Chapter 165: Catching the Shadow
The three little girls abandoned the car and walked north, chattering along the way about the vulture tail changing its appearance, which made Zhu Zhitong itch so much that she wanted to learn a few tricks.
"Sister Eagletail is too strict, I don't know if she is willing to teach or not."
"What does it matter if you refuse, the princess can go to Tsukushi-sama. When the adults open their mouths, Sister Washio will definitely teach them. β
Eagle Tail was not there, Ah Kui and Ah Teng were both ridiculous and unscrupulous, and Zhu Zhitong was not embarrassed.
Suddenly, Aoi pointed forward.
"Look, isn't that Tsukushi-sama and Washio-sama?"
Zhu Zhitong looked at it, and it was really good.
She rushed forward, only to see Qiu Yue standing with a solemn expression, and Eagle Tail squatting on the ground as if checking something, and her face was even more ugly.
"What's wrong? What did you find? β
"Your Highness, come and see, this place is the place where the mission camped that day, what clues can you see?"
Zhu Zhitong looked around.
It's an old forest, not dense, but there are plenty of large and small bushes, and the rest is nothing special.
"I don't see what's wrong?"
"When camping, most of them will choose a place with a wide field of vision on flat ground, and there is no obstruction in all directions, so it is easy to set up a guard at night. In such a dense jungle, if you want to rob people, it is not difficult to ambush forty or fifty people in advance. β
"You mean...... Dasu was hijacked here? Zhu Zhitong looked incredulous, "There is an embassy here to escort it, and it is also very close to the tun army by the river, who is so bold and dares to come and hijack?" β
Qiu Yue shook her head and said, "Judging from the traces left after camping, there are not many guards for them, and there are only more than thirty tents. With such a small number of people, they only had to camp on the riverside and be guarded by the troops at the ferry, so why should they go far and enter this forest to camp? β
"But, how can you conclude that Dasu was kidnapped?"
Akizuki looked at Eagletail, who was scrutinizing the ground, who was carefully picking up a dead leaf from the ground and scraping it with his fingernails.
"Your Highness, please see." Eagle Tail said as he stretched out the leaves and fingernails to Zhu Zhitong's eyes.
If you look closely, there is a thin layer of purple on the nails and leaves.
"What is this?"
"This is the fog shadow dispersion that we often use in fog hidden currents." Eagletail replied with a grim face.
Qiu Yue saw that Zhu Zhitong was unclear, and explained: "The fog shadow scattering is quite useful, as large as a ship as big as a serpentine ship can also hide in the fog, as small as hiding a person, a car or a thing, just scatter it in the air, and then take a light fire to bake some hot gas out, it can form a cloud of smoke nearby, which can last for seven or eight hours at long." After this thing is used, it will leave a purple powder on the ground. There are more than 30 tents here, and only the ground within a radius of 20 steps here has found traces of this fog and shadow, indicating that someone had been hiding here at that time. β
"Yes...... But isn't this your Liuxia country's thing? How did it end up here? β
Eagle Tail said hatefully: "It's Lin Tongsheng!" Extrapolating from the date, the surviving people of our Liuxia country were in trouble at that time, and they were avoiding disaster at sea. He is the only one who can use fog and shadow to disperse and make waves in a foreign country. As long as this man is still alive, I will avenge my father! β
"But why did Lin Tongsheng kidnap Da Su! Isn't he in the same league as Wen Hegui? But Dasu didn't offend Wen Hegui either. No, it won't! Wen Hegui and that Lin Tongsheng are so capable, if they wanted to kill people on Nanhua Island that day, they would have done it a long time ago, how could they send us back to Taiye City? Zhu Zhitong heard that Da Su was kidnapped by someone like Steward Lin, and felt that there was a lot of luck, and he was already panicked.
Thinking that day, Steward Lin instantly killed the three masters of the Baisha Battalion, which she saw with her own eyes. With such a master, how can Dasu be the enemy?
She tried her best to hold her mind and reluctantly argued: "But the fog and shadow only disappear the trace, and it can't be said that it is a hijacking." β
Eagletail shook his head and said, "I have checked the place where the powder remains of the fog and shadow, it is from here to the mountain road behind the forest, and after the mountain road is a lake, the sound of the waterfall is deafening, if a person is abducted there, no matter how big the movement is, it is really a good place to do it." I ambushed someone here in advance, and I calculated the way back, saying that it was not a hijacking but just a loss, which is unreasonable. β
Qiu Yue continued: "And I don't think this matter is so simple, as I deduced just now, there is a better place to camp, but I have to come to this forest to camp. If it was hijacked, how could it be predicted that the mission would not camp by the river? There must be someone in the regiment who responds! β
ββ¦β¦ There are moles in the mission? The more Zhu Zhitong listened, the more frightened she became.
Qiu Yue muttered: "How to set up camp should be common sense in the army, even if the person leading the regiment is a civilian official who does not know the method of marching, the regiment must be equipped with a military attachΓ©, and it is impossible not to remind him." So I think it's very suspicious that the person who decided to camp in the woods is very suspicious. Do you dare to ask Your Highness if you know what military attachΓ©s were in the mission at that time? β
Zhu Zhitong thought for a while and said, "I heard that it is a general surnamed Cao, and Dasu once said that he is a loyal and honest person. Do you think this General Cao is suspicious? β
Qiu Yue shook her head and said, "I can't say this. β
Zhu Zhitong suddenly thought of something, and said: "But this General Cao is a little strange, he first escorted my aunt Princess Yinquan back to China, and when he arrived at this Binzhou border, he was robbed by the Imulans, and later my eldest sister sent someone to mediate and rescued him." β
Qiu Yueqi said: "How did such a reckless person come to take on the important task of escorting the mission this time?" Isn't it unladylike to employ people? β
"At first, I was a little strange, I heard Da Su say that it seemed to be someone recommended by Ye Zhiqiu."
Ye Zhiqiu...... Who is it? β
"It is the person who led the group this time, who is the secretary of the Ministry of Rites of Cangwu Kingdom, and also the official marriage envoy who came to Bihai to ask for a marriage between the two countries."
"The Book of Rites...... A civilian official who doesn't know the art of war? β
"It should be."
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Qiu Yue frowned and thought about it carefully, and suddenly became enlightened.
"That's it, in my opinion, this person is not only familiar with the art of war, but also very well."
"What does that mean?"
"The captors must have been well aware of the mission's itinerary. Your Highness, please think about it, on the way back to China, there is Liu Mingyan's heavy escort from Taiye City to the Hanjiang River, and once the river is crossed, there will inevitably be an army of guards who will respond. Then after Liu Mingyan left, the night before crossing the river became the weakest corner of the guards, and it was also the best time to rob people. Since Ye Zhiqiu is the person who leads the group, he must know this better than anyone else. β
Qiu Yue ignored Zhu Zhitong's look of surprise and continued.
"It's not enough to know the itinerary, you have to set up the camp in the forest, not by the river, so as not to alarm the garrison by the river. The military attache who accompanied him was either deliberate or could not resist the insistence of the person leading the regiment, otherwise it would not have been possible not to remind him of the things that were not suitable for camping in the forest. This general surnamed Cao once neglected his duty to protect Princess Yinquan, and he could also be recommended as a regimental guard, which is strange, and the person who recommended him is still Ye Zhiqiu, so he must be obedient to this Ye Zhiqiu. So I think the real mastermind should be this person named Ye Zhiqiu, the general surnamed Cao, but just one of his pawns. It's better to say that Ye Zhiqiu took a fancy to his foolishness at the beginning, and he didn't know who recommended him again. In this way, he chose to camp on the eve of crossing the river, and stayed in the forest, and then let Lin Tongsheng's people rob people in one go. The only one who can do this is this Ye Zhiqiu. β
Zhu Zhitong stared at Qiu Yue blankly for a while before muttering:
"It's impossible, it's impossible!"
"Does Your Highness think there's something wrong with what I'm saying?"
"You're right, you're right! But that's not possible! β
"Why is Your Highness so sure?"
"Because ......" Zhu Zhitong shouted almost desperately: "Because Ye Zhiqiu is Da Su's uncle!" As soon as these words came out, everyone froze.
Rao is thoughtful Qiu Yue didn't expect that Ye Zhiqiu and Su Xiaochen would have such a relationship, but he still felt that this Ye Zhiqiu was suspicious and difficult to get rid of.
"Your Highness, I want to ask, since Master Su disappeared, is there any news from Cangwu Country?"
"No ......"
"Then the Cangwu Kingdom didn't ask for anyone from the Blue Sea Country?"
"No ......"
"Doesn't Your Highness think it's strange?"
Zhu Zhitong looked at Qiu Yue with a very helpless look.
"I went to ask my sister a few times, but she was absent-minded, and she lost someone over there, but she didn't ask her, so she became more and more indifferent. I really had no one to turn to, so I had to run out on my own...... Unexpectedly, it was really hijacked? β
Zhu Zhitong suddenly grabbed Qiu Yue's sleeve and begged: "Qiu Yuejun, you are so smart, and Lin Tongsheng's matter is so clear, can you help me and help me save Da Su from him?" I...... I'll be sure to thank you when I look back. β
Qiu Yue hurriedly helped her.
"This is what I promised His Highness, how can I help me. What's more, Lin Tongsheng is a sinner in our Liuxia Kingdom, Eagletail and I will not let him go, we will definitely find him and rescue Master Su! β
After speaking, he immediately settled down and commanded:
"This is the place where the two countries meet, and after Master Su was kidnapped, he couldn't tell which direction he was going, and Eagle Tail said that there was a mountain behind the forest, and there was a road in the mountain, and that was a direction. But crossing the river into Cangwu is also a direction. In short, before we are sure what Lin Tongsheng's plan is, we can only cast a wide net and search separately. Eagletail, since you have found a way behind the mountain......"
Qiu Yue just wanted to say that he asked Eagletail to go north to search alone, but suddenly saw a trace of loneliness flashing in Eagletail's eyes, and immediately understood.
She wanted to walk with her.
Fang was harsh with her words, Qiu Yue already had some remorse in her heart, and immediately changed her words:
"Aten, you go to the back of the mountain to search, if there is a clue, find a way to find us to report the news. Eagletail, you and I will accompany Your Highness across the river together, and it will be much more convenient for me to be by your side. β
When Eagletail heard this, his eyes suddenly became happy, and his face still responded lightly: "Yes." β
"Ah Kui, you hurry back to the south bank, tell the clan uncle Zongzhi, and ask him to send a smaller serpentine ship to carry us across the river, and we will wait for the boat on the south bank later. After you finish conveying the order, bring a few more masters of the Fog Hidden Sect to the north to help Ato search for Master Su. β
Ah Kui answered, and instantly disappeared into the forest.
Zhu Zhitong was puzzled and asked, "Let's cross the river...... Into the canopy? But Cangwu is so big, where do you want to find Dasu? β
Qiu Yue smiled and said: "I crossed the river to visit and take a look, as long as you have a heart, you can always find some clues." Your Highness rest assured, even if I go to Wanhua DΓ¬DΕ« and find Ye Zhiqiu all the way, I will definitely accompany Your Highness! β
"Autumn Moon ......"
Zhu Zhitong looked at the autumn moon with eyes like bright stars, and even skipped the "Jun" that Su Ri called for a while. Qiu Yue listened to it in her ears, and she seemed to be a little closer, and she felt a little happy in her heart.
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