Chapter Ninety-Two: Near Dusk
"How's it going?" Lin Zhutou gently patted Liu Yuan's cheek and asked with a concerned expression.
"Hiccupβ" However, as soon as Liu Yuan opened his mouth, wisps of white smoke overflowed from the corners of his mouth, and the whole person looked as if he was about to become an immortal.
It really works, at this time, in addition to feeling pain all over his body, Liu Yuan also has a small warm current in his body that fills his limbs, slowly turning, quietly changing something.
Originally, he was still injured and beaten again, but Liu Yuan didn't feel uncomfortable at all, but unfortunately he couldn't see it and didn't have a standard for judgment, so he didn't know how much effect the beating just now played.
"Comfortable ......" Liu Yuan sighed, twisted his body, and stood up from the ground.
"Xiao Liu, are you okay. Lin Zhutou looked at Liu Yuan with a very worried expression.
"It's fine, nothing at all. Liu Yuan said very easily, and said, "Lin Zhutou, are you here for?" As soon as he said this, he saw a few catchers at the door rushing in and carrying the corpse on the ground out.
"Exactly, I came here to deal with the matter of the thieves here, and by the way, I informed you and Lei Xiaoxiao that we went to Jiming Mountain to investigate, but see you like this now?" Lin Zhutou hesitated again, he was afraid that this kid would not be sober.
"I'm so good. Saying that, Liu Yuan shouted, called out Lei Xiaoxiao, who was waiting in the backyard, looked at Lin Zhutou with a smile and said, "Let's go, you can set off at any time." β
"You kid. Lin Zhutou smiled bitterly and shook his head, he couldn't figure out where this kid was in danger and where he liked to drill.
Time waits for no one, since there is nothing to clean up, explain to the two guys, and put the kitchen knife back in the kitchen by the way, Lin Zhutou immediately took Liu Yuan and Lei Xiaoxiao out of the house.
When he was on the way, Lin Zhutou remembered something and said: "By the way, when you come back, you may have to prepare to deal with the people who came above to investigate the matter personally." β
Hearing this, Liu Yuanyi was stunned and asked, "This time there is a big trouble?"
"Yes, it's very big, you also know what happened two years ago, and it's been a long time since such a bad thing happened in the rivers and lakes. Lin Zhutou looked solemn.
When the saint acted like this, he suppressed the rapid momentum of the rivers and lakes, but also planted the seeds of malignancy, after all, people can't be killed.
After those superior martial arts cheats were burned, it did set the entire rivers and lakes back for countless years, but how could they really destroy the things in people's hearts, somehow Liu Yuan remembered the scene where Li Lanxin put his knife on his neck and threatened those thieves.
The word chivalrous can be big or small.
He felt that this incident was just a symptom, and it would soon pop up one after another. The root of the turmoil lies in the people, not in anything else, where there are people and where there are rivers and lakes.
The power of heaven is unpredictable, and the new officials have three fires when they take office, not to mention our Martial Emperor ascending the throne, who knows what he thinks. Liu Yuan shook his head, smiled and felt that he was really salty and didn't worry about eating radish, but he was just an innkeeper.
These things are too far away from him, he just wants to survive well and grow the inn at the same time, and have the money and ability to investigate what happened to his father back then.
After thinking about it, the three of them walked to the city gate, and the guards and horses in the city were so one-third, and the leader of the team was the county master whom Liu Yuan had met.
As for the Yamen's fast catch, it was led by Lin Zhutou. Horses had already been prepared in front of the city gate, and after the three of them turned over and got on their horses and walked to the front, the county magistrate shouted: "Go." β
The corner of his eye glanced at Liu Yuan slightly, after all, a person like Liu Yuan who wrapped his head like a zongzi, the county master couldn't forget it.
Naturally, a small county town could not find so many horses, no more than fifty, and the remaining hundreds of foot soldiers ran across the knife and followed.
Qingchuan County is surrounded by mountains and ups and downs, and the distance between Jiming Mountain is not far, because of the steepness, no one has ever gotten there, who knows that the thieves are quietly hidden.
Because there are many things in the city, it is already late when you set off, and when the soldiers and horses rush to Jiming Mountain, the sky is at sunset, and it is almost dusk.
The mountain at dusk, with its shadows exposed, looked like a giant beast.
Along the way, Lei Xiaoxiao's expression was solemn and did not speak, this cargo was too important to her.
Fortunately, those thieves rushed into the city to ambush and punish them, and at this time they came with the soldiers and horses, even if there were still remnants of Jiming Mountain, it did not pose a threat, and the goods were lost and recovered.
The county master waved his hand to stop everyone, and ordered in his mouth: "Get off the horse and go up the mountain." β
There was a sound of rustling, and after going up the winding mountain road, soldiers lit torches one after another, lined up on both sides of the line, and the dense forest between the mountains was full of branches and leaves, and the light that penetrated was sparse.
The mountain is too big, and the sky has become darker when it is halfway up the mountain, so the time must not be enough, the county preparation lord found Lin Zhutou, and the two of them combined, planning to divide the troops into two roads, and search around the mountain separately.
Lei Xiaoxiao and Liu Yuan followed Lin Zhutou, and at the same time divided a hundred guards, and the rest went to the other side with the county master, and finally discussed meeting at the end of the mountain road.
After separating, the speed was much faster, and Lin Zhutou looked for the traces on the mountain road and walked up.
The two followed behind Lin Zhutou, and Liu Yuan whispered to Lei Xiaoxiao: "After the goods are found, what are you going to do?"
"There will be people from the Wan'an Dart Bureau, escorting them to continue on the road. Lei Xiaoxiao said.
"Yes. Liu Yuan nodded, very curious about what kind of goods it was, and didn't ask about the exit.
When the light on the mountain completely dimmed, and it was all lit by torches, Lin Zhutou suddenly raised his hand and called out to everyone: "There is a discovery." He crouched down, his fingers lightly touching the ground, and then grabbing a handful of dirt and sniffing it under his nose.
"Let's go, be on guard, we're almost there. After Lin Zhutou finished speaking, he pulled out the scimitar on his waist and walked towards the front first.
Hearing this, Liu Yuan suddenly became cautious, clenched his hands into fists, and Lei Xiaoxiao also pulled out the Xiu sword on his waist.
After a while, under the light of the fire, through the rows of large trees, I saw simple wooden houses in front of me.
Lin Zhutou secretly said in his heart, if there are really thieves still on the mountain, they are all forced to this place, there is no reason to have no reaction at all, could they all die in the county seat?
"Go, in short, be careful. "Something is abnormal, Lin Zhutou reminded again.
In less than a cup of tea, everyone surrounded the clearing, approached step by step with knives in their hands, and then smashed open one wooden house after another, but the inside was empty.
As the door of the last wooden house opened, Lei's heart fell to the bottom.
If the people are gone, they don't even care, and they can't even see the shadow of the goods!
"Maybe somewhere else. Liu Yuan said with relief.
Lei nodded slightly, frowning and not making a sound. After half an hour, they joined the team of the prefectural lords.
I searched all the places on the hill where there were people, but there was not the slightest human figure, and as for the box, I didn't see a single one.
When everyone arrived, Lei Xiaoxiao snatched the torch, squatted on the ground, and the fingers holding the torch trembled slightly.
There is only one possibility, the goods were transported away by the thieves, and at this moment, the pendant that Liu Yuan hung around his neck vibrated a little......