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Chapter 16 Yan Zhongchang

Now that she has confirmed that she is Changshan’s sister, Luo Xiaoyao said to Weng Mu, “No, Elder Weng, stop them.”

Holding the handrail of the stairs, he jumped into the stairs and chased after him. Although Weng Mu didn't know what happened, he was also suspicious of Liu Gongwen, but when he saw this, he jumped down from the window on the second floor. However, he saw Liu Gongwen taking Chang Qingqing to a carriage more than ten feet and heading north.

Inside the carriage, Liu Gongwen was so angry that she stared at Chang Qingqing and said, "Who are they?"

Chang Qingqing knew that Weng Mu had suspected that Liu Gongwen was a villain, but she was forced by Liu Gongwen and responded against her will. After Weng Mu sat back to the table, she was gradually disappointed. When Luo Xiaoyao heard Luo Xiaoyao shouting out his brother Changshan's name, she was shocked and happy. Seeing Liu Gongwen running away with him, she knew that he was afraid. She expected that Weng Mu and others would come to rescue him. Seeing Liu Gongwen looking at him with vicious eyes, she snorted coldly, but did not answer.

Liu Gongwen was stunned and said annoyedly: "I'm a scheming girl, I'll be scheming with you later..."

When I opened the carriage window, I saw three riders and horses following me tightly, just over five meters away. They were the three old men in the restaurant.

Liu Gongwen put down the window cloth and thought to himself that the old man's realm is at least at the level of holding a pill. In addition, the young man, if he didn't think of a countermeasure, he might be unable to save his life.

They followed, and must have wanted to save this girl. They dared not come forward to stop her. They must have been afraid of hurting Chang Qingqing. With a thought, they pulled Chang Qingqing in front of them, opened the back door of the carriage, pinched Chang Qingqing's neck, and said coldly: "I have no malice towards her. Don't follow her again. If you retreat now, I promise not to hurt her at all. If you follow her again, it will harm her life."

Weng and Luo did not dare to chase after him because they were afraid that he would hurt Chang Qingqing. After hearing this, Weng Mu slowed down his horse's stance and said in a deep voice: "This little girl's family knows me, but she doesn't seem to be a man from the world. You are a master of divine thoughts. What is the purpose of holding a child hostage?"

Liu Gongwen naturally would not tell the reason and answered the question illegitimately: "I will do what I say. As long as you step back now, this child will be fine. I will not say it for the third time." After that, I looked at Weng Mu coldly.

Weng Mu and Luo Xiaoyao looked at each other and stopped. Liu Gongwen breathed a sigh of relief: "If you see you again, you will see one of the children's arms."

Luo Xiaoyao heard this and said angrily: "Dare you?"

Liu Gongwen closed the car door, and Weng Mu said to Luo Xiaoyao: "Young Master, don't be anxious. This evil thief must have a plan to hold Qingqing hostage. He should not hurt Qingqing at the moment, but..."

Even though Weng Mu is an old man, he can't figure out why. He thought about it: "This guy is vicious. If he keeps up, he might really hurt Qingqing. Seeing him heading north, he will definitely pass by Daizhou, right now..."

He turned to Jian Wei, who followed him and said, "You immediately send a message to Manager Yang from Daizhou Branch Pavilion, asking him to pay attention to this person's whereabouts. This guy is not weak. Manager Yang and others are not opponents. Don't act rashly. We will arrive later."

Liu Gongwen occasionally opened the window cloth to visit. He stayed on a hillside that was more than ten miles away from Daizhou City for half a stick of incense, but he did not see Weng Mu and others. He was so calm that he thought that Weng Mu and others would not dare to chase him, so he asked the groom to drive a cart into Daizhou City.

It was already the hour of You, and Liu Gongwen naturally did not dare to walk at night, so he found an inn in the city. There were many business trips in Daizhou, and there were only one room with a size of land left in the inn. After Liu Gongwen settled down, he ordered the shop to bring the wine and food into the room. When the waiter brought the wine and food, he saw two people passing by the corridor at the door. Liu Gongwen glanced at it, thought of it, and hurriedly got up and walked out of the room and said, "Mr. Yan, please stay."

The two stopped hearing the sound and looked back. Liu Gongwen hurriedly stepped forward to salute one of the tall men who were nearly 50 years old and said, "I have met Mr. Yan."

He turned to another man who was about thirty years old and bowed a little awkwardly: "I have met General Yelu."

The man who was about thirty years old was Yelu Zongwu, and the "Mr. Yan" mentioned by Liu Gongwen was the chief of the Khitan Southern Court Guardian.

After the defeat in Xizhou, Yelu Zongwu obeyed Xiao Yanbei's orders to stay in Fenzhou for standby, but he received news that Emperor Shizong of Liao, Yelu Ruan, was killed and his brother, King Yan, participated in the rebellion and was executed. When he was in panic, Yan Zhongchang came to take him back to Youzhou by the order of the King of the Southern Court. He thought he was innocent and did not resist, so he followed Yan Zhongchang to the north.

Yan Zhongchang looked at Liu Gongwen and smiled and said, "Oh, I didn't expect to meet Mr. Liu here."

Liu Gongwen has been in Youzhou for more than ten years and has no ambitions. He is known as a fence-bearer. He naturally has no conflicts with his aides and servants under the nobles of Youzhou. After learning that the King of Yan rebelled, he thought about his next master to surrender. When he was in Taiyuan, he wanted to surrender to the Nandawang Courtyard. Now he met the chief of the Nanyuan Guard Office to worship Yan Zhongchang. He was very happy. Knowing that the corridor passage was not a place to speak, Liu Gongwen bowed and said, "Mr. Yan, please go back to the room, and Liu will come later."

Yan Zhongchang nodded when he heard this and walked to a room on the east side of the corridor. Liu Gongwen returned to the room and looked at Chang Qingqing for a moment. His thoughts changed rapidly. He thought that if he took Chang Qingqing over there, Yan Zhongchang would have been suspicious. At that time, he saw that he was threatening a ten-year-old girl, he would be dissatisfied with him. So he tore off the cloth strip and tied Chang Qingqing up, blocked his mouth and placed it on the bed, locked the door and went to Yan Zhongchang's room.

This is a large room with a hall and room in the middle. Yan Zhongchang and Yelu Zongwu were sitting next to the round table in the hall, with a pot of wine on the table. Seeing Liu Gongwen coming, Yan Zhongchang didn't stand up and signaled Liu Gongwen to take his seat and smiled and said, "Mr. Liu is going south or?"

Liu Gongwen smiled embarrassedly and bowed, "Mr. Yan laughed. Because Liu had some grudges with others in the Central Plains in his early years, he went to make a decision. This time he returned north, but he did not expect such a big event to happen to the court..."

He took a glass of white wine that Yan Zhongchang poured with him and drank it in one sip. He looked at Yelu Zongwu and said, "The King of Yan is a human being, sir, I believe he knows, and he should not..."

Yan Zhongchang naturally heard that Yelu Shuja was helped into the tent of the Taining King after being drunk, and participated in the rebellion in a confused manner, and was also killed in a confused manner. After the Tai'an King Yelu Jing ascended the throne, he only killed Yelu Shuja and his son, and he never had the intention of being killed in a row.

After listening to Liu Gongwen's words, he knew that he was just talking about something nice to the old master because of Yelu Zongwu's presence, so he interrupted: "The court will make a conclusion on such a great rebellion, and it is not our martial artists' discussion. Mr. Liu should not mention this matter."

He poured a glass of wine on his own and looked at Yelu Zongwu, who looked worried, saying, "However, the emperor (Yelu Jing, the king of Tai'an, ascended the throne and became emperor in the army after killing the rebels) and Commander Yelu are brothers of the same clan, and they will investigate clearly. Commander Yelu has been leading the troops outside and has made military achievements, so it is necessary to inherit the throne."

It turned out that Yelu Zongwu's grandfather was Yelu Su, the younger brother of the Liao Taizu. Now that the King of Yan is executed, only Yelu Zongwu is left in Yelu Su's lineage. Yelu Zongwu belongs to Jifu's tent, known as the "Four Royal Family Positions". Yelu Jing will definitely not kill him, but will be comforted.

When Yan Zhongchang was ordered to go south to take Yelu Zongwu back, the Taibao of the Southern Court told Yan Zhongchang not to be looked down upon on the way, and he felt vaguely in his heart that Yelu Zongwu might be blessed in disguise.

Liu Gongwen's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he could not escape Yan Zhongchang's eyes. The reason why Yan Zhongchang said this at this time was that he also had his intention. He knew that there were five or six people with skills like Liu Gongwen in the Yan Palace. Now the Yan King was killed, and Liu Gongwen was caught close, and he had the idea of ​​winning these people into the Guardian's Mansion to listen to it.

Yelu Zongwu is also half of Liu Gongwen's master, but it is not appropriate to win over Liu Gongwen in person. Yelu Zongwu may be lucky in disguise. Now let Liu Gongwen surrender to him first, and both will be grateful to him in the future. Then he smiled and said to Liu Gongwen: "Mr. Liu is back north, and it seems that his trip to the Central Plains is already what he wants. I wonder what plans are in the future?"

Yan Zhongchang glanced at Yelu Zongwu meaningfully. Liu Gongwen was an opportunist who observed his appearance and understood Yan Zhongchang's meaning.

He was a disciple who had been raised by Yan King Yelu Shuja for more than ten years. Although Yelu Shuja died, if Yelu Zongwu succeeded to the position of prince, he would have gained a good reputation. Moreover, Yelu Zongwu was in trouble at this time, and he would show his kindness to him in the future, and he might become his confidant in the future and be highly valued.

Although Yan Zhongchang was so suggestive, although he did not know his intention, it was not harmful to him at the moment. If he lost the bet, he would not refuse. Thinking of this, Liu Gongwen knew it in his heart, coughed, and bowed to Yelu Zongwu, "Liu has received great favors from the Prince of Yan's Mansion. He is willing to follow the general to repay his favor for the past ten years of food."

Yelu Zongwu was honest by nature. Yeyu and Liu were scheming, just like a man and a woman's eyes were filled with emotions. He had already decided on the matter with a glance and cough. He returned to the palace every year and was familiar with Liu Gongwen and had no disgust towards him. He heard this and said gratefully: "Zong Wu's conviction may have implicated Mr. Liu."

Liu Gongwen smiled and said, "The emperor is wise and will definitely find out the reason and make the general clear."

Yelu Zongwu knew that he was very skilled and thought that if there was no trouble when he went north this time, this person would stay by his side and let him be a military entourage. He glanced at Yan Zhongchang with a smile and said to Liu Gongwen: "Mr. Liu is so loyal and righteous, Zongwu is very grateful."

Yan Zhongchang laughed loudly, poured the wine for the two of them, and said with a smile: "It's so good. If Mr. Liu has nothing to do, how about going with Yan tomorrow?"

Liu Gongwenzheng couldn't ask for it. When he thought of Chang Qingqing, he hesitated for a moment and said, "Mr. Liu has a grudge and wants to make a decision. But he knew that the man would avoid him. In anger, he took his child away. The man was afraid that he would invite someone... to chase him, probably to implicate Mr. Yan."

Of course he would not tell the truth, and he was afraid that Yan Zhongchang and the others would not be able to afford him, so he said it was just like he was right. Yan Zhongchang was very skilled in martial arts, extremely conceited, and knew that the grudges in the world were entangled, so he would not ask the reason in detail. Seeing that Liu Gongwen was weak, he couldn't help but snorted: "Yan wants to see who he is. He dares to go to my Youyun to play wildly, but Yan will go to Yunzhou to have a banquet in a few days. Let's do this, go to Yunzhou first."

Liu Gongwen naturally thanked him very much. He drank the wine in his glass and stood up and left. When he returned to the room, he was shocked. It turned out that Chang Qingqing was no longer visible. The back window in the room was slightly opened. Liu Gongwen hurried to the back window to visit. He saw that there were several horses and several carriages in the yard, but it was the stop of the commercial and passenger vehicles passing by the inn.

My mind changed rapidly. I thought that I was tied up very tightly and I should be able to break free. Someone must have sneaked in and rescued me while I was leaving. I thought it was the old and young. The night was dark below, and I didn’t know where to be rescued. I felt unwilling to accept it, so I jumped out of the window and looked around.

Liuzhou Gong Wen searched for nearly half an hour and did not find the suspicious person. He returned to the room and carefully observed the things in the room. He found that Bao Yu had been moved. He hurriedly opened it and saw that the few pieces of silver placed inside were missing. He felt something was wrong. He leaned over and looked at it under the bed. He saw a strip of cloth and a broken bowl under the bed. He thought he was careless and now he inferred that Chang Qingqing had escaped.

As the saying goes, anxiousness is chaos, Liu Gongwen is also a meticulous person. The King of Yan was executed for rebellion and had a long future. He happened to meet Yan Zhongchang. He was excited and he was inevitably neglected. When he arrived at Yan Zhongchang Tianfang, he could see the person entering and leaving the inn stairs. Several guests came up to go in and out of the waiter in the store, but no one went down, and he locked the door.

Liu Gongwen looked at the leftovers that had eaten halfway on the table and sighed. He never expected that Chang Qingqing, a ten-year-old girl, would have such a scheming.

Turning around and opening the rear window to look carefully, I noticed that there was a pile of horse grass below, which was more than meter high from the window. The horse grass was a little messy. I thought Chang Qingqing must have jumped out of the rear window to escape.

Liu Gongwen jumped down and looked at the backyard carefully. There was a dirt house more than two meters long in front of the left. The dirt house was the gate of the backyard for carriages to enter and exit. There was a 10-meter-square-meter-meter-square-meter-long house on the right of the gate. It should be the place where the gatekeeper lived. The gate was half open and it was not closed. Maybe there were carriages and horses entering and exiting.

Directly opposite was the horse corridor, and there were three carriages parked in the yard, and the carriages he was riding in were also among them. So he went up to check the carriage. There was no one in the carriage. He turned to the earthen house and saw that it was the place where the groom rested and stayed. There were several people drinking on the kang, and he hired the groom to be among them.

The groom looked surprised when he arrived and wanted to get off the kang to say hello. Liu Gongwen waved his hand and signaled that he didn't have to come down. He turned around and went to the guardhouse. He saw an old man hunchbacked from the house, humming a small song from his mouth, and was so drunk that he didn't say hello when he saw Liu Gongwenxing coming. He went straight to close the gate of the courtyard. Liu Gongwen stepped forward and asked, "Did you see a little girl going out?"

The hunchbacked old man protected his right ear with his hands, leaned into Liu Gongwen and said, "What are you saying, "Hello, please be louder."

Liu Gongwen frowned when he felt the smell of alcohol, and stopped asking. He opened the yard door and walked out, standing in the alley nearly a meter wide, thinking that it was almost the hour of Hai, a little girl would have no relatives and no reason... she must have hid in some alley corner.

Now I looked around the alleys, and after more than half an hour, I saw a beggar or two huddles huddled around the corner of the alley, but there was no trace of evergreen.

In desperation, he had to go back to the inn. After hearing the call, it was already three o'clock. At this time, the gate of the inn was closed and he had to jump onto the roof. However, he saw a man in black standing on the roof of his room. Liu Gongwen was stunned. Although the night was dark at this time, his cultivation was so good that he could see things at night. The man in black was not masked, and was the old man who followed him to save Chang Qingqing.

It turned out that Weng Mu and Luo Xiaoyao did not dare to chase Liu Gongwen too tightly, but they were afraid that the city gate would be closed by mistake, but they took a detour and entered Daizhou City from the west gate and came to Tongbao Pavilion Daizhou Branch.

Yang Tiansheng, the director of the branch office, had already found out about Liu Gongwen and Chang Qingqing's inn. The Arrow Guard in the Pavilion had already walked the surrounding streets of the "Xiangshun Inn" and talked to Weng Mu one by one. After learning about the situation, Weng Mu decided to take action at the third update. But he had just stepped on the roof from the alley next to the backyard of the inn. When he was about to lean over to investigate, he saw Liu Gongwen jumping onto the roof.

When Liu Gongwen saw Weng Mu, he thought something was wrong. He knew that martial arts was not the opponent of Weng Mu. He turned his mind and jumped to the room where Yan Zhongchang was on the right. He landed heavily, and only heard the sound of tiles. Weng Mu was about to chase after him, but only heard the sound of the door creaking. From the room, a tall, square-faced, bearded and majestic man came out.

Weng Mu didn't know Yan Zhongchang, but he felt that the person who came out was extraordinary. At this time, he was nearly six meters apart and could not explore his cultivation based on his breathing. But he thought that he should be a master. As soon as he thought, his right foot moved slightly, and a tiles on the roof quickly hit Yan Zhongchang face toward Yan Zhongchang. Yan Zhongchang snorted coldly and hit his right palm out. The tiles whirled like flying knife and rushed towards Weng Mu.

"Swoosh, swoosh" As the tiles rotated, the energy was fierce, Weng Mu's heart was shaking, and he instantly slapped out. The tiles stopped between the two and hung in the air in the front yard. The two shouted in a low voice at the same time, "Bang", and the dust in the air was flying, and the tiles were naturally broken into powder.

Weng Mu's energy turned, his feet moved slightly, and he heard a "slam" sound and fell down the room, but he saw that there was no one in the room, and he didn't hesitate. He slapped the back window with a palm, and the window sash flew away and then jumped out, and he turned around a little on the roof of the carriage parked in the yard, and stopped in the air, and stopped on a roof more than ten feet away from the inn. However, he saw two people standing on the roof of the inn, looking at him, but he didn't chase him.

Weng Mu and Yan Zhong had a long move and had already figured out that the other party seemed to be at the top of Mingqiao Mountain. Their cultivation was comparable to the Mingwu monk he met in Xizhou. It was probably difficult to deal with. Without thinking, he walked away bit by bit. Looking at the direction where Weng Mu's two ups and downs were gone, Yan Zhong seemed to have thoughtfulness and turned to Liu Gongwen and said, "Let's talk about it again after going back to the room..."

At this time, the people in the inn were awakened. Everyone was traveling around the world. They had seen these martial arts fights that happened frequently in the inn. They were afraid that they would cause trouble. No one dared to come out to watch them. Only the shopkeeper stood in the middle of the stairs with fear, not knowing what to do. Seeing Yan Zhongchang and Liu Gongwen jumping down on the roof, silently, they were extremely scared. Liu Gongwen frowned slightly, opened the door and pointed to the hole on the roof and said, "Change a room."

The shop clerk stammered and replied: "Customer...Customer, there are no more...the room."

At this time, Yan Zhongchang smiled and said, "Mr. Liu, let's rest in Yan's room, how about it?"

The room where Yan Zhong lived for a long time was the only sky-sized room in this inn, but it had a living room. People who practice martial arts walked around the world and often slept at night to meditate to regulate their breathing and nourish their spirits. Liu Gongwen was happy and said, "Then disturb Mr. Yan."

After entering the room, Liu Gongwen did not hide it, so he listened to Yan Zhongchang what happened after leaving the room of Tiandi.

After hearing this, Yan Zhongchang was amazed: "At a young age, he was so scheming and courageous. It is really amazing to be able to escape from Mr. Liu."

Liu Gongwen's face turned red and she sighed, "If it weren't for the enemy, Liu would have the intention to accept her as his disciple."

Yan Zhongchang seemed to have the same feeling, nodded and said, "I wonder who Mr. Liu's enemy is? How could he teach such a courageous child?"

It is a taboo to ask about other people's grievances in the world, but Yan Zhongchang disagreed. He was the chief escort of the Guardian of the Southern King's Court of Liao Kingdom. He was considered a person in the officialdom and was very famous in the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun. Moreover, Liu Gongwen could be said to have been saved by him just now.

Liu Gongwen was stunned when he heard this, and looked embarrassed. Yan Zhongchang did not force himself to see this: "Mr. Liu has something difficult to describe, but who was the old man just now? Although Yan was not walking in the Central Plains, he also knew that some well-known figures in the world, and the skills of this old man were definitely not an unknown person."

"Mr. Yan laughed. Liu met this person in Xinzhou. He had never seen him before. I thought he was the one invited by my enemy."

"This person has a knife-like hand technique and his true energy is thick. Yan can't see his origin. I think he is a hidden person... Forget it, it's almost the third update, so let's take a rest first."

In the early morning, when Yan Zhongchang and the other two were having breakfast in the Tianzi room, a man in strong clothes came to the door and bowed and said, "I have seen Mr. Yan, Lord Wu, when will I start?"

Yan Zhongchang smiled and said, "Mr. Wu got up so early. Tell him that Yan will arrive after a moment of marquis."

"Yes, Mr. Yan." The man retreated.

Yan Zhongchang looked at Liu Gongwen with a suspicious look on his face, and smiled and told him the reason why this man came here.

It turned out that Yan Zhongchang was ordered to go to Fenzhou to bring Yelu Zongwu back. The Fenzhou governor was worried about how to arrange the hot potatoes of Yelu Zongwu and his remaining troops. He heard that Yan Zhongchang was very happy and was busy hosting a banquet to entertain him. Naturally, he wanted to please the people sent by the Southern King Academy of the Liao Dynasty. Of course, he knew about the Liao Dynasty's mutiny and thought that Yelu Zongwu would be punished. He saw that Yan Zhongchang was very polite to Yelu Zongwu, and he felt strange and did not dare to ask more questions.

The remaining troops of Yelu Zong's military generals were still arranged to stay in Fenzhou and went to the Dawang Courtyard of the South of the Liao Dynasty alone with Yan Zhongchang. The governor immediately sent the news to Taiyuan. When Yan Zhongchang arrived in Taiyuan, he was invited by the guards to the palace of Prince Liu Chengjun at the gate.

Liu Chengjun naturally wanted to make friends with Yan Zhongchang and investigate the situation of Yelu Zongwu. During the chat, the two naturally mentioned Xiao Yanbei, the commander-in-chief of the South Court, who led troops to aid Han. He learned from Yan Zhongchang that he took Yelu Zongwu back this time and participated in the wedding of Xiao Yanbei's son Xiao Siwen, but he was very happy.

He also met Xiao Yanbei and knew that his status was noble. He finally wanted to wait for an opportunity to make friends. When he learned that Xiao Siwen had a wedding, he certainly wanted to give gifts to congratulate him, but he didn't want to make a big fuss, so he sent an official surnamed Wu from the mansion to accompany Yan Zhongchang as a private person.

When we arrived in Daizhou, there was only one room in the "Xiangshun" inn. The official surnamed Wu had to stay at another inn with his two entourages, so the guard came over to ask Yan Zhongchang when he would set off.
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