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Chapter 31 Search
Hong Deyi led ten people and opened the gate of the outpost.

The person who opened the door was an old man in his sixties, with a hunched back and lowered head, holding a broom in his hand. He should be a servant in the outpost.

Hong Deyi didn't even look at him, and strode into the front yard, seeing someone still throwing fists in the hall.

"Wu Jinkui! Liu Dashun! Qiqiqiao..."

It wasn't until Hong Deyi and the others came in that the sentinels who were still punching stopped and got up one after another.

There were five of them, one with sly eyebrows and mouse eyes; one as short and stocky as a wine jar; one tall and strong with tattoos exposed in his neckline; and one with a grim expression like a praying mantis...

Hong Deyi swept his eyes and landed on Na Tiling.

The collar was a young man, who had just stepped on the stool with one foot and punched it, but now he just put it down.

He looks handsome and frivolous, with weird hair accessories, a small braid hanging from his ears, and a small silver chain hanging from it.

"Are you the steward here? What's your name?"

"Take off."

Hong Deyi was taken aback for a moment, and then he clearly heard the prodigal boy say it again in Mongolian.

"Meriki Toto Timur."

"You are Han, why do you call yourself a Mongolian name?"

"My forehead was given to me."

"Er Qige?"

"It's my adoptive father, my Mongolian adoptive father."

At this time, one of Hong Deyi's soldiers came up and said to him in a low voice: "Centurion, my villain left the city for business three months ago, I remember that the leader of this outpost seems to have the surname Ma, not this person."

……

Li Xia's tongue slipped against his lips, showing a bit of impatience.

He looked respectful on the surface, but he couldn't hide the look in his eyes that didn't take Hong Deyi seriously.

Li Xia also knew that he couldn't play a submissive official like Ma Youli, so he did the opposite and set himself a role that was easier to grasp.

He just didn't think highly of Hong Deyi, and he wasn't afraid of being known by Hong Deyi.

"The horse you said is powerful? He's gone, and now I'm in charge of this outpost." Li Xia said.

"is it?"

Hong Deyi didn't expect that Li Xia would interrupt when he was talking to soldiers, so he couldn't help but glanced at him and asked, "Who sent you here?"

"General Tengger in Hohhot, he said that a war is about to start, let me get some credit."

Hong Deyi didn't understand.

I have never heard of "Hohhot"...

And this "Tuotuo Timur" spoke with Mongolian in Chinese, feeling that he was different from the people in a small place like Xiacai City, which made people uncertain.

Hong Deyi looked at Li Xia again, and saw that the other party looked extraordinary, and his temperament did not look like a small outpost at all.

He couldn't help thinking to himself: "The adopted son of a Mongolian nobleman, he raised a rabbit! It's so gaudy..."

After all, this was not the person he was looking for, what Hong Deyi was looking for was a Song man pretending to be the garrison in Xiacai town.

Hong Deyi didn't bother to chat with this prodigal with a backer, so he smiled and said, "Let me search here."

"Just search." Li Xia also smiled, took a sip of wine from the bowl, and smacked his lips, looking a little evil.

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With a bang, the door was kicked open.

Gao Mingyue and Han Qiaoer hid in this room, and they couldn't help being startled when they saw several soldiers rushing in.

Immediately afterwards, only Li Xia's voice came from outside.

"What are you doing, you scared my wife."

Gao Mingyue turned her head and saw Li Xia striding into the room, Shi Shiran stood in front of her, blocking the eyes of several soldiers.

She suddenly felt relieved, and looked at Li Xia's hair very concerned, and only lowered her head when she saw that the silver chain was still there.

"Is this your wife?"

Hong Deyi was originally in the courtyard, and he followed in after hearing the commotion. After asking a question, he pointed to Han Qiaoer and asked, "Maid?"

"Yes."

Li Xia responded, seeing the furnishings in the room from the corner of the eye, feeling a little guilty.

This is Ma Youli's house, and there is no woman's belongings, so I'm afraid it's hard to explain...

Sudden.

Someone shouted: "Centurion, a man was found in the woodshed."

Hong Deyi turned around and led the people to the woodshed.

Li Xia breathed a sigh of relief, and didn't have time to glance at his "wife" and "maid", and quickly followed them out.

In the firewood room, seeing a soldier was about to remove the rag stuffed in the mouth of the prisoner of the Zhang family, Li Xia went up and kicked the prisoner on the head.

"This is a disobedient excuse. He will be obedient after starving him for a few days."

"That's it."

Hong Deyi glanced at the firewood room again, seeing that no one could hide here, he nodded and said, "Since there is no one in this outpost, let's go."

"I'll see off the centurion."

When the group walked outside the outpost, Hong Deyi looked at Li Xia's strange hairstyle, and smiled apologetically, "I'm on official business, so I've offended you tonight. Tuotuo sends my regards to your adoptive father and General Tengger."

Li Xia grinned and agreed.

Hong Deyi could clearly feel the faint disdain in his eyes.

But it was precisely because of this disdain that he was unwilling to offend people for nothing.

"Let's go, search elsewhere..."

Li Xia just sent Hong Deyi away, but before he returned to the outpost, he heard another commotion from afar.

He hurriedly followed and rushed over to see that it was indeed Gao Changshou and Lin Zi who were leading people to throw the corpse by the Huai River, and they were stopped on the way back.

"Centurion, I found these people coming from the south with their horses."

"What did you guys do?"

Over there, Hong Deyi was still interrogating, but Li Xia had already strode up and said with a smile, "This is someone from our outpost, who just came back from inspection."

Hong Deyi looked at Gao Changshou and Lin Zi, and wondered: "Inspection? It's so late? Why shouldn't we ask questions just now?"

Li Xia heard this, kicked Lin Zi's leg, and then slapped Gao Changshou on the head.

"Gouhozen, you two fucking went shopping in brothels again?!"

Gao Changshou was taken aback for a moment, as if he was stunned by Li Xia.

Lin Zi smiled.

He didn't make a sound, just smiled, and Hong Deyi knew the meaning in that expression.

……

A group of people returned to the outpost and bolted the door.

Only then did Lin Zi pat his heart and let out a long sigh of relief.

"It scared me to death."

Li Xia said: "It's dangerous, you don't have any makeup on your body, as long as the centurion has a little brain, this time it will be broken."

"How can he be so easy to see through." Lin Zi disagreed, saying: "He is a military commander, not a head catcher."

After he finished speaking, he cupped his hands towards Li Xia, ran quickly into the lobby, and said to Nie Zhongyou: "Brother, I just saw that at least a thousand households were searching the vicinity, and all the boats on the bank of the Huaihe River were seized." searched away."

Nie Zhongyou nodded and asked Li Xia, "What's next?"

"After a rest, they can't find anyone. They may think that we have already crossed the Huai River and returned to the south bank. At that time, they will relax their search and let's go."

"That's all it takes."

"You eat and drink, rest, and send someone to watch at night."

"what are you going to do?"

"I'll go to interrogate that prisoner of the Zhang family again to see if there is any information available." Li Xia said, "I'm afraid I won't be able to take this person with me in the future..."

That night, Li Xia stayed in the firewood room for a long time.

"Tell me about the Zhang family again, and tell me everything you know about the Zhang family."

"Okay, okay... The commander has twelve sons and two daughters, among them Zhang Dalang died early, and Erlang Zhang Hongji is now in Xuanquan Ten Thousand Households in the Mongolian Kingdom..."

"When did Zhang Dalang die? What kind of person is Zhang Hongji? Age, appearance, temperament."

"..."

After a long time, when the prisoner of this family finished speaking, it was already late at night.

Li Xia asked again: "Are you literate?"

"The villain is illiterate."

"Okay, I see..."

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At the same time, Qiao Ju squatted on the ground, holding a torch to illuminate the map.

"Can't find it? Impossible. I don't believe they can escape my siege so quickly."

He muttered, took a branch, and scratched it on the ground, as if he was calculating something.

"Youshijiji...escape from here...the fastest way to escape is here..."

Qiao Ju finished his calculations, drew a circle on the map, and stood up.

"Listen, they are still within our siege, and they have never escaped the Huaihe River." He flicked the map in his hand, and said loudly: "We will focus on this area. A market, a village, and three outposts Stop, they must be hiding somewhere in the middle..."

(End of this chapter)