Tianci called Liu Jiujin early in the morning and asked him to bring a few cronies to go to the city with him to inspect and see if the officers and soldiers from all walks of life had carried out his defense instructions in place.

Tianci took Liu Jiujin and his group to inspect the city on the one hand, and asked Liu Jiujin how to prepare the Iron Cavalry Army. When passing by an inn called Jiakelai, Tianci remembered the head of Zheng Zong, who entered the city with him yesterday, and thought that they might be leaving today, so he wanted to go in and say goodbye to him.

The group dismounted and walked into the door of the inn, but saw that there was already a mess inside, and many people were shouting together, not knowing what was happening.

Tianci stepped forward and saw several people who looked like dart masters helping up an elderly man from the ground, and when he looked closely, that person was Zheng Zong's dart head, looking anxious, and his eyes were blurred, as if he was seriously injured.

Tianci hurriedly stepped forward and stretched out his hand to hold the dart, and called out repeatedly: "Master Zheng, Master Zheng, wake up!" Mr. Zheng opened his eyes and found that Tianci was standing in front of him, so he struggled to stand up, clasped his fists with both hands and said to Tianci: "Let my brother laugh, this time the bodyguard actually landed here, lost the dart, and decades of Taoism and the reputation of the rivers and lakes were ruined." After that, he shook his head and sighed.

Mr. Zheng suddenly found that Tianci was wearing an official uniform, and he was a little puzzled, and asked Tianci: "Brother, what are you... ？”。 Liu Jiujin took over and said, this is the newly appointed chief soldier of Quyang County, Lord Zhang who is in charge of the soldiers and horses of the three cities, and worships the Pingxi Governor.

Mr. Zheng and everyone listened to it, and immediately stood in awe, hugged their fists one by one, and let everyone not have to be formal, and asked Mr. Zheng what happened, can you start from the beginning.

Mr. Zheng had no choice but to talk about the events of this afternoon one by one, and everyone made some additions, and Tianci finally figured out what happened.

Tianci first pondered for a while, then asked about the size and weight of the box, and then asked where the man in black was knocked down and where the red horse was sick, and everyone pointed it out to him.

Tianci carefully observed these two places, and squatted down from time to time to stretch out his hand to feel the ground for a while, and then stood up for a while, pointed to the carriage and asked, "Is the box on that cart missing?" Mr. Zheng and everyone nodded yes.

Tianci came to the parking place of the carriage and carefully probed the carriage inside and out, up and down. After a few moments, when he got out of the carriage, there was a smile on his face, apparently having discovered some kind of ingenuity.

Tianci walked up to Liu Jiujin and whispered to him for a while, Liu Jiujin nodded, and immediately turned around and walked out of the door of the inn with two guards.

After Tianci saw Jiujin leave, he turned around and returned to everyone, cleared his throat and said, "It was the man in black who stole the box." After hearing this, Mr. Zheng echoed: "I also found out that this person was an internal response, and he used the cover to find love and trouble, and cooperated with the thief to steal the wooden box, but unfortunately let him run away and didn't catch it." ”

"There are no other thieves, this man in black did it alone, he stole your chest. Tianci said with certainty.

Everyone was taken aback when they heard this, and they all shook their heads to say that it was impossible. Some people said that the man in black was so badly injured that it was impossible to carry the box. Some people said that when the box was stolen, the man in black was still lying on the ground, how could it be the box he was carrying. Besides, the box was very heavy, and it was difficult to carry both of them, how could he easily take it alone?

Tianci walked to the place where the man in black was injured and said: "This person is not an ordinary person, but an extraordinary martial arts master, and he was not injured by Master Chen, think about it, since he can easily dissolve Master Chen's unexpected palm, how could he be injured by Master Chen's punch? The injury is a phenomenon that he faked, you can see the blood stains on the ground, in fact, it is a mixture of tomato juice and rouge, you can know it if you smell it carefully." ”

"As for the sick horse, it was actually caused by this person by means of a hidden weapon, it may be that he secretly ejected a silver needle, pierced the horse's stomach meridian acupoint, and smeared 'ephedra powder' on the silver needle, causing the horse to be paralyzed and foam at the mouth. Later, while you were away, he fed the poisoned horses with 'licorice reishi powder', so that the horses would immediately recover as before. Tianci said and turned to the place where the red horse was sick, and picked up a small pinch of gray powder from the ground, "You see, this is the medicine powder that fell on the ground when the man in black fed the horse. ”

Everyone was a little surprised, but they still didn't understand how the man in black stole the box.

"Actually, when you find out that the box is not there, the box has not been stolen. With that, Tianci came to the back of the parked carriage and asked everyone to come and see him. "The carriage was tampered with last night, the bottom of the carriage had been dismantled to make a mechanism that could be opened and closed, and a compartment had been added to the bottom of the carriage to catch the sliding boxes. Tianci motioned for everyone to squat down and check the bottom of the carriage, and sure enough, it was as he said.

"The man in black took advantage of everyone's unpreparedness, touched the mechanism with a hidden weapon, and at the same time as the back cover of the carriage bounced up, the bottom plate in the carriage was turned over, and the wooden box fell into the dark compartment under the carriage, and everyone saw that the wooden box in the carriage was gone, and immediately thought that someone had damaged the back cover of the carriage and stole the wooden box, but in fact, when everyone chased out, the wooden box was staying at the bottom of the carriage. ”

Tianci continued: "When the man in black saw that everyone had chased after him, he immediately turned over, first fed the horse medicine, and then took out the wooden box from the bottom of the carriage, and then rode on the horse, took the wooden box, and calmly left. ”

At this time, everyone finally understood what was going on, and they couldn't imagine that such a large group of people, or the dart masters who had been walking the rivers and lakes for many years, would be so embarrassed by one person, all of them hated and anxious, but they were helpless.

Mr. Zheng's dart head also looked up to the sky at this time and sighed: "Alas, it's only my fault, this way from the treacherous northern region, and finally entered the land of the Han people, it is a little careless." I didn't expect that there was such a master in this Quyang realm, and his calculations were so exquisite, that he could break the strict garrison of me and others with the power of one person, and also ruined my reputation for Zheng Chengsheng. After that, he beat his chest and began to cry.

"Brother Zheng doesn't need to worry, I have already sent someone to the four city gates to investigate, and if I have time, I may also block the thieves on the spot. Tianci comforted Mr. Zheng and said.

"Then everyone here has seen this person, and I should immediately go to the city gates to cooperate with the officers and soldiers to investigate. When Mr. Zheng heard what Tianci said, a little hope rose in his heart.

"No, then, this thief is so calculating and ingenious that he will never go out of the city in a hurry, and it may be that the horses, clothes, and even his appearance have been changed, and you will still be able to recognize them. I told the gates to focus on the wooden box, but I don't know what the box contains, and if the thief opens the box and re-divides the contents, it will be very difficult to check. Tianci looked at Zheng Dart's head, as if asking him if he knew the contents of the box.

After hearing this, Mr. Zheng showed a disappointed expression, and did not answer God's question directly, but muttered to himself: "That's bad, that's bad." But it looked like he should know what's inside.