Tuisi Garden, in the Songfeng Hall of Ten Thousand Valleys.

Lord Xu sat firmly on the Diaoyutai, listening to the noise outside with his two brothers and a group of nephews.

Xu Da and others kept coming in to report.

"Old Master, the government troops rushed into the West Mansion and arrested many people, even the Second Master was arrested!"

"Ah?" Xu Long and Xu Chen's faces turned pale, thinking that Xu Jie had really said it.

"Humph, he deserves it." Xu Jie said with a sigh of relief, "If he hadn't gone insane and used the silver seal to secretly impeach me, I wouldn't have retired so early."

If he were still in power, how could we have encountered such a catastrophe today?

"Luckily my brother called us here in advance." Xu Chen was thankful again, "At least we escaped a disaster."

"Is Tuisi Garden absolutely safe?" Xu Chen asked.

"Hai Rui wouldn't be so crazy as to surround the residence of the Prime Minister, right?" Xu Long said.

"It shouldn't be that serious." Xu Jie picked up the teacup, took a sip and said, "You guys stay here for a while and wait and see..."

"Old Master, the government troops have surrounded the garden." Before he could finish his words, Xu Da hurried in to report.

"Ugh." Xu Jie felt his face burning, and tea almost dripped from the corners of his mouth. After a while, he said, "The rioters are the most dangerous at this time. The government troops are here to protect us."

"Old man, it's bad, the mobs are rushing in!" Not long after, Xu Da came in for the third time. "Old man, get out of the way!"

"Oh, brother, let's run!" Xu Chen stood up in fright.

"You guys go, I'm not going anywhere." The old man Xu, whose face was swollen from being beaten, still sat there motionless and said, "If they want to arrest someone, just come and arrest me. I want to see how they explain it to the world!"

"Alas..." Seeing Xu Jie who was determined to do it, the brothers and nephews had no choice but to leave through the back door.

~~

Xu Da, along with a group of servants, armed with swords, guns and shields, stood guard at the entrance of Wanhe Songfeng Hall with nervous expressions, protecting the old man from being harmed by the rioters.

Those people who rushed in were naturally deterred by the scene. They came here to smash, loot and have fun, not to be beaten.

At this time, Niu Chenshi and the government troops also came after them, and the rioters dispersed in a hurry.

Seeing this, Xu Da was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but Niu Chenshi waved his hand and said, "Protect Mr. Cun!"

The officers and soldiers lined up outside Wanhe Songfeng Hall to keep watch, and put Lord Xu under house arrest in the name of protection.

"What are you going to do?!" Xu Da was not stupid, and he became anxious at that time.

"The rioters have rushed into Tuisi Garden. It is very dangerous inside the garden. We are here to protect Master Cun Zhai until the government troops have cleared out all the rioters and then withdraw." Niu Chenshi explained a few words with confidence, then bowed and said loudly in the court:

"Just rest assured, Mr. Cun. We are here and will never let the rioters hurt you."

In the hall, Lord Xu was so angry that he trembled and fell into deep thought. He never expected that Hai Rui, a man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, would actually play tricks. What about the rioters attacking Tuisi Garden? It was just you who deliberately let them in to clear the way!

But he didn't dare to react excessively at this time, otherwise if the other party moved him to another place to protect him, he would really be so ashamed and angry that he would hang himself.

"Thank you, Mr. Niu. Would you like to come in for a cup of tea and a chat?" There was no anger in Lord Xu's voice.

"I dare not. I, a humble official, will just stand guard outside for you." Naturally, Niu Chenshi wanted to stay away from this plague god.

~~

Tuisi Garden covers an area of ​​three hundred acres. When the rioters rushed in, no sound was heard in the ** Garden deep in the garden.

The brothers Xu Fan and Xu Ying, who were imprisoned by Xu Jie, were still playing mahjong to kill time out of boredom.

"Miscellaneous." Xu Fan threw away the two dominoes in his hand.

"A bunch of bastards! Haha, you are a bunch of bastards and I am a bunch of bastards, but we can still beat you!" Xu Ying was overjoyed and stretched out his hand to Xu Fan. "Give me money, give me money."

Xu Fan threw the copper coins on the table that were used as bargaining chips to the third brother.

Who knew that he used a little too much force, and the coin fell to the ground, rolling away.

"Hey, my money!" Xu Ying quickly jumped up, chased for a long distance before picking up the coin, then blew the dirt off it and put it on the table happily.

"You won't even let go of a penny!" Xu Fan rolled his eyes.

"It's just like my father and grandfather." Xu Ying said without any shame: "Isn't this how we accumulated such a large fortune?"

"You have to be blessed to enjoy it." Xu Fan snorted, "What's the use of all your land, houses and beauties if you are locked up here?"

"Brother, can we be locked up here forever?" Xu Ying said anxiously, "We have to find a way to get out."

"There is a way." Xu Fan pointed at the east wall with his chin and said, "There is a dog hole there. Get out."

"I, Xu Ying, am also a fifth-rank official and the son of the prime minister. Even if I were trapped to death, starved to death, or bored to death in there, I would never crawl into a dog hole!" Xu Ying shook his head.

Xu Fan was about to speak again when he suddenly heard a commotion outside.

He listened attentively, as if someone was saying something like "Don't let them run away".

"What's wrong?" Xu Ying's face changed. "Are they here to arrest us?"

"Don't talk nonsense, where is this?" Xu Fan didn't believe it, and stood up and walked to the locked door. He glanced out through the crack of the door, but saw that the two servants guarding the door had disappeared, and some people dressed as soldiers were searching everywhere.

"You're right, you crow's mouth!" Xu Fan looked at Xu Ying with a pale face.

Xu Ying's face changed several times, and suddenly he ran towards the east wall, lifted the mat covering the corner, revealing a dog hole as big as a washbasin.

He went in without hesitation and escaped from the ** Garden through the dog hole in one go...

Xu Fan twitched his lips twice, not caring about shame anymore. Since no one could see him, he closed his eyes and crawled out of the dog hole.

"Oh my, Third Brother, help me, my stomach is stuck."

Xu Ying was drained of his body by alcohol and sex, and was skinny, so it was easy for him to get into the cave. But he was middle-aged and had good food, so it was inevitable that he would gain weight. He was stuck in the cave and could not move forward or backward.

Xu Ying quickly fell back, grabbed his arms with both hands, and pushed hard against the wall.

With a pop, the eldest brother was pulled out.

"Fuck, you need to lose weight." Xu Ying said breathlessly.

"Keep your voice down." Xu Fan rubbed his burning stomach and asked, "What should we do?"

"Follow me." Tuisi Garden was the one supervised by Xu Ying, and he was very familiar with it.

He took Xu Fan with him and, with the help of the cover of the bushes, came to the entrance of a secret canal not far away.

"Give me a hand." The two men lifted the stone slab covering the channel mouth, and a foul smell from the sewer hit them in the face.

"From here, we should be able to get out of the garden." Xu Ying whispered.

"Please." Xu Fan made a gesture of invitation.

"Please." Xu Ying and Xu Fan gave way and were unwilling to go down first.

In the end, the winner was decided by rock-paper-scissors, and Xu Ying was in front and Xu Fan was behind. The two of them went into the sewer one after another and put the lid back on.

Then, one in front and one behind, they groped their way forward in the stinking, muddy culvert...

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