Dusk converges in four directions. Elegant words and emotions are first expressed.

  In the main house of an ordinary farmhouse at the junction of Lingshou County and Zhengding County, a bean-sized lamp was lit.

  A youth wearing a sky-blue robe with golden embroidery, carrying a fragrant sachet and holding a whip, rode a tall sorrel horse, followed by six or seven robust attendants, strolling leisurely across the fields like a young nobleman on an outing with his entourage on a spring day, completely carefree of the summer heat, finally stopping in front of a farmhouse.

  "Lu Lao Si, go ask for directions." The finely dressed young man shouted loudly, his voice revealing a hint of complacency and excitement. "After walking such a long way, I'm thirsty too, so help me get a cup of tea to drink while you're at it."

  "Alright!" A middle-aged man with a raccoon dog's goal shouted loudly, slapping the door with a bang.

  "Who is it?" A man with a broken eyebrow, wearing a blue coarse linen short jacket, shouted loudly, opening the door and poking his head out. His face suddenly changed, full of fear: "Fourth, Fourth Brother!"

  Lu Lao Si furrowed his brow, gave him a look, and said loudly: "Excuse me, where is this place? Our young master has lost his way and would like to ask for a cup of tea." He then quickly whispered: "Pretend you don't recognize us!"

  The man with the broken eyebrow finally came back to his senses after a while, saying: "This is Wangjiazhuang." His voice was trembling, and his face was also somewhat pale. "You, you come in!" As he spoke, he creaked open the large door and quickly retreated to one side.

  Lu Lao Si looked at him strangely, muttering to himself "This Wang Xiao Liu is possessed by a ghost", and then hurriedly ran off to report to the young man: "Young master, this is Wangjiazhuang, just east of Lingshou, only forty or fifty miles from the county town."

  The young master dismounted his horse with a haughty "hmm".

  Several attendants followed him into the courtyard, just in time to see Scarface leading a few people out of the main hall.

  The two groups faced each other, and the young noble stopped in his tracks. The scar-faced man, however, was trembling all over, and he quickly glanced at the sturdy man behind him before hastily stepping forward.

  Lu Lao Si asked in a low voice, "Where is the person?" Seeing several stout and robust strangers with an air of righteousness following behind him, he couldn't help but be slightly startled and suspiciously asked, "Are these your people?"

  Scarface nodded hastily and pointed to the inner room on the east side: "Miss Duan is inside." His voice was trembling.

  Lu Lao Si heard this and was stirred up, the little bit of confusion in his heart was thrown out, he said in a low voice "follow the plan", then loudly shouted: "Do you know who we are? We are people from Pang's family in Ling Shou County, our young master is Pang Wu Gong Zi, how could you let us drink tea in the courtyard? Are you crazy?" Then he complained to Pang Gong Zi in a loud voice: "That Li Xiu Cai is really not a good thing. Master pitied him for selling words on the street and couldn't make ends meet, often helped him out with one or two things, who knew he didn't know how to advance or retreat, this time it was supposed to be thanking Master for his great kindness and inviting you to drink at home, but in fact it was to offer his wife's sister as a concubine. If Master wasn't calm and composed, I'm afraid he would have fallen into Li Xiu Cai's trap. But also made Master angry, riding a horse and running wildly, getting lost on the way, if not for Lao Shi's quick thinking, how could we find you? How could we suffer this idle anger?"

  Among the shouting voices, the young noble retreated a few steps back, closely followed by a guard.

  A sudden slapping sound came from the inner room on the east side.

  The young noble and his entourage all perked up.

  Lu Lao Si, who was standing beside Knife Scar Face, suddenly pulled out a dagger from his waist and stabbed it into Knife Scar Face's chest.

  Diao Cicai stared blankly at Lu Lao Si, and all sounds came to an abrupt halt.

  "For what? Why?" he chuckled, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth onto his collar, leaving tiny stains.

  "You're a bandit!" Lu Lao Si sneered with a smile. He twisted the dagger that had been thrust into Knife Scar's chest, then quickly retreated behind his followers.

  Those followers pounced on the scar-faced man like wolves and tigers.

  Among the followers of Knife Scar's face, someone shouted "Pang Kunbai, you actually want to kill and silence" and rushed over.

  Both sides fought fiercely in one place.

  Young Master Pang Kun gazed coldly at everything in front of him.

  These several attendants were fugitives he had brought from the northwest, ordinary people would be no match for them.

  A fleeting thought flashed through his mind and he soon discovered that something was amiss.

  It was probably the scar-faced man's death that scared his followers. His own followers took control of the situation as soon as they came on stage, but as both sides clashed, the scar-faced man's followers quickly came to their senses and began to resist strongly, taking advantage of their numerical superiority, two against one, and for a time, they were evenly matched with his men. One of them, who was particularly robust, even punched one of his followers in the chest, producing a cracking sound of broken bones and a tragic cry...

  How can there be such a formidable person under Scarface?

  Pang Kun Bai instinctively felt something was off.

  He ordered his attendants: "Quickly, rescue Miss Dou!"

  Sui Cong responded with a "yes" and together with Lu Lao Si bypassed the crowd of people fighting in the courtyard, rushing towards the main house.

  Someone intervened in between.

  The followers relied on their superior martial arts skills to rush past, but Lu Lao Si was entangled by two people and knocked to the ground.

  "Miss Duan," the attendant saw someone else intercepting, so he ran to the east window of the main house, "crash" pulled down half of the window, "We are people from Pang Gongzi, we are here to save you!"

  The window sash slammed onto the person who rushed over to stop the attendant, and a face with an expression as cold as frost appeared in the window.

  Followers were stunned.

  A flying dart with a red tassel was stuck in the throat of an attendant.

  The big red tassels were trembling with force.

  The attendant's eyes widened in shock as he stared at Du Zhao, and after a long while, his body thudded to the ground.

  Everyone in the courtyard who was fighting looked over.

  Pang Kunbai's entourage stared at him in shock.

  Pang Kunbai let out a sudden "huh" and straightened his body, instantly losing the leisurely air he had just now.

  "Doujia's fourth sister," he said loudly with a gloomy face, "I am Pang Kunbai of the Pang family, I'm here to save you!"

  "Is that so?" Dou Zhao smiled. The smile in the twilight had an inexplicable mockery and ridicule, "The son of a wealthy family, how can he suddenly appear in this remote farmhouse with a group of ghosts and rascals? You are obviously impersonating! Uncle Duan, help me take down all these people, I want to send them to the government office for interrogation. If they dare to resist, kill them immediately, it's all settled by our Dou family!"

  These people are very skilled, previously because they were worried that these people were the followers of the Pang family, Duan Da Shu and others did not dare to fight back with all their might, and were also afraid of being hacked by these people. Some were tied up. Now with Du Zhao's words, Duan Da Shu and others suddenly felt a sense of relief, loudly responded with a "yes", and ruthlessly beat them up without any politeness.

  The situation changed immediately.

  Pang Jun's forces began to falter and retreat in defeat.

  Pang Kunbai took a look at Du Zhao, whose eyes were cold and menacing. He thought carefully about the strange behavior of Knife Scar and others after he entered the house, and immediately realized that things had been exposed.

  He pulled his leg and ran out of the door.

  But was caught by Uncle Duan with a handful of collar.

  Uncle Duan hesitated and didn't know what to do.

  Pang Kunbai shouted loudly like a pig being slaughtered: "My father is Pang Yinsuo. My aunt is the daughter-in-law of Shaanxi Governor Wang, if you dare to move one finger on me, I will kill your whole family..." As he spoke, he punched Duan Shu's belly with his backhand.

  Of course, Pang Kunbai's flower fist and embroidered leg hitting Duan Shu were just scratching an itch, but Duan Shu's scalp was numb.

  The county magistrate who destroyed his family, the prefectural governor who exterminated his gate. A despicable person like Pang Kunbai can really do such a thing.

  "Duan Shu, you don't have to listen to his nonsense." Du Zhao's cold voice came from afar. "If he is a relative of the Shaanxi Governor Wang, that's even better. After we capture him, send him to my fifth uncle in the capital and let Governor Wang give us an explanation for the Duan family. We can't be cheated by others!"

  Yes, how could I have forgotten this!

  Miss Duan knew who it was, but still allowed them to beat the person until they couldn't take care of themselves. She must have had her own backing. As a bodyguard, she only took people's money and helped them avoid disasters. At worst, she would take the money and run away. With her skills, she wasn't afraid of not being able to make a living... Besides, she had long since looked down on these rich young masters who didn't take them seriously...

  "Miss, we're all ears." Uncle Duan chuckled and threw a punch at Pang Kun's belly.

  Pang Kunbai let out a miserable cry, clutching his stomach and curling up like a shrimp. He vomited up all the yellow bile.

  Chen Xiaofeng, who was standing beside Du Zhao and responsible for protecting her, looked at her with some unease and said: "Miss, you wouldn't really want to kill Pang Gongzi, would you? He's the only son of the Pang family, and I'm afraid that if something happens to him, the Pang family won't let it go easily..."

  Dong Zhaodao said calmly: "Is there a fifth son of the Pang family here? How come I don't know? All I know is that my carriage overturned, I borrowed this farm to take shelter, encountered bandits, extremely cruel, and my guards were defeated and killed. If the Pang family wants to settle accounts with me, they should first explain why Pang Kun wanted to hijack me?"

  Chen Xiaofeng smiled wryly and said: "I'm afraid that if this matter gets out of hand, it will ruin the young lady's reputation..."

  "Damaging my reputation?" Duan Zhao's anger was stirred up by this, and she coldly interrupted Chen Xiao Feng's words. "Pang Kun Bai had people kidnap me and bring me here, why did he have to wait until nightfall to pretend to coincidentally rescue me from danger? It's just an excuse because of the late hour, to make me stay overnight at the Tian Zhuang, creating a situation where a lone man and woman are together in one room. Then he can loudly come to propose marriage, making the Duan family have no choice but to marry me off to him. If it weren't for Su Xin and Su Lan by my side, I'm afraid I would have already fallen into his trap! Reputation? Being able to punish Pang Kun Bai is worth more than any reputation! It's just right to give those people who are eyeing me a warning!"

  Chen Xiaofeng remained silent.

  If Duan Zhao was really a thirteen or fourteen year old maiden, waiting to get married with a heart full of shyness, for the sake of her reputation, she would be cautious and might choose "a gentleman takes revenge ten years later", temporarily letting Pang Kunbai off, waiting for an opportunity to clear her past shame. But having lived two lifetimes, she had already decided not to marry again, and sooner or later would become a person with a strange and eccentric personality in the eyes of the world, so why did she need to swallow her anger and let Pang Kunbai off?

  However, there is one sentence that she particularly likes.

  My aunt is the daughter-in-law of Shaanxi Governor Wang Xingyi...

  Dong Zhao couldn't help but reveal a faint smile.

  There was a faint sound of horseshoes coming from afar, like thunder in his ears.

  Chen Xiaofeng's ears and eyes were more acute than ever, so he naturally heard it too.

  His face changed color greatly.

  Horses are things that are controlled in the army, it's normal for a wealthy family to raise a few, but suddenly appearing with so many...

  Was it Pang Kunbaite who invited the people from Weiduoso?

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  In March, I returned home and started paying off debts with everyone's continued support as always.

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