Looking at Ye Tian, who was furious, Lian Dan frowned secretly, and his heart was a little bottomless, could it be that the news revealed by Chen Yuan was fake? Is he really framing the Ye family? If that's the case, you're not going to end well!

Thinking of this, he turned his head sideways and said, "Lin Yu, Ming Yue!" ”

"The subordinates are here!" Lin Yu and Ming Yue both dismounted, walked to Lian Dan, and intervened to give a salute.

Lian Dan pointed at Chen Yuan and said, "You two take him in and let him find Xia Ruoyan!" ”

"Yes!" Lin and Ming agreed, grabbed Chen Yuan's collar, and brought him into the Ye Mansion.

After waiting for more than half an hour, but Lin Yu and Mingyue hadn't come out yet, Lian Dan was quite impatient, and when he was about to enter the Ye Mansion in person, Lin Yu and Mingyue finally came out.

The faces of the two of them were not very good, looking at Chen Yuan's eyes, as if they were going to eat him alive, and Chen Yuan was even more like ashes, his legs were weak, if it wasn't for the collar of his back coat and being dragged by Lin Yu, it was estimated that he wouldn't even be able to walk.

Lin Yu and Ming Yue came to Lian Dan's approach, the former pushed Chen Yuan to the side, and when Lian Dan approached, he whispered in his ear: "General, Xia Ruoyan was not found in the Ye Mansion!" ”

I'm really afraid of something! Lian Dan glanced at Lin Yu and asked in a low voice, "Have you found it all out?" Didn't miss a thing? ”

Lin Yu nodded and said, "Chen Yuan has confessed all the secret rooms in the Ye Mansion, but in the whole mansion, there is no Xia Ruoyan as he said at all!" ”

When Lian Dan heard this, he felt a pain in his brain. He glanced at Lin Yu and Ming Yue, and the two of them met, returned to the Ye Mansion, and brought out all the officers and soldiers who searched the Ye Mansion.

Seeing the many officers and soldiers walking out of their mansions, Ye Tian forcibly suppressed his anger and asked, "General Lian, have your people found Ruoyan?" ”

"Uh, haha--" Lian Dan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly burst out laughing, walked up to Ye Khotan, and arched his hand and said, "I'll just say, the Ye family is a prominent clan in Hanzhong, the pillars of the imperial court, how could they harbor assassins?" Nothing short of nonsense! ”

"The villain is asking General Lian, can you find Ruoyan in the cold house!" Ye Tian said in an accentuated tone.

Lian Dan was rarely speechless when questioned, and when he was so embarrassed, the dry smile on his face stiffened, and after hesitating for a moment, he gave Ye Tian a deep salute and said with a smile: "Ye Gong, this time it is indeed the fault of Ben Shuai, who mistakenly believed the villain's slander!" ”

"So, does General Lian also want to give an explanation to the villain?" Ye Khotan is still sinking like water.

Lian Dan and Ye Tian looked at each other for a moment, and suddenly, he drew the sword under his ribs, and without warning, he swung his sword to the side and slashed out.

Sand! Zhou Zong, who was standing next to Lian Dan, didn't even figure out what was going on, his neck was torn open by the sword, and when he heard the sound of sand, a bloody arrow shot out.

Zhou Zong's eyes widened in disbelief, he covered his neck with both hands, looked at Lian Dan in shock and horror, his mouth opened and closed, as if he wanted to speak, but he couldn't spit out a word.

Lian Dan slowly took out his handkerchief, wiped the sword body, then put the sword into the sheath, and smiled at Ye Tian: "Ye Gong, this handsome man was deceived by Zhou Zong, a villain, and he was offended just now, and I hope that Ye Gong will have a lot of Haihan." ”

Looking at the happy Lian Dan, Ye Tian and the people in Ye Mansion couldn't help but secretly shudder, who would have thought that Lian Dan, who had such a smile and a lovely attitude, didn't even blink his eyes just now, and directly slashed and killed Cao Zhouzong.

"Ye Gong, everything is just a misunderstanding, Ye Gong won't really take it to heart, right?"

Ye Khotan naturally knows what it means to stop in moderation. He cleared his throat and said, "General Lian, I hope there will be fewer misunderstandings like this in the future!" ”

"Definitely, definitely!" Lian Dan laughed again, and arched his hand and said: "Ye Gong, there is a lot of disturbance today, I will make a special trip to Ye Mansion to apologize to Ye Gong another day!" ”

"General Lian's words are serious!"

"Farewell!" As he spoke, Lian Dan turned around and walked into the carriage, and before approaching the carriage, he waved his hand to the left and right, and shouted, "Collect the troops!" ”

Lian Dan left Ye Mansion with a large group of people.

Looking at the back of the carriage walking away, Ye Tian couldn't help but let out a long breath, and secretly said that it was dangerous! If it weren't for Liu Xiu coming over in time to report the news and take Ruoyan away, today's catastrophe would have been in danger!

Chen Yuan, who was not far away, saw that Lian Dan was taking people away, and he didn't care about himself at all, he quietly and silently retreated again and again, and after withdrawing a distance, he turned around and ran.

However, he ran out of the house for less than two steps, and was chased by a nurse, who raised his knife and cut off Chen Yuan's head.

Looking at the corpse that fell to the ground, and the severed head that went out for a long time, the nurse spat and scolded fiercely: "The villain is shameless, he eats inside and out, and he is innocent!" ”

Ye Tian looked at Chen Yuan's corpse, sighed, shook his head again, waved his hand and said, "Collect the corpse and bury it!" ”

"Master, this is too cheap Chen Yuan, this dog thief! He should be thrown into a mass grave outside the city and fed to the dogs! ”

Ye Tian shook his head and said, "After all, he has worked in Ye Mansion for more than twenty years, and he has no merit and hard work. ”

For Chen Yuan's high secret, Ye Khotan felt a lot, as the so-called knowing people and faces do not know their hearts, and now Ye Khotan has to re-examine these people around him.

Let's talk about Liu Xiu, he, Gai Yan, and Long Yuan took Xia Ruoyan back to the camp of the Righteous Army. Originally, the rebels lived in the county army camp in the west of the city, but with the arrival of Lian Dan, the rebels were driven to the Hanzhong rebel camp in the north of the city.

This large camp located in the north of the city was not much better than the large camp they had built outside the city, it was also in tatters and chaos.

The only difference is that the camp was overcrowded and noisy like a vegetable market, while the current camp is deserted and desolate, like a ghost camp with no people.

However, at the gate of the camp, there were still several rebel guards standing guard. The guards knew Liu Xiu, Gai Yan, and Long Yuan, and when they saw them coming back, they greeted them with a smile.

The guards naturally saw Xia Ruoyan too, but she was wearing men's clothes at this time, her face was still covered with mud, black and white, and she couldn't see her appearance clearly. The guard thought that she and Liu Xiu were together, so they didn't interrogate more, and simply let them go.

Entering the camp, Liu Xiu handed Xia Ruoyan to Gai Yan and Long Yuan, and asked them to arrange a place for her to live. There were not many people left in the camp now, there were more wounded soldiers than healthy ones, and there were many empty tents.

Liu Xiu himself went to find his eldest brother Liu Xuan. The barracks where Liu Jiu lived was a thatched hut with an independent courtyard, and the house could be described as a house with four walls, except for the sleeping man's meadow, there was only a dilapidated table.

When he came in, Liu Xuan was in the house, and Feng Yi, Zhu Yun, Zhang Ping, Li Tong, Li Yi and others were also there.

The crowd sat cross-legged around the table, staring at the map spread out on the table.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, everyone turned their heads to look, and saw that it was Liu Xiu, Li Tong stood up and asked with concern, "Uncle Wen, where have you been?" How did you come back? ”

Liu Xiu smiled at Li Tong and patted his arm, indicating that he was fine. He walked to the table and looked at it, and it turned out to be a map of Zhushan County.

I don't know where I got this map, the painting is very rough, if there is no word on it for Zhushan County, it is impossible to identify this as a map.

Liu Xiu looked at Liu Xuan and Feng Yi and asked, "Big brother, Brother Gongsun, do you really want to work hard for Lian Dan and fight the Green Forest Army?" ”

Feng Yi sighed lightly and said helplessly: "This battle, it's not that we can fight if we want to, and if we don't want to fight, we can not fight, Lian Dan's order has been given, what can we do about it?" ”

If they were acting alone, it would be better to say that the key issue was that they were accompanied by Zhang Ting and a thousand soldiers and horses under Zhang Ting's command.

Liu Xiu said quietly: "Those who take refuge in the Green Forest Army are all people who can't live, and most of the people who join the righteous army are also people who can't live, and they are all people who are forced by life to live with the same fate. ”

Feng Yi was silent, Zhu Yun and Zhang Ping nodded again and again, indicating that Liu Xiu's words were reasonable. Li Tong answered: "Brother Bosheng, Brother Gongsun, Uncle Wen is right, we shouldn't help Lian Dan fight in this battle!" ”

"It's not a question of whether it should or shouldn't, it's something we have to do!" Feng Yi smiled bitterly. He was also reluctant to fight with the Green Forest Army, but who would dare to disobey Lian Dan's order?

At this moment, someone at the door answered: "Have you ever wondered why the Green Forest Army is in Zhushan?" ”

Hearing the words, everyone present was stunned and looked towards the door in unison.

Three people walked in from the outside, two of them were familiar to everyone, Gai Yan and Long Yuan, and the other was a young man with a muddy face.

The young man had never been seen before, and when they saw her coming in from outside, they all stood up in unison, and at the same time raised their hands and touched the weapon at their waists.

Others don't know this young man, but Liu Xiu naturally knows that she is Xia Ruoyan who is dressed as a man.

He looked at Gai Yan and Long Yuan, and asked them with his eyes why they had brought her here. Long Yuan shook his head at Liu Xiu helplessly, saying that he had failed to stop her.

Seeing that everyone in the room was staring at her with a wary face, Xia Ruoyan turned her heart and said straight to the point: "I am the female assassin who escaped yesterday after unsuccessfully assassinating Lian Dan!" ”

As soon as these words came out, the faces of everyone present changed.

Is she a woman? And it's still the female assassin who was ordered to die by Lian Dan and will be arrested no matter what? Before everyone came to their senses, she added: "My name is Xia Ruoyan!" ”

"You...... How did you get in? Liu Xuan looked at her in disbelief.

This is the camp of the rebels, today and yesterday, the rebels also cooperated with Lian Dan's subordinates to arrest the assassins, she ran into the camp of the rebels, isn't she throwing herself into the net?

Without waiting for Xia Ruoyan to speak, Liu Xiu carefully explained the truth of the matter to everyone present. After listening to his words, people knew that Liu Xiu had done so many things behind their backs.

After Liu Xiu finished speaking, Xia Ruoyan answered: "When Lian Dan led the army into Hanzhong, there was a barbarian army that made a rebellion in Zhushan, and the strength of the barbarian army was only more than 1,000 people, and Lian Dan sent 20,000 troops to Zhushan to encircle and suppress. These barbarian troops who were in rebellion in Zhushan were basically killed by Lian Dan's subordinates, but when they reported their merits and asked for rewards, Lian Dan's subordinates handed over 5,000 heads, falsely claiming to have exterminated 5,000 barbarian troops, but the barbarian army only had more than 1,000 people, so where did the extra 3,000 heads come from? Did you know? ”