imperial psychologist

Chapter 684
In an instant, Bo Ling drew his knife, and the horse's blood spattered.

The stabbed horse neighed and raised its fore hooves, and ran amok in the darkness.

The horses lost the shackles of the ropes, and the entire stable suddenly became a mess. The simple cages could not withstand such an impact, and the fence suddenly collapsed.

Bai Ling found the right time and jumped up, landing on the horse's back of the winning horse.

In the confusion, she quickly grasped the rein, bent down and followed the leading horse and galloped forward.

At this moment, a few feathered arrows brushed her clothes and passed by—on the second floor of the inn, the archers were already in place, and the arrows aimed at Bai Ling's vitals.

The rain of arrows was so dense, Bo Ling was surprised while dodging, because the commotion in the post station was far from a small group of bandits. Filed out of the hall.

Bo Ling didn't look back, and as she was running, she could hear the sound of horses' hoofs following closely behind her. It was a horse that instinctively ran with the leading horse in a panic.

- It's done!
Under the moonlight, three or five horses went away behind the lead horse, and the whole wilderness also fell silent as the sound of horseshoes went away.

Li Yiru in the grass did not move. He stared dumbfounded at the scene in front of him. The path that had been deserted just now was already full of people with knives.

Did I hear it wrong before? Where did so many bandits come from in the house?Or was it that they had been secretly lurking in their respective positions before, but they didn't make any sound?

Li Yiru frowned, pushed aside the weeds blocking his eyes, and looked at the station from a distance.

I saw a middle-aged man walking out from behind the gate of the inn, who seemed to be the leader of the gang.

"Stop chasing him! That's three or two horse thieves, what's the use of chasing him!"

Li Yiru was amused in his heart, tonight this is called black eating black.

"But--"

The thief in front of the stable seemed to want to defend himself, but he was interrupted before he finished speaking, "It's nothing but, don't mess yourself up, everyone return to their positions, and step up your guard."

The bandit leader whispered a few words to the people around him again, because the distance was too far and his voice was too soft, Li Yiru couldn't hear clearly for a while.

Li Yiru moved slowly in the grass, slowly approached the post station, and then listened attentively.

There was a sound of footsteps again, and after the bandit chief gave the order, all the knife-wielding men who had flowed out of the station disappeared into the darkness again, and the entire station became deserted again, leaving only a burst of flying dust.

The bandit leader walked up to the tree, looked up at the bronze bell stuck on the tree by Bo Ling and Mu Cheng, bent over to fetch an iron ax from nearby, and slashed at the tree trunk with a sudden swing of his arms.

There was a sound of breaking and shaking of the tree trunk, and the bronze bell on the top fell down at this moment.

The copper bell fell on the soft ground and made a muffled sound. The man immediately got on and pressed his hands tightly to the surface of the clock—the sound of the bell stopped abruptly.

"I don't even know that the alarm bell has been tampered with... What are you eating?" The bandit leader's face was really a little angry at this time, and he kicked on the tree trunk next to him again, "How many times did you meet?" A thief just wants to ring the clock?"

"We... we thought these were the advance—"

"Substitution!" The bandit leader yelled sharply, he picked two names, and the two people whose names were called quickly ran out of the post house.

The bandit leader looked furious, "I have been complaining all day long that the higher-ups didn't give me a chance, and if I have a chance, you will do things like this!"

The two stable guards lowered their heads in frustration.

"You are lucky that the gang of thieves you met just now are cautious, so help you unload this copper bell!" The bandit leader whispered, "If you make a false report and delay the big event tonight, you I can't keep the heads of both of them! Go chase the horses over there, and then go back to the backyard to wash the floor!"

"Yes..." The two raised their hats and walked towards the horses that had stopped to graze not far away. One of them walked halfway, then suddenly ran back and handed something to the bandit leader.

Afterwards, the bandit leader inspected the stables himself, and pulled the cart full of goods to a prominent position under the moonlight.

Before leaving, he said to the two newcomers, "Don't forget the order from above, let you two stay here tonight, not really to watch the horses!"

The two stood up straight in silence as an answer.

There was silence again outside the stables.

Li Yiru was holding hay in his mouth, and the more he looked at it, the more strange it became.

……

"It sounds like they have another ambush to fight..."

At dawn, Mu Cheng said softly.

Beside the small rock pool, he was lighting a fire to boil water, while Li Yiru and Bo Ling beside him were washing their faces and hands in the clear water.

Not far from the three of them, four horses were being tied to a tree—a head horse and three llamas following them.

The three of them had been resting here for several hours, and they were about to leave soon. Li Yiru also told the two of them what he heard and saw last night while making the final preparations.

"Yeah," Li Yiru sighed, "I feel that once we reach Jiangbei, the road is really difficult."

Several people were silent for a while.

Only a few days after crossing the river, they encountered two groups of robbers—fortunately, they didn't confront each other head-on.

"Your golden leaf just flew out, is it okay?" Bai Ling looked at Li Yiru, "After all, your family crest is printed on it, in case your identity is exposed—"

"I'm not afraid of this." Li Yiru smiled, "The left and right are just a group of bandits. This place is so far away from Shuzhou, even if they know where I come from, they won't be able to trouble my family..."

As Li Yiru said, he shook his hands, and ripples appeared on the surface of the pool immediately.

"...Even if they are really angry, a group of people chased him to Shuzhou," Li Yiru scratched his hair twice at his own reflection on the water, "then they are asking for trouble."

Looking at Li Yiru's smiling face, Bo Ling felt emotional for a moment.

It can only be said that the young man's skills are really well hidden. If he hadn't seen his flying leaf last night, I'm afraid that now I would think that the person in front of me is really powerless.

Mu Cheng also glanced at Li Yiru, "Why didn't you use such a unique skill before?"

"I didn't use the gold leaf until the critical moment, because I was afraid that my family would follow the clues to find it..." Li Yiru sighed, "Now that the whereabouts have been exposed, there is no need to be so defensive..."

"Did the third brother hear the bell ringing from the post station in the middle of the night?" Bo Ling asked.

"I seem to have heard it, but it's far away, and I'm a little uncertain." Li Yiru recalled, "Should we ride back to see? Anyway, it's only seven or eight miles away, and it's not too far away."

Mu Cheng immediately shook his head, "It doesn't matter if it's far or not, we don't care about the bandit fire. We finally got a horse, so we should hurry north."

"That's right." Bo Ling nodded, "How many days do we have enough dry food?"

"Save a little food, it should be enough for four or five days." Mu Cheng replied.

"How far is it to Zhuozhou?"

"About ten days." Li Yiru took out the map, "But if you go north for two or three days, there is a Tunlong Po, where we can supply supplies."

(End of this chapter)