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bang, bang bang—

Tree shadows swayed in the dark.

In the yard planted with big trees, a tall figure is punching. The speed of the fist seems to have a strange rhythm, continuous, and the thick tree, which is difficult for one person to hug, shakes in the sound of boxing. .

The yard is not luxurious. An old two-story wooden building is located in the shape of an "L". thicker.

There were other people in the yard. Inside the railing at the corner of the second floor of the wooden building, a swordsman stood silently in the darkness, and a dark shadow stood on the roof tiles.

In the distance, large and small riots in Fuzhou City are still going on.

After a while, the figure upstairs gave a simple signal, and then someone came in.

The fist swing by the tree stopped.

The middle-aged man who entered the courtyard looked around, cupped his hands silently, and then walked to the big tree in the center of the courtyard: "Hero Ni is still practicing boxing at this time."

"Since I was an adult, I have been punching for an hour every day." Standing under the tree, Iron Fist Ni broke off the cloth belt on his hand, "I thought something was wrong in the afternoon, so I saved half an hour of strength. I don't want nothing to happen. disappointment."

"Miss arranged it carefully, and the government couldn't find it for a while."

"The purpose of the old salt is..."

"But it was the young lady who ordered me to discuss some matters with Ni Daxia."

"Beat someone, or kill someone, whoever. But it doesn't matter."

The person who came over this night was Chen Yan, the steward next to Chen Shuangran. The two parties had already dealt a lot, and Ni Po had a straightforward temperament.Chen Yan was silent for a moment, then cupped his hands.

Then he opened his mouth in the yard:

"The first batch of people who took action have already left the city this evening. They were selected by Ni Daxia himself. Miss feels that no matter whether the government can catch the people who have left the city, the challenge that Ni Daxia has been going around in the city some time ago can no longer be covered up."

"I just like to fight and make friends with martial arts, so what?"

"The government won't listen. No matter what, Ni Daxia, you have finished your work this time. The lady said that this is the previous reward."

As Chen Yan said, he took out a small box and handed it over, Ni Po stretched out his hand to take it, frowning.

"and then?"

"Then if Hero Ni wants to, we can arrange for Hero Ni to go out of the city at any time. In three to five days, he will be able to completely leave the boundaries of Fuzhou and avoid the chaos in Fuzhou."

"Hmph, crossing the river and tearing down the bridge?—You want to be me?"

"There is absolutely no such thing." Chen Yan said calmly, "This time Miss employs people, Ni Daxia is not the only friend who comes to help me. Miss said, you can leave safely, which shows our sincerity in employing people this time, but if you do We died immediately after the incident, and other friends probably won't make it easier for us... right?"

What he said was aboveboard, but in the last sentence, he turned his head and spoke to other people in the yard. Someone on the second floor snorted, but he probably admitted that he was acting righteously here.Ni Po also opened the small box, and stuffed a few banknotes and gems into his bosom.

"Hmph, let's go now. It's a bit petty for you to be a woman in charge here."

"It's all for Hero Ni's sake."

"But I'm not going to go yet."

Ni Po opened his mouth slowly.

Chen Yan looked at him from the opposite side with calm eyes.

I saw Ni Po raised his finger: "When I came here, I once said that I, 'Iron Fist' Ni Po, from Jizhou, came here this time to make my reputation in the Jianghu world famous! It’s not bad that I’ve done things in a rebellious way, but now at most the government suspects me, which doesn’t mean they can find me, let alone catch me. Your family, Chen Shuangran, and that Pu Xingui, Cao Jinlong and others are still walking in the city, let me leave right now, do you look down on me?"

Chen Yan stared at him, then smiled: "Hero Ni, do you really want to stay and play bigger?"

Ni Po also laughed.

"Old Yan." He said slowly, "Jizhou, like many places in Fujian, is a small place. Ni was good at martial arts since he was a child. When he was more than ten years old, he thought he was invincible in the world, but until the Jurchens went south, Because of the shame of Jingping, only the northern boxers came to us. After helping each other, I realized that I was just a frog in the bottom of the well. I learned from my master again. After a few years, Jianshuo moved south again, and the northerners moved south in large numbers. Only then can we know how big the world is and how wonderful boxing is."

He untied the cloth strip in his other hand: "...At last year's Jiangning Conference, I finally saw the world's strongest boxing technique and the most wonderful skill. I was terrified, but I knew that sooner or later, I would be able to walk Get there... Before that, I will fight step by step, until one day, I can stand in front of Master Lin and compete with him!"

Under the darkness, he threw away the cloth strip in his hand.

"Old Yan, this trip to Fuzhou is far from reaching my limit. I am not afraid of death, and the hawks and dogs in the yamen are no more than chickens and dogs. You need me, and I can help you do great things."

At this point in his words, in the night, Chen Yan seemed to be overwhelmed by his courage, and finally smiled heartily.

"Miss said... if Hero Ni can have such awareness, then we... can indeed do some great things together."

"Don't be as boring as before, do something unsafe."

"Don't worry." Chen Yan smiled, "It won't be too safe...for everyone."

……

Outside Fuzhou City.

In the distance, some figures can be seen running in the dark, and there are also knights holding torches, passing through the fields, villages, and woods by the pond outside the village in the yellow halo...

As the time approached midnight, the forces of the City Patrol Army and the Ministry of Punishment had extended for dozens of miles, controlling all the main roads around Fuzhou, and besieging and screening the assassins who assassinated in the city in the evening.

Above an official post on the edge of the city, there is a figure playing chess in a slightly radiant room. A veiled girl is sitting in front of the window drinking tea, watching the scene outside in the night through the obliquely opened gap. .

At a certain moment, there was a warning slapping sound from the roof, and then the window opened, and a figure in a black robe returned to the house like a ghost.

"Not quite right." Monk Tunyun's voice was slightly hoarse, "Several teams of officers and soldiers have gone to Weizhuang."

In the room, Chen Shuangran's movement of holding tea stopped slightly, and the two figures playing Go in the middle did not move. Another person walked to Tunyun's side, picked up the binoculars in his hand, and looked quietly at him from the window. look from a distance.

"Discovered?" Chen Shuangran sighed.

Tunyun said: "Do you want to save him?"

"It's not necessary." The man pointed at the binoculars at the window and said, "I've already prepared."

Chen Shuangran took another sip of tea.

In the middle of the room, Go was still being played, and the night outside was still scorching. At a certain moment, a fire suddenly lit up in the distant night, and the man in front of the window put down his binoculars.

"It exploded," he said.

"Amitabha." Tunyun raised his eyebrows, "Whether they can run away depends on their good fortune... But I am a little curious, how did they get discovered?"

The man holding the binoculars looked at the distance in the night, and then moved the corners of his mouth slightly, as if he was smiling: "Tie Tianying has known for a long time that this time the chaos in Fuzhou, we are relying on various big households with evil intentions. Although we won’t come here in person, our family’s property is what we rely on to escape...Fujian has been raging for two years. I think the Ministry of Criminal Justice has a list of who are likely to rebel, who are the most suspected, and who are not. Including their other gardens inside and outside Fuzhou, they must have touched a round..."

He said: "If I were Tie Tianying, I'm afraid that since last month, I have quietly planted eyeliner outside various suspected businesses to lure them away, and then tonight's big battle, many people are running. Maybe we can catch a big fish... Now it seems that the iron catcher's sword is not old, and it is also our luck this round, which is a bit bad..."

"Hmph." Tunyun smiled: "It seems that we should find a chance to do him first."

Chen Shuangran put down the teacup: "If...the master makes a move, I want to try too..."

"He's not that easy to deal with." The figure holding the binoculars shook his head, "Back in the world, Tie Tianying always surrounded and killed others, and few people could surround him... In those years, the strategic layout can He lags behind step by step, only that one person..."

"Who is it?" Tunyun asked.

The two people who were playing chess in the room also looked over at this time.But immediately, seeing him shaking his head and remaining silent, everyone realized who he was talking about. Immediately, the two chess players turned back, Monk Tunyun's expression was as ugly as if he had swallowed maggots.

"Fuck." The monk cursed.

Chen Shuangran at the side put down his teacup: "Actually, I heard that when he was in Linan back then, didn't he also miscalculate a trick, and that disciple of Wanyan Xiyin... made a move?"

Everyone nodded, the person by the window sighed, and then smiled: "...That's right."

……

In the sleepless night, light and fire spread bit by bit outside the city. Inside the city, from the imperial palace to the princess mansion, from Li Pin's school to the courtyard of Zuo's family, there were also a large number of people who did not fall asleep until the early morning. The lights were kept on all night, and there was a lot of traffic in front of the door, making it like a busy city all night.

It rained in the morning.

Near noon, Tie Tianying brought a group of people back from outside the city, and the armor on his body was already wet.The chief arrester, Song Xiaoming, was asked to exchange dry ones, but Song Xiaoming joked, "Master, isn't it better to enter the palace wet?"

"Crooked way, don't use your mind on it."

"That's a bit difficult, you have to guess the mind of the bad guy."

"Don't talk nonsense, how are you doing here?"

The reason why he came here first was to understand the progress of the situation, and Song Xiaoming submitted the case files that had been prepared.

"Not very good." He flipped through some of the important ones, "A lot of people have been arrested, and some of them can be convicted, but the main ones exposed are not the big bosses we want. According to their confession today For crimes, the Tan and Yan families can already be copied, and I am afraid that two or three families will be tried in the future, but their family background is not too strong, and with this incident, they may have already gone up the mountain and have to be suppressed... The three people who lived there did not move, and they couldn't connect with the bandit leaders Chen, Pu, and Cao..."

Song Xiaoming said, and clicked on one of the dossiers, hesitating: "Master, if you really can't find Chen Shuangran, the one from Houguan County, should you close the net first? There are him and some others. The arrest and the death of Zhong Ergui can put together the whole story of the instigation... Fuzhou Prefecture is under a lot of pressure..."

Tie Tianying stared at it for a moment: "This Zhang Li must have met Chen Shuangran."

"But did Chen Shuangran give up on him?"

"...there is someone from the yamen behind Chen Shuangran." Tie Tianying pressed his hand on these files, "Either it is the current yamen, or the head catcher of the six doors in the past, maybe they know me... ..."

Song Xiaoming opened his mouth.

"...Last night, I collected the dark lines outside the city and knew that there was a problem with Weizhuang. I did find someone when I went there, but the other party had already prepared. Several people below were almost killed by the bombing. Ten of the murderers in the evening Two people, hiding in the village, escaped from a secret passage... Killed one, captured two, interrogated on the spot, no one knows how to find Chen Shuangran, at most they can know their online, and now they are all hiding... ...From last month to today, there are so many threads, each of which has been cut cleanly. It is impossible for someone who is not familiar with the Yamen to do it. And the gunpowder that exploded last night...is not easy..."

Song Xiaoming hesitated for a moment, "...is it... from our own army, or from outside?"

"...It looks like it's from outside."

"Someone reached out?"

"Not sure who."

"There are only a few families in the world, and the ones that are close to each other... are you King Fair?"

"I'm not sure, I can't say." Tie Tianying said, "I will report this matter, you can't mention it to anyone..."

"Yes."

"Zhang Li doesn't move yet. Zhong Ergui's case is sensitive. I'll ask for an order to discuss whether or not to close the line. Prepare a carriage. I'll take a look at the things on the road." Tie Tianying grabbed the collected files, and when he left, he remembered another thing "By the way, one of the arrested people mentioned a name called 'Iron Fist' Ni Po, who was sent by Chen Shuangran..."

"Just as I was about to say, we also asked about this person." Song Xiaoming took out a piece of paper from his sleeve, "I have already asked someone to draw a picture, hey, it looks like this..."

He handed the image to Tie Tianying, and Tie Tianying nodded: "The opponent is experienced, and the connection may have been disconnected, but you might as well check it...don't post it yet, see if you can find it sooner."

Song Xiaoming nodded, but didn't put too much hope in it.

However, in the afternoon of this day, the man was found.

……

In the evening, Song Xiaoming and his two elite men felt something was wrong in an alley on the east side of the city.

The alley is not narrow, but the old walls on both sides are quite high, and a huge locust tree in front of it casts a thick shade. The road in Fuzhou city is rarely cool, and it looks a little gloomy at this moment.There were pedestrians outside the alley, and there was still the sound of vendors hawking, but the nearby watchtower couldn't take care of the situation in the alley for a while, and the other two companions were going around from the street to the other end of the alley.

The figure who was originally being followed stood under the big locust tree and smiled at him.

Then, whistling came.

"Hold."

Song Xiaoming drew the saber, and at the same time waved his other hand, and with the sound of gongs, he rushed to the sky.

There was movement in the courtyard on one side, and the light of the knife flowed; above the big locust tree, a hidden figure swooped down like an eagle.

Daylight and shade pass by, and everything happens very quickly.