Hong Deyi led ten people and opened the gate of the outpost.
The person who opened the door was an old man in his sixties, with a hunched back, head lowered, and a broom in his hand. He must be a servant at the outpost.
Hong Deyi didn't look at him and strode into the front yard. He saw someone in the hall still making fists.
"The master of five metals! The six great fortunes! The seven or seven clever things..."
It wasn't until Hong Deyi and others came in that the sentries who were still punching stopped and stood up one after another.
There are five of them, one has a sinister eyebrow and rat-like eyes; one is as short and stocky as a wine jar; one is tall and strong with tattoos exposed in his collar; and one has a cold expression like a praying mantis...
Hong Deyi glanced over and landed on the tie.
The person holding the collar was a young man. He originally had one foot on the stool to punch, but he had just put it down at this time.
He looks handsome and frivolous, with strange hair accessories, a small bouquet hanging from his ear, and a small silver chain hanging on it. He looks unruly and unruly, and he looks like a libertine at first glance.
"Are you the manager here? What's your name?"
"Tuotuo."
Hong Deyi was stunned for a moment, and then he clearly heard the slutty boy say it again in Mongolian.
"Miliqi Totto Tamerlane."
"You are Han Chinese, why do you have a Mongolian name?"
"My Eqi Ge named it for me."
"Eqi Ge?"
"That's my adoptive father, my Mongolian adoptive father."
At this time, a soldier under Hong Deyi came up and whispered to him: "Centurion, I went out of the city on business three months ago. I remember that the leader of this outpost seems to be named Ma, not this person."
…
Li Xia's tongue slid against his lips, showing a bit of impatience.
On the surface, he looked respectful, but he still couldn't hide the look in his eyes that he didn't take Hong Deyi seriously.
Li Xia also knew that he couldn't play the submissive little official like Ma Lili, so he went in the opposite direction and set up a role that was easier to grasp for himself.
He just didn't think highly of Hong Deyi, and he wasn't afraid that Hong Deyi would know this.
"You said the horse is powerful? He got out, and now this outpost is under my control." Li Xia said.
"Yeah?"
Hong Deyi didn't expect that Li Xia would interrupt when he was talking to the soldiers. He couldn't help but glance at him and asked, "Who sent you here?"
"General Tengger in Hohhot said that there is going to be a war soon, and he asked me to take some credit."
Hong Deyi couldn't understand.
I have never heard of "Hohhot"...
And this "Totto Timur" spoke in Chinese with Mongolian mixed in. It felt like he was different from people in a small place like Xiacaicheng, which made people confused.
Hong Deyi looked at Li Xia again and saw that his appearance was extraordinary and his temperament was not like that of a small outpost leader.
He couldn't help but think to himself: "The adopted son of a Mongolian nobleman must be a rabbit! So fancy..."
After all, this was not the person he was looking for. What Hong Deyi was looking for was a Song Dynasty man pretending to be a garrison in Xiacaicheng Town.
Hong Deyi was too lazy to talk to this well-backed libertine, so he smiled and said, "Let me search here."
"Just search." Li Xia also smiled, picked up the bowl and took a sip of wine, smacking his lips, looking a little evil.
~~
There was a "bang" sound and the door of the house was kicked open.
Gao Mingyue and Han Qiaoer were hiding in this room and were startled when they saw several soldiers rushing in.
Immediately afterwards, Li Xia's voice was heard outside.
"What are you doing? You scared my wife."
Gao Mingyue turned around and saw Li Xia striding into the room, and Shi Shiran stood in front of her, blocking the eyes of several soldiers.
She suddenly felt at ease and looked at Li Xia's hair with concern. When she saw that the silver chain was still there, she lowered her head.
"Is this your wife's family?"
Hong Deyi was in the courtyard, and after hearing the commotion, he followed in. After asking, he pointed at Han Qiaoer and asked, "Mmaid?"
"yes."
Li Xia responded and glanced at the furnishings in the room with his peripheral vision, feeling a little guilty.
This is Ma Lili's house, and there isn't even a single woman's belongings. I'm afraid it's hard to explain...
Sudden.
Someone shouted: "Centurion, we found a man in the woodshed."
Hong Deyi turned around and led people towards the woodshed.
Li Xia breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't have time to glance at his "wife" and "maid" and quickly followed them out.
In the woodshed, when a soldier was about to remove the rag stuffed in the Zhang family prisoner's mouth, Li Xia went up and kicked the prisoner on the head.
"This is a disobedient driver. If you starve him for a few days, he will become obedient."
"That's it."
Hong Deyi glanced at the woodshed again. Seeing that no one could be hidden here, he nodded and said, "Since there is no one here, let's go."
"I'll send it to the centurion."
The group of people walked outside the outpost. Hong Deyi looked at Li Xia's strange hairstyle and said with an apologetic smile: "I'm on official business and I've offended a lot of people tonight. Tuotuo would like to say hello to your adoptive father and General Tengger for me."
Li Xia grinned and agreed.
Hong Deyi could clearly feel the faint disdain in his eyes.
But it is precisely because of this disdain that he does not want to offend others for nothing.
"Let's go and search elsewhere..."
Li Xia just saw off Hong Deyi, but before he returned to the outpost, he heard another noise coming from the distance.
He quickly followed and rushed over to take a look. Sure enough, it was Gao Changshou and Lin Zi who took people to dump the body by the Huaihe River. They were intercepted on the way back.
"Centurion, I found these people coming from the south with their horses."
"What did you do?"
Over there, Hong Deyi was still interrogating, but Li Xia had already strode up to him and said with a smile, "This is someone from our outpost who just came back from an inspection."
Hong Deyi looked at Gao Changshou and Lin Zi and wondered: "Inspection? Inspection so late? Why shouldn't we ask just now?"
After hearing this, Li Xia kicked Lin Zi in the leg, and then slapped Gao Changshou on the head.
"Honze, you fucking went to the cellar again?!"
Gao Changshou was stunned, as if he was stunned by Li Xia.
Lin Zi chuckled.
He didn't say anything, just smiled, and Hong Deyi knew the meaning in his expression.
…
The group returned to the outpost and bolted the door.
Only then did Lin Zi pat his heart and let out a long sigh of relief.
"I'm scared to death."
Li Xia said: "It's so dangerous. You don't have any powdery air on your body. As long as the centurion has a little brain, he will be defeated this time."
"How can he be so easy to see through?" Lin Zi disagreed and said, "He is a military commander, not a head catcher."
After he finished speaking, he bowed his hands to Li Xia, ran quickly into the lobby, and said to Nie Zhongyou: "Brother, I just saw that there were at least a thousand households searching the area, and all the boats on the bank of the Huai River were also searched.
Searched and taken away."
Nie Zhongyou nodded and asked Li Xia, "What's next?"
"After a night's rest, they won't be able to search for anyone. They may think that we have crossed the Huaihe River and returned to the south bank. Then they will relax the search and we can leave again."
"That's all it can do."
"After you have eaten and drank, take a rest. We will send someone to keep an eye on you at night."
"what are you going to do?"
"I will interrogate the Zhang family prisoner again to see if there is any usable information." Li Xia said, "I'm afraid I won't be able to take this person with me..."
That night, Li Xia stayed in the woodshed for a long time.
"Tell me more about the Zhang family. Tell me everything you know about the Zhang family."
"Okay, okay... The commander-in-chief has twelve sons and two daughters. Among them, Zhang Dalang died early, and the second son, Zhang Hongji, is currently in charge of the Mongolian Kingdom to declare power over ten thousand households..."
"When did Zhang Dalang die? What kind of person was Zhang Hongji? His age, appearance, and temperament."
"..."
After a long time, by the time the prisoner of Zhang family finished speaking, it was already late at night.
Li Xia asked again: "Are you literate?"
"The villain is illiterate."
"Okay, got it..."
~~
At the same time, Qiao Ju squatted on the ground and held a torch to illuminate the map.
"Can't find them? Impossible. I don't believe they can escape my siege so quickly."
He murmured, took a branch, and scratched it on the ground, as if calculating something.
"At the moment of the hour...escape from here...the fastest you can do is escape here..."
After Qiao Ju finished his calculations, he drew a circle on the map and stood up.
"Listen, they are still surrounded by us and have definitely not escaped the Huaihe River." He flicked the map in his hand and said loudly: "We will focus on searching this area. One market, one village, and three outposts