Situ Yao just glanced at him calmly, and then said to Qingfeng, "Go get some information and find the way up the mountain."
"The rest of you set up camp and rest, and be careful to hide." Situ Yao said and left.
Lin Xixing stood there stubbornly. Even the governor couldn't stand it any longer and came over to persuade him, "Young Master, you are doing this to make things more stable."
"If we charge in without knowing anything, there's no telling who will win or lose. As the saying goes, knowing yourself and your enemy is the key to a hundred battles without danger. Captain Lin is a military commander, so surely he doesn't understand this?" The governor pleaded earnestly, and Lin Xixing finally spoke. "Don't worry, sir. I will follow your instructions."
"I'm glad you know." The governor patted the armored man's shoulder. "First, recuperate for a day, so you can have the energy to kill the enemy."
"Young Master, do you think there's something wrong with Lin Xixing?" Su Mengyan asked curiously when she saw that Situ Yao looked strange after he came back.
"It's just a guess." Situ Yao was not sure. "If he is really a spy, he will definitely take action tonight."
"And after what happened during the day, he must think that I am a clueless, arbitrary fool, and he will act even more unscrupulously." Situ Yao did that on purpose during the day to buy time and find out the spy.
Qingfeng did not go to Luohe Mountain, but hid in the dark.
Su Mengyan was a little bit unconvinced, but also very excited. She asked rather ambivalently, "Lin Xixing looks like an honest man. Would he really collude with the gangsters?"
"Face features don't tell the whole story," Situ Yao said. "Besides, he was able to hide in the government for so long. He must have been very well disguised, so he wasn't discovered."
"Then we'll have to wait until tonight."
At night, Su Mengyan did not sleep soundly and was listening to the noise outside at any time.
At three o'clock in the morning, Situ Yao, who was lying next to him, suddenly sat up. Su Mengyan woke up instantly and asked in a low voice, "Did you catch the person?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Qingfeng came in with a man. Su Mengyan lit the candle and saw that the man who was tied up was indeed Lin Xixing.
If it weren't for Situ Yao's previous speculation, she wouldn't have believed that it was done by an honest person.
After Lin Xixing was tied up, he tore off his honest face and asked with a distorted expression, "How did you know?"
Situ Yao drank his tea leisurely, but it was a little cold, so he put it aside with disgust.
He raised his eyelids and looked at Lin Xixing, "You are quite capable to have been able to hide under the prefect's nose for so long."
Lin Xixing laughed disdainfully, "With his slow nature, I'm afraid he won't even notice until he dies."
"If you hadn't intervened, no one would have known." Lin Xixing not only did not repent, but was also very complacent.
The governor who rushed over after hearing the news saw that the spy was him. His eyes widened and he said angrily, "I suspected everyone, but I didn't think it was you."
"Captain Lin, you are truly disappointing." The governor walked up to him and asked, "Why did you do this?"
"For money." Lin Xixing admitted frankly, "With that salary alone, I would have to think for a long time before even buying a bigger house."
"But you know that the silver that the people of Luohe Mountain send to me every year is enough for my salary for more than ten years. Why shouldn't I agree to such a good thing?" He asked back. His unrepentant tone was even more chilling.
Situ Yao carefully considered what he said, lowered his head and asked, "Are you really just doing this for the money?"
"What else?" Lin Xixing laughed, "If they didn't give me an attractive amount of money, why would I take the risk of doing such a thing?"
"So he knew this was a risk," Su Mengyan thought to herself. Looking at his expression before, she had assumed everything he did was perfectly natural and reasonable.
"Tell me the details of Luohe Mountain, and perhaps I'll consider giving you a lighter sentence." The governor had always thought Lin Xixing was honest, prudent, and a good candidate. He never imagined that this seemingly unlikely person would actually collude with bandits.
Lin Xixing laughed wildly in front of everyone, "Since I've been caught by you, just kill me."
"I won't say anything about the bandits in Luohe Mountain. Don't waste your energy." Lin Xixing had an expression of a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water, which was enough to make people angry to death.
Su Mengyan remembered the interrogation method she had used before and wanted to try to see if she could pry open his mouth.
Before she could speak, Situ Yao stopped her, "Take him away and keep him under strict guard. Don't let him escape."
When there were only two people left in the tent, Su Mengyan asked in confusion, "Why didn't you continue asking?"
"It's useless." Situ Yao said, "Lin Xixing came from the battlefield and won't be afraid of these things."
"If we go up the mountain without knowing anything, will it really be okay?" Su Mengyan was still very worried. Even though she knew that Cui Mixue would help her here, she was still afraid that someone would die.
"Who said we knew nothing?" Situ Yao laughed. "Now that we've caught the person who reported the incident, the criminals still don't know anything. They definitely didn't expect that I would be there to help them this time."
Su Mengyan slowly calmed down, thinking that with Situ Yao's ability, nothing would go wrong.
The next day, before dawn, everyone was awakened. They had to find a way up the mountain and sneak up quietly before dark.
The soldiers thought that they should rest and not travel too fast today, but they were woken up before they even woke up, and before they even saw their superiors.
The crowd began to chatter, but Situ Yao didn't want to mention Lin Xixing's story just yet, lest he upset the troops. He glanced coldly at the loudest voices and said, "If you don't want to go, you can go back now."
Everyone fell silent instantly, not daring to say a word.
"If you don't want to go back, then just obey orders." Situ Yao's eyes were cold. "After we go back this time, anyone who kills the bandits will receive a reward. If you kill the bandit leader, you'll get a reward of 1000 taels of silver."
With the temptation of money, no one wanted to complain anymore, nor did they ask why Lin Xixing was not here.
The team of 500 people made no other sound except the sound of footsteps. It was as quiet as a group of ghost soldiers.
Cui Mixue mixed in with the team. Because she was a girl, everyone else thought she was Situ Yao's concubine and no one paid any attention to her.
Cui Mixue tried to talk to Situ Yao several times, but he always dodged her. On the other hand, Su Mengyan followed Situ Yao closely.
Seeing this, Cui Mixue was so jealous that she was going crazy. Whenever Su Mengyan appeared, she would glare at her fiercely.
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