Compared with Li Jing's pre-conceived idea, there were two things that greatly surprised him:

The first thing he didn't expect was that in order to prevent accidents, the eight sergeants he specially selected from the army to enter Yandang Mountain with him to spy on the hiding place of the remnants of Nanchen were all killed early, that is, even he himself became a prisoner of the other party, and it was difficult to escape from the mountain, and reported the bandit situation to the brigade stationed in Dongda City;

The second thing that he didn't expect was that although the other party believed the lie he had arranged, he was much more cautious than he expected, and actually confirmed what he said by asking Qian Wuliang to pay a deposit of 100,000 yuan in advance.

Because of these two accidents, Li Jing fell into an extremely passive situation.

First of all, he couldn't be sure whether Qian Wuliang, who was far away in Guangling, would make a timely statement to Yang Guang after receiving a letter from the robbers asking for a deposit of 100,000 yuan, and whether Yang Guang would make the right decision to pay a deposit of 100,000 yuan to the robbers in advance after learning the news, so as to gain the trust of the other party and cooperate with him to find out the details of the gang of robbers.

Secondly, the premature death of the eight accompanying sergeants completely severed his connection with the Dongda City Brigade, and under the strict supervision of this group of robbers, he did not even have the opportunity to set fire to the city brigade in the mountains to warn the city's brigade.

Originally, with Li Jing's ability, he had a chance to escape, but during the period of waiting for the money to reply from Guangling in the mountains, Li Jing thought about it again and again, thinking that before the two things were done, he must not escape in advance for the sake of his life: first, he needed to confirm whether the group of robbers was the Gu Zi'er he was looking for; Secondly, the eight sergeants who followed him into the mountain must not die in vain, and he wanted to avenge the eight sergeants with Yan Thirteen.

On the day after Li Jing was captured, the female robbers led by him handed him over to Yan Shisan to take care of, so that he learned the truth that all eight accompanying soldiers died under his arrows through Yan Shisan's mouth.

"I can let you run for a while, and as long as you can avoid the first arrow I shoot, I'll let you out of the mountain, okay?" Listening to his voice alone, Li Jing thought that the archer among the robbers was the same age as himself, idle and idle, and his tone was surprisingly arrogant when he was amusing himself.

Although Yan Shisan's words were arrogant, just because he was able to shoot the sergeants who were traveling with him with one arrow when he first encountered Yan Shisan, and slipped away without showing up, Li Jing did not dare to underestimate him, and decided in his heart that among this gang of robbers, Yan Shisan would undoubtedly be his strongest opponent.

Yan Shisan's care of Li Jing was very different from the usual practice: instead of imprisoning Li Jing in a cave used as a prison cell all day, he let Li Jing walk around the hillside with his hands tied and blindfolded for most of the day, while he himself sat far away and said to Li Jing leisurely: "You can run, as long as you run faster than my arrows, I will let you go." ”

At this time, Li Jing deliberately made a sincere and frightened appearance, trying to get close to Yan Shisan, so as not to let him really shoot himself, and at the same time intentionally or unintentionally talked to him, intending to ask more information about this gang of robbers from his mouth.

After a few days, from Yan Shisan's mouth, Li Jing really had to find out some information about this gang of robbers, but most of them were not very important information, about whether the female robber led by Li Jing wanted to know most was Gu Zi'er, Yan Shisan never mentioned half a word.

Just seven or eight days later, Li Jing learned that he had narrowly passed the first hurdle: a deposit of 100,000 yuan, and the robbers had already gotten it.

The female robber who was the leader ordered Yan 13 to escort Li Jing to Huiyanpo where he met him for the first time, and lightly informed Li Jing that Qian Wuliang had paid a deposit of 100,000 guan, and offered to pay 1,000 guan as a reward, and asked Li Jing if he would like to go to Guangling with the same way to receive the remaining 900,000 guan ransom.

"I only hope that my wife can be put in the ......lower mountain as soon as possible" Although Li Jing desperately hoped that the female robber led by him would take him to Guangling to get back the ransom, on the surface, he made a look of only begging for his life and pleaded with the female robber.

"Two thousand, how about it?" The female robber took the initiative to raise the price.

"I'm just a messenger...... If the court knows that I am working for my wife, I am afraid that my whole family will not survive......" Li Jing still refused to spit out and agreed, and said in a trembling voice.

The female robber observed Li Jing quietly, and when she muttered, Fang accentuated her tone and threatened him: "Let's tell you the truth, you have to go to Guangling this time, and you have to go if you don't go." Fang is polite to you, you have offended us, and it will be difficult for the whole family to live, where to go, you can do it yourself. ”

"I, can I take the liberty of asking Madame a word? Why did Madame insist on taking me to Guangling? ”

"You said the wrong thing, only Yan Shisan will accompany you." Li Jing could hear that his words immediately aroused the vigilance of the female robber, and he said to himself in a lengthened tone, "Qian Wuliang will only successfully hand over the ransom of 900,000 yuan when he sees your face, this time I understand." ”

"I'd rather not want the two thousand guan that Madame promised me, but just ask Madame to promise me one thing, okay?" Li Jing gave up the intention of taking the opportunity to ask the female robber for news in time, and asked boldly.

"Say."

"I just ask my wife to let go of the whole ......family after getting back the ransom of 900,000 yuan."

Li Jing was blindfolded, and he couldn't see a strange smile flashing on the female robber's face when she heard his words, and only heard her refreshing reply.

Two days later, sure enough, it was Yan Shisan who escorted Li Jing on the road.

Seeing that the robbers had completely listened to the lies he had concocted, Li Jing was ecstatic in his heart, and he desperately wanted to get in touch with the people sent by Yang Guang to pick him up, so that the two could cooperate with each other, so as to take advantage of the opportunity for the robbers to go out of the mountain to collect the ransom and wipe them out in one fell swoop.

However, firstly, he did not know whether Yang Guang was really sent to pick him up, and secondly, along the way, Yan Shisan and the others guarded him very closely, so that he had no way of knowing where he was escorted, which made Li Jing feel very anxious.

Because his eyes have been blindfolded, Li Jing can only rely on other senses such as hearing and smell to guess, after the robbers led by Yan Shisan escorted him out of Yandang Mountain, they did not go north by land and rushed to Guangling, but turned east and set off by sea by boat.

Could it be that the place where the ransom was paid was not in Guangling, but somewhere else, or at sea? Li Jing secretly guessed.