After the two exchanged the information they obtained, they were both embarrassed, unaware that there were such bold and reckless people in Daliang City, who openly abducted the envoy of Han in broad daylight and outside the royal city, causing Great Wei to lose face.

Mang Mao said: "It's urgent, please inform the division that someone will be sent to arrest the thief!" ”

Wei Qi said: "Why did the general say this? If this is not just a few thieves, hundreds of people injured the doorman with one blow, and robbed the messenger away, how can the division do it? Even if you can do it, how can you get out of the city? I hope that the general will send troops to patrol around, and I am afraid that he will only get his corpse if he is delayed! ”

Mang Mao said: "The Qin soldiers are coming to the city, nearly half of the soldiers in the city are in the city, and there are less than 30,000 in the city. The military envoys went out to spy on each other, and if they got it, they should be rewarded. However, it is absolutely impossible to make the military envoys search for envoys, and if the Qin people are missed, the harm will be even worse. ”

Wei Qi said: "In the general's opinion, who is the thief?" ”

Mang Mao said: "There is no solution. I have taken all the guards of Chuangximen, and when they are a little over, I will go to the division for interrogation, and I will get the details. ”

Wei Qi planned to leak a little bit, but hid the source of information: "The Liang Doorman said that someone among the thieves is quite similar to Gongzi's disciple......"

Mang Mao trembled and exclaimed, "Is this really? Xinlingjun's disciples? ”

Wei Qi said: "Exactly. His words are conclusive, but it is difficult for me to distinguish the truth from the false, but the words are known to the general. ”

Mang Mao said: "If this matter is true, may Wei Xiang save me!" ”

Wei Qi said: "Why did the general say this? ”

Mang Mao said: "Xinling Jun Gongzi, under one person, above ten thousand, the lord also." Although I am a general, I am also a minister. The main family is driven, but he sends a vertical son to show me with a half-foot stick, and I dare not obey; And to take the thief is not to regard the minister as the subordinate. The minister should resign to avoid the disaster. ”

Wei Qi said: "What does the general say, what does he say!" General Wei Wangxin, the whole country entrusts the general, the general loses his trust because of a small reason, wouldn't he laugh for the world! Even the general does not take it. ”

Mang Mao said: "Non-ministers have a beginning and no end, but they are jealous of nobles, how can they live?" …… My heart is in turmoil, may Wei Xiang teach me! ”

Wei Qi said: "In my opinion, the general sent more military envoys to patrol the sentry posts to get his feelings." If the envoy is robbed by the disciples of Xinling Jun, Dr. Sujia will not be harmed. But if you ride fast for thirty miles, you will get the details. ”

Mang Mao thought for a while and said, "Wei Xiang is really high-minded. robbed the doctor, Xinling Jun also; If you want to see the doctor, you also believe in Lingjun. If you go straight to the camp of Xinling Jun along the avenue, you will be able to get the details. ”

Wei Qi clapped his knees and shouted, "Great goodness! ”

Mang Mao immediately took a section talisman from the front of the screen and shouted: "Xuan Mangshen goes to the court!" ”

The family members who were waiting outside the hall heard the word "Xuan", but they were afraid of hearing it wrong, so they replied at the bottom of the stairs: "The minister is the past." ”

Mang Mao said: "Xuan! ”

Only then did the family know that what they heard just now was indeed the word "Xuan", and hurriedly shouted: "Xuan Mangshen Gongzi is in court!" This voice alarmed the whole family, and all the family members who heard it were stunned for a moment, and then they also shouted: "Xuan Mangshen Gongzi is in court!" It was passed into the back house, and it also startled Mangshen, and he heard it clearly, and hurriedly replied loudly: "Fengxuan!" The voice of the family member who heard it was heard to the front.

The five adult sons of the Mang family, the eldest son, Mang Yin, was originally in charge of the army outside the city, but there has been no news since Chen Liu brought back a few truckloads of grain. The second son Manghai and the third son Mangchen have both gone out of the city with Liang Weigongzi, and only the fourth son Mangwei and Mangshen, who have just returned home, remain at home, and Mangshen is still nominally the military envoy of Xinlingjun. When my father was on patrol in the city, they naturally followed behind, and they all saw what was going on inside Simon, but they could see nothing; I couldn't find any eyewitnesses who were there at the time, so I was only nervous and couldn't do anything. When my father was discussing with the disciples, they waited in the lower position, and although they did not speak, they still heard all the words of the gentlemen, especially the suspicion that it was done by the disciples of Xinlingjun, which made Mangshen, who had a certain understanding of Xinlingjun, think it was true.

When Wei Xiang Wei Qi arrived at the house, the brothers returned to the back house, crowded into Mangchen's room, and muttered some of their own opinions—no doubt, the attack on the Sujia mission made the brothers very uneasy. But I don't have any special opinions, so I can only be anxious and gossip with each other to solve my worries. Suddenly, when he heard the mansion loudly announcing that he was going to the court, Mangshen was taken aback; Mangchen was a little older and had some insight, so he hurriedly pushed Mang Shen and said, "Fengxuan." Mangshen almost subconsciously replied: "Fengxuan!" ”

When the brothers returned home, they immediately participated in the meeting with the doormen, and when they returned to the back house, Manshen did not return to his room, so he only took off his leather armor and did not change back into his regular clothes. Hearing a proclamation, with the assistance of Mang Wei, he put on his armor and went around to the front steps of the hall to report loudly: "Mangshen receives his life!" ”

Mang Mao said: "Go to the court to receive the order!" ”

Mang Shen climbed the stairs and saw Mang Mao holding the section talisman and standing in front of the hall, and Wei Xiang Wei Qi stood behind him. Mang Mao looked serious and said, "Doctor Su Jia was attacked, and the thief has gone straight out of the West Gate. Now you are ordered to lead the army with five people, ride a horse and sentry to the west fifty miles, and hope to see the return in the confinement! ”

Mangshen took the festival charm and saluted: "Oh! He turned around and went down. Back in the back house, seeing that Mangwei explained the situation, Mangwei hurriedly went to the west courtyard to order six horses, Mangshen went to the front wing, and asked five gentlemen to help. Mr. Che You wanted to go, but Manshen resolutely refused to allow it, saying that his father would ask for advice sooner or later, and Mr. Che did not need to drive such a trivial matter. Mr. Che You then ordered five people, discussed the route and key points of the proper patrol, neatly equipped, each with bows and arrows, all followed Mangshen to the west courtyard, led the prepared horses, went out of the inner gate, got on the horse and held the knots in his hand, and shouted in his mouth, "The military envoy goes out of the west gate!" The six of them went straight to the west gate.

The Ximen city army heard the shout early, raised the jack gate, opened the city gate, and six people galloped through. By the time the city gate was closed, the six of them had only seen dust and smoke, and no one was in sight.

Everyone in the city judged that at present, the greatest possibility is that Xu Jia was robbed by Xinlingjun's disciples, although the purpose is unknown, but there should be no malicious intent. Therefore, everyone discussed, if they encountered it, they must be kind to persuade them, and they can't really be captured like thieves. What's more, they stunned ten guards and five military envoys in an instant, and they were all doormen, so even if they wanted to arrest them, they didn't have the ability.

After leaving the city, the six horsemen were divided into three groups, one on the front and one on each wing, and each of them was examined separately. Since it was looking for clues, it was natural that they were not running away, but were just moving forward. At this speed, I will return to a place where I can see the middle of the confinement, and I will get about dusk.

The trail to follow is not complicated. At present, it is wartime, and there are basically no people walking on the road, and the ruts left by the carts and the footprints of pedestrians are very clear, and they only need to follow the tracks.

Because the stirrup had not yet been invented, due to the limitations of riding technology, and the fact that raising horses was laborious and expensive, there were fewer people who could ride horses than those who could drive. The main reason why these five people were selected was that they all rode horses, and although they were also treated as doormen in Mangfu, their status was not very high. This time I was able to go on a business trip with the major general, and I felt that it was an opportunity, and I wanted to show it consciously or unconsciously, and I wanted to be the first to discover new clues.

At the end of the road is Liang Xiyi, where Zheng Anping served, and all the traces have continued here without interruption. Further on is the way out of the wilderness, and it is far less convenient to distinguish the imprints of this group of people than on the main path.

One doorman suggested, "Why don't you go to the inn for a while?" ”

Another responded: "Yes, yes." The son is a military envoy, and it is natural for him to enter the post house. ”

Liang Xiyi is thirty miles away from the beam, which is a distance of one room, and it should be slightly stopped and sharpened according to common sense. Although these six men were on horseback, they were not much easier than walking with their riding skills at that time, and they were walking slowly, and it was already noon. The warm sun was overhead, and the sun was tickling. Manshen thought that since the thieves had also traveled all the way, they might as well rest at this point. So he said, "Very good, gentlemen, please." "Where are the people who are willing, we must let Manshen go ahead.

The group dismounted, left the avenue, and went straight to the inn. On the small field in front of the door, the ruts are scattered, but from the depths, they were left a few days ago. It should be that since Xinlingjun and his party left, no one has ever approached here again. This is easy to understand: all the strong men were requisitioned, and the women and children at home, old and weak, probably did not dare to go too far from home; The reverse hall next to it naturally cannot be opened during the war, and it is closed to customers. Lonely in the wilderness, no one can come. The door to the lodge was closed, but not locked. Meng Shen naturally knew that there was no one inside, but he still habitually knocked on the door and did not respond; After listening carefully, there was no sound in the door, so he pushed the door open.

There was no sign in the courtyard, which strengthened Mangshen's judgment: the group of thieves, or the disciples of Xinlingjun, did not enter the inn, but left directly. Meng Shen bolted the horse to the horse stake in front of the door, turned around and said, "The thief has not entered the museum. We rested for a moment and then walked down the avenue. ”

The five men nodded in agreement, and also found a place to tie their horses, and closed the door as Manshen entered the inn. The six of them went to the hall together, and after making sure that there was no one in the building, they went to the backyard by themselves, took ten liters of millet for themselves, and took firewood and grass to light a fire and cook it. Mang Shen saw that the guests were accustomed to it, and knew that it was like this many times when he went out with Mangmao, so he didn't blame him, so he had to follow their wishes and eat again. - If it's late, hurry up and get back. A doorman took a crockpot and went out to fetch water, when he suddenly screamed. Meng Shen was startled and hurriedly rushed out. Seeing the doorman's face frightened, he said, "Ma...... The ...... of the horses rushed out of the door and found that the horses that had been tied here had all disappeared. Manshen was only like five thunderbolts. It stands to reason that what is happening at the door, I should be able to hear it inside. To take away six horses so quietly must be a horse breeder, no, a master horse thief. Of course, Meng Shen would not believe that he was unlucky to meet this group of horse thieves, and the other party must have been ambushed for a long time, and he knew nothing.

Too careless! Manshin thought to chagrin. Not to mention the loss of money, how to pay the difference when you go back?