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Bidding farewell to Jiang Sheng, the two went back to the small inn to settle the store money, and hurried out of the city, at this time it was already dark, and walked along a big road for half the night, and did not meet the inn, the two found a sheltered place, tied the horses, and spent the night in the corn and orange pile in the field.

When I woke up the next morning, I looked into the distance, and saw that there was a town three or two miles ahead, and Hu Xuan smiled: "There must be an inn not far from there, but we couldn't see it last night, so we slept in the field." ”

When he came to the town, he saw two men on horseback from afar, and they had posted something on the high wall at the corner of the town, and then they rode away, and some of the early risers of the town gathered around and looked up.

"There's a notice there?" Hu Xuan said. The two men walked over and stood behind the man and looked, and the sign read:

Folks: The day before yesterday, the old man Pang Meng of Jixiang Village wanted to marry the daughter of the Wu family in the village to be a child, but the Wu girl did not obey, and fled with the village adulterer, and now the Wu woman has been captured, and the adulterer is on the run, please cooperate with the villagers to arrest them, and those who report conclusive information will be rewarded with ten pieces of silver, and those who are arrested will be rewarded with fifty pieces of silver. Another: On the sixth day of this month, the old man Pang Meng got married, and he invited all the neighbors to the banquet to congratulate him. Date.

When the two saw it, they couldn't help but be furious, and Shi Suo shouted: "Isn't this a robbery of people's girls? Since people don't obey, can they be caught and married? Is there still a royal law? ”

Hu Shuan pulled the stone lock, and then asked the villager next to him: "Big brother, who is this Pang Meng master?" ”

The man said, "He is a big family in Jixiang Village, five miles away from this land, and his family has thousands of acres of fertile land, and he is the richest man in the local area." ”

"Can the richest man rob people like this?" Shi Suo's eyes were still wide in anger.

The man shook his head and stopped talking. Hu Shuan asked several people, and they all said that they "don't know" and "don't know" about this matter. When asked what kind of person this Pang Meng was, some said, "I don't know," and some said, "I haven't heard of any bad reputation." ”

Shi Suo said beside him: "No need to ask, it must be that this person is notorious, fierce and domineering, no one dares to speak ill of him around here, looking at the content of this notice, isn't it enough to understand?" ”

Hu Shuan pulled the stone lock to a secluded place and whispered, "What are you shouting in front of people, do you want to cause trouble?" No matter what, we can't let people arrest us first. ”

Shi Suo said: "No, this matter can't be let go, it's too arrogant to bully people like this, I have to go and smash this Pang Meng's wedding banquet." His anger did not subside, and his eyes were still as wide as brass bells.

Hu Xuan said: "Calm down, in this world now, are there still fewer arrogant people who bully people?" When we were in Tianjin, we let people arrest them for no reason? Who's reasoning with you? Let's let the Northern Army arrest the soldiers, the Southern Army arrest the soldiers, has anyone reasoned with you? As soon as he said this, Shi Suo calmed down some of his anger, shook his head, and sighed.

Hu Xuan continued: "What's the use of smashing his wedding banquet? We should find a way to rescue the woman surnamed Wu. Shi Suo said, "Yes, yes, yes." ”

At that moment, the two of them quietly discussed it and decided to find out the situation first before making plans. So he led the horse into the town, found a small inn to live in, and then went separately to find out the news.

At noon, Shi Suo came back, with a happy face, and said to Hu Xuan: "I went to Jixiang Village, and quietly asked, that Pang Meng, really a rich man, there is indeed a family surnamed Wu in the village, my daughter is in her twenties, I went to the Wu family to quietly inspect, the door is locked, and there is no one in sight." ”