No matter how good the carriage is, it can't stop the cold wind of Layue, and no matter how good the carriage and horse are, it's better to sit at home for a long time, Li Mingqi sneezed in the car.

"Someone's coming." Nian'er immediately shouted to the outside world.

The attendant servant woman by the carriage immediately stepped forward to ask, and Li Fengjing also came over to greet him when he heard the news.

The big girl was about to know the cold and the heat to the young lady, and Nian'er took the initiative to make a decision: "It's too cold, I've been on the road for three days in a row, so I'll settle down early today to rest." ”。

The entire team will not have any opinion on the request of the eldest lady.

But in the end, it's not really the eldest lady, Li Fengjing couldn't help it: "It's too cold, it's better to hurry up and get to Taiyuan Mansion before it snows, otherwise it will be delayed for a long time." ”

Nian'er was also unhappy: "But I'm too tired." ”

The farthest place she has ever been to when she is so old is Li Mingqi's grandfather's house.

The freshness of the journey and the excitement for the future have now receded, and only exhaustion remains.

Li Mingqi lifted the curtain of the car: "It's even colder when it's snowing and you're stuck on the road, the fourth uncle is right." ”

Xiang Jiuding came over to play a round: "I can go to Zhenbao River tomorrow, there is a ferry over there, and there is a big post station." ”

So the carriage and horse continued to move forward, Nian'er sat back in the car, holding the warm hand stove and was indignant: "He is a concubine, and he really puts on the old man's shelf, not to mention that Miss You came to solve his problems, he lost the eldest lady, and the old lady and the second master will pick his skin." ”

Li Mingqi wrapped his cloak and held a small cup to drink tea slowly, not in a hurry or annoyed: "The fourth master is for the convenience of traveling, don't think about it." ”

"Not really." Nian'er retorted, "If it's really the eldest lady, the fourth master will definitely not dare to say a word." ”

"So, what are you complaining about?" Li Mingqi asked.

Nian'er was speechless and complimented: "Miss, you are really pampered." ”

Li Mingqi rolled her eyes: "I'm not stupid, how can I not know the difference between truth and falsehood, I pretended to be the eldest lady to show others, and I didn't coax myself to pour tea." ”

Li Mingqi stretched the cup forward.

Nian'er took it with a smile, and was about to pick up the teapot from the small stove on the side, when there was a noise outside.

"Take someone back quickly."

"Bring more people."

"Turn around."

A few words came from the chaos, and the annoyance that Nian'er had just shrunk suddenly came out again, and he tore open the curtain: "What's wrong?" Why do you have to turn around and go back when you are in a hurry? ”

Lifting the curtain of the car was even more noisy, and many people in the convoy were turning around and gathering back.

There was always someone with her in front of the eldest lady's carriage and horse, and when she heard the inquiry, she hurriedly replied: "It's not all going back, it's something happening in the back, the fourth master and Xiang Jiuye are going to take a look." ”

"What's wrong?" Nian Er was puzzled.

The attendant seemed to be embarrassed, bowed his head and whispered: "The dowry army behind has been robbed." ”

"Who dares to rob us of something?" Li Mingqi was surprised and moved over to ask.

This is also the question of Li Fengjing and Xiang Jiuding, they did not hide their traces all the way, hung the flag of the Governor's Mansion of Jiannan Province, and held the name of the envoy of Longyou Jiedu, and everywhere they went, the state capital and county road would welcome each other for banquets and arrange accommodation, and the local magnates would also hand over the name post.

They are not nameless civilians walking in vain.

Although the dowry convoy is exaggerated and eye-catching, it was the officers and soldiers who escorted the dowry, with armor and swords, guns, bows and crossbows.

"It's a bandit." The guards returned.

The bandits are no strangers, there has always been news of the bandits making trouble in this section recently, Li Fengjing and Xiang Jiuding glanced at each other, they were originally on the side of Xuanwu in Huainan, but they also made trouble here?

Xiang Jiuding pulled out his knife: "It's just that we are not those officers and soldiers in Dou County." ”

Li Fengjing thought about it more carefully and stopped Xiang Jiuding: "That's right, that's the soldiers and horses of Jiannan Dao, how can the bandits help them?" ”

Don't act rashly first, if even the soldiers and horses of Jiannan Road can't help the bandits, won't they be sent to death?

The soldiers who were covered in blood and seemed to crawl out of the mountain of corpses and blood to escort the dowry struggled and shouted to the fourth master: "We were ambushed in a valley, and the group of bandits used smoke and poisonous insects, and everyone was caught off guard and did not fight at all." ”

Saying that, he fell to the ground and whimpered and cried.

Xiang Jiuding was angry: "When it comes to using smoke and poisonous insects, you are the best at the soldiers and horses of the Southern Dao of Jiannan." ”

In the southern part of Jiannan Province, miasma snake venom is rampant, especially when fighting against the Yi people.

The soldiers on the ground lowered their heads and said in a sullen and ashamed voice: "Who would have thought that the hinterland of the Central Plains would also use this method." He continued to whimper and plead, "The bandits are still not far away, the fourth master and Xiang Jiuye quickly help chase them." ”

As soon as Xiang Jiuding urged the horse forward, the Xiang family's men and horses immediately followed.

Li Fengjing was still standing in place and shouted twice, watching Xiang Jiuding lead people farther and farther, so he had to follow: "We can't leave people here." ”

The convoy stopped to rest as Nian'er wished, but she was not happy, only nervous, layer by layer of people and horses put out a military formation to surround the eldest lady's carriage and horses in the middle, Nian'er tiptoed and couldn't see the outside, and didn't dare to go out, so she could only keep asking for news.

At dawn the next day, Li Fengjing and Xiang Jiuding came back, forgot to report the situation to the fake eldest lady, and went directly into the camp to discuss, Li Mingqi had to come to inquire by himself.

"It's better for me to know these things clearly, after all, I'm going to Taiyuan Mansion." She explained her purpose.

This little girl is well-behaved and knows how to measure, Xiang Jiuding has a good impression of her, the most important thing is that there is no pressure from Li Minglou's high position.

"You're right." He said kindly and asked Li Mingqi to sit down, "Now the three of us have to discuss together." ”

Li Fengjing was not angry: "What is there to discuss, those bandits can't be caught." ”

Xiang Jiuding will tell Li Mingqi about the process, since the last meeting, the dowry convoy is not too far away from them, they galloped with men and horses, asked the nearby villagers, and made sure that there were indeed bandits here, and then rushed to the valley where the bandits committed murder, and saw a group of people and horses in military uniforms lying crookedly in the valley, and the surviving dozen soldiers who led the way knelt on the ground and cried to death like delicate women.

"Because the dowry and baggage thieves are walking slowly, I took the men and horses to find out their whereabouts and catch up with them." Xiang Jiuding said.

Li Fengjing interjected: "There are a lot of them, and they are hiding in a dangerous place. ”

Xiang Jiuding ignored his interjection: "We are unfamiliar with the environment here, we can't make a rash move, I will report myself first..."

Li Fengjing hated on the side: "As a result, this group of thieves didn't know anything, and asked what Longyou and Jiannan Dao were, and the ninth master was really good-tempered, and he really explained it to them." ”

Xiang Jiuding was annoyed: "I'm deterring them." ”

Li Fengjing sneered: "As a result, I scared people away, and nothing was left." ”

Xiang Jiuding took a deep breath and decided not to talk to Li Fengjing, and looked at Li Mingqi: "They are delaying time, taking the opportunity to run away with things, we dare not venture into the deep mountains and dense forests, and we are worried that the eldest lady is in danger here, so we will come back first." ”

Li Mingqi nodded: "The ninth master is right, these thieves are not afraid of the name of Jiannan Dao, they are very vicious, I don't know what else to do." ”

This little girl speaks much better than Master Li San, and Xiang Jiuding snorted.

"What now?" Li Fengjing's face sank.

People are lost, dowries are also lost, how can this errand become more and more desperate.

"Anyway, the eldest lady went by herself." Li Fengjing clenched his fists, "The dowry is something that the soldiers and horses of Jiannan Province can't hold, and it has nothing to do with us." ”

Xiang Jiuding looked down on the behavior of just wanting to shirk responsibility when something happened, Xiang Yun was right, this Li Si didn't have to pay attention to it.

"We are short of soldiers and horses, and we are not familiar with the local area, so we can't act rashly, I want to contact the local government first and ask them to reinforce the soldiers and horses to suppress the bandits." He said to Li Mingqi.

Li Fengjing shouted, "How long will you have to wait here?" What if you can't catch it after the New Year? Those bandits are not even afraid of Jiannan Dao, what can the government of this place do to them? ”

The confused waste can always say one or two words that go straight to the point, Xiang Jiuding glared at Li Fengjing.

"Fourth master, ninth master." The surviving leader of the dowry army knelt down, "This is our dereliction of duty, we will stay here to chase down the bandits, please keep going, it is too dangerous to stay here." ”

Of course, please ask them to write a letter to Jiannan Dao to explain, so that they can make meritorious contributions.

Li Fengjing couldn't wait to leave here immediately, and there could be no more accidents: "If these thieves are even more thieves and kidnap the eldest lady and ask for ransom, the face of our Li family and Xiang family will be completely lost in the Great Xia Dynasty, how can we be the festival envoys of Mingyu?" It is also very likely that the emperor will take back the festival. ”

This is not impossible..... Xiang Jiuding, who has been doing things all the way, is also exhausted, the most important thing is people, as long as people are there, the Xiang family and the Li family are married, and other things are trivial.

The dowry that I couldn't finish in those months really can't be regarded as a trivial matter, Li Mingqi pressed his heart, but he just thought about it, it was really dangerous to go out.

Li Fengjing and Xiang Jiuding reached an agreement, and immediately set off to speed up to Taiyuan Mansion, writing a letter to Jiannan Road while hurrying.

The surviving dowry army who remained in place watched the convoy turn into a black spot on the horizon, and they all jumped up as they sat and lay down, and the decadence on their faces was swept away.

"Are we going to go with Uncle Yuan and them?" They asked.

"We're going to stay here and fight the bandits." The leader, who had been crying in front of Master Li Si with a cowardly face, shook his head coldly.

The others were puzzled: "We have already killed all the bandits here, and we still use them to pretend to be our dead bodies." ”

The leader looked at the mountains and fields here, the towns in the distance, and the vast world in the distance: "The eldest lady asked us to tell the local government that our dowry in Jiannan Province has been hijacked, and we will pursue it here, and when we find the dowry and when we will leave." ”

If you can't find it, of course, you won't leave, and if the local government drives them away, you have to ask them what their intentions are? Are you in league with the bandits?

The officials and bandits colluded to go to the imperial court to report them, and the Jiannan Dao children's festival was not held in his hand.

The leader picked up the Jiannan Dao banner that had fallen to the ground and shook it, and the previous dust and dimness disappeared, and it flew in the cold wind.

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The cold wind in Mobei has been mixed with snowflakes, and Wu Ya'er stood in the courtyard and carefully swept the snowflakes, sweeping one piece and falling another.

"Raven." A couple of men pushed the door open and hurried in, "There's news." ”