Both the young and the old and the women in the car were dressed in coarse cloth clothes, with thin bodies and deep-set eye sockets.

According to what Mu Yu said, there are Tiansheng's officers and soldiers who are ambushed within a radius of 100 miles around the center of the town, and as long as they are with children about four years old, they must be strictly checked, especially girls.

And this group of four people was obviously not constrained by this article, and rushed west like crazy.

With a hundred miles as the boundary, officers and soldiers set up inventory points at various intersections, and each inventory point was equipped with two portraits, one was from Nangong Jue, and the other was naturally from Qiqi.

All the passers-by, the officers and men will make a comparison according to these two portraits, and there are more people coming and going during the day, but they have never been found, and the number of pedestrians at night is relatively much less, and there is still nothing.

As the hour drew closer and closer, the officers and men who had been tired all night were yawning sleepily, waiting for the handover of the next group of soldiers.

At that moment, a rudimentary carriage roared towards the direction, its wheels rolling, kicking up smoke and dust all over the ground, and the body made of thick wooden branches seemed to be able to be torn apart with a single kick.

The carriage was stopped at the checkpoint, and the officers and soldiers habitually interrogated.

"Where did you get it?"

The old man in the car was thwarted, the wrinkles on his face were more obvious, and his cheeks were collapsed, like an apple that had only lost its moisture.

The people, naturally afraid, got out of the carriage, bowed humbly, and replied breathlessly:

"If you go back to the official master, the little one lives in a small village near here."

The officers and soldiers of Tiansheng are different from the previous officers and soldiers of Daegu, the lord of the country has changed, and the whole society is like a big change of blood, and those who are willing to follow Tuoba Jiuxiao regard him as a faith, and he also has a bit of his temperament in dealing with people.

The officers and soldiers were not arrogant, and after looking the old man up and down, they looked at the other young coachman in the carriage and asked:

"Who is he?"

When the young man heard his name, he quickly jumped out of the carriage and stood respectfully on one side like an old man, with his head bowed and sweating profusely, not daring to squeak.

The old man replied:

"If you go back to the official master, he is the only son of the child, and he is a mute."

"Dumb?"

The officers and soldiers looked at the young man suspiciously, and then took out the portrait of Nangong Jue, and someone next to him immediately held a torch to illuminate it, and the officers and soldiers looked at the young man again and again, no matter the appearance or body shape, it was completely untouchable with Nangong Jue, although it was the same thinness, but Nangong Jue was much taller than the young man in front of him, even if he was disguised, but this height could not be changed.

The officers and soldiers put away the portraits and pointed to the carriage:

"Is there anyone in there?"

Without waiting for the old man to speak, the dumb man nodded desperately, and his mouth whined, and then he gestured eagerly, sweating profusely, as if something had made him anxious.

The old man pressed the mute hand, and his voice choked:

"Back to the official's words, my son is too anxious, in the car is my daughter-in-law and little grandson, my little grandson also doesn't know what strange disease he has, high fever for three days does not go away, his body is full of red rashes, the people in the village said that it was evil, I went to the town to find Lang Zhong to see, Lang Zhong said that it was smallpox, said that it was a disease that could not be cured. What is smallpox, the little one doesn't understand, the little one only knows that the child is only three years old, but it can't just be gone, the small family has three generations of single transmission, the son finally married a daughter-in-law and gave birth to a grandson, no matter what the little one does, he has to save the grandson......"

As he spoke, the old man burst into tears, so he was not sad.

The officer and soldier only grasped one key point from the old man's story, a three-year-old child!

He didn't wait for the old man to finish speaking, he stepped forward and opened the curtain of the car, but the scene in front of him made him stunned.

Under the light of the fire, in the carriage that was ventilated on all sides, a skinny woman was exposing her breasts, breastfeeding a child with pigtails, although the woman's figure was not attractive, but the swollen milk room still made the unmarried officers and soldiers dumbfounded, and the Adam's apple swelled, and immediately lowered the curtain.

"Ahem......"

The officer turned around, cleared his throat in embarrassment, and said,

"The people inside get dressed."

There was a rustling sound in the carriage, and after a moment the woman spoke weakly:

"Alright."

After a moment's pause, the officers and soldiers turned around again and lifted the curtain:

"Turn the child's face around."

The woman hesitated, but looking at the tough attitude of the officers and soldiers, she could only do what she said.

The child seemed to be asleep, and while she was fiddling with the child, the officers and soldiers took out a portrait of Qiqi, and the person in the painting was very beautiful, with a pair of big eyes, curved eyebrows, a small nose and a small mouth, and the fat man was very cute.

When the officers and soldiers turned their gaze to look at the woman's arms, they were startled and took two steps back.

The child in front of him, his face was covered with bright red protruding rashes, densely connected into patches, and he couldn't even see his appearance clearly, like these three people, the child was skinny, and the fat baby in the portrait was in great contrast, how could it be the same person.

"Why is this kid's face like this?"

The officer and soldier asked with a twisted brow.

The woman began to weep, and at first glance she was an honest man who did not talk much, and the old man seemed to be the backbone of the whole family, and he looked back at the child, and as he wiped his tears, he said:

"Official, Lang Zhong said that the child has smallpox, it can't be cured, and it will be infectious, but I don't believe in this evil, my family is the only seedling, I won't let him just disappear. I heard that there is a monk in the big Buddha temple in the west, specializing in treating all kinds of incurable diseases, and the little one wants to take his grandson to ask the monk for help, so he hurried overnight, and asked the official to be accommodating! ”

The old man said this, and knelt on the ground with a thud, and kowtowed repeatedly, and the mute man knelt down when he saw this, and kowtowed like his father.

At this moment, the soldier with a torch behind him approached him and whispered:

"Boss, I have a younger sister who died of smallpox when she was a child, and the tragic situation is exactly the same as this child, after my sister died, my mother threw it away directly, because I was afraid of contagion......"

The officer and soldier were a small head, and the child was not the same as the person in the portrait, but when he heard the soldier say this, he immediately decided to let him go.

"Get up, get up, go away, go away."

Officers and soldiers said.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

The old man led his son to stand up, got into the carriage and was about to leave.

The officer and soldier admonished:

"Old man, don't blame me for speaking badly, in case ...... In case this child dies, remember not to bring it back, and burn it directly on fire, so as not to infect the rest of the village. ”

When the old man heard this, although he felt uncomfortable, he still nodded reluctantly, and then drove the carriage to continue to gallop.

The soldier with the torch said with some concern:

"Boss, you said that kid wouldn't be disguised, right?"

The officers and soldiers looked at the distant carriage and shook their heads:

"You don't see that there is no luggage in that car, it looks like something is urgent, and how can a chubby child be so thin in one day? What's more, none of those three people were Nangong Jue, how could he rest assured that such an important hostage would be handed over to others? ”

The little soldier nodded in realization:

"Makes sense."

The truth is such a truth, but if all the cards are played according to common sense, there will be no accidents.

When the day dawned, the officers and soldiers who were checking at various intersections came to report one after another, but there was still no clue.

Mu Yu and the others didn't sleep all night, their eyes were red, and after learning the news, they immediately took the case:

"Don't say anything, according to the order of the lord of the country last night, hang Yan Linglong's mother and son at the morning door!"

Mu Er gritted his teeth with hatred, only Xiaoyingzi, who was also a mother, couldn't help but feel sorry for the child.

At the same time, there was also a world of trouble in the Bishui Palace.

The people of the caravan began to pack up early in the morning, set up the wagons, and shout to get out of here.

They are all people who have been running on the Silk Road for many years, there is no connotation, most of them are big and coarse, they followed Lin Ling'er before, because her caravan is the safest, after three years of travel, there have never been sand bandits to rob, sometimes meet people from the camel gang, and even another group of sand bandits come to the rescue, which is what many businessmen who have embarked on the Silk Road dream of.

Another point, Lin Ling'er is generous, and she is the most famous and wealthy businessman in the Gaochang Empire, and many people are proud to follow her.

But now the situation has changed, she followed the lord of the country, which means that it is impossible to set foot on the Silk Road again, with the gold house and the silver house, how can it be possible to run around?

Therefore, they have their reasons, since Lin Ling'er has not come forward to give an explanation for so many days, they have to find a way out on their own, and the man in black last night is a clear path for them, and everyone admits this.

Under the call of the bearded man, they put on the clothes of the Western Regions, and the wide white hooded cloak was draped over their bodies, and they walked outside the palace as when they came.

The palace is no better than an ordinary inn, except for the lord of the country, no one can come and go.

At the gate of the Bishui Palace, everyone was stopped, and the guard asked with a cold face:

"What are you doing here? Give me all back! ”

"Go back?"

The bearded man's eyes widened, and he looked a little more fierce, and he didn't take the guards in his eyes at all.

"How old are you? We are not from here in the first place, we can go wherever we want, can you control it? ”

"You?"

With these people, the guards have a feeling of being unreasonable, and in desperation, they can only be patient.

"You are the people brought by the princess of Gaochang Kingdom, whether you are going to leave or staying, and now you have to listen to the orders of the lord of the country. We haven't received any orders from above to get out of here, so please go back! ”

"We still have to go today, the lord of the country has accepted our master, and now he doesn't give us an explanation, I think, the lord of the country can't take care of us now. Why don't you go and tell the lord of the country and see if his old man means to let us go? ”

The bearded man glared at him, a little defiant.