Although he couldn't see the whole picture, he could tell at a glance that he was of a different type from Wei Xi's cold-blooded type. If he thought about it this way, if he was similar, then there would only be another one left.

This person... looks like Huanxian?

Feeling Jiang Xuan's probing and direct gaze on her face, even if he knew it, it would be difficult for him to figure it out, Chen Baiqi still turned his face away, lowered his eyes and said: "If there is nothing else, just let me know.

I’ll take my leave first.”

After she bowed, she landed on the ground and turned around to leave.

Mo Jing said nothing, while Jiang Xuan frowned and stared at her back for a while. He felt that the young man's figure was too weak and thin, and he didn't see anything special, so he lost interest.

Thinking of the missing Chen Huanxian, Jiang Xuan felt depressed. When they left, he continued to pester Mo Jing about the previous topic.

But Mo Jing lost his patience and turned around to leave. His pace was faster and more urgent than Chen Baiqi's departure.

Chen Baiqi returned to the tent again.

As soon as I entered, I felt that the indoor and outdoor temperatures were completely different.

In the tent, a group of people gathered around a log table. The center of the table was hollowed out, and they were licking an iron pot with a round pointed bottom. The boiling water in the pot was gurgling. The firewood was burning vigorously below, and the firelight projected a dark color, and the entire room

Very warm and noisy.

They were divided into two factions: Confucianism and martial arts. They were in hot water and sweating on their brows. They were still discussing the tactics for annihilating the thugs.

Chen Baiqi leaned aside calmly, crossing his arms and tilting his head to look at them.

From their conversation, Chen Baiqi learned that to deal with this group of guerrilla-like thugs, he needed to find a way to catch them all.

Previously, this group of thugs had carried out unorganized harassment and oppression, including stealing, breaking into houses, bullying men and women, and even maliciously setting fires, causing damage and destroying properties. Some of them acted alone, some acted in groups, and some were greedy for breakfast.

He is a bully and often harasses the citizens of the city without knowing his whereabouts.

But since Lord Mengchang came to Caocheng, he sealed the entire Caocheng like iron and copper, and used certain means to drive them all into a "gathering".

This place is called "Beiwai Alley".

Otherwise, they would not be able to argue with these thugs for a protracted war and waste time, and their army would not be able to stay here to defend this city.

However, although the people managed to get them together through hard work, because the terrain of "Beiwai Alley" was too complex, it was not easy to annihilate them all in one fell swoop.

Moreover, there were evil masters who gathered to make trouble before, which added many obstacles to them.

Now that the evil master has been solved, the only thing left is how to break into this "Beiwai Alley".

Speaking of "Beiwai Alley", anyone in Caocheng probably knows that there is only one word to describe this area...that is, chaos.

What kind of "chaotic" method is it?

In fact, this matter has to go back to the almanac a long time ago. At that time, "Caocheng" was not Caocheng of Qi State, and it was not even the size of a city at all. Of course, there was no unified name for what it was called.

, I only know that local people call it "Beiwai".

Its establishment was not accomplished overnight. It was expanded step by step after many efforts of later generations. Its original prototype was this side of "Beiwai". Later, due to the remote and narrow location of "North", it was also expanded step by step.

Because it was considered hidden by the new district, it was called "Beiwai Alley" and was located in the most remote corner of Caocheng.

Due to the age of "Beiwai Alley", many of the buildings and structures inside are backward and even disharmonious compared to modern times. There is nothing in the east or west, no shape or contrast, no rules and no distribution of left and right. Therefore, the internal environment looks blank.

Very "chaotic" and dense.

In the early years, this "Caocheng" also suffered a great disaster, and this "disaster" was cholera.

Chen Baiqi frowned when he heard this, why is it related to cholera?

It is not known in detail where "cholera" started and why it stopped.

I only know that the situation in "Caocheng" at that time was somewhat similar to that of today. Fearing that cholera would further expand in the city and have serious consequences, the Zhou Dynasty sent a group of soldiers and horses to deal with cholera. I didn't know that this group

Who was leading the team? This person was violent and cruel. He sent people to surround the city and block the roads, preparing to directly kill the sick people in the city.

In fact, they did.

At that time, only about a hundred people were able to escape and survive in the city. Caocheng's current scale was actually due to the increase in the population who later moved from other places or had immigrants from other countries implanted in their household registrations.

Judging from the history of these dozens or even hundreds of years, there are only a few hundred people left who are truly the original residents of this city.

The reason why these hundreds of people survived was because they had been hiding in this "Beiwai Alley" since the soldiers and horses entered the city.

Knowing that the soldiers and horses sent by the Zhou Dynasty were not to rescue them, but to kill all of them who were infected or suspected of being infected, they used a decisive and tragic momentum, and hundreds of people stayed up all night to fight.

A thick mud wall surrounded the entire Beiwai alley. Firewood and black stones were piled behind the wall. A raging fire covered the wall soil that had not yet dried, illuminating the entire Beiwai alley at night like day.

This kind of hurriedly built life-saving wall prevents it from communicating with the outside world, but it forms a narrow and difficult road due to its disorder, just like a besieged city. It is impossible to get out from the inside, and it is impossible to get in from the outside for a while.

Just like this, the people inside tried their best to resist the pursuing troops outside, but the outside was unable to attack for a long time, and the stalemate lasted for half a month.

Half a month later, things finally took a turn for the better. It was said that someone brought a prescription to treat the disease.

After testing, this recipe can indeed cure this disease.

But it is said that the Zhou Dynasty's troops did not retreat because of this.

Strangely, in the end, everyone in Beiwai Alley survived. The specific reason is unknown.

This incident has been going on for so long, and other people in the city must have long since thought about it, but only the people who live in the "Beiwai Alley" have always maintained a kind of vigilance and xenophobia towards the outside world.

Since then, Beiwai Alley has become a special boundary in Caocheng. It is not connected with other areas in the city, and there is no daily communication. Even other city residents do not dare to go there.

Listening to them talk about everything in Beiwai Alley, Chen Baiqi was also thinking in his heart.

This "Beiwai Alley" is like a small siege. According to them, they successfully drove all the thugs out of the Beiwai Alley, but they disappeared when the large troops arrived.

It is impossible to say that people just disappear.

The Beiwai Alley is full of high and thick earth walls. They were originally built thick to resist invasion, but they have been continuously added to the walls over the years, and the red-hot flints of the past are inlaid on them, making the walls

The surface is rough and hard, and the whole is like iron and copper.

Where did these thugs, who were driven here like wild dogs, escape?

After much deliberation, there is only one possibility left.

——That means someone deliberately put them into Beiwai Alley.

Why can this group of thugs enter this alleyway of Beiwai, which is extremely xenophobic, without any hindrance?

You must know that this Beiwai Alley exists independently in Caocheng. It is impossible to enter and climb over the wall unless someone opens the gate from the inside.

When the thugs were wreaking havoc in the city, many people wanted to go into the Beiwai Alley to seek protection. Unfortunately, the closed gate was never opened. The Beiwai Alley seemed to be isolating itself from Caocheng, staying aloof and indifferent.

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Besides, a group of vicious people rushed into Beiwai Alley, and she didn't believe that the people inside still didn't react.

But in fact, they are like calm water inside, without any ripples.

This is very wrong, even abnormal.

Chen Baiqi couldn't help but guess that there might be some relationship between these thugs and the people inside?

Once you think about things deeply, it’s easy to start thinking about conspiracy theories.

Thinking of all the things that happened before, as well as the incident between Meng Changjun and the assassin, where did the disaster in Caocheng come from, and is it related to Beiwai Alley?

After discussing the matter, it was already late at night, and there were only two conclusions: attack or wait.

To attack is to prepare for a quick victory.

Waiting means waiting for more precise information before taking action.

One fierce and one steady, two ideas, and the person who made the final conclusion was naturally Meng Changjun.

He listened to the nonsensical quarrels all night, and concluded that he had to decide what to do in the end. He felt angry in his heart, and he laughed out loud, "Trash", and then smashed the wooden ladle he was playing with in his hand into the boiling water.

The splashing hot water scalded many people.

But they didn't dare to cry out in pain, they all bowed their heads to the ground and remained silent.

Looking at the two rows of trembling black-headed melon seeds, Mengchang Jun also lost interest and told them all to go back.

As soon as everyone received the order, they all filed out without saying much. Soon, only Chen Baiqi and Mengchang Jun were left in the room, standing opposite each other. This was like a custom, no one would be surprised, and no one would be surprised.

Word.

Chen Baiqi's departure and return this time was actually just a matter of loyalty.

She knew that if she directly talked to Lord Mengchang about helping Yuelu Academy, he would probably not accept it.

So, she decided to start from another aspect.

"It is said that someone once said that Caocheng was the throat of Qi State. Before the plague, it was very prosperous and prosperous. It was the hometown of pearls and jade utensils, and it also had the reputation of being the first commercial capital."

Moreover, Xuan Zeng accidentally revealed to her that King Qi had intended to grant him a fertile fief after his coming-of-age ceremony.

In the past, she just listened to this matter.

But now that I think about it, I feel inexplicably touched.

Everything is like a line that needs to be strung together bit by bit to be complete.

Why did Jiang Xuan appear in Yuelu Academy? In addition to traveling, could it be that Caocheng is not far from Yuelu, and it will become his fiefdom in the near future? He actually came to visit his future fiefdom?

Thinking about it this way, it seems to make sense.
To be continued...