Cloud of the Qing Dynasty

It was none other than Li Tieyi, the leader of the beggar gang.

Zhang Chi rushed forward as if seeing a savior: "Guild Leader! Gang Leader Li! Help me!"

"Hey, isn't this little brother Zhang Chi?" Li Tieyi recognized him immediately, "Why are you injured?"

"I was framed, and now a group of people are chasing me to silence me, I...cough coughcough..." Zhang Chi panicked, and his internal injuries flared up again, coughing and spitting out the blood stagnant in his chest.

"Hurry up and rest inside, let Elder Lu show you, and leave the matter of chasing soldiers to me." Although Li Tieyi didn't know what happened, he believed Zhang Chi without saying a word, and asked his disciples to take care of him. Bring it in and heal.

It didn't take long for people from the Jianghu to follow the clues and find out here.

"What Zhang Chi? I've never seen the Zhang Chi you're talking about." The doorkeeper, a disciple of the Beggar Gang, stood at the door and blocked them.

"Yes or no, let's go in and search to find out!" The Jianghu man was about to go in, but immediately more disciples of the Beggar Gang surrounded him: "What are you doing, what are you doing here? Do you know the site? Do you think that anyone who wants to get in can get in!"

"That's right. If you say there are criminals, there are criminals. Who are you? Are you a policeman from Six Doors or an imperial envoy? They're all in the same way. Who doesn't know who's how much?"

"You said it was a handwritten letter? What handwritten letter? Whose handwritten letter? I don't know how to read, so I asked the adults to come and say it in person."

Seeing that there are so many people in the beggar gang, these people dare not really force their way in, they can only curse and wait until a captain from the Yongning Hou Mansion leads the troops, and the disciples of the beggar gang say: "Hey, I can't think of you bastards You really hugged Master Guan's thigh, I thought you guys were just bragging!"

"You...!" Those Jianghu people were about to explode on the spot, the captain stopped him, and asked with suppressed anger, "Can we go in and search?"

"Of course, the official wants to go in. How dare I wait for the grassroots to stop me? Please, please!" The beggar gang disciple stepped aside with a smirk that couldn't be more fake. Look, there are a few beggar gang disciples who are sparsely inside, who are driving wooden stakes, and those who are basking in the sun, and the back door is open, and all kinds of old and small beggars come and go. How can there be any trace of Zhang Chi?

After being delayed for so long, Zhang Chi didn't know where he was hidden, but even if they knew that these people were harboring criminals, they couldn't do anything about it. After all, they were still a little apprehensive.

The beggar gang's eyeliner is all over the world, and they have their own way to send the injured Zhang Chi out of the capital without anyone noticing, and hide him at the head of the Junshan beggar gang. I told Zhang Chi: "I believe you were wronged, but it is about tens of thousands of people in the beggar gang. I can't openly confront the court. Now that their name is not right, I can find an excuse to delay it. They blatantly issued a sea arrest document, officially marking you as a wanted criminal by the court, and the beggar gang can no longer hide you."

Zhang Chi had already recovered from the shock of Mu Liuyun leaving him at this time, but his injury and depression made his complexion still not very good: "I understand, Leader Li understands the righteousness, and it is enough to help me out of trouble this time." It is the grace of life, how can I not know what is good or bad."

When he said this, Li Tieyi felt guilty instead: "Then... what are your plans for the future?"

"I still have to find a way to find out who murdered Master Hou and blamed me."

"Isn't that some kind of long princess?" Lu Xiaomi asked naturally.

"It's true that she deliberately framed me, but she may not be the murderer who killed Lord Hou, because she has no reason to do that."

"Since none of her sons are born to the Marquis of Yongning, perhaps the Marquis of Yongning discovered the adultery, so she just keeps doing nothing..."

"No, with Lord Hou's wisdom, he should have known that the son was not his own. Maybe it was for this reason that the eldest princess would marry Lord Hou who had no property at that time, even if the first emperor had not yet Ascending to the throne, the eldest princess is not yet the eldest princess, and Lord Hou is just a young general with no ability but no status. It is not unusual for the younger sister of the lord to marry suddenly. She was pregnant, and she had to take her reputation into account before making such a bad move. Since this is the case, the two of them should have known about it for a long time. I'm afraid it's not a secret among the royal family, and they won't suddenly be murdered by the eldest princess. Husband-in-law's reason. And even if they have no feelings, they still have common interests, and the death of Marquis is of no benefit to the Eldest Princess."

"Then... what could it be for?" Lu Xiaomi, who had only heard some unofficial storytelling, couldn't think of any other reason.

"I can't figure it out either. I have to contact the people who inquired about it. They will definitely know more."

***

The murder of Yongning Hou spread quickly in the capital. In fact, anyone with a little brain should realize that there are strange things in this matter, but it seems that no one has said this at all, and the court accepted it without any hindrance. "Zhang Chi is the murderer", although Zhang Chi had no motive to kill Lord Hou, there were many details at the scene that could not be justified.

The arrest warrants were soon posted all over the streets and alleys, and the beggar gang could no longer hide Zhang Chi blatantly. They said that Zhang Chi had gone, but the officials from the DPRK and China who came to question him did not believe it. They couldn't find Zhang Chi, but some clues convinced them that Zhang Chi must still be hiding in a cave in Junshan.

Just when their eyes were fixed on the turmoil of the chief rudder of the beggar gang, Zhang Chi had quietly returned to the capital.

He doesn't think that the most dangerous place is the safest place. In fact, there are many eyes and ears in the capital, and he will be caught if he is not careful. --Sister Hua of Jinxiu Tower is in the capital.

Zhang Chi dressed himself up as a dirty and pockmarked beggar who didn't want to take a second look and sneaked into the capital. He was good at observing and made all the details lifelike. Passed by him on the street, but no one noticed this stinky beggar who was begging for food.

When it was getting dark, he had already approached the Jinxiu Tower. This gorgeous Xiulou was lit with lanterns as usual, and there seemed to be nothing unusual except that it was cooler than before. Of course, Zhang Chi couldn't just walk in through the main entrance in this attire. An imperceptible dog hole was drilled among a pile of broken boxes and old barrels in the depths of the alley. Behind the dog hole was a dark passage, and at the end of the dark passage was the bookshelf in Hua Jinxiu's boudoir.

Zhang Chi put his ear on the bookshelf and eavesdropped for a while. It shouldn't be time to rest now, but Hua Jinxiu's room was as quiet as if there was no one at all. The confused Zhang Chi tapped the back of the bookshelf a few times with a specific rhythm, There was a sudden noise in the room, and someone rushed over and opened the secret passage.

Seeing that familiar face, Zhang Chi felt that a string that had been tense for many days was loosened, as if the wronged child had found his family: "Sister Hua, I was wronged!"

"I know." Hua Jinxiu said without any ups and downs in her voice.

Zhang Chi obviously felt that there was nothing wrong with Hua Jinxiu. The sister Hua he was familiar with was always a delicate and lively woman. Even on the worst days, she would pluck a wild flower and put it in front of the window, never losing her uniqueness. The enthusiasm for life that she had always had, but today Hua Jinxiu seemed to have something extinguished, she didn't even dress up.

Although being wronged and wanted is the most important thing right now, Zhang Chi couldn't help worrying: "Sister Hua...what's wrong with you?"

Hua Jinxiu just sighed, shook her head, and didn't mention anything about herself: "Don't ask so many questions, I've been waiting for you for many days, I know that even if the whole capital is looking for you now, you will definitely have Find a way—tell me what you saw that day."