In the afternoon of this day, the secret agents who were secretly in Zhujiazhuang came back and brought back the defense map of Zhujiazhuang, and reported that since the beginning of the year, there have been many suspicious people in the village, and there is a small building called Luofeng Pavilion in the village, which is guarded by the warriors outside the village, and no one is allowed to approach, and the people in the building are all luxuriously decorated carriages, and several guards are also masked in black scarves, and the same is true in broad daylight; there is a hill outside the wall, and I heard that there is a dark fort there, called the Qingmutang Branch, and Zhujiazhai is sent into a cart by one of the five brothers of the Zhu family every day, and outsiders are never allowed to follow it, let alone talk about where this dark fortress is located, no one knows, which makes people suspicious。 In addition, the hiding place of Zhujiazhuang's treasures and the trapping of institutions that Ren Tianqi specially told him have almost been explored, and there are two places in the vault.

Ren Tianqi hurriedly took the palace, Ma, and Tian to Ren Songyi's study, and also invited Songde, the director of Laozhai. Everyone sat down and discussed the abnormalities of this Zhujiazhuang.

Ren Tianqi glanced at Tian Muzuo and said, "Muzuo, I seem to remember that you used to be the hall master of this Aoki Hall, don't you?"

Tian Muzuo said: "If you go back to your master, it was when the villain followed Ximen's predecessors, he had ordered me to be the master of the Aoki Hall, but what this Aoki Hall did, the villain didn't know. The villain just did a few things on his orders and followed him. ”

Of course, after more than a year of getting along, Ren Tianqi has completely believed in Tianmuzuo's sincerity, and no longer doubts, and he also taught him some internal swordsmanship and swordsmanship when he has time, but he finally refused to accept him as an apprentice.

The eldest lord Ren Songyi was also surprised, and hurriedly asked Tian Muzuo to tell him about the few things he had done beside Ximen Yuanqing.

Everyone was shocked when they heard this, the tragedy of Gaoyou Chengde Villa, Yangzhou blocked and killed Ximen Hongyun Bo Yifan, Yangzhou Zizhulin chased and killed Ren Tianqi, and Tian Muzuo was ordered to participate. And the person who stabbed Ximen Hongyun later thought that it was Mr. Ximen, it seems that this three-eyed Guanyin Ximen Yuanqing is indeed a dangerous person, even his own son did not let go, and even injured one of his arms, which shows that this person is extremely violent and scheming.

Ren Tianqi gestured to the picture and told everyone about the Luofeng Pavilion and the secret carriage, the secret guards.

The eldest old man Songyi finally made a decision, regardless of whether Zhu Jiazhuang secretly targeted Ren Jiabao, first visit a few times, and then set the time for the next Chinese New Year's Eve and the evening of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

The next night, as soon as it was dark, Ren Tianqi, Ma Benqing and Song Yigong all came out of the village in black costumes and came to Zhujiazhuang.

The three of them fell to the ground, looked up and saw that the village was brightly lit and heavily guarded, which was contrary to common sense, thinking that it was now the end of the year, and the four were peaceful, and there were no bandits and horse thieves, the village was so nervous, there must be something to happen today.

Ren Tianqi was secretly happy in his heart, thinking that it was better to come early than to come at a good time, just to see what would happen in Zhujiazhuang tonight.

Ren Tianqi scratched his head, pointed to the wall of the walled fort, and said in a low voice: "Look at this like a great enemy, there must be something big going to happen in Zhujiazhai tonight, but we have to find an opportunity to enter the village first." ”

Ma Benqing said: "Why don't you let me go and see if there is any precautionary combing leakage." ”

Ren Tianqi was about to speak, but he listened carefully for a while, got up and said with a smile: "The opportunity is here, there are four carriages in front, about three miles away from here, I will wait for the opportunity." ”

The three of them got up and ran towards the gate of the village, hiding in the shadow of the gate.

After a while, I saw the torches flashing in front of me, and a team of carriages and horses, four carriages, and more than two dozen guards came.

When the convoy came to the front of the village, one person immediately shouted: "Listen above, the old lady has arrived, open the door quickly." ”

Someone above took the lamp and shook it, saw the face of the person below, and said with a smile: "It's Uncle Song, you wait, I'll open the door!"

Suddenly, I heard everyone shouting inside and outside the village: "Look, look, meteors, meteors, look good!"

Everyone looked up and looked around, and there was a flash of light, and sure enough, they saw a few fires in the sky.

Just when people were not paying attention, Ma Benqing flew up the city wall early in the morning, rolled into the wall, and flew down the city tower.

Ren Songyi and Ren Tianqi had already rolled on the spot and hid under the carriage.

The three of them met in the village, got to the house, followed the convoy from afar, and came to a small courtyard.

I saw that this small courtyard reads a place, there is no tall tree and high object within ten zhang of the four places, it is very clean, and there are big men with knives on guard all around the courtyard. In the courtyard, however, there are two pavilions, the flowers and trees in the courtyard are verdant, and the secluded paths are tortuous and extend in all directions.

I saw the convoy stop at the gate of the courtyard, and there were already people waiting in front of the door. Seeing several women in the car coming down from the car, all with black cloaks and black scarves covering their faces, they could not see the slightest face, and under the escort of the guards, they entered the courtyard, and several big men unloaded a lot of boxes from the last car and carried them into the courtyard together. The courtyard door was closed, and there were many strong men with knives at the door.

The three of them saw that there was nothing available around the courtyard, and they couldn't get close to the small courtyard, so they had to give up, and the three of them flew towards the hall of the Zhu family in the village. Because Ren Tianqi had been here before, he had a little impression, and now that he had the city defense map of Zhujiazhuang, the three of them soon came to the side of the meeting hall. The three of them scattered, Ren Songyi took the wind, and Ma Benqing gave full play to his strengths and explored around.

Ren Tianqi saw that there was someone chatting in the hall, so he swam up like a gecko, sneaked into the hall, and hid in the shadows.

I saw that there were a lot of people sitting in the hall, one of the two seats in the middle was empty, and the other was sitting on the old owner of the Zhu family, and behind the old owner stood the four brothers of the Zhu family, but the fifth Zhu Longjun was not seen. There were four people sitting on the right side of the head, a middle-aged man with a black beard, three white-haired old men, one scholarly, one bald and thin, and one black fat man. There are five people sitting at the bottom, a middle-aged woman in green, who does not look like a Han person, but a bit like a Miao person from the southwest; four middle-aged men, one thin, one short, one fat and one tall. The strange thing was that the fat man, who was tall and big, had a mustache on his face, and had no expression at all, as pale as a dead man. The four people above seemed to have a very high status, and they were very comfortable talking and laughing, but the five people on the opposite side were silent and staring at everyone, except for the woman in green, who was a little relaxed and not too restrained.

No, a person came in, and Ren Tianqi recognized this person as the Three-Eyed Guanyin Ximen Yuanqing.

Ximen Yuanqing came in and first arched his hand to the first four people, came to sit down on the chair in the middle, looked at everyone, and said with a smile: "It's the New Year, everyone is also rare to relax, no way, the league has lost too many people recently, everyone must think of a way to make up for it within a month, and rebuild the Aoki Hall of the Fireworks League." If there are fewer people, they won't be enough, and they won't make much money, right?"

The expressionless fat man got up, arched his hand towards Ximen Qingyuan, and said gloomily: "Alliance leader, the loss of such a heavy loss in the alliance this time is due to the fact that Hall Master Yao does not have a smooth information channel, and Hall Master Wu is not able to rescue him; ”

The short man surnamed Wu, the master of Aoki Hall, and the tall one, stood up suddenly when they heard the sound, and both of them looked towards the west gate Qingyuan, and the first four saluted, and turned around to refute.

The surname Wu said: "The two alliance leaders and the three elders can testify that I, Wu, rushed back to Jianghuai to rescue the brothers after receiving a message from the alliance in Changde, and it was too late to go to Jianghuai after a long journey; Since the brothers have no worries about their lives for the time being, it is inconvenient for us to fight with the officials and soldiers, which has caused the alliance to seem to be missing a lot of allies for a while. But it is undeniable that Aokido has indeed lost a lot of manpower and residences, and there is a reason for it, and it will not retreat from responsibility, but it cannot blame all the blame on me Wu. We are born and died for the alliance, and it is inevitable that there is no negligence and slackness, not as chic as the master of Wentang, floating around alone, elusive, I can't see it a few times a year, and I still wear a mask. Even a few of my hall masters have not seen the true face of Lushan so far, and this is the unpleasant part!"

As soon as the tall man turned around, Ren Tianqi almost didn't laugh when he saw it, this person himself was already a lot taller than ordinary people, and he was still a hunchback, so he smiled when he saw this person, and said: "Master Wentang, yes, in Xia Yao, he presided over the Gray Gold Hall, which is the information collection office of the alliance." This time, the imperial court sent troops to clean up the villages, but there was not much news in advance, and the military department and the household department did not get any news, so we did not get a reminder in time. Yao did not shirk his responsibility. But what Yao doesn't understand is that your Wentang Master is a local and has a wide range of contacts, how can you not know every move of the Xuzhou soldiers in Renjiabao, and the Wentang Master knows but does not report it, waiting to see the jokes between me and Wu Tangmaster, and the good show of my fireworks alliance;

The fat man hugged his fist towards Ximen Qingyuan, and said with a smile: "I am loyal to the Fireworks Alliance, and the sky can be seen, since there is no need for the two hall masters to sow discord, the alliance leader and the three elders are clear-eyed." Besides, in the next presiding over the Scorched Earth Hall, what he did was very secret, and the future expansion plan of my Fireworks Alliance was very important, of course, it was not for the two of you to ask; ”

The woman in green looked back and smiled: "Our woman's family doesn't care about you and other people's affairs, whether the matter between you is good or bad, don't ask me about the little girl." ”

Ximen Qingyuan waved his hand, glanced back at the first four people, and said with a smile: "What are you arguing about, Brother Zongxian, the three elder brothers, and the Wu Hall Master, what should you do about this matter?"

The thin black man who had not spoken up all this time smiled and said, "I am not good at words, so I still ask the alliance leader and the elders to make up their minds, and I, the Black Fire Hall, will obey the orders of the alliance." ”

Everyone in the hall looked at Ximen Qingyuan, but waited for him to speak.

Ximen Qingyuan looked back at the old owner Zhu beside him, and said with a smile: "What the hall master said is not unreasonable, the old man seems that this loss is not small. This shortcoming, and the part that is missing compared to previous years, has its own old man to make up for it. However, this incident has to be a warning to our fireworks alliance and to everyone here. In addition to the original rivals, we must also be careful of this fickle court in the future, maybe one day the court will use a knife in our back. At this point, because I had been prepared for a long time, I asked the master of the hall to lead the plan alone. Ladies and gentlemen, don't be disgruntled in private. The three elders and five hall masters of our fireworks alliance are all the right-hand men of the old man, and all of them are indispensable. ”

Old Master Zhu nodded.

Everyone hurriedly got up and said yes.

The next person, the dwarf, got up and said: "Alliance leader, what should I do with the more than 100 brothers in this Xuzhou soldier? ”

Ximen Yuanqing touched his beard, was silent for a moment, and said: "Master Wu, don't move the brothers in the army first, let that kid give us a good life, sooner or later there will be a day to move him, and then the brothers in the army will just do their best and get the first credit." As for the personnel of Aokido, they can be seconded to the north for the time being, doesn't it mean that there are still hundreds of brothers in the north? To the brothers in the army, I think it is better to send someone to control it, Master Wu, this matter is up to you to arrange. ”

The dwarf answered.

Ren Tianqi was sweating all over when he heard this, thinking that it was so dangerous, why didn't he think that there would inevitably be disloyal people among the thousands of strongmen in this land, how could they all be regarded as subordinates of the pro-soldiers, no, he would have to send someone to investigate it from tomorrow.

Ren Tianqi couldn't listen to it anymore, so he left the hall, called the two of them, and left Zhujiazhai, Fang sighed, and said as he walked: "The fireworks alliance has its own thing." That Ximen Yuanqing is the leader of the Fireworks Alliance, and he really has great powers, and he also has dealings with the Lin'an official family, the important thing is that there are still one or two hundred old members of the Fireworks Alliance in our Xuzhou army, and we have to guard against them, these people are kept by the Fireworks Alliance and the imperial court to deal with us in the future!"

Ren Songyi hurriedly said: "Then we must quickly find out these people and kill them all!"

Ren Tianqi said: "But how can you find out? This is a big problem!"

Back in the West Courtyard, although it was very late, Ren Tianqi still asked Gong Ming to call Tian Muzuo, talk about the matter, and asked: "Mu Zuo, with the year you have been by Mr. Ximen's side, how much do you know about the way the Fireworks Alliance connects with each other?"

Tian Muzuo scratched his head and said: "As far as I know, one is that there is a red or yellow hand grip knife handle pattern on the top left of the chest of the shirt, and the status of those who embroider yellow seems to be higher; Tian Muzuo said, his right hand raised his index finger, the palm of his hand was facing outward, stretched out four fingers in front of his forehead, turned his wrist and stretched out the middle three fingers and touched his forehead again, repeating twice.

When Ren Tianqi saw it, he smiled and said, "Okay, these two tricks are enough." We will start cleaning the portal from tomorrow, and we will have to get a good night's sleep tonight. This is thanks to the Three-Eyed Guanyin. After that, he turned back to Gong Ming and said, "To the people who secretly lurked in Zhujiazhuang, each of them will be rewarded with five hundred silver." ”

Gong Ming smiled: "That's how it should be, Xiao San thanked the master for them." ”