After several men in black rushed back to the courtyard, they quickly dispersed in all directions. The burning sticks were lit up by fire, making them easy to spot, and they had to dispose of the small torches in their hands as soon as possible.

In a few moments, the grass at the four corners of the courtyard lit up a fire, and the night wind stirred the flames, causing it to spread rapidly, and the flames and acrid smoke raged in the compound.

"There's a fire in the east of the city!" Li Youyuan, who was leading the team towards the east of the city, saw the firelight coming on, turned around and shouted to the Qin army behind him: "Quick, go and put out the fire!" ”

Hundreds of Qin troops hurriedly quickened their pace and ran towards the east of the city after receiving Li You's order, and some nimble officers and soldiers already vaguely felt that things were not as simple as Li You said when they set off.

In a bedroom in Zhao Tong's house, Zhao Tong lay naked on the couch, a woman who was also naked pouted and put her head between his legs, the woman's scarlet lips were free on Zhao Tong's skin, and from time to time she used the tip of her tongue to provoke the "little Zhao Tong" who stood tall, and every provocation on the tip of her tongue would make Zhao Tong send out a burst of irrepressible ecstasy**.

"It's on fire! It's on fire! When Zhao Tong was very entangled with the woman, and he was about to mount his horse with a gun, there was a panicked shout from the courtyard.

Zhao Tong pushed away the woman next to him and jumped up, pricked up his ears and listened carefully to the sound outside the window, only to hear the sound of shouting for help and chaotic footsteps everywhere outside the window, as well as the sound of "beep" when the grass and trees were burning.

"Not good! Li You's going to save people! Zhao Tong just thought about it for a moment and hurriedly shouted out of the window: "Quickly ask someone to close the door and don't let anyone in!" ”

After shouting, he didn't dare to delay at all, picked up the clothes that were thrown on the ground and put them on his body very casually, and ran out of the door barefoot, leaving only the woman in the room who was still naked and had a shocked face sitting on the bed alone in a daze.

Zhao Tong's reaction was also extremely fast, but he was still a step too late after all, and when he rushed into the courtyard, a team of Qin troops had already poured into the courtyard.

"Zhao Gongzi! Recently, there have been robbers, the public security is not good in various places, the lower official is leading the troops to patrol the city, I didn't expect to encounter a fire in your mansion, the lower official did not dare to delay and hurriedly led people to put out the fire, such an incident occurred under the rule of the subordinate is really a dereliction of duty of the lower official, and I hope that Zhao Gongzi Haihan! Seeing the Qin army pouring into the house, Zhao Tong was about to have a seizure, when an official in armor walked over to him, the official walked up to him with both hands and fists and bowed, and said with an apologetic face.

It was no one else who came over, it was Li You, Zhao Tong saw that he was polite, and it was not good to have another attack, so he had to force a smile to salute him and said: "The county guard is sleepless late at night and leads the troops to patrol the city, which is really a model for us, if the officials of Daqin are as diligent as the county guard, why worry about bandits rampant in the world!" ”

Li You shook his head and smiled, and said to Zhao Tong: "Zhao Gongzi is serious, the arrest of thieves and the elimination of Kou is a matter within the duty of the lower officials, I really can't afford such a compliment, today your mansion suddenly caught fire is very strange, according to the opinion of the lower officials, it is better to thoroughly investigate, don't let the young people take advantage of the loopholes, if they hurt the son, the lower officials will not be able to explain to Lord Zhao when they return to Xianyang Province." ”

After that, he didn't wait for Zhao Tong to speak, and said to the officers who followed behind him: "Order the soldiers to thoroughly search Zhao Gongzi's mansion, and be sure to find out whether this fire is a natural disaster or a man-made disaster!" ”

The officers of the Qin army who were following Li You received the order, clenched their fists in response, turned around and organized the officers and soldiers to thoroughly search the entire house.

Xiang Ye was imprisoned in the backyard, Zhao Tong had a ghost in his heart, how dare he let the Qin army search, but before he could stop him, Li You had already pulled him aside and said: "Zhao Gongzi, the lower officials know that it is disrespectful to Gongzi to search your mansion, but your mansion is on fire late at night, didn't Gongzi have some doubts?" In case it was because they offended some young people in the past, and they took advantage of the negligence of the mansion to prevent them from attacking and harassing, your mansion would not be peaceful, and the lower officials were in charge of Sanchuan County, how could they let Zhao Gongzi be violated here? I also hope that Zhao Gongzi will understand the hardships of the lower officials! ”

Li You's words were sincere, even though Zhao Tong understood that he was the one who secretly set the fire, but he was also suffering from the fact that he couldn't attack on the spot without evidence, so he had to let the Qin army run around in the house with a bitter face, and he couldn't think of an excuse to obstruct it for a while.

After coming to Xingyang, Zhao Tong arrested a lot of people in the city, these people were the people who had fought against Zhang Chu's army with Li You, if Li You found them, there would inevitably be more troubles, where was he willing to do this kind of unfavorable thing to him. However, Li You's excuse was so high-sounding that he couldn't open his mouth to refuse, so he had to secretly glance at a samurai who was protecting the house.

The samurai nodded slightly, and walked in the direction of the hut in the corner of the compound, and as he walked in the direction of the hut, a group of samurai followed behind and walked in that direction.

The Qin army who searched Zhao Tong's residence was also a rule, they only searched the surrounding grass and the low houses around them that had not had time to be demolished, as for the main house in the middle of the courtyard, they avoided it far away, and did not dare to take a step beyond the thunder pool.

When the Qin army searched the hut guarded by the warriors, a group of warriors stopped in front of them with swords in hand.

"Lord County Shou ordered us to thoroughly search the entire mansion, could it be that you are communicating with thieves and secretly want to murder Zhao Gongzi?" When a Qin army officer saw the samurai blocking their way, he knew that there was something in the house behind the samurai, and took two steps forward to look coldly at the leading samurai standing in front of him.

Not to be outdone, the warrior straightened his chest and said coldly: "This is a secret room, it is strictly forbidden for any outsiders to enter, if there is a need to search, we will enter to investigate, and we will not bother the military masters." ”

"I'm going to check it out today!" The samurai's attitude made the officer firm his previous conjecture, and he stepped forward and pressed his chest against the samurai's chest and said: "The officers and soldiers are searching for robbers, and you dare to stop them, do you want to disobey the military order?" ”

The samurai sneered twice, shrugged his shoulders and replied: "This military master is joking, the military order is an order to be executed in the army, and it can only control all the military masters, we are just the guardians of the son's family, and the better ones are the warriors of the courtyard, and the ugly ones are the watchdogs, why should the military master depreciate himself and worry about us?" ”

The samurai's words were obviously taunting the officer for not getting along with the dog at all, but what he didn't expect was that the officer didn't think it was angry at all, sneered, stretched out his hand and grabbed the samurai's shoulder, shoved the samurai backwards, and then raised his feet and walked towards the low house behind the samurai.

"Whoever dares to step forward will be killed!" Seeing that the officer didn't pay attention to him at all, the warrior rushed over, and immediately became in a hurry, and hurriedly drew his short sword and pointed it at the officer's back and shouted loudly.

When the rest of the warriors saw the leader draw their swords, they also drew their swords one after another. As the warriors drew their swords, hundreds of Qin soldiers raised their spears and pointed the tips of their spears at their throats. The officer who had broken in first glanced back, shrugged his shoulders and smiled, then turned and walked towards the small house in front of him.

"Master Li! What does this mean? Seeing that the Qin army ignored the samurai's obstruction and walked towards the private prison, Zhao Tong was suddenly in a hurry, although he was ordered by Zhao Gao to make a special trip to Xingyang to investigate Li You, but after all, he did not have the right to arrest people, if those who were arrested were discovered by Li You, I am afraid that the trouble caused this time would not be too small, so he hurriedly turned his face sideways and glared at Li You angrily and asked.

Li You stared at the warriors and Qin Jun who were facing each other in front of that row of small houses, he was already able to determine that there were hidden secrets in the house, and when Zhao Tong questioned him, he just looked at the confronting warriors and Qin Jun with an expressionless face, ignoring Zhao Tong's words at all.

After all, the samurai were few in number, and after being controlled by the Qin army, they suddenly lost their freedom, and could only watch the officers walk towards the house that was used as a prison.

The officer walked to a room, raised his foot and kicked the door, only to hear the sound of "Peng", the door was kicked open by him, and a foul smell suddenly gushed out of the black hole, the officer covered his nose and frowned and walked towards the room, and by the light of the torches outside, he vaguely saw a person crouching in a corner of the room.

Seeing that there were people in the room, the officer was stunned, quickly turned around, snatched the torch from the hand of a soldier and rushed into the black hole room again.

A man with a foul smell and a ragged rag covered his eyes with his hands, looked up at him weakly, then lowered his head and closed his eyes as if he were asleep.

"My lord, there's a guy here!" Seeing that there were people in the room, the officer hurriedly retreated and shouted to Li You, who was standing with Zhao Tong: "This person seems to be alive!" ”

Li You originally just wanted to find out Xiang Ye, but he didn't expect to accidentally find the place where Zhao Tong was detaining people privately, he frowned, and silently thought in his heart that what the officer found must be Xiang Ye, and hurriedly ran towards the row of low houses.

Zhao Tong followed behind Li You, the detainer's private prison was discovered, his teeth itched with hatred, but he had no way to take Li You, after all, this time he made a mistake and not Li You, if Li You took this opportunity to suppress him, I am afraid that even Zhao Gao would not be able to save him.

Li You followed the officers who found people in the house into the house, and after the two entered the house, more than a dozen Qin officers and soldiers armed with torches walked in.

More than a dozen torches reflected the walls of the house red, and the fire lit up, Li You saw a person crouching in the corner of the wall, this person was very short, and skinny, obviously not the tall and burly Xiang Ye.

Li You couldn't help but be a little disappointed, turned around and was about to walk out of the house, suddenly stopped and turned back to the Qin army officer and said, "Tell a few people to carry him out, and open all the doors here to see how many people are still being imprisoned!" ”

After Qin Jun opened all the rows of houses, he found more than a dozen people in ragged clothes and dying, who were lying on the ground after being rescued, looking weakly at the Qin army who rescued them with their chaotic eyes.