Tang Mingxuan didn't expect that the woman actually had a son. She hid him so well.
I guess it was he who dug up my father's body, and he was the only one who hated the Tang family so much.
Tang Mingxuan quickly asked, "Do you know where he is?"
The hunter nodded and said, "It's in Xujia Village. However, you can't go there alone. I heard that village is very strange. No one who enters it will come out alive!"
Tang Mingxuan didn't want to take any risks, so he could only go find Fang Qingshan first and wait to meet up with the bandit-suppression army brought by Zhan Yan.
When Zhan Yan saw him, a hint of anger flashed across his face: "Tang Mingxuan, are you so bold that you don't even listen to me?"
Tang Mingxuan quickly explained: "Brother-in-law, I have already found out that the bandit leader should be a young man in black. He is the son of my father's stepmother!"
Zhan Yan was stunned: "She actually has a son?"
Tang Mingxuan laughed bitterly, "She said that she had the child of someone else before she married my father, and she kept him outside, keeping my father in the dark. Now his body has been dug up by that stinky brat!"
Zhan Yan's face turned pale with anger. He didn't expect the bandit leader to be so cruel.
He immediately spoke up, "Have you found out where he's staying? Let's go get your father's body and the imperial tax money back!"
Tang Mingxuan frowned and replied, "Xujiazhuang!"
When Zhan Yan led his army to Xujiazhuang, he saw a pitch-black coffin placed at the door. Something had been spilled on it, and it smelled terrible.
Tang Mingxuan had sharp eyes and immediately recognized that it was his father's coffin.
And that smell is that of sewage!
He was so angry that he gritted his teeth and stumbled forward.
Seeing that his father's body was badly damaged, he was so angry that he vomited blood on the spot.
Zhan Yan was also shocked and angry. He quickly shouted, "Everyone in the village, get out now, otherwise I will set it on fire!"
He knew better than anyone that robbing tax silver was not something that could be done by one or two people. He was afraid that there were many cruel and crazy bandit leaders in Xujiazhuang. These people were not innocent. Even if he was burned to death, he would never take the risk of attacking the village.
Obviously, the bandit leaders in the village did not expect Zhan Yan to be so cruel. They thought that by using Tang Qizhen's body as bait, they would surely attack the village in anger.
If that happens, all the traps set will come in handy.
There were sharp knife pits everywhere inside, and if they fell in, there would be no chance of survival.
However, Zhan Yan did not follow the usual path. He actually set fire to the village, which put them in a very passive position.
At first the young man in black thought he was just trying to scare people, until smoke and dust drifted in from the village entrance, he realized it was true.
Without further hesitation, he immediately decided to meet Zhan Yan.
He hurried to the entrance of the village and glared at Zhan Yan with a pair of fierce eyes.
He gritted his teeth and asked, "How dare you set fire to the village? Do you know how many innocent villagers live in this village?"
Zhan Yan looked at him and saw that the young man was not tall, but there was a murderous look on his face. It was obvious that he had always lived with hatred, and he was also a ruthless character.
But he was a veteran of the battlefield, so how could he be afraid of a wolf cub?
He immediately spoke in a cold voice: "From the moment you led your men to rob the imperial tax silver and hide in this village, they have been your accomplices. Every one of them is not innocent!"
The young man in black was shaking violently with anger. He subconsciously argued, "Nonsense! They are all unaware. Don't think I don't understand the laws of the Sheng Dynasty. Ignorance is not a crime!"
Zhan Yan pointed at the coffin at the entrance to the village and said, "Even if they don't know you stole the tax silver, they can't be unaware of this coffin being placed at the entrance. The law stipulates that digging up graves and destroying corpses is punishable by hanging. Anyone who knows about this and doesn't report it will be punished with the same crime!"
The young man in black clenched his fists tightly, while the subordinates standing behind him clamored to charge forward.
Zhan Yan came prepared, and he treated these villains without any courtesy.
He waved his hand, and the archers shot out sharp crossbow arrows.
The young man in black was protected and retreated. He didn't feel afraid until this moment.
Seeing many people falling to the ground after being shot by arrows, he was so frightened that he shouted anxiously: "I can hand over the tax silver to the court, but I have a condition. You must hand over Tang Qizheng's son to me, otherwise, you will get nothing!"
Zhan Yan looked at him sarcastically, "Who do you think you are? How dare you make demands on me? Even after I destroy you, I can still find the imperial tax silver!"
"Kill!" He gave the order, and many soldiers rushed forward with knives in hand.
A cold light flashed in the eyes of the young man in black. Without hesitation, he immediately blew the whistle hanging around his neck.
As the sharp sound rang out, many hungry wolves with bloodshot eyes pounced from all directions.
Zhan Yan's expression suddenly changed, and he quickly shouted, "Defend first!"
As soon as his voice fell, many soldiers picked up their shields to resist the attacks of the hungry wolves.
In a flash, the young man in black quickly jumped onto a wolf and rode it towards Tang Mingxuan.
He grabbed the man with one hand and ran away in an instant.
Zhan Yan quickly chased after him, and Tang Mingxuan's voice rang in his ears: "My Lord, find the imperial tax silver first!"
In just a moment, the wolf and the two men disappeared.
Zhan Yan ordered people to find the tax silver, and at the same time called on the secret guards to track Tang Mingxuan's whereabouts.
However, when they chased him to the edge of the cliff at the back of the mountain, there was no trace of him anymore.
Zhan Yan's face suddenly changed. Could it be that the young man in black was so cruel that he took Tang Mingxuan and jumped off the cliff?
He leaned forward to look down, but his vision was obscured by the white fog and he couldn't see anything clearly.
The secret guard threw a stone down, and no sound was heard for a long time.
He spoke with some concern: "My Lord, this cliff is extremely deep and obscured by thick fog. It's really hard to find someone!"
Zhan Yan naturally understood that he couldn't let others take risks, so he personally took the rope and said he would go down to look for it.
The secret guards were unwilling to agree. They were all raised by Zhan Yan, so how could they let him fall off the cliff himself?
In the end, the secret guard went down first, but he grabbed the rope and climbed up in just a moment.
He said with a grim expression, "There are poisonous snakes and swamps everywhere down there. There is no sign of a human being at all!"
Zhan Yan immediately understood. If Tang Mingxuan and the young man in black jumped off the cliff, they would have been submerged in the swamp by now.
A complex look flashed in his eyes, and he felt guilty about Tang Qizheng's instructions.
After thinking for a moment, he slowly said, "Let's search the surrounding area again first. If there is still no clue by nightfall, we will withdraw!"
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