Guzang is the place of state governance, and the high gate of the city sergeant clan does not know how many. However, the area where Li Yanzhao and the other three are wandering at the moment is a civilian settlement in the western part of the city.

While the three of them were walking and eating, they had already encountered several teams of heavily armed soldiers patrolling the city on the way. When the soldiers saw that the three of them were wandering around, dressed in iron armor, with bows and knives hanging from their waists, and dressed as generals in the army, they routinely stopped the three men, and after inspecting their identities, they let them go.

It's just that at the time of parting, they all instructed the three of them to be cautious and not to hide their tracks, so as not to be regarded as thieves by the patrol sergeants.

The soldiers' advice aroused Li Yanzhao's curiosity. He is the place where he wants to govern the state, and there are such evil thieves at the feet of the king. It is strange that the governor of the prefecture Yin, has not been able to arrest the thief for a long time, causing the people and girls in the city to suffer repeatedly. Li Yanzhao was suddenly unhappy, and secretly decided to try to catch this thief tonight.

However, it is easy to generate ideas, but it is quite difficult to put them into practice. Guzang City was originally built by the Xiongnu. After the Zhang family took charge of Liangzhou, he added four cities on the basis of the original city, the streets are connected, seven miles long, three miles wide, and it is the shape of a sleeping dragon. How can such a large city track down that thief who has done a lot of evil deeds?

Although Li Yanzhao has already demarcated the civilian area where many victims live as a place where thieves often haunt according to the descriptions of the soldiers patrolling the city. However, it is not easy to find this thief out of this vast residential area.

Looking at the two subordinates who were at a loss, Li Yanzhao had no idea for a while. The three of them walked aimlessly through the back alleys of this civilian area, and no one spoke again.

It took about half an hour's effort, and the three of them searched this civilian area, but they were still at a loss. As the hour comes, the doors of the shops will be closed. Li Yanzhao had an idea, and called the two of them to go straight to a door.

There was a small official standing next to the door, and he saw three soldiers wearing iron armor and hanging bows and knives outside the door, and hurriedly greeted him from the door that had not yet been closed, and arched his hand: "I don't know how many veterans, what are you doing?" ”

Li Yanzhao also gave his hand, and then walked into the little official, leaned up and whispered: "Recently, the night in the city has been quite uneven, can Xiao Shi know the inside story?" ”

When the little official heard this, he sighed: "Hey, don't hide it from the veteran, recently, in these shops, there have been many thieves who have stolen in at night and bullied the women in the workshop." Zhang Zhijun was also quite angry, and strictly ordered the soldiers patrolling the city to arrest him. It's just that after the curfew at night, the door is closed, and no one knows how the thief got in. Hey, then again, this matter has been spreading in the community in recent days, how can the veterans not know such a thing? ”

Li Yanzhao let out a sigh when he heard this, and then said slowly: "I'm waiting for Guzang today, so I don't know." When the little official heard this, he smiled and said: "It turned out to be a transferred veteran, disrespectful and disrespectful." ”

Li Yanzhao frowned, and did not accept the polite words of the little official, but continued to ask: "Xiao Shi knows where such night incidents usually occur?" ”

Hearing Li Yanzhao's question, the little official stretched out his hand and pointed to the east side of the fangmen, and said, "I counted them before, and they were all in the east row of the fangfang." After a pause, he said: "Although the city patrol soldiers patrol the streets every time, no one has ever discovered the whereabouts of this thief, and he is cunning. ”

During the conversation, several people had heard the dense sound of drums coming from the bell and drum tower in the city. When the little official heard this, he hurriedly got up and said to Li Yanzhao and the others: "The drum has sounded, Yu Zi immediately closed the door of the workshop, and several veterans forgive Yu for not accompanying him." ”

Li Yanzhao smiled when he heard this: "In this way, Xiao Shi will go." After that, he led Niu Erzhuang and Zhang Xing and left on their own.

The three of them walked to the east side of the square. Li Yanzhao inspected the east side of the wall back and forth, and then looked up at the opposite side of the street, not far away was the inn where he lived. There was a window on the north side of the inn that was open, and Li Yanzhao took a closer look, thinking that it was actually the window in the room where he and the others lived.

For a while, Li Yanzhao suddenly had an idea in his heart, he summoned the two of them, and made them hide in the corners and shadows of the buildings on the street. He turned the street and walked up to the second floor of the inn, and then waited by the window, and looked out from the window that opened the first line, and the wall on the east side of the square was in full view.

Further north of the inn is the Assassin's Mansion. This thief chose to commit the crime in such a position, no wonder Zhang Yuanjun was furious, and then ordered Guzang Mansion Yin to spare no effort to arrest this thief. This is simply treating Zhang Lingjun as nothing! Today, this thief can sneak into the Assassin's Mansion Zuojinfang City to commit crimes, and it is inevitable that he will not sneak into the Assassin's Mansion tomorrow to commit crimes.

I didn't have a good rest yesterday, and today is a whole day of running and tiring, Li Yanzhao's nerves have already been a little overwhelmed, and after sitting by the window for a while, his eyes are blurred, and his eyelids are fighting. At this point, he forced himself to open his eyes and look at the opposite wall. However, after a while, his eyelids fought again, and he became drowsy, which made him very annoying.

In the end, Li Yanzhao simply took the lasso on the side, then threw half of it on the beam, and then pulled down the double-strand rope into one place, and then firmly tied it to his hair bun.

In this way, Li Yanzhao completed an automatic wake-up mechanism, although the consequence of being woken up every time he dozed off was ...... The scalp hurts a little.

When Li Yanzhao himself was fighting to the death against the temptation of Zhou Gong at the window of the guest room, Niu Erzhuang and Zhang Xing, who were hidden in the corridor downstairs and behind the water tank, had already leaned to the side and fell asleep.

The two of them were in a hurry overnight, and they ran around all day, and they ate such a big bowl of mutton soup cakes in the evening, even if they slept on the ground against the wall at the moment, they slept quite sweetly. Niu Erzhuang even crackled his mouth with a slight snoring sound, and he didn't know what kind of food he was eating in his dream.

Li Yanzhao, who was once again woken up by the lasso hanging on the beam of the house and the pain in his scalp, heard the even snoring sound from downstairs, and finally became angry. He tore off the noose from his bun and took a closer look through the window around the wall. Seeing that everything was as usual, Fang leaned out half of his body and lowered his voice downstairs and roared: "Niu Erzhuang! Niu Erzhuang! Zhang Xing! ”

He called out several times, but the two downstairs didn't react at all. I don't know who is asleep in the corridor, and the sound of the waves is still there. And it seems that with Li Yanzhao's shouting, he is a little high-pitched.

Li Yanzhao was groping around on his body, and for a while he couldn't find the guy to take advantage of the two people who were lazy underneath. When I was depressed, I felt a piece of dry and hard mud wrapped in a cloth that I used to use as a hard pen.

After the completion of the lead test system and the giving of himself a few samples, this mud ball ended its historical mission and should have been discarded. However, Li Yanzhao didn't know whether it was out of feelings or a strange idea of commemoration, so he kept it with him, and at this moment, this mud ball would eventually become a sharp weapon to punish the lazy.

Li Yanzhao stretched out his head again to observe. It's still business as usual on the other side of the wall. He then pushed the window halfway open, and held the stick that held the lattice. Then he leaned out half of his body and identified the direction of the snoring in the corridor of the black hole below. Then he took the dry and hard lump of mud and smashed it in the general direction of the snoring sound.

I vaguely heard a muffled sound of "pop". Li Yanzhao was still secretly thinking about whether this blow had hit or not, and then he heard an exclamation from the corridor: "Hundred generals!" Enemy attack! Enemy attack! ”

There was only a commotion below, and even a thud on the other side, and then the lid of the water tank was flipped aside. Li Yanzhao couldn't help but laugh dumbly. Then he lowered his voice and said solemnly: "Damn, Niu Erzhuang, you rammer!" What is the attack, and where is the enemy? Let you monitor the movement of the fang wall on the side of the street, and you will go directly to see Zhou Gong? Give me a starting point! ”

Li Yanzhao reprimanded for a while, and a head stretched out from the corridor below to glance upstairs, and then quickly retracted. Li Yanzhao was almost certain that the rammed goods in the corridor were Niu Erzhuang.

After such a toss, neither Li Yanzhao nor the two people in the corridor or the water tank at the bottom had lost the interest in continuing to sleep. In this way, the three people upstairs and downstairs, with six eyes, began to stare intently at the opposite wall.

Niu Erzhuang stared straight at the opposite wall, and in his heart, he had already imagined the red and white wall opposite as a huge pancake. Zhang Xing stared at the wall, and saw a beautiful woman like a flower and jade on the wall, looking at him with a smile, and he was overjoyed, and instantly left all his sleepiness behind.

Only Li Yanzhao stared at the red and white wall opposite, his thoughts were chaotic. However, the situation of the wall and the surrounding area is in full view.

From time to time, patrol soldiers walked by on the street, but downstairs Niu Erzhuang and Zhang Xing, the uncompetitive snoring never appeared again. I don't know how long I stared at it, but when another wave of sleepiness gradually hit, forcing Li Yanzhao to tie the lasso hanging on the beam of the house to his bun again, there was finally some unusual movement on the side of the wall.

Li Yanzhao took advantage of the moonlight to clearly see that from the direction of the Thorn Mansion, a black shadow quietly lurked on the opposite side of the east side of the square wall under the cover of roadside trees and fences. Then, seeing that the street was empty, he quickly jumped out of his hiding place, and then rushed towards the east wall.

Rushing to the root of the wall, I saw that the black shadow found a low wall, and then jumped up, grabbed the wall with both hands and wanted to climb up. Seeing this, Li Yanzhao hurriedly untied the lasso on his bun, staring nervously at the movements of the black shadow.

And just as the black shadow was leaning half of his body against the wall, Li Yanzhao suddenly heard Niu Erzhuang's shout from downstairs: "Duh! Who is guilty of the night? ”

At that moment, Li Yanzhao's face turned blue with anger. It's good that you are a good cow and two strong, and you have more than enough success and more failure. When the shadow heard the question, he quickly rolled over from the wall and fled back to the way he came.

Want to escape? When Li Yanzhao saw the man's movements, he couldn't care much about it, so he turned over and jumped downstairs from the window. Fortunately, the height of the second floor was nothing, and Li Yanzhao skillfully bent his legs when he landed, and then rolled forward with his body, unloading all the impact of the jump.

Niu Erzhuang and Zhang Xing saw that the man turned around and wanted to escape, and they were anxious and chased after him. After Li Yanzhao got up, he sprinted with all his strength and rushed towards the black shadow.

The black shadow panicked, crossed the street, and ran forward along the Thorn Mansion. Li Yanzhao sprinted seventy or eighty steps, and he had already left Niu Erzhuang and Zhang Xing behind, but the distance between him and the black shadow was getting closer and closer.

Seeing that Li Yanzhao was about to catch up with him, the man also exerted ten percent of his strength, ran forward with all his might, and the distance between him and Li Yanzhao gradually widened. Li Yanzhao was anxious to see the black shadow fleeing, and the distance between him and the ten or so steps would be difficult to close for a while.

After chasing for more than 20 steps, Li Yanzhao saw that there were many small stones on the ground under his feet by the moonlight. So he had an idea, quickly squatted down, and touched a stone the size of a quail egg. Then he stood up, raised his hand and threw it violently in the direction of the black shadow's escape, and the stone was already carrying a fierce wind sound, and went straight to the black shadow's back.

With a muffled sound, the black shadow was already hit by a stone, and then fell to the ground with a muffled grunt. Seeing this, Li Yanzhao rushed over again, reciting the famous sentence "It is advisable to chase the poor man with the remaining bravery", and with a hard pounce, he pressed the black shadow under him.

The black shadow eased up, and then struggled to get rid of Li Yanzhao's control, but his dishonest performance just aroused Li Yanzhao's ferocity. Li Yanzhao fumbled and grabbed one of his hands, then stood up, his legs stuck, and another beautiful backwards, and a cross was already firmly in control of the man.

The man was still struggling, howling as he struggled, "You dare to ...... If you dare to arrest me, I will be in court! ”

Li Yanzhao listened to the man's threatening self-introduction, and his heart was even more resentful, his right hand firmly grabbed the man's middle finger, and then his crotch stuck the man's elbow, and he jerked it up. Instantly, the man stopped struggling, but let out a long, long howl, and the unrestrained other hand slapped desperately against the ground beside him.

"Good...... The good man let go, a certain ...... I don't dare. ”

Hearing the man's soft words, Li Yanzhao let go of his hand, then got up, firmly grasped his left hand and parted it to his back, his right hand stuck the back of his neck, and then escorted him to stride away from here.

I couldn't walk more than ten or twenty steps, but I saw Niu Erzhuang and Zhang Xing panting to meet them. Li Yanzhao laughed and said, "When the two of you come, the prisoner will run to Gaochang early!" "Gaochang is hundreds of miles away, adjacent to the west side of Liangzhou. Li Yanzhao grabbed the man at this moment, and he was happy in his heart, so he laughed at Niu and Zhang.

Seeing that Li Yanzhao had captured the black shadow, the two of them followed behind Li Yanzhao breathlessly, walking the way they came.

When he passed through the gate of the Assassin's Mansion, he saw two guards standing in front of the door, looking at this side suspiciously, and one of them even shouted and asked, "Who is making noise outside the Assassin's Mansion?" ”

Li Yanzhao held the man's head and said, "I waited for the night patrol and caught a thief." Disturb you, and beg your forgiveness. ”