Lin Ye went to the medical clinic the next day, and sure enough, Jing Chengxi had disappeared, leaving a letter for Lin Ye on the table.
It was very brief, and the general idea was that Brother Yang would take him to a safer place to recuperate, and would contact Lin Ye after the injury healed.
Lin Ye burned the letter, went out through the back door of the hospital, and then turned back to the street, where he happened to meet a group of Golden Crow Cavalry.
More than a dozen men were chained together in a chain. They were all probably over thirty years old, and the old man among them looked to be in his fifties or sixties.
The people in Yunzhou City have become accustomed to this scene. Ever since the city lord announced that he would take over Yunzhou City, many people have been arrested every day.
Lin Ye stood on the roadside and watched the men being taken away, his face calm, but his heart could not be calm.
These men seemed to have different clothes and different identities, but from the way they walked, the straightness of their bodies, and the unyielding look on their brows, it was obvious that they must have been soldiers.
The team of Golden Crow Riders passed by, and just as Lin Ye was about to take a step, he saw someone standing across the street looking at him.
The man didn't make any sign. When Lin Ye noticed him and turned around to leave, Lin Ye followed him pretending to be casual.
After walking around for half an hour, the man entered a very ordinary small courtyard. He stood at the door and waited. Lin Ye entered, and he immediately closed the courtyard door.
"Brother Yang."
Lin Ye cupped his fists.
Yang Zhenxin hummed, walked to the yard, and scooped some water from the big vat.
"Jingcheng Xidu told me that the martial arts school is his savior, and I will help him repay this kindness."
Yang Zhenxin looked back at Lin Ye: "Di Yin left Yunzhou yesterday. I was able to investigate more, and I did find out some."
Lin Ye: "Thank you, Brother Yang."
Yang Zhen said sincerely: "You may not know me yet. I don't like not paying back what I owe to anyone. I am different from Jing Chengxi."
"He always feels that he will never be able to repay what he owes, but I feel that by repaying kindness with kindness and repaying hatred with hatred, there is nothing that cannot be repaid."
He spoke very seriously and directly.
He said: "The west of Jingcheng owes a martial arts school. I will help you find the murderer of Lei Fenglei. Even if it is repaid, one life will be exchanged for another."
Lin Ye was silent for a moment and nodded.
Yang Zhenxin continued: "What I owe to my mother-in-law is still with you. I have my own way to pay it back. From now on, we don't have to have anything to do with each other."
While he was talking, he looked at the red rope on Lin Ye's belt again. Something flickered in his eyes, like jealousy?
Yang Zhen said sincerely: "After the matter is settled, I will send Jingcheng Xi back to his hometown to cultivate. He has his dream and cannot be destroyed."
Lin Ye nodded again: "Okay."
Yang Zhen said sincerely: "Do you know Di Yin's identity?"
Lin Ye shook his head: "I don't understand."
He didn't say anything about the Fearless Camp, nor would he mention to Yang Zhenxin that Di Yin might be a traitor to the Fearless Camp.
Yang Zhenxin said: "Di Yin had a brother-in-law who once served as a captain in the frontier army. After the war, he changed his name and founded Gaoxian Trading Company. Di Yin looked great, but he was just serving for his brother-in-law.
Taking care of business.”
Lin Ye didn't need to ask anything, he just needed to listen quietly.
Yang Zhenxin continued: "His brother-in-law is now called Guo Maosheng, a junior official from the seventh rank, and the chief registrar of Yunzhou City's warehouse."
"Guo Maosheng is polite to everyone, cautious in doing things, and always bows and bows, so everyone in the yamen looks down upon him, so no one would have thought that such a big business as Gaoxian Trading Company would belong to him.
In fact, most of the underworld figures in Yunzhou City are also controlled by him."
Yang Zhenxin said: "Also, every six months, Gaoxian Trading Company will transport most of its revenue to Dingtang County, two hundred miles away. Guo Maosheng will go to Dingtang County every six months."
He paused for a moment, and his luck became a little heavier: "I am the one responsible for escorting the money every year. When I come back, he sets off, without exception."
Lin Ye then said: "So this Gaoxian Trading Company may not actually belong to Guo Maosheng."
Yang Zhenxin didn't answer.
After a moment of silence, he said to Lin Ye: "With Lei Fenglei's death, who wants to settle things down the most?"
Lin Ye replied: "The government governs gold better than the past."
Yang Zhen said sincerely: "Di Yin is just a businessman and Guo Maosheng is just a petty official. On the surface, they dare not confront Lei Fenglei."
Lin Ye: "But Di Yin hid Qu Qigui and others. This was against Lei Fenglei."
Yang Zhenxin looked at Lin Ye, and Lin Ye said: "So Gaoxian Trading Company is actually the best in managing finance."
Yang Zhenxin said: "Before Jin Sheng came to Yunzhou City, there was no Chaoxin Sect in Yunzhou."
Lin Ye was shocked.
Yang Zhenxin added: "King Beiye's contribution is too great, Beiye army is too strong, Emperor Jade must have an excuse to seize his military power."
He looked into Lin Ye's eyes: "As far as I know, the earliest group of people in Chaoxin Sect are more or less related to the border army."
He went to the doorstep and sat down.
"If nothing unexpected happens, the imperial court will receive a secret report soon after the battle against the Loufan people. Tuoba Lie secretly cultivated the Chaoxin Sect in an attempt to seize Yunzhou to establish itself."
"But there was an accident. The Chaoxin Sect's people were too arrogant and killed a Shangyang Palace disciple."
Yang Zhenxin breathed out slowly: "Originally, I just wanted to pull Tuoba Lie down, but Shangyang Palace stepped in, and Emperor Jade had to be wary, because Shangyang Palace has always been strong, and there is no need to do anything.
Please order."
Lin Ye said: "Tuoba Lie took advantage of the situation to mobilize the border troops and cooperated with Shangyang Palace to wipe out Chaoxin Sect."
Yang Zhenxin said: "Moreover, Jin Shengchang probably didn't expect that the Chaoxin Sect Association would develop so fast that it was completely out of his control."
Lin Ye: "So Jin Shengchang took advantage of the situation and asked the Beiye Army and Shangyang Palace to destroy the Chaoxin Sect, so that he could get out of the way."
Yang Zhenxin glanced outside the door, although the door was closed.
He said: "Now the City Lord's Mansion is arresting people on a large scale, and you have seen who they are arresting."
These were all people who had served as soldiers. Even if they were not serious border soldiers, they were all volunteers who helped the border troops fight against the Loufan people.
Yang Zhen said sincerely: "I will accompany you to Dingtang County. After killing Guo Maosheng, the matter of Lei Fenglei will be forgotten. The bigger thing is not for you and I to participate in. The city lord's palace is arresting people. The charges that were previously charged to King Beiye,
Now I still want to give it."
Lin Ye thought for a while and nodded: "Okay."
Yang Zhenxin said: "You are alone and your martial arts skills are poor, so when Dingtang County takes action, just watch. We will set off early tomorrow morning."
Lin Ye cupped his fists and said, "See you tomorrow morning."
After returning to the martial arts school, Lin Ye asked for leave from his master and his wife. He only said that he was going back to his hometown and it would take about ten days to come back.
Yan Xiniu told him to be careful and wanted to get him some money, but Lin Ye just refused to accept it.
On the way home, Lin Ye went to see Lao Chen first.
"Let's close the stall first. I'm going on a long trip and will be back in about ten days. During these ten days, you can stay at home and watch over Xiao Zinai."
Lao Chen quickly collected the stall without asking any questions, and then pushed the cart home with Lin Ye.
After arriving home, Lin Ye went to pack his things, and then went to Gao Gong to explain some things. Gao Gong immediately summoned his men and went out separately to deal with it.
After getting ready for the day, in the early morning, Lin Ye came to the north with a very small package, which only contained about two sets of changes of clothes.
He took his big umbrella, led the little donkey that had not been taken out for a long time, and went to the city gate in advance to wait.
In just a moment, Yang Zhenxin arrived, leading a rogue horse.
The Dayu Dynasty not only had extremely strict controls on iron tools, but also on horses. It was absolutely impossible for war horses to flow into the private sector.
This kind of horse is slow, not durable, and very poor. It is only better than Lin Ye's donkey.
Lin Ye looked at the rogue horse and thought it was really ugly, but he had beautiful eyebrows and clear eyes.
Yang Zhenxin also looked at what Lin Ye was carrying, and then at the donkey, with a somewhat complicated look in his eyes.
After a moment, he sighed softly: "That's all, you don't need to do anything anyway."
After leaving the city, Yang Zhenzhen urged his horse forward, while Lin Ye was still coaxing his donkey. After all, the donkey had not been ridden for a long time and seemed to have forgotten that it could be ridden.
Dingtang County is two hundred miles away. If there are war horses, it won't take much time to go back and forth. For their horses, sixty or seventy miles a day is almost the limit.
"I remember that my mother-in-law didn't like people wielding knives and guns."
Yang Zhenxin looked at Lin Ye.
Lin Ye found a carrot from nowhere and tied it to a bamboo pole. He swung the carrot in front of the donkey.
The donkey shook its head along with the carrot and stuck out its tongue from time to time, trying to roll the carrot into its mouth.
Lin Ye said: "Yes, my mother-in-law didn't like it, so I came to Yunzhou to study after my mother-in-law left."
Yang Zhenxin hummed. The wind blew and his hair was blown up. Lin Ye saw that there was also such a mark on his face, which was similar to the one in the west of Jingcheng.
Yang Zhen said: "It's ugly."
Lin Ye shook his head: "No."
Yang Zhen said sincerely: "So I can kill Guo Maosheng, but I can't kill Di Yin. People like me and Jing Chengxi..."
He pointed to the mark on his face: "It's not easy to find something to do. I'm used to doing things one by one without getting involved."
Speaking of this, he felt a little emotional: "But if we are people doing serious business, who will use us?"
Lin Ye hummed.
Yang Zhen said sincerely: "Since Guo Maosheng can take charge of the secret business for Jin Sheng, it means that he is definitely an extraordinary person."
Lin Ye hummed again.
Yang Zhenxin continued: "There must be masters around him, and maybe they will be masters from the border army."
Lin Ye hummed again.
He has always been a person who doesn't know how to chat, even with familiar people.
Facing Yang Zhenxin, his words seemed even less.
Seeing him like this, Yang Zhenxin didn't say anything more, and the two of them walked on in silence.
After walking like this for three and a half days, the two of them arrived at Dingtang County. It seemed that this small county was far behind Yunzhou.
The city wall is still made of rammed earth, only about three feet long, and is mottled and full of pits.
The state soldiers guarding the city looked as if they had just been dug out of the soil. Their clothes had no original color and were covered with a layer of dust.
They were about to stop him, but they laughed when they saw Yang Zhenxin. They should have particularly looked down on Yang Zhenxin as a former criminal, but at this time, they had flattering expressions on their faces.
Yang Zhenxin threw a money bag to the leader, clattering, and said to invite the brothers to drink.
The state soldiers shouted to thank Master Yang for the reward.
He entered Dingtang County smoothly without even conducting an interrogation. As soon as he entered the county seat, Lin Ye's eyes felt something was wrong.
In the county town, there are very few brick houses, and most of the houses are mud houses. There are not many people on the street, and the clothes look very shabby.
Yang Zhenxin said: "This place is close to the border. Dingtang County was massacred six times by the Loufan people and burned six times. It would be good to have an earthen house with earthen walls."
After saying that, he urged his horse: "There is an inn ahead, let's go and stay first."
Lin Ye responded and looked back at the city gate. The state soldiers gathered together, laughing and talking, probably counting how many copper coins Yang Zhenxin gave them.
Probably enough for them to have a drink together.
The inn is also a mud house with mud walls, with a wine flag flying on the roof.
Lin Ye urged his donkey, but the donkey refused to go forward, seeming to hate this place.
Lin Ye shook the almost dried carrot, and the donkey snorted, probably losing interest.
When it comes to lying to people, if you lie once, you will probably be forgiven. If you lie to someone too many times, there will be no forgiveness. The same goes for lying to donkeys.
In front, Yang Zhenxin tied up the horse, looked back and waved to Lin Ye.