"Then keep an eye on the bandits and see if you can hear any clues from their conversations."

Tilt Yan said to the ugly.

Ugly nodded, "I put my divine sense over there, but those people were very cautious and didn't say anything.

Now they let those carts pulling things go around the city from the south, you and Jin Yang are staring at the outside of the city with their divine senses, and I will follow those people to see if I can find their lair. ”

Qian Yan poked her sense over and looked at it, and sure enough, she saw that the vehicles with things behind her had gone around to the side.

"You said they blocked the gates, could it be that they were blocking the gates just to cover the departure of those vehicles?"

Qian Yan guessed.

The ugly used his mind to poke into the cars and look at them, whether they had carriages or were stacked on the boards, and he even looked inside the boxes and sacks.

"I didn't find anything out of the ordinary, just some gold, silver, cloth and food."

Well, this can be passed, so what is the reason for this?

At this time, more than half an hour had passed, and almost all the outsiders in the inn in the city had left, and it was estimated that only the four of them were still left in the city.

There was still a confrontation outside the city, and those mountain bandits did not attack, and the officers and soldiers and young men in the city did not move, but just stood there.

At this time, Jin Yang suddenly said: "The people behind them are quietly retreating and going to the north, and there seem to be people on the north side, and the two sides are together." ”

Tilting Yan also probed her divine sense outside the north city gate, and sure enough, she saw two groups of people converging together, and then quickly headed towards the north, because those people were riding horses, and they quickly ran out of the range she could explore.

Before, their attention was on the west city gate, and they didn't notice the other city gates, so there wouldn't be someone ambushing outside every city gate, right?

Tilting Yan made up the guess, and Jin said, "Could it be that their purpose is the outsiders who left?" ”

Qian Yan slapped her thigh, "It's really possible, they may not have come to attack the city, the target has always been those who live in the inn."

It's possible that they had already found out in advance, that there were rich merchants in it, or that there was something they were interested in, and that the siege was designed to scare those people away.

In the city, they are not easy to do, and once they are out of the city, it is different, there is no barrier of the city wall and no protection of officers and soldiers, so they are not allowed to rub and flatten them? ”

Both Jin Jin and Jin Yang nodded in agreement, feeling that Qian Yan's guess should be the purpose of those people.

Jin Yang said to Chouchou: "Did you follow the place over there?" I can't see them anymore, I only see them follow the official road into the mountains to the north, and I don't see the people who left before. ”

"They went around to the east and entered a village called Jiaotou Village, and seeing how they were familiar with the villagers inside, it should be their stronghold." ”

The three of them all looked at it, the stronghold turned out to be a village, and they couldn't find anyone when they came to suppress the bandits, it was estimated that it was a trick to go to the mountains, and their real base camp was a village not far from the city, which was a typical dark light.

Ugly: "You are wrong, their purpose is not those who leave, there are their people among those who leave, the treasury silver of the city government was stolen, and they followed those people out of the city, and the north gate and the east gate were loosely inspected before, and they took advantage of the chaos to leave."

Those who passed by on the north side did not chase after them, but went to receive those who robbed the treasury.

and the village to the west of the city that Qian Yan saw before, the injured ones were not ordinary people, but officials who were on vacation and were at home. ”

Qian Yan's eyes widened, "So, the reason why you make such a big move is to steal official silver?" Were the previous two times just to prepare for this time? ”

Ugly nodded, "Yes, I just heard it from those who returned to Jiaotou Village, and they said that it was done, and the money was already in hand. ”

At this time, Jin Jin said: "When I had dinner before, I heard someone say that the wealthy merchants in Xiangyang and Fancheng donated a lot of silver taels for disaster relief in Dengzhou, and they won't all be transported here, right?" ”

The four of them looked at each other, if all the donated money raised by the three cities was here, it was indeed worth their fight.

"In this case, they can't be allowed to take away the silver, which is used for disaster relief, and it is related to the lives of many people."

Tilt Yan said to them.

Jin Yang and Jin Jin both nodded in agreement, and Chou Chou said directly: "It's easy to get the silver back, do you need to take those people down?"

Now we have two methods, one is that I directly collect the silver and put it back in the treasury, the guards there have just found out, and they haven't reported it yet, and if the silver goes back, this matter should be suppressed.

Another is to wait for them to return to Jiaotou Village, tie them all up, and then report them anonymously, so that the people from the government can be arrested in one fell swoop. ”

Qian Yan: "Second, since there is a first time, it is inevitable that they will not come again, this disaster relief money dares to move, we can't let them continue to get away with it, otherwise we will leave, what will they do again." ”

Jin Yang and Jin also felt that it was better to capture them in one fell swoop, if they just robbed the rich and helped the poor, or robbed some corrupt officials and corrupt officials and could let them go, this kind of disaster relief money could be done, and it could not be tolerated.

A few reached an agreement, and the ugly chou continued to stare at them, ready to wait for them to return to the base camp before making a move.

Tilt Yan and Jin Yang tried their Divine Senses and looked to the east, but found that they couldn't see the location of Jiaotou Village at all.

I can only listen to the ugly description.

"These people should all be young and strong in Jiaotou Village, as well as the hunters on the back mountain, except for those who went back in the village, they are all old and weak women and children.

There are many stone-built yards on the back mountain, which is not like a cottage, but a place where hunters live.

There were quite a few cellars in the courtyards of those houses, and there were a lot of gold and silver in them, which should be the place where they hid the stolen money. ”

In this way, it can be said that if a village is full of mountain bandits, or the next village is all bandits, then if they help each other to cover up, others will not find out at all.

Farming and hunting when you are busy, and blocking the road to rob when you are free, this is really hard to prevent.

After another hour, the mountain bandits outside the city gate in the middle struck the city gate twice, and the officers and soldiers on the city wall retreated as soon as they shot arrows, and when it was less than three o'clock in the middle of the night, and less than four o'clock, those people withdrew.

Those people left, and the people on the other side of the city gate did not withdraw at the first time, but stayed there until dawn, and only withdrew after making sure that the mountain bandits would not come back.

At this time, Chou Chou also said that those people had gone back to Jiaotou Village.

Of course, they did not go back with such fanfare, but scattered back from several different directions.

Driving the car on the main road, along the way also greeted some people who got up early and went out, it sounds like those people often go out to run business, when to go back from the outside no one doubts.

The horses were all rounded back from the mountains to the west, where there was a valley, and the horses were left there and cared for.

The people climbed the mountain and continued eastward, and returned to Jiaotou Village after meeting with those who walked.

"And there are people in the valley too? How many? Will there be other places too, and they won't all end up slipping through the net, right? ”

Qian Yan asked the ugly and ugly, these people are really cunning rabbits, and they are divided into several places.

Also, if you ride those horses back, it will make people know at a glance that it is not normal, let alone a village, even large families dare not raise so many horses.

Horses are strategic commodities and are not allowed to be bred on a large scale by private individuals.

Chou: "I will write the location of the entrance to the valley and the location of those people in an anonymous letter, and those officers and soldiers should go to arrest them in several ways."

The big head is still in Jiaotou Village, and there are also people in Yangquan Village next to it, and the people in the village should also know about it, but they chose to go along with it and cover up. ”

Jin Yang: "Do you need my help?" I can just go over there and take those people down. ”

To deal with some ordinary people, it can take them down by force alone without using spells.

Gold also rubbed his hands together, eager to try.

Chou Chou shook his head, "No, I can tie them up one by one with my mind when they relax their guard, you are easy to startle in the past." ”

The two of them were a little disappointed, they thought they could show their skills, but they didn't need them at all.

Tilt Yan doesn't want to do it herself, she doesn't like to do it unless she has to, so why bother to work hard if she can lie down and win.

The ugly chou dodged back into the space, it was in its own space, and it could use the evil qi inside to restore itself while doing it.

After all, there are so many people, and it is a big project to put them down and bundle them up one by one.

Not only those young people, but also the rest of the people in the village must be controlled, otherwise those people are not stupid, and they will not be allowed to leave when they see it.

In this way, the workload of Ugly has increased again, so it is necessary to operate in space.

Now it's dawn, probably because of last night, the streets outside are not lively, and they are still deserted.

Qian Yan and Jin Yang Jin went downstairs, except for them in the lobby, there was only the shopkeeper and a guy, and the other two were not there, and I don't know if they went home.

Fortunately, the people in the back kitchen didn't leave, and they still had breakfast.

The special glutinous rice cakes and cold salad kohlrabi eaten here for breakfast taste very good, the glutinous rice cakes are fragrant and glutinous, and the side dishes are appetizing.

According to the shopkeeper, this kohlrabi is a specialty of their side, created by Zhuge Liang when he lived in seclusion in Xiangyang Longzhong, and the folk are known as Zhuge cuisine and Kong Ming cuisine.

It is crispy, tender and delicious in the mouth, appetizing and fragrant, and has the effects of dissipating qi, diuretic and dehumidifying, detoxifying and reducing swelling.

Qian Yan thought that she could buy more and take it away before leaving, which they could eat with when they ate early porridge in the future.

Of course, you should also bring some glutinous rice cakes, steamed, fried, fried, and boiled.

They didn't ask the shopkeeper about last night, everyone didn't go out in the inn, and the other party may not know as much as they do.

I wanted to go out for a walk, but the outside was quickly put under martial law by officers and soldiers.

There were people who beat gongs and shouted everywhere that everyone should not go out, that there were spies of mountain bandits in the city, and that the officers and soldiers would conduct a search.

Qian Yan raised her eyebrows, this should be a report of the theft of the silver vault, it's all here, the silver has already been transported away, it's strange to find out.

I don't know what's going on over there, and she doesn't dare to ask about it, for fear of disturbing it and causing some accidents.

In this case, they had no choice but to return to their rooms, anyway, they were not afraid of being checked, except for two carriages and some ordinary luggage, the valuable ones were in the space and storage bags.

Of course, in order not to be suspected, there will still be some silver in the purse, otherwise it will be too abnormal.

Soon a servant searched here, but there was no way, who let them stay in this inn very close to the city gate.

It is estimated that the government has also noticed the true purpose of those mountain bandits yesterday, and those who are responsible for searching the city are all government officials, and most of the officers and soldiers have been transferred out to pursue those who left yesterday.

The search was quickly completed on their side, and as far as their group of guests were concerned, the carriage and carriage were also seen at a glance, except that they did not leave with them, there was nothing suspicious.

After asking them why they didn't leave, the officials left.

Still using the same reason yesterday, they were going to the southwest, which happened to be blocked by the mountain bandits, so they didn't leave.

In fact, it's not just them, there are also some people left in other inns, some of them are here, and they can't leave until they finish their work, and some are like them, they want to go to Xiangyang.

After more than an hour, Chou Chou came out of the car space and said: "It's all done, the anonymous letter has been put to the general guarding the city and the highest official of the government respectively, and they in the province are colluding with the mountain bandits." ”

Soon after the ugly words were finished, there was movement outside, the officials who searched were recruited back, and the soldiers guarding the four city gates were also transferred, and some officers and soldiers hurried towards the north gate.

It should be to call back the soldiers who chased out, and there is no one to chase them to the east, and they will have to go in that direction later.

When the men and horses in the city had gathered, they set out to the east, and the city gate was still allowed to enter and not leave, in case anyone went to ventilate and report the news.

Qian Yan first followed them with her divine sense, and when she couldn't reach it, she took it back, and let the ugly and ugly stare at it.

Since I can't see that side, it's boring to stay in the inn, so just go out for a walk, as long as you don't go out of the city, no one cares about walking around the city.

They went to buy kohlrabi and glutinous rice cakes, and they also bought the special dim sum of the place.

The kohlrabi was pickled in the jar, and they bought more than a dozen jars in several houses, and while buying them, they found a place where no one was and put them into the space.

The glutinous rice is very heavy and has to be soaked in water, but I didn't buy much, only bought three large pieces, anyway, there should be a city after that, this is a specialty of the whole province, not only this one has the other party.

After buying something, he left a copy on the surface, put it on the carriage, and went to the ready-to-wear store again, to buy a few sets of clothes for Jin Yang, and he had this set on him now, and there was no replacement.