Taking the slightly yellowed piece of paper from the hands of his own soldiers, Liu Wei unfolded the paper tube, leaned in the candlelight and glanced at the small lines written on it, and his brows suddenly twisted into the shape of "Sichuan".

"Go and invite General Zhou over!" Rolling the paper up again, Liu Wei instructed a personal soldier standing in the house: "Please ask General Zhou to go to the king's room to discuss important matters." ”

The soldier answered, turned and walked out, while the other soldier kept looking around the room with a sword in his hand.

On the way back to his residence after leaving Tao Huanniang's room, Liu Wei clenched his fists, and the rolled paper was crumpled into a crumpled ball by him.

The barracks were not far from the official mansion, and only half an hour later, Zhou Cang, who got the news, rushed to the official mansion with a few soldiers in a hurry.

"Your Highness!" As soon as he entered Liu Wei's room, Zhou Cang clenched his fists and bowed to him and asked, "I heard that Huanniang is missing......

"Look at this!" Liu Wei, who was sitting in the room, raised his head, glanced at Zhou Cang, picked up the crumpled paper from the low table in front of him, and handed it to Zhou Cang.

Taking the paper from Liu Bian's hand, Zhou Cang unfolded the paper and flattened it, and as soon as he finished reading the line of small seal characters written on it, he stared at Liu Wei with a round face full of astonishment, looked at Liu Bian and said, "They want His Highness to immediately withdraw the army south of the Yellow River?" ”

"Yes!" Liu Weitie blushed, nodded, and said to Zhou Cang: "They dare to blackmail this king, this time they will definitely cut them down and eradicate none of them!" ”

"That Huanniang......" After listening to Liu Wei's words, Zhou Cang said hesitantly: "If His Royal Highness doesn't withdraw his troops, wouldn't Huanniang be ......?"

"If the troops are withdrawn, I'm afraid she is really hopeless!" Liu Wei frowned tightly, and said to Zhou Cang: "Send someone to closely monitor the Donglai wine shop, and don't startle the snake until you find out where Huanniang is being held!" ”

"No!" Zhou Cang responded, pinched the piece of paper in his hand, the green tendons on his fist bulged, and his face became a little hideous.

He has lived in Taojiazhuang for three years and is even more familiar with the Taohu brothers and sisters. Tao Hu is enthusiastic, Tao Huanniang sometimes helps him do some pulp mending work, now Tao Huanniang is captured by thieves, how can Zhou Cang not be angry?

"The person who escaped from the prison looked like an arrogant commander to Da Yang Ling, thinking that this person's identity must be extraordinary!" Reaching out to take back the paper with the words in Zhou Cang's hand, Liu Wei looked at the small seal characters on the paper and said to Zhou Cang: "With such an identity, if they dare to venture into Dayang City, they must have eyeliner in the city." I'm afraid that Donglai Liquor is just one of the places to stay, and I will have to dig out all the other eyeliner to ensure that it is safe! ”

"Since the eyeliner is in the city, why didn't Dong Zhuo's old thief send troops to suppress it?" Standing in the room, looking at Liu Wei who was kneeling on the straw mat, Zhou Cang asked puzzledly: "The thief army has far more soldiers and horses in Luoyang than we ......."

"Compared with taking the life of the king, moving the capital is obviously more important!" Liu Wei pursed his lips, looked up at Zhou Cang, and said to him: "Dong Zhuo's old thief still can't take care of us at the moment, the princes' coalition army outside the Tiger Prison Pass is still eyeing the tiger, and the Baibo army north of the Yellow River also wants to take the opportunity to get a piece of the pie, the old thief is now suffering from the enemy on his back, and he doesn't dare to easily divide his troops to cross the river to pursue our army!" Forcing our army to retreat across the Yellow River and move the capital smoothly is what matters to him! ”

"The last general will go to set up eyeliner and investigate the thieves and spies." After listening to Liu Bian's analysis, Zhou Cang already understood a lot in his heart, he clasped his fists with both hands, bowed down and said to Liu Bian: "The last general will retire for the time being!" ”

Liu Wei didn't speak again, just nodded silently.

When Zhou Cang exited the room, he was already far away, Liu Wei grabbed the candlestick on the table and slammed it towards the door.

The moment he threw out the candlestick, a ball of hot wax dripped on the back of his hand, but he didn't seem to feel the back of his hand being burned by the hot wax at all, his face was still full of anger, and the muscles of his cheeks trembled slightly with anger.

The candlestick slammed against the door with a crisp "pop", and the candle slammed into the hard door panel, breaking into several pieces.

Several soldiers guarding the door heard the movement inside the house, one of them wanted to open the door and enter the house to have a look, but the other soldier quickly pulled his sleeve and shook his head at him.

The latest of the few pro-soldiers at the door was Liu Bian, who had served in the Tiger Prison Pass, and all along, Liu Bian in their minds was calm and wise, and rarely moved his liver.

But today, Liu Wei threw something in the house, which shows how irritable he is at this moment. Entering the house at this time, except for attracting a scolding, I am afraid that there is no other benefit.

Falling out of the candlestick, Liu Wei frowned tightly, and looked at the white paper in front of him without blinking.

There was only one line written on the white paper, asking him to withdraw the army that crossed the Yellow River to the south immediately, otherwise he would receive Tao Huanniang's head three days later.

He only has three days, and if he can't find Tao Huanniang within three days, he has no doubt that the other party will really kill Tao Huanniang and send him the head.

Donglai liquor store was exposed too easily, and when he just received feedback from the soldiers that he had found out that the liquor store was related to spies, Liu Wei was still complacent about finding the location of the thief.

But when he found out that Tao Huanniang had been quietly robbed from the government, he realized that what he had to deal with this time was not a group of simple exploration horses, but a team of well-trained and rigorous masters.

Originally, he planned to raid the Donglai wine shop as soon as possible, but Tao Huanniang's disappearance made him have to throw a rat bogey.

After a whole night, Liu Wei always sat on the straw mat, he didn't sleep all night, and various pictures kept flashing in his mind, thinking about where Tao Huanniang would be hidden.

Dayang City is not very big, but it is not a simple matter to quietly find a person who is hidden in the city.

The sunlight shines through the window, casting a square spot of light on the ground not far from Liu Wei.

The candles were still burning in the house, and the light emitted by the dancing flames was completely negligible in the sunlight that penetrated the room.

Kneeling in the room, Liu Wei's brows were tightly twisted, and his mind was full of thoughts about Tao Huanniang's traces.

Just as Liu Wei frowned and pondered, there was a soft sound on the door, and it was gently opened.

Hearing the knock on the door, Liu Wei raised his head violently and blurted out: "Huanniang......"

As soon as the word "Huanniang" came out, before the words came out, Liu Wei swallowed it back again.

The one who opened the door was a soldier guarding the door. The soldiers opened the door, stood at the door, clasped their fists with both hands and said to Liu Wei: "Your Highness hasn't slept all night, please rest early!" ”

Liu Wei nodded, didn't say anything, just waved his hand at the pro-soldier.

The pro-soldiers who reminded Liu Wei to rest earlier closed the door, sighed lightly, and shook their heads at the other pro-soldiers standing at the door.

Several of the soldiers turned their heads to look at the closed door, and all of them had a deep worry on their faces.

stayed up all night without sleeping, and Liu Wei was not tired at all. In the days of Dayang City, Tao Huanniang took care of his daily life every day.

In the days of Tao Huanniang, Liu Wei always felt that everything was so plain and habitual. Now that Tao Huanniang has been arrested, suddenly, his heart is like falling from a cliff, empty, as if he has lost all his support.

Once people become dependent on other people, they are accustomed to the existence of someone in their lives, and perhaps when they have it, they will not feel how precious it is. But once he loses the person he is used to, his whole life will become unsupported.

At this time, Liu Wei had such a mentality. He is accustomed to Tao Huanniang being by his side, even if he does not have the love between men and women that Tao Huanniang expects, it is already difficult to give up.

"Your Highness!" I had been sitting in the house until it was close to noon, and the voice of a personal soldier came from outside the door: "Donglai wine shop was suddenly attacked, and more than ten mouths were killed and injured!" ”

"What?" Hearing that the Donglai liquor store was attacked, Liu Wei stood up suddenly, strode to the door, opened the door, and said to the pro-soldier who reported the news: "When did it happen, and who did it?" ”

"Half an hour ago, the liquor store suddenly closed its doors!" Seeing Liu Wei rushing out, the soldiers clenched their fists and bowed to him and said: "The brother who was watching outside heard a scream from the wine shop, and hurriedly kicked open the door to investigate, and found only more than a dozen bodies that had just been killed, and the murderer had escaped and was missing!" ”

Hearing that the liquor store suddenly closed down, Liu Wei already had a little suspicion in his heart, and heard that the murderer committed the murder in broad daylight, and then disappeared, and he felt that this matter was full of mysteries.

Suddenly closed the store, and then more than a dozen people in the liquor store were killed, as if those who were killed were deliberately ready to die, and made a special trip to close the door and let them be killed.

No one would be so stupid, and even if they were all well-trained killers, they couldn't be so calm knowing they were going to die.

Moreover, the outside of the liquor store was already covered with eyeliner, and some of the officers and soldiers in charge of surveillance rushed into the liquor store after the incident, and there must have been other eyeliner outside, and it was absolutely impossible for anyone to slip away quietly in broad daylight.

"Let's take a look!" With doubts in his heart, Liu Wei waved his hand at the soldiers, and a group of soldiers standing outside the door, except for the two people who stayed to guard the door, the rest of the people followed him towards the outside of the official mansion.

After leaving the official mansion, Liu Wei found that the streets were not ordinary. A few days ago, there were occasional pedestrians on the streets, but now there are not even half of them.

Although the shops are still open, they are still full of customers.

Thousands of people had just entered the city the day before, and it stands to reason that Dayang City would not be so quiet, and the unusual silence in the city made Liu Wei feel more and more troublesome.

Donglai Liquor Store is separated from the government by two streets, and through the streets where two sticks can not smash half a person, Liu Wei led a team of personal soldiers to the door of the liquor store.

"Your Highness!" Zhou Cang had led more than 100 officers and soldiers to surround the wine shop, and when he saw Liu Wei coming, he hurriedly stepped forward, clasped his hands into fists and said: "A total of fourteen corpses were found in the wine shop, nine men and five women, all of whom were family members of the owner of the wine shop!" ”