"Fuck it!"

Jia Wuyun was about to explode. At the critical moment, this guy fainted!

In a fit of rage, he kicked the inspector a few times, but this guy didn't react at all like a puddle of mud!

"Third master, what now?"

Hu Qiniang frowned and asked eagerly.

"Hmph, we can't go by water, we just go by land. Get that girl off the boat quickly, and we'll take the path. ”

"But we don't have a carriage, so we can't go far."

Hu Qiniang said worriedly.

"Who said we always walked? When we got to the next town, we bought a carriage and a dozen horses. ”

Jia Wuyun sneered and said: "That's fine, otherwise you have to go through checkpoints everywhere along the river, and it will be a big trouble if something goes wrong anywhere." ”

He said this, Hu Qiniang didn't want to say anything, nodded lightly and jumped on the boat to the bottom cabin.

Soon Hu Qiniang brought out the grapefruit and lemon snow with her hands tied, and Jia Wuyun sneered at her: "You are quite smart, you know how to make a sound." ”

Yu Ningxue was already frightened when she saw the corpses of a boatload of officers and soldiers.

"You killed them all?"

"Death to those who stand in my way!"

Jia Wuyun smiled cruelly: "If you obediently go with a certain family, a certain family will not do anything to you." Otherwise, they're your end! ”

Yu Lingxue shook her head and said, "You don't dare to kill me." ”

"You are wrong, you are indeed valuable to me, but if you threaten me, I will kill you as well!"

Jia Wuyan glared at Yu Lingxue fiercely, turned his head and commanded Hu Qiniang: "Take her away!" ”

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"Brother Ning Xian, look, there's a ship!"

Sun Wufan's eyes were sharp, and he saw a boat docked on the shore from afar, and shouted excitedly.

Ning Xiu looked in the direction pointed by the dead fat man, and sure enough, there was a ship.

If he wasn't mistaken, the ship was the one they had seen on the river.

In this way, the person sent by Governor Li to deliver the letter should have brought the message, and the officers and soldiers patrolling the checkpoint had already stopped the boat!

He told the good news to the little grandfather Xu Huaiyuan and the prefect Li Rui, and everyone was happy.

Soon, the official boat they were on also docked.

There were people who set up the shipboard, and a group of nobles jumped off the boat one after another on the board and walked in the direction of the ship in front.

Xu Huaiyuan was the most anxious, so he naturally walked in front.

When he saw the scene on the ship in front of him, he almost fainted with fright.

"This, this ......"

Ning Xiu and Sun Wufan noticed that Xu Huaiyuan's expression was different, and they also followed quickly.

"These officers and soldiers have been killed!"

Xu Huaiyuan let out a strange scream, and said to Ning Xiu and Sun Wufan who were coming on: "It must have been done by that gang of bandits!" I just don't know how Xiao Ke's cousin is now! ”

Although Governor Li and other local officials walked more slowly, they now followed.

They were also shocked to see such a sight.

"Well, we're still a step late!"

Li Rui took a deep breath and suppressed the nausea in his heart, and said with emotion.

"Help, help!"

Suddenly, a pair of hands hugged the right leg of the prefect Li Rui, and the prefect Li shouted out in fright.

Oh my God, how can a dead man still speak?

When he looked intently, the dead man not only could speak, but also stood up with strength.

"Your Excellency is the prefect of Jingzhou, right? The next official is the inspector Dou Han, who meets Master Li. ”

Li Rui's lips trembled in fright, and he pointed at Dou Han and said, "You're not dead?" ”

"Uh......"

Dou Han hurriedly straightened his messy hair and wiped his blood-stained cheeks.

Xia Guan pretended to faint, and then he escaped. The bandits have already run away! ”

Ning Xiu rolled his eyes when he heard this, and said in his heart that these bandits are too unsophisticated, so they don't know how to make up for this inspector to prevent future troubles?

When Dou Han saw Governor Li, he was like seeing his own mother, crying with snot and tears.

Li Rui still had the heart to listen to him crying, but Xu Huaiyuan was not in the mood.

He waved his hand impatiently and said, "Don't talk this nonsense, tell me which direction they are going?" ”

"This is ......"

Dou Han saw that Xu Huaiyuan was dressed luxuriously and had a distinguished temperament, so he was very careful in his heart, and his tone was a lot more humble.

"This is the little grandfather Xu of the Wei State Mansion, that gang of bandits kidnapped the cousin of the little grandfather Xu, and then seized the boat and went down the river, it was only this official who ordered someone to notify you to close the water gate to intercept them."

Li Rui concisely explained the cause and effect, and Dou Han suddenly realized.

"No wonder, no wonder the lower officials look at that group of people very strangely, it turns out that they are bandits who seized the boat."

He sighed with emotion: "When the lower officials pretended to faint, they heard that they were going to abandon the ship and take the land route, and now they should have gone to the direction of Xunxiang Town." ”

Ning Xiu said in a deep voice: "How do you know that they will definitely go to Xunxiang Town?" ”

"Since they are going to go overland, they must buy horses and wagons. The nearest town to this pier is Xunxiang Town. If you go to the county seat to buy horses and carriages, of course, you can also buy them. But I think they have a special status, so they shouldn't dare to be too ostentatious, right? ”

Ning Xiu nodded, this inspector's analysis made some sense.

"But we can't just bet on Xunxiang Town, the neighboring counties and towns have to send people to search."

Ning Xiu paused and said, "The key places to search include the mule and horse market and the car dealership. If they want to go far, they will definitely buy carriages and horses. Therefore we have to hold on to these places, and we will find their traces. ”

Li Rui pondered for a moment, and said loudly: "In this case, this official will send an order to let the county officials step up the investigation, especially pay attention to the car dealership, the mule and horse market and other places. ”

Xu Huaiyuan shook his head.

"I'm afraid that's not enough."

"Master Xu, please speak."

Li Rui hurriedly leaned over.

"What if they kill a rifle?"

Hiss!

Everyone gasped.

Xu Huaiyuan gave a very likely hypothesis. In the case that everyone judged that the robbers might buy carriages and horses to continue galloping, if they killed one of them and hid them, they could perfectly stagger the pursuit.

When Xu Huaiyuan and his party chased far away, they could swagger out. At that time, there was no problem whether it was by boat or by horse, horse-drawn carriage, and overland.

"What Grandpa Xu said is extremely true. It's just that if you want to prevent them from killing a horse gun, you have to strengthen patrols everywhere, and you may be overstretched. ”

As soon as Ning Xiu finished speaking, Xu Huaiyuan waved his hand and said, "There is no need to worry about manpower, I have already greeted the local health office, and it is a big deal that they will assign some people to come out to assist the local government." Presumably, Governor Li won't have an opinion here, right? ”

Li Ruilian claimed that it was. Now he only hopes to catch this gang of robbers and bring them to justice as soon as possible, and if the officers and soldiers of the guard station can help, of course he can't ask for it.

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Pursuing and arresting this kind of thing is not Ning Xiu's strong point, and he has his own government officials at the county level to arrest and inspect the officers and soldiers who are responsible. At most, he gave some personal suggestions, and it was up to Xu Huaiyuan and the prefect Li Rui to adopt it or not.

In this regard, Ning Xiu did not feel despised either. There is a sequence of hearing the Tao, there is a specialization in the art industry, his strength lies in the chemical industry, and he can occasionally drag two lines of poetry, which is already considered a demon level in the Ming Dynasty.

If you are proficient in pursuit and capture, I don't know how many people will vomit blood with jealousy.

Facts have proved that the reason why the state apparatus of Daming can operate normally is because there are a series of professionals who perform their duties.

The officials and inspectors laid a net of heaven and earth, and as long as there was any change in any part of the net, they could find it in time.

The final clue points to a car dealership.

Because of the burden of Yuzu Lemon Snow, the gang of robbers must have purchased a carriage.

If there are not a few people who buy horses, there are only a handful of people who buy carriages.

A horse-drawn carriage costs a lot, so a small local car dealer can't sell a dozen a month.

The shopkeeper Cui of the An Hechang Motorcycle Dealership reported to the inspection officers and soldiers that a group of people from other places who had come to his car dealership recently to buy a carriage with an accent from Nanjing.

The inspection officers and soldiers reported the news layer by layer, and finally spread it to the little grandfather Xu Huaiyuan.

Xu Huaiyuan was overjoyed when he heard this.

Nanjing accent, Nanjing accent!

He had already believed that it was the evil deeds done by Gao Yang, the son of Gao Yang, the eunuch of Nanjing, so most of the people Gao Sheng could contact were active in Nanjing or the generation of Nanzhili.

Most of the people in these places speak the standard Fengyang official dialect, and the shopkeeper Cui of the Anhechang car dealer said that the outsiders have a Nanjing accent, isn't it in line with his inference?

After a brief discussion with Governor Li, Xu Huaiyuan mobilized manpower and chased him in the direction pointed out by Shopkeeper Cui.

Although this direction is only an approximation, Xu Huaiyuan is more confident. Because he knew that this gang of robbers would eventually go to Nanjing, so no matter how they bypassed, they couldn't escape the net laid by Xu Huaiyuan.

Now that the waterway has been cut off, and the robbers have limited land options, Xu Huaiyuan believes that it will not be long before this group of robbers will be active.

However, Ning Xiu was a little worried. The Ming Dynasty had a very strict road guidance system, and ordinary people had to have a road guide when they went out to run errands for more than 100 miles.

A guide is a form of identification that tells you where you're coming from and where you're going. The road guide will be stamped with the seal of the government, so it is extremely difficult to falsify.

But it is extremely difficult to cheat does not mean that it cannot be done, Ning Xiu once bought a fake road guide through Sun Wufan's relationship, and used this fake road guide to pretend to be a cloth trader, and sold Chu Wanglun to Kaifeng Mansion.

As long as you have a relationship with the government, it is not difficult to be a fake road guide.

Since that gang of robbers has an inextricable relationship with the White Lotus Sect, they must have great magical powers, and if they want to make a batch of false road guides, it can be said that they can be caught.

With a guide, it is equivalent to having a fake identity, and it will be much more difficult to track it down.

Ning Xiu even suspected that these robbers would prepare several different types of road guides, which could be replaced at any time for different situations and different escape routes.

He also told Xu Huaiyuan about his worries, but Grandpa Xu smiled and said that the fake road guide could not help the robbers escape. Because the main road checkpoints leading to Nanjing have been plastered with portraits of pomelo and lemon snow, as soon as the officers and soldiers find someone similar to the portrait, they will immediately detain it.

Xu Huaiyuan's trick of 'I'd rather kill a thousand by mistake than let go of one' was naturally ruthless, and Ning Xiu didn't say much, so he got off the donkey and said a few words.

However, after a few days, there was no clue to track down, and the gang of robbers was like a paper kite with a broken thread.

Xu Huaiyuan couldn't sit still now, and was furious at the officials, and even Governor Li was scolded.

However, these magistrates of Jingzhou Mansion still have no seizure. After all, the people disappeared in the Jingzhou territory, and they could not escape the blame.

The prefect Li Rui suggested to Xu Huaiyuan that he write a letter to Wei Guogong and ask Wei Guogong to use his position as the governor of the Chinese military to mobilize the officers and soldiers of the Nanzhili Guard to assist the soldiers of Jingzhou Mansion in the search.

Xu Huaiyuan thought for a moment and categorically rejected this suggestion.

There are two reasons, one is that he doesn't want his father to know about his cousin's distress. Second, if his father really mobilized Nan Zhili's guard army to assist in the search, even if he finally found his cousin, he would be in trouble.

None of the imperial historians of the Metropolitan Procuratorate were fuel-efficient lamps. They have long looked at Wei Guogong, the head of the military generals and nobles, and they are not pleasing to the eye, but it is only because they can't catch the handle because the Wei Guogong Mansion follows the rules, so they have been safe.

If they knew that Wei Guogong had mobilized officers and soldiers for private affairs, the impeachment would not have to fly to the palace like snowflakes?

Although Xu Huaiyuan is not the heir to the title of Duke of Wei and is destined to be unable to inherit the title in the future, he can't help but think about his family.

What's more, he is also a small sapling attached to this towering tree, and there are eggs under the nest, so he can't let anything happen that puts the Wei Mansion in danger.

Although Xu Huaiyuan rejected Governor Li's proposal, he also gave another solution. He said that he could negotiate with the Jinyiwei Yamen and investigate the matter through Jinyiwei's relationship.

Of course, this matter cannot be brought forward by the Wei State Mansion, but must be led by the prefect Li Rui.

Li Rui has been an official in officialdom for many years, and he only heard what Xu Huaiyuan meant.

Xu Huaiyuan didn't want to give someone a handle, so he wouldn't give Li Rui any tokens. But Li Rui can take advantage of the power of the Wei Mansion to negotiate with Jinyiwei. In this way, no matter whether Jinyi Wei agrees to help or not, the Duke of Wei and Xu Huaiyuan will not be taken care of.

As for the energy of Jinyiwei, it is naturally not to be underestimated.

Although the local Jinyi guards did not have as many methods as those of the Beijing Division, they were not comparable to ordinary officials who were quick to catch and inspect officers and soldiers.

For Jin Yiwei, tracking down and arresting robbers only needs to use a network, which is a matter of pushing the boat along the river.

Now it depends on whether Jinyiwei is willing to sell the face of the Wei State Mansion.

If the people of the local Jinyi Guard are really willing to make a move, then Li Rui believes that he is one step closer to finding Yu Lingxue.

Li Rui immediately said that he would do his best to handle this matter well, and led a group of relatives to negotiate with Jinyiwei.

Of course, what Li Rui can negotiate with is only Jinyiwei under the jurisdiction of Jingzhou. Once the robbers left Jingzhou, they were beyond the reach of the whip.

Just in case, Xu Huaiyuan asked Sun Wufan to write a letter and asked Governor Sun to come forward to take care of the Jinyi Guard Yamen in the jurisdiction of the rest of the prefectures in Huguang.

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