Xu Zixuan saw that the people who came and drank away the thieves, so she thought they were good people and shouted:

"Uncle, get rid of this thief and save us Xiang'er!" he said, and hurriedly sorted out his clothes for Xiang'er.

"Girl, are you the eldest lady in the house?" Cui Zhouping asked respectfully.

Without waiting for Xu Zixuan to answer, Min Zhong said first:

"She is the third lady of Master Xu," he said, pointing to the confused Xiang'er, "this woman is her maid." ”

When Cui Sanye's face changed greatly when he heard this, he thought to himself: Last time in the Black Wind Forest, I didn't want to bump into Wu Shuang halfway, and they ruined our plan.

"How did you know they were here?"

"Followed all the way!" Therefore, Min Zhong told him about following their master and servant along the way.

Hearing him say this, Cui Zhouping nodded with a thoughtful look and said:

"Are you sure they don't have an armored retinue?"

"Sure no. ”

So, he said to Xu Zixuan again:

"Miss Xu, don't worry, you are absolutely safe when you come to me! However, it is better to change places. ”

Seeing their words, Xu Zixuan also knew that they were a raccoon dog, so she snorted and said:

"Thank you for your kindness, Xiang'er, let's go!"

At this time, Xiang'er was a little sober, and reluctantly followed the third lady to the door. Cui Zhouping squinted his eyes and smiled, and he talked to the two accompanying helpers, so the two helpers immediately understood, one picked up the other, turned around and left. Let their masters and servants be left to the heavens and the earth, and the earth to be spiritual!

In the end, Cui Zhouping said solemnly:

"Brother Min Zhong, whatever these two girls say, you can't beat their attention anymore. Besides, there are so many women in the inn, you can ask for any one but the two of them!"

Riding Captain Mo Sijiang led a group of sergeants through the streets and alleys, looking for more than ten miles, but still did not find any trace of the three young ladies. The bitter winter chill gets heavier and heavier in the middle of the night, and at this time, the frost and wind are blowing on the road, and the ground is also frozen hard, and people along the street are closing their doors to sleep one after another.

At this moment, suddenly two people, one big and one small, came out of the alley, the adult was dressed in a crane, and a bag was twisted in his hand, and the little girl was in tattered clothes, as if she were a beggar. But her pace is fast, and she can keep up with the steps of the adults perfectly. And so, they hurried past a group of sergeants. It just so happened that the door of a noodle restaurant opposite had not yet been closed, and the light coming out of it shone on the two hurried people, and also on the floral cloth burden in the hands of adults.

"Stop!" Suddenly, the sergeant who had been replaced from the west gate of the Taishi's Mansion shouted at the two passers-by who had walked past them.

The other party stopped in response, and in those years, it was a well-known thing that the people were afraid of officials. Where did the two passers-by dare to move, they had to stop and do what the military masters said.

"Turn around!"

So, the two of them turned around.

At this time, the cavalry captain Mo Sijiang and all the sergeants stopped and looked at the sergeant to interrogate passers-by.

"Whose baggage do you have?"

"My own military master. ”

"What's in there?"

"A few clothes and some coils for the road. ”

"How many clothes, how many coils?"

"Four or five pieces of clothing, a few dozen taels of silver. ”

"Open it and take a look!"

"Master Jun, don't do it! what's so nice about this," the other party said in a panic, "It's just a few rotten clothes, what's so nice about this!"

"Don't be verbose, open it when you open it!" he suddenly looked up in horror, and saw the official on the horse coldly ordering him.

The man had no choice but to do so, and he half-crouched down and unwrapped his burden on his knees. As soon as the burden was untied, there was a clattering and a silver coin rolled out. Therefore the man trembled, threw away his burdens, and ran.

After all, the sergeants were trained and vigilant. Seeing that he turned around and ran, three sergeants immediately rushed forward like arrows from the string, and in less than fifty paces, they knocked the man to the ground. pulled up, still dragging through the light to interrogate him:

"Say, where did you steal this baggage!"

At first, he insisted that he had picked it up on the road, thinking that it was perfunctory, but later, he felt more and more that this group of sergeants was not ordinary night patrol sergeants, as if they had come specifically to find the two girls. He kept asking him where he saw the two girls, where are they now, and if you don't recruit them, we'll take your cloak off!

Seeing that the sergeants were fierce and vicious, and alarmed the neighbors along the street, the pickpocket Fang Liang also knew that he couldn't escape, so he had no choice but to confess the whole truth to the little beggar.

So, Mo Sijiang, the commander of the cavalry, immediately escorted him to Cui Sanye's Full Moon Inn, and they heard this pickpocket say that they were also with another person, conspiring with two girls, so they were taken aback and tried in vain to rush to the rescue.

Mo Sijiang, the captain of the cavalry, and Cui Sanye have always had a good relationship, and they came to the Full Moon Inn with the people and horses and did not show off their might, but first called the hospitality in the inn, went to inform the shopkeeper, and came down to speak.

At the same time, he ordered five or six sergeants to take the little girl and the pickpocket to the guest room of Xu Zixuan's master and servant. And, when the inn entertained him enough, he didn't see Cui Sanye come down, and Mo Sijiang, the commander of the cavalry, was waiting in the hall on the first floor in a hurry.

Suddenly, I heard a sergeant above running down in a panic and saying:

"It's a big deal, General! It's a big deal, General!"

When Mo Sijiang saw this, he knew that something was going on above, drew his knife in his hand, and shouted:

"Let me go up and take a look!" and asked the sergeant who hurried down in a panic, "What's the matter?"

"General Qiyu!" said the sergeant in horror, "and we just pushed open the door, and a masked knife man came out, and his knife skills were unusually good, and in three or two strokes, the pickpocket and the little beggar were killed, and we could not stop him!"

"Is that man still up there?"

"No, he's already jumped out of the window of the guest room!"

When Mo Sijiang heard this, he jumped onto the aisle railing on the second floor. When he arrived, there was no trace of Xu Zixuan's master and servant in the room, and the pickpocket and the little beggar, one big and one small, had fallen in a pool of blood at the door and died. He asked a few more sergeants:

"When you opened the door, did you see the two of the third lady's master and servant?"

"No," said the sergeants.

At this moment, Cui Sanye stepped on the wooden ladder and ran up in a panic, he saw Mo Sijiang bowing his hand respectfully, and said in surprise:

"General Mo has arrived, and he has missed the distance!" The expression on his face was extremely flattering.

"Third Master Cui is disturbed!" Mo Sijiang was very resentful because he couldn't find the third lady's master and servant, so when talking to him, he couldn't help frowning. He said, "Third Master Cui, there were two girls staying at your inn just now, but now they are gone!"

"Oh! There is such a thing!When did the two girls stay in this inn?" Cui Zhou asked calmly, and then called to the hostess downstairs, "Ah Xiu, come up and ask you something!" (To be continued.) )