Night falls.

Shen Xiaoqing and Zhang Heling came to Pingyao Town.

Shen Xiaoqing found a copper coin where he and Ye Fei met Lan Ruoxin during the day, and the copper coin was stained with fresh blood, so he guessed that it might be a mark left by Ye Fei.

Subsequently, she and Zhang Heling expanded the scope of their search, and it was a long time before they found a second copper coin in a meadow by the roadside.

After confirming that it was the code left by Ye Fei, Shen Xiaoqing breathed a long sigh of relief in his heart, at least Ye Fei was still alive.

Then, the two of them looked for the copper coins dropped by Ye Fei all the way forward, and came to the tea shop located in the mountains, and Shen Xiaoqing already had a total of seven copper coins in his hands.

Seeing that there was no one in the tea shop, the two could only step forward, but then walked for several miles, and neither of them picked up any more copper coins.

At that time, Shen Xiaoqing thought to himself: After passing that tea shop, Ye Fei did not leave a copper coin, maybe Ye Fei wanted to tell her to go to the tea shop to find clues.

So after much deliberation, the two returned to the tea shop in the mountains.

After about half a cup of tea, the shopkeeper of the tea shop finally appeared.

Zhang Heling first bought two meat buns, and then asked the shopkeeper: "Shopkeeper, have you seen a brother with beautiful eyebrows and a woman in her thirties passing by?"

The shopkeeper nodded, "Yes, the two of them have rested at my place, what's the matter, acquaintances?"

"That's my grandson and an elder in the family," Shen Xiaoqing said eagerly, "We got lost in the mountains." ”

"Yes?" said the shopkeeper, "they also asked me where I could hire a carriage, and I should have gone to Pingyao Town." ”

"Pingyao Town!"

So, after inquiring about the way to Pingyao Town from the shopkeeper of the tea shop, Shen Xiaoqing and Zhang Heling immediately set off for Pingyao Town.

"Mrs. Shen, this is Pingyao Town. Zhang Heling said to Shen Xiaoqing.

Shen Xiaoqing nodded, originally with Ye Fei's clues, her heart was a little calmer, but seeing that it was getting dark, the panic in her heart deepened.

Just as the two were about to step into Pingyao Town, there was the sound of horses' hooves behind them. The two turned around and saw Yang Yunsong, Yang Tuo and Yang Yiyi coming on horseback.

"Brother Yang, why are you here?"

"The coachman who sent you to Yuelu Mountain came to me, saying that you were stopped by a strange woman, and that there was a fight. Thinking that the woman was Lan Ruoxin, I rushed here with my uncle and cousin. Yang Yunsong explained, "By the way, what about the Ye brothers?"

"After encountering Lan Ruoxin, Xianggong asked me to go back and ask you for help, and then I met Daoist Zhang halfway. Zhang Dao was chivalrous and promised to go with me to save Xianggong, but when I took him back, Xianggong and Nalan Ruoxin were nowhere to be seen. Shen Xiaoqing said as he spoke.

Fortunately, Xiang Gongyou secretly threw down the copper coin as a password on the side of the road, so we followed the copper coin and inquired all the way, and finally came to this Pingyao Town. Brother Yang, how did you find this?" asked Shen Xiaoqing.

"Didn't you wait and leave a code on the tree?" Yang Yunsong asked.

"That's right!" At this time, Zhang Heling nodded, "It is indeed left by the poor road." ”

Zhang Heling had already calculated that the three people of the Yang family would come.

"Is Ye Fei in this town at the moment?" asked Yang Yiyi.

Shen Xiaoqing looked at Yang Yiyi, and Yang Yiyi seemed to be as anxious as her. She shook her head and explained, "We heard from the shopkeeper of a tea shop in the mountains that Waizi and Lan Ruoxin might come to Pingyao Town to hire a carriage. ”

Yang Yunsong frowned and nodded, "Then hurry up and go to the stables in the town to inquire." ”

There was only one stable in Pingyao Town, so it didn't take long for the group to find the stable.

Yang Yunsong stepped forward to inquire and heard that he had come to find someone to ask for directions, and the groom in the stable and several coachmen who were waiting for work bluntly said that they had never seen anyone, and they looked very impatient.

Then Shen Xiaoqing came over and asked again, and also asked about the selling price of the medium horse.

Seeing that she looked amazing, the groom and the coachman were overjoyed, admitting that a young man and a woman had indeed come to hire a carriage during the day, and told Shen Xiaoqing that the two planned to go to Xishu.

After hearing about this, Shen Xiaoqing immediately took out a silver ticket and bought two horses, one for her and Zhang Heling, and then left Pingyao Town with the three of the Yang family to chase Ye Fei and Lan Ruoxin.

Before leaving, Yang Tuo threw out a flying knife, and after cutting off the sideburns of several horsemen and coachmen one after another, the flying knife returned to his hand.

And the grooms and coachmen were already scared stupid.

After leaving Pingyao Town, after driving a few miles, a group of five people came to a fork in the road.

"These two roads can lead to Xishu. Yang Yunsong's face was embarrassed, and he didn't know which way Ye Fei and Lan Ruoxin's carriage went.

Zhang Heling dismounted with a torch, then squatted down and carefully observed the road.

In winter, it often rains in the Xiangjiang River area, and the soil of all roads is soft, and as long as there are horse-drawn carriages passing by, it is easy to leave marks.

"It should be going this way," Zhang Heling said, he saw two long seals leading straight ahead, "It seems that Lan Ruoxin plans to take the waterway to Jiangzhou first, and then from Jiangzhou to Xishu." ”

The others nodded, and followed the two seals into the mountains.

On the official road dozens of miles away, at the request of the coachman, Lan Ruoxin was willing to stop and rest.

The coachman gathered some firewood and made a bonfire, put a jug of wine on the fire and heated it up, and then went to the woods.

Ye Fei took out the steamed buns he bought in Pingyao Town before dark, put them on the coals and roasted them for a while, broke them, and handed half of them to Lan Ruoxin.

"Have a bite to eat?"

Lan Ruoxin glared at him, then snorted.

"Could it be that He Bangzhou hasn't given you roasted hot steamed buns dipped in goat's milk?" Ye Fei asked.

Lan Ruo's heart lit up, "How do you know?"

Ye Fei smiled, thinking that this way of eating was his first creation, and He Bangzhou liked it very much after tasting it once. Judging from Lan Ruoxin's reaction, she should have tried it too.

"His apprentice told me. Ye Fei explained, and then took a bite of steamed buns. Compared with those dipped in goat's milk, the steamed buns on their hands are really a little tasteless.

Although Lan Ruoxin's face was not very calm, she was very excited in her heart, and all kinds of signs showed that He Bangzhou was indeed alive.

"Woman, where did you hear about He Bangzhou's death in the first place, and who killed him?" Ye Fei asked.

"I, Lan Ruoxin, have killed countless people, have done a lot of evil, and I still have self-knowledge, you don't have to call me a heroine. Lan Ruoxin said, "What do these questions you ask have to do with you?"

"He Bangzhou is still alive, you have been deceived. Then you have to think about it, why did that person lie to you?"

"You don't have to worry about my business!" Lan Ruo said in his heart.

Ye Fei smiled helplessly, thinking that it was really difficult to find out something from Lan Ruoxin.

When he finished eating a whole steamed bun, he looked back at the road behind him, wondering when his rescue would arrive.