Xiao Yiren said in astonishment, "What saber technique? This is clearly a sword technique. I learned it from the real Qu Hanshan. You're a fake, so it's only natural you don't recognize it."
Then he looked at Yu Chiqing and said, "Great Hero Qu, say something! You can't let this impostor keep acting so brazenly."
Yu Chiqing suddenly realized he couldn't keep using this fool, or he'd get himself into trouble too. So he simply changed his plan again and followed Liu Suifeng's original instructions.
"Enough. We've all been caught. What's there to deny? I, Yu Chiqing, already know about the Marching Pill. Since I can't take it with me, do whatever you want—kill me or torture me!"
Only then did Xiao Yiren realize he'd been tricked. He immediately turned to Xiao Kaiyan and said,
"Second Brother, you have to believe me. I really am not a spy. Qu Hanshan put me together with Yu Chiqing as soon as we met.
"Yu Chiqing said he was the real Qu Hanshan, so I learned swordplay from him. I was only doing it so we could get out together and expose Qu Hanshan!"
Hearing this, Xiao Kaiyan shook his head helplessly. "Big Brother, everyone in Guangling knows Great Hero Qu. No one will believe you if you say that."
Xiao Yiren grew frantic. "You don't even believe me?"
He looked at Nangong Xiaoyi and asked urgently, "Xiaoyi, you have to speak up for me. I came to investigate the Marching Pill. I really had nothing to do with making it.
"And it was my Third Brother who investigated the Marching Pill that was lost!"
Nangong Xiaoyi replied with difficulty, "Brother Yiren, I believe you, but this concerns the fate of the country. I wouldn't dare guarantee it on my family's honor."
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