I opened a tea shop in Bianjing

Chapter 118 Search
"Drive! Drive! Drive!" Mo Yunxiao whipped the horsewhip, staring straight ahead for a moment.

"He Lu! Slow down, the horse will not be able to take it anymore!" Li Qingzhao yelled at the throat while trying to catch up.

But Mo Yunxiao turned a deaf ear to it, and just kept running forward.After a while, she reined in the reins, and the rider stood up with a long hiss, and finally stopped, and began to pant, with layers of mist coming out of his thick nostrils.

In an instant, Li Qingzhao also arrived with his horse.She looked sideways at Mo Yunxiao, and seeing her anxious expression, her heart couldn't help feeling heavy.

Mo Yunxiao pointed forward with his finger holding the whip, and the two pools of blood were very distinct.

"There's going to be a fight here," she said.

Li Qingzhao got off his horse, stepped forward to look carefully, and said, "That's right, there were two male corpses here, but why did they disappear?"

Mo Yunxiao said: "The companions must have carried the corpse away, but it can be seen that they were so flustered that the blood was not cleaned."

"Miss Mo! Mistress of the Li family!" Zhao Mingcheng finally rushed over, followed by Zhang Di and more than 100 imperial cavalry.

Li Qingzhao sneered, and said, "Hmph! He came just like this more than half an hour ago, so I couldn't examine those two corpses carefully."

Zhao Mingcheng got off his horse, came to Li Qingzhao's side, and said in a dazed way: "You two ladies, you are going too fast, I have worked hard to catch up."

Li Qingzhao put on a cold face and ignored him, only Mo Yunxiao said: "Zhao Yanei, Wan'er, I guess Yunxiang probably fell into the hands of these thieves, but I don't know who killed their people .”

Li Qingzhao stepped forward and said, "There are two possibilities, internal fire and a strong enemy."

"If you encountered a strong enemy, who would it be?" Mo Yunxiao asked.

When Li Qingzhao thought about it, his eyes widened, but when he was about to answer, Zhao Mingcheng preempted him: "King Jian!"

Li Qingzhao hated him for stealing his words, so he gave him a blank look, but didn't say much.

Mo Yunxiao nodded with a smile, and said: "The place where King Jian is imprisoned should be guarded by heavy soldiers. He can't escape by himself. Unless there is help from outside. If the thief who robbed Yunxiang and the thief who rescued King Jian Huobing, then Yunxiang probably has two destinations."

"That's right, one was robbed by King Jian, and the other was robbed by the previous thieves." Li Qingzhao said, "However, there is also a possibility that the one who robbed Yunxiang and the one who rescued King Jian were the same group, perhaps Due to the unequal distribution of spoils, the fire broke out."

"Yeah." Mo Yunxiao nodded in agreement, and at the same time said, "But right now I have no time to worry about other things. I only care about Yun Xiang's whereabouts. So she can only have two places to go."

As she spoke, she pointed to a winding path ahead and the main road in the opposite direction.

Li Qingzhao ran a few steps towards the path pointed by Mo Yunxiao and looked into the distance, but seeing the shadows of the trees and the winding path, he felt a little timid suddenly.

But when she turned her head, she saw Zhao Mingcheng looking towards her, and she felt proud, so she said, "He Lu, let's do things separately. I'll go this way, and you lead your troops there."

Mo Yunxiao chuckled, and said, "It's time to split things up, but the soldiers will always be divided among you."

"Us?" Li Qingzhao was a little puzzled.

"Of course it's you and Zhao Yanei." Mo Yunxiao said.

"Huh! What a burden." Li Qingzhao just muttered something in a low voice, just as acquiescence.

But Zhao Mingcheng came up to Mo Yunxiao and said: "Miss Mo, this lady of the Li family is so mean, I won't let her go."

"Zhao Defu, you..." Li Qingzhao was about to explode, Mo Yunxiao hurriedly stopped her with his eyes, then got off the horse, pulled Zhao Mingcheng over and said, "It's critical now, don't be complacent."

She looked at Li Qingzhao who was only sullen by herself from a distance, and said with a smile: "Miss Li's temper is impatient, you need to circle around more. Also, you are a seven-foot man, she is just a girl, let her go alone, Are you at ease?"

"But she..."

"She's not a bad person." Mo Yunxiao said, "Since you came to help me, I naturally accept your affection. Wan'er and I don't know each other. Both of you are my best friends. Love her like you love her."

There was another layer of deep meaning in Mo Yunxiao's words, but Zhao Mingcheng was confused because of his concern, so he didn't hear it.

He also looked back at Li Qingzhao, saw that she was staring at him with angry eyes, and said, "Alright Miss Mo, I have the right to save face for you, just forgive me."

Mo Yunxiao patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "This is the mind of a man!"

Then, Mo Yunxiao came to Zhang Di's horse behind him, and said to him: "Officer Zhang, please send some more soldiers out, and let Zhao Yanei and Li's wife take them."

Zhang Di sneered, and said: "This is the Imperial Army, which is supposed to protect the imperial city. It is an exception to be specially transferred by the government, and you want us to allocate more people to others? Since the founding of our country, there has never been such a thing. ..."

Before he finished speaking, Mo Yunxiao's eyes had become very sharp, and he shivered involuntarily.

"Forget it, the county magistrate might as well take care of it now. It's really terrible for this girl to go crazy. A hero doesn't suffer from immediate losses, so he should follow her."

Zhang Di had made up his mind, so he pretended to cough a few times, leaned over and said in a low voice, "Forget it, let's save face for you, and let them take fifty soldiers."

Mo Yunxiao glanced at the soldiers behind him and said, "Fifty is not enough, there must be seventy."

Zhang Di was so angry that his face turned purple, and he said angrily: "Mo Yunxiao! Don't bully me too much!"

"Zhang Neiguan, I'm tired of hearing your words, is there anything new?" Mo Yunxiao said with a somewhat mocking tone.

Zhang Di's face turned red, so he waved his hand and said, "Okay, it's up to you! If that's the case, our family has to let them go, it's too dangerous to go with you."

Mo Yunxiao looked up to the sky and laughed, and said, "No way! I want you to follow me. Did a few little thieves scare you?"

"You..." Zhang Di had no choice but to sigh in vain. He waved and called a head of a hundred households behind him, and said, "You bring seventy brothers with you to Zhao Yanei and Li's wife."

"Here!" The head of the hundred households agreed, and shouted on his horse, and seventy cavalrymen rushed out after him.

Li Qingzhao couldn't help feeling grateful when he saw it, but he also became worried for Mo Yunxiao, so he could only say: "He Lu, you gave us [-]% of your soldiers, what can you do?"

Mo Yunxiao said with a smile: "I once sneaked into Prince Jian's mansion alone, and even walked over so dangerously, you don't have to worry about me."

Li Qingzhao couldn't help but smile, and said, "Everyone says you, Mo Yunxiao, are a female Yan Luo, I've seen it today."

So the two sides asked each other a few words and took their people there.

Mo Yunxiao first came to the collapsed thatched hut to check, and saw that the surrounding fields were so pitch black that he could not see clearly, so he called Zhang Di behind him: "Raise the lamp."

Zhang Di was angry, but he had no choice but to take a lantern to illuminate her.

Mo Yunxiao and the soldiers opened the collapsed roof and saw the tables and chairs and the oil lamps that had been extinguished.

She leaned down and looked carefully, and finally found two hemp ropes. "It must be used to bind people." She muttered like this.

"Perhaps Younger Brother Ling was once imprisoned here." Zhang Di interjected.

Mo Yunxiao turned to look at him, seeing him feeling uncomfortable, and said: "Our family is just guessing, you just pretended to be our family and didn't say anything."

"No, what you said is very reasonable." Mo Yunxiao picked up the two ropes and said, "However, if you want to tie up one person, why do you need two ropes? According to my guess, there was only one other person here besides Yunxiang. .”

"Could that man be King Jian?" Zhang Di interjected again.

Mo Yunxiao looked at him and said with a smile, "Maybe it's true."

"Hmph! This is too ridiculous." Zhang Di shook his head again and again, and said, "Since King Jian escaped from the restricted area, he must have a group of brave bandits under his command, so how could he be captured here?"

Mo Yunxiao smiled and said: "There is a saying called bold assumptions, careful verification, have you heard it?"

Zhang Di was taken aback for a moment, thinking he heard it wrong, and unconsciously said: "What?"

"In my opinion, it might be like this." Mo Yunxiao said while gesticulating, imprisoning Yunxiang and Zhao Si here, and then managed to escape, but in the process they accidentally alarmed the thief, and a fight broke out between the two sides. As a result of the fight, the thatched cottage was destroyed and the two thieves were killed.

She gave a wonderful hypothetical deduction that made sense, but Zhang Di felt more and more unbelievable the more he listened to it, so he said: "This is too bizarre. I thought that someone else would come, and the two sides would have a fierce battle."

Mo Yunxiao shook his head and said: "From this point of view, it doesn't look like there was a large-scale fighting. First, there must be noisy noises in the fight, which will probably alarm the surrounding farmers. Even if the farmers are not alarmed, the farm dogs will bark Get up. But there doesn't seem to be such a sign. Second, if there is a fight with weapons, it will definitely not only kill two people."

Zhang Di was quite dissatisfied, and said: "Your deduction also has a lot to consider."

Mo Yunxiao nodded and said, "Exactly. So the deduction is just a deduction, not a conclusion. Now, let's verify it together."

She got on her horse again and galloped towards the road.Zhang Di had no choice but to get on the horse again, and followed closely with the rest of the cavalry.

Li Qingzhao and Zhao Mingcheng walked very slowly, because the road was winding and overgrown with bushes, so they couldn't ride horses, so they had to get off the horses and lead them along. They were careful on their feet for fear of slipping.

After a short walk, they saw a pond, which was sparkling and reflected the bright moon in the sky clearly on the water.

Zhao Mingcheng took a few quick steps and found a burnt bonfire not far from the pond.He touched the ashes and felt a lingering warmth, and said, "Someone came here not long ago."

Li Qingzhao also came over and leaned over to touch him, and said, "I don't think we can go far, maybe we can catch up. Hurry up!"

So everyone chased after him.But the road was slippery and frosty, and the wind was tight in the middle of the night. After walking for an unknown amount of time, this winding path would never end.

"Wait!" Li Qingzhao suddenly raised his hand to stop everyone.Her eyes were fixed on a hole on a small slope on the side.

The entrance of the cave is deep and cramped, looking very much like a mysterious abyss mouth from a distance.

"We walked for a long time, but we turned around." Li Qingzhao said with some annoyance, "I saw this hole when I just came here, and I never wanted to see it again."

Zhao Mingcheng said: "Since we're here, let's go in and have a look."

Li Qingzhao rolled his eyes at him and said, "I want to check you out."

Zhao Mingcheng's face turned red, he also raised his breath, and said, "I'll go as I go."

As he spoke, he let go of his horse, took a torch from the head of a hundred households behind him, and hurried away.The entrance of the cave was very deep, and as soon as he took a picture around him, the hairs all over his body stood up.

At this time, he couldn't help but secretly regret it, but when he turned around and saw Li Qingzhao looking at him with disdain, his self-esteem was aroused again, and he bit the bullet and leaned into the cave.

After entering the cave, he felt relieved. It turned out that the cave was not as deep and scary as he saw from the outside. It was just a shallow and pitiful small cave, and there was still a faint smell in it.It was the smell of burned animal feces. Zhao Mingcheng grew up in a family of officials, so naturally he knew nothing about it, and could only smell this strange smell.

He illuminated it with a torch, but found nothing special, and felt a little embarrassed.If he got nothing, Li Qingzhao would inevitably mock him again when he went down.

He had this in mind, so he checked very carefully in the cave, but Li Qingzhao outside was a little impatient.

Suddenly, his torch flickered, as if he saw something shining.He hastily illuminated it with the torch again, and when he looked closer, it turned out to be a silver hairpin.

He raised the silver hairpin and saw that the top was inlaid with green agate, and hanging a small purple grape carved from jade.

Although such a silver hairpin is not extremely noble, it is not something that ordinary women can wear.

With this discovery, Zhao Mingcheng was overjoyed and hurried out.

"Miss Li, look!" He handed the silver hairpin to Li Qingzhao and said, "Could this belong to Miss Mo Er?"

Li Qingzhao took a look at it, and was also amazed, and asked, "Did you find it in the cave?"

"Exactly." Zhao Mingcheng nodded and said.

"The eighth achievement belongs to Ms. Mo Er." After Li Qingzhao finished speaking, she looked around and said, "It's just, where will she go?"

Before the words were finished, the head of the hundred households yelled "Uh!", and fell to the ground dead.

(End of this chapter)