But Yao Qi on the left did puff out his cheeks, as if he had a grudge against the food in front of him, and picked up the chopsticks in his hand and kept stabbing them.

Zhang Meng, who was sitting opposite Lin Xiao, had a jet-black bruise on his face, which was naturally the pain of Zhang Meng's flesh and skin when he was caught by the mask man.

After being seen by Lin Xiao, he felt guilty in his heart, and said apologetically: "Zhang Meng, I have caused you trouble this time." ”

Zhang Meng and Lin Xiao had a lifelong friendship, and after hearing this, he waved his hand and teased: "What's the big deal, next time you will be arrested for me for a while." ”

Zhang Meng said, while picking up the wine glass, he raised his glass and shook it in the direction of Lin Xiao, and continued: "Brother, if you are in trouble, someone will naturally help you tide over the difficulties, these are all trivial matters, if you do this again, you will see the outside!" ”

Zhang Meng pretended to blame and told Lin Xiao impatiently.

Lin Xiao suddenly felt a warmth in his heart, and hurriedly filled the wine glass in front of him with wine, immediately raised his glass and clinked glasses with Zhang Meng, and said softly after pouring it down: "Thank you." ”

Lin Xiao understood that if he continued to talk more, he would definitely arouse Zhang Meng's dissatisfaction, and the words of those mothers-in-law and mother-in-law were not used to being told by the two, but the help given to Lin Xiao by Zhang Meng and others was firmly remembered by him. ”

"It's nice to have someone to worry about." Feeling the churning of the wine in his stomach, Lin Xiao thought secretly.

Everyone was eating food and tasting spirits in the inn, and before they knew it, time had passed quickly, and by the time the drunkenness hit their heads, they realized that it was already late at night.

Lin Xiao saw that it was not too early, and he had to continue to investigate and handle the case tomorrow, and he had to stay awake at all times, so he discussed going back to his room to rest.

Everyone understood that Lin Xiao had important things to do, and they didn't dwell on it much, so they settled the meal money and prepared to rest.

And just as Lin Xiao was about to climb the stairs and go up to the guest room, there was a sound of iron riding on the ground outside the inn.

Lin Xiao felt that something was wrong, and immediately stopped and looked out.

Waiting for the sound of horses' hooves to come from far and near to stop outside the inn gate, then two more horse sounds rang out, and with the sound of horses lingering in the inn for a moment, the inn door was pushed open by a few hands recklessly.

With the opening of the door, a few officers and soldiers wearing official uniforms and holding sabers walked away, and when they came to the center of the inn, they saw their eyes looking around, floating a glance from the faces of Lin Xiao and others, and then slowly took out something that looked like a yellow scroll, and immediately shouted: "Who is Lin Xiao!" ”

Everyone was taken aback by this high drink, and immediately turned their eyes, and when they saw these people wearing official uniforms, they were all vigilant in their hearts.

When the leading officers and soldiers called out Lin Xiao's name, they felt even more uncomfortable, and moved their steps to slowly approach Lin Xiao.

Lin Xiao was alert in his heart, first glanced at the saber in the hands of the officers and soldiers, and then his eyes fell on the yellowed scroll.

Lin Xiao looked at the officers and soldiers again for a moment, and after finding that they were not malicious, he slowly spoke up: "I am Lin Xiao, what's wrong." ”

Saying that, Lin Xiao took two steps forward, the vigilance in his heart was still there, his right hand hung down, if something happened, he would take out the Huangquan Sword to defend himself as soon as possible.

The officers and soldiers turned to look at Lin Xiao with the source of the voice, and after looking up and down, they pulled out the scroll full of sacredness in their hands, and said solemnly: "The holy decree has arrived!" ”

When Lin Xiao heard the word holy decree, although he had doubts in his heart, he still knelt down on one knee and saluted, waiting for the officers and soldiers to speak.

"Order Lin Xiao to put down the Gu Shi case and return to the palace!"

After the officers and soldiers finished speaking, Lin Xiao frowned slightly, but still said solemnly: "Minister, take the order." ”

The officers and soldiers glanced at Lin Xiao slightly, and then handed the holy decree in their hands forward and handed it to Lin Xiao.

Lin Xiao was already reused by the emperor, and these officers and soldiers who came to deliver the decree naturally knew his identity, seeing that after Lin Xiao received the holy decree, the seriousness on the faces of the officers and soldiers disappeared, and when they came to Lin Xiao's side, their expressions looked a little respectful, and after a while, they said softly: "Lord Lin, the villain has heard the name of the adult many times, and now that he finally sees it, the villain is very happy." ”

At this time, Lin Xiao was deeply puzzled, and a pair of eyebrows looked a little sad.

After hearing the word holy decree, Long Yuyan ran over in confusion, looked at the officers and soldiers and said puzzledly: "What does my imperial brother mean by this?" Let Lin Xiao handle the case and now don't let him do it, this is a toss-up, right? ”

The officers and soldiers made Long Yuyan's identity, and when they saw that the emperor's sister and the princess known to everyone in the world was here, they were immediately frightened and hurriedly knelt down on the ground to salute, and hurriedly said: "The villain should die, the villain doesn't know that the princess is here." ”

This officer and soldier was frightened, in the past, he was cautious in every word and deed in the palace, but he didn't expect to see the princess at this time today.

Although there are rumors of Long Yuyan circulating all over the country, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in the palace, one may lose his head if he is not careful.

He didn't know what the princess's temperament was, no matter if there was a mistake or not, he knelt down and admitted his mistake first.

Long Yuyan was used to seeing the officers and soldiers like this, her face was a little impatient, and she raised her voice and continued: "I asked you just now!" ”

The officers and soldiers were frightened and clever, and their demeanor and movements were a little flustered, and after a while, the officers and soldiers muttered: "The villain... The villain didn't know, the villain didn't dare to speculate on the saint's thoughts, but he was just conveying an order to the emperor to Lord Lin Xiao, if the villain did anything wrong, he would ask the princess to spare his life. ”

He was visibly frightened and trembling all over.

Long Yuyan looked at the appearance of the officers and soldiers and suddenly felt bored, thinking that this lowly official obviously didn't know what the emperor was paying attention to, thought for a moment, and said, "Okay, get up." ”

The officers and soldiers seemed to have received some great gift, and after kowtowing a few times, they said excitedly: "Princess Chitose, the villain will retire!" ”

After saying that, the officers and soldiers stood up, faced Long Yuyan, and respectfully retreated towards the inn, until after going out, they rode their horses and galloped away as if fleeing for their lives.

At this time, Lin Xiao's thoughts were still lingering in the emperor's holy decree, and he didn't know why the emperor would let him give up the Gu test case at this time.

This case is very important to him, and after investigating for so many days, he obviously has a clue, but the emperor let himself give up.

Lin Xiao's fists clenched fiercely, and the sharp nails pressed the flesh and blood in his palms black.

Lin Xiao felt unwilling, his eyes faintly revealed murderous intent, and a worthy anger emanated from all over his body.

Long Yuyan also knew that Gu Xiao's case was unusual, and seeing that Lin Xiao was depressed, Long Yuyan stepped forward and comforted: "Lin Xiao, you're okay." ”

"Brother Huang is really, let's go, let's go into the palace to debate with him, for a while, it's unreasonable to be the emperor."

Long Yuyan was chattering angrily beside her, and after Lin Xiao heard it, he shook his head and said, "Yuyan, don't worry, I'm fine." ”

Although he was unwilling, the emperor had an order not to violate, so he had to put down the case for the time being as the emperor said, and then go back to the palace to take a look.

"It's not early, let's go back to our room and sleep first, and we'll leave for Beijing early tomorrow morning."

The people around him were tired of themselves, and it was time to rest.

The next morning, the sunlight outside the house poured into the room and reflected on the old bedding, and the shouts of the vendors could be heard from time to time outside.

Feeling the slightly dazzling luster on his face, Lin Xiao in his sleep raised his hand to block the sun in front of him, then opened his eyes and looked at the sky outside, then got up and left the bed, went to the bathroom to wash up, and then went downstairs to wake everyone up.

And when Lin Xiao came downstairs, he found that everyone had already gotten up and sat around the square table last night, and the table was filled with fragrant meals.

It was still a lot of time before noon, and Lin Xiao didn't expect them to get up so early and wait downstairs.

Feeling the sleepiness that still existed in the corners of his eyes, Lin Xiao realized that he was too tired these days.

After having breakfast hastily, Lin Xiao and the others left the inn and bought a good carriage in the county seat.

The county seat is still a long way from the capital, and if you just take the test, it will delay a lot of time.

There may be many accidents along the way, so the carriage is prepared with sturdy timber, and the horses running in front of it are also famous for their horses.

There was no unnecessary delay, and when everything was ready, the cadres rushed along the road to the capital.

The wind and waves were calm along the way, the running horses raised their hooves and ran hard, the scenery outside the window swept back quickly, the road was far away, a group of people took turns to be the coachman, and the rest closed their eyes in the carriage to cultivate their minds.

Time passed quickly, Lin Xiaopan sat in the carriage, and just as the sleepiness was getting thicker, the carriage stopped quickly, shook a few times and stopped on the main road.

Lin Xiao slowly opened his eyes, his eyes full of doubts.

"You'll be in the capital so soon?"

It's only been a long time, how can it be that only half a day has passed to get to the capital.

Puzzled, Lin Xiao lifted the curtain on the carriage window and looked out.

Outside the carriage were full of red flowers and green trees of varying heights, and from time to time a breeze rippled, setting off a ripple and there was no movement.

Lin Xiao felt that something was wrong, and when he was about to open his mouth to ask, there was an extremely rampant shouting from the front; "The people in the carriage, get me down!"

As the voice appeared, Lin Xiao shifted his eyes to realize, only to find that a group of people in tattered clothes and dirty faces were standing in front of the carriage.

The group of men armed with shiny broadswords surrounded the carriage in a circle, and greedy eyes continued to be heard.

Only after looking at Lin Xiao did he know that he was a bandit.

Lin Xiao showed a trace of impatience on his face, bandits are rampant in this world, and there are bandits everywhere.

After glancing at it with pity, Lin Xiao didn't look at it anymore.

Zhang Meng, who was also in the carriage, got out of the car, and after a few screams, he turned back again, but unlike before getting off the train, his clothes were stained with a little scarlet blood.

The carriage re-entered the track and headed towards the capital again.

But God always doesn't make people comfortable, and there are several waves of bandits on the way, which doesn't make people feel at ease at all.

Whenever a bandit appeared, Zhang Meng got out of the car to solve it, in order to be out of sight and out of mind, Zhang Meng simply hung the body of the bandit directly on the carriage, and the next road was a lot quieter.