The Lin family has always liked to play with the two lines of light and dark. Even within their own family, they insist on creating two lines: a magician and a Mu family.
The original intention was to hope that the competition between the two lines would inject a bit of vitality into the family, but today, many years later, the two lines have completely violated their original wishes. The competition between the two lines has long since changed into something else.
The Shu family is trying to find ways to suppress and bully the Mu family, and the Mu family is secretly plotting against the Shu family, and even in some major actions, they will engage in "self-inflicted" acts like Kuocheng, where the Mu family led people to sneak attack on the Shu family.
The same is true for the Licheng in front of us. Everyone is a member of the Lin family, but they are also divided into two families. The only difference from Kuocheng is that here, the people of the Shu family are in the dark, Ni Loach and others are in the light, and Ni Loach is in charge.
In this way, a figure similar to Ke Qing is in power, and is secretly coordinated by people from the master's lineage.
Although the overall situation is dominated by Ni Loach and he also has the right to order Shu Mang, he is not qualified to understand Shu Mang's entire situation. Moreover, over the years, Ni Loach has not been doing his job and has gradually lost his binding force on Shu Mang. Instead, he has become Lao Bu
and the relationship between Lao Shi and his cooperation.
Under this relationship, they have cooperated with each other for a long time. It was during a cooperation that Lao Shi accidentally heard that under Shu Mang's control, the Lin family had at least ten "standard teams" in the city.
The Lin family's standard team is a very strange name. The so-called "standard" actually changes depending on the place, people, and tasks.
Even if someone knows how many people are in a standard team in other places, they cannot tell how many people are in a standard team in Li City. According to Lao Shi's conservative guess at the time, there should be close to hundreds of Lin family warriors in Li City.
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Now it seems that Lao Shi is too "conservative", because according to the current standard of twenty-five people, then in the city, the Lin family in Shu Mang's hands has almost three hundred people.
Name, this is quite a large team.
After thinking carefully, Zuo Feng roughly guessed the reason. The greatest value of this city is not only the important city bordering Xuanwu and Yelin. It is the Lin family's straddling the area between Yelin and Xuanwu. This is a very important place.
bridge.
There is another more important reason, that is, there is an eight-door locking formation near Li City, which the Lin family has coveted for a long time, so it is understandable that so many extra manpower are sent here.
Shu Mang said it unintentionally, but Zuo Feng, the listener, paid attention. Obviously, this piece of information might be of great help to him.
Just as Zuo Feng was thinking about it, suddenly there was a heavy banging on the door. The sound was so loud that it seemed like it was going to blow them away, and it was continuous and very fast.
Usually such a knock on the door is extremely impolite, because it is only done during the so-called "announcement of mourning". If it were the previous Shu Mang, he would have taken action directly at this moment.
But Shu Mang, who was sitting in the first place, changed his expression and said in a deep voice: "Everyone, get ready, Shu Nin, go and open the door of the middle hall and welcome people in."
As soon as the door bolt was taken off, a strong force came and the two thick doors made of green iron wood were blown open. If the jutsu nin hadn't seen the opportunity quickly and evaded it first, this would have happened.
I'm afraid it was knocked out by the door panel.
Shu Mang didn't even have a chance to speak. The person who rushed into the room had already said in a cold voice: "If you haven't opened the door for so long, are you hiding the prisoner that the Sheriff wants to arrest?"
This jutsu nin was worthy of the word "nin" in his name. It was obvious that the other party was being unreasonable and barging in like a bandit. There was clearly anger flashing across his face before, but in the blink of an eye, it was replaced by anger.
With a smile on his face, he said: "No matter how brave we are, we don't dare to hide the prisoner appointed by the county guard."
Immediately, a dozen warriors wearing Donglin County uniforms walked in. Judging from their fierce looks, they seemed to be ready to take action immediately.
After all, this Shumang was still in charge of the world. He immediately noticed something was wrong and jumped out from behind with a movement of his body.
It seemed that he had forgotten to suppress his cultivation, but everyone could clearly see that he deliberately exposed his strength. The few warriors from Donglin County only saw a middle-aged man with a goatee in front of their eyes.
appear in front of you.
All the Donglin County warriors had wary eyes in their eyes. This middle-aged man, who was a bit philistine, had the strength of the late stage of Na Qi, and was even close to the peak of Na Qi. Together, these few of them were not enough.
His arrogant and domineering attitude has also been somewhat restrained.
"Please be patient, everyone, it's our fault that we didn't open the door on time just now. Because the streets in the city are under martial law, we thought we couldn't do business today. I was taking the guys in the warehouse to take inventory, and that's why I delayed opening the door for you.
Forgive me, forgive me."
This Shumang spoke first, and his words were polite and did not mean to overwhelm the opponent with his cultivation level. This made the faces of the strong men from Donglin County on the opposite side soften a lot.
"You..., this medicine shop is not simple. What are those for? You won't tell me that they are all the clerks in your shop, right?"
Seeing Shu Mangke's politeness, one of the strong men from Donglin County suddenly became arrogant and pointed at the people standing in two rows in the hall and asked.
With a somewhat flattering smile on his face, Shu Mang raised his thumb and said: "This brother really has good eyesight, and his guess is absolutely correct. Our Tianxiang Medicine Shop is indeed not an ordinary medicine shop. Don't look at it.
Our appearance is a bit small, but we have been here since the day the city was founded.
There are records in the city lord's mansion. I would never dare to deceive you about this. Now that this medicine business has been passed down to me, it is already the third generation. It is also my fault that my descendants are incompetent and have been managing to manage it until now by relying on the reputation of my ancestors.
It was also not possible to expand the scale.
These people are actually the associates of my medicine shop, and they are also members of our herb collection team. As you know, the Tianping Mountains are near Licheng. We often send people to the core areas of the Tianping Mountains to collect herbs, so it is inevitable that there will be
Encounter with monsters, with this group of people, if you encounter monsters, you can kill them and bring back the materials."
"Hmm..." The Donglin County warrior raised his eyebrows and was about to get angry.
Shu Mang had already taken a step forward and said: "We have no choice. We have to violate the rules occasionally in order to make a living. But please rest assured that we will never kill too much. What's more, look at our power, even if we want to kill the powerful
It’s impossible for the monster beast to do it.”
While he was talking, Na Shumang had already taken out a bag from his arms. The bag was heavy, and there was a "ding-dong" sound inside when it shook.
Shu Mang gently handed over the bag and said in a low voice: "It's all just to make ends meet, and it's not easy for us. You all have worked hard all night to arrest the prisoner. I don't have anything to show my respect to you.
I'll treat some brothers to tea with some loose money."
The Donglin County warrior lazily took the bag and glanced inside. Then a clear smile appeared on his face, and it was obvious that he was very satisfied with the "small coins" in the bag.
From the sound of the collision, I could tell that it was either a gold cake or a silver cake. Judging from the look on the Donglin County warrior's face, it must be the gold cake. Such a heavy bag of gold cakes probably contains at least several thousand gold coins. No wonder the other party would
So happy.
"Okay, we are too lazy to take care of these things, but we must restrain ourselves in the future."
After saying a few words in a pretentious manner, the man continued: "The Sheriff personally ordered that the four prisoners be searched thoroughly. Their portraits are here now. If anyone is found hiding, he will be guilty of the same crime as them."
Shu Mang suddenly heard that there was a portrait, and his eyelids twitched rapidly. If you pay attention, you will find that the hairs on the back of his neck stood up instantly. But when he saw the portrait in front of him clearly, his tense expression suddenly changed.
Relaxed a bit.
The warrior from Donglin County turned around and ordered: "Bring the portraits to me and compare them one by one. Then go in and search them inch by inch. Don't let go of any suspicious places or corners. And you guys, check it out."
The identity of each of them will be recorded clearly for me, and I will go to their neighbors to check again later."
Shu Mang's eyes flashed slightly. From his posture last night, he could tell that Boka, the governor of Donglin County, was indeed very determined to capture the four people, but he did not expect that he would go to such an extent.
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If someone didn't know, they would probably think that the four of them either killed Boka's parents or pushed Boka's son into the well and drowned. How much hatred would there be to cause such a battle.
Although he was full of doubts, there was no change in his skills on the surface. He just kept smiling and cooperated very cooperatively to take out the roster and everyone's identity information, and gave it to the Donglin County warriors to check one by one.
Zuo Feng and others secretly exchanged glances. Thanks to them finding such a place to stay, otherwise if Dong was just hiding, even if he changed his appearance, he might not be able to evade the city-wide manhunt this morning.
"We are about to reach the City Lord's Mansion ahead. Our people are conducting a carpet-like search from the city wall inward. If these families have not found anything in the end, I really don't know how to explain it to the governor."
One of the warriors, while checking the identity, said to the people around him. In fact, the portrait is there, and if the person you want to arrest is here, you can recognize it at a glance, so the warriors who check the identity of the people in the hall are relatively perfunctory.
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At this time, a warrior from Donglin County ran in from outside and said, "Sir Silver Guard has an order. Everyone should return after searching quickly."
"Have you caught someone?" someone couldn't help but ask.
"I just beheaded a warrior in the cell outside the city lord's palace. Lord Silver Guard said that his head would be sent to the whole city. If they don't show up, they will kill another one in three hours. If they don't show up tomorrow, including Li
All of them, including the brothers, will be cut off."
Hearing this, Zuo Feng and Amber trembled and looked up in shock. They never expected that the other party would use such vicious methods to force several of them to show up.