"Steward Su, what is that Zhang Yuan doing now?"

"Master, he locked himself in the house all night, and the food was brought by his subordinates. It's just that the young lady went to him again later. The butler replied honestly.

"Again?" Chen Enxu stood still and asked with some confusion.

The housekeeper nodded hurriedly: "I reported to you before, and the money you asked me to share with those private soldiers was all taken to him by the young lady." But after the young lady left, she went back again, but not as long as the first time. ”

Chen Enxu pursed his lips, and after being silent for three seconds, he spoke: "Okay, that girl, don't care about her." The only thing you have to do now is to keep an eye on that Zhang Yuan, and as long as he has any changes, you have to report to me. ”

"Yes, sir, what if he wants to run?"

"Hmm." Chen Enxu suddenly smiled, "I can't ask for it, it's better to run far away and don't come back." ”

Zhang Yuan's room.

"It's so late, you don't have to be here all the time studying the map, do you?"

Under the light of the stone, Zhang Yuan sat at his desk, on which was an unfolded map, on which all the terrain of Xishan City and the surrounding terrain was drawn. At this moment, Zhang Yuan was holding a pen, drawing circles while looking at the map, and circled all the places that matched Yelu Yangsu's description.

Hearing the spirit of the plug-in persuade him, the movements in Zhang Yuan's hand stopped, and the pen was lifted off the paper: "It's nothing, I will be able to deduce Fu Yun's hiding place immediately." Of course, the premise is that Yelu Yangsu didn't lie to me...... No, even if he tells the truth, there is a possibility that the prayer meeting has already been transferred. ”

"Since you may not be able to return, what are you still here. Besides, this place is by far the safest place to live, I think you can be content with it, and let Chen Enxu's men do it themselves. The spirit of the plug-in persuaded again.

"Tsk, yes." Zhang Yuan slapped the pen on the table, sighed and handed over all the weight of his body to the back of the chair, "But if Fu Yun is not caught for a day, I will not be able to let go for a day, after all, everyone in the grange is still in danger, and I don't know if the private soldiers I hired are reliable." ”

"Zhang Yuan, haven't slept yet?" When Chen Enxu's voice sounded, a figure also appeared at the door curtain, which startled Zhang Yuan.

Zhang Yuan secretly cursed himself in his heart, looking at the map, and talking to Brother Hang, he didn't even know who came in. He quickly stood up and saluted Chen Enxu: "Lord Chen, I'm so busy that I didn't hear you coming in, I'm really sorry." ”

"It's okay, you don't have to be polite in front of me, just treat this place as your home. Hey, isn't this the best map I kept in my study, why is it here? After Chen Enxu lifted the curtain, his eyes naturally fell on what Zhang Yuan was doing, and when he saw the map on the table, he immediately raised his eyebrows.

"Ah, this ......" Of course Zhang Yuan had nothing to say, how could he know that Chen Qianyun had cheated himself and took Chen Enxu's treasure map. But after thinking about it, she was able to get the best, and it was indeed not perfunctory.

Chen Enxu got closer, and he saw clearly some of the annotations made by Zhang Yuan on the map, but the annotations were too free, which made Chen Enxu a little unbearable to look at his favorite map in the past. It's just that Chen Enxu knows that this must be a good thing done by his daughter, and he can't complain about Zhang Yuan, so he can only feign anger and say: "What do these things on this map mean, you have to explain it to me clearly, if you say it well, we will reveal this matter." ”

Zhang Yuan's heart tightened, Chen Enxu said so, then he was really in a dilemma. If you explain, no matter how much you explain, you can't get around the hints given by Yelu Yangsu, and if you don't explain, you will offend Chen Enxu.

But Zhang Yuan didn't know that Chen Enxu was not really angry, at this time, I was afraid that it was more tentative, he only knew that he was half-concealed and half-concealed: "Lord Chen, all these marks of mine are marked in Fu Yun, that is, the possible hiding place of those people in the Prayer Society." Of course, all of these things are, well, my personal inferences, which may not be accurate, but I guess that narrows down our search. ”

"Is there such a thing?" Chen Enxu became interested when he heard it, he felt that this matter was fresh, he had only heard that the military department would do this kind of strategic map deduction when it was fighting, and he never thought that Zhang Yuan would show him this skill at this time, "Then you have to talk to me about it, how can you look at the map and find them out." ”

"Yes." When Zhang Yuan said this, he quickly lowered his head to prevent Chen Enxu from seeing the panicked look on his face.

"Brother Hang, what should I do, I haven't figured out how to fool me yet?" When Zhang Yuan encountered difficulties, the first thing he thought of was to ask for help from the spirit of the plug-in, and if he wanted to think for himself like he did some time ago, he would not be used to it.

It's like a student doing a mock question, if he doesn't have the answer, he can actually do it little by little. But when the answer appears at hand, it is inevitable that you want to take a look, and if you don't look at it, you will feel scratched by a hundred claws. The better ones do the answers one by one, and the bad ones copy from beginning to end.

The Plug-in Spirit's answer did not feel panicked at all: "You look at Chen Enxu's appearance, I think the curiosity on his face is real, and it is not curious about you, but only curious about your deduction results." This shows that he doesn't understand what you're saying at all, and you can just fool around at this time, as long as what you say seems to be true, he may believe it. ”

"Shhhh Zhang Yuan thought to himself, why was he so familiar with this, didn't this mean to create an unclear feeling for Chen Enxu, "Brother Hang, will this work?" But I think you're right, no matter how old Chen Enxu is, there should be something he doesn't understand, it's because I was too nervous before. ”

Encouraged by the spirit of the plug-in, Zhang Yuan immediately picked up the pen and pointed blindly on the map: "Lord Chen, please see, there are big differences in the terrain in all directions outside this Xishan City. First of all, it is to the east, which is full of plains, and there are cities and settlements on both sides of the main road, and to the east is the city of Jinguan. In other words, this direction is completely under the noses of the Western Military Headquarters and the Temple, and I have observed Fu Yun and them, not like people who are bold and careful, so they must not dare to hide here. ”

"That's right." Chen Enxu didn't say much, and after answering, he continued to watch Zhang Yuan's performance.

"Whew." Zhang Yuan stretched out his hand and secretly wiped the cold sweat on his face, this passage was completely nonsense, where had he observed Fu Yun, "The south of Xishan City, although it is not as open as the east, is also extremely flat, and it is filled with fields outside Xishan City, so it is definitely impossible for Fu Yun to take advantage of it." ”

Chen Enxu nodded again in agreement: "In this way, these two directions can be ruled out." Then, these thieves can only hide in the northwest two directions, because there are all mountains there, and it is not a problem to hide hundreds of people. ”

"What Lord Chen said is extremely true, so I mainly look at these two directions." Zhang Yuan said on his lips, but in his heart, he was thinking about how to continue to fool Chen Enxu. It took a while to erase half of the irrelevant locations on the map, but that doesn't mean you can relax next, because it's hard to explain how you can demarcate a few small locations on half of the map.

"Zhang Yuan, why don't you continue, what are you thinking?" Chen Enxu saw that Zhang Yuan was thinking, and immediately became puzzled, and urged.

I can only play tricks.

Zhang Yuan gritted his teeth and began to talk nonsense even harder: "Oh, I just thought of some loopholes in my thinking, nothing serious." Master Chen also knew that I had encountered Fu Yun twice, so I also had a lot of observations about his dress. I remember the first time I met him, I noticed dew on his shoulders, it was ...... Well, this is proof that he passed under the tree, which means that the place where he is must not be next to the road, including the path in the forest. ”

Chen Enxu looked at the tip of Zhang Yuan's pen, and there were indeed several roads through the mountains on the map, but this level of detail was worthy of the large price he spent on buying the map. He didn't doubt him, and echoed: "It makes sense, it makes sense, so you don't have to take into account the places along these roads?" ”

"Lord Chen is really smart, I think I've been thinking about this for a long time." Zhang Yuan patted himself on the back first, and then continued to say, "In addition, I also found that Fu Yun and the big guys had dark mud on their toes, I think they should have passed through the tidal flats to get such damp mud, so I began to look for their traces along the river." ”

Speaking of which, Zhang Yuan began to admire himself a little, which finally gave a flicker, and successfully introduced the word "Huanshui" in front of the mountain. The next thing is to see how to make up this mountain-related thing, so as to deceive Chen Enxu, but this is easy, after all, where there are mountains, it must be easy to hide people.

Zhang Yuan secretly raised his eyes to look at Chen Enxu, and found that after the other party listened to his nonsense, he also looked at the place on the map that he circled.

Chen Enxu stretched out his hand and dotted in a few circles on the map: "So, these places you drew do look like places where people can be hidden." ”

"That's right, Lord Chen, look at it again, all of these places I am looking for are backed by mountains, and they are easy places for Tibet. Of course, I've crossed out a few more locations myself, like this one. Zhang Yuan stretched out his hand and pointed to the places on the map that were circled and crossed, and several such ugly graffiti could be regarded as completely ruining the map.

"Well, can you tell me why these places are excluded? I don't see any difference, aren't they all places with mountains and rivers? Chen Enxu really didn't seem to know anything, and directly followed Zhang Yuan's words.

Zhang Yuan's temptation was immediately happy, and it seemed that he had nothing to fear, Chen Enxu really didn't understand: "There are big and small problems in these places, such as here, which is too remote, although it is not easy to find, but it is not conducive to development; Here, for example, it is a little close to the grange next to it, and it can be reached by crossing this mountain, which is easy to be discovered by unintentional people; And here......"

After a lot of nonsense, Zhang Yuan continued: "In addition, I would like to ask Lord Chen to recruit more people who have worked as bandits outside the city for a living, and they may know that those places are most suitable for Tibetans." ”

"Makes sense, makes sense." Chen Enxu has now been fooled by Zhang Yuan, and Zhang Yuan is right about what he says. However, this last sentence Zhang Yuan did make sense, but there was no intention of deception, "Then you will go with me tomorrow to see who are familiar with people outside the city, so that we can find the remnants of the Prayer Society as soon as possible!" ”

"Yes!"