After hearing Ouyang Ye's words, the man looked around and saw that there was no one else near the road, so he walked closer to Ouyang Ye, clasped his fists and said, "The little man is Liu Defu, the shopkeeper of Xiaogushan Inn. I want to ask the Ouyang Gangmaster to save my benefactor!"

Xiaogushan Inn?

"Li Renqi?" Ouyang Ye's calm face finally showed a look of surprise, "What happened to him?"

Liu Defu said: "The day before yesterday, several powerful captains came to Yiling Mansion and said that my benefactor stole Ye Mingzhu from the prefect's family and captured him."

Although Babei is affiliated with Enshi Mansion, it is in the northernmost part of Enshi and is actually closer to Yiling Mansion. Therefore, Ouyang Ye was not very surprised that Li Renqi, the one-legged thief, stole the treasures of the prefect of Yiling.

What Ouyang Ye is strange about is another thing.

"Why do you think I will rescue Li Renqi?" Ouyang Ye stared at Liu Defu and asked.

The weather was not very hot, but Liu Defu saw sweat on his forehead and swallowing saliva, which was obviously a little nervous.

He said: "The villain knows that the Ouyang Gang Master is recruiting heroes from all directions. My benefactor is also a third-level master and has great light skills. If the Ouyang Gang Master is willing to help me, my benefactor will definitely work to repay the great kindness after he escapes from the trouble!"

After hearing this, Ouyang Ye shook his head and said, "It is not worth it to go against the prefect for a third-level master."

Liu Defu said anxiously: "It's not that the Ouyang Gang Master is against the Prime Minister Yiling, just save my benefactor!"

Ouyang Ye still shook his head, and then signaled Wan Chu and others who were leading the way ahead to continue walking.

Seeing Ouyang Ye walking past him, Liu Defu gritted his teeth and said, "The villain actually came to ask the boss of Ouyang for help after the orders of my benefactor!"

Ouyang Ye stopped, looked at Liu Defu again, and said, "Continue to talk."

Liu Defu took a breath and said, "My benefactor got Ye Mingzhu back from Yiling Mansion. He seemed to have a premonition that he would be arrested, so he had made various preparations long ago. He also told the villain that if he was really caught, he would come to ask the Ouyang Gang Leader for help."

"The benefactor also said that if the villain could not persuade the leader of Ouyang to take action, he could tell the leader that the reason why he was arrested was not because he stole Ye Mingzhu, but because he knew a huge secret. If the leader of the gang wants to know this secret, he can save him."

Ouyang Ye shook his head after hearing this and said, "I won't take risks for a secret that I don't know if it's useful."

Liu Defu said, "My benefactor said that this secret concerns the general trend of the world, and the Ouyang Gang leader is a person with ambitions and will definitely be interested."

Ouyang Ye frowned, was silent for a while, and waved: "You go to Wu County with me, I have something to ask you."

When Liu Defu heard this, he knew that Ouyang Ye was moved. He immediately smiled and clasped his fists and said, "The villain obeys the order."

While resting on the way, Ouyang Ye asked, "Since Li Renqi had a premonition that he would be caught, he would definitely be arrested. Why did he not escape by doing all kinds of measures? Could it be that many people arrested him, which is very powerful?"

Liu Defu smiled bitterly and said, "Actually, my benefactor was followed before he left Yiling Mansion. He could not get rid of it or beat him. Then he found a gap and left a message in the villain's shop."

"In less than a day later, two more third-level masters rushed from Yiling Mansion. My benefactor couldn't even get rid of the previous one, so he had to be arrested now."

"Isn't Li Renqi so good at light skills? It seems that his name is not worthy of it." Ouyang Ye said lightly.

"There are also strong players. My benefactor is just a third-rate figure in the martial arts world. What's so strange about someone's light skills being better than him?" Liu Defu couldn't help but defend Li Renqi.

Ouyang Ye smiled and said no more.

After returning to Longjiling, Wu County, Ouyang Ye asked the blacksmith to build a larger cage of fine iron to raise Pusque snakes.

This is also impossible.

Even ordinary snakes are kept in the jar, and there are very few free-range ones, let alone Pusqu snakes that have become older than fourth-level experts.

Of course, in order not to affect the reproduction of the Pusqu snake, the snake cage he made was more than ten feet high, two or three feet wide, and more than ten feet long. Some rocks and grass shrubs were arranged inside to try to simulate the living environment of the Pusqu snake.

He did everything he could do. If these two Pusque snakes did not mate and could not lay eggs and hatch eggs, he would admit it.

When dealing with this matter, Ouyang Ye did not forget to ask Yu Si to lead the elite spies of the Yu tribe to Yiling Mansion to inquire about Li Renqi.

He was about to rescue Li Renqi. One reason was that Li Renqi told Liu Defu that he was really moved, but the main reason was that he wanted to subdue Li Renqi.

As for the Yiling Prefect, he had all destroyed the Wushan Sect. He did not think that a Yiling Prefect could have such a powerful warrior.

Of course, he was not afraid of ten thousand, but he was afraid of if he was, so he first took Yu Si to inquire.

Yiling was not only on the north side of Ba, but also had the Yangtze River waterway to understand, so in just seven or eight days, Yu Si brought his people back.

"Gang Master, I didn't find out the news about Li Renqi, but we have found out a lot of news about Yiling Prefect." In the Yu Tower, Yu Si reported to Ouyang Ye.

"Tell me, look."

Yu Si organized a brief speech and said, "Ran Wencheng, the governor of Yiling, has been in office for three years. He was originally just a dog official with some ability but very greedy, and there was nothing strange about it. But since half a year ago, he suddenly began to recruit various warriors, and gave a lot of money to third-rate or even second-rate martial arts people who could serve."

"In addition, although this person still embezzled and accepted bribes, he actually did some good things for the people of Yiling, such as building roads and bridges, dredging rivers and ditches, clearing the bandits and bandits, etc., and now he is quite popular with the people."

"Because Ran Wencheng's transformation was too strange, the villain used some means to inquire about some internal information from the Ran family. Only then did he realize that the things Ran Wencheng did were actually done under the suggestion of his only daughter."

"The martial arts people who defected to Ran Wencheng were actually secretly controlled by Ran Wencheng's only daughter. My subordinates think that if Li Renqi really knew any big secret, he would be afraid that he would be unable to get along with Ran Wencheng's only daughter."

After listening to Yu Si's words, Ouyang Ye pondered for a moment.

In fact, it is not surprising that a prefect recruits martial arts people in Dayu. After all, martial arts in this world are still prosperous. In the past, when Dayu was in a prosperous era, there were many powerful warriors in both the army and the prefectures and counties.

Later, the Dayu court continued to decline. As long as the warriors with strength and ability were not favored by the army or in the yamen, as long as they did not please their superiors and did not join the corrupt officials, they would not be reused, but also be excluded. Therefore, the truly powerful warriors gradually stopped working for the court.

Now the seat where the powerful warriors should be sitting is either a corpse or a bribe, or a relationship is gained through ties.

Under this bad atmosphere of the end of the dynasty, most officials only want to "earn" money and promotion. Few people will truly improve the military power of the government, and even fewer do practical things for the people.

Ran Wencheng was the same before, why did he suddenly listen to his daughter’s advice to change his style of conduct?

Did Ran Wencheng change, or did his daughter change?

Thinking of this, Ouyang Ye couldn't help but ask: "What is Ran Wencheng's only daughter's name? How old is Fang's age?"

"Ran Yuehua seems to be only sixteen or seventeen years old."

"Apart from these, is there any other relevant news?" Ouyang Ye asked again.

Yu Si shook his head and said, "The guards of the Ran Mansion are strict and the governors are quite strict. The information from the drunken Ran Mansion is obtained. More information is really hard to find out."

Ouyang Ye nodded after hearing this, but did not blame Yu Si.

The Shenmu Gang had no foundation or relationship in Yiling Mansion before. Yu Si was able to find out that Ran Wencheng's changes were related to his daughter, so he was already capable.

After pondering for a while, Ouyang Ye remembered another important question and asked: "Among the martial arts people recruited by the Ran Mansion, how many martial arts are there in the third and fourth realms?"

Yu Si was obviously prepared for this question and responded directly: "There are two fourth realms on the surface and seven third realms on the surface. As for whether there are more in the secret, it is not clear."
Chapter completed!