Just when almost everyone's attention was on Zhiyoulin, someone leaked the news that Wang Yanzhou had returned to the valley, and the news was leaked to Xie Zhuangshui, who was stationed not far from Qingliang Valley.
After receiving the news from an insider in Qingliang Valley through a special channel, the soldiers guarding the town entrance rushed to Xie Zhuangshui's yard and said, "General, there's news from Qingliang Valley!"
Xie Zhuangshui gestured to Xiao Liang to check the note brought by the soldier, and while exchanging pleasantries with Ou Yezi, he did not forget to ask, "How is it?"
Xiao He said with a heavy face, "Wang Yanzhou has indeed returned safely to the valley and is currently gathering troops. It seems that the previous incident in Zhiyoulin was a cover-up."
After thinking for a moment, Xie Zhuangshui did not rush to make a decision. Instead, he turned to Ou Yezi and asked, "Sir, what do you think?"
Ou Yezi was a man of great self-awareness and clear goals. He was no fool. Xie Zhuangshui's question was merely a courtesy. He couldn't afford to lose face when someone was so polite. "I don't understand matters of leading troops in battle, so there's no need for you, General, to ask for my opinion. You are the commander-in-chief, so naturally, you have the final say."
Xie Zhuangshui raised his sleeves, his expression darkening, but he suddenly regained the demeanor of a general: "Xiao Liang, pass the order down, have everyone gather in the main hall at noon for a meeting."
"Yes, sir!"
...The people in Qingliang Valley were still carefully guarding the news that Wang Yanzhou had returned. Who could have expected that at this moment, the enemy outside the valley was already secretly discussing countermeasures, planning to give Wang Yanzhou a fatal blow before he had completed the preparation of his army.
After Wang Ruo and Hua Wuxin came out of the mine and climbed up the cliff along the vines on the cliff wall, Li Xinzhai brought a group of people and surrounded them as if they had seen a blood feud with them.
It was thought that there would be a vigorous and earth-shattering debate between the two sides; however, by the time Li Xinzhai fully reacted, he didn't know what had happened and put on deerskin gloves, set up a rope and hung on the cliff.
When he, under the leadership of Wang Ruo and his group of secret guards, had transported the first batch of treasures from the abandoned mine and was preparing to retrieve the treasures on his own for the second time, Wang Ruo, who was standing on the edge of the cliff and had no intention of going down and was leisurely strolling with Hua Wuxin, saw Li Xinzhai's expression change. Knowing that he had sobered up from his big deception, he began to tease, "Let me see, you are all masters, there should be no problem. I heard Tang Chen say that last time she accidentally ran over the cliff while chasing me, and you brought people to help pull her up, right?"
Li Xinzhai looked at the ropes around him, then at the abyss below him, and then at the secret guards lining the cliff edge, watching his every move with serious expressions. He swallowed subconsciously, "Why do I suddenly have a bad feeling? Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing..."
Wang Ruo patted the melon seed shells off her body and said, "No, this isn't a premonition, it's reality, kid!"
By the time Li Xinzhai had gone up and down the mine alone carrying bag after bag of gold and silver, and was exhausted and had to rest, he had nothing left except a cup of tea and a pair of deerskin gloves in a wooden barrel.
Li Xinzhai guzzled a gulp of tea, panting and wiping his sweat, he said, "...You perverts! I must have done something sinful in my past life to have met you! God, please speak!"
Wang Ruo saw that he had rested and drunk water, yet it took him so long to bring up five or six bags of things. At this rate, by the time all the gold, silver, and jewelry were unloaded, Tang Chen's children would probably be old enough to help. So she urged him, "Stop nagging and hurry up. You've been following me for all these days, and you know what I'm doing first? I'm giving you a chance now, okay?"
Li Xinzhai rolled his eyes at Wang Ruo and fixed his gaze on Hua Wuxin, who was cracking melon seeds beside him and not even trying to help pull the rope. "Forget about that girl next door, could you come over and give her a hand?"
Hua Wuxin said righteously: "I refuse."
As soon as the words fell, Wang Ruo snatched all the melon seeds from Hua Wuxin's hand with a look of understanding: "Oh, right, I would have forgotten if you hadn't mentioned it. I'll forget it. What are you slacking off for? Hurry up, my nephew has paid you. That person is paying money, and you are helping others to avoid disasters. Do you understand? Do you have any professional ethics?"
When Hua Wuxin was tied up by the secret guards who were very good at observing people's words and expressions, and before he was about to go down to the mine entrance, he said to Wang Ruo a sentence that he had kept in his heart for a long time: "I have a question."
Wang Ruo said impatiently, "If you have something to say, please speak quickly. It's tiring for me to pull the ropes, okay?"
Hua Wuxin stared at Li Xinzhai intently and asked, "Why do I feel like you become a completely different person when you're with Tang Chen and Hei Ya?"
Li Xinzhai and Wang Ruo smiled at each other, then said, "You don't understand this. This is called heavenly power. Okay, get ready to go down."
As these people were busy moving the treasure, they seemed to have forgotten Tang Chen. In the past two days, no one had come to see Tang Chen. Those who were busy in the military camp were too busy to leave, and those who were not in the military camp seemed to have disappeared from the face of the earth.
Tang Chen couldn't go out, so she could only ask A Yuan to help her find out the situation: "How is it? Have you found the person?"
A Yuan nodded slightly and said, "I heard them say earlier that Master Li seemed to have gone to the backyard with some people carrying tools and ropes."
"Backyard..." Tang Chen thought about it. There was nowhere else to go in the backyard except the secret room on the cliff. Wang Ruo was fine, but what was Li Xinzhai going to do with his men and tools?
The secret door in the abandoned woodshed in the backyard and the secret passage on the cliff were no longer secrets to Tang Chen and his companions, as well as the secret guards around Wang Yanzhou. But for the others, to avoid being discovered by those with ulterior motives, Tang Chen was still somewhat cautious: "A Yuan, I'm suddenly a little hungry. Can you help me see if there's anything delicious in the kitchen?"
"Um!"
When A Yuan brought some snacks from the kitchen, there was no sign of Tang Chen in the house. A Yuan put down her things and searched the house, the yard, and several places Tang Chen liked to go, but still couldn't find any trace of her. "How could such a living person disappear? No, I have to find my wife before the master finds out!"
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