threw a cloth bag from his waist with his left hand in front of Zhaohu's feet, Zhaohu hurriedly picked up and ripped open the cloth bag to identify, after a long time, he shouted, smashed the smelly human head, and then hung down the tower-like body and knelt on his knees, kowtowed to Wu Xiao three times, Wu Xiao stood for a while and said: "Come to my courtyard to find me at night" , and then the nine people walked up the stairs and came to the school field in front of the lobby, where several incense cases had been placed in front of a huge copper tripod in the middle of the school field.

Wu Xiao walked up to Ma Tianhong, saluted on one knee and said: "Helper, fortunately, we have brought back all the heads of the murderers."

"Okay, sure enough, it's a dragon of the Salt Gang, the hall master of the Tiger Dragon Hall" Ma Tianhong stepped forward to help Wu Xiao up.

The heads were thrown into the boiling water in Dingzhong, and Ma Tianhong led the leaders of the Salt Gang to incense the deceased to tell them their spirits in the sky, and also to give an explanation to the families of the deceased present.

At night, Zhaohu came to Wu Xiao's courtyard, Wu Xiao was standing in the courtyard waiting for him, Zhaohu just stood aside and didn't speak, "I will avenge your revenge, your father died, your mother died in childbirth when she gave birth to you, you have no brothers and sisters, and now there is no relative" Wu Xiao said calmly

Zhaohu lowered his head, his honest face was full of pain, but there were no tears. After a long time, Zhaohu said

"In the future, my life will be the hall master's, and I will do whatever the hall master tells me to do."

"No, your life is not the hall master's, your life is mine, I am your eldest brother, and Hongyu is your sister"

Zhaohu's tears poured out like a river bursting its banks, and the moonlight shone on the tower-like youth, and with his convulsions, the huge shadow on the ground also trembled.

In the next few days, Wu Xiao rectified the establishment of Longhutang, Longhutang actually has not many permanent personnel in the salt gang, when there is nothing to do, they will go back to their respective areas to make a living, and only return to Longhutang to obey orders when there is something, Wu Xiao told Ma Tianhong his opinion, Ma Tianhong agreed, let Wu Xiao let go and adapt.

Wu Xiao merged the Tiger Cavalry Battalion into the Dragoon Battalion, and the personnel were reduced from 400 to 100 people, the Leopard Battalion was cut, and the elite personnel in the Leopard Battalion were incorporated into the Night Owl Battalion, and the Night Owl Battalion was also reduced from 100 to 20 people.

Wu Xiao asked Lin Xiong to serve as the leader of the dragon riding battalion, responsible for the training and daily tasks of the cavalry, and the nine people who came back with Wu Xiao served as the squad leader of the dragon cavalry battalion, and Wu Xiao himself was responsible for the training and intelligence arrangements of the night owl battalion, and Zhao Hu was removed from the Dragon and Tiger Hall.

The Salt Gang slowly returned to its former order and busyness, everyone has wives and children to support, Ma Tianhong is even busier, he often goes out, and returns after a few days, he is the head of a gang, and he has to deal with the specific affairs of the Salt Gang in various places and the communication of all parties, and it is rare to stay in the main hall for a day.

Soon the royal driver came to Jiangnan, in Hangzhou, Gusu, Yangzhou and other prosperous places to go around and go elsewhere, King Qi also followed to leave Jiangnan, Jiangnan officials were rewarded by the emperor, Feng Jingxian was praised by the emperor, and was called "a model of governance" by the emperor.

Hongyu returned to Zhuyuan the day after Wu Xiao returned, she was relieved of many patients, and she started a new round of medical rounds by herself, and she saw her petite figure coming and going in a hurry on the rich land of Jiangnan Road. And Ning Ning's mood was much better, and he also went to the Longhutang school to find Wu Xiao, thanked Wu Xiao for saving his life, and helped him avenge him. Wu Xiao simply comforted her and sent her away, she seemed to have something to say when she left, but she never said it.

One night, Wu Xiao was ready to go to bed again, and heard someone calling him outside, but it was Ma Tian who came to him, Wu Xiao hurriedly put on his clothes and said, "The helper is back, I haven't seen you for many days."

"There are a lot of things to do, I'm too busy during this time, I happen to be free today, I brought some good wine over, let's drink two cups" He said as he put out a few plates of dishes from the food box, brought out two pots of wine, Wu Xiao took a pot and poured it into the two bowls.

chatted about some recent situations, and after three rounds of drinking, Ma Tianhong suddenly said: "What year did you meet Hongyu, Zeng Asheng told me, and I can also see that you have something big to do."

He paused for a moment and looked at Wu Xiao's face, Wu Xiao picked up a glass of wine and said, "Come, I respect the master", the two had a drink, Ma Tianhong continued: "The Salt Gang doesn't ask what you want to do, and I, Ma Someone, also know that the water of the Salt Gang is too shallow to keep you, the real dragon."

"The helper is serious," Wu Xiao said

"But the Salt Gang are all righteous men, no matter what you want to do, the Salt Gang will help you, I am much older than you, it is not an exaggeration to call me uncle, Uncle Ma appreciates you, help the Salt brothers appreciate you, what do you want to do, just do it, what support do you want, the Salt Gang can take it, you just say, as long as you remember, you are a member of the Salt Gang" Ma Tianhong was very excited.

Wu Xiao was also excited: "Uncle Ma, don't worry, I will always be a member of the Salt Gang, and 20,000 bitter men will always be my relatives."

"Okay, good boy, come, drink" Ma Tianhong picked up the big bowl and took a sip of the can, Wu Xiao also followed the can, and drank until the second half of the night, Ma Tianhong staggered away, but Wu Xiao had already rolled under the table.

The next day, after arranging the affairs of the Dragon and Tiger Hall and saying goodbye to Lin Xiong and the nine brothers one by one, Wu Xiao could no longer suppress the longing in his heart, took Zhaohu with him, and went straight to the bamboo garden.