Li Wenyuan sat on his horse and looked at the mountain in front of him.

Although this mountain occupies a mountain name, it is a remnant vein of Longling, which is quite imposing, but lacks aura. There are some sparse trees on the mountain, but they are not adult trees, they are young trees that have been transplanted in recent years, barely covering some of the abrupt slopes.

After a while, there were faint people walking on the mountain road, bursts of dust, the mountain gate slowly opened, and the team of people and horses poured out from the mountain gate in an orderly manner, unfolding the formation, and all kinds of flags were waved in the wind.

Li Wenyuan sat alone on the horse and watched the team of people on the opposite side slowly line up, and he was also a little timid in his heart, but the matter had come to this point, there was no way back, so he simply didn't think about anything else, took a deep breath, straightened his waist, and looked at the queue in the distance.

A man wearing a bearded hat sat on a horse, carried the horse forward and walked to the front of the queue, raised the iron arrow in his hand and said, "You are Li Wenyuan, the owner of this arrow?" ”

Li Wenyuan took off his bow and waved it, and said with a smile: "Let's take another look?" ”

The man wearing the bearded hat laughed, clamped his legs between the horse's belly, urged the horse to come to Li Wenyuan, stretched out his hand and handed the iron arrow to Li Wenyuan: "If you can trigger this arrow, admire it below." Then he saw that Li Wenyuan was a little puzzled, and then said:

"Ah, I was negligent, and below is the head of the bandits, Zong Luohu."

Li Wenyuan looked at the person in front of him, who was also powerful and powerful, and did not seem to have a treacherous appearance, so he took the iron arrow and said: "Sect leader, this general is going to Wuwei County for this trip, why did the leader pass the book late at night?" ”

"General Li, I heard that you once led your troops to Liaodong, do you need me to repeat what you saw along the way?" Zong Luohu said.

Seeing that Li Wenyuan was silent, Zong Luohu continued: "I was originally the chief of the people in Jincheng who was going to be sent to Liaodong, and some of the people in the Minfu team fled back from the first expedition, and told us about the tragic situation in Liaodong. ”

The more Zong Luohu spoke, the more excited he became, and without waiting for Li Wenyuan to speak, he continued: "Only then did I raise the banner of righteousness and take the people to the grass. The Western Regions has always been weak in the form of government, so I waited for this to trek all the way to the west and settled in this Qinglong Mountain. During this period, in order to prepare for military rations, the price of rice soared, and those rice merchants held a large amount of grain in their hands, but refused to sell it to the people cheaply, but hoarded it for huge profits. ”

Li Wenyuan said curiously: "Then where did you know that the county ordered to make money, drove the people into the city, and plundered all the gold and silver?" ”

Zong Luohu said: "That was one of my subordinates, who was shopping for things, but was taken into the city by the officials and soldiers and strictly guarded. My men managed to escape and brought back the news. ”

"In that case, those villagers should still be locked up somewhere in the city, you tell me where they are being held, and I will check and get results." Li Wenyuan said.

"My subordinate said he was being held in the Northwest Refugee Shelter in the county seat." Zong Luohu said.

"Okay, I'll send someone to investigate." Li Wenyuan was about to leave as soon as he gave up his hand, and then remembered some things, and said to Zong Luohu: "Sect leader, this is not a promising place after all, you take this iron arrow of mine, go east to Jincheng, find Xue Ju, take refuge in him, and seek a future." It's better than ending up with a reputation as a bandit in history. ”

Zong Luohu took the iron arrow handed over by Li Wenyuan and said, "I will go to Yongdeng County with you, find out at this time, and after proving our innocence, I will go to Lord Xue Ju." ”

Then Zong Luohu returned to his own queue, explained some things to his subordinates after his absence, and went to Yongdeng County with Li Wenyuan. Li Wenyuan asked Zong Luohu to cover his face in a black veil, pretended to be a gendarme in his battalion, and followed him into Yongdeng County.

When he arrived in front of the county yamen, he happened to bump into Zhang Juntai coming out, so Li Wenyuan stopped Zhang Juntai and said, "Juntai, have you found any clues?" ”

Zhang Juntai shook his head and said, "The county order said that the villagers received relief food and went north to Wuwei County. ”

Zong Luohu said categorically: "There is no such thing, from here to Wuwei County, you must pass through Qinglong Mountain, but no one has passed by for more than a month." ”

Zhang Juntai looked at Zong Luohu behind Li Wenyuan curiously, wondering why this person could be so sure that no one had passed through Qinglong Mountain.

Li Wenyuan whispered a few words in Zhang Juntai's ear, Zhang Juntai's face changed greatly, and said, "I went there today, and there is no one there." ”

Li Wenyuan's brows furrowed: "Is this true? ”

Zhang Juntai nodded and said: "Really, after I entered the city, I visited the city, and someone saw that a large number of officers and soldiers had escorted a group of civilians into the refugee shelter, and then there was no news. ”

Zhang Juntai pointed to a tea house not far away and motioned to go there to elaborate.

"When I heard the news, I went straight there to investigate, but there was no one there, only three or two soldiers on patrol. The people in the vicinity did see that some people were escorted in, but they did not see anyone come out to this day, but one hundred and ten carts came out one after another. Zhang Juntai took a sip of tea, unloaded the morning's rush and said.

"Big cart?" After listening to this, Li Wenyuan muttered, and a bad premonition came to his heart: Don't be that kind of rotten street. Then he asked, "Where did the carts go?" ”

Zhang Juntai said: "Those big cars went out of the city gate and headed east. ”

Zong Luo was shocked: "The east of the city is a mass grave, full of places where the bones of poor people are buried." ”

Li Wenyuan's heart froze: "Could it be that those people have been..."

The remaining two people also noticed the second half of Li Wenyuan's unfinished sentence, and their faces were solemn.

Looking at the faces of the two people, Li Wenyuan said, "Sect leader, how about you want to go back to the camp with me?" Let's go to the mass grave tonight to investigate. ”

Zong Luohu said without hesitation: "Okay, I will be taken care of by those villagers, and those villagers are nowhere to be found at this time, I will definitely go and check." ”

Li Wenyuan secretly admired Zong Luohu's courage and said, "Okay, let's go and visit again separately to see if there are any rumors." ”

After the three separated, they went separately to investigate, Li Wenyuan was walking on the street, and a fast horse ran in the distance, forcing everyone on the street to quickly dodge. At this time, a scholar-like person next to him said hatefully: "This Li Mao is becoming more and more lawless, isn't it just that his brother is the soldier of Yingyang Mansion in Wuwei County?" ”

After Li Wenyuan listened, he thought about it carefully, and after a long time, his memory became more and more blurred, and he couldn't remember some details clearly, but he still remembered in his mind that this Li Mao was the younger brother of Li Rail, a soldier of Yingyang Mansion, and this Li Rail later became the king of the Western Regions?