Chapter 614: Silver Fills the Land
Xiao Jinxuan jumped into the alley from the second floor of the inn, in order to avoid the arrest of the government soldiers, relying on her ability to climb trees when she was young.
And almost not long after Xiao Jinxuan left the inn private room, her door was kicked open directly by the officers and soldiers.
When the officers and soldiers saw that there was not a single figure in the empty room, the windows were wide open.
At the same time, the commander who immediately led the team sighed in his heart, but he was also quite excited, after all, how could the people in this private room be afraid of the search if they were not weak and fled first.
And this shows that the group of officials who came from Jingshi, the woman they wanted to arrest, was indeed hiding in Crescent City.
As long as there are enough clues, it is only a matter of time before the other party is arrested.
Therefore, this general will immediately send someone back to the Crescent Moon City Mansion Yin, and ask the other party to control the city gate, as long as Xiao Jinxuan is not allowed to go out of the city, the other party will be a woman, and the whole city will be able to arrest it soon.
As the soldiers passed the news back to the palace, Ji Lingfeng was overjoyed, and not only brought people but also immediately participated in the search.
Yin of the Crescent City Mansion did not dare to delay, and immediately ordered the city gate to be blocked, and the strict investigation did not give Xiao Jinxuan a chance to pass the customs in confusion.
And as the streets of Crescent City were full of soldiers, and the people were panicked and overwhelmed, Xiao Jinxuan, who was hiding in the crowd, also thought of a way to get out quickly.
After all, she is alone now, and in the face of the wanted search of the entire government, she has to hurry out of the city, otherwise she will be caught soon.
But Xiao Jinxuan has already come to the city gate, and she can look at more than 20 soldiers, where she is closely examined, comparing the actions of the portrait, if she goes directly, there is no difference from throwing herself into the net.
Therefore, in order not to arouse suspicion, Xiao Jinxuan still stood in the queue and waited for the investigation like the people who went out of the city, and saw that there were still more than a dozen people in her turn.
Xiao Jinxuan was nervous, but also frowned and thought about how to deal with it.
Suddenly, at this moment, she saw a man dressed as a servant, driving the carriage under the city gate, and it seemed that his wife was sitting in the carriage, and he did not want to get out of the carriage to be examined.
Immediately after the servant handed over the five taels of silver, the soldier immediately did not insist on calling the people in the carriage to come down, but looked through the curtain of the carriage and immediately let him go.
After seeing everything that happened in front of her clearly, the worry on Xiao Jinxuan's face suddenly disappeared, and she chuckled slightly.
She used to be a person in power, so she can deeply understand that when the orders given by the superior are often executed below, they are not only unsatisfactory, but also have a lot of people fishing in troubled waters.
For example, the soldiers who searched under the city gates, they should have been on duty well, treating gold and silver as dung, and whether or not they gave benefits, they should have been carefully inspected without discrimination.
However, people are greedy, so they use their power to benefit themselves, and this kind of official court cannot be eradicated.
These little soldiers follow the example and take the opportunity to make some money for drinking, which naturally happens from time to time.
And as long as this person is greedy, it will become much easier to deal with, and Xiao Jinxuan wants to use silver to break the current crisis.
Therefore, I saw Xiao Jinxuan, dressed as a peasant girl, with her head down and looking scared of the government soldiers, but in fact, in order not to expose her face and be recognized.
And when she silently counted, there were only five people left in front of her to be checked.
Immediately, Xiao Jinxuan opened the money bag in her hand, and then watched the distance from the soldiers under the city gate getting closer and closer.
Suddenly she grabbed handfuls of broken silver and threw them on the ground under the city gate.
Because she was afraid of revealing her identity, Xiao Jinxuan didn't dare to use more than a dozen taels of silver, so the one hundred taels that Boss Shen gave her were also exchanged for broken silver.
Therefore, a hundred taels of broken silver were scattered all over the ground in an instant, and the scene was not only extremely spectacular, but also the greed in the eyes of the people and soldiers around was also hooked.
And Xiao Jinxuan, who was at this time, saw the silver all over the ground, but she was not afraid of being noticed and suddenly shouted:
"My money, who cut my money bag. Don't touch my money, for all the money on the earth is my life. ”
Xiao Jinxuan didn't speak just now, but she heard that the owner of the silver on the ground turned out to be a woman.
Immediately, the people who had no worries in their hearts all swarmed around and picked them up in a crowd.
And seeing the people picking up the silver all over the place, the soldiers under the city who watched this scene were also very hot.
After all, their monthly income is less than ten taels of silver, and this good thing of picking up money for nothing is not something that can be encountered every day.
Therefore, these soldiers did not endure it for long, so under the banner of keeping the silver for the lost owner, they robbed all the silver that the people had picked up, and took it all for themselves.
For a while, under the city gate, it was simply not a chaos that could be described.
Not to mention the crowding, there are also those who have been knocked to the ground, trampled under their feet, screaming and crying, scolding and arguing endlessly, but it is Xiao Jinxuan, the original owner who sowed silver, and no one cares about it.
However, seeing this scene, Xiao Jinxuan vaguely avoided the crowd and slowly leaned towards the city gate, and couldn't help but smile secretly in her heart.
When she sprinkled the silver on the ground, Xiao Jinxuan expected that it would inevitably cause a commotion, after all, there are not many people in this world who can compete with the greed for money.
And now the defenders of the city are all small soldiers, in this situation of no one commanding, Xiao Jinxuan doesn't believe that this group of officers and soldiers will not be moved.
Therefore, in this chaos, Xiao Jinxuan went out of the city without danger.
Although she didn't know much about Crescent City, she didn't dare to leave by official road at all.
She could only run to the mountains near the city, hoping to climb over a few hills, find a hidden mountain village, and survive the limelight of the government's arrest, and then she would come out.
And after Xiao Jinxuan walked for half an hour, the silver robbery storm under the city gate has not passed.
After all, people die for money, and birds die for food.
The more than 20 officers and soldiers defending the city, relying on their identities, forcibly took the silver picked up by the common people as their own, and it was okay once or twice, but the unscrupulous finally aroused the anger of the people.
So in the end, these 20 officers and soldiers were surrounded by angry people, and the contradictions between the two sides intensified.
With such a big movement, Ji Lingfeng, who also led people to search the city, was naturally also alarmed.
After hearing the news, when Ji Lingfeng learned about the cause and effect, and saw the silver scattered on the ground, his expression immediately turned cold.
Looking at the captain of the soldier guard who was still chattering at him, holding the broken silver in his hand to tell the reason for the matter, Ji Lingfeng laughed.
Immediately, the sword was drawn without warning, and the neck of the captain of the guard was cut in an instant.
Seeing that the silver in the hand of the captain of the guard was powerless to hold, it was scattered to the ground again, and the other party also covered the bloody neck, and his eyes were round and he fell to the ground and died.
For a while, the soldiers and the people who were arguing in the city were silent, and looked at Ji Lingfeng in fear, the silver scattered on the ground, but this time no one dared to come forward to pick it up.
And Ji Lingfeng, who had finished killing, raised his head and stared at everyone, and said in a cold tone:
"Why don't you make a fuss, didn't you quarrel over this silver just now. If any of you are still afraid of life, you can stand up, and this governor will give you a happy time. ”
As soon as he finished saying this, Ji Lingfeng glared fiercely again, and the soldiers under the city said with angry faces on their faces:
"It's really a bunch of waste, for a few taels of silver, I let Xiao Jinxuan go. The court is simply useless to raise these rice buckets for you, and you will leave them to the governor, otherwise you will leave your life behind. ”
Seeing that the soldiers who were supposed to be interrogating under the city gate were reprimanded by Ji Lingfeng and fled.
As Lu Yun, Ji Lingfeng's right-hand man, he couldn't help but ask in surprise:
"What do you mean, Duke, to drive away these people who are guarding the city and checking them, can you really be sure that Xiao Jinxuan has escaped from Crescent Moon City. The other party is just a woman, which is unlikely. ”
Hearing this, Ji Lingfeng sighed helplessly with resentment:
"Lu Yun, don't underestimate Xiao Jinxuan, she is not an ordinary woman. Zheng Yu's ability, you should know that when he was still in Prince Tai's Mansion, he could also rank among the top three killers. But I personally sent him to Zhaoyang Palace to assassinate Xiao Jinxuan, but the other party still escaped from the palace. You all said that this was Xiao Jinxuan's luck, and the loyal Xiao Wenxin delayed time for the other party. As everyone knows, there are many lucks and luck in this world, but this woman is too smart to deal with. ”
Speaking of this, Ji Lingfeng pointed to the broken silver scattered on the ground, and then said:
"There are at least seventy or eighty taels of broken silver on this ground, Lu Yun, think about who would carry so much silver with ordinary people. And until now, I haven't seen the owner come forward. So I concluded that this was definitely Xiao Jinxuan's doing, and the other party deliberately created chaos and fled from the city. ”
After hearing this, Lu Yun nodded thoughtfully, and then he hurriedly asked:
"If the Duke of Governor's abolition of Concubine Xiao has already left Crescent City, it will be useless for us to stay here. Whether it is a transfer of troops from the local government and go out of the city to investigate. ”
Ji Lingfeng nodded, and after thinking about it carefully, he immediately said:
"Although these local officers and soldiers are incompetent, we only brought more than 20 people, and the scope of our search is too small. Therefore, Lu Yun, you can gather local troops, and I will take our people to search for clues first. After determining the direction of Xiao Jinxuan's escape, he immediately led everyone to search and arrest. ”
After clarifying the division of labor, Ji Lingfeng, who led the people out of the city first, did not take long to search for Xiao Jinxuan's traces of running to the mountains outside the city.
In fact, it is not surprising that Xiao Jinxuan does not know martial arts, although she had the experience of growing up in the mountains when she was a child, but she does not know the ability to hide her whereabouts.
In addition, it is the first month of the year, and the four seasons of Crescent City are like spring, but there are no wild vegetables or mushrooms on this solar term mountain, so no one will go to the mountain at all.
So when Ji Lingfeng found some women's shoe prints, he immediately concluded that Xiao Jinxuan must have been hiding in the mountains.
Looking at the lofty mountains in the distance outside the city, Ji Lingfeng couldn't even help but laugh bitterly.
"Xiao Jinxuan, you are really tenacious, you would rather drill into the deep mountains and old forests than be caught. But this time, I, Ji Lingfeng, will definitely catch you and kill you completely. Didn't you tell me in the prison before that you died at my hands in that dream. Since there are many correspondences between that dream and reality, then I will kill you with my own hands just like in the dream! ”