Chapter 3: The County City Chaos [Part 2]

After waiting for a while, someone came to deliver food to the two monks at the door. Zhang Yuan took the opportunity to give instructions to the servant who was delivering food and asked him to help him deliver a message to his father.

After the servant who delivered the meal left, about ten minutes later, the man returned to Zhang Yuan's courtyard gate and brought Zhang Yuan his father's oral order.

"What did my father say?" Zhang Yuan asked.

"Reply to the fourth young master, the master said, "You are not allowed to go out, just practice martial arts well, and don't worry about other trivial matters." The servant who delivered the meal said.

"..." Zhang Yuan felt like Mingjing. Of course, he understood that the "trivial matters" his father said were the uprising of the second uncle Zhang Jiao, but it was not his turn to worry about life and death, so he was "locked" at home and was not allowed to go out.

"Fourth Young Master, do you have any instructions?" the servant asked.

Zhang Yuan glanced at the man, then waved his hand and said, "Okay, nothing is wrong, you go down."

"Yes, the Fourth Young Master." The servant responded, then turned around and left.

Zhang Yuan sent the servant away and basked in the yard listlessly for a while. The warm sunlight made the person's eyelids dizzy. He couldn't help but doze off. Zhang Yuan rubbed his eyebrows, stood up, and said to Zhang Sihu next to him: "I'll take a nap, don't bother me if you have nothing to do."

"Yes, young master." Zhang Sihu said.

Zhang Yuan returned to the house, lay on the bed, closed his eyes, and fell asleep in a blink of an eye...

Just when Zhang Yuan was sleeping, the Tizhou County City underwent earth-shaking changes. First, the four gates of the county city were closed in advance, and the whole city was martial law. Then a large number of officers and soldiers patrolled the streets. All vendors on the streets were dispersed, all shops were closed, and all refugees were driven to designated areas, and heavy troops were photographed around the refugees.

On the head of the east city gate of the county town, Zhang Jiao stood above the head of the city in a blue shirt. Nearly a thousand soldiers stood under the city, and another person stood beside Zhang Jiao. This man was a bald old monk, but the old monk had no incense scar on his head and was wearing a cassock, which was really strange.

At this time, a young general wearing mail walked close to the two of them, clasped his fists, bowed to Zhang Jiao and said, "General, all four city gates have been closed, and the guards guarding the city gate have been replaced by ours, everything is ready."

"Well," Zhang Jiao responded softly, then turned his eyes to the old monk and said, "Uncle Master, can the guards of the Zhang Mansion and Song Mansion be arranged properly?"

The old monk clasped his hands together and said with kindness: "Don't worry, venerable, everything is arranged properly, and the people in the Zhang Mansion and Song Mansion will never be harmed."

Zhang Jiao nodded and was about to say something else, when a middle-aged man in a gray scribe robe walked over quickly. As soon as he approached, he hurriedly said, "Sir, something happened! The Gongsun family, the Chen family, the He family and the Li family have killed all the messengers we sent!"

"Amitabha." The old monk shouted the Buddha's name, and the general wearing a mail next to him suddenly stepped forward and said to Zhang Jiao: "General, the four major families are too presumptuous! They actually kill the messenger regardless of morality! It is obvious that they do not take the general seriously. There is no need to persuade them to surrender. General! The last general is willing to take the order and kill all five families! To serve as a warning to others!"

"Sir, when I came just now, a secret whistle came from a secret whistle, the Gongsun family, Chen family, He family and Li family, there were a large number of people hidden in the houses of these four families, and I suspect that the four families were already in a row. If this is true, their strength would definitely be not weak. Moreover, they have a very prestige in Tizhou and have a higher prestige in the county town. If we fight with the four families head-on, we may suffer both losses." The middle-aged scholar said worriedly.

Zhang Jiao frowned, pondered for a moment, then turned his gaze to the old monk and asked, "Uncle Master, what do you think you should do?"

"..." The old monk was silent for a moment and said, "The Lord, the Zhang family, the Gongsun family, the He family and the Li family are known as the four major families in Tizhou, among which the Gongsun family is the most. The Gongsun family has a close relationship with the Dajiang Alliance. If the people from the Gongsun family are killed, they will inevitably get into evil with the Dajiang Alliance. The alliance controls more than 60% of the rivers in the Ming Dynasty and cannot be offended easily. It is not worth the loss to get into evil with it."

"Master Pushan, of course we know what you said, but the four major families are already standing opposite us. We must respond in some way, otherwise when the four major families suddenly pop up, what should we do?" said the middle-aged scholar.

"These me know..." The old monk Pushan looked embarrassed, sighed, and said, "It's a pity that Senior Brother Pudu is dead. Otherwise, with Senior Brother Pudu's prestige, he would definitely win the recognition of most people in the temple. It would not be like this. It would be so troublesome to mobilize some monks in the temple."

Zhang Jiao frowned and said, "Uncle Master, I don't know if you can invite Master Liujue. If you talk to the host in the name of Master Liujue, the host should agree to mobilize more monks to help."

"This is impossible. Senior Brother Liujue has not been concerned about the world for many years. Besides, fame and fortune are worse than dirt for Senior Brother Liujue. How can we impress Senior Brother Liujue with?" The old monk Pushan shook his head and said.

"In this case..." Zhang Jiao was silent for a moment, then turned his eyes to the general wearing mail and said, "General Lu, you can remove a battalion of soldiers from the West City Gate around Gongsun's family and surround him without attacking him! In addition, send a message to my elder brother, and ask him to mobilize the Zhang family and eliminate the Chen family, He family, and Li family!"

"Give the orders of humble duties." The young general wearing mail took the order and left, and the middle-aged scholar said hesitantly: "Sir, although Lord Zhang Liang has excellent martial arts, the Chen family, He family and Li family are all wealthy families, servants, and many guards, and the heads of the three families are all innate masters..."

"Hahaha..." Zhang Jiao suddenly laughed, interrupted the middle-aged scholar's words, and then said: "Don't underestimate my elder brother. Even if I underestimate my elder brother, don't underestimate the Zhang family. The Zhang family has less than 200 people, including more than 100 men, but these more than 100 people are proficient in martial arts and combat formations! How can the family of military generals be underestimated? Not to mention the three merchant families, even if they are three martial arts families, once they face the Zhang family, they will only end up being destroyed!"

In the evening, the fire in the West dyed the sky red, and the bright red sky seemed to indicate something, causing panic in the city of Tizhou County.

Dangdang... Dangdang...

A gong sounded suddenly at the Zhang family mansion. Listening to the rhythm of the gong, the servants and the guards of the Zhang family immediately knew that this was the call of the gong, and it was the highest-level call. So the servants and the guards put on armor, took weapons, and then went to the main house to gather.

Zhang Yuan was sleeping soundly, but was woken up by the sound of gongs. Then he heard the noise. He was shocked and hurriedly put on his clothes and shoes, then opened the bedroom door and walked out of the bedroom. As soon as he went out, he saw Zhang Sihu running out of the door, so he hurriedly shouted: "Sihu, what happened?"

Zhang Sihu heard Zhang Yuan's voice and stopped quickly and turned around and said, "I don't know either, but someone beat the gong of the call. I'll go to the gathering quickly. Master, I'll go first."

After Zhang Sihu finished speaking, he hurriedly left without waiting for Zhang Yuan to reply. Zhang Yuan felt a little uneasy when he saw Zhang Sihu's hurrying look, so he raised his foot and was about to walk outside the courtyard. However, as soon as he reached the door, the two monk statues that were originally motionless moved again. They opened their eyes at the same time and took a step forward at the same time, just blocking Zhang Yuan's route and blocking him inside the door.

"Young Master, you cannot go out without the orders of the head of the Zhang family." said the monk.

"..." Zhang Yuan was speechless. He looked at the monk, looked outside the door, and finally took a deep breath, then turned around and walked back to the yard. At this time, Bai Mei, Qingqing and Yuting also left the house. Seeing Zhang Yuan in the yard, they all asked their worries. Zhang Yuan waved to the three girls as a response, and then walked back to the bedroom without saying a word.

Night falls.

After dinner, Zhang Yuan stayed in the house to read books, but he did not read poetry and essays and Jinglun, but "Grimm's Fairy Tale". This book was found by Zhang Yuan from Santa's red cloth bag and was kept under the bed by him. Today, he happened to find something to pass the time, so he took it out and looked it through pages to kill time.

The pages of the book were turned one by one, and time passed by one second. In the blink of an eye, it was late at night. Zhang Yuan felt his eyes dry, so he closed the pages and wanted to take off his clothes and sleep. But he just unbuttoned the outer button and suddenly...

Boom... Boom...

Hula... Hula...

Wow... Wow...

There were bursts of noise from the outside world, and it was like a crowd of people and a mess!

When Zhang Yuan heard the noise, he was stunned at first, then quickly buttoned it again and walked out of the bedroom. After walking out of the house, the noise outside was clearer. At this time, he could judge that the noise was not from the Zhang family, but from the street outside, or the entire county town was making noises!

At this time, Zhang Yuan suddenly heard a sound at the door, so he turned his head and looked over, and found that two new monks had been replaced by the two monks who had originally guarded the door.

Zhang Yuan looked at the two new monks, hesitated for a moment, then walked to the door and asked the two monks: "Two masters, can you tell me what happened outside?"
Chapter completed!