Chapter Fifty-Eight: A Fire in Winter

"Red Sleeve Building...... Not a single one?"

"Yes, sir!"

Yan Xiaoqi had never investigated such a case.

It was as if everyone knew that Sen Luo Dao was coming, so they all prepared in advance.

There are no gamblers in the gambling house, and there are no prostitutes in the green building.

This is an even more absurd thing than the completion of the great unification of the Northern Wei Dynasty in one year.

Therefore, every gambling house, every Qinglou, the confessions are all from those trembling shopkeepers, as well as the trembling fireworks women.

There is not a single suspicious character.

Not a single one.

The underground of this Thunder City is much cleaner than the snow-covered ground.

It's pure and unblemished.

It's a funny thing.

But it's actually a terrible thing.

Yan Xiaoqi smiled and said softly: "No wonder I was still merciful and spared the lives of those soldiers, it turned out that I had already washed the ground and waited for me to step on it." ”

The female Hades looked indifferent and entered the Red Sleeve Building.

The answer was unsurprising.

Every woman in the dust, every one.

The answers given are incredibly succinct.

"Nope. ”

Only the most concise answer is free of loopholes.

Yan Xiaoqi smiled softly, left the Red Sleeve Building, and walked in Thunder City, the wind and snow were very strong, and the female Hades did not use external force, allowing the heavy snow to fall on her, covering the cobwebs that had formed up.

She looked in the direction of the City Lord's Mansion, and in the vast night, there was a red-robed woman holding a lantern and standing in front of the City Lord's Mansion, expressionless, looking at herself.

The female king muttered the woman's name several times: "Liu Rushi ......"

Eventually smiled and shook his head.

The Sen Luo Dao spies around him returned from the investigation.

"Report to your lordship!"

"Seventy-two inns, all of them have been checked, and there are no suspicious characters!"

"All the gambling houses have been checked, and there are no suspicious characters!"

"All the green buildings have been checked, and there are no suspicious characters!"

"The nobles of Thunder City knocked on the door from door to door, and those eldest young masters denied any dealings with strangers. ”

Yan Xiaoqi nodded thoughtfully, looked at the red-robed woman with a hazy face in the distance again, and understood why Liu Rushi was able to live so calmly in the City Lord's Mansion.

It turned out that the entire Thunder City had been twisted into a rope by her.

Whether it is on the surface or underground, under the high pressure of Senluo Dao, they are all on the same front.

All that Liu Dacheng Lord did was gently push people's hearts.

Yan Xiaoqi knew that the follow-up of his trip to Thunder City was destined to be fruitless.

She also knew that the two people she was looking for were likely to be huddled in some unknown corner.

Manpower is sometimes exhausted.

There are also things that cannot be done in Senluodao.

She can kill a thousand by mistake and not let go of one.

But there is no way to face a whole silent city.

Yan Xiaoqi sighed softly, brushed his hair, and looked around.

The closed portal, even the candles in the lantern were extinguished, and Thunder City at this time fell into a dead silence and deep sleep early.

She knew that behind those windows, there were many pairs of sleepless eyes staring at her.

Yan Xiaoqi saw that the figure standing on the City Lord's Mansion had already left.

"Let's go. ”

The female Hades said softly, "Go back." ”

"Your Excellency...... Let's not go door-to-door to open the house?"

It stands to reason that Sen Luo Dao does have this power.

Yan Xiaoqi shook his head: "It's meaningless." ”

The woman in the black robe with the cobwebs turned over and left the city gate calmly.

The snow is majestic.

Sen Luo Dao came very suddenly, and he went even more decisively.

......

......

"You still can't help it after all?"

“...... Be. ”

"But you're much smarter than I thought. ”

"Of course I'm not stupid enough to knock on your mansion. ”

The fourth day after Sen Luo Dao left.

Xiao Buyi's injuries are almost healed, and there is no problem in rushing normally.

Yi Xiao thought about it for a long time, and finally found Liu Rushi.

"There are many ways to find someone. His Royal Highness took a sip of tea slightly, and said with a solemn face: "There are more ways to find the city lord of Thunder City." ”

"For example?"

The man behind the screen smiled.

For example...... Knock directly on the door of your City Lord's Mansion. Yi Xiao lowered her eyebrows and smiled, and said: "In this case, if you are seen by the eyeliner left by Sen Luodao, you should be labeled as 'traitorous Wei' and sent to the Western Regions by the men of the Cao family." ”

Or...... Come directly to the Red Sleeve Building. His Royal Highness paused slightly, and said self-deprecatingly: "That night, Yan Xiaoqi of Senluo Road braved the wind and snow to enter the city, and in the end found nothing, focusing on the Qinglou and gambling houses in Thunder City, which should be your territory now." ”

The man behind the screen hummed softly and laughed without saying a word.

"It's an incredible thing. Yi Xiao thought for a while and said sincerely: "The power in your hands is greater than I imagined. ”

"You don't really think that I'm like the one out there says I don't do anything but drink every day?"

Behind the screen, a white jade crisp hand stretched out, the index finger and thumb were slightly flicked, and a blazing red Yuan Force flame sneered, and the owner of the crisp hand smiled: "In fact, in addition to these, I usually have practice." ”

Yi Xiao took a deep breath: "Miss Liu, I want to go out of the city." ”

The flame of the crispy hand was extinguished.

Liu Rushi snorted and asked, "Why didn't you come to me before?"

Yi Xiao didn't speak.

"I am in the Red Sleeves Building every day, and the repertoire I play is the song of the phoenix, I don't believe you don't know that I am here. Liu Rushi said lightly: "Or before...... Are you scared?"

His Royal Highness thought silently, and then nodded.

He was indeed afraid.

I'm afraid that all this is a bureau.

Liu Rushi was personally sent to Thunder City by Xuan Shangyu and parachuted into the Thirty-Seven Cities City Lord level, who knows what the purple-robed Great Master had planned?

When the door opened, Yi Xiao once thought in a trance, is this an invitation to enter the urn, or is it an old love?

He believed in the latter more.

But the former has to be judged with the worst malice.

Liu Rushi knocked on the table behind the screen with his own hands, and there were two crisp sounds.

She cleared her throat, the syllables she spat out still crisp.

"If you believe me, tomorrow the squire of the Criminal Department will pass by the thunder, and you can leave in half a day. Liu Rushi said calmly: "I don't guarantee that there will be no ambushes from Senluo Dao outside the city, but I can lend my city lord's carriage to you." ”

Yi Xiao's face was complicated: "Then what should you do?"

Liu Rushi smiled indifferently: "When I let you into the city, you were already targeted by Sen Luodao, are you still afraid of these troubles?"

His Royal Highness was silent.

Liu Rushi said softly: "The heavy snow has not stopped. ”

The meaning of this sentence could not be more obvious.

The storm was still sweeping through the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Yi Xiao wants to leave Thunder City quietly, and tomorrow is definitely not a good time.

The longer he stays here, the more suspicious Liu Rushi becomes.

Sen Luo Dao is only suspicious now.

When they finish checking the northern city and come to Thunder City again, Yi Xiao will face a real big crisis.

If you can hide for a while, you can't hide for a lifetime.

Yi Xiao raised her head with a complicated face and looked at the woman behind the screen.

When the time comes, I am afraid that it will affect this kind-hearted Liu girl.

Liu Rushi said lightly: "Tomorrow at noon, I will open the city gate and let the people of the Execution Department enter the city, you hide in the carriage, no one on the road will suspect your identity, and you will leave by yourself after a hundred miles, don't worry about anything else." After that, whether you can return to Qiliang alive or not has nothing to do with me. ”

Yi Xiao took a deep breath and said seriously, "Thank you, Miss Liu." ”

The woman behind the screen just waved her hand.

But he didn't even laugh.

......

......

Yan Xiaoqi has been waiting outside Thunder City for five days.

The face of this female Hades was rather indifferent.

She sat alone on a black horse, half-cobwebbed and black-robed hunting, and her black hair curled up in the north, obscuring her vision, forcing her to use her hands to keep her sideburns back.

Yan Xiaoqi thought distraughtly, if His Majesty hadn't said that he liked his long hair, he would have cut these things that were in the way a long time ago.

"The men of the Criminal Department are almost here. ”

There's a message from a well-hidden spy behind him.

Yan Xiaoqi narrowed his eyes and saw the line of troops looming in the wind and snow.

The squire of the Criminal Department has already exiled these prisoners, and today he will lead these empty flail cars back to Thunder City to rest and recuperate.

I waited for five days, and this is the moment I was waiting for.

Sen Luo Dao chases people, playing a game of cat and mouse.

If the rat hides in a burrow, see if he can calm down.

If you can't, you can't hold your breath and show your head, then there is only one word.

Dead word.

The heavy gate of Thunder City hovered open, and the Execution Department entered the city.

In the wind and snow, there was a small black spot, and he couldn't wait for all the people of the Criminal Department to enter the city, so he rushed out of Thunder City in the general direction.

It was the carriage of the City Lord's Mansion exclusive to Liu Rushi.

The two red-maned horses in front of the carriage were in full swing, trampling on the wind and snow, and the horses' hooves were brisk, dragging the carriage extremely fast.

It's just that the carriage seems to be a little heavy, and it doesn't look like it's just one person living there.

Yan Xiaoqi sneered, squinted his eyes at the carriage, and slowly pulled the reins.

Those two are very cunning rats.

It's a pity that Sen Luodao is a more cunning cat.

She followed the two rats with great interest for dozens of miles.

The Lady Hades was so skilled at tailgating that the carriage didn't notice it at all.

She had followed about seventy or eighty miles, and the carriage was about to enter a steep snowy woodland.

Yan Xiaoqi's face was indifferent, he lowered his body, increased his speed, and the black horse under his crotch rushed forward in fright, revealing his body in an instant, and when he passed by the carriage in an instant, the female Hades pressed the edge of the carriage lightly with her palm.

In an instant, the two red-maned divine horses smashed their front hooves to the ground and fell to the ground on their knees!

Yan Xiaoqi, who came out, was expressionless and came to the top of the carriage.

She slowly stood up.

It's like a jack falling.

The two horses screamed in grief and indignation, struggling frantically, unable to get up.

The female Hades narrowed her eyes and lowered her head.

The carriage shook slightly.

A woman came out of the carriage.

Liu Rushi, who was tied to a wine pot at his waist in a red robe, slowly walked out of the carriage with a stack of thick yellowed scrolls, raised his head to look at the female king of Hades who stepped on the roof of the carriage, and asked with a smile: "Why does Your Highness have leisure and leisure today, and you have followed the city lord for so long, afraid that the city lord will be assassinated?"

Yan Xiaoqi's face was quite ugly.

She stomped her foot slightly, and the whole carriage was torn apart.

A carriage of ancient texts and old books was revealed, and then it was instantly torn apart by the qi of Hades.

Snow was falling.

And the scrolls.

Liu Rushi rubbed his index finger and thumb, lifted a scroll, lit it with difficulty, lit it, and then borrowed it to make a fire.

Burning books on the spot.

Liu Rushi rubbed his face, sighed, and squatted down, not caring at all that the books in the carriage were torn apart by the gas machine.

Because these were meant to be burned.

It's just that she said with a sad face: "Your Highness, it doesn't matter if you ruin my book, I originally wanted to find a remote place to experience the pleasure of burning a qin and cooking cranes, but this carriage is ruined, and you have to send me back." ”

Yan Xiaoqi's face was as pale as frost.

She looked at the fire rising from the snow.

A fire in winter.

Yan Xiaoqi lowered his eyebrows, knowing that he had won the plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, the two rats should have already left here, and it was too late to rush back.

It's just that Yan Xiaoqi couldn't figure it out, what was this woman trying to do after running so far with a wagon of books?

Liu Rushi smiled and looked at His Highness who had run in vain, and said softly: "It's just fun." ”