The one-eyed mountain bandit yawned, became sleepy, and said to the minion, "I'll go to sleep next door, you give Lao Tzu a good look, and search for anything valuable on him, let's go to see the fourth master later, we can't go empty-handed." ”

"Okay."

As soon as the one-eyed bandit left, the minion rubbed his hands together and approached, "Tell me, where are your entanglements?"

Mei Xiaoren pouted her face and didn't answer, it was in the blink of an eye that she saw her luggage, and at this time she was still on the ground next to her.

She saw it, and the minions naturally saw it, and excitedly pointed to the burden and said, "It's there."

Then he pounced on him like a dog that had seen a meat bun, untied his baggage and rummaged for a while.

She didn't bring much money with her when she went out this time, and she didn't have much money left to spend it now. Sure enough, the minion came back with a little bit of broken silver after looking for a while, and judging from his face, he was not satisfied with the "results".

"That's it" The minion smacked his lips, and suddenly saw a delicate purse hanging from Mei Xiaoren's waist, and immediately pointed to the purse and asked, "What is that?" After asking, he ripped off the purse and took out the contents of it.

It's a silver bracelet. He took the bracelet and looked at it a few times, but he was still not satisfied, and stared at Mei Xiaoren with empty eyes, "You officials like this kind of goods."

The bracelet was taken away, Mei Xiaoren was panicking, waiting for an opportunity to answer: "This bracelet is not valuable, if you take it to honor that helper, it is quite shameless." ”

"Then what other good things do you have" The minion walked around Mei Xiaoren a few times, looking around as he walked, and saw that Mei Xiaoren was dressed quite thinly, and he couldn't see that he was carrying anything else.

Suddenly, his eyes fixed on her neck, and he vaguely saw a red rope under the placket.

"What's on your neck?"

The minions reached out to grab it, Mei Xiaoren was tied to death by ropes, and he couldn't move, and he didn't have the ability to stop it at all.

With a hard pull, the red rope broke, and the jade dice were in the hands of the minions.

The minion's eyes lit up in an instant, staring straight at the palm of his hand, "Jade, this is a good thing"

"You can take this and give me back the bracelet."

The minion glanced at her disdainfully, and then glanced at the jade dice with a smile, and the more he looked at it, the more happy he became, so he simply threw the broken bracelet and held the jade dice with both hands.

"Ding Dong" sounded, and Mei Xiaoren watched the silver bracelet roll on the ground a few times and then lie in a pile of dead grass.

It was close at hand, but she couldn't get it, so she was anxious about it

Three days later, Xuanzhou.

When Mei Xiaoren was away, Ye Zhidu sorted out the official documents received for Mei Xiaoren in the yamen, waiting for Mei Xiaoren to come back and take a look.

The adults of his family have been gone for more than ten days, and the leave given by the prefect has ended today, and there is still no shadow of the adults of his family, which makes him a little worried. The adults of his family rarely delay their official business, and they either don't go out on vacations like this, and even if they do, they will come back a few days early.

Ye Zhili returned to the mansion after taking the official documents, and just happened to see the carriage slowly stopping in front of the mansion, which was the one that the adults and Jiang Gongzi were sitting in when they went out.

He happily greeted it, lifted the curtain and saw that it was empty, and now he saw neither Jiang Rong nor his family.

He hurriedly asked the coachman, "My lord, he hasn't come back yet."

The coachman scratched his head, confused, "Didn't the adults come back first?"

"When"

"A few days ago, my lord came back in a hurry to take care of his official business, saying that he would hire another carriage, and he should have arrived a long time ago."

Ye Zhi was already worried in his heart, and when he heard the coachman say this, he became more and more uneasy.

He didn't want to think in the worst direction, but he had to plan for the worst

Ye Zhi untied the horse pulling the cart, rode a horse and whipped it, and quickly left the mansion and hurried back to the yamen.

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sp; Governor Li was discussing with Gao Jingshu in the second hall, and the prefect saw him coming from outside the door and beckoned him in.

"Meet your lordship."

"Is Mei Xiaoren back?"

"My lord, the little one is about to report this to the adult." Ye Zhi looked up at Governor Li's mansion with a sad face, "Lord Prefect, Lord Mei is gone"

"It's gone" Governor Li closed the document in his hand and put it aside, and asked, "What do you mean by this?"

"The carriage that the adults traveled to have returned home, the coachman said that the adults went to Jinzhou, but they have come back in advance, and for some reason they have not arrived, and the little ones are worried that the adults will come back alone, whether there will be any accidents."

"Mei Tong's judgment is an official of the imperial court, and it is also the general judgment of Xuanzhou Mansion, who dares to move him" Gao Jing wrote to Li Zhifu and bowed his hand, "According to the humble position, Mei Tong's judgment should be delayed by something, and he will come back in a few days." ”

Ye Zhi glanced at Gao Jingshu, and when he said this, how could he not have more eyes. If he could say what danger the adults would encounter, he could only think of it.

Whether or not the adults really met him, he mentioned that he was prepared.

"Lord Prefect, although the evil tiger village has been destroyed, there are more than one party to flee in the chaos, and the little ones are worried that they will retaliate against Lord Mei." Ye Zhi solemnly bowed his hand, "Now that Lord Mei is gone, the little one has to make this guess, and I hope the adult will forgive me." ”

"Ye Zhi, you are worried too much, it's just a few remnants, it's hard to chase Meitong and sentence him to Jinzhou" Gao Jingshu's tone was still lukewarm.

"Okay, it's not unreasonable for you to think so, he hasn't returned for a long time, and the old man is also worried." Governor Li then instructed the officials in the barracks, "Go, ask Sun Yong to take someone to find it, and be sure to sentence Meitong to this official and bring it back." ”

Ye Zhi could see that the worry on Governor Li's expression was sincere. Now it is rumored everywhere that the prefect Li intends to recruit an adult as a son-in-law, and there are rumors about this, presumably they will not dare to slack off when they find adults.

The scorching sun shone straight through the dilapidated roof of the house to the people tied to the pillars, and after three days, Mei Xiaoren did not enter a drop of water, not only did he have no chance to escape, but even his mouth was stuffed with cloth balls by them, and he couldn't scream.

The two mountain bandits were afraid that she would play tricks, so they tied her up here most of the time and ignored her, drinking and eating meat in the next room by themselves.

During the day, there is sun exposure, and there are occasional mountain rains at night, and no matter how good the body is, it can't bear it.

Mei Xiaoren only felt that the strength in his body was fading little by little, and even the strength to raise his head was almost gone, and the whole person was like a wilted grass.

When she opened her eyes, she always looked at one place, and she was looking at the bracelet.

The bracelet was still on the dry grass, and she was glad in her heart, glad that he only took it casually, and it was not valuable, otherwise she would not have been able to keep it today.

The minions came in and picked Mei Xiaoren's chin with a dead branch.

Mei Xiaoren was uncomfortable and shook her head slightly.

"Boss, he's still alive."

The one-eyed mountain bandit came in with a wine jug, he was so drunk that he staggered when he walked, and he poured a sip of the wine jar into his throat, wiped his mouth dry, and said: "This kid has a very big life, and in my opinion, it will not be a problem to live for another three or five days." ”

Mei Xiaoren stared at the one-eyed mountain bandit with half-open eyes, with a deep chill in his eyes.

The one-eyed bandit became more and more excited when he saw his desperate appearance, and pointed to Mei Xiaoren and instructed: "Go, take away the things in his mouth, let him have something to say, Lao Tzu likes to listen to the call of the dying man."

"Boss, no, this dog official is scheming, who knows what rhetoric he will use to confuse you, you drunk, you can't be believed." The minion simply carried the one-eyed bandit out, "Boss, let's continue to drink, and when he is about to die, let's untie him and throw him off the cliff." ”

A wry smile bloomed on Mei Xiaoren's lips. It turns out that mountain bandits will also eat a trench and grow wise.

She turned her head to look at the sky again, the sky was cloudless, the weather was good, but she was having nightmares under the sun, and she didn't know if she could wake up from this dream