"Okay, I've already said everything I need to say on the way here. Just follow the rules of the mansion. Otherwise, you will have to accept the punishment.
The rules here are actually no different from those in the military, but being strict has its advantages, as it is the only way to protect the safety of the Duke's Mansion.
Of course, if you do a good job, you will get a lot of benefits at the end of each year. The old Duke is not stingy about this, and he will be more generous than you expected!"
After saying that, Lin Yuxing turned and left.
Since he didn't get any useful information from this kid, he still had to go back as soon as possible to confirm some things with the general, in case there were any mistakes in the general's plan!
Li Yan saluted with his fists clasped towards Lin Yuxing's back.
"yes!"
After Lin Yu left, Li Yan pushed the door and walked into the courtyard. There were two and a half rooms in the courtyard, a bedroom, a living room, and a toilet.
The furnishings in the room were also extremely simple, with only common daily necessities such as tables, chairs, beds, and water cups.
As for cooking by themselves in the courtyard, that is not possible. They all have to eat in the side hall in the front, where there are meals specially cooked for them, the guard coach. Of course, you can also take the meals home.
Li Yan walked straight into the bedroom and sat down on the edge of the bed.
Soon, he fell into deep thought.
After Cui Feng confirmed his identity, Li Yan took the lead in asking him some questions, and Cui Feng answered every question.
It turned out that when Li Yan went to Qingshan Pass alone, Cui Feng did not receive the news until the evening of the fifth day.
That was the message from Li Du, a close confidant of Li Yanyi who led people to chase after him. The Marshal's Mansion in Qingshanai was burned into a scorched earth ruin, no one in the mansion survived, and Kong Xiao was killed by an arrow.
In addition, they learned from the captured traitorous government troops that Marshal Li was taken away by a man in silver armor after only showing up outside the city, and that it was also the man in silver armor who shot and killed Kong Xiao.
At this moment, Cui Feng could not help but be shocked. Li Yan was the mainstay of the army. If anything happened to him, there would be problems on all four borders of the dynasty.
Some small countries that are already ready to make moves may even take the opportunity to join forces with some big countries to attack together.
After Cui Feng hurriedly arranged the deployment and defense of "Luoxianpo", he rushed to Qingshanai alone overnight, and finally found Li Du who was in charge of the city.
When the two met, Cui Feng hurriedly asked who else knew about Li Yan's disappearance and whether Li Du had reported the news to the current emperor.
Li Du, who was Li Yan's confidant and a general himself, naturally knew what Cui Feng meant.
He told Cui Feng that he was personally in charge of the interrogation of Pan Jun, and that he had only told the news to Cui Feng, who was closest to him. His next step was to go to the capital in person to report the matter to the emperor.
Cui Feng heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing this. The disappearance of Li Yan must not be known to outsiders, otherwise the dynasty would be besieged by enemy countries.
First of all, Kong Xiao started a rebellion at that time, and all the people on the wall who saw Li Yan were rebels, but at least the people in the city did not see it.
In addition, what Li Du did was also extremely correct. Cui Feng was afraid that Li Du would not know the seriousness of the matter, so he sent someone to deliver the memorial directly to the capital.
By then, this secret memorial might have already been known to some people before it was delivered to the emperor.
Who knows if there are spies from other countries among those people, and it will be too late to properly deploy troops.
However, Li Yan's disappearance is such a serious matter that it is impossible not to inform the current emperor, and he must be informed as soon as possible so that he can be aware of the situation.
Li Du planned to go to the capital in person and report to the emperor in person, which would be much safer.
Afterwards, Cui Feng and Li Du discussed and decided to massacre all the rebels this time, further ensuring that the information could be kept confidential for the longest time.
Cui Feng later learned that Li Du had interrogated the rebels in detail, asking about the appearance of the person who took Li Yan away.
Since the other person was covered in silver armor, although no one could see him clearly, Li Du guessed that person was Dong Lingmin, whom his master had let go.
For a moment, the two became confused and couldn't figure out what was going on.
According to the confession of the rebels below, they defected to the Meng Kingdom this time. But why did Dong Lingmin, a member of the Meng royal family, shoot and kill Kong Xiao? Isn't this killing one of their own people
This didn't make sense at all, so they denied that the person who rescued Li Yan was Dong Lingmin, but they still felt in their hearts that it was the other person.
Because the archery skills described by the soldiers as those who shot and killed Kong Xiao were exactly the ones that could only be performed with the Yuanqing Sect's internal strength skills to unleash the Dark Tide Triple Wave.
Cui Feng and Li Du were both masters of martial arts. Just based on their descriptions, they were able to basically confirm that the archery skill that man displayed was the Dark Tide Triple Wave, and that the silver-armored man's figure and attire were almost the same as Dong Lingmin's.
Everything became confusing and no one knew what Meng Guo was planning.
Putting all these aside, what they were most worried about was that there would be a sudden change at the border ahead. That would be seeing Li Yan's head suddenly being picked up high by Dong Lingmin, and this matter would no longer be able to be concealed.
But what made Cui Feng and Li Du worry in vain was that this incident did not happen, and since that battle, they never saw Dong Lingmin again.
It was not until the two sides stopped fighting seven years later that they learned that the other side had been searching for Dong Lingmin, and the time of her disappearance happened to be that day, but that is a story for later.
A series of deployments by Cui Feng and Li Du finally bought time for the dynasty. Before Li Yan's disappearance was discovered, they made a series of adjustments in a timely manner.
Whether it was intimidating small countries or making friends with distant countries and attacking nearby ones, certain results were achieved.
After that, Cui Feng gradually reached the pinnacle of his military career, and finally became the "Duke of Zhenguo". Li Du died in battle in the northern border of the dynasty eight years after Li Yan disappeared, and was posthumously named "Marquis of Dingbei".
After his death, the Li Yan spear that he had carried with the army was lost.
Later, when Cui Feng learned of its disappearance, he spent a huge amount of manpower and financial resources and finally found it in the hands of a military minister who had accompanied the army there.
Earlier in the cave, Cui Feng was so excited that he wanted to drag Li Yan to Kyoto to meet the current emperor, but Li Yan refused with an inappropriate reason.
Li Yan stated that the current emperor was also the crown prince of the old emperor, and the relationship between the monarch and his subjects is no longer the same as before.
Now that he was going there in such an appearance, even old subordinates like Cui Feng himself would find it hard to believe that it was him who had returned, let alone others
They would just think that Cui Feng had gone crazy, and even suspect that he had ulterior motives.
This time he came to look for Cui Feng because he had escaped from the dangerous place where he was trapped. He found that everything had changed and was very different from what it was at the beginning.
Given his current situation, he originally wanted to remain anonymous, but after hearing about Cui Feng's name and story, he decided to give it a try, so he came over to take a look.
Unexpectedly, Cui Feng turned out to be his old subordinate. Now that he had found out some things, it was even more impossible for him to serve as an official in the court.
After Cui Feng tried to persuade him, he saw that Li Yan was determined and the reason he gave was indeed true, so he had to give up.
In fact, until now, Cui Feng still didn't fully believe what was happening before his eyes. If he thought about it, if other people knew Li Yan's identity, they would be even more unbelievable.
After Li Yan finished speaking, he was about to leave, but when Cui Feng learned that he was currently alone and had no place to live, he refused to let him go no matter what.
He wanted Li Yan to stay temporarily and then find a high-ranking official position for him later. Anyway, few people still remember Li Yan.
With Li Yan's literary talent and military strategy, he will surely help the dynasty prosper for decades again, and even usher in a century of peace and prosperity after pacifying some neighboring countries.
After thinking about it, Li Yan agreed to stay temporarily, but refused to take up any high-ranking position. He said it would be better for him to be a security instructor here first.
Of course Cui Feng would not agree at first. How could he let the Grand Marshal, a martial arts master, whom he respected the most, guard his house? Seeing this, Li Yan wanted to turn around and leave.
Cui Feng had no choice but to agree. In fact, he also wanted to take the opportunity to further confirm Li Yan's identity. At the same time, he didn't want Li Yan to wander around anymore.
Li Yan stayed, naturally because he had his own thoughts and ideas.
Li Yan stared blankly at the afterglow of the evening outside the window. There were many things he couldn't figure out and he felt quite upset.
First of all, he was certainly sure that he had never been a great commander;
Secondly, it was the growth of a mental demon at the beginning, to put it bluntly, it was just a dream, but how did it all become real
In addition, Cui Feng is now 113 years old, which does not match the age he calculated.
Cui Feng's two sons have passed away one after another. They both cultivated to the first-class level, and the eldest only lived to be over ninety years old.
As for those generals who were once "under Li Yan's command", no one is still alive today.
People like Lin Yuxing are the "young generation" who followed Cui Feng after he was almost seventy years old, otherwise they would not have lived to this day. They have only heard of Li Yan's name and are not very familiar with him.
Therefore, even if Li Yan wanted to find other people to get more information, it was impossible.
Li Yan sat on the edge of the bed, frowning and thinking deeply.
If he calculated correctly, the inner demon had germinated about one hundred and sixty years ago.
At that time, Cui Feng in the dream was already over 60 years old. So, by this calculation, he is now more than 200 years old.
This is something that is difficult for even low-level cultivators to achieve. It is only possible if the cultivators have swallowed some exotic fruit that can prolong life, but it is not the lifespan limit that a mortal like Cui Feng can achieve.
Li Yan also used his spiritual sense to carefully examine Cui Feng's body. It was just a mortal body. There was no spiritual power in his flesh and blood, but his qi and blood were abnormally vigorous.
However, Li Yan's spiritual sense discovered that although Cui Feng's blood and energy were vigorous, the vitality in his body had actually reached the end of his eighties. If nothing unexpected happened, Cui Feng could only live for six or seven years at most.
In order to determine these time points, Li Yan had asked some questions indirectly before.
The answer he got was that Cui Feng said he disappeared sixty-two years ago. At that time, he was still struggling to find a way out in the secret cave underground in Qingqing Continent.
By that time, about a hundred years had passed since he entered the inner demon dream, and everything was no longer the same.
This made Li Yan fall into deep confusion. He knew that there were three key points involved here.
The first thing is to go to Qingshanai to inquire about the news and see if there really was a marshal like Li Yan.
"We will go to Shanqingai to get information. We will go there of course to see if there is really such a person as Cui Feng said, Li Yan. What exactly happened in the war sixty-two years ago
But we are not leaving right now, there are still many questions about Cui Feng that need to be investigated, we will talk about this later."
Li Yan thought quickly in his mind.
“The second is the Beiming Demon Suppression Tower. That’s where my inner demon appeared. Inner demon… Inner demon. Senior Pingtu and Master both said that I have a hidden knot in my heart. Could it be related to this incident
If I solve this mystery, will I have the opportunity to break through to the Nascent Soul stage? But this matter should be put off until I go to Qingshan Pass. After all, this place is much closer to Qingshan Pass than Beiming Demon Suppression Tower."
Li Yan kept calculating in his mind.
The third point is the underground secret cave of the "Soul Prison Clan" in Qingqing Continent. The time of the "Luoxianpo" battle that Cui Feng mentioned was exactly the time when he was trapped.