Back on the plank road, Lu Jinping found that the body of the black-clothed killer who attacked them last night on the plank road was still left on the plank road, but the body of the casualty catcher and the plum blossom guard was gone, and it was obviously taken away by Ye Qingqing and them.

The two of them flew forward along the plank road on the snow sculpture, and the snow sculpture could not last long, so they stopped and rested for a while to recover their strength before they could continue to fly forward.

Even so, it was enough to make them much faster than they could normally walk on the boardwalk. So at noon, they saw more than a dozen families on a gentle hillside from a distance, which was the location of the post station where the more than 100-mile plank road rested and sharpened halfway.

So, they let the snow sculpture land not far from the entrance of the village, and then the two walked into the small village.

At the entrance of the village, there was a catcher who was on guard, and when he saw them coming, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly stepped forward to bow down and salute, saying, "Lord, have you come back safely?" It's just wonderful. ”

Lu Jinping hurriedly asked, "How is it?" Did the enemy continue to attack you last night? ”

The catcher hurriedly said, "No." After you rode away on the eagle, the enemy also disappeared without a trace, and we walked all the way along the plank road to here. It's just that the young girls are in a hurry and are going crazy, so go quickly, prince. ”

Lu Jinping knew that this little girl was worried about herself, smiled, and looked back at Xiaoxiao.

Xiaoxiao stuck out her tongue and followed Lu Jinping forward quickly.

Catch the front and lead the way, and take them to the village inn. The inn was already on guard. Seeing Lu Jinping, they were all overjoyed and bowed down. Lu Jinping quickly stepped into the courtyard.

In the courtyard, Ye Qingqing had already heard the voice of the guards outside greeting the prince, and he was surprised and rushed out.

When I arrived at the courtyard, I saw Lu Jinping. Immediately flew over like a bird, threw himself into his arms, grabbed his hand and looked up and down, and cried and laughed and said with tears: "You...... Are you okay......? ”

Lu Jinping held her face with both hands and said, "Little girl, I see you crying like a little cat, what's the matter with me?" ”

"I saw those men shooting arrows at you last night. It scared me to death, and then your snow sculpture fell down on the other side of the mountain, and I couldn't find it. ”

The plum blossom guard next to him smiled and quipped: "Qingqing girl didn't sleep all night, standing at the entrance of the village waiting for you, until almost dawn, we pulled her back, saying that the lord has a Xiaoxiao girl to guard, it will definitely be fine, isn't this safe back?" ”

Xiaoxiao looked at Lu Jinping affectionately: "Where is I guarding him." It was clearly he who saved me. Thankfully, everyone is safe. ”

At this time, Xiong Zhutou came out of the house, grinned and hugged his fists with Lu Jinping, and the Dali Temple Cheng and the scribe of the torture room also came out to give a salute.

Lu Jinping said to Xiaoxiao: "I think of a way now, don't we have an eagle?" You are sitting on a large eagle eagle and patrolling the sky, isn't it more clear than if we sent people to walk from the cliff to see if there is an enemy ambush? The enemy did not expect that we would observe from the air, like this. We can anticipate the enemy before we do. ”

Xiaoxiao nodded happily and said, "It's a good idea, without further ado." It is not advisable to stay here for long, and if the enemy finds out that we have returned, they will attack us. We must leave the plank road as soon as possible, as long as we leave this dangerous Shu road and enter the wide terrain, we are not afraid of their sneak attack. ”

Xiaoxiao asked the catcher to pick up a small bag of gravel. Then he carried the snow sculpture and said to Xiaoxiao to Lu Jinping: "I found traces of enemies in the air, I will solve them directly, and you can follow the plank road with confidence." ――I didn't think of this before, it's stupid. ”

Lu Jinping said: "This is called groping for experience in actual combat. I didn't think of this trick before, we actually have air power, why don't we use it? ”

Xiaoxiao stuck out her tongue and turned over on the snow sculpture.

The snow sculpture jumped into the air and flew forward, and then slowly slid forward, and Lu Jinping and the others immediately followed far away and continued to move forward along the plank road.

I couldn't go far, and suddenly, the snow sculpture riding by Xiaoxiao in the air fell down.

Xiaoxiao shot countless stones from the snow sculpture, and then a scream rang out from below.

There were scattered arrows shooting at the snow sculptures from the trees. However, the snow sculpture is at a distance that is just outside the maximum range that a bow can shoot diagonally upwards. Therefore, the arrows did not reach the snow sculpture and fell.

And Xiaoxiao launched stones from top to bottom on top of the snow sculpture, and it was easy to hit from top to bottom, and it was able to hit farther, not to mention Xiaoxiao's peerless martial arts, and the flying stones displayed were even more powerful.

The killers lurking in the bushes could not be seen under her watchful eye from above, and they were shot and killed.

The rest of the shooters tried to escape, but how could they escape the speed of the dashing snow sculpture, and they were caught up and sniped one by one.

In just one meal, most of the killers and archers hidden up and down the plank road died under Xiaoxiao's attack. Xiaoxiao deliberately left a few killers not killed, but wounded. Especially the enemy located in the woods near the plank road, so Lu Jinping and the others can easily find the killer who has been seriously injured, and after catching it, they will ask for a confession.

However, to Lu Jinping's disappointment, despite the torture methods they used, what they got was that these killers were all from various sects and factions in the rivers and lakes, and they were hired to come here to ambush them. The hired people paid a lot of money, and they participated in the ambush driven by profits, and as for who hired them, this is not the case, but it is clear that different people hired them, and the hired people are all wearing masks and have no idea what they look like.

As Xiaoxiao successfully cleared the ambushed killer. As a result, when Lu Jinping and the others walked forward from below, they did not encounter any attacks. After Xiaoxiao killed these killers hidden in the bushes, she continued to patrol along the plank road on the snow sculptures, and I don't know if it was because there was no ambush in front of her, or because the previous wave of killers was easily solved by Xiaoxiao, which caused a shock to the enemy, so as to withdraw the ambushers, anyway, the road behind was calm, and there was no attack.

The snow sculpture carries a person on its back and still can't continue to fly for a long time. Therefore, every time they have to stop and rest to recover their strength, at this time, Lu Jinping and they are not in a hurry to move forward, so they also stop and rest.

And in the evening, they reached the next village.

The village was relatively open, and they were not afraid of the enemy taking advantage of the terrain to attack them, so they slept peacefully. And the enemy did not launch a strong attack.

After a few days, they finally stepped out of the difficult plank road and into the rolling mountains. Although it is still a mountain road, it is relatively better than the Shifeng Mountain where the master humiliates the sword-rattling, and it has not encountered a strong enemy attack since then.

They came outside the city of Bazhou. Bazhou Assassin Shi Xue Peng took the officials of Bazhou City to greet them ten miles outside the city, and the stars welcomed Lu Jinping and them into Bazhou.

Before this, Lu Jinping had already told his subordinates not to say anything about the attack of a strong enemy on their way. They didn't say the number of people who came, so Xue Tingshi and the others didn't know that Lu Jinping and they encountered an ambush by a dangerous and powerful enemy on the way.

The reception banquet also gathered all the squires and celebrities, and drank a good time.

Although Lu Jinping has always wanted to devote himself to the investigation work as soon as possible, he still has to deal with this kind of situation. However, he had something on his mind, so he didn't let go of the drink, and just said that it was over.

Since the prince didn't want to drink heavily, of course the people below didn't dare to get themselves drunk. So the banquet was just a ceremonial affair and ended quickly.

Then, Lu Jinping asked Dali Temple to take the scribe to start recording prisoners. And he called Thorn Shi into the house, closed the door, and asked in detail what happened.

Assassin Shi was very calm at the beginning, and when he could talk about this, he was so frightened that he even stammered a little when he spoke: "Sir, it's too good time for you to come, if you don't come again, I'm afraid that you won't be able to calm it, these exiled people, just yesterday, were almost about to riot, and I sent all the catchers, soldiers, and people to the scene." I had to give them a promise to give me a few days to find out, give them an explanation, improve the food, reduce the working hours, etc., so that in the end there was no big mess. However, this is only a matter of dealing with it in the first place, and if this terrible murder happens again, it will be uncontrollable. ”

Lu Jinping said: "Could it be that there was another murder during this time?" ”

"Yes, three more before the last report, three more in the interim, a total of eight people died, and all of them were felons in the penal camp, but it still happened under increased vigilance, which is really unbelievable. The old hunter came to see it and thought that it could not be a beast, and besides, we had strengthened our vigilance, and the beast could not enter, so the exile center had been rumored that there were mountain demons who were haunting them, and they panicked and almost wanted to flee. ”

Lu Jinping said: "Where is the exile? ”

"Further from Bazhou, more than 50 miles away, there is a place called Ranshigang, where the convicts of these penal colonies mainly beat stones to make coolies, and the stones were used to pave roads, and some were transported to the Bazhou River to build embankments."

Lu Jinping said in a deep voice: "In this case, without further ado, let's set off immediately and rush to the penal center." Dali Temple and they stayed here to record prisoners, and we can go. ”

Xue Tingshi hurriedly agreed, and then immediately made arrangements, and after simply cleaning up, he took the officials of the Bazhou Yamen and set off for the penal colony.

Lu Jinping took Meihua Neiwei Xiaoxiao, Ye Qingqing and some of them to the penal colony. By the time we arrived at the penal colony, it was already evening.

The commander of the exile station, surnamed Wang, had received the news and came with his subordinates to greet the prince.

Lu Jinping couldn't help but smile bitterly when he saw Commander Wang, in the end, it was not a border defense, this commander had big shoulders and a round waist, a fat head and big ears, and he didn't have the momentum of a military general who was charging into battle. It's just a brain-fat bureaucrat who eats. (To be continued.) )