Chen Xiaomu and Ximen Ruoen had just laid down on the bed when they suddenly heard footsteps coming in front of the inn door, and then there was the sound of someone deliberately lowering their voice. Chen Xiaomu and Ximen Ruoen looked at each other and immediately got out of bed and blew out the candles.

Fire, put on his clothes again in the dark, Ximen Ruoen took out a short knife from his boots and handed it to Chen Xiaomu.

Chen Xiaomu held the short knife, put his finger into his mouth, dipped it in some saliva, and lightly touched the window paper. The window paper silently cracked a small hole the size of a finger.

Chen Xiaomu blocked one eye on the small hole and looked into the yard. There were seven or eight people in the yard whispering to each other. After a while, two more people wearing black clothes came in through the second door in the yard.

People looked towards the room where Chen Xiaomu and Ximen Ruoen lived for a long time. Seven or eight people in the yard saw two men in black and immediately came over to surround them.

One of the men in black pointed at the room where Chen Xiaomu and the two lived and said something to these people. Chen Xiaomu reached into his arms and took out a small explosive bag that he used for self-defense.

Putting it on the dressing table in front of the window, the seven or eight people in the yard dispersed in front of the man in black, turned around in a fan shape, and crept toward the room where Chen Xiaomu and Ximen Ruoen lived.

Chen Xiaomu's hand holding the dagger was sweating. At this time, Zhou Mugen, the owner of the inn, suddenly walked over from behind the group of people, followed by a graceful woman walking behind him. Zhou Mugen turned his head when he saw the group of people.

After saying something unknown to the woman following him, the woman waved her hands to the group of people, who immediately stood still and stopped moving forward.

In the blink of an eye, Zhou Mugen led the woman to Chen Xiaomu's door. He held his breath and put his ear to the door of Chen Xiaomu's room and listened for a long time. The woman following him became impatient and whispered.

Ask, "Are they all asleep?"

Zhou Mugen's voice was not heard, but there was a gentle knock on the door. Chen Xiaomu and Ximen Ruoen's eyes widened in the darkness, they gritted their teeth, neither responding nor making a sound. The two held their hands tightly.

The short sword was waiting quietly in the darkness.

The knocking on the door lasted for a long time, and then stopped when there was no response from inside the room. Then there was the sound of footsteps gently walking away. Chen Xiaomu quietly moved to the door and put his ear against it.

There seemed to be a faint sound of breathing, and he quietly touched Simon Ruon's little hand in the darkness, and the two stood holding hands against the wall next to the door.

At this time, there were messy and slight footsteps outside the door. The tip of a knife was inserted through the crack of the door, inserted under the wooden door bolt, and was gently lifted upward. The door bolt was lifted up with a snap.

, the person outside the door pushed the door gently with his hand, and the door opened halfway with a creak, and a person stuck his head in to look. The room was dark, nothing could be seen, and the air was filled with Simon Ruon's body.

The fresh scent of rouge powder.

The head retracted in an instant, and there were whispers outside. Chen Xiaomu inserted the short knife in his hand into the ground, took out the fire folding head, and then blew lightly on the fire folding head, which immediately exploded with sparks.

, he quickly ignited the fuse of the small explosive bag, and the dark light in the room flashed, immediately attracting the attention of a man in black standing at the door of the room. He pushed the door open, and a package of sparks shining in the dark "Whoosh"

"" flew towards him. The man in black reacted quickly and hurriedly squatted down on the ground. The bag of sparkling things quickly flew over his head. Before he could stand up, there was a roar behind him.

There was a loud noise and a puff of smoke swirled around him, pushing him hard into the room. There was a wailing sound outside, and he lay on the floor of the room, his head buzzing.

Chen Xiaomu picked up the short knife stuck in the ground and flew over, riding on the back of the man in black. The man in black struggled to get up, but was held down by Chen Xiaomu, "Asshole, let me go!"

"The man in black cursed angrily, and it turned out to be a woman's voice. Chen Xiaomu who was riding on her was stunned when she heard it. The woman took the opportunity to push Chen Xiaomu aside, got up from the ground, turned around and ran towards the door, standing against the wall.

Simon Ruon next to the door stretched his legs, and with a "click" sound, the woman in black was tripped and fell down in front of Simon Ruon. Simon Ruon stepped forward, raised the short knife in his hand, and stabbed the woman in the back.

go.

"Slow down!" Chen Xiaomu hurriedly stopped him while rolling over on the ground and grabbing Ximen Ruoen's wrist. The woman in black wanted to take the opportunity to get up again. As soon as she got up, her back bumped into Ximen Ruoen who was being raped by Chen Xiaomu.

Holding the tip of the knife hanging in the air by her wrist, she used too much force and was stabbed hard. She screamed and fell to the ground again!

Chen Xiaomu pressed the woman in black, took off her loincloth belt, and tied her up tightly. At this time, Zhou Mugen tremblingly walked in from the door and saw the woman in black lying on her back.

He was tied up on the ground, and he hurriedly said: "This little brother, this is my little girl, let her go quickly?"

Simon Ruoen stepped forward and grabbed Zhou Mugen's chest, put the short knife in his hand against his neck, and said angrily: "Why did you let people come to kill us two?"

Zhou Mugen was so frightened that he immediately knelt down and said to Chen Xiaomu with a cry: "Brother, I, Zhou Mugen, have the conscience of heaven and earth to say that I never let anyone kill you two!"

Chen Xiaomu sneered, "You didn't let anyone come and kill us, so what's going on now?" He pointed at the few people who were still wailing outside the door.

Zhou Mugen hesitated for a moment, but in order to save his and his daughter's lives, he still told the truth, "Brother, you don't know something. After we had a deep talk tonight, you went to the back to sleep, and my daughter took you with her.

Several officers from the prefecture's yamen returned home. I heard from my daughter that Zheng troops are everywhere in Xinjing. Even the Chu troops who were patrolling the city at night have quietly disappeared. The prefect heard that the spies from the prefecture came back to report.

, immediately sent people out to investigate. It turned out that the Chu army guarding the city tonight rebelled, opened the city gate and quietly let the Zheng army in outside the city. Now all four gates of the new capital have been taken over by the Zheng army.

, so the prefect immediately asked my little girl to bring someone back and asked me to find him a hiding place overnight. When Zheng Jun's defense at the city gate is relaxed, he will find a way to escape from the city."

"'What about the people from the prefect?" Chen Xiaomu asked.

"He hasn't arrived yet, so he asked his daughter to bring someone back and find a way to clear out the residents here before he comes back," Zhou Mugen said.

"Ah, Zheng Jun has entered the city! Boss, are you telling the truth or a lie?" Someone asked Zhou Mugen outside the room.

"Yeah, why didn't we hear any movement? You idiot, didn't you listen to what the shopkeeper just said that it was the Chu army in the city who rebelled and led the Zheng army into the city. Did the Zheng army come to inform you before entering the city?"

There seemed to be a lot of people outside, all talking to each other.

Chen Xiaomu picked up Zhou Mugen and his daughter Zhou Huiniang who were kneeling on the ground, and pushed them out of the door together with Ximen Ruoen. In the yard outside, there were several people in black lying on the ground, some holding their legs, and some hugging each other.

With their heads hanging, all of them groaned and had painful expressions on their faces. A little further away stood about a dozen tenants staying in the inn. When they saw the four of them coming out, they all involuntarily took a few steps back.

Chen Xiaomu threw his hands at the tenants who were watching the excitement, "It will be dawn in two hours. Everyone, please go back to your room, pack your things and leave the inn. A fight may break out here soon. The dozen or so tenants who were watching the excitement heard this.

, immediately dispersed and returned to their rooms to pack their things. Among them, two younger tenants stood motionless, looking at the four of them intently.

Chen Xiaomu was immediately stunned, pointed at the two people with the short knife in his hand, and said, "Why don't you leave?"

Among the two men, one of them said: "This strong man, we are brothers. Our families were killed by the Chu army two months ago when they massacred the city. We two brothers were spared because we studied with our master outside.

Difficult, we didn’t learn about this news until a few days ago from a junior brother who came back to the mountain to visit his family. The two brothers and we immediately took leave from our master and hurried back to Xinjing to visit relatives. After returning,

Only then did I find out that because one of our Ji fathers was an official in the Zheng Dynasty, the Chu army massacred our entire family when they massacred the city. We two brothers had stayed in this inn for three days and wanted to find an opportunity to kill some Chu soldiers.

The army is here to avenge the family!”

Chen Xiaomu asked doubtfully, "Do you want to fight against Magistrate Zhang's men with us?"

The two brothers nodded together.

Chen Xiaomu was talking to the two brothers. Li Gui rushed in from the door with more than a dozen people. They came all the way after hearing the explosion. After entering, they saw Chen Xiaomu and Ximen Ruoen escorting a man in black.

An old man was talking to two young men in the inn yard and immediately surrounded them.

Chen Xiaomu breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Li Gui and others coming in. Li Gui walked up to Chen Xiaomu, gave a military salute, and asked, "Mr. Chen, how did you get here? I looked everywhere in the camp for you and couldn't find you."

You, are you okay?"

Chen Xiaomu smiled and said: "What can I do? You go back immediately and mobilize people to surround the prefect's Yamen in Xinjing City. You must catch this bastard Zhang Yong."

"I obey," Li Gui agreed, but he was in a difficult position, "Mr. Chen, I really don't know where the prefect's office is in Xinjing City. I'm afraid that I'll go there blindly and waste my time to let this man named Zhang Yun go."

Ran away."

Chen Xiaomu glanced at the woman in black who was standing dejectedly with her hands tied behind her back, and said, "Go and take them to the prefect's Yamen, and I will protect your father and daughter from death!"

"Hmph" The woman in black turned her head to one side and snorted softly.

Chen Xiaomu sneered, pointed at Zhou Mugen and said to Li Gui: "Captain Li, first chop off one of this old man's hands.

"Master, my daughter is not going, but I am willing to take you there!" Zhou Mugen was so frightened by Chen Xiaomu's words that he immediately fell to his knees and kowtowed.

"Dad, how could you be so spineless and betray your uncle? It's a shame that Zhang Yong has always treated you well!" When Zhou Huiniang saw that Zhou Mugen was going to take these people to the prefect's Yamen to capture Zhang Yong, she immediately yelled at Zhou Mugen who was kneeling on the ground.

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"What a man of Zheng, your thief husband Zhang Yong, for his own benefit, let his son secretly open the gate of Xinjing to welcome Chu people into the city and massacre him, and killed so many people of Zheng, why didn't you say that he had

Integrity?" Chen Xiaomu said coldly, looking at the woman in black in front of him.

Zhou Huiniang acted as if she had not heard anything and stood with her head bowed, saying nothing.

At this time, the two young men who were about to help Chen Xiaomu came over. Li Gui stepped forward to stop him, but Chen Xiaomu shook his head to stop him. The two young men walked up to Zhou Huiniang and raised their hands, "Pa Pa Pa" and slapped her in the mouth with their bows from left to right.

Zhou Huiniang was whipped around on the spot and fell to the ground. The young man who had just spoken to Chen Xiaomu pointed at Zhou Huiniang who fell on the ground and cursed angrily, "I have never hit a woman since I was a child, but you are a thief and a thief."

It’s really hateful, your thieves did such a shameless thing, and you still defend him like this, you are really shameless!”

Zhou Mugen hurriedly came over and helped up his daughter who was lying on the ground. He raised his head and said to Chen Xiaomu: "My lord, please stop beating my daughter. Her mother passed away early. We, father and daughter, depend on each other. My daughter has never done anything to apologize to Zheng Guoren."

What happened is that I married her to Zhang Yong out of ignorance, greed for money, and I will take you to the prefect’s Yamen to capture Zhang Yong now!"

Chen Xiaomu's heart softened upon hearing this, and he said to Li Gui: "Captain Li, please leave a few people in this inn to be prepared for Zhang Yongzai to suddenly come over, and then take this old man to the prefect's Yamen to block him."

"Mr. Chen, will you go to the magistrate's office with us?" Li Gui asked.
Chapter completed!