The county horse is a medicine jar

In the hall of an inn not far from the official post in Pingliang City, several masked men in black clothes stood respectfully behind a thin old man with white hair and white beard, waiting silently. ordered.

The old man casually played with the Buddha string in his hand, looked at the brightly lit official post not far ahead through the gap in the wooden window with a pair of cloudy eyes, and asked in a deep voice: "How is the matter going?"

A man in black took a step forward, cupped his hands and said, "Report to Mr. Yan, everything is going according to plan. Now the people in the city are blocking the city gates to confront the officers and soldiers. There is no one in the streets. It is a good time for us to strike." .”

"very good."

Yan He frowned and nodded, his expression didn't seem to relax at all. He murmured: "It's really strange. What kind of tricks did our imperial envoy leave behind, and there is still no movement at this time."

The man in black chuckled and guessed: "The man surnamed Lin, maybe he knows that he is in a big disaster, and he plans to retreat to the official post and struggle again?"

Yan He snorted coldly, and glared at the man in black with some displeasure: "If Lin Sishen is really that stupid, why did the Protector take so much trouble?"

The man in black smiled and scratched his head. After a long silence, he still couldn't help but said, "Old Yan... there are only a few people around Lin. Since the people in the city are gathering at the gate, why don't we do it right away?" Catch him off guard."

"Don't rush."

Yan He waved his hand, his expression already showing a bit of displeasure, he frowned and shook his head and said: "Maybe this person surnamed Lin has some tricks that she hasn't used, otherwise how could she be so calm and composed, and the city is full of troubles?" The chickens and dogs are restless, but he has not moved at all. If we act rashly at this time, I am afraid that he will fall into his hands."

The man in black was a little urgent, but he continued to persuade: "Old Yan, in my opinion, he is just playing a bluff to show us, there are only a few people in the official post who are dying, as long as you order us to rush in, It will definitely kill them all.”

After being questioned several times, Yan He was no longer angry. He gave the man a vicious look, and reprimanded in a deep voice: "Since you said it so easily, then the old man will fulfill you."

After finishing speaking, he waved his hand and ordered: "The old man sent you to take the lead immediately and sneak into the official post to investigate, so what the hell is Lin Sishen doing?"

The man in black seemed to be afraid when he heard the words, but Yan He had already given the order, so he could only bow his head and obey the order, so he chose a few people at random and walked out of the inn with him.

Yan He stared at the man leaving, and after the man left, Yan He suddenly squinted his eyes and smiled coldly, the displeasure on his face eased a lot, on the contrary, there was a faint look of success.

Taking advantage of the fact that there was no one around, those who led the battle sneaked in from the backyard of the official post over the wall, and disappeared before Yan He's eyes in a short while.

Immediately afterwards, the burning candles in the official post suddenly went out, and fell into a dark and dead silence.After less than half a cup of tea, the candlelight suddenly flickered again, and everything was back to normal.

It's just that those men in black who sneaked into the official post seemed to disappear so quietly, without any further movement.

Seeing this situation, another subordinate who followed Yan He took a step forward, hurriedly complimenting him: "Old Yan really has a clever plan, there is indeed something strange in the official post."

Yan He stroked his beard and nodded, satisfied: "Lin Sishen won't just sit and wait for death so easily. Although there are not many people around him, all of them are masters selected from a million. What's more, there is a mysterious man beside him. The woman in white..."

Halfway through the talk, Yan He suddenly fell silent, and he took a deep breath, half startled and half scared, and when he thought of the mysterious woman who fell from the sky, he felt a chill rising from his back.

When fighting that woman, he tried his best, but he still couldn't hurt the woman at all, and he almost accidentally lost his life.The woman looked young, but she had superb moves and profound skills, and she was a reclusive expert who came out of nowhere.

Yan He pondered for a while, stared at the official post and said in a deep voice: "If you are not completely sure, you can't do it lightly. Lin Sishen's background is not something you and I can provoke, even if it is the Lord Protector, he dare not show it in the open Take action against him. Once he escapes and returns to the capital, don't talk about you and me, I'm afraid the head of the guardian will not be saved."

His subordinates looked serious, and cupped their hands and said, "Don't worry, my lord, the humble official has already sent people to surround the official post, not even a fly can fly out. When the time is right, we will swarm in and expect him to be next to Lin Sishen." No matter how powerful those ghosts and monsters are, in the end they are no match for four hands, just like fish on a chopping board, let Lao Yan slaughter them."

Yan He nodded, and smiled meaningfully: "Very well, a smart person should assess the situation, and since that idiot is so eager to claim credit, let him go to the underworld to claim credit from Yan Luo."

The people gathered at the gate of the city dragged their families and were still confronting the officers and soldiers guarding the city.As the saying goes, shoot the top bird, and several high-profile civilians have been beaten up by the officials and hanged in front of the city gate for public display.

The official stood on the city gate, with his hips akimbo aggressively yelling at the people below the city: "The imperial envoy has an order that no one can enter or leave the city gate. If you troublemakers dare to make trouble again, I will punish you for treason. "

While talking, two more people in the crowd collapsed with livid faces and sweating, but they vomited blood in an instant.Seeing this, the gathered people scattered and fled in all directions, and the situation became more and more frightened and panicked.There were even some people who rushed forward regardless of their care, but were forced back by the officials with knives.

A burly man popped up, stepped on a carriage beside him, looked around condescendingly, and shouted hoarsely: "Folks, don't be impatient, please listen to me."

After shouting a few words like this, the crowd finally became quiet, and they all looked at the man, wanting to hear what he had to say.

Seeing that everyone looked over, the man secretly smiled with satisfaction, cleared his throat and said: "Fellow folks, the plague is rampant in the city now, and so many people have died. You have also seen that these people who contracted the plague What a miserable death. But the imperial envoy has still closed the city gates to prevent us from taking refuge in the city, clearly trying to force us to die."

Someone in the crowd echoed: "That's right, that shitty imperial envoy simply doesn't care about the life and death of ordinary people like us."

The man slapped his thigh angrily when he heard the words, and continued to incite: "That's right, the dog officer will not care about our lives. Anyway, we will die anyway, why don't we go to the gate of the official post now and force the dog officer out, Ask him for justice."

The man incited the people with a few words, jumped off the carriage and took the lead to lead the people to the official post.

Seeing this, the official standing on the city gate hastily pulled a person beside him, pointed at the man and frowned and asked, "Wait a minute, have you seen that man?"

"Should...should be."

The man stood on tiptoe and stared at the man for a long time. When he saw a faint golden pattern on his cuff, he nodded firmly and said, "That's right, my lord sees a Clivia embroidered on his left sleeve. It’s my own right.”

"strangeness."

The official took a deep breath with some doubts, and said puzzledly: "Didn't Mr. Yan say that we should first block these unscrupulous people at the gate of the city, and then let them out of the city when the time is right? Why... suddenly changed?" After the hexagram, how about taking people to the official post?"

Seeing that the people, under the leadership of the man, rushed towards the official post in a mighty way.The official was a little puzzled. After thinking for a while, when he was about to send someone to ask, a man in black descended from the sky and landed beside him silently.

As soon as he landed, the man in black glared at the official, and asked sharply, "What's going on? Why did those unscrupulous people go to the official post? Don't you know that Mr. Yan has laid a net around the official post?" , letting them pass at this time, wouldn't it be letting them disrupt Old Yan's deployment."

The official's expression changed greatly when he heard the words, and he hurriedly argued: "This... Isn't this an order from Mr. Yan, the person who took the lead is clearly one of our own."

The man in black spat, and said anxiously: "Idiot, when will Mr. Yan give an order, that person must be Lin Sishen's subordinate, you immediately open the city gate and lure those troublesome people out."

In Sun Wenqian's plan, Lin Sishen could die by the hands of bandits, or by plague or riots, but he could not die by assassination.If someone sees someone assassinating Lin Sishen and spreads it through the mouth of that person, General Weiyuan and Ninth Prince will definitely not let it go.

Once they keep sending people to Longyou to find out the cause of Lin Sishen's death, if they find any clues, and then follow the clues to find Longling, the consequences will be disastrous.

As long as the assassination doesn't show his feet this time, no matter how much General Weiyuan gets angry, he won't be able to blame Sun Wenqian.At that time, if the second prince will take over the matter of finding out the cause of Lin Sishen's death and take care of the funeral, then no one will know how Lin Sishen died.

Therefore, the assassination of Lin Sishen must not be put on the bright side. Naturally, the fewer people who know about it, the better. It is best to get rid of Lin Sishen quietly, and then attribute her death to the plague.

The common people's resentment towards Lin Sishen has not yet reached its peak, so naturally they will not risk the crime of treason against Lin Sishen, an imperial envoy.If they were blocked outside the official post now, Sun Wenqian's people would also be unable to do anything.

The officials also knew the stakes, they didn't dare to procrastinate any longer, they hastily pretended to order someone to protect Lin Sishen, and transferred the officers and soldiers in front of the city gate.Then they sent people pretending to be ordinary people, risking their lives to open the city gate, so as to lead those ordinary people out of the city.

As soon as the city gate was opened, someone shouted loudly, and the people turned their heads one after another. Since the city gate was opened, they no longer had to go to the official post gate to seek justice from Lin Sishen.

Seeing that the swarms of people turned their heads and fled out of the city again, but at this moment, there was a sudden burst of beating gongs and drums in the city, followed by a panicked call for help from the watchman.

"It's flooded, it's flooded, the ancestral hall is flooded, come and put out the fire."