Although Ji Yanning taught Xishan a lesson about the bandits, although the people were happy, they were helpless, after all, their missing girls had not returned, and their life and death were uncertain.

Ji Yanning still lives in the inn, and there are more guests in the inn during the day, mostly to catch a glimpse of her, but she has always had the door closed, and there are guards guarding the door, and occasionally she will smell the smell of medicine from her room.

It wasn't until the evening of the second day that Ji Yanning quietly walked out of the inn wearing a cloak and taking Ji Jiu.

The sky gradually darkened, and Hengcheng fell into a quiet place, and the moonlight was like water, reflecting the county town in a particularly cold light.

The breeze blew, and there was a rustling sound in the treetops, and the two soldiers guarding the door of the county jail were a little sleepy and yawned.

One of the soldiers said, "You watch first, I'll go to the latrine to make it easier." ”

"I'm also panicking, anyway, the mountain bandits have been caught, who would dare to come to the Yamen prison to spread wilderness, let's go get some wine and come back by the way." ”

With that, the two of them left the door of the prison.

Shortly after they left, several men in black leaped down from the edge of the wall while no one was there.

Two men stood guard at the door, and the others went into the prison.

The surroundings were so quiet that the two black-clothed people guarding the door were faintly uneasy in their hearts, but they didn't know that there were already many sharp arrows facing them in the dark night.

They seemed to sense that something was wrong, and were about to probe to the side, when suddenly a rain of arrows shot out of the grass in a corner not far away.

"No, there's an ambush!" they were shocked and immediately drew their swords to resist.

However, the arrows were shot too intensively, and the two of them couldn't resist even if their martial arts were high, and they were shot to death at the door of the cell in one fell swoop.

When the catcher saw that the two of them were dead, he immediately stepped forward and locked the cell door.

The man in black who entered the prison went straight inside, trying to find out the bandits who were being held, but when he entered, he found that the whole prison was empty, and there was not a single prisoner, and it was as quiet as if it was just an empty cell.

Sensing that something was wrong, they immediately went back, only to find that the door to the dungeon had been locked.

"We've been tricked!" said one of them, lowering his voice.

Several people gathered together, leaning back together, looking around vigilantly, and they realized that in this dungeon, even the windows were closed, and only a lot of flames from braziers were dancing and illuminating the inside.

Deathly silence.

After a while, they finally noticed the anomaly, and their consciousness gradually blurred.

"It's a brazier......" Before anyone could finish speaking, they all fainted one by one.

......

When Ji Yanning and Master Huang walked into the cell where the man in black was being held, the head catcher stepped forward: "According to what Miss Ji said, only one person remained, and the others have already broken their tendons and tendons, and they can't escape." ”

Ji Yanning stepped forward, glanced at the black-clothed people who were thrown into a coma, turned his head and asked the catcher: "Can you search your body?"

The head catcher handed a warrant forward to Ji Yanning.

When Ji Yanning saw it, his brows furrowed and he stepped forward and carefully examined the unconscious black-clothed people.

"Miss Ji knows this token?" Lord Huang couldn't help but ask curiously when he saw that her face was different.

Ji Yanning tightened the token into his palm, turned around and walked out of the cell, and said, "It's better that adults still don't know, even if they do, with our current strength, there is nothing we can do about them." ”

Lord Huang lowered his head and smiled bitterly, and said, "Then you can't be a foolish person who doesn't even know how he died. ”

Ji Yanning said: "This is Jin Wuwei's token. ”

Lord Huang couldn't believe it, and the words stuck in his throat couldn't be spoken.

He spoke for a long time before he spoke: "Isn't Jin Wuwei supposed to be on an errand in the palace, how can he appear here and do such a thing?"

Ji Yanning said: "Jin Wuwei is the strongest team in the Royal Forbidden Army, and those who can enter this guard must be strong in martial arts, and sometimes they will secretly do some hidden things for the emperor or the prince. Only one of these people is Jin Wuwei, which means that there are several in their lair, and it seems that it is not so easy to deal with. ”

The emperor or the prince......

Lord Huang's mood fell to the bottom, no wonder Ji Yanning replied that he couldn't be provoked, but as a royal family, he did such a dirty deed, which was really chilling!

He said stupidly, "Then do we still want to continue to investigate?"

Ji Yanning paused and turned his head to look at the county order: "I said at the beginning, it is not something that you and I can do with the strength of you and me, but we have to rescue people." ”

The serious appearance of her face made Huang Xianling blush slightly.

He didn't even have a little girl who could see through and do things steadily.

The officers and soldiers who could be used in the yamen had already assembled, and some people had been borrowed from the surrounding cities, and two dogs with a sensitive sense of smell had been brought along, waiting for Ji Yanning's order.

Not long after, a person quietly slipped out of the detention room, climbed over the wall with great difficulty in the night, and disappeared into the night.

When the soldier hiding in the shadows saw it, he immediately walked back and reported to Ji Yanning.

Ji Yanning deliberately left a man in black, only breaking his tendons, but the man in black, who could still walk on his legs, sprinkled special incense powder on him, allowing him to escape and guide them the way.

The defense of the city gate was not tight, so he quickly escaped, and Ji Yanning and the head catcher led people to follow the dog with a keen sense of smell all the way.

The injured man in black did not go to the western mountain, but went directly in the direction of the town not far away.

They tracked it down to a ruined temple, but the dog stopped moving, and kept wandering around the ruined temple and stopped moving forward.

The head catcher was puzzled: "Could it be that he is hiding here?"

But looking at the ruined temple in front of him, the appearance of a slight decline, it was full of dilapidated scenes, and occasionally pedestrians would come to shelter from the rain and not be full of cobwebs, but it didn't look like a place where people could hide, how could those people in black be here.

The head catcher asked his men to search inside and out of the ruined temple, but they still couldn't find any flaws.

and the people were lost.

Ji Yanning stepped forward and glanced at the desolate mountains and forests near the ruined temple, there was nowhere to hide, and it was impossible for the injured person to disappear out of thin air.

The guards around him held torches, illuminating the ruined temple very brightly,

In the middle of the temple is a statue of Guanyin, surrounded by cobwebs, Ji Yanning looked around carefully, and then pondered.

People can't disappear into poverty, and that's where they don't find out, like secret passages.

Her eyes suddenly fixed on a small lotus lamp next to the statue of Guanyin, and the rest of the place was dusty, but this lotus lamp seemed to be too clean, and she reached out to pick up the lotus lantern, but found that the lotus lantern seemed to be fixed, and she couldn't pick it up.

Her eyes twinkled, and she twisted the lotus lantern.

"Bang ......"

There was a sudden movement behind the statue of Guanyin.

"Miss, there's a secret passage here!" Ji Jiu suddenly shouted excitedly.

Everyone stepped forward to take a look, and there was indeed a black secret passage under the statue of Guanyin, and they didn't know where it led.

The catcher stepped forward and asked a few soldiers to go down with torches to investigate, but the secret passage seemed to be very long, and he didn't know what the scene was on the other end, so Ji Yanning asked them to come back first.

She asked the headcatcher, "What are the closest places to live here?"

The head catcher didn't know why she asked, but she still answered honestly: "There is no village in front of the village and no shop here, and the nearest is Lushui Town, which is also the most persecuted town, and almost all the girls have been taken captive." ”

"What else?" asked Ji Yanning.

"There are also villages farther away, but they don't usually come here, they all go to the Taoist temple next door to pray for blessings or something. The head catcher said.

Ji Yanning raised his eyebrows: "Taoist temple, is the nearby Taoist temple far away from here?"

Only then did the head catcher react: "It's not far, it's more than enough to walk for a quarter of an hour." Miss Ji suspects that they are hiding in the Taoist temple?"

Ji Yanning nodded: "It's impossible to dig too far in this kind of secret passage, we can only go to find out the situation first." ”

"And what about this secret passage?"

Ji Yanning said: "Move a few big stones to block the secret passage here, so that they can't come out of here again." ”

Catching the head and the head, he asked people to hurry up and start moving the stones.

The group of them came to the Taoist temple, and it was late at night, and the gate of the Taoist temple was closed at this time, but they could vaguely see the lights inside.

Ji Yanning was even more suspicious that those Jin Wuwei and the missing girls were in this Taoist temple.

"Miss Ji, are we going to break in and search now?" asked the head catcher.

Ji Yanning's eyes were exceptionally bright in the dark night, and she said: "I don't know how many people there are on the other side, and I'm afraid that I will startle the snake if I break in like this." ”

The headcatcher said, "What should I do then?"

"I went in disguised as a lost man to spend the night, and in a quarter of an hour you broke in on the pretext of catching a fugitive. Ji Yanning said.

Before the head catcher could speak, Ji Jiu, who was on the side, opened his mouth to stop him: "How can this be!

The head catcher also agreed: "Yes, Miss Ji, this is too dangerous, it is better to let my brothers disguise themselves as fugitives." ”

Ji Yanning said: "Since they have a secret passage, naturally they also have a secret room for women, if a man enters the Taoist temple, he will not find anything." ”

"But you can't let the eldest lady go into danger alone. Ji Jiu still disagreed.

Before leaving, he had promised Steward Wu that he would protect the safety of the eldest lady.

Ji Yanning said: "Then you go in with me, and you will disguise yourself as a brother and sister." ”

Seeing that the eldest lady was so resolute, Ji Jiu could only agree.

The others hid in the woods not far away, waiting for Ji Yanning and them to advance to the Taoist temple.

Ji Yanning was wearing a set of coarse linen clothes of ordinary people's women tonight, dressed neatly, and she really looked a little bit like a peasant girl.

She and Ji Jiu stepped forward and knocked on the door of the Taoist temple.