Inside the side hall of the post house.
Dugu Feiying told the scene that he had encountered at Xinglang's house and Wang Chengwu's rhetoric exactly. After listening to it, everyone looked thoughtful.
After a moment, Li Tai's eyes narrowed and he said: "Based on the news that General Dugu brought back from the Wang family and what General Feiying just said, I believe that the second elder of the Wang family is most likely colluding with Zhao Deyan. As long as he is caught, , I believe we can find Zhao Deyan’s hiding place!”
Duguxin nodded in agreement and said: "Your Highness's words are reasonable. Although there is no conclusive evidence yet, the current situation in Taiyuan City is special and critical. The general believes that the second elder of the Wang family can be arrested for interrogation first!"
As the saying goes, special cases should be dealt with. Under normal circumstances, if the second elder of the Wang family did something that violated the "Laws of the Tang Dynasty", the government would not dare to arrest people at will without conclusive witness or physical evidence. But things are different now. Zhao Deyan and other Turkic spies lurking in Taiyuan City are threatening the security of the entire Taiyuan City. Wang Kui, the second elder of the Wang family, is actually colluding with Zhao Deyan. Even if there is no evidence, someone must be sent to arrest him. If caught, it is better to kill by mistake than to miss a kill!
After all, Li Tai and all the teachers and students of Yanhuang Academy are now in Taiyuan City. If anything happens to these people, the loss to the court will be too great!
Li Tai's face became solemn, he stood up and said in a deep voice:
"Okay! In that case, General Feiying, I order you to take people to the Wang family immediately, arrest the second elder of the Wang family, and then send them to the governor's house. We will interrogate him with the governor overnight! As for the head of the Wang family, if he If you want to stop him, just say that you are following my order, and ask him to come to me afterwards, and I will give him an explanation!"
As the person with the highest identity and status among everyone, Li Tai knew that it was time for him to make a decision, and this order must be given by him. After all, the other party was the second elder of the Wang family in Taiyuan. Although he had no official position in the court, But behind him is a thousand-year-old family. If Wang Kui really colluded with the Turks, it would be okay. If Wang Kui is proven innocent later, the person who ordered the arrest will definitely bear the wrath of the Wang family!
Therefore, Li Tai did not embarrass Dugu Xin and Dugu Feiying and gave the order directly.
Dugu Feiying stood up and clasped his fists and said: "The last general takes orders!"
After that, he hugged his fists towards Han Lizheng and Duguxin, turned around and left.
But at this moment, two Imperial Guards hurriedly ran in, and then they saluted Dugu Xin and Li Tai with clasped fists. One of them said, "General, Your Highness, it's bad! The second elder of the Wang family has run away!"
These two people were Zhao Erhu and Shen Quan who Duguxin stayed in the Wang family to monitor the Wang family's movements!
Dugu Xin's expression changed and he said, "Run away? How come a good person suddenly ran away? What happened~?"
Dugu Feiying, who was about to go out to lead people to capture Wang Kui, couldn't help but turn back after hearing Zhao Erhu's words.
Zhao Erhu panted and said: "My subordinates don't know! We followed the Wang family's guards all the way to the south of the city, but they met Wang Chengwu halfway and turned back, and the two subordinates also turned back. Then not long after, I heard a commotion coming from the Wang family's ancestral house. Many guards were sent out by the head of the Wang family. After some inquiries, my subordinates learned that the second elder of the Wang family, Wang Kui, had killed the guards guarding the Wang family with a group of his henchmen before we returned to the Wang family. , ran away from the door!"
"That's unreasonable! This Wang Kui must have a guilty conscience. He is worried that Wang Chengwu will bring back evidence against him, and then escape early!"
Dugu Xin frowned and said a little annoyed.
By the way, we were about to find Zhao Deyan's hiding place, but one of the key criminals escaped early. Whoever this happened to would be depressed!
After listening to Zhao Erhu's story, Li Tai was thoughtful. At this time, he said: "It seems that the head of the Wang family and the second elder of the Wang family are not the same people. Otherwise, Wang Chengwu would not have taken action in Baoshengfang. Stop and kill Wang Li, now Wang Yu will not send people to find Wang Kui with great fanfare!"
Dugu Xin nodded and said: "It is indeed impossible for the head of the Wang family to be the same person as Wang Kui. The general estimates that he should be more anxious to find Wang Yu than us now!"
Dugu Xin did suspect Wang Yu before, but after a series of events, he had long since ruled out Wang Yu's suspicion!
Li Tai thought for a while, and suddenly an idea came to his mind. He mused: "Wang Kui's escape has confirmed his charge of colluding with Turkic spies. Now we can't rely solely on the Wang family's strength to find him. Secondly, First, immediately send people to the governor's mansion, notify the governor Wang and the Bingzhou camp, and search the whole city overnight to arrest Wang Kui; second, the king is now going to interrogate the assassin, and various signs indicate that the assassin was probably Wang Kui's before. Man, I think he should know better than us where Wang Kui will go after escaping from the Wang family!"
At this moment, Li Tai's mind was extremely calm. There were some things that Dugu Xin didn't think of for a moment, but he did!
"Your Highness's words make sense!"
Hearing this, Dugu Xin nodded, and then said to Dugu Feiying at the door: "Feiying, you immediately take people to the Governor's Mansion and Bingzhou Camp, and I will accompany His Highness to interrogate the assassin!"
"yes!"
Dugu Feiying responded, clasped his fists and left.
Li Tai also stood up at this time and said: "Without further delay, I will personally interrogate the assassin!"
After a while, Li Tai, Tiedan, Han Lizheng, and Duguxin arrived at the temporary cell in the post house. At this time, the old woman was holding Xing Lang, wiping her tears, and wailing: "... son. Ah! Why are you so confused! Your mother and I are half buried in the earth, and we will die when we die. How can you do those things of beheading for money! If you want to have something wrong, I... ahem ~Ahem!”
The old woman was very excited when she finished speaking, and then she couldn't help coughing violently, and then she fainted.
"Mother! Mother..."
Star Wolf, who was tied to the torture frame, had red eyes, struggled violently, and shouted hurriedly.
Duguxin at the door took out a few handkerchiefs from nowhere and whispered to Li Tai, Tiedan and Han Lizheng: "Your Highness, Mr. Han, Tiedan, cover your mouth and nose!"
The three of them nodded, took the handkerchief handed over by Dugu Xin, and did as they were told.
Dugu Xin ordered the imperial guards in the cell: "Carry this lady away, and then go to the city to ask a doctor to come and take a look at her first!"
"Yes! General!"
The two Imperial Guards bowed to accept the order. Under Star Wolf's worried eyes, they stepped forward to lift the old woman up from the ground and walked out of the cell.
Naturally, their faces had long been covered with face towels, in order to prevent the old woman's tuberculosis from being transmitted to them.
After the old woman was carried away, Li Tai, Dugu Xin and others walked in. Li Tai sat on a bench not far from Star Wolf. He stared at Star Wolf with red eyes and slowly said: "I have kept my promise and brought your mother back. Now can you tell me who you are?"
After saying that, Li Tai added: "Oh, by the way! To tell you the truth, when our people found your mother, someone got there first and wanted your mother's life. If our people hadn't arrived, In time, I'm afraid your mother will be in trouble. The man who wants to kill your mother is named Wang Li. Do you know him? "
Hearing this, Xing Lang's expression suddenly changed. He opened his mouth and said in a hoarse voice: "I know him! He is the person next to the second elder. During the day, he was the one who asked me to kidnap you!"
Li Tai smiled and said, "Are you from Wang Kui?"
Star Wolf was not surprised that Li Tai could guess this. After all, according to what Li Tai said, the imperial army found Wang Li who was about to kill his mother in his home. From this incident, it is easy to think of Wang Kui. Now that Li Tai had fulfilled half of his promise and brought his mother back to the posthouse safely, he had nothing to worry about anymore, so he nodded and said without reservation:
"My name is Su Yuncheng, others also call me Xinglang. I was once an abandoned disciple of the Taibai Sword Sect. I served as a soldier under Dou Jiande and Liu Heitai during the chaos of the late Sui Dynasty. After their defeat, I went to the mountains to make a living and became a bandit. But my mother wouldn't let me hurt anyone, let alone rob the poor. I could only rob some passing merchants to barely make ends meet for my brothers.
Later, the world became peaceful, and local governments began to suppress mountain bandits. The brothers from the mountains came down to cultivate the fields. My mother and I also came down from the mountains, and lived in Xiangyang Village outside the city. Although life was poor, it was considered stable.
However, since the beginning of last year, my mother has been coughing. At first, she thought it was cold, but she didn't get better even after taking medicine. I had to take her to the city to see a doctor, but the doctor in the city said that my mother had tuberculosis, which could not be cured and could not be cured. No one dares to treat it.
Later, I heard people say that Dr. Gongsun of Huichun Hall has excellent medical skills, but the medical fees there are very expensive. I had no money, so I had to work for others. Later, I unexpectedly met the second elder of the Wang family. The second elder saw that I was in need of money. , and learned that I had been a disciple of the Taibai Sword Sect, he asked me if I would like to work under him. At that time, I wanted to treat my mother, so of course I said yes.
At first I just thought he wanted me to look after his home, but then he took me to a secret manor near Longshan. It was heavily guarded. Once inside, it was difficult to get out. There were many people in their twenties inside. The young people are practicing martial arts every day. The second elder asked me to teach those people martial arts and gave me a monthly salary of fifty guan. Later I learned that the people in the manor were all killers and death warriors who had been secretly trained by the second elder for many years!
We usually don't have any other tasks besides training. Until today, Wang Li, who was under the second elder, came to me and asked me to help him kidnap someone... You all know what happened next! "
After hearing this, Li Tai, Dugu Xin and others all looked slightly shocked. First, they were surprised by Xing Lang's background. They did not expect that Xing Lang had stayed in the Taibai Sword Sect, which is now one of the three major martial arts sects in the Central Plains (in addition The two are Songshan Shaolin Temple and Longhushan Tianshi Dao), well-known and decent sects; the second one is surprised that Wang Li actually secretly trained a group of killers and dead men. This old guy seems to have been ambitious a long time ago. So vigorous!
"Do those killers and dead men usually stay in that secret manor?"
Li Tai's eyes flashed and he suddenly asked.
Star Wolf was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said: "That's right! They rarely come out, and the second elder rarely brings outsiders in!"
Li Tai's eyes narrowed and he continued to ask:
"Where is that manor? Can you take us there?"
Dugu Xin was startled, and then he finally reacted and immediately turned his attention to Xing Lang.
Xing Lang hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "Yes! But I hope His Highness can keep his promise and seek medical treatment for my mother!"
Li Tai smiled and said: "That's natural! Without further ado, take us to the secret manor now!"
Since Wang Kui spent so much thought and energy on cultivating those killers and dead soldiers, the most likely place for Wang Li to escape from the Wang family is the secret manor where those killers and dead soldiers are!
Instead of searching aimlessly throughout the city, why not go there and try your luck!
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