The county town is not big and the roads are narrow, but the road surface is very solid and does not appear too muddy after heavy snow.

There were many pedestrians on the street, but they were all in a hurry, with a sad face. Many of them wore swords and even had to eat for a moment.

There is only one commercial street in Gu'an County, and two restaurants that provide accommodation, one is called Fanjia Restaurant and the other is called Ping'an.

Chen Zi'ang and his group entered this Ping'an Restaurant. The restaurant was not big, but fortunately there were enough room left for a few people to rest.

The waiter in the hall is the boss's youngest son, and the kitchen is controlled by the eldest son and his wife. The boss is a short and strong old man, and his voice is loud and he speaks in a roaring way.

Now he is yelling.

"Wife! Hurry up and clean up the remaining four rooms upstairs, and there are distinguished guests to live in!"

A woman with a thin figure and a pleated face ran out of the back quietly and quickly went to the second floor. She didn't say a word in the whole process, and looked even more mute than Chen Zi'ang.

The shopkeeper looked at his wife with satisfaction, he was able to work, had no complaints, and had little food to feed. This was his good wife!

"Hurry up and get us some food. After we finish eating, we can rest early. It's almost dark!"

Jiansha Sun Hou slapped the table impatiently and urged him a few words.

"Someone, wait, come soon. I'll give you a few dishes of ready-made cooked food and wine, you can use it first."

"Hurry up."

Sun Hou nodded with a dark face.

It was getting late at this time, and the pedestrians on the street had already returned home. The few were tired and just thinking about resting early. No wonder Jiansha's attitude was a bit bad.

At night, the earth had fallen into tranquility. There was only a gentle breeze outside the window, and occasionally a few barking sounds in the distance. In addition, there was silence on the deserted streets.

Dong Yuner, who had been lying on the small couch on the ground, couldn't stand the torture of the Sandman and fell into a deep sleep. On the bed, the bedding had been given to the little maid on the ground. Chen Zi'ang was working cross-legged, holding the stamps on his head with both hands, and breathing seemed to be in a state of concentration.

Some noise seemed to sound in his ears. Chen Zi'ang's eyelids moved slightly, and he suddenly opened his eyes, frowned and had already got out of bed, and reached out to push the maid who was sleeping sweetly on the ground.

"Ah! What do you want to do?"

Dong Yuner held the bedding in front of her tightly with her hands, pulled out wrinkles, and her confused eyes revealed panic.

Chen Zi'ang shook his head, ignored her self-righteous feeling, quickly walked to the window, reached out and pushed open the sash.

The cold wind blew, causing Dong Yuner behind her to shrink her body, stretched her head out, and her little mouth couldn't help but open.

I saw a big fire lit in the distance at some point. From here, you could see the sky-sky light, dyeing the nearby sky with orange.

The noise became louder and louder, and it was gradually becoming clearer and more audible.

"Young Master, some thieves have entered the city!"

Dong Yuner shook her body and screamed.

*******

A few hours ago, at the gate where Chen Zi'ang and his men entered the city, the suspension bridge had already risen. A hundred soldiers were guarding the gate with serious expressions. There was a large military camp in the city not far away, and more soldiers were stationed here. Whenever there was any abnormal movement on the city wall, they could quickly rescue.

The torches were burning, and the charcoal in the iron basin reflected the light red face of the soldier who were patrolling back and forth.

"Brother Mu, come here to take over so early?"

The officer guarding the city came over with a smile and greeted a strong man in armor.

"The time has come, and I'm afraid that if I haven't arrived yet, I will be scolded to death by you, the monkey!"

The officer surnamed Mu laughed and patted the other person on the shoulder.

"By the way, how are Brother Li getting today?"

"Thank you brother Hong Fu, today's harvest is pretty good."

The officer surnamed Li shortened and his face wrinkled, "Also, Brother Mu, stop patting my shoulders, I can't stand your strength."

"I think you should practice. Isn't it embarrassing for uncle to be so weak?"

The officer surnamed Mu shook his head and looked at the thin friend in front of him with regret.

"Let's talk about it, let's talk about it!"

The officer surnamed Li beat him up and waved his hand again: "I arranged for the Fan family restaurant to prepare a table of wine and food for my brother today. I will treat it as a relief tonight!"

"oh!"

The officer surnamed Mu's eyes lit up, his throat rolled back and forth a few times, and said with a smile: "Brother is intent, so my brother will refuse!"

"What are you and my brothers who are polite!"

The officer surnamed Li smiled before the two bid farewell.

Soon, a few servants pushed a small cart towards the city gate.

"What are you doing? You know that going out in the middle of the night is forbidden!"

Two soldiers guarding the city carried spears and met them.

"What are you shouting? They are the restaurant delivering food to me, so let them come over!"

The officer surnamed Mu on the city wall poked his head out and shouted below.

"Yes, General!"

The two soldiers gave way, and before the servants pushed to the city gate, they quickly unloaded the things on the chariot.

"Hey, there are so many things today?"

The officer who had stepped down the city wall looked at the food box in surprise and the wine cans piled up in mountains, but did not notice that the servant who delivered the food today had changed a few people.

"Report to General, we are all running errands, but we just do things according to the instructions of our boss. We don't know how to arrange it. But you have so many people here, so there are not many wines, right?"

A servant bowed his head and replied.

"What do you know? How can they drink and still defend the city?"

The officer surnamed Mu roared with a tiger's face, then patted the wine jar in front of him with a look of distress, and whispered: "So much wine, Xiao Li won't prepare everyone here, right?"

The servant beside him took a step forward and was about to speak, but was quietly pulled by someone behind him and closed his mouth again.

"Forget it, drinking some wine to warm your body in this weather will not be a mistake. You guys go!"

"Yes, yes. The wine in our Fan family is famous in the countryside. Please taste it slowly, the generals! Goodbye, young people!"

Several servants pushed the cart back the same way and gradually disappeared into the darkness.

"You lazy guys have a good time today! A few of you can take a can of them and share them!"

The officer surnamed Mu swept the throat and yelled with a group of soldiers, laughing and speaking.

"Thank you, General, for your kindness!"

"Thank you, General!"

The soldiers bowed and thanked each other, and some were anxious and had already run over, and five or six people ate a can of food.

"I tell you, if you eat wine, you can't miss the matter!"

The officer surnamed Mu laughed and scolded a few times, also brought up Tanjiu, and called a few soldiers who were approaching to pick up their food and entered the cottage downstairs.

After a few incense sticks, there was silence near the city gate, and the soldiers guarding the city had no sound for some reason.

More than a dozen figures rushed over from a distance silently. Each of them was agile and Kong Wu was powerful. Several of them were the servants who brought wine and food not long ago.

The fire in the small house downstairs was red, making the small room full of warmth, but the mood of the officer surnamed Mu was cold.

He struggled and stared at the man in front of him angrily. He could not believe that this honest-looking Ma Jian would be so harsh. He thought that he would be in harmony with his colleagues and could entrust life and death, but he didn't expect that this brother Ma Jian would stab the other four people in front of him with a knife!

"You..., I, Mu Chun, are really blind. I actually recognized you as a brother!"

Mu Chun's muscles and bones were numb, and he couldn't use any strength in his body. He could only stare at his eyes, and he wished he could eat the other party.

"Brother Mu, I'm really sorry. Thanks to your care these days, I'm sorry to you as a brother. I'll apologize to you when I get down there!"

Ma Jian had a simple face and a strong physique. He was sighing at this moment. After his words, he wiped Park Dao a few times on the body of a man beside him, and wiped the blood off it.

A flash of sword light, the officer surnamed Mu had already fallen to the ground, and his face was full of regret!

"deceive……"

The small door was kicked open, and a middle-aged man in night clothes walked in. The man's eyes were calm, his eyebrows were thick, and his face had a strange red light.

"Brother Jiao Ting, it has been resolved here."

Ma Jian put away the Park Knife in his hand and bowed respectfully.

"Well, Brother Ma did a good job!"

The red-faced man Jiao Ting nodded and turned around and went out. He and a few people outside the door jumped up to the city tower. The city wall was seven or eight meters high and the staircase was more than ten meters long. Jiao Ting actually jumped up in three steps.

After a glance, the few people standing were their brothers. He nodded and then took out a bamboo tube from his arms. There was a thin rope under the bamboo tube, aiming one end at the sky, pulling the thin rope with a burning thigh, a red light soared into the sky, shining a few times in the sky and disappeared. If he had not paid special attention, no one would notice it.

"Boom..."

The sound of thousands of horses running together came from afar, and the suspension bridge at the city gate also slowly descended to welcome the crowds of people coming from the darkness in the distance.

"drive!"

The sound of horse hooves became louder and louder. Under the light of the city gate, you could see a hazy figure. There were as many as thousands of armored cavalry running wildly, and behind them, the sound of infantry walking on the ground was faintly heard.
To be continued...