Chapter 20: One Step Late

Zhao Junsheng didn't care about his face at this time, and he didn't have a reputation in the rivers and lakes at all, so he quickly rolled on the ground with a few lazy donkeys and dodged the spear that stabbed straight in.

Qin Sitong did not give up and stopped, quickened his pace, and the spear in his hand continued to stab.

Zhao Junsheng continued to roll quickly on the ground, but he didn't want to roll over a corpse, he endured the discomfort and quickly grabbed the corpse in front of him.

With a "poof", the corpse was pierced by Qin Sitong's spear, the tip of the spear pierced the tip of Zhao Junsheng's nose, and there was a drop of blood dripping on his nose, and a pungent smell of blood stimulated him to hit a spirit, and he struggled to lean back and pushed the corpse towards Qin Sitong.

Qin Sitong was furious, his hands were raised, and the corpse was thrown out of the spear by him, but at this time, Zhao Junsheng had already turned over and got up, and raised his hand is a flying needle.

Qin Sitong instinctively sensed the danger, and swung the spear at great speed, and the long rod of the spear made a "ding" sound and knocked an embroidery needle away, but he let out a scream of "ah" in his mouth, it turned out that he only knocked off an embroidery needle, and an embroidery needle shot on his right knee, and involuntarily knelt on the ground on one knee.

Zhao Junsheng's spirit was greatly lifted, his right hand was raised again, and two embroidery needles shot out again, Qin Sitong's reaction speed in pain was greatly reduced, and his left knee was also hit by an embroidery needle, both knees were on the ground, and he lost his ability to move, he wanted to get up forcibly, but his knees were like needles and bursts of pain, which was really unbearable.

Taking advantage of Qin Sitong's injury and pain, Zhao Junsheng once again fired two embroidery needles in a row, which were placed on his two arms, making him completely lose his mobility.

With a sound of "dang", Qin Sitong's spear remained on the ground, and the two arms struggled to exert their strength but the pain was extremely high, and finally they hung down weakly.

The last embroidery needle appeared between Zhao Junsheng's fingers, but he hesitated but didn't launch it, got up and picked up the steel knife and rushed over to cut it down.

Qin Sitong's face showed a look of horror, and he endured the sharp pain in his shoulder and wanted to grab the spear again, but as soon as he grabbed the spear, Zhao Junsheng's steel knife had already slashed through his neck, and with a snort, Qin Sitong's head rolled to the ground, and blood sprayed all over the ground.

Zhao Junsheng put the knife into the sheath, sat on the ground and gasped violently, rested for a while before he had the strength to get up, only then did he feel that his whole body was half falling apart, and the pain was terrible, he sighed in his heart, although he had been meditating and practicing internal force at night for more than ten days, but the time was still short, and the internal force cultivated could only give rise to embroidery needles, but he couldn't use internal force to resist the knife, it seemed that this body was still too weak, and he had to take time to practice and polish more.

He endured the pain all over his body and picked up the spear next to Qin Sitong's corpse, and found that this spear was actually not a spear, it should be said that it was a gun, and the barrel of this gun was made of unknown materials, and it had been soaked in tung oil for at least three years, and its toughness, elasticity and hardness were very strong.

He took it in his hand and played with it, feeling quite comfortable, there happened to be a "Yang Family Marksmanship" that needed a gun to be used, so he decided to take this spear away.

At this time, after an afternoon of horseback riding, coupled with his fierce fight just now, he was already hungry in his stomach, so he hurriedly took out the braised beef and baked cakes brought out of the wine shop in the afternoon and ate them, and ate them all in one breath before stopping.

After eating and drinking, he had the strength again, took the two horses out of the bushes in the dark, made a new torch, lit it, stepped on horseback, and hurried to Xie Jiaji overnight by moonlight.

The light was too dark at night, and the horse didn't dare to run too fast, no matter how Zhao Junsheng called, the speed just couldn't get up, and he didn't run until dawn and didn't run to Xie Jiaji.

In the morning, he passed by a small town called Yangliu Town, bought a little food in the town, and continued to hurry after eating, but he never caught up with Mulan and her herd, and his premonition in his heart became worse and worse.

Near noon, Zhao Junsheng finally arrived at Xiejiaji, which is a border market, about one hundred and twenty miles away from Suiyang City and Huajiabao, although it is the territory of the Northern Wei Dynasty, but there is no army deployed here, only some Jiding is responsible for maintaining law and order, there are not only merchants of the Northern Wei Dynasty, but also merchants of Liu Song, who often conduct large transactions here.

Zhao Junsheng dismounted at the gate of the Xie family set wall, and asked a collector standing guard at the gate: "This soldier brother, have you seen a group of people driving a large number of horses to Xie Jiaji?" After saying that, he handed over a few copper coins.

Jiding took the copper coin and sneered: "Brother, you are stupid, although this is a special market set up by my Great Wei in order to strengthen trade with Liu Song in the south, but the trade of a large number of horses is forbidden by my Great Wei, if anyone sells horses to Liu Song of the Southern Dynasty, once caught, it will be over!" ”

Didn't come to Xie Jiaji? Impossible! Zhao Junsheng fell into a daze for a while.

"But ······" The episode said again, but he didn't finish it.

Zhao Junsheng still didn't understand, there must be a mystery in this, he immediately took out another handful of copper coins and secretly stuffed it, and said: "Brother, it's a little meaning, drink some wine, it's not a tribute!" ”

Jiding quietly accepted the money, leaned into Zhao Junsheng's ear and whispered: "I heard that the pine forest ten miles away to the east is a black market trading place!" ”

Zhao Junsheng's spirit was shocked, and after hugging his fists and thanking him, he stepped on his horse and bypassed Xie Jiaji, and quickly galloped towards the pine forest ten miles to the east. He can now be 100% sure that Tian Lang's search for Mulan to buy a horse should be a trap set by Yao Desheng, although Yao Desheng was killed by Jun Zilan that night, but this matter does not seem to end with Yao Desheng's death, what role did this Tian Lang play in it?

The anxiety in Zhao Junsheng's heart can be imagined, he desperately waved the horsewhip and whipped the horse's buttocks, and soon bypassed Xie Jiaji, but he only ran for two or three miles before he saw a large group of soldiers and horses appear in front of him.

As this group of soldiers and horses got closer and closer, Zhao Junsheng's feeling became worse and worse, and there were more than 100 cavalry divided into four columns, and more than 20 people in the middle were tied with ropes, and their hands were strung together in a long line, walking weakly, and there were cavalrymen on both sides staring at them with spears, and then behind was a prisoner cart, and there was a person sitting in the prisoner cart.

Zhao Junsheng saw clearly that the person in the prisoner car turned out to be Mulan, and his brain was stunned for a moment, and he lost his thinking ability in an instant, but he quickly came back to his senses, looked at Mulan with an anxious face, and unconsciously clenched the spear wrapped in cloth.

Hua Mulan also saw Zhao Junsheng at this time, she was very surprised that he appeared here, and saw his tired face, obviously he didn't sleep all night and rushed over, at this time she found Zhao Junsheng's strange appearance, worried that he would come nonsense, and hurriedly shook her head at him, signaling him not to move.

Zhao Junsheng gritted his teeth, endured his worries and distress, and watched as Hua Mulan and the burgers of Huajiabao were escorted by these Northern Wei cavalry to pass in front of him one by one.

At this time, he found a strange phenomenon, in addition to Hua Mulan and more than a dozen Huajiabao burgers wearing uniform clothes, there were more than a dozen people among the people who were arrested, these people were unknown, but Zhao Junsheng speculated that it should be Tian Lang's people, but there was no Tian Lang among these arrested people, Tian Lang must have run away!

Zhao Junsheng watched as Mulan and the burghers of Huajiabao and the more than a thousand horses they sent were escorted away by this cavalry, he turned his head and kept watching, but his mind was running at high speed about how to rescue Mulan and the burghers of Huajiabao.

If you want to save them, you must find a way to exonerate them, and it is absolutely impossible to do so, how to exonerate them? You have to find a way to prove that Mulan fell into someone else's trap, and it is not clear that the other party is a businessman of the Liu and Song dynasties of the Southern Dynasty, but how to prove it?

Witnesses, yes, to find witnesses! Zhao Junsheng was shocked when he thought of this, so that the trick Yao Desheng was dead, but his two entourages knew the inside story, and now these two people should be locked up in the backyard of his clothing shop, but they still need a person to prove - Tian Lang!

Where is Tian Lang? This guy must have been at the scene at the time of the transaction, Hua Mulan and the others were caught by the Northern Wei cavalry who suddenly appeared when they were trading with Tian Lang, Tian Lang should have taken the opportunity to slip away, if Tian Lang did not appear, the transaction would not have taken place, and if there was no transaction, the Northern Wei army would not have arrested people, because only by catching the evidence at the transaction scene can the crime be confirmed.

Zhao Junsheng thought about it for a while and decided to go to the black market where the pine forest was located to explore, and he immediately galloped towards the pine forest.