Lishui Village is about ten miles north of Baique Villa. It is a small mountain village with only dozens of families. It makes a living by farming. Li Zhen and Di Yan found the village chief Yao Qigong in the Yao family at the east end of the village.

"You two are fine, God bless you!"

Yao Qigong was still in shock and quickly invited Li Zhen and Di Yan into the house, and asked his daughter-in-law to pour water for them. Li Zhen smiled: "Don't worry, Qigong! Wu Furong dared not do anything to us. It's too late to ask me to keep it a secret for her!"

Yao Qigong suddenly remembered the gold medal on Li Zhen's waist, and asked carefully: "Young Master, is General Li, the inner guard of Lai Junchen?"

"How did the Seventh Duke know?" Li Zhen asked with a little puzzled smile.

Yao Qigong was so scared that he knelt down quickly. He was not afraid of the royal family, but the inner guard really made him timid. He repeatedly said, "Xiaomin doesn't know it's General Li, please forgive Xiaomin for being rude."

Li Zhen couldn't smile bitterly and quickly helped him up, "Seventh Duke, please, I'm not that scary!"

Yao Qigong sat down tremblingly, and Li Zhen smiled again: "I want to go to the house on the mountain once in the evening, but I don't know much about the layout of the house. Can you ask Qigong for help?"

Yao Qigong thought for a while and said, "There are two people in the village who came to help last year. They should be very clear. I'll find them here."

Li Zhen was overjoyed, "Then I would like to thank Qi Gong!"

At night, the entire Baique Villa was quiet. The mountain road and the woods were quiet, and there was no one. However, Li Zhen and Di Yan did not walk the mountain road that they had walked through during the day, but went up the mountain from another secret path under the guidance of the villagers. Since Wu Furong's secret is so important, Wu Furong is likely to send someone to monitor the mountain road to prevent them from going up the mountain.

Soon, the two of them touched the east wall of the house on the top of the mountain. They climbed up a big tree with lush branches and leaves to cover it up to spy on the situation inside the house.

With the help of two villagers familiar with the situation in the house, they drew a detailed internal structure diagram, which made it easy for them to find the rarely visited warehouse area and the area within the wall. After observing for a moment, they did not see anyone.

Di Yan pinched Li Zhen's back, smiled at him, raised her body and jumped into the courtyard lightly like a swallow. She rolled gently on the ground, then leaned against the corner of the wall, observed for a moment, and then sank into the darkness.

From beginning to end, she was silent, agile and quick. Li Zhen had to admire Di Yan's superb light skills, and even the most powerful warrior in the inner guard could not be compared with Di Yan.

However, he was really worried about Di Yan's safety and slowly pinched the handle of the knife. Once something abnormal happened in the mansion, he would rush in without hesitation.

On the roof of the back house, Di Yan stood on the ridge without moving. She stared at a figure and walked towards her. Although she couldn't see the face of the visitor clearly, Di Yan judged from the other party's walking posture that the visitor was Wu Furong, and the pretending twisted buttocks were Wu Furong's usual actions.

Wu Furong walked into an empty yard in the back house with a lantern alone. There were no lights in several houses. To be precise, the windows were covered by thick cowhide, making the lights in the room unable to see through. Wu Furong walked to a room and knocked on the door, "Who is it?" An old voice came from the room.

"It's me, Furong!"

The door creaked open, and a large light suddenly appeared from the crack of the door, and then the face of a middle-aged man was revealed. He pulled Wu Furong in, looked around the yard, closed the door, and the light disappeared from the ground again.

Di Yan, who was lying on the opposite wall, was so surprised that she couldn't even close her mouth. She saw a person who should never appear in Luoyang. Wu Chengsi was him. Di Yan believed that she had read it right, including his voice, he should be in Guangzhou, and actually lurked back to Luoyang.

Di Yan ran away quickly with a severe wall and rushed under the roof of the courtyard like a night cat. She slowly uncovered a piece of tiles, revealing a gap. From the gap, she saw the situation in the room.

In the room, Wu Chengsi sat on the soft couch, holding a charming and beautiful young woman in each of his left and right hands, even more charming and young than Wu Furong. Wu Furong obviously disliked these two women and glared at them fiercely, "You guys won't retreat yet!"

The two women wanted to get up and retreat, but Wu Chengsi hugged them tightly, making them unable to move. Wu Chengsi's head was half bald, his other half turned gray and white, the flesh on his face also drooped, and his eyelids were frighteningly swollen. At first glance, he was empty of his body by wine.

Although Wu Chengsi lived a life of drunkenness and despair in Guangzhou, he was still unwilling to give up. After finding a person who looked like him in Wu Furong as a substitute, he followed Wu Furong to secretly leave Guangzhou and head north, hiding near Luoyang, and only came to Baique Villa last night.

He squinted his eyes and smiled, "They were all brought from Guangzhou, and they are people I can trust, just say it!"

"At the same time, you will die on their belly!"

Wu Furong cursed in a low voice, helpless, she had to say angrily: "Li Zhen and Di Yan came this afternoon, you don't know!"

"What!"

Wu Chengsi almost jumped up in fear. The person he hated and feared the most was Li Zhen. He didn't expect that he would find out here. He asked in a trembling voice: "Is he here to investigate me?"

Wu Furong snorted and said coldly: "I don't know why they came here. According to Li Zhen himself, it was because the emperor rewarded him with this manor, and he came to see it. I wonder if it was true?"

Wu Chengsi breathed a sigh of relief. He would rather believe that this was the truth. This villa had indeed been taken back by the emperor. It was completely normal for him to reward Li Zhen. It is said that he has made many achievements in Liaodong.

Speaking of this, he also felt that it was not appropriate to talk about this in front of the two women, so he took a heavy blow on the two women's buttocks and laughed and scolded: "Get out!"

The two women ran out, and Wu Chengsi asked with a relaxed smile: "What did Li Zhen say?"

Wu Furong saw the change in her father's mood. He obviously no longer cared about what happened to Li Zhen unexpectedly. This was also something that Wu Furong had always been very troubled. Her father was extremely unqualified in political struggles and was repeatedly played with by Wu Sansi. In the end, he became the scapegoat for Li Wu's dispute and was demoted to Lingnan.

Wu Sansi, who was the real behind-the-scenes planner, was promoted step by step and recently to prime minister. In comparison, his father seemed so stupid, including secretly returning to Luoyang this time, and he advised him to take the excuse of getting seriously ill, begging the emperor to promise him to take a look at his ancestral land for the last time. In this way, the emperor's agreement is extremely likely. Although he was going back to Hedong, it was much better than exile to Lingnan.

But my father just wanted to go back to Luoyang, but he didn't listen to his advice and came back secretly. This invisibly made him more guilty. But what's the point of not daring to show up after returning to Luoyang?

Wu Furong thought of her father's indulgence, and she couldn't help but feel angry and hatred, and gritted her teeth and said, "Don't worry about what he said? What should you do if he finds you hiding here?"

Wu Chengsi's face darkened and he said in great dissatisfaction: "What is your attitude? Is this the tone of your voice to your father?"

Wu Furong also became angry, "You are hiding here to play with women all day long, do you still care about my tone of speaking?"

"Damn it!"

Wu Chengsi slapped the table heavily and roared, "You think I'm willing to do this! You killed those two women. I'm sorry, I gave birth to you, a useless daughter. If you don't want to help me, get out! Get out!"

Wu Furong stomped her feet in anger and slammed the door with a 'bang' and went out. Only Wu Chengsi was left in the room, who was hysterically angry. Di Yan on the roof suddenly had a strong thought. How easy is it to kill Wu Chengsi at this time?

But Di Yan finally restrained the murderous intent in her heart. She knew the serious consequences of killing Wu Chengsi. She was so quick that she would cause big trouble. Besides, Li Zhen was waiting for her outside. If Li Zhen agreed to kill Wu Chengsi, it would not be too late for her to come back and take action.

Thinking of this, she could no longer wait, so she quickly left the back house and ran along the ridge to the east wall. In just a moment, she jumped out of the high wall and returned to Li Zhen.

Li Zhen hugged her in his arms and whispered: "Why are you coming out now? If you come out a little later, I'm going to go in."

Di Yan did not break free from Li Zhen this time, and let him hug her. She smiled and said, "Guess who I saw?"

"Is it Wu Chengsi right?"

Di Yan was stunned, "Why did you guess it?"

When Li Zhen saw Di Yan's expression, he knew that he had guessed it. He smiled proudly and said, "I thought about it repeatedly later and felt that Wu Furong's abnormality this afternoon was only one possibility. There are extremely important items or people hidden in the house. If it is a large number of items, it will inevitably be discovered by the villagers. The possibility of being a human is the greatest. Who will it be?"

"So you guessed Wu Chengsi?"

Li Zhen nodded slightly and smiled, "I think that there are so many things happening in Luoyang, how could Wu Chengsi be willing to stay in Lingnan? He watched the position of the prince without his own share. This is not his personality. He will definitely come back. Even if the female emperor does not agree, he will come back."

Di Yan sighed softly, "You are right. I really surprised me when I saw Wu Chengsi."

Di Yan then repeated the conversation between Wu Furong and Wu Chengsi. Seeing Li Zhen pondering, she stopped talking. Li Zhen pondered for a long time, and suddenly realized that he hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?"

"Then Wu Furong left the room in anger, and Wu Chengsi was the only one left in the room. I wanted to go down and kill him and avenge him for framed my father!" Di Yan said gritting her teeth.

Li Zhen was stunned, "You won't--"

"Of course not!"

Di Yan gave him a blank look and said angrily: "If I kill him, will I still talk to you here slowly?"

"But I really want to kill him. Do you think it's feasible?" Di Yan bit her lip and asked again.

Li Zhen shook his head, "I wish I could kill him with one knife, but he is a powerful weapon to deal with Wu Sansi. It would be a pity if he didn't make good use of him."

"Do you want to talk to him?"

"It's okay to talk about it, but now is not the time. I have to clarify his goal before I can make a decision. I believe that he must have an intention when he escapes from Guangzhou from thousands of miles away. As long as we keep an eye on Wu Furong, we will know what Wu Chengsi wants to do."

Di Yan thought for a while and said, "Why not do this! I'll keep an eye on them for you first. Go back and find a few brothers to take over me. You must come before noon tomorrow, otherwise, I won't be with you."

Li Zhen was grateful, hugged her tightly, and smiled and said, "I want to leave someone to monitor them, but it's not you. I'll stay. Go back and find Zhao Qiuniang and ask her to arrange a few brothers to come."

"No! No! I'll stay."

Di Yan suddenly became a little anxious: "I am better than you. They can't catch me even if they find out. If you are caught by Wu Chengsi, he will not let you go."

"I won't let him discover it, go quickly! Go into the city with my gold medal and go directly to Zhao Qiuniang."
Chapter completed!