Wei Meng didn't want to admit it, but at this moment, he looked at Lu Zhaoyi's eyes, a little awe, and even, a little fear.

"How did you find out?"

"That's a question for me to ask the Captain, right? There is no external enemy attack on your body, and it is possible that someone close to you will stab you at close range, but if you do not leave your sword, it is unlikely that you will be hurt in such a single blow. Then there is only one possibility......

"What could ......?"

Webon had just snapped, but suddenly stopped.

"When you were smitten on your knees, you were standing, and the man who stabbed you was standing on the other side." Lu Zhaoyi turned around and stared at his chest,

"It's a bit like, the waiter is holding the order, and you kneel down to listen to that, the waiter who delivers the order should be Xue Cifeng."

Hearing this, Wei Meng, who was in front of her, had his pupils contracted suddenly, and he looked at her deadly, and after a while, he laughed: "Yuan Siniang is so smart, but unfortunately, she is a woman. Why are you so sure that Xue Cifeng wants to kill me?"

Eight hours ago, on the hill outside Tongguan, although Yang Xian and Yang Ben had their own goals, there was one thing, they really didn't need to lie.

The governor of Tongguan is Xue Cifeng.

It has always been an important pass in and out of the pass, which is related to the lifeblood of the dynasty, and it is also worried that once the commander here defects, the enemy will be able to enter the Sili with great fanfare, threatening the Luojing Imperial City.

Therefore, in the past dynasties, Tongguan was the left and right captains, one of the captains defected, and the other commander could draw his sword at any time to kill the rebels, and then control the city to deal with the enemy.

And Wei Meng in front of him is naturally one of the two lieutenants.

"Say, Xue Cifeng, where are you locked up?" Lu Zhaoyi asked bluntly.

When Wei Meng heard this, a trace of struggle flashed across his face, but then, his eyes were resolute, "I don't know what you're talking about! I'll just tell you, I have an old relationship with him, and it's impossible for me to attack him!"

"Are you telling the truth?" Lu Zhaoyi raised his eyebrows.

"Yes." Webon panicked, trying to hide his expression.

Lu Zhaoyi smiled, "Your wound is exposed, I can tell at a glance that what you said is true or false!"

Hearing this, Webon's heart raced, and fine beads of sweat oozed from the corners of his forehead.

He looked at Lu Zhaoyi, his whole body kept moving, and the chapped skin on the side of his mouth gradually fell off, since this matter could no longer be hidden, he could only let this beautiful woman shut up forever.

There is only one way to silence a person forever.

When he was secretly preparing to draw his sword, Wei Meng was still sighing, it's a pity, such a pretty and intelligent woman, if she can control it, she will definitely open up an official career for herself in the future, the best "tribute".

However, at the moment when he drew his knife and cut it down, in the blink of an eye, a violent sound of Jin Ming crashing sounded, and one of the black armor guards, Song Yi, who was hidden among the thirty horsemen, appeared, blocking the center of him and Lu Zhaoyi, blocking his attack.

The two immediately fought, but because Wei Meng was seriously injured, after a few moves, the wound recurred, and he fell to the ground and fainted.

"Song Yi, stop!"

Seeing that the person was already unconscious, it was no longer appropriate to put the person to death, not to mention that the purpose of infiltrating Tongguan had not been achieved, so he spared the person's life first.

The black armor guards are up and down, and her subordinates are neither light nor heavy, if they are really killed, her plan will be over.

Hearing this, Song Yi withdrew his sword, glanced at Wei Meng who was lying on the ground, and then at Lu Zhaoyi, and then retreated to her side.

"Sir, this person wants to kill you, but he can't stay."

"It doesn't matter." Lu Zhaoyi waved his hand, "Go, call someone over, carry him into the Governor's Mansion, and say that he has a sudden recurrence of his injury and needs medical treatment."

At this time, it was the fifth watch.

Perhaps, after dawn, in this closed city, perhaps according to Yang Xian Yangben's plan, the generals will cause a mutiny, causing chaos in Tongguan.

Perhaps, the Yang family is already outside the city, observing all the movements in the gate, just waiting for the signal in the city to be thrown, he

They will rush in and take the opportunity to take away the jurisdiction of Tongguan.

Regarding the jurisdiction here, it was originally ordered by Xia Pei and handed over to Hongnong County, and she didn't want to interfere.

But to find out the recent causes and consequences of Guan Chengnei, find Xue Cifeng, and confirm her guess, she has to mediate here.

As for how the Yang family will take Tongguan after dawn, she doesn't care. She only cares about whether she can successfully pass Tongguan and enter Guanzhong smoothly.

There is an hour left.

sent Wei Meng back to the governor's mansion, and Lu Zhaoyi inquired with Li Min about some situations, and this Li Min, after seeing her skills, was also a lot more honest, so he told her about everything that happened in Tongguan these days.

The reason was that Jingzhao was too protective of Xu Lu and received a secret edict from the emperor, but what the content of the secret edict was, but no one knew it, but after that, he ordered Xue Cifeng to return to Chang'an with the Tongguan garrison.

However, Wei Meng received a secret letter from Chang'an, roughly saying that the place of Tongguan was extremely important and could not be ceded to Hongnong County.

On the one hand, Xue Cifeng obeyed the orders of Xu Lu; On the other hand, Wei Meng was ordered by a certain scholar clan in Chang'an City, and the two started an open and secret battle with each other.

And at this time, Yangcheng, Hongnong County, had long been unable to hold back, and tried to break through from the inside several times and control Tongguan.

Under this fate, Wei Meng simply closed the city directly, and no one was allowed to pass through. Z.br>

But if this goes on for a long time, there is no grain and grass, and the distribution of military salaries is also controlled by Taishou Xu Lu, who did not return to Chang'an on time, and naturally they will not supply grain and grass and military salaries.

Xu Lu didn't send it, and the Jingzhao clan was not willing to pay for it. In this way, the Tongguan defenders, like abandoned orphans, are still left to fend for themselves.

"So, you opened the door again, allowing caravans to come in and out along the way, extorting a high passage fee, and trying to survive for the time being?"

Hearing the end, Lu Zhaoyi let out a sigh.

Li Min nodded in response, and continued, "After that, I guess Yuan Siniang should have guessed it, right?"

According to her speculation, Xue Cifeng took Xu Lu's order to keep it, confronted Wei Meng, and forced him to choose one of the two, but the two could not reach a consensus, and finally faced each other with swords, so they had to fight for life and death.

What the outcome will be, no one knows, all they can know is that Xue Cifeng is imprisoned, and Wei Meng is seriously injured and is now fainting.

But......

In this way, she can borrow this line to dig out more clues about the major scholars in Guanzhong and the case of Yongzhou grain embezzlement.

"Fourth lady Yuan, everything I know has been told to you completely. As for the rest, after all, Li is the Li clan in Longxi, and the matter of Guanzhong is not something I can know."

When Li Min said this, he seemed to be revealing intentionally or unintentionally that there was something hidden behind this matter.

About seven o'clock in the hour, when the rooster crowed, the sky was not yet bright, outside the east of Tongguan City, the lights of the post houses everywhere were bright, and some people had already got up early and lined up outside the Guancheng, and in the city, under Li Min's order, any soldiers were not allowed to move in place, and they were not allowed to open the gate and let people pass.

At the same time, in the cave prison of Guancheng, Xue Cifeng was released, and when he walked slowly to the Governor's Mansion, he was stunned when he saw the figures of the thirty black-armored horsemen.

It just so happened that Lu Zhaoyi also saw him, and greeted him and gave a salute, "Xue Duwei!"

Although the other party is mottled with blood, but it still can't be covered, the handsome and upright figure, a thin autumn coat, but also the strong muscles are highlighted, in this ice and snow, the cold wind blows, his dark eyes seem to flash flames, burning people's cheeks for a while.

He was shackled, slightly stunned, and hurriedly clenched his fists, "In Xia Xue Cifeng, this lady is the one that Li Lang will mention, Yuan Si Niang?"

Lu Zhaoyi pouted his head and looked him up and down for a long time before instructing the people around him to take him down to change his clothes and come over again.

And Xue Cifeng saw that her expression was cold, so he turned his head to look down at the stains on his body, raised his eyes and chuckled, so he didn't dare to slack off, and obediently followed the person down.

But when he returns, that is

Another look.

He was dressed in a green shirt, a white robe, a jade belt around his waist, and a handsome face full of smiles.

Lu Zhaoyi's gaze fell on his face again, and he suddenly raised his eyebrows, and said secretly in his heart: This guy is quite good at disguise.

Soon, though, she looked away.

"Listening to General Li Lang talk about Yuan Siniang, he emphatically used the words "material things are like gods"!"

Xue Cifeng said as he walked towards Lu Zhaoyi with a step, like a star stepping on the moon.

I only heard him continue, "In this world, Xue only knows two people, but he can be commented on, one is the battle between Hanzhong and Shangyong back then, the former prime minister of Lingguo, and now he is the fifth Langya of my Dayuan Taiwei. And the other one should be...... Gou Chenzi!"

It has always been the darkest before dawn, and Lu Zhaoyi also revealed the unimperceptible and unconsciously twitched the corners of his mouth because of the darkness of the sky.

"Oh? Xue Duwei has not only seen the fifth Langya, but also Gou Chenzi?"

"Of course. If there is another person in this world who can "know things like a god" and must be a woman, it is Gou Chenzi's apprentice, who has a "beautiful girl from Hebei", Lu Qiniang, right?"

Hearing this, Lu Zhaoyi slandered in his heart, this kid is testing me?

Thinking like this in her heart, she would never admit it, and her voice was a bit yin and yang, "Xue Duwei seems to be saying, my Yuzhou girl, not as good as Jizhou?"

Yin Chuan Shi clan and Hebei Shi clan, which side is the first Shi clan in the Central Plains? Since two hundred years ago, there has been an endless debate, until the Duke of Wu, the Xia clan and the Zhou clan fought a decisive battle, defeated by the Zhou clan supported by the northern Shi clan, and the Yin Chuan Shi clan behind the Xia clan naturally became the winner of the two hundred years of controversy.

But even so, to this day, under the framework of the unification of the world, the two sides are almost still secretly competing.

Just now, Lu Zhaoyi's question, ordinary people may sound relatively light, but to people with a certain acuity, this is a major matter related to the government and the opposition.

Xue Cifeng was stunned at the moment, not daring to answer casually.

"What? Don't you dare to say it?" Lu Zhaoyi asked him again, but received no response.

Half an hour later, he coughed in the dark, and instead, he let out a slight sound, "In three quarters, Hongnong Yangcheng will send someone to Tongguan, and Wei Duwei is still unconscious. Therefore, does Yuan Siniang plan to let us face the Yang family, or take these 5,000 defenders to evacuate and return to Chang'an?"

Lu Zhaoyi smiled and smiled happily.

This smile, when the sky gradually turned white, that smile was reflected on Xue Cifeng's eyes, making him a little distracted.

"Back to Chang'an? Hehe, you can't go back."