All the guards saluted He Lingchuan and mounted their horses to chase after him. Jiao Yu had no choice but to follow, turning back three times every step.
The setting sun on the ancient road was like blood, illuminating its burnt red fur and slowly disappearing at the end of the road; the sound of the team's hooves gradually became distant and soon disappeared.
He Lingchuan watched them go away. Compared with the upcoming changes in Xushan, what the Chiyan people did in Lingxu City can at best be regarded as a prelude to the storm.
It was indeed a wise move for Fu Shanyue to leave at this time. He sighed leisurely and rode his sheep back for two days to stay in Qingshi Town on the outskirts of Lingxu City.
The room in the inn is small but clean. Dong Rui is already waiting for him here. Snail Toad took the time to eat a lot of prunella vulgaris at the Nian Zanli warehouse, so they had two more days to prepare.
The two of them had a meal in a restaurant, and didn't talk much. They both ate carefully and slowly. After the meal, they went back to their houses to rest.
...Lingxu City, Nanmian Lane Patrol Office. It will be dark for another hour and a half. I heard that the food tonight was good, with chicken legs included, so two guards from the night shift came over in advance.
As a result, the chicken legs hadn’t arrived yet, but Mrs. Liu came first. She looked nervous: "Qinzi, I saw the wanted criminal again!" The older patrolman smiled and patted his young companion on the shoulder: "Oh, your sister-in-law is going to make a meritorious service!" The young patrolman turned over. She rolled her eyes and asked Mrs. Liu, "Are you sure?" Neither of them believed it.
"Show me the wanted notice again." Qinzi was reluctant, but the food in the office was not ready yet, so he had to get up and said: "Follow me." The two of them went to the old eucalyptus room holding a fluorescent spore. , digging out a pile of old wanted posters.
The dust started to rise, and Qinzi couldn't help but sneeze. Sister-in-law Liu looked through them one by one, then pointed at them and said, "That's the person!" This summer, the house leaked and moisture invaded, and the portraits on the wanted posters became moldy.
"Or this one?" Qinzi took out the wanted poster and took a look at it.
"Wanted order - Number 87 on the list, Tu Yangzhi, a disciple of Bai Linggu, killed two divine envoys in Xuluo Kingdom seven years ago and escaped. Well, he does have a fierce look on his face. Are you sure he is this person?"
"Sure! I've seen this portrait when the list was released a few years ago." Mrs. Liu nodded her head.
"I noticed this man three days ago. At that time, he was eating noodles at the pot noodle stall at the west entrance of the street. He was sitting in the shed. The mole on his forehead was exactly the same as the one in the portrait. Just now I saw him again! "
"where?"
"As soon as he walked into Chunhe Cloth Store, I came to report it to you." Mrs. Liu asked him,
"If the report is successful, will there be any reward?"
"If Tu Yangzhi is really the one, I will reward him fifty taels of silver." Qinzi didn't think she had such luck.
"But there are at least thirty or forty sighting reports of wanted criminals every year, all of which are false reports. Sister-in-law, those important criminals rarely appear in front of others."
"Not appearing in front of others?" Mrs. Liu sneered.
"They don't eat or poop, and cover their faces all day long? If you follow me, I will definitely earn these fifty taels of silver!" The two returned to the front, and the older patrolman asked his companion: "How is it?" He hugged In the mood of watching a drama, Qinzi grabbed the wanted notice and said: "My sister-in-law is convinced that what she saw is the fugitive Tu Yangzhi, and she insists on dragging me away." According to regulations, patrolmen work in teams of two. Orders cannot be placed under special circumstances.
The elderly patrolman was also reluctant. What kind of discernment could this civilian woman have? Ninety-nine percent of the time, she was mistaken. He came over early and just wanted to eat more chicken drumsticks. It was better to do less than to do more.
But Sister-in-law Liu kept on assuring her that the volume was so loud that people coming in and out could hear it. This woman is really capable of causing trouble. He said helplessly: "Okay, okay, keep your voice down, I'll go with you." They reported, and the two men and one woman went to Chunhe Cloth Store.
On the way, Mrs. Liu introduced the two of them: "This Chunhe Cloth Shop is an old shop that has been around for more than ten years. Several of our neighbors often go to take care of it. However, since the owner changed a month ago, the business has been slack. Other stores are good-looking and popular." There are no colors at his house! Not many people go there now. I think he will become a prostitute in less than half a year. Wow, there are still people who dare to do this kind of business in Lingxu City these days!" The rent of shops in Lingxu City is so expensive. Chunhe Fabric Store's shop is huge, so doing business like this is a total loss.
The rangers yawned. Up ahead was Chunhe Buzhuang, Qinzi muttered: "It's still next to the public house." Next door to Buzhuang is the government office, what kind of fugitive would go here specifically?
Entering Buzhuang, as Mrs. Liu said, there were no customers here. There were only two waiters sitting in the shop enjoying themselves. One was gnawing melon seeds, and the other was dozing off with his head in his hands.
The man gnawing melon seeds saw Qinzi and others coming in, and immediately stood up to greet them: "Why are you two gentlemen here?" Just when Qinzi was about to speak, Mrs. Liu smiled and said: "They are going to my house for dinner, and by the way, they will come with me to buy a melon seed." Fabric. Take down the Begonia Red piece and show it to me." The clerk went to hold the fabric. The patrolmen looked around the store, and the other clerk nodded and bowed.
The front and back of the store, with a wooden ladder in the middle leading to the attic. This layout is very common in shops in Lingxu City, and there is often a storage room under the stairs.
The passage in front of the stairs was blocked with a half curtain. At this time, there was a soft creak from behind the curtain, and someone came out of the storage room and wanted to go up to the second floor.
Qinzi jumped over and lifted the curtain to look up. The man climbed two steps, turned around when he heard a strange noise, and met his eyes.
Qinzi was startled. This person, this face! Yes, it looks exactly like the portrait on the wanted poster, even the mole on his forehead is the same!
The man asked him in a deep voice, "What are you doing?" Seeing his eyes flashing fiercely, Qinzi's heart pounded, and she forced herself to calm down and said, "I'm in a hurry, can I borrow a place?" The man pointed toward the backyard.
At this time, the clerk in the store also came over: "Master, there is the warehouse behind, what can I do for you?"
"I'm just going to use a trap." The elderly patrolman also came over: "Are you hungry?" Tu Yangzhi had already walked up to the attic. Qinzi glanced up the stairs and winked at his companion: "You're hungry?" It doesn't seem to hurt very much, it's bearable." The elderly patrolman was startled and then understood: "Then go back, why are you still here?" No, a real person is here?
The person named Tu has some cultivation skills, so the two of them may not be able to handle it, so they have to go back and ask for support. The two of them were about to go out, but the waiter outside happened to block the door: "You two adults, are you going to show your respects?" Qinzi waved his hand: "Get out of the way." The stairs suddenly creaked, and someone came down.
The two patrolmen subconsciously turned their heads and looked up. Unexpectedly, there was a flash of cold light in front of them. The man took a water thorn in his hand and directly pierced the throat of the older patrolman.
He went forward and then out, digging a bloody hole. This time, there was no warning about the killing. Qinzi stood behind his companion and suddenly saw a thorn point emerging from the back of his neck. He couldn't help but scream and draw the knife.
There was a sound of wind behind him, and Qinzi threw his backhand. As a result, he was kicked so hard in the leg that he half-crouched down in pain.
Suddenly, a big bird appeared in front of him. It was shaped like a stork and had a high crown. It kicked Qinzi and broke his leg bones.
Someone strangled his neck from behind and gave him a naked choke. Qinzi watched the fugitive Tu Yangzhi walk down the stairs, looked at him and said, "Don't ask, just kill him." With a click, Qinzi's neck was broken.
The patrolman's half-scream alerted Mrs. Liu in the front store. She was quite alert. She looked around twice and turned around and ran away.
But before she could reach the door, her collar was lifted up, and as soon as she opened her mouth, it was blocked by a cloth ball.
After she was taken to the store, a clerk went to the door to check twice and found that no one was paying attention to the place, which was good.
Tu Yangzhi interrogated Sister Liu. When the latter saw the two dead bodies on the ground, he was so frightened that he didn't need to force a confession.
Everyone in the store was here, a total of four strong men, all with heavy looks on their faces. Someone said to Tu Yangzhi: "Old Tu, you have been exposed."
"We were exposed." Tu Yangzhi also didn't expect that a street woman would find out where he was living in seclusion in Lingxu City.
"These two patrols have just taken over the night shift. If they don't go back tomorrow morning, they will be suspicious. Besides, they have already reported before they came to Chunhe Cloth Village. The patrol office will definitely come to check here tomorrow. Even if we empty the cellar , I'm afraid there are still monsters who can smell the smell of gunpowder barrels." Another person said: "Not long ago, there was an accident at the post house, and the patrol in the south of the city was temporarily led by Tongxin Guards. Tongxin Guards is much stricter than ordinary patrols, and the farts are bigger. We must get to the bottom of everything. The brothers from Jixinling were almost exposed a few days ago."
"Then what should we do?" Tu Yangzhi patted Sister Liu's Tianling cover to pieces.
"We can't make the decision, let's ask for instructions from above." Soon, a bat flew out of Chunhe Cloth Village and headed towards Dunyuan.
...The sound of flapping wings could be heard in the night. Hearing the sound coming this way, He Lingchuan opened his eyes and went to the ground, pushing open the wooden window.
A gorgeous figure jumped into the window and landed on He Lingchuan's shoulder. What a big parrot, with a red top and blue back, bright colors, and an arm's length from head to tail.
Such a gorgeous bird monster is too conspicuous and is really not suitable for summons. He Lingchuan picked up this familiar bird: "Are you...?" Fang Canran mentioned to him that there was a parrot at home that was almost 200 years old.
In the past, it was rescued by its ancestor Shao Jian, and later the bad news of Shao Jian was passed on to his daughter Shao Yingying. This bird monster just wanted to get a meal ticket, no, it was to repay a favor, so he stayed at Shao's house.
When Shao Yingying married the Fang family, it became an heirloom of the Fang family. The past stories of Shao Jian that Fang Canran heard were not passed down from generations of ancestors, but were told by the big parrot himself.
No wonder it requires details and feelings.
"I am Uncle Ling!" the parrot said in human words.
"There's an emergency!"
"Lingbo" is indeed the name of Fang Canran's family parrot, and He Lingchuan insisted that it say it himself. It whispered in He Lingchuan's ear: "The little arrangement we made was accidentally exposed tonight! The patrol we found has been silenced by us, but it can't be delayed for long, there may be people outside who heard strange noises. This is the case In the past month, the patrol control in the south of the city has been the strictest. I am afraid that after dawn, Lingxu City will sense something unusual and start investigating!"
