Ma Yangchen was about to go out, when Liu Yunchuan knelt down and said, "Young Master, I will have something to say at the end." ”

Ma Yangchen hurriedly helped him up and said, "Captain Liu, please speak!"

Liu Yunchuan glanced at Du Chun and said: "Young master, General Du, Yunchuan shouldn't have said this now, but Grandpa Guo is as kind to me as a mountain, and now he is alone, and he has an epiphany and is a monk, I am his personal soldier, and it is my duty to protect Grandpa Guo." General Mengdu has taken care of him all these years, and today Yunchuan begs the young master and General Du to agree, let me go, Yunchuan wants to take refuge in Buddhism with Grandpa Guo, and hope that the young master will be fulfilled!"

Ma Yangchen looked at Du Chun, and Du Chun nodded.

Ma Yangchen said: "Captain Liu is grateful for the newspaper, righteousness is thin and cloudy, with you by my father-in-law's side, my eldest brother and I are also relieved." Okay! I'll leave everything to Captain Liu. Come with your ears, and I will tell you where your father-in-law is. ”

After arranging all this, Ma Yangchen and Mo Yan set off on the road again.

Du Chun arranged for the two Tianpeng Tianying brothers to follow, firstly to protect the safety of the young master, and secondly, to pass on the news conveniently. Ma Yangchen didn't say anything, and a group of four went straight to Hailingcang from the official road.

If they took the waterway from Gaoyou to Hailingcang, it would be at least forty miles far, and the speed of the ships was slow, so they finally chose to rush there by land.

Nothing to say all the way. When Ma Yangchen and his entourage arrived at Hailing Cang, it was already late at night.

Ma Yangchen dismounted next to a forest and said to the other three: "Don't go to the ferry tonight, camp in the wilderness, Mo Yan, you go and see if you can get some food, Tianpeng Tianying, you are responsible for lighting the fire, I'll go see if I can get some game." ”

Tianying said: "Young master, it's better for you to make a fire." Hunting game is still our brother's business. ”

"Really?" Mo Yan said with a smile, "Then you can find food by the way." ”

Aquila smiled and said, "No problem! Wait a minute, we'll be back in a moment." After saying that, the two of them beat their horses and left.

Ma Yangchen took dry food and water from his baggage.

Mo Yan found some branches and came back, set up a shelf, lit a fire, and saw that the two brothers had not come back yet, and said, "Young master, did you say that Jun Qianhua and they arrived at the ferry?"

Ma Yangchen found a stone, laid out a blanket, sat down, and said, "I guess it's about the same." They came down the waterway, and if it went well, they should be able to arrive before us. After all, we were delayed for a day. ”

"Young master, why does Blacksmith Liu have to go to the Duke of Yasuko?" Mo Yan asked seriously.

Ma Yangchen thought for a while and replied seriously: "There are many people who don't want to change hands in their lives, after all, if you stay with someone for a long time, you will give birth to a lot of things that can't be explained, this is feelings." Of course, it could be something else. ”

Mo Yan nodded and said, "The Duke of Yasukuni should have been kind to him back then. ”

Ma Yangchen said: "Maybe." ”

Mo Yan glanced at Ma Yangchen and said, "Young Master, do you think we will become like this one day." For example, I mean, for example, we didn't succeed in recovering the country, young master, you are disheartened and have become a monk... Phew, don't say that you are a monk, you went to the Northwest Desert in frustration, we were reluctant in the end, and we also followed you, in the second half of your life, the Northwest Desert, a handful of loess buried in the Gobi Beach. ”

Ma Yangchen smiled and said, "Hypocrisy!"

As he was talking, the two brothers of Tianpeng and Tianying returned from their horses, one of them dropped two hares and a pheasant from their horses, and the other took down a package from their horses, and opened them to see peanuts, dried beans, broad beans, cucumbers, and four large pig's trotters.

Mo Yan raised his thumb and gestured. Tianying said: "What's more, what do you think this is?" After speaking, a large jar of wine was conjured out from behind him, and it cost more than a dozen catties to say the least.

Tianpeng skillfully handled the hare and pheasant simply, skewered them, and roasted them on the fire, and Tianying threw the salt and ingredients to him together, and said: "Don't roast the old ones this time, the last time they were roasted was unpalatable." ”

Tianpeng smiled: "Okay this time." Then concentrate on it.

Mo Yan looked at the skillful techniques of the two and said, "Hey, at first glance, they are all veterans of camping in the wild." ”

Sky Eagle smiled: "When you come out of the barracks, you can hunt on horseback and catch it by hand, and camping in the wild is even more commonplace. What's more, my two brothers were born as hunters before they joined the army. ”

Ma Yangchen suddenly asked, "Do you know the old man at the west end of Duanzhuang Village?" ”

Tianying said: "That's Xiao Shunzi's parents, who moved from Linxian. ”

Ma Yangchen glanced at Mo Yan and pointed to his eyes, Mo Yan was stunned.

Ma Yangchen took out a sharpened piece of bamboo from his arms at this time and said, "This is what you left on the road." ”

Tianying's face changed greatly, and just as he was about to get up, the sword in Ma Yangchen's hand was already pressed against his neck. Before Tianpeng could see what was going on, Mo Yan had already clicked on his five big acupoints, and he couldn't move.

Mo Yan stepped forward and asked Ma Yangchen while tying the Sky Eagle with hemp rope: "The young master is really wise, how did you find out that they have a problem?"

Ma Yangchen put away the sword in his hand and said, "This is not the place to speak. Let's get rid of them first, and we're talking about getting out of here. ”

Mo Yan made a quick move, and Tianying and Tianpeng were each hit by a palm on the neck, and the two strong men immediately fainted. Mo Yan asked, "How do you deal with people? Kill or bury?"

Ma Yangchen said: "No, just stay here." Let's go first, and we have something to say on the way. ”

The two cleaned up, extinguished the campfire, turned on their horses, and walked away.

......

"Tell me about it! I'm dying. Mo Yan followed Ma Yangchen's buttocks, pacing back and forth.

After Ma Yangchen stayed at the Tongfu Inn, he washed his face, instructed Xiao Er to send two dishes to the room, a pot of wine, peeled the peanuts he brought over, pointed to the stool, and said, "Sit down first." ”

Mo Yan sat on the stool and said with a shy face: "Young master, you give me an analysis and analysis, where did you see the flaws?"

Ma Yangchen took a sip of wine, smacked his lips and said, "There are five suspicious points. First, Duanzhuang is a village that moved to five years ago, and the independent courtyard of the old man in the west of the village is the only way to enter the village. While we were having dinner at the old man's house, the old woman inadvertently led us to Blacksmith Liu, who already knew that we were going. The fire was newly erected. Generally, blacksmiths will have freshly beaten farm tools and other ironware at home, but there are no blacksmiths in Liu. When striking iron, the small hammer is the point, and the big hammer is the knock. And when we rushed over, the sledgehammer landed not on the red-hot iron block at all, but on the iron pier, so you can hear the rhythm pleasantly. Of course, this does not prove anything, this is only the first doubt. ”

Ma Yangchen paused, took a mouthful of food and put it in his mouth, and said while eating: "The second suspicion, the soldier talisman." I have carefully looked at the three talismans given to me by my father-in-law, and each talisman is only half of it, that is to say, only the person holding the other half of the talisman is the person we are looking for. After Du Chun read the letter, he didn't mention the military talisman, and I began to suspect it, so I deliberately missed a little when arranging the transfer of family members later, and he didn't even notice it. This is the second one. ”

Mo Yan asked, "What point did you deliberately omit?"

Ma Yangchen said with a smile: "I didn't say where to transfer the family? Du Chun didn't even notice it, so he didn't listen carefully to what I was saying, or he didn't have the idea of transferring the family at all." ”

Mo Yan nodded and said, "I have a question, the old man and the old woman in the courtyard at the west end of the village have not left home, how did Blacksmith Liu know about our arrival in Duanzhuang?"

Ma Yangchen snorted meaningfully and said, "Guess?"

Mo Yan thought for a while, and suddenly realized: "That dog." ”

Ma Yangchen said: "That's right, it's the dog." When I first saw it in front of Blacksmith Liu's door, I thought it was following us, but then I thought about it carefully, and the dog was gone when we left the old man's house. ”

Mo Yan said: "Dogs can deliver messages, and it's a shame that they can think of it." ”

Ma Yangchen said: "So when I later told Liu Blacksmith the specific address of Yasukuni, I had a little more heart and gave him a fake address." ”

"What about the third doubt?" Mo Yan asked impatiently.

"Third, when I left, Du Chun told me that Jia Xiaolin was short-tempered and left the Yasukuni Army in anger, so let me check Jia Xiaolin's bottom. There is a good saying, those who say wrong are right and wrong. I was even more convinced that there must be something wrong with Du Chun, until the moment he arranged for Tianpeng Tianying to follow us, I was sure that this person must not be my brother-in-law. Along the way, I began to observe the Tianpeng Eagle's every move, and the road guides they secretly planted were all secretly destroyed by me. In fact, this kind of road guide rarely appears in the barracks, which is the unique road guide of the Guiyi Church in the early years of the rivers and lakes. So this is no longer a doubt, but it is basically determined that the people of Gaoyou Duanzhuang have been replaced by Shen Wanshan. Ma Yangchen continued, "The fifth point is simpler. There were absolutely no pheasants in the area where we camped, and the pheasants and hares had been hunted a day before, and they could be identified by the bloodstains. So I tried to ask them about the situation of the old men in the west of the village, but it didn't match what we knew. There are all kinds of signs that the stronghold of Gaoyou Duanzhuang has been eliminated. ”

"Then since the other party already knows our details, why don't you just detain us?" Mo Yan asked.

Ma Yangchen said: "Shen Wanshan wants to follow the vine and destroy our other two strongholds. ”

Mo Yan said: "Then what should we do next? Now that the other party already knows the general location of our other two strongholds, if we don't make careful arrangements, the brothers in the strongholds and the brothers we came to pick up will be in danger." ”

Ma Yangchen said: "So I didn't let you kill the Tianpeng Tianying brothers, the two of them will tell Shen Wanshan the information that we have found a trap." If I were Shen Wanshan, I would never wait stupidly in the two strongholds, at this time he would definitely mobilize a large number of men and horses to wait on the way back to the Moganshan camp. Waiting for work and waiting for the rabbit is the best policy. ”