She fell out after crying at the wrong grave

In the closed room, two chains as thick as wrists hung from the beams, tying up a person who was forced to kneel on the ground.

The neatly tied hair spread out like dry grass, covering most of the blood-stained face.

This room was in an inconspicuous corner of Dangshan Villa. It was chosen at random and there was nothing special about it. It was covered with a layer of black cloth, and both windows were sealed. The door was closed tightly, disguised as an interrogation cell.

Even in the corners of the house, there were still a few bundles of straw and dilapidated wooden cabinets that had not been moved away in time.

With the light coming through the cracks in the door and windows from the snow outside, the dying man raised his head with great effort. His mind was in a mess, with black and white, day and night reversed, and he could not distinguish between heaven and earth.

Sitting on the wide chair in front of him, out of sight, was today's interrogator.

There was no emotion on Hengzhi's face. He rested his arms on the armrests and looked carefree.

This so-called "assassin" was captured by the two teams of soldiers who surrounded the villa yesterday.

It was his bad luck. Those who could become assassins were either very skilled or had clear minds. This one was calm enough and planned his escape route very carefully.

But his martial arts were too poor, and he could not outrun the elite troops that Hengzhi had transferred from the patrol camp to surround him from all directions, so he was easily captured.

To put it nicely, he is the Jing Ke of our time.

The meritorious service of the patrol battalion at this time made it seem that the running laps that Hengzhi added to the morning training when he was the assistant commander of the patrol battalion were very necessary.

After Kezhou built a higher and stronger stone wall in the border town, the Youbei people in the grasslands further north did not dare to attack easily. After that, life has been peaceful until now.

As the saying goes, when you are well fed and well clothed, you will think about your own business. If you are idle for too long, the military operations will rust. And the dullness of rust is more evident in Kezhou.

Although it was only five years, Heng Qi indulged himself in the past five years. Not only did he slack off in military training, but he also neglected daily state affairs.

The commander was resting peacefully, and the people who had been defending the fortress with great effort began to slack off.

The soldiers followed suit, and the upper beam was not straight, and the lower beam was crooked. If there was no one to supervise the daily training, it would be like an old man walking in the training grounds in the sun.

The grass on the parade ground had grown several inches high, and without knowing when it had turned into a grassland like the one where the northerners raised their horses.

The title of Assistant Commander-in-Chief that Hengzhi was given was an honorary one, and this was the scene he saw on his first day on duty.

From the generals to the soldiers, no one took this young master seriously. Most of the young masters came here to experience the life of an official. After a while, they would go back to the capital after suffering.

Until that winter, when the grassland was barren and unsustainable, a small group of Youbei cavalry stole food and grass at the border. Hengzhi, as the deputy general, drove the Youbei people back 20 miles away from the border, and was not afraid of being injured and bleeding, which truly established his reputation as a cooperative warlord.

After this battle, more and more people began to believe that the prince was not here to play.

After that, the former military governor Hua Cheng suffered a relapse of his old injury, so Hengzhi took over the morning and evening training. As the first in the army, the patrol battalion took the lead in increasing physical training.

Therefore, they were able to chase the assassin several miles away and capture him alive, leaving the Yuanzhou soldiers far behind. The obvious gap between the two sides can be regarded as the young marquis's combination of leniency and strictness, and his training has achieved some results.

The iron had been on the fire for so long that it turned a terrifying red color.

Hengzhi held it in his hand without saying a word, and was not in the least bit anxious to extract a confession.

After being locked up for a day and a night, the man in front of me had his hands and feet tied, his eyes blindfolded and his mouth gagged, and from time to time someone would come and beat him up. There was no regularity in the timing, and they would even beat him whenever they wanted.

Except for not killing him, all other physical tortures were inflicted on this person. If he fainted, cold water was poured on him and then he was forced to wake up.

This latent fear invaded him all day and all night.

When people are in a state of extreme fear and tension, their vitality is greatly depleted. In addition to hunger and thirst, there is also panic. Now he has reached the edge of losing control. With just a little trick, all the defenses will collapse.

However, this kind of tiring method depends on the person, and it is only useful for the contemporary Jing Ke. If you encounter a deadly warrior, I am afraid it will take a long time to use it.

"Who sent you?"

The kneeling prisoner had not heard any human voice for a long time. When he occasionally heard a word, he was like a blind man who could not see anything, and he shrank his limbs in fear.

Hengzhi's tone of voice was not that of question.

When the man was brought back, the captain at the head of the team searched him, but found nothing except a piece of white paper wrapped in candy.

It was also because of this piece of paper that his origin was roughly determined.

There was silence in the room for a long time.

Every quarter of an hour, Hengzhi repeated the same question.

He was a loyal man, and after two hours of questioning, he showed no sign of speaking. During this time, the captain even called in people and beat him several more times.

Hengzhi was neither annoyed nor bored.

When it was getting dark, he glanced at the time and left his men to go out.

"Untie him and feed him something, don't let him starve to death."

He handed the task over to the captain, who watched the young marquis leave and immediately asked someone to bring him some food and drinks.

"Sir, what do you think this young marquis means? We finally caught the assassin, but the interrogation was not thorough and they even took him down to eat." Steamed buns and rice soup were placed on the table. Soldier He Xing followed the captain out of the door and asked in a low voice in confusion.

How could the captain know what his master was thinking?
With a frown, he replied impatiently, "Don't guess what the master is thinking. Don't you understand that you must obey military orders?"

Seeing that he had failed to get a response from the conversation, He Xing quickly said "yes" a few times and went in to help with the work.

In the main hall on the other side——

"Will this method work?" Xu Tingzhou wondered as he sat as a secretary.

It was already dusk, and the soldiers on duty had just finished dinner and were tired and sleepy.

Ah-yi was drinking tea leisurely beside him. "Can you use tricks better than the young marquis? Just wait patiently."

Through the window, A'an saw snowflakes sometimes falling on the torches in the hands of the soldiers, flickering brightly and dimly.

The courtyard was unusually quiet. Heng Qi closed his eyes and rested in the back room. Apart from Xu Tingzhou's sudden noise, the only sound was the rustling of papers.

Ah'ao was getting a little impatient waiting.

I really don't understand what Hengzhi's plan is. After he came out of the locked cell, I asked him what he had found out. Hengzhi washed his hands and said to her calmly that he had found out nothing.

No news? Ah-yi felt strange.

If this continues, the business will be delayed. Shopkeeper Wu's son is getting married in Shangyuan, and it is only half a month away from New Year's Eve.

As the first customer and the landlord, we have to make careful preparations for them.

I'm so worried.

"If you believe me, just wait and see." The strong smell of blood on his body showed that things were definitely not peaceful where the assassin was.

With this doubt in mind, Ah'ao waited and waited until now.

The current atmosphere feels like an arrow is on the verge of breaking the suffocating silence in an instant.

"Hey!" Xu Tingzhou suddenly shouted, and stood up from the stool.

Hearing the voice, Ah'ao immediately turned around to look.

His hand shook, and when he changed his grip, he accidentally dropped the pen onto the paper. He was afraid that the ink would splash and stain his clothes, so he instinctively dodged.

at this time.

"Someone come quickly! The assassin has escaped!"

Ah's brows tightened and she almost immediately looked in the direction of the wing room.

Was letting the person go intentional?
The rear window of the compartment was suddenly pushed open. Ah'an didn't care about the pain in her ankle and immediately ran over.

"Hengzhi!"

The door was pushed open and Hengzhi was jumping lightly onto the windowsill.

"Go chase them, and be careful." At such an urgent moment, he was still able to casually advise A'ou, which made A'ou's guess seem to be correct.

Then the figure disappeared from the window.

A gust of wind blew in through the open window, and Ah'an was so cold that she inadvertently held her breath.

There are very few footprints left on the snow, which shows that Hengzhi has put in a lot of effort.

Thinking carefully back to the day when the assassin was caught, the window of the room where the body was stored was open, proving that the assassin must have gone to check the results of the medical examination.

In other words, there are two possibilities that he had planned this.

First, he murdered the person, and after overhearing the existing medical examination results, he planned to destroy the body and prevent them from investigating further.

Second, he was ordered to investigate the information, and the person who gave the order might be the one who bought You Tong's life.

The former is unlikely, because if it was a premeditated murder, they would have left only after confirming that there was no chance of survival.

The most likely possibility is the latter, in which case the assassin cannot be called an assassin, but only a spy with nimble hands and feet.

This also explains why he was unable to break free from the soldiers of the patrol camp after being discovered, because spies do covert work that does not require very high martial arts skills.

The two guesses both point to the same conclusion, that is, someone must not want You Tong to know what he knows. In order to eliminate the danger, someone killed him.

The spy must have escaped in order to tip off the enemy and complete his mission.

Ah'ao was confused, but at this moment she suddenly understood.

This tactic is called throwing a stone to test the water.

Since we don't know the spy's purpose and we can't find out who is behind it, we might as well give him a chance to tell the truth himself.

Once he escapes from Dangshan, he will certainly relax his vigilance. After pretending that he cannot catch up, the spy will try every means to deliver the message or contact others.

When we catch him again, we will have more clues to what we want to know.

The reason why the defense was deliberately relaxed tonight was because of this stone.

Ah-yi suddenly remembered that when she was a child, Huai Chengbai took her to catch sparrows in the snow. She used a basket borrowed from the kitchen and a handful of millet to set up a simple trap on the open ground.

As long as the branches support the basket and there is a huge gap, the sparrows will think there is still a way to escape, and the net can be easily collected.

"There are three post houses in Dang County." Ah'ao murmured unconsciously, "There is one in the east of the city, which is a letter post house. There are two in the west of the city, one uses horses and the other uses flying birds..."

In order to prevent anyone from having private contact with Youbei, not only are the passes in Kezhou strictly controlled, but even the birds used for communication are not allowed to be domesticated privately by the people.

There were even special forces set up to shoot these birds that carried messages.

No matter what the news, people or things are, they must pass through Dang County.

That's right.

A'ao took Hengqi's long sword, wrapped herself in a long fur coat and rushed out of the house.

By the time Xu Tingzhou came to his senses, the man had already mounted his horse and was riding out of the villa at the speed of light.

"Go crazy."

(End of this chapter)