"Back to the military master, the villain doesn't know if the corpse is Cheng Ninghou, the villain took the property and left at that time, the corpse disappeared later, it should have been taken away by the person who collected the body."

After listening to Li Yuntian's question, the emaciated middle-aged man hurriedly replied, then knelt on the ground, kowtowed and said, "The villain should not hide these items privately, please forgive the military master." ”

"Take me to the place where you found the body." Li Yuntian stared at the emaciated middle-aged man for a while, and then said quietly.

If Li Yuntian didn't guess wrong, the emaciated middle-aged man is now avoiding the important and trying to shirk his relationship with Yang Sanyu.

Yang Sanyu is not only an important minister of the Ming Dynasty but also a commander of the army in battle, killing him during the battle is an out-and-out act of collaborating with the enemy, and it is a serious crime that Li Yuntian cannot intercede.

"The villain obeys." The emaciated middle-aged man saw that Li Yuntian had no intention of pursuing it, so he hesitated for a moment and agreed.

"The official reminds you, you'd better stop lying to the official, whether what you said is true or not, the official will check with the people in the village, this is your last chance." Hearing this, Li Yuntian looked at the emaciated middle-aged man coldly and warned him that if he was lying, he would have to bear the corresponding consequences.

"The villain understands." A complicated look flashed on the emaciated middle-aged man's face, and he hurriedly saluted Li Yuntian respectfully.

Li Yuntian's brows furrowed tightly, judging from the current situation, it is not easy to get Yang Sanyu's whereabouts from the emaciated middle-aged man, it is a matter of life and death, he will definitely not honestly explain, and whether Yang Sanyu's body can be found will be the key to whether this case can be perfectly concluded.

"Master Jun, the villain was the body of the general master found in that place at that time, due to the chaos of the war at that time, under the guidance of the emaciated middle-aged man, Li Yuntian and his party came to a hill outside the village, pointed to a col below the mountain and said.

Li Yuntian's brows couldn't help but furrow even tighter when he saw this, the village where the emaciated middle-aged man was located was surrounded by continuous mountains, so if he buried Yang Sanyu, finding Yang Sanyu's body would be tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack.

Obviously, Li Yuntian would not think that this col was the place where the emaciated middle-aged man found Yang Sanyu, because the field of vision here was relatively wide and it was not a hiding place, and the emaciated middle-aged man must have lied, which made him feel extremely disappointed in his heart.

Of course, Li Yuntian would not believe that Yang Sanyu was already dead when the emaciated middle-aged man met Yang Sanyu, if he didn't guess wrong, Yang Sanyu must have fled to the vicinity of this village to avoid the pursuers of the Northern Yuan, and met the emaciated middle-aged man when he was hiding around the village, and then was poisoned by the emaciated middle-aged man.

"Master Jun, the villain has already recruited all, please be gracious to Master Jun." The emaciated middle-aged man knelt in front of Li Yuntian with a plop, kowtowing and praying.

"This official said, just now is your last chance, if you tell the truth, this official will reduce the guilt for the sake of your remorse." Li Yuntian glanced at the emaciated middle-aged man and said quietly, "But if the official finds out that you are lying, then the official will be severely punished!" ”

Saying that, Li Yuntian waved his hand, and the guards on the side took the emaciated middle-aged man down, Li Yuntian knew that he couldn't get any valuable clues from him, and this guy would definitely resist to the end in order to survive.

Although the current situation is very complicated and tricky, Li Yuntian is in a peaceful state of mind, he has experienced too many complicated and tricky things, and he knows that he can't be in a hurry now, and he has to look for relevant clues according to the clues, he doesn't believe that the emaciated middle-aged man can do it seamlessly if he commits something.

Therefore, Li Yuntian was ready to fight a protracted war, and he felt that it was necessary to find out the truth about Yang Sanyu's disappearance, only in this way could the battle of Blackwater City really end, and those soldiers who died in battle could really rest in peace.

After all, the whereabouts of Yang Sanyu are unknown, which has affected the reputation of the entire Western Expeditionary Army, and no one can prove that Yang Sanyu did not defect to the enemy, and this speculation is often the most terrifying.

Li Yuntian chose to settle in the house of the first chief temporarily, and when the Ming army of Heishui City arrived, he would live in the military tent, and it is worth mentioning that he fulfilled his previous promise and gave those big men who were digging in the vegetable field ten taels of silver each, which made those big men full of joy.

Originally, the owner of the gambling house planned to leave, after all, this kind of official affairs can not interfere without medling, but later saw that Li Yuntian was so generous, and he was kind and easy to get along with, and it was important to be very trustworthy, so he had the idea of making friends, and it was obvious that the major who appeared in front of him was not simple.

Li Yuntian really needs the help of the owner of the gambling house, as the owner of the local snake gambling house, it is more effective than the people in the government to do things, such as Sander's confession, if he is replaced by someone from the government, it will definitely take a lot of trouble.

Because Sander knew that the people in the government were afraid of him, and they wouldn't really kill him, but the people of the gambling house owner were not the same, and they couldn't guarantee that they would kill him, and then where would the people who did it run away in the vast Western Regions to arrest people?

Due to the complicated situation in front of him, Li Yuntian decided to let the gambling house owner, the head snake, help him find clues related to Yang Sanyu, he believed that there would always be some clues in the village, and it would be up to him to find out.

In the evening of the next day, Wang Kui, the defender of Heishui City, led the main force in the city to gallop all the way, rushed to the village in the dust, set up camp outside the village, and looked at a large number of tents, which made the locals feel shocked, and they never imagined that so many Ming troops would come back.

Wang Kui naturally knew Li Yuntian's identity, and he also involved the missing Yang Sanyu, so how dare Li Yuntian slack off and immediately lead the elite troops to come.

"Lord Wang!" In a tent in the camp, when Li Yuntian was leaning on a Taishi chair and closing his eyes to recuperate, Wang Kui strode over from the door and bowed down to report, "According to the orders of the prince, the lowly position has already scattered his hands and is looking for a possible hiding place nearby. ”

"Also, post a reward notice in the village, and anyone who provides the abnormal behavior of the Dehong family after the First World War in Blackwater City will be rewarded with a heavy silver hundred taels once verified." Li Yuntian slowly opened his eyes when he heard this, and said to Wang Kui in a deep voice.

Dehong is a middle-aged man who is emaciated, since Dehong is not honest, then Li Yuntian can only openly collect clues about Dehong from the village, according to Li Yuntian's guess, Dehong must have been in contact with Yang Sanyu, so there will definitely be some abnormal behavior during this period, and this is exactly the clue he needs.

"Humble duty understands." Wang Kui's eyes flashed with a look of surprise, and then he bowed back and said, you must know that a hundred taels of silver is definitely a huge amount of money in the Western Regions, it seems that Li Yuntian has made up his mind this time to find out about the case of Yang Sanyu's disappearance.

"In addition, no one is allowed to enter or leave the village until the king finds out about this case, and if there is anything you need to help them solve." Li Yuntian stood up and stretched his waist, and commanded lightly, so that he could avoid being disturbed by the people who came to see the excitement from other places.

"A cordon has been set up on the outskirts of the village, and only villagers from their own village are allowed to enter." Hearing this, Wang Kui hurriedly bowed down and replied, he still has this little bit of look, and more importantly, he wants to protect Li Yuntian's safety, and naturally the fewer people who appear near Li Yuntian, the better.

"Hopefully there will be a good result this time." Li Yuntian bowed his head slightly when he heard this, his eyes showed a look of approval, and then he sighed and said, Yang Sanyu's affairs should also come to an end after ten years.

The news that Li Yuntian stayed to investigate the case soon spread to Turpan City, and the senior officials in the city were extremely surprised after learning that Li Yuntian had discovered the clues to Yang Sanyu's whereabouts, and no one expected that Li Yuntian would have such a gain when he went to Heishui City this time.

Originally, the high-ranking officials of Turpan City wanted to go to meet Li Yuntian, but Li Yuntian stopped them and told them to stay in Turpan City to handle affairs normally, so as not to affect the local operations.

At this moment, the mountains outside the village were full of Ming soldiers searching around, and according to Li Yuntian's order, they launched a carpet search, trying to find a hidden place where they could hide.

In Li Yuntian's view, with Yang Sanyu's situation at that time, there is a chance that he would choose to find a place to hide, so as long as he can find their hiding place, then the case can make further progress.

With the posting of Li Yuntian's high reward notice, the village suddenly boiled, one hundred taels of silver is a huge amount of money that these villagers can't earn in their lifetime, so they are all gearing up, salivating for such a heavy reward.

For a while, the villagers began to recall whether Yang Sanyu had anything abnormal after the battle of Blackwater City, and they discussed with each other.

After all, it has been nearly ten years, and some details are no longer clear to everyone, so they need to be reminded by others, otherwise no one will want to get a reward of 100 taels of silver.

Li Yuntian didn't seem to be in a hurry, and didn't ask about the progress of the case, but calmly flipped through the ancient books, as if he didn't take this matter to heart at all.

Although Li Yuntian showed a calm appearance, Li Anmin and Li Anming knew very well that Li Yuntian was loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and they didn't want others to see what was on his mind, in fact, Li Yuntian was very concerned about the progress of the case and had to listen to the reports of the two every day.

Ten days later, under the guidance of local villagers, the Ming soldiers searched the nearby mountains but could not find a secret hiding place.

After the battle of Blackwater City that year, the Northern Yuan soldiers once asked people from nearby villages to be guides to search for Yang Sanyu and others in caves on the mountain, and almost turned over the mountains, but found nothing.

In addition, the villagers did not provide any valuable clues to Dehong, which made the progress of the case deadlocked.

"Lord Wang, a villager came to report, and he knew that there was a place on the mountain behind where he could hide people." However, just when everyone was feeling discouraged, this morning, when Li Yuntian was checking the map of the Western Regions in the military tent and calculating the future distance, a guard came in to report.

"Let him in." Li Yuntian's eyes couldn't help but light up when he heard this, and then he commanded in a deep voice, it seems that his previous speculation was right, there is indeed a secret place on the mountain near the village that can be hidden.

Soon, a local villager was brought up, looking in his twenties, somewhat dark and thin.

"I've seen the military master." The thin black man didn't know Li Yuntian's identity, and thought that he was just an ordinary military attaché, and after entering the big tent, he knelt on the ground and saluted Li Yuntian in an orderly manner.