The black shadow behind the old locust tree was shocked and immediately turned around and ran towards the forest in the distance. Soon, he got into the forest.

In the Huo Mansion courtyard, dozens of men in black rushed out from their hidden places. They lit torches one after another and shone the courtyard as daytime. The leader was Zhang Li, the captain of the Inner Guard. The Inner Guard had found Huo Zhishan's home, so Zhang Li led the samurai warriors to Xingyang day and night.

Several warriors rushed into the yard and held the man in black. The man was shot in an arrow on his leg. He lay on the ground with a look of pain and kept begging, "I am not Huo Zhishan, spare my life."

Zhang Li grabbed his clothes and said, "Who are you? Why did you climb over the wall at night?"

"The villain is Yang Ping, who is the neighbor next door. Huo Zhishan just found me and asked me to climb over the wall to help him open the door, so I agreed-"

"Where is Huo Zhishan?" Zhang Li asked anxiously.

Yang Ping pointed outside the door, "It should be outside."

Zhang Li left him and rushed out. Dozens of inner guard warriors rushed out one after another. No one was seen outside the mansion. Zhang Li ran over the old locust tree and saw a dark forest a hundred steps away. Huo Zhishan must have run into the forest.

Zhang Li was extremely regretful. He could have caught Huo Zhishan, but was fooled by this cunning bastard. He was really unwilling to accept it. He waved his hand and said, "Follow me to search in the woods."

Dozens of inner guard warriors followed Zhang Li to the woods. At this time, Huo Zhishan had already run several miles away. He leaned against a big tree and gasped, secretly glad that he was cautious and escaped.

Huo Zhishan was about 20 years old, with a medium figure and a pretty face. He started practicing martial arts at the age of seven, and was taught by famous teachers, and developed a strong martial arts. With his innocent family background, he was selected as the Qianniu Guard and became the backup guard of the royal heir Li Dan.

But in an assassination case a few days ago, he became a criminal wanted by Dali Temple and the inner guards. Huo Zhishan sighed, and he didn't know what to do. But he needed some money and fled from his hometown and hid in the south. He wanted to look at his father again before leaving, but unexpectedly there was an ambush at home.

Huo Zhishan pondered for a moment, then turned around and rushed towards the county town.

During the second update, Huo Zhishan came to the welcoming restaurant in the Dongcheng Gate of Xingyang County. This was the restaurant opened by his second brother Huo Zhifu. Although they were half-brothers and ten years apart, the relationship between the two brothers was very good. Huo Zhishan believed that his second brother would help him.

He observed outside the diner for a long time and confirmed that there was no ambush in the diner, so he knocked on the back door. After a moment, the voice of his second brother Huo Zhifu came from the backyard, "Who is it?

"Second brother, it's me, I know goodness"

Huo Zhifu's voice at the door suddenly became nervous, "Wait a minute"

After a while, he opened the door, looked at both sides, and pulled his brother into the courtyard. Huo Zhifu and his brothers looked nothing like each other. Huo Zhishan had a long face, a well-proportioned figure, and a strong figure, while Huo Zhifu had a round face, a short and fat figure, and his small eyes showed the cunning and shrewdness of a businessman.

But at this moment, his face was full of worry. He waved his hand and signaled his brother not to speak. He grabbed him into the small room where the miscellaneous items were piled up. Huo Zhifu closed the door, lit a small oil lamp, pressed his brother down with all his strength, and said nervously: "What happened? There are notices that want you everywhere in the county town. Today, the county magistrate also brought people to my diner to search."

Huo Zhishan smiled bitterly and said, "It's hard to say anything, but can I give me some food? I'm so hungry."

"Wait"

Huo Zhifu went out. After a moment, he brought a large plate of cold beetle cakes and a pot of rice wine. "It's all cold, there's no way, let's eat it first."

Huo Zhishan was already hungry and chewed like a wind blowing the broken clouds. After a while, he ate a plate of Hu cakes and drank a pot of rice wine to clean it. Then he breathed a sigh of relief and ate it satisfactorily.

Huo Zhifu looked at his brother, and when he finished eating, he said, "You can tell me now, what happened?"

"Second brother, someone wants to assassinate the Prime Minister. The three of us personal guards died. I am very lucky and only suffered minor injuries and escaped."

"Then why are you running away? You are still wanted by Dali Temple. Is it something you have to do with the assassin?" Huo Zhifu deserves to be a shrewd businessman, and he said it to the point in one sentence.

Huo Zhishan showed shame on his face and nodded slightly, "I was confused for a moment and did not resist the temptation of gold. He agreed to cooperate with them, but I refused to do it. They settled for the second best and asked me to provide accurate information. I told them the daily routine of the Prime Minister, and the Prime Minister was stabbed in the backyard."

"Is the King of Xiang dead?" Huo Zhifu asked in shock.

"He was very lucky, but he was injured and escaped. However, when Dali Temple and the inner guards came to investigate, they discovered my flaws, so I had to escape while they were unprepared."

Speaking of this, Huo Zhishan sighed. His flaw was that although he was injured, he was not poisoned. Although he repeatedly explained, it still aroused the suspicion of Dali Temple and was about to take him away and interrogate him in depth. Apart from escaping, he had no other choice, and he would not even dare to stay in the capital, otherwise he would be silenced by the other party.

Huo Zhifu was stunned for a while. He knew that his brother had caused a big disaster and might have life worries. He asked in a trembling voice: "What are you going to do?"

Huo Zhishan was about to speak when he suddenly felt something was wrong. He suddenly blew out the lamp, but it was too late. With a loud bang, a big hole was opened in the wooden house. A man in black rushed in, carrying a sled hammer weighing dozens of kilograms in his hand, and hit him with a hammer head-on, with an extremely fierce momentum.

Huo Zhishan was extremely agile, and he jumped backwards, and he flipped out his body flat, avoiding a fatal hammer. The man in black was extremely powerful, but his body was also extremely flexible. He smashed the air with one hammer and rushed closer. The hammer hit the debris. The debris were extremely narrow, and Huo Zhishan had nowhere to hide.

At this moment, Huo Zhifu, who was knocked to the ground, hugged the man in black, shouting: "Sanlang, run quickly."

The man in black was furious, and the sledgehammer suddenly swung back, hitting Huo Zhifu's face. A scream was heard, and the sound of skull shattering sounded. Huo Zhifu's brain fractured and died tragically under the sledgehammer.

When Huo Zhishan saw his brother die tragically, his eyes turned red, but there were no weapons around him. He seized the opportunity he created for him by his brother, and pulled the old tables high with force. More than a dozen old tables collapsed and lifted the man in black out of the house. Huo Zhishan jumped out of the broken wooden hole. There were four or five men in black in the yard. They were ambushed around and waved their swords to fight Huo Zhishan.

Huo Zhishan broke a table leg and blocked several swords in succession. Compared with the hammer holder, these men in black who were holding swords had much weaker martial arts skills. Although Huo Zhishan was physically injured, he was not at a disadvantage by fighting against three.

The man in black was knocked over by the table and kicked the table away, wielding a sledgehammer to pounce on Huo Zhishan. He was extremely skilled in martial arts. Several series of hammers hit like wind and lightning. Huo Zhishan was suddenly filled with danger. He heard a "crack, and with a sound, the table legs in his hand were smashed to pieces.

At this moment, someone shouted on the wall of the courtyard: "The inner guard is here, withdraw quickly."

The sound of running footsteps came from all directions. The man who was about to catch Huo Zhishan, but was rushed by the inner guard. He was unwilling to accept that he roared and smashed more than ten hammers in a row. Huo Zhishan surrounded a big tree and blocked left and right, avoiding more than a dozen hammers. Seeing that the man who was unable to do anything to the other party for a while, he had to stomp his feet and "retreat"

Several men in black ran into the restaurant, but the hammer dancer didn't know that the hammer smashed the table leg just now made Huo Zhishan's wound break, and a large amount of blood gushed out, and he could no longer support it. If he persisted for a while, he could kill Huo Zhishan, but unfortunately he failed.

Huo Zhishan didn't want to be caught by the inner guard. He had already seen a large number of sword-holding warriors appearing on the wall, so he gritted his teeth and ran away, but he only ran a few steps, and his eyes turned black and he fell to the ground.

When Huo Zhishan woke up, he found himself lying in a carriage. The carriage was moving rapidly. His limbs were buckled on the floor with belts. His body swayed left and right with the carriage. The injuries on his body seemed to have been bandaged. However, he was very weak and felt extremely tired. He was so tired that he couldn't even speak.

Huo Zhishan turned his gaze slightly and found three inner guard warriors sitting beside him, holding long swords in their hands, all looking at him coldly. Huo Zhishan remembered that his second brother was imprisoned and died tragically, and he couldn't help but feel sad. Tears surged out and closed his eyes in pain.

When Ho Zhishan woke up again, he found that he was no longer in the carriage, but was lying in a room with his hands moving, but one foot was catching with thick iron chains. He slowly sat up, held back the pain all over his body, and pulled the iron chains hard, which rustled.

At this moment, a voice came from behind him, "If I were you, I wouldn't have done such a useless thing."

When Huo Zhishan turned around, he saw a tall young man walking into the gate behind him, "You are... Li Zhen."

Li Zhen smiled slightly, "There are almost no ones in Qianniu Wei who don't know me."

"You killed my brother?" Huo Zhishan said gritting his teeth.

Li Zhen stood in front of him and looked at him calmly, "I thought you were a smart person, but I didn't expect you to be a fool. Did we kill your second brother?"

Huo Zhishan slowly lowered his head. He was angry for a moment, but he knew that the hammer dancer was one of the people who bought him. He sighed, "Master Li, I'm sorry, I don't know who was going to assassinate the King of Xiang. They only had two contacts with me, and I don't know them."

Li Zhen took out the seven-leaf pearls and held them in his hand and asked, "You should know it."

Huo Zhishan stared at the pearl for a while before nodding helplessly, "It was them who gave it to me and let me throw it on the scene."

"Do you know how you exposed the flaws?" Li Zhen asked lightly.

"I don't know, maybe it's because I'm not poisoned."

"It's not actually that, because the person who stabbed you did not take the poison blade. The real flaw was this pearl. After the assassination, the guards had carefully searched the back garden and searched every corner. No pearl earrings were found. But when we went there, we found it, obviously thrown next to the pavilion, and there were no other guards close to the pavilion except you."
Chapter completed!