Although he got the information he wanted from Liu Yunyan without much effort, and also figured out that the destruction of the Youzhou branch of the "Feiyan Hall" was not caused by Liu Yunyan colluding with the enemy and joining forces, but because Liu Yunyan looked away when choosing a partner and was inadvertently used by the other party, Zhang Yan did not want to let go of this subordinate of his own time. First, the "Feiyan Hall" Youzhou branch was completely annihilated, and Liu Yunyan, the branch hall master, was always to blame, regardless of whether she colluded with the enemy or not, it was a capital crime. Second, with Liu Yunyan and her son in her hands, she has a handle that can be used to threaten that Fan Wucheng Fan Fourteenth Master. If used correctly, he is likely to get a nail that is deeply nailed into the inside of the "Qingyuan" brothers. When the time comes, as long as the Beiping Army or the "Qingyuan" brothers have any trouble, they will be able to get the news in time. In this way, the father-in-law can focus more on achieving his grand cause, instead of always worrying that the powerful Beiping army will stab him in the back at some point, as he is now. Therefore, Zhang Yan did not make any changes to the series of arrangements after the successful arrest of Liu Yunyan. According to her previous decision, she arranged for some of her subordinates to be responsible for guarding Liu Yunyan and her maidservants and servants, while the other part of her subordinates took advantage of the darkness to climb over the wall and return to the empty mansion she had used before, so as to carry out the next step after dawn.

Zhang Yan and others started to act at the end of the day, and when the dust settled, they successfully arrested Liu Yunyan's family and got the other party's confession. Although it was the second half of the night, and many spies had been monitoring Liu Yunyan's residence for a whole day, none of the spies, including Shi Ran and others, who were hungry and begging in cold clothes, felt tired or sleepy. Everyone was not tired at this time, just looking forward to the day being brighter, so that they could transport Liu Yunyan's family out of the city and imprison them in the abandoned Taoist temple according to the established Jihua, so as to draw a successful end to this carefully prepared and organized arrest operation.

Unlike the spies in the "Feiyan Hall", who were elated and energetic, although Liu Yunyan was not sleepy at all at this time, it was not due to excitement but because of fear, deep fear from the heart. Because, from Zhang Yan's words, she had roughly guessed the other party's purpose of not killing herself - to take herself and her son as hostages, and to coerce her husband to be used by them. Although it is not clear for the time being what Zhang Yan and others want their husbands to do for them, in terms of the nature of "Feiyan Hall", it is inseparable from things like news and intelligence. If you contact her husband's current identity, it is not difficult for Liu Yunyan to come up with the various news that "Feiyantang" wants her husband to provide, which is likely to be the Beiping Military Festival Dufu and the "Qingyuan" brothers.

As the names of Beiping Junjiedu Mansion and "Qingyuan" brothers flashed one by one, another name that made Liu Yunyan shudder also appeared in her mind - "Dark Feather Hall". This terrible secret spy organization, which destroyed the Youzhou branch of the "Feiyan Hall" that he had worked hard for nearly three years almost overnight, had already left a deep imprint on Liu Yunyan's heart. The secrecy of his actions, the meticulous arrangement, the speed of his actions, and the superb efficiency all made Liu Yunyan remember and remember them vividly. Moreover, when the husband came a few days ago, he had mentioned to himself that in the recent period, the "Dark Feather Hall" had captured more than 30 spies of the "Feiyan Hall", and now they were laying a net to arrest the "Feiyan Hall" head hall advocate Yan and the rest of the party -- although Zhang Yan and the others caught themselves very easily, Liu Yunyan did not think that this was the "Feiyan Hall" in the battle with the "Dark Feather Hall", but only attributed it to Zhang Yan and the others must have been "cautious and lurking, and did not dare to act rashly" This speculation. …,

Now, Zhang Yan and others finally couldn't bear it because they found out about themselves as a so-called traitor, and began to arrest people, and even threatened their husbands with themselves for their own use, just afraid that their good days would come to an end. In Liu Yunyan's opinion, if it was just her own family that was taken captive, then the whereabouts of an ordinary family in the small county town of Luxian County would not attract the attention of others, especially the "Dark Feather Hall", and Zhang Yan and others might be able to get out of the way. But if the other party uses himself and his son to blackmail his husband, then whether the husband succumbs to their coercion or not, it may attract the attention of the "Dark Feather Hall", and then find out the ins and outs of the matter. If this is the case, then no matter whether his husband cooperates with "Feiyantang" or not, he will be reprimanded and even punished by his own brother because of his relationship with him. At that time, even if he is lucky enough not to die, what face will he have to meet his husband.

As soon as she thought of this, Liu Yunyan thought of death and wanted to commit suicide to protect her husband's reputation, status, and brotherhood. But when she turned her head to look in the direction of the bed and saw the immature little face of her young son, who was still sleeping under the influence of the incense drug, the will to die and the courage she had just raised suddenly weakened a lot, and finally disappeared.

Liu Yunyan knows very well that if she dies, Zhang Yan will definitely not stop there, but will continue to use her son to blackmail her husband, and the result is no different from her own life. If you want to end the future once and for all, you must die with your son. But the child is innocent, how can he let him die in infancy for the fault of his parents. As the saying goes, "Tiger poison does not eat children", no matter how cold-blooded and ruthless she is, she Liu Yunyan does not have the courage to kill her son. So, after thinking about it and weighing it in every possible way, Liu Yunyan still gave up the idea of fighting to the death, and was at the mercy of Zhang Yan, waiting for the unknown fate to approach her step by step.

Liu Yunyan was fighting fiercely for life or death there, but Zhang Yan was in a relaxed mood and waited with his subordinates for the light of day and the moment when his northward operation completely took a turn.

Winter dawn always comes so late that it doesn't get light until the beginning of the day. As the sun rose, Shi Ran, who had led several spies to wait in the empty house next to Liu Yunyan's residence for more than two hours and had almost stayed awake all night, jumped from a dilapidated table in the empty house to the ground as soon as he turned over, and took advantage of the time when the neighbors had not yet gotten up, and quietly took the spies out of the empty house, and immediately dispersed, went in different directions, and began to act according to the plan.

As the sun rose, the number of pedestrians on the street increased. About the beginning of the hour, a wide and tall four-wheeled carriage, apparently rented from the carriage and horse trading house of the "Chase Trading Company", was driven by the coachman to slowly drive down the street that crossed with Huaishu Street, and finally stopped in front of the tea shop directly opposite Huaishu Street.

The driver of the car parked the car, and swaggered to the tea shop to have breakfast and drink morning tea, not noticing that the four-wheeled carriage he was driving stopped at the intersection of Huaishu Street, and the wide carriage blocked the entire street entrance tightly. Now, unless someone deliberately bypasses the carriage and looks out into the alley, no one will be able to see anything happening on Locust Street.

Just when the coachman was leisurely eating breakfast in the tea shop, not far north of the tea shop, two young young students suddenly clashed because of the weishenme incident. The two began with a quiet argument, but soon a disagreement turned into a loud argument, and eventually the verbal argument developed into a fist and kick fight. …,

In this day and age, street fights, especially hand-to-hand combat, have always been the best choice for onlookers. As a result, as the fight between the two young students intensified, the number of onlookers increased, so much so that idlers on several surrounding streets were attracted to it.

Just when everyone was happily watching the street brawl "good show", two very ordinary carriages quietly drove in from the entrance on the other side of Huaishu Street and stopped at the gate of Liu Yunyan's house. As soon as the car stopped, the gate of the Liu Mansion opened, and the spies of the "Feiyan Hall", under the command of Zhang Yan, quickly carried a total of seven people, including Liu Yunyan's mother and son, who were drugged and unconscious, and the servants of Yahuan, into two carriages. After a "Feiyantang" spy from Zuihou got into the car, with a low shout from the handlebars, the two carriages turned around in unison and quietly left as if they had come.

Shortly after the two wagons carrying Liu Yunyan's family left Huaishu Street, the driver of the four-wheeled carriage also wiped his mouth as he walked back to the car from the tea shop. With a crisp whip, the wide four-wheeled carriage reloaded and headed south. At the same time, in the other direction of the tea shop, two young students who were fighting also stopped shouting "the police are coming" from someone who did not know who said, and each covered their bruised cheeks and plunged into the crowd that had dispersed for fear of being caught by the police patrolling the street as lawbreakers who obstructed passage and gathered to make trouble.

The carriage escorting Liu Yunyan's family turned around in Lu County for a while, and after confirming that no one was tracking, it turned around, and with the help of the inspection system of the strict entry and wide exit of the urban management team officials at the city gate, and the real and effective identity certificate, it successfully went out of the east gate of Lu County, and made a big circle, and finally drove into the abandoned Taoist temple located in the south of Lu County under the response of Director Liu and others.

Imprisoning Liu Yunyan's family in a deserted Taoist temple does not mean that the operation is over, on the contrary, the successful arrest of Liu Yunyan's family is only the first step of Zhang Yan's operation, and the subsequent actions are far more important and difficult than the arrest of Liu Yunyan's family. Because from now on, Zhang Yan and his subordinates will no longer have to face their former subordinates or colleagues, but Fan Wucheng, who has a lot of power in the Beiping Army and has the ability to put Zhang Yan and the few remaining "Feiyantang" spies in this northward operation, as a member of the "Qingyuan" brothers.

Zhang Yan was a little difficult to decide who to send to Beiping City to make the first contact with Fan Wucheng, tell the other party the hostages and handles in his hands, and bring back the reply from the other party. Speaking of which, among these subordinates around Zhang Yan, there are only two people who can take on this important task and are relied on by Zhang Yan as a confidant and completely trusted. One is the old man of "Feiyantang", who has rich experience, is old-fashioned, and has performed many important tasks assigned by the "Feiyantang" main hall. The other is a rising star, who is shrewd and capable, resolute and determined, and has performed well in the arrest of Liu Yunyan and her family.

It stands to reason that the task of door-to-door delivery of letters, which requires a battle of wits and courage with the opponent and a psychological contest, should be entrusted to an experienced and stable old secret agent like Liu Jingming and Director Liu to handle the most suitable task. But on the one hand, considering that the custody of Liu Yunyan's family is very important and cannot afford to be lost, and Liu Yunyan used to be an expert with outstanding ability, serving as the head of the branch hall, and proficient in all kinds of secret espionage methods, in her absence, in addition to Director Liu, other spies, including Shi Ran, may not be able to suppress her-Liu Yunyan is now honest does not mean that she will always be honestly at the mercy of her side. On the other hand, it is also out of the consideration of narrowing the gap between the status of Shi Ran and Liu Jingming, and more Haode to strike a balance between his subordinates. In the end, Zhang Yan still decided that Liu Jingming and Liu were in charge of guarding Liu Yunyan's family, and sent Shi Ran to see Fan Wucheng with a set of letters and tokens that she thought could convince Fan Wucheng that his wife and children were already under her control—the letters to Fan Wucheng were written by Liu Yunyan herself at Zhang Yan's behest. Coupled with the two tokens taken from Liu Yunyan and his young son, he is not afraid that he Fan Wucheng will not believe it.

As for how to deal with the other party after meeting Fan Wucheng, how to protect himself when the other party is hostile, how to avoid the spies of the "Dark Feather Hall" in Beiping City and even Fan Wucheng's side, how to persuade the other party to cooperate with his side, and a series of other issues can only be decided by Shi Ran himself - Zhang Yan is still full of confidence in this.

Early in the morning of the 17th day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar in the seventh year of Xiande, with the letter written by Liu Yunyan himself, as well as two tokens from the mother and son that could make Fan Wucheng believe that what he said was not fiction, Shi Ran rode a fast horse and left the broken Taoist temple where Liu Yunyan's family was imprisoned, and galloped away to the northwest, that is, the location of Beiping City.