...... Although Shen Zangfeng is also fond of his wife, but after careful consideration, he still rejected Wei Changying's suggestion to go with him. The reason for this is that he does not know what kind of weight the person in Dicui Pass has, and if he has a false reputation, it does not matter if Wei Changying follows him, but if he is really a talented person, Shen Zangfeng will not be able to let go of him, and he will have to find a way to bring him into his own service.

The key lies in the fact that this high person had previously rejected the solicitations of other people in the Shen Clan, including the previous Assassin of Xilang, more or less leaving an impression of bullying and absent-mindedness.

So Shen Zangfeng is worried that if this person is worth recruiting, it will be inconvenient to bring Wei Changying there. The main reason is that if he goes alone, he can say that it is a special trip for this person, which is enough to show his sincerity; but if he brings his wife ...... to the other side, he may misunderstand that he is traveling with his wife, and that it is just a side trip to recruit him - this kind of high minded and arrogant person who has real knowledge, may think that Shen Zangfeng does not value him enough because of this. Lord, it is possible that because of such a little thing that Shen Zangfeng do not attach enough importance to him, and then put the frame a little bit more ride ......

Shen Zangfeng was now scrambling for time and naturally didn't want to let such a possibility spoil things.

After hearing her husband's explanation, Wei Changying could only give up and said, "I hope that person won't be too aggressive." Because of Wei Xin Yong's example of concealing his family name to get close to Wei Chang Feng, she reminded her husband, "You should also be on guard. Didn't you say that there are many traitors among the Wei people who have been bribed by the Di people? The last time the Di's raid on Di Cui Pass failed, it might have been an inside/outside ploy to lure you over there to meet them!"

"Don't worry, the guards of Di Cui Pass have checked out his grandchildren and grandchildren for several generations." Shen Zangfeng smiled lightly and said, "Not to mention that my last assassination has been found to have nothing to do with this person."

Seeing that Wei Changying was still uneasy, Shen Zangfeng smiled broadly and hugged his wife, rubbing his head against her cheeks and laughing softly, "How can I risk my life when I have a beautiful wife in my arms, and I haven't even looked at my firstborn son yet? Ying'er, don't worry, my life is precious now!"

This matter is so agreed, the next morning, Shen Zang Feng led the "spiny hedge" horse and go.

After sending her husband away, Wei Changying was in the mood to care about other things, and the first thing she wanted to ask was, "Sister Xinmiao, have you gotten any news from the clinic in the past few days?"

Duanmu Xinmiao frowned and sighed, "It's a little bit, but I don't know if it can be accurate!"

Wei Changying just casually asked - she speculated in her heart that Ji Zhaodi's relatives might have died in the wilderness, and the reason why she gave Duanmu Xinmiao the idea of a charity clinic was to hold on to the hope of an unlikely eventuality, but she didn't want to be really unlikely, so she was astonished and said, "What is it? You may as well say out, so that I can give you a reference."

"Zhu Ran and Zhu Shi inquired about it, saying that the direction that Master that family member escaped in that year was exactly the direction of the Cao Family Castle, and perhaps was entered into the Cao Family Castle." Duanmu Xinmiao frowned and said.

Wei Changying asked in puzzlement, "If that's the case, why didn't you mention it earlier and send someone to go to the Cao family's fort to find out?"

"How could I not mention it?" Duanmu Xinmiao grunted and said, "It's just that when this news came to me, my third brother came back, and you're all tied up in your son-in-law, so how could you care about my side? I don't dare to do that spoil the fun of the villain, but is not just a sense of humor to find their own Shen entrusted to the chief steward?"

Wei Changying smiled awkwardly and asked with concern, "What did General Manager Shen say?" She thought about how powerful the Shen family was in Western Liang, although Shen Yuyi was appointed to the position of General Manager of Ming Pei Tang for a short time, but on the one hand, he and Shen Zangfeng are now in a stable position in the clan, and thought that Shen Yuyi, who he supported to the top of the throne, would not be slowed down; and on the other hand, Shen Yuyi's brother, Shen Yujia, is a lieutenant of Western Liang, and even if he is now still on the road back with the army, he is still in the process of returning to the country, but by virtue of the network of his many years of serving as lieutenant, Shen Yuyi will have no problem in checking on the individual since he knows the place. Since he knows the place, how to check the individual is not a problem.

I don't want to frown at Duanmu Xinmiao said: "Shen General Manager Road is too remote, and there is no Shen Clan living. So have to send someone to ask, a return at least ten days and a half months, which also have to not delay when inquiring about people to become. Now the person who went to inquire about the news has not yet returned!"

"Yes?" Wei Changying had previously neglected Duanmu Xinmiao because of her husband's return, so of course she had to remedy the situation, so she said solicitously, "I'll have something to explain to him later, so I'll just ask you about it. If it's too much for you to find out over there, then send some smart people."

After sending off Duanmu Xinmiao, Wei Changying invited Shen Yuyi to ask about the Cao family's fortress, but when she opened the door, Shen Yuyi smiled bitterly and waved his hand, "Auntie, you don't know, even if you don't ask my nephew to come over here, my nephew would still want to ask for an idea - Cao family's fortress is a very important place. Over there, more than ten years ago, I sent someone to ask, where there is still a need to send someone to go now?"

Wei Changying was confused and said, "What?"

Shen Yuyi tilted his body slightly towards the top and lowered his voice to explain, "Miss Duanmu Bajie was able to find out about the Cao Family Fort just by sending her envoys to speak to the people seeking treatment during the charity clinic, how could our family not know? As early as a dozen years ago, when Old Lady Song entrusted the Valve Master and Valve Master's order to arrive in Western Liang, we sent someone to inquire about the Cao Family Fort."

"And the result? Did Divine Doctor Ji's relatives go there?" Wei Changying asked busily.

Shen Yuyi sighed: "Going is going, just ...... people are already dead!"

Wei Changying was shocked and said, "Dead?"

"Isn't that so?" Shen Yuyi spread his hands and said, "Originally, the Ji family was born and raised in the Imperial Capital, so they are not accustomed to our Western Liang climate. Coupled with the fact that the exiled people have to serve hard labor every day - of course, because of the abolition of Qian's favor, our family took care of a little, but Deng's people have also bought off some of the people in the clan ...... Auntie is also from a large clan, and when you know that there are many clansmen, you may not be unanimous. The first thing I want to say is that I'm not going to be able to do that. Not to mention that many of the people exiled by the Ji family are women and children, and they die very quickly. This escaped seems to be Ji Ying's first young son Ji Ku, counting that year is only fourteen years old, the blood is not enough, can temporarily escape the eyes of the errand boy is considered a fluke ......"

After Shen Yuyi's detailed explanation, Wei Changying realized that the reason why Jigu was able to escape was really a rare event - because of the bitter cold in the Western Liang, although the guards serving the exiled prisoners were able to extort the families of the prisoners, they must have lost their power or were not valued, so their income was limited, and they were usually very poor. They have limited income and are usually in a very poor condition.

The day before Jigu escaped, the guards of their group happened to shoot a hare. There were a lot of people working together, and a rabbit, no matter how fat it was, could not be taken home by several people to share. So the officers decided to enjoy it on the spot, and instructed the prisoners to cook the hare into a broth for them to eat. At that time was called over to serve them two prisoners, there is one is Ji Gu ...... reason why he called him because he is thin and weak, always do things than the next person worse, let him in the service there desperately, he can not do much.

It was convenient to send him off to do any trivial things.

As a result, these policemen have become accustomed to the authority of the prisoners, even if they know the origin of Ji Gu, but they also underestimated the medical skills of the century-old Ji Clan, especially Ji Ying's lineage. Ji Gu but carrying the skinned rabbit, in the sight of the sentry to the stream to clean some, and then in full view, with another not familiar with the prisoner to cook a pot of soup ...... In the middle of this, he used the opportunity to clean the rabbit meat in the stream, casually Laba a few can be said to be everywhere in the herb ...... or weeds in the eyes of common people, and then dispensed a laxative!

Not only that, but God knows what method he used to put the medicine into the soup in front of the messengers ......

So soon after those errand boys ate the rabbit soup, they all died of diarrhea!

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ji Gu encourages the crowd to flee together, and he and his only remaining brother at the time, Ji Jian, mix in with them - only Ji Jian is unlucky, and escapes not far before being discovered by the inspecting messenger, who beheads him on the spot!

It's this Jigu who got away with running into the Cao Family Fort.

Here we have to talk about the Cao Family Fort, this place is called a fort, and it does have a fort, but it's not the same as an ordinary fort.

As mentioned earlier, some people were forced by taxes or rents to take the risk of reclaiming the wasteland at the border between Wei and Di. At the risk of being massacred by the Di people and being prosecuted by the Wei government, they struggled hard to have a chance of survival - Caojiabao is such a place.

According to the rules, when there are such disobedient and unruly people in the territory, the government always has to suppress them. It's just that the terrain of that fortress in Caojia Fortress is just too good - the word "one man against all men" was simply made for this place!

According to Shen Yuyi's description, this Cao Family Fort actually had neither a fortress wall nor any sturdy building - because it didn't need one at all! This place, three sides are like a knife chopping out of the steep cliffs, the height of the shortest cliffs are also dozens of feet! Siege cloud car arrived can only look and sigh ...... In fact, the cloud car can not reach, because the river under the cliff is not turbulent, but the cloud car base flooded already enough ......

And western cool bitter cold, cliffs are not at all like the southern cliffs full of Ficus. Expect that there is a piece of growth for hundreds of years, so tough old vine can be used for the surprise attack that is completely impossible thing ......

So unless one has wings, one can only think of attacking from these three sides!

Plus that remaining side is the only one that can go up.

This road, is a real sheep's intestine small road! The trail is so small that the most experienced picker, picking up a pair of baskets will have to lean over and hold a bit of the basket's rope in order to avoid rubbing against the rocks on both sides of the mountain. ......

Such a Jedi is already desperate enough for those who want to attack!

The worst thing is, this Jedi place is not small! Cao Jia Fort about 3,000 people, together nested in the top of the live down not to mention, and even have fields ...... have mountain springs ...... in addition to salt still need to come out to buy outside, they can be completely the only path a letter, leisure life outside the paradise life, thoroughly Self-sufficiency!

Although the Shen family has strong soldiers and horses, but those are mostly for the Di people to prepare - previously from Shen Yujia to Shen Zangfeng, all staring at the life of the autumn Di Grand Monarch Mu Xiuer, where there is time to care for such a nest of ...... Uh, unruly people can be said to say, but to say that the rebels are not really counted! --Cao Jia Fort has such a unique environment, but has been very cautious, and do not do nothing to buy and sell, so in the official government to eliminate these in Wei's land farming but do not pay taxes to Wei's stronghold has not been ranked on the number of them.

After all, they do not cause trouble - do not pay taxes on the matter of good cover up very much, and anyway, Xiliang is not Jiangnan, a large area of land into a battlefield, I am afraid that even the Yamen specializing in the management of this piece of the officials do not know the exact number of acres of land - the main thing is that this day's good land, it may be tomorrow The main thing is that today's good land, may be tomorrow into a battlefield; today's battlefield, may be some days after someone to plow ......

However, if these people who steal ploughs and plants still come out to do some unprofitable business in their spare time, the government can't just sit back and watch!

After all, no one would want to worry about their home being taken over by robbers while they were fighting for their lives with the Dionysians!

Shen family in this point is very strong, the entire Xiliang territory, as long as a bandit appears, regardless of whether it is the Di people jumped into the Wei people or rebellion, all immediately suppressed! And for such bandits, the Shen family never surrendered, generally are dogs and chickens, full of lords!

So far, all those who dared to violate this article, except for a very small number of people are too small, hiding place is too secret, not convenient for the army to eliminate, almost no one can be spared.

The good behavior and terrain of the Cao family's fortress is what it has relied on for decades of existence.

Just Cao Jia Fort's several fort masters are also very sensible, the number of people in the fort is always controlled in three thousand, the number of people to reach three thousand, and then try to defect to the fort to make a living, on the pretext that there is no room in the fort, and refused to accept it.

And for the government, the Shen family, and some of the local big clans in Xiliang who did not go overboard with their requests, they all tried to fulfill them as much as possible.

So the whole of Western Liang, for the existence of the Cao family castle is also turned a blind eye. In any case, the people in the Cao Family Fortress are just making a living - even if the place pays taxes, they really can't collect much.

At least there are three thousand people, not a big deal, really uproar is always a civil unrest, it is difficult to hide completely impervious to the wind.

"...... That year, the clan sent a clan uncle to personally enter the Cao Family Fort and bring the portrait of Ji Gu. At that time, it had been more than ten years since Ji Ku fled without a trace." Shen Yuyi sighed, "He was a teenager when he escaped, and his appearance might have to change after he became an adult. But the clan thought that he has a good hand of medical skills, a hundred years of Ji's doctor, what place will be too much? Cao Family Castle will take him in. Cao family castle eight or nine will take him in! After entering the fort, as long as you inquire from the medical skills here, I'm not afraid that you won't be able to find out from the 3,000 people!"

Wei Changying frowned and asked, "Then what?"

"Then I inquired that the Cao Family Fort did save a ragged teenager after Ji Gu escaped, and this teenager did know medical skills." Shen Yuyi sighed, "It's a pity that this teenager hadn't eaten for many days when he was rescued by Cao Family Castle's people, and could be said to be dying! Because he knows the art of medicine, was exceptionally brought into the fort ...... He used the medicinal herbs accumulated in the fort to condition himself for a while, but survived ......"

Wei Changying was surprised, "Isn't this alive? How did he die later?"