Tang Dynasty: The seventh rank of official residence, and you will be given the Ten Thousand People

"No, protect the governor!" Seeing the assassin coming, Liuzi's expression changed and he stood in front of Fan Xin, and at the same time a heavy hammer appeared in his hand.

The two hundred thousand cattle guards were all well-trained imperial guards. When they noticed something was wrong, they drew their swords and faced the oncoming killer.

Soon the two sides were fighting together.

In the chaos, two headless killers rushed through the defense line and headed straight for Fan Xin.

Just as the tip of the sword was about to pierce Fan Xin's chest, a copper hammer weighing eighty kilograms hit the two of them, knocking them directly into the pit.

"Master, it's dangerous here. I'll send you away first!"

After killing several assassins who rushed in, Liuzi said without looking back.

"Alright."

Fan Xin glanced at the scene of the fight against Zhentian, nodded with lingering fear, and returned to the carriage.

After about half a quarter of an hour, the sound of fighting gradually disappeared, and Qianniu Guardsman led Duan De to the carriage with a female assassin.

"Reporting to Governor Fan, we will finally capture a female assassin, and the rest will be executed!"

"How are the casualties, brothers?"

"Six people were slightly injured."

"Huh, luckily no one was killed." Fan Xin breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the female assassin on the ground.

This is a woman in her twenties. Although she is wearing a white mourning dress, she has a cool temperament.

"What's your name, and why did you ambush me on the ancient mountain road?"

The woman turned her head and snorted coldly.

"Stop talking nonsense, kill me if you want, don't expect to get any information from me!"

"How dare you! How dare you talk to Governor Fan like that! I think you don't want to live anymore!" Duan De shouted with a fierce light in his eyes.

"Come here, chop off this female assassin's head!"

The two Qianniu Guards shouted and pulled up the female assassin's hair to cut off her head, but Fan Xin waved his hand to stop them.

"You guys step back first, I have something to ask her."

"Yes, Governor Fan."

After the two Qianniu Guards retreated to the side, Fan Xin looked at the female assassin and said.

"Judging from your accent, you should be from Yingzhou, and with your scholarly air, you must be a girl from a wealthy family."

"With such characteristics, even if you don't tell me, I can still find out your identity."

"If you don't want to hurt your family, you'd better answer my question, otherwise you won't blame me for being rude!"

The female assassin was stunned for a moment and said hesitantly.

"Are you the governor of Yingzhou? Are you not the imperial envoy who came to supervise the execution?"

"What's wrong with the imperial envoy? My young master came to Yingzhou to take up his post on the orders of the Queen Mother." Liu Zi puffed up his chest and said.

Fan Xin glared at him and looked at the female assassin again.

"I was entrusted by the imperial court to come to Yingzhou to appease the people and educate the people. I did not receive the so-called order of prison and execution."

When the female assassin saw that Fan Xin didn't look fake, the coldness on her pretty face softened a bit, and she clutched her chest and said in despair.

"My name is Qiao Feiyan."

Fan Xin was shocked when he heard this and stared at the female assassin in disbelief.

"Are you the daughter of the previous governor of Yingzhou, Qiao An?"

When he checked Qiao An's resume, he noted that there was indeed a daughter named Qiao Feiyan, but he didn't expect to meet her here.

The female assassin nodded and said sadly: "You are right, my father is indeed Qiao An."

"It's pitiful that he went to the Dongyi Protector's Mansion to plead for mercy in order to prevent the Khitan and Xi people from starving to death, but he didn't want to be beaten to death by Zhao Wenhui in public."

"President Fan, are you sent by the imperial court to punish that beast Zhao Wenhui?"

Facing the woman's hopeful eyes, Fan Xin didn't know how to answer.

Before leaving Luoyang, Wu Zetian once said that Zhao Wenhui had been entrenched in the local area for a long time and that the internal guards could not touch him easily until the evidence was collected.

So he couldn't give the female assassin a satisfactory answer.

Seeing this, the hope in the female assassin's eyes gradually dimmed, and she laughed at herself.

"I knew that the court was unwilling to offend Zhao Wenhui for my father. It was just wishful thinking on my part."

Fan Xin couldn't bear the woman's depression and changed the subject.

"What did I hear you say about supervisory execution just now?"

When the matter was brought up, Qiao Feiyan said angrily: "What else could it be? In order to force me to marry him, Zhao Wenhui did not hesitate to frame more than thirty people in the Qiao family as collaborators and traitors."

"I specially asked the imperial court to come to supervise the execution, but out of desperation, the little girl and her brothers came to ambush him."

"I didn't expect that I met you by accident."

After figuring out the whole story, Fan Xin pondered for a moment and said.

"Miss Qiao, if what you said is true, I can make an exception and rescue your family."

"But it must be proven that what you said is true, otherwise I can only punish you in accordance with the law."

Hearing this, Qiao Feiyan's eyes lit up and she nodded her head excitedly.

"Don't worry, everything the little lady said is true! As long as you ask the local people, you can tell the truth."

"This officer will naturally ask, please stay in the carriage for a while until the matter is investigated clearly."

After speaking, Fan Xin gave Zhang Huan a few instructions, and the latter hesitated.

"President Fan, there are dangers everywhere in Yingzhou. Isn't it inappropriate for you to leave alone?"

Fan Xin smiled slightly.

"Only through incognito private interviews can we find out the truth of the matter. If we enter Yingzhou with great fanfare, we will get nothing."

"Remember, when you arrive in Yingzhou, you will go directly to the Governor's Mansion. In the name of being tired from the journey, you will not see guests for the time being. We will talk about it when I come back."

"I will obey your orders!"

After watching the guards leave in a majestic manner, Fan Xin turned around and said, "Sixth Son, let's go to the front and have a look."

"Master, do you really believe what Qiao Feiyan said?" Liuzi scratched his head.

Setting up such a large formation for an ambush in the barren mountains did not look like a misunderstanding to him.

Fan Xin glanced at him and said meaningfully.

"Good people don't come, and people who come are not good. No matter what the purpose of this person is, we can only find out the truth by putting her under our noses."

"I have already told Zhang Huan that once he finds something wrong with Qiao Feiyan, he will be killed immediately!" At the end of the sentence, Fan Xin's eyes turned cold.

The internal security intelligence before coming showed that Qiao An did have a daughter named Qiao Feiyan, but it was different from what she had seen.

According to the information, Qiao Feiyan is well-educated, gentle and virtuous, and has no martial arts skills at all, let alone any fellow disciples!

This woman pretended to be Qiao Feiyan and approached him, and she obviously had another purpose.

As for what it is, he still doesn't know.

While talking, the two came to a village and saw a few people sitting under a willow tree chatting, so they walked straight over.

"A few old men have interrupted me. I am a businessman heading to Luoyang for business."

"Because we are far away and the water supply is exhausted, can we ask for a bowl of water?"

Several people looked at each other, and one of the old women said with a smile.

"Mr. Fan, sit down and let the old woman scoop you a bowl of well water." After saying that, he got up and went into the house.

Looking at the old woman's back, Fan Xin frowned slightly, then returned to normal, and smiled and said to several villagers.

"May I ask, old man, what is the name of this place? Why can't I see a few people along the way?"