The guard who was gossiping with him was a good man, pretending to be surprised, and quickly asked, "Why does the leader say that, I look at those people are very ordinary, not like they are extremely vicious?" ”

Sure enough, the leader's conversation was even stronger, and he snorted coldly and responded, "You're just a stupid boy, you've only come out and walked around a few times, what can you see!"

"The big man who drove the car, although he didn't speak, his left hand has been hidden behind his waist, there must be a hidden weapon there, as long as there is something wrong with us, I am afraid that a flying knife will be thrown over immediately.

"And that old man said to deliver something to the master's house, but the car was empty, he was lying!"

The young guard nodded his head as he listened, thinking carefully that the big man was indeed full of defense, but the old man lied......

"Chief, how do you know that the old man is lying? The carriage has its doors and windows closed, and you can't see inside! ”

The leader raised his finger and pointed to the rut next to him, "Look at the rut marks, the front is deeper than the back!" If there are three people sitting in the front of the car and pulling the goods in the back, then the rut behind should be deep and the front a little shallow.

"But now it's obviously deep in the front, and it's almost negligible in the back, so of course there's no cargo in the carriage, or there's not much stuff in it."

The young guard suddenly realized, and sat down on his horse and bent down to examine the rut carefully, but the rut did not distinguish the depth, but he found something good!

"Oops, there's a purse here!"

The young guard jumped down quickly, picked up the purse, and was even happier when he pinched the inside of the purse.

"There's money in this purse!"

Because of the snow, the dirt road was not very wide, and the guard stopped the horses, and the convoy behind them inevitably stopped.

The leader of the guards glared angrily and scolded, "Why don't you hurry up and let everyone wait for you!" ”

The young guard shrunk his neck, smiled awkwardly, and was so happy that he had picked up his purse, forgetting that there was a convoy behind him.

He quickly turned over and got on his horse, and then handed the purse to the leader, "Chief, look at it, we are rich!" ”

The leader took it, and before he could take a closer look, the carriage behind him pushed open the window, and a middle-aged man asked, "What's wrong?" ”

The leader of the guard hurriedly picked up his horse and walked over, and answered, "Shopkeeper, there is nothing important. The kid in the team picked up a purse on the side of the road, and looked quite full. ”

As he spoke, he handed over his purse and said, "I don't know which one was careless, so he threw the coil on the road." ”

The middle-aged man looked at it briefly and replied, "Could it be the ...... that fell from the carriage that just passed?"

In the middle of speaking, he suddenly stopped, and commanded in a loud voice, "Bring the torch and hurry up!" ”

The crowd was startled, and immediately someone brought torches to them.

The middle-aged man looked through his purse carefully, and the more he looked at it, the worse his face became.

"This is our family's purse, and it is the nine-petal lotus flower that my sister loves to embroider!"

The head of the guard was a little puzzled, and replied casually, "Shopkeeper, why is our family's purse here!" ”

It sounded awkward, but the shopkeeper understood. He was not a bystander, it was Chen Zhao who had returned from the south.

At the beginning, the Zheng family was burned to the ground, except for Chen Ruiyang, no one survived, and everything was naturally gone.

The reason why he thought it was something at home was because the lotus flower on this purse was different from the eight petals of the ordinary lotus pattern, but had one more petal.

At the beginning, he was running around all the year round, and his sister was worried and unwilling to stop him, so she could only wait for him to come back early at home, and sew clothes, shoes and socks for him, and embroidered purses.

And ninety-nine to one, the embroidery patterns used by my sister are mostly nine-petal lotus flowers, and I hope that he will return safely as soon as possible.

Now, in addition to the few clothes and things left around him, only his nephew Ruiyang has this purse.

Could it be that Ruiyang went out and lost his purse when he passed by?

Wrong!

Chen Zhao suddenly remembered another thing, the old man of the Tai family rescued Ruiyang from the traffickers because he was looking for Zhuzhu.

My sister at home was very grateful, and she prepared the congratulatory gifts by herself, not to mention, but also gave her a lot of things she sewed by herself. For example, the purse full of gold and silver bills was given to several children of the Tai family......

"I didn't hear what you said about the car in the past, so let's talk about it carefully!" Chen Zhao looked at the leader of the guards with a solemn expression.

The leader of the guards didn't know why, but he didn't dare to slack off, and told all the things about the abnormalities and ruts of the three people, and finally concluded, "Shopkeeper, do you suspect that those three people have done something bad, or is it related to our family?" ”

The leader of the guards was a subordinate who had followed Chen Zhao for many years, and he knew everything about Chen Ruiyang clearly, so he lowered his voice and asked, "The shopkeeper, is it the little master who has an accident?" ”

Chen Zhao shook his head and responded, "It's not necessarily Ruiyang, it may also be the Tai family, or it may be familiar with the Tai family!" ”

"Then what should we do, hurry up and report to the Tai family?" The leader of the guards subconsciously looked at his convoy and frowned slightly.

This time they brought a lot of valuable goods, and they stopped rashly, and then provoked the Jianghu people, in case there was an omission, they would lose a lot.

Chen Zhao didn't care about this, and responded, "You must go to report to the Tai family, but you can't ignore it here, in case it is really the Tai family in the carriage, we must always stop it, otherwise it will be difficult to track down the fork in the road further south." ”

After that, he instructed, "Immediately take the purse and go to Tai's house to ask if there are any family members who are out." Then you yourself will lead the people to follow the carriage from a distance, and it is better to find out where the carriage is located and what it contains! I continued to move forward with the convoy, looking for a suitable place to set up camp and contact me at any time. ”

"Yes, shopkeeper." The leader of the guards, though disapproving, did not refute either.

It is the duty of a slave man to obey orders. And for so many years, the shopkeeper has acted prudently, and there are few times when he makes mistakes.

Soon, the two guards rode horses and purses and galloped along the road in the direction of Tai'an, and the leader of the guards chose four good hands and quietly rushed back and forth.

The convoy walked slowly, skirted the hill, and made sure that the fire could not be seen in the distance, so they immediately chose a sheltered mountain nest and set up camp.

All the wagons were connected from each other to protect them from the cold wind, the snow in the middle was cleared, the dead branches were erected, and the bonfires were lit.

It stands to reason that sleeping at night is a chore, especially on a winter day like this.

But almost all the people in the convoy were brought out by Chen Zhao, and they followed him in and out of the grassland and the north and south of the Great Wei, and they had experienced all kinds of hardships, but they didn't feel how unbearable tonight was.

Chen Zhao was worried in his heart, and he couldn't guess whether something had happened to the Tai family.

The reason why he can go to Jiangnan without worrying is that his nephew has the Tai family to take care of.

The Tai family treats their nephews really well like their own children, and they are not blindly spoiled, they praise their merits and punish them if they are wrong.