The matter that is anxious in Li Yanzhi's heart, in addition to Ma Ping's arrest and imprisonment, is the whereabouts of the fallen Yongdeng and Su Wanyun. Since Tao Heng returned and the number of cavalry in the county soldiers was replenished again, Li Yanzhi sent Tao Heng and his sentry cavalry several times to inquire and search, but to no avail. After the thieves retreated, the more than 2,000 captives who occupied Lingju immediately withdrew. However, before leaving, I didn't forget to go to the countryside near Yongdeng to plunder. Under these circumstances, the population of Yongdeng County, which had not been able to evacuate the households in time before the war, was already 1 in 10.

At the time of the attack on Lingju, the Yongdeng Shou General and the county commander Su Xuan were both in the city. According to the news from the rout, Su Xuancheng died in the chaos when the city was broken, and this matter is correct. It's just that as for where Su Xuan's family relatives went, many inquiries still couldn't find any clues.

When Li Yanzhi heard that Ma Ping had been arrested and taken out of prison, he was likely to be beheaded soon, and he was also anxious. He returned to the camp and hurriedly wrote the seal presented to Zhang Yuanjun, and immediately decided not to wait, so he called Tao Heng to bring a horseman, prepare horses and dry food, etc., greeted Xin Yan, and went to the state.

Before and after Ma Ping's arrest, Xin Yan was also surprised when he heard Li Yanzhi talk about it roughly, and even said that he was willing to write to those uncles and ask them for help. After all, if Ling Ju had not led his troops to help, he would probably have fallen into the hands of the enemy. Li and Xin are both going to become ghosts under the sword of the thief. Ma Ping led the troops to rush to the rescue, but Li Yanzhi was not the only one.

Li Yanzhi walked out of the camp gate, and was about to gallop on the streets of the county government, which still looked a little empty, but another team of horsemen with bows and knives suddenly appeared in front of him. When the first general saw Li Yanzhi, when he urged the horse forward, when he was about to reach Li Yanzhi, the man moved quickly and grabbed Li Yanzhi's horse reins. The horse's chew tore at it, causing the horse to suffer a lot of pain, and even stopped with a roar.

Li Yanzhi looked intently, but found that the general who was holding the reins of the horse had a baby-like face, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it. He frowned and wondered, "Are you?" ”

The baby-faced right hand let go of Li Yanzhi's horse reins, dismounted and bowed slightly, "I am under the command of General Su Bairen." Li Sima, I was originally in Longxi, and when you sent your sentry to save my Xiaolangjun, we met at that time......"

When Li Yanzhi heard the words of the general, he suddenly realized. nodded again and again: "Yes, I remembered." It's just that you are here to stop me at the moment, and it is also Su Fu's instructions? ”

"Xiao Langjun will be here later, please wait a while." The baby-faced confessed, showing a maturity that did not match his face. Li Yanzhi saw that more than a dozen horsemen on the opposite side were firmly blocking the way, but he couldn't. I had to keep my face calm and silent.

After waiting for only a quarter of an hour or so, the sound of horses' hooves came from the end of the street. Li Yanzhi stretched his neck on horseback and looked at each other, only to see Su Fu pass through a passage made by his subordinates and come slowly. is different from Li Yanzhi's impression, Su Fu at this time no longer has the uninhibited and cynical appearance he had before. He rode his horse to Li Yanzhi's horse, frowned slightly and looked at Li Yanzhi, the two looked at each other for a long time, and neither of them said a word first.

"General Su Bairen, how are you doing lately?" Li Yanzhi didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Su Fu's gourd. couldn't stand this rare silence, and took the lead in speaking, breaking the embarrassing situation of the two of them riding horses.

Su Fu sighed softly, shook his head and said, "Yongdeng City is broken, and my uncle is lost in the chaos. Where will it be good? He chuckled as if deprecating himself: "Since the Guanzhongwu Fort was broken and I have been displaced here, I feel that I am extremely useless. I don't want to be able to protect the people at home even though I am wearing armor and holding a knife today...... It's really useless, useless......"

When Li Yanzhi heard this, his expression also darkened. He looked at Su Fu with a slightly helpless expression, but he was also compassionate. was about to say something to convince him, but saw Su Fu raise his head and look at him: "There is someone who wants to see you, but I don't know if Li Sima is willing to see you?" ”

Li Yanzhi was about to open his mouth to ask who it was, but suddenly remembered something, and asked Su Fu with a surprised expression: "Isn't it...... Seem...... Cloud? ”

Seeing Su Fu nodding invisibly, a big stone instantly fell in Li Yanzhi's heart, and he was about to agree, but he lowered his head and thought about it, and then looked at Su Fu: "At this time, I will go to see Sister Ling, I am afraid that something is wrong......"

Su Fu nodded lightly, looked at Li Yanzhi, and asked again, "It's okay." Then please give Li Sima a quasi-word, do you see it, or don't you see it? Or see you later? ”

Li Yanzhi said with a bitter face: "I'm going to go to the state now." I'll go to see her on the day I return from the state, may? ”

Su Fu squinted slightly, and nodded again: "I have no choice." He pondered for a moment, and then said, "Please remember today's words." If you still delay after returning, don't blame you for being rude. With that, he turned his horse's head and led his men toward the gate.

"What do you mean!" Tao Heng saw Li and Su muttering inexplicably for a while, and then Su stroked the horse and left. I couldn't help but feel extremely unhappy with Su Fu, who was a little dragged to the sky.

"Captain Tao, let's continue to set off. Su Bairen will come to look for me, but it is just to talk about some private matters......" After that, Li Yanzhi took the lead in shaking the reins of the horse, and the horse immediately spread its hooves and galloped towards the outside of the city.

Along the way, Su Wanyun's memories of the past continued to overlap and turn over in Li Yanzhi's mind. Her down-to-earth generosity, meticulousness and gracefulness have become a lingering image imprinted in Li Yanzhi's mind. The absent-mindedness along the way made Li Yanzhi almost fall off the galloping horse several times. Tao Heng, who was accompanying him on the side, also saw that Li Yanzhi was absent-minded, and only asked each other several times, but he didn't ask a result.

Under the impact of this monotonous, but continuous memory, after a day and night of changing horses and galloping, Li Yanzhi finally arrived outside Guzang City with Tao Heng and others at noon the next day. In addition to Li Yanzhi, Tao Heng and others all came to Guzang for the first time. Looking at the nearly four-zhang high city wall, Tao Heng and the others were speechless. But Li Yanzhi has long been commonplace. Before they could see enough, they dismounted and tried to enter the city.

Li Yanzhi, who was about to step into the city, suddenly heard a Tao Heng subordinate behind him exclaim and ask, "Look, what is that?" Li Yanzhi, who was puzzled, looked back and saw that the horseman's right hand was pointing at the city wall, and even if he looked up and looked in the direction he was pointing, he saw a bloody human head hanging above the city gate!

Li Yanzhi realized something instantly, and he hurriedly stepped forward and looked at the face of the human head. A sense of foreboding rose in his heart. I thought silently in my heart, hoping that what I was worried about was not true. However, as a breeze blew, the man's head swayed in the wind, and his face gradually turned to the direction facing Li Yanzhi. Looking at the familiar face, Li Yanzhi suddenly couldn't support it and staggered.

Tao Heng on the side found that something was wrong in time, and hurriedly stretched out a hand to support Li Yanzhi. He thought that the non-stop running day and night had caused the wounds on Li Yanzhi's body to burst, and he was about to help Li Yanzhi to the shade of a tree on the side, but he saw Li Yanzhi gently push him with one hand, and when he looked over again, he saw that Li Yanzhi was already uncontrollably crying.

"Li Sima!" Tao Heng was anxious, but he didn't know why Li Yanzhi suddenly had such a huge mood swing. Until Li Yanzhi stretched out his hand and weakly pointed to the head hanging at the head of the city and said, "Horse...... Ma Sima ......"

Tao Heng looked up at the city, and only then did he know what the reason for all this was.

Li Yanzhi shook his hands violently, and said dejectedly: "Yin...... The old thief of the Yin clan. Watch me take their dogs' lives......"

Tao Heng was in a hurry, and hurriedly stepped forward to stop his waist and hug Li Yanzhi. Li Yanzhi struggled, his right hand was clenched into a fist, and he slammed down on Tao Heng's back: "Let go of me!" ”

Tao Heng lowered his voice and said, "Sima, calm down!" There are hundreds of guards in the underworld, and even if we go to the dozens, what can we do! ”

Li Yanzhi's face had turned into a pig's liver color due to anger: "Don't care, let me go!" ”

Tao Heng: "Sima! If I can't wait, who else can avenge Ma Sima? ”

When Li Yanzhi heard this, he suddenly stopped his hand and looked at Tao Heng with a shocked face.

Tao Heng: "Sima! Wan Wang Sima calmed down. As long as we are still waiting, Ma Sima's hatred, I will not dare to forget it for a moment! ”

Li Yanzhi hesitated, and the strength of the struggle gradually relaxed, but he still opened his eyes and looked at the head on the city gate.

Li Yanzhi looked so sad and indignant that he couldn't remember how he was dragged into Guzang City by Tao Heng and the others, and how he got to the hotel. All he had in his mind was the image that was incredibly clear. Ma Ping's head hung alone above the city gate, looking at him with grief and indignation. It was a kind of grief and indignation of unfulfilled ambition, a kind of sadness of powerlessness.

Li Yanzhi spent the night in a daze. The next day was close to dawn, and the first feeling of Li Yanzhi who woke up was a groggy headache. However, the image of witnessing Dao Ma Ping's head hanging high in front of the city gate the day before has been lingering in his mind and lingering. He pushed open the window, and the fresh air that is characteristic of the early morning came to his face. It relieved his already groggy headache a little. He walked to the couch where Tao Heng was sleeping, woke him up, and then motioned for him to put on armor and hold a knife.

Tao Heng hurriedly put on the leather armor, and helped Li Yanzhi put on an iron armor. The two walked out of the inn one after another, and Li Yanzhi was still a little inconvenient when he walked. Rao is like this, and the sonorous sound between the collision of the nail leaves still attracts the sideways of pedestrians on the roadside.

The two walked to the gate of the Assassin's Mansion, and the guards hurriedly stepped forward to block the two. Li Yanzhi arched his hand to one of the guards and said, "Sima Li Dingdong of Lingju County, please meet the envoy." However, I ask my brother to report it. With that, Li Yanzhi took out a small cloth bag from the iron armor on his waist and stuffed it into the hand of the guard in front of him.

The guard swept the money bag, and then glanced at Li Yanzhi from top to bottom. He said casually, "Wait." I am only responsible for briefing. If you can't see it, it's not up to me to have the final say. ”

"What Brother Tai said is, please report it." At this time, Li Yanzhi had already recovered from the huge shock after seeing Ma Ping beheaded. Although he was quite disdainful of the guard's actions, he still said with a smile on his face.

He watched as the figure of the guard marched into the Assassin's Mansion. The other guard, who was still outside the door, peeked at Li Yanzhi and Tao Heng from time to time out of the corner of his eye. This kind of vision made Li Yanzhi feel extremely unhappy. It's just that it's an eventful time now, and in the state governance Gu Zang, he can't let him come by his temperament, so he endured it.

About a moment later, Li Yanzhi only looked inside the half-open door, Zhang Jun trotted all the way and walked quickly to the door. He was followed by several guards in armor and knives, all of whom also trotted with him.

"Dingdong, you have suffered......" Zhang Jun stepped over the threshold of the gate with one foot. When the hands are put together in front of them, they are to salute. Seeing this, Li Yanzhi ignored the pain on his body, gritted his teeth and knelt down: "Dingdong can't stand the kindness of Ming Gong, but he asks Ming Gong to be Ma Sima Zhaoxue......"

When Zhang Jun heard this, his face suddenly became a little difficult to look at. He leaned over and pressed Li Yanzhi's shoulder, and whispered: "Dingdong, even if you are in a high position like me, there will be a last resort——"

Li Yanzhi raised his head and looked at Zhang Jun with tears on his face: "After the Ming Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, Liangzhou is rich. What Dingdong said is not to embarrass the king. On the day when Lingju was besieged, the counties near the left were all watched from the wall, but Ma Sima led the army to rescue him. His loyalty to the country can be seen every day. Today, he died unjustly, and as a rescued person, his heart is difficult to feel at ease......"

Zhang Jun got up, looked at Tao Heng, who was also kneeling and kowtowing, turned his head to look at the several guards who followed him, and said to Li Yanzhi: "Dingdong come with me." With that, he walked to the north side. Li Yanzhi got up and followed behind Zhang Jun, followed by several guards left and right, and then headed towards Lingjun Terrace.

Arriving at the stage, Zhang Jun stopped the guards, and then walked up the stairs himself. Seeing this, Li Yanzhi consciously untied the saber at his waist, handed it to the guards, and then followed Zhang Jun's steps and slowly climbed to the high platform.

"Dingdong. This time, Ling Ju was able to win a great victory and repel Liu Yin. Chen Pingyu once said that you should be the first to make a contribution, but you should not be rewarded. Do you know why? ”

When Li Yanzhi heard this, he was surprised. After thinking about it for a while, he had roughly figured out the joints, but he still shook his head with a blank expression. Seeing this, Zhang Jun sighed lightly, and then pointed to the south side of Guzang, which was the city gate where Ma Ping's head showed the public: "Ma Sima took the lead in rescuing, and the battle situation overturned between changing hands, how can I not know?" Now Ma Sima died unjustly, and the pain in Jun's heart is not lost to Dingdong! ”

Zhang Jun shook his head self-deprecatingly: "Ande warriors guard the Quartet. One of the lonely warriors has been lost, and it must not be lost again! Dingdong, although you are the first to make the first contribution this time, Pingyu should not be rewarded, that's right! Wanwang Dingdong understands the hardships of loneliness......"

"Wait for the court to be calm, today's shame, I will never forget!" Zhang Jun looked at the place where the garden villas and lofts in Guzang City stood and said hatefully.