Chapter 84: Hostage Kidnapping

Today is the day when Li Chu and their Qingyue Poetry Club gather. Qingyue Poetry Club is a poetry club spontaneously formed by children of more than a dozen officials and families. They hold regular gatherings. This morning, they went out for an outing outside the city to write poetry, and invited several young women to go with them, Cui Huan's daughter Cui Yiyun, Cui Yanyan and Cui Liuliu, and Dugu sisters, Changsun Quanxu's daughter Changsun Yun, and Li Chu's sisters and Li Siqi, the county lord of Zheng. But on the way back, they encountered the Tang army arresting human traffickers.

The women were sitting in two carriages. Dugu Mingyue and the three sisters of the Cui family sat in the carriage in front, Dugu Mingzhu, Shangguan Yun and Li Siqi sat in the carriage behind. In desperation, the human trafficker rushed into the second carriage and took Dugu Mingzhu, who was sitting by the car door, as a hostage.

The sudden change shocked everyone. After a moment, there was a big chaos. Dugu Mingyue in another carriage saw that her sister was arrested. She was so anxious that she wanted to rush off the carriage, but was caught by the three sisters of the Cui family.

Li Chu was furious and pointed at the Hu man and shouted: "Let her go!"

"Who are you?" Hu Shang asked with his eyes rolling.

Li Qingan immediately shouted: "Who is it has nothing to do with you. Let her go, I'll let you go!"

Unexpectedly, the children of several officials did not react. They cursed: "Your eyes are blind. This is His Highness, King Guangping, the eldest grandson of His Majesty the Emperor!"

Li Qingan couldn't help but sigh inwardly, why don't these people understand? Sure enough, the Hu man laughed proudly, "It turns out that he is a royal noble, that's great."

He suddenly used the dagger to force it, and blood suddenly oozed from Dugu Mingzhu's chest. He stared at Li Qing'an with his blood-red eyes and shouted: "Dog officer and soldier, get out of here! Did you hear it?"

Everyone exclaimed, Li Chu stamped his feet in a hurry and shouted to Li Qing'an: "General Li, you can go quickly! If you don't leave, you will die."

Li Qingan turned around and winked at his subordinates, and ordered: "You guys go back first!"

The soldiers turned their horses and galloped back, while Li Qing'an stood aside from him but did not leave.

Li Chu hurriedly said again: "They have left, you will release the person."

"Do you think I'm that stupid?"

The Hu Ren smiled sinisterly and said, "It's okay to let these women go. Come and be hostage for me, and I'll let them go immediately."

"This" Li Chu looked puzzled. How could this be possible?

His guards also cursed, "Bold thief, dare you to bully my prince. Are you impatient?"

"You let my sister go, I'll be your hostage."

Dugu Mingyue finally broke free from the hands of the Cui sisters, rushed over, and begged: "You let my sister go! I am willing to be your hostage."

Dugu Mingzhu screamed, "Sister, don't! Go back quickly."

Li Chu's lips moved, but he finally said nothing. The man looked at Gu Du Mingyue and saw that she was noble and beautiful, and guessed that she was a princess or a princess. He was about to agree, but suddenly he saw Li Qingan coming again, and shouted: "Dog official! Why haven't you got out yet?"

Li Qingan jumped off the horse, walked up slowly and smiled, "If I leave, how could you leave Guanzhong? This is how! I will be your hostage, let the little girl in my hand go, and I will send you out of Fengxiang, how about it?"

Dugu Mingyue looked at Li Qing'an gratefully. She didn't expect Li Qing'an to step up. The Hu man snorted and said, "Why can you send me out of Fengxiang?"

Li Qingan smiled faintly, "I am the new Nine Gate Inspection Envoy, I have the right to let you go out of Fengxiang."

"Are you the new Nine Gate Patrol Inspector?" Hu asked in surprise.

"Yes, I'm just here to let my little girl go, I'll send you out of Fengxiang."

The Hu people changed their mind and nodded and said, "Okay! You can be my hostage."

Li Qing'an was about to step forward, but the Hu shouted: "Don't throw away the weapons and take off the clothes!"

"Haha! You are quite smart, a Hu man."

While chatting with him about family matters, Li Qingan took off his shirt and threw away all his weapons. He was naked and smiled and said, "If there is a woman here, don't take off her pants!"

He raised his hand and walked up. The Hu Ren looked at him vigilantly and moved the dagger to Dugu Mingzhu's neck, "Stay away from me and don't move, otherwise I will kill her!"

Li Qing'an got on the carriage and smiled and said, "You can let go now!"

The Hu Ren snorted, "One can only be changed. I have three here, so you can choose one!"

Before Li Qing'an could speak, Li Chu suddenly shouted: "Putting on yellow dress! General Li, the little girl who puts on yellow dress first."

Dugu Mingyue looked at Li Chu angrily, how could he be so selfish?

Li Qingan glanced at the carriage and saw two little girls squeezing in the corner behind Hu Shang, both of whom were trembling with fear. One was Changsun Yun in a red dress. He had seen him, but the other little girl in a yellow dress, but he had never seen him. He shook his head, "No! Put the little girl in your hand first."

The Hu people looked at the dead body of their companions on the ground, and were very afraid of Li Qing'an. He didn't dare to let Dugu Mingzhu go, so he shouted: "Young lady in a yellow dress, you can leave!"

The little girl in a yellow dress is Li Chu's sister, Li Siqi, the lord of Hezheng County. She was trembling all over, and slowly climbed out of the carriage, walked more than ten steps softly, and fainted suddenly. Several guards rushed over and rescued her back.

At this time, Dugu Mingyue bit her lips tightly and said, "Let me let my sister go, I'll be your hostage."

"No!" Hu Ren glanced at Qing'an casually, shook his head firmly and said, "I can't let your sister go, you can only change to another little girl."

"Okay then! You let her go, I'll be your hostage."

Soon, the chief Yun also trembled and climbed out of the carriage. Dugu Mingyue did not say a word and got on the carriage. She held her sister's hand tightly and looked at Li Qing'an gratefully.

Li Qingan smiled slightly and said, "Brother Hu, what are you going to do next?"

"Driving! Go to Fengxiang."

Li Chu gave the coachman a wink. The coachman had no choice but to drive westward. At this time, Li Chu's chief guard said anxiously: "Little Prince, we can take a small road to inform the Xianyang garrison to intercept them."

"No! Why intercept it?"

Li Chu watched the carriage with his hands behind his back and walked further and further away, gradually turning into a small black dot, and a gentle smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Isn't he very capable? Let him handle it himself."

"Brother Hu, you let your mother go first and let her sister bandage the wound. If so many sheds, it will cause death."

Li Qingan always put his hand on his head. He smiled happily and said with a whisper: "Actually, you and I have no grudges in the past. It's not a death sentence for you to sell human beings. I'm just a routine. Even if I let you go, I'm not guilty. Brother Hu, let's make a deal and let them sisters go, and I promise to let you leave Guanzhong safely."

The Hu people shook their heads and said, "You Han people, you are all right and wrong, and I won't believe you."

Even though he said so, he slowly let go of Dugu Mingzhu and let her sister carry her over, but the dagger was always pressed against her.

The blood on Dugu Mingzhu's chest had already clotted, but blood beads oozed out of her neck. Mingyue quickly took out her hand towel and carefully bandaged her sister.

Dugu Mingzhu's face was pale and weak all over, staring at Li Qing'an blankly.

Li Qing'an's eyes flashed on the dagger in the Hu people's hand, and then smiled and said, "I'm the General of the Qianniu Guard, General Li Qilang, may I ask Brother Hu's surname, I'm also a good name."

"You call me Bamuer."

"Oh! Brother Bamu, you are actually smart, capable, very wise, and a good talent. Why do you have to be a human trafficker? It's a pity!"

"What kind of human traffickers? I was originally an officer of Kangguo. The army was defeated by the cannibals, so I became a merchant, specializing in buying and selling silver and silk. I just couldn't stand the girls from Kangguo who went to the Tang Dynasty, so I caught some Chang'an women to Kangguo to sell wine."

Dugu Mingyue next to him said angrily: "You Hu people are so unreasonable. They volunteered to come to Donglai, but you arrested the Chang'an women to a foreign country and separated them from their parents. They were desolate for a lifetime. Do you have no daughter?"

"My daughter was also abducted to the Tang Dynasty, and her whereabouts are still unknown." Bamuer said sadly.

Dugu Mingyue was stunned for a while, and she sighed softly and said, "I'm sorry!"

"Brother Bamuer, tell me your daughter's name and I will ask my brothers to find her for you."

"Forget it! It's been fifteen years. Where do you go to check? I guess she's already married."

"How old is Mr. Bamuer this year?"

The carriage was walking slowly on the official road. The atmosphere in the car was no longer as nervous and hostile as it was. Bamuer's dagger had deviated from Mingzhu's neck one foot away. He seemed to have forgotten that the three of them were their hostages.

At this moment, the carriage was placed on a big rock. The carriage bumped violently, and the four people in the carriage were all bumped. Dugu Mingzhu felt a pain in her chest and she moaned in pain.

"Mingzhu, it doesn't matter!"

Li Qingan hurriedly stepped forward to visit. In the moment of flashback, he threw Bamuer down sideways, grabbed his wrist holding the dagger tightly with his left hand, and then grabbed his neck with his right hand and pressed him tightly under him. He grabbed his neck with his big hand like an iron clamp, tightening it tighter and tighter.

The sudden change shocked the Dugu sisters. They realized it for a long time. Dugu Mingyue screamed in shock, and was so scared that she hugged her sister and hid tightly by the door.

Bamuer was struggling desperately, and his desire to survive made his strength extremely powerful. He was like a wild beast, roaring in a low voice, and his left hand tried his best to break away Li Qing'an's iron pliers, while his dagger was lifting up inch by inch.

Sweat beads emerged from Li Qing'an's face, and the barrier of the seat made him unable to use his full strength. He shouted: "Jump out of the carriage!"

Dugu Mingyue bit her lip tightly, and she pushed open the car door and rolled out of the carriage with her sister in her arms. The hostage's escape made Bamuer extremely angry. He roared and stabbed Li Qing'an's face with all his might, but the power on his wrist suddenly disappeared. His wrist was pulled by Li Qing'an's hand and stabbed him into his chest. With a scream, the cold dagger penetrated into Bamuer's chest.

Bamuer's whole body stiffened, his strength quickly disappeared, he looked at the roof of the carriage with his eyes blank, his hand holding the dagger relaxed, and Li Qingan slowly let go of his hand.

At this moment, the fierce sound of horse hooves of the cavalry sounded from afar.

At dusk, Li Qingan escorted the Dugu sisters back to the mansion. Due to blood loss, Mingzhu's face turned pale and she had no strength to speak.

Dugu Mingyue didn't say anything along the way, but when Li Qing'an was about to say goodbye, she bit her lip lightly and whispered: "Thank you General Li!"

Li Qingan bowed and smiled and said, "I am the Nine Gate Inspection Commander. I will save anyone. This is my duty. Miss Mingyue, please don't take it to heart."

He turned over the horse, waved his hand to Mingzhu and smiled, "Mingzhu, have a good rest and recover from his wounds. I will take a look at your bloody makeup in a few days."

"Brother Li, you must come to see me."

"I will!"

Li Qingan smiled at Mingyue again, nodded, urging the horse to leave, and soon disappeared into the distance.

"Sister, are they good people?" Mingzhu asked quietly with a smile when she saw Li Qingan walking away.
Chapter completed!