In ancient times, I just wanted to be a salted fish

The next morning, the sun shone at the foot of the mountain. Chen Ruotong and Qiao Zien left the space and began to look for a way back to the city.

They walked along the mountain road and accidentally met an old man who was chopping wood. The old man told them that this was Beishan, which was far away from the city, and they needed to climb over a mountain to return to the city.

Although the mountain road was difficult to walk on, the two supported each other and moved forward step by step towards the city.

Near noon, they finally saw the outline of the city. The exhausted two breathed a sigh of relief and quickened their pace.

Back in the city, Chen Ruotong and Qiao Zien decided to tell Prefect Zhang the secret that there were a large number of weapons hidden in the secret passage of the rich man Wan. They believed that only by exposing the conspiracy of the rich man Wan and the regent through legitimate means could they truly protect the peace of the people.

Going directly to the yamen was not an option, so Qiao Zien wrote an anonymous letter with her left hand. In the dead of night, she jumped into Zhang's house and stuffed the letter through the door of Magistrate Zhang's study.

When he jumped over the wall, a man in black blocked his way. Because the two were relatively close, the dim light of the lantern reflected a pair of beautiful eyes.

Qiao Zien recognized that the man in black was the one who sneaked into the house of the wealthy Wan last night. What was he doing in Zhang's house? Was he trying to steal some important letters from the prefect Zhang? How could he do that? He had to stop him.

So Qiao Zien put his right hand behind his back, took out the Embroidered Spring Sword, and prepared to capture the man in black.

The man in black's eyes gleamed with vigor, and he pulled out a long sword from his back and stabbed at Qiao Zien.

Qiao Zien's body floated, leaped into the air, swung his embroidered spring sword, and started fighting with the man in black. The two men fought fiercely, rising and falling.

The man in black became more and more courageous as the battle went on. His sword gleamed in all directions, his figure was as light as a swallow and as quick as wind and clouds. He moved swiftly and fiercely with his long sword emitting a cold light as he approached Qiao Zien.

Qiao Zien soared into the air, spun around in the air, and swung out a brilliant light curtain, like stars falling from the sky. The light curtain extinguished the rainbow light that shot out, defusing the sword that would kill him. Then he swung his long sword, and the dazzling blade light rushed up, like a brilliant silver dragon, as if it was about to connect with the Milky Way in the sky.

The two fought hard, but Qiao Zien was young and weak, and could not withstand the long-term consumption of physical strength, and was slightly defeated. So, he jumped up and quickly jumped far away. After standing still, a gun appeared in his hand, aiming at the man in black, ready to shoot.

But the man in black suddenly threw his sword to the ground and took off his mask.

Damn, this person is none other than Zhen Yu!

Qiao Zien was very surprised and puzzled. Didn't Zhen Yu go treasure hunting? How could he appear here? He suddenly realized that Zhen Yu sneaked into the house of the rich man Wan to find evidence.

Qiao Zien put the pistol into the space and only held an embroidered spring knife in his hand.

The two smiled at each other and walked closer to each other.

Zhen Yu smiled and said, "Why did Master Qiao enter Lord Zhang's house at night? Can't we discuss it openly in the daytime?"

Qiao Zien also laughed and said, "Of course I have my reasons. Lord Zhen is not sleeping in the middle of the night. Is he going to visit Zhang's house at night dressed like this?"

"Hehe, I'm busy with official business, so I can't tell you!"

"Haha, well then, Lord Zhen, I'll take my leave!" Qiao Zien nodded, made a farewell gesture, turned and walked towards West Street.

It turned out that Zhen Yu and Lord Zhang had studied some letters he had found from Wan Baocai's house during the day. There were quite a lot of them, but there were only a few letters with the Regent Liang Yachi. Even if there were any, they were just some family greetings, without any substantial evidence. So he planned to go to Wan Baocai's house to look for evidence at night.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he left Zhang's house, he ran into Qiao Zien who was also leaving Zhang's house.

At that time, he thought that Qiao Zien, who was wearing a black mask, was a killer sent by Wan Baocai, so he wanted to capture him. Unexpectedly, the other party took out the Embroidered Spring Knife. He recognized this knife, so he knew that the person holding the Embroidered Spring Knife must be Qiao Zien.

He also wanted to test Qiao Zien's kung fu, so he exchanged more than 20 moves with Qiao Zien without making a sound. He had never seen Qiao Zien's moves before, but it was obvious that Qiao Zien's kung fu was very high. Because he was young and physically weak, he lost to him. Otherwise, they would have ended in a draw, or he would have lost.

Qiao Zien has a promising future! She is a talented all-rounder.

Zhen Yu is a person who values ​​talent. He particularly admires Qiao Zien and wants to become good friends with her.

Zhen Yu did not return to Zhang's house, but went straight to Wan Baocai's house. Several men who were guarding outside reported to him, "Boss, Wan Baocai did not leave the house all day, and we brothers kept a close eye on him, but there seemed to be many more guards in the house. Obviously, Wan Baocai has discovered that he has lost something."

Zhen Yu said: "Keep watching, I want to go in and take a look!"

One of his men stopped him and said, "Boss, no, there are tight guards inside, and they are all archers. Once you go in, they will know that two fists cannot beat four hands!"

So Zhen Yu returned to Zhang's house, woke up the sleeping Magistrate Zhang, and went to the study to discuss things.

As soon as the study door opened, he saw a letter on the ground. Zhen Yu knew that this must have been sent by Qiao Zien in the middle of the night.

The two of them quickly opened the letter and gasped after reading it. Wan Baocai was so bold that he actually dared to secretly store such a large number of weapons at home. It was obvious that he had the intention of rebellion!

So, Magistrate Zhang mobilized his troops overnight, surrounded Wan's house, and searched it.

When Zhen Yu led a group of officers and soldiers to search Wan's house, they did not find Wan Baocai and his family, and those guards were all servants in disguise.

Zhen Yu said, "Not good!"

Zhen Yu and Prefect Zhang followed the map drawn in Qiao Zien's letter and immediately led the officers and soldiers to the second pavilion and moved the stone bench into the secret passage.

When they reached the section of the road where the hidden weapons were, they found that the ground had been cleared.

Zhen Yu remembered the hint that Qiao Zien left on the map, so he threw an armor hat forward. Arrows rained down from the walls on both sides, and darts rained down from above. It was a close call!

After they were safe, they entered the secret passage and came to the armory indicated on the map, but they didn't see any weapons. However, there were scratches and footprints on the ground where weapons were moved.

Zhen Yu and Prefect Zhang understood that Wan Baocai had to use the entire day to move all the weapons away, which would require a large amount of manpower.

Zhen Yu found the secret passage leading out of the city according to the map, and led his men to pursue it, all the way to the North Mountain outside the city. He cut off the big lock on the iron gate with a sword and led his men out of the cave.

Dozens of torches lit up the night sky. The officers and soldiers searched everywhere but saw no weapons or human figures, but found traces of carriages and horses at the entrance of the cave.

So they followed the tracks of the carriage and horses, but when they reached the official road, the tracks had disappeared. It was obvious that they had been erased by someone.

Zhen Yu ordered everyone to rest where they were. When daybreak came, some people would search the mountain while others would split into two groups to search for the weapons that had been smuggled away.