The deepest part of the alley is then turned, a lane, and a wooden door at the end, which is just about 20 steps away, all of which are plain.

The young man frowned, and he didn't know what to say when they met for a while.

Gathering his thoughts, the boy shook his head. Wu Liuqi, who had never spoken, trotted forward and raised his hand to knock on the door.

No one answered, Wu Liuqi struck three more times, and it was very empty in the alley.

Still no one responded, Wu Liuqi turned his head to look at the young man.

The boy was also puzzled, it stands to reason that if such an accident happened in the family, the girl should stay at home when she came back, and it was impossible for no one to be there.

At this time, a courtyard door behind him opened, and a rickety old woman poked her head out and asked, "Who are you looking for?" ”

The young man didn't hide it, explaining his intentions, but he just used the guise of the government, saying that the government had sent someone to visit.

The old woman sighed and said, "That girl from Zhuang Yuan didn't stay long after she came back and left, alas, poor doll, she was so young and had such a thing." It was also the fate of this little girl, who ran away after a few words with her father and escaped this catastrophe. It's only been two months, and the heavens and people are separated, who can stand it. Daddy, grandparents, and his younger brother who just entered school are gone, what can she do with a girl's family? The aftermath is also done with the help of the neighbors. You officials, you family members, open your mouth and shut up and say that you want to exterminate the thieves and destroy the bandits, and those beasts who have suffered a thousand knives have come to the city to do evil. ”

The more the old woman spoke, the more angry she became, her voice unconsciously became heavier, and the topic shifted from this poor family to the government that she saw as eating people and not doing personnel.

The boy was dumbfounded.

Ah Da didn't have much idea about what the old woman said, and in his opinion, he was a guilty person, so he couldn't be considered an official family. Ah Da said, "Do you know where that girl went?" ”

"I don't know!" The old woman, who obviously had no good impression of this group of officials, spoke more heavily, turned around and slammed into the courtyard gate.

"This old immortal!" Ah scolded and was about to step forward, how could he have been so angry when he stabbed himself to the Western Regions, not to mention the common people, who were traitors and criminals in the camp were not polite when they saw themselves? As soon as he raised his foot, he was pulled by the young man from the side, and Ah Da cursed in a low voice.

No matter how arrogant a person like him is, he is still instinctively frightened in front of the official family, if nothing else, purely because of the difference in rank between officials and the people since ancient times. The problems left over from history do not act on a certain person, it is like the crushing of people at the level of officials and universities, it has nothing to do with being tall, short, fat or thin, it is just the unconscious untouchable thoughts.

The young man reached into his arms, and suddenly remembered that all the silver he had brought out of the house was in the blanket of the snow-dragon horse with charcoal. As soon as he thought of this, the young man's mind moved, and his index finger was in his mouth, and a loud whistle sounded through the sky, and then there was no movement, so that he was sure that the girl in Zhuang Yuan was really gone, otherwise the psychic treasure horse would never have done anything to leave the new master.

But it was over there that Wu Liuqi saw the action of the prince of the capital who was Taishou telling him to be a good servant of his life, so he hurriedly walked a few steps, took out the silver taels that Taishou handed over to him when he went out just now from his arms, and handed them to the young man.

The young man was slightly surprised in his heart, and sighed that this child's eyesight was definitely not possessed by his peers, at least when he was his age a few years ago, he didn't say that he had to think about his mother's words.

After taking the bag of silver taels, which were a little heavy, the young man waved his hand towards the outside of the alley, and the two guards of the big and small understood it, turned around and walked out of the alley, one left and one right on both sides.

The young man stepped forward to the door of the old woman's courtyard, raised his hand and knocked on the door, knocked lightly three times, waited for a few breaths and did not open the door, the young man was also quite patient, and raised his hand and knocked lightly, this time it was opened.

"What else?" When she opened the door and saw that it was still the official family, the old woman's tone was still very impulsive.

"Mother-in-law, I am a friend of Zhuang Yuan, I am not familiar with the life of Loulan, so I found the official family to bring me here. In the past few months, Zhuang Yuan has been with me, when I received the news that Zhuang Yuan rode a fast horse to rush back, and my foot strength was not enough, so it was only a few days behind. Zhuang Yuan came back in a hurry, the silver is both in my place, the family these days thanks to the help of the neighbors, want to come to Zhuang Yuan that temperament left suddenly, these broken silver you first collect, and so on to have time to share with the villagers, if not enough, then look for me. ”

This is a learned statement, first to show his relationship with Zhuang Yuan, and then to use the silver taels that Zhuang Yuan put here to dispel the other party's doubts. Let's not talk about whether this old woman has opened her eyes when she sees money, anyway, after the young man finishes speaking, the expression of this rickety old woman has eased a lot.

Whether the old woman who took the silver taels from the young man's hand will take it for herself with her conscience, the young man naturally will not care, and said: "If my mother-in-law knows the whereabouts of Zhuang Yuan, please let me know." ”

The old woman turned her head to look at the two guards outside the alley, one big and one small, wearing errand clothes.

The reputation of Shou Lang's gang in the city is actually not very good, after all, they are all criminals who have been thorned in, and it is unlikely that they will change their ways, and the government is only restricting rather than controlling, it is nothing more than trying to use evil to make the law and order under its jurisdiction relatively stable and improve their performance during their tenure.

The old woman retracted her gaze, lowered her voice, and said, "When the girl left, she was stopped by the second family next door and asked her what she was doing, and the girl said that she would go to the horse thief for revenge." ”

The young man's eyebrows frowned slightly, "The horse thief should be looking for it if he wants to?" Every year, the governor's mansion sent people to look for it and couldn't return every time, where did she find a girl's family? ”

The old woman's expression was solemn, and her voice was lower, "There is an earthen fort thirty miles north of the city, which is the residence on the surface, and the stronghold of the horse thieves secretly. ”

The young man was obviously stunned, and then suddenly again.

In fact, it is not surprising that these ordinary people can know, they live at the bottom of their lives, and they are sent to every day, and the people who see them hear much more things than the group of high-ranking officials. They don't go to the government to report it, but they are just cowardly, and if the government doesn't deal with it so that the horse thief knows who is talking, it will be playing with their own lives. This kind of thankless work is most in line with the self-preservation psychology of the people at the bottom, more things are better than less things, and life is the most important.

The young man thanked him politely, turned around and hurried out of the alley, and was about to ask Wu Liuqi to find a fast horse, when another big horse galloped on the other side of the street, still dressed as a post man, but this time it stopped in front of the three of them.

The post man dismounted and bowed to his fists, and without waiting for any of the three to speak, he had already said: "I am guarding me to report to the son, there are traces of fighting thirty miles north of the city, and four corpses of horse thieves are found ten miles to the west." ”

The young man strode over the horse, turned over, and galloped out of the city without saying much to the others.

The postman was stunned for a moment, dazed, "My horse." ”

The big guard caught Lang Ah Dayi and patted the head of the post man and scolded: "What kind of horse is the fucking horse, ten horses are not enough to compensate if something happens." ”

Xiao Shou caught Lang Wu Liuqi and looked at the distant prince of the capital, and then looked at Ah Da, and said the first sentence, "What's the matter?" ”

In normal times, it is inevitable to joke at this child who speaks in dialects, at this time, Ah Da has no such thoughts, and he has to serve this son and brother who does not know his identity but has noble credentials over and over again, in case something happens, I am afraid that I will have to stay in this place where birds don't and suffer for a lifetime.

"I'll chase it, you go to Taishou and send the old Yin Tou'er over." After a quick explanation, Ah Da ran wildly.

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The young man naturally thought of the result he didn't want to see, and his heart tightened, urging the horse to run faster, hoping that the horse could grow wings, and be faster and faster.

The earthen fort in the north of the city is empty, and looking at the dilapidated appearance of the ruined walls, it is obvious that this is just a temporary resting place for horse thieves. There are obvious signs of fighting on the walls of several houses, full of sword marks and sword marks, interlaced and densely intertwined.

The boy dismounted and checked, there were not many traces of the whip, and a closer look at the few whip marks with blood stains, almost dry, thinking that they should have been left recently.

The young man's heart tightened again, and he hurriedly looked at the other places carefully, and made sure that there was no more blood before he soothed his mind, and then got up and jumped onto a low wall, and with another loud whistle, and looked around without much movement, Fuer jumped on his horse and continued to gallop westward.

Ten miles to the west, it was already a desolate Gobi, the boulders were craggy and the sand was muddy, and the wind was howling, blowing the ephedra grass into a ball.

The boy rode up a hill, looked around, and saw the bones exposed to the sun, and the ko-headed vultures hovering and neighing directly above them in the setting sun, thinking that they would feast on them when there was no one to dispose of them.

After a cursory glance at the horse, the young man put his mind at ease, and he could recognize that there was no Zhuang Yuan by looking at his clothes. Raising his hand and whistling again, it was obvious that it still did not have the result that the boy wanted, but only drew a sharp response from the screams of the animals overhead.

"!" Even the young man who had a good temper was a little anxious at this time, and he spat hard, his brows furrowed.

Further west is already the sand sea that he has only heard from the mouths of the uncles and aunts at home, "the birds do not return to the old horse", at a glance it is all boring yellow, and the scarcity of water makes not an inch of grass grow, not to mention being in it, the young man just stood on the Gobi Desert where there was still some life, feeling the cold wind blowing over there and swallowed a mouthful of saliva unconsciously.

The rumors left by this place that it is said to be able to eat people all the time have to make the teenager instinctively have a trace of fear.

"It's fun." The boy said to himself, "Isn't it too late to go home and find someone?" ”

made a little joke to himself to relieve the panic in his heart, the young man's heart was horizontal, looking at the horizon where yellow and blue are intertwined, and muttering, "If I find you, I owe me, and if I can't find you, I owe you." ”

After inspecting the Dameng wild horse that was only equipped at the post station of the Great Zhou Dynasty, there were still a few pieces of coarse grain cakes in the horse's back coat, plus less than half of the cowhide water bladder, and the young man shook the reins, but he really gave birth to a feeling of being sluggish and cold.

Secretly said how could he be so timid, since he was a child, especially in these years, he has also experienced things that his peers have never experienced in their lives, why are they so afraid of wolves and tigers?

The boy shook his head, gathered his thoughts, and threw the strange thoughts in his head behind.

"Wait!"

The young man urged his crotch to get off the horse and had not taken a few steps, when there was a sound of kicking behind him, and when he turned his head, he saw that Ah Da was riding a horse and shouted hello.

This guard, who had killed people for his mother-in-law, jumped off the horse without saying a word, staggered over, stretched out his hand and grabbed the reins in the young man's hand, and didn't care about the difference between dignity and inferiority, and said hurriedly: "Wait a minute, wait a minute." ”

"Let it go!" The boy was furious.

"Wait for someone first, and it's not too late to find someone when they arrive." Chasing all the way in a hurry, Ah Da was panting heavily, but the reins in his hand were not loosened.

"Waiting for whom?"

"Old Yin."

The young man stared at Ah Da, Ah Da did not avoid it, swallowed his saliva, and gasped: "Thirty years ago, Xirong was instigated by the Gur Dynasty in the extreme west to rebel, and the capital sent twelve people to assassinate Emperor Xirong. ”

The young man who had heard of the assassination too many times naturally knew the danger inside, not to mention that the youngest of the twelve people who had traveled thousands of miles west at that time was only fourteen years old, and not to mention how the twelve and a half children in the capital of Xirong were born after death.

This should be the old horse who is hidden in the city.