"My lord, just this rice cake, you can make do with it." Guo Xiaochao came in with a package of rice crackers and water.

"That's good, Xiaochao, have you eaten?"

"I ate it, I didn't eat this rice cake often before, but it's good to eat it once or twice once in a while." Guo Xiaochao said with a smile.

"Well, yes, it's delicious, but you get tired of eating this every day." Meng Yan took a piece and put it in his mouth to eat, and nodded incessantly, "By the way, where did this rice cake come from?" ”

"There are a lot of them sent by the Li Zheng family!"

"Have you paid, we can't eat and drink the things in the people's homes for nothing, this is discipline!" Meng Yan Road.

"Don't worry, my lord, who dares not to abide by your rules, a rice cake and a penny are counted as for that Lizheng, and Lizheng refuses to accept it, and finally, your rules, if you don't accept it, we won't eat it, so we accepted it." Guo Xiaochao said.

"That's right, let's take the court's Yulu and eat the people, then it's not appropriate, where does our Yulu come from, it's not that the people pay taxes to support us, and then eat other people's things, this is not appropriate, what are the people, are our relatives, understand?"

"My lord, you really love the people like a son!"

"This has nothing to do with loving the people, this is a minimum conscience and morality of an official, code of conduct, remember, if you give me an errand, you have to follow my rules, what others do, I don't care, but my soldiers, my generals, must be innocent and lead by example!"

"My lord, you really let Xiao Chao admire the five-body throw." Guo Xiaochao admired and parted ways.

There was a noise outside the door.

Meng Yan and Guo Xiaochao glanced at each other: "Go and see, what's going on outside." ”

"Master Meng, Huang Yibiao is back!" Seeing Meng Yan coming out of the room, Liang Song stepped forward and said.

"Oh, did you find anything?" Meng Yan asked.

"Yes, but not sure!"

"What's the law of indeterminacy?"

"It is the north-south traffic artery. Huang Yibiao found some traces, but was not sure which path Mrs. Tang took. ”

"Tell me about it."

"Yibiao, the adults called you!" Liang Song beckoned, and Huang Yibiao, who looked tired, stepped forward, "The villain Huang Yibiao has seen an adult." ”

"You said you couldn't tell which way Madame Tang was going, but that's the case?"

"Yes. Adult, from this side to the south, the villain found some traces of stampede, and the previous traces were observed and compared, there are some similarities, about three miles to the south, there are two forks, one is the main road, straight to the south. One is a small road, to the southwest, the villain tried to chase some from the big road and the small road, and found similar traces, so it was difficult for the villain to judge which road she was going to take for a while! Huang Yibiao said.

"Isn't she carrying a child, the child's footprints are relatively small, this should be a striking feature?"

"The villain didn't find any traces of the child along the way, and it is speculated that Mrs. Tang may be carrying the child on her back."

"It's possible!"

"Could it be that this woman did not enter the Zhuangzi? Traveling in the middle of the night? ”

"It's hard to say, she shouldn't know we're looking for her. With a child, alone in the middle of the night, she is a weak woman, not so bold. ”

"Yes, she must have found a place to spend the night, but we didn't find out!" Liang Song said excitedly. "Where's Lizheng?"

"The villain is here." In the North Horse Village, Zhengma Zheng hurriedly agreed.

"Malizheng, let me ask you, do you have an abandoned house or temple in this Zhuangzi?" Liang Song asked.

"Let me think, think about ......"

"Lord Liang, there is no abandoned house in Honjo. There is no temple either, but there is one place that you adults should not have thought of. ”

"Where?"

"Yizhuang!"

"Where's Yizhuang?" When everyone heard this, they were extremely excited.

Under the leadership of Li Zheng Ma Zheng, everyone came to the dilapidated Yizhuang.

"Lord, look, this is Yizhuang!" Pointing to a large dilapidated courtyard, Mari was introduced.

"Why is the door open and unguarded?"

"Since my dad died two years ago, there is no one to guard this place, and the corpses of outsiders are usually parked here, all of them are lonely ghosts...... Mali explained.

"Hey, how come there's a new coffin and offerings?" When they came to the courtyard, they saw a new coffin parked above the main hall with broken doors and windows, and the candles in front of the coffin had long been burned, but some fresh fruit and vegetable offerings were placed.

"Oh, this is a wanderer from Honzhuang, three days ago, someone brought his body back, but his home is long gone, so we scraped together some money to buy him a coffin, and placed him in Yizhuang, and these fruit and vegetable offerings were also bought by everyone." Mali is explaining.

"Falling leaves return to their roots, which is also a blessing!"

"Master, what you said is so right, this person wants Liu Chuanfu, he left home in his early years to go out, the family thought he was dead a long time ago, but he didn't mix well, he originally wanted to return to his roots, but he didn't expect to be sick on the way back, so he let go, fortunately he met a good person, and brought his body back, which is also a wish!"

"My lord, the offerings have been touched!"

"Maybe it's a rat or something, it's not worth the fuss!"

"No, sir, look, it looks like a rat?" Huang Yibiao took a bitten fruit and pointed to the tooth marks on it.

"It was a human bite, and it didn't take long to look at the color."

"What the adults said is that this must have been bitten in one day, sir, you see, there is still ...... here"

"Such a small tooth mark, it seems to be done by a child, Malizheng, are there many five or six-year-old children in Zhuangzi?"

"There are five or six."

"One counts as one, ask, who has ever been to Yizhuang and eaten the offerings here?" Meng Yan commanded.

"Yes, sir!"

"Look, my lord, the messy weeds here have obviously been sat on it, and they deliberately messed up it afterwards."

"You mean, Mrs. Tang's mother and son spend the night here?"

"It's not impossible, inferred from the small amount of offerings, a woman and a child can eat almost that much."

"No, if it's Mrs. Tang's mother and son, why didn't they take these offerings with them as dry food when they left. And the part of this fruit that has been bitten off is upside down, how can ordinary people think of this? ”

"It's not hard to think of this, for fear of being found out that the offerings have been eaten, even you and I will do the same, and not take the offerings with us, and the same is true. She didn't want us to know that she was here. ”

"What Liang Song said makes sense, if it can be ruled out that this is the naughty boy on Zhuangzi, then it can be determined whether it is Mrs. Tang's mother and son." Meng Yan Road.

"Yibiao, have you found anything else?"

"No, Yizhuang came three days ago, this place has been cleaned up again, there are not many footprints left here, the weather has been dry recently, Mrs. Tang is wearing a pair of cloth shoes that have been smoothed out......"

"Mrs. Tang is not a mountain village woman. After walking such a long mountain road, I am afraid that a pair of tender horns have long been worn out. Meng Yan reminded.

"The adult reminded me right, Yibiao almost forgot such an important detail!"

"Quick, let's help find out, is there a water tank or something like that?" Huang Yibiao said loudly.

"Captain, Master Meng, Father-in-law, come and ......"

"It's a strip of cloth with blood on it. Already burned? "In a stove in a side house in Yizhuang, one of Liang Song's subordinates found a strip of cloth that had not been burned clean. There were also black blood stains on it.

"Look for it, is there a water tank?"

"My lord, there's a water tank in the kitchen, and there's still water in it!"

"It's been uninhabited here for two years, how can there be water?" A question arose in everyone's minds.

"My lord, the water has no taste. It should be no more than three days old! ”

"Where can I get water near here?"

"There must be a mountain spring nearby, and it's not far away!" Meng Yan concluded, "Send someone to look for it, you will definitely be able to find it." ”

"Whoa!"

After half a cup of tea, one of Liang Song's subordinates ran back out of breath: "Lord Meng is really divine." On the way we came, there was a spring, and the stream flowed down. ”

"Let's go, let's see!"

Everyone gathered around Meng Yan and came to the edge of the spring.

"My lord, look, bloodstains!"

"Sure enough, Master Meng guessed correctly, this woman washed her worn feet directly here, and the blood stains on this stone must have been too dark to see clearly, so she stayed."

"It seems that Yizhuang was the foothold of Mrs. Tang's mother and son last night, but it's a pity that we couldn't find out last night!" Liang Song said with great regret.

"It's okay, since I found the clue, I don't have to worry about not finding it, not to mention that her feet are worn out and injured now, and a woman with a child will definitely not be able to go far." Meng Yan Road.

"What Master Meng said is very true."

"Master Meng, our family has something to understand, since this Mrs. Tang is here to clean the wounds on her feet, why did she come from not far away to fetch water and go back?"

"The official thought that Mrs. Tang wanted to boil some hot water and make some hot soup and rice for the child to eat, but then she was exhausted and didn't make it." Meng Yan guessed.

"That's right, it makes sense."

"Father-in-law, if you want to find out and catch someone, won't you know when you ask?" Liang Song said.

"Lord Meng, with these discoveries, the villain is sure to track the traces of Mrs. Tang's mother and son."

"Oh, I've made a discovery?"

"Yes, my lord, Mrs. Tang's foot is injured, she will definitely not be able to go far, if she takes the small road, it will aggravate the injury, so the villain thinks that she will take the big road, the big road is easy to walk, and there are a lot of cars and horses, as long as she meets people, she will undoubtedly save a lot of effort." Huang Yibiao said.

"But what if she's just going to avoid the road, or deliberately make us think she's on the road?"

"Does she know we're after her?"

"Maybe you know, maybe you don't know, this location of Yizhuang is very good, isolated outside Zhuangzi, but the field of vision is broad, we came from there last night, if she is at the gate of Yizhuang at this time, she will see us."

"Liang Song, you see this, our soldiers are divided into two roads, you take one road to chase from the main road, and the officer leads people to chase after it from the small road, how about we meet in the ten miles in front?" Meng Yan Road.

"This ......"

"What is this, Master Meng has said so, what are you hesitating about?" Xining urged, he was inclined to "take the big road" judgment.

"Okay, then take the big road below, and the adults take the small road!" Liang Songyi gritted his teeth and said.

"Father-in-law Xi, what about you, do you follow this official, or follow Captain Liang?" Meng Yan asked with a smile.

Xining said: "Our legs and feet are not good, let's take the road with Captain Liang!" ”

Walking on the small road, that is simply a sin, he is really fed up, follow Liang Song on the main road, how comfortable it is, a fool chooses to follow you all the way. (To be continued......)