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Chapter 78 Search (2)

The officers and soldiers will find out here sooner or later. Lingyun Mountain is not only one passage. On the side behind the three-person pavilion, there is another path that can go down the back mountain. At this time, the three of them can certainly run away. However, with Chen Shuqing there, Pu Zixuan was fearless, and Su Sanniang also offered to see if the officers and soldiers still recognized her. So the three of them sat down on the spot and waited for the officers and soldiers to arrive.

Soon, a team of three people checked the places they should have investigated and found nothing. They returned to the compound. One of them pointed to the direction of the pavilion and said, "Hey? There is a pavilion there, and there are people inside. Let's go and take a look."

The three officers and soldiers immediately walked towards the side of the Pavilion and arrived in front of Pu Zixuan. The person in front said in surprise: "Look, a man and two women, hey, this man is still raising his hair!" Then he asked the three of them: "Who are you? Come on the real trick!"

Su Sanniang pretended to be innocent and said, "Old men, we are here to see the Buddha in Leshan. We are not bad people who stay here for a night."

The officer and soldier looked at Su Sanniang with his horse-like face, ignoring her, and asked Pu Zixuan, "Why are you growing hair?"

Pu Zixuan said innocently: "Old men, I am obviously bald in front and back. Just like you, why do you say I have hair growth?"

A soldier behind said, "Your hair is clearly the hairstyle of a bandit, why do you lie with your eyes open?"

Pu Zixuan said: "I didn't tell any lies. Isn't this a braid? Touch it."

Ma said, "Damn it, dare to tease us! Don't talk nonsense to him, call Lord Cao!" He shouted to the courtyard, "Mr. Cao, Lord Cao, there is a bandit here, come quickly!"

It seems that Lord Cao is the one who was arguing with Abbot Shu Ran just now. Hearing the shouts, he hurriedly brought the two of them over.

Taking this opportunity, Chen Shuqing blew in her mouth and turned Pu Zixuan's hair into a braid.

After a few days, the three people in the previous year and the three behind, a total of six people stood in front of Pu Zixuan. The surname Cao asked: "Is this the bandit?"

Horse face said, "That's right, look at his hair."

The Cao saw Pu Zixuan's braids and said to them: "This is obviously normal hair. What are you talking nonsense?"

When Ma Fang looked at Pu Zixuan again, his face changed drastically: "Ah? This... I wasn't like this just now!" He looked at the ground again, but did not find any broken hair. He couldn't help but rub his eyes, and asked for help from the two of them, "You have seen it before, he is obviously wearing hair!"

The two of them nodded blankly and said yes. Pu Zixuan said even more innocently: "Mr. Cao, I have always had this hairstyle. I don't know why they are messing around. I think if I didn't see clearly in the night, I could see that I was dressed so well and there were two beauties accompanying me, and I wanted to deliberately blackmail us."

When the horse face heard it, it seemed as if it was kicked in the horse's butt, and said angrily: "You, you, you are slandering!"

Pu Zixuan held the braid and said to Cao, "Why do Lord Cao touch it? Is this braid really the real price?"

Ma Fang said angrily: "Mr. Cao, it's really not that my subordinates are talking nonsense. This... what's going on, I don't understand!"

The Cao raised his hand and told him not to say much, and asked Pu Zixuan: "Who are you?"

Pu Zixuan said: "I am from Jinan, Shandong and came to Sichuan for a trip. These two girls are my concubines, one of whom is Huang and the other is Chen. They are both from Shandong. I wonder what they have committed and offended these officials?"

The surname Cao asked: "Do you have a waist card?"

The waist card is the most proof of identity. If it were not for a noble man, only wealthy merchants would spend money to find someone to customize it. In the past, Pu Zixuan had nothing to do in Lijiang and once asked someone to make a waist card with his name and the words "Zaiyuelou Tower Master", but he did not carry it with him when he went out. However, Chen Shuqing had just turned a stone into the same waist card, and only added the word "Jinan" in front of the "Zaiyuelou" and handed it to the person surnamed Cao.

The Cao man looked through the torch and returned it to Pu Zixuan, asking, "Your name is Pu Zixuan?"

Pu Zixuan said: "Yes, I am a descendant of the great writer Pu Songling. Have you read "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio"? It was written by my grandfather's grandfather's grandfather's grandfather's grandfather."

The man surnamed Cao responded disdainfully: "Hehe, your surname is Pu, is a descendant of Pu Songling. Then my surname is Cao, isn't I a descendant of Cao Xueqin?"

Pu Zixuan said: "That's your ancestors who have achieved higher achievements."

The Cao man stopped talking nonsense and said to his subordinates: "This gentleman is not a person who has hair growth, but he is not from Yunnan. How much should you do when doing things? OK?" Then he clasped his fists at Pu Zixuan and said, "I offend you so much, I hope you can forgive me."

Horse face wanted to say something, but there was no words left to say, so she had to keep rubbing her eyes.

Pu Zixuan said magnanimously: "I think Lord Cao is also a wise person. There is no need to apologize for misunderstandings. However, people's support is a major issue of life and death. Now that rebellions are everywhere, the court must put the welfare of the people first, and don't lose the people's hearts for the sake of minorities."

The Cao surnamed was unhappy when he was taught a lesson, but he still responded patiently: "We understand this without saying it, but the bandits are not a good thing. Now they are in a predicament. I don't expect that the court will completely eradicate them next year. If you see any suspicious person, you must come to report to the government."

Seeing that Pu Zixuan said yes repeatedly, Cao led everyone to the courtyard. Without worries, Chen Shuqing suddenly thought of something and said in horror: "Oh, I forgot that Tian Jinkun is still in the backyard. He is so far away from me, how can he change?"

Pu Zixuan said: "It's okay. I've told the abbot before. He also estimated that officers and soldiers might come to search by night, so he arranged for the father and son of the Tian family to live in a family three miles behind the temple. After Tian Jinkun recovered his memory, he was afraid of the stupid things he did and did not dare to neglect at all. Don't worry."

Hearing this, Su Sanniang and the second monk were confused and said in a daze: "What are you talking about? Tian Jinkun, didn't he die while crossing the river?"

Pu Zixuan smiled and said, "Hehe, what you see does not mean the truth. The father and son of the Tian family are unharmed, you will know tomorrow."

At this time, Lord Cao, who returned to the courtyard, asked, "Have you searched?"

A soldier said, "Report to Lord Cao, several courtyards and all the wing rooms have been searched, but no bandits have been found."

The surname Cao said to Abbot Shu Ran, "Abbot, you offend me, let's leave now."

Abbot Shu Ran said kindly: "Thank you for your hard work for the adults, it's getting late. Otherwise, how about I just have some breakfast in my temple?"
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