Just as Zhang Feng was running wildly, another person came down the mountain. It was Zhao Chuhai's captured soldier who had escaped from Tieshan. They were originally borrowing the Pinggu County patrol station on the mountain and were now returning along the original road, one step ahead of Zhang Feng to inform the bandit suppression camp.

  He had been running all the way and his clothes were all torn by the grass and woods in the mountains. At this moment, Zhang Shiyeh led him to Zhao Chuhu's temporary tent.

  "Old master, someone has returned from the mountain and looks a bit disheveled." Zhang Shifu whispered in Zhao Chuhai's ear.

  Zhao Chuhai's expression changed as he was drinking tea, his face showing a mix of emotions, and he put down the teacup saying: "Bring him in."

  Zhang Shiyé hastily led the captured soldier who had escaped from the mountain into the tent. Zhao Chuhé looked at his subordinate, who was dressed like a beggar, with an expressionless face: "Speak, what's going on? Why did you come down the mountain alone? How did things go?"

  A string of questions revealed that Zhao Chuhai was not as calm as he seemed on the surface, and at this moment, he was more worried about the mirror frame on the mountain, after all, it was related to his life and death.

  The man who had been slapped immediately knelt down on the ground. Normally, Zhao Chuhai's power was considerable, and these underlings were extremely afraid of him. This time, their affairs were thoroughly botched. He was afraid that if he spoke out, Zhao Chuhai would take his life directly. Kneeling on the ground, he couldn't utter a single word.

  "You'd better say it, what's the situation!" Chapter Shigong saw Zhao Chuhai's face getting more and more difficult to look at, so he quickly kicked the catcher with one foot. The catcher was kicked into a sudden movement, and hastily stammered out the whole story from start to finish.

  "Back... back to report to the master, the matter on the mountain... it's all messed up, Chen Batou is dead, Wang Deputy Batou is dead, and even Little Chen Deputy Batou might not make it..." The subordinate finished speaking and fell to the ground, not daring to utter another word.

  At this moment, Zhao Chuhai only felt a loud noise in his mind, like thunder rolling and shocking the world. He saw a golden star in front of him, staring at Zhang Shiyeye who was speaking with his mouth open, but he couldn't hear a word. In a daze, he seemed to see his own doomsday.

  "Master! Master! Wake up!" Zhang Shiyeh shouted loudly at Zhao Chuhai, but at this time, Zhao Chuhai had already fallen into a demonic trance and did not respond.

  Zhang Shiyeye gritted his teeth, raised his right hand and "slapped" a palm print on Zhao Chuhai's left cheek. This slap was not light, and Zhao Chuhai's left cheek swelled up at a speed visible to the naked eye, also waking up Zhao Chuhai who was still in a daze.

  "Huh? Master Zhang, you dare hit me?" Zhao Chuhai asked coldly as soon as he came to, feeling the burning pain on his left cheek.

  "Master, ah, I had no choice, the situation is urgent and you're still unconscious, so I took the liberty of waking you up."

  "Hmph! Considering your loyalty to the master, I'll let it slide this time. Hurry up and bring me that cold towel for Master's face!" Zhao Chuhai covered his already swollen left cheek, enduring the pain.

  Zhang Shifu wiped the sweat from his forehead and hurriedly went to prepare a cold compress for him.

  "You! Speak more clearly, how did all three of them die?" The cold question made the kneeling catcher tremble with fear.

  The little ones were originally led by Chen Ban Tou to the location that had been previously scouted, but who knew that just as we were about to ambush, three people appeared in front of us. Chen Ban Tou and Wu Lao Da immediately thought that those three people were from the mountain stronghold, after all only they would know the way down the mountain. So we started to surround and kill them, but unexpectedly one small guy ran back up the mountain before we could catch him.

  Chen Ban Tuo knew at the time that they would suffer, so he wanted to quickly kill the remaining two people. Originally, he thought it was a done deal, but unexpectedly, the young man severely injured one of our brothers as soon as he made his move. Everyone was shocked and reasonably surrounded and killed him."

  "Wait a minute, are you and Wu Qiu's men in cahoots?" Zhao Chuhai interrupted him.

  "Yes, so many people joined forces and used their combined strength, but still couldn't take him down. Instead, he gradually gained the upper hand. Wu Lao Da saw more and more of our brothers getting injured by that kid, so he personally took action. As soon as Wu Lao Da made his move, it was indeed very powerful, immediately disabling the kid's arm. But what's even stranger is that after the kid picked up a sword dropped by one of our brothers with his single arm, the situation suddenly turned around, and instead, Wu Lao Da was suppressed to the point of being unable to move. It was at this moment that someone shot an arrow to sneak attack Wu Lao Da, and the people on the mountain appeared. When we retreated and turned back, we only discovered that Chen Ban Tou had been seriously injured."

  Zhao Chuhai was confused by the string of words from his subordinates, he didn't understand how Wu Qiu, who was skilled in martial arts, was suppressed by a young and unknown kid, nor did he understand why Chen Banhou suddenly became seriously injured. Zhao Chuhai hastily asked his subordinates to explain clearly, now his mind is very confused.

  "The little one didn't know what was going on, only heard that Vice Captain Chen said Vice Captain Wang was a traitor. Oh! And also, Ninth Master appeared, but he was behind us and opposed to us." The subordinate let out a sigh of relief, finally finishing saying everything he knew.

  "Zhu Laojiu, Wang Fubantou..." Zhao Chuhai thought carefully, but he had no clue. At this time, Zhang Shiyeye returned, and Zhao Chuhai called him over to ask questions.

  "Tell me about Wang, the deputy class leader."

  Zhang Shiyé was familiar with everyone in the entire yamen, knowing their characters and moral integrity, so that Zhao Chuhé could easily find someone to do things for him.

  Now that he heard his master asking, Zhang Shifu's mind vaguely recalled: "Wang, the deputy captain, this man is ruthless and poisonous, was appointed as deputy captain during the tenure of the former county magistrate. Originally, when Master took office, it would have been customary to promote him to captain, but Old Chen intervened, so he remained a deputy captain until now. However, this person can be considered loyal, and over the years, he has also benefited greatly from following Master. His only shortcoming is that he is greedy; he covets everything - women, money, property, big or small, cheap or not. Moreover, he often goes to Ninth Young Master's gambling den to gamble."

  Upon hearing this, Zhao Chuhai understood why Zhu Laojiu had turned against him and why Wang, the deputy squad leader, was a traitor. It seemed that there must have been some kind of deal between them.

  "If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have settled Zhao Jiu's case so quickly." Zhao Chuhai thought to himself with a hint of regret.

  "Master, what should we do now?" The timid Zhang Shifu was at a loss and could only seek advice from his master.

  "We must leave here immediately, not a moment to delay, let's go! Let's go now!" Zhao Chuhai gritted his teeth and made up his mind, taking Zhang Shiy with him, without even looking at the kneeling captor, he directly walked out of the tent.

  After being caught for half a day, he slowly raised his head and took a look around, then sneaked out quietly.

  "What! You say Zhao Zhi County is not in his tent?"

  "Going back to what the adult said, I went to the county magistrate's tent to invite him, but I sought an audience outside for half a day and no one responded. I had to muster up the courage to go in and take a look, only to find that there was not a single person inside, and even the tea on the table had gone cold."

  Qiu Fu was even more certain now, it seemed that Zhao Chuhai indeed had a problem, and the account book with ten ** was true.

  "Li Dan, take people to Pinggu County immediately and seal the four gates. If Zhao Chuhai is still in the city, he must not be allowed out." Qiu Fu turned around and instructed Li Dan.

  "Brother Qiu, why don't you just give a direct order to capture him, why go through so much trouble."

  "It won't do, without an imperial decree, how can we possibly have the authority to simply arrest a sixth-rank county magistrate? Now our only hope is that he hasn't had time to escape from Pinggu County yet." Qiu Fu said helplessly.

  "All right, I'll take the lead!" Li Dan cupped his hands and led the way, taking the only 500 swift horses from the two thousand households to rush towards Pinggu County...

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