Cloud of the Qing Dynasty

"Master Hou..." Zhang Chi was dumbfounded, as if falling into an ice cave, and could hardly believe the scene in front of him, but the door of the study was pushed open at this moment.

"Master Hou!" It was Zhong Yan, the captain of the guard of the Yongning Hou Mansion, who came. He looked at Zhang Chi in shock and shouted, "You actually killed Lord Hou!"

"It's not me!" Zhang Chi hurriedly defended, but it was useless, Zhong Yan slapped Zhang Chi with a splitting palm without saying a word.

Zhong Yan knew Zhang Chi, and he knew that Zhang Chi's martial arts were very common, and he would definitely not die or be seriously injured with this palm, but what he didn't know was that Mu Liuyun had been teaching Zhang Chi's martial arts seriously these days, and he never slacked off. Although Zhang Chi's foundation is too poor, and the superficial kung fu he learned before is not in the same way as Mu Liuyun's, but under the daily training of Mu Liuyun, a martial arts genius, he has gained something after all. .

Zhang Chi dodged the palm at the very moment, but was still brought by the remaining force of the palm and lost his balance and fell to the ground. Zhong Yan only said that he was lucky, and he wanted to make a quick decision, but he was about to bully him. He killed the boy with force, but unexpectedly, Zhang Chi used the posture of falling to cover up the movement of reaching into his pocket to take out something, took out the Rainstorm Pear Blossom Needle and gave him a shot.

The design of this hidden weapon was vicious, and it was launched suddenly at close range. Of course, Zhong Yan couldn't dodge, and immediately got several needles in his body.

Zhang Chi also knew Zhong Yan. He knew that the captain of the guard of the Yongning Hou Mansion was highly skilled in martial arts, and that none of the palms in the 36-style mountain splitting palm could be caught by a low-level hand like him, so he pressed the mechanism of the hidden weapon. Immediately rolled to the side.

No matter how fast the medicine on the steel needle came on, it was not as fast as Zhong Yan's mountain splitting palm. Although Zhang Chi tried his best to avoid the vital point, he was almost vomited blood from the palm.

But Zhong Yan didn't have the strength to make another palm, and the effect of the medicine began to take effect. Zhang Chi suppressed the pain in his chest and the sweetness in his throat, and rushed forward to subdue Zhong Yan with his poor martial arts. Quickly removed the joints of his arms.

Not long after, many guards from the Hou Mansion gathered at the gate. Zhang Chi held Zhong Yan in custody, drew out a dagger and pressed it against his throat, warning everyone: "Don't approach!"

Zhong Yan, who had no power to resist, said fearlessly, "Leave me alone, take him down quickly! He killed Lord Hou!"

"I didn't do it!" Zhang Chi saw more and more people gathered, even Princess Yaoping, the hostess of the Hou Mansion, and said loudly, "Master Hou has been dead for a while. The blood has already dried up. If I were a murderer, I would still stay here until now? You need to use some brains to set up a frame! As soon as my front foot came out of the secret passage, you rushed in with your back foot to arrest people. How can there be such a coincidence, I am afraid that you are the murderer The real murderer of Lord Hou, since I can't get away today, I might as well take you to pay for my life, it can be regarded as repaying Lord Hou for his kindness!"

When he was speaking, he also observed the expressions of the people around him, and found that some of the soldiers present looked around and seemed a little dazed, but none of the people in charge showed any doubt or shock.

Zhang Chi knew it was going to be bad. These people probably already knew that Master Hou was killed, and after digging a hole, they were waiting to frame the unlucky guy who came out of a secret passage. No one cared whether the real culprit was him or not.

Princess Yaoping waved her hand and said: "Zhong Yan's guards are unfavorable, and it is hard to absolve him of the blame, don't worry about him, don't let the murderer who killed Lord Hou go, let the arrow go!"

Zhang Chi didn't expect that the other party wanted to kill people so simply and rudely, so he hurriedly pushed Zhong Yan back into the room, but it was still a step too late. Zhong Yan, who had lost all his internal strength and was powerless to resist, was forced to act as a meat shield, and was hit by several sharp arrows. It hurt his chest and abdomen, and it seemed that he couldn't live.

Zhang Chi rushed over to open the secret passage without any delay, and dragged Zhong Yan in. As soon as the rain of arrows stopped, other masters from Lord Hou's mansion rushed forward. There was no sign of Zhang Chi, only the secret door slammed shut in front of them.

When the fastest people rushed to the secret door, there was no gap left. They fumbled around to find the switch, and some even tried to force their fingers into the gap of the secret door to open it, but it was all in vain.

Elder Princess Yaoping also walked in the door with her skirt in her hand, she didn't even look at her husband-in-law, who was dying. Don't bother, just tear it down!"

"Yes!"

Before Zhang Chi, who hid in the secret passage, had time to take a breath, there was the sound of the door being demolished outside. Although the entrance of the secret passage was made of bricks and stones, it was not designed to prevent violent demolition, and it could not be blocked at all. After a while, Zhang Chi grabbed the dying Zhong Yan and asked: "Who ordered you to do this, tell me, and I will avenge you!"

Zhong Yan stared and grunted a few times, but he still refused to say anything after all, so he swallowed his breath unwillingly, Zhang Chi had no choice but to throw away Zhong Yan's body and try to find a way to escape from this place first.

At the exit of the secret passage, as soon as the secret door opened, a figure suddenly jumped out. Immediately, a dozen hidden weapons and feather arrows hit it together, but it was found that the one hit was only a corpse that was thrown out.

Just as Zhang Chi expected, someone had already set up an ambush at the exit, and the hidden weapons, feathers and arrows, all hit Zhong Yan's body without falling to the ground. Zhang Chi took the opportunity to rush out, and within two steps, several well-dressed masters pounced on him at the same time. Attacking him, scrambling to take credit for his life, for fear of falling behind.

Zhang Chi raised his hand and sprinkled the lime powder in the secret pocket. The masters of the rivers and lakes didn't know the details, some hurriedly retreated, some blocked with their arms, and some reckless were hit by him, covering their eyes and screaming.

Immediately after Zhang Chi sprinkled the lime powder, he rolled on the spot and slipped dangerously between the two Jianghu masters. The master brushed his shoulder with a whip, even if it didn't hit the real spot, it still tore the clothes on his shoulder, leaving a deep bloodstain.

Zhang Chi didn't care about the pain, and tried to break out of the encirclement. Mu Liuyun's teaching and his daily hard training were somewhat useful, but he had to get out of the hands of these enemies who belonged to the second- and third-rate masters in the world. To escape, his mediocre skills are far from enough.

Zhang Chi raised his gun to block the two knives that were slashing at him, and another wound was added to his ribs. He was also forced to retreat a few steps, and he fell into a tight siege again. To make matters worse, the soldiers of Lord Hou's Mansion were running around the alley. To this side, it won't take long for this place to be completely surrounded.

There was a burst of despair in his heart, and he thought that he would not be able to escape this trap today. At this moment, a black figure suddenly jumped down from the wall, and with both knives in his hands, he smashed the two unsuspecting Jianghu masters together in an instant. He was cut under the knife.

A hole was torn in the encirclement, and before other people rushed forward, that person grabbed Zhang Chi by the collar and threw him over the high wall next to him.

After Zhang Chi's feet landed on the ground, he rolled over to relieve the force of his fall. He just wanted to stand up, but he knelt down dizzily. Holding on to the spear, he barely stood up.

The clash of swords and the screams of some people came from outside the high wall, and soon the black figure who had saved him jumped over the wall, pulled him up and ran away.

Only then did Zhang Chi see clearly who the other party was: "Wuying?!"

He originally thought that since Lord Hou had been killed, Wuying, his personal bodyguard, would be in danger, but he didn't expect Wuying to survive and rushed out to save him.

Wuying pulled the injured Zhang Chi, used lightness skills to climb over a high wall, came to the bustling street, and beheaded two quack masters who tried to intercept them.

Amidst the screams of the surrounding civilians, they passed through the panicked crowd and avoided into an alley, but more pursuers came up from behind, including Jianghu masters and officers and soldiers from the Houfu.

Zhang Chi had been dragged away by Wuying in a daze since just now, but he still keenly noticed that Wuying's breath was unstable, and his movements during the fight were not very natural.

"Are you injured?" Zhang Chi asked.

"They did it." Wuying gasped, his internal strength was much deeper than Zhang Chi's, and even when he was injured, his ears still caught the movement of the pursuers. Those people were approaching from all directions, and their time was running out. too much.

"About noon, Master Hou sent me out to do some errands. It took me less than half an hour to leave. When I came back, I found that Master Hou had been killed. These gangsters set up an ambush to kill me, so I escaped." Wu Ying pulled Zhang Chi to the door. Under the wall of a temple, he looked at Zhang Chi with gloomy eyes and said, "I have always hated you, but Lord Hou values ​​you very much. I believe in Lord Hou's vision. If someone can track down who the real culprit is, that person will not It's me, only you. Run, I'll hold them back."

At such a time, Zhang Chi couldn't waste his time being hypocritical with him, so he nodded heavily: "Okay, I will try my best."

"Wait!" Wuying called him again, "I don't know if there is a clue. Last night, Lord Hou and Princess Yaoping had a big fight. .”

"Ah?" It was the first time Zhang Chi knew about this matter, but he didn't have time to ask for more details. Several quack masters had already found them, and rushed forward together. Throwing over the high wall behind him, he raised his two knives to meet him.

Zhang Chi rolled on the ground and stood up, he couldn't think about anything at the moment, he could only run for his life with all his strength, Wu Ying couldn't stop the pursuers for too long by himself, he won every minute of the time he bought for him with his life Nor can it be wasted.

***

Under Wu Ying's procrastination, some distance was opened between Zhang Chi and the pursuers, but the capital was full of people coming and going, and it was impossible to completely avoid people's eyes and ears and hide their whereabouts.

Zhang Chi clutched the wound on his shoulder, endured the blood churning in his chest, and ran forward staggeringly. He had escaped more than half of the capital, but those masters of the rivers and lakes were still chasing after him like a gangrene. behind.Sometimes as soon as he looked up, he could see people dressed in quackery standing on a high place and looking around looking for suspicious people, but he hadn't seen him for the time being. Sometimes when he walked out of an alley, he found someone asking about his whereabouts. The person in front of him was only a corner away from him, so Zhang Chi could only retreat cautiously, and continue to escape by another road.

He leaned on the wall, endured a period of dizziness, and when he shook his head and wanted to escape again, he found that the courtyard in front of him seemed familiar. Zhang Chi frowned and thought for a while, and saw a few people dressed as beggars. Surrounded by an old beggar he was familiar with, he was walking into the yard.