Chapter 31: No Escape

Inside the city, the Yuanshi Mansion.

In the spacious living room, Marshal Hong had a happy look on his face, holding a piece of paper in his hand and sitting on a large wooden chair at the top of the living room. "Junior brother, there is news. Li Yan finally came out of the military mansion and into the city today. I wonder what he is doing here?"

Under the shadow of one of the four thick pillars in the hall, the vague figure of a strong man in a black robe and unusually sturdy flashed a little. The pillar he was hiding in was not the same as last time. It seemed that he randomly chose a pillar to hide his body behind every time. The muffled voice echoed in the hall.

"Brother, calculate the time. This person has been in the valley much longer than the last disciple. According to the last calculation, the problem of the previous disciple should have occurred after 49 days. This is in line with the Buddhist and Taoist sayings of 36, 49, and 81 small Zhoutian stoves."

"Well, I think so too. In this case, there are two points that can be confirmed. One is that the method that Ji Wenhe practices must be the mental method of the small Zhoutian that can be used as an entry level after 49 days. This is undoubtedly a Taoist method; the second is that Li Yan should have already practiced the small Zhoutian."

"Brother, these two points should be confirmed, but there are still two points that cannot be confirmed. The first is that if Li Yan can practice the small Zhoutian successfully, then is Ji Wenhe really used as the successor, or is Li Yan not good enough to be used as his poison-inducing body? The second is that if Li Yan can practice successfully, then the death of the previous disciple is Does it mean that their inner strength is really profound and difficult for ordinary people to comprehend? "

"Junior brother is right. These two points have a great impact on the next action. If Li Yan is still used as a poison-inducing body, then we have a chance to take advantage of it; if his skills are unique, then we must make good use of Li Yan and take it slowly, so that even if we get the skills from him, we will not know the tricks. "

"So what should we do now, senior brother?"

"Well, since he can enter the city today, there will be the next time and the next time. We can't contact him immediately this time, so as not to be too reckless and make him suspicious, and it will also alert Ji Wenhe. Let the people below keep a close eye on him to see what he is doing this time, and then we will make the next plan. "

"Yes, senior brother"

The hall was silent, and later, Hong Linying's figure flashed and disappeared.

"Captain Liu, you don't have to be like this. I was lucky to have your advice last time I entered the city. I haven't had the chance to thank you yet."

Li Yan hurriedly took a few steps and held Liu Chengyong's arm.

"I dare not, I dare not, I don't have any advice, I just said a few words casually." Liu Chengyong saw Li Yan's sincere face and couldn't help but feel overjoyed. He had heard that the military division had accepted another disciple some time ago. It was said that he was from Daqing Mountain. At that time, the pass that Li Guoxin showed him that day flashed through his mind, but he was not sure. Seeing Li Yan coming today, accompanied by Chen An and others from the military division's mansion, he naturally immediately understood that his guess was true.

Although he belongs to the lineage of Marshal Zhonghong, everyone in the army knows the power of the military division. It is a great benefit to be able to make friends with his disciples at the same time.

Chen An and Li Yin couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw this. They looked at each other and felt resentful in their hearts. They had rarely seen this gentleman give them a good face recently. Today, the gentleman's nerves were connected again. Why are they so unlucky?

Liu Chengyong retracted the cross-handed salute and secretly looked up at Li Yan. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart. The boy from the mountain village he met at the beginning is now an official of the eighth rank. It is not an exaggeration to say that he has risen to prominence. This is how it is easy to be an official when you have someone in the court.

Li Yan was worried about something and wanted to meet Li Shan, Li Yu and others as soon as possible.

He didn't know what etiquette to use at this time. He could only clasp his fists and say, "Captain Liu, I have some things to do in the city now. How about we talk next time?"

"Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, then I will send you off." Liu Chengyong stepped aside to make way, and the soldiers behind him also withdrew their spears and retreated.

Li Yin stepped forward and handed the reins to Li Yan, "Sir, please get on the horse."

Li Yan smiled awkwardly and said, "Let's tie the horse here for now, and we'll walk into the city."

Li Yin was stunned for a moment before he understood that Li Yan was afraid that his riding skills were too bad and he would get into trouble if he couldn't control himself on the streets of the city.

Seeing this, Chen An laughed, "Old Liu, we'll put these horses here. You can make arrangements. If we haven't shown up when you're on duty, please inform the brothers on duty behind you."

Liu Chengyong was also a worldly-wise man, so he smiled and agreed.

After they left, except for a few soldiers who were still checking people entering and leaving the city, the rest of the soldiers moved closer to Liu Chengyong. "Liu, is this guy really the one we met a while ago? He has changed a lot after not seeing him for two months."

Liu Chengyong also sighed, "Really, it seems like yesterday."

"Liu, you were very fond of him at the beginning. We still have some old friends. Maybe you can take care of him in the future," said a soldier. He was also one of the people on duty that day.

"Liu, it was not your turn to be on duty that day. Did you really meet this Lord Li?" said another person.

"Captain Liu, this Lord Li is the disciple of Lord Ji who has been widely spread recently, right?" Several soldiers asked.

After Liu Chengyong finished sighing, he was immediately overwhelmed by the questions asked by several subordinates. These brothers under his command were good at everything. When the war came, they would obey orders and fight against the enemy. However, they were too lax at ordinary times and even lacked some sense of hierarchy. He waved his hand and said, "I have met this Lord Li once. He is undoubtedly Lord Ji's disciple. Okay, okay, you don't have to ask questions. You, you, and you, take these horses to the doorway and take good care of them."

Li Yan and the other two walked quickly on the street. Li Yan was anxious and asked Chen An and Li Yin to lead the way to "Natural Wine House". After half a cup of tea, they arrived at the door of the wine shop. Li Yan found the street store he came to last time and walked in, and Chen An and Li Yin followed him in.

As soon as they entered the door, the sharp-eyed waiter came up to them and said, "Hey, three officers, are you here to drink or eat?"

These waiters are very discerning. They are used to seeing people coming and going from all over the country. They are very thoughtful. When they saw that Li Yan and his three companions were unpacked, and the first one was in a black robe, followed by two military officers, they knew that they were not guests who were just staying overnight, but came to drink or eat.

Li Yan stopped and looked around. Oh, he just watched from a distance last time. Today, when he came in, he saw that they had entered only one of the street-facing storefronts of the wine shop. There were seven or eight storefronts arranged horizontally inside, and each one was connected. It was already late noon, and many diners had almost finished eating, but there were still a lot of people playing rock-paper-scissors, slashing orders, talking, and laughing. It was still very lively.

"Oh, I'm here to find Li Yu who is learning skills here. Please find him for me." Li Yan said politely.

The waiter was stunned, and then he carefully looked at the three people in front of him, thinking, "Could it be that Xiaoyu got into trouble outside? That's not right, Xiaoyu is a child who rarely goes out."

Seeing the waiter in a daze, Li Yin stepped forward and patted his shoulder with his hand, "Our master is talking about something, are you deaf or dumb?"

The waiter was startled and immediately recovered from his daze. Seeing Li Yin's unfriendly face, he apologized, "General, calm down, General, calm down, I will go to call him now." He didn't see Li Yan looking at him apologetically, and turned around and walked towards the back hall.

Li Yan had never been so unreasonable. He was only forced to act arrogantly to Chen An, Li Yin and several women who were familiar with their temperaments a few times in the valley. People like Chen An and Li Yin, who were used to fighting and killing all day, were not so good-tempered to these ordinary people. They usually spoke with murderous aura.

Chen Anke saw Li Yan's apologetic face, and thought of his attitude towards Liu Chengyong at the city gate just now. He thought that this gentleman was in a normal state today, and said with a smile, "Sir, these thieves are dawdling, don't delay your business."

Li Yan looked at Chen An with some doubts and felt a chill in his heart. He also realized that his behavior today was a little inappropriate. Now he is a person with a violent heart, so he squinted at the two of them.

"Do I need you to teach me my business? Okay, you two stay away from me. I want to talk to my brothers. Don't disturb my peace."

When Chen An and Li Yin saw this, their faces turned bitter. They thought, "Well, this gentleman is sick again. Why can't he understand good or bad words?" ????

After a while, the waiter brought Li Yu over. He had just found Li Yu in the back hall. Because Li Yu was the nephew of the family of Li Guanshi here, and Li Yu was also very diligent and worked seriously as an apprentice, he had a good personal relationship.

After finding Li Yu, the waiter asked Li Yu if he had gone out recently and if he had caused any trouble. He told him that a man who looked like a nobleman was looking for him with two military masters.

The timid Li Yu was frightened and his face turned pale. He pointed to the sky and the earth and said that he had not gone out recently and had been in the back hall. He had not even had time to help deliver tea in the front hall. This made the waiter feel relieved.

At first, Li Yu didn't understand what it meant to look like a nobleman. If he was, then he was. If he wasn't, then he wasn't. But when he came to his senses, he thought of someone and was immediately happy. In the past few months, people in the village had mentioned Li Yan to him. He had joined the army and worshipped the famous Ji Junshi as his master. With the temperament of Li Yan, himself and Li Shan, who were born in the countryside, let alone these two months, even if it was another year, would they be noblemen if they put on luxurious clothes?

When Li Yan saw Li Yu's figure, he was excited. He hadn't left the valley for several months. Seeing his childhood playmate again, his nostalgia for his hometown suddenly rose from his chest. He couldn't help but miss Daqing Mountain, the small mountain village, his parents, and the people and plants in the village. He walked a few steps quickly to meet him.

Li Yu came to the front hall and saw a man standing at the counter from a distance. He was wearing a black robe and had an ordinary appearance, but he was so familiar. Although the temperament he exuded had changed a little, he still recognized him at a glance. Tears immediately flowed out, and he ran over with a sob. The waiter beside him sighed. This child is good in everything except crying. Every time someone from his hometown came to see him, he always had tears in his eyes, as if he had suffered a great injustice in the store.

"Brother Yan, Brother Yan, sob" Li Yu wiped his tears while running, which immediately attracted the diners around to stop what they were doing and start to watch.

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Li Yan was also excited, his eyes were red, and he hugged Li Yu who rushed over.

Chen An and Li Yin looked at each other, and Chen An quickly walked to the waiter.

"Waiter, is there a private room? Let my son and his old friend go in and have a chat!" The two of them saw that there were too many people here, and it was not a place to talk. What's more, there were half a dozen grown children crying here, and others didn't know what was going on.

The waiter quickly replied, "Yes, yes, yes, there are on this floor and on the second floor."

Chen An looked at the diners on the first floor and said, "Let's go to the second floor!"

He walked a few steps to Li Yan who was comforting Li Yu and said, "Sir, there are too many people here and it's noisy. Let's go to the private room on the second floor to talk."

Li Yan also felt that it was noisy here and he couldn't talk to Li Yu properly. When he heard Chen An say this, he was naturally happy and thought to himself, "This Chen An is really a man who can do things and has a clear mind."

They followed the waiter to a private room on the second floor. After the waiter brought a pot of tea, Li Yan asked him to leave. Then Li Yan asked Chen An and Li Yin to wait for him outside the hotel, but he never thought that Chen An and Li Yin would refuse. They could not leave Li Yan's side for a moment on the grounds of protecting Li Yan's safety. In the end, they had to be locked outside the door. Li Yan only left Li Yu in the room to talk.

After two cups of tea, Li Yan, under Li Yu's reluctant gaze, rushed to the "Ironware Pavilion" with Chen An and Li Yin. After a happy meeting with Li Shan, Li Yu left dozens of taels of silver to be brought back to the village to give to his parents when someone came to the village next time. Then he strolled around the city. Li Yan bought a set of clothes and went out of the city with Chen An and Li Yin to get a horse and return to the military advisor's residence.

As soon as he entered the valley, Li Yan felt a divine consciousness coming from the third military advisor's house, which quickly scanned him, and then carefully passed around the newly bought clothes in his hand, and then disappeared without a trace.

Li Yan pretended not to know, and deliberately glanced at the first stone room. After seeing that the door of the stone room was closed, he muttered a few words and walked towards his own stone room.

After entering the house, Li Yan poured a glass of water with a relaxed look on his face, sat on a chair to rest for a while, and then got up and closed the door.

After closing the door, Li Yan felt it again and found that there was no spiritual consciousness, and his face became gloomy.

Today's entry into the city made him confirm the following points

First, Chen An and Li Yin were indeed the surveillance people placed by the Third Army Division beside him. Don't look at the two of them being respectful and a little afraid of him on the surface, but when they are outside, these two people will not let him out of their control. Needless to say, on the road, they almost sandwiched him in the middle to "protect" him to avoid "spies assassination" by Mengguo.

Even when meeting with Li Yu, the farthest distance between them was outside the door of the wine shop private room, and through the cracks in the door and windows, Li Yan also found that one of them was outside the door and the other was opposite the private room downstairs of the wine shop. Even if he secretly jumped out of the window, he was discovered at the first time. And it was the same when he was in Li Shan's "Iron Pavilion". They stood dozens of steps away from where he and Li Shan were talking, and his every move was within the sight of the two.

Second, Master Ji was on guard against me. He deliberately bought a set of clothes today. After he came back, he found that his spiritual sense would detect new items that suddenly appeared, so that everything was under his control.

Li Yan frowned when he thought of this. He was under house arrest. How could he escape from this deadly valley?