Chaos on the temples: You can't escape if you provoke treacherous ministers

Chapter 931 Failure
Yan Mu hurried to catch up, first captured two alive, and killed the others. Then he heard the sound of fighting in the distance. He rushed over and saw that Sheriff Hu was leading an official and several bandits fighting.

Yan Mu joined in and quickly eliminated the bandits.

"What's going on? Didn't we agree to wait until they take Shuang'er to the top of the mountain before taking action?" Yan Mu asked with a frown.

Sheriff Hu shook his head, "Halfway through their journey, a masked man in black chased them, saying there was a trap on the top of the mountain. They immediately turned back with Shuang'er. I had no choice but to lead my men to stop them, and then they started to fight. Get up."

"What about the child?"

Sheriff Hu took a breath first and pointed to the forest path ahead: "We forced them to escape over there. I arranged for the officials from Liangshan County to ambush there in advance. They can't escape!"

Yan Mu frowned, always feeling that there was something fishy about tonight's matter, so the two of them stopped talking nonsense and hurried over there to provide support.But when they chased after them, everything was calm over there. When they arrived at the ambush place, the officer from Liangshan County was called out by the governor of Hu County, and they emerged from the grass.

"Are you here?" Sheriff Hu asked anxiously.

The leading officer was tall and bearded, with a confused look on his face, "Who is he?"

"Those bandits!"

"We stayed here and didn't see anyone coming at all."

Hearing this, Governor Hu staggered back two steps, "How, how is it possible? I saw them fleeing this way with my daughter!"

Not only Governor Hu, but other officers from Pinghu County also saw it, and there was only one road here, with cliffs on one side and steep walls on the other. Because of the terrain, he asked the officers from Liangshan County to set up an ambush here.

Yan Mu told Magistrate Hu not to worry. He walked along the original road again to make sure there were no forks in the road. Since the Liangshan magistrates had so many pairs of eyes watching, it was impossible for them not to miss the robbers as long as they came.

How is this going?

An official from Pinghu County asked in confusion: "Could it be that they disappeared?"

At present, this group of people has really disappeared.

Sheriff Hu panicked. Thinking that his daughter was still in the hands of the bandits, he couldn't stand for a moment. He got on his horse and chased forward with his men.

Yan Mu took a deep breath, asked the official from Liangshan County to go back and search, and then went after Governor Hu.

I searched aimlessly for half the night, but at dawn there was still no news at all.Sheriff Hu's face could no longer be described as pale, almost like a dead person.

At this time, the official from Pinghu County who was left to guard the government office came to report, "Sir... Miss Shuang'er..."

As soon as he heard his daughter's name, Sheriff Hu immediately rushed to the official and asked in a hoarse voice: "My daughter...where is my daughter?"

"In the government office."

Governor Hu only remembered that his daughter had returned to the government office. He didn't bother to ask anything else. He got on his horse and rushed down the mountain.Other officers from Pinghu County hurriedly followed him because they were worried about Governor Hu.

"Hey, this isn't right. Those bandits have such good intentions?" the bearded official of Liangshan County said to himself.

Yan Mu looked back at him and saw him scratching the back of his head, looking puzzled.Yan Mu sighed. Of course, those bandits couldn't be so kind. The child was just afraid...that something had happened.

Back in the city, from a distance, he saw many people gathered in front of the government office of Pinghu County. Yan Mu got off his horse and walked over. As he got closer, he heard the people's whispers.

"Oh, what a pitiful child. He's only five years old."

"Those who are so heartless are just a bunch of beasts."

"Master Hu and Mrs. Hu are so kind on weekdays, why are God so blind!"

Yan Mu squeezed in, and the officials stood in a circle, all with their heads lowered, and some were still wiping tears.And through the gap, he saw the child held in Mrs. Hu's arms. His body was covered in blood. There was a knife stuck in his chest and he had no breath.

Mrs. Hu, on the other hand, was holding the child like a fool, her eyes were straight, motionless, but her hands holding the child were very tight.But Sheriff Hu had already stopped crying. A big man, kneeling on the ground, was extremely sad.

Yan Mu took a deep breath and walked to Liu Yunxiang.

Liu Yunxiang saw him and hurriedly pulled him a few steps outside. "how so?"

Yan Mu had been thinking about this question all the way, and now he had the answer, "Someone tipped off the robbers."

"Ah? You mean..." Liu Yunxiang looked at the officials who were also sad, "One of them?"

Yan Mu shook his head, "Anyway, the bandits ran away after getting the news. The bandits also knew where Commander Hu set up an ambush and used some method to get around it."

Liu Yunxiang sighed and looked over again, "I waited all night with Mrs. Hu. Early in the morning, an official came to report that Miss Shuang Er was found. We rushed over, but what we saw was that the child was covered in blood. Lying in front of the government office, he has no breath."

Mrs. Hu held the child in her arms, still unable to accept this fact. Until now, she has not cried a single cry.

The couple has been nervous since their child disappeared, and they haven't slept or eaten.Due to excessive grief, Mrs. Hu fainted first, followed by County Sheriff Hu.

The common people and officials helped send the Hu couple home. The owner of the coffin shop gave the child a coffin, and the elders helped hang the white silk and other things.

Liu Yunxiang returned the one hundred thousand cash to the bank, and she and Yan Mu returned to the inn.

On the way, they saw a woman searching the streets for her child.

"Jer? Where are you?"

"Did Mom make steamed buns for you?"

"You don't like mutton stuffing the most. Stop playing hide-and-seek with me and go home!"

Liu Yunxiang saw the woman and remembered that she was the one holding her son's body in the pavilion. She was like this. It was obvious that her son's death had hit her too hard and she had gone crazy.

She frowned, "These bandits are too rampant!"

"Yes, and it has formed a force. The court should pay attention to it."

"I'll write a letter to Leng Yuxie when I get back!"

Yan Mu smiled, "You think Leng Yuxie doesn't know?"

"What do you mean?"

"Why does he insist that you come to Liangshan County?"

Liu Yunxiang's thoughts changed and his eyes widened, "So he wants me to solve the banditry problem!"

Yan Mu smiled, "It is possible, and if it gives him a headache, it means that these bandits are not simple, and there may be support from a certain force behind them."

"If this is the case, we have to go to Liangshan County first."

"Well, that's your territory."

Liu Yunxiang looked at the woman again, still shouting. Her husband came over and lied to her that the child was home, and then pulled the woman home.

"Jie'er likes to eat steamed buns."

"Well, he's already eaten it."

"We Beijin people don't eat steamed buns very much, so I learned how to make them from the aunt next door who married from Darong."

"What you made was delicious. Jie'er ate several of them."

"It's great. He likes to eat it, so I will make it for him every day."

Watching the couple walking away, Liu Yunxiang felt very sad. She wanted to go to Liangshan County to see what a dragon's pond and tiger's den it was!
(End of this chapter)