430 A thousand cuts
Xue Ruitian and Shen Jiu got up at dawn, beckoning the people in the mansion to start getting busy, preparing to wait for the city gate to open and go to the Xia and Liao borders to pick up people.
Ying Qi lived up to expectations, rushed to Jiaping Guancheng the night before, returned to the Guogong Mansion, first went to meet Qin Zheng and Yan Bo, helped Shen Cha say hello, and then went to see Xue Ruitian and Shen Jiu.
She didn't expect to meet Shen Haolin, and when she heard Xue Ruitian say that Grandpa Guo went to the border city of Liao State alone, she was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help sighing, Grandpa Guo is Grandpa Guo, this courage and courage are not available to ordinary people. At the same time, she is also very happy for her boss, and it is a very good, very good thing to have such a person by her side. As for how good, she can't say, but it's good.
Xue Ruitian briefly asked about Shen Cha and Jin Jing's situation, and knew that the two of them were fine, so he let Ying Qi go back to rest.
After getting up in the morning and washing up and changing clothes, Xue Ruitian, Shen Jiu and Jin Miaomiao took Hongye and Ying Qi and a dozen or so guards out of the house, and found a familiar breakfast shop on the street.
Xue Ruitian nibbled on the fritters, looked at the head on the other side, little by little, sleepy and almost dropped his own Jin Miaomiao, and shook his head helplessly.
"Why do you think you're doing this? It's good to have us pick it up, you just wait at home. ”
"It's been a long time since I saw Xiaocha, it's weird." Jin Miaomiao yawned, pushed the fritters in front of her to Hongye, picked up the tea soup in front of her and took two sips, "Master Hou, go back and buy something to eat and bring it, saying that it will arrive today, who knows when it will arrive." Grandpa Guo went to see Xiaocha, and I don't know if I see it now. If they did, with the strength of the two of them, it would be good to be able to set off at noon. Let's go so early, we can't wait for someone. ”
"You, don't worry about snacks, look at your appearance, there are no red leaves dragging around, and your face is going to go into the bowl. What were you doing last night? How do you get stuck like this? Xue Ruitian ate his breakfast cleanly, "I see that the light in your house has been on." ”
"There was a recipe that I didn't understand, and I fell asleep on the table, and when I woke up, it was here."
"Then why are you following us, you should get a good night's sleep." Seeing what Jin Miaomiao was going to say, Xue Ruitian waved his hand, "Okay, it's all out anyway, it's useless to say anything." I don't think that's right. ”
"What?"
"Xiaocha and Xiaojing have been in Liao for a long time, and now they must be like arrows and will not stay longer. Even if you see Haolin's face, it will be grinding, and it will not be much later. Didn't Xiao Qi say that the Yelu family still sent someone to send them? They also have to be a little scared of people, I guess, they can get to the border at noon, maybe earlier. Now the city gate has not been opened, let's sit for a while, if you are really sleepy, just squint for a while, and when you leave, let the red leaves call you. ”
Jin Miaomiao nodded, leaned directly on Momiji's shoulder and fell asleep.
After sitting in the shop in the morning, there was a half-pillar of incense, the city gate opened, Jin Miaomiao also woke up, and the group went out of the city slowly, wandering for more than an hour, and finally arrived at the border of Liao and Xia.
When the patrolling Shen Jiajun and Liao soldiers saw Xue Ruitian and Shen Jiu, they all stopped and saluted them one after another.
"Vice Marshal Xue, General Shen!" The captain of the Liao State patrol team stood in front of Xue Ruitian and Shen Jiu, "Please wait, we have received news that the Great Xia Mission has set off from the border city an hour ago, and if there is no accident, it will be there in half an hour." ”
Hongye thanked Wu Chang on behalf of Xue Ruitian and Shen Jiu, and ordered the accompanying guards to spread a thick woolen mat on the ground.
"We'll have to wait a while, or we can just sit and wait!"
"You and Miao Miao sit, let's go for a walk!" Xue Ruitian and Shen Jiu asked them to lead their horses away, and the two of them slowly walked along the border.
"Leave them alone, if you can't see people, they won't be steady." Jin Miaomiao sat on the mat wrapped in a thick cloak and tugged at Momiji's sleeve, "Let them go!" She reached out and touched her chin, "I don't know how Xiaocha is now, she fell ill as soon as she arrived at Linhuang Mansion, and I was also very worried." ”
"She'll take care of herself, and there's not a military advisor!"
"That's not what it meant." Jin Miaomiao waved her hand, "She has been injured and sick a lot in the past half a year, I am worried that this girl's body has finally improved a little, and if she tosses it like this a few times, I am afraid that she will have to return to her original shape." Once repeatedly, it is not easy to recuperate again. ”
"You're too careful!" Momiji patted her on the shoulder, "I'm not as pessimistic as you, I think I have to have confidence in Xiaocha, but also in your master's medical skills and the medicine left behind." ”
Jin Miaomiao thought for a moment and nodded slightly, "Maybe what you said is right." ”
The group waited for less than half an hour, and faintly heard the sound of horses' hooves from a distance, and everyone looked for the sound, and saw that the direction was dusty, and after a while, the two banners of "Xia" and "Shen" appeared in their sight.
"It's coming!"
Jin Miaomiao and Hongye jumped up at the same time, so that the guards injured the wool blanket, and the two of them consciously stood behind Xue Ruitian and Shen Jiu.
The speed of the horse team was very fast, and it didn't take long to reach the border, and when the carriage was stable, Xue Ruitian saw Shen Haolin, Shen Cha, and Jin Jing jump down from the carriage in turn.
"It's back!" Xue Ruitian walked over and gave Shen Cha and Jin Jing a big hug, and looked the two of them up and down, "It looks like the spirit is not bad, but Xiaocha has lost weight." ”
"Alright, this is not the place to talk, let's talk as we go."
Back to his own territory, Shen Haolin didn't need to pretend, and got on the horse with Shen Cha and Jin Jing.
finally waited for his sister to come home, and Shen Jiu couldn't take care of his brother's big black face, and refused to leave Shen Cha's left and right, so his eyes couldn't wait to grow on his sister.
"Look at me like this, I have flowers on my face?" Shen Cha looked at him like that and thought it was funny, "I heard that he was not very well-behaved at home during this time?" Let's talk about it, what's the reason for tossing? ”
"What's wrong with me? It must have been my brother's accusation against me. Shen Jiu glanced at Shen Haolin, whose face was black and shiny, like the bottom of a pot, and muttered in a low voice, "Sister doesn't know me yet, I ......"
Before he could speak, he heard Shen Haolin's cold snort, and he was so frightened that he didn't dare to say the second half of the sentence.
"You didn't make it to Chenglinhuang Mansion, Qi Gongzi was quite disappointed, he asked me to bring you a lot of new things, and I'll give it to you when I go back."
"Good!" Shen Jiu glanced at Shen Haolin again, and saw that he was still staring at him coldly, and subconsciously shrunk his neck, "Forget it, I can't afford to hide, I'll go talk to Brother Xiaojing." After speaking, he urged the horse to step forward and ran to Jin Jing's side.
"Stinky boy!" Shen Haolin snorted, "Bomb him to the barracks today!" ”
"Brother!" Shen Cha felt a little headache, and quickly changed the topic, "You told Brother Xiaojing, that group of people found it, is it true?" They have disappeared for so many years, how can they suddenly ...... again"
"In that business, if you do it once, you will have a second and a third time. It's not a one-shot deal, they also have to live, and that little money is simply not enough for those people to squander. The reason we haven't heard from them for so long is because they don't operate in the places we care about. This time, they were caught by their own death, and they had to jump into the fire pit. ”
"I didn't expect them to do such a big thing. This majesty is really, and he didn't mention a word to us. ”
"You are also in the tiger's den in Longtan, and after more than a month of worry, there is no need to let you be afraid. Besides, this matter must come to another conclusion before it can be mentioned to Xiaojing. We only knew that he lost three days that year, but what happened in these three days, he didn't say, and we couldn't force him, so we could only start with that gang. Shen Haolin looked at Jin Jing in front of him and sighed softly, "I hope I can untie his heart knot this time!" ”
"Definitely!"
What Shen Haolin and Shen Cha were talking about, Xue Ruitian was also chatting with Jin Jing earlier.
"I am very convinced of the courage of this group of people, they really don't know what fear is, and they don't understand what fear is, they really dare to do anything, and anyone dares to move!" Xue Ruitian sighed, "The youngest grandson of Uncle Jian's family, the youngest son of Lord Yushi Chen's family, the little niece of Master Wei, Doctor Guanglu, etc., in half a year, more than a dozen eunuchs in Xijing have lost their children. If it weren't for Uncle Jian Wang's trouble in front of the palace this time, Jing Zhaoyin would still be pressing! ”
"Jing Zhaoyin's courage is really not small, how dare you hide such a big thing?" Jin Jingyi frowned, "No, Bai Meng is the commander of the forbidden army, didn't those who lost their children look for him?" ”
"Not to mention Uncle Jane, look at the people who lost their children, they are embarrassed to talk to Bai Meng?" Xue Ruitian snorted, "Besides, these children are not lost together, they lose one every three or five times, and they all use different methods, and no one can think of them together." This is still to thank Uncle Jane, otherwise...... Well, these kids won't come back. Even so, not all of them were rescued, a total of fifteen children, only twelve were recovered, and the remaining ones were not seen alive or dead. Moreover, Bai Meng guessed that they had been in Xijing Primary School for three years, and there were definitely more than just a few children, and the number would only be more, not less. As for what will happen to those children now, heh......" he smiled bitterly and shook his head slightly, "I'm afraid it's more than lucky." ”
Jin Jing was silent for a long time, smacked fiercely, and couldn't help but curse.
"Damn, a bunch of brutes, it's time to rip them off!"