Jishui County began to build the city as early as the Qianfu period of the Tang Dynasty. Today, the city has five gates, namely the Wenming Gate in the east gate, the Wenfeng Gate in the west gate, the Wensha Gate in the south gate, the Wenjiang Gate in the north gate and the small east gate in the northeast.

Wenchang Gate. The five city gates all start with the word "文", which is extremely rare. However, Jishui County has always been the place where literary affairs flourished, such as "three top scholars in five miles" and "three Jinshi in one discipline".

There are many beautiful sayings such as "nine sons and ten states".

Among them, there were two censors five miles apart on both sides of the Enjiang River. One was Xiong Gai of the Yongle Dynasty, and the other was Zou Yuanbiao of the Wanli Dynasty. Zou Yuanbiao came from the Zou family of Xiaodongmen, Jishui.

Known as a child prodigy, he once entered the court as an official, and later lived in his hometown to give lectures for thirty years during the Wanli period. Together with Gu Xiancheng and Zhao Nanxing, he was known as the Three Kings of the Donglin Party.

The Zou family here is a big family with heirlooms of poetry and etiquette, and it has produced figures like Zou Yuanbiao, so its influence in the local area has never been small. Today, the Zou family is not what it was back then, but Zou Yuanbiao’s grandson Zou Zhuoming also

He is a member of the Changsha shogunate and is also a prominent family that cannot be ignored in the local area.

Beyond the small east gate is the residence of the Zou family. From here, head west and pass the plaque with the words "The Pillar of the Golden City" written on it. Continue walking for a while and you will find a house belonging to the Zou family.

The place where Zhi Pangzhi lives.

"Zou Nan, a member of the county, colluded with the traitor Liu Jing, harassed the officers and soldiers, attacked the county town, and brutalized the people. Now that the evidence of the crime is conclusive, if you open the door quickly, you may be exempted from the crime of harboring, otherwise you will be punished as a comrade of Zou Nan!"

Outside the Zou family's house, a brigade of Qing troops and government officials surrounded the place, with a total of a hundred and ten people. The leader of the green camp officer sat upright on his horse, confident, and allowed a loud-voiced government official to announce Zou Nan's death to the house.

This crime also damages the morale of everyone in the house.

The sound of crying could be faintly heard from the house. The officer was a veteran at searching homes and arresting people. He had rich experience. Hearing this, he naturally had more confidence and ordered the yamen servant to be more confident.

He shouted hard into the house, waiting for the slaves inside to open the door so they could rush in.

This is the easiest, it won't cause any casualties, and it doesn't even use too much strength. After rushing in, you can plunder the house in the name of hunting Zou Nan and his family.

This kind of job has always been a fat job. Officers are used to being human and doing things. I am just waiting for the moment when the door is opened by the frightened and landless servants. It has even started in my mind.

It outlines how much gold, silver and jewelry can be collected. But the strange thing is that the shouts of the government officials come one after another, but they are like mud cows drowning in the sea, and there is no response at all. What is there is just a vague

Yue's cries added a bit of chill to the afternoon sun.

"Can you really see a ghost in broad daylight?"

With a wave of his hand, a group of Qing troops rushed straight to the gate. The specially prepared small siege ram was most suitable for such an occasion. With just a few violent hits, the heavy gate was split into two with a loud bang.

It crashed into the courtyard walls on both sides. The door bolt had been broken into two pieces. The Qing army dropped the battering ram and rushed in directly. They entered the calm state in advance, while the others still needed to

Stay outside the courtyard to prevent people in the courtyard from escaping through the side door or climbing over the wall.

More than a dozen Qing troops swarmed in and quickly disappeared into the passage from the outer courtyard to the main hall and the courtyards on both sides. Searching was their task. Under such circumstances, it was unlikely to catch Zou Nan all at once.

, but at least we need to find someone first and figure out the weirdness here.

After a moment, there seemed to be a faint sound of shouting for death in the house, but it quickly disappeared. Afterwards, similar sounds no longer disappeared, but the cry was still faint.

into his ears, as if the cry of death just now had never happened at all.

This house felt more and more like something was wrong, making people feel uncomfortable all over. Seeing this, the Qing army outside shouted twice and asked the Qing army inside what the situation was, but after a while,

, there were still only faint sounds of crying inside, but the Qing troops seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, without any response.

With another wave of his hand, about twenty Qing troops rushed in at once. After entering the deserted courtyard, they immediately dispersed and looked for the people in the courtyard, whether they were people from the Zou family or the previous Qing troops.

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Four or five Qing soldiers rushed into the Xikuoyuan with weapons in hand. The yard was neat and elegant. They searched it, but there was no one there. So, they left the Xikuoyuan and continued to explore the depths of the house.

Go. Until a moment later, a soldier who has always been known for his keen sense of smell suddenly shouted that something was wrong, and then hurriedly followed the smell to a woodshed in the distance. By the time he reached the woodshed, he no longer needed

You can only detect the smell of blood by smelling it with your nose. Several Qing soldiers looked at the blood stains in front of the door, looked at the closed door, and looked at each other. After a slight hesitation, a Qing army leader who was usually the most courageous

With a shout, he kicked the door of the woodshed against the wall, and then rushed in with a knife.

Inside, there were indeed the people they were looking for, but unfortunately they were all dead. There were five of them in total, all wearing gray-blue military uniforms. You didn’t need to look at their faces, just look at their figures to determine who they were.

The Qing troops who had just entered the search were now dead one by one in this remote woodshed, their eyes filled with fear of the incredible scene.

"Quick, go and report to Mr. Qian!"

The Qing army who took the order turned around, but was stunned on the spot before he could move his legs. He did not move, which immediately aroused the displeasure of the Qing army who kicked in the door, but the sentence "My words don't work"

I just said the word "I" in the question. In my peripheral vision, I saw a strange man standing at the door of the room. The cold light in his eyes was no less than that captured by the Miao knife in his hand. He was stunned.

He choked back his last words.

"Since you are all here, it saves me the trouble of moving."

As soon as he finished speaking, Miao Dao pounced forward like a python. The woodshed is nothing more than a small room. Logically speaking, a three-foot white blade or even a dagger in your arms is the most suitable weapon. However, at this moment, the man

Waving the Miao knife, it opened and closed, and each knife seemed to hit the wall, but the blade of each knife almost scraped the wall. Instead, it blocked the way for these Qing troops to counterattack.

dead.

The Miao swords were swung, but they all didn't dare to resist lightly, so they had to retreat step by step. However, there were not only corpses but also firewood behind them. After only two or three steps, the dog-nosed Qing army stepped on them.

On the firewood, Xuan even tripped and fell. However, before his butt landed on the ground, his head had already flown out, as if his fall had been expected by Na Miao Dao.

Someone was already dead, and the few remaining Qing soldiers were forced into a corner by fear, and had no choice but to fight back. However, in a blink of an eye, the last blood spattered on the window paper, and the ping-pong battle of swords returned to silence.

middle.

The knife was wiped on the uniform of the Qing soldier who kicked in. Yu Youhan held the Miao knife upside down and rushed out again, closing the door of the woodshed. Less than two hours ago, he

Hearing this in the restaurant in the west of the city, he quickly paid for the drinks, left the restaurant, and grabbed a horse before walking far. He followed the Qing army out of the west city gate, and then went straight to the Zou family.

I rushed back.

After receiving the news, Zou Nan was frightened and quickly organized his family and servants to escape. After returning to his hometown, he was at risk of being exposed at any time because he was performing a latent mission, so he dug a secret passage in the house to the back of the courtyard.

A small courtyard. This secret passage had been dug for several years and had been completed long ago. He originally thought that it would no longer be used, but he didn't know that it was used in the end.

Zou Nan's family quickly entered the secret passage to escape, but the Qing army was about to arrive. It would not take long for this secret passage to be discovered. Even if it was not discovered, as long as the Qing army could not find anyone in the house, they would immediately

Expanding the search area, the whole family was determined not to escape the pursuit of the Qing army.

For the current plan, no one has tried to use the mansion to hold back the Qing troops. As long as they can hold off the Qing troops for an hour or two, even if the Qing troops realize that everyone in the house has run away, it will be too late to expand the search area, because

At that time, it won't take long for them to disappear into the night, and it will be difficult for the Qing army to find them.

This task was finally undertaken by Yu Youhan himself. He even thought of the plan immediately after hearing that there was a secret passage in Zou Nan's home. But the crying sound was a bit difficult for him.

In the end, one of Zou Nan's biological nieces took over the job and used it as a suspect. In the words of the little girl, Yu Youhan was not afraid of dangers and came to report the news. He had already done a great favor to the Zou family, and now Yu Youhan invited him again.

Stay and delay, if not even one of the Zou family is willing to stay and live and die with Yu Youhan, then how should the world treat the Zou family of Xiaodongmen, Jishui!

With a plan in mind and relying on her familiarity with the courtyard, the woman made crying sounds in one place, while Yu Youhan laid an ambush in the courtyard and sniped the Qing troops who rushed into the courtyard to search.

This was already the second batch. Yu Youhan closed the door of the woodshed and rushed straight to where the woman was hiding, because the sound would eventually lead the Qing army there.

Running wildly all the way, as expected, the last seven Qing soldiers really found the place. The woman held the scissors in her backhand, the tip of the scissors pointed directly at her slender neck, and she couldn't help trembling. It was because she was not there.

In the open air, the Qing soldiers did not find her at first sight. Instead, they saw Yu Youhan who was rushing over first.

"Hide your head and show your tail, why don't you just catch him without mercy?"

Before the violent shouts of the Qing army fell to the ground, Yu Youhan rushed forward. At this scene, the Qing army couldn't help but be stunned, because there were seven of them, and Yu Youhan only had one person. However, facing them, they were still all

The lack of fear was beyond their expectations.

The steps under his feet seemed to be slow but were actually fast. Yu Youhan's figure was like a ghost and he rushed to them in just a blink of an eye. Before the Qing army could react, the Miao sword he was holding upside down was flipped back, and there was just a flash of cold light.

, the leading Qing soldier was disembowelled by the tip of the knife, and fell to the ground in a daze.

Seven against one turned into six against one in an instant, but just this shocking blow immediately frightened the six people. In just a moment of shock, another Qing soldier fell to the ground.

Immediately before the remaining five Qing troops could take precautions, another person was chopped down to the ground by a Miao knife. Six against one suddenly turned into a one against four situation!

Yu Youhan inherited the "Xinyou Sword Technique" from Qi Jiajun. He is extremely talented in this aspect. In addition, the master is a descendant of Qi Jiajun. His martial arts skills have improved so fast that he has almost become a master in these years. He will be better than his master.

At this moment, compared with those confident Qing troops, he has already entered the state, and his martial arts performance is beyond the usual level. Every move is smooth and flowing, without any intention of being sloppy. The whole person is like a killing machine.

Normally, all seven Qing troops would be killed in just a moment. The only thing was that compared to the first group just now, there were only two more shouts of killing.

"It only takes three, and the next round of Tatars will rush in. Let's leave now!"

After seeing Yu Youhan kill all the Qing soldiers, the woman put down the scissors. At this time, her green fingers had been a little spasmodic due to long-term exertion, but when she saw Yu Youhan coming over, the knife even dripped.

Although she was bleeding, she actually felt safer and nodded heavily.

A man and a woman disappeared into the secret passage, but outside the house, every minute and second that passed was tugging at the nerves of the Qing army and government officials.

To them, this house seemed like a man-eating monster. The door they knocked open was actually a bloody mouth, waiting for them to jump in one by one, and use the sharp teeth inside to kill them.

They pounded it, chewed it, and swallowed it all into their stomachs. The few faint shouts of killing were more like the clattering sounds made by bright red tongues licking their lips.

It took a long time for the Qing army to rush into the house, and they did not find the secret passage until the night got darker. At this time, even if they were chasing, it was already late, not to mention that there were still more than thirty bodies lying in the house.

How dare they really pursue the corpses of the Qing army?

At the same time, Yu Youhan tied the woman to a horse. Yu Youhan galloped while restraining the horse, and rushed to the meeting point one after another. Zou Nan had already thought about the next thing clearly.

Since the Qing army arrested him for colluding with Liu Jing, he really went to join Liu Jing this time, and he had to disturb the local Qing army. However, before that, he had something to ask Yu Youhan.

, because the only outsider he can trust at the moment is this one.

"To tell you the truth, I am a member of the Heaven and Earth Society, aiming to lurk in places and help expel the Tartars in the future. The pseudonym of the leader of this society, Chen Jinnan, is actually Chen Kai, the governor of Guangdong in the current dynasty...

"

When asking for something, Zou Nan asked himself that he had to show some sincerity, and even more so to give Yu Youhan some confidence. However, when the three words Chen Jinnan rang in his ears, to Yu Youhan, it was like thunder in his sea of ​​​​consciousness.

It set off a huge wave. At that moment, it seemed that I couldn't even breathe smoothly.

"It turns out that the mastermind behind the Tiandihui and the Mutual Aid Association turned out to be Chen Jinnan, who saved me in Jinhua; it turned out that Chen Jinnan was Chen Kai; it turned out that the person who was rumored to have saved Wang Jiang in Hangzhou when he was recovering from his injuries turned out to be him.
Chapter completed!