Not long after Ji Yanning tied up Steward Liu, the prefect's yamen had already rushed over.

Wu Zhutou rushed over from the city with the catchers, because he rode a fast horse, so when he arrived at Zhuangzi, Ji Jiugang tied up Steward Liu and beat him severely.

Seeing Wu Zhutou coming in, Ji Jiu kicked Steward Liu to the ground, telling the guards to watch carefully and not let him run away.

"Wu catches the head. Ji Jiu stepped forward and bowed.

Wu Zhutou glanced at Steward Liu, who was beaten and bruised all over his face, and asked puzzledly, "What's going on?"

"This guy turned out to be a mountain bandit, and he had been hiding in Baochang for two years, and he almost killed Miss just now. Ji Jiuyi thought of his two derelictions of duty today, and his heart was full of depression.

Wu Zhutou asked, "Is Miss Ji okay?"

"Thank you Wu Zhutou for your concern, I'm fine. Ji Yanning walked out of the courtyard on the side.

She went to appease the people on the Zhuangzi, and tomorrow she asked Steward Wu to assign a new steward over, and before she did it again, she didn't want any more chaos in the Zhuangzi.

Wu Zhutou saluted Ji Yanning, and then said: "Miss Ji, the bandits who ambushed you on the road just now have been identified as mountain bandits on the Gold and Silver Mountain, and among the dead are their second masters. ”

Ji Yanning nodded, glanced at Steward Liu, and said, "There is also one of their comrades, and Lao Wu will take him back for interrogation." ”

"That's what we're doing. Wu Zhutou said, "By the way, our adults are also here." ”

Ji Yanning was slightly stunned: "Lord Cen?"

Wu Zhutou said: "Exactly, my lord asked us to come over to find Miss Ji first, and he asked people to clean up the corpses on the road and come over." ”

As soon as they said a few words, there was a sound of horses' hooves outside Zhuangzi.

Ji Yanning looked out, and happened to see Cen Qingshan wearing a navy blue robe and civilian clothes, he handed the horse whip in his hand directly to the catcher next to him, and then walked in quickly.

Looking at that familiar and unfamiliar face, it has become a little vicissitudes, no longer the vigor when he was parading the streets after high school, and he has no youthful white-faced young life, and his calm and sophisticated temperament makes Ji Yanning a little abrupt.

It was the first person she'd seen since she woke up with her former self.

Wu Zhutou didn't notice her abnormality, stepped forward to clasp his fists and salute, and then introduced: "My lord, this is the eldest lady of the Ji family, the owner of Baochang Ji." ”

Cen Qingshan's gaze looked at Ji Yanning, and found that the person in front of him was just a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl, but when he looked at him, the desolate look in his eyes made him quite puzzled.

Ji Yanning came back to his senses and stepped forward to give Cen Qingshan a slight salute: "Lord Cen." ”

Cen Qingshan bowed his head, saw the blood marks on Ji Yanning's neck, and asked, "Is Miss Ji okay?"

Ji Yanning said: "It's just a small injury, it's not in the way." ”

Cen Qingshan said: "Miss Ji donated 50,000 taels of silver, and the official wanted to meet Miss Ji before, but he was busy with official business and never found the opportunity. I didn't expect that the first time I saw the girl, it was because of banditry, and the official was really ashamed. ”

Ji Yanning said: "I can't complain about my lord, it's my Baochang Ji that there is a thief, but I bother my lord to go on this trip." ”

Cen Qingshan smiled and said, "This is a good opportunity to suppress bandits, and this official naturally doesn't want to miss it." ”

Ji Yanning was puzzled: "Does the government still need a reason and opportunity to suppress bandits?"

Before Cen Qingshan could speak, Wu Zhutou, who was on the side, explained: "Miss Ji doesn't know, there are few bandits in Jiangzhou, but the bandits in this Jinyin Mountain are a little different, because Jinyin Mountain is located at the junction of Jiangzhou and Luzhou, although they are bandits, they call themselves Luzhou mountain people, and they refuse to admit it every time they cause trouble, and the Luzhou prefect is not used to us adults, and never punishes these mountain bandits." ”

Ji Yanning listened to Wu Zhutou's words, but felt a little ridiculous.

Because of the struggle between colleagues, even the mountain bandits were protected, and the Luzhou prefect was really capricious.

Cen Qingshan said: "This time, with the corpses of their two masters as evidence, even Zhu Jinghe can't protect them." ”

Zhu Jinghe and Ji Yanning were slightly stunned when they heard this name.

Then she laughed secretly, it turned out that this was the champion of the person who was promoted in the same year as Cen Qingshan, and the two fought when they were parading the streets, but I didn't expect that after so many years, these two people were still fighting.

She said, "Since this matter is caused by me, then I will go with my guards to suppress the bandits." ”

Cen Qingshan didn't expect that a girl's family would want to suppress the bandits, so she said: "This is not child's play, the mountain bandits are fierce, Miss Ji should go back to the city quickly." ”

"Lord Cen personally went out, I don't think there will be any loss, and I just went with you, and I didn't say that I rushed forward to kill people, I brought my own guards, I can protect myself, and I don't need Lord Cen to be distracted by this. Ji Yanning said.

After Cen Qingshan knew that those people were bandits from Jinyin Mountain on the road just now, he asked his cronies to go back and bring a thousand officers and soldiers over.

There are three or four hundred bandits in Jinyin Mountain, and he has long figured out their combat strength, but he just lacks an opportunity, and when they commit a crime, he naturally decides to suppress the bandits.

Cen Qingshan didn't change his face when he saw that she was injured, his aura was not comparable to that of ordinary boudoir ladies, and he was not a pedantic person, so he nodded.

Ji Yanning let Ziyu stay on Zhuangzi, and she took her twenty guards to follow Cen Qingshan's officers and soldiers to the place he had agreed with his cronies.

At this time, the 1,000 officers and soldiers of the government were already on standby near the Golden and Silver Mountain.

Ji Yanning looked at the officers and soldiers who were getting ready to go, and silently asked the guards to follow them, looking at the nearby mountains and forests, the terrain here is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is easy to hide.

However, looking at Cen Qingshan's inevitable appearance, she didn't worry too much.

When the bandits of Jinyin Mountain saw so many officers and soldiers, they led people out of the stockade and on the top of the mountain.

The big boss looked down and looked at it, and his heart was even more angry, today's deal was not done, and several brothers got in, and now even the Jiangzhou Mansion is alarmed!

"Lord Cen, I don't know what the grass people have done, but I ask you to come to our small mountain and forest village. He shouted to Cen Qingshan below.

Cen Qingshan snorted coldly and said loudly: "The people in your cottage ambushed the people of Jiangzhou and started a murderous business, and those who are interested in it can be arrested quickly, and they can save your lives!"

The big boss said: "I'm afraid there is some misunderstanding, we are honest villagers, and we don't dare to do the business of killing people." ”

"If you dare to do it, let's go back to the yamen. Cen Qingshan didn't talk nonsense, "If you don't tie your hands and arrest you, don't blame us for doing it." ”

The big boss didn't expect this Cen Qingshan to be so resolute, but he was afraid that he would never give up if he didn't set foot on the gold and silver mountain today.

His tone suddenly became cold: "Lord Cen, even if we commit a crime, it should be under the control of the yamen of Luzhou, my lord must be too lenient!"

He knew that Cen Qingshan and Zhu Jinghe had always had a problem, as long as he didn't fall into Cen Qingshan's hands, Zhu Jinghe wouldn't do anything to him.

Cen Qingshan couldn't see his careful thoughts, he said: "You kill people in my Jiangzhou territory, no matter where you flee, it will be under the control of this official!"

The big boss was a little breathless, and turned to the little boss next to him and said, "Is the person sent to report the news back?"

The man said: "Calculate the time, this time is almost with people, big boss, let's delay a bit, maybe they will bring people over from Luzhou." ”

After they missed, they guessed that Cen Qingshan would come to suppress the bandits, so they asked people to quickly deliver the news to Luzhou early.

However, Cen Qingshan was not so easy to fool, he saw that the mountain bandits didn't stop talking, so he said: "Come on, attack the mountain for me!"

"Defend me!" said the big boss, "Don't let the officers and soldiers of Luzhou attack before they come!"

As soon as his words fell, a dense array of arrows came up from below, and many of the bandits guarding the mountain were shot, and they could only hide backwards.

The fight on the mountain was hot, Ji Yanning waited at the foot of the mountain with the guards, Cen Qingshan didn't let her continue to follow, so she took people to look around.

It wasn't long before they heard the sound of horses' hooves gradually coming in their direction.

She frowned slightly, looked not far away, and just saw a group of about two or three hundred officers and soldiers coming here.

Those people also saw Ji Yanning and her guards, and stepped forward and scolded loudly: "What are you doing here!"

Ji Yanning glanced at them and saw that they were menacing, and there were two men on the side who were not wearing the clothes of officers and soldiers, dressed very roughly, probably bandits from this gold and silver mountain.

She heard that the mountain had gradually fallen silent, so she said: "I heard the shouting and killing nearby just now, so I thought something was wrong, and later I learned that the prefect was here to suppress the bandits, but now those mountain bandits have been escorted back to Jiangzhou Mansion, and the officials don't have to worry if they want to cross the road." ”

"They escorted everyone back?" The person who took the lead frowned, this Cen Qingshan moved so fast?

Ji Yanning nodded and said sincerely: "Yes, it's been half an hour since I left." ”

The person who took the lead didn't look like Ji Yanning was lying, but believed her words.

"Chase!" the leader turned his head and said, "Stop the people for me!" Lord Zhu said, no matter what, they can't be allowed to take people to Jiangzhou Mansion!"

As he spoke, he led the men and horses in the direction of Jiangzhou City.

Ji Jiu watched them disappear, and stepped forward and said to Ji Yanning worriedly, "Miss, won't we get into trouble by doing this?"

After all, they are from the government, fooling them like this, if they find out, I am afraid that they will end up.

"Getting them up the mountain is the real trouble. Ji Yanning said.

Those people are obviously the people sent by Zhu Jinghe, and when they go up the mountain, they will only grab the gold and silver mountain with Cen Qingshan, and when the time comes, they will make trouble, but I am afraid that they will not stop.

As long as Cen Qingshan captures those mountain bandits, this case can be solved as soon as possible.