Mu Rentian carefully arranged his thick beard and clothes in front of the mirror, and kept asking: "Madam, will it be unseemly for me to go to see Lord Admiral with such a look?"

Mrs. put down her needle and thread, reached out to help her husband straighten his collar, and quipped: "A rough man by nature, no matter how he dresses up, he can't become a small student." ”

Mu Rentian laughed and said, "Madam made fun of it." The first time I meet the Admiral, I always have to be careful. ”

Madame pursed her lips and smiled: "It's always good to see the Admiral, but it's too strange to send someone to invite you to a small seven-rank general before dawn this day." There was no time to prepare. ”

Mu Rentian said: "Presumably it was the last time the imperial court was arrested and investigated, and Lord Rong wanted to personally commend it! I asked myself that Rong Ma had no ability in his life, but three things made me feel a little at ease, I was loyal to the court, I was responsible for my parents, wife and children, and I was dedicated to the people.......

When Madame heard this, she couldn't help but rejoice in her heart, and while patting the corner of her clothes for her husband's family, she said: "Hello, our son Mu Zuo is fine, seeing that he is about to get married, it is time for my Mu family to be happy! Okay, okay, go out quickly, don't let the Admiral wait for a long time." “

Mu Rentian stepped out of the door, and saw that the carriage and horses arranged by the Admiral's Mansion and the three soldiers were still waiting at the door, and after thanking him, he turned over and galloped towards the north of the city.

Since the establishment of the Yamen in the Kangxi period, the commander of this infantry army has been responsible for the garrison, security and security of the Beijing Division. Under the jurisdiction of the Manchurian, Mongolian, Han army eight banners infantry and the Beijing division of the green battalion of the horse infantry. Mu Rentian was originally a Sichuan army, because of his courage and courage in battle, he slowly became a petty officer in the army, and was later transferred to the Beijing Division Green Battalion by the officials who appreciated him as the commander, responsible for the defense of Chongwenmen, inspecting the city gates, arresting thieves and applying for a ban on patrolling the night. In that year, the power of the Yamen under the command of the infantry army fell on the Guarjia clan of the Manchurian Zhengbai Banner, and Guerjia Ronglu served as the commander of the Nine Gates. Although he was already on his way to see Lord Admiral, Mu Rentian still felt like a dream, and Lord Ronglu, a dignified and first-class official, personally summoned him, and this was worth it!

After running halfway, the horse's pace slowed down, and Mu Rentian greeted the soldiers of the Admiral's Mansion who accompanied him: "Haven't asked the names and surnames of a few little brothers?"

When the three soldiers heard this, they said, "Unknown junior, don't be polite!" After that, they shook the reins in their hands and sped up their horses.

After another ten miles, it gradually became uninhabited. There is a small river beside the road, and the willows are forested by the river. Mu Rentian suddenly felt that something was wrong, grabbed the reins and asked, "Isn't the Admiral's Mansion in Mao'er Alley? I'm afraid we're going the wrong way, right?"

The soldiers also stopped their horses, raised their eyes and looked around the environment, and the three of them beat their horses to surround Mu Rentian in the middle.

Mu Rentianxin said that it was not good, stretched out his legs and arched his back to secretly defend himself, and said in his mouth: "A few little brothers, what are you doing?"

The three soldiers drew the blades in their hands and said, "The Kang Party has written on the list, and the Admiral wants you to hand it over so that you don't die." ”

Mu Rentian was even more dazed in his heart, and said, "Kang Dang's roster?"

The soldiers shouted: "Pretend to be stupid, and the nine clans will be destroyed!" Kang Youwei wrote on the bus, and there was a roster of 1,000 people......

"Kang Guangsha united thousands of people to write to the emperor today, who doesn't know?" Mu Ren Tiandao, "These rosters are by no means secrets, everyone in the capital knows about them, you ask me, it's inexplicable!"

"There is a secret book on the emperor's roster, and the six people in the secret book are the principals of the Kang Party, and the emperor protects them, but Lafayette regards these people as a thorn in the flesh. Mr. Mu, don't embarrass the three of us, you give me the list of these six people, and you don't have to suffer from the torture of your relatives and dependents!"

Mu Rentian was shocked when he heard this, and thought that his family was probably also suffering from this inexplicable difficulty at this time, so he couldn't help but be angry from his heart, and shouted loudly: "Ge Laozi!

The three soldiers exchanged glances, and shouted: "Look for death!"

Mu Rentian, who originally thought that he was going to see the Admiral, did not carry any blades when he came, let alone that this matter was a shocking trap, seeing that the three knives were attacking together, he bent down and rolled off the horse, and kicked his right leg straight in the middle of the horse's abdomen, the horse was frightened by pain, and his hind hooves kicked violently, hitting the head of one of the soldiers. The poor pawn's body was still in the air, and his face was cracked, and he fell to the ground and twitched a few times before he moved again.

The other two pulled out and stabbed them twice. Thanks to Mu Rentian's battle-hardened, although he is not a martial arts master, he is powerful and experienced. rolled on the spot, picked up the knife next to the corpse, and killed with a backhand T-shaped move, cutting open a person's stomach and intestines.

This Mu Rentian has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and the martial artist of Shuzhong taught him a set of "Xinyou Sword Technique", and he has practiced it for decades. To say that this set of knife techniques is no more ordinary, just like the Bagua knife, it is almost the introductory knife technique for people who practice martial arts. But in the hands of Mu Rentian, firstly, the tiger's back and bear's waist strength is heavy, secondly, he has come to the battlefield to fight, and he really crawled out of the pile of dead people, and thirdly, he has practiced these styles for decades, and even ordinary knife techniques have a bit of unusual understanding. In addition, he was worried about the safety of his family, so he killed all the tricks with one kick and one knife, and killed the two of them when he came up.

Seeing this situation, the remaining soldier threw the knife at his feet, knelt on the ground and begged for mercy: "Mu will always Mu Lao Hero spare his life, I really dare not disobey the life of the old hero of Mu on the peak, you have a lot, spare me once, I will go home to farm, and I will not join the army again!"

Seeing this, Mu Rentian sighed: "You go, I won't kill you......" After speaking, he was anxious, and turned around to get on the horse and go home. I didn't want to turn around as soon as I felt a chill in my back, and my waist was pierced by the soldier with a knife for more than two inches. Mu Rentian shouted violently: "Ge Laozi wants your dog's life!" turned around and stepped up to slash, the soldier didn't snort, and the skull rolled out a few meters away.

Mu Rentian was not lightly injured, but fortunately, the back of the knife was wide and did not hurt the internal organs. Tearing off a strip of cloth, gritting his teeth and tightening the wound, he turned on his horse and galloped towards his home.

In the middle of summer, the capital is full of noisy cicadas. Liu Kezhuang, a lyricist in the Southern Song Dynasty, has a poem: "Why bother Yongmen to play a song, the sound of cicadas is extremely desolate." "The poignant state of mind in the sound of cicadas is exhausted. At this time, Mu Rentian, the safety of his family members was unknown, and his heart was even more cold. However, the reins in his hands and the saddle pedals under his feet seemed to be burning with a raging fire, and the journey of more than 20 miles was as long and painful as a thousand-mile march. Blood gradually oozed from the wound on his waist, and splashed on the ground along the horse's belly, but Mu Rentian, who was over half a hundred years old, didn't realize it, and there was only one voice in his head: "Hurry, hurry up!"

It's always like that in the world – if there's a chance that things will go bad, no matter how likely that is, it will happen. When Mu Rentian dragged his injured body and pushed open the hidden door of the mansion, this reckless man who always liked to grin with a big mouth opened his eyes, and after a few grunts in his throat, he couldn't make a sound again. His wife, relatives, and maids all fell in a pool of blood...... Mu Rentian stepped forward with trembling hands to check, the gentle and virtuous lady who was still talking to him in the morning, there was a pool of blood under her neck, how could she still breathe!

"Zuo'er! Zuo'er!" Mu Rentian called his only son Mu Zuo, who was about to get married, hoarsely, in the courtyard, in the east and west wings...... Pushing open the door to the main hall, the furniture in the room fell to the ground, apparently having been carefully searched. However, Mu Zuo is nowhere to be seen!

In desperation, Mu Rentian faintly heard the sound of horses' hooves outside the gate, and then there were officers and soldiers shouting: "Search, search for me!" Gently pushed open the window of the back hall, jumped out, and dived into the riverside forest in pain.

Since the end of the Ming Dynasty, the area around Chongwenmen has been very lively. Ming people Dong Huo has a poem: "The willows outside the civilized city are shaded, and the yellow oriole sends good news." Walking through the royal ditch looking back, the phoenix pavilion is cloudy and deep. "It's about the lively scene on the bank of the moat of Chongwenmen. Not far from the bridge is the flower market, there is a market every four days of the month, and there are countless agricultural tools, flowers, calligraphy and paintings, and jade for sale. On the other side of the moat is a dense forest, and there are children playing in the shallow part of the forest, and there are no people in the depths.

Mu Rentian was hiding in the forest at this time, looking up and seeing that there were dark clouds gradually gathering in the sky, thinking that a few hours ago, his wife and children were still smiling, and in the blink of an eye, one died of death, and the other was uncertain. Suddenly there was a sharp pain in my heart, and tears flowed sadly. In an instant, the rain poured down. As soon as the body is wet, the brain is much clearer. suffered such a sudden change, presumably there must have been a traitor who harmed him, but he has never formed a party for personal gain in his life, and he can't think of anyone who will harm him for a while. Before the matter is clarified, friends who are friends on weekdays do not dare to ask for help, first, the Mu people's hearts are like frightened birds, and it is difficult to distinguish between the enemy and me, and second, they are afraid of affecting others. When his heart was in turmoil, a sentence flashed in his heart like lightning: "When you are cornered, the temple in the north of the city will be broken to find Yuanzhen!"

"What a demon, you hurt my family!" Mu Rentian hated to grit his teeth. Tearing off a cuff, he wrapped the wound on his waist hard, braved the wind and rain to go around the path outside the city, and staggered to the north of the city.