"You mean they're the warlocks who deliberately avoided us?" Yang Yi looked at Uncle Li and asked as if he had realized something.

"Uncle will just be suspicious, by the way, did those Yao warlocks use magic weapons such as horns and leather drums when they fought with you?" Uncle Li was silent for a while, and then asked again.

"No, not one." Yang Yi and Wei Ergou thought for a moment at the same time, and then shook their heads affirmatively.

"Well, it seems that these Yao clan warlocks have not yet reached the ultimate realm, and they can't control the flat drum artifact, which is also your luck, if you meet the Dao Gong who is good at using flat drums and horns, I'm afraid you won't get out so easily, and you have to peel off the skin if you don't die, hum!" Uncle Li glanced at the wounds on Yang Yi and Wei Ergou's bodies, and secretly regretted his reckless actions, almost putting the two apprentices in danger of no return, he was really afraid.

"Uncle, what should we do now, we walked around the military camp of the Taiping Army, and we can see that the soldiers from Lin Fengxiang and Ji Wenyuan to the bottom have all been turned into beasts by the war, and it is only a matter of time before Cangzhou City is breached, once the city is broken, the tragedy of slaughtering the city will definitely happen, we can't watch these ordinary people stretch their necks and be stabbed!" Yang Yi looked at Uncle Li eagerly and said emotionally.

"Hey, what you said, why don't you know? Why doesn't Shen Ruchao know? Li Shu'er looked at Yang Yi and Wei Ergou, whose faces were flushed, and said with a wry smile: "However, according to the laws of the Qing Dynasty, those who lose the city in Zhizhou should be beheaded and connected with the nine clans, not to mention that Shen Ruchao is a three-list jinshi who has read poetry and books, and he regards his reputation as more important than his life, how can he be willing to bear the infamy of escaping from the battle and being an enemy of the city?" Moreover, even if Shen Ruchao is willing to let those people flee out of the city, they can only go into Jinghai County and Tianjin County to shelter and beg for food, and now Jinghai County and Tianjin County are already frightened birds, and they will never let these displaced people into the city, the reason is very simple, one is that they are afraid that the Taiping army will enter the city among the refugees, and then the inside and outside should join forces to break the city, and more importantly, the county commanders of Jinghai County and Tianjin County are unwilling to carry the heavy burden of providing food and shelter for tens of thousands of displaced people, if these displaced people have no food and clothing, There will inevitably be trouble in the city, you say, which of those county magistrates is willing to take such a risk of losing their heads? ”

"You say this, isn't there only one way left to stay in the lonely city, no, the people of Cangzhou City are also calling you an old fairy, all these years, you have not cheated to eat and drink, this life and death, you have to buy some strength, or you will not be open, hehe" Wei Ergou saw that Uncle Li was talking discouraged in that light, and couldn't help but use the radical method.

"You fucking eat lamp grass ash and fart, to put it lightly, uncle, I am a soldier, and I am not the ancestor Zhang Tianshi, how can I save this tens of thousands of living people?" Uncle Li glanced at Wei Ergou, and there was a great posture that he didn't know the price of firewood and rice, but then he changed his words and said: "These days, Uncle has thought about it, and always feels that in this currently chaotic chess game, the Taiping Army and the Qing Army are just pawns crossing the river, and no matter how fierce they fight, they are just acting as pawns for the old handsome and veteran generals behind, and the old handsome veteran is the key to determining the outcome of this chess game!" ”

"You wait a minute, let's talk about business, why are you going to play chess again, what do you mean?" Wei Ergou was surrounded by Uncle Li, and looked at him and complained dissatisfiedly.

"Uneducated hooligans are destined not to be good Taoists, it's too true." Yang Yi looked at Wei Ergou gloatingly, and said with a smile: "Didn't you hear it, what Uncle means is that this Cangzhou City, uh, it should also include the Taiping Army barracks, and there are still third-party forces, and this third party that we don't know so far is the key to resolving the crisis in Cangzhou City, am I right, Uncle?" ”

Uncle Li looked at Yang Yi and smiled approvingly: "This person who eats less pork has a more active brain, Ergou, it's nothing to scald his head with hot water and melt the meat oil, or he will fucking stick to his heart, hey......"

"If you don't hurt me this day, it's too old, this time you're comfortable, right, then you can tell me what it means, ah?" Wei Ergou has long been accustomed to Uncle Li's sarcastic attacks, anyway, he didn't forget to fight back against Uncle Li when he seized the opportunity, so he didn't fight back, and continued to look at Uncle Li with a reverent face and pretending to be stupid.

"Xiao Yi is wrong about one thing, then we don't know about the third-party forces, but we don't know, we also fought with them, forgot?" Uncle Li blinked and looked at Yang Yi and Wei Ergou playfully.

"I'll take it, I remember, Uncle means those cultists who transported exquisite swallows and silver to Cangzhou City, and that Master Cui, right?" Wei Ergou's heart moved, and he suddenly understood that Li Shu'er's so-called third-party forces were referring to the black-clothed men who transported silver money and tribute from Shanxi to Cangzhou City, as well as the mysterious Master Cui who had not yet appeared.

"Not only that," Uncle Li shook his head, "and the Miao Jiang warlock and his comrades who were captured by the Yindu envoy, as well as those Yao warlocks, especially the mysterious old man you saw in the courtyard behind the mansion, is there some kind of internal connection between them, and what are they lurking in this precarious Cangzhou City, isn't all this very intriguing?" ”

"Oh, it's all too complicated, I have to take a good look at it, take a look at it," Yang Yi listened to Uncle Li's analysis, his head suddenly became big, and he couldn't think of a reason.

"Hey, by the way, uncle, I think of something......" Yang Yi suddenly remembered that when he went out of the city at night, when he passed through the heart of the street where he fought with the Miao Jiang Warlock and the extradition envoy, when he and Wei Ergou burned the coffin and the clothes left behind by the Miao Jiang Warlock, he had seen the ghost of the slave in Lu Jingtian's mansion, so he told Uncle Li about it.

"Oh, you calf, you missed a great opportunity to learn the truth about the Lufu massacre!" Hearing Yang Yi's story, Uncle Li struck the case again and again, looking very sorry, "The cloth in the coffin is actually the clothes worn by those ghosts before they died, after death, there will be a strong physical breath on the clothes, and those ghosts will attach to the clothes out of nostalgia for their own flesh, and they will refuse to leave for a long time......"