Xia Wuye pondered for a long time, and then turned his head and said to Xue Yu: "Later, Brother Xue and the eighth brother will go to the west gate." Da Yongzi is familiar with the road, and it will be no problem for you to follow him. Liao Kang and I walked through the south gate, and as soon as everyone went out, they dispersed. I went out of the city and found a place where no one was around. Da Jiang, you go and prepare two good horses for you. ”

When Da Yongzi heard this, he let out two sharp whistles, and said to the eighth master and Xue Yu: "Two masters, take this as a sign for a while." ”

After a while, the back door of the Xia family opened, Da Jiang stretched out his head to take a look, and saw that there were no pedestrians on the road, so he turned around and beckoned, and in an instant, a few horses jumped out of the door.

Liao Kang and Wuye have been together for three months, and they are quite familiar with each other, and they quickly converge when they leave the city. The fifth master said: "Liao Kang, you are in front, I will follow, let's hurry up, while the sky is still bright at this time, it is best to catch up with Vice General Xue." ”

The two of them ran for almost an hour, and it was getting late, and the road was a little unclear, but fortunately, they could already see the pine forest that Da Yongzi said.

Sure enough, through the pine forest, I saw a crooked and small ruined temple in the distance.

Liao Kang slowed down and asked, "Fifth Master, why don't you bring Eighth Master?"

Xia Wuye thought for a while and asked, "How do you think he is doing this?"

Liao Kang hesitated for a moment and said: "Although it is a little reckless, in terms of age, it is also remarkable." ”

Xia Wuye nodded with a smile, "Even if I am as old as him, if such a big thing happens, my parents and brothers are not around, and I can't do this, I'm afraid that he doesn't have the strength to be afraid of heaven and earth." Although it has offended a large number of people, there is a need for urgency, and if the opportunity is missed, it will be difficult to do it again. ”

"It's just... You see, when he saw me, he became childish. The fifth master couldn't help but shake his head: "He's different from me, I'm just afraid that I won't be able to take him well." Besides, our brother has made it up by himself, and he has his own way, and alas, no one else can help him in these things. ”

Liao Kang looked at the half-hidden temple gate, and couldn't help but ask in a low voice, "Fifth master, is the girl in that temple?"

Xia Wuye's expression darkened: "Nine times out of ten, it's gone." ”

Liao Kang couldn't help but show a disappointed look when he heard this, and immediately cheered up, turned over and dismounted, pulled out the Pu knife and walked in front.

Xia Wuye followed behind, watching Liao Kang gently push the temple door open, and cautiously walked inside, although he was anxious, he still waited patiently for Liao Kang to look around before following in.

Liao Kang looked around, and Xia Wuye took the torch he had prepared in advance and looked at it carefully. The original snow-white pink wall was scribbled by the country urchin at this time, and many black lines were scribbled. The children on both sides of the shrine were mottled in color, revealing the mud tires inside, the boy on the left was lying on the ground, and the head of the one on the right was missing.

A big hole was broken in the chest of the father-in-law of the land on the front, and half of the mother-in-law of the land on the side was gone. Originally, there were a few earthy yellow curtains hanging on the beams, and only a few strips of cloth remained.

There are still a lot of ashes left on the ground of the main hall, and the fifth master walked in through the main hall, first bowed to the land lord, and then turned around and squatted down to pluck the ashes twice, and saw that there were many small bones around it, and it looked like it was only a day or two. When the fifth master thought that Xiaoyu must have roasted a fire here, maybe he had also roasted birds and rabbits or something to satisfy his hunger, his heart felt as if it had been crushed, and he felt distressed.

Liao Kang retreated to the temple gate with a torch and looked at it for a long time, and then walked along the courtyard wall on the right, turning over the slightly larger stones all the way.

The fifth master was busy settling down, got up and looked around carefully, and when he walked to the front of the case, he couldn't help but wonder: "Strange?" Liao Kang heard this, and hurriedly walked over, and saw that there were two rows of crows neatly drawn on the table, three in a row. Liao Kang asked, "Fifth Master, is this what the girl painted?"

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves outside, the fifth master hesitated, but still left the black crows. Liao Kang ran to the door and hid behind the door and whistled, and Da Yongzi immediately replied twice. Liao Kang walked out with a torch and beckoned Starling, Da Yongzi and Xue Yu to come in, and the fifth master hurriedly beckoned them over: "It seems to be left by Xiaoyu, but I don't know what it means." ”

The eighth master raised the torch and ran in a hurry, bringing out the torch with a little risk, Xue Yu also came over to take a look, only saw a few black and black clusters, and could barely see that it was a few birds. The eighth master looked at it for a long time before he raised his head, and looked at the fifth master pitifully: "Brother, six crows, what does this mean." ”

The fifth master took a few steps back and forth: "You extend this and wipe this off." Let's look for it, maybe there are others. ”

The five people dispersed, Xue Yu picked up a Nanzhu earring in the grass outside the courtyard wall, he saw Xiaoyu in the past, and hurriedly took it to the fifth master and the eighth master to identify, the fifth master and the eighth master looked at each other, and they all lowered their heads, and the last trace of luck in everyone's hearts disappeared without a trace with this bow.

The fifth master was not at ease, and looked for it a few times over and over again, except for a few small pieces of cloth, there was still a little white on the legs of the girl statue, and a few small footprints were faintly seen, and a few millet beads were mixed in the mud embryo residue scattered on the ground, and the eighth master looked at it and saw that it was Yingxue embroidered on the small rain boots. The fifth master stood back, thinking that Xiaoyu was bored and kicked the mud statue. The starling seemed to have an understanding when he saw it, and he also sat on the clay statue's lap, and his hand was under the clay statue, and the eighth master touched it a few times, and found that there was a big hole in it, and he reached in and took out a small cloth ball, which was actually the kind of three-shuttle cloth before.

In an instant, the two brothers' heartbeats stopped, and they hurriedly opened them to take a look, and they actually drew a circle of crows, and counted them to six, and there was nothing left. The eighth master looked at the pink wall again, thought about it, stood farther away, and looked at it for a while, and then the pine branch was burned into charcoal strips in front of the torch, and he took a handkerchief and painted it.

When everyone was leaving, Da Yongzi saw six black crows on the door, but this one was more sloppy, but it was only six circles, and from the sharp beak it could barely be seen that it was a bird.

The eighth master thought for a while and asked, "Fifth brother, since they have already left the city, if they are not asking for money, why don't they run away quickly, but leave a letter of extortion?" It can be seen that they are still asking for money!"

The fifth master shook his head and sighed: "They are only afraid that they have already run away, and they left a blackmail letter just to stabilize you." Otherwise, you will surely look for it in empty houses inside and outside the city. Now you're in a hurry to raise money, why do you have to wait three days to find out that they have run away. However, since Xiaoyu was able to leave us a letter, there was no trace of a fight here, and her situation was not too bad. Seeing that there was no one around, he whispered to the eighth master: "I'm afraid that this blackmail letter was also left by those people that she instigated." ”

The eighth master was slightly stunned, pondered for a while, and was still puzzled, and the fifth master said: "You have offended all the people in the city these days, if Xiaoyu doesn't hand over this letter, you may not know what to do." The eighth master looked at the fifth master in amazement and stammered: "Fifth brother, do you mean that Jiu'er handed out this letter to fool me?"

The fifth master was not in a good mood, but he couldn't help but smile at this time: "Even if you don't hit, it's not far away." Seeing that the eighth master didn't seem to be very happy, he couldn't help but shake his head and said: "Don't think about it, if you don't have this letter, Yanbei is so big, where can we go to find her? ”

The eighth master said angrily: "In this case, why didn't she write in detail?"

The fifth master stroked his chin and pondered for a while before shaking his head and said, "I don't know." ”

After that, he beckoned to everyone: "Let's go back, well, go to the north gate, and Da Yongzi will lead the way." ”

This time, there is no need to worry, everyone just follows behind Da Yongzi. Xue Yu asked, "What do these crows mean by Miss Xia?"

The fifth master thought for a while and said: "It's not necessarily a crow, Jiu'er's calligraphy and painting are not very good, and maybe it's a sparrow." ”

Da Yongzi said: "If this is the case, it may also be an eagle." ”

The eighth master said: "Quail." ”

The fifth master read in his heart: "Six houses, six ya, six hemp, six an..."

When the eighth master heard this, he said angrily: "Jiu'er is really eccentric, and there is only the sixth brother in his heart. In Yanbei, even if you don't talk about me, you should be the fifth brother. ”

This is just when it came to the fork in the road, because there were few people nearby, Da Yongzi got off the horse and played the torch, followed the horseshoe prints and looked: "It seems to go to the southwest, both horses are a little lame, I see that their horses are tied to the temple, the horseshoe prints at that time are still good, after leaving the temple, a few hoof prints are not very good, this time it seems to be more strict." ”

When the starling heard this, he couldn't wait to immediately follow the hoof prints to chase Xiaoyu, and the fifth master shook his head: "Da Yongzi, we have to hurry up." He looked at the eighth master again and said, "Let's go back first, and you will set off tomorrow morning." ”

The eighth master looked at the fifth master angrily, and saw that his face was not loose, so he had to bow his head.

Da Yongzi used two long poles to pick up the horse lantern and walk in front, and the group finally returned to Yanbei at the third watch.

Xu Liangqi and the others had not rested, and they were busy gathering in the study again. The fifth master instructed: "Eighth child, I want to take a look at Xiaoyu's letters." ”

The eighth master's eyes lit up when he heard this, he turned around and ran into the inner courtyard, and after a while, he led Yingxue back dejectedly. Yingxue hugged a small box in her arms, and refused to put it down when she saluted.

The fifth master took a look: "Is it serving in the Jiu'er house?"

The eighth master looked at the small box discouraged and nodded.

Ying Xue opened the lock with a face, and took out the letter in the box: "The girl has instructed that her things should not be taken lightly, and now that such a big thing has happened, the girl must not blame me." ”

The fifth master nodded and said softly: "This is your loyalty, no one will blame you." ”

Yingxue saw that the appearance of the fifth master and Xiaoyu's men's clothes was five or six points similar, that is, the tone of speech was the same, and she couldn't help but feel sour, and her tears couldn't help but fall, but Xiaoyu's life and death were unknown at the moment, she was taboo in her heart, so she hurriedly lowered her head and wiped the corners of her eyes, and endured the tears. R1152