When Qining and Eve rushed to Bayeli's side, Bayeli was already waiting outside the house with a solemn expression, surrounded by more than a dozen Miao Han people holding weapons.
On the ground, there was a corpse lying, which turned out to be the bodyguard who had committed suicide by breaking the poison. It was the bodyguard who came with the young man.
Bayeli looked solemn. When he saw Qin Ning approaching, he took a few steps forward and said in a deep voice: "This man fought tooth and nail and killed one of us and injured three of us. Knowing that it was difficult to escape, he committed suicide."
Qi Ning knew that a life-and-death struggle had just taken place here, so he frowned and asked: "Cave Master, that Lord Marquis...?"
"We have been tied up." Bayeli stared at Qining, "This time our Black Rock Cave is betting our life and death on you. I just hope you don't let us down." Seeing Eve next to Qining, he asked: "What's the situation with County Magistrate Bai?"
Eve immediately said: "Brother, don't worry, County Magistrate Bai is safe and sound." She glanced at Qining and then said: "The man before must be a fake. Those guards under him will kill us when they see us passing by." Damn Bai Tangling, if they are really from Jinyihou, they will never kill innocent people indiscriminately."
Bayeli nodded slightly, saluted Qining and said: "Master Marquis, please!" At this time, Zhongruo had already believed Qining's identity.
Qining returned the favor with a smile, and Bayeli led the way. When he entered the house, he saw a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old in brocade clothes who was tied tightly with a rattan rope. Something was stuffed in his mouth and he could not speak. Two Miao Han men were guarding the side with scimitars. When Bayali came in, the young man made a "wuwu" sound in his throat and his face was full of anger.
Qining and Bayeli looked at each other. Bayeli stepped forward and took out the thing that was stuffed in the young man's mouth. The young man immediately took a few deep breaths, then glared angrily and said sternly: "Hello, Bayeli." How dare you... How dare you deceive me and set a trap here."
Bayali remained silent and walked aside.
Qi Ning pulled up a chair and sat down across from the young man. He looked at the young man and said with a smile: "They are of similar age. It seems that you also know a little about Jinyi Hou."
"Who are you?" Seeing Qi Ning's condescending look, the young man said angrily: "How dare you be so presumptuous in front of me?"
"Are you Jin Yihou?" Qining asked.
The young man raised his neck and said with a sneer: "Yes, I am the Marquis of Jinyi who has been conferred by the emperor." He glanced at Bayeli and said: "Bayeli, I am thinking about the past with my Marquis of Jinyi in your black cave. This time I came to Xichuan specifically to rescue you, but you actually treated me like this. Do you want to leave the chickens and dogs alone in Heiyan Cave?"
"Since you are the Marquis of Jinyi, you have naturally met the Emperor." Qi Ning smiled and said: "What does the Emperor look like? By the way, I have actually been to the Marquis of Jinyi's Mansion, and I know a lot about the Marquis of Jinyi's Mansion...!" Turning to the view. Bayeli asked: "Master Bayeli Cave, have you ever been to the Jinyihou Mansion in the capital?"
Bayeli nodded and said: "When my father was still alive, I followed him once and met General Qi!"
"That's good." Qi Ning looked at the young man with a smile: "There are two stone sculptures in front of the gate of Jinyihou's Mansion. Of course you know about them, but you don't know what the colors of those two stone horses are?"
"Stone horse?" The young man was startled.
Qi Ning frowned and said, "Don't you know that many dignitaries in the capital have stone lions in front of their doors, but Jin Yihou fights on the battlefield and likes war horses, so there are two stone horses in front of their doors. Why, you don't know?"
The young man was a little suspicious and didn't speak for a while.
"That's strange. You are the Marquis of Jinyi, and you can't even remember the color of the stone horse in front of the Marquis's Mansion?" Qining sneered, "Then you should remember that after entering the Marquis of Jinyi's Mansion, there are still people in the courtyard. There is a stone sculpture, I want to ask you, what is that stone sculpture?"
The young man was still hesitating, but Eve said coldly: "Don't you know this too? Jin Yihou doesn't even know what's going on in his own house, so he must be a fake."
The young man finally said: "It's... it's... it's also a stone horse? No... it should... it should be... yes, it's a stone lion...!"
Qi Ning sighed and said: "It seems that you are really fake. There are no stone horses, no stone lions, nothing in the Jinyihou Mansion. It's just a courtyard."
The sword flashed and the cold air dispersed.
The blade of the scimitar in Bayeli's hand was already pressed against the young man's throat, and he said sternly: "So you are really a fake Jin Yihou. Who are you?"
The young man said anxiously: "Bayeli, you...you are bold. Of course I know it is a courtyard, but...it's just that your knife was placed on my neck. I was nervous for a moment and misremembered it. Bayeli, I Hou is here for your Heiyan Cave, don’t be ignorant, if you hurt a hair of this Hou, you Heiyan Cave...!"
Before he finished speaking, Qi Ning suddenly stood up and stepped forward, taking the knife from a Miao Han's hand. Without saying a word, the blade of the knife slashed across the young man's face, creating a deep slash on the young man's face, and blood overflowed. , the young man's face changed drastically, and he exclaimed, Qining squatted down, put the blade at the young man's throat, and said with a smile: "I have ruined your face now, are you going to let the chickens and dogs in Black Rock Ridge be left alone? "
The young man saw that although Qi Ning had a smile on his face, his eyes were full of coldness. Those eyes were as sharp as blades. He reluctantly pretended to be calm and said: "You... who are you? You...!"
"You said you were a Marquis of Jin Yi, so I didn't know who I was." Qi Ning said calmly: "I know you are different from those dead soldiers. You have thin skin and tender flesh. You should be pampered, so they dare to die. You But you don’t necessarily dare to die. Of course, if you don’t want to die, you just need to answer two questions.”
"What do you mean?"
"Actually, I also know that you may not know much." Qi Ning stared at the young man's eyes coldly: "But you should know who gave you the chain of wolf teeth? Who asked you to go up the mountain and take Bai Tangling away? , of course you will not forget it." The blade pressed forward, and the skin of the young man's throat sank a little deeper, Qining said coldly: "Who is it?"
The young man shut his mouth tightly, Qining smiled faintly and said: "I will give you three times, which is enough time for you to decide your life and death. Whether to continue living and enjoy life, or to stick to your young life for some people." After a pause, he said calmly: "One... two...!"
He didn't say the third time, but with a little force on his hand, the young man finally said: "Don't... don't do it!"
"So, you have made a choice?" Qining said with a smile, "Okay, tell me now."
"You... you promise me, if I tell you, you... you must let me go." The young man said, "The Miao people keep their promises, and I believe you."
Qi Ning nodded and said: "Don't worry, the Miao family will keep their word, just say it."
The young man lowered his head and thought for a while, then said: "Actually... I actually don't know anything. The guard who came with me knows more than me...!"
"Guard?"
The young man nodded and said, "He came to me and asked me... to pretend to be the Marquis of Jinyi. He said that he was a yamen officer of the Shenhou Mansion...!"
Bayeli and others obviously didn't know about the Shenhou Mansion, but Qining frowned.
"What is Shenhou Mansion?" Eve asked immediately.
Qi Ning said: "The Shenhou Mansion is the government office of the imperial court, specializing in handling Jianghu affairs."
"The court's yamen?" Eve rolled her dark and charming eyes and said quickly: "He is lying."
The young man immediately said: "No, I didn't lie. They... they are really from the Shenhou Mansion. They asked me to dress up as Jin Yihou and said that your Heiyandong Miao Village had rebelled and kidnapped an official. As long as the official was If you take me down the mountain, you can ask the imperial court for me, and you will definitely be able to make me a high official."
Qining smiled and said: "Eve, he may not be lying, it's just his subordinates who are lying." Staring at the young man: "The necklace that proves that you are a Jinyihou was also given to you by the guard?"
"I didn't want to agree, but... But they gave me a deposit of fifty taels of gold, and told me that if I pretended to be Jin Yihou, the people in the Miao village would treat me warmly after I went up the mountain." The young man lowered his head. , "I am loyal to the country by running errands for the court, and I can also be rewarded for my meritorious service, so...!"
"So you agreed." Qining smiled lightly and asked, "Who are you originally? Why do they value you?"
The young man lowered his head and said, "I... my name is Mei Yuzhen, and I am... an opera singer!"
As soon as these words came out, Qi Ning immediately showed a look of relief. Bayeli reached out and grabbed Mei Yuzhen by the collar and shouted angrily: "Are you really just an opera singer?"
Although he is from the Miao village, Bayeli naturally knows what an opera singer does.
Mei Yuzhen saw Bayeli's ferocious look, and now that he had confessed his identity, he still dared to insist on it, and said: "Yes... they are all from the imperial court, I... I dare not refuse."
"That is to say, from the beginning to the end, you were just the guard assigned to you." Qining sighed, "You also always thought that they were from the Shenhou Mansion?"
"Isn't it?" Mei Yuzhen asked, "Are they people pretending to be from the Shenhou Mansion?"
"You, an opera singer, dare to pretend to be Jin Yihou, so why do they pretend to be people from the Shenhou Mansion?" Qining sneered, "Which theater are you from?"
"Wanchun Troupe!" Mei Yucheng said: "Our troupe only performs for dignitaries."
"Have you seen those guards before?" Qining asked, "How did they find you?"
"I have never seen it before. That night, after I went to bed, I woke up in the middle of the night, but I was not in my room." Mei Yuzhen said: "Then the man appeared and asked me to pretend to be Jin Yihou, and he told me that night How to pretend, and later he took me to the Black Rock Cave."
Bayali was very upset and asked: "How do you know that the chain of wolf fangs is the token of our black cave?"
"I don't know." Mei Yuzhen shook his head and said blankly: "The man told me that when you get to the Black Cave, as long as you take out the necklace, you will think that I am Jin Yihou. I... I don't know where they got the necklace from. .”