Chapter 346: Missing Persons

He Mulan doesn't know how terrible his momentum is now, the military attaches in Yuzhou who followed Xue Andu have just been in office for more than a year, and when they encounter this kind of thing, even if He Mulan says he doesn't care, he will clean up the cause and effect one by one.

It turns out that this Xue Andu Xue Duhu is not very old this year, he has just turned twenty years old, and in this era when the average life expectancy is thirty years old, he is already an adult, but at the age of twenty, he is mixed into the position of Du Hu, and it really does not depend on his talent, but on his extraordinary personality.

Xue An is the youngest son of the Xue family of the Hedong clan, and he has shown amazing talent since he was a child, and the elders in the family have expectations for him, and have spent countless efforts to invite famous teachers to teach him riding archery and martial arts, and he has been famous in Hedong at the age of thirteen or fourteen.

Helplessly, this son was born aggressive, often befriended rangers, and later simply mixed up a "gang" by himself, named "Anmen", the family ranger ruffian, three religions and nine streams of endless exchanges, his elder brothers are often worried about causing disasters because of this, often frowning.

Xue Andu was taken care of by his brother since he was a child, and taking into account the feelings of his sisters-in-law, he moved out of the Xue family in Hedong, separated from his brothers, and took "Anmen" to roam in Hedong.

When he left home, he didn't take a penny, and he relied on the gifts of rangers and righteous people who had friendships from all over the world, and borrowed his place to live. Xue Andu never twisted, just give it, help if he is busy, and gradually break into a bigger name in Yuzhou and Qinzhou.

When Wei and Xia were at war, there was a white dragon Hu in Qinzhou who took the opportunity to make trouble, looted everywhere in Qinzhou, and even dared to sneak attack Wei's grain and grass to weigh the capitalists, and the Great Wei wanted to exterminate this person several times, but they gathered to come and go, their whereabouts were uncertain, and they always missed repeatedly, but lost many times of grain and grass.

In order to avenge the hundreds of people in the village, Xue Andu took Qinzhou's rangers to search Qinzhou and find out the whereabouts of this white dragon Hu, and then united with the Xianbei generals who were responsible for the conquest of Qinzhou at that time to annihilate them in one fell swoop and pacified the Bailonghu Rebellion.

In this battle, Xue Andu single-handedly shot Bai Longzi, the leader of Bailonghu, and avenged the victims of Qinzhou with his own hands, and his reputation was shocked. Tuoba Tao loved the young hero the most, and admired his righteousness, so he named him "General Yokono" and gave him a background.

Xue An is a native of Wei, and his father and brother are all in Wei, but they just wandered to the summer land. As soon as the news that the youngest son in the family got an official position, Xue's father immediately recruited warriors, bought armor, and gathered the financial resources of the whole family to support the young son in the family "The Prodigal Son Returns".

Xue Andu himself has extremely high martial arts, and has the ability of "guerrilla warfare" only a ranger, leading a group of rangers and private soldiers sent from home, and he was stunned to obtain a lot of military merits in the battle between Hu Xia and Wei.

He was much respected in Yuzhou and Qinzhou, and everyone loved his "chivalrous" reputation, which was often more popular than the Xianbei generals of Wei who came to conquer, and before he really attacked, many people and officials had surrendered one after another, just because they believed that he would not kill innocents indiscriminately.

In this way, although Xue Andu entered the army late, his qualifications are shallow, but the military merits are rapidly accumulated in a snowballing way, and when it comes to Tuoba Tao's meritorious deeds, he is the young general who is Tuoba Tao's "wisdom and pearls" immediately won the dragon face Dayue, Tuoba Tao is satisfied that his "Bole" has done well, and Xue Andu has been praised for his good life, and he has been given the position of the commander of Qinzhou and Yuzhou.

There are many Hu people in Qinzhou, because Yuzhou was snatched from Liu Song, only half of the border, so the state border is particularly small, and there are many "suzerains" in the territory, taxes cannot be collected smoothly, all kinds of contradictions occur repeatedly, everyone is unwilling to go to these two states as officials, so Xue An has been protected by both states, and not many people envy him, and there is still some schadenfreude.

Xue An is all temperamental and doesn't care about this. When he was an official, he often used the way of Wuthering Heights to serve as a director. The sect masters are not afraid of old treachery and cunning, they are afraid of this kind of "barefoot and not afraid of wearing shoes" young people, Qinzhou Hu people like this kind of temper, because both parties are very polite to him, he has been protecting him for more than a year, and no one said that he is not good.

The disappearance of people in Qinzhou and Yuzhou would not have attracted the attention of others in any state. At this time, it was a troubled time, the Xia State and the Wei State were at war, and the Xia State itself often fought back and forth, and it was common for a few people to be missing and dozens of people.

In this era when the household registration system exists in name only, and the population depends entirely on "households" rather than "ding", few people can't even find out about it, let alone spread it to it.

What's more, most of the missing people are not people of high moral standing and property, but just wandering children, or traveling merchants, travelers, elderly people with no children at home, or orphans who have lost their parents and wandered, etc.

But the rangers are also "wandering". When they don't have their hands on hand, these rangers sleep in wild temples, and wastelands are commonplace. When the rangers find out that their companions have gone out and not returned, they realize that something has happened.

It's normal for rangers to fight and get revenge, and it's also common for them to die silently. But some rangers go out not to "make a living", but to go home to visit their families, or for some other reason, and will never fight with others. And if there are too many missing one or two, it is difficult to attribute it to "accidents".

This kind of thing can't be solved by the rangers, so they can only report it to the government. When Xia Guo was first decided, the government had to do too many things, and it couldn't take care of such "trivial matters" at all.

On the one hand, these rangers were angry and insensitive to the inaction of the government, and on the other hand, they were heartbroken and disappeared with their companions for no reason.

Xue.[,!] After Andu's "whitewashing", the rangers rarely contacted him for his official reputation, after all, the government and the rivers and lakes are two worlds. But so many lives can't be ignored, not to mention that the result of their investigation is not only the missing rangers, but also many homeless people and orphans, young and old, these are righteous men, and they must not sit idly by.

These rangers had no hope that Xue An, who had "taken refuge in the government", would help them, but as soon as Xue An heard this, he immediately agreed, not only secretly sent his good rangers to inquire about the matter, but also ordered the old, weak, orphans and widows in Qinzhou and Yuzhou to go to the government to register and make a register, and once it decreased, they immediately had to investigate everywhere.

The people of Qinzhou are fierce, and after the Hu people disappeared several times in the place where the Hu people lived, there was a tribe where the Hu people finally caught the murderer - there was a group of unknown Han people who went around secretly arresting these lone people, and they didn't kill people, but just caught them alive. If you ask where they were sent after they were caught, they only say that someone somewhere spent money on this stored.

Xue An went to that place according to their confessions, but he didn't wait for the real culprit who came to spend money to buy people, but instead startled the snake and never found any news in Qinzhou.

Xue Andu had no choice but to turn to explore in Yuzhou. There are many missing people in Yuzhou, but Yuzhou is full of wealthy families, Wu Forts are everywhere, the suzerain is not even in charge of the government, Xue An can't send people to search, and it is even more difficult to find clues.

It wasn't until the army of Hemulan marched to Yuzhou that Xue Andu had just received news from the rangers in the territory, saying that three or four pedestrians with pending orders had disappeared in a Buddhist temple.

Xue Andu was already preparing to leave to meet He Mulan, but when he received the news, he was worried that the insiders in the Buddhist temple would escape, so he ordered the guards in Yuzhou to surround the Buddhist temple first, and then rushed to the temple.

As for the impact of the failure to meet the Tiger Ben Army on his future, and what impact it has on his subordinates, he doesn't care at all.

His lieutenant Liu Yuan is also from a big family, although he admires Xue Andu's righteousness, but he is also annoyed that he left his duties and ran away. Helplessly, the tiger army couldn't ignore it, so he could only go out to greet him.

Fortunately, He Mulan has a cold appearance, but his temperament is still kind, from welcoming the army to the success of the station, he didn't see any impatience and displeasure in her, and the generals were at ease.

After peace of mind, he couldn't help but scold Xue Andu again, no matter whether things worked out or not, he sent someone back to say it. I took hundreds of people out, but there is no news at all so far, and I don't even come to see him, which is simply a black pot to death.

General Hua was not displeased, and then looked at the beautiful ...... beside him Belch...... What, and the tender-faced pro-soldiers, have already piled up a face of "your family head is actually derelict in his duties" expression, I want to come to the people close to me to blow more wind in the future, General Hua has no temper and has a temper.

It wasn't until the military attachés couldn't hold it anymore and wanted to run that Xue Andu was late.

It seemed that he hadn't eaten or drunk properly for a day, and when he was led in by Chen Jie, He Mulan swore she heard her stomach growling.

Xue Andu and He Mulan are at the same level, he came to visit, He Mulan can't sit on his knees and take the big, both of them got up politely, saw each other's faces, and sighed in their hearts about each other's youth.

Xue Andu has always thought that his martial arts have few opponents among his peers, and his mixed military exploits are quite lucky, which is difficult for others to match.

Who would have expected that Wei produced such a young hero, who became famous in Montenegro at the age of nineteen, and was meritorious in the Northern Expedition at the age of twenty, killed Da Tan with his own hands, and captured Wu Ti and others alive under his command, and at the age of twenty-one, he already had an official position and mansion in Pingcheng, and was admired by a group of celebrities.

So when Xue Andu got the news that he needed to settle Mulan's grain and grass in Yuzhou, he was curious and yearning from the bottom of his heart, and he was waiting to meet this famous hero.

Now Xue Andu looks at this Mulan, she is not burly, she is even a little thin, her face is ordinary, her lips are thin, and she is obviously not a person with a bold and enthusiastic personality, so she can't help but be a little disappointed in her heart.

Look at her waist wearing a gray and strange sword, saying that the sword is more like a thin and lengthened iron plate, the pro-soldiers (fog) who follow her are all Hu people who are like girls, and the young man with a tender face is like a boy chicken, and he looks like a middle-aged and down-and-out man, only a long-faced man with a spear looks quite mighty, but this man looks too feminine and vicious, not the type he likes to befriend.

Thinking about it like this, Xue Andu felt that the "reputation was true" was fake, and the disappointment in his heart was even more difficult to suppress, so he couldn't help but bring a little bit out when he saluted.

He Mulan's face was like this, and although Di Yefei and Na Luohun were angry in their hearts, they had good cultivation skills after all, and they didn't have a seizure on the spot.

Chen Jie saw that Xue An did not perform his duties, but looked down on the general, and of course his heart was full of dissatisfaction. Gai Wu, who was kneeling behind He Mulan and his nephew, didn't say anything, but just touched the hilts of the double knives.

"The general neglected General Hua, and I hope the general will not blame him." Xue Andu apologized, "The situation is really urgent, and it is too late for Ben General to sue first and then deal with it......"

He Mulan liked this kind of temperament of putting the people first and the future second, and smiled slightly when he heard this: "Where, I can understand."

Xue Andu saw that He Mulan was not the kind of person with a small belly, and his heart was also relieved, and then he also had some understanding of He Mullan's big name.

Even he couldn't help but be a little erratic in the face of other people's praise and fear, his status was so easy-going, at least he was neither humble nor arrogant.

He Mulan's stomach rumbled when he heard Xue Andu speak, but he himself didn't care and called. [,! Chen Jie came over and ordered a few words, then turned his head and said to Xue Andu: "Xue Duhu has worked hard for a day, if it is late today, it is better to stay here, first use the food to eat, and then arrange the affairs of the Tiger Ben Army."

She saw Xue Andu looking at him in surprise, and her smile was even more gentle: "Originally, when I saw Xue Duhu such an anxious and righteous person, I wanted to invite you to drink. But now that I'm in the army, I'm supposed to lead by example and not drink alcohol, so I'll have to use water instead."

Xue Andu heard that he had a very good impression of He Mulan, and the previous disappointment gradually disappeared, and he also laughed and arched his hand at He Mulan: "What's so difficult about this, when General Hua passes by Yuzhou in the future, I will welcome you with good wine and food, and I will never let you wait like today!"

Both of them are bright and upright people, although Xue An is full of ruffians, but after all, he is from a big family, and his actions and behaviors are not as rude as ordinary recklessness, but they are really cute.

When Chen Jie's wine and meat came up, Xue Andu, who was already extremely evil, first ate and drank a lot of food, then took out a cloth towel and wiped his mouth, and said:

"I took people to surround Wan'an Temple today and arrested six monks in it. The great monk crashed into the wall and died in the chaos, and several small novices did not know the truth. There was a great monk who once asked him to bring tea to a few passers-by who stayed overnight, and the next day after the tea was delivered, these people disappeared."

Xue Andu looked at He Mulan and listened carefully, and continued: "This Wan'an Temple is provided by several sect masters in Yuzhou on weekdays, and there are only so many people who come and go. I think that the thieves behind this scene can have so much money to buy people's lives, and search for living people everywhere, they must be either rich or expensive. The great monk is dead, and my news has been cut off again, and now I can only find out the news from these little novices."

"General Hua wants to keep me, and I'm naturally willing. It's just that now I can almost find the truth, and I really can't keep it."

Yuan Jiawu Bi.

Yuan Hua, who came out of Yuan Zhe's room, hammered the wall hard, shaking the entire small building. The guards protecting the sect master's safety outside the house glanced at the young master worriedly, and finally all turned their eyes away.

This movement is so big, Yuan Zhe in the house must also know, and can understand the eldest son's "anger".

A moment later, Yuan Zhe's door opened again, and this time it was a young man with a round face who walked out. This person is far from being as handsome as Yuan Hua, but he is pleasant, with a round face and a small nose, and he looks harmless to humans and animals.

"Brother......" Yuan Hua's younger brother Yuan Fang was full of worry: "You know that Grandpa is not in good health, why do you have to contradict him like this, and don't you mention it when he is in a good mood?" You are so tough, it will only make the father-son relationship between the two of you more and more stiff, why are you so troubled! "

"Ah Fang, do you think Grandpa did the right thing?"

Yuan Hua withdrew his hand and looked at his younger brother with sad eyes.

Yuan Fang was silent, but after a long time, he said, "I don't know. Grandpa is both our father and our sect master, and he must have a reason for doing this."

"Sect Master?"

Yuan Hua's face sank suddenly.

"If it's the sect master of my Yuan family, you can do whatever you want?"

"Brother, what are you thinking? Don't do anything stupid......"

Yuan Fang and his brother got along day and night, and when he saw his brother's face, he didn't know what he was thinking, so he hurriedly hugged him and dragged him downstairs.

There are many people here, and they are all loyal to their fathers, so it is hard to guarantee that they will not cause trouble for their brother.

Yuan Fang has been between his brother and father every day since he got older, and seeing the rift between the two getting bigger and bigger, the worries in his heart are definitely not something that outsiders can understand. Since a year ago, his father's temper has become more eccentric, with all kinds of strange orders coming out one after another, and in recent days, it has become even more frenzied, completely intensifying the conflict between his brother and him.

His brother is a rare upright character, which is too rare in this troubled world, but in the Yuan family, integrity and fortitude have become a shortcoming, because the more Yuan Fang is favored by his father and brother, the more he feels sorry for his brother.

'If this continues, I'm going to have to travel away from home for a while.'

Yuan sighed in peace of mind, and dragged Yuan Hua all the way away, the latter just gritted his teeth, trembling all over, as if he was struggling to suppress something.

In Yanfei Building, Yuan Zhe, the head of the Yuan family on the top of the building, watched his two sons gradually drift away.

If Yuan is here, he will definitely be frightened.

The expression was unfathomable, and there was a coldness in his eyes, and it didn't seem like looking at a loved one.