Rui Hegui

On the west side of the government office is where the cell is located. This time, the servants lead people to guard it personally.

Zhuo Chuan had squatted on the nearby roof for a long time, but there was no movement in the cell, so he couldn't help feeling suspicious.

Could it be that Wu Yi and Jia Han are far from the ones the other wants to kill?

Zhuo Chuan thought about it for a while, and suddenly thought of something, his body flickered, and he rushed to the small courtyard in the bamboo forest in the northwest.

As soon as he stepped into the bamboo grove, Zhuo Chuan keenly smelled a smell of blood, and then he quickly walked to the front of the small courtyard, where the body of his servant lay on the ground.

This small courtyard stores medicinal materials and other things. Usually, if the yamen servants are injured during their duties, or any criminal who is not worthy of death needs to continue his life, he will be carried here. Today, Jiang Zheng was seriously injured because he joined the army as a recorder. Zhao Liangyue sent He placed here, and sent personal guards.

Chu bandit's servants are all good at skills, but this time they all died here.

Zhuo Chuan was in a bad mood, so he sent out a firework, and then he unsheathed the white knife from his waist, and rushed into the small courtyard.

The sound of swords clashing came from a room on the west side of the small courtyard, where Jiang Zheng was.

The door of the room was tightly closed and was bolted from the inside. Zhuo Chuan kicked it open and broke in, just in time to see Jiang Zheng struggling with a maidservant.

That maid was not as meek and weak as she was in the daytime, this time with a sharp sword in her hand, her moves were vicious.

Zhuo Chuan moved extremely fast, and when the maid turned her head, the white blade in her hand had already slashed towards the maid's neck, but the maid turned sideways to dodge, letting the white blade fall into the air.

Zhuo Chuan fought with the maidservant, protecting Jiang Zheng behind him, and passed dozens of moves in an instant.

Zhuo Chuan half-closed his eyes, and asked: "Your moves are not from the Central Plains martial arts, where did you come from?"

While speaking, Zhuo Chuan's moves changed in an instant, and he pressed on step by step. Seeing that the maid was about to be defeated, she threw the sharp sword in her hand at Jiang Zheng. Zhuo Chuan stepped back and swung the knife under her crotch. Just about to chase, Jiang Zheng grabbed the skirt of his clothes.

Jiang Zheng breathed weakly: "My time... is running out, I have something to tell Master Chu."

"Please tell me!" Zhuo Chuan helped Jiang Zheng to sit down.

Jiang Zheng leaned against the wall, took a few breaths, and said: "Master Chu has almost finished the trial of the Ningzhou matter. I thought this was all I knew, but someone still wanted to kill me. I thought about it... ...Ahem, it can only be that place..."

Zhuo Chuan asked urgently, "Where is it?"

Jiang Zheng spat out gurgles of black blood, unable to speak, in extreme pain, obviously he had been poisoned, but his canthus was completely cracked, and his lingering consciousness was still there, so he tremblingly raised his bloody hand, and touched himself The blood wrote a word on the wall with difficulty, and then closed his eyes.

Zhuo Chuan probed his nose and neck to confirm that Jiang Zheng was dead, and couldn't help feeling a dull pain in his heart.

A while later, Chu Bandit and Zhao Liangyue also brought people to the scene, and Zhuo Chuan was kneeling and kowtowing to Jiang Zheng.

A group of people slowed down, and then Bandit Chu took the lead, and they all knelt down towards Jiang Zheng.

For a moment, the whole yard was filled with the sound of the night wind, which seemed to be weeping in mourning.

Just before a stick of incense, the bodyguard came to report that the entire Jiang family was bloodbathed, and more than [-] members of the whole family suffered accidents, and none of them survived——Jiang Zheng decided to know some important clues, which caused the Jiang family to suffer misfortune.

But it happened to be Jiang Zheng.

It stands to reason that Wu Yi has been on guard against Jiang Zheng for a long time, and it is difficult for Jiang Zheng to know what the other party is doing secretly, and if Jiang Zheng knew what he should not know before, judging from the strength shown by the other party today, Jiang Zheng It should have been the soul of the dead long ago.

Then there is only one possibility, Jiang Zheng had inadvertently learned about that from Wu Yi's side, Wu Yi still cared about the relationship between the two in-laws, neither killed Jiang Zheng, nor let Pei Cha and the people behind him know.

To this day, Wu Yi himself is about to die, and he must keep the secret to ensure his family's survival, so he can only tell Jiang Zheng about it.

So, just in case, the other party had the disaster of destroying the Jiang family.

When Chu Bandit and his party reacted, it was a step too late after all.

The bloody storm came suddenly in the dark, chilling the hearts of the people. The loyal man who still had a compassionate heart was pierced through the chest by the dark blade in the dark, but he died without seeing the dawn.

Zhuo Chuan got up with difficulty, turned around and clasped his fists at Bandit Chu, his eyes were red, and said, "That maidservant is in charge of delivering food to Pei Cha at night, it must be at that time that Pei Cha came down to order." Zhuo Chuan pointed to the rear wall and said, " Before Jiang Canjun died, he wrote this word in blood."

Everyone raised their eyes and saw the word "Xiang".

The word "Xiang" has many understandings and interpretations. It can be the Dongtian water town with sweet lotus leaves in the south of the Yangtze River. Xiangyuan City.

Xiangyuan City is one of the cities in the west of Daxu. It is rainy and humid all the year round, and there are poisonous miasma swamps for hundreds of miles. Few people would choose to live in it. He came back after chasing Tu Yuan from Qianqian Pass, and was persecuted and died unjustly in Xiangyuan City.

But now, before they could find out the old case, the words Xiangyuan City first appeared in sight in a bloody and cruel way.

In the third watch, Wu Yi, Jia Hanyuan, and Pei Cha were slaughtered on the spot, and their corpses were displayed to the public together with the eight beheaded officials before. They were not allowed to build a tomb for burial, and they were carried to the mountains to be torn and eaten by animals. Those who are very broad are guilty of the same crime.

At five o'clock, the sky was still showing a thin line of white. Chu Bandit and his party had already arranged the affairs of Ningzhou City, and headed towards Tang County without stopping, and at the same time sent secret letters to Kyoto and Cangji Mountain.

Not long after Zhao Liangyue got rid of the disease, he was still weak, and he rode the same horse with Chu Bandit as before, but he was too sleepy later, and Chu Bandit was not like before, he was speechless all the way, and Zhao Liangyue fell asleep unknowingly.

When he woke up again, Zhao Liangyue found that he was tightly wrapped in Chu Bandit's cloak, with the familiar faint scent of ink in his nose, green and dense forest in front of his eyes, and only the sound of galloping horses' hooves and the passing wind in his ears. .

"How long have I slept?"

"Two quarters of an hour."

Then, the two didn't speak any more, and each other felt heavy.

Zhao Liangyue recalled that when the attendant presented Wu Yi's head to Bandit Chu, his frowning brows did not relax in the slightest, but the pain became more gloomy. He stood in front of the court for a long time, looking at the words "Mirror hangs high", At last he turned to himself and said:

"Xi Lin, I thought I was the player in this game of chess, but unexpectedly, it was just a pawn, a pawn that refused to admit defeat."

Yes, the world is so big, the world is impermanent, from the temple to the rivers and lakes, from the emperor to the people, everyone has their own greed, but after a lifetime of pursuit, there are many people who are empty-handed in the end.

They want to carve out a way out of the rigid court situation, and want to play a game of chess called Zhengdao.

However, the bigger and more insidious situation has always been there. It hides in the dark and dirty place, and cuts the bloody knife to the surviving lonely and brave people. It has the ambition to annex the world, and at the same time it has an almost cruel strategy. .

It was a game in which the chess player had made every step of the way in his early years. He included all the people in the four realms and turned them into chess pieces that could be discarded at any time, just to achieve his goal.

What is his goal?Maybe it's the supreme power, maybe it's endless wealth, or maybe it's the whole Daxu.

Ningzhou and his party are not just disaster relief and iron ore cases.

Five days later, at the border of Cangqing Mountain, a group of mysterious men in white robes in different costumes went up the mountain in the rain.

In another two days, Chu bandit and his party arrived at the border of Tang County. Looking up, there was no one inhabited, and the farmland was deserted, only weeds grew wildly.

It was night, and the heavy rain came again, and the group found a deserted village to settle down.

Because no one took care of them for a long time, most of the thatch on the roof of these farmhouses was blown away by the wind, leaking wind and rain. Chu Bandit reluctantly found a ancestral hall with a dry place for Zhao Liangyue, and then demolished some wooden boards from the main hall and stacked them with The fire folds are lit to keep warm.

Bandit Chu asked Youbai, "Do you still have the herbs you bought that day?"

Youbai hurriedly took out the medicine package from his sleeve pocket, and found that it was already drenched by rain, and when he opened it, it really started to grow mold and rot.

Youbai looked at Zhao Liangyue, who was so weak that his eyes were half drooping, and almost cried: "Why hasn't the rain stopped in this poor place, and so have those bad guys, they have been chasing after them, and there will be no end. No one is safe."

"Okay, it's okay." Zhao Liangyue tried his best to move, but failed, and in the end Chu Bandit came to support him and got closer to the fire.

"Continuing like this is not an option." Bandit Chu pointed at Jingmo and a few of his servants, then turned to Zhuo Chuan and Youbai and ordered, "I'll take people to a nearby town to grab medicine, so you should stay safe."

After finishing speaking, Bandit Chu picked up the knife on the ground, took Jing Mo and a few attendants into the rainstorm in the dark night, and quickly disappeared.

Youbai squatted down in front of Zhao Liangyue worryingly, looked at his pale lips, raised his hand to touch Zhao Liangyue's forehead with the back of his hand, and found that it was already a little hot, he said anxiously: "When I was in Ningzhou City, the young master was obviously healed, Why is it getting worse now?"

Zhuo Chuan was putting a jar he was carrying beside the fire, pouring the water in the pouch into it to heat it up, and looking back at Zhao Liangyue, he said, "Master Zhao is no better than you or me, he is not a rough man practicing martial arts, he came all the way from the capital , rushing desperately every day, eating and sleeping in the open, and being frightened all the time, worrying everywhere, it’s no wonder I’m not sick.”

"I hope Master Chu will go back soon." Youbai said, helping Zhao Liangyue take off his soaked coat, set it up on a wooden stick to bake, and went to the side to remove a door panel to block the leaking wall.

At the fourth watch, Bandit Chu hurried to the neighboring towns, and many people had already moved away, like a half-empty city.

Chu bandit searched for a long time before finding a medicine shop. At first, the other party didn't open the door in the middle of the night, so he had to force his way in and lost a piece of gold.

After grabbing the medicine and leaving the town, he was about to rush back when Bandit Chu noticed that someone was ambushing him in the woods ahead.

And he was an old man who was familiar outside the city of Ningzhou that day, and the autumn wind was like killing him, and he was bound to take his head.

Knowing in his heart that this night's battle was inevitable, Chu bandit stopped his horse, stuffed the medicine bag in his chest and put it away, tore off the cloth strip from his outer shirt, and tightly wrapped his unrecovered hand with the handle of the knife.

The long road is muddy, the night is raining heavily, and the night seems to be stretched infinitely. The killing intent has been dormant since 13 years ago, and is about to turn into a lone wolf, tearing apart all kinds of grievances.