On the tenth day of the first month, it was past noon, and before the time came, Li Sanlang was discussing with Zhang Jiuling, seeing Li Ke and the two returning, he got up and was about to inquire about the situation, but when he saw Chen Wuji covered in blood, he couldn't help but be shocked, and hurriedly asked: "Where is the injury?" Why? Without waiting for Chen Wuji to reply, he immediately turned his head to Zhang Jiuling and said, "Quickly send the imperial doctor to come for treatment." Zhang Jiuling arched his hands and replied, "Oh! ”

Chen Wuji hurriedly replied: "It's okay! Such a small injury is not what Li Sicheng. ”

Li Sanlang said: "Chen Sizhi, why do you say this? It's not a matter of duty. Today, I have specially declared to the Tai Yi Department a physician on duty, who is on duty in the Long'an Division at the moment, and it is convenient to practice medicine. ”

Chen Wuji didn't expect Li Sanlang's arrangement to be so delicate, knowing that the enemy that Long Ansi was facing must be unusual, and even prepared the imperial doctor in advance, so he was disrespectful and bowed his hand to show his gratitude.

Soon the imperial physician came to the council hall to treat Chen Wuji, and Chen Wuji also reported the matter of this trip to Li Sanlang in detail, and Li Sanlang was stunned when he mentioned Xuan Lingzi, but he didn't expect this red-haired Yama to ask for such a strange thing.

A moment later, Chen Wuji's wound was bandaged, and everything he had experienced was reported, but Li Ke never said a word, thinking in his heart. Li Sanlang took the lead in asking: "Captain Li, what do you think should happen next in this matter?" ”

Li Ke came back to his senses and replied slowly: "In this matter, it seems that the capture of the Turkic Keduo is a top priority, this person is temporarily avoiding Ningrenfang, he should hurry up, no matter what the purpose of his trip is, but the person who comes must not be good, but... Kule Dottina thinks that it is the biggest hidden danger of the gods! ”

After listening to this, Li Sanlang pondered for a moment, and gave an order to Chen Xuanli beside him: "Quickly hold Commander Long'an, order the left and right Yulin troops to surround Ningrenfang, close the door, and search door to door!" Notify Ningrenfang Lizheng, prepare the list of residents in Ningrenfang and the entry and exit records of people in the past three months, to be checked! I'll be there later! ”

Chen Xuanli arched his hands and said loudly: "Oh! ”

Li Sanlang continued to say to Li Ke: "This Keduo martial arts are very strong, it seems that Li Duwei must go there in person to make sure that everything is perfect!" ”

Li Ke arched his hands and replied, "I should do my best, and I will set off immediately!" After saying that, he turned around and wanted to leave.

Li Sanlang suddenly asked, "Is the news of this red-haired Yama accurate?" Did what he said really count? ”

Without the slightest hesitation, Li Ke replied, "The information provided by the red-haired Yama has always been correct, and what should be done is also true to the word. ”

Li Sanlang stopped speaking, and waved his hand to signal Li Ke to go to Ningrenfang as soon as possible. Li Ke didn't care much about Li Sanlang's last question, but for some reason there was a faint feeling of uneasiness in his heart, and he couldn't say exactly why, so he hurriedly rode his horse and set off.

Ningrenfang is located in the west city of Shendu, next to Dingding Gate, and it is more convenient to enter and exit Shendu, so during the Shangyuan period, it was used as the main gathering place for merchants from all walks of life. At this time, Ningrenfang can be called a sea of people, the original wide streets, lanes are full of merchants' goods, not to mention riding through the city, even walking through it seems crowded.

When the left and right Yulin troops arrived, they were afraid of unnecessary panic caused by the large-scale search, and they did not dare to easily close the streets and fangmen, but they just set up cards at the fangmen, allowing them to enter but not leaving, and they would do it when Li Sanlang arrived.

Within two moments, Li Sanlang also rode to Ningrenfang, he didn't expect the current situation of Ningrenfang to be like this, and after weighing, he also continued to implement the investigation plan of the Yulin Army, and at the same time summoned Li Zheng. Although Li Zheng had never seen Li Sanlang, he also heard his name, so he respectfully saluted and asked: "May I ask Li Sicheng who brought Yulin Army here today, what is the so-called matter?" The lower officials will do their best to cooperate. ”

Li Sanlang bluntly asked: "How many Turks are there in the Jinning Renfang?" Have any special Turks settled in the workshop in the past three months? ”

When Li Zheng heard this, he hurriedly replied: "Since the Turks have been at odds with our dynasty, the number of Turks in the fang has indeed decreased sharply in recent years, but now there are at least two or three thousand Turks in the fang. ”

Two or three thousand! Li Sanlang couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this number, these situations were not estimated by him in advance, and he couldn't arrest or torture two or three thousand people one by one, right? Besides, since this Keduo is going to infiltrate the Shendu, he must have made full preparations in advance, and he may have already turned into a businessman, so searching for and arresting him is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack, and Li Sanlang didn't know what to do for a while, so he asked Chen Xuanli on the side: "What about Captain Li?" Has he arrived? ”

Chen Xuanli replied: "Captain Li has already arrived here, but he doesn't know where to go at the moment. ”

Li Sanlang was about to ask again, but Li Ke had just entered through the door, and Li Sanlang hurriedly asked: "Is there a way for Li Duwei to find Keduo?" ”

Li Ke didn't answer, but asked Li Zheng next to him: "How many new Turkic merchants have been added in this square within half a year?" ”

Li Zheng hurriedly replied: "It's not much, one, two, three... Seven! ”

Li Ke turned to Li Sanlang and said: "I was inspecting the shop just now, most of the merchants in this shop are temporary, Keduo is here, it is impossible to hide so casually, there must be a long-term internal response in this shop, as I estimate well, it should be among these newly opened Turkic merchants." ”

There are only seven! This greatly narrowed the scope of the search, Li Sanlang thought about it in his heart, so he asked: "What does Li Duwei mean to search these seven merchants one by one?" ”

Li Ke thought for a while and replied, "No! We have never seen what this Keduo looks like, and even if we do, we can't identify it, so a check will definitely startle the snake, but it will be even more difficult to find. ”

After hearing this, Li Sanlang also felt reasonable, so he asked: "Then according to Li Duwei's meaning, how should we act." ”

Li Ke replied: "Send someone to the back door of these stores to ambush, and then go inside to search, if someone leaves from behind, then this person is the most suspicious!" ”

Li Sanlang thought for a while, and gave an order to Chen Xuanli: "Order the Tiger Roaring Guards to be all more casual clothes and ambush at the back door of the Turkic merchants. Order the Yulin Army to enter the store to search and arrest, if someone comes out of the back door, you can take it! Leezheng leads the way! ”

"Whoa!" Chen Xuanli and Li Zheng replied in unison.

Shen Shi two quarters, Ningrenfang. After an hour of investigation, all seven Turkic shops have been investigated, and what Tiger Xiaowei has to do now is to wait for the rabbit.

After another moment or so, two Turks cautiously walked out of the back door of the Dayuan Inn, seeing this, the eight tiger roaring guards who were lying in ambush quickly stepped forward to prepare to round up, and the two Turks reacted quickly, and when they saw someone setting up an ambush, they immediately pulled their legs and ran. Tiger Roaring Guard immediately sent out a fog bomb, and the surrounding Tiger Roaring Guard and Yulin Army saw the fog bomb signal, and immediately quickly gathered in the direction of the Dayuan Inn.

Li Sanlang was overjoyed in his heart, this fox finally showed its tail. When Li Ke saw the signal, he immediately said, "I'll go and help!" Li Sanlang replied: "Captain Li, be careful!" Li Ke retreated.

It is said that the two Turks, with excellent skills and strange speed, sometimes climbed the eaves, sometimes got into the narrow alleys, so that the merchants and pedestrians on the street were also turned on their backs, and the tiger roared for a while. With the instructions of the fog bomb, Li Ke finally rushed to the front of the Turks, only to see the two Turks one standing on the eaves, the other under the wall, seeing Li Ke here, the two were about to continue to escape, but when they saw that Li Ke was closer to the two of them, and alone, the Turks under the wall simply didn't bother to run, turned around and shouted a few Turkic words to the eaves, and the people on the eaves turned around and continued to run away after hearing it. The Turk under the wall drew his scimitar and attacked Li Ke. Li Ke didn't dare to slack off, so he drew his sword to fight.

The Turkic man's sword technique was swift and his moves were strange, Li Ke had never encountered an opponent with this sword technique before, and after a few rounds, he actually didn't take down the opponent. Li Ke was secretly surprised in his heart, the Turks also have such a good martial arts person, could it be that this person in front of him is Keduo? Li Ke then calmed down and responded calmly. While the two were fighting, the Tiger Howling Guard, who was chasing closely behind, also surrounded them, all holding bows and crossbows aimed at the Turks who were fighting with Li Ke. Seeing that the Turks were surrounded by a large group of people and horses, they were distracted for a while, and Li Ke saw this, seized the opponent's loophole, and subdued him with one blow. Tiger Roaring Guard hurriedly stepped forward to prepare to tie up, but at this moment, the Turks roared: "Kul Dotina! "That is, he vomited black blood in his mouth and died, needless to say, his mouth contained severe poison and he was bitten to death.

Li Ke saw that this person was hopeless, and motioned to Tiger Xiaowei to take care of the corpse, and he quickly got up and went to pursue the Turks who were on the eaves just now. As soon as he crossed the two streets, Li Ke saw the Turks who had fled just now, standing on the wall of a courtyard, surrounded by the Tiger Howling Guard and the Yulin Army with bows and crossbows, but the Turks did not seem to have the intention of continuing to escape. Prevent him from biting and killing himself! ”

The Turks seemed to understand Like's words, stood on the wall and burst out laughing, then turned and jumped into the courtyard behind him. The army surrounding him was afraid that he would shoot his crossbow and kill him, and no one dared to release the arrow for a while, so he jumped into the courtyard. Li Sanlang led the rest of the Tiger Roaring Guard and Yulin Army to arrive here at this moment, Li Sanlang saw this, turned around and asked Li Zheng: "Can this courtyard have a back door and a secret passage?" Li Zheng's face turned pale, and his voice trembled and said, "No... No! Li Sanlang saw that Li Zheng's face changed suddenly, but he didn't care, so many troops were rounding up the murderer, he was frightened, and it was normal, so with a wave of his hand, all the Yulin Army and Tiger Roaring Guards quickly surrounded this courtyard. At this time, there were no less than four or five hundred people surrounding the small courtyard, and it was expected that the Turks would be unable to fly with their wings, so Li Sanlang immediately ordered: "Break the door!" Be sure to catch it alive! ”

Everyone had to rush up, and Li Zheng next to him finally couldn't help it, and shouted: "Don't! The voice did not fall, "bang"! The first loud bang came from inside the precincts! Then there were loud noises one after another, and in the face of this sudden explosion, everyone was unexpected! In an instant, the soldiers who were closer to the courtyard were blown up to the ground, and Li Sanlang and Li Ke were still some distance away from the courtyard, and they were all blown up into the air and flew backwards.

After a long time, the explosion finally stopped, and the strong smell of saltpeter and sulfur filled the air. This explosion made the entire Ningrenfang boil, everyone in the Ningrenfang didn't know what was going on, they were so frightened that they began to run outside the fang, and the Yulin army who was responsible for setting up a card at the gate of the fang was also scattered by the flow of people who fled, and no longer blocked, for a time there was chaos in the Ningrenfang, crying, shouting, and wailing resounded through the streets.

Li Sanlang slowly opened his eyes, there was a smell of blood in his mouth, his body seemed to fall apart, he looked at his side, it was Lizheng, dying, only breathing in his nose. Li Saburo struggled to climb over, and said with difficulty: "In the end... What the hell is going on? ”

Li Zheng's voice trembled slightly, and his breath was faint and he said, "Small... Villain... Love... Money, Private... Private collection of firecrackers... Lead... Woe to you! Crime.. Sin deserves ... Ten thousand... Ten thousand deaths! ”

When Li Sanlang heard this, he immediately understood what was going on, and still asked with his last strength: "Who?" Who... Sold to you? Person... Where? ”

Li Zheng struggled with his last strength and said, "Yuan... Yuanliang! Big... Far Away... Guest... Inn. Li Zheng choked up after speaking!

Li Ke was naturally injured by the explosion just now, and the skin injury when he fell was fine, but the internal organs were as if they had been hit hard, if it weren't for his deep internal strength, I am afraid that he would not be able to escape at this time, he struggled to stand up, and spat blood in his mouth.

He was not far from Li Sanlang and Li Zheng, so he could hear the conversation just now clearly, he staggered to Li Sanlang, helped Li Sanlang up, and asked, "Li Sicheng is okay!" ”

Li Sanlang shook his head lightly and whispered: "It's okay, just rest for a while!" ”

Li Ke helped Li Sanlang to the wall, sat down against the wall, and said, "Then please ask Li Sicheng to rest here for a while, and go to the Dayuan Inn to arrest Yuanliang immediately." ”

Li Sanlang nodded slightly, and whispered: "Be careful, there is labor!" ”

Li Ke slowly walked towards the Dayuan Inn, he held back a glance, the Tiger Howling Guard and Yulin Army, who were injured and killed all over the ground, some wailed, some moaned, and couldn't help but cry for a while, he couldn't bear it in his heart, so he didn't turn his head and continued to move towards the Dayuan Inn, and no longer dared to look back at the mess all over the ground.

After a while, Li Ke arrived at the Dayuan Inn, as he expected, as soon as he entered the door, he saw the corpses in the courtyard, all of which were killed by sharp weapons.

He went to the cabinet and rummaged through the inn's check-in records, but the account books had already been taken. I had no choice but to search the rooms one by one. After a moment, there were still no useful clues.

At this moment, there was an exclamation in the courtyard of the inn, Li Ke rushed to the courtyard, it turned out to be an old man selling Hu cakes, and when he saw that there were corpses all over the ground, he was so frightened that he shouted loudly and rolled to the ground.

Seeing his timidity, Li Ke comforted: "Don't be surprised, old man, presumably this inn was robbed by bandits, and the government will definitely investigate it." ”

The old man froze and shouted loudly into the inn: "Mr. Yuan! Mr. Yuan! Are you still there? ”

Li Ke heard the old man shout, and hurriedly asked, "Does the old man know Yuanliang?" ”

The old man replied: "I don't know if it's called Yuan Liang, I call him Mr. Yuan, he is a good person, but don't die miserably here!" ”

Li Ke continued: "Tell me the old man, what is he like? I'll see if I've seen it. ”

The old man thought for a while and said: "This Mr. Yuan is very special, obviously a Han Chinese, but he lives in this Turkic inn, he loves to eat the Hu cakes sold by Lao Yu, so Lao Yu comes to give him a few every day, and he gives Lao Yu some more reward money every time... ”

Li Ke interrupted the old man and asked, "How do you know that he is Han?" ”

The old man replied, "Dress! But don't say it, he looks a little like a Turk! ”

Li Ke continued to ask, "How long have you been delivering him bread?" ”

The old man calculated and said, "Soon, it will be less than two months." ”

Li Ke suddenly understood in his heart that this Keduo was disguised as a Han and named Yuanliang. Li Ke picked up the old man and said, "Old man, why don't I accompany you to recognize it, is there Mr. Yuan you said here." ”

The old man sighed, and then followed Li Ke to identify the corpse in the inn. Sure enough, as Li Ke expected, there was no Mr. Yuan in the old man's mouth, which made Li Ke even more sure of his judgment. At this time, Li Sanlang took Yulin Jun to the Dayuan Inn.

Seeing Li Sanlang enter the courtyard, Li Ke stepped forward and said: "Li Sicheng, bring this old man back to Long'an Division for a portrait, he may know Keduo's appearance, and he will report to you when he goes back!" ”

Li Sanlang glanced at the old man, motioned for the Yulin Army to take the old man away, and everyone returned to Long'an Division.