How many buildings are in the mist

I looked from the forest at night, and sure enough someone was coming.Feng Zizhang was about to stand up, but heard Xie Yan behind her tell her not to move, then took out the flute and played a sad ancient tune.The visitor heard the song, looked around, saw them faintly, hesitated for a while, and went.

Feng Zizhang said: "Such a good song, you actually don't play it, just wait for the thieves to come, and play it for them."

Xie Yan smiled, "This song is so sad, you can't just blow it to make people cry, right?"

"Where did you hear this song? I like it very much."

"It's an ancient song from Chu. It was also taught to me by others. I will teach you later."

The two looked in the direction the evil servant was going, and felt relieved after not seeing him for a long time.Xie Yan said: "I'm afraid of being seen, but I have to come back. It's interesting. Seeing that these farmers have already left, if you gain this time, even if someone comes after dawn, they won't be able to catch up. We will start tomorrow morning Right." Feng Zizhang answered yes.The two took turns on duty and set off at dawn.Walking slowly along the way, on the one hand, observing the surroundings, on the other hand, preventing the chasing soldiers from coming.At noon, arrived in Anyuan County.The gate of the city is unguarded, and the inside of the city is also very desolate.Although it is not a large county in the county, it should not be so deserted.The narrow streets originally did not allow two riders to ride side by side, but now they can even run recklessly.The two walked three or four streets, but there was no one there.Finally, he found an inn with the door open, tied his horse inside, shouted a few times, and someone answered from the backyard.After a while, a woman with wet hands came out and asked, do the two guests want to stay in the hotel?

The two went upstairs to put down their luggage, and when they came down, they asked the shopkeeper for food and drinks.The woman hurried out again and said that the food is available, but there are not enough people at this time, maybe you have to wait a little longer, it doesn't matter if the two say it, then Xie Yan went out to have a look, Feng Zizhang stayed in the shop and waited.She took the opportunity to go to the backyard and saw the woman washing vegetables, with a little girl beside her helping, and another little girl who looked like three or four years old, playing beside her.While playing with the little girl, she asked:

"Shopkeeper, where have all the people in this city gone? We came all the way in and saw your family was open."

"Guests, you don't know that in Anyuan County, seven out of ten households are tenants, and three households are extremely poor and owe debts. The land and debts belong to the big masters above, the big masters It’s another tenant of the Lu family in Wu County. The master of the Lu family recently ordered that all the husbands should go to Luling Kingdom to serve in corvee, and those who can be confiscated will go away.”

Feng Zizhang didn't bother to ask, "Where does a Luling country have the power to confiscate civilian husbands?" "That doesn't mean there aren't even women and children?"

"Guest, when you look at your veil, you can tell that you are from a good family. How do you know the suffering of these people! There is not much land in the family, and they are working hard day and night, but it may not be enough. Now a strong laborer has left, In a woman's family, the elderly and children have to be raised, and they have to cultivate the land, so they can't be busy at all. The women in Anyuan County are either in the field, or they have fled to other places with their children to seek refuge with relatives and friends. Like me Yes, there is no way, this store is the only property in the family, so what if you don't look at it?"

Feng Zizhang looked at the kitchen knife on the stove, as expected, it was old and blunt, obviously useless. "Shopkeeper, let me ask, did the master of the Lu family collect other things besides expropriating people?"

"It's not just other things, but nothing is left. If it can't be dismantled, the beams and columns in my shop will be removed! Guest, you see, in my shop, the axes for chopping wood are rolled. Bladed!"

When the meal was served, Xie Yan also came back, Feng Zizhang hurriedly asked: "How is it?"

"Nine rooms are empty. I went up to the city tower and looked. The fields to the west are full of women working with their children on their backs."

"That's what I asked here too."

Feng Zizhang told her the details.The two were discussing while eating, and from time to time there was a rush of horseshoes, and it turned out that Gongsun Man arrived with four people.Gongsun Many in military uniform is heroic and heroic, holding a whip in his hand. Feng Zizhang saw sharply the shiny knife on her saddle. "Good guy! But there are still delicious food! I ran all the way, hungry and thirsty." Xie Yan said with a smile: "The store is short of staff, and you can see that the city is empty, why don't you help out in the back kitchen? There must be nothing to eat." Gongsun Man was stunned, and went to the back kitchen to have a look, and then sent the mighty man and handsome man who followed him to the back to chop wood and make a fire, unload the wine and meat with him. do it.When the big man came out, did Gongsunman finish chopping the firewood for him? He said that he had finished chopping everything that could be chopped, "enough to burn for four or five days."

Gongsun Man asked why only four or five days were enough, the big man actually calculated how to burn, length, thickness, etc., he was tall and strong, but he was as careful as a hair, which made all three of them laugh.While eating meat and drinking, Gongsun Man whispered to the two of them: "On the way we came, we found out the whereabouts of people who might be harvesting grain. They said that they would deliver the goods somewhere in the mountains ten miles away from the city at night. There are a lot of things. Why don't we Go and have a look." Xie Yan asked how he knew it was the person they were looking for.Gongsunman said that after asking, it was this group of people who delivered a large number of grains recently.Xie Yan asked if it was reliable, Gongsun Man said: "I didn't think there was anything at first, but when you said that, I became suspicious. Don't set it up for me, right?" Xie Yan said that people may not know that you are coming, how? Set up?Gongsunman was still in doubt, Feng Zizhang interjected: "Whether it is true or not, this is the only clue. There are people in Anyuan County who wantonly collect grain and recruit people. If it is two things and two groups of people, it is impossible to completely It has nothing to do with it. If you are worried, you can just let your subordinates meet us outside, and the three of us can see for ourselves." She looked at Gongsun Man, then at Xie Yan, and added: "It's been beaten, it's been beaten. But run."

Gongsunman laughed loudly when she heard the words: "I have this guy," she patted Xie Yan on the shoulder, "Are you afraid you won't be able to beat him?" Xie Yan opened her hand with a smile.While making a fuss, the handsome gentleman came out, Xie Yan asked curiously, what did you do, it took you so long to come out.Unexpectedly, the gentleman replied, the little girl's clothes were torn, and I couldn't bear to look at them, so I sewed them up for her.Xie Yan laughed loudly, pointed at Gongsun Man and said: "In your house, men, women and children have their own supernatural powers, but you are useless except drinking, fighting and singing!"

Everyone rested in this small inn for most of the day.Until midnight, Fang carefully went to the mountains.The three of them left the horses to their followers, walked quietly to the appointed place on foot, and climbed up a tree to hide.Half an hour later, I saw several groups of people coming, each with confiscated food and iron, and a group of people brought a group of blindfolded peasants as if they were escorting criminals.The team from the west is mainly armored guards, and the leader is tall and tall, riding a black horse and wearing black clothes.Gongsun Man watched the man in black check the food bags one by one, and sure enough, he found a bag of soybeans in the car. He raised his knife and wanted to go forward, but was stopped by Xie Yan.Xie Yan signaled to her that it is not appropriate to start here, but to find another place.Gongsunman refused to accept, Xie Yan said seriously: "You don't even think about it, this may be a big deal!"

The three saw that the handover was over, Xie Yan and Gongsun Man went back to lead the horses, Feng Zizhang stayed in place to observe and wait.She counted the number of people, and it was about one-fifth of the total number of local Dingfu, so it can be seen that they were transported in batches.Although the matter seems to be very clear now, she doesn't need to do anything to anyone, but on the one hand, she must help Gongsunman, even if it's just to vent her anger; The news may also be beneficial to the next step...

Come to think of it, didn't I come out to spy on the big clan?While walking and walking, she encountered such a thing, she smiled wryly as she thought, if she can retreat unscathed and stop the conspiracy, she must reward her well when she returns to Jiankang.Thinking of this, and not seeing Xie Yan coming back, I suddenly felt worried.It seems to be a trivial matter whether I can get out of the body, Xie Yan followed me to this place, it was all accidental, why did I involve her?It's just that until now, it's impossible to tell who is involved.Without Xie Yan, I would never have made it this far, and I am afraid that I would never be able to do the next thing; but with her, I would worry about her safety.

A group of people walked carefully and tracked the escort team at the bottom of the valley along the high cliff.After walking for about half an hour, Xie Yan asked the big man if there was a canyon in front of him. The big man said yes, Xie Yan suggested that everyone divide into two teams and attack back and forth. She and Feng Zizhang went to block the road in front of them. Blocking the back, the young man killed him in the middle with a bow and arrow.Everyone agreed, and asked the young gentleman to whistle when he saw the whole team entering the trap.

But after a while, the two left their horses on the high cliff and gently landed in a hidden place in the valley.The sound of horseshoes gradually approached, and with a whistle, Xie Yan pulled the rope that was tied to the stone just now, and the gravel fell, causing panic in the team, and the two took the opportunity to beat each other upside down.Not far away is the man in black riding a black horse. Xie Yan said that I will deal with this guy, you go and beat those guards away, in case they jump over the wall in a hurry and kill people to silence them.

Feng Zizhang immediately ran back from the left side of the team. The man in black pulled out his spear and was about to stab him, but Feng Zizhang dodged it; dismount and go.In the darkness, it was too late to see where Xie Yan was, and he could only hear the screams of his subordinates around him. When he was furious, he could roughly judge where Xie Yan was by the sound, and stabbed wildly in that direction.

The two went through a few moves, and Xie Yan saw that this man was just a soldier, with brute strength and skill, but not refined enough.So he deliberately led this person to stab him a few more times, but he didn't fight back.The man in black stabbed with all his strength, Xie Yan stuck his sword, and with a loud shout, the tip of the gun was stuck.The man in black was startled, he didn't guard against Xie Yan's sword attack, he backed up step by step.In the panic, he actually caught the big ax of an injured subordinate beside him, and he came to fight, and swung the big ax to strike.He swung his ax like a circle, whistling loudly, making it almost impossible for people to get close.Seeing this, Xie Yan jumped up and slashed in the air. The men in black met each other with an axe, and they were evenly matched. A good outsider's kung fu was invincible, and his internal strength was full.Xie Yan took advantage of the situation and rushed forward, slashing with a sword and bayonet, so that the man in black could block one but not this one. While he was distracted, Xie Yan slashed his eyes blind.

After the blind man in black slashed wildly, Xie Yan just lowered his hands and let him go berserk, restrained his breath, walked slowly behind the man, stabbed twice with his right hand, and broke the hamstring of the man in black.Just at this time, Feng Zizhang beat off most of the guards and let the civilian husband go.Gongsun Man and his gang had already cleaned up the rear of the team. Those who resisted in the corner were dead, and those who knelt down and begged for mercy were knocked unconscious.

The three brought the black horse, put the man in black on it, and prepared to take it to a secluded place for interrogation.Gongsunman asked the archer Lang Jun and the other two to escort a few guards who were not knocked out in the end, and bring all the money and food back to Anyuan, and pay back everything that should be paid.Let the careful big man ride with the three of them to a secluded place, tie the man in black to a tree, light a bonfire, and interrogate.Gongsunman asked him who sent him, and whether he had robbed his own beans, but the man in black refused to answer.Gongsun Man was so angry that she asked Feng Zizhang and Xie Yan to stay away, saying that she was going to do something cruel, and she was afraid that it would be indecent and dirty their eyes.Xie Yan just asked Feng Zizhang to turn around, she had to watch.Feng Zizhang thought about it, and sat not far away to stand guard.About to hear the sound of clothes being torn, the bonfire crackling, and then there were screams, and then Gongsunman threatened: "I have no eunuchs in the morning. If you want, I will make you the first one! Not only will I eunuch you, I will also tattoo two large characters on your face, 'eunuch'! Do you believe it or not?"

It seems that it still does not recruit.

"Bake me!"

So screaming again and again.

Then he heard a man's low and hoarse voice.I heard Xie Yan ask if he was from the Luling King's Mansion, who sent him, why did Lu Yu send you here, and why did you confiscate these things and go back.For the last question, the man in black said that he didn't know, and he was just following orders.The things have to be handed over to his superior, the riding governor Wang Dian.

She heard Xie Yan sneer and said: "You are a soldier, what are you doing with these things, no one told you, so you can't guess?"

Xie Yan asked about the detailed handover location. The man might be somewhere, but he only received the news when he arrived in Luling.After finishing all the questions, Xie Yan told Gongsun Man to take this person back to the mansion and hide him so that he could raise him, and then close the door to protect himself. "If the imperial court wants to commend you in the future, I will ask you for one." Gongsunman asked her how she was going to go, and she said she would ask Feng Zizhang.

"How is it? What are you going to do next?" Xie Yan walked to Feng Zizhang, the clouds and mists in the sky cleared, revealing the Milky Way.Feng Zizhang said: "You and I both understand what is the cause of all this. This is the righteousness of the world. I am going to go to the territory of Luling Kingdom immediately to investigate the situation." Then he turned around and looked at Xie Yan, "What about you? ?”

She wanted to say it's too dangerous and you don't want to go with me, she wanted to say you can thank you all the way if you don't go with me, but she couldn't say it.Growing up so big, Feng Zizhang encountered some words for the first time, not because he didn't want to say them, but because he couldn't say them. His throat, which had just drank water a moment ago, was dry and tight, as if he was being strangled by someone.

Xie Yan looked into her eyes, and the Milky Way in her eyes - if compared with the vastness of the Milky Way in the sky, it is naturally incomparable; but compared to the beauty, this Milky Way is more beautiful - and then smiled: "Since it is the righteousness of the world, how can I not with you?"

Feng Zizhang smiled, this time the smile was bigger and deeper, pulling the corners of his eyes, making Xie Yan more addicted.

The two said goodbye to Gongsunman and were about to leave.Gongsun Man heard that the two were planning to go to Luling Kingdom, and also knew that the matter was about to encounter a major rebellion. He admired these two people for their courage to go to death, and told them the name and address of the eyeliner he had planted in Luling Kingdom. Said might as well go meet, but also more protection.Feng Zizhang left the letter he wrote quickly, and passed it on to Gongsunman to ask her to send it back to Jiankang as agreed.Gongsunman said that I will pass the letter back to you with flying pigeons, so don't worry.The two thanked each other and rode their horses to set off in the dark.

The two of them were in a dangerous situation in the middle of the night, but thousands of miles away, in the summer palace after dawn, they lived peacefully and comfortably, and no one knew the danger thousands of miles away.

Cui Xuanji, who took up the post of the queen's martial arts instructor, came to practice martial arts with the queen when he was free.She does not necessarily direct personally, but assumes the role of supervisor.Sometimes even if I rest at home and feel bored, I will come to the palace specially.This was the case today, she was practicing martial arts with the two princesses when Feng Zihuan came over suddenly.The two sisters were just resting, Feng Xi ran to hold Feng Zihuan's leg and asked her, mother, when can we learn the traditional martial arts.Feng Zihuan said that you are still young, and your sister is not ready yet, let alone you.How are you practicing recently?Feng Xi bouncing around demonstrated it to her, and then pulled Feng Xu together.While practicing, Feng Zihuan asked Cui Xuanji what he thinks as a coach, Cui Xuanji commented truthfully, and Feng Zihuan nodded to show his approval after listening.

Cui Xuanji was indulging in the breezy and refreshing day, when suddenly he heard Feng Xu open his mouth and ask: "I have practiced these days, and I think Cui Qing is really good. I don't know who is better, Cui Qing or my mother."

After hearing this, Cui Xuanji's hair stood on end, and he was about to say goodbye, but Feng Zihuan said, "I don't know, why don't you come and have a competition today. Come, go and get my sword."