He Lingchuan smiled: "No matter what the reason, it's best not to check this tonight." ”

"Oh, why?"

"You're on other people's land, and you still have to dig other people's bottoms?" Dong Rui nodded at him, "I'm afraid that you won't be able to get out of Chenjiazhuang alive, and you will be abandoned in the wilderness in the end...... It's like the mother and daughter. ”

County Lieutenant Li shrunk his neck and wanted to say "they dare"?

The words turned around twice in his mouth, but he couldn't get out of his mouth in the end.

I only brought six or seven officials, and I wasn't a big team, these rural tyrants might really dare!

Dong Rui then said: "Let's investigate in Zhuangzi, there are always people watching nearby." Chenjiazhuang has some secrets, and I am afraid that we will dig it out. ”

This kind of Zhuangzi is a settlement with a big surname, and it is important to have land and people, and it is usually closed to live its own life, and it is difficult for outsiders to know what secrets there are.

"If it weren't for the monster attack and too many people died, Chenjiazhuang probably wouldn't have reported the case." After entering the courtyard, He Lingchuan saw that there were no idlers here, and then asked County Lieutenant Li, "Maodun and Xingyun Village, do you know where they are?" ”

"Maodun I know, I'll send someone to check tomorrow morning." This can at least verify Ah Hui's statement, but, "I really don't know the name of Xingyun Village, I don't seem to have heard of it." ”

"Staying in the county is not small, mainly mountainous, this mother and daughter have no mules and horses to travel, how far can they go on their own?" He Lingchuan groaned, "I'm afraid that County Lieutenant Li will have to check it out when he goes back." It doesn't seem uncommon for villages and towns in your place to appear and disappear. ”

"Yes, yes, I'll go back to the county to look through the accounts."

He Lingchuan yawned: "Sleep, I have to be busy tomorrow." ”

Nothing was said all night.

……

The next day, God's face was not good-looking, and the rain could not fall, and there was no regularity at all.

He Lingchuan and a few people got up early in the morning and snorted in the courtyard with a big bowl of mixed vegetable porridge. The farmer's earthen bowl is much larger than a person's face, and there is a stack of slightly charred shepherd's cabbage cakes on the dining table.

County Lieutenant Li thought he could eat it, but he only swallowed three cakes, and the plate on the dinner table was at the bottom.

The three of them and the officials walked out with full hiccups, and Patriarch Chen hurriedly stepped forward to accompany the smiling face, and asked the official if he had any new discoveries last night.

He Lingchuan played an official tone and prevaricated two sentences.

The patriarch of the Chen family personally sent everyone to the gate of Zhuangzi and watched them get on their horses and leave.

Everyone left Chenjiazhuang and walked into the mountains and forests, and within fifty zhang, the branches on the side made a sound.

County Lieutenant Li was startled, and was about to call his subordinates to be vigilant, but saw a monkey jump down from the treetop and fall on He Lingchuan's shoulder.

He subconsciously looked at the ghost ape on Dong Rui's horse stock.

Again, another monkey? It's much better-looking, and he wears a round hat.

When Lingguang returned to the team, He Lingchuan asked it: "What?" What did you find? ”

Before County Lieutenant Li led them into Chenjiazhuang yesterday, he assigned Lingguang to sneak into Zhuangzi at night to find out the secret that could not be seen. The two sides are connected with eyeball spiders.

They investigated it openly, and only then could the case continue to be investigated.

"According to your guidance, I found that there is still a row of houses hidden in the dense forest north of Zhuangzi, patrolled by Zhuangding, and idlers and others cannot approach." Fortunately, Lingguang is not an idle person, and Zhuang Ding's consent is not required to enter and exit, "That place is not difficult to find, on the surface it is a fruit-picking and wine-making workshop, but in fact, there are deep cellars dug under the house, which are blocked by wooden boards, tables and chairs, and sundries, which are very hidden." ”

County Lieutenant Li couldn't help but ask: "Did you get in, what is at the bottom of the cellar?" ”

"Jars, bottles and jars for winemaking—"

County Lieutenant Li rolled his eyes when he heard this, but Lingguang immediately said: "There are also weapons, knives, guns, arrows, hooks, halberds, all kinds of things, large quantities, and new appearances. The arrows also have the aroma of fresh wood. ”

Is that the weapon that Chenjiazhuang used for self-defense? County Lieutenant Li frowned, feeling that something was wrong.

"I only found one cellar, and there are hundreds of knives of different shapes alone."

"Hundreds of knives?" County Lieutenant Li sneered, "Are they going to open a weapons shop?" ”

Zhuangzi with three or four hundred people has hundreds of knives, not counting other blades?

County Lieutenant Li is not stupid, and after thinking about it, he understood: "Okay, it turns out that they are smuggling weapons!" ”

The Shining Gold Plains is chaotic and volatile, and the need for weapons is far greater than in other regions.

What kind of wool, fruits, wine, the Chen clan's external livelihood is a cover, in order to facilitate them to privately transport and sell weapons.

Chenjiazhuang is the fortress of arms dealers!

Of course, the ultra-high profits of smuggling weapons also come from the strict prohibition of Pei Guo's officials.

Thinking of this, a layer of cold sweat broke out on the back of County Lieutenant Li. Fortunately, they didn't act rashly last night, otherwise these extralegal fanatics would have killed people and killed them.

He asked Lingguang, "How do you know that there is a mystery under that row of houses?" ”

Ling looked at He Lingchuan's appearance and smiled without saying a word.

In fact, He Lingchuan also secretly put an eyeball spider on the patriarch of the Chen clan last night to supervise his words and deeds. When they visited Chen's wife, Aunt Wu and others, Chen Ling was restless, and also mentioned the northern workshop to his henchmen several times, and ordered the workshop to turn off the lights at night, so as not to be discovered by the envoys and officials.

Chenjiazhuang is not small, and the workshop is separated by bushes, as long as the lights are not turned on, people who do not come often do not know that there are buildings there.

As soon as Chen Ling said this, He Lingchuan knew that he was tired of it.

Sure enough, Lingguang went to investigate again and found the weapon at the bottom of the cellar.

"No wonder the patriarch of the Chen clan concealed Ah Hui's mother and daughter, but he didn't want to make any extraneous trouble. However, we only visited two villagers to see the scene of the grass hut, and he could only confirm that we had discovered the existence of Ah Hui's mother and daughter. He Lingchuan said to Li County Lieutenant, "After we leave, Chenjiazhuang may have to transfer weapons." ”

He continued: "From this point of view, even if Ah Hui didn't have a conflict with Chen Fuang and the other five people, it would have been difficult for her to leave Chenjiazhuang alive. ”

County Lieutenant Li scolded: "These bastard things! ”

Dong Rui yawned: "Hurry up and go back to Liuxian, County Lieutenant Li has to send someone to find the body." ”

……

Xiao An tossed and turned, and did not fall asleep until it was almost dawn.

As soon as I fell asleep, it was pitch black again.

Empty, lonely and familiar darkness.

So Xiao An knew that the monster had come to arrest her again.

She stared at each other, looking left and right, running at this time would only consume her physical strength, she had to confirm the direction first.

Soon, there was a strange clicking sound behind her, and something disturbed the air and rushed straight at her.

An arm stretched out in the darkness, pale and thin!

Xiao An jumped forward, and his arm fluttered into the air.

Now is the time! Run, run!

She moved her short legs and didn't look back.

The monster behind her was in hot pursuit, and she could hear heavy footsteps.

The rhythm of the footsteps was familiar to her. Xiao An even knew that as long as he kept running forward, the monster would always disappear.

But the last few times, the monster's footsteps have been getting faster and faster, and it has become closer and closer to her.

She could even feel the monster's breath on the back of her neck, wet and cold.

She didn't dare to look back, and she didn't know when she would be caught!

"Run!" I don't know where my mother's voice came from, it was very urgent, but it was also very vague, "Xiao An, run!" ”

The monster's low roar suddenly exploded in my ears!

Xiao Anwa sat up, her back covered with cold sweat.

Woke up, she finally woke up.

It was no longer pitch black, and the golden sunlight shone through the small window on the dusty ground.

Even the dust became cute.

She spent another night safely.

Xiao An's breathing slowly stabilized.

"Eat, eat, eat." Someone came knocking on the doorframe.

As soon as I got up, I had warm and mixed vegetable porridge to drink, and two fragrant oil cakes, and when I took a bite, they were so crisp that they crunched and fell off.

She hadn't had such a good morning since her exile.

The fly in the ointment is that Han Tingting, who promised her that she would come back when she woke up, did not show up, and the promised chicken legs naturally did not come back.

She asked the person who came over to serve the meal: "What about Tingting?" ”

"Who?"

"Came with me yesterday."

The servant's attitude was very indifferent, and he turned away after saying "I don't know", as if she was sick and he would be infected if he stayed for a few more seconds.

She is small and weak, and no one else can assign her chores. Xiao An had nothing to do after dinner, so he went to walk around the Zhuangzi.

But within a hundred steps, a healthy servant turned out from behind the tree and said with a straight face: "Go back, who let you walk around?" ”

This person! Xiao An recognized that it was this healthy servant who took Han Tingting into the second young master's house last night.

"What about Tingting? was with me last night, you took her to find the second young master. ”

"She's serving the second young master." The servant said casually, "Don't worry, it's your turn tonight or tomorrow night." ”

He blocked the corridor and didn't let him go, and Xiao An could only retreat.

The servants followed, and followed suit. His task is to follow this little and not let her get lost.

After all, it was Steward Zou who bought it back with money, and maybe the second young master would summon her when.

In the blink of an eye, it was afternoon.

The little girl went up to the hut for two quarters of an hour.

The servant knocked on the door, fearing that she would fall in, so he slammed the door open.

It was empty.

"Damn it!" This little thing is quite capable of drilling, but he actually lost it!

He did not know that the little girl had good legs and feet, and by virtue of her dwarfness, she had climbed over the loose planks of the hut, and through two bushes, and disappeared behind a few plum trees.

The servant hurriedly searched everywhere.

After Xiao An got rid of him, he slipped towards the courtyard of the second young master, avoiding many adults along the way.

There are so many trees in this villa that there is always a place for her to hide.

The courtyard of the second young master is far away from the next person's room, fortunately, she has a good memory, she only walked the route once last night, and she still remembers it after dawn.

Two quarters of an hour later.

It should be turned like this, turned like this, well, it should be the courtyard of the second young master ahead.

Xiao An really saw a bluestone wall, which was the outer wall of the second young master's courtyard.

If she shouted outside the wall, could Han Tingting come out to find her?

Xiao An wandered twice, and was about to open his voice, when he suddenly saw a small door on the wall creak and open.

Someone came out.

She subconsciously hid behind a tree and quietly poked her head.

Two men came out of the small door, and together they were holding a long object, which was covered with white cloth loose.

(End of chapter)