In the Qi family's mansion in Sizhou County, a middle-aged man was standing respectfully in front of an old man.

"Teacher, now that the situation in the city is critical, please follow us out of the city!"

The middle-aged man said earnestly.

"Wei Yan, what you should do at this moment is to stop the people from leaving the city, instead of persuading the old man to escape from Sizhou County here."

The old man was not relieved by the middle-aged man's persuasion, but with reproach in his tone.

"Teacher, you also know the current situation in the county seat of Sizhou, and now the county guard has been on guard against me and the county lieutenant all day long worried that we will do something to him, and Tan Lixing regards me as a thorn in the flesh and wants to get rid of me as soon as possible."

The middle-aged man said helplessly with a sad face.

"Wei Yan, you are also a more proud disciple of the old man, but these years of officialdom have completely wiped out your young spirit."

The old man said with some sadness.

"When I was a high-spirited youth, I was like a beautiful horse in fresh clothes, and I went through a dangerous career, so I shouldn't be separated from each other from then on."

The middle-aged man known as Wai Yan said with a lonely face.

"Zhang Weiyan, why are you so young at such a young age!"

"Teacher, now this officialdom is already a bull, ghost, snake and god, and the whole officialdom is smoky, and I think I am also a dignified leader, and in the end, I just offended the eunuch."

Zhang Weiyan couldn't help but be angry when he said this.

"I thought that I would be able to escape these deceptions if I was exiled to other places, but I never thought that there was no place in many places over the years that was not intrigued, even this small Sizhou County."

Zhang Weiyan said that the original anger had turned into depression.

"Wei Yan, you are still young, you shouldn't have this twilight atmosphere!"

Qi Lao couldn't help but feel sorry when he saw that he, the proud protégé who had infinite scenery back then, had become so decadent now.

At the same time, he also had a trace of guilt in his heart.

Because Qi Lao knew in his heart that the series of unfair treatment that this surrounding rock had received over the years was more or less implicated by himself.

He knew very well that those who targeted Zhang Weiyan were his political enemies back then.

But there is nothing he can do about it, after all, he has already done it.

It is often said that since people have left the court, most of the so-called old relatives and friends in the past have also faded away.

And the political enemies he had offended at the beginning began to be unscrupulous.

Although he has been living in seclusion in this Sizhou county all these years, he still pays attention to the entire court.

Judging from the news he got, the situation in the court is indeed as his disciple Zhang Weiyan said, and it has been decayed and eroded to a certain extent.

And what made Qi Lao feel most angry was that this time the grassland tribe attacked the three counties of Biansai.

Originally, in his imagination, even if the defenders of the border fortress were defeated by the grassland tribes, they would not be directly destroyed by the grassland tribes in three counties and even the grassland army, and they would be defeated all the way to the vicinity of the imperial capital.

And all the traitors in the court who caused all this were those traitors in the court, and they actually gave up the Pengzhou army because of their own interests.

Thinking that these traitors could put aside the safety of the soldiers and the Dayu Dynasty for their own interests, this was simply a move to destroy the country in Qi Lao's opinion.

"Teacher, the sage once said that if you are poor, you will be good alone, and if you are good, you will help the world at the same time, and now our ability is limited, so let's find a way to live first!"

Speaking of this, Zhang Weiyan once again turned the conversation to persuade Qi Lao to escape.

"Wei Yan, your kindness is understood by the teacher, but the teacher is already old, and he has already reached the year of knowing the destiny of heaven, and he has already looked down on life and death, and now he is a teacher and he doesn't want to go anywhere."

Qi Lao still shook his head and said.

"Teacher, if you don't think about yourself, you have to think about the Qi family!"

Seeing that Qi Lao was still reluctant to escape, Zhang Weiyan continued to persuade him.

"Master, there's a young man outside the door asking to see you!"

While the master and apprentice were talking, the servant outside the door suddenly came to report.

"Oh? Youngster? ”

Qi Lao and Zhang Weiyan all said with puzzled expressions.

"Can he tell me what he's doing here?"

Qi Lao asked with a twisted brow.

The young man did not explain what he had come for, but he said that he was a good friend of Childe and Miss.

The servant said cautiously.

"Miss Childe? Which boy and lady? ”

Qi Lao couldn't react for a while to what the servant said about the son and the young lady.

"Master, the villain thinks it should be Zhao Gongzi and Miss Ning!"

"Qi Chao and Qi Ning?"

Zhang Weiyan next to Qi Lao couldn't help but be taken aback.

He had heard that his master's grandson and granddaughter had fled from the house because they were dissatisfied with the marriage arranged by the family.

After that, the two disappeared without a trace, and they have not been heard from in the past few months.

In fact, what he didn't know was that Qi Chao and Qi Ning had sent letters home a few months earlier, but because the letters involved Pengzhou Army, Qi Lao strictly ordered that the matter of their sending back letters should not be leaked.

"Then let him in!"

Since this young man said that he was a good friend of Qi Chao and Qi Ning, he must know the news of the two, and Qi Lao also wanted to learn about the recent situation of his grandson and granddaughter through him.

Then Li Yi entered Qi Lao's room under the guidance of the servants.

As soon as he entered the room, Li Yi saw an old man with gray hair and wrinkles sitting on the front seat of the room.

The old man was dressed in a blue-gray robe, and a wooden hairpin crossed the top of his sparse head.

But although the old man looked old, his back was more upright than a pair of people sitting upright.

At the first glance of Li Yi, he felt that the old man in front of him had a faint trace of majesty.

This kind of majestic momentum cannot be nurtured without decades of officialdom.

"Boy Li Yi has seen Mr. Qi."

Li Yi took a few steps forward and bowed.

And the corners of Qi Lao's mouth couldn't help but turn up slightly.

He has seen a lot of young people, but it is rare for Li Yi to see that he can be so stable.

"You said that you are a friend of my family's Qi Dynasty and Qi Ning, so you must have also come from the west?"

Qi Lao rolled up his sleeves and asked casually.

Li Yi immediately understood that the old man in front of him was deliberately testing himself.

"Back to Mr. Qi's words, I met Qi Chao and Qi Ning on the way to the north, so I came from the north."

Hearing Li Yi say that he was from the north, although Qi Lao's complexion did not change, his heart was happy.

Because now he can conclude that this Li Yi and his grandson and granddaughter do know each other.

"Oh? In that case, can you tell the old man where my troubled grandson and granddaughter are? ”

"Mr. Qi, please rest assured that Qi Chao and Qi Ning are on the boat back to Sizhou County right now, if nothing else, they will return to Sizhou County in the next two or three days."

Li Yi replied.

"Oh? Are these two bastards finally willing to come back? ”

Although Qi Lao seemed to be full of indifference when he said it, the stone that had been hanging in his heart finally fell to the ground.

"Then I don't know why you came to my house today?"

Qi Lao then asked again.

"The kid came over today to ask Elder Qi to take everyone from the Qi family out of the city to avoid trouble."

Li Yi didn't beat around the bush and went straight to the point.

And Zhang Weiyan on the side heard that Li Yi was also here to persuade his teacher to go out of the city, and he couldn't help but be happy.

"Oh? Do you think that the people of the city should go out of the city to escape the smallpox plague? ”

"The boy persuaded you to go out of the city to avoid disaster, not to avoid the smallpox plague."

Li Yi said lightly.

"Oh? Could it be that there is something other than this smallpox plague? ”

Qi Lao asked with a sharp gaze at Li Yi.

"Old Mr. Qi, you don't know, in fact, this smallpox plague is just a scam made up by the kid in order to let the people in the city go out of the city to avoid disaster."

As soon as Li Yi's words came out, Zhang Weiyan, who was standing on the side, immediately showed a shocked look on his face.

But there was no change in the expression on Qi Lao's face, as a person who had been up and down in officialdom for decades, he had already been able to hide his emotions perfectly.

"So boy, you started the smallpox plague in this city?"

Before Qi Lao could speak, Zhang Weiyan immediately asked angrily.

Looking at Zhang Weiyan's eyes as if they could breathe flames, Li Yi still spoke unhurriedly.

"My lord, I just said that this smallpox plague is nothing more than a hoax, and there is no smallpox plague in the city at all."

"You don't have to quibble, I have already received the news just now, Xue Ping, the divine doctor in Sizhou City, has already gone to check it, and those Duowen Gang members who are suspected of being infected with smallpox are indeed infected with smallpox."

Zhang Weiyan immediately slapped the case and said angrily.

"Wai Yan, don't be impatient!"

Seeing that Li Yi was still able to maintain his expression as usual in the face of Zhang Weiyan's angry rebuke, Qi Lao couldn't help but secretly praise this young man.

"Since you said the smallpox epidemic was a hoax, what can you do to prove it?"

In fact, Qi Lao also hoped that this time smallpox was a hoax.

"The so-called Divine Doctor Xue had diagnosed that Tan Kelong, the leader of the Duowen Gang, had been infected with smallpox plague, so as long as I can prove that Tan Kelong was not infected with smallpox plague, it can mean that this smallpox plague does not exist at all!"

Li Yi said confidently with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

Zhang Weiyan said after thinking for a moment after hearing Li Yi's words.

"If you can really prove that Tan Kelon is not infected with smallpox, then I will believe what you say."

"In that case, please wait a moment."

After Li Yi finished speaking, he walked out of the room by himself, and after a short time, he walked in carrying a person wrapped in a quilt.

Although this person was carried on Li Yi's shoulders, it can be seen from the fat body just that this person's figure is definitely a fat man.

And Zhang Weiyan and Qi Lao couldn't help but be surprised by Li Yi's strength when they saw this.

After all, Li Yi doesn't look very old, and his figure is not that tall and burly type.

But Li Yi was able to carry the fat man, but he was able to walk steadily and breathe evenly, which especially showed that his strength was great.

"What is this?"

Zhang Weiyan couldn't help but be surprised when he saw the person Li Yi carrying in.

Although he had already guessed that Li Yi was carrying Tan Kelong, he still couldn't believe it.

You must know that at least one-third of the soldiers of the city guard battalion in the entire Sizhou county are now searching for Tan Kelong.

But now Tan Kelong was caught by a young kid, which couldn't help but make him unbelievable.

Even Qi Lao had to look at Li Yi with admiration at this time.

In fact, what the two didn't know was that the reason why one-third of the soldiers in the city guard battalion couldn't find Tan Kelong was entirely because Tan Kelong had just escaped from his secret passage and was bumped into by Li Yi.

Before Tan Kelong could react, Li Yi directly gave him a stick, and then Tan Kelong fainted.

And Li Yi took advantage of the fact that the soldiers of the city guard battalion had not yet reacted, so he directly carried Tan Kelong to a cowshed.

Li Yi then went to prevent the soldiers of the city guard battalion from conveying the order to close the city gate.

During this period, Tan Kelong had woken up in the cowshed, but his hands and feet were tied by Li Yi, and his mouth was also blocked.

This gave Tan Kelong no chance to call for help.

Smelling the disgusting smell in the stable, Tan Klong even wanted to knock himself unconscious.

But he was tightly tied up by Li Yi, and he couldn't knock himself out after working hard for a long time.

In the end, in disgust and despair, Tan Kelong waited for Li Yi.

At that time, he shed tears of emotion.

But the excitement didn't last long, and a long stick appeared in front of his eyes again.

The next second, he felt his eyes go dark again, and then he lost consciousness.

"This is Tan Kelong, the leader of the Duowen Gang."

Li Yi said while untying Tan Kelong from the quilt.

"So Tan Kelong has always been in your hands?"

Zhang Weiyan looked at Tan Kelong, who was unconscious on the ground, in surprise, and asked.

"yes, it just so happens that when this guy escaped, I happened to pass by his secret passageway."

"No wonder the soldiers of the city guard camp couldn't find him after looking for so long, it turns out that he is in your hands."

At this time, Zhang Weiyan couldn't help but feel sad for Tan Lixing and those soldiers of the city guard camp who had been busy for a long time.

It turned out that the person they had been looking for for a long time had already been caught by the kid in front of them.

"How are you going to prove now that this Tan Cron is not infected with smallpox?"

Qi Lao didn't care about the hard work of the city guard camp, and at the same time, he didn't care how Li Yi caught Tan Kelong.

The thing he was most concerned about now was whether Tan Culon had really contracted the smallpox plague.

"Actually, this is very simple, the general judgment of smallpox plague will be based on whether there is a fever and whether there is a rash on his body, now this Tan Kelon has no fever, as long as the rash on his body disappears, it can prove that he is not infected with smallpox plague!"

Immediately, Li Yi pulled Tan Kelong's clothes away.

Suddenly, Tan Kelong's fat collapsed like ordinary mud.

And his skin was covered in dense red pimples, which made him look like a large toad.

Seeing Tan Kelong's appearance, Qi Lao and Zhang Weiyan immediately took a few steps back.

However, Li Yi didn't care, I saw him directly take out a small porcelain bottle from his waist, and then poured out a small pill from it and stuffed it into Tan Kelong's mouth.

Then he slapped Tan Kelong's back violently, and the pill slid down Tan Kelong's esophagus.

Then Li Yi walked out of the door, picked out some artemisia grass from the flower bed next to him, and then rubbed the artemisia grass and rubbed it on Tan Kelong's skin.