"Master, stop!"

Qiao Zhen turned around and saw a handsome man with a beautiful face coming out of the door panting.

Glancing at the scholar who was unconscious on the tiger bench, Qiao Zhen breathed a sigh of relief, picked up a cup of tea and said without moving: "How many days have I been calling you?"

The visitor remained silent, scratched the back of his head and lowered his head.

Qiao Zhen filled another bowl of tea, raised his eyes, pointed to the stone tray beside him and said, "Sit down!"

The visitor frowned and walked to Qiao Zhen's side. He didn't sit down for a long time, but kept staring at the unconscious scholar on the tiger bench.

Qiao Zhen raised his eyes slightly, scraped the bowl a few times and took a sip of tea before he said leisurely: "What? Shopkeeper Xu, do you want to ask a favor for him?"

"No, no, no, it's just that the details of these people are unknown. We need to investigate carefully before making a decision. If the three elders come with the tongue, isn't that a place where the goods can be caught?" Xu Yuan bowed and bowed. , picked up a bowl of tea on the table.

When Qiao Zhen thought about it, it made sense, and all his previous anger disappeared. He put down the tureen in his hand, smoothed his goatee, and asked calmly: "Have you ever heard of a scholar named Xiucai among those who robbed the Tao?"

"That's not true!"

"Ma Jun, where is Ma Jinggan?"

Xu Yuan was shocked and blurted out: "Ma Jingqian?"

Qiao Zhen nodded and asked, "Looking at you, you seem to be frightened?"

Xu Yuan stammered and said repeatedly: "No... no... no, then these people cannot be killed!"

"Why?"

Xu Yuanfu whispered: "Have you ever heard of the Luosang tribe?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the tureen in Qiao Zhen's hand almost slipped and fell, and he asked: "Is he from the Luosang tribe?"

Xu Yuan nodded and continued: "When I was a guest with my classmate in Niutoushan, there was a tribal rebellion that was famous in the northwest rivers and lakes. Ma Jingqian was not an ordinary person. He once served as a captain in the tribe!"

After feeling melancholy for a while, Qiao Zhen suddenly relaxed his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Xu Yuan, Xu Yuan, don't panic, the northwest has changed to a new world a long time ago, not to mention I have seen the Captain Ma you mentioned, he is just a greedy man. A man of good things."

"It's essential to be on guard against others, sir!" Xu Yuan suddenly lost his composure and continued: "Sir, there are all kinds of people in your village, but only a few of them have seen big scenes. These people must be here for free. It's only when they have nothing to do that they make the master angry, so why not arrange for them to have a casual job or hard labor. In this way, you will be well-known externally, and you will have less to worry about internally!"

Qiao Zhen immediately beamed, took Xu Yuan's wrist, pointed at the servants and said, "Look, look what intelligence is! Xu Yuan, Xu Yuan, you are really my loyal soldier!"

"I still know people with my sharp eyes!"

After saying that, Qiao Zhen pulled Xu Yuan into the inner room, patted his back and said hello and said: "Xu Yuan, I've really made you suffer. These days, the Silk and Satin Factory will give it to the unsatisfactory child first. Done. Compared to Lian Gui, he can still be promising. I'm getting old, and someone has to take over this business. Come on, let's have a couple of glasses of warm wine first!"

The lame man at the door saw that Xu Yuan had been ignored when he came, and he quickly asked: "Master, should this... this person be sent back or..."

A shout came from inside: "Then what do you want to do with it? Didn't you hear what Shopkeeper Xu said? It's a worthless thing!"

The lame man muttered curses and stepped hard on the unconscious scholar.

"You bastard, you are lucky today because you will bump into Xu Gouzi!"

There was a sound of horse hooves at the foot of Luoqiao Mountain. The two brothers of the Ma family had just arrived. The wind blew the crumbling stables, fodder flew everywhere, and a ball of ash on the ground had already been blown by the wind and burned half of the short cliff.

"Both pigs are still sleeping at noon!"

With a shout, Huai Yi and Gui Cha yawned and got up from the cracks in the straw mat. When they saw it was Ma Jun and Jing Gan, they shouted excitedly.

"Xiucai! Zhang Xiucai! They are back!"

Jingqian suddenly felt something was wrong, threw his luggage on the ground and ran out.

"Boss, look!"

The spy saw a figure rummaging for something under the low cliff on the mountainside far away from the mountain.

He immediately ordered to throw down the scholar on the broken board and said: "What are you looking at? They have already discovered it. If you don't please me over there, you can't have to beat me up here too!"

Before he finished speaking, his men all ran away one after another. The spy smacked his tongue and cursed: "These unloyal people!"

After saying that, he immediately threw away the rope in his hand and limped away from Luoqiao Mountain.

On the mountainside, several people searched the front and back of the house but found no trace of the scholar. Jingqian grabbed Huaiyi and asked, "We haven't been here these two days. What happened?"

"It's nothing, it's just the spy sent by Master Qiao to spy on us, but the scholar and the two of us made a fool of him!"

Jingqian frowned and said to himself: "Master Qiao is so narrow-minded that he must have grudged the scholar. Oops! You two!"

The horse army also hurried over from the stable and said: "Maybe he went to look for fodder around here, let's look for it separately!"

In this season, in addition to the withered grass, there are only a few bare shabby houses on Luoqiao Mountain. The wind blows so hard that no matter how loud you shout, you will be drowned in the sound of the wind.

"Look there!"

Huaiyi suddenly saw a figure in the mountain road and immediately chased him.

My feet slipped and I sat down on a hard object. Ignoring the pain, I stood up and saw that there was a large pool of blood on the board.

He quickly ran towards the mountain road and found the scholar covered in blood struggling to climb up the slope while grabbing a bunch of weeds.

"Scholar!"

He picked up the injured scholar, moved him to the wooden board, tied hemp ropes around his shoulders and waist, and walked up the mountain path.

When they were approaching the mountainside, Huaiyi cried out in a tearful tone: "Someone is coming, someone is coming quickly!"

Jing Gan, Gui Cha, and the three horsemen who came up from the mountain hurriedly jumped down the slope to carry the scholar on their backs and brought him back to the thatched house.

The scholar gasped slightly, his mouth was dry and he couldn't say a word. He looked at several people with a pale face and pointed to his mouth with difficulty.

The ghost messenger quickly brought some water from the stable, and the scholar drank several gulps before he recovered.

"God damn it, I knew it was him!"

Xiucai grabbed Jingqian's hand and said intermittently: "Calm down... Calm down, a little pain is... a lesson!"

"Xiucai, please rest first and don't talk!" Ma Jun said with concern from the side.

At night, the wind blew even harder, and the old stable was unable to withstand the strong wind, and the cover was blown open.

In order to make the room warmer, Huaiyi dragged the roof of the stable to block the door.

At this time, Xiucai was also feeling much better.

"Martha, how's the news about Jinyin?"

Huaiyi hurriedly shushed: "There are spies outside the door!"

The scholar smiled and said, "I won't come here again!"

He turned away and continued to ask: "How is the golden seal?"

Ma Jun sighed and said disappointedly: "It's gone. The two monks in the monastery were killed!"

"How is that possible? Don't fool me, it's only been a few days? Who would have guessed that the golden seal is there, unless it's a ghost!" The scholar chuckled, thinking that Ma Jun was joking.

Ma Jun looked outside the door, his face full of melancholy, and continued: "It's really a ghost, he's from the Netherworld Escort Agency!"

Gui Cha scratched his head: "Logically speaking, it shouldn't be the case. Although the Netherworld Escort Bureau has a very tight grasp of Jianghu information, it can't be so fast, right?"

Jinggan shook his head helplessly: "Those two monks both have holes as big as bowls on their heads!"

The scholar was shocked when he heard this: "A hole in the head? What else is there?"

"I also find it strange that not only people were killed, but even the slightly valuable things in the monastery were robbed! What puzzles me the most is that the bluestone that supports the table legs in the courtyard was paved into the plank road, and inside the plank road But the solid stone blocked the courtyard door!"

The scholar seemed to have noticed something, and said: "This is all someone who deliberately disturbed the judgment. The hole on the top of the head must have been injured by a solid stone, and they deliberately framed the Netherworld Escort Agency, but the Netherworld Escort Agency has never asked for money. In this way, it is It’s a bit tricky, and it’s unlikely that the bandits would be so careful!”

"Unless it's an iron war!" Jing Gan asserted.

The scholar shook his head: "It's unlikely. With his iron temper, he doesn't need to use stones to kill people. His martial arts skills don't seem to be very high!"
Chapter completed!