The internal guards stationed all over the country generally have a long-term fixed task - to monitor local officials, because the task is single, and most of them are hereditary official positions, mothers to daughters, daughters to granddaughters, which makes their thinking inevitably a little fixed, otherwise those with more flexible brains should know that Shen Ruyu is the person that His Majesty the emperor likes, and her news should also need special attention. This led to the fact that when the internal guard of the giant deer room received the message from the internal guard of the Beijing Division, he began to hurriedly collect information in this regard.

So from the very beginning, the information collection of the internal guards of the Julu room was far behind the development of the situation, and later, Qifeng Village was besieged, and the first witnesses gathered at the bottom of the mountain to worry about the safety of Shen Ruyu on the peak, even if the internal guards were omnipotent in the folk rumors, they could not go deep into the scene for a while and hear first-hand information.

However, as the intelligence department directly under the emperor, the information reported by the internal guards must be absolutely true, and they must be verified on the spot, considered in many ways, and cautious before they can be reported.

There was only a day between Shen Ruyu's arrest and Qifengzhai's siege, and even Primrose arrived in Jingshi a day after Shen Ruyu was arrested, and when the internal guards of Julu County received the carrier pigeon of Jingshi, the whole thing was almost over.

- The situation they reported, basically because there was no time for field investigations, was directly written according to Shen Ruyu's dictation. This made the internal guards of the Julu Room feel extremely empty, and under Shen Ruyu's instructions, their intelligence content was not only delayed a lot, but also concealed a lot of things.

For example, Shen Ruyu was wounded by an arrow in his body, and the wind evil entered his body, and he was bedridden in the mansion of the county guard of Julu County for several days to recuperate, and he has only recently improved.

However, if it is reported truthfully, the internal guards of Julu County will definitely bear the thunderous wrath from the emperor, and if it is delayed a little within an understandable range, although they still can't escape the responsibility of dereliction of duty, most of the punishment will go to the county guards, and they will only be slightly affected, compared to the two, the internal guards remain silent - although the internal guards, as the pro-army of the Son of Heaven and the most important intelligence department, are highly valued, but as long as they are people, they will always have selfish intentions.

When Shen Ruyu knew about this, her mood was quite complicated. Her injuries are not serious, so she feels that there is no need to report it, the sky is long, she wiped some skin here, maybe she reported it, Li Cong can imagine that the blood does not stop. It's just that they have seen her since childhood, today they can hide her injuries, and I don't know what they can hide in the future, the internal guard is the eagle dog of the Son of Heaven, and it is also his eyes, but now it seems that such an important internal army is obviously not very loyal to the emperor - the intelligence department is not loyal enough, and it is very fatal in many cases.

Shen Ruyu silently noted this, feeling a bit like fishing for law enforcement.

"Much better?"

Just when she was lying on the bed in the mansion of the county guard of Julu County, recuperating every day in addition to eating and sleeping, Wang Zijun would send all kinds of strange soups and juices every day, each of which had a messy effect, such as nourishing, nourishing blood, beauty, breast enlargement, suppressing shock, and dispelling wind and evil, so that now when she heard Wang Zijun's voice, Shen Ruyu felt a little hairy.

She opened her eyes a little helplessly, and when she found that Wang Zijun was not holding any dishes in his hand, she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, sat up, and replied softly, "It's much better." ”

Wang Zijun reached out and put his hand on her vein.

In these years, scholars are more or less able to have some medical skills, not to mention that she has also spent a lot of time in the Taoist temple, and it didn't take long for Wang Zijun to laugh and boast: "My medicine is really good!" ”

Shen Ruyu didn't dare to say that she thought that if Wang Zijun could fill her with less potions, maybe it would get better faster, because she did something to fill Shen Ruyu with more potions in order to prove herself.

She wittily changed the subject: "...... Now that I'm almost well, let's move on tomorrow. ”

Wang Zijun was still immersed in the pride of her medical skills, she sat on the edge of Shen Ruyu's bed, and put her hand into the futon, "Aren't you waiting for the Jingshi to dispose of it?" ”

Shen Ruyu shook his head, "I can probably guess the disposition of the imperial court, the focus is nothing more than the suppression of bandits, the dereliction of duty of the county guard, the speed of the general's dispatch of troops, and the intelligence of the internal security is not enough, let's go quickly, we have neither any merit nor any dereliction of duty, the situation is better, nothing is wrong with us, the situation is almost there, maybe we will be ordered to turn back." ”

"Maybe that," Wang Zijun rolled his eyes and smiled slyly, "Maybe His Majesty will give money to the envoy who patrols the heavens?" ”

"But I guess it's more likely that you'll be ordered to turn back." But when she saw Shen Ruyu's expression, she immediately changed her face and said, "Okay, I'll leave tomorrow, I'll leave tomorrow." ”

Shen Ruyu closed her eyes again, she let out a long breath, obviously lying on the bed all day to rest, but there was still a little tiredness between her eyebrows, "...... Those bandits on Qifeng Village, the few who escaped, still haven't been found? ”

Only then did the radiant expression on Wang Zijun's face become solemn again, "The son of the bandit leader is still escaping with a few fish that have slipped through the net, and he doesn't know his whereabouts." ”

Shen Ruyu sighed lowly, "Outside the city, are the heads of those bandits still piled there?" ”

This is the custom of the army - to pile the heads of the enemy in the shape of a mountain as a demonstration of deterrence and warning.

But this routine is a little too exciting and bloody for Shen Ruyu, as early as when she entered the city, she was pale and wanted to let people remove the pile of heads, but General Zhichong wanted her life, even if she escaped, there was no possibility of making a move in broad daylight, but it was impossible to obey her wishes, so Sima replied stiffly, "It must be placed here, at least for three days." ”

Wang Zijun knew that she was uncomfortable, so he patted her arm comfortingly through the quilt, "I know that you have a good heart and can't see blood, before I came, I had already asked them to collect their heads and ordered them to be buried on a certain day." ”

Shen Ruyu was silent for a while, and then suddenly said, "If you catch Wei Nan......" But she paused, as if she didn't know what to do, so she shook her head, "...... What to do, just do it. ”

She raised her hand and covered her chest, which was her injury, and the person who hurt her was Wei Nan.

At the beginning on the mountain, Shen Ruyu was only a little earlier than those officers and soldiers who went up the mountain to search, although he had walked around behind Wei Nan and roughly remembered the general terrain, but he was not familiar with it, not to mention, if he could be sent out to carry out this task, even if these soldiers were not elite, they must be capable people, and it was only a matter of time before such a big place was completely searched by them.

However, although Shen Ruyu is not familiar with it, she has other familiar people - those who are punished as coolies in the backyard.

I don't know if it's because no one has notified them, and because they are far away, the front yard has been fighting for a while, when Shen Ruyu and Kong Qingyang pushed the door in, a group of girls who were obviously more delicate than the bandits in the cottage and clumsy in their hands and feet raised their heads in surprise and looked at them in confusion.

Some of them are still holding axes in their hands, struggling to chop firewood, some are drying clothes, some are picking vegetables, seeing this indisputable daily appearance, Shen Ruyu and Kong Qingyang, who may have to play with their lives if they are not careful, couldn't help but be speechless for a while.

But Shen Ruyu didn't have time to be relatively speechless for them, she raised her hand and saluted, "Dare to ask...... The girls were caught by the bandits? ”

A group of girls clearly felt the breath of the same kind from her body - the kind of Sven breath of knowing books and etiquette, reading and hyphenation, and suddenly involuntarily put down the rough work in their hands. According to the general situation, if a newly arrested person is brought, there must be a bandit in charge of escorting behind him, but Shen Ruyu and Kong Qingyang obviously don't look like they are new to the backyard to do chores......

For a while, the girls all looked at the girl who was drying their clothes, and it seemed that this group of people had been dominated by her in the days they had been arrested.

The girl's appearance was the most outstanding and the oldest, and at this moment she smiled bitterly and raised her hand to Shen Ruyu and saluted, "This matter is ashamed to say." In the next Xu Wanruo, I don't know ...... Your Excellency? ”

Although most of the literati were arrogant and indifferent to the bandits, they were generally very polite and gentle when they treated the objects of the same literati - because most of the people who could read in these years were the daughters of rich and noble families, and they naturally looked down on the bandits who fell into the grass, and if they treated the bandits with the same attitude as their kind, they probably would not be reduced to being coolies at this moment - however, if they were to do so, maybe they would rather be coolies.

Judging from Wei Nan's attitude, maybe these literati girls would rather be coolies, or even take doing coolies as a thing to prove that they have maintained the pride of belonging to the literati, rather than pretend to be a little pretentious to them, so they are so angry, right?

Kong Qingyang blocked the door, peeking out of the door from time to time, and Shen Ruyu didn't talk nonsense, "In the Shen family of Xialuohe, Shen Ruyu." ”

For a while, there was an exclamation in the backyard.

Ancient information is not developed, fame depends on oral transmission, and it is widely spread, it is precisely because it is so difficult to be famous in the world, so fame is extremely important, and it is so big that Shen Ruyu is "no one in the Central Plains knows the king" Cheng dù, basically no matter where he is, as long as he signs up for a word, even if it is not enough for others to "bow his head and worship", it is enough for the reader to respectfully and respectfully and surprisingly pull her sleeve and shout "long admiration and long admiration".

It's just that at this moment, Shen Ruyu can't say that she was chased and killed by the officers and fled into the backyard - she took a deep breath and said with a solemn expression, "My mother sent me to my hometown to repair the ancestral house, but I was captured by this gang of bandits halfway, however, General Zhichong seems to have been training soldiers nearby recently, so he quickly came to the rescue, and at this moment he has been fighting in the front mountain for a long time, but the officers and soldiers are tired from hurrying, and they rush to the battlefield before they can rest, and they are defeated and retreated for a while, and the situation is critical." ”

Hearing her say this, everyone who was about to eagerly pull the crowd just now was stunned.

"Now that the situation is critical, a group of thieves seems to have sent a small group of people up the mountain, ready to push the hostages to the front line, sacrifice the flag with blood, and demonstrate against the officers and soldiers. My friend knows some martial arts, and was originally going to escort me down the mountain while there was chaos, but I heard that there were people in the backyard who had been robbed up the mountain before, and it was really disturbing to escape alone, so I came to look for it, so that everyone could escape together! ”

When the girls heard that it was such a critical juncture, Shen Ruyu did not want to escape alone, but came to the rescue, and they were all very grateful for a while.

As for Shen Ruyu, although the number of people has increased, the target has also become bigger, but those special squads wearing official uniforms cannot be unscrupulous against her—unless they are prepared to kill all the captured literati.

But these literati, who knows if there is a big background behind them? A simple and crude one-size-fits-all, in case the qiē reaches the bones that can't be cut, who will be responsible?

They locked the courtyard door, brought wooden cabinets and wardrobes to the door, and urgently discussed countermeasures.

Qifeng Village is surrounded by water on all sides, overlooking the water at the foot of the mountain, no matter what direction, it is a vast smoke wave, there is no end in sight, there are no boats to cross, Qifeng Village is not afraid of these hostages escaping at all, so there is a path in the backyard, which can lead to the lake under the mountain, which is convenient for the kitchen and handymen to wash vegetables and water and wash clothes - because it is quite hidden, and few people in the backyard are willing to come to understand, so some bandits in Qifeng Village do not know that there is such a road.

The group hurriedly fled down the mountain road, which was on the back side of the mountain, quiet and secluded, in stark contrast to the position of the battlefield where the fierce battle was in front of the mountain.

To their surprise, when they arrived at the foot of the mountain, a fishing boat had stopped on the shore, and one of the people on the boat seemed to be unsettled, pacing back and forth in the bow of the boat, noticing the movement, and the boatman looked up and saw a group of young girls who had just escaped down the mountain, and for a moment everyone on both sides was stunned.

- That was the boatman who sent Shen Ruyu up the mountain and was laughed at on the boat, she still remembers, he seems to be called ...... Li Zhaomei.

Kong Qingyang was about to attack, but the boatman's eyes fell on Shen Ruyu, he seemed to see her pleading look, and after being stunned for a while, he suddenly beckoned to them, "Get on the boat!" ”

He knew that there was a scuffle in front of the mountain, but at this moment, when he saw Shen Ruyu and the others fleeing here, he mistakenly thought that the official army had been repulsed, and when he thought of the rough things that the bandits might have done to them after the war, Li Zhaomei found that she couldn't bear to let a painful look appear on that gentle smiling face.

Wei Nan suddenly appeared on the top of the mountain when Shen Ruyu was desperate, he saw Shen Ruyu about to get on the boat, took a bow and aim, and shouted, "Shen Ruyu!" ”

At that time, she subconsciously turned around, just in time to see the other party's eyes burning with hatred, full of bitter hatred.

Fortunately, they are a little too far away, and no matter how good their archery skills are, they will inevitably lose their heads, otherwise if an arrow pierces their chests, even the gods will not be able to save Shen Ruyu.

Shen Ruyu originally thought that he hated her for knocking him unconscious and running away, but it wasn't until she saw the head at the city gate that she knew where his surging hatred came from - after she went down the mountain, the officials and soldiers who did not find her whereabouts were obviously angry with the bandits and launched a murderous revenge, at that time, maybe Aunt Wei had been killed.

In modern times, many countries have abolished the death penalty and advocated the human rights of criminals, but Shen Ruyu does not pursue such a "civilization", killing people pays for life, some crimes, only use death to comfort those victims who feel pain, but she doesn't know whether Aunt Wei's crimes should let her be treated like this.

…… She was cut off and placed at the top of the pile of skulls as the head of the bandits, and her headless body was to be hung above the city.

Maybe it should be, although she is very good to Shen Ruyu, but when she doesn't know, Aunt Wei may have killed countless innocent people, if those victims know what happened to her, they may clap their hands, in that case, what does Shen Ruyu have to say?

She felt a little tired, this was not the first time she felt that she was out of place with this world, some rules of this still somewhat barbaric era, even if she had been here for more than ten years, she could not follow the local customs.

After all, they have broken through the moral bottom line of a modern person, but Shen Ruyu has no ability to change them - because for now, this is the most in line with the reality of this era, and it is difficult to judge right and wrong, she can only look away from it tiredly and let it go.