Liu Chengpeng is a commoner. He has been working in Tingwei Mansion for many years. Han Huanzhi has been in Tingwei Mansion for 30 years, while Liu Chengpeng is only two or three years shorter than Han Huanzhi and has a high qualification.

This is a person who can do everything by relying on his own diligence and dedication, because his personal ability and martial arts are indeed not very strong, but he is serious and will do whatever he explains from above with the highest enthusiasm.

He is fifty-five years old. If he wants, he can retire and go home this year. He has not experienced life and death over the years. However, he is lucky. He has had seven serious injuries and cannot count the number of minor injuries. However, the god of death passed by him again and again.

Last year, Han Huanzhi gave a thick reward to more than 30 ordinary people like him, because there are not so many geniuses and not so many strong people in this world.

No matter how powerful or powerful the Tingwei Mansion is, it is composed of many people like Liu Chengpeng, rather than a few geniuses supporting it.

Of course, Han Huanzhi is a genius, and of course all his Qiandians are geniuses. If not, they would not have stood out under the same conditions.

However, people like Liu Chengpeng are the cornerstone of the Tingwei Mansion.

It took more than 20 years to go from an ordinary courtier to a hundred jobs. This kind of promotion is actually very slow. If he is a little bit outstanding, he should have achieved a thousand jobs.

However, places like Tingwei Mansion will not blindly promote just because you have the qualifications. When a person like Liu Chengpeng really retreats, he will probably receive treatment at the level of a thousand office.

Compared with Liu Chengpeng, a person like Zhu Xiaohe is the future of the Tingwei Mansion. He is only twenty-three years old, and his martial arts and ability are far above Liu Chengpeng. Things in talent are really unreasonable and there is no reason to say.

If Liu Chengpeng insisted not to go home to retire, then Zhu Xiaohe might have enjoyed a thousand-dollar treatment earlier than him.

But Zhu Xiaohe was not arrogant and arrogant. When he entered the Tingwei Mansion, he followed Liu Chengpeng and learned a lot under Liu Chengpeng. Two years later, he was promoted to Baiban, which was at the same level as Liu Chengpeng. However, he always called Liu Chengpeng the old regiment leader like a border army who treated retired and returned home.

He often joked with Liu Chengpeng that Liu Chengpeng was old, but his feelings for Liu Chengpeng were like his father.

This is a kind of succession between the old and the new, and the inevitable result.

Liu Chengpeng came out of the county government and led two teams of ten to the market. The grassland merchants should still be in the market, so it is not difficult to investigate these people.

This is really just a routine. Even Fang Baijing didn't think that those who were asking for words would be anything special, let alone thought that they would be secret spies from the Black Martial Arts Sect.

Since Fang Shiyi surrendered to Daning, the secret spies in the black warriors in Daning have basically been destroyed. Most of them chose to be ordinary people and continue to live in Daning, while a small number of them chose to join the Tingwei Mansion.

"Honor Baiban."

A young lieutenant smiled and said, "I heard that you will retire in a few months?"

"Um."

Liu Chengpeng nodded and said, "There will be four more months for me to be my birthday. It will be fifty-six after my birthday. I can't catch up. Lord Han said that he will personally treat me to a drink on my birthday, hahahaha..."

Liu Chengpeng was a little proud.

"Mr. Han and I have been with me for more than twenty years. You little kids don't understand the relationship between me and Mr. Han."

"Alas!"

The young Tingwei named Li Lai smiled and said, "Brave again."

Liu Chengpeng said: "What do you know? How can you brag?"

Li Lai said: "Master Baiban, they all say you have dozens of injuries, big or small, are you real?"

"certainly."

Liu Chengpeng rolled up his cuffs and there was a scar on his right forearm.

"This is my first year in Tingwei Mansion. Lord Han took us out to investigate the case. He encountered a group of bandits who were very good at fighting. I still vaguely remember their titles, as if they were called Suihan Sanyou or something."

He said as he walked, "The knife wound on the arm was left at that time. I blocked the knife for Lord Han. Now you understand the relationship between me and Lord Han."

Liu Chengpeng smiled and said proudly: "That is a life-and-death relationship."

Li Lai curled his lips: "At such an old age, don't brag, can Lord Han still need you to block the knife?"

"whispering sound!"

Liu Chengpeng glanced at him: "I'm too lazy to tell you."

After they arrived at the market, they inquired. Someone had seen Tutuohai and others, but they didn't know each other and said they were new.

Then Liu Chengpeng and his people went to the small restaurant again. At noon that day, Li Changze ate wine with the grassland people. The owner of the restaurant knew Li Changze, but he did not know those grassland people.

So Liu Chengpeng felt something was wrong.

There is no trace of doing business, no one knows them, but they can find Li Changze directly. This is obviously something wrong. If they were businessmen who often traveled to and from Daning, it would be fine to know Li Changze's identity, but the first thing newcomers do is not to do business, but to ask Li Changze for his name...

"Divid into four teams, check in the form of a five-man team, and see if anyone in this market has seen where they are and whether anyone knows them."

"yes!"

Li Lai and others responded and divided into four five-man teams to investigate the case. Liu Chengpeng led a five-man team to the bottom of the market.

Although Li Lai is young, he is already the commander of the sergeant. He is only twenty years old this year. In the words of Liu Chengpeng, a young man like Li Lai is Liu Chengpeng of the future Tingwei Mansion. Li Lai said, I must be better than you.

Young people always have more aspirations and more confident.

Li Lai led the five-man team all the way, only looking for grassland people to ask questions. The people on the grassland are united and hospitality. Even if they are not from a grassland, they will still feel intimate when they meet, and they will often become familiar with each other quickly.

Li Lai spent half an hour finding a group of grassland men in the market and went up to inquire. Those men were all regular and serious businessmen, but they were still nervous when they saw a few people wearing the brocade clothes of the Tingwei Mansion coming.

"I've seen those people."

The leader of the caravan was an old man with a dark face. He was like this when he walked all year round. He leaned over to Li Lai and bowed and said, "Those people said they came to Gyeonggi Province from the Goya grassland to do business, but the ship sank halfway and had no money to go home. I gave them some money and dry food. I guess they were gone."

"Leave?"

Li Lai was stunned. He asked in detail what the people the old man had seen looked like, and confirmed that they were the people he was investigating, so this matter became more and more wrong.

"When I go back, I tell you alone that the people of Baiban may be black war spies."

Li Lai ordered, pressed his hand against the black thread knife by his waist and ran forward. The remaining few people followed him forward, and didn't know where he was going.

Li Lai ran to the city gate closest to the market in one breath and inquired. The guards of the gate said that they had never seen such a group of people leaving the city, but they saw another group of people entering the city, and they were also grasslanders. They said that their ship had sunk, but they had road quotations on their bodies, so they were put into the city.

Li Lai asked the direction of those people and continued to chase after them. The second group of people who entered the city must be in the same group as the first group of people who came into contact with Li Changze.

After chasing for about a mile, Li Lai saw at a glance that there were about a dozen people in front of him, and he shouted at the people.

"Everyone stops, Tingwei's Mansion investigates the case!"

The dozen people in front stopped at the same time and turned around at the same time. At that moment, Li Lai saw the fierce light and fear in the eyes of those people. It was a natural reaction that could not be concealed. The people from the Tingwei Mansion were particularly sensitive to this natural reaction.

Yi Liangge had just brought his men into the city, but before he could find Tutuohai, he was targeted by the Tingwei Mansion. He subconsciously wiped his waist. They were carrying weapons. They were pretending to be a merchant and had a fake official certificate that allowed them to carry weapons, but they were not allowed to carry things like bows, arrows, crossbows, etc., and the length of the knife was strictly restricted.

"what to do."

My subordinates asked Yi Liangge.

Yi Liangge said: "Keep calm, we have the identity certificate, don't act rashly."

He immediately laughed and bowed toward Li Lan: "Sir, what's wrong?"

Li Lai took a few subordinates forward and reached out and said, "Take out your identity certificates and Lu Yin."

Yi Liangge immediately nodded and said, "Okay, okay sir."

He gave an order, and his subordinates took out all the road sacrificial certificates and handed them to Li Lai. Li Lai took them over and looked at him. He didn't see anything wrong, but he looked up at Yi Liangge and said, "You road sacrificial certificates are all fake. Come back to the yamen to investigate."

At that moment, Yi Liangge pulled out the short knife by his waist and stabbed Li Lai's lower abdomen. Li Lai was on guard, but Yi Liangge's speed of shooting was too fast. He had only had time to take a step back, and the short knife reached his lower abdomen.

"Take them all!"

At this moment, Liu Chengpeng rushed over from the side with his man, aiming at Yi Liangge and others in his hand.

"Fight!"

Yi Liangge roared, and the short knife continued to move forward. Li Lai had the opportunity to draw the knife when Yi Liangge turned his head. His black thread knife fell and went straight to Yi Liangge's hand holding the knife. Yi Liangge flipped his wrist and knocked the knife upwards. With a sound, the black thread knife was raised and then kicked Li Lai's lower abdomen.

Li Lai fell backwards, and Yi Liangge rushed forward and stabbed him.

With a bang, Yi Liangge's body was kicked away by Liu Chengpeng. When Yi Liangge turned over, he threw the short knife out. The knife turned into a stream of light and poked into Liu Chengpeng's chest with a puff.

Fortunately, there was a layer of leather armor outside the brocade clothes of the Tingwei Mansion. Although it was not a fully protected armor, it slightly stopped the power of some short swords from flying in. The short sword was inserted into it and did not pierce the heart.

Liu Chengpeng frowned in pain, but immediately pulled Li Lai up, then threw Li Lai behind him, blocking Li Lai with his own body.

After Yi Liangge stood up, he rushed towards Liu Chengpeng. At this moment, he already knew that he had no way out and could fight to the death.

He strode forward, still far away, kicking towards the hilt of the knife position on Liu Chengpeng's chest.

With two muffled sounds, Yi Liangge was hit by two crossbow arrows. His body shook for a while, but he gritted his teeth and continued to pounce, wanting to use his body to knock the short knife in.

Li Lai pushed Liu Chengpeng away with force, and he hugged Yi Liangge. Yi Liangge bit Li Lai's neck and tear off a large piece of flesh and blood.
Chapter completed!