She ignored the red fruit, and looked at the owner of the wine shop who was busy going in and out at the door of the post station, she frowned slightly, a little puzzled: "The snow is so thick, and the road is very difficult to walk, where is the owner of the inn going." ”

Xu Xiangli said with a smile: "He came to tell me early this morning that he wanted to send his wife and children back to his parents' house for the New Year." ”

Yao Qi always felt that something was wrong, and seeing that the shopkeeper had moved a lot of things out, he was even more puzzled: "With so many things, you don't have to empty your home when you go back to your parents' house." ”

After the embarrassment, Han Changdui returned to normal, and also heard the doubts in Yao Qi's words, and suddenly spoke: "Xu Shuguan, who is the owner's mother's house?" ”

Xu Xiangli condensed and said: "It's a Dunhuang person." ”

"Did they go back before?" Han Changwan asked.

Xu Xiangli also felt that something was wrong: "No, they have been here for six or seven years, and they have never gone back." ”

The snow was light, Yao Qi had already jumped down from the tree, rubbing the snow with his steps, the whole person was fluttering, carelessly and leaving no traces in the direction of the post station.

Xie Mengxia followed behind and sighed: "Ah Qi's light skill is really amazing." ”

Leng Linjiang never forgot to laugh at Xie Mengxia: "Cousin, there are so many masters who teach you, if you were willing to work hard, you would be even better than Ah Qi." ”

Xie Mengxia pouted: "I'm not stupid, and I don't have to kill people, what are you doing when you practice light skills." ”

"Use it to run away when you are bitten by a wolf." Han Changdui spoke faintly behind him.

Xie Mengxia's heart was cold, colder than the overwhelming ice and snow.

Can this be over!!

A few people walked to the door of the post station as if they were eating and eating, and Yao Qi looked surprised: "Shopkeeper, are you going to go far away?" ”

The shopkeeper didn't expect these people to come, so he was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "Isn't it almost the New Year, I will send the three of them back to their parents' house for the New Year." ”

Yao Qi smiled childishly, and his laughter was clear, not waiting for the slightest impurity: "Fortunately, the owner of the store is back, and I still want to eat the mutton soup you made, it is really fragrant." ”

Xie Mengxia and Leng Linjiang glanced at each other, they could really pretend, pretend to be true.

The shopkeeper still said as little as before, but he smiled and continued to carry things.

Yao Qi blocked the shopkeeper's view by helping to take care of the children.

At the same time, Han Changdui unintentionally probed the contents of the high car.

After a while, he shook his head slightly at Yao Qi.

The shopkeeper had already packed all his belongings, and drove out another high cart, which was covered with a thick blanket of bedding and felt, and beckoned to the woman: "Take the children into the car." ”

The woman took the two children and saluted Xu Xiangli and the others: "Lord Commander, the slave family will give you an early year in advance." ”

Xu Xiangli grinned: "The lady is polite." ”

The shopkeeper drove the car and saluted Xu Xiangli: "Lord Commander, the villain sent the child back, and he will come back." ”

Xu Xiangli waved his hand: "It's okay, no one is coming this day, and it's okay if you stay for a few more days." ”

The sound of horses' hooves clattered away, leaving a few dark hoof prints in the snow.

The wind rolled up large expanses of snow, floating in mid-air, and the road ahead was a little unclear.

Han Changdui condensed the direction of the carriage and said in a deep voice: "There are ordinary mutton clothes and other things in the car, there is nothing wrong with it." He turned his head to Yao Qi: "Ah Qi, do you think something is wrong?" ”

Yao Qi felt that nothing was wrong, but she couldn't say what was wrong, she tilted her head and thought for a while before she said: "It just snowed so heavily last night, the road must be very difficult to walk, the weather is cold, and they are still with two children, even if they are like arrows, they shouldn't be in such a hurry." ”

Leng Linjiang touched his smooth chin and thought, "Ah Ji thinks something is wrong, then it must be wrong." ”

Xie Mengxia said anxiously: "Oh, it's wrong, just go in and take a look." ”

Xu Xiangli found two garrisons to guard at the door of the post station, and no one was allowed to come in.

A few people rummaged inside and outside the inn of the post station, but it was only some commonly used things and scattered silver, and even a silver ticket was not turned out, which showed that they were really poor.

A few people put things back in their place, and they heard Leng Linjiang's loud exclamation from the backyard: "Come and see, come quickly." ”

A few people hurried around to the backyard, and saw Yao Qi holding a strange-looking thing, staring at a wall in a daze.

Xie Mengxia smiled: "Ah Qi, are there flowers blooming on the wall?" You're so fascinated by it. ”

Leng Linjiang turned his head and sighed.

Yao Qi turned his head and said, "Childe, there are half footprints on this wall. ”

Han Changwan sighed lightly, hurriedly walked over, took the small round mirror in Yao Qi's hand, and looked up and down the earthen wall.

After reading it, he raised the small round mirror in his hand and sighed: "Ah Qi, you are really a good thing." ”

Yao Qi's heart chuckled, this living king of Hell who had plucked the goose was afraid that he would take it again.

She pursed her lips and didn't speak.

Han Changwan smiled, first stretched out the half of the footprints, and then threw the small round mirror to Yao Qi with his backhand, and asked Xu Xiangli in a deep voice: "Xu Shuguan, what is outside this wall?" ”

Xu Xiangli said: "The outside is a fireproof wall, the outside of the wall is a trench, and then the outside is the fortress wall, which is about a foot high, and there are iron thorns on the wall, which ordinary people can't over." ”

"Check it out." Han Changdui said.

Xu Xiangli also felt very bad and walked out first.

The trench was covered with a deep layer of snow, smooth and clean, with no footprints or dirty marks.

Han Changwan raised his eyes and glanced at Yao Qi.

Yao Qi swept up the snow knowingly, jumped up, just tapped the castle wall with her toes, and in a blink of an eye, she climbed the castle wall.

She fluttered over the iron thorns, and without even touching the iron thorns with the corners of her fluttering clothes, the whole person had already turned over to the outside of the fortress wall.

The whole movement was like a flowing cloud, silent, and left no trace.

Xie Mengxia looked at it in amazement, sighed, turned his head and asked Leng Linjiang: "Yungui, you said that if I asked Ah Ji to be a guard in my mansion, would she agree?" ”

Leng Linjiang glanced at Xie Mengxia coldly: "I don't agree." ”

“......”

After a while, Yao Qi turned back from the fort gate, returned to the post station, walked to the crowd, nodded to Han Changdui, folded a dead branch, and drew it in the snow: "My lord, there are four footprints on the fort wall, all of them are half, respectively here, this, this and this location. ”

Han Changdui narrowed his eyes.

Leng Linjiang said in a deep voice: "This person's light skills are not low, but not as good as Ah Qi, Ah Qi only borrows strength once in the middle of the fort wall, and this person has to borrow strength twice in the lower and upper parts of the fort wall in order to successfully cross the iron thorns." ”

Xu Xiangli frowned slightly: "Even so, he is already a master, looking at the entire Fengsui, this light skill is unmatched." ”

"That doesn't rule out that there are people in the fort who are hiding their true strength." Han Changdui stared.

Xie Mengxia was silent for a while, and suddenly spoke: "Could it be the shopkeeper?" ”

Han Changwan raised his eyebrows: "He left in a hurry, there is this possibility, it is also possible that someone came in to see him and passed him some news, he felt the danger, so he hurriedly sent his wife and children away." ”

Xu Xiangli looked up at the sky and greeted: "Let's go back to the fort first, it looks like it's going to snow again." ”

Yao Qi and Leng Linjiang worked together to disrupt the traces painted on the snow.

Xie Mengxia looked at it for a long time, and finally expected Ai Ai to speak: "That, Ah Qi, that, I want you to be my guard." ”

With a snort, Yao Qi looked at Xie Mengxia like a ghost.

Xie Mengxia said as he walked: "Ah Qi, don't look at me like this, I'm not crazy, I just think, you are so good at light skills, it is easy to climb a fort wall, then it is not difficult to climb over the palace wall, you are my guard, you can take me out of the palace wall at night in the future, isn't it much more convenient for me to leave the palace, and I don't have to worry about being scolded by my father." ”

Yao Qi twitched the corners of his mouth, unable to figure out how Xie Mengxia's brain circuit could be so strange.

Leng Linjiang raised his hand and wiped Xie Mengxia's forehead: "Cousin, you don't have a fever, how can you talk nonsense." ”

Xie Mengxia pulled away Leng Linjiang's hand: "Go, don't make trouble, I'll be serious with Ah Qi." ”

Han Changdui walked in front, and when he heard the movement behind him, the more he listened, the more anxious he became, and finally stopped, and said impatiently: "If you fall from the palace wall more than three zhang high, you will definitely fall to your death, which is more comfortable than being bitten to death by a wolf." ”

Xie Mengxia let out a sullen breath.

And there's more!!

Walking back to the fort, Han Changdui handed the half of the footprints to Yao Qi: "Look at it." ”

Yao Qi frowned: "This is the pattern of the soles of ordinary leather boots, but the wear is more serious, either this person is very poor, but he can wear a pair of leather boots, or this person is walking all year round, and the soles of the boots are worn faster." ”

Han Changdui turned his head and asked Xu Xiangli: "Xu Shuguan, does the owner of the wine shop rarely go out?" ”

Xu Xiangli nodded: "Yes, their family has been here for six or seven years, and they have hardly left the fort, and the food they used was brought back from Fangpan City or Dunhuang when the garrison changed their defenses." ”

Han Changdui took a sip of tea and asked in a low voice, "Are the garrisons in the current garrison just changed?" ”

Xu Xiangli nodded: "Yes, the day before you came, this group of garrisons had just changed their guards. ”

Han Changdui stared for a moment, approached Xu Xiangli, and whispered a few words in his ear.

Xu Xiangli was stunned for a moment, then his face changed a few times, and finally nodded thoughtfully: "Then, you have to be more careful." ”

Han Changwan smiled: "Xu Shuguan can rest assured. ”

Xu Xiangli's expression was a little complicated, he originally trusted these garrisons under him, but the fifth beacon had accidents one after another, and on the day the Turks besieged him, there was nothing to light the bonfire, to say that there were no ghosts in the fort, and the ghosts didn't believe it, but if there was a problem among the garrisons, it was really difficult for him to accept.