Sure enough, Chen Miaosheng, who falsely accused the prisoner in the governor's yamen prison, was found hanging himself with his belt by the jailer early in the morning. Since the prisoner has committed suicide in fear of crime, there is no way for the mastermind to continue to ask questions, and the case is officially closed.

After Li Yan received the news of the closure of the case, there was no surprise. If the foundation of the Zhou Wangfu in Kaifeng for nearly three hundred years cannot be successfully erased, it will be too much of a failure.

"General, it seems that the people watching outside have been withdrawn." Wang Renjie reported to Li Yan.

When they entered the inn, they noticed that someone was watching them at the door. These people don't do much disguise, they just drink melon seeds and tea in a nearby tea shop. Yesterday, when he went to patrol the yamen, there were also people hanging from behind.

Li Yan instructed: "Let's see if it's hidden, or let someone more knowledgeable do it." ”

"Okay." Wang Renjie said yes and went out.

He didn't dare to go home yet, so he had to wait and see. If Zhou Wangfu is targeted, Li Chunyu will have a hard time.

Li Yan went out and went to the upper room to open Wu Niang's door.

"Childe, please." Wu Niang didn't hesitate and let Li Yan in, but didn't close the door.

After Li Yan sat down at the table, he asked, "Have you thought about it?" Where to go? I'm leaving tomorrow, at most the day after tomorrow. If you haven't figured it out yet, I can pay you a month's rent for this room. ”

Wu Niang was still a little hesitant, but now she didn't have much time, so after a moment of silence, she replied: "I want to leave here, leave Kaifeng." ”

Li Yan smiled and said, "I advise you to stay in the city, it's not peaceful outside." Even if you don't go back to the palace, you have to find a place to stay in the city. Life is harder, but it's alive. Of course, your path is still up to you. ”

"Where is it different to have three meals a day?" Wu Niang insisted: "I can be a woman, I can tailor, even if it is pulp washing, I can rely on myself, not at the mercy of those wicked people." ”

Li Yan thought for a while and said, "That's it, if you have time today, I'll take you to see what it's like outside the city, and then you can make a decision." ”

"I've been there, haven't I just come back from outside the city?" Wu Niang said suspiciously.

Li Yan said: "What you see is not real, what I let you see is the real situation." After finishing speaking, Li Yan went out and instructed Wang Renjie to ask him to find a carriage and prepare to leave the city.

Li Yan asked people to divide into two groups to see if there were any stalkers. After that, meet at the city gate. After leaving the city, Wang Renjie reported that he did not find the stalking, and Li Yan was sure that the palace did not want to be entangled anymore.

They still went outside the southern city, but the soldiers here had been withdrawn the day before yesterday, and the place was occupied by hooligans again. There are only some merchants on the road to Zhuxian Town, but there are also a large number of soldiers guarding it, of course, this costs money.

Li Yan and the others went out of the city two miles and stopped by a wood. Li Yan asked Wu Niang to get out of the car, took her off the official road, and went to the small mound next to her, and behind the mound was the woods. Others are waiting on the official road.

They saw that there were many homeless people hiding in the woods, and they had several cauldrons set up outside the woods. A group of old and weak women and children sat around a pot, while the able-bodied people went to collect firewood and fetch water. And here you can smell the aroma of broth from afar.

When the water comes, pour it into the pot and mix the original hot soup to cool it. A woman directly used her hands to fish out the bones of Bai Sensen from the pot, and the first thing she picked up was a small human skull. She whimpered quietly, wrapped her clothes around her bones, and walked towards a small pit that had been dug.

"Ahh Wu Niang screamed in fright and asked, "Child! They eat children! ”

Li Yan frowned and said, "Let's go, this is life outside the city!" Last year there were locust plagues, droughts, and thieves, and they had nothing to eat. Come on! ”

Wu Niang's cry attracted the attention of those homeless people. A few of them pointed at each other and shouted a few words, and the homeless people slowly converged on the mound. The able-bodied men carried poles, sticks, and some of them pig-killing knives.

Li Yan picked up Wu Niang and walked back, but Wu Niang was frightened by eating children, her legs were a little weak, and she would fall down after taking two steps. Li Yan had no choice but to pick up Wu Niang and run. There are nearly two hundred displaced people here, to say the least, and it will be dangerous if they are entangled.

When those homeless people saw that Li Yan and Wu Niang were about to run, they also sped up their pace and chased after them from behind. Several of the homeless people kept throwing the stones in their hands at Li Yan, and a few of them hit Li Yan, causing him to stagger up, and his running speed naturally slowed down.

Li Yan looked back and saw that a homeless person was already two steps behind him. He put down Wu Niang, who was pale, straightened up and kicked sideways, kicking the homeless person who caught up first in the chest, and kicked it upside down. The homeless man landed and rolled around twice, and then there was no sound.

At this moment of crisis, Li Yan did not relent, and with two punches and one kick, he knocked the three homeless people away. At this point, he finally had a chance to draw his long knife.

The homeless people didn't seem to see the four dead companions before, they stared at the blood-red eyes, and slowly leaned towards Li Yan and Wu Niang. The homeless people in the back also came over from a distance, wanting to surround Li Yan and Wu Niang. They were all their relatives who ate before, and whoever was weakest ate ate first. At first, I changed the food, but then I didn't even change it.

The current crowd is no longer a family group, but a random combination of a group of strangers, in order to be able to survive, eat the weakest people in the group. If anyone is unwilling to eat because it is their relatives who are cooking in the pot, when he has no physical strength, he will be the next to eat. Therefore, people have no family affection, only the idea of living.

At this time, two outsiders appeared, and these homeless people could finally eat people who had nothing to do with them, so they surrounded Li Yan and them with guilt for their relatives and resentment towards the world.

Li Yan doesn't need to be called, Wang Renjie and they have already seen Li Yan's crisis. So they drew their swords in their hands, galloped on horseback, and rushed down the official road from among the willow trees that had no bark on the side of the official road, and attacked the displaced people who planned to surround Li Yan.

They rushed past the outcasts, their long sharp knives cutting long gaps in the bodies of the outcasts, blood gushing out of their thin bodies, causing them to quickly lose their strength and heat.

Li Yan was also flying with a long knife at this time, as long as there were homeless people who dared to approach, he would quickly slash over and cut them down. He never uses a stab, he may be caught after stabbing out, and it will take time to pull it out again, so chopping is the most practical at this time. At this time, there were already more than a dozen corpses around him.

The outcasts suddenly stopped attacking, and they seemed to realize that they were no match for these people. But it seems more likely that they feel they already have enough food. Ignoring the cavalry who were still slashing their horses, the outcasts began to drag the corpses away and back to the cauldron at the edge of the woods.