When there was still a mile to go to the town to the south, Zhou Jing saw at a glance that there was a man in the center of the town who had just turned the corner and rode this way.

She said to Zheng Hangsu: "Look, they! ”

Although it is far away now, it can be seen from the clothes worn.

He said, "I see." ”

Zhou Jing said loudly to the old woman on the cart at this time: "Old woman, when the people in front of you come over, you see that some of them open their mouths at us, so they say, 'I don't see it.'" 'Okay?' They are the people my father sent to you. ”

If they stopped as they passed by and asked if they had seen a man and a woman pass by, she and Zheng Hangsu would not be able to answer, because they might hear their own and Zheng Hangsu's accents.

After she finished speaking, the old woman looked up at the soldiers in front of her and said, "Okay." Don't worry, girl. ”

The group in front of him was getting closer and closer, and Zhou Jing tried not to look at them, but kept looking at the road, pretending to be afraid that the ground that had not melted the snow would slip and concentrate on walking.

When the gang stopped in front of them, her heart went to the eye of the noise.

One of the soldiers asked, "Have you ever seen a man and a woman pass by here?" ”

The old woman had been observing the group of people who had been coming, but now she saw that someone moved, and said in her old voice, "I don't see it." ”

The old woman saw that the soldier who was questioning had a look of disappointment on her face.

The group of soldiers then left them and continued north.

Zhou Jing heard a voice sound from behind: "I don't know where they went, it looks like we have to expand the scope of the search." ”

I heard another different voice sound: "They can't go far, Zheng Hangsu's horse ran back to the barracks by itself yesterday, that is to say, they should be within a radius of sixty or seventy miles right now." ”

The reason why he said this was calculated from the time when Zheng Hangsu's horse returned yesterday.

"Could it be that they have found another horse?" Another voice said.

"It's not so easy to buy a horse at this time." The soldier who had just said they couldn't go far replied.

"Yes, then let's step up the search around here." and another answered.

The sound of their conversation was no longer heard, and the sound of horses' hooves grew farther and farther away.

Listening to the sound of horses' hooves fading away, Zhou Jing breathed a sigh of relief.

After walking another mile, we reached the town, and when we reached the street in the center of the town, we turned west, and we came to an east-west avenue.

They had been walking twenty miles west along the highway, and during this time they passed two groups of people who had come to them, perhaps because they were pulling a cart, and there was an old woman sitting on it, and they did not stop, or even look at them.

At noon, they arrived in another town, because the old woman had been shouting that she was hungry, so Zheng Hangsu parked the cart on the side of the road, and he and Zhou Jing helped the old woman into an inn to eat.

When the three of them were sitting in the inn and eating, they saw a few soldiers come to the door and ask the innkeeper: "Little Er, have you seen two people passing by here, a man and a woman, about twenty years old, and they don't look bad." ”

The shopkeeper was originally making calculations, but at this time he raised his head and said, "No." ”

One of the two soldiers standing at the door sighed and said, "I don't know where they went, it's freezing this day, if they have a little mistake, what can they do." ”

The other soldier sighed and said, "yes, I just hope they're okay." Let's look elsewhere. ”

So saying, the two soldiers left the shop, mounted their horses, and headed east.

Zhou Jing looked at Zheng Hangsu at this time, wondering what he thought of the words of the two soldiers just now, and whether he wanted to catch up, and saw Zheng Hangsu shaking his head.

Zhou Jing immediately understood what he meant.

The soldiers who came to them seemed to have been sent by someone else, but the purpose was to get them back safely.

The reason why they can't show up now is because there are only a few of them, and if they go back with them, it will be more dangerous if they encounter more soldiers who are trying to assassinate them along the way.

Now it seems that there are two types of soldiers who came out to find herself and Zheng Hangsu, one is to assassinate herself and Zheng Hangsu, and the other is to find her and want her to return safely.

To be sure, the soldiers of the first category also appear to have come specifically to find her to protect her, and perhaps the second group has no idea the true purpose of the first category.

But at the moment, I don't know which side has more people.

So the best thing to do is to cover up your identity and wait until you get safely into the barracks.

After lunch, the three of them continued on their way.

After walking more than ten miles to the west, there is a road to the north, which is next to the Xiaohe River, and the road to the north leads to the cold mountain.

Along the way, although several groups of soldiers stopped to ask questions, they were all sent away by the old woman with a sentence of "I didn't see it".

When there was still half a mile away from the gate of the barracks, Zheng Hangsu said to Zhou Jing: "You wait here first, drive the cart to the woods on this side, and I will go there alone." ”

Zhou Jing knew that he didn't want to take the risk himself, in case the person guarding the camp gate was also a traitor.

Because he didn't know swordsmanship, he could only cause chaos if he went, and he had to worry about being hurt in turn, so she nodded and said to him, "You be careful." ”

He said, "Don't worry. ”

Her eyes kept staring at his back, watching him walk step by step towards the barracks door, and a trace of unease flashed in her heart.

As soon as he reached the gate of the barracks, two soldiers said, "This is the barracks, and idlers are not allowed to enter." ”

"I'm a villager around here, I'm here to report the news, I saw the county lord Zhou Jing and Zheng Gongzi you have been looking for in a forest."

One of the two soldiers was surprised and said, "What? In a wood? Which woods? ”

Looking at his look of surprise, Zheng Hangsu understood that the soldiers guarding the camp gate were not someone's subordinates, so he said, "It's nearby." However, that Zheng Gongzi said that he only needed his own people to come and find him. ”

"Okay, you wait here first, and then you have to help lead the way, and I'll call out his guards."

The soldier who spoke immediately ran to the tent of Zheng Hangsu's guards, because more than a dozen guards also went out to find Zheng Hangsu, so only a few guards stayed and waited for news.

He said to the guards who stayed, "You Zheng Gongzi are in the nearby woods, go and pick him up." ”

With that, he left.

As soon as the guards heard the news from their son-in-law, they hurriedly ran to the gate of the barracks.

When they arrived at the gate of the barracks, they saw Zheng Hangsu, thought it was a farmer, and asked, "You are the one who knows where our son is?" ”

"Well, you come with me." He said.