Chapter 264: Possible Catch
Shi Yu stood outside the door with bated breath for a quarter of an hour, and then the door was opened from the inside by Wei Qingyan.
"Why don't you come in?"
Although she was immersed in a sad mood, she also remembered that Shi Yu had been out for a long time and had not returned. She quickly suppressed her emotions and prepared to go out to look for him.
But I saw that the person I was looking for was right at the door, with a layer of coldness around him. It seemed that he had been standing outside the door for quite some time.
Wei Qingyan immediately realized something, "Did you receive the letter?"
Before setting off, Shi Yu sent orders to all the pharmacies, asking them to investigate Yu Liangzhi's whereabouts. Now he is just outside the door, but has not entered the house.
All Wei Qingyan could think of was that Shi Yu had received news about Yu Liangzhi and was worried that she would leave immediately, so he thought of delaying for a while to let her rest for a while.
Shi Yu originally wanted to let her rest for an hour before entering the house, but he didn't expect that she would discover him so soon and guess that there was a letter.
Helpless and distressed, he held her hand and walked into the house, "There was a letter from the medicine store in Ganzhou. Recently, someone asked the doctor at Huimin Medical Clinic to treat a monk.
The doctor who asked for help was also an old man. I don't know if it was Yu Liangzhi. I have sent a pigeon to ask the people in the pharmacy to secretly protect him.
Wei Qingyan also read the letter, which was more detailed than what Shi Yu said. It was most likely the fat monk and Yu Liangzhi.
However, after glancing at Shi Yu's slightly tired face, Wei Qingyan folded the letter and said, "Rest for another hour."
An hour later, the group set off again.
On the second day, Shi Yu received another letter from Ganzhou, saying that another group of people were also looking for monks in Ganzhou city.
At the same time, the emperor also asked Dong Zang to send a letter to Wei Qingyan through the medicine store.
The letter is divided into two parts, one part was written by the emperor.
Over the years, a total of three adult men have died in the royal family of the capital, including a prince, a crown prince, and a duke.
All three of them held idle positions, and their bodies became weak due to injuries or illness.
Prince Yu has been in contact with these people in recent years, and he has the closest contact with the prince, because the prince also likes to practice Taoism and make elixirs, and even donated a Taoist temple outside the city.
He often stayed in the Taoist temple for ten days or half a month.
The emperor suspected that these three people were possessed by the previous emperor and died, and the prince built that Taoist temple to hide the one hundred secret guards in his hands.
After checking, it was found that the Taoist temple did have a secret passage leading directly to a village outside the city, but the village was now deserted.
But there was a huge martial arts training ground, and some stakes and weapons used for practicing boxing had not been put away, as if they had left in a hurry and had not had time to deal with them.
After the Crown Prince passed away, the manor was bought privately by the Prince of the County. Now, it has been nearly half a year since the Prince of the County passed away. The Prince of the County's Mansion was unaware of the existence of the manor and no one was dealing with it. The manor is still under the name of the Prince of the County and the owner has not changed. It is impossible to find out who the late emperor has taken over based on the owner of the manor.
The emperor guessed that the manor was where the late emperor placed his secret guards. After hearing the news about the fat monk, the late emperor decided to leave Beijing on the spur of the moment and took away all the secret guards in the manor.
He was worried that Wei Qingyan and his group would be no match for the late emperor's more than a hundred secret guards, so he finally sent Leng San with more than a thousand national defense troops to help Wei Qingyan in the name of suppressing bandits.
This also provided Wei Qingyan with an excuse to leave the capital this time.
The second part was written by Lan Shu. She received a letter from Lotus Pier and discovered that someone had gone to Lotus Pier to look for someone. She had fought with them during the period and found that they were all very skilled.
But a few days ago, those people suddenly left Lotus Pier.
Combining these three pieces of information, we can infer that the late emperor was indeed looking for the fat monk everywhere, and he was very likely to know that the fat monk was in Huangshaling and went to Huangshaling to look for him.
The fat monk and Yu Liangzhi are in danger.
Wei Qingyan didn't even bother to rest and galloped all the way.
However, two bodies were found in Yizhou, two days' journey away from Ganzhou City.
Young Master Yu recognized that the two men were the guards who followed Yu Liangzhi.
From the bruised bodies of the two men, it can be seen that they had both been in a fierce fight before their deaths, and their deaths occurred no more than a day ago.
"Your Highness, these two are the best fighters around my grandfather. I suspect that my grandfather is also in Yizhou." The second son of the Yu family said solemnly.
My grandfather only brought a dozen guards with him. Given how much the guards valued their masters, they must have the best guards on duty.
Mr. Yu Er's guess is reasonable, but if Yu Liangzhi and the fat monk leave Ganzhou, the people from Ganzhou Pharmacy will definitely inform Shi Yu.
Shi Yu had not received any news from Ganzhou, which meant that the old man and monk mentioned by Ganzhou Pharmacy were still in Ganzhou.
But the people who died before his eyes were indeed the guards of Yu Mansion. Yu Liangzhi did not bring many people with him. Under normal circumstances, he would not send away the few guards he already had.
Therefore, Yu Liangzhi must have realized that someone was going to capture the fat monk, so he got two people to pretend to be them and stay in Ganzhou, while he took the fat monk away. It is very likely that they were discovered by the late emperor in the territory of Yizhou, which led to the two bodies.
Either Yu Liangzhi used a trick to let his guards attract the attention of the late emperor, while they still stayed in Ganzhou or hid somewhere else.
The killing of these people indicates that the late emperor's men are near Yizhou, and Ganzhou is secretly protected by Yu's men, so it is safe for the time being.
Considering this, Wei Qingyan decided to stop and check nearby to see if there were any other clues. Shi Yu contacted the managers of the pharmacies and clinics in Yizhou City.
Half an hour later, they found three more bodies of Yu Mansion guards and Yu Liangzhi's jade pendant in a valley on a side road.
There are traces of carriages and many horse hoof prints on the surrounding grass, all of which lead to the direction of Yizhou City.
After a while, the Yizhou City manager also arrived and said, "There are indeed many suspicious people in the city. There are also two people watching near our clinic, seemingly wanting to target patients entering the clinic."
"In that case, Yu Liangzhi and the others may have really come to Yizhou, and they were injured. Injuries always need treatment, so Shi Dehou's people are keeping an eye on the clinic." Wang Chen said.
Wei Qingyan nodded, which also meant that the late emperor’s men had not found them yet.
Shi Yu said, "The late emperor only had a hundred or so men under his command. They have been searching for the fat monk's whereabouts for many years, so some of them must have been scattered everywhere.
The rest must be in Yizhou City. Since we can't find the Fat Monk and Old Master Yu, we should kill the late emperor's men as soon as we see them."
Without these troubles, the risks to Yu Liangzhi and the fat monk would be greatly reduced. By killing these secret guards, they might even be able to lure out the late emperor.
"Okay, Master Wangchen will come with us. Jingzhe will take the rest of the people into the city to find the fat monk and the others. Jingzhe, you stay in the open and attract the late emperor's men, while we stay in the dark and kill them one by one."
Wei Qingyan responded by taking out a few black cloths from his arms and handing them to Shi Yu and Wang Chen respectively.
The three men covered their faces and headed towards Yizhou City, followed quickly by a dozen secret guards.
The first ones to be killed were the two people who were staring at Huimin Medical Clinic. Wei Qingyan and Shi Yu quietly landed behind them, took out the daggers in their sleeves, and quickly slashed their necks at the same time.
Wang Chen was not far away and also killed a man with a poison needle. The secret guards hurried forward to deal with the body.
The late emperor's secret guards were very skilled, but Shi Yu and Wei Qingyan were already highly skilled in martial arts, and with the blessing of the Merit Seal, their skills increased greatly. Wang Chen had been in the Dajue Temple for decades, and his martial arts had also been mastered to perfection.
However, the lack of response from their companions made the late emperor's men wary, and it took the three of them some effort to assassinate him, and they even came to blows later.
In this way, by nightfall, a total of seventeen secret guards of the late emperor were killed. After that, Jingzhe and the others were no longer followed by anyone, and no one suspected to be the late emperor's secret guards could be found in the various medical clinics.
Those suspicious people seemed to have suddenly disappeared out of thin air, which meant that they were very likely to have captured Yu Liangzhi, but they might also be afraid of the assassination attempt by the three people and were hiding temporarily.
The three of them took off their veils and found an inn to stay.
After receiving Shi Yu's signal, Second Master Yu went directly to the Yizhou prefectural government office to report.
The prefect of Yizhou learned that the father of the Minister of Revenue, Yu Liangzhi, a former cabinet minister, was being hunted and missing in Yizhou City. He was so scared that he quickly arranged for people to search the whole city for him.
That night, Yizhou City was very lively, and additional guards were deployed at the four city gates of Yizhou.
Shi Yu was suddenly stopped by a woman in the inn.
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