The snow kept falling, and Zhou Xin's captain of the guard led Lingxiao for more than ten miles in the dark, and finally met up with the reinforcements at dawn.
At a glance, Ling Xiao saw that Wang Xian, who was supposed to stay in the county town, also appeared in the team. He was still holding back the pain and exhaustion, but he couldn't bear it any longer. His knees went weak and he knelt down on the snow.
, grinned and started crying.
Wang Xian hurriedly stepped forward, took off his cotton cloak, wrapped Lingxiao tightly, and asked in a low voice: "Where is your brother?"
"My brother, my brother, wow..." Ling Xiao hugged Wang Xian's neck and cried loudly, "He's dead."
"Ah..." Wang Xian was stunned. He was restless in the county town and was always worried about the brothers and sisters, so he changed his mind and followed Zhou Xin into the mountains. Unexpectedly, something happened...
Thinking of Mr. Xianyun, who didn't talk much but was very enthusiastic, he just said no and disappeared. He patted Lingxiao's back to comfort the heartbroken girl, but his own eye circles were also red...
When Ling Xiao's cries gradually subsided, Zhou Xin came over, patted Wang Xian on the shoulder, and whispered: "We can't let the sacrifice go to waste."
Wang Xian nodded, caressed Lingxiao's disheveled hair, and said to the girl who was curled up in his arms like an injured kitten: "We can't handle your puppy...
"Yeah." Lingxiao grabbed Wang Xian's shirt, blew his nose clean, stood up with swollen eyes and said, "Leave it to me."
The guard then brought over a barking beagle. As soon as the puppy saw Lingxiao, it tried hard to break free from the rope. Lingxiao nodded, and the guard let go. The beagle jumped to Lingxiao's feet and started to have fun.
As if spinning in circles.
"Little one," Lingxiao took a piece of dried meat from the treasure bag on his waist and fed it to the puppy, and whispered to it: "Go quickly."
After eating the meat, the beagle seemed to understand its mission, so it stretched out its nose and sniffed around. Unfortunately, the heavy snow made its sense of smell not so sharp. After finding nothing, it looked at its owner with fear in its eyes. If it was like this normally
It was useless, it had been kicked away long ago, but Lingxiao was in a low mood today and just said: "In this kind of weather, you have to be close to smell it." Bento turned back first.
Looking at her pitiful figure, Wang Xian sighed secretly, hurriedly followed her, took out an oil paper bag from his arms, opened the treasure and said: "Look what this is, chicken legs, they are still hot."
Unfortunately, Lingxiao had no appetite. He shook his head, drank some hot water, and continued to lead the way.
Behind her is a team of more than 200 police officers. They are the same people who helped Wang Xian capture Zheng Hui. They were secretly trained by Zhou Xin to capture Jianwen Jun. There are many martial arts masters and capable people.
Although the foreigners are known as fast catchers, their combat prowess is not inferior to that of the Jin Yiwei.
At noon, the snow stopped, and the group walked to the place where Lingxiao and Xianyun separated, but could not find Xianyun's body. Although it was probably the other party who had hidden it, there was a glimmer of hope anyway. Lingxiao's body was nowhere to be found.
Her mood improved slightly, then she realized that her stomach was growling with hunger, so she took out the oil paper bag from Wang Xian's arms and ate the whole roast chicken in a blink of an eye. She patted her belly comfortably and felt full of energy again, pointing to the food in front of her.
Shanfeng said: "We were attacked in the sky. My brother and I turned back at that time, and Wei Queque ran forward. I don't know what happened."
"He must be fine." Wang Xian said in a deep voice. "Otherwise it would be too funny..."
"Yes." Zhou Xin nodded and said, "In such bad weather, Wei Wuque didn't say a word about returning, or anything like that. He made no secret of his ulterior motives."
"What Mr. Tai is saying is," Wang Xian took a breath of cold air and said, "Wei Wuque is willing to act as bait for us. He must be confident that he will not be harmed and that he can see that person. To put it bluntly, our plan is
Built on faith in Him…”
"If he died inexplicably," Ling Xiao said angrily, "Wouldn't my brother's sacrifice be in vain?"
"He won't die." Wang Xian shook his head, trusting his own judgment.
"Hmph..." Lingxiao grunted and continued to walk with her head lowered, ignoring Wang Xian. Although she was very skilled in martial arts, she still had the nature of a girl and could not understand the so-called sacrifices required by men.
When they reached the first line of sky, they found that the passage had been blocked and had to climb up the steep cliff. Fortunately, Zhou Xin came well prepared and had all the climbing tools including ropes, irons, and drills, and it took more than half an hour.
, and finally climbed over the mountain. Although he was a little angry with Wang Xian, Ling Xiao was more worried that he would fall due to his clumsiness, so he followed him throughout the climbing process, ready to catch people at any time.
However, although Wang Xian has no martial arts skills, he exercises every day and is so agile that he can easily climb a rock wall.
On the top of the mountain, they discovered a series of mechanisms that only require two people to operate. This thin line of sky can be transformed into a veritable one-man-stopper that no one can open.
Seeing that such a dangerous pass was abandoned, Wang Xian's face showed no joy, but a look of disappointment. Obviously, the other party had already left, otherwise they would have stopped them here.
Zhou Xin naturally understands this truth, but he is the leader, so naturally he cannot show his disappointment. He walked down the cliff silently, but saw the beagle, who had always looked worried, suddenly his eyes lit up and he raised his eyebrows.
He sniffed and sniffed hard, then screamed wildly.
"Finally I smelled it." Everyone's disappointment revived, and Lingxiao was led by the beagle to run away.
"Follow up, keep up," Zhou Xin ordered loudly. All his subordinates ran after him. Wang Xian also ran as fast as he could, but he was still able to keep up.
The team followed Lingxiao over the mountains and entered a dense forest. The puppy barked more and more fiercely, but Zhou Xin told Lingxiao to stop and ordered his men to go forward first. There was a murderous intention hidden in the dense mountain forest, and Sun Zhenren's grandson had already been killed.
, he can’t even pay for his granddaughter.
Sure enough, the seemingly peaceful jungle was full of traps, and it was even more difficult to find due to the snow cover. Even with the perceptive Zhou Zhitai in charge, it still took an hour and several lives to enter the dense forest.
Deep in the depths...suddenly I heard the gurgling stream and saw a dense bamboo forest. The dog barked like crazy into the forest, so Zhou Xin ordered a few of his men to follow the forest path and go in first to investigate.
The men carefully disappeared into the bamboo forest and soon issued the promised whistle.
"Go in." Zhou Xin felt relieved and led the crowd into the bamboo forest. After walking a few feet along the winding path, a large open space suddenly opened up in front of him. There were fences in the open space, several thatched huts inside the wall, and
There is a small pavilion. Flowers and grass are planted in front of and behind the house. Although it is winter, there are still winter plum blossoms proud of the snow, and pines and cypresses are evergreen. It is really an elegant and secluded place.
But the wolf-like intruders were not in the mood to appreciate this elegance. They searched all the rooms and only found a half-dead man...
When he saw Xianyun lying on the bed in the room, breathing in but not out, Lingxiao pounced on her and lay on the bedside crying. Wang Xian calmly pulled her away and asked Dr. Liu who was accompanying him to check Xianyun.
Doctor Liu was a military doctor who had been on the battlefield. When he saw the wound on Xianyun's abdomen, he couldn't help but gasped and thought, could this be cured? But under Lingxiao's murderous gaze, how could he dare to talk nonsense and quickly and carefully treated him?
He treated the wound.
Wang Xian watched for a while and felt that it was really scary, so he went out to the courtyard and saw Zhou Xin standing in one of the rooms.
When he walked in, Zhou Xin didn't look back and asked calmly: "What can you see?"
Wang Xian looked at the bare walls of the room. There was only a bed, a few futons, and a white porcelain nightstand on the floor. Other than that, there were no other household utensils, let alone any furnishings or toys.
"It seems they move around a lot," Wang Xian replied softly, "That's why there's no mess at all and the soup doesn't leak."
"What else?" Zhou Xin asked again.
Wang Xian shook his head. Zhou Xin said softly: "The owner of this room once received guests here before leaving. This futon is not for the owner to sit on, but for the guests to sit on."
Wang Xian nodded. Indeed, the table was placed in front of the bed, not in front of the futon. Obviously, the owner sat on the bed every day.
Zhou Xin still didn't say anything, but the position of the bed was exactly that he was sitting on the Suzaku of the Xuanwu Dynasty, which was the position of the emperor.
He pointed to the bowl of water again: "The objects and furniture in the other rooms were almost untouched, only this room was moved cleanly. If this bowl belongs to the owner, they have no reason not to put it away. So this bowl of tea is
It was poured to the guests. There was very little dust on the water in the bowl, and it should have been served for no more than half a day. The tea is Dahongpao as a tribute. This kind of tea is difficult for even me to get..."
Wang Xian was dumbfounded when he heard this. He was famous for his reputation, but the cold-faced Master Tie Han really knew everything.
"Who do you think this visitor could be?" Zhou Xin asked again.
"Wei Wuque." Wang Xian replied softly.
"Where's the evidence?"
"There." Wang Xian pointed to the door and saw the beagle barking at the futon. "In order to track Wei Wuque's whereabouts, before setting off, the porridge he was given was spiked, and his body would emit a smell.
Humans cannot smell the smell that dogs can smell. This puppy has been trained since he was a child and is extremely sensitive to this smell. It followed the scent all the way to this place. Apparently Wei Wuque stayed here for a long time, leaving behind a better smell than elsewhere.
It’s much thicker.”
"That's it," Zhou Xin said calmly, "it seems that Wei Wuque not only survived, but also became their guest."
"That should be the case." Wang Xian nodded. "They shouldn't have gone far yet."
"Chase" Zhou Xin said in a deep voice, turned around and left the room.
Unexpectedly, something went wrong. Lingxiao didn't want to chase her anymore, she wanted to stay here and wait for her brother. Wang Xian persuaded her, but Zhou Xin left Doctor Liu and two people to take care of Xianyun, so the little girl continued unwillingly.
Hit the road.
Along the way, the puppy did not lose sight of its goal and kept moving forward resolutely. After leaving the dense forest, they saw the footprints, and everyone couldn't help but rejoice.