Mo Yan and the others followed the group in a carriage, driving along a small road next to the main road, and the village in the mouth of the two was not too far from the main road, just under the foot of a nearby mountain.

As soon as he entered the entrance of this village, Mo Yan glanced at Mo Yu meaningfully.

There is indeed a fraud in this village!

In an ordinary village, it is dusk, and everyone who works has to return home, and every household must rise the smoke and start making dinner, but the village is deserted as if it were uninhabited.

What's even more strange is that even the entrance of the village is guarded, where is this still an ordinary village.

Several men stood there with large knives, and when they saw that it was their own people who had returned, they removed the fence on the ground and let them in.

"Little brother, this is our village, I will take you to meet our village chief first, so that he can arrange a place for you to live."

The third brother saw the place and shouted to Su Muwan in the carriage.

Su Muwan lifted the curtain of the carriage, and looked around as if she had unintentionally looked around, and was even more convinced that her conjecture was right.

It's just that she didn't show it on her face, and she still had a grateful expression, "Then thank you so much for this big brother, I don't know what to call the big brother?" ”

"Just call me Xie San! The one I'm going to take you to see now is my eldest brother, who is in charge of the village. Speaking of his eldest brother, Xie San had a little awe and fear on his face, and Su Muwan didn't miss his expression.

The carriage was carried around the village to the left and right, and in a short time it came to a place that resembled an ancestral hall.

Su Muwan took Xiao Liu and Liu Mu out of the carriage, leaving two guards at the door to watch the carriage, and the rest of the people went in with her.

When I arrived at the lobby, there was a bearded man sitting directly above, he was about a year old, with a pair of fierce eyes, muscles all over his body, and his face was black.

Those inquiring eyes stared at Su Muwan for a long time, and then hurriedly swept over Mo Yan and Mo Yu and several guards, especially the weapons on their bodies, and finally their eyes fell on Xiao Liu beside Su Muwan, and they didn't move away for a long time.

"Big brother, this little brother is what we met by chance on the road just now, didn't I take my brothers to repair the road today, the road has not been repaired yet, so he can't continue to hurry, so he wants to borrow a night in our village."

Xie Sanbi said respectfully to the person sitting above.

"Oh, I don't know what this little brother is called, and what kind of business is he doing?"

The man who was called the eldest brother by Xie San had a smile on his face at this time, but it softened the fierceness on his body a little.

"Don't hide this eldest brother, surnamed Wang, is a native of Beijing, this is the first time to hide from his family to do some silk business, who knows that he lost a fine light in Jinzhou City, so in desperation, he took the guards and concubines to prepare to go home."

Su Muwan had some cynicism on her face, and she vividly played the image of a son-in-law who had just done a bad business and was ready to go back to his father.

After hearing Su Muwan say this, the leader said with envy on his face: "It turned out to be Wang Gongzi, then this one next to him must be a younger brother and sister, and he is really a beautiful woman, such a special prince is so blessed!" ”

From the moment Koyanagi entered the door, this person's gaze had been rolling over her, and there was still some obscurity in his eyes.

Color blank! Su Muwan scolded in her heart.

But she pretended to be disappreciative on her face: "Where, where, she is just a little jasper, and she deserves the praise of her eldest brother." ”

Then she pulled a handful of Xiaoliu, and said angrily: "Why are you so blind, don't thank the eldest brother soon." ”

Xiao Liu lowered his head, stepped forward and took a walk to salute, and said softly: "Thank you eldest brother for the concubine." After speaking, he returned to Su Muwan's side, with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes, looking extremely docile.

The man sitting at the head saw Koyanagi saluting him and wanted to come down and help her up himself.

It's a pity to follow such a beautiful woman with this little white face surnamed Wang!

The person at the head suppressed the pity in his heart, and slowly opened his mouth: "Wang Gongzi, this way, I will arrange for someone to take you to find a place to live, but we are poor and remote here, and we may not be well entertained, so please bear with Wang Gongzi." ”

After that, he said to a person in the corner of the room: "Xiao Lei, take the guests to find a few vacant rooms and treat me well." ”

Su Muwan noticed that there was a person in the corner, the room was a little dark, and the candles had not been lit yet, and he was standing in the shadows again, and he didn't make any movement, so he had no sense of existence.

Hearing being shouted, the man in the corner walked out step by step, and when he walked into the light, Su Muwan realized that it was actually a little boy.

He looked only ten years old, his body was extremely thin, there was no flesh on his face, and he was deeply sunken, but his eyes seemed to be able to speak, and he was particularly bright.

"Guest, please follow me."

When he walked to Su Muwan's side, he opened his mouth, but as soon as he made a sound, people frowned, he was a little boy, just when his voice was loud, but he spoke extremely hoarsely, like an old man.

Su Muwan suppressed the doubts in her heart, and led the group to follow the little boy out of here and came to a nearby farmhouse courtyard.

"You're staying here tonight, there are several rooms in this courtyard, you can arrange your own accommodation, and I'll bring you dinner later."

When he arrived at the place, a boy named Xiao Lei hurriedly introduced a few people and was about to leave.

Su Muwan opened her mouth to stop him, and asked Xiao Liu to take out a small package she had brought with her, which contained the yogurt candy she bought in Jinzhou City, and she occasionally ate one when she sat in the carriage on weekdays.

After Su Muwan grabbed a handful of candy, she walked over to the boy and stretched out her hand to hand it to him.

"Here, little guy, this is the candy from the Huns, you can take it and eat it slowly."

It was still a child, and the boy stretched out his hand to take it, but he took it back with a hesitant expression.

Su Muwan looked at the tangled expression on his face, and saw that he was so thin that he didn't even have any meat on his hands, and she felt a little pity in her heart.

Directly dragged his hand over, stuffed the sugar into his palm, closed his hand for him, and smiled with crooked eyebrows: "Take it and eat it, you can come over and ask me after eating." ”

Xiao Lei looked at Su Muwan's smile blankly, his face actually began to turn red, and he turned his head and ran out of the yard.

At this time, the other two people guarding the carriage also entered the courtyard with the carriage, and Mo Yan asked people to close the courtyard door.

He looked at each room in this small courtyard side by side, and after making sure that there was no one else, he sent someone to watch in the courtyard and entered a room with Su Muwan.

"Princess, there is really something wrong with this place, that Xie San just now doesn't look like a village chief, and there are people stationed at the entrance of the village, how can there be an ordinary village, in short, there is a strangeness everywhere here."

Mo Yan lowered his voice and said to Su Muwan, since he entered the village, he has not let down his vigilance for a moment.

"I also found out, if my guess is correct, I'm afraid we're in a den of thieves!" Su Muwan's face was full of worry.

Xiaoyanagi was a little puzzled: "Den of thieves? What does this mean, princess? ”

"The two people who led the way for us just now, as well as the people guarding the door, and the village chief, I'm afraid they are all bandits from the nearby mountains, and I don't know why they are so bold and directly occupy this village."

Mo Yan thought about the abnormality along the way and frowned, "Could it be that the entire village is now held hostage by bandits?" There is such a thing! ”

"I'm afraid the villagers behind Xie San's two people just now are all people who have been held hostage, and we haven't even met anyone along the way, I'm afraid they have all been locked up by these bandits."

The trap that Su Muwan took the initiative to jump into was really troublesome.

Liu Mu also interjected: "I didn't expect that there would be such a thing in this peaceful and prosperous world, I have never heard of it." ”

Su Muwan couldn't believe it for a long time since she guessed this matter in her heart, how could ordinary bandits be so rampant, not only daring to hijack a village, but also robbing passers-by, acting so arrogantly, is there any fear?

Thinking of this, she opened her mouth and asked Mo Yan, "Where are we now?" ”

Mo Yan pondered for a moment, "Princess, we have already left Jinzhou, and this should be the boundary of Qingcheng." ”

"Qingcheng, Qingcheng ......"

Su Muwan muttered, how could this name be so familiar?

Suddenly, Su Muwan had a flash of inspiration, and she remembered!

In her previous life, she once listened to a subordinate chatting with others in the house, saying that the boundary of Qingcheng was very chaotic, and he went home to see his relatives, and he encountered several groups of robbers along the way.

At that time, Su Muwan was worried about Shangguan Yu and Su's beloved things, so she didn't listen carefully at all, and she forgot what the subordinate said next.

Now that I think about it, if it is really as the subordinate said, there are so many robbers, it stands to reason that the Taishou of Qingcheng and the prefect below cannot be unaware of it, and they will inevitably report to the imperial court and ask soldiers to suppress the bandits, but Su Muwan remembers that this incident did not happen at all.

Could it be the collusion of officials and bandits!!

Su Muwan was frightened by this idea, if it was really like what she thought, there would be too many people involved.

Mo Yan saw that Su Muwan had been reading the word Qingcheng on her lips, thinking that she had discovered something: "Does the princess know something?" ”

Su Muwan shook her head, she decided not to tell everyone until the matter was clear, so as not to cause everyone to panic.

Mo Yu's temperament has always been more anxious than Mo Yan, so he couldn't help but ask, "Princess, what should we do next?" Do you want to save someone? ”

"People must be saved! But we also have to find out the details of the other party, how many people are on the other side, what is the level of martial arts, and whether you can deal with it. Su Muwan explained to everyone very cautiously.

"Remember, don't startle the snake!"