Huang Taiji gritted his teeth and ordered: "Surna, Gato, you lead the troops and look for them separately. There are two roads from Shenyang City to the outside of the pass. If you divide your troops into two routes, you will definitely intercept Ma Xiaoquan. Ma Xiaoquan kills whenever he can, but I want to live with that Beiming Shuangxue."
Suerna was not stupid either. As soon as he heard Huang Taiji's order, he understood it instantly. He nodded, but had other ideas in mind.
Cato didn't think too much. He just wanted to kill Ma Xiaoquan. As for Beiming Shuangxue, we'll talk about it later.
"Yes~" they both said in unison.
At this time, at a certain checkpoint, Ma Xiaoquan politely handed over the customs clearance ticket.
People in Shenyang City know who Ma Xiaoquan is, but people outside the city may not know. Besides, Ma Xiaoquan is still disguised at this moment.
"Hmm~" The soldier guarding the gate looked at Ma Xiaoquan, then at Beiming Shuangxue, and asked: "Why is she wearing a headscarf? Take it off and let me see~"
Ma Xiaoquan said: "Master, my sister has smallpox."
"I can see smallpox too~" the soldier guarding the gate said, while deliberately hiding behind him.
"Okay~" Ma Xiaoquan winked at Beiming Shuangxue, who sighed and could only take off his headscarf.
Earlier, in order to deceive others, Bei Ming Shuangxue specially put small white dots on her face and neck. They were densely packed and looked scary.
When the soldier guarding the gate saw Beiming Shuangxue's appearance, he was frightened and took a step back. At the same time, he asked, "Red head? What's going on?"
"Yes, sir, I have smallpox and am bleeding. My sister has a last wish, which is to go home while she can still move. What should I do if she dies here?"
"Okay, okay, I understand, let's go, let's go~" The soldier accepted the ultimatum and asked, "Then your sister didn't take this ultimatum, right?"
"No, sir, don't worry, just take the little one. The little one won't get smallpox!"
"Okay, okay, let's go, let's go~" the guard guard waved his hand.
"Hey~ Thank you, Sir~" Ma Xiaoquan smiled and nodded to the servant. The servant understood and took a pair of fine sheepskin gloves from the carriage and handed them to the soldier, "Master, be careful~"
The soldier narrowed his eyes and quickly accepted it. He said yes and ignored Ma Xiaoquan.
Ma Xiaoquan chuckled and waved to the servant on the carriage behind him, who drove the carriage over. Ma Xiaoquan helped Bei Mingshuangxue get into the carriage, and the group left in a hurry.
In the afternoon, Surna led the people to chase him. When he saw the guarding soldiers, he unfolded the two portraits and asked, "Have you seen these two people?"
The portrait was a bit rough. The soldier looked at it for a long time and shook his head: "No~"
Surna frowned, waved, and led the people to run to another place.
An hour later, Cato came. Since Cato could not walk, he was sitting in the carriage and could not get off.
This soldier was familiar with Cato, and when he saw Cato, he quickly greeted him.
Cato asked: "Did Surna just come?"
"Well, I came, took two paintings, and asked me if I had seen the people in the paintings."
"Then have you seen it?"
"No~"
Cato thought for a while and then asked: "Is there a red-headed woman who has passed through your place?"
The soldier was stunned for a moment, and then he reacted in his mind and asked: "Don't red heads only appear when the blood of smallpox reaches the head?"
Cato rolled his eyes: "Who did you hear that the blood from smallpox will cause the head to swell? Even if it does go to the head, can the head be red?"
The soldier slapped his thigh and he collapsed to the ground with a thud in fear.
Cato took a look and said, "Did you really see a red-headed woman?"
The soldier pursed his lips and said, "I saw it, but he looks completely different from the one in the painting. And that man is also different from the one in the painting?"
Cato was so angry that he slammed the carriage door and cursed: "You idiot, you let people go! Where did they go?"
The soldier shook his hands and said: "Go to the left toward the pass~"
Cato frowned: "Then which way did Surna go?"
"Right, right~~"
Cato was overjoyed, looked at the soldier who collapsed on the ground, and said: "I don't blame you for this. You haven't seen what Ma Xiaoquan looks like. Our news spread too slowly. As long as Surna went to the wrong place, it will be fine."
~" After saying that, Cato ordered his men to pursue him from the left.
Ma Xiaoquan and his party did not dare to stop at all along the way. He knew very well that Huang Taiji should have reacted by this time.
With the Jurchens' ability to ride horses, it would be possible to send out a team of light cavalry to catch up with them before they reached the pass.
"Mr. sir~" After waking up, Beiming Shuangxue opened her eyes and called Ma Xiaoquan for the first time.
At this time, the servant who was resting outside the carriage also woke up. Looking at Ma Xiaoquan with red eyes, the servant felt a little embarrassed.
"Sir, leave it to me. You can get into the car and rest~" a servant said.
Ma Xiaoquan nodded, stopped the carriage, handed the whip to the servant, and he got on the carriage.
Beiming Shuangxue saw Ma Xiaoquan's red eyes, and her distressed eyes were filled with tears.
"Okay, why are you crying? You man, I just didn't sleep~" Ma Xiaoquan patted Beiming Shuangxue's head and said with a smile.
"Then, why don't you sleep in my arms?"
Ma Xiaoquan chuckled: "No, you can just squint for a while. Well, we are still a little far away from the next level, so getting a good rest is more important than anything else. After a while, you can also instruct the servants outside the carriage to let them take turns to rest."
"
"Then what if there are bandits and bandits?"
Ma Xiaoquan smiled and said: "Then we can rely on our dear Miss Beiming to solve the problem~"
"Yeah, I got it~~"
After talking to Beiming Shuangxue, Ma Xiaoquan lay down, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Seeing her beloved man sleeping soundly, Beiming Shuangxue smiled slightly
Jinzhou City.
Yuan Chonghuan read the letter in his hand, frowned and asked, "Brother Ma has left?"
In front of Yuan Chonghuan stood a servant of the Ma family. This servant had been arranged by Ma Xiaoquan in advance. When Ma Xiaoquan decided to escape from Shenyang City, the servant had already hurried back.
"Yes~"
"Well, Brother Ma said in the letter that he was going to pick him up at Yajian, but now I don't know where he is? Okay, I know about this, you can go down and rest."
"Yes~"
As soon as the servants of the Ma family left, Yuan Chonghuan called the soldiers and said: "Bring this letter to the Ma family~"
"Yes~~"
Yuan Chonghuan hummed, stood up, walked to the window, looked at the sky outside the window, and murmured: "Brother Ma, Brother Ma, you are brave enough. Don't worry, I will definitely wait for you~"
"Ah sneeze~" Ma Xiaoquan rubbed his nose and slowly opened his eyes.
It was already dark outside. Ma Xiaoquan sat up and took a look. Beiming Shuangxue had fallen asleep again at some point. Ma Xiaoquan saw that there was still a trace of blood inside the carriage.
After following the blood stains, it turned out that it was taken from Beiming Shuangxue's head.
"What's going on?" Ma Xiaoquan stuck his head out and asked the servant driving outside the carriage.
The servant whispered: "Sir, while you were sleeping, we encountered a group of bandits. Mrs. Xiaomei didn't want us to disturb you, so she killed all those bandits."
"I'm going~~I didn't wake up despite such a big noise?"
"Well, the adults are sleeping soundly~"
"Okay, are you okay?"
"Tell me, sir, we are fine, Mrs. Mei is very powerful~"
"Well, okay~" Ma Xiaoquan retracted his head and looked at Bei Ming Shuangxue, who was still sleeping soundly. At this time, Bei Ming Shuangxue had a very peaceful expression, I don't know if it was a sweet dream or something.
Ma Xiaoquan couldn't help but leaned down and kissed Beiming Shuangxue's red lips gently.
The little girl seemed to feel something, so she sighed, turned around and fell asleep again.
Ma Xiaoquan got out of the carriage, breathed in the cold air outside, and suddenly became much more alert.
"Sir, here's some water for you~" The servant handed over the water bag, and Ma Xiaoquan took it and took a sip.
There was a mess at the bottom of a valley leading to the pass.
Cato sat on the carriage, frowned, and ordered to stop.
"Why is there such a strong smell of blood?" Cato squinted his eyes, "Light the torch."
The soldiers received the order and lit their torches to the brightest level. In an instant, the area within a limited area was as bright as day.
Cato pushed open the door of the carriage and jumped out of the carriage with the help of the soldiers. He looked down and said, "Why are there so many corpses? They all look like grass bandits. Let's go and see who killed them?"
After a while, a soldier came to report that all the bandits were dead and died in a miserable state. They counted the number of people and found that there were twenty of them. Ten of them seemed to have been drained of blood by something, and the remaining ten were dead.
Individuals are fatally wounded in the chest.
"The blood was drained? Is it a wolf?" Cato squinted his eyes and thought for a moment, then denied his judgment, "Although the wolf drank blood, it would never be said to be drained? Are you sure it was drained and not
Dry drink?"
Two soldiers brought up a corpse. Cato was shocked when he saw it.
The whole body of the body was dented, and the deceased's mouth was slightly open, as if he did not believe that he would die like this when he died.
Cato was puzzled and ordered his men to take off all the clothes and pants from the deceased.
"Huh?" Cato saw a small hole in the chest of the deceased and ordered the soldiers to go up and check. After checking, the soldiers reported back that the wound on the man's chest did not penetrate through, and the part where the blood was lost should be here.
"Who can do this?" Cato shook his head and sighed, "Could it be Ma Xiaoquan and the others? But it shouldn't be. If it were Ma Xiaoquan and the others, they would only have less than ten people at most. There are twenty of these grass bandits.
On, they are different”
At this point, Cato raised his head and said: "Tear off the clothes and pants of all the dead people and examine them."
"Yes~"
After some inspections, Cato came to a preliminary conclusion. Although it was a bit unbelievable, Cato still believed that the tragedy in the wild was related to Ma Xiaoquan.