"Please be aware of the general, we are outsiders, if it was our crime, we would have already escaped, how could we stand here and wait for the general to arrest us?"

At this moment, a soldier suddenly shouted loudly: "General, there is a living person in the well!" ”

Everyone was shocked when they heard this, there was an inconspicuous well in the corner of the yard of the post station, which would not attract attention on weekdays, and no one expected that there were people in the well, including Yang Yi and others, and no one noticed the lonely well when it was dark last night.

The commander immediately ordered the soldiers to surround the well, and the two strong soldiers stepped forward and slowly shook the rope of the well that carried the water.

"Don't hurt us, don't hurt us!" Before the man came out, the voice came out of the well.

When the well rope shook to the end, two black heads poked out, and they turned out to be the lame post officer and the fat cook of the post station.

Scooping up the two of them, the leading general hurriedly went up and asked the reason.

It turned out that these two people had been in the deep mountain post station all the year round, and they had already had their own set of life-saving methods. Last night, when the bandits smoked the lobby of the post station, the two people who lived in the side room took advantage of the chaos to hide in the dry well next to them, and after the bandits attacked and killed all the caravan guards, they patronized to find Yang Yi and others, but they forgot about these two people, so they escaped.

After the lame postman and the fat cook were fished up, they sat on the ground and gasped for breath.

The leading general hurriedly asked, "Old man Zhou, what happened last night?" ”

The lame post officer surnamed Zhou didn't seem to be nervous, took out a pipe from his arms and smoked it, only to see that he didn't seem surprised: "What else?" Of course, the bandits kill people and sell goods, don't you know how to watch it. ”

Old Man Zhou's tone was extremely perfunctory, which made people sound very uncomfortable, but what made Yang Yi strange was that the leading general did not mean to be angry at all, and seemed to be used to Old Man Zhou's attitude.

"Then did you see the appearance of the bandits last night, are they these people?" The general pointed at Yang Yi and the others.

Old Man Zhou raised his eyes and glanced at Yang Yi and the others, and said with a smile: "Where can these people kill so many people?" ”

The general said thoughtfully: "Then what are these people doing?" ”

"These people were stationed at the post station with the caravan yesterday evening, I don't know if it has anything to do with the bandits, but I didn't see these people killing, but I saw that after the bandits left, they collected the bodies of the caravan guards." Old man Zhou glanced at Yang Yi intentionally or unintentionally when he spoke, and that look made Yang Yi feel that this person might know something, but he didn't say it.

The general said: "So these people have nothing to do with bandits?" ”

Old man Zhou said impatiently: "It doesn't matter if it's something you should investigate, anyway, I've already told you everything I saw." Saying that, Old Man Zhou got up, kicked the fat cook beside him, and scolded: "What are you still lying here?" That lobby is a mess, don't hurry up and clean it up! ”

As he spoke, Old Man Zhou had already taken the fat cook into the lobby and began to clean up, but the leading general did not stop him.

At this time, the scout sent out by the general to investigate also returned, and found no trace of the bandits.

The general pondered for a moment and decided to order the next part of the soldiers to temporarily garrison at the post station, while he rushed back to Jianchong Pass first and reported the situation here to the Taishou. As for Yang Yi and the others, the general decided not to treat them as prisoners for the time being, but Yang Yi and the others had to go back to Jianchongguan with him to be questioned by Taishou.

For this kind of treatment, Yang Yi is still acceptable, anyway, everyone has to go to Jianchong Pass, and it is much safer with the army, as for what to do when they get to Jianchong Pass, they can only take one step at a time.

With the army with him, there was no panic along the way, except for a little anxious on the road, he did not encounter any situation, not to mention bandits, that is, even passers-by would avoid it far away when they saw the arrival of the army.

At noon on the third day, Yang Yi and the others finally entered the Jianchong Pass.

Jianchong Pass, established between two cliffs and mountains, the pass is in the form of a flying sword, so it is named Jianchong, it is the first pass to enter Shu. It is not only the only way to enter Shu from the west, but also a place where soldiers have fought since ancient times. Although the scale of Guanzhen is not as good as that of Guanxi Guancheng in the north, due to the advantages of innate geography, its precipitous trend is rare in the world.

While Yang Yi lamented the steepness of the sword rush, he was also weighing how to attack and defend this first pass in the southwest. However, after thinking about the horizontal alliance, Yang Yi finally came to the conclusion that as long as 5,000 people guarded the sword and rushed to the pass, even if ten times the force forcibly attacked the city, he would not want to set foot on the city wall for half a step.

Yang Yi was immediately glad that he did not enter Shuzhong with the army, and his 10,000 people's homes, even if they passed the long plank road, would eventually collapse under this sword rush.

Yang Yi and the others were sent to the prison of Jianchongguan and locked up, and it seemed that it would be difficult for them to get out until they found out the truth of the matter.

Three days later, just as Yang Yi lost his patience and was about to find a way to leave, a team of officials came from the prison and brought Yang Yi out, and it was said that Jian Chongguan Taishou was preparing to interrogate him.

Yang Yi followed the official to the Jianchong Pass Taishou Mansion and was escorted to the lobby like a prisoner.

"Bang!" A middle-aged official in the hall sat solemnly, staring at Yang Yi and said angrily: "Bold thief, don't summon it quickly!" ”

There is no need to guess, the person sitting in the hall is the Taishou who guards the sword in Shuzhong Town.

Yang Yimian did not change his face and said: "My lord, I am not guilty, how can I talk about summoning him?" ”

"More than 50 people from Wanfu Commercial Bank died tragically on the Shudao Post Station, and the goods of the Commercial Bank worth 10,000 taels disappeared.

Yang Yi said with a smile: "If the adult insists on imposing this crime on me and others, then there is no need to interrogate." ”

At this time, Yang Yi had already begun to think about how to escape from prison with his generals, if this Jian Chongguan Taishou wanted to forcibly make himself a scapegoat, then no matter how much he explained, it would be useless.

The Taishou didn't seem to expect Yang Yi to be so calm, and was about to get angry, when a scribe came out of the back hall and came to Taishou's side, whispering a few words to Taishou.

Na Taishou pondered for a moment when he heard this, then nodded but did not speak again.

The middle-aged scribe walked down the hall, came to Yang Yi's side, circled around Yang Yi twice, and said thoughtfully: "Do you know how many bandits there are?" ”

Yang Yi said: "There are more than 100 people. ”

"When to plunder?"

"It's past night."

"You said that someone in the caravan colluded with the bandits, how did you know?"

"I heard it by accident."

"Who is that colluding with the bandits?"

"Jinpeng Yuanjin is in charge."

"Where is the gold steward now?"

"I don't know."

"Where is the caravan cargo now?"

"I don't know."

The two of them asked and answered, and the middle-aged scribe asked very quickly, and Yang Yi answered without hesitation.

The middle-aged scribe nodded, and then asked, "Last question, you said that you came to Shuzhong Province to pro-province, which family is the pro-province of the province?" ”

Yang Yi replied: "Chengzhou Mansion, Su's Embroidery Village." ”

"Huh?" The middle-aged scribe seemed a little surprised and asked, "Who are you Su Zhongzhai?" ”

"Mr. Su is the uncle of my mother, I should call Mr. Su."

The middle-aged scribe glanced at Yang Yi again, turned to the hall and bowed: "My lord, it is very simple to prove the identity of this person, just send the Su family's steward in Jianchongguan to ask." ”