Just when she was about to reach the top of the mountain, the beautiful woman may have seen the hope of escape, or perhaps she was very tired from carrying a person up this steep mountain, so she stopped, put down Zhuo Qiaoniang, breathed a sigh of relief, turned around, and looked down the mountain.

Bang!

The crisp sound of gunfire pierced the silent night and frightened countless resident birds in the mountains and forests.

In the scope, a small hole appeared on the beautiful woman's beautiful cheek, and the back of her head, a piece of brain with the size of a bowl, with red and white brains, flew back in the blood flowers.

The corpse, which was missing half of its skull, stood stiffly there, and for a moment, it collapsed on the white snow.

At the same time as the corpse fell, Leng Yi had already quickly pulled the bolt and loaded again, aiming at the corpse on the ground. He observed carefully, not letting go of the corpse's little twitches, judging whether the other party still had the ability to hurt Zhuo Qiaoniang.

At the same time, his ears listened carefully to the movements around him, watching for possible approaching danger.

The man in white, who had already run far away, was stopped by this loud noise coming from afar. He stopped his galloping body and stood there, looking back at the place where the gun had fired. The sound of the gunshot was naturally unfamiliar to him, but, for some reason, he felt a chill from his heart, like the fangs of death, biting his neck solemnly.

In the scope, the body of the beautiful woman was still motionless. Zhuo Qiaoniang may have found an opportunity and began to roll down the mountain!

Zhuo Qiaoniang rolled to the side of a rock, she gasped nervously with her nostrils, turned her hand behind her back, and grinded on the edge of the rock, even her wrist was scratched, and she didn't care.

It took her a long time to finally break the rope that bound her wrists.

She quickly untied the ropes from her feet. Stand up, step on the thick snow, and run down the hill with a rolling belt. She could roughly find her way and ran down the hill to the official road.

She went to the official road, and then she cried. While crying, he staggered desperately in the direction of Bazhou City.

When she ran back to Bazhou City, she was so tired that she was about to collapse. However, she still persevered and ran back to the Yinling Inn.

She ran upstairs with a bang, came to the door, and was about to knock on the door, but found that the door was hidden, and hurriedly pushed it open. rushed to the side of the bed, cried and shouted, "Official! The curtain was lifted, but the bed was empty!

She panicked immediately, and then found that there was a big hole in the roof, and the wind and snow blew in through the hole. Even more panicked, he rushed to the corridor in a trembling voice, shouting, "Official! My dear! ”

The door next to him opened, and Wu Zhutou flashed out, holding a small box in his left hand and a single knife in his right hand, and said nervously: "Madam? How did you get back? ”

Zhuo Qiaoniang saw him at a glance and said happily: "Wu Catcher!" Then the lantern in the corridor saw that he was wearing his husband's official robe, and he was even more surprised: "Where is my official?!" ”

"The old man lives in the backyard." Wu Zhutou said a little incoherently: "This ......, the eldest master asked me to change clothes with him, in order to protect ......" just said this. The door on the other side opened, and Master Dong came out, looking at Zhuo Qiaoniang with some panic: "Madam, why are you back?" It's not that you went to ......"

As soon as he said this, he heard Leng Yi's voice from the other side of the corridor: "Madam! Is Madame back? ”

When Zhuo Qiaoniang used a rock to cut the rope, because the rope was very strong and the rock was not sharp, it took a long time. After Leng Yi made sure that there was no enemy, he used this time to search the body of the fat woman who was killed in front of the temple gate, except for a little silver tael, there was nothing special. Then he took a detour up to the body of the beautiful woman at the top of the mountain, and searched her, and in addition to some women's goods, there was also a small bag of silver. He unceremoniously took the silver and put it in his arms, and then waited for Zhuo Qiaoniang in the dark.

When Zhuo Qiaoniang cut the rope and rushed down the mountain, Leng Yi followed behind, all the way into the city, and when he was about to reach the inn, Leng Yi copied the alley and first climbed over the wall to enter the inn, entered Wu Zhutou's room through the window, changed into a shirt and waited. After hearing Zhuo Qiaoniang's cry on the upper room, he hurried upstairs.

As soon as she heard her husband's voice, Zhuo Qiaoniang was ecstatic, turned around and saw her husband Leng Yi, who was coming from the corridor, and said in her mouth: "There are a lot of fleas on the bed of Wu Zhutou, I can't sleep at all, I was catching lice, and I heard it as if your voice was calling me......"

As soon as she said this, Zhuo Qiaoniang had already rushed over and threw herself into his arms desperately, crying loudly.

Leng Yi hurriedly comforted: "Don't cry, don't cry, it's not good to wake others up!" Don't cry, I'll have something to say back to my room! ”

Zhuo Qiaoniang hugged her husband, frightened for a while. Her self-control is still very strong, and she quickly restrained herself, sobbed a few times, and said, "...... concubine, concubine is fine......"

Leng Yi's face was full of doubts, and he said, "Didn't you go to a relative's house?" Why did you run back before dawn? ”

Master Dong said this before, Zhuo Qiaoniang hadn't reacted yet, this time I heard her husband say this, there must be something strange in it, so she said casually: "The concubine is worried about the official, so she came back, and she encountered a few wild dogs chasing her on the road, and she was frightened, so she ......."

When Wu Zhutou and Master Dong heard this, they were relieved and said, "Madam is coming back, and it should be time for dawn for them to send it back." It's too dangerous to come back alone in the dark. ”

Zhuo Qiaoniang forced a smile: "When I was a child, I often walked home alone. Yuan was fine, but I met a few wild dogs......"

Leng Yi hurriedly said: "Don't say it yet, look at your body, I didn't bite you, right?" Oops! Your hands, bleeding! ”

Zhuo Qiaoniang hurriedly put her hands behind her back and said, "It's okay, when the concubine was hiding from those dogs, she fell and bruised." It doesn't matter. ”

Leng Yi said to Wu Zhutou: "It's almost dawn, I won't sleep in your bed anymore, it's full of lice, how can you sleep!" ”

Wu Zhutou smiled awkwardly, put the single knife back into the scabbard, hugged the small box under his armpit, and said to Leng Yi: "What about this ......?" ”

"Just put it on the table, you go and ask the shopkeeper to fetch some hot water and wash my wife."

"Yes!" Wu Zhutou hurriedly carried the box into the room, put it on the table, opened the box in front of Master Dong's sight, and let Leng Yi look at the gold inside, which was intact inside, and then buckled the lid and went out to call the shopkeeper.

Master Dong also went back to his room to sleep. In fact, it can be seen from his tired expression that after the loss of taxes, he was under a lot of mental pressure and couldn't sleep at all.

Leng Yi closed the door and said, "Master Dong came back and said that a few people picked you up on the road and asked him to forward a letter to me." I read the letter, and said that it was your fellow villager, please go to your home, and come back in a few days. I'm still wondering, why don't you come back and say it, and I'm going to wait until dawn to go to the prefect's yamen and ask them to help investigate, and you'll come back, still like this, what's going on? ”

Zhuo Qiaoniang threw herself into her husband's arms again, suppressed and cried: "The concubine has been kidnapped!" ”

Leng Yi shuddered, and said with a pale face: "...... kidnapping?" What's going on? Who is so bold? ”

The concubine didn't know what was going on, the concubine and Master Dong were on the road, a few women came, took the concubine to a carriage, a woman tied the concubine back, stuffed a cloth in her mouth, and went out of the city to the east, until she stopped in front of a land temple at the foot of the mountain. Then he threw the concubine on the ground of the main hall of the Land Temple. A fat woman kept asking the concubine where the thing was......"

Leng Yi's heart moved, and he hurriedly interjected and asked, "What are they asking?" ”

"The concubine didn't know, she just asked where the things were, and said that the concubine didn't pretend to be garlic, let us hand over the things obediently, otherwise, they would kill us! Woo woo......" Zhuo Qiaoniang hugged Leng Yi tightly and cried in a low voice.

Leng Yi gently stroked her hair and said angrily: "These hateful female thieves! What kind of person exactly! Dare to rob the people's girls in broad daylight! Ah no, rob the officials! Aren't you afraid of the king?! ――What happened later? ”

Zhuo Qiaoniang sniffed, and then said: "Later, it seems that a strong enemy came and killed the fat woman and them one by one, and the woman carried me to the mountain, and when I ran to the top of the mountain, the woman put me down, I don't know what happened!" Her head exploded and she died on the ground, so I quickly rolled down the hill, cut the rope from my hand with the edge of the rock, and ran all the way back! No whine......"