Then the old man walked forward and cut off the rope on Yu Yuqian with a knife. Then he retreated back to the carriage door, still looking at Yu Yuqian like this, but didn't say anything.

Yu Yuqian felt so heartbroken when she was seen by this old man, but after she saved her, she couldn't help but thank him.

"Yu Qian thanked senior for saving his life. I wonder if senior is..." Yu Yuqian didn't guess because she really had no impression of this old man. In her memory, she must have never seen this old man.

"Are you Liu Ziming's disciple?" The old man finally spoke.

"It's. Senior, I know the master?" Yu Yuqian couldn't help feeling sad when she heard the old man mentioning his master, but she still answered the old man's question politely.

"Where is your master?" the old man asked very directly.

Yu Yuqian's face turned dark after hearing this. "My family master has passed away a month ago."

The old man was not surprised when he heard this, but just sighed heavily. "It seems that the rumors in the world are true. Liu Ziming and Xu Hongru are both dead, are they?"

Yu Yuqian nodded sadly, "Senior, are you..."

The old man did not answer Yu Yuqian's words, but looked around vigilantly, and then gave an order to the boy under the car.

"Obai, go and bring our horses over. It seems that we have to take this girl with us and go back quickly."

Yu Yuqian became alert and quietly approached the back of the car, preparing to break out of the car at any time if there was danger.

"Don't worry, girl. We are your master's friends, but now it's too dangerous. I can't tell you my identity for the time being. When we leave this place, I will tell you my identity."

The old man said, jumped out of the carriage and said to Yu Yuqian in the carriage, "Get down!"

Yu Yuqian hesitated for a moment, but jumped off the carriage. Because she felt that the old man would not be in any way bad for her, otherwise he would have no need to help him untie the rope just now. And now she has nowhere to go, so it would be okay to go with them. Moreover, since he knows his master, he might even meet other people from the master's sect after them.

Yu Yuqian got out of the carriage, and the young man had already pulled out three horses from the woods. He handed one of them to Yu Yufu and stepped onto the other horse himself.

At the same time, the old man also stepped on another horse and shouted at the two of them, "Let's go!"

This mysterious grandparents and grandchildren led Yu Yuqian all the way north, trying to avoid the official road and change to the small road. Judging from their familiarity with the terrain, they obviously have a good understanding of this place.

The three of them headed north and reached the vicinity of Shanhaiguan. The grandparents and grandchildren stopped in a small village closer to the seaside.

This village looks like a fishing village, but there shouldn't be many people who really fish in the village. Because there are not many fishing nets for drying in the village.

Grandparents and grandchildren entered the village and knocked on the door of a house that looked like the village official.

This family is the largest courtyard in this village, covering an area of ​​four or five acres. Although most other families have their own courtyards, no one has such a large courtyard. This fishing village looks like a fishing village, but in fact it can only be said to be half a year. Because the west side of the village is like a fishing village, but the east side is full of brick walls and tile houses, and many families have even enclosed courtyard walls.

The one who opened the door for them was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl.

When the girl saw them, she picked up the three of them without asking any more questions and led them to a small villa. Along the way, Yu Yuqian never saw anyone else. Just like there was only such a little girl living in this huge courtyard. This made Yu Yuqian feel a little strange.

"Miss Nine, we have something urgent to go back. You can prepare a small boat for us immediately." The old man said when he saw the girl.

"I understand, you can wait here! Our boats will not come back until evening. It is very safe here, so you can take a rest here first!"

"It's a good girl." The old man said, taking out a piece of silver worth twenty taels from his sleeve and handing it to Miss Ninth.

Miss Ninth was not polite, so she took the money and turned around and went out to prepare to go.

All the way north, the grandparents and grandchildren have never revealed any information about their identities to Yu Yuqian. Their identities have been concealed very well, making Yu Yuqian unable to guess. When he got here, Yu Yuqian finally guessed a few points.

Although Yu Yuqian is not familiar with Zhili and Shandong, this place was once the bishop of the Winter Sorrow Sect, and there are still quite a lot of believers. Yu Yuqian has been here with her master and senior sister many times. She still has some understanding of this place.

And she happened to pass by this small village.

This small village is close to the seaside, and five miles ahead is Shanhaiguan. The villagers here were once fishermen of generations, but since the Jurchens gradually emerged in Liaodong, fewer fishing people in the village here have gradually become less and less, especially those families on the east side of the village.

After hearing from her master, most of the fishermen in this village changed their business later. Because they were close to Shanhaiguan, these fishermen were familiar with waterways, so they didn't have to pass the customs and transported the items from the south from the sea to outside the customs to trade with the Jurchens.

Therefore, when Yu Yuqian saw the couple of grandparents knocking on the door of the village master, she finally came up with an answer.

This pair of grandparents and grandchildren is most likely to be Jurchens.

It's no wonder why they saved themselves. She remembered that when the master raised an army with the leader, he told them that he had sent a close confidant to report to the Jurchens in Liaodong, hoping that they could respond to them in Liaodong. In this way, two families, one in the south and one in the north, it would be much easier to capture Zhili.

But probably even the Jurchens did not expect that the Fragrance Church, which had nearly one million believers and had 200,000 to 300,000 soldiers, was defeated so quickly. The first batch of messengers they sent were already extinguished before they entered Shandong.

Of course they would not have thought that a Yu Ren would suddenly appear in Shandong. He first wiped out most of the elite of the incense sect, the guards under Liu Ziming, and then dragged the main force of the incense sect to Yanzhou, so that the court could make the arrangements calmly and wipe out the incense sect in one fell swoop.

This pair of people pretending to be grandparents was the messenger sent by Nurhaci to Shandong. The old man was still Nurhaci's confidant secretly investigating Ayue. The young man was Niu Lu Oboi from Zhengbai Banner, one of the eight banners under Nurhaci.

Both of them have extraordinary identities. If we count according to the size of the official position, Oboi is slightly higher than Ayue. However, Ayue is still a professional secret detective, and he is still a master in disguise and inquire about information. The Jurchens have always valued practicality and slighted fame.

So when we arrived in the pass, Obai followed this Ayue in everything.

The purpose of Nurhaci sending them to Shandong was to let them contact Xu Hongru and Liu Ziming, the Winter Sect, first, and then choose the opportunity to discuss the cooperation between the north and the south. However, Nurhaci did not expect that before their messengers arrived in Shandong, the Winter Sect was forced to rebel in advance by Yu Ren. Then, under Yu Ren's series of measures, they finally collapsed quickly.

When Ayue and Aobai arrived in Shandong, they saw that the incense sect had been wiped out by the court in one fell swoop. They knew they were one step late. But they didn't believe that Xu Hongru and Liu Ziming would be so easy, so they were killed by the officers and soldiers.

But when they first arrived in Shandong, Shandong was in chaos again. They were worried that they would be found by the government accidentally, which would be dangerous. So they hurriedly left Shandong.

Unexpectedly, they actually met Yu Yuqian in Zhili.

I can't help but mention it here. This Ayue has one of the best skills. That is, his ears have excellent hearing. So when Shi Shanshi whispered to Yu Yuqian in the carriage, he also listened clearly to the conversation between the two.

When he heard that the person in the car was Liu Ziming's disciple, Ayue was so happy. However, he did not show it at all. He just ate the noodles in a hurry and then set up an ambush with Oboi in advance.

When the seventh girl went to prepare the ship, Ayue also explained their true identities to Yu Yuqian.

"We will take you to Liaodong first. When we have the chance, we can send you back. I know that you have a wide range of believers in Shandong, Zhili. Although we have lost this battle, I believe that as long as we work together, sooner or later, we will successfully overthrow the Ming Dynasty and avenge your master."

Ayue is not just a secret detective, he is also a good psychological analyst. He knows what Yu Yufu wants to do most now.

But what he didn't expect was that although Yu Yuqian's master died of defeat, she did not want to avenge his master very much. Because her master once told her to not avenge him at the death. Of course, there was another more important reason. The most important person who really directly led to her master's defeat was Yu Ren. If she wanted to avenge her, she would kill Yu Ren.

But Yu Yuqian couldn't do anything to this man, and she couldn't hate him.

Seeing that Yu Yuqian didn't speak, Ayue was tactful and did not force her. She just asked, "We will go back to Liaodong tonight. Will the girl go with us?"

Yu Yuqian lowered her head and didn't speak.

[I took a few days to rest due to foot injury at home, and I still saved a few more chapters of the manuscript. So I can keep the third update these days.]
Chapter completed!