Chapter 104: Traces
"Owner of the village, I have made the special forces ready for battle, and they can go down the mountain at any time."
In the Luoyunzhai meeting hall, Deng Yueru had just received a secret letter from Xie Shuheng, and Zhang Wu came to the meeting hall.
"You also come to see Xie Shuheng's summons, the official government under the mountain has been moving frequently recently, it seems that they are looking for someone, but I don't know who can make Pei Guangyuan even take care of our Luoyun Village."
Handing the secret letter to Zhang Wu, Deng Yueru was very curious about who the Pei brothers were looking for with such a big move.
"Owner of the village, they are investigating so strictly now, will it affect our actions?"
Looking at Xie Shuheng's secret letter, Zhang Wu was a little worried.
"Be careful, move quickly, and there should be no problem. In any case, he had to go down the mountain, and there was not much salt on the mountain, and this man could not afford not to eat salt. ”
Although they also know that the strictness of the Yamashita government's investigation will bring inconvenience to their movements. But Deng Yueru understands that people can't leave salt, if they don't eat salt for a month, people will have symptoms such as weakness in their limbs, dizziness and nausea, muscle spasms, and blurred vision.
Even more serious it is life-threatening. Therefore, for the health of the people in the cottage, this salt must also be obtained from the mountain.
Time passed quickly, and two days passed in a flash.
Early in the morning, an ox cart swayed through the crowd out of the city and headed for the city gate.
"Stop, what's in the car?"
The ox cart was stopped at the city gate by the officers and soldiers guarding the gate, and two officers and soldiers stepped forward and lifted the curtain on the ox cart.
"Sir, we are in the fur business, and we are going to go out of the city to the surrounding villages to collect skins. In addition to some of our clothes, there are some daily necessities on the car, which are ready to be exchanged with those villagers when the time comes. ”
Duan Nian stepped forward on crutches, arched his hands towards the two officers and soldiers, and smiled.
"Head, there's really nothing suspicious."
The two officers and men searched carefully and found that they were some clothes, dry food, and a few small packets of salt and jaggery.
Salt and sugar are hard currency, and some villagers and prey like to exchange prey and hides for salt and jaggery, so some merchants who collect mountain goods will bring some, which is the norm.
"Search them too, and don't let go of suspicious people."
The head of the city guard team came over and looked at Duan Nian and the others, and found that there were six of them, all men, and several of them were carrying bamboo poles and poles on their shoulders, and a bundle of ropes was tied to them, which looked like poles carrying firewood or wild beasts.
The two officers and soldiers stepped forward and touched Duan Nian and the others one by one, and then returned to the side of the squad leader.
"Head, nothing suspicious."
"Alright, you guys go over, the next car will come and get checked."
The head of the city guard team waved his hand to Duan Nian and the others, signaling them to hurry over, and then led people to start checking a carriage behind.
"Let's go, out of town."
Duan Nian glanced at Situ Junfeng, who was wearing a straw hat and carrying a bamboo pole behind him, with a gray face, and then waved his hand and sat on the ox cart. A group of people drove the ox cart and slowly walked out of the city gate of Yunzhou Mansion.
Not daring to walk quickly for fear of attracting attention, everyone drove the ox cart and walked all the way on the official road with the flow of people, until they walked out of the two miles, and then the group of people turned into the mountain road on the side.
"Get on the ox cart, speed up, let's get out of the range of Yunzhou Mansion quickly."
Situ Junfeng crushed the bamboo pole with a hard grip, took out the saber from it, and waved his hand at Yunmo, Duan Nian and the others.
Everyone took out their weapons, turned over and got into the ox cart, and began to speed up, and soon moved away from the range of Yunzhou Mansion.
Just after Situ Junfeng and the others walked for half an hour, a team of about four riders came over and stopped near the place where Situ Junfeng and the others had stayed before.
"Second brother, wait for me, I'm in a hurry."
A thin man shouted, jumped off his horse, and galloped to the side.
"There is a lot of and urine on the lazy donkey, so you have a lot of things to do. Let me tell you, the days when we came out this time are not short, and we have not found any trace of the three princes until now, and if we delay it any longer, if the three princes return to the capital with any information, you see that the master will not pick the skin of all of us! ”
The tall man in high costume, known as the second brother, glared at the thin man and scolded softly.
"Oh, second brother, we've been looking for so long, and it's not bad for me to soak in urine."
Xiao Qi smiled and solved the problem next to a tree, and as soon as he turned around and wanted to go back, he stepped on something and almost slipped.
After scolding, Xiao Qi bent down and picked up the thing he stepped on to take a look, and found that it was a broken bamboo pole, which he wanted to throw away, but suddenly found that the bamboo pole was broken by someone's hand.
"Second brother, there is a discovery. You look at the bamboo pole, the stubble is obviously crushed by someone's hand, this bamboo is still very fresh, at first glance it is a newly made bamboo pole, there are scratches in the bamboo pole, it can be seen that there must be something hidden inside.
This side is so close to the city gate of Yunzhou Mansion, could it be that the person we are looking for has come out of Yunzhou Mansion? ”
"Sure enough, it is crushed, this kind of bamboo is a specialty of Yunzhou Mansion, the bamboo body is very strong, it is impossible for ordinary people to crush the bamboo just by hand strength, it can be seen that the person who crushes the bamboo must be extraordinary, it cannot be an ordinary person."
The second brother took the pieces of bamboo and looked at them carefully, and couldn't help but smile on his face.
"Okay, among our people, it is your kid's eyes that are the best, if this is really left by the people of the three princes, then your kid has made a great contribution! Hurry up and look around and see if you can find footprints or horseshoe prints, and let's chase after them. ”
"Okay, just leave it to me Xiao Qi, finding traces is my specialty."
Xiao Qi smiled, hurriedly returned to the place where he was, and looked at it carefully.
"Second brother, there are traces of ruts here, as well as cow hoof prints, the grass that has been crushed nearby looks very fresh, and the ox cart should not have walked through it for more than an hour."
After looking carefully, Xiao Qi quickly found traces.
"Second brother, I think they should be walking towards that side, look at the traces of the wheels of the ox cart, there should be about five people sitting on the cart."
"Okay, everybody, get on your horse and chase it in that direction. Be careful, if you find an ox cart, don't get too close to avoid being discovered. As soon as it is confirmed that it is the Three Princes and the others, we will send a message to the brothers that we must leave the Three Princes in Yunzhou Mansion forever, understand! ”
After looking for so long and finally having some clues, the second brother was very excited, and he had a feeling that the credit for this time must be their team.
"Okay, the credit for this time is ours!"
Everyone shouted, got on their horses one after another, and chased after the ox cart of Situ Junfeng and others.
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