"Slow!" Tan Cen pushed aside the crowd and rushed up, Su Yan looked at his panicked eyes and showed a happy smile.

Tan Cen picked her up from the ground like crazy, followed the dead man and immediately retreated to safety, everyone held their breath and stared nervously at the door.

After waiting for half a cup of tea, there was still dead silence all around. Tan Cen realized that he had been tricked, and was furious to hit her, and as soon as his hand touched her forehead, a strong wind appeared out of nowhere to dust him off.

Yan Zhen descended from the sky, escorted Su Yan to retreat to the red lacquer gate, separated from them at a distance, and ensured Su Yan's safety before he said slowly: "Tan has such a big appetite, there are so many beautiful women around him," said and looked at those dead soldiers who could clearly see at a glance that they were with stunts, and smiled, "Mr. Su looks too ordinary, but he can't compare to anyone, do you like her?" It's really visionless! ”

Su Yan raised his eyebrows, and the afterglow skimmed him, and pinched the most vulnerable part of his waist fiercely, but he couldn't bear it, but he just twitched the corner of his mouth.

Yan Zhen is also a veteran of the battlefield, whether it is momentum or record, everyone who knows him is in awe. However, Tan Cen, as a scholar of the imperial court and a first-class official, has seen many ruthless characters, and in the face of Yan Zhen at this time, he just restrained some arrogance. In addition to being respectful, he still hid a little provocation: "General Yan is here, but why are you hiding in the dark, is it protecting Miss Su?" ”

"What do you have to do with it!"

"General Yan protects her like this, it's really touching, the two talented women are like cowherds and weaver girls."

"Put your mother's shit, what a cowherd and weaver girl, a bunch of nonsense!" Yan Zhen blushed angrily and scolded bitterly. Su Yan saw that this was wrong, Tan Cen Ming was agitating the general, this guy who didn't understand the sinister hearts of people was being led by the nose! However, Tan Cen was red-eyed, and he didn't give Su Yan a chance to interject at all, and pressed every sentence: "It's not the love of men and women, so why protect her?" ”

"Nature is ......"

"What is it?!"

Yan Zhen's originally red face suddenly became gloomy, and he said to him coldly: "Tan Cen, you are a dignified official, it is not enough to raise a woman in a courtyard, you actually want to deceive the female gentleman of Shu Youtang!" When did my Rong Guo ever be disrespectful to Mr., you set a precedent! Right now you only have two paths, either shut me up or ......"

"Does the general want to do it?" Tan Cen was not afraid of his warning at all, "Although you are one enemy and one hundred on the battlefield, I, the carefully cultivated dead soldiers, are not vegetarians. With that, he turned away and let the dead men fight.

How could Yan Zhen take them in his eyes, and deal with these shrimp soldiers and crab generals, without even raising his eyebrows.

"You shouldn't fight?" Su Yan hid behind him, and seeing that he was not prepared at all, he asked him worriedly.

"A bunch of little minions aren't worth being so well prepared, but if you want to see me play with a knife, I'm willing to put some effort into entertaining you."

Su Yan shook his head, most of the night is still a quick decision, and it is important to go back to sleep.

At the moment of the last moment, the important moment when the two parties were fighting, but they were chatting, and the scar man led by him stared angrily, and while scolding the 'stinky girl', he drew his saber, pushed away the dead soldiers on both sides, and vowed to be ashamed. That knife is indeed a good knife, with a dazzling edge, and it is a high-grade weapon at first glance, but under the Qinghong knife of Yanzhen, it is just scrap iron.

Looking at the remnant knife in his hand, the scar man shed tears in disbelief. Looking up, the cold light flashed, and a strand of broken hair fell from front of his eyes, covering the broken knife on the ground.

"You ......" The scar man looked at the young man opposite in horror, the knife in his hand was not even fully unsheathed.

The ensuing dead men knocked him away, and he was no longer visible in the black head.

The dead are all women, and the identity of women is the easiest to mix in on major occasions, and they can kill people without even knowing it, and they don't even need to show their weapons. Because of this, even if the lethality is not as good as that of male dead soldiers, it is still favored by the major elites. It was also because of this that Tan Cen bought these female dead, some of them were placed in the dark market, some were kept on his side, and some were placed on the mansions of the lords in Kyoto.

But to deal with Yanzhen, he made a mistake.

One round, just one, all fell under the Qinghong knife, and the knife was still not unsheathed. It's so fast, it's staggering! But what made him even more angry was that Yan Zhen didn't see blood from beginning to end, but only abolished the kung fu of the dead man, which was simply an insult to him. But the insult had to be endured, and only the scar man was left beside him, which was already his last shield.

"Kill me, and you won't be able to get out." Tan Cen doesn't know where to get the confidence.

"What do you mean?"

"Have you forgotten where this is?"

Yan Zhen looked at the gate behind him, and there was a plaque of 'Xishan Courtyard' hanging above the door, and he said impatiently: "Isn't it Xishan Courtyard, what's the problem!" ”

"Xishan Villa is no problem, but here and the military camp outside the city are only five miles, just now I put the black sentry of the officials, and it won't be long before a large number of soldiers will come, you break into people's houses, kill domestic servants, and hurt officials, see how you explain!"

As soon as the words fell, a red light flew in, and the huge internal force shook the scar man away and knocked him unconscious on the tree. Tan Cen didn't have time to dodge, he was already choked by Yan Zhen's throat, and the huge force almost made him faint.

"I didn't sign the contract, the one in the dark market...... I killed the woman, all the evidence has been destroyed, dead ...... There is no proof of death! He gritted his teeth and said this, his face was already red.

"It doesn't matter if you have evidence or not, I'll kill you first!"

"You...... You can try it! ”

One doesn't want to die, and the other doesn't want to die, if you don't stop it, I'm afraid it will really be difficult to end. Su Yan hurriedly broke Yan Zhen's hand, but Yan Zhen was red-eyed, and he couldn't pry it at all, so he had to persuade hard: "The black sentry he sent belongs to the official department, the military camp will rush over immediately when he sees it, what if you kill him, there are many slaves in the courtyard who have seen it, can you kill him?" Let him go, let's talk about the conditions! ”

Yanzhen realized the seriousness of the situation and had to let go. Almost at the same time, the sound of horses' hooves was heard not far from the courtyard, and the flames were in the sky, and the door was about to be breached.

Su Yan pressed Tan Cen, who was about to flee for his life, and warned him: "If you want to live, shut up, what you should say and what you shouldn't say will rot in your stomach, otherwise, you must have heard of the means of saying the truth." ”

I don't know if it was fear or anger, Tan Cen's eyes were red, and he nodded reluctantly.

The door was broken, and in an instant a group of twenty or thirty people, all dressed in armor and armed with sabers, lined up in two columns in the small courtyard. Outside the door came a general wearing a red helmet, wearing only a long sword at his waist, his eyes were blazing, and his momentum was compelling. But in the blink of an eye, his expression suddenly changed dramatically, and he knelt in front of Yan Zhen with a plop.

"General!" He struggled to hug Yanzhen's thighs, ignoring everyone's strange eyes, and said with a handful of snot and tears, "I didn't expect to meet you here, why did you resign without saying a word, our brother can't do without you!" It's hard to fight! ”

After complaining, there was another howl, which made Su Yan's head split. Yan Zhen didn't expect to meet the old man here, so he hurriedly helped him up, "It's my fault for saying goodbye, but if I say goodbye to you, I'm afraid I can't bear to leave." Brother Liang, I can slowly make amends to you in the future, and for now, you have to do me a favor. ”

General Liang immediately paid attention to it: "Where is the general's words, if you say a word, the last general will go to the soup and fight the fire!" ”

"General Liang, you ...... You know?! Tan Cen's surprised face, sweat rolled down one after another, and the confidence that he had finally regained was crumbling at this time, and he only needed to touch it lightly to collapse.

General Liang then remembered the matter, hurriedly sorted out his demeanor, lifted his belt, and said seriously: "Talking about how the adults are disgraced, these women beside you ......"

Tan Cen made a lot of calculations, but he didn't count that Liang Shiqing turned out to be Yanzhen's subordinate, this is really lifting a stone and shooting himself in the foot! The original set of rhetoric didn't work, but fortunately, his brain turned quickly, and he hurriedly said with a smile: "Misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding!" General Yan and this Su ......" He subconsciously wanted to tell Su Yan's identity, but after thinking about it, he felt that tonight's incident should not let others know too much, so he hurriedly changed his words: "Passing by the small courtyard with this little gentleman, it happened that I had a snitch here, and the general came to help and made some noise, it was a trivial matter, just solve it yourself, and I don't know which one of the black whistles that didn't have long eyes and disturbed General Liang, I really don't want to go!" ”

"Did the thief catch it?"

Tan Cen pretended to be sorry: "If I can catch him, I will definitely break him into ten thousand pieces, you see, my maids here have been beaten to such an injury, and they have suffered so much, what a sin!" ”

Yes, what a sin to run into you! Su Yan thought about it and couldn't help but glance at him fiercely.

General Liang stared at the group of them and fell into deep thought: the black whistle is unique to the six departments, and it can only be sounded when it threatens lives or causes serious damage to the department, and this right can only be enforced by Shangshu, or authorized by others, how can anyone blow it privately? Besides, isn't Yan Zhen the kind of person who can do chivalrous deeds and help out? Ha, how is it possible, unless the dog can talk, and the man crawls on the ground!

The cause and effect here, I am afraid that Tan Cen annoyed Yan Zhen, and Yan Zhen wanted to kill him, so he blew the black whistle, as for why he was annoyed...... General Liang glanced at the maid who was lying all over the place, and suddenly his mouth suddenly opened. moved to Yan Zhen's side and asked in a low voice: "What does the general want me to help, is it talking about these maids around adults?" ”

Yan Zhen originally wanted to tell him about Tan Cen selling people, but at this time, he suddenly remembered that his sister's trip failed, and they didn't have the contract evidence signed by Tan Cen in their hands, and even the woman who was saved by his sister in the dark market was wiped out, and there was no human and material evidence, so what, who would believe that an honest and honest official like Tan Cen would be the leader of the dark market?!

But the teacher always has to be famous, and when he appears in the Xishan courtyard, the territory of the official department, it is impossible for him to really help and help catch the thief? Those little soldiers believe it, Liang Shiqing doesn't believe it. If you don't give him a satisfactory answer, you may not know what will happen. I had to follow Liang Shiqing's guess and continue to circle: "No, these maids are of unknown origin at a glance, if they are not bumped into by me, I'm afraid it will be troublesome, I have always pitied women, and I can't bear to see them persecuted, don't be deceived by Tan Cen's hypocrite, these women must have been robbed by him, I don't believe you woke up a question!" ”

Liang Shiqing was cautious when he asked, for fear of being heard by Tan Cen, but Yan Zhen was not taboo at all, and shouted loudly, for fear that Tan Cen would not hear it. When Tan Cen heard this, he hurriedly took off his robe and went to the pool to scoop up water, the night in March was so cold that the water was cold to the bone, he poured the water on the girl, and she sat up like a corpse, Tan Cen hurriedly asked her and Liang Shiqing to prove their innocence, and the result can be imagined, she is a dead soldier, and she is naturally a heartfelt protector.

Liang Shiqing is not entangled in the testimony of the 'maid', but he is strange, he has been a colleague with Yanzhen for so many years, and he has never seen him have the slightest pity for any woman, except for the Buddha, his own sister, he doesn't care about all the women in this world, how could he come here in the middle of the night to save the suspected abducted girl? It doesn't make sense to think about it. This question did not linger in his heart for long, and Yan Zhen immediately gave him a satisfactory answer.

I only heard him shout: "Talking about the old man, you must have given her some ecstasy soup, otherwise why is she so loyal to you that she doesn't even want her life?" You're so insidious and cunning! Sure enough, it's Murphy's 'good son', you are all in cahoots, targeting my singer, I wish our singer was in the middle of the road, you are a big family, aren't you? Don't be complacent, as long as I am alive for a day, you will not think about it! ”

Liang Shiqing suddenly realized, it turned out that this was an enemy!

The matter of Xishan Xiaoyuan finally came to an end, and both parties did not reap the benefits and returned in a huff.

On the way back, Su Yan told Yan Zhen about Tan Cen's discovery of his identity, and he was so frightened that he almost didn't jump. Yan Zhen can't understand why my sister didn't let herself be killed, and kept talking about Cen Dog's life, I'm afraid it will be a hidden danger in the future, I'm afraid that in the future, he will go to tell Murphy as soon as it is dawn, once Murphy knows, it will definitely make a fuss, and let the singers come to find trouble with his sister. How could Su Yan not know, but the situation at that time did not allow him to kill at all, the Xishan Courtyard was originally Tan Cen's territory, and there were naturally more than twenty pairs of eyes, once he killed someone, paper would not be able to contain the fire!

Anyway, Tan Cen has already been warned, presumably he will not joke with his life, but this matter, this secret that has been hidden for ten years, must find a way to solve it as soon as possible! And there is only one solution, let him leave the ministry.

Yes, the dark market, Tan Cen, those abducted women and children, we must continue to investigate!

But what if the plan fails?

"There are no more than three sources of goods in the dark market: the homeless, the poor, and the uninhabited." In the Xinghan Pavilion, the west window was open, Zuo Qing was sitting on the side of the window, and a few peach blossoms drifted in with the wind and landed on the bookcase. He glanced at the petals and brushed them away with the scroll in his hand.

"What does it mean to be 'without people'?" Su Yan paced in the study, heard the word 'Wumin', felt strange, and stopped to ask him.

"There is no record on the case, it is a black household, and this kind of person often dies without anyone paying attention, and is the most vulnerable to being trafficked."

"It's easy to say, the world is so big, where do you let me go to find it?!" Su Yan's hard-won hope was extinguished in an instant, leaning against the door frame decadently, looking out the window at the spring garden, but a touch of sadness rose from the bottom of his heart. Such a beautiful scenery, I'm afraid I won't be able to see it a few times, and when the singer receives the news, it will be the day he leaves......

She suddenly remembered what Tan Cen said, although there was a suspicion of irritating her, but after thinking about it, Zuo Qing's appearance was indeed too weird, the master was missing, the tavern was occupied, and she also returned to Ruoshui, and the singer family who should have been lost in this life also reunited one by one...... These changes happened in just a few months, all after Zuo Qing appeared!

Could it be that he really came prepared, using himself to get close to Gemasa, and then seek the command of the patrol army?

Is it really just to deal with Murphy?

What are Zuo Qing and Xilou plotting for?!

"What are you thinking?"

Zuo Qing's voice made her suddenly sober up, and she said something inconsequential before she could be fooled.

"Didn't you hear what I said?"

"Huh? What words? ”

"Downtown area, I said you can go to the downtown to check, that place is very chaotic, officers and soldiers, businessmen, homeless people, no people, everyone has it, and the poor people account for seventy percent."

"You mean, where did the woman who talked about Cen abduction come from?"

Zuo Qing is also not sure, these are just his own guesses, but it is good to have guesses, it is better than becoming a headless fly.

"Last night was not good, this time I must catch his handle, I want to give him some color and see!" Su Yan clenched his fists and gritted his teeth.

"You have been exposed, and if you take any action, I am afraid that you will be monitored," Zuo Qing put down the scroll, got up and walked towards her, and said, "I'm going to see someone, you are waiting for my news in the academy." ”

"Who?"

"A very important person, someone who can keep you in the city unimpeded and not being watched."