On the dim street, the Crown Prince and Bai Li were escaping from Hongyi Alley with their heads down, first fleeing north and then turning west.

The two of them were no longer calm and calm, their clothes had a few tears in them, and their hair was disheveled.

The two of them were panting and running when they suddenly heard a loud explosion behind them. Then the whole city of Luo City seemed to be awakened, and the watchdogs in every household were barking.

Bai Li stopped and looked back at Hongyi Alley with a worried look on his face: "What happened? Why is there such a noise?"

The prince thought for a while: "It sounds like someone used a firearm... It was this kind of noise when I followed my father to watch the Shenji Battalion practice firecrackers."

"Firegun?!" Bai Li was shocked and turned around to go back to Anxi Street.

The prince's expression changed drastically, and he quickly grabbed her arm: "Little ancestor, why are you going? We managed to escape with great difficulty!"

Bai Li turned around and said anxiously: "Could this fire cannon be used to deal with the person who just saved us? The power of the fire cannon is so powerful that even a senior official would have to temporarily avoid its edge. How can he stop it?"

The prince also became entangled: "It stands to reason that the Shenji Camp is a hundred miles away. If there is no big deal, he will never enter Luo City. Moreover, even if the Shenji Camp comes, he will not dare to use fire cannons without authorization in the city.

Ah. I guess it’s not a firecracker, it might be something else... Let’s go back and save him? The knight saved us, so we can’t be so reckless.”

"Is there any way to save him?" Bai Li asked.

The prince thought for a moment, gritted his teeth and said: "We will definitely not be able to save him if we run back like this. You follow me to the Chitose Army camp and ask Uncle Wang to mobilize troops to surround Hongyi Alley. As long as you and I can persuade Uncle Wang to mobilize

When the Thousand Years Army comes, no matter how elite the Jiefan Guards are, they only have 500 men!"

"Can we persuade Uncle Wang to move? He won't move the Tiger Talisman until he sees his father," Bai Li said worriedly.

"I'll give Uncle Wang a kowtow to make sure it works!"

Bai Li: "..."

At this time, the sound of horse hoofbeats was heard in the distance, and the prince hurriedly pulled Bai Li to hide in a dark alley, and found an abandoned bamboo basket in the alley to cover the two of them.

A moment later, 500 Jiefanwei riders passed by outside the alley, neatly dressed in bamboo hats, raincoats and waist knives, looking particularly cold and awe-inspiring on the stone road under the moonlight.

Beside Lin Chaoqing, a young man was holding the reins and walking beside him: "Sir, will the golden pig fall this time?"

"No," Lin Chaoqing said flatly.

"He mobilized the Jiefang Guards from our Mengjin camp without permission but failed to do so. Not a single traitor from the Jing Dynasty was caught. Why don't we take this opportunity to arrest him and bring him back to Beijing?" The young man asked doubtfully: "Even if we get this matter,

We are also responsible for the work of the Interior Minister. These secret agents act arrogantly and domineeringly, and by arresting them, we will eliminate harm for the people."

Lin Chaoqing looked forward. Although he was riding on a horse, his back was straight like a spear: "Bright Rabbit, Yunyang has no foundation in the Secret Service, so he will just do it. The Golden Pig is different. In recent years, he has dealt with internal affairs.

Mr. Xiang is loyal and loyal, and he has Pegasus to protect him, so such a small thing cannot touch him."

While talking, Jie Fanwei gradually walked away.

I don't know how much time passed, but the prince made sure that there was no one outside the alley, and then he took off the broken baskets on him and Bai Li: "They don't seem to have caught anyone, so we don't need to rescue them. This person is so powerful, he can actually do it in a secret place."

Escaped from the hands of the spy and Jie Fanwei?"

Bai Li hesitated and asked: "Brother, do you know the person who saved us? Do you think he is a bit familiar?"

The prince said awkwardly: "At that time, I was just thinking about how to escape, but I really didn't look carefully...could it be the Jianghu people I had made friends with before, who came out to help us at the risk of their lives when they saw that we were in danger?"

Speaking of those people in the world, Bai Li suddenly said angrily: "What kind of people do you make friends with? They will run away as soon as there is danger! It's definitely not those people in the world, they are all fake friends!"

"There are also good ones..."

"Anyway, I won't pay them for drinks anymore," Bai Li said angrily: "These people spend money like water when they drink. They have to choose good food and drink good wine. When it comes to food and wine, beauties speak clearly.

, no one can be trusted at the critical moment. It’s not that I feel sorry for the money, I just despise their chivalry.”

The prince scratched his head: "Okay, okay, I won't pay them for drinks in the future... By the way, you just said that the knight who saved us looks familiar. Do you recognize who it is?"

Bai Li was silent for a moment: "No, I didn't recognize who it was either."

She actually had a guess in her mind, but she did not say it out in the end. Instead, she chose to bury it silently in her heart, preparing to carefully verify it herself.

Bai Li took off the hairpin, raised his arms to tie his hair again, and then set off again.

The two of them hid all the way back to Anxi Street. When they saw the guards and the plaque of Prince Jing's Mansion from a distance, they finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Bai Li did not return to the palace from the back garden. She suddenly said to the prince: "Brother, let's go back from Taiping Medical Center. There is a ladder there."

The prince put his hands on his knees and gasped in surprise: "When you came out tonight, you said that you would never go to the Taiping Medical Center again, and you would never let the little thief make a fortune in tolls. Why did you change your mind again?"

?”

Bai Li rolled his eyes: "I don't want to climb over the wall, right? It's so convenient to have a ladder."

The prince also rolled his eyes: "Women are so fickle."

The two quietly sneaked to the door of Taiping Medical Center and were about to open the door, but found that the door was bolted from the inside.

Bai Li thought for a moment and called out: "Chen Ji, Chen Ji, we are here to pay you the toll!"

Quiet.

silence.

No one answered the door.

Bai Li's suspicion became more and more solid in her heart. She bent down and tentatively shouted to the crack in the door: "Chen Ji, I'll give you ten taels of silver this time!"

Still quiet.

Still no one answered.

Bai Li muttered: "It's really not inside."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a creak and the door opened.

Bai Li was stunned for a moment, then slowly raised his head, only to see Old Man Yao standing calmly at the door.

She said awkwardly: "Mr. Yao, have I disturbed you? Where is Chen Ji? Why didn't he open the door?"

Old Yao said expressionlessly: "The princess and the prince stayed up in the middle of the night, why did they come to our Taiping Medical Center? I am ninety-two years old, and I can't stand your troubles like this."

Bai Li was anxious and wised up: "Mr. Yao, my brother and I are feeling a little unwell. Can you let us in and take our pulse?"

Old Man Yao glanced at her and reached out across the threshold to pinch her wrist for pulse.

After a while, Old Man Yao said: "I have a brain disease that cannot be cured. Please come back."

"Did you take the wrong pulse? Please let me go in, sit down, and take the next number carefully." Bai Li tried to squeeze through the door from Old Man Yao, but Old Man Yao quickly closed the door as if he had predicted it.

.

There was a clang and the wooden door was closed tightly.

Old Yao's voice floated out from the crack in the door: "The prince and the princess should return to the palace from other places. If they cause trouble again, I will definitely report the matter to the prince when he comes back."

Bai Li still wanted to knock on the door, but the prince pulled her away quickly: "Let's go, let's go. I think Chen Ji has made Dr. Yao angry by borrowing the road for us. Let's not put Chen Ji in trouble and walk through the back garden. If Dr. Yao really will

If you report this to your father, I'm afraid your moon silver will be cut off..."

Bai Li was pulled back one step at a time, looking back at the closed wooden door again and again, but he could only give up the idea of ​​exploring the truth.

She wondered: Could it be that Chen Ji hadn't come back yet, so Yao Yao was helping to cover it up? That must be the case...

But if, as Jie Fanwei said, the Secret Service did not capture Chen Ji, then where would Chen Ji be at this time?

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…

Under the night, Chen Ji was limping through the intricate alleys.

He slowly stopped, panted and bent down, took off the cloth wrapped around the wound on his right leg, and then tightened it again.

The wounds on his chest and legs were in excruciating pain, but the work was not done yet, and he had no time to stop and rest.

Chen Ji raised his head and glanced at his surroundings, then continued running towards the meeting point he and Wu Yun had agreed upon.

After turning two more alleys, I saw dark clouds squatting on the eaves of the alleys and asking concernedly: "Are you okay?"

Chen Ji bent over and gasped with emotion: "Jin Zhu is probably a master in the Seeking Realm. Firecrackers so powerful couldn't kill him. Da Xingguan's background is unfathomable. This world is more terrifying than I imagined."

Some. If it hadn't been for the gunpowder just now, I should be on my way back to the inner prison right now."

Wuyun meowed again: "I'm asking how your injury is? Why don't you go back to your master and let him treat your injury first."

Chen Ji shook his head: "No, we must kill Shopkeeper Yuan first. The Secret Service is rounding up Jinfang tonight. If he thinks it was me who leaked the secret, he is probably already thinking about how to kill me... You can now grasp his whereabouts

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Wu Yun replied: "He finished delivering goods to other medical clinics at noon, then went directly back to his residence on Tongji Street in the afternoon, and never came out again."

During the day, shopkeeper Yuan drove an ox cart to deliver goods to Taiping Medical Clinic. When he left, two civet cats secretly followed each other.

Just now, Chen Ji and Wu Yun took action separately, asking him to find the two civet cats.

Chen Ji frowned: "It seems that Shopkeeper Yuan knew about Jinzhu's roundup plan at noon...Who revealed it to him? Those dozen medical clinics! Wuyun, which medical clinics did he go to?"

Wu Yun shook his head: "The brain of a civet cat cannot remember so much information. It can only recall part of it at most."

Chen Ji thought: "Well, as long as Shopkeeper Yuan is dead, it doesn't matter who passed the message to him."

With that said, he stood up holding on to the wall and wanted to continue on his way.

However, tonight he first killed six spies, and then severely injured the golden pig, then flew across rooftops and ran away, almost running out of gas. After taking only two steps, he felt that his legs were weak and he could not walk.

Wu Yun said worriedly: "Go back to the hospital?"

Chen Ji shook his head: "Take me to his residence. Shopkeeper Yuan must die tonight."

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Tongji Street has always been a place where merchants gathered to live. It is different from the courtyards of literati families. The stone lions in front of it are more imposing than the others, the carriages parked in front of the door are more exquisite, and the plaques and lintels are higher than the others. For fear of being disturbed by the neighbors

It's like comparing.

According to the laws of the Ning Dynasty, merchants and opera performers were not allowed to ride horse-drawn carriages, and they had to have a scholar status above that of a scholar.

It's just that in recent years, there have been more and more private workshops in the Ning Dynasty, and there are also more and more merchants. They rely on their backers to convert trucks into horse-drawn carriages. Once they are investigated, they stuff some silver coins to fool them. This law also

Gradually it became a piece of paper.

At this time, a mansion on Tongji Street was as quiet as a cemetery, with no servants or servants at all.

Shopkeeper Yuan was sitting in the main hall with the doors and windows closed. It was already late at night but he was still dressed neatly, as if he was patiently waiting for the long night to be exhausted.

Tsk.

He suddenly heard a strange noise coming from outside the door. This chirping sound was unusually abrupt in the middle of the night.

Shopkeeper Yuan stood up with a solemn expression, slowly approached the door, and leaned against the crack of the door to listen to what the sound was...

There was a squeak.

Shopkeeper Yuan saw someone opening his window from the outside, throwing in a bamboo tube, and then carefully closing the window for him.

not good!

Shopkeeper Yuan looked at the medicine stick that was about to burn to the end, and he was about to break open the door, but someone seemed to block the door with a wooden beam, and he didn't push it open for a while!

"Looking for death, shoot me!"

However, Shopkeeper Yuan made an angry move and slapped the two doors hard with both hands. The two-open wooden doors couldn't withstand the force and immediately fell apart!

For a master of this level, where can a door stop him?

However, after shopkeeper Yuan smashed the door, he did not see the figure outside the door. Instead, he saw a bamboo tube with burnt medicine twister not far outside the door!

It’s over!

Shopkeeper Yuan didn’t know whether he should advance or retreat!

There was a bang.

The two bamboo tubes inside and outside the house exploded at the same time. Saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal were mixed together and burned violently. Sugar mixed with gunpowder at high temperatures released a massive amount of gas.

In an instant, a huge shock wave swept through the house, enveloping the broken iron pieces in the bamboo tube, and tore apart the clothes on Shopkeeper Yuan's body.

There was another bang, and the brick walls of the house were overwhelmed. They could no longer support the weight of the roof. Countless gray tiles raised huge amounts of dust like a landslide, burying Shopkeeper Yuan alive in the house!

Chen Ji emerged from the corner of the yard, his ears ringing as if there was a huge metallic noise raging in his ears.

He couldn't hear the sounds from the outside world and looked at the ruins of houses with vigilance.

Is Shopkeeper Yuan dead?

The bamboo tube exploded in the air before, and the power of the gunpowder was not fully exerted.

This time the bamboo tube exploded inside the house, even though shopkeeper Shiyuan had already broken through the door, but the power was still exponentially doubled.

Chen Ji kept hoping in his heart that if he dies, Shopkeeper Yuan must be dead!

But... there is no ice flow!

Chen Ji staggered towards the ruins, trying to remove the tiles and then add another knife.

But he had just staggered a few steps when he heard a click.

The ruins suddenly arched up!

Chen Ji stepped back with a solemn expression... Shopkeeper Yuan could still move!?
Chapter completed!