Eating the food in the bowl, Qiao Mingyue's heart was still a little uneasy, after all, Nian'er had never been far away, and she was simple-minded, although there were guards around her, she was not at ease in the end.

"Guest officer, the small shop is simple, and there are many poor hospitality, and I hope that all guest officers can be able to Haihan!" The old shopkeeper of the inn carried a plate of wine-stuffed balls on the table, and his wrinkled face had a kind smile.

"Where the old shopkeeper said, when you go out to eat and sleep outside, you can have a place to rest, and you are already very satisfied." Yu Feilong said indifferently, with a polite attitude.

"Shopkeeper, why don't you see a few people on the streets here?" Hearing Qiao Mingyue ask, the smile on the old shopkeeper's face froze for a moment, and after a while, in the puzzled eyes of everyone, he said that it was just because it was cold, so there were no two people on the street.

Looking at the old shopkeeper's somewhat unnatural expression, Qiao Mingyue naturally didn't believe what he said, but she didn't continue to ask, and after eating, she pulled Qi Jingyun out to look for Nian'er.

Nian'er said that she wanted to go out for a walk, but it had been two hours and she hadn't come back, if it was dark today, and there was no trace of him, it would inevitably make people worry.

With five guards and Qi Jingyun, several people searched separately, in the dark night, the whole town was shrouded in darkness, unlike the Central Plains, there were lanterns lit at the door at night, and in the town here, at night, only the moonlight in the sky could bring some light.

"Found it!" A guard hurriedly came, Qiao Mingyue breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this, it's okay, Nian'er is fine!

"Now that you've found it, what about people?" Qi Jingyun asked the guard softly, and the guard hesitated for a moment, looked at Qiao Mingyue, and then told the situation.

What was found was the corpses of the two guards, but the little young master was gone! Hearing the news, Qiao Mingyue only felt that the sky was spinning for a while, and she stumbled a few steps and almost couldn't stand, but fortunately, Qi Jingyun's eyes were quick and he reached out to help her.

Taking a deep breath and trying to calm down her emotions, Qiao Mingyue said in a deep voice: "Where are the people?" Take me there! ”

They went all the way, and they didn't swagger, and the only ones who knew that Nian'er was the son of the king of Linqi were her and Qi Jingyun, if they didn't say it, no one would know, and now Nian'er was kidnapped, it's really a little strange!

Follow the guards all the way through the dark streets, come to a small remote alley, enter the small alley, inside is a pile of debris, in the debris, the two guards have long been out of breath, there are a few knife wounds on their bodies, they were thrown here at random, covered with straw mats.

The straw mat was still stained with the blood of two people, and the guards who found it here were guarding here, and with the torch he was holding in his hand, Qi Jingyun squatted down to check the wounds of the two people.

"It's not an assassin, it's a horse bandit!" What he said was certain, Qiao Mingyue knew that Qi Jingyun usually laughed and laughed, but he was a reliable person at a critical time, and since he said that he was not an assassin at this moment, he must have his reasons.

"Did the people who were sent out to investigate this place come back?" Qi Jingyun turned his head to ask the guards beside him, and the guards hurriedly said that the person had come back and was in the inn.

Qi Jingyun nodded, and ordered the two to dispose of the bodies of the two dead guards, and the two of them responded, and he took Qiao Mingyue back to the inn, all the way to the inn, Qiao Mingyue only felt that he stepped on the cotton with every step, and he was fluttering.

Even now, she couldn't believe it, just now Nian'er waved to her, saying that she would bring her delicious food, but in less than two hours, life and death were uncertain!

"I know you're uncomfortable and you're worried about Nian'er, but lady, you also have to take care of your body, Gu poison can't attack! If you're not in good health, I won't be able to be distracted to look for Nian'er! Reaching out and holding Qiao Mingyue's hand tightly, the worry in Qi Jingyun's eyes was so deep.

The moonlight shone softly on his body, smudging his face extraordinarily softly, Qiao Mingyue reluctantly pulled the corners of her mouth, she knew that now was not the time to be in a hurry, even if she was uncomfortable, she had to control her emotions and not add to the chaos.

In the inn, Yu Feilong also knew the news of Nian'er's disappearance, and the first thing Yu Feilong thought of was that the King of Linqi brought Nian'er back.

"Nope! Nian'er's existence, Jing Yun and I both know, even if the king of Linqi wants to take Nian'er back, he can explain his intentions, he is Nian'er's father, so we naturally won't stop it. He didn't have to do anything like that! ”

Moreover, now that the King of Linqi has to rely on the Great Zhou to be able to return to the Six Cities of the Northland again, at this critical time, the King of Linqi will definitely not take the initiative to move Qi Jingyun's people, and it will not do him any good if he makes Qi Jingyun unhappy.

King Linqi is not a fool, he can still distinguish the pros and cons clearly.

"I checked the knife wounds on the two guards just now, it should be the knife of the horse bandit, the back of the knife is wide and thick, and the blade is relatively dull, so the wound caused is also extraordinarily thick and long." When he first looked at it, he could see that the wound was definitely not caused by the assassin.

Because the Assassins and some secret organizations, in order to keep themselves from being exposed or to move easily, they used slender long swords or long knives, and the wounds caused were usually thin and narrow, rather than the thick, long, flesh and skin wounds turned out.

For the study of swords, Yu Feilong knew no less than Qi Jingyun, and when he described it like this, his first reaction was the scimitar commonly used by the nomads of the steppe!

"Tell the advisor what you've learned!" Yu Feilong beckoned to summon the guards who had been sent out to investigate the situation before, and the two stepped forward and told Qi Jingyun the truth about the situation they had gone out to investigate before.

It turns out that the people here do not go out during the day, not because it is cold here, but because there are horse bandits here all the year round, and the government has also sent troops to suppress the bandits, but those horse bandits often come out of nowhere, and when the officers and soldiers come, they will run away, and when the officers and soldiers leave, they will come to harass the people in the town again.

After a long time, many people moved out of here, leaving some old, weak, sick and disabled people with no place to go, so they could only avoid the horse bandits as much as possible, so there were few people on the streets during the day and night.

As for Nian'er, I think it's also the hands and feet of those people!

Qiao Mingyue nodded when she heard this, playing with the teacup in her hand, a trace of coldness flashed in her eyes, the teacup flew out of her hand, broke the window paper on the window, and hit the chest of the person who was eavesdropping outside the door.

The man snorted, and was beaten a few feet away by the force of the teacup, Qi Jingyun flew and stepped on the man's chest, and the man was subdued before he had time to run.

Qiao Mingyue and Yu Feilong hurriedly went out, looking at the person who was pressed under Qi Jingyun's feet, they couldn't help frowning, she knew the person in front of her, it was none other than Xiao Er, who was still courteously welcoming them when they came.