People on the street saw Prince Yun heading toward the city gate with his soldiers, and asked, "What's going on?
Just now, many people came out of the General's Mansion in Zhenbei, and now so many people came out of Prince Ren's Mansion."
"Who knows?"
"When I entered the city, I seemed to hear people from the Zhenbei General's Mansion asking the officers and soldiers at the gate of the city if they had seen their young master enter the city?
Could it be that something happened to Second Young Master Song?"
"No way!"
"Hard to say."
People on the street were talking a lot, wondering what happened?
Who's in trouble?
When Xuanyuan Liuyun and others arrived at the city gate, it was already dark and the city gates were closed.
When the officers and soldiers were about to stop the people, Xuanyuan Liuyun's guards flashed their signs, and the officers and soldiers quickly opened the city gate.
Shen Wan and Shen Ming met the soldiers of the General's Mansion on the official road. The carriage stopped, and Shen Wan and Shen Ming got off the carriage.
When Zhao He saw his wife coming, he hurriedly walked over.
"Madam, Master Shen."
Zhao He saluted the two of them first.
"Did you find anything?"
Shen Wan was busy.
Zhao He pointed to the front and said: "I found a lot of footprints and traces of fighting and a little blood in the front. The bushes on both sides also have traces of trampling. The young master should have fought with someone here, and there were quite a few people on the other side."
This is the conclusion they came to.
Shen Wan and Shen Ming walked over. Shen Wan used the light from the torch to observe carefully. There was blood on the ground, but not much.
I don't know if the blood belongs to Song Ziling or the thief.
But it is most likely that it belongs to Song Ziling. After all, there are many thieves, and Song Ziling is only a twelve-year-old boy.
Zhao He said that there were horse hoof prints found in the woods nearby, so Shen Wan and Shen Ming followed him into the woods.
Shen Ming said: "The thieves probably hid their horses in the woods, and then hid in the bushes on both sides of the official road to ambush Ziling."
Shen Wan nodded, agreeing with Shen Ming's statement.
Before Shen Wan and the others arrived, Zhao He had already asked a group of people to follow the horse's hoof prints to find them.
The remaining soldiers were searching around the fighting scene.
The amount of blood on the ground made Shen Wan feel that those who ambushed Zi Ling did not kill Zi Ling.
Although Zi Ling is in danger now, he should still be alive.
Shen Wan held up the torch and looked carefully. Suddenly, she found an earring next to a pile of horse dung.
She didn't mind it being dirty, so she directly picked up the earrings and rubbed them on the grass.
The earrings are made of silver with red agate stones on them. The earrings are relatively thick and the style is rough, not like those worn by women.
"Ming'er," Shen Wan called her brother hurriedly.
Shen Ming came over, "Look," Shen Wan showed him the earrings, "I found these on the ground."
Shen Ming looked at it carefully, frowned and said, "This doesn't seem to belong to us."
Zhao He saw that his wife seemed to have found something, so he walked over, took a look at the earrings and said, "These seem to be the earrings worn by men in the Northern Territory."
Hearing this, Shen Ming and Shen Wan's expressions changed drastically.
"really?"
Shen Ming asked.
Zhao He looked at it carefully again, nodded with certainty and said: "When I fought with the general in the Northern Territory, I saw many Northern Territory soldiers wearing earrings like this.
I heard from people in the border towns that not only women can have their ears pierced in the Northern Territory, but men can also do it."
Shen Wan: "So the person who ambushed Ziling is from the Northern Territory!"
What did the people from the Northern Territory want to do after they captured Zi Ling?
The answer is obvious, they want to use Zi Ling to threaten Song Heng, the general in charge of the northern border.