Chapter 598: In Xiangyang City
In the early morning of the next day, when Li Tianqi and Yang Wen woke up one after another, they found that they were lying near the hundred-acre mountain pond, and the inn was still full of guests and friends, and it was very lively. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
How did you come back again? Li Tianqi and Yang Wen looked at each other, as if everything that happened before was a dream, but was there such a real dream?
The two stood up, only to see a small line carved on the stone on one side: Everyone has been released. Dream word.
Yang Wen jumped to a high place and looked around, but he didn't see his team, "Is what she said true?" You just let us go? ”
Although Li Tianqi couldn't figure it out, but at this moment this scene was no longer in the Valley of Dreams, he secretly pinched the back of his hand, it hurt, this is not a dream, "We have come out." As for whether she really released people, you can quickly return to Chang'an to see, maybe they have returned to the barracks. It's my two friends......"
He couldn't help frowning, this world is so big, how does he know where Kikige and Zock will go at this moment? Maybe return to the desert? Maybe they will also go to Chang'an.
"Well, that's it." Yang Wen said: "Let's go ask the shopkeeper in the inn to see if we know some news." ”
"Okay." Li Tianqi touched the object in his arms, but he didn't lose it, and he really didn't understand the intention of praying for the ripples of dreams.
The two of them hurried to the inn, and sure enough, they found that the shopkeeper and the others were not the same people who had received them before, and when they asked about what happened that day, the shopkeeper was silent, and he didn't even know what to say, and seemed to be quite scrupulous, Li Tianqi and Yang Wen had no choice but to give up, and hurried to Xiangyang City again after breakfast.
Xiangyang City is surrounded by water on three sides, one side is against the mountain, runs through the north and south, and the water and land roads are interlaced here, which is really a key city in the throat. Because he had encountered Nanzhao's foot soldiers in Baili Fumo Ridge, Yang Wen left Li Tianqi to rest in the inn as soon as he arrived here, while he himself rushed to the government office, reported the military intelligence, and sent a messenger by the government to report to the capital of Chang'an, and at the same time led the government to deploy the defense of Xiangyang City, and secretly inquired about the whereabouts of his subordinates by the way.
Li Tianqi knew that it was a secret matter of the military aircraft, and it was inconvenient for him to participate in it, so he had to stay in the inn and wait, and while he was resting, he heard the slight footsteps of many people in the corridor, and it seemed that someone was tiptoeing towards this side.
Why are these people so weird, walking so carefully in broad daylight? Li Tianqi felt something unusual, so he turned over and hid behind the door.
These people stopped before they walked to the door, and one of them tapped the door lightly, and asked in a low voice, "Is it Li Tianqi?" ”
Do you know me? Li Tianqi replied casually: "How?" ”
The visitor said, "Can you come in and talk about it?" ”
Li Tianqi asked, "Who are you?" ”
The other party still whispered: "I am destined to be a person." ”
Although Li Tianqi was vigilant, he didn't understand the other party's intentions, and after thinking about it, he decided to open the door and let him in.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the door opened, three men in gray cloth rushed to the door one after another, waving their knives and slashing at Li Tianqi. Li Tianqi had already prepared, and jumped back in a flash, dodging the attacks of the three people in front of him.
The three of them followed with knives again and surrounded Li Tianqi in the middle of the room.
These three people have round faces and horizontal eyebrows, all have broad bodies and round waists, and they use short scimitars that are not commonly used by Central Plains people. They surrounded Li Tianqi and swung his sharp knife again.
"Wait!" Li Tianqi shouted loudly.
These three people did not stop because of this, because they did not succeed in the previous time, but at this moment, they went sideways and blocked Li Tianqi's retreat.
Li Tianqi jumped up, stretched out his hand to hug the housing beam, turned over and sat on it, "Who are you waiting for?" He poisoned him like this without asking for a reason, and he annoyed the master, so let you wait to look good! ”
"Li Tianqi! Come down! One of them jumped up, raised his knife and slashed at Li Tianqi's feet, but he easily dodged it.
These three people actually didn't know how to work lightly, Li Tianqi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, just looking at the bright scimitar, it was really chilling.
"Are you Turks?" Li Tianqi remembered the same scimitar style at this time, although they were dressed like the Central Plains people, their appearance was similar to that of the Turks.
"That's right, the Great General is under the Iron Cavalry. You quickly return the princess, or don't blame me for being quick!" The face of the person who spoke was covered with red bumps.
It turned out that they were looking for Kikige.
"Don't do it, I have something to say!" Li Tianqi immediately jumped off the beam, and the three of them were about to take the opportunity to step forward, but they were stopped by him.
"Don't move again, or I won't reveal Kikige's whereabouts!" In fact, how did he know where Kikige had gone now, but he wanted to take this opportunity to find out how he had revealed his whereabouts.
The red-pimpled Turkic man said: "Hmph, forgive you for not being able to run today, if you confess honestly, it's easy to say, if you hide it, then you will suffer!" ”
Li Tianqi said: "How do you know that I have come to Xiangyang City? ”
The red-pimpled man said, "Naturally, someone has told him." Li Tianqi, you have offended a lot of people, and my general's lord doesn't like you very much. Tell me quickly, where did you deceive Her Royal Highness the Princess? ”
Li Tianqi said: "When Qiqige left you, didn't he say where to go? ”
The red-pimpled man said, "We only know that we have been ordered to come to look for the princess, and you must not delay, there are still our people in this city, and you will not be able to escape." ”
Li Tianqi said: "Okay, don't hold a knife at me." ”
The three men glanced at each other, then put away their scimitars and hid them in their robes.
Li Tianqi told them how he met Qiqige succinctly after hiding the various encounters, and finally said: "She has now left with Zhuo Ke, and I don't know where she is going." It is not necessary to return to the Turks. ”
The red-pimpled man smiled strangely, "Do you think we're stupid?" After saying something so salty and not light, you want us to leave? It's not that cheap! If you don't hand over the princess, you won't want to get out! ”
Li Tianqi said: "The three of you may be good hands in the army, but they are nothing in my eyes, I don't want to worry about you now, believe it or not!" Besides, this is still the border of the Tang Dynasty, how can you allow you to do anything here! ”
The red-pimpled man suddenly laughed, "Your Tang Dynasty is about to marry my Great Turk, do you think he, Li Shimin, dares to offend us at this time?" ”
"Bold!" Li Tianqi shouted, "You and other Turkic soldiers have always disturbed the border, and they dare to call me Emperor Tang by his name!" How unreasonable! ”
With a few "poofs", the three of them pulled out the hidden scimitar again, and the red-pimpled man said viciously: "I knew that you would not give up, otherwise General Ashina would not be so angry when he knew that Her Royal Highness the princess was going with you!" Brothers! Chop him! ”
The three of them slashed at Li Tianqi together.
Li Tianqi dodged the three sharp blades that were chopped, saw the opportunity, stretched out his legs and knocked down the man on the left, the man thought that Li Tianqi would only dodge and would not resist, but he didn't expect it, and immediately fell back to the ground, and the scimitar was thrown out of his hand a few feet away.
Li Tianqi slid towards the man on the right, holding the man's arm with both hands, the man's little arm holding the knife was painful, and as soon as his fingers were loosened, the scimitar suddenly fell and plunged straight into the floor.
The red-pimpled man saw that the situation was wrong, and hurriedly retreated to the door, whistled at the door, and the footsteps of many people sounded in the corridor, it seems that what he said is true, there is indeed an ambush in this area.
Li Tianqi is expected to be outnumbered all the time, and it is easier to expose himself when fighting in the city, after all, he is still charged with being a fugitive. He strode forward, followed the red-pimpled man, and was about to rush out the door.
The red pimple man stabbed him with a backhand, cutting into his chest, Li Tianqi inhaled and sank suddenly, stopped the figure rushing forward, toe up, turned sideways on the spot, and dodged the sudden scimitar, and then quickly raised his hand to grab the opponent's elbow, and the other hand held the wrist of the man's knife, secretly urging the internal force to push the sharp side of the scimitar to his neck.
The red-pimpled man didn't expect Li Tianqi to be so strong, although he used all his strength, he still couldn't resist, seeing that the sharp blade was about to cut his neck, he hurriedly retreated to the door, Li Tianqi also took advantage of the situation to run out, at this time, five or six men in homespun robes had already run up, and they were about to pull out scimitars from their robes.
He ran to the end of the fence on tiptoe, jumped on the roof of a private house, and ran wildly......
"Hey!"
"Hey!"
The gang shouted loudly, but they could only watch Li Tianqi disappear into the alley on that side.
Li Tianqi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, tidied up his clothes, and walked into the street, he looked around vigilantly, and did not find any Turks coming, so he inquired about the location of the government office on the street, and went straight to find Yang Wen.
In fact, Li Tianqi had already expected that Qiqige had not returned from a quiet trip for many days this time and her whereabouts were unknown, which would naturally make Ashina Jiemo who loved her anxious, and it was reasonable to send heavy troops to investigate and secretly visit. But judging from the ruthlessness of these people's actions, it is obvious that Ashina Jemo must have other instructions, and there is still some resentment towards himself.
Suddenly, a familiar figure hurriedly fled forward, and Li Tianqi, who had been paying attention to the pedestrian, saw the clue, and he immediately flew forward and chased after the man.
The man ran forward desperately, pulling over a number of small vendor stalls at the corner of the street in an attempt to stop Li Tianqi from chasing, but at this time, Li Tianqi already had a certain amount of internal strength, and his foot kung fu was naturally much better than him, and he chased behind him after a while.
The man looked back, turned around in a panic and turned into an alley, Li Tianqi exerted his strength again, tiptoed, jumped forward and stretched out his hand to grab his collar.
"It's you!" Li Tianqi pushed the man to a pile of wood. He's the monkey-cheeked bandit.
The sharp-beaked monkey-cheeked man looked at Li Tianqi with a panicked look and said, "Uncle, no...... No, it's ...... This is not a small idea. ”
Li Tianqi was suspicious in his heart, I haven't asked yet, he has recruited this kid himself, but I want to see what he says.