Yucheng was unusually quiet at night, and there were not even half pedestrians on the streets, except for the occasional patrol of one or two soldiers, walking along the bluestone pavement along the streets with neat steps.

The neat steps of the soldiers on the bluestone pavement, making a burst of "popping" sounds, bringing a little dull vitality to the quiet night.

Now it is close to early summer, and the weather is not very cool at night, and the gentle evening breeze blows on people's bodies, but it makes people feel a little comfortable and refreshing.

On each of the four pillars of the main general's barracks hung a brass candlestick, and on each candlestick, three white candles were lit, and the light of the white candles reflected the candlesticks, and the smooth surface of the candlesticks shone like gold.

The light of one white candle is very faint, but the light of twenty-four white candles can illuminate the whole room.

Liu Wei sat cross-legged on the bed, the night was already deep, but he didn't feel sleepy at all, and the scene of meeting the old man in the prison still appeared in his mind.

In particular, the old man left the words "Shanggu Jundu Mountain" on the wall of the prison before he died, which made Liu Wei feel very puzzled in his heart.

Lu Zhi was indeed loyal to the Han family at the beginning, but now that he has returned to the mountains and forests, he has not heard anyone say anything special about him for a long time, if that sentence is an allusion to Liu Wei to find Lu Zhi, it is indeed too much to say.

There was something in his heart that he didn't figure out, and Liu Wei always felt a little restless. He stood up, stretched his waist, loosened his muscles, and walked towards the door.

Gently opened the door, and as soon as he stepped out of the threshold, the four soldiers who were guarding the door and were on duty at night bowed down and clasped their fists and saluted him.

Nodding to the soldiers, Liu Wei walked straight in the direction of the school.

The four pro-soldiers standing at the door glanced at each other, and two of them hurriedly followed Liu Wei and followed him towards the school field.

The high platform on the school grounds, like the black shadow of a giant in the night, exerts a powerful coercion on those who approach it.

The school field, which was full of shouts during the day, was quiet at this time. In the grass in the corner of the school grounds, there will be one or two chirping of summer insects from time to time.

Standing not far from the high platform, Liu Wei raised his head, looked at the starry sky, and took a deep breath of the slightly cool air at night.

After standing on the school floor for a while, a soldier ran from the tooth gate, and the soldier whispered a few words in the ear of one of his own soldiers, and then turned away.

"Your Highness!" After listening to the soldier's narration, the personal soldier walked up to Liu Wei's side, clasped his fists and said to him: "News came from the prison that the body of the old man who died during the day was missing......

"What?" Hearing that the body of the old man who died in the prison was missing, Liu Wei turned around abruptly and asked the soldier, "When did you find out that you didn't see it?" ”

"Fangcai!" The soldiers clenched their fists and bowed down, and said to Liu Wei: "The door of the prison is closed, and the brothers guarding the prison have not heard any movement at all, and when they found it, the body had disappeared......

"Let all the soldiers get up, and I'll go to prison!" The old man's body disappeared, and Liu Wei faintly felt that something seemed to be wrong, and hurriedly gave an order to the pro-soldier.

The pro-soldier responded, turned around and ran towards the barracks where the pro-soldiers who had fallen asleep were resting, looking at the back of the departing pro-soldier, Liu Wei's brows were slightly twisted, but there was a faint trace of uneasiness in his heart.

"Who's there?" Just as he was looking at the back of the departing pro-soldier, another pro-soldier who was following Liu Wei broke off, drew his long sword, and stared directly at a corner not far from them.

Following the line of sight of the soldiers and looking at the corner of the wall, Liu Wei found that there seemed to be a black shadow like a human shaking in the corner.

"Let's take a look!" beckoned to the soldiers, and Liu Wei took the lead and walked briskly towards the black shadow in the corner.

He was not wearing armor and had no blades in his hands, and the soldiers who followed him were afraid that he would have an accident, so they hurriedly jumped in front of him and ran towards the corner of the wall first.

He was about to reach the corner of the wall, when there was a sudden squeezing sound in the corner, and a huge wild cat jumped out of the grass, twisted his body, and disappeared with a "whoosh".

"It's a wildcat, Your Highness!" The wild cat jumped out, and the soldiers breathed a sigh of relief, put the long sword **** scabbard, and turned back to Liu Wei and said a word.

Looking at the root of the wall where there was still a black shadow floating just now, Liu Wei frowned tightly.

The black shadow he saw was very large, obviously in the shape of a human, but when he got closer, it was just a wild cat, which really made him a little puzzled.

In order to make it easier to inspect, there are no trees planted at the base of the wall around the school grounds, and there are no deep grasses and shrubs large enough to hide people.

The black shadow in the human form suddenly turned into a wild cat, which made Liu Wei always feel a little strange in his heart.

"Your Highness!" Liu Wei stood by the wall, looking at the root of the wall where he had just found the figure, and with a chaotic sound of footsteps, more than 100 pro-soldiers ran to him, and the leading pro-soldiers clasped their fists and said to him: "Everyone has arrived!" ”

Glancing at the soldiers in front of him, Liu Wei nodded, beckoned to them, and said to them: "When this king puts on his clothes and armor, I will go to the prison for a while!" ”

More than 100 pro-soldiers lined up in two rows, followed Liu Wei, and walked towards the door of the main general's barracks.

With two personal soldiers into the barracks, with the help of the personal soldiers, put on their clothes and armor, Liu Wei led more than 100 personal soldiers and walked straight towards Yamen.

"Who's out of the camp?" The team was still twenty or thirty paces away from the Yamen, and the two soldiers guarding the Yamen stood in front of them with Pu knives, and one of them shouted a question.

"It's the king who is going out of the camp!" Leading the team to meet the two soldiers guarding the Yamen, Liu Wei said to the two people: "Guard the Yamen, no one is allowed to enter or leave tonight without the king's edict!" ”

"No!" Seeing that it was Liu Wei who was coming towards him, the two soldiers hurriedly stepped aside and bowed down and clenched their fists in response.

Walking in front of these two soldiers and going straight out of Yamen, Liu Wei glanced back at the barracks and said to a personal soldier who followed behind him: "Tell the Yamen officer to strictly guard the barracks, from tonight, except for a few generals and military advisors, no one is allowed to leave the camp without permission!" ”

The pro-soldiers who had received the order answered, turned around and ran back to the barracks, while Liu Wei led a team of more than 100 pro-soldiers to the street and walked in the direction of the prison.

At night, the streets are deserted, and the streets are full of small whirlwinds that are rarely seen during the day.

Small whirlwinds whipped and swirled, rolling up dust from the ground and rampaging through the streets, not following the rules of the wind at all.

Liu Wei, who was dressed all over, pressed the hilt of his long sword in one hand and strode down the bluestone-paved streets, and he couldn't remember how many small whirlwinds he kicked along the way.

The soldiers who followed him, one by one, held their heads high and strode to kick the small whirlwind flowing around the street. More than 100 people walked the streets, and every time they took a step, they only made a uniform crunch.

After crossing two streets in succession and arriving at the door of the prison, Liu Wei saw that the gate of the prison was closed, but the courtyard inside was still flickering with fire.

He waved his hand at the soldiers behind him, and the two soldiers immediately walked to the door with their feet raised, and slapped the closed door vigorously.

"Open the door, open the door quickly!" The two of them banged on the door, and one of them shouted into the courtyard at the same time: "Your Highness is here, open the door quickly!" ”

As soon as he shouted, "Your Highness has come down," the door of the prison was pulled open from within.

Several officers and soldiers guarding the prison came out, lined up and knelt on the ground with a "poof", and the officer who led them held the ground with both hands, trembling all over his body and said: "Your Highness, the body of the old man is missing inexplicably, and we are all guilty of capital crimes, so I beg Your Majesty to surrender to the crime!" ”

"It's not a big deal!" Raising his hand to those officers and soldiers, Liu Wei said to them: "You wait and get up, and after this king has seen it, you will deal with it!" ”

As he spoke, Liu Wei had already walked into the compound of the prison with his feet raised, and several officers and soldiers guarding the prison knelt on the ground and did not get up immediately, until a personal soldier at the end of the line followed the courtyard, and they stood up and entered the courtyard in fear.

In the prison compound, a straw mat was spread flat on the ground, and a crumpled sack was placed on the straw mat.

"Have you ever touched a straw mat or sackcloth since the body disappeared?" Standing by the straw mat, Liu Wei asked the officer guarding the prison.

"Back to Your Highness!" Following Liu Bian, the officer was hunched over, not even daring to straighten his waist, and only after hearing Liu Bian's question, he replied with anxiety: "After the corpse was gone, we have not touched the straw mat and linen. ”

Liu Wei nodded, squatted on the edge of the straw mat, and reached out to shake off the crumpled linen.

As soon as the sackcloth was shaken open, a handful of loess fell from it.

The loess was very fine, and the moment Liu Wei shook off the linen, some of the powder was scattered with the wind, and a layer of straw mat was also floated.

Putting down the linen cloth in his hand, Liu Wei first stretched out a finger and wiped it on the soil that fell on the straw mat, then stood up, stood on the side of the straw mat and stretched out his hand to the soldiers behind him and said, "Bring a torch!" ”。

A personal soldier hurriedly ran to the brazier burning in the courtyard, took a torch wrapped in linen soaked in tung oil from the side of the brazier, put the torch on the brazier and lit it, and then returned to Liu Bian, holding the handle of the torch with both hands, lowered his head and handed the torch to Liu Bian.

Taking the torch from the hands of his own soldiers, Liu Wei put the torch on the ground and walked around the straw mat very slowly.

The ground of the courtyard is completely paved with bluestone, and it is much flatter than the bluestone pavement on the street.

The courtyard was very quiet, and the more than 100 officers and soldiers standing in the courtyard did not even cough. Except for the "whirring" of the flames burning in the brazier, there was no other noise.

In the quiet courtyard, Liu Wei just made a slight "huh", which immediately attracted the attention of all the officers and soldiers, and everyone shifted their attention to him.

Ignoring everyone's gaze, Liu Wei walked away from the straw mat with a torch and walked around the wall of the not very large prison.

He walked slowly and took a lot of time, and with each step he carefully illuminated the wall with a torch.

After a big circle around the wall, Liu Wei lowered his head and muttered to himself: "It's strange, isn't it that the corpse can't fly?" ”