When he heard someone shouting "fire", Yan Liqiang opened the door of the room where Ye Tiancheng was imprisoned as quickly as possible, and at the same time asked Huangmao to rush to the room of the guards downstairs and bring up a piece of guard's clothes.
Although Yan Liqiang did not have the key to the handcuffs and shackles on Ye Tiancheng when he entered the room, this old-fashioned lock was not difficult for him. Many similar locks had been made in Yan Dechang's blacksmith shop, and he was already familiar with the internal structure of those locks. He just used a needle on his body to open the lock on Ye Tiancheng, and then, he quickly changed Ye Tiancheng into the guard clothes that Huangmao brought.
Just as thick smoke filled the corridor and the entire inn was in chaos, Yan Liqiang, with the disguised Ye Tiancheng, almost brushed against a group of inn servants who rushed up to "put out the fire", and rushed downstairs in panic. By the time the people in the inn took great pains to open the keyhole that had been blocked by Yan Liqiang when he left, and pushed open the door of the room where Ye Tiancheng was imprisoned and found that Ye Tiancheng was no longer in the room, Yan Liqiang had already left the inn with Ye Tiancheng and came to an inn on the roadside a few hundred meters away from the inn, asked for a room, and waited quietly for Sun Bingchen and others to come back.
When Yan Liqiang talked about this process, it seemed calm and uneventful, without even a hint of danger. However, Sun Bingchen and Liang Yiji were shocked by Yan Liqiang's strong judgment and reaction speed.
Under the circumstances at that time, those people wanted to kill Ye Tiancheng, and actually prepared two killing moves. One killing move was fire. If Ye Tiancheng stayed in the room and did not come out, he would be burned to death. The second killing move came from the chaotic situation at that time. If Ye Tiancheng came out of the room, some people hiding among the servants of the inn would take advantage of the chaos when putting out the fire and kill Ye Tiancheng on the spot.
Yan Liqiang determined the opponent's killer moves in the shortest time possible, and at the same time, took unexpected responses in the shortest time possible, successfully resolving both killer moves.
No one thought that he would dare to release Ye Tiancheng at that time, and no one expected that after he released Ye Tiancheng, he could change Ye Tiancheng into a set of Sun Bingchen's personal guard clothes in such a short time. In the chaos, those who rushed upstairs to "put out the fire" passed by Ye Tiancheng, who was brought by Yan Liqiang, in the thick smoke.
Yan Liqiang and Ye Tiancheng at that time covered their faces with their sleeves, bent over and coughed, while rushing downstairs, shouting, "Hurry up and put out the fire, the serious criminal Ye Tiancheng who was escorted by the inspector is still in the room..." When the firefighters ran to the door of the room, they found that the windows of the room were closed, so they could not see the situation in the room clearly. The keyhole of the room was blocked by Yan Liqiang by inserting a small piece of wood. That small piece of wood bought time for Yan Liqiang and Ye Tiancheng to escape from the inn in the chaos.
The most amazing thing is that Yan Liqiang took Ye Tiancheng away from the posthouse, but did not run far. He found a place not far from the posthouse, which was the only way for Sun Bingchen and his friends to come back, and stayed there, waiting for Sun Bingchen to come back. Those who wanted to kill Ye Tiancheng in the posthouse were dumbfounded when they found that Ye Tiancheng disappeared in the posthouse. Even if they were asked to go out and look for him, once he left the posthouse, who would know where Ye Tiancheng ran to in such a big Weiyuan City? It was not so easy to find someone without making a big noise.
"How could you be so sure that those people in the inn would not think that you could take Ye Tiancheng out of the room?" After listening to this, Liang Yiji frowned and thought for a long time, then asked a question that he could not understand.
Yan Liqiang smiled, "It's very simple, because they sent dinner to Ye Tiancheng once before, and there was something wrong with that dinner, but I didn't stop them and let them put the dinner outside the window of Ye Tiancheng's room. At the beginning, I made them feel that I was not on guard against them and I was very confident in them. This is a kind of psychological inertia in cognition, so when something really happened, they would not have thought that I would react so quickly and so flexibly when there was a fire. When I said that Ye Tiancheng was still in the room, they would definitely think that Ye Tiancheng was still in the room..."
"What about the small piece of wood blocking the keyhole? Did you prepare it beforehand?"
"That small piece of wood was a small piece I cut off from my chopsticks when I was eating. I didn't expect to use it at first. I was just preparing for it because I didn't know what other tricks they had in mind. I didn't expect to actually use it."
"So you were deliberately misleading them while they were eating?" Liang Yiji was shocked and asked in disbelief.
"Anyway, I know Ye Tiancheng will never eat that thing, so I'll just pretend to be confused so that they won't take me to heart!"
"When you took Ye Tiancheng away, didn't Ye Tiancheng have any other ideas and didn't want to escape from you?" Sun Bingchen, who had been silent for a long time, also asked a question.
Yan Liqiang shrugged and spread his hands. "Of course Ye Tiancheng wanted to escape from me. He promised me a lot of benefits, but I'm not that easy to fool. Anyway, he couldn't use his strength at that time. His strength was about the same as that of an ordinary person. My knife was always on his body. If he really wanted to escape, I would hit him with a knife, or scream, and then he would be really finished!"
Sun Bingchen, who had been looking at Yan Liqiang with strange eyes, finally smiled and retracted his gaze. "Okay, Liqiang, thanks to you this time. If you were not here today, Ye Tiancheng might have really died here!"
"This is what I should do!"
"Well, there's nothing else to do. Go down and have a rest early!"
Yan Liqiang hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth, and said, "Sir, I have something to say but I don't know if I should say it!"
"Oh, you say!"
"We are in Ganzhou. If Lord Lei Sitong is determined to kill Ye Tiancheng, it will be hard to guard against. Lord Lei's methods tonight are relatively mild. He doesn't want to completely break up with us. But if we leave Weiyuan City tomorrow and come to the wilderness, Lord Lei will use more drastic methods if he really wants to take Ye Tiancheng's life. We may not be able to handle it with such a small number of people. I think it's better to talk to Lord Lei now than to wait until then!"
"Don't worry. When I came back, I had already made an agreement with Lord Lei Sitong. He will send troops to escort us out of Ganzhou. This matter has been resolved!"
Yan Liqiang smiled awkwardly, "It turns out that you have already made up your mind. I was just worrying too much..."
(End of this chapter)