A few miles in front of the two of them, Gao Ying and Tian Shou were riding together. Tian Shou said: "Sister Ying, please go first. I'm afraid that Brother Gao can't deal with them both."
Gao Ying hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and said: "No, your legs and feet are not convenient. If they suddenly turn around, you will be in too much danger. I'd better follow you to protect you. My sworn brother is very skilled in martial arts, so I expect everything will be fine."
Tian Shou smiled bitterly and said, "I wanted to help you, but I didn't expect that it would drag you down."
Gao Ying hurriedly said: "Don't say that. If you hadn't suggested using government power to deal with Cao Yi, we wouldn't have been able to push him to this point. And without your plan just now, we wouldn't have been able to rescue our sworn brother.
Hey, the man in front seems to be a foster brother!"
Suddenly, a fork in the road appeared in front of the two of them. One person stopped at the fork and waited. It was Gao Junhui.
After seeing the two of them, Gao Junhui said in a deep voice: "Brother Tian, they left separately. I don't know which route Cao Yi took. Can you tell?"
Tian Shou glanced around and muttered: "The official road is easy to be chased by the government, and the small road is safer. Normally, Cao Yi would choose the small road. But Cao Yi can escape the capture of the government, which shows that he is a very cunning person. This way
People usually do the opposite, so I think he will take the official path instead!"
Gao Junhui slapped the horse's butt and said loudly: "You guys wait for me here!" He then chased the horse towards the main road.
Tian Shou stared at the path silently, his expression showing worry, Gao Ying said: "Brother Tian, what's wrong with you?"
Tian Shou shook his head: "Nothing."
Gao Ying said: "Are you afraid that you might have guessed wrong and let Cao Yi escape, so you want to pursue him through a trail?"
Tian Shou said hurriedly: "No, no." After a pause, he lowered his head and said: "Even if that's the case, it's useless for me, a loser, to catch up. I'm no match for him at all."
Gao Ying hurriedly said: "Brother Tian, don't say that. How about we chase him from the alley together? If we work together, we won't necessarily lose to Cao Yi. We can't let him escape!"
Tian Shou said with stern eyes: "Having said that, if you guess wrong, both of us will be in danger!"
Gao Ying laughed loudly and said: "As long as I can avenge my sworn brother, what does a little danger mean?"
Tian Shou said loudly: "Good girl, since you are not afraid, what can I, a useless person, say? Let's go and chase him together!"
The two men slapped the horse's buttocks and chased towards the trail.
A quarter of an hour later, Zhuge Nan and Zheng Lingxuan slowly caught up.
Zhugenan turned over and dismounted, looked at the ground carefully for a long time, and said: "Cao Yi and the two people should have separated here, and Gao Junhui and the others have also separated to catch up. What should we do?"
"Our target is Gao Junhui, and he must be chasing Cao Yi. As long as we know where Cao Yi fled, we can know which direction Gao Jun will take!" Zheng Lingxuan analyzed.
Zhuge Nan nodded and said: "That makes sense. The official road is more dangerous, but the trail is safer. Cao Yi must have taken the trail. Let's chase him quickly!"
The two of them chased each other for more than two hours.
While passing through a wheat field, an ownerless horse suddenly appeared on the roadside in the distance.
"That horse seems to be mine!" Zheng Lingxuan said in surprise.
"Come over and have a look!"
After the two drove their horses closer, they discovered that the horse was indeed Zheng Lingxuan's. Not far away, there were two other horses grazing.
"Look, there's someone there!" Zheng Lingxuan exclaimed and ran towards a large locust tree. She saw a woman in green leaning against the locust tree, her chest stained with blood.
Zhugenan got off his horse, ran over, checked the pulse of the woman's throat, and said with a serious expression: "...she is dead."
He stood up and looked around, only to see the man in gray robe lying on the ground three feet away.
When he came forward to check, he found that although the man in gray robe was also seriously injured, he was only unconscious and still had a trace of breath.
Zheng Lingxuan followed and walked over, frowning and saying: "These two people are all working with Gao Junhui. They are obviously chasing Cao Yi, how could they end up like this? Where did Gao Junhui go?"
Zhuge Nan speculated: "Do you still remember the forked road? Maybe Gao Jun would pursue another road, and chased the wrong person, causing the two men to catch up with Cao Yi, but they lost to Cao Yi and were killed.
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"Then Cao Yi must be in front, let's chase him quickly!"
Zhuge Nan nodded and got on his horse, while Zheng Lingxuan changed back to her own horse.
The two chased all the way north, and after a while, a river appeared in front of them. On the river bank, they could faintly see a person lying on the ground.
The two drove their horses closer and found that the person on the ground was one of the two strange men they met in the tea shed.
"Could this person be Cao Yi?" Zheng Lingxuan said in surprise.
"It's very possible." Zhugenan said solemnly.
"How could he die here?"
"There must have been another accident here." As he said that, Zhugenan got off his horse and planned to check the body.
At this moment, a shrill roar came from behind. Zhugenan turned around and saw no one. He expected that the person who made the sound was far away.
"Could it be that Lord Gao is coming after you?" Zheng Lingxuan asked in fear.
Zhuge Nan gritted his teeth and said, "I think so. He should have pursued another route. After finding out that the person he was chasing was not Cao Yi, he turned back."
"Then let's get out of here quickly!" Zheng Lingxuan said anxiously: "We can't beat him!"
Zhuge Nan gritted his teeth and said, "This is a rare opportunity to catch him."
"Go back and mobilize people first. We can't catch him. Let's go quickly!" Zheng Lingxuan urged.
Zhuge Nan sighed, got on his horse, and was about to leave when he heard the sound of hoofbeats, and a horse came from the south like a fashion. The man who came was none other than the man in green, Gao Junhui!
Seeing that it was too late to escape, Zhuge Nan simply drew his sword and said loudly: "Gao Junhui, you committed dozens of lives in Jizhou and killed Liu Yuan in Chang'an. I advise you to arrest him quickly, otherwise you will be arrested violently.
Wait a minute!"
Zheng Lingxuan also drew his long sword. Although he knew that it would be difficult for the two of them to win together, the matter was at this point and they could only give it a try.
Gao Junhui looked indifferent and turned his cold eyes from the two of them. Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of the corpses next to them, and his expression changed drastically: "Did you kill him?"
Zheng Lingxuan said hurriedly: "No, he was dead when we came here. Your two companions were not injured by us. When we arrived, they were dead and injured."
Gao Junhui said coldly: "Do you think I will believe you?"
Zhuge Nan was furious: "Who wants you to believe that you came at the right time? I will personally arrest you and take you back to Dali Temple today!" With a horizontal sword, he rushed towards Gao Junhui, and Zheng Lingxuan also hurriedly followed and joined forces to fight against the enemy.
Gao Junhui's face was full of murderous intent, but after hearing the three words "Dali Temple", all the murderous intent disappeared.
His long sword was not unsheathed, he was checking or pointing, dodging to the left and dodging to the right. He was like strolling in the two people's offensive, and the two of them could not even touch the hem of his clothes.
Zhugenan was angry and anxious. He thought that his martial arts had improved a little recently, and with Zheng Lingxuan's help, he could at least be on a par with Gao Junhui.
...who would have thought that he was no match for me at all.
After a few more moves, Zheng Lingxuan exclaimed, her wrist was hit by the scabbard, the long knife fell to the ground, and then she was hit on the back by the scabbard, and she fell to the ground.
Without her help, Zhugenan had no choice but to switch from offense to defense. After a dozen moves, Gao Jun would hit his wrist and put the sheathed sword on his neck.
Zhugenan gritted his teeth and glared at him.
Gao Junhui said coldly: "You just said you would arrest me and take me to Dali Temple. What do you mean by that? Could it be that you are official servants of Dali Temple?"
"Yes, I am Zhuge Nan, the Prime Minister of Dali Temple!"
"Si Cheng? The same Si Cheng as Nie Ziyun?" Gao Junhui was surprised.
"Yes, Nie Ziyun is my colleague."
Gao Junhui raised his hand, retracted his sword, took a deep breath and said, "Since you are from Dali Temple, I guess it was not you who killed Yingmei."
His eyes turned to the corpse on the ground: "Did Cao Yi, the thief, do it?"
Zheng Lingxuan rubbed her back and stood up, thinking: "It is indeed Cao Yi who died." She explained: "When we came, your female companion was dead, and we didn't see who killed her!"
Gao Junhui smiled miserably: "Who else could it be besides him! I clearly...clearly told them to wait for me at the fork in the road, why...didn't they listen to me!"
Half-kneeling on the ground, tears flowed down involuntarily.
Zheng Lingxuan said softly: "They must want to help you, so they ignored the danger."
Gao Jun clenched his fists and veins popped out on the back of his hands. After a long while, he stood up and walked to Cao Yi to inspect his body.
"How did he die? You couldn't kill him with your martial arts."
Zhuge Nan hummed: "As we said, he was dead when we arrived, but if you are willing to let me check, maybe I can find some clues."
Gao Junhui stood up and said coldly: "Then come over and check."
Although Zhuge Nan was dissatisfied with Gao Junhui's attitude, he was indeed curious about the cause of Cao Yi's death, so he stepped forward and examined it carefully.
After a while, he was surprised and said: "Hey, how come his wound is on his back? Could it be that the person who killed him was his companion?"
Gao Jun would quickly ask: "What do you mean by this?"
Zhugenan said angrily: "You are also a martial arts practitioner. You should know that unless one person is several times faster than the other, it is impossible to hurt his back!"
Gao Junhui was stunned, nodded and said: "Yes, with Cao Yi's martial arts, even I can't hurt his back. Why is this happening?"
"There is only one possibility!" Zhugenan said firmly: "The person who hurt him must be someone he trusts, leaving him defenseless, and this is why the surprise attack was successful! That's why I said it was probably his companion!"
"No, his companion has been killed by me, it can't be him!" Gao Junhui said coldly.
Zhugenan frowned: "That's strange. Could it be that he has accomplices here to support him? But why would his accomplices want to kill him?"