"If the princess's party passes by, it will definitely stop to resupply. Yan Saburo nodded, "Then these sections are excluded." ”

Shi Congyi then checked several towns on the route: "In these places, from the officials to the city gate guards, I haven't seen a brigade of more than 500 people approaching in the past two months. ”

He compared: "Then the final range that can be demarcated, that is, the section from Jiao Squeezing to Xujialiao, is about forty miles." ”

That is to say, the princess team disappeared on the way from Jiao Zhu to Xujialiao. Yan Saburo noticed that Sanjiao Town happened to be in the middle of this journey.

"It's not easy to check this road. Shi exhaled softly, "It is in the middle of the mountains, the branch roads and trails are staggered, and the terrain is complicated. ”

"Have there been any accidents along the way?"

"An investigation is ongoing. "This little guy is very keen, Shi Congyi knows that he didn't find the wrong person, "The result hasn't been handed over to me yet." "He is a mighty marquis and an emperor, and local officials dare not slack off. But he still wants to complain, these officials are too inefficient!

After all, David has fought for too many years, and there is a shortage of people from the royal court to the localities, so there are many corpses and vegetarian meals. "I sent people to ask the local townspeople to see if they had any information. ”

Yan Saburo nodded: "This section of the road is very suitable as an ambush location. ”

That General Lu was under the royal order, and tried to send the princess to Shengyi safely. A team of 2,000 people walked in the territory of the peaceful country, what force majeure can it encounter?

I don't know how many caravans come and go on this road, why did they have an accident?

In the final analysis, the send-off team was manipulated.

Shi Congyi stared at the map on the desktop: "I went with me." But I don't understand, even if someone attacks them, they should leave traces, how can they disappear like this?"

Lu Wenxian's soldiers have all been on the battlefield and killed people, and they are not soft eggs who have never seen the world. Even if the enemy's ambush is successful, it is impossible to completely annihilate the Lu army, and there are always so many fish that can escape back to report the military situation, right?

Besides, where are the corpses and captives hidden?

Where it has existed, it will leave traces.

At this time, a soldier inquired about the news and quickly reported: "Ten days ago, some townspeople in Sanjiao Town entered Qinglian Mountain to collect snow mushrooms, but they did not return. ”

Shi Congyi's spirit perked up: "Ten days ago?" Extrapolating from the time, it can also correspond to the time period when Princess Xuanping disappeared. "Be specific. ”

"This townsman is called Meng Dafang. According to his family, he found a furry area in Qinglian Mountain a few days ago, located on the shady side of the mountain, with a large output but unknown to outsiders. At this point, the soldier added, "Snow mushrooms are an expensive mushroom......

"I know what snow mushrooms are. Shi Congyi interrupted him, "You just have to go on." ”

Snow mushrooms are a frequent guest at palace feasts, and the taste is better than that of matsutake mushrooms, and chefs use it to enhance the flavor of soups as long as they add a little bit to the soup. This is a specialty of the northeastern part of the country, but unlike matsutake mushrooms, which grow only at the turn of winter and spring, they grow on the trunks or bottoms of decaying trees, that is, around the end of the year. Locals know that it is best picked in the evening when the sun sets, and if you wait until after the time of the child, the stalk will open and the taste will be worse.

After all, they are all pure wild and cannot be artificially bred.

"Years ago was the peak time for picking snow mushrooms, and this surnamed Meng would go into the mountains every afternoon and come back at night. However, after ten days of going to the mountain, he never returned, and his family and fellow villagers went to the mountain several times to find him, but to no avail. ”

"Qinglian Mountain?" Shi Congyi waved his hand, "Find his family to come and lead the way, I want to know the location of the snow mushroom." Bring another twenty people and assemble at the intersection. ”

The soldier hurried away.

Chitose's voice came to Yan Saburo's ears: "The disappearance of the townspeople may not be related to Princess Yuguo. There were many accidents in the mountains, maybe he was taken away by a tiger wolf. ”

"At least a trail to follow. Yan Saburo said.

Shi Congyi heard this sentence in his ears, and nodded vigorously: "That's right." ”

Without further ado, Yan Saburo summoned the Yellow Crane family to give a brief explanation, and asked them to collect clues about the three-eyed monster in Sanjiao Town, and he followed Shi Congyi on the road.

The officers and soldiers wanted to help find people, and the people surnamed Meng couldn't ask for it, so they led the way very quickly.

If you look down from a high place, the green lotus mountain that is rich in snow is stacked on top of each other, and it is indeed very similar to the lotus flower in full bloom, and there are several flowers. Although such a scene is magnificent, it is extremely difficult for the locals to walk with high and low heights and peaks.

Every year, villagers are lost in Qinglian Mountain, and the lost foreigners cannot be counted.

But the mountains with such complex terrain are the veritable land of snow fur. To this day, locals can occasionally spot new areas where snow mushrooms grow.

Every time you find a place, you can get rich. Therefore, it was fortunate to find that the villagers in the new production area were silent to the outside world. If it weren't for the soldiers going door-to-door to find out the news, the Meng family would not have leaked the secret even if they lost a big living person.

This journey took more than an hour.

Later, they climbed a cliff, and the Meng family pointed to the mountains in front of them and said, "Dafang found the Xinfu area at the bottom, the shortest mountain." Although Qinglian Mountain produces snow mushrooms, it is not found on any mountain. There are a few big mountains here, and they should be there depending on the terrain and landforms, but they just don't. ”

Everyone looked in the direction of his finger, and the mountains were not as high as the cliffs, and they could stand here and have an unobstructed view of the vista.

The most important thing is that there is an official road under everyone's feet.

The official road is also winding around the mountain here, and the width can accommodate three cars driving side by side, and there is no fork in the road, as if it is a nine-curved ileum. Yan Tianlang said softly: "If General Lu's team passes by Qinglian Mountain, ninety percent will pass through here. ”

But the road soon moved away from the cliffs and into the flat distance.

"Let's go, keep going. Shi Congyi urged, and everyone followed the Meng family guide and slipped down the cliff. Of course, the official road does not come here, and the grass and trees under the cliff are vigorous, and there is only an inconspicuous animal path.

It was the path that the beast had trodden when it drank water, and beyond that, there was almost no sign of human traffic. Chitose glanced at it twice and said, "Princess Yuguo's team didn't pass through here. ”

Yan Saburo was silent, and Shi Congyi's face was even more ugly. He is not very old, but he has a lot of experience in field combat, and a team of more than 2,000 people walks in the jungle, with cars, horses, and people, at least a small path will be crushed, and the grass and trees along the way will be crushed, and there will be horse manure on the side of the road, and there will be footprints on the wet mud ground.

None of the above is found in this mountain forest.

It's as clean as if humans have never touched it.

When the Meng family took Yan Saburo and the others to the backlit low hillside, it was even more densely populated with thorns, and people could hardly walk in.