Wei Shutong was passionate, but Qi Ning disagreed. He thought that such a shocking thing happened in Xichuan. Even if someone deliberately blocked the news, you, as the governor of Xichuan, know nothing, and you are really dereliction of duty.

"Master Wei, I personally think that the murderer who slaughtered the Black Rock Cave this time should be the same group as the ones who slaughtered the Black Rock Cave last time." Qi Ning said coldly, "The real murderer who slaughtered the Black Rock Cave last time has not been found yet, but they have obviously been active in Xichuan."

Wei Shu looked ashamed and said, "This is all the incompetent officials. The officials have been pursuing this case, hoping to find out the real murderer behind the scenes, but!"

"Forget it." Qi Ning waved his hand, "How is Li Hongxin recently?"

Wei Shutong hurriedly said, "After his son's death, Li Hongxin has been staying in the Shu Palace, leaving behind a door to thank the guests. The lower officials have been sending people to pay attention to the movements there, and have never seen anyone visiting the Shu Palace. The Shu Palace is also very honest. The lower officials heard that Li Hongxin recites scriptures day and night in the Buddhist temple of the Shu Palace every day, and eats only vegetarian food for three meals a day, which looks like he is a monk at home."

"This person is not that honest." Qi Ning said lightly, "Is there any news on Yinghe Villa? Has the owner of Manor Lu disappeared?"

Wei Shutong nodded and said, "Yinghe Villa is empty, the villa is deserted."

"By the way, as far as I know, the Xuanyuan lieutenant of the Shenhou Mansion is still in Xichuan, do you know?" Qi Ning stared at Wei Shu and said, "Did he keep in touch with you?"

"Captain Xuanyuan?" Wei Shutong was stunned again and said strangely, "Duke, Captain Xuanyuan has returned to the capital long ago. Don't you know? When he left, he even said goodbye to the lower officials, right?"

Qi Ning was stunned, and was also a little surprised.

Qi Ning received news from the Shenhou Mansion that Xuanyuan Po had been working in Xichuan, and even missed Ximen Zhanying's marriage. He thought that since Xuanyuan Po stayed in Xichuan, he would still have some contact with Wei Shutong, but Wei Shutong said that Xuanyuan Po had already returned to Beijing.

In this way, Xuanyuan Po was not in Xichuan at all. The Shenhou Mansion claimed that Xuanyuan Po stayed in Xichuan was just a concealment? Or, Xuanyuan Po deceived Wei Shutong and kept hiding in Xichuan?

Qi Ning was suspicious, but at this time there was no time to ask these things. He stood up and said, "I originally wanted to come over and learn about some of the situation from you. Since Lord Wei does not know the news from the Black Rock Cave, I can only go and check the situation first."

"Duke, there is a rebel bandit who kills people and sets fire in the Heiyan Cave. After the lower officials realize it, they should die. "We immediately said, "The lower officials will mobilize their troops and go to round up the rebel bandits."

"I'm afraid they'll withdraw long ago." Qi Ning said, "This time I came to Xichuan, they must have received the news. Since they knew that I would ask Lord Wei to lead the troops, they would naturally not stay there waiting for us to come."

Wei Shu said, "The officials dispatched troops to the scene, first, to find the traces of those rebel bandits as much as possible, and second, to protect the Duke."

Qi Ning thought to protect me but couldn't use it, but when the cave owner was killed after this incident in the Black Rock Cave, the entire Black Rock Cave must be panicked. If he led his troops to go there, let the people in the Black Rock Cave see the officers and soldiers going to support, it should be able to stabilize the people's hearts and nodded, "Come immediately and we will go to the Black Rock Cave immediately!"

Wei Shutong did not delay and bowed down. After a while, he came over and said, "Duke, the Duke, the lower official ordered Yao Siyuan to mobilize five hundred elite troops nearby. The lower official will go with the Duke."

"You have a lot of official duties and the matter is not clear. I will first go and see what the situation is." Qi Ning said. "If you need support, you will lead the troops and hand over the five hundred people to me."

Wei Shutong hurriedly said, "The lower officials follow the Duke's will."

Yao Siyuan is the number one general under Wei Shutong. The 500 elite soldiers are also guards of Wei Shutong's governor's office. Both combat effectiveness and equipment are beyond the reach of other Xichuan soldiers. Qi Ning knew a little about Yao Siyuan. When Heiyan Cave was slandered and rebelled, Wei Shutong sent troops to encircle and suppress the troops, and the general was Yao Siyuan.

Yao Siyuan was in his forties, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist. He saw that he was a brave general who had been through the battle formation for a long time. When he saw Qi Ning, he immediately visited him. Qi Ning had no time to say more and ordered Yao Siyuan to accompany him with 500 elite soldiers.

When we left the city, it was already dark. After joining with the 100 troops led by Duan Canghai, we lit a torch and rushed to the Black Rock Cave overnight.

Heiyan Cave is not close to Jinguan City. Everyone rushed to rush and used some dry food for a short time along the way. Before dusk the next day, they had already arrived at Heiyan Ridge. The Heiyan Ridge Mountains were undulating and yellow grass everywhere. The closer they were to the mountains, the more difficult it would be to walk on the road. There were even many places without roads at all. Fortunately, when they surrounded Heiyan Ridge, Yao Siyuan sent people to understand the terrain around Heiyan Ridge. Moreover, Ximu was the people from Heiyan Cave, and he was extremely familiar with the terrain here. As a guide, he led his troops to the main ridge of Heiyan Ridge.

Qi Ning led his troops to stabilize the hearts of the people, but he also knew that the Miao people had always been repulsive to the officers and soldiers, and did not allow the troops to enter the mountains, but only let them stand by at the foot of the mountains, and ordered Qi Feng to lead a few people to follow him into the mountains.

Ximu led Qi Ning and others to the village before dark. Before entering the village, Qi Ning felt that the atmosphere was a little wrong. He had been to Heiyan Cave before and saw the people in the village working hard and simple, but until the mountains, there were rare people along the way. He walked to Bayerli's village and finally saw many Miao people sitting on the ground in groups, looking dull, and seemed to be too frightened.

When everyone saw Xi Mu bringing Qi Ning and others into the village, they stood up one after another and their eyes fell on Qi Ning. Xi Mu said loudly, "Don't worry, Duke, our great savior is here!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a voice came from a short distance from the front saying "Master Xizhai, Master Xizhai!" In the voice, a group of people quickly came over. Ximu quickly stepped forward and said, "I have invited the wait for the Jinyi, and the great savior has arrived!"

He already knew that Qi Ning was promoted to Jinyi Hou, but the Miao family in Heiyan Cave was not aware of it. He knew that if the Duke came at this time, everyone would not know who it was.

The group of people looked at Qi Ning and ran up one after another, knelt on the ground. Qi Ning quickly helped the leading old man up and said, "Get up quickly, where is Yifu?"

The old man was over 60 years old and was helped up by Qi Ning and said in a trembling voice, "Mr. Marquis, you go into the house to see something first, let's wait for you to come!"

Qi Ning didn't know what the old man wanted to let him see. At this time, Xi Mu was already saying, "This is the father of Mangwu, the leader of Qingquan Village!"

"Dad Mangwu!" Qi Ning bowed without any airs and bowed.

Mangwu hurriedly said, "Don't dare, don't dare." He raised his hand and said, "Please!"

Qi Ning followed Mangwu's father and the group arrived at the stilt house where Bayerli lived. Although Mangwu's father was old, his body was still neat. He led Qi Ning upstairs. At the end of the stairs, a flagpole was erected. Qi Ning glanced at it and found that there was blood on the flagpole. He felt a stern and thought to himself.

Yeli's head was chopped and hung on the flagpole. Could it be this flagpole?

When he entered the room, Qi Ning glanced at Yifu, and there was no trace of Yifu. An ominous premonition came to his heart. My father walked along the small table in the room and took a letter from the table and said, "Marty, this is a early morning. We were going to discuss things with Yifu last night, but we have not found her. Everyone thought that something might have happened. They searched for him all night. Early this morning, someone found that he had put this letter on the table. We don't know if Yifu stayed, but some people said that it was not Yifu's handwriting."

Qi Ning glanced and said the letter was written with the four words "Qining personally received" and there was no extra wording in addition.

Qi Ning frowned, opened the envelope, took out the letter paper, and just glanced at it, his face changed slightly. Everyone around him saw Qi Ning's expression and looked at each other, and they all guessed that things might not be good.

There is not much content on the letter, only two lines of words.

If she wanted to make her survive, Fengjian Villa saved people and brought one more person, and she would be killed without mercy!

There are only about twenty words in total, and there is no signature, but the meaning is very obvious. Of course, this letter will not be left by Yifu. In this letter, it means that Yifu has been arrested by them. If I want Yifu to survive, I have to go to Fengjian Villa to save people.

Fengjian Villa!

On the way here, Qi Ning was worried about Yifu's safety. He did not find any trace of Yifu when he arrived this time. Although he was worried, he had already made mental preparations before, but the other party asked Qi Ning to go to Fengjian Villa to save people, which really surprised Qi Ning.

Of course, Qi Ning knew where Fengjian Villa was.

Fengjian Villa was once a famous place in Xichuan. The Xiang family was also a martial arts family in Xichuan. The Chengying Sword owned by its family is one of the top ten famous swords.

Xiang Baiying, the leader of the Beggars' Sect, came from Fengjian Villa, and he inherited the position of Fengjian Villa's owner, but was trapped by love. He gave up his childhood sweetheart to Lu Shanghe who had always loved her, and even handed over Chengying Jian and Fengjian Villa to Lu Shanghe. Since then, Fengjian Villa has become Lu Shanghe's industry.

At that time, Qi Ning followed Xiang Baiying to Fengjian Villa, which was remote and had almost no people within a radius of twenty miles. It was built at a very high terrain, and you could overlook the surrounding scenery from the villa.

After Lu Shanghe obtained Fengjian Villa, he did not regard Fengjian Villa as his place of residence. Instead, he built another Yinghe Villa. Years later, Fengjian Villa, which was intimidating Xichuan, had long lost its glory. Instead, Lu Shanghe's Yinghe Villa became one of the eight gangs and sixteen factions, making it famous in Shu.

Qi Ning never expected that those people would let him go to Fengjian Villa alone to rescue Yifu.

Lu Shanghe!

Of course, Qi Ning would think of this person at this time.

The East China Sea wiped out the Jiang family and put out a huge plot of rebellion into hidden dangers. Lu Shanghe was in the East China Sea at that time. When the East China Sea Navy wiped out the Jiang family's forces at sea, Lu Shanghe took advantage of the chaos to escape and his whereabouts were unknown.

At this time, Qi Ning had already thought that since the other party had made an appointment with Fengjian Villa, this incident could not be separated from Lu Shanghe's relationship.
Chapter completed!