"Slow down!" Tan Cen pushed through the crowd and rushed forward. Su Yan looked at his panic eyes and smiled happily.
Tan Cen picked her up from the ground like a madman, and immediately followed the dead man to retreat to a safe area. Everyone held their breath and stared nervously at the door.
After waiting for half a cup of tea, there was still silence all around. Only then did Tan Cen realize that he had been tricked, and he wanted to hit her angrily. As soon as his hand touched her forehead, a strong wind appeared from nowhere and brushed him away.
Cen was in pain, covered his wounds and hid in the circle of dead soldiers.
Yan Zhen descended from the sky, protected Su Yan and retreated to the red-painted gate, keeping a distance from them. After ensuring Su Yan's safety, he slowly said: "Master Tan has such a big appetite, and there are so many beautiful women around him.
," he said, looking seriously at those dead soldiers who could clearly be seen as possessing special skills at a glance, and chuckled, "Mr. Su looks too ordinary, but she can't compare to anyone else. You like her.
?I really have no vision!”
Su Yan raised his eyebrows, glanced at him from the corner of his eye, and pinched the most vulnerable part of his waist harshly. He couldn't hold it back and just twitched the corner of his mouth.
Yan Zhen is also a veteran on the battlefield. Regardless of his momentum or achievements, everyone who knows him is in awe. However, as a minister of the imperial court and a first-class official, Tan Cen has seen many ruthless characters. At this time, facing Yan Zhen
, but he just tempered some of his arrogance. Although he was respectful, there was still a hint of provocation: "General Yan is here, but why are you hiding in the dark? Are you protecting Miss Su?"
"What does it have to do with you!"
"It's really touching that General Yan protects her like this. The two talented men and beautiful women are like the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl."
"Bullshit on your mother, you're talking about the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, that's nonsense!" Yan Zhen blushed angrily and cursed. Su Yan saw something was wrong, Tan Cen was obviously trying to provoke the general, this sinister guy who doesn't understand people's hearts is being led by others.
!However, Tan Cen was so angry that he didn't give Su Yan a chance to interrupt, and pressed every sentence: "It's not a relationship between a man and a woman, so why do you need to protect her?"
"Of course..."
"What is it?!"
Yan Zhen's originally red face suddenly turned gloomy, and she said to him coldly: "Tan Cen, you, the official minister, are not enough to raise a whole yard of women, but you want to seduce Mr. Shu Youtang!
When has there been any disrespect to Mr. Rong Guo in our country, but you have set a precedent! Now you have only two ways, either shut up, or..."
"General, do you want to take action?" Tan Cen was not afraid of his warning at all. "Although you are one against a hundred on the battlefield, my carefully trained dead soldiers are not vegetarians." After that, he turned around and ran away.
, let the dead soldiers fight.
How could Yan Zhen take them seriously? He didn't even raise his eyebrows when dealing with these weak soldiers and crab generals.
"Don't you want to fight?" Su Yan hid behind him and asked him worriedly when he saw that he was not prepared at all.
"It's not worth being so well-prepared for a bunch of little minions, but if you want to see me wield a knife, I'm willing to put in some effort to entertain you."
Su Yan shook his head. It was better to fight quickly in the middle of the night. It was more important to go back to sleep.
At this critical moment, the important moment of the fight between the two parties, they were chatting in this room. The scarred man in the leader's eyes widened with anger. While cursing "stinky bitch", he drew his sword, pushed away the dead soldiers on both sides, and vowed
Shame on Yixue. That sword was indeed a good sword, with a dazzling sharp edge. It looked like a top-notch weapon at first glance, but under Yan Zhen's Qinghong sword, it was just like scrap metal.
Looking at the broken knife in his hand, the scarred man shed tears in disbelief. He looked up, a cold light flashed, and a strand of broken hair fell from his eyes, covering the broken knife on the ground.
"You..." The scarred man looked at the boy opposite him in horror. The knife in his palm had not even been completely unsheathed.
The dead soldiers who came one after another knocked him away with a dull look, and his figure could no longer be found among the black heads.
Death warriors are all women, and women are the easiest to blend into various places. They can kill people without anyone noticing, and they don’t even need to show their weapons. Because of this, even if their lethality is not as good as that of male warriors, they are still deeply affected.
They were favored by all the powerful people. It was also because of this that Tan Cen purchased these female dead soldiers. Some of them were placed in the dark market, some were kept by his side, and some were placed in the mansions of adults in Kyoto.
But when dealing with Yan Zhen, he made a mistake.
In one round, just one, they all fell under the Qinghong sword. The sword was still unsheathed. The speed was so fast that it was shocking! But what made him even more angry was that Yan Zhen saw no blood from the beginning to the end.
It just ruined the skills of the dead soldier. This was simply an insult to him. But he had to endure the insult. Only the scarred man was left beside him, which was his last shield.
"Kill me, and you won't be able to get out." Tan Cen didn't know where he got the confidence.
"What's the meaning?"
"Have you forgotten where this is?"
Yan Zhen looked at the door behind him. There was a plaque saying 'Xishan Villa' hanging above the door. He said impatiently: "Isn't it Xishan Villa? What's the problem!"
"There is no problem in Xishan Villa, but there are only five miles between here and the military camp outside the city. I just sent out the official black sentry. In a short time, a large number of soldiers will come. You will break into private houses, kill servants, and injure others."
Officials, let’s see how you explain it!”
As soon as he finished speaking, a ray of red light flew towards him. The huge internal force shook the scarred man away and knocked him unconscious against the tree. Before Tan Cen had time to dodge, Yan Zhen grabbed his throat, and the huge force almost made him faint.
"I didn't sign the contract. I killed that...that woman in the dark market. All the evidence has been destroyed. She will die...without any evidence!" He gritted his teeth and finished speaking, his face turned red from holding back.
"I don't care if you have evidence or not, I'll kill you first!"
"You...you can try it!"
One of them didn't want his life, and the other didn't want his life. If he didn't stop it, it might really be difficult to end. Su Yan hurriedly opened Yan Zhen's hand, but Yan Zhen was so angry that he couldn't pry it away, so he had to persuade him with painstaking efforts: "He found out.
The black sentry belongs to the official department. If the military camp sees him, he will rush over immediately. So what if you kill him? There are many slaves in the courtyard who have seen him. Can you kill him? Let him go and we can negotiate terms!"
Yan Zhen realized the seriousness of the situation and had no choice but to let go. Almost at the same time, the sound of horse hooves was heard not far outside the courtyard, and fire shot into the sky, indicating that the door would soon be broken down.
Su Yan held down Tan Cen who was about to run for his life and warned him: "Shut up if you want to live. Whatever you should say and what you shouldn't say will rot in your stomach. Otherwise, you must have heard about Yan Zhen's methods."
Passed."
Whether it was fear or anger, Tan Cen's eyes were red and he nodded reluctantly.
The door was broken open, and a group of twenty or thirty people rushed in instantly. They were all wearing armor and wearing sabers on their waists. They lined up in two rows in the small courtyard. A man wearing a red helmet came in from the door.
The general only had a long sword on his waist, his eyes were bright, and his aura was impressive. But in the blink of an eye, his expression suddenly changed drastically, and he knelt down in front of Yan Zhen with a plop.
"General!" He struggled to hug Yan Zhen's thigh, ignoring the strange looks from everyone, and said with tears and runny nose, "I didn't expect to meet you here, why did you resign without saying a word?
, we brothers can’t do it without you! We won’t be able to fight well!”
After complaining, there was another burst of howling, which gave Su Yan a splitting headache. Yan Zhen didn't expect to meet his old friend here, so he hurriedly helped him up, "It's my fault that I left without saying goodbye, but if I say goodbye to you, I'm afraid I can't bear it."
I left. Brother Liang, let me slowly apologize to you for this matter in the future. For now, you have to do me a favor."
General Liang immediately paid attention: "What do you say, General? If you say a word, the general will go through fire and water without hesitation!"
"General Liang, you... do you know each other?!" Tan Cen's surprised face was dripping with sweat one after another. The confidence he had finally regained was now on the verge of collapse. He only needed a light touch to collapse it.
.
Only then did General Liang remember his business. He hurriedly straightened up his manners, lifted his belt, and said seriously: "How come Sir Tan is so disgraced? These women around you..."
Tan Cen had calculated everything but failed to realize that Liang Shiqing turned out to be Yan Zhen's subordinate. He really shot himself in the foot! The rhetoric he had originally thought of could not be used. Fortunately, his mind was quick.
He quickly put on a smile and said: "Misunderstanding, it's all misunderstanding! General Yan and this Su..." He subconsciously wanted to reveal Su Yan's identity, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was better not to let others know about what happened tonight.
Too many, so he quickly changed his words: "I was passing by the small courtyard with this young gentleman. It happened that there was a snitch here, so the general came to help and caused some commotion. It was a small matter, so you can solve it yourself. I don't know who it was.
I'm really sorry that I sent a black whistle carelessly and disturbed General Liang!"
"Has the thief been caught?"
Tan Cen pretended to feel sorry for him: "If I could catch him, I would cut him into pieces. Look, all my maids here were beaten to such injuries and suffered so much. What a sin."
!”
Yes, it's really a sin to meet you! Su Yan thought and couldn't help but give him a hard look.
General Liang stared at the group of them and fell into deep thought: the black whistle is unique to the six departments. It can only be blown when life is endangered or serious losses will be caused to the department. This right can only be executed by the minister or authorized by others. How can
Will someone blow the whistle privately? Besides, Yan Zhen is not the kind of person who can act chivalrously and help others? Ha, how is that possible, unless dogs can talk and people can crawl on the ground!
The cause and effect here is that Tan Cen was afraid that Yan Zhen had angered Yan Zhen and Yan Zhen wanted to kill him, so he blew the whistle. As for why he was angry... General Liang glanced at the maids scattered around, and suddenly he thought. He moved to Yan Zhen.
Beside him, he asked in a low voice: "The general wants me to help you, is it for these maids around you?"
Yan Zhen originally wanted to tell him about Tan Cen Lue's human trafficking, but then he suddenly remembered that his sister's trip failed. They did not have evidence of the contract signed by Tan Cen.
All the women who were involved were silenced, and there were no witnesses or material evidence. So what if you told them? Who would believe that an honest and upright official like Tan Cen could be the leader of the dark market?!
But one must have a reputation when going out. When he appeared in the Xishan Courtyard, the territory of the Minister of Civil Affairs, it was impossible to really help and help catch the thieves? Liang Shiqing did not believe those soldiers believed it. This reckless man who wanted to get to the bottom of the matter would not be satisfied if he was not satisfied
He could not tell what kind of thing would happen. He had no choice but to follow Liang Shiqing's guess: "No, these maids have unknown origins at first sight. If I hadn't caught them, I would have been in trouble. I have always been sympathetic.
Women, you can’t bear to see them being persecuted. Don’t be fooled by Tan Cen’s hypocrite appearance. He must have stolen these women. If you don’t believe me, wake up and ask!”
Liang Shiqing was careful when asking, for fear of being overheard by Tan Cen, but he did not hold back at all when he spoke the truth. He shouted loudly, fearing that Tan Cen would not hear. When Tan Cen heard this, he hurriedly took off his outer robe and went to the pool to scoop some water.
The moonlit night was so cold that the water was freezing to the bone. He poured the water all over the maid. She was so shocked that she sat up like a corpse. Tan Cen hurriedly asked her and Liang Shiqing to prove their innocence. The result can be imagined.
As a dead warrior, she naturally protects the Lord wholeheartedly.
Liang Shiqing was not obsessed with the testimony of the 'maid'. Instead, he was surprised that in all the years he had been colleagues with Yanzhen, he had never seen him feel the slightest pity for any woman. Except for Fo Zhen, his biological sister, all the people in the world
He didn't take any women seriously, so why would he come here in the middle of the night to rescue a girl who was suspected of being abducted? It was unreasonable no matter how he thought about it. This question didn't linger in his mind for long, and Yan Zhen immediately gave him a satisfactory answer.
Just listen to him shouting: "Old man, you must have given her some ecstasy soup, otherwise why would she be so loyal to you, even risking her life? You are so insidious and cunning! You are indeed Mo Fei's great son
', you are colluding and targeting my singer, hoping that our singer's family will be in ruins, and your family will be the only one, right? Don't be proud, as long as I Yanzhen is alive for a day, you can't succeed!"
Liang Shiqing suddenly realized that they were enemies!
The matter in the Xishan Courtyard finally came to an end, with neither party benefiting from it and returning home in despair.
On the way back, Su Yan told Yan Zhen about Tan Cen's discovery of his identity, which scared him so much that he almost jumped up. Yan Zhen couldn't understand why his sister didn't let him silence him and kept Tan Cen alive, which would be a hidden danger in the future.
, I am afraid that he will inform Mo Fei at dawn in the future. Once Mo Fei finds out, there will be an uproar and the people from the Ge family will come to trouble his sister. How could Su Yan not be clear about it, but the situation at that time was not allowed at all.
He committed suicide. Xishan Courtyard is Tan Cen's territory. Naturally, he has more than twenty pairs of eyes. Once someone kills someone, paper cannot cover the fire!
Anyway, Tan Cen has been warned, and he will not risk his life, but this matter, this secret that has been hidden for ten years, must be solved as soon as possible! And there is only one solution, let him leave the official department.
Therefore, in the dark market, Tan Cen, those women and children who were abducted and trafficked must continue to be investigated!
But if the plan fails, what should we do?
"There are only three sources of goods in the dark market: refugees, poor people, and homeless people." In the Xinghan Pavilion, the west window was open. Zuo Qing was sitting by the window. A few peach blossoms floated in with the wind and fell on the desk. He looked at
He glanced at the petals and brushed them away with the book in his hand.
"What does 'no people' mean?" Su Yan was walking in the study. When he heard the word 'no people', he felt strange and stopped to ask him.
"There is no record in the documents, and he is a shady person. This kind of person often dies without anyone paying attention, and he is most likely to be abducted and trafficked."
"It's easy to say, the world is so big, where do you want me to find it?!" Su Yan's hope that he finally had was extinguished in an instant. He leaned against the door frame in despair, looking out the window at the spring garden, but a feeling of joy rose from the bottom of his heart.
Sad. I'm afraid I won't be able to see such a beautiful scenery again. When the singer receives the news, it will be the day he leaves...
She suddenly remembered what Tan Cen said. Although it was suspected of irritating her, after thinking about it carefully, Zuo Qing's appearance was indeed too strange. Her master disappeared, the tavern was occupied, she returned to Ruoshui, and the Ge family who should have never seen her in this life also disappeared.
Reunion one by one... These changes happened in just a few months, all after Zuo Qing appeared!
Could it be that he was really prepared to use himself to get close to Ge Zheng and then seek the command of the patrol army?
Is it really just to deal with Mo Fei that he spends so much effort?
What on earth are Zuo Qing and Xi Lou plotting?!
"what's on your mind?"
Zuo Qing's voice suddenly woke her up, and she hesitated and said some nonsensical words before she managed to get through.
"Didn't you hear what I just said?"
"Ah? What are you talking about?"
"The downtown area, I said you can go check it out in the downtown area. The place is very chaotic. There are officers and soldiers, merchants, refugees, homeless people, everyone. The poor people make up 70% of the population."
"You mean, where did the woman Tan Cen abducted and trafficked come from?"
Zuo Qing was not sure either. These were just his own guesses, but it was good to have guesses. It was better than being a headless fly.
"Last night had a bad start. This time I have to catch him. I have to show him something!" Su Yan clenched his fists and gritted his teeth.
"You have been exposed. If you act again, you will be monitored." Zuo Qing put down the book, stood up and walked towards her, saying at the same time: "I'm going to see someone, you wait for my news in the academy."
"Who?"
"A very important person, someone who can allow you to travel smoothly in the busy city without being watched."