All the guards saluted He Lingchuan and got on their horses to chase him.
Jiao Yu had no choice but to follow, turning back three times every step.
The setting sun on the ancient road was like blood, illuminating its burnt red fur and slowly disappearing at the end of the road; the sound of the team's hooves gradually faded away and was soon no longer heard.
He Lingchuan watched them go away. Compared with the upcoming changes in Xushan, what the Chiyan people did in Lingxu City could at best be regarded as a prelude to a storm.
It was indeed a wise move for Fu Shanyue to leave at this time.
He sighed leisurely and rode his sheep back for two days to stay in Qingshi Town on the outskirts of Lingxu City.
The room in the inn is small, but quite clean.
Dong Rui was already waiting for him here. Snail Toad took the time to eat a lot of prunella vulgaris at the Nian Zanli warehouse, so they had two more days to prepare.
The two of them had a meal in a restaurant. They didn't talk much. They both ate carefully and slowly. After the meal, they went back to their houses to rest.
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Lingxu City, Nanmian Lane Patrol Office.
It will be dark for another hour and a half.
I heard that the food tonight was good, so I added chicken drumsticks, so two guards on the night shift came over in advance. But before the drumsticks came, Mrs. Liu came first.
She looked nervous: "Qinzi, I saw the wanted criminal again!"
The older patrolman smiled and patted his young companion on the shoulder: "Oh, your sister-in-law is going to make a meritorious service!"
The young patrolman rolled his eyes and asked Sister Liu, "Are you sure?"
Neither of them believed it.
"Show me the wanted poster again."
Qinzi was reluctant, but the food in the office was not yet cooked, so he had to get up and said: "Follow me."
The two of them went to the old eucalyptus room with a fluorescent spore in hand and dug out a pile of old wanted posters.
The dust was rising, and Qinzi couldn't help but sneeze.
Sister-in-law Liu looked through them one by one, then pointed at one and said, "That's the person!"
This summer, the house leaked, moisture invaded, and the portraits on the wanted posters became moldy.
"Or this one?" Qinzi took out the wanted order and took a look at it, "Wanted order - Person List No. 87, Tu Yangzhi, a disciple of Bai Linggu, killed two divine envoys in Xuluo Kingdom seven years ago and escaped. Well,
He does have a fierce look on his face, are you sure he is this person?"
"Sure! I've seen this portrait when the list was released a few years ago." Mrs. Liu nodded her head, "I noticed this person three days ago. At that time, he was eating noodles at the canned noodle stall at the west entrance of the street.
, he was sitting in the shed, and the mole on his forehead was exactly the same as the one in the portrait. Just now I saw him again!"
"where?"
"As soon as he walked into Chunhe Cloth Store, I rushed to report it to you." Sister-in-law Liu asked him, "If the report is successful, will there be any bonus?"
"If Tu Yangzhi is really the one, I will be rewarded fifty taels of silver." Qinzi didn't think she had such luck, "but there are at least thirty or forty sighting reports of wanted criminals every year, all of which are false reports. Sister-in-law, those criminals are very
He rarely appears in front of others."
"Don't show up in front of others?" Mrs. Liu sneered, "They don't eat or poop, and cover their faces all day long? If you come with me, I will definitely earn these fifty taels of silver!"
The two returned to the front, and the older guard asked his companion: "How was it?"
He had the mentality of watching a show, but Qinzi grabbed the wanted notice and said: "My sister-in-law is convinced that what she saw is the fugitive Tu Yangzhi, and she insists on dragging me away."
According to regulations, patrols are conducted in teams of two and cannot be released alone unless there are special circumstances.
The elderly patrolman was also reluctant. What kind of discernment could this civilian woman have? Ninety-nine percent of the time, she was mistaken.
He came over early and just wanted to eat more chicken drumsticks. It would be better to do less than to do more.
But Sister-in-law Liu kept on assuring her that the volume was so loud that people coming in and out could hear it.
This woman is really capable of causing trouble. He said helplessly: "Okay, okay, keep your voice down, I'll go with you."
After they reported, the two men and one woman went to Chunhe Cloth Store.
On the way, Mrs. Liu introduced the two of them: "This Chunhe Cloth Shop is an old shop that has been in business for more than ten years. Several of our neighbors often go to take care of it. However, since the owner changed a month ago, the business has slowed down. Other stores are good-looking and popular."
His family has none of the colors! No one goes there now, and I think he will become a prostitute in less than half a year. Oh my god, there are still people who dare to do this kind of business in Lingxu City these days!"
The store rent in Lingxu City is so expensive, and the store in Chunhe Fabric Store is so big, doing business like this is a total loss.
The guards yawned.
Ahead was Chunhe Buzhuang. Qinzi muttered: "Still next to the public house."
Next door to Buzhuang is the government office. What kind of fugitive would deliberately go here?
Entering Buzhuang, as Mrs. Liu said, there were no customers here. There were only two waiters sitting in the shop, one gnawing melon seeds, and the other dozing off with his head in his hands.
The man gnawing melon seeds saw Qinzi and others coming in, and immediately stood up to greet them: "Why are you two gentlemen here?"
Just when Qinzi was about to speak, Mrs. Liu said with a smile: "They went to my house for dinner, and by the way, they came with me to buy a piece of fabric. Take down the piece of Begonia Red and show it to me."
The boy went to pick up the fabric. The patrolmen looked around the store, and the other boy nodded and bowed.
In the middle of the front store and backyard is a wooden staircase leading to the attic. This layout is very common in shops in Lingxu City, and there is often a storage room under the stairs.
The passage in front of the stairs is blocked with a half curtain.
At this time, there was a soft creak from behind the curtain, and someone came out of the storage room and wanted to go up to the second floor.
Qinzi jumped over, lifted the curtain and looked up.
The man climbed two steps, turned around when he heard a strange noise, and met his eyes.
Qinzi was startled.
This person, this face!
Yes, it looks exactly like the portrait on the wanted poster, even the mole on his forehead is the same!
The man also asked him in a deep voice: "What are you doing?"
Seeing the fierce light in his eyes, Qinzi's heart pounded, and she forced herself to calm down and said, "I'm in urgent need of help. Can I borrow a place?"
The man pointed toward the backyard.
At this time, the clerk in the store also came over: "Master, there is a warehouse behind, what can I do for you?"
"I'll just use a trap."
The elderly guard also came over: "Are you hungry?"
Tu Yangzhi had already walked up to the attic. Qinzi glanced at the stairs and gave his companion a wink: "My stomach doesn't seem to hurt very much. It's still bearable."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The elderly patrolman was startled and then understood: "Then go back, why are you still here?"
No, a real person is here?
The person named Tu has some cultivation skills, so the two of them may not be able to handle it, so they have to go back and ask for support.
The two of them were about to go out, but the waiter outside happened to be blocking the door: "You two adults, are you going to show your respects?"
Qinzi waved his hand: "Get out of the way."
The stairs suddenly creaked and someone came down.
The two patrolmen subconsciously turned their heads and looked up. Unexpectedly, there was a flash of cold light in front of them. The man took a water thorn in his hand and directly pierced the throat of the older patrolman.
He went forward and then out, digging a bloody hole.
This time, there was no warning about the killing. Qinzi stood behind his companion, and suddenly saw a thorn point emerging from the back of his neck. He couldn't help but scream and draw the knife.
There was a sound of wind behind him, and Qinzi threw it with his backhand. As a result, he was kicked so hard in the leg that he half-crouched down in pain.
Suddenly, a big bird appeared in front of him. It was shaped like a stork and had a high crown. It kicked Qinzi and broke his leg bones.
Someone strangled his neck from behind and gave him a naked choke.
Qinzi watched the fugitive Tu Yangzhi walk down the stairs, looked at him and said, "Don't ask, just kill him."
With a click, Qinzi's neck was broken.
The patrolman's half-scream alerted Sister-in-law Liu at the front store. She was quite alert and looked around twice before turning around and running away.
But before she could reach the door, her collar was lifted up, and as soon as she opened her mouth, it was blocked by a cloth ball.
After she was taken to the store, a clerk went to the door to check twice and found that no one was paying attention to the place, which was good.
Tu Yangzhi interrogated Mrs. Liu.
When the latter saw the two dead bodies on the ground, he was so frightened that he could not force a confession.
Everyone in the store was here, there were four strong men in total, all of them looked serious. Someone said to Tu Yangzhi: "Old Tu, you have been exposed."
"We were exposed." Tu Yangzhi also didn't expect that his whereabouts would be discovered by a street woman while living in seclusion in Lingxu City. "These two patrolmen have just taken over the evening shift. If they don't go back tomorrow morning, they will be suspicious.
Besides, they have already reported it before coming to Chunhe Cloth Village, and the patrol office will definitely come to check here tomorrow. Even if we empty the cellar, there may still be monsters who can smell the smell of gunpowder barrels."
Another person said: "Not long ago, there was an accident at the post house, and the patrol in the south of the city was temporarily led by Tongxin Guards. The Tongxin Guards are much stricter than ordinary patrols, and they have to get to the bottom of every big thing. Brothers from Jixinling, the same happened a few days ago.
Almost exposed.”
"What should we do?"
Tu Yangzhi smashed Mrs. Liu's Tianling Cap with a slap, "We can't make the decision. Let's ask the superiors for instructions."
Soon, a bat flew out of Chunhe Buzhuang and headed towards Dunyuan.
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The sound of flapping wings could be heard in the night.
Hearing the sound coming this way, He Lingchuan opened his eyes and went down to the ground, pushing open the wooden window.
A gorgeous figure jumped into the window and landed on He Lingchuan's shoulder.
It's such a big parrot, with a red top and blue back, bright colors, and an arm's length from head to tail.
Such a gorgeous bird monster is too conspicuous and is really not suitable for communication.
He Lingchuan picked up this familiar bird: "Are you...?"
Fang Canran mentioned to him that there was a parrot at home that was almost 200 years old.
In the past, it was rescued by its ancestor Shao Jian, and later passed the bad news of Shao Jian to his daughter Shao Yingying. This bird monster lived in Shao's house in order to get a meal ticket, no, but to repay a favor. When Shao Yingying
After marrying into the Fang family, it becomes an heirloom bird of the Fang family.
The past stories of Shao Jian that Fang Canran heard were not passed down from generations of ancestors, but were told by the big parrot himself.
No wonder it requires details and feelings.
"I'm Uncle Ling!" the parrot mouthed, "There's an emergency!"
"Lingbo" is indeed the name of Fang Canran's parrot, and He Lingchuan made sure that it said it himself.
It whispered in He Lingchuan's ear: "The little arrangement we made was accidentally exposed tonight! The patrol we found has been silenced by us, but it can't be delayed for long, there may be people outside who heard the strange noise. This is the case.
In the past month, the patrol control in the south of the city has been the strictest. I am afraid that after dawn, Lingxu City will sense something unusual and start investigating!"