After the meeting, it was already the beginning of the lanterns, Zhang Yi and Tang He arched their hands, and hurriedly walked home, they did not come back for several months, Zhang Yi did miss his wife Cui'er and a son and a daughter, and Tang He turned his head after saying goodbye to Zhang Yi, and also hurried to the post house set up by the Supervision Institute in the city to receive internal personnel.

After being transferred back from Jishi County, Tang He had not yet found a suitable place to live, so he hurried to the Yizhen Research Institute to preside over the work there, and this period of time was also the time when Qin Chu's secret agents attacked the Yizhen Research Institute most frequently, and after a few months, Tang He's family still lived in the post house, which made Tang He deeply sorry for his wife and children.

Unlike when he was in Jishi County, the residence of government officials was arranged by the county government, in Jicheng, he had to find a place by himself, and he had to spend his own money to pay for it, Qian Tanghe was not worried, his income was very high, and as a senior official of the government, he also had shares in the original four seas trade, and the annual dividends were enough for their family to live a very good life. However, in Jicheng, even if you have money, you may not be able to find a suitable house, and Tang He, like Zhang Yi, basically never came back after taking office, and left his wife and children directly in the post house.

Tang He walked to the door of the post house, and saw a house on the second floor that was still lit, and his heart couldn't help but be full of apologies.

Stepping into the threshold of the gate, the sudden sound of horses' hooves behind him made Tang He's heart skip a beat, and when he turned around, his pupils couldn't help shrinking, and a black guard was galloping over, and the horse had not yet stopped, the other party had already flown down and ran towards him.

"Lord Tang, something happened!" The voice of the comer was hurried.

Tang He's feet, which had already stepped into the threshold, withdrew without hesitation, snatched the reins of the horse from the hand of the post man, turned over on the horse, and galloped away with the comer, and a child's voice calling for his father came from a window above the second floor behind him, and Tang He turned sideways on the horse and waved his hand towards it.

An hour later, Tang He appeared in a house dedicated to the Supervision Yuan in the Yizhen Research Institute, at this time, inside and outside the house, the lights were bright, and the officials of the Supervision Yuan stationed here had been waiting for a long time.

"Lord Tang, this is Feng Rui, an official of my Supervision Yuan in Li County, and this is Ji Gao, the patrol captain of Li County."

"I've seen Lord Tang." The two of them saluted Tang He with fists at the same time.

"Tell me, what's going on?" Tang He's heart was a little troubled, and he tried his best to calm down, at this time, there was a not very good feeling in the whole room, and he needed to calm down to stabilize the mood of these people.

"Lord Tang, here's the thing, yesterday, when a woodcutter in Li County was chopping wood in Jiaoshan outside Li County, he found an ownerless war horse, and this woodcutter took the horse out of Jiaoshan and handed it over to the Li County patrol team, and after seeing this horse, the captain of the Gao Ji knew that this was a war horse belonging to the Supervision Yuan, so he immediately notified the lower officials!" Feng Rui said: "The war horses in the army are numbered, and the war horses of our Supervision Institute also have their own unique symbols."

Tang He nodded.

"After seeing this ownerless war horse, the subordinate did not dare to slack off a little, and immediately traced down whether this war horse belonged to the department of our Supervision Institute, and finally found out that this horse belonged to the Supervision Guard of the Yizhen Research Institute, and the subordinates knew that the matter was important, so they immediately brought Captain Ji to report directly here." Feng Ruidao.

"Did we find anything here?" Tang turned his head to look at the other official.

"Lord Hui, after the arrival of Feng Yu and Captain Ji, we immediately started a thorough investigation here, and it turned out that in the past two days, we have two inspectors and guards who accompanied a researcher in the Yizhen Research Institute to leave here, and when they left, there were a total of three war horses."

"What is the researcher's name and what position does he hold within the Institute? What is the job? For what reason did you leave the Institute?" Tang He asked his subordinates like a cannon.

"This researcher's name is Mao Wei, a team leader in the Yizhen Research Institute, responsible for developing the control range of explosive explosions, and he asked for leave from the research institute two days ago because of his father's death, and we assigned two guards to protect his safety. Now it is confirmed that the war horse found in Jiaoxian County is the one that Mao Wei rode when he left."

"Three people, three horses, and now there is one horse left, and the rest are missing!" Tang He muttered, and a bad feeling arose. Get ready, we'll go to Jiaoshan in Lixian right away."

There was a sound of footsteps outside, and Qingyuan appeared at the door, "Lord Tang, what happened to Mao Wei?"

Tang He took a deep breath and saluted Qingyuan with his fists clenched, "Master Gao, how much does Mao Wei know about our explosives?"

"Mao Wei is the leader of the third group, and he is the backbone of the Yizhen Research Institute, and he knows all the explosives very well, otherwise he would not have been asked to do research on the scope of explosion control." Qingyuan explained Mao Wei's type of work to Tang He, and saw the other party's extremely ugly face, "Master Tang, Mao Wei will not have a problem, after entering us to work, they have all been repeatedly reviewed, and Mao Wei is still a graduate of Jicheng Comprehensive University."

"It's not that there's a problem with him, it's something wrong outside." Tang He burst out a few words from between his teeth, "Master Gao, from now on, the Yizhen Research Institute will be closed, no one will be allowed to go out, all the construction teams outside will immediately stop construction, and all personnel will wait for review. In addition, we will immediately report everything to the headquarters."

After issuing a series of orders, Tang He walked straight out of the house, stepped on his war horse, and rushed to Jiaoshan in Lixian County with nearly a hundred guards and guards.

At noon on the second day, Tang He appeared in Jiaoshan, although he did not rest for a day and a night, his eyes were bloodshot, but it seemed that the whole person was still very excited, and the main road in and out of Jiaoshan had been blocked by the branch of the Supervision Institute and the patrol team of Li County.

"Feng Rui, since Mao Wei is going back to bury his father, how did he come to Jiaoshan?"

"My lord, it takes about fifty miles to walk on the avenue, and if you cross the Horn Mountain, although the road is not easy to walk, and there are wild beasts, you can walk nearly thirty miles less, Mao Wei must be in a hurry to go home, and he has a fully armed guard around him, so he will naturally choose to take this path." Feng Rui explained. That's the path we're on right now."

Tang He stopped talking and walked slowly and step by step along the narrow path. Half an hour later, Tang He stopped, looked around at the surrounding environment, suddenly squatted down, pulled the fallen leaves on the ground with the saber in his hand, and saw Tang He's actions, Feng Rui and the others also hurriedly learned from Tang He, and pushed the thick fallen leaves on the ground aside.

"Lord Tang, bloodstains!" After a few moments, one of the guards exclaimed.

The fallen leaves were quickly pulled aside, and under the thick fallen leaves, large purple-black blood stains were shocking.

Tang He straightened up, his face dark and gloomy, "Take this as the center of the circle and search outward."

The guards quickly started their work, and Feng Rui walked up to Tang He, "Lord Tang."

"I'm afraid that things are developing in the direction we least want to see, Feng Rui, you immediately rush back to Li County, go to check the situation at Mao Wei's house, and at the same time notify the county magistrate of Li County, the county soldiers in the county, and the militia will immediately mobilize for me, block the whole territory, and immediately search for Mao Wei throughout the county, and soon there will be a portrait of Mao Wei sent to Li County."

"Yes!" Feng Rui also knew the strictness of the matter, so he didn't say anything, turned around and straddled the horse and left.

In less than a pillar of incense, there was a noisy sound in the distance, and a guard ran over like a fly, "Lord Tang, I found it, the bodies of the two brothers and the other two war horses have been found."

About a hundred meters away from where Tang He was standing, there was a large natural pit, but now it was covered by thick fallen leaves and dead trees, and a group of guards were cleaning up the debris on it, through the gap, Tang He could clearly see the bodies of two black guard soldiers and the bodies of two war horses lying beside them.

After a few moments, the bodies of the two soldiers and the corpses of the horses were carried out of the pit, and all the personnel, including Tang He, silently took off their helmets and hats, bowed their heads in silence to the dead brother.

"My lord, the two brothers were attacked suddenly, and it was the arm crossbow that killed them, and at least ten or more arm crossbows shot at them at the same time, which made them have no room to resist!" A guard who was crouching on the ground to check the cause of death looked at the body and shouted back. Both of them were pierced through the chest and abdomen by crossbow arrows and died, and the horses were also killed by the vital points.

"How can it be a crossbow, isn't this a weapon of our army?" Following Tang He's Ji Gao lost his voice.

Tang He turned his head and glanced at him, "You think too much, my army is fighting outside, and the crossbow is a standard weapon, and over the years, there are not a few people who have lost it outside, not to mention, the Qin people can also imitate our weapons now."

Ji Gao nodded abruptly.

"It seems that the whole thing is a trap, including the death of this Mao Wei's father, it is all part of the plan." Tang He muttered: "The opponent calculated that Mao Wei would definitely take a shortcut to Jiaoshan when he returned, and the two guards were killed at the first time, and the war horse that escaped by luck was ridden by Mao Wei, and fled after being frightened, and the opponent obviously knew that time was pressing, so he didn't chase this lost war horse, and fled directly with Mao Wei, their purpose was to kidnap Mao Wei!"

In front of Tang He's eyes, there seemed to be a picture, a roaring rain of arrows shot out of the forest, the two guards were shot to the ground without any reaction, Mao Wei was thrown down by the frightened war horse, and a group of black-clothed people poured out of the forest, tied up Mao Wei who fell to the ground and took it away. (To be continued......)