Tanabata Night Terror (4)

Before the closing time, there were still people walking back and forth in the fang, but the market had already been cleared, and it was already lonely, and the horse's hooves sounded clear in the heavy rain. When he walked to the side of the main bridge across Luoshui, he suddenly heard Ada whispering behind him: "Ah Lang, stay, there seems to be someone under the bridge." Du Ruyan hurriedly reined in the reins, and the horse's front hooves had stepped on the stone steps of the bridge, and he almost lost his hooves under the strangulation, and staggered under his feet when he jumped off the horse. He threw the reins to Ada, and went down to the bridge alone, where a large mat was rolled up on the mud by the river, and a pair of women's cloud-headed embroidered shoes were exposed outside the mat, motionless. His heart was suddenly emptied, shaking his hands to uncover the big seat, because his hand was shaking so badly, he had to hold his wrist with his other hand, gritted his teeth and ruthlessly uncovered the seat, and the purpose was Ah Liu. He probed Aliu's neck with the back of his hand, and could still feel the hot blood flowing in the big veins, and tried to breathe again, but fortunately he still had breathing.

After a few steps, I found the same unconscious domestic servant, who was the one who drove at noon. Yinghua rode up from behind, stood by the bridge and said anxiously: "Steward He Sui got the news from Kang Lang, saying that someone saw the carriage in our house in the afternoon, went out of the east city gate, and galloped outside the city. "Du Ruhui suddenly realized, after Mu Qing left the Tang State Mansion, he even robbed the people with the car, probably not wrong, even outside the city, there was no one to be found in the Tang State Mansion.

"Yinghua, go to the Tang Guogong Mansion quickly, don't be silent, just ask Erlang for a wooden card to go out of the city, and when you get it, you will go to Kang Lang Liquor Store to meet, maybe it will be done?" Yinghua was entrusted by Du Ruhui, didn't say much, nodded and left. He understood what He Sui meant, got on his horse and turned his horse's head, and ran towards Kang Lang's wine shop, leaving Ada to try to empty the unconscious two people home.

Yinghua was familiar with the terrain of the Tang Mansion, went straight to the side courtyard where Li Shimin lived, tied his horse to the locust tree outside the wall, and saw that there was no one around, so he jumped over the outer wall. When he got inside, he found that it was a two-entry courtyard with five or six rooms, but he didn't know which one he was in. She was worried that she had nowhere to find it, and she was so anxious that she was about to drip tears, and a familiar figure appeared on the pane of the opposite room, and she ran over almost without thinking, slapping the pane, and crying out repeatedly: "Erlang open the door, Erlang open the door." ”

The door of the house opened, and Yinghua was pulled into the house, and the people under the hats were all wet. "My sister has not heard from her since she left the Tang Mansion in the afternoon, and some people say that they saw her car out of the city, and they don't know where they are now." She didn't care about saluting, and said in a panic, "At this time, the city gate has long been closed, and my brother-in-law has sent me to lend Erlang a letter of the city order." Li Shimin tore off the wooden sign from his waist and handed it to her, so that the maid found a clean female riding uniform for her to change into, and called someone to bring the white hoof crow when he came to the door, "The city guards will all recognize the white hoof, and no one should be difficult for you if you ride it." Bring a message to Brother Du, if you need to send more people or have news of Qi Niang, let me know quickly. She nodded, wiped away the tears that remained under her eyes, and thanked her. He patted her on the shoulder and said, "Thank you, take the letter and go out of the city to find it, be careful." Yinghua carefully put away the wooden sign and rode the white hoof to join Du Ruhui.

Besides, Du Ruhui galloped to Kang Lang's place, striding from the back door of the shop to the compartment, He Suizhao was really waiting, and he took away the prodigal casualness of weekdays. Although he knew that Mu Qing had been taken out of the city, he didn't know where to look outside the city, and he was completely at a loss. Time passed inch by inch, and they were not allowed to wait any longer, and the sound of horses' hooves outside the window downstairs thought that Yinghua had rushed over with the order letter, but it was Ada who ran upstairs after a while. He took out a crumpled silk handkerchief from his arms and handed it to Du Ruhui, opened the silk handkerchief, which was the treasure flower golden hairpin on the hairpin that Du Ruhui personally handed for her on the day of the Jiangdu, and Mu Qing's hair ornament that never left his body, everyone was stunned.

"Someone threw this object into the house through the wall, opened the door to chase it, and disappeared long ago." Ada was talking, and Yinghua also arrived with Lingxin. Du Ruhui's face was pale, the green tendons on his neck were fully displayed, he put the hairpin into his arms with a calm face, and led a group of people, together with a few henchmen brought by Kang Lang and He Suizhao, and rode straight to the east city gate in one breath.

The head soldier defending the city saw Ling Xin, and saw that Yinghua was riding Li Erlang's white hoof, so he didn't interrogate and opened the city gate. Du Ruhui raised his hand to the head soldier on the horse and said, "Dare to ask, can there be a carriage into the city after the city gate is closed tonight?" The soldier was in a state of confusion because of the heavy rain tonight, and the city gate was not in peace, and he did not want to answer, but he raised the windproof lamp and shone it on the man who spoke, but he felt that his face was familiar, and suddenly remembered that on the summer night of last year, it was the man who spoke that gave him a bag of coins, so that he could have the money to ask for a doctor to treat his mother. Seeing that the situation was urgent, he didn't say much, and raised the wind lantern towards the post road outside the city gate, "An hour ago, there was a man who entered the city with the same wooden sign, and after a little half an hour, another carriage came from the post road, and on the city tower, it looked like it came from the post road in the east, with a pungent smell of chicken head pulp, and I don't know where it came from." ”

Du Ruhui thanked the head soldier who was guarding the city, and thought to himself that among the two groups of people who entered the city, one group must be sent to the hairpin. Reaching into his arms, he took out the hairpin and the wrapped silk handkerchief, sniffed it a few times under the tip of his nose, and handed it to Ada to sniff. Ada closed his eyes and took a few deep noses, opened his eyes and exclaimed, "There is a smell of chicken head pulp, go to the east." "Everyone rode their horses to the east post road, and eight horses galloped on the post road for nearly forty or fifty miles. Yinghua took the reins, and the white hoof slowed down, as if she could smell the faint smell of chicken head syrup in the air, and the heavy rain washed down, and the smell was uncertain. He Suizhao, who had caught up, also slowed down, and the further he went, the heavier the pungent smell became.

At this time, the thunder on the horizon gradually receded, and the rain also weakened, and the rain was collected in less than half a pillar of incense. He Sui ordered his retinue to light the pine resin torches, and by the light, he saw clusters of chicken-headed pulp scattered among the weeds on the side of the post road, extending into the wasteland outside the post road. Everyone abandoned the post road, followed the increasingly dense chicken head pulp in the wasteland, and called "Qi Niang" in a high and low voice. "There's a room ahead!" Yinghua called, and Du Ruhui drove his horse closer, and saw that it was a house that had long been dilapidated and collapsed, and the broken walls were entangled with densely grown chicken-headed pulp. "Mu Qing?" He tentatively shouted a few times outside the house, but there was no answer, someone passed the torch, and the light came closer, but there was no one.

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