Dingbei Hou's doctor brother

All the guests in the room were tied up and squatted in the middle of the hall, except Lu Ziqing who was slow to move over and stared at Guo Zhou.

Guo Zhou put the knife back to the pregnant woman's neck, stared at the unfriendly eyes, and glanced at the person next to him.

"It turns out to be Doctor Chi. What a coincidence."

Chi Musheng's eyes flashed with surprise, "Guozhou? You actually escaped here?"

Hearing this, Lu Ziqing glanced at him sideways.

Is this person Guo Zhou?

In the past, I always heard this name in the Northern Expedition military camp, but I had never seen the real person.

I didn't expect that we would meet in this way today.

Guo Zhou's gaze shifted to Lu Ziqing, and after a while he seemed to remember something.

"It's you."

Lu Ziqing asked suspiciously, "Do you know me? This is the first time I've met the general."

Guo Zhou said, "Qiu Lie, it was you who rescued Xiao Yan and caused me to fail. I will never forget it."

Chi Musheng subconsciously glanced at Lu Ziqing without saying anything, only to see him respond.

"So you are the black-clad assassin. General Guo is indeed a veteran of the battlefield. You dared to assassinate the crown prince in broad daylight, committing the heinous crime of exterminating nine generations of your clan. You are quite courageous."

Guo Zhou snorted coldly and said to his subordinates, "This man knows martial arts, tie him up."

The thin subordinate walked over and put a knife to Lu Ziqing, while another subordinate tied his hands behind his back and shouted at the two of them.

"Come on, squat over there."

Lu Ziqing and Chi Musheng sat on the floor next to the other guests.

Guo Zhou stood in front of him and asked, "What's your name? What's your relationship with Xiao Yan?"

Lu Ziqing hesitated for a long time without saying anything. The thin man next to him came over with a knife in his hand and waved it over the customer's head a few times.

"Damn it, I told you to speak up, are you mute?"

They don't look like soldiers from a regular military camp, but more like bandits.

Several guests were so frightened that they lowered their heads and screamed.

"Shut the fuck up, all of you! If you keep yelling, I'll chop your mouths off."

Lu Ziqing then replied, "Lu Ziqing."

Upon hearing this, Guo Zhou looked him up and down, bent down, grabbed his collar, and stared at him fiercely.

"So you're the one Xiao Yan recommended. I never realized you were such a young brat, yet you've caused so much unrest in the court. Now that you've fallen into my hands, it's really easy to get you."

He shook off Lu Ziqing, stood up straight and said, "With you and these people here, we are not afraid that Xiao Yan will not let us go."

The streets outside were filled with soldiers and archers. Lang Si shouted inside with a knife slung over his shoulder.

"Guo Zhou, you are surrounded. You cannot escape today. I urge you to surrender immediately."

Then, Guo Zhou's voice was heard from inside the door.

"If you want me to surrender, then just barge in and let these common people be your scapegoats."

With the common people at his disposal, Lang Siwan didn't dare to act rashly. He walked back and forth with his hands on his hips and asked Xiao Yan.

"What should we do? The old man is holding the people hostage, so we can't attack him by force."

Xiao Yan frowned, "There is no other way now. Let's negotiate with him first."

Lang Si shouted into the door, "If you have any requests, just tell me. Don't touch the common people."

Inside the room, the thin man snorted coldly, "With so many lives in their hands, they really don't dare to move."

The tall subordinate said, "There are soldiers and archers outside. It won't be easy for us to escape safely."

Guo Zhou thought for a while before shouting outside: "All soldiers and horses, withdraw. Prepare another carriage. Hurry up."

Lang Si did not agree immediately. He looked at Xiao Yan and said something to negotiate.

"You can withdraw the troops, and it's also easy to get a carriage, but the prerequisite is that I have to see that the people are safe and sound first. You open the door."

Guo Zhou understood that this was an obvious delaying tactic, but there was no other way at the moment, so he explained it to several of his subordinates.

"You guys, string these people together with ropes and stand them at the door for them to watch."

There was no movement for a long while. The wind gradually grew stronger and the flags of the tavern swayed violently in the wind.

On the streets, apart from the armored officers and soldiers and the Embroidered Uniform Guards, there was not a single civilian to be seen.

Lang Si stared at the door of the tavern, wondering, "Why is there no movement?"

Xiao Yan said, "Right now, he has no other conditions to offer. He can only do as he's told. He's probably still considering it."

As soon as he finished speaking, the gate suddenly moved, and the archer from the military department subconsciously pulled the bow again for a moment.

The door slowly opened, revealing a man in white, blindfolded, standing in front. The rest of the people were also blindfolded and stood beside the door.

Xiao Yan was startled immediately. When he was about to speak, he heard Su Chengfeng's surprised cry behind him.

"Ziqing!"

At the same time as the shout landed, an arrow suddenly flew out from the archer's hand.

Xiao Yan's eyes lit up with panic, he quickly drew his sword and suddenly jumped out to block it.

An arrow suddenly flew out at such a fast speed that Xiao Yan's knife only missed the tail of the arrow and it went straight into the door frame.

Lu Ziqing subconsciously turned his head to the side, and the people behind him heard the sound and screamed in fright.

This arrow was truly dangerous. If Xiao Yan had not blocked it, it would have hit Lu Ziqing's chest directly.

Su Chengfeng glared and shouted at the archer, "Who did it? Stand out!"

He scanned the area, walked directly to the center, grabbed a soldier's armor, and glared at him.

"Who told you to shoot arrows? Didn't you see there were civilians inside?"

The soldier shook his hand away. "I just slipped up. It wasn't intentional."

"A mistake?" Su Chengfeng pointed at the door angrily. "The door is already open. You know it's a civilian, and you're calling it a mistake?"

"What are you yelling about?"

A middle-aged man in armor, with a sword slung over his shoulder, walked in slowly from behind, with a small mustache on his face.

He stared at Su Chengfeng with a fierce look.

"You have no right to speak here, and you dare to yell at my soldiers?"

This man is Peng Fu, the commander of the Central City Military Department.

Although the commander of the military department was only a sixth-rank official, he didn't need to take a low-class follower like Su Chengfeng seriously.

Moreover, Peng Fu is also King Zhao's man.

"Do you have the right to speak here?" Yang Zhounan walked in with a knife in hand, staring at him impatiently, "How dare you point fingers at my people."

Right next to him, Su Chengfeng looked at him and inexplicably sensed a different meaning in these words.

It is obviously a very common sentence, but at this moment, this thought pops up at an inappropriate time.

He felt that he had been deeply poisoned by the man in front of him, which was why he was so nervous.

Compared with the deputy general of the Dragon Guards, the commander of the Bingmasi is simply a rubbish.

However, Peng Fu had the support of a powerful party and belonged to a different party, so he secretly did not take Long Yujun seriously, but he did not dare to be too blatant.

As the saying goes, a high-ranking official can crush others to death.

Yang Zhounan was a second-rank official, and Peng Fu could not reach him at all, so he had to keep his dissatisfaction to himself.

Besides, the soldier did miss and almost hit a civilian.

Moreover, judging from Xiao Yan's reaction just now, the young man in white should not be an ordinary person.

Today, there must be an explanation, otherwise, this matter cannot be resolved.

Peng Fu withdrew his thoughts, glanced at Xiao Yan not far away, suddenly snorted and laughed, and said in a hanging tone.

"So they were Lieutenant General Yang's men. I'm sorry I didn't know about this and I apologize for any offense."

He pretended to give orders to the soldier beside him.

"Come here, drag this man away and give him eighty strokes of the cane."