Yao Qi nodded: "These garrisons have stiff joints and can't bend, and it's very cold at night, which will also speed up the stiffness, these garrisons should have been attacked shortly after the beginning of Yin, maybe they drank sweat medicine or something like that, so they were strangled to death so quietly." ”

Han Changdui helped Yao Qi to walk slowly, and pondered: "The people who can use their hands and feet in the diet of the garrison must be the people they are familiar with, if you say who is most familiar with them here, it is naturally the owner of the shop and the woman in the post station, I don't know whether the two of them ran away or were also poisoned." ”

Yao Qi suddenly remembered the young man, who stood up and tenacious like a green pine, and his heart sank: "There is also Meng Ying, who disappeared inexplicably, which is very strange." ”

Han Changdui said slowly: "Even if the three of them are together, they can't be bloodless, not to mention that these garrisons have no obvious external injuries on their bodies, and their clothes are all intact, so we still have to start with diet first." ”

Yao Qi thought for a while: "But now we can't get out, Li Yushan is in a hurry to leave, and he doesn't have a chance to investigate carefully." ”

Han Changwan pursed his lips and was silent.

When the two of them walked back to the station, the dart masters had already packed their bags and were tying soft bags and boxes to the back of their horses.

And Li Yushan told the two that it was not only Meng Ying who was missing, but also the shopkeeper and the woman, Meng Ying's baggage was gone, and the belongings in the shopkeeper's house were also missing.

Han Changdui had a thought in his heart, a firm and clear thought.

These three men walked on their own, and they were never coerced.

The three camel footprints were left by these three men when they left.

He turned his eyes to look at Liu Yi, his eyes deep and thoughtful.

After Liu Yi had an accident here, he had been very calm, without any panic or surprise.

Those who don't know will think that he has experienced frost and snow, so he will not be afraid of danger.

But Han Changdui had seen Liu Yi deliberately cover up Meng Ying's strange behavior, and he had seen him deliberately remind Meng Ying not to lose his temper.

In front of this change, even if Liu Yi is not an accomplice, he must know a little about the whole thing.

He slowly leaned over and served the horses with Liu Yi, and in the noise, he suddenly said softly: "When the three of them left, what did they say to the old man." ”

Liu Yi stiffened, as if he had been struck by lightning, his face changed, and he smiled reluctantly: "What the noble man is talking about, the little old man doesn't understand." ”

Han Changwan glanced at Liu Yi deeply, and smiled as usual: "Meng Ying followed her sister away, so why don't you say goodbye to my father-in-law, the leader." ”

Liu Yi's aging face was white without any blood, the corners of his lips twitched, and he couldn't shake a word for a long time.

Han Changwan was always calm and calm, without anger and persecution, but his gaze was a little deep, and it fell on Liu Yi's face.

Such a gaze, in Liu Yi's view, has enough power to persecute people's hearts, like the light in hell, enveloping him, and it can lock his life in an instant.

He is just the most ordinary old man, competing with a young envoy of the Internal Security Department who has lived in officialdom for a long time and is not angry and arrogant, and the results speak for themselves.

Yao Qi led the horse and walked over, blocking Han Changdui and Liu Yi, also blocking the eyes of others.

However, in such a noisy and chaotic situation, no one would notice the three people who were packing their bags, tending to the horses, and preparing to hurry.

Liu Yi touched it, his voice was difficult, and it was very difficult to spit out word by word: "That's Meng Ying's sister Meng Lan, who was sold by someone four years ago, I walked by here at the beginning of the year, recognized her, went back and told Meng Ying, and he looked for it." ”

Yao Qi asked slowly: "They left after Yinchu, three camels, one big and two small. ”

Liu Yi looked at each other in shock, if he hadn't watched the three of them leave at that time and confirmed that there were no outsiders next to him, he would have thought that Yao Ji had also seen it with his own eyes.

He trembled his lips and nodded with difficulty: "Yes, Yin Chu Erji." ”

Han Changwan asked lightly: "These garrisons, they strangled them?" ”

Liu Yi shook his head busily, his hair full of frost and swayed messily: "No, no, I don't know, I, when I sent them away, it was okay." ”

"Okay." Han Changdui grasped a loophole, and his eyes deepened: "You went out and saw it, or did you hear it." ”

Liu Yi took a step back, leaned on the horse in despair, his thin cheeks twitched twice, and said in despair: "I heard that Hu man say, let Meng Lan and his brother wait for him here, and he will send the boiled mutton soup to the changing guard army." ”

Han Changwan had a vague conclusion in his heart, but there was no empirical evidence, and he didn't have time to check, so he planned to continue to ask a few more words, but he saw Li Yushan urging the horse to his approach, and shouted loudly: "Get on the horse, hurry up, Brother Han, go." ”

Yao Qi raised his eyebrows, and he didn't know if this Li Yushan was particularly afraid of death, or if he was particularly close to Han Changdu, staring at him very tightly along the way, and he didn't relax for a moment.

Han Changdui originally wanted to take advantage of the chaos to leave here, but looking at Li Yushan's inseparable appearance, he couldn't leave in a short time.

Out of Baimashu, there are three or four days away, and it is the boundary of Suzhou.

He had to leave the team before entering the Suzhou territory.

The sound of horses' hooves sounded chaotically, stirring up a cloud of yellow sand. A mighty crowd of people urged the horses to gallop and hurried to the pass.

As soon as he walked out of the pass, Li Yushan suddenly shouted, stood on his horse, and listened carefully.

Everyone stopped one after another, and looked at his gaze, and there was nothing unusual about the empty yellow sand of the wilderness.

Han Changdui urged the horse to take a few steps forward, looking into the distance, his face was sinking and sinking, and his eyebrows were frowning.

Yao Qi followed behind him, his eyes narrowed slightly, and a burst of yellow sand rolled up not far away, and the sound of small horses' hooves could already be heard from far and near.

There was a commotion and panic in the team, and the horses under their crotches also followed a few blank steps back and forth.

Li Yushan's face changed abruptly, turned the horse's head, and shouted: "There is a horse thief, quick, fast, retreat, go back." ”

Han Changdui frowned, turned the horse's head, and whispered to Yao Qi sideways: "Like a horse thief, take advantage of the chaos for a while." ”

Yao Qi looked at the dart team that retreated to the pass in a panic, and whispered suspiciously: "Childe, come back, wouldn't it be worse to close the door and beat the dog." ”

"......" Han Changdui was speechless.

The dart team is in a commotion here, and the yellow sand is rolling outside the gate over there.

In the depths of the yellow sand, a group of black horse thieves galloped out.

Han Changdui looked at these horse thieves and couldn't help but marvel.

To say that it is a horse thief is really an insult to the horse thief industry.

Although these people were menacing and numerous, they were all in tattered clothes, unkempt, and yellow-skinned, as if they had never eaten enough.

As for the eating fellows they were holding, there was a variety of cold light shining in the sun, with swords, guns, halberds, and sticks, mixed with a few open-ended kitchen knives, and a curled wood-chopping axe.

Han Changdu's face turned pale, and he noticed Yao Qi's gaze and turned his head to look.

Yao Qi opened his mouth in surprise: "Childe, these, are they sure they are horse thieves?" ”

Han Changdui nodded with a calm face.

Yao pursed his lips.

The world is difficult, and the life of horse thieves is not easy, these horse thieves who describe despondency are not as good as the beggars squatting on the street corners in Chang'an City.

The horse thief at the head was not bad, but the top of his head was like a desert, bald, and his beard was like a weed, and it grew endlessly, and it grew very luxuriantly.

The horse thief led by looked at the dart team not far away, and felt refreshed, and finally could eat a full meal.

With all his strength, he shouted loudly, urging the horse thieves to round their broadswords and rush into the pass.

He knew in his heart that his people looked menacing, but in fact, they were just a shelf with no appearance, and they had eaten half-full food for a long time, and their hands were very weak.

So, you have to go all out and run when you grab something.

Han Changdui and Yao Qi had already retreated to the back of the dart team, seeing the dart team lined up, holding crossbows in their hands.

As soon as the cold light of the crossbows was lined up, Han Changdui's heart sank, what is the connection between the Zhou family and the ordnance supervisor this week.

Yao Qi turned his head to look at Han Changdu.

Didn't you say that this crossbow was just developed by the Ordnance Superintendent, and it was covered like a family heirloom, how did you get here, it became a rotten street, and there were everywhere.

The horse thief rushed to the front, and the yellow sand rushed to his face.

Li Yushan has been walking darts for decades, has seen a lot of things, and has experienced many times of life and death, and the horse thief in front of him is really not in his eyes.

His hand swung down heavily, and the arrows whistled, and the rain of arrows neighed and pounced on the approaching horse thief.

The knife in the hand of the horse thief had no time to slash at the dart team, and someone was already screaming, pierced through the body by the crossbow arrow, and flew out with it upside down and nailed to the ground.

The horse thieves led by him were stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect this group of darts to be fierce, more like horse thieves than them.

He hesitated for a moment, and between being nailed into a sieve by a crossbow arrow and starving to death, he chose to rush forward.

The big knife in his hand was round, shuttling in the rain of arrows, and there were people around him who kept screaming and wailing and falling, not knowing life and death, and he didn't care about looking at it.

Seeing that there were fewer and fewer horse thieves, and the blood on the ground was getting deeper and heavier, Han Changdui and Yao Qi glanced at each other and slowly retreated quietly.

At this moment, a piercing scream suddenly sounded, and the ear drum of the person who poked it hurt.

Han Changdui raised his head and looked at the blue sky with a gloomy face.

I saw that high in the blue sky, a goshawk suddenly appeared, flapping its wings and swooping down towards the dart team, which soared into the sky.

The spread wings cast a huge shadow on the team, which got closer and closer, and flew by like a flash of light, and then volleyed away in an instant.

Before the crowd could come to their senses, they heard the sound of horses' hooves behind them.

The sound was not the usual sound of horses' hooves, it was loud and crisp, the sound of a piece of iron colliding with the ground.

With the deafening sound of horses' hooves, the ground seemed to shake as well. The rolling yellow sand is all over the sky, and the shadows in the depths of the yellow sand are full of shadows.

The horse thief was startled and forgot to rush forward.

The dart team was also shocked and just looked back.