Seeing Liang Liu and more than 200 brothers rushing down the wheat field and running north, the people on the official road suddenly realized that the bandits were heading to Yangzhou. If they continued to run east along the official road, they would not be able to escape. They left the official road and ran north. In order to stay away from the bandits, they would lose all the things they could lose.

There were fewer and fewer people on the official road. Jiang Zhigui and more than a dozen coolies who had not followed the team, suddenly became particularly conspicuous. They either held oxtail knives, or carried spears and bird guns, running eastward with panting, while looking around anxiously.

"Here, I'm here!" Seeing that they finally caught up, Liang Jiu finally breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly brought a few brothers to meet him, took their weapons, and took them to find Liang Liu and complained: "Why did you run away and lose your eyes, and you didn't look at them!"

"Brother Jiu, we saw that there were too many people just now, and I couldn't see you in a blink of an eye."

"Give me the shotgun, I can carry it."

"Okay, hold it well, follow it closely this time, and you can't lose it anymore."

Everyone rushed down to the wheat field and found Liang Liu and others. Thinking that the bandits were still far away, Liang Liu asked everyone who had just caught up to sit down and rest for a while, then pulled Liang Jiu aside: "Lao Jiu, I blocked someone who knew the way. Let him lead you later."

Liang Jiu looked back and found that there was indeed a man sitting on the ridge of the field that he had never seen before. When he thought of what Liang Jiu said, he subconsciously asked: "Let us lead the way, Brother Liu, don't you leave?"

Liang Liuyao looked in Yizhen's direction and clenched his fists and said, "Master Han sent us to Yizhen. First, we asked us to collect the weapons from the strange camp and Qingshan camp, and second, we asked us to find out the news about the bandits. We collected some of the weapons, but we didn't know how many soldiers and horses the bandits had, what weapons they had, and how they were fighting. We just looked at them from afar outside the city, only knowing that they were all wearing red scarves."

Liang Jiu was worried that Liang Liu would go to inquire alone and said with a bitter face: "Brother Six, Yi Zhen's defenders ran away without fighting. The bandits occupied Yi Zhen City without even moving swords and guns. The soldiers from the Qibian and Qingshan Camp ran away without even seeing the bandits. Yangzhou is probably the same. What can you find after leaving?"

"The soldiers of the Grey Camp, Qingshan Camp and Yizhen City are afraid of death, but some are not afraid of death. Didn't Mr. Wang say that before coming, the deputy general of the Yangzhou Camp and a governor of the Yunshuo Department gathered hundreds of people to set up defenses in the west of Yangzhou City, intending to intercept the bandits at Changchun Bridge. You will leave first, and I will follow the official road to Changchun Bridge to see if they can block the bandits."

"They are only a few hundred people, and there are at least 20,000 or 30,000, and they will definitely not be able to stop it!"

"If you can't stop it, you have to go and see how the thieves fight. If Mr. Han asks us how we go, even if Mr. Han doesn't ask, he will know nothing about the thieves and bandits, how can we compete with the thieves in the future?"

Next, I must have to do it with the bandits. I can't tell you the truth without knowing the depth of the bandits... The more Liang Jiu thought about it, the more he felt that Liang Liu's words made sense, but he was worried that Liang Liu would go alone, so he simply gritted his teeth: "Brother Six, you brought all the brothers. You have to bring them back and leave the inquiries to me. I'll go to Changchun Bridge."

"you go?"

"What's wrong with me? I'm better than you in terms of skills, and I run faster than you." Fearing that Liang Liu would not agree, Liang Jiu said again: "When we came, we passed by Changchun Bridge, and there was the Slender West Lake. You know my water nature. If I really can't escape, I jumped into the lake."

Thinking that Liang Jiu's skills and water quality were indeed good, Liang Liu pondered: "Okay, I'll take my brothers to Wanfu Bridge first. You go to Changchun Bridge to inquire, but you have to be careful."

"Don't worry, I'm going to inquire, not to go to war, so it won't be a problem to stay away."

"Don't be careless, the bandits are not good at plagiarism."

"I know, I won't be careless."

The two brothers agreed and immediately greeted the brothers sitting in the wheat field to set off.

Fearing that someone would lose another person, Liang Liu gave another explanation, asking the sergeant and the commanders who were recommended to the public in the past few days to be optimistic about their own people. Liang Liu handed the shotgun to a coolie, and brought only five kilograms of dry food and a oxtail knife and went up the empty official road alone.

The coolies didn't know what he was going to do alone, so they didn't bother to ask now. Liang Liu looked at Liang Jiu's back for a while, then turned around and said, "Brothers, set off!"

...

Walking along the official road will not get lost, and you will only be alone. No need to worry about others anymore. Liang Jiu became much more relaxed. Seeing that the bandits were still far away, at least they couldn't see them, and no longer had to run wildly as before. He just walked slowly along the official road. When he was tired, he sat down and rested for a while. When he was thirsty, he went to the ditches on the side of the road to drink a few sips of water. When he saw the packages that the people who were running away from their lives, he even took a break from his busy schedule to unpack and see if there was any valuable thing.

He hummed a little tune while walking, and walked unknowingly in front of a post shop.

The courtyard gate was open and there was no one inside. Without asking, I knew that the soldiers of the shop had already fled after receiving the news that the bandits had killed. Liang Jiu went to the stable behind the post shop and looked at it. He was a little disappointed when he saw that there was only grass and no horses. He was about to continue on his way, but suddenly he found movement behind the haystack next to the stable.

"Who, come out!"

"No, no, we are fleeing, we are not thieves." Seeing Liang Jiu pulling out his knife to tread into the haystack, three men dressed like beggars hurriedly came out.

Liang Jiu stared at them and asked, "Who are you? How can you hide here?"

"We escaped from Jiangning. When we got here, we were so hungry that we couldn't walk anymore. We were hungry and cold, so we hid in the haystack to rest for a while."

"Jiangning escaped. Do you think I didn't go to Jiangning. The people in Jiangning didn't speak this accent."

"The conscience of heaven and earth, I am really from Jiangning!" A short and thin man hurriedly said.

Liang Jiu, a man from all over the world, has seen many people on Taiba. He heard that the short man has indeed a Jiangning accent. He pointed his knife at the older one and asked, "Where are you from where are you?"

"Little brother, I'm from Hubei."

"Why did Hubei people come to Yangzhou? They pretend to be Jiangning people. I honestly tell you whether you are a spy of the thief!"

"Little brother, I am a scholar, how could I be a thief!" The old man dusted the straw on his body and said hatefully: "I am not only a scholar, but also a fame. I am irreconcilable with the thief. How could I be a detailed work of the thief?"

"Brother, I can guarantee this gentleman that he is really not a spy of the thief."

"How do you guarantee it?"

"We escaped from the city with Mr. Zhou and fled here from Jiangning together."

Thinking of Mr. Han’s previous statement that as long as it is Guangdong and Guangxi, strangers coming from Huguang may be spies of thieves, Liang Jiu asked coldly: “Isn’t the spy who escaped from Jiangning together?”

The short man said anxiously: "Little brother, Mr. Zhou used to work as a job in the Taifa yamen, and he also guarded the city with Lu Taifa. Do you think he would be a spy for the thief bandits?"

"Are you a yamen?" Liang Jiu asked, staring at the older man.

"That's right, little brother, you are also a job?"

“So what?”

"Which yamen do you work in?" the older person asked.

Liang Jiu said without hesitation: "I am the chief of Yongying in Taizhou Township, and I will be under the command of the state and Mr. Han."

Although the military officers in Taizhou had never heard of a village camp in Taizhou, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief when they heard Zhou Xingyuan in Taizhou and asked with a smile: "Little brother, since you are from Taizhou, do you recognize Mr. Han, inspector Han?"

"I recognize it, but Mr. Han is not a patrolman. Now he is the same master in our Taizhou!"

"He only went to Taizhou to take office a few years ago, and now he is the state party?"

"Do you recognize us Mr. Han?"

"Not only can I recognize you, but I am also a good friend to you master!" Finally, I met someone who did not treat himself as a liar or even a spy, and the one I met was Han Xiufeng's subordinate. Zhou Xingyuan was ecstatic and walked up to touch Liang Jiu's dry food bag while asking anxiously: "Little brother, do you have any food? Master, I'm almost starving to death."

Liang Jiu thought that he knew Mr. Han, so his words would not be fake, so he quickly picked off the bag of dry food: "Yes, there are rice cakes."

"Give it," Zhou Xingyuan snatched the rice cake and handed over two pieces of the boy who escaped from Jiangning, and then ate the rice cake with it.

Seeing his starving ghost reincarnated, Liang Jiu was afraid that he would be choked to death before starving, so he quickly went to the inn shop to find a scoop of water.

"Thank you," Zhou Xingyuan took a few big sips in a row, then wiped his mouth and said, "Little brother, what is your surname? When you see Mr. Han, I must give you a few good words and let Mr. Han appreciate you well."

"Mr. Zhou, where are we?"

"Yes, Mr. Zhou, we agreed when we left the city!"

"You are also rewarded. I, Zhou Xingyuan, have promised you that you will only have more or less."

Liang Jiusuan saw that the person in front of him was probably a high-ranking official. The short man with a mole on his face escorted him all the way. When he thought of the words he had just said, he suddenly felt a little funny. He thought to himself that Liang Jiu was originally the person of Mr. Han, so you don’t need to speak well.

Zhou Xingyuan didn't know how much Han Xiufeng valued Liang Jiu, so he just wanted to go to Taizhou earlier to join Han Xiufeng who can take him in now. He put down the cake and asked, "Little brother, is there any news about the thieves?"

"have."

"Speak and listen."

"The bandits occupied Yizhen and were on the way to Yangzhou. They should be not far from here."

"Why didn't you say it earlier!" Zhou Xingyuan didn't want to die in this remote mountain area. He stuffed the remaining half of the rice cake into his arms, then leaned over and took out a small package from the haystack, and turned around and said, "Go away quickly, you can't stay here for a long time."

"Master Zhou, where are you going?" Liang Jiu asked curiously.

"Go to find you Mr. Han, I'm here to find you Mr. Han!"

"Then I can only accompany you to Changchun Bridge. When you arrive at Changchun Bridge, you can go to Wanfu Bridge by yourself. When you arrive at Wanfu Bridge, you will be able to see our Mr. Han."

"Master, I don't know Wanfuqiao? You send me to find your master. I have something important to discuss with your master."

"No, I have an errand."

"Don't be stubborn. Sending me to see you Mr. Han is a serious errand. Let other things be put aside!"

"Master Zhou, it's really not possible. I can't send you to Wanfu Bridge. You'd better go there by yourself."
Chapter completed!