"It's hard to do." Yuan Kai's words are friendly and he looks like a well-educated man.

In the government office, Xu Shirou was packing his luggage, and even his clothes had been changed into the clothes of the people. It seemed that he had no confidence in defending Nanyang City and was ready. Once the news of the city being broken came, he could turn into an ordinary person and take the opportunity to escape from Nanyang City. No matter how bad he was, he would not fall into the hands of the Pei family army who was sieging the city.

It was at this moment that a voice came from outside the room, "Sir, Yuan Kai, the head of the Yuan family at the door, asked for a meeting."

"Yuan Kai?" Xu Shirou was stunned. At this time, Yuan Kai came to join in the fun? Isn't this causing trouble? Just as he was about to let the yamen runners leave, he suddenly realized that he was about to run away, so it would be more appropriate to keep more gold and silver on his body. He claimed to be clean and honest. Apart from some calligraphy and paintings, there was nothing else. How could he leave Nanyang like this?

At this time, Yuan Kai was coming, and he was just sleepy and sent a pillow.

"Please come in." Xu Shirou ordered, and then hurriedly found a dress of official uniform. She didn't care about the heat and directly sent it to her body, covering up the dress of civilian clothes.

Soon, Xu Shirou met Yuan Kai in the flower hall on the side of the government office.

"I have met the prefect." Yuan Kai came in and bowed to Xu Shirou.

"Yuanwai, what's the matter with this time?" Xu Shirou was also a little curious about Yuan Kai's purpose of coming this time. At this time, all the high-ranking families in the city retreated to him, fearing that the Pei family army outside the city would enter the city, so they would be a typical example and chop it up. But Yuan Kai not only did not retreat, but came to him to find him, so he couldn't help but be curious.

As soon as Yuan Kai entered the door, he was immediately attracted by Xu Shirou's clothes. You must know that it is midsummer in June, and ordinary people feel extremely hot even in short clothes and sweatshirts. This prefect Xu was wearing a big red official robe, covering his whole body tightly. Not only that, there were obviously other clothes under the official robe.

At this time, Yuan Kai really wanted to ask, Master, aren’t you so popular?

"Yuan Yuanwai? Yuanwai?" Seeing that Yuan Kai did not answer, he just stared at his official uniform, Xu Shirou was a little displeased and called out twice.

Yuan Kai came back to his senses, lowered his head quickly, and said to Xu Shiju: "Master, the student is rude. The student came this time because the student's family saw a strange thing when they were out two days ago, which was extremely unusual, so the student felt something was wrong and came to report to the adult."

"Oh? What a strange thing?" Xu Shirou was actually no longer thinking about this kind of thing. He was just thinking about waiting for the thief army to enter the city and where he wanted to escape from Nanyang. It would be better to be unaware of it. But he still needed to get some silver from Yuan Kai as soon as possible, and then asked patiently.

"Sir, my servant went to purchase this morning. I heard that people moved in a house near my house for a while last night. They were all young and strong young people. Since entering yesterday, they have not been able to go out. These people are very likely to be the detailed work of the thief army outside the city. Please wipe out as soon as possible." Yuan Kai was solemn.

"What? The thief has lurked into the city?" Xu Shirou was stunned, then wandered uneasyly in the flower hall, muttering, "It's so fast, so fast. I have to make plans."

Xu Shirou's actions made Yuan Kai confused. Logically, Xu Shirou shouldn't have reacted like this, and he should have been furious no matter what. Then he sent troops to wipe out the enemy in anger. At that time, he would follow Xu Shirou out and take the opportunity to take Xu Shirou down. However, he never expected that Xu Shirou would react like this. How could he do this?

"Sir, what's wrong with you?" Yuan Kai said carefully.

Xu Shirou also realized that his behavior was wrong, so he stopped and said to Yuan Kai: "Yuanwai, the news you said is very good. Everyone can kill such thieves. I will send troops to wipe them out."

Say it, Xu Shirou ordered outside the door: "Come, come."

However, the yamen runners who were originally outside the door seemed to disappear out of thin air and had no response. Xu Shirou was about to get angry. This was Xu Shirou who hurried over from the government office and said anxiously to Xu Shirou: "Sir, it's not good. Now there are rumors everywhere on the street that the thieves outside the city have entered the city. Now the street is panic, and several yamen runners in the government office have fled."

What? Xu Shirou was shocked and fell to the ground with her butt, but she didn't care about the pain in her butt, and struggled to get up and said, "Hurry, hurry up, let's go."

Yuan Kai, who was standing beside him, was also a little stunned. He had not taken action yet, but the Pei family army outside the city had already entered the city. What should he do next?

At this time, Zhao Jingshi led the seventeen guards of the Yuan family to break in. Seeing Xu Shirou who was about to escape and Yuan Kai with a blood-faced face, he stomped his feet in anger, pointed at Xu Shirou and said, "Look, the magistrate is there, you go and protect the magistrate."

Hearing Zhao Jingshi's words, Yuan Kai woke up from his dream, jumped to the guards and ordered: "Yes, yes, hurry up, go and protect the prefect."

When the guards heard the orders of their masters, they naturally did not dare to neglect them. They stepped forward and surrounded Xu Shirou, who had not yet run a few steps.

Xu Shirou, who surrounded the middle, pointed at Yuan Kai and scolded: "Yuan Kai, what are you doing? Can't you rebel? Are you not afraid of implicating the nine clans and killing the whole family?"

Yuan Kai was so worried about gains and losses that he scolded. He wanted to explain a few words, but he didn't know what to say. His mouth, which was usually sensible, became clumsy at this time.

When Zhao Jingshi saw him like this, he knew that his heart began to fluctuate again. He almost cursed at him. He didn't even see when it was already. He wanted to both sides of the rat, so he was not afraid of not living tonight? Zhao Jingshi immediately shouted: "Master Xu, you are about to die and you still want to speak wildly. My Pei family army has entered the city now. You are now carrying the crime of losing your relatives. Can you still survive?

Why not surrender to our Pei family army as soon as possible? Maybe it can be exchanged for a way out."

As soon as Zhao Jingshi said that, Xu Shirou's face suddenly darkened. He suddenly remembered that Nanyang City was the fiefdom of Zhu Youjian, the Prince of the Ming Dynasty. Speaking of this King of Tang, he was really a miserable child. When he was young, his father favored his concubines and imprisoned his two biological children in the Chengfengsi. During this period, the eldest of his brothers, the prince Zhu Qiying, was even poisoned and died of poisoning.

Last year, in the fifth year of Chongzhen, the father Zhu Shuo-hyun, who had been doing evil, died, which allowed this miserable child to inherit the title of King of Tang. Unexpectedly, Nanyang was already undermined in just one year.

To get on the turn, Xu Shirou was the first local prefect to lose his relatives in recent years. Although there were no previous examples, according to the Ming Dynasty and Chongzhen's character, he was afraid that he would not be able to escape such a knife, and it might even be more than one knife. A few years ago, Yuan Chonghuan was cut off by three thousand swords. Xu Shirou didn't want to experience this. The world is so beautiful and he has not lived enough.

The streets in front of the government office began to appear in the streets and the scattered soldiers chasing them. Zhao Jingshi was a little impatient and ordered the guards: "Why don't you invite the prefect in?"

Who knew that after Zhao Jingshi said that more than a dozen guards looked at each other and no one took action. Nonsense, this is a god whom they could not even see on weekdays. Now let them "invited" the prefect in?

Now, the group of guards have noticed something is wrong, but they have already boarded the pirate ship, so how easy is it to get off? "Go and take the prefect, please come in." This time it was Yuan Kai who gave the order.

The guard no longer hesitated this time, lowered his head and did not dare to look at Xu Shirou. He went straight forward, pulled Xu Shirou and returned to the flower hall.

"Nephew, what should we do next?" Yuan Kai said.

Zhao Jingshi didn't expect that the Pei family army would be able to attack the city so smoothly. Before two hours had passed, he had already captured Nanyang City. I don't know whether the Pei family army was too powerful or the official army was too incompetent, but there was not much time left for him. "Let's act separately. The high-ranking officials in this city, regardless of civil and military affairs, can catch one or more, and the credit will be greater."

"It makes sense," Yuan Kai agreed deeply, suddenly thought of something, and said: "If you want to talk about status in the city, you must also count the Tang..."
Chapter completed!