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Chapter 262 The prisoner knelt on all fours, crying bitterly...

Night falls.

The torches were lit.

Most of the thieves still knelt at the gate of the village, and the imperial guards strictly guarded it.

A small number of women and children were locked behind the stockade and guarded by the guards.

But these guards are all Baiqi who went up the mountain later.

The twenty-eight people who rushed up first were arranged near the village owner's house. They were called resting in the euphemistic name, but they were actually monitoring.

And resting is not allowed to sleep alone, several people must sleep together, watch the night in shifts, and the candles must be lit to the brightest.

After Cheng Wuzhong made the arrangements, he came to the village owner's house, where Li Yan was sitting in the hall practicing kung fu.

He came to the front and asked for instructions: "Li Jiyi, what do you think?"

Li Yan nodded: "Thank you, Leader Cheng, for your cooperation."

Cheng Wuzhong said sincerely: "As Li Jiyi said before, there is a specialization in the art industry, and I only fully understand it now."

"When it comes to marching and fighting, and surveying the terrain, I have been trained for many years, so I am naturally good at it. But when it comes to searching for clues and tracking down the murderer, it is fortunate that there are detectives like Li Jiyi present!"

"It's just that there are three suspects this time, and we don't know what's going on in the village. Will it be difficult to investigate?"

Li Yan laughed: "Three suspects are too many? I have never been so comfortable investigating a case!"

Cheng Wuzhong was puzzled: "How do you say that?"

Li Yandao: "The range of suspects in the past was either unable to be identified, or there were three hundred. There was no such an environment that isolated the inside and outside. It was like a blizzard. People inside couldn't get out, and people outside couldn't get in... ..."

Cheng Wuzhong was stunned, and complimented: "So that's the case, the internal guards have a heavy responsibility, everyone has worked hard!"

Li Yandao: "Being loyal to the emperor and serving the country is not a matter of hard work. By the way, Cheng Lingjun was born in Lanzhou, so I can't hear his accent, but he speaks a standard Guan dialect. I mistakenly thought that Cheng Lingjun was from Lu Guogong's mansion... "

Duke Lu is Cheng Yaojin, and Cheng Wuzhong shook his head: "I was born in a poor family, how dare I climb the lintel of the Duke? This accent was also learned after coming to Chang'an, as long as your Majesty can hear it comfortably."

Li Yan nodded: "It's no wonder Cheng Lingjun can gain His Majesty's trust!"

Cheng Wuzhong said sincerely: "Your Majesty not only trusts me, but also trusts and takes care of us and Baiqi. We will share the land with our family, and we will not lack everything!"

Li Yan asked: "According to Cheng Lingjun's opinion, if Baiqi would really follow the thief, what would be the reason?"

Cheng Wuzhong's face darkened: "In my opinion, I, Baiqi, are loyal to His Majesty, and it is impossible to betray him!"

Li Yandao: "Do you understand each other?"

Cheng Wuzhong said resolutely: "Of course I understand. We eat and live together, and we are as close as brothers. We have agreed a long time ago. If anyone among the hundred riders has an accident, the wives, children and family members will be entrusted to others to take care of them. We will never break our promise!"

Li Yandao: "I have also seen before that the Hundred Riders advance and retreat with a certain degree of understanding, not only need a lot of training, but also trust each other, and leave the back to the comrades."

Cheng Wuzhong raised his thick eyebrows: "Give your back to your comrades, this statement is accurate, we are indeed like this!"

Li Yan nodded slightly: "Bring them here."

Soon, the three suspects were brought over and saluted one by one: "I've seen the leader! I've seen Li Jiyi!"

Li Yan said in a calm tone: "Don't be nervous. I called you over because the two missing imperial soldiers have not been found yet. We are all very anxious. I want to see if you have any other clues?"

The three of them shook their heads one after another: "Report to Li Jiyi, we have already told everything we know, there is absolutely nothing to hide."

Li Yan sighed: "It's a pity that there is no tea here, otherwise it would be good to refresh your mind and help you remember. Do you like drinking tea?"

The stupefied imperial guard named Xu Sanlang grinned and said, "Li Jiyi was joking, and I'm not sick, what tea should I drink?"

The honest guard named Wu Liulang also shook his head: "I don't like drinking tea."

Yuan Dalang, who spoke Liangzhou dialect, said with swollen eyes, "I heard that tea soup is popular outside now and has become delicious, but I haven't tried what it tastes like."

Li Yandao: "It seems that the Baiqi Imperial Army has relatively little contact with the outside world. It's a pity that I don't bring Yangxian tea with me, otherwise I will fry it for you to taste. The fragrant taste is absolutely unforgettable..."

The three showed half-belief and suspicion, Cheng Wuzhong said with a smile: "Li Jiyi will still lie to you? The recommendation is definitely right!"

The three of them said in unison: "Thank you Li Jiyi, if you drink tea, you can drink Yangxian tea!"

Li Yan thought to himself that the price of tea in Tubo had already been skyrocketed, and that the price in Tang Dynasty would also rise at some point, and you should be able to afford it if you want to drink it, so he said with a smile, "Sit down!"

The three of them untied their armor, sat down on their knees, and placed a delicate crossbow across their knees.

Li Yan's eyes fell on it: "This is the crossbow equipped by Baiqi? Can you show me?"

Yuan Dalang looked at Cheng Wuzhong, Cheng Wuzhong nodded his chin slightly, and he handed over the crossbow.

Li Yan took it and played with it carefully: "What a delicate crossbow, do you have a name?"

Cheng Wuzhong said: "It's called the Shence Crossbow. It is said that it was made by an inner guard craftsman in the past. Later, it was distributed to the elite inner guards and our Baiqi."

Li Yan raised his eyebrows: "I didn't expect this relationship to exist."

Cheng Wuzhong said with a smile: "Li Jiyi doesn't need this kind of crossbow anymore. You are from the Li family in Longxi, so you must have learned the secret of bowstring strength. When I climbed up and looked far away, my eyesight really envied me!"

Li Yan looked at him: "I haven't mastered the secret of bowstring strength yet. In the army, the main trainers are angle resistance and bowstring strength. You are all carefully selected elites. It must be in these two strengths. Are they all soaked deeply?"

Cheng Wuzhong said: "I don't dare to be profound, I can only say that I have worked hard."

Li Yandao: "Can you do a drill?"

Cheng Wuzhong was a little puzzled, but he also turned to the three of them: "Give Li Jiyi a rehearsal, just use the old scuffle, don't hold back!"

Yuan Dalang got up immediately: "Good!"

Xu Sanlang and Wu Liulang also stood up, and the three came to the center and began to confront each other.

Li Yan looked at it for a while, and his eyes quickly lit up: "It's a chaotic battle, everyone is an enemy, and everyone is an ally that can be formed temporarily. The winner is the one who stands at the end. This kind of luck technique , and practiced the actual combat to the extreme.”

Cheng Wuzhong said proudly: "I'm always like this. I have been tempered a lot, and only when I kill the enemy on the battlefield can I cope with it!"

Li Yan nodded.

Before playing polo in Liangzhou, he once saw two strong men weighing more than [-] kilograms compete in a Chiyou show, that is, sumo wrestling, which is very entertaining.

The current chaotic fighting in the Hundred Horsemen has a much higher threshold for appreciating it. Ordinary people don't know who is fighting with whom when they see the chaos. Only those with strong martial arts can discover the essence of it.

Li Yan watched it most with relish.

After listening to Cheng Wuzhong's praise, the three of them acted positively.

At first, he kept it a little tighter, but in the back, he punched to the flesh, practiced hard blocking, and blushed.

Xu Sanlang was the first to go out, and Yuan Dalang punched him in the ribs, and he fell down grinning.

But as soon as he fell to the ground, he skillfully took out the ointment from his waist and applied it. The bruise on his body was not obvious, and he practiced kung fu very well.

The second person to fall was Yuan Dalang, who was thrown by the shoulders with a grappling force, and landed unsteadily, and couldn't get up after sitting on his butt.

He looked at Wu Liulang who stood silently until the end: "Okay, honest Wu, you won again!"

Wu Liulang stood firmly on his legs, and patted his head honestly.

Cheng Wuzhong looked at Li Yan: "How?"

Li Yan clapped his hands and praised: "It's a rare contest, and it makes me very anxious!"

Cheng Wuzhong was startled: "Does Li Jiyi also want to compete with me?"

Li Yan shook his head and stood up: "I want to make a move with the three of you, just hit each other with force."

Without waiting for everyone's reaction, he came to Xu Sanlang: "Please get up."

Xu Sanlang stood up in a daze, and saw Li Yan's five fingers splayed angrily, and pushed him over.

He moved forward with both hands, but felt a surge of force rushing towards him. He was kicked into the air, leaped a distance of three meters, hurriedly adjusted his posture, and landed on the ground.

Li Yan nodded, and came to Yuan Dalang again, pushing him slowly but urgently.

Yuan Dalang chose to dodge, but he couldn't dodge at all. He was also thrown into the air, adjusted his posture in mid-air, and landed on the ground.

When Li Yan came in front of Wu Liulang, Wu Liulang's body tensed up, and when he was about to speak, he saw a palm push him over.

The winner flew out directly, fell to the ground with a bang, and became a rolling gourd. After rolling three or four times in a row, he lay on the ground and couldn't get up immediately.

The crowd turned pale.

Xu Sanlang rolled up his dead fish eyes and stared fiercely at him.

Yuan Dalang said angrily: "Li Jiyi, we have already fought a big battle, so naturally we will not be your opponent, why did you strike so hard?"

Cheng Wuzhong also said in a deep voice, "Li Jiyi, I need an explanation!"

Li Yan said: "The force I used on the three of you just now is exactly the same force."

Cheng Wuzhong was startled, and looked at Wu Liulang on the ground, but Xu Sanlang and Yuan Dalang didn't believe it at all: "Impossible, although your strength is great, you can't beat Wu Laoshi like this!"

Li Yandao: "Then you have to ask him. It's not that I treat him specially, but that he himself is close to exhaustion and is just holding on."

Xu Sanlang and Yuan Dalang were stunned, and then Li Yan continued to ask: "In your military training, you usually have to leave some strength?"

Yuan Dalang said: "Of course, no matter what training we do, we must maintain three points of strength to adapt."

Li Yan walked up to Wu Liulang and looked down at him: "Then what did you do during the day, so that it took much more energy than other imperial guards? Why did you insist on winning the corner just now, so that Exhausted?"

A gleam of panic flashed across Wu Liulang's face, and he tried his best to get up and said, "Li Jiyi misunderstood, I just want to win too much..."

Li Yan's eyes could see all the changes in his expression, and he said in a deep voice: "Think carefully, I don't know what kind of personality you usually have, but they will know it very well! A lie needs countless lies to be true. Can you justify yourself?"

Wu Liulang's pupils shrank, his lips trembled, and he finally lowered his head.

He knelt on all fours, his shoulders shrugged, and tears fell on the ground in big drops.

(End of this chapter)