Yang Qi saw that these people were carrying knives and they were not malicious, so he quickly drew his sword to take precautions.

These people came over to form a circle and surrounded Yang Qi. One of the tall people looked at Yang Qi and saw that he was wearing the uniform of the Guards. He said: "It turns out that he is the military commander of the Guards. That's just right.

I heard that Yang Jianshou of the Guards had scraped a lot of money from the people, so you scoundrels must have shared a lot of it, so take it out and give some to our brothers."

Yang Qi heard the tone of this man's words and knew that he had encountered a gangster.

However, he was very confused, because although Taoist bandits were rampant in the world now, Bianjing was the place where the emperor was, and the officers and soldiers were on tighter guard. There had never been any robbers and bandits within a hundred miles. He didn't know where this group of robbers came from.

Came running.

"You are so brave. You dare to come here to rob. Aren't you afraid of being caught by the officers and soldiers?" Yang Qi said.

The man laughed wildly and said, "You are using the officers and soldiers to suppress me. When the officers and soldiers come, I will rob them too. Hand over the money quickly, or I will kill you."

Yang Qi said: "I am here to do something, and I don't have any money."

The man said fiercely: "You are fooling me, you soldiers will rob you wherever you go. You will have no money on your body. You are a liar. If you are wise, please hand it over to me. I will spare you."

One life, or I will chop you up and feed you to the wolves."

"Hand it over, hand it over -" the people around them shouted, waving their knives.

Yang Qi knew that these bandits were ruthless and would do anything if they were angered. In order to go back and report the news to Hua Ju smoothly, he took out the five taels of silver he was carrying and threw it to the man, saying: "I only have this

If there are more, it will be easier for a hero to travel."

The man picked up the silver, weighed it, sneered twice, and said, "I want to use this little silver to treat me as a beggar."

Yang Qi said: "Hero, I really don't have anything left in me. I hope I can make it easier."

The man put the money in his arms and said, "If you don't listen to me, don't blame me for being rude. Go ahead and arrest him."

The people around him swarmed forward, and Yang Qi immediately waved his sword to resist, but there were too many people on the other side, and he was caught before he could hold on for a while.

The leader walked up to Yang Qi, slapped him twice, and then had his body searched, but nothing was found.

"Damn it, I really don't have any money."

The leader gave Yang Qi two more slaps in displeasure and said, "Take him away to me."

"Hero, wait a minute." Yang Qi shouted.

"Is there anything else?" the leader asked.

Yang Qi actually had nothing to say, he just wanted to delay a little more time.

Because Zhou Lu and Xu Kui were rushing here, if they didn't let them know that there were bandits here, they would be arrested like him, and no one would go back to report the news.

So he wanted to delay a little longer and let Zhou Lu and Xu Kui know that there were bandits here, so that they could avoid this place and go back to report the news.

"Hero, my mother is sick at home. I rushed back to see her. I hope you can show mercy and let me go back." Yang Qi said nonsensically.

The leader sneered and said: "It doesn't matter to me that your mother is sick. If you want me to let you go, don't even think about it unless you get some money."

Yang Qi said: "I still have some money at home. If you let me go, I will go home and give it to you right away."

Snapped!

The leader slapped Yang Qi again and cursed: "Let you go back so that people can come and arrest me. You think I am a three-year-old child. You dare to lie to me. We will see how I deal with you and take you away later."

"

Yang Qi hurriedly shouted again: "Wait a minute, wait a minute, I have something else to say."

The leader said impatiently: "Why are you doing so much trouble? Come on, I don't have time to stay here with you."

Yang Qi said: "If you are worried, you can send a few people to follow me back. You should feel relieved now."

"Relax your mother's heart."

The leader slapped Yang Qi again, pinched his mouth and said: "You want my people to fall into your own trap, but you can follow the clues to catch me. I tell you, don't play tricks on me anymore, I

You are not a fool. Take it away for me."

"Good man, good man, my mother is critically ill at home. I have to go back to see her for the last time. Please let me go, good man -"

Yang Qi didn't know if Zhou Lu and Xu Kui were here, so he could only shout loudly and make a last-ditch effort, hoping that they would hear and stop coming.

"Stop his mouth," the leader said, annoyed.

A man next to him grabbed a handful of grassy soil from the ground and stuffed it into Yang Qi's mouth, and then strangled his mouth with a cloth bag.

"You continue to stay here and watch. As soon as you see the escorts and Lieutenant Su, arrest them immediately." The leader ordered.

"yes."

Later, the Daoist led a dozen people and escorted Yang Qi into the woods on the left.

The remaining people took away the horse Yang Qi was riding and hid it in the woods again.

Behind a small mound dozens of meters away from the woods, two people slowly slid from the top to the bottom of the mound.

These two people were Zhou Lu and Xu Kui who came later. They came when Yang Qi resisted those people. However, they saw that there were too many people on the other side, so they did not dare to show up. They could only watch Yang Qi being arrested.

Walk.

"How come there are bandits in this place?" Zhou Lu asked in a low voice.

Xu Kui also lowered his voice and said, "I don't know, maybe he came here from somewhere else."

Zhou Lu thought about it and found that this explanation was the only reasonable one, and said, "What should we do now?"

Xu Kui thought for a while and said: "In this way, I will follow those people quietly to see where they are going to take Brother Yang. You go back from another way and report to the adults, and ask the adults to send people to arrest these bandits.

stand up."

"Are you injured? You should go back and report the news. I will follow those people." Zhou Lu said.

Xu Kui said: "This little injury is nothing, I can do it. Go back and report the news quickly, otherwise Brother Yang will be in danger if you are too late."

"Then be careful."

Zhou Lu explained, led the horse and walked gently back for a while, then mounted the horse and returned to Bianjing from the other direction.

Xu Kui tied the old horse to a tree, then quietly walked around to the opposite side of the woods on the left, followed the light of the torch for about a hundred meters, when suddenly he saw the light of the torch starting to go downwards, and he immediately ran away

Go ahead and hide behind a rock and stick your head out to take a look.

I saw those people escorting Yang Qi to the bottom of a dirt slope more than ten meters high, where hundreds of people were ambushing him.

"With so many people, it seems they are not ordinary bandits." Xu Kui thought.

In order to hear clearly, Xu Kui took the risk and ran to the corner on the side of the mound. There was less than ten meters away from those people, and normal voices could be heard.

"Sir, we captured a person who was escorting the army."

The leader walked up to a man in his forties, tall and similar in appearance to Tong Guan and said.

"Bring me here and let me take a look," the man said.

The four people twisted Yang Qi's arms and pushed him to the person. Yang Qi saw the other person's appearance clearly by the firelight, and was shocked: "It's him, Tong Wei."

It turns out that this person who looks like Tong Guan is Tong Guan's younger brother Tong Wei.

Yesterday, Cai Jing asked Cai Song to send a letter to Tong Wei. In the letter, he told Tong Wei that Hua Ju had secretly sent people to assist Su Yuanjing in bringing witnesses back to identify Tong Guan. Once Tong Guan was convicted, everyone would

They all had to die, so he asked him to lead some people to pretend to be bandits and guard here. Whenever they see Sun An, Su Yuanjing and the others coming back, they will be robbed and killed.

Tong Wei happened to be off duty these days. After reading the letter, he immediately led his five hundred trusted soldiers, disguised as ordinary people, and sneaked out of the city to guard here, waiting to rob and kill Sun An, Su Yuanjing and others.

"It turns out it's you." Tong Wei looked at Yang Qi coldly and said.

Before Yang Jian and Tong Guan broke up, they had contact with each other from time to time. Whenever something happened in each government, they would send messages to Yang Jian. As Yang Jian's bodyguard, Yang Qi followed him to a banquet at Tong Jian and Tong Guan's house.

, so Tong Wei also knew him.

"Get the thing out of his mouth," Tong Wei said.

The soldier untied the cloth, and Yang Qi spat out the dirt in his mouth and asked, "Commander Tong, what on earth is going on?"

Tong Wei did not answer, but asked with a sneer: "I heard that after Yang Jian died, you switched your arms to that boy named Hua?"

"Sir, you are joking. As a soldier of the Guards, I have a choice. Naturally, I will obey whoever is in command. There is no question of changing my position." Yang Qi said with a smile.

"Hmph——"

Tong Wei sneered a few times and said: "As expected of someone who has been around that old dog Yang Jian, he is quite good at talking. Okay, I won't chat with you anymore. I ask you, are you going to help?

Su Yuanjing led someone to testify against my brother Tong Guan, where is Su Yuanjing now?"

Yang Qi heard the danger in Tong Wei's tone, and knew that he was pretending to be a gangster here to deal with Su Yuanjing and the others, so naturally he would not tell him the truth, and said: "My lord, I misunderstood, I was just ordered to go

The town thirty miles away is just helping Mr. Hua find someone, not to assist Taiwei Su."

Tong Wei snorted coldly and said, "I'm asking you nicely, but if you don't tell me, don't blame me for being rude. Someone, call me."

Someone kicked Yang Qi from behind, causing Yang Qi to fall to the ground. Then four people surrounded him and kicked and punched him, leaving him covered in bruises and vomiting blood.

"stop!"

Seeing Yang Qi vomiting blood, Tong Wei shouted, and the four people immediately stopped and backed away.

Tong Wei went over and kicked Yang Qi's body until he was on his back. He looked down at him and asked, "How is it? Are you willing to talk?"
To be continued...