Chapter 13 Twists and Turns
Chu Qingruo opened his eyes in a sharp pain, and found that he was actually in a sack, and he couldn't help but be surprised in his heart.
Thinking that she is a woman who has not been deeply involved in the world, she has never had a grudge against anyone, except for the people of the county lord of Jinyang, who else would be so bold and kidnap her on the street in broad daylight!
It's just that what she didn't expect was that this Jinyang County was so powerful that the boat assassinated unsuccessfully, but she didn't expect someone to attack her immediately after getting off the boat.
couldn't help but be a little worried about Yi Qing, he chose to take the dry road, I was afraid that it would be even more dangerous along the way, I hope he is safe and sound......
Chu Qing didn't think wrong, Yi Qing was assassinated when he left Guhuai Town!
A group of black-clothed and masked men jumped up from the grass more than one person high on both sides of the official road, and attacked Yi Qing who was riding a horse in a swarm.
Yi Qing hurriedly reined in the horse, and the white horse under his crotch neighed, raised his front hooves high and stopped. Glancing coldly, the men in black rushed towards him with bright ring knives one by one, stretched out their hands to their lips and whistled.
Behind him, a group of well-trained men in gray clothes stood silently behind Yi Qing when they heard the whistle, and looked at the group of black-clothed people with unchanged faces.
The black-clothed man led by this sudden situation was stunned, hesitated for a moment, waved the knife in his hand, pointed at Yi Qing, lowered his voice and said to the subordinates behind him: "Don't fight, find an opportunity to kill this person and retreat." ”
His subordinates said yes one after another, and they rushed to Yi Qing with their knives.
Yi Qing sat on the horse and looked at them without panic, and without him opening his mouth, the group of big men behind him had already stepped forward to mingle with the man in black like arrows that had been detached.
After a while, the men in black were defeated by the men in gray, and they were captured one after another, and the leading man in black saw that the situation was not right, and immediately waved his hand: "The idea is too hard, withdraw!" ”
As soon as the words fell, several black-clothed men who had not yet been captured immediately jumped out of the battle circle and fled in different directions.
Yi Qing's people just wanted to split up to chase after them, but he raised his hand to stop them: "No need to chase, they are just small minions, and the people behind the scenes will have other actions." It's important for us to hurry, don't get too entangled with them. ”
The leader of the gray-clothed man pointed to the black-clothed men on the ground who were captured alive and asked, "Master, what about these people?" ”
Yi Qing thought for a while: "Ask who sent it, and let it go." ”
The leader was shocked: "Master, just let it go?" ”
"They were just ordered by someone to take them, and there would be other people to assassinate them, and it would be inconvenient to take them along the way."
After the leader pondered carefully, he turned around and raised his voice: "Drag it aside and interrogate them carefully, and after asking, waste the martial arts and let them go!" ”
When the captured man in black heard this, he lowered his head and whispered in frustration: "Thank you for the grace of the son not to kill!" Yi Qing smiled slightly and ignored them, gently clamped the horse's belly and slowly rode forward, while the leader followed the horse.
After the two of them distanced themselves from the people behind them, the leader asked, "Master, do you think the person who assassinated this time could be sent by "him"?" ”
Yi Qing pulled the reins with one hand, and with the other hand carelessly flicked the horsewhip in his hand, his eyes were gloomy: "Whether the person this time is sent by Jinyang County or sent by "him", the purpose is the same.
It has not been a day or two since the King of Jinyang and "him" secretly communicated with each other, and this time I came, they must have made them feel a great threat, and they must have eliminated me as soon as possible. ”
Speaking of this, he paused, and turned his head to look at the leader: "Commander Yuan, is there any news about his" hiding place and whereabouts?" ”
Commander Yuan arched his hand in shame: "Master, all of them are incompetent subordinates, and the whereabouts of this person have not been found." ”
"What does that look like?"
"The subordinates only got the news from the border pass, saying that the ninth prince of the Mexican country was about twenty years old, and he was very handsome, and the others were ......."
"That's all there is to it?" Yi Qing was very surprised, as a prince, the other party can be regarded as a well-known figure, how did he keep himself mysterious, and he didn't even have a portrait?
"Forget it, let's check it out! Don't miss even the slightest bit of information, I don't believe I can't find it after digging three feet into the ground! ”
Commander Yuan: "Yes! ”
Along the way, Yi Qing encountered two or three more masked killers who tried to assassinate him, but they were all repelled by Commander Yuan neatly. They went back and forth with twists and turns.
The next day, before dawn, the group finally came to a small village near the White Tiger Camp, Tianxing Village. After everyone settled down, Yi Qing sent someone to the pavilion next to the White Tiger Camp to see if there was any agreed secret mark.
It stands to reason that if Chu Qingruo takes the waterway, although she will arrive a little slower than herself, she is far safer on the boat than the dry road she walks, and she sent two more people to protect her secretly.
As long as she hurried non-stop, compared to the time and effort of being surrounded and chased all the way, she should have been near the White Tiger Camp by yesterday evening at the latest.
To his surprise, the listeners came back to report that they had not found the agreed sign in the pavilion they had made an appointment. This shows that if Chu Qing has not yet arrived, Yi Qing felt uneasy in his heart.
When the sky was faintly bright, he couldn't hold back anymore and went to the White Tiger Camp.
The little soldier who reported led the smiling Xu Yong out of the barracks quickly, and Xu Yong was about to salute when he saw Yi Qing, but he stretched out his hand to stop him:
"Vice General Xu, there is no need to make this big gift, I am here this time as Yiqing, Master Yi of Qingshui County, and I also hope that Vice General Xu will keep it a secret."
Xu Yong understood, and immediately accepted the momentum that was about to kneel, and gave a salute instead: "Yes, Master Yi, you are polite." ”
After Yi Qing returned the salute with a smile, he took out the official letter issued by the Qingshui County Order from his arms and handed it to Xu Yong. Xu Yong hurriedly opened it, hurriedly finished reading, and said: "Okay, I'll order someone to bring a team of people to Qingshui County with you." ”
After speaking, he turned around and was about to leave in a hurry, but was stopped by Yi Qing: "Vice General Xu is slow, there is still something to ask for in the future." ”
Xu Yong turned around: "Master Yi, please speak." ”
Yi Qing's face was slightly anxious: "There is another girl who came to deliver the letter with Xia, who took the waterway, and was supposed to arrive at the White Tiger Camp yesterday evening, but now it has not arrived, and there is no news of the person I sent to protect it secretly."
Can you bother Vice General Xu to send another team of people to search? ”
Xu Yong hurriedly responded: "This is natural, but I don't know if Master Yi has a portrait of that girl, and who is the girl's name?" ”
Yi Qing asked him if he wanted a pen and paper, and hurriedly drew Chu Qingruo's appearance with a few strokes and handed it to him.
After Xu Yong saw the portrait, his face changed suddenly. Yi Qing noticed that something was wrong with him, and asked curiously, "Why, Vice General Xu recognizes this girl?" ”
Xu Yong looked at his few portraits and said with some uncertainty: "This girl looks a little familiar. Is her surname Chu? ”
Yi Qing didn't know why he was a little more irritable in his heart, and he suppressed the irritability in his heart and asked, "Why does Fu Lingyun, this bastard, know her too?" ”
Xu Yong became more and more sure: "It's her right!" Miss Chu! ”
Yi Qing felt a pang of colic in his brain, why did he run so far to meet a special girl, and he actually knew this bastard? From childhood to adulthood, if you fancy any good things, can't you hide from grabbing them with that bastard?
Xu Yong screamed later, interrupting Yi Qing's troubles: "Chu, Miss Chu is gone?" My God, I'll take a team to look for it right away! After speaking, he turned around and hurriedly ran into the barracks, ordered two groups of people, and arranged to go down.
Yi Qing waited at the gate of the camp for a long time, and finally waited until Xu Yong led the two teams of men and horses to gather at the gate of the camp.
"Vice General Xu, please let all the people go to Qingshui County by themselves and find Chen County's order. He'll arrange how they do it. ”
"What about you, master?"
"I'll search for Miss Chu with you."
Xu Yong thought for a while, called the guards at the door, and asked him to immediately fly the pigeon and pass the book to inform the young general of Qinghun County about Miss Chu's disappearance.
With that, the two teams immediately hurriedly divided into two roads.
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Chu Qingruo woke up leisurely in a whirling pain. I found myself tied hand and foot again, and thrown into a haystack on the floor of a room full of firewood. Looking around, thankfully there was no one in the room.
With her tongue pushing out the stinky cloth that she didn't know where it had been torn from her mouth, she retched a few times, and then she bit off the strip of cloth tied to her hand with her teeth, untied the strip of cloth tied to her foot, stood up and looked out the window.
After being woken up in the carriage, Chu Qingruo found himself trapped in a sack. As she laboriously gnawed down the rope tied to her hand with her teeth, the carriage stopped.
The curtain was lifted, and a man with a light on his back and a face he couldn't see clearly walked in with a stick the thickness of a rolling pin in his hand, and struck her in the neck again. When she woke up again, she was already there.
There are a total of two windows in this firewood room, and after Chu Qingruo broke free from the binding, he quietly peeked out from the front and back windows. The rear window is a secluded and uninhabited alley, and it is not known where it leads.
The front window was a small courtyard, and in the courtyard was quiet, except for a man in a blue tunic with ingots, sitting on the edge of the well facing the door, and the opening of a dagger in his hand.
Quietly left the front window, tiptoed to the back window, carefully pushed open the back window, and just when she was overjoyed and was about to climb up, she accidentally made a "pop" sound from the wooden window.
Chu Qingruo secretly screamed in his heart, so he hurriedly got back into the sack, lay down on the haystack and continued to pretend to be dead.
Sure enough, the door of the firewood room squeaked open. Hearing the sound, the man in blue walked in cautiously with a small sharp dagger in his hand.
glanced at Chu Qingruo, who seemed to be still unconscious on the haystack, and seemed to be still uneasy. He took two more steps forward and kicked her. Seeing that she still didn't react, she walked out with confidence and closed the door of the firewood room with her backhand.
A sharp whistle sounded, and the face of the blue-clothed man in the courtyard changed, and he turned around and hurriedly ran out of the courtyard.
After hearing the sound of footsteps fading away outside the courtyard, Chu Qingruo secretly breathed a sigh of relief, got up lightly, and pushed the front window open a crack to look out.
I saw that the courtyard was empty, and the blue-clothed man who was guarding her didn't know where to run after hearing the whistle.
He closed the front window without a trace, and came to the back window, and when he pushed open the window and stepped on the windowsill and was about to jump out, he heard a loud sound of footsteps in the yard, and a man asked aloud with the sound of footsteps:
"Liu Er, where is that woman locked up?"
Liu Er's name said: "It's in the firewood room inside!" As he spoke, the voice came to the door of the firewood room.
"Why is it unguarded?"
"Master, don't worry, that little girl is still ...... faint" The words stopped abruptly, and the group of people who pushed open the door and came in looked at Chu Qingruo, who had already straddled one foot on the windowsill and was about to escape.
"Slap" slapped the man in blue in the face with a hard slap: "Bastard, didn't you say that you are still unconscious?" ”
Liu Er looked aggrieved, trembling and just about to defend, he was spun around by another slap in the spot, dizzy and starring.
"What are you doing here, why don't you catch her for me! It's bad for the county lord, be careful that she wants your head! The man came with red eyes and jumped on his feet and scolded.
Seeing this, Chu Qingruo hurriedly slipped out of the window and did not leave at this time. When!
Then the people who came to grab her rushed to the window, and when they stretched out their hands, they didn't even catch a single corner of her clothes, and someone raised their feet and tried to get out of the window to chase her. But because of the difference in body shape between men and women, they were stuck in the window and couldn't move, so they could only scream.
When the rest of the people saw this, they turned their heads and ran out of the door of the firewood room, looking for another way to catch her.
Got out of the window that could only fit a thin woman like her, and she didn't care about the pain of her buttocks, and she grabbed her skirt and ran away desperately.
In one breath, she ran to a reed swing more than one person high, and then she couldn't see the person chasing her behind, so she stopped panting heavily.
After breathing a sigh of relief, she looked up and looked around, the sky was overcast, and the white reeds in front of her could not see whether it was a waterway or a dry road in front of her, let alone what time it was.
There was no one around, so she couldn't even find anyone to ask for directions.
While thinking about it, there was a faint sound of dogs barking and a large group of people shouting from behind, as if those people were chasing after them. There is no way forward, and there are pursuers behind, but they don't know where they are.
Rao is she is very smart, but at this moment, there is no plan, Chu Qingruo felt unprecedented tension and fear, and her forehead sweated slightly for a while!
At this moment, her eyes glanced at a mountain not far away, which was not too high, but not very short, and she had an idea:
Right! When I went up the mountain, I went to more places on the mountains than on the flat land, and there were many forests on the mountains, and when I hid in the woods at night, they couldn't see them, so I could take the opportunity to go down!
So he pulled his legs and ran in the direction of the hill, and as he ran, he looked behind him from time to time to see if anyone had caught up.
As the so-called Wangshan ran a dead horse, Chu Qingruo ran wildly for half a cup of tea, but the hill in front of him was still not far in front of him.
Exhausted, she gritted her teeth, and tried her best to not relax for half a minute, because she was afraid that once she gave this breath, she would never be able to run again.
Just as she was about to use her last strength, the foot of the mountain finally appeared in front of her. She leaned softly on a tree and sat down on the stone under it, gasping for breath.
There was no one chasing her for the time being, so she could finally sit down and catch her breath.
Just when she felt that the strength of her body had returned a little, she suddenly heard a shout in the distance: "Quick, let me go up the mountain in front of me to search!" ”
Chu Qingruo was shocked!