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"You're beautiful!" Cheng Ziqin restrained his smile, turned over and got out of the hammock with a pretty face, helped him untie the rope of the hammock, tied it separately to the four trees, and said: "If you don't master the essentials at the beginning, you should tie the hammock between three or four trees, so that it won't tip over, and when you get used to it, you will slowly learn to sleep on two trees." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Yang Tashan patted his head: "I see that you are sleeping quite peacefully." ”

Cheng Ziqin returned to his hammock, turned over, and said, "Okay, go to sleep, get up and hurry at five o'clock tomorrow morning." ”

This hammock is tied to four trees, but it is very stable, Yang Tashan climbed on the hammock, shook his body, and his heart was steady.

At the fifth watch of the next day, Yang Tashan heard someone call him in his sleep: "Little lazy worm, get up, it's time for us to go." Yang Tashan opened his eyes and found that it was pitch black all around, and the moon didn't know where to hide, and even the stars were gone.

Although Yang Tashan is used to getting up early to practice, he doesn't get up on the fifth watch. Sleepy-eyed sat up in the hammock and rubbed his eyes: "This day...... It's not dawn yet! ”

"Okay, then you can go back to sleep, I'll go first!" Cheng Ziqin had already packed up the hammock, walked to the horse, untied the reins, turned over the horse, and beat the horse away.

"Whoa! You're really leaving me to walk away! Wait for me! Ziqin! ”

Yang Tashan hurriedly turned over and got off the hammock, hurriedly untied the rope, put the hammock away, clamped it under his armpit, turned over and got on the horse and was about to leave, but he didn't buy it when he stepped off the horse, and he didn't move his nest when he looked up and neighed. Yang Tashan remembered that he hadn't untied the reins yet, and hurriedly came down to untie the reins, so he rode his horse and chased down the mountain.

In a moment, I saw Cheng Ziqin. She just rode her horse slowly, and when she heard the shouting behind her, she didn't look back, and said with a smile: "Why don't you sleep?" If you want to catch fast, you can't enjoy pure happiness. ”

Yang Tashan rode a horse and walked side by side with her, rubbed his eyes, and said unconvinced: "Hmph, listening to you talk, it seems that you have been a hunter for a hundred years, isn't it just a few months of adulthood!" ”

"Although I was only a year ahead of you, my grandfather and my father were both fast hunters, and I have followed my grandfather and father around to investigate cases since I was a child, and I have much more experience in catching fast than you."

It is true that people are from a family of fast catchers, and Cheng Ziqin's professionalism also makes Yang Tashan have to admire.

The two rode down the mountain, and at dawn they came to a small river, washed and drank their horses, and then rode on their horses.

In this way, the two of them slept in the hammock at night, and got up and set off on the fifth watch, which can be described as a night trip, and finally arrived at the foot of the Great Wall at noon at noon, and finally arrived at the foot of the Great Wall.

As soon as they arrived at the entrance of the village, they heard a faint sound of crying, and the two felt slightly strange, and rode into the village, along the way they saw burned houses and corpses strewn on the side of the road, as well as villagers kneeling on the ground and crying.

Cheng Ziqin and Yang Tashan were even more puzzled, could it be that there were robbers in the village?

The two saw a white-haired old man on the side of the road, sitting on the ground, holding a male corpse and crying, the two turned over and dismounted, walked over to take a look, and saw that the corpse on the ground had been stabbed several times, and half of its head had been cut off, and they were all taken aback. Cheng Ziqin asked, "Old man?" Is something happening in the village? ”

The old man raised his teary eyes, saw the two of them wearing fast trapping clothes, and hurriedly got up to salute: "Two officials, last night, the Tatar cavalry attacked our village, not only robbed the grain, cattle and sheep, but also kidnapped the adult men and young women in the village!" My son resisted and was hacked to death by them. My son......"

Tatar is the name given to the Mongols under the Northern Yuan regime and the Mongols under the control of the Mongolian Plateau during the Ming Dynasty. Northern Shaanxi and Tatar border, the two armies often attack each other to harass and plunder, the Great Wall in this area is mostly built in the Qin Dynasty or even the Warring States Period, has long been in disrepair, there are gaps everywhere, the troops stationed are relatively few, mainly concentrated in Ningxia Guards, therefore, the Tatar cavalry often enter through the gap in the Great Wall to plunder, young men are captured to serve hard labor, and women are recorded as battalions. Yang Tashan and Cheng Ziqin glanced at each other, and they both thought of one thing, could Zhao Shun, the husband of the Wu family, the murdered woman they were looking for, also be captured by the Tatars, or would they also be hacked to death? In that case, the two men came all the way at night, but they would have found nothing.

Cheng Ziqin asked where Lizheng lived in the village, and the two rode to Lizheng's house, only to see a corpse in the courtyard, and an old woman with white hair was crying.

The two dismounted and entered the courtyard. Cheng Ziqin asked, "Old woman, do you live here?" ”

When the old woman saw that it was two people who were dressed in clothes, she wept loudly, pointed to the corpse of an old man on the ground, and said, "Dead, dead!" ”

The two comforted for a long time, the woman collected her tears, and said that it turned out that the arrest of Qingyang Mansion asked Li Zheng to monitor Zhao Shun, waiting for Shangguan to investigate, Li Zheng instructed the village Minzhuang to detain Zhao Shun in his own firewood shed, but he did not expect that the Tatar cavalry of several hundred people came to plunder the night before, and the detention of Minzhuang and Zhao Shun were captured, Li Zheng blocked and was hacked to death by Tatar soldiers.

Hearing this, the two of them were furious. Although it was not their duty to deal with the Tatars, and the two of them did not have the ability to confront the Tatar army, they heard that the Tatars were so vicious, killing people and robbing people, they couldn't help but arouse the fire in their hearts, and they all wanted to give the Tatar soldiers a little color. Moreover, Zhao Shun is the key clue to solve this case, and it is also likely to be a suspect, and now he has been captured by Tatar soldiers.

Yang Tashan thought to himself, this is the first murder case he should arrest quickly, and the Han Governor trusts him, so there is no fixed limit, if it can't be detected, it will be too embarrassing, can he only spend money to find a prisoner to blame?

Both of them are sixteen or seventeen years old, the so-called newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, and both have martial arts, on the one hand, they are angry at the ferocity of the Tatars, determined to take revenge, on the other hand, in order to find Zhao Shun, the case was solved, the art master was bold, the two immediately decided to track down the Tatar soldiers, find Zhao Shun, and give the Tatar soldiers a little color by the way.

After the two men asked the direction in which the Tatars had fled, they rode their horses in pursuit. The Tatar troops were withdrawn in the early hours of the morning, and now it is afternoon, which is half a day apart, and the army is relatively slow to move, and it should be able to catch up.

It is already in the desert, and the horseshoe prints left by the Tatar soldiers along the way are clearly recognizable. The two followed the horseshoe prints, but they would not lose their way.

After chasing for several hours, by this time the sky was gradually getting dark, and the horseshoe prints were becoming clearer and clearer, indicating that this group of Tatars was not far ahead. The two of them were very excited, and finally they could faintly hear the sound of horses' hooves.

At this time, they had to be more careful, the two did not dare to chase too closely, and they followed them at a distance where they could hear the sound of horses' hooves, and waited for them to camp, and then sneaked in late at night, found Zhao Shun, and by the way, turned the Tatar military camp on his back.

The Tatar army camped in a low-lying flat place, and Cheng Ziqin and Yang Tashan tied their horses to the side of the road and climbed the hill to observe the situation. It is also not known how many troops there are.

The two did not dare to move, lying in the grass, quietly waiting for the barracks to be quiet, and in the second half of the night, everything was finally calm, and occasionally the cries of the people and women detained in the camp could be heard.

There are very few sentinels around the Tatar military camp, Yang Tashan not only shook his head when he saw it, no wonder the Tatars are not the opponents of the Ming Dynasty, Ming Chengzu personally conquered Mobei five times, and killed the Tatars and the Thorns and fled, now look at them like this, here is so close to the border, the Ming army may pursue at any time, they don't even have a few sentinels, such laxity, it's no wonder if they don't lose.

After careful observation just now, they had discovered the place where the Tatars were holding the looted Minzhuang and the people's daughters, and after discussing in a low voice, the two quietly sneaked down the mountain and approached the barracks.

The two of them wore black trapping clothes, which is the natural concealment color, and approached the barracks, evaded the surveillance of the sentinels, and entered the barracks.

Those people and women who were arrested in Crooked Huai Village suddenly saw two catchers coming in, and they were surprised and delighted. Yang Tashan and Cheng Ziqin asked in a low voice while untying the ropes for them, "Where is Zhao Shun?" Have you seen Zhao Shun? ”

The eyes of the villagers focused on a thin man in his thirties. The man was stunned to see that the two catchers had chased into the Tatar barracks to find him.

Cheng Ziqin and Yang Tashan glanced at each other, and their hearts were full of joy, this is a worthwhile trip. Tell the people who have untied the rope to hurry up and untie the rope for the others, and then abscond together, the two walked to Zhao Shun's side, Cheng Ziqin asked, "Your name is Zhao Shun?" ”

"Yes. Two officials, take us away. ”

"Wait a while, wait until everyone's ropes are untied, and then run away together." Time was pressing, and there was no time to detour, Cheng Ziqin asked bluntly: "Let me ask you, did you kill your lady Wu?" ”

Zhao Shun said: "No...... No, how could I kill my mother......"

"Then how did she die?"

"I ...... I do not know...... The last time I fled to Qingyang, my mother-in-law starved to death on the way, my husband and wife continued to flee the famine, stayed in Qingyang Mansion for a period of time, and then the imperial court disaster relief food came, but there were too many hungry people, and there were many people when receiving disaster relief food, my wife and I were lost, I couldn't find her, I thought she went back to the village, so I returned to the village by myself, but she didn't come back. A few days ago, I heard what I said about the last time I came to Qingyang Mansion, and I realized that my mother was dead......" After saying this, he choked up a little, "I really didn't kill my mother...... I've been in Crooked Huai Village, she died in Qingyang Mansion, how can I kill her......"

Yang Tashan asked, "You really haven't left Crooked Huai Village during this time?" ”

"Yes, if you don't believe me, you can ask the people in the village, I returned to the village two months ago, and I haven't left."

Cheng Ziqin turned around and questioned several villagers, and these people also testified in a low voice, saying that Zhao Shun had indeed not left Crooked Huai Village.

From Qingyang Mansion to Huanxian Crooked Huai Village, there is a distance of more than ten days, and Zhao Shun really has no way to separate the two places.

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(To be continued)