"Really, what did he say, Brother Meng?" I didn't expect that person to really be willing to say everything, which surprised Meng Tian a little.

Meng Li nodded, and said with a solemn expression: "Things are a little more complicated than we expected, and that person also said that we should be prepared to lose the young lady." ”

Meng Tian swooped up from his chair, "What did you say? No, what did he say?"

Meng Li said: "Listen to me first, things are just worse than we thought, but it's not that the young lady was killed by them. ”

After hearing this, Meng Tian asked in surprise: "How do you say this, is there anything wrong with Yanran?"

Meng Li filled the cup of tea that had not been poured for Meng Tian, and then said: "The masked man said that the Xiang family here is just a distant relative of the Xiang family of the Chu State, although it is not a direct lineage, but it has always been in contact with the family. This branch of the Xiang family was arranged here to specialize in planting opium poppies, one is to supply the domestic and military needs for treatment and pain relief, and the other is to sell them to other vassal states or sell them to the army. Of course, there are other big families who will also come to buy, and the profits from selling opium poppies have allowed the Xiang family to build a heavy armored infantry army. ”

Meng Tian didn't expect that there would be so many connections in the affairs here, and it seemed that the importance of this place to the Xiang family was extraordinary. Meng Tian motioned for Meng Li to continue, he wanted to see what tricks this Xiang family was playing.

Meng Li nodded and continued, "And then there's what kind of poison I'm going to tell you about. You said before that the silver needle could not detect it, and it is true that the soup made from poppy husks is not poison, but what is the concentration of it? According to that person's confession, what he gave you is the 'Bliss Water' second only to the highest concentration of 'Happy Immortal Syrup', both of which are relatively easy to make people addicted at one time, so what I am worried about now is whether the young lady will not be able to resist the temptation of this 'Bliss Water', so she will become addicted and become a puppet of the Xiang clan. ”

Meng Li paused for a moment and continued, "All these people who attacked you last night were secretly controlled by Xiang Feng with poppy soup, forcing them to work for him, so as to continuously obtain the soup. So you should know what I mean by now. ”

Listening to Meng Li's words, Meng Tian sat on the chair and muttered to himself: "Impossible, no, Yanran will be fine, will be fine......"

"Young General?" Meng Li looked at Meng Tian's expression and asked a little unright.

Meng Tian came back to his senses, he stood up and grabbed Meng Li's shoulder and said, "Brother Meng, you go and arrange manpower, and we will go to rescue Yanran tonight." ”

Meng Li broke free from Meng Tian's hands and stroked Meng Tian's painful arm with his hand. "Young General, calm down, it's not so easy to save people, and that person said that the reason why they want to arrest you back is that they also want to control you through the 'Bliss Water', and then our Qin State lost a general. I think that after learning that this person did not bring you back, they must have made full preparations and waited at home for us to come to the rescue of people, so I hope that the major general will calm down and plan well. ”

Meng Tian said: "Brother Meng, you're right, I'm in a hurry, I'm too worried about Yanran, her body is not good yet, and now she has been poisoned again, I'm really worried about her." ”

Meng Li didn't know what to say, he was thirty years old this year, and he hadn't married a wife or had children because of his identity, so he couldn't understand Meng Tian's feelings.

Meng Tian paced to the window of the room, this house was still the one he and Zi Yanran lived in, after the treatment of his soldiers, the damaged tables and chairs in the house were replaced with new ones from the uninhabited house next to them, and the broken windows were also repaired.

Standing by the window, Meng Tian looked into the distance, and just happened to see the dock in the town again, Meng Tian saw a familiar figure. Meng Tian looked at the figure, thought for a moment, and after a while, he called Meng Li to the bedside, and then pointed to a fisherman sitting on the side of the boat dangling his legs on the dock in the distance and said, "Brother Meng, do you see the boatman sitting on the boat on the dock?"

Meng Li looked in the direction Meng Tian was pointing and nodded when he saw the boatman Meng Tian was talking about.

"Send two of your right-hand men to investigate him, and he sent me across the river to the mountains that day, to see where he went after dark, and whether he went to a courtyard on the other side. If you go to that yard, you can find out what is going on in that yard and come back and report it to me. ”

"What does the major general mean is that the boatman has an ulterior relationship with the Xiang family?"

Meng Tian shook his head, he looked at the dock and said, "I don't know about this, but I vaguely feel that this person is not as simple as we seem." You see, the other boatmen were either crossing the river or casting their nets on the river to catch fish, and he was the only one sitting there idle, looking like he was waiting for someone. ”

Meng Li looked at the fisherman, according to what Meng Tian said, this boatman is indeed in trouble, it is almost dusk at this time, it should be the busiest time of the day, but this boatman is sitting on the boat leisurely and unmoved, it is indeed very strange. And when Meng Li was watching, two people came forward to talk to the boatman, as if they wanted to cross the river, but they were all rejected one by one.

Meng Li said to Meng Tian beside him: "Okay, I'll go and arrange a few brothers to follow this person, and I must find out about him tonight." ”

Meng Tian grabbed Meng Li, who was walking out, and then said: "Send two teams of brothers this time, our enemies are not the same as before, some of these people are veterans on the battlefield, and some are local folk martial arts masters in Chu State, so this time I sent brothers to send two teams, one team in the bright and one team in the dark." If the stalking brothers are found to be defeated, then the rest of the brothers must come back, otherwise they will die in vain, do you remember?"

Meng Li clenched his fists and bent down and said, "The last general will obey." ”

Meng Tian turned around and continued to look out the window, he looked at the deep mountains on the other side of the Miluo River in the dusk, and said softly: "Yanran, you must hold on, I will save you immediately." ”

In the middle of the twilight, a man walked along the path covered with poppies with a group of followers behind him, and he looked at the poppy fields on both sides, and his brow was much lighter. This man is the head of the Xiang family of Chu State who was placed here - Xiang Feng.

Xiang Feng squatted down, plucked a poppy and stood up, put the poppy under his nose and smelled it, after feeling a pleasant fragrance, Xiang Feng threw away the poppy that had just opened in his hand, and then stepped on it and continued to walk forward.

Xiang Feng walked not far and said, "What, hasn't there been any news from Han Lei's side yet?"

An entourage behind Xiang Feng said: "Back to the master, Deputy Commander Han has no news. However, there is news from the Grand Commander's side, saying that Deputy Commander Han is dead, so let's not send any more people to find it. ”

Xiang Feng stopped, turned to look at the entourage behind him and said, "Is there anything else he has to tell me besides this matter?"

"Well, the Great Commander also said that the Deputy Commander was outnumbered and beaten to death by many Qin people, and these Qin people didn't know where to get the body of the Deputy Commander, and the Great Commander didn't find it. The Grand Commander asked his subordinates to tell his master, hoping that the master would let go of Deputy Commander Han's family, after all, he died for the master. After the attendant finished speaking, he stood there motionless, for fear that the master in front of him would beat him to death if he did not like his eyes.

Xiang Feng laughed twice, "He is quite good at being a man, or a person dies like a lamp going out, since he didn't betray me, then I will naturally take good care of his family." After finishing speaking, Xiang Feng paused for a moment, and then said, "By the way, where is the woman who was captured? Take me to see it." ”

The attendant said, "Back to the master, the woman is now being held in a secret room on the Zhuangzi, because the woman has taken the 'Water of Bliss', and the little ones are afraid that the woman's drug addiction will not be controlled, so they tie her to the bed. ”

Xiang Feng said: "Go, take me to see this woman." I want to see what kind of woman this youngest general of the Qin State is. ”

Xiang Feng followed the entourage who led the way from outside the Zhuangzi back to the inside of the Zhuangzi, and then came to a small courtyard in the middle of nowhere. The yard is not very large, only a very inconspicuous small house, and those who don't know it seem to think that it is just a room with miscellaneous items.

Entering the house, the attendant walked to a dilapidated wooden frame in the room, and then slowly turned a tattered porcelain bowl on the wooden frame twice. After turning the porcelain bowl, the wall next to the wooden frame suddenly moved, and then slowly opened inward, leaking out a secret room.

"Director, please. The attendant bent down and asked Xiang Feng to come in.

After Xiang Feng entered, he found that this secret room was not small, since he came to this Zhuangzi to serve as the person in charge, this secret room was the first time he had come to this secret room.

To enter the secret room, you have to go through a tunnel, and after passing through the tunnel, you can be considered to have actually entered the secret room. This secret room has everything you need, including beds, tables and chairs, and everything you need to eat, even a toilet. Xiang Feng came in and looked around the room, and finally locked on to the bed.

There was a woman lying on the bed, her limbs were tied with strips of cloth, and her whole person was bound to the bed in a large shape, and at the same time a ball of white cloth was stuffed in her mouth. This woman is Meng Tian's wife, Zi Yanran. She was kidnapped here last night, and in a daze, she felt that her hands and feet were tied, and after being stuffed in her mouth without knowing what to stuff, the medicinal strength of the water of bliss rushed up again, Zi Yanran felt tired all over, even if she was uncomfortable, she couldn't move, I don't know how long it took, Zi Yanran survived the pain and fell asleep.

Xiang Feng walked to the side of the bed, looked at Zi Yanran lying on the bed, and couldn't help but exclaim: "It's really a beautiful woman, but it's a pity that she followed the wrong person." It's a little unbearable for me to tie you up like this, but for the sake of my future, I have to wronged you. ”

Zi Yanran was still asleep, Xiang Feng looked at it for a while and felt bored, turned around and left the secret room. After leaving this inconspicuous little house, Xiang Feng instructed: "Give me a good look at this woman, don't hurt her, and don't let her hurt herself." The envoy from the lord's side will arrive tomorrow, and whether I can return to the family this time is up to this woman. If anything goes wrong with this southern woman before the envoy arrives, I won't spare you. ”

"Yes. ”