Once there is a fugitive in a family, that family will be implicated.
Officials like Peng Wang and others would also be punished for poor guarding.
Therefore, no one dares to be careless about this matter.
Mrs. Mo was the first to say, "No one in our Mo family is missing."
Fang Chuanzhou also reported: "The Fang family is not missing."
"Master, Li Rou'er is missing..." Li Yu'er shouted loudly, even a little excited in his tone.
Li Yu'er just thought about not having that annoying concubine at home, and her mood suddenly improved. She didn't even realize what kind of punishment her family would face in the future.
Peng Wang's face suddenly darkened, and he ordered the officials: "Light the torch, even if you dig three feet into the ground, you must find the person."
"Yes." The officials responded in unison, holding torches and starting to look for traces of Li Rou'er.
Mo Jiuye whispered to He Zhiran.
"I suspect Xie Lin was held hostage by Li Rou'er."
"Well, I had such suspicion when I heard Li Yu'er shouting out just now."
The two reached an agreement on their guesses again and fell into silence for the time being.
They were all thinking about Li Rouer's purpose of taking Xie Lin away and where she might be hiding.
I don't know if Mo Jiuye thought of something, but he pulled He Zhiran to come to Peng Wang.
"My lord, my wife and I would like to help find someone."
Peng Wang was inexplicably convinced of the couple Mo Jiuye and He Zhiran, and he also believed that their character would not cause his family to run away secretly.
Therefore, he agreed without thinking.
"Yes, no matter what the outcome is, we must be back here before dawn."
Before leaving, He Zhiran did not forget to remind: "Master Peng, my mother-in-law, sisters-in-law, and sister-in-law, please take care of me."
"Don't worry." Peng Wang responded and waved to the two of them, telling them to go back quickly.
Mo Jiuye took He Zhiran's hand, and the two of them first came to the place where Lu last saw Xie Lin.
Then starting from that position, he observed carefully with his eyes, not missing any clues.
At the same time, they were still calculating in their minds the most advantageous escape position and direction if they started from that position.
If you don't get discovered, the best direction is where the officials are resting.
The officers were all outside the fire ring intercepting and killing the wolves. When Li Rouer took Xie Lin to escape, there was no one there, and there was a tent to cover it, making it easy to avoid other people's sight.
After bypassing the official's tent, a path appeared behind them.
Chased along the path, they observed very carefully, not even missing the grass on the roadside.
After walking about a hundred meters, there was a fork in the road ahead.
The two of them acted in a tacit understanding, and as soon as they took a few steps, He Zhiran squatted on the ground and picked up a piece of rag.
Seeing this, Mo Jiuye hurriedly approached: "What did you find?"
He Zhiran brought the palm-sized piece of rag in front of Mo Jiuye.
"If I'm not mistaken, this is Xie Lin's scarf."
She clearly remembered that she touched Xie Lin's head today.
Because the scarf was dark green, she was amused for a moment, thinking that the ancients really didn't have this particularity, and even boys would wear a green scarf on their heads.
Mo Jiuye held the scarf in his hand.
"Let's continue chasing."
The two of them continued to move forward along the path, checking more and more carefully...
Time goes back to half an hour ago.
Li Rou'er saw the officials running outside the fire ring to drive away the wolves, and knew that her opportunity had come.
To be on the safe side, she planned to go to a crowded place to observe.
As a result, when she came to the place where the Xie family was resting, she saw Xie Lin standing alone behind the crowd.
So, she boldly stepped forward, covered his mouth with force, and took him away without anyone noticing.
Her escape route was exactly as Mo Jiuye expected, which was behind the officials' tent.
One of Li Rouer's arms was dislocated, and it was very difficult to control Xie Lin with one hand.
What's more, Xie Lin continues to resist.
So, she randomly got into a tent, picked up a sock that the official had not had time to put on, and stuffed Xie Lin's mouth.
The pungent smell confused Xie Lin for a moment. Taking advantage of this moment, she found another rope and tied Xie Lin's hands and feet respectively.
Then he picked up Xie Lin and ran quickly towards the path.
Seeing a fork in the road ahead, it was obvious that one of the roads had been stepped on to be relatively flat, which meant that there were often people walking on this road.
Now she was most afraid of seeing people, so she decisively chose the road with fewer trampled marks.
It was at that time that Xie Lin tried her best to shake her bun loose and let the scarf fall to the ground, providing valuable clues to He Zhiran and Mo Jiuye.
I thought Xie Lin was a small child with no weight.
As a result, Li Rouer overestimated her physical strength, and not long after running out, she became unable to run.
She looked behind her and saw no sign of anyone chasing her, so she took Xie Lin and hid in the grass on the roadside.
She thought that as long as she could escape tonight, the officials would give up the search in a hurry. By then, Xie Lin would be of no use. She could just send him to the West without suffering the same fate as those prisoners...
Unexpectedly, when Li Rou'er was squatting in the grass and thinking about things, she heard footsteps not far away.
She immediately became alert and at the same time pulled Xie Lin in front of her.
Li Rouer found a pointed stone from somewhere and pressed it against Xie Lin's neck.
Once discovered, she would threaten Xie Lin's life, always giving herself a chance to escape.
Mo Jiuye has great martial arts skills and his perception ability is also different from ordinary people.
When passing by the grass, he stopped and looked sharply in the direction where Li Rouer was hiding.
At this time, the sky in the east has turned slightly fish belly white.
He clearly captured a strange color in the grass.
That was the corner of Xie Lin's clothes.
"Li Rou'er, what's the point of using a child as a blackmail?" He Zhiran revealed Li Rou'er's thoughts mercilessly.
This shocked Li Rouer, but she also knew that she couldn't hide it anymore.
In order to escape smoothly, she tried hard to suppress the anger in her heart towards He Zhiran.
"Zhi Ran, I know that I have done a lot of wrong things to you in the past few days, all because I couldn't accept the fact of being exiled for a while. Now I have realized my mistakes. For the sake of our sisters, you Can you please let me go?"
"This is impossible." Before He Zhiran could speak, Mo Jiuye replied coldly to Li Rouer's words.
In his heart, what Li Rouer did to He Zhiran was simply a heinous crime. How could he take into account the relationship between sisters?
For such a person, once he lets her go, it will be like letting the tiger go back to the mountain, and there will definitely be constant trouble in the future.
The reason why he jumped ahead of his subordinates and answered first was because he was worried that He Zhiran would be temporarily soft-hearted.
If He Zhiran said this, it would be easier for Li Rouer to accept it.
After all, the two of them have been at odds over the past few days.
