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In the quiet night, there is no one, the wind blows through the broken walls like weeping, and the moonlight shines on the confession case through the holes in the roof.

After crossing the front hall, most of the side rooms at the back collapsed. Cen Li walked up to Xiaodong and sat casually on the dusty floor.

"Your Highness." Xiaodong wanted to hand Xiaobei who was sleeping on his shoulder to Xiaoxi to get up and salute.

"Forget it." Cen Li raised his hand to signal that he didn't need it, and said, "I came here because I have something to do for the three of you."

Cen Li repeated Wang Bing's words word for word, and Xiaodong froze for a while after listening, as if he had just gone through a fierce psychological struggle, and finally dared not disobey: "Observe."

Xiaodong put the sleeping Xiao Bei on the grassy ground. As soon as Xiao Bei left his brother's shoulders, he lay curled up on the grass, with tears on his face, as if he had been bullied while sleeping.Xiaodong prostrated himself in the tunnel and said, "Please Your Highness, take good care of my younger brother."

"This is natural. You should also be careful not to attract too much attention. Another thing, you disguise yourself as that old man surnamed Zhao. Once someone wants to find the missing person, you take them to another place, and , that direction." Cen Li pointed to the direction they came back, "None of them are allowed to go that way, you know?"

The three of them took orders, and Cen Li stared down at Xiao Bei. He had never looked at him directly before. Cen Li stared at his sleeping profile. Those facial features that hadn't yet bloomed were like vigorous buds in spring. The more I look at it, the more I feel familiar.

In his memory, there was a fuzzy face overlapping with Xiao Bei, and when he recalled it carefully, that face became even more blurred, maybe he had seen Xiao Bei a long time ago, or just seen someone who resembled Xiao Bei People, but just can't remember.

Think hard to no avail.Cen Li didn't eat at night, and after his stomach grumbled a few times in protest, Cen Li went to cook rice by himself, put a bowl in his hand, covered it with a lid, and took nearly three quarters of an hour. The "hostages" were guarded by those three people, and Cen Li felt that he was useless. After ordering the three people not to be lazy, he left with a bowl.

Wang Bing shook off the ants on his feet, and one of the two of them swayed out of the fire pocket and blew expertly, peeled off some bark to barely light a small fire, and the ants crawled away again.

One put down the corpse on his back and let out a long breath.It was not easy for Wang Bing and the three to find this cave, as it was some distance away from the stream, and they were so tired that their legs and feet were sore after they got down.

The creek is the source of water, and someone might go to fetch water tomorrow morning, so they should always avoid it. That's why Wang Bing ignored the danger of birds and beasts hunting for food in the middle of the night and found a cave to hide his body.

"That's it, two heroes, thank you." Wang Bing squatted beside the fire, not intending to take off his clothes to dry, hugging his feet, using this posture to relieve the pain in his abdomen, and said: "It's all right now. , I would like to ask the two of you some things, please let me know everything."

The two looked at each other and nodded towards Wang Bing.

Being so obedient is actually because Cen Li really treats this person unusually, and all the sensitive subordinates know that this person cannot be offended.

Wang Bing stretched out his hand, and the warmth spread from his palm to his limbs, "The four Xiaobei brothers, where did they come from? Tell me everything you know about them."

The two rolled their eyes and thought for a while, and one of them said: "The four of them and I fled to Runan together after the fall of Pingyang. I heard from them that when the Chongyan army came to Pingyang last year, the four of them ran from Luoyang to Pingyang. In order to pick up their parents and leave, it was still a step too late, their family members were all dead, and the four of them were almost killed by Chongyan's sword, and then they fled to Runan with the army."

"Did they tell you personally?" Xiaodong was terribly defensive, and he couldn't get a positive answer to any question about his brother.

The man quickly added: "No, Prime Minister Mo wanted to count the survivors when we arrived in Runan. I was there at the time, and the four of them had some property in Luoyang. They were among the survivors and attracted much attention. Everyone We are so sorry for their filial piety and suffering.”

Cen Li once said that they would do everything, and switch to whatever line of work they can make a living with, a typical businessman's mind, but he didn't know there was such a thing.Wang Bing thought to himself: Most businessmen in Luoyang have contacts with the Wang family, but they have never heard of the four young brothers.It may be that the four of them are working separately, or their property is not big, and the Wang family's children think highly of themselves, and ordinary businessmen are not qualified to be high-ranking.

But it is also possible that Xiaodong lied about all this, Luoyang fell, and the identity of a wealthy man could not be found out, and it might be that he got the favor of the prime minister in a false way.

Wang Bing: "Why didn't they take their family to Luoyang earlier? They only went when Chong... the city was broken."

To be able to survive in Luoyang where merchants and Liang people are everywhere, there must be some means. How could you wait until the Chongyan army marched into Pingyang before you want to pick it up?

Obviously, neither of them had thought about this question, and they both shook their heads to express their ignorance. Wang Bing sighed and asked, "Have you ever seen him holding a knife or sword?"

The person who didn't speak all the time shouted: "Yes, yes! I saw Xiaodong personally kill a Liang man who was going to bully Xiaobei in Runan, and directly pierced the man's heart with his sword. I know martial arts, and I can see that One sword must have been practiced before. But it’s nothing, the few of us were selected to follow His Highness, we have some skills, otherwise we wouldn’t have followed Liang Ren to die under the eyes of Emperor Liang.”

The fire was crackling and burning, and Wang Bing's back was covered with cold sweat. Seeing that Wang Bing's face was whiter than snow, the man kindly reminded him: "My lord, your complexion is not good."

This scarred body has only been raised for five days. After walking a lot of mountain roads and soaking in water, the heat in the stomach has long been exhausted. The pain in the abdomen is like a sword, and the familiar hunger is overwhelming. Limbs and bones.

"Excuse me..." Wang Bing knew it was a bit funny to say it at this time, so he had to say, "Do you have anything to eat?"

The two shook their heads, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: "No, the incident happened suddenly. We went out for a walk after dinner, and when we came back, we ran into the corpse, and everything was left unpacked."

Wang was sick, and after the words "really worthless" came to his mind, he asked again: "Have you heard of other things related to Xiaodong and Chongyan's army?"

After a long silence, the two shook their heads again, and one of them said, "We follow His Highness the Crown Prince in the hope that he can lead us back to Pingyang and take back what belongs to us. The same is true for Xiaodong. He said that his greatest wish in life is to see Seeing people standing in the sun riding and shooting deer, how could it be related to Chonggou?"

Take back what is ours.Wang Bing felt a dull pain in his heart: the great rivers and mountains in the Central Plains are not the home of Liang people.

The four of Xiaodong created a considerable family business in Luoyang, and when the country was in crisis, they abandoned it like a pair of shoes, resolutely throwing themselves into the vortex of troubled times.How could these people be inferior to Liang Ren, who was greedy for profit and intrigues?Liang people boasted that they were superior to others, but under the dignified appearance of being civilized, courteous, gentle, courteous and humble, they had long since lost their pure heart.

However, the blood-drinking, hairy and disheveled foreign alternative still retains the heart of a child with a firm and iron frame.

Wang Bing: "Is there anything else about them? You can talk about any insignificant thing along the way."

"The four of them are usually together. Xiaobei is a very nice person. He has talked to us. He is a very easy-going person. Don't look at Xiaobei's body that can't even do heavy work. His brain is really good. All the way He took us with us. Without him, we would be a bunch of headless chickens, except of course His Highness. But he doesn't seem to like you very much. When His Highness carried you to Beilimen to join us, he saw you first. Eye, that complexion is almost as ugly as yours now. What else... Let me think about it."

The other person lightly tapped his fist on his palm, and said: "At dusk today, he insisted on pulling us to talk about strange folk tales, and he told us once last night that it scared him so badly, everyone hugged him. Sleeping in a ball, he said it was all our fault for scaring him, and he couldn’t sleep if he didn’t hug him in a ball, so of course everyone didn’t talk about it at the end of the day, laughing at him for being timid and listening. Hey neither Strange, newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, and we were frightened by begging adults to tell us."