In the night, Yang Lian moved forward quickly, after these days of exploration, Yang Lian was already very familiar with the route, time, and place of the night patrol soldiers, so the journey was very smooth, and the two men in black still followed closely, but when they reached the halfway, one of the men in black stopped, left quickly, and came back after a while to continue to follow. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

It was Xiao Yan's subordinates who connected with this person, and after the two talked, the man left in a hurry and rushed towards Xiao Yan's mansion.

At this time, Xiao Yan was already asleep, and when he heard the news from his subordinates, he hurriedly washed his face and asked people to gather all the officials. According to the information, Yang Lian's actions are a little different today, it seems that Yang Lian has a new plan, and Xiao Yan must follow up to see what is going on.

This choice is indeed a bit difficult for Xiao Yan, Yang Lian is no longer the original commander, but the dignified Marquis Wu, the son-in-law of King Qi, and the Tang Dynasty, and it is not a small risk to oppose him. But for Xiao Yan, who is "upright", he can only bite the bullet.

After Xiao Yan gathered everyone, half an hour had passed, and in order to gain time, everyone rode war horses and went straight to the south of the city. Xiao Yan had been to the south of the city during the day, so he was very familiar with it, and he also believed that they on war horses could use their speed to arrive in time to expose Yang Lian's conspiracy.

After solving this big case, Xiao Yan felt that he really should rest, the location of Dali Temple is not easy to sit.

In the middle of the night, the war horses galloped on the streets, and the sound of horses' hooves alarmed the patrolling soldiers, and the soldiers hurried over and asked Xiao Yan and others, why do you dare to come out in the third watch? Not to mention galloping. Xiao Yan took out the seal ribbon of Dali Temple and said that there was a case to be handled.

Seeing this, the group of soldiers moved out of the way, and Xiao Yan continued to run towards the south of the city. The sound of horses' hooves woke up many people, and they put on their coats and poked their heads out, what was going on?

In the south of the city, Yang Lian continued to move forward, looking left and right, checking the situation around him, but he didn't find that the two people who were following him still arrived in that room, Yang Lian dodged and went in, and he didn't come out with a half-sound.

On Xiao Yan's side, when he was about to reach the location, he slowed down the speed of the war horse, so as not to arouse Yang Lian's vigilance. When he was still more than 500 steps away from the location, the spies he arranged walked over quickly.

"Xiao Siqing, Wu Hou has been in there for half an hour." The spy said.

Xiao Yan perked up, this is a big problem, usually Yang Lian went over, and left after a meal at most, but today it has been half an hour and has not come out, obviously, Yang Lian is discussing something with people inside, is it planning for Emperor Zhou E to leave? Or maybe the family of Han Qi who was killed is being held here.

No matter what the reason is, it is very good news for Xiao Yan, as long as he can catch a little clue, he can follow the vine, find out the culprit, give King Yan a result, and give the Son of Heaven a result, as for how to deal with this culprit, it is not for him to worry about.

Xiao Yan got off his horse and walked quickly to the front of the house with a group of people, Li Hongji's spies were quite surprised to see so many people suddenly coming, and after a brief observation, the spies hid and did not let anyone find out.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Yan approached and asked the subordinates who had been observing the room.

"Wu Hou is still inside." Spies report.

"Come on, quickly fence off the house, and don't let anyone go in or out." Xiao Yan immediately commanded.

More than 100 people quickly dispersed, taking three steps and one post, surrounding the house.

The officials of Dali Temple did all this, Xiao Yan stepped forward slowly, and several officials followed him with torches. Since Yang Lian didn't come out, Xiao Yan had to go in and take a look.

Xiao Yan got closer, only to find that although the house looked dilapidated, it was extremely strong, especially the door, which was made of a whole plank, and I don't know where to get such a large piece of wood.

"Open the door!" Xiao Yan shouted, there are many officials outside the door, and not a single bird can fly over, so Xiao Yan is very bold.

However, there was no movement in the room, and since the room had no windows, there was no movement in it.

Xiao Yan frowned, took a few steps back, and ordered his subordinates to kick open the door. Several wolf-like officials stepped forward and kicked the door desperately, and a loud noise alarmed many people, who were usually very busy, and finally could rest at night, but they were woken up, and they were all resentful, and they were short-tempered, and they had already scolded.

But soon, news came, saying that the officials came to arrest people, and the people immediately didn't dare to speak up, and the people didn't fight with the officials, if they really angered them, they were arrested and detained for a few days, and they were not dumb and ate yellow lotus? Although the gate was strong, it was broken thanks to the efforts of the officials.

"Let's go inside!" Xiao Yan ordered, he looked ahead coldly, but he was thinking in his heart that if Yang Lian refused to come out, the secret in this would be big.

A servant who was eager to make meritorious service was the first to break in, he held a torch, and looked around, the room was not big, and the furnishings inside were very simple, but there was no one, which made the official very puzzled.

"Xiao Siqing, there is no one inside." A servant returns.

Xiao Yan felt strange in his heart and asked, "No one?" It doesn't make sense. As he spoke, he called the spy again and interrogated him carefully, and the spy was sure that after Yang Lian entered the house, he definitely did not come out again.

The spy was so sure that Xiao Yan couldn't help muttering in his heart, thought about it, and ordered the soldiers to search carefully, maybe there would be any clues. The officials searched carefully for a while, and soon found a hidden grid, opened the dark grid, and a hole was actually exposed on the ground, and in the hole, there were stairs, and they went down layer by layer.

"This?" Xiao Yan thought for a while, and then quickly laughed, it turned out that Yang Lian was hiding here. Wu Hou, Wu Hou, you didn't think of today.

"Keep searching!" Xiao Yan shouted, getting closer and closer to the truth.

Several excited officials walked down, walked less than a few dozen steps, there were several forks in the road, several officials looked at each other, quickly made a decision, and moved forward separately, one of them walked dozens of steps, and heard the sound of striking iron in the distance.

The servants moved forward quickly, getting closer, and found that there were several big men struggling to forge iron tools, and there were several large windows a dozen paces behind them, seven or eight feet above the ground, and they did not know where they led.

Several officials hesitated, should they move on or go back and tell Xiao Siqing? Suddenly, there was a muffled sound on the ground, and the ground shook, and the mud and sand on his head fell down.

A blacksmith's face changed drastically, and he shouted eagerly, "Oh no, the gunpowder has exploded!" As he spoke, he rushed out.

When several officials heard this, they hurried back, but it was too late, and large chunks of mud and sand fell, and occasionally there were huge stones, and one of the officials was hit by a stone the size of his head, and immediately snorted, and fell to the ground, thinking that he would not survive.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! The constant sound of explosions resounded in the ears of the officials, and they ran as hard as they could, but they could not escape, and finally they were all buried under the mud and sand.

On the ground, Xiao Yan, who was originally triumphant, suddenly felt the vibration of the ground, he quickly retreated, and just walked out more than thirty steps, the place where he was originally standing suddenly fell, and a huge pit appeared in front of him.

However, this is not over, the ground is still shaking, there are constantly places collapsing, the scope is constantly expanding, Xiao Yan is shocked, he keeps retreating, so as not to fall into the deep pit, he has taken more than three hundred steps back, the ground is still trembling, like a wounded little beast, Xiao Yan was shocked in his heart, what is going on?

In the middle of the night, such a thing happened, and many nearby houses collapsed, and many people were buried alive in their sleep, and those who were lucky not to die were stunned to see the big pit that suddenly appeared, and they didn't know what to do.

The shaking of the ground lasted for a meal, and when the shaking stopped, the smell of gunpowder and earth filled the air, and one was a little choked. After a brief moment of surprise, the people began to dig into the ground with their hands as if they were crazy, and their relatives were buried in the deep pits.

The crying suddenly seemed extremely sad, Xiao Yan looked at all this in shock, half a sound, and then he reacted, Wu Hou was so ruthless, if he didn't go down to check, he would definitely be buried in this deep pit.

"Quick, help!" Xiao Yan hurriedly said, how many people can be rescued is a few people, although in this disaster, the possibility of survival is very small. Saving people is one aspect, and Xiao Yan also wants to find out what happened.

When the officials heard the order, they moved, and they spread out in all directions, borrowed hoes from the people, and began to dig deep pits. Xiao Yan was observing, and at the same time called his henchmen and asked him to monitor all this, he was going to enter the palace to face the saint, such a thing happened, it was really appalling, if the Son of Heaven knew, he would definitely be furious.

Li Jing was woken up by Gao Ze in his sleep, and he was very displeased. Gao Ze bowed again and again, and said: "Your Majesty, Xiao Yan, the secretary of Dali Temple, said that there was an urgent matter to face the saint, and he repeatedly begged to see His Majesty immediately, and the slave had to ......."

Li Jing waved his hand, he was woken up, and it was useless to say these words. Li Jing yawned and said, "Announce him in." I thought in my heart, if it wasn't really a big deal, the position of this Dali Temple, Xiao Yan would come down.

"Weichen disturbed Your Majesty, and I hope Your Majesty will forgive your sins!" Xiao Yan came in and said busily.

"Okay, Xiao Qing's family, it's so late, you attack, there must be something important, I want to hear it, what is so urgent?" Li Jing said.

"Your Majesty, about an hour ago, something horrific happened in the south of the city." Xiao Yan hurriedly told what happened.

While listening, Li Jing couldn't help frowning, stood up, looked at Xiao Yan in disbelief, and said, "Xiao Qingjia, do you mean that Wu Hou designed this conspiracy to lure you into the bait?" ”

"Exactly!" Xiao Yan's answer was very brief, Yang Lian was like this, which made him confident enough to believe that Yang Lian was the one who secretly exchanged for Princess Yan.

Li Jing couldn't help but gasp, and still asked in disbelief: "Xiao Qingjia, Wu Hou is no longer just a commander, let alone a general, his identity, you have to understand, if you falsely accuse him, you should know the consequences." ”

Xiao Yan bit his lip and said categorically: "Your Majesty, this matter must be related to Yang Lian, Weichen sent someone to monitor him for a long time, even if Princess Yan was not snatched by him, at least that room hides his big secret, and now Weichen has sent someone to investigate, I think there will be results soon." ”

"What do you want me to do?" Li Jing asked.

"Immediately announce that Marquis Wu will enter the palace, so that he will not have time to destroy the evidence, and at the same time, send someone to search the Yang Mansion, and he will definitely be able to find relevant evidence." Xiao Yan said.

Li Jing didn't speak, he looked at Xiao Yan fixedly, and after a while, he spoke, "I can give you this right, but if you can't find it, what should you do?" As the Son of Heaven, he can't bear this mistake himself.

"If Weichen can't find evidence, he will take off the black veil on his head." Xiao Yan said.

"Okay, I'm done!" It took a long time for these words to pop out of Li Jing's mouth.

"Thank you, Your Majesty! Your Majesty, Weichen has another request, I hope Your Majesty can give me dozens of Praetorian Guard soldiers. Xiao Yan said that there are a certain number of generals in the Yang Mansion, and I am afraid that he will not be able to take Yang Lian away with his servants alone.

"Gao Ze, who is the general of the vigil tonight?" Li Jing asked.

"Your Majesty, it's Chen Keyan." Gao Ze replied.

"Gao Ze, you immediately take Xiao Qing's family to find Chen Keyan, and let Chen Keyan personally lead two hundred troops to invite Wu Hou, you all have to remember that you are going to invite Wu Hou, if anyone is disrespectful to him, I will definitely punish him." Li Jing advised.

"Whoa!" Gao Ze said.

Xiao Yan said: "Your Majesty, what if Marquis Wu disobeys?" ”

Li Jing was stunned for a moment, and then said: "If you disobey the order, you send someone back to tell me!" ”

Xiao Yan nodded and retreated, the Son of Heaven is like this, which is enough to prove Yang Lian's status in his mind.

In a room in the palace, Chen Keyan was reading the book of war in the room, as a general, he rarely had the opportunity to fight, but if he wanted to climb up in a side branch of a family like her, he could only achieve further achievements through his own efforts. For this reason, Chen Keyan did not dare to slack off, and studied hard every day, hoping to show his ambitions one day.

When Sun Tzu read more than a dozen pages of the Art of War, Chen Keyan felt a little thirsty, and was about to get up and pour a cup of tea to quench his thirst, when the sound of hurried footsteps sounded, and then Gao Ze's voice came.

"General Chen, are you here?" Gao Ze said.

"Is it Gonggong Gao? Chen is here. Chen Keyan replied loudly.

Gao Ze soon appeared in front of Chen Keyan, followed by Xiao Yan, the Qing of Dali Temple.

"General Chen, immediately order two hundred people and go to the Marquis Wu's Mansion to arrest people!" Gao Ze said, it can be said that the words are not shocking and endless.

Chen Keyan was stunned when he heard this, and said, "Go to Wuhou's Mansion to arrest people?" ”

Xiao Yan couldn't wait to say: "Exactly, Wu Hou has committed something, Your Majesty wants to arrest him and return to the palace, so let General Chen assist!" ”

Chen Keyan's gaze swept over Xiao Yan, nodded solemnly, and said, "So, wait a while, wait for a while, wait for me to gather all the people, and immediately go straight to the Wuhou Mansion!" ”