It was another day at dusk, Yin Tiancheng and Yang Kuan disguised themselves as ordinary soldiers and sat on the tower in the south of the city, looking at the crowd of people entering and leaving the city gate below, not daring to be careless. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"I said Brother Yin, I've been waiting for a day, and I haven't seen the shadow of half of the thieves, will they not come?"

Yin Tiancheng said with a smile: "The three city gates in the east, west and north have been closed, and only the south of the city can be passed. Your subordinates are searching the city door to door today, and the city has been full of turmoil, and the thieves are already frightened birds, so why not escape? ”

"I don't understand, you opposed the city's search for the whereabouts of the thieves the day before yesterday, why did you change your mind today?"

"This time and that time. I just arrived in Daimyo the day before yesterday, and the circumstances of the case are unknown, and rash action will only startle the snake and let them transfer the robbed woman in advance, wouldn't we have worked hard in vain! At the moment, there is only one hiding place for the thieves, and it is impossible to move, and we are pressing forward step by step, and they can only get out of the city to ensure their safety. ”

"In case they still have a few hiding places, won't we just be empty?"

"I've thought about that possibility, but I can rule it out now. These thieves are meticulous and cautious in their disguise as ghosts and robbers to choosing a place to live. If they disperse their teams and rent houses in multiple places, it will be difficult for them to contact each other, and it will be difficult for them to keep the landlord who is not strict about the matter. In my younger brother's opinion, two houses are probably the best choice. ”

As the two were talking, they saw Li Xiaoyun coming to the city on the willow land, and Yin Tiancheng said, "Miss, why are you here?" ”

Li Xiaoyun put a food box in front of them and said with a smile: "I saw that Gongzi didn't go back to the post house for a day, and I went to the government to ask the servants to find out that you were here. ”

Yin Tiancheng thanked: "Then there is Miss Lao." ”

Yang Kuan asked the soldiers standing on the side to bring a small table, and told him to fetch a few pots of good wine and prepare to drink a few glasses with Yin Tiancheng.

Yin Tiancheng hurriedly waved his hand and refused, "At the moment, it is important to solve the case, and I am afraid that drinking will make a mistake." ”

"It's going to be dark soon, and I don't think the thieves will be out of the city today. If you don't drink a few glasses today, it will really live up to Miss Li's good intentions. ”

Yin Tiancheng thought about it, the city gate was closed after dark, even if the thieves' martial arts were high, it was not easy for them to take a few women out of the city, so he took the wine that the soldiers poured for him and began to drink.

Before the third round of wine, Yin Tiancheng put down his wine glass when he heard movement below, and looked down.

At this time, there was a group of people in the city who wanted to leave the city, led by a young man in his twenties, followed by four or five family members in coarse cloth shirts, and three sedan chairs behind him.

Yang Kuan's brows furrowed, and he glanced at the soldier who poured the wine, and the soldier hurriedly put down the wine jug and walked towards the city.

Yin Tiancheng saw that the soldiers guarding the city had carefully examined the group, and then stretched out his head to look at the situation in the sedan chair, and estimated that he had not found anything abnormal, so he waved his hand to let them pass.

At this time, the soldier who went down to the city to inquire about the situation also returned, and he said to the two adults: "This is a southern opera troupe, and after the performance of the daimyo's play, he is going to go to another place to catch the scene." ”

Yin Tiancheng asked: "Who is in the sedan car?" ”

"It's a couple of middle-aged women, who are said to be the stars of the troupe."

"Not good!" Yin Tiancheng was shocked: "Hurry up and stop them, this troupe is dressed as a thief." With that, he drew his sword and leaped straight down the city, chasing after the thieves.

Although Yang Kuan didn't know how Yin Tiancheng judged that this troupe was pretending to be a thief, seeing that Yin Tiancheng was so anxious, he hurriedly ordered the soldiers hiding in the city wall to follow Yin Tiancheng to arrest the thief.

Since Yang Kuan arrested the thieves yesterday, he found that these people are quite martial arts and have complicated identities, but today he arranged more than 100 soldiers to ambush in the city tower. These people swarmed up, so frightened that the gang of thieves didn't even have the heart to resist, and instantly knelt down and surrendered.

Yin Tianwei was also worried that these people would be as anxious as the thieves yesterday and would break off on their own, who knew that they obediently allowed the soldiers to arrest and did not resist, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, and quickly ordered the soldiers to search the thieves' bodies and confiscate all the weapons they carried.

Several officials also escorted the women in the sedan chair down, and Yin Tiancheng stepped forward to see that it was indeed a few middle-aged women as the soldiers beside Yang Kuan said. Yang Kuan whispered to Yin Tiancheng: "The missing women are not more than twenty years old, will we catch the wrong one?" ”

Yang Kuan's worries were also Yin Tiancheng's worries, but he didn't believe that he would look away.

At this time, the arrested thieves also shouted, saying in unison that they had been wronged, and blamed the government for catching the wrong person. Yang Kuan sneered and said to them: "Then you are an opera troupe, is there a troupe like yours?" The man hides a sharp blade, and the woman has the money to wear a silk skirt? ”

Yang Kuan's words suddenly made the group speechless, and they all bowed their heads and couldn't make a sound.

Yang Kuan shouted again: "Be bold and make a mess of nonsense, and pull all of them back to the Yanei to wait for you!" ”

Yin Tiancheng was carefully looking at the women, and found that their eyes were dull, so he asked, "Who is your surname, and who is your name?" ”

Those women ignored Yin Tiancheng's questioning like deaf people, as if their souls had been pulled away from the distance. Yin Tiancheng was surprised, and coldly saw that the men kneeling on the ground looked at him, as if they were panicked, and he also understood eight or nine points in his heart.

Yin Tiancheng took a closer look, and he saw the fame, and stretched out his hand to stroke the face of one of the women, and suddenly a human skin mask was removed by Yin Tiancheng casually, and what appeared in front of him was a girl in her twenties. Yang Kuan fixed his eyes and saw that she was one of the remaining six women, and he couldn't help but be furious, and hurriedly ordered the officials to peel off the masks of the other two women from their faces, and sure enough, they found that they were also missing women.

Yang Kuan shouted: "You and other dog thieves, the witness is here, and you still want to deceive this mansion, pull them down and beat them hard for me left and right!" ”

The official next to him immediately stepped forward and pressed the gang of thieves to the ground, took out a wooden stick and aimed it at their buttocks.

Yin Tiancheng asked: "Why are these women all lost souls?" ”

The thief beckoned: "Go back to my lord, before leaving, I was afraid that she would lose her voice and call for help in the sedan chair, so I fed them the Lost God Pill." ”

"Don't come up with the antidote yet!"

The thief took out a yellow paper bag from his arms, Yin Tiancheng took it and opened it, there were dozens of pills in it, and handed it to the soldier standing on the side.

The soldier with the medicine brought clean water, helped the three women to sit down, then pried open their mouths and gave the medicine to the women with water. After a while, several women woke up, and when they saw the scene in front of them, they knelt down and thanked the government for their rescue.

Yin Tiancheng asked the soldiers to help them to a quiet place to rest, and then continued to interrogate the thief, "There are three other women?" ”

"I originally wanted to transfer them to the capital together, but the boss was afraid that you would find out, so he was going to transfer them in two batches, and now they are still locked up in the dungeon."

"Where the hell is the dungeon?"

The thief said an address, and Yin Tiancheng heard that he hurriedly asked Yang Kuan to send troops to arrest him. Yang Kuan also knew the truth of the speed of soldiers, and he immediately arranged for fifty elite soldiers to follow him and Yin Tiancheng to the thieves' lair, and the others temporarily brought these thieves and women back to the yamen to wait for their fate.

At this time, it was getting late, Yin Tiancheng and the others rode their horses and galloped, and in less than half an hour they arrived at the place that the thief said, which was a remote mansion, with high walls on both sides of the gatehouse, hidden in the dark woods.

Everyone dismounted and walked up the lapis steps, and a fine soldier first listened to the movement in front of the door, and then signaled to Yang Kuan that there was no defense inside.

Yang Kuan suddenly gave an order, and several sturdy soldiers immediately stepped forward and kicked the door open with their feet, and a group of people quickly rushed in and surrounded the inside.

When the cold moon was in the sky, the cold moonlight shone on a man in Tsing Yi wearing a hat and sitting cross-legged in the courtyard. As soon as Sun Hu saw him, he hurriedly said to Yin Tiancheng: "My lord, this thief is the one who kidnapped the little girl. ”

When Yin Tiancheng heard this, he was really relieved in his heart, and it seemed that it was time to close the net.

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