There really isn't much fire left in the Loyalty Army.
Whether it was before or now after the turmoil, the number of torches and braziers has not increased at all.
Shen Lie stood on a high place and stared at the valley, a huge mountain stream. The spark was as dim as a star in the sea, and sometimes even disappeared completely.
Ye Zheng came and saw Shen Lie standing here. He came over and said, "Master, it's time to rest."
Shen Lie said "hmm" and couldn't take his eyes away.
Ye Zheng looked around for a moment, then said: "They are really rats, they can't see the light of day."
Seeing that Shen Lie was still motionless, Ye Zhengwen said in a warm voice: "Master, the hot water is ready. Let's rest."
"I always feel strange." Shen Lie said in a low voice.
"Weird?"
"Qian Fengrong's kung fu is not as good as I thought. If he is that good, with Ah Li's skills, she will not be unable to deal with him."
"When it comes to scoring points, there is a woman on either side of him. Doesn't it mean that after a man does something, he will be unable to do what he wants? He may have gone too far."
Shen Lie frowned slightly, did not answer, and kept looking at the valley.
Seeing this, Ye Zheng said nothing.
He understands Shen Lie's stubbornness. If he doesn't want to go back, no one can persuade him except Miss Ali.
"How long has Wu Shaoning been going to Hezi to watch?" Shen Lie suddenly asked.
Ye Zheng calculated it and said: "Master, it's not even half an hour."
"Okay, you go and have a rest."
"and you?"
"I stare at them."
"Master," Ye Zheng sighed, "you go and have a rest, and we can just take turns keeping an eye on you."
"Ye Zheng." Shen Lie looked sideways, his dark eyes calm but serious.
Ye Zheng had no choice but to say: "Then, I'll rest for an hour."
Ye Zheng turned around and left.
Shen Lie looked at the valley, his eyebrows slightly furrowed.
There was an indescribable feeling in his heart. It was clear that their assassination was very successful, and it could be concluded that the other party had absolutely no idea that they would be attacked tonight, but why did he feel so strange?
The sky is getting brighter, the fish belly in the east is showing its white patches, the morning stars have faded, the sea of clouds has begun to weave a tapestry, and the rays of the sun are shining brightly.
The loyal soldiers, who had been trapped and frightened all night, fell into great paleness and confusion.
But some people are fast asleep, some are frightened, and some are using their brains, and the ambition hidden in their hearts grows and begins to raise its head.
Shen Lie's worries and Xie Zhong's delusions have become unnecessary. Whether or not there is that little follower seems to be irrelevant.
One night passed, but there was no chaos in the valley, and the tired and frightened soldiers did not flee in all directions.
Several teams and the captain sent people to look for the young attendant, but they couldn't find it all over the mountains and plains. Instead, they found the bodies of a woman and a child at the foot of a mountain.
This woman and child were no strangers. They were the wife and children of Yan Zhigan, who had taken them to find tombs before and was well versed in exploring caves.
Everyone was too tired to carry the body, so they took a few more looks and then went back.
But when I came back, someone looked around and asked why I didn't see Yan Zhigan.
Others asked whether they should inform General Zhuo Xilie who went east last night.
Some ambitious teams are immediately giving up on the idea.
At noon, no one was seen alive or dead, and no corpse was found. Several teams were gathering together and ignored him.
He deliberately buried the bodies of the king, the prime minister, and other generals and lieutenants on the spot. Several teams and the captain proposed to leave Lingde first.
The army of several thousand people set off, leaving a mess behind, and marched toward the southeast along the exit of the valley.
The secret guard responsible for tracking ran to find Shen Lie, who had just left not long ago. Wu Shaoning stopped him: "Don't disturb the young master, he will go to sleep!"
"I need to report to the young master that these guys from the Zhongxin Army did not go to the official road, nor did they go north, but went southeast."
"Is that so?" Wu Shaoning frowned, "It seems that young man is really not afraid of death."
"Then Master, here..."
"There is no need to wake up the young master. The young master will never do anything without leaving a backup plan. I went to the Hezi Guan Yamen overnight to inform him last night and I just came back now."
"You actually left? So that's it, well, then we don't have to worry about it."
Not long after these loyal troops left, they saw Cao Chunshan's troops coming from the Pingpi official road in the west.
Cao Chunshan divided his army into two teams. One team searched four miles deep inside and outside the valley, and the other team followed him in the southeast direction following the traces on the ground.
Seeing this group of soldiers disappear in the southeast, Ye Zheng let out a long sigh: "Young Master has done his best to be kind and righteous. I hope these soldiers will not be useless."
A secret guard on the side said: "If you become our opponent in the future, then you should be treated as a waste."
"...Sounds like it makes sense."
The soldiers who stayed behind to search the river valley traveled more than four miles inside and outside, but found nothing but garbage everywhere.
They gathered under the leadership of an officer and soon chased in the southeast direction.
The entire river valley returned to silence. Except for the unchanged sound of the wind, there were also countless tattered clothes, broken tents, and new corpses.
It was nearly midnight, the setting sun was golden, and Shen Lie, who had slept for less than three hours, led the secret guards back to the river valley.
The soil was easy to identify due to its old and new colors. The guards cut down trees on the spot and made a few simple digging shovels.
"Master, it's ready, it's very strong." Ye Zheng came back and said.
"Let's dig!" Wu Shaoning came over and said.
The soldiers and captains of the Loyalty Army only dug a shallow pit and threw all the corpses down.
The headless corpse, known as the King during his lifetime, was now covered in mud and crowded in the pit with the corpses of other officers.
Without any effort, not even a stick of incense, only three secret guards dug through the pit.
The huge headless corpse was dragged out of the pit. Ye Zheng tore off the clothes on the corpse, looked at it from side to side, and then looked up at Shen Lie: "Master, your skin is quite good."
Shen Lie lowered his eyebrows and looked at the spots on the corpse. After a while, he said in a deep voice: "He is really not Qian Fengrong."
Ye Zheng and others were shocked and looked at each other.
Wu Shaoning looked at the two women twenty steps away: "Is this person your king?"
The two women looked at them in fear, and one of them said: "He is the king, so he is called that. Prime Minister Xie also calls him that."
"When did you arrive at the Zhongxin Army?" Wu Shaoning asked.
"My family was there ten days ago," one woman said, looking at the other one, "She has been here longer than me."
"I'm not a few days ahead of you, I'm only five days ahead of you!"
"That's half a month." Shen Lie said.
"Master, why do you think this person is not Qian Fengrong?" Ye Zheng was curious.
"A-li has fought with him, and A-li's Qian Sibi will not be without any scars."
"Yes!" Wu Shaoning remembered, "When he was in Qingxiang Village, he even stepped on a bear trap on the mountain!"
With that said, Wu Shaoning immediately went to check the lower legs of the headless corpse.
