There are thirteen children brought by Ripple this time, both men and women, all of whom don't remember where they came from, Ripple asked one by one, and they were basically stolen and abducted, so they were sent directly to the county office.

In order to attract enough attention, she specially consulted the master book and gave the other party fifty taels of silver as a flower for these children before they were reunited with their families.

"I'm sorry to be in the book, these children are smart and clever, but they didn't sell themselves voluntarily, I think their parents must be looking forward to them being found, please take care of them."

The chief bookkeeper accepted the money, and promised with a smile that he would try his best to do this well, fifty taels was more than enough to raise a dozen children for a few days, and the rest was his hard work, so he would naturally be concerned.

"If there are really children who can't find their parents, bother the master bookkeeper to arrange someone to deliver a message to the Ruyi Inn, and I will help these children find a way out, so as not to embarrass you."

"Okay, the girl is really chivalrous, if only there were more people like you in this world."

The master book did not hesitate to praise and said that he had taken on this task.

Ripple deliberately explained two sentences to the children, and then left the county office.

At this time, in the backyard of the county government, Qi Qi was talking to the Huairou County Order, and the content was around this action to exterminate the mountain bandits.

"Cao County Order, you deliberately spread rumors about the treasure map, just so that these Jianghu people can exterminate the mountain bandits?"

"Yes, sir!"

Huairou County Ling Cao Dun said respectfully.

"It's a bold idea, and it's a good one."

Qi Qi did not deny the other party's approach.

"Qi Gongzi, Cao is also helpless to do this, those mountain bandits are coiled in the bluestone canyon, blocking the road and looting, cold and cold, I organized several encirclement and suppression, all in vain, and several officials were seriously injured, and they are still lying at home.

I suspect that Huairou County has their internal response, so that every operation fails, so I don't dare to use the people of Huairou County, so I thought of such a method. ”

"You used the rumors about the treasure on the rivers and lakes to lure those people from the rivers and lakes, these people are not Huairou locals, their purpose is the treasure map that you spread in the rumors, so they will not be bought, just to help you deal with the mountain bandits."

Qi Qi took a sip of tea and calmly analyzed.

"Yes, what Qi Gongzi said is in line with my original intention, the people from the rivers and lakes who came this time still cherish their feathers, and in the name of assisting the county government to eliminate bandits, they justifiably killed the Qingshi Canyon, just proposing to harvest the mountain bandits' nest, which I can fully accept."

Cao County's order did not hide it, and told the truth about these people in the rivers and lakes who had crossed his side.

"Cao Xian Ling is measured, I just ask, I have another task on my body, just to verify the content of the rumors you released."

"The rumor spread by Cao arranged for someone to spread is that the mountain bandits in Qingshi Canyon inadvertently got a treasure map, which they snatched from passers-by, and after confirming that it was a treasure map, they didn't even do the robbery for a living, and they had to set off to find the treasure after they were ready."

"True and false, false and real, it is indeed easy to attract people."

Qi Qi said pertinently.

"Qi Gongzi smiled."

Qi Qi and Cao Xian ordered you to come and go and said two more words, Qi Qi's guards hurriedly came to his side, attached themselves to his ear and said two words, Qi Qi's face changed, and his eyes became sharp.

"Are you sure it's a fine work?"

"Sure!"

"Continue the trial, send people to follow Cao County's order to escort back all those mountain bandits, none of them are missing, and the corpses must be transported back for careful inspection."

Qi Qi ordered.

"Yes, the subordinates will gather people."

When the guards left, Qi Qi turned his head and said to Cao Xianling:

"My subordinates found a tattoo unique to the Mongolian people on the bandit leader who escorted him back, and I am sure that the bandit leader is a meticulous work planted by the Mongolian State to us, can Cao County Commander know about this?"

After listening to Qi Qi's words, Cao Xianling's face immediately changed, and now the involvement is big, this group of mountain bandits actually has a great background, he immediately got up and explained:

"Qi Gongzi, please forgive Cao for not paying attention, because several arrests have failed, and we have not found out the identity of the bandit leader."

"Maybe it's not that they didn't find it, but someone covered for them."

Qi Qi understood it as soon as he thought about it, but he didn't have much suspicion about Cao Xianling, after all, the other party could think of using people from the rivers and lakes to fight against the mountain bandits, and it could be regarded as a surprise to the other party, which made him inadvertently catch a big fish, and then thought of the "Fengqi Wutong" mother and son who were caught before, he already had a rough guess in his heart, and he could be determined only after interrogation.

"No wonder Cao's organization has failed several times in its purges, it turns out."

Cao Xian Ling was not stupid, and he immediately understood the meaning of Qi Qi's words.

"Cao County Order, next we have to sum it up and see how to let these people show their feet."

Qi Qi put down the teacup in his hand and said.

"Yes, I will write an order in my hand and arrange for the officials to secretly escort back the group of captured mountain bandits first."

The county government immediately got busy.

On the other side, the people from the rivers and lakes who stayed in the bluestone canyon, under the leadership of Xiao Shu, have found the nest of the mountain bandits, and those who were left here were all wounded and women, and they were all locked up in one place.

"Brother Xiao, we found a secret room under the wooden bed of the bandit leader, but it was empty and there was nothing."

Wang Meimei said with a frown.

"Did you find any other secret rooms or secret compartments?"

"There's a hidden compartment under the main seat in their hall, but it's empty! Either the things have been transferred a long time ago, or the things are carried by the bandit leader! ”

Speaking of this, Wang Meimei's face changed:

"Brother Xiao, the person guarding the mountain bandit is the subordinate of the prince of Qi, and it is his person who caught the leader of the bandit, and the person was also taken away by him, because he caught it, we can't grab the credit, so let them go, do you say that the treasure map has been found and taken away by him?"

"Arrange for a few people to continue to search the village, and by the way, ask the women who were left behind, and we will go after them now."

Xiao Shu made a quick decision.

"Those women don't know anything about the treasure map, and they've been gone for three days"

Wang Meimei didn't think that the other party would wait to be caught up by them.

"Find someone first!"

Xiao Shu closed the jade fan in his hand with a "snap", and said with a gloomy face.

"Okay, I'm going to gather everyone."

When these people heard this, they learned that they might have been put on a beating, so they immediately left the bluestone canyon and tracked the past along the road.

A day later, they met the Ya Shi and Qi Gongzi's men halfway through, and the atmosphere between the two sides was somewhat unfriendly.

"What do you mean by that? Blocking us from our official duties? ”

The official said with a cold face that he hated these people the most, fighting and killing all day long, fighting bravely and fiercely, and he didn't know why, he had to ask them to deal with the aftermath when there was a murder.

"We don't want to stop you, we just want to ask Qi Gongzi's subordinates if they have found the treasure map on the bandit leader's body."

Xiao Shu asked.

"What treasure map? I don't know, but I found the Mongolian tattoo on the bandit leader, and confirmed that he was a Mongolian detail, and now I want to bring all the mountain bandits back, if you are interested, you can go to Huairou County with you. ”

A fat chapter is offered, see you tomorrow~

(End of chapter)