C11 South of Yangzhou City

However, Hong Tianxiao suddenly changed his mind the day before yesterday. In the original book, when Mao Shiba appeared in the Beautiful Whorehouse, he was already severely injured. There was no explanation as to who had injured Mao Shiba in the original book, thus Hong Tianxiao had begun to wander around the city since the day before yesterday, hoping to meet Mao Shiba in advance and see who had injured him. As a result, other than listening to Lady Xiuping play the zither every day, Hong Tianxiao wandered around aimlessly within the city until it was dark before returning to the Beautiful Whorehouse once again.

On this day, Hong Tianxiao, as usual, started strolling around Yangzhou City after listening to Lady Xiuping's music. When it was noon, he ordered four dishes and a pot of wine from the Shengli Restaurant in the south of the city. He then leisurely ate and drank. The difference between the quality of the wine in the Qing Dynasty and that of the current set of wines was not too great. It was just that the quality of the wine was slightly lower, while the quality of the wine in the southern section of the Yangzhou was even lower.

Halfway through drinking, Hong Tianxiao suddenly heard a soft conversation coming from the next table.

"Brother, I heard that the great thief Mao Shiba, who killed many people for their goods, came to Yangzhou?"

"Mao Shiba, isn't he the hero that killed the rich and poor? It seems like this Yangzhou, Chief Commander, Cui Zhitong's brother-in-law, He Zhengkai, died in his hands. I heard that Cui Zhitong was willing to give it up to Mao Shiba in order to get revenge for his brother-in-law, so wouldn't he just be walking right into a trap if he comes to Yangzhou now? " It seemed like this person had quite a high opinion of Mao Shiba.

"Brother, do you want to die? You even dare to say such words. If others hear them …" Saying that, he looked around at the tables. Seeing that no one was paying attention to their words, he relaxed and made a head-butchering gesture, continuing, "This is a heinous crime, be careful not to speak of it aloud. "However, how do you know He Zhengkai died at the hands of Mao Shiba?"

"Sigh, Brother Lee doesn't know that Mao Shiba is my benefactor. Last year at this time, that scoundrel He Zhengkai actually took a fancy to your sister-in-law and said that he wanted to rob her into his residence as his thirteenth concubine. I didn't have any other choice at that time and was about to commit suicide with your sister-in-law when Mao Benefactor appeared. When he heard of this, he flew into a rage and immediately wanted to kill He Zhengkai. We had to give up on the idea of suicide for now and wait for news. However, each of us had a kitchen knife in our hands, and once He Zhengkai came to snatch the person, we would both commit suicide. "After a day of panic, the news spread like wildfire that He Zhengkai had been killed. The two of us knew that He Zhengkai had been killed by Mao Benefactor." This person spoke so many words in one go. He instantly felt thirsty and gulped down the wine in front of him.

"Oh, I see." The man surnamed Li suddenly came to a realization. He looked around and lowered his voice, "Brother, do you know, the government already knows Mao Shiba's traces. They are preparing to ambush Mao Shiba at the southern end of the city in the afternoon and capture him."

After Hong Tianxiao heard this, not only did he understand the reason why Mao Shiba was injured, he also lamented that this teahouse was indeed the place where the news spread the most quickly.

Since he knew Mao Shiba's whereabouts, he naturally could not let him get injured again, and even more so, could not let him stay in the Beautiful Whorehouse. As a result, Wei Xiaobao and Mao Shiba could no longer form a relationship, and Wei Xiaobao could no longer head north to enter the capital, much less enter the imperial palace to replace Xiao Guizi.

After the meal, Hong Tianxiao called for the waiter to settle the bill and asked for the exact location of the broken sunset. Then, he floated down the stairs.

Just as Hong Tianxiao arrived at the entrance of the broken sunset, he felt a strong killing intent. Killing intent was an intangible smell, an idea that one could not smell with their nose. One had to reach a certain level in their martial arts to feel it, Hong Tianxiao could feel it, but Mao Shiba could not. When Hong Tianxiaofei climbed up the tallest tree, he clearly saw a burly man holding a big sword walking towards him from the southern entrance of the dilapidated sunset.

Hong Tianxiao looked into the slope again and saw a large group of people lying on the ground. There were probably more than a hundred of them and each of them had a shiny steel knife in their hands. Hong Tianxiao could not help but be extremely surprised. He did not expect that they would send out such a lineup in order to capture Mao Shiba's official residence. It seemed that Mao Shiba's kung fu was quite impressive. Furthermore, if the ambush on Mao Shiba was successful, with Mao Shiba's martial arts skills, there was no possibility of escape, how could he hide within the Beautiful Whorehouse to recuperate from injuries? Could it be that there was some sort of plot between them, Hong Tianxiao could not understand it no matter how he thought about it, and could only watch on quietly.

As expected, Mao Shiba could not feel the murderous aura inside the Break of the Setting Sun at all. He only focused on moving forward and arrived at the ambush point of the soldiers in a short while.

As Mao Shiba walked, he suddenly heard a loud shout: "Mao Shiba, let's see where you can run to today."

Mao Shiba was shocked. The moment he raised his head, countless soldiers appeared on the slope and surrounded Mao Shiba. In the middle of the crater was the road that had to be passed through from the south to the north. In the past, the great battle between the Ming Army and the Qing Army happened here, so the Ming Army was arranged to ambush here and defeat the Qing Army.

It turned out that the hundred or so soldiers he had seen were from the north. With more than a hundred soldiers from the east, west and south respectively, and with five hundred soldiers participating in the ambush on Mao Shiba, there was only one person who could mobilize so many soldiers to deal with all of them. That was Yangzhou, and that was Chief Commander, Cui Zhitong.

Mao Shiba had been wanted by the government and had been ambushed by soldiers many times. However, this was the first time he had seen such a lineup. When he saw it for the first time, he was shocked. However, Mao Shiba was a man after all. He regained his composure shortly after and laughed out loud. "I didn't think that the f * cking Tattoo would think so highly of me. He actually used such a lineup. Hahahaha." Although Mao Shiba pretended not to care, he did not dare to be careless in his heart. While he was speaking, he had already handed the broadsword in his left hand to his right hand and was also preparing for a fight.

"Mao Shiba, your Heaven And Earth Meeting is anti-thief, killing people for their goods and committing all sorts of crimes. The imperial government has already placed a large bounty on you, and today, the Setting Sun Slope will be the place where you die. As long as I have your head, I, Cui Zhitong, will have a bright future, hahahaha." Cui Zhitong saw that Mao Shiba was already besieged. Thinking about how he could not escape this time, he was reassured and excited. He even managed to come up with what he wanted to do.