imperial psychologist

Chapter 688 Captured
Bo Ling thanked the old man and left the stall selling bamboo ware.

According to the previous agreement, after entering the city, Bo Ling stocked up a lot of dry food that was convenient to carry in his luggage.

However, as Mucheng originally expected, there is no place to buy or sell mules in the city - all mules are not for sale, no matter how high the price Bo Ling claims to be willing to pay, the daily life of the people in the city is very dependent on mules and horses, When you want to use it, you can only rent it from acquaintances. It is almost impossible for a foreigner to do the same.

In the evening, Bai Ling, carrying a heavy burden on her back, was about to go out of the city to join Mu Cheng and Li Yiru, but when she reached the intersection of the north gate of Tun Long Po, she felt something was wrong.

There are not many people going out at this time, and the gate of the city is almost a vacuum. Occasionally, one or two business teams from the north rush into the city at sunset, and no one passes through the gate going north.

The uninhabited city gate suddenly raised Boling's vigilance. It was like a spotlight on a stage. Once stepping in, everyone would see themselves.

Bai Ling pretended to wander around carelessly. She went into an inn and asked for a bowl of noodles.

The gate of the inn was facing the North City Gate, and Bo Ling glanced there inadvertently several times.

"Does the guest officer stay at the hotel?" Xiaoer asked, "It's getting late, we have a special room for overnight stays, check out tomorrow, and you can just go on the road."

"No need." Bo Ling shook his head.

Xiaoer was stunned for a moment, "You are going to leave the city soon, right? The night road here in Tunlongpi is not easy!"

Bo Ling smiled, "I've already settled down in the west of the city, and now I'm just going out for a walk and shopping while it's still dark."

"No wonder..." Xiaoer glanced at Bai Ling's bulging baggage, and said with a smile, "Have you visited the ancestral hall in the east of the city? A few days ago, there were still many lanterns left for the Mid-Autumn Festival Lantern Festival. It was very beautiful." !"

Just as Bai Ling was about to answer, her breath suddenly became stagnant—her gaze inadvertently swept across a tree shade at the gate of the city. There were a few tables and chairs there, which seemed to be a place for officials to rest when they changed the guard.

And Li Yiru was sitting there!

Bo Ling perfunctorily dealt with Xiao Er's chat for a while, trying to ask some news about the city today but found nothing.

After Xiao Er left, her peripheral vision focused on Li Yiru.

The young man sat there motionless, with his hands under the table, and everything below his waist was blocked by the table and chairs. Bo Ling couldn't see clearly, but he could only see people sitting beside and behind him.

There was a teacup in front of him, but he was just looking straight ahead, unable to see his expression clearly.

Until Bai Ling lowered his head and finished eating the noodles, Li Yiru in the distance still maintained his previous posture and sat there.

Two blocks away from Berlin, Mu Cheng was sitting on the second floor of a tea shop, looking at the gate of the city through the window.

He sat here staring at the boy for a longer time, and after seeing Li Yiru sitting there motionless for more than an hour, he was absolutely sure that Li Yiru had been arrested.

Being so far away, Mu Cheng couldn't see clearly whether Li Yiru had any scars on his face, and he didn't know whether he had told the government that the three of them would meet at the north gate tonight.

Mu Cheng didn't dare to act rashly, turned around, and called Xiaoer again to refill his water.

……

It was getting dark and there were fewer and fewer people on the street.

Li Yiru was still sitting there, while Bo Ling felt that he was becoming more and more conspicuous.She got up and left the lobby of the inn, sneaked into a nearby alley, and silently climbed up to the roofs of the shops facing the street in the night.

She lay down leaning against the slope under the ridge of the roof, staring at the city gate in the distance.

Seeing now, she was almost convinced that what she saw was a trap.

However, she cannot avoid this trap, no matter why Li Yiru was arrested, she and Mu Cheng cannot just ignore it.

In the darkness, Bo Ling heard a slight noise not far away.She leaned lower and looked towards the source of the sound - on the roof on the left, there were officers and soldiers carrying lanterns and going up the ladder to check.

Bo Ling adjusted his posture carefully, and slowly moved towards the cornice of the roof. He estimated that the raised stone statues and carvings almost covered his body, and then stopped, holding his breath.

She heard the official's feet stepping on the tiles, walking back and forth with the lantern in hand, and then leaned over and said something to the people on the ground.

After a while, the light of the lantern dimmed, and the official should carry the ladder to the next house to continue searching.

Berlin crawled up the roof again.

Li Yiru was still under the city gate, and lanterns lit up around the boy.

Looking down from a high place, Bo Ling finally saw some clues. Li Yiru's hands were not raised on the table from the beginning to the end. It looked as if he was tied in front of his body. The same is bound.

There was a sound of horseshoes and cart wheels grinding on the street, and Bai Ling glanced sideways, and saw a group of food transport teams.

The fleet of carriages was so vast that it could hardly see the end.The front team had already started to go out of the city to inspect, and the grain truck under Bai Ling was still parked, waiting to go ahead.

Compared with Huizhou, the out-of-city inspection in Tunlongpi is heaven and earth. After the formalities and the number of grain trucks were given at the front, they no longer inspected each vehicle in detail, but released them uniformly.

In order to avoid ordinary business travelers, these government grain transportation teams usually set out at night. The grain is piled high on the vehicle, and the soldiers on both sides hardly raise their heads. Bo Ling clenched his fists—this is indeed a rare event Out of town opportunity.

Bo Ling lay on the eaves, silently watching the last grain truck go away.

When it also disappeared behind the north gate, the city gate slowly closed.

It's curfew.

Bai Ling stared closely at the figure of Li Yiru in the distance, and she decided to wait for these officials to take him back to a certain place tonight, until the dead of night tonight——

"Oh, you're still here."

A voice came from Berlin's ear unexpectedly.

She hunches like a cat, jumps a few steps away, and then glances back.

The redheaded deer hunter stood alone in the wind on the roof, his hands thrust into his cloak.

After seeing Bo Ling, he raised a hand and waved lightly, "Good evening."

Every muscle in Bo Ling's body tensed up.

"Your other friend has already left." The deer hunter raised his hand casually, pointing in the direction of the city gate, "but my people will bring him back soon..."

Bo Ling had already drawn out his short knife and pointed at his opponent silently.

The deer hunter shrugged slightly and walked towards Berlin on the eaves like walking on the ground.

"I thought you girls from Da Zhou only liked to embroider in the boudoir."

He grabbed the cloak on his right shoulder with his left hand, drew an arc in the air with his left arm, and the entire cloak was taken off smoothly.

Under the moonlight, the scimitar that once cut off the head of the river pirate shone with a frightening silver light.

"Then..." the deer hunter narrowed his eyes and smiled, "I'm sorry."

(End of this chapter)