Chapter 339 The position of Shui Yuanzi
Faced with the wild dog's questioning, the fake Shui Yuanzi burst into laughter. After a while, he spoke up and said in anger: "I...I can tell you where that person is, but you must promise me something!"
"What's the matter? If you want me to let you go, then you'd better keep some strength!" Wild Dog asked without hesitation. Although this person was seriously injured, he must not let him leave, otherwise there would be another threat in the future.
"Hehe, we are brothers, so we naturally know what the consequences will be when we fall into each other's hands. And I'm already like this, so I don't plan to survive anymore. But I hope you won't kill that person after seeing him!" The young man smiled again. He seemed to not care about his life and death, and he still smiled very happily even at this time.
"No, I swear to kill him with my own hands!" Wild Dog refused without hesitation. Li Zhang next to him wanted to persuade Wild Dog to agree first, and it would not be too late to regret it in the future, but seeing his determination, he only opened his mouth and didn't say it.
"Don't refuse so quickly. Believe me. Letting him live is better than death. When you see him, you will understand what I said!" The young man said again.
His words finally made the wild dog look hesitant. After a while, the wild dog asked, "What's your name?"
"Haha, it seems that you have lived with people on the ground for too long. You have forgotten that we have no names at all. There is only one number that represents our ranking. I am ranked fifth, you can call me five." The young man laughed again when he heard the words of the wild dog. Li Zhang had seen thirteen before, and the wild dog was ranked nineteen, and this one ranked fifth, obviously the brother of the wild dog.
Hearing the other party's words, the wild dog showed a silent expression again. After a moment, he spoke again: "If your words are true, maybe I can consider not killing him, but I must see him first before I can make a decision!"
"Okay, I believe you!" Wu showed a meaningful smile at this time, and then he said an address. What surprised Li Zhang and Wild Dog was that the address was not underground, or even in the capital, but in a small village in the western suburbs of the capital. Even Li Zhang had never heard of this village.
"He is there, but I hope you don't be too surprised when you see him! Hahaha~" Wu laughed again when he said the last time, and the wild dog also made a move like lightning and directly cut off his neck. This made Wu die very happily, and he didn't even feel too much pain.
"Brother, let's go to that village immediately!" After killing five wild dogs, they immediately said to Li Zhang.
"Don't worry, that Shui Yuanzi is hiding in the village. Maybe there are other helpers. You are seriously injured now, and you will only die if you go there. So I will enter the palace immediately and ask the Queen Mother to mobilize a group of imperial guards to go with us!" The wild dog felt that it made sense after hearing this. In fact, he had a few broken ribs and was injured all over his body. Although he was barely standing now, he had no power to fight at all. Maybe anyone could knock him down.
Without further ado, Li Zhang didn't care about darkness and immediately entered the palace with a wild dog. He had a token given by Liu E to enter the palace at any time. However, even so, there would still be a lot of trouble to enter the palace at night. He had to report it to the palace afterwards. If it was not a legitimate reason, the token might be taken away.
Liu E didn't expect Li Zhang to enter the palace in the second half of the night and summoned him immediately. When she learned that Shui Yuanzi had found her, she immediately mobilized five hundred imperial guards. Because of the urgent time, Liu E did not use the imperial guards from other places, but directly drew out five hundred imperial guards guards in the palace and ordered them to go out of the city to capture Shui Yuanzi under the leadership of Li Zhang.
The wild dog was not seriously injured. Li Zhang prepared a carriage for him and asked an imperial physician to treat the wild dog while walking on the road. Li Zhang rode his horse in front, and the group left the city at the fastest speed from Liangmen on the west side, and then headed straight for the small village mentioned by Wu.
This village is called Xiaozhou Village. It is a very ordinary village. There are no 1,000 or 800 villages around the capital. The whole village is not big, only a few miles in a radius. There are dozens of families living in the village. Like other villages, the land in the entire village is controlled by a landlord named Zhou, and almost all the residents in the village are tenants of his family.
After Li Zhang led his troops to Xiaozhou Village, he immediately ordered the imperial guards to surround the entire village and issued a death order to not be able to escape. The people in the village were also awakened at this time. At first, they thought they had encountered robbers, but when they saw the imperial guards wearing the armor of officers and soldiers and ordered them to stay at home, these people also closed the doors and windows. Some of the brave ones secretly opened a gap in the doors and windows, and then secretly looked out.
Li Zhang led a team of 100 people into the village and surrounded the yard of the Zhou landlord's family in the middle of the village. This Zhou landlord was just a small landlord. Although the yard he lived in was larger, the building was very simple, and it was just two in the front and back. After Li Zhang asked someone to open the yard door and rushed in, he found that there were only a few trembling maids in the front yard.
"Search!" With Li Zhang's order, the guards immediately rushed into the courtyard to search carefully, especially the backyard was the focus of the search. After a while, the guards came to report, "Report to the commander, the backyard is empty, and the prisoner may have escaped!"
"How is this possible?" Li Zhang was very annoyed when he heard this. He almost didn't waste any time after knowing this place, and it was not dawn now, so how could the other party get the news?
However, Li Zhang soon saw the trembling servants in the front yard. He quickly walked to a servant and asked, "I'll ask you, how many people are in this family, where are they now?"
The servant was frightened by Li Zhang and others, and he couldn't make a sound when he opened his mouth several times. This made Li Zhang angry and had to ask again. The servant was braver and said stammeringly: "I... the only master in our Zhou family lives alone. Usually... we are strictly prohibited from going to the inner house."
"One person?" Li Zhang was stunned again when he heard this, and then pointed at the others and asked him, "Then are there anyone in your family now?"
"No...no, our family is here, except the master." The servant replied again.
Li Zhang felt even more surprised when he heard this, and then he had an idea and asked the other party again: "Do your master look like he is in his sixties or seventies, with a white beard and wrinkles on his face, tall, and a black mole on the corner of his mouth?"
Li Zhang described the appearance of the five who died at the hands of a wild dog. After hearing this, the servant nodded repeatedly and said, "That's right, that's my master. Have you ever seen our master?"
When Li Zhang heard this, he understood that this place might be the fifth place, but why did he say that Shui Yuanzi is also here? And why did he dress up as Shui Yuanzi?
Thinking of the above, Li Zhang suddenly had a very bold idea in his mind. He immediately ordered the imperial guards again: "Clean search for the inner house carefully. You can't let go of any clues. Even if you dig three feet into the ground, you must find the person for me!"
The guards were also very puzzled by Li Zhang's orders, but before they came out, they were fully commanded by Li Zhang, so they did not dare to question Li Zhang's orders. They had to go back to the inner house and searched honestly. At this time, the wild dog's carriage also came to the door, and the injuries on his body were initially treated. There was no problem walking, but they could not use force.
At that moment, Li Zhang and Wild Dog also entered the inner house, but they saw that it was a mess. The inner house was searching everywhere. The inner house was not very big, and there were not many yards in total. There were no traces of people living in the other yards. Only the yard in the middle had people living, and the imperial guards also focused on searching here.
"Finished!" At this moment, I suddenly heard someone shouting in the yard, which made Li Zhang and the Wild Dog happy. I immediately walked into the inhabited yard. However, Li Zhang entered the room and found that the room was empty, with almost nothing except a bed, which made him feel as if he had entered the Wild Dog's room.
"The commander, my subordinates found a tunnel underground in the corner of the wall!" At this time, the imperial guards who had discovered something just now came forward to report.
"Take me to see!" Li Zhang immediately showed an ecstatic expression and ordered. Then the two of them followed each other to the west room of the room. There was a secret door underground in the corner of the wall. The secret door was consistent with the texture of the surrounding ground. If you didn't observe carefully, you might not be able to find it at all.
"Open, everyone else is on guard!" Li Zhang immediately ordered, someone immediately raised his shield and others also set off their bows and arrows. All the arrow tips were aimed at the secret door. As long as someone inside dared to resist, they would immediately shoot them into hedgehogs.
"Bang!" As the secret door was opened and fell heavily on the other side, a dark hole was also exposed on the ground. Then an indescribable stench came from the hole, and the fuming Li Zhang also took a few steps back.
"Take the torch and send someone down!" Li Zhang immediately ordered again. As a torch was thrown into the entrance of the cave, Li Zhang and the others immediately saw a stone staircase below, and the entrance of the cave was extremely deep, and they didn't know where it led inside.
Chapter completed!