Author: Sigui Beihong

"Drive! Drive! Drive!" Mo Yunxiao whipped his riding whip and stared straight ahead for a moment.

"He Lu! Slow down, the horse won't be able to bear it anymore!" Li Qingzhao shouted at the top of his lungs while barely chasing after him.

But Mo Yunxiao turned a deaf ear and just kept running forward. After a while, she tightened the reins, and the horse stood up and hissed, finally stopped and began to breathe heavily, with layers of thick nostrils popping out.

fog.

In an instant, Li Qingzhao also arrived on horseback. She glanced sideways at Mo Yunxiao and saw the anxious expression on her face, and her own mood became heavy.

Mo Yunxiao pointed forward with the hand holding the riding crop, and the two large pools of blood were very clear.

She said: "There must be a fight here."

Li Qingzhao got off the horse, walked up and looked carefully, and said, "Yes, there were two male corpses here, but why are they missing?"

Mo Yunxiao said: "The companions must have carried the body away, but it was obvious that they were in such a panic that the blood stains were not washed away."

"Miss Mo! Madam of the Li family!" Zhao Mingcheng, who had been late for arriving, finally arrived, followed by Zhang Di and more than a hundred Forbidden Army cavalry.

Li Qingzhao sneered and said: "Humph! He came exactly like this more than half an hour ago, so that I couldn't take a closer look at the two corpses."

Zhao Mingcheng got off the horse, came to Li Qingzhao's side, and said in a lost voice: "Two ladies, you are walking too fast, I have to work hard to catch up."

Li Qingzhao put on a cold face and ignored him. Only Mo Yunxiao said: "Zhao Yanei, Wan'er, I guess Yunxiang fell into the hands of this group of thieves, but I don't know who killed them."

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Li Qingzhao stepped forward and said, "There are two possibilities: internal conflict, or external encounter with a powerful enemy."

"If we encounter a strong enemy, who will it be?" Mo Yunxiao asked.

When Li Qingzhao thought about it, his eyes widened. When he was about to answer, Zhao Mingcheng beat him to it: "Prince Jian!"

Li Qingzhao hated him for stealing her words, so she rolled her eyes at him, but didn't say much.

Mo Yunxiao nodded with a smile and added: "The place where King Jian was imprisoned should be heavily guarded. He would never be able to escape by himself. Unless there is external help. If the thieves who kidnapped Yunxiang and the thieves who rescued King Jian are

If the fire merges, then Yun Xiang may have two places to go."

"Yes, one was kidnapped by King Jian, and the other was kidnapped by the previous thief." Li Qingzhao said: "However, there is also a possibility that the person who kidnapped Yunxiang and the person who rescued King Jian are the same people, maybe they are

There was a dispute over the uneven distribution of the spoils."

"Yeah." Mo Yunxiao nodded in agreement, and said at the same time: "But right now I have no time to care about anything else. I only care about Yun Xiang's whereabouts. So she can only have two places to go."

As she spoke, she pointed to a winding path ahead and the main road in the opposite direction.

Li Qingzhao ran a few steps towards the path pointed by Mo Yunxiao and looked in the distance, but saw the shadows of trees and winding paths, and suddenly felt a little timid.

But when she turned around, she saw Zhao Mingcheng looking towards her. She felt proud and said, "He Lu, let's go separate ways. I'll go this way, and you lead the troops over there."

Mo Yunxiao laughed and said, "It's time to split up, but the troops must be divided among you."

"We?" Li Qingzhao was a little confused.

"Of course it's you and Zhao Yanei." Mo Yunxiao said.

"Huh! What a burden." Li Qingzhao just muttered in a low voice, taking it as acquiescence.

However, Zhao Mingcheng came up to Mo Yunxiao and said, "Miss Mo, this lady from the Li family is so mean. I won't let her go."

"Zhao Defu, you..." Li Qingzhao was about to have an attack, but Mo Yunxiao stopped her with his eyes. Then he got off the horse, pulled Zhao Mingcheng over and said, "We are in a critical situation right now, so we must not lose our temper."

She looked at Li Qingzhao from a distance, who was just sulking alone, and said with a smile: "The wife of the Li family is impatient, so she needs you to be more careful. Also, you are a seven-foot man, and she is just a female, so let her go alone.

Are you at ease?"

"But she..."

"She is not a bad person." Mo Yunxiao said: "Since you came to help me, I will naturally accept your love. Wan'er and I have never known each other. You two are my best friends, and I just want you to do the same."

Love her like you love her."

There was another layer of meaning in Mo Yunxiao's words, but Zhao Mingcheng was so concerned that he didn't hear it.

He also looked back at Li Qingzhao and saw that she was looking at him with a pair of angry eyes, so he said: "Okay, Miss Mo, I have the right to give you face, so please bear with me."

Mo Yunxiao patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "This is the mind of a man!"

Then, Mo Yunxiao came to Zhang Di's horse behind him and said to him: "Zhang Neiguan, could you please bring out some more troops and let Zhao Yanei and the Li family's wife take them."

Zhang Di sneered and said: "This is the imperial army, originally to protect the imperial city. It is an exception for the officials to specially mobilize them. Do you want us to send more people to others? This has never happened since the founding of our country.

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Before he finished speaking, Mo Yunxiao's eyes became very sharp, and he couldn't help but shudder.

"Forget it, it's better for the county magistrate to take charge now. When this girl goes crazy, it will be really fatal. If a good man doesn't suffer the immediate consequences, he'd better obey her."

Zhang Di had made up his mind, so he pretended to cough a few times, leaned down and said in a low voice: "Forget it, let's give you some face, and send out fifty soldiers and ask them to take them."

Mo Yunxiao looked at the soldiers behind him and said, "Fifty is not enough, we have to have seventy."

Zhang Di turned purple with anger and said angrily: "Mo Yunxiao! Don't bully others too much!"

"Zhang Neiguan, I'm tired of hearing what you say. Do you have anything new?" Mo Yunxiao said with a somewhat mocking tone.

Zhang Di's face turned red and he had no choice but to wave his hand and said, "Okay, it's up to you! In this case, our family has to go with them. It's too risky to go with you."

Mo Yunxiao looked up to the sky and laughed, saying: "No! I insist on you following me. Are a few little thieves intimidating you?"

"You..." Zhang Di had no choice but to sigh in vain, waved his hand to call the head of a hundred households behind him, and said: "Take seventy brothers with you, Zhao Yanei and the wife of the Li family."

"Here!" the head of one hundred households agreed, then shouted to his horse, and seventy cavalrymen ran out with him.

Li Qingzhao couldn't help but feel grateful when he saw it, but he was also worried for Mo Yunxiao, so he had to say: "He Lu, you gave us 70% of your troops, what are you going to do?"

Mo Yunxiao smiled and said: "I once sneaked into Prince Jian's Mansion alone, and I came through such dangerous situations. You don't have to worry about me."

Li Qingzhao couldn't help but smile and said: "Everyone says that you, Mo Yunxiao, are a female Yama. I have seen it today."

So the two parties exchanged a few words and then took their own people.

Mo Yunxiao first came to the collapsed thatched cottage to check, and saw that the surrounding area was pitch black and could not be seen clearly, so he called Zhang Di behind him: "Bring up the lamp."

Zhang Di was angry, but had no choice but to take a lantern to give her light.

Mo Yunxiao and the soldiers opened up the collapsed roof and saw the tables and chairs underneath and the oil lamps that had long been extinguished.

She leaned down and looked carefully, and finally found two hemp ropes. "They must be used to tie people up." She muttered.

"Perhaps your daughter-in-law was once imprisoned here." Zhang Di interjected.

Mo Yunxiao looked back at him and saw that he felt uncomfortable all over, so she said, "We are just making assumptions. Just pretend that we didn't say anything."

"No, what you said makes sense." Mo Yunxiao picked up the two ropes and said, "But if you want to tie up one person, why do you need two ropes? My guess is that there was one other person here besides Yun Xiang.

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"Could that person be King Jian?" Zhang Di interrupted again.

Mo Yunxiao looked at him and smiled: "Maybe that's true."

"Huh! This is too ridiculous." Zhang Di shook his head repeatedly and said: "Since King Jian can escape from the prison, he must have a group of brave bandits under his command, so how can he be captured here?"

Mo Yunxiao smiled and said: "There is a saying that makes bold assumptions and is careful to verify. Have you heard of it?"

Zhang Di was stunned, thinking he heard wrongly, and said unconsciously: "What?"

"In my opinion, maybe it is like this." Mo Yunxiao said and gestured, imprisoning Yunxiang and Zhao Si here, and then tried to escape, but in the process he accidentally alerted the thief, and a fight broke out between the two parties.

The result of the fight was that the thatched cottage was destroyed and the two thieves were killed.

Her wonderful hypothetical deduction was very clear and logical, but the more Zhang Di listened, the more incredible it became, so he said: "This is too bizarre. I thought someone else had to come before a fierce battle broke out between the two sides."

Mo Yunxiao shook his head and said: "Judging from this place, it doesn't seem like there has been a large-scale fight. First of all, the fight will be noisy, which will probably alert the surrounding farmers. Even if the farmers are not alerted, the farmers' dogs will bark.

Get up. But there seems to be no such sign. Secondly, if there is a fight, only two people will die."

Zhang Di was quite dissatisfied and said: "There is a lot to consider in your deduction."

Mo Yunxiao nodded and said: "Exactly. So the deduction is just a deduction and cannot be regarded as a conclusion. Now, let us verify it together."

She got on her horse again and galloped towards the main road. Zhang Di had no choice but to get on his horse again and followed closely behind with the remaining cavalry.

Li Qingzhao and Zhao Mingcheng walked very slowly because the road was winding and overgrown with bushes, so they could not ride horses, so they had to dismount and lead them, walking carefully for fear of slipping.

Not long after walking, they saw a pond. The pond was sparkling, and the bright moon in the sky was clearly reflected on the water.

Zhao Mingcheng walked a few steps quickly and found a burned-out bonfire not far from the pond. He touched the ashes and felt a trace of residual warmth, and said, "Someone came here not long ago."

Li Qingzhao also came over, leaned over and touched him, and said: "I guess we can't go far, maybe we can catch up. Hurry up and catch up!"

So everyone chased after him. However, the road was slippery and frosty, and the wind was strong in the middle of the night. After walking for an unknown amount of time, they could not finish the winding path.

"Wait a minute!" Li Qingzhao suddenly raised her hand to stop everyone in their tracks. Her eyes were staring straight at the hole on a small slope on the side.

The entrance to the cave is deep and narrow, and from a distance it looks like a mysterious mouth of an abyss.

"We walked for a long time and actually came back." Li Qingzhao said with some annoyance: "I saw this cave when I first came here, and I never expected to see it again."

Zhao Mingcheng said: "Now that I'm here, I'll go in and explore."
To be continued...