After leaving the Xingfu Inn, Chu Tianya prepared to go back to the barracks in the army to rest.

Along the way, he was thinking, it was now the end of autumn and the beginning of winter, and in the middle of winter, the wind was blowing, the sky was cold, the river was frozen, and the cavalry of the golden soldiers would go south.

At most, there will be a few months left.

"What can I do in more than a month......" Chu Tianya sighed secretly.

For the first time in his life, he felt very lost and helpless. In his previous life, no matter how far away he went, how strange a place he went to handle a case, even if he was alone and in deep danger, he never felt like this. Because behind him, there are family and friends, and there are teammates in the police force.

Now, he is completely alone, "fighting alone", surrounded by people who do not trust him, and even despise and spurn him. Rao is like this, but he still has to change his life against the sky and fight against the "invincible" fierce Jurchens......

Walking alone in the silent alley leading to the back door of the county king's mansion, the moonlight stretched his figure extremely long. Chu Tianya felt that he was really a veritable "shadow hanging" now. The boundless sense of loneliness once again hit like a wave.

At this moment, he suddenly felt a chill in his spine. Out of the vigilance of a criminal investigator's profession, he detected a hint of danger.

So he stopped and looked around. On both sides is the courtyard wall, and in the middle is an alley less than ten paces wide. Except for a narrow hazy strip of land illuminated by the moonlight, darkness everywhere else could not be reached.

All around, the silence was eeri.

"Friend of Hefang, come out!" Chu Tianya knew that there was someone hiding in the dark place in the corner in front of him, so he knocked on the mountain and shook the tiger in a loud voice.

People really came out of the front and rear, listening to the footsteps, and there were no less than ten people. They all came forward together, blocking all the ways out of Chu Tianya.

Through the moonlight, Chu Tianya saw that these people, all dressed as sergeants, should be from the Shengjie Army.

"It turned out to be my own brother, why did you stop me?" Chu Tianya said calmly, but he was thinking quickly in his heart: Could it be that Ma Kuo accidentally revealed his stuff, and now he is here to arrest me?

"Take it!" In the dark, I heard a loud shout, and more than a dozen sergeants flashed their knives and pointed at Chu Tianya - "Don't move, just arrest it"!

Chu Tianya looked around, wanting to confront this group of sergeants or escape, unless he could pull out his gun now. The hero didn't suffer the loss in front of him, so he stood without moving his hands and spread out his hands, and said, "Everyone is your own people, why is this? ”

"Hugh is talking nonsense - take down this spy!" Listening to that voice, it looks a little old, but it is full of momentum like thunder.

"Spies?" Chu Tianya was stunned.

All the sergeants rushed up and captured Chu Tianya, the cold hand knife held his neck, twisted his arm with his backhand, and then tied it with hemp rope.

"You've got the wrong person!" Chu Tianya argued loudly.

"You can't be wrong." The man who gave orders in the dark stepped forward and stood in front of Chu Tianya at this time, and said coldly, "Chu Tianya, a spy of the Jin Kingdom!" ”

"What?" Chu Tianya had already been bent over, and looked up at the person in front of him, who was a tall and burly old man wearing a robe and armor, with a beard on his face that was almost gray, and a lion's nose and tiger's mouth and big eyes. Seeing that the age was approaching sixty, he was still rough and wild, and his expression was like a tiger.

"Old General, you must be mistaken!" Chu Tianya's arm was twisted and hurt so much that he was in a cold sweat, and just as he was about to argue again, the old man waved his hand, and the two pawns next to him blocked Chu Tianya's mouth, and then used a black hood to cover him.

"Less - take away!"

Chu Tianya was really aggrieved in his heart, and now he is struggling and not moving, and he can't defend himself, and he is probably going to be unlucky! ――It can't be Ma Kuo, who really betrayed me, right?

A group of people pushed Chu Tianya and walked for a while, as if they had entered a room, and heard the door being slammed. Then someone pressed Chu Tianya to sit on a chair, and then tied his body, legs, feet and chair together with a rope.

"It's really bloody!" Chu Tianya screamed bitterly in his heart, "In the past, I brought the prisoners to justice, but I didn't expect that I, Chu, would have today!" ”

"Hugh has to shout, or a knife will kill you!" Someone reached out and tore off Chu Tianya's gag cloth, and then the surroundings suddenly fell into silence, and there was no sound.

Chu Tianya gradually calmed down and listened attentively, there seemed to be people in the room, but there were definitely not many people, about one or two.

"Why the hell are you arresting me?" Chu Tianya asked tentatively.

"You spy, dare to ask?" It was the voice of the old general, and he scolded like thunder, "As a Song person, you are willing to be a lackey of the Jin Kingdom." It is enough to come and steal military aircraft, and also encourage lips and tongues to oppose our army generals. If you don't cut down the corpse of Ling Chi and hang your corpse at the city gate, how can you set an example? ”

"Nonsense!" Chu Tianya reprimanded sharply, "When did I steal the military plane, and which general did I rebel against?" ”

"Still hard-mouthed!" The old general shouted angrily, "Do you think your little trick can hide from the Grand Master? Everything you have done in the past few days is under the master's control! ――Ma Kuo's thieves have all confessed, do you dare not admit it? ”

Hearing this, Chu Tianya was really shocked in his heart, but immediately calmed down surprisingly, and quickly calculated: No, if things are really as the old general said, Ma Kuodu has already confessed, is it necessary to deal with me as a nobody? - Wouldn't it be just to cut it with a knife, and why should you loosen my mouth seal and talk nonsense to me?

"Why do I feel a little déjà vu in front of me? …… Didn't I always interrogate prisoners like this in the first place? Lied to him that his accomplice had confessed, so that he did not dare to lie. In fact, if there is really a confession from others, it will not sue the prisoner who is being tried! Chu Tianya said in his heart: With such an analysis, the old general in front of me seems to be deceiving me?!

- I can only gamble!

"You're spewing blood!" Chu Tianya said sharply, "I am a native of Taiyuan, Hugh said that it was a contribution, and I have never seen a Jin man!" You say I'm a spy, but is there any evidence? I have only a few relationships with Ma Dujian and have no deep friendship, so how can I conspire with him? -- You Shangguan generals are on a business trip, so you like to catch your subordinates and take the black pot; The top is the top, so I have to let Chu die and understand! ”

"You're tough-mouthed." The old general came closer and said to Chu Tianya, "In the past few days, you have frequently talked with Ma Kuan in and out of the Star Picking Tower, and the conversation has been going on for several hours. What was discussed? ”

"Ma Dujian thought that I had the grace to carry him, but I just invited him to eat two glasses of wine out of gratitude, and then casually chatted about the military Fengyue, is this also illegal?" Chu Tianya argued.

"Ho ho, don't admit it yet!" The old general actually laughed, "Then the old man will remind you - it is against Xishan, but is there such a thing?" ”

Chu Tianya's heart was suddenly shocked: It's broken! Could it be that Ma Kuo was really arrested and has already confessed to me?

"I don't understand what is going on or what is going on, what is going on in the mountains and mountains!" Chu Tianya still said, "There is no excuse for the crime you want to add, if you want to kill, you can kill it, don't charge me in vain here!" ”

"You're really tired of being alive." The old general said, as if he had drawn his knife.

Chu Tianya heard a long groan of "buzz......ing" in his ears, and then the cold blade was on his neck.

At this time, Chu Tianya's heart tightened a little, if he wanted to say that he was not afraid, it would be really a lie. But now, the only way is to fight to the end. As long as you loosen your mouth and admit this sin, you will definitely die!

"As long as you admit that you conspired with Ma Kuo against Xishan, the old man can guarantee in front of Master Tong and spare you from death." The old general tightened the knife in his hand, pressing Chu Tianya's neck almost bleeding, he said, "Of course, you must come forward to identify Ma Kuo's crimes!" ”

"There is no such thing, how can you identify it?" Chu Tianya gritted his teeth and argued, "You have a personal enmity with Ma Kuo and want to murder him, so you can't force me to plant a small colonel for you!" Such a trick is despicable! ”

"If you don't, then you can't help it—you must die!" These words seem to burst out from between the old general's teeth, murderous!

Chu Tianya gritted his teeth: It's over, this old thing really killed me!

At this moment, the old general suddenly tore off the black hood on Chu Tianya's head. Chu Tianya opened his eyes and looked around, it turned out to be in an ordinary private house, and there was only this old general in the room.

"The old man wants you to be a ghost and die with your eyes open!" The old general looked solemn and raised his knife, "Look clearly, the old man's knife is cut off, and your head will roll around on the ground like a bow!" ”

The cold sweat in Chu Tianya's head rolled down, he gritted his teeth and stared at the old general, and he was also struggling in his heart: Death, or survival? ――Do you want me to betray Ma Kuo in exchange for my own life?

"Have you figured it out? Do you want to die, or do you want to live? "The old general is like a hungry tiger that has caught its prey, with a cold playfulness and slaughter.

Chu Tianya's heart struggled frantically - no, he couldn't fall for his plan! Having said that, even if he wasn't using tricks to deceive me, I confessed that Ma Kuo was still a dead end, and he couldn't be a despicable villain when he died!

"Do it!" Chu Tianya gritted his teeth and closed his eyes, stiffening his neck.

"Tell you to be hard--yah!!" The old general shouted angrily and slashed down with a sudden swing of his sword!

"Hum-" The sound of the knife was like a dragon's groan, and it came down after wiping Chu Tianya's ears, and it landed directly on his neck and close to the skin, but he didn't cut down an inch, and stopped alive.

Chu Tianya closed his eyes and gritted his teeth, his chest rose and fell violently, and he gasped for breath with one mouth.

"Good boy, there's a kind!" The old general suddenly laughed loudly, shook his wrist and put the knife back into the sheath, and then said, "Ma Kuo, come out!" ”

Chu Tianya opened his eyes in surprise and saw Ma Kuo pushing the door in.

"I'm sorry, Brother Chu." Ma Kuo hurriedly stepped forward with a ashamed face, personally untied Chu Tianya, and kept making amends.

The old general stood aside with a long smile and said, "Chu Tianya, don't blame Ma Kuo. It's not that he can't believe you, it's because the old man is afraid that he will mishear the fallacy and trust the non-human, and fall in love with other people's ways, so he insists on testing you once! ”

"Temptation?" Chu Tianya, who was immortal, didn't know whether to cry or laugh, rubbed his sore wrist, and said, "If I had promised you to testify against Ma Kuo, would my head have already landed?" ”

"That's right." The old general said bluntly, "If you are really such a villain, the old man will definitely kill you!" ”