After the marriage, the cousin was spoiled by the whole family of the Marquis's Mansion

Chapter 134: Capture the thief first and capture the king first

When Ji Yunzhang arrived at the shore of Fengqing, he was holding the wooden box and panting, and almost half of his body was wet.

As soon as the raft reached the shore, someone came up and pulled him up.

One of the military leaders frowned and asked, "Why is it a stranger? Where is Sige?"

Ji Yunzhang opened his mouth and uttered "ah" twice, then made a fainting gesture.

"Mute?" The man was startled at first, then he understood his gesture, and his long face and big beard were exhausted.

"Check to see if the powder is wet?"

A familiar voice.

Ji Yunzhang's eyes widened. It was Mu Chun.

He immediately pretended to be exhausted and fell down, with mud all over his face.

Mu Chun walked over and saw him fall.

"what happened?"

The military leader said, "Sir, they are soldiers transporting firearms. They have been working all night and must be tired."

Mu Chun glanced indifferently at the Western Jin soldier whose face was covered in mud.

"Let him go down and rest."

"Yes." After saying this, the military leader turned around and repeated it to Ji Yunzhang in the Western Jin dialect.

He nodded and slowly walked towards the river bank.

When he walked onto the river bank, he was surprised to find five huge pits dug along the river bank. The pits were filled with water, people, and wooden fences covered the pits.

If his face wasn't covered with mud and beard, his shock would have been obvious.

All the people of Fengqing became hostages of the Western Jin Dynasty.

Fengqing was just a town and there was no prison, so they dug a big pit to detain these unarmed civilians.

There were five or six Western Jin soldiers guarding each pit.

One of the soldiers pointed to the tunnel and said, "Boss, this one has fallen down."

The head of the pit army immediately stepped forward and said, "Pull it up."

An old woman was dragged up. The military leader squatted down and sniffed her breath. "Pretending to be dead?"

He had a ferocious smile on his face, "How dare you pretend to be dead? I can help you!"

The old woman was so weak that she was barely able to breathe and didn't even have the strength to shake her head.

A young girl in the dungeon couldn't help but speak out, "Don't kill my grandma..."

The woman next to her immediately covered the girl's mouth in horror.

The leader of the troop looked at the girl's panicked eyes, and excitement shone in his eyes.

He slowly pulled out the long knife in his hand, and then, in front of the girl's horrified eyes, he stabbed the long knife fiercely into the old woman's heart.

The old woman screamed and died.

Suddenly, suppressed cries were heard from the old, weak, women and children in the pit, but no one dared to cry out loud.

The soldier in the pit said in poor Daqi dialect, "I'm upset today, don't let me hear the crying."

"Whoever cries will suffer the same fate as this old woman."

The crying sounds in the pit immediately died down, and only suppressed sobbing could be heard.

When the army leader in the troop pit stood up and saw Ji Yunzhang in a dishevel, he knew that he was the brother who was transporting the gunpowder.

He reached out and wiped the blood off his face, the excitement in his eyes still not dissipating.

"Recruit?"

Ji Yunzhang looked at him steadily, neither nodding nor shaking his head.

The leader of the underground army thought he was just scared silly, he chuckled a few times, "Brother, Daqi will soon be our Western Jin's world."

"You can't be afraid to kill people."

As he said this, he pointed to the pits on the ground.

“These are cattle and sheep, and there is no difference from slaughtering cattle and sheep.”

As he spoke, he patted his shoulder and said, "However, the firearms you sent are more powerful. If we put these people together, we only need a gunpowder..."

“Bang!——” “This place will become a scorched earth!”

The expression of the troop leader in the pit became even more excited, and the blood on his face that had not been wiped clean made him look even more creepy at this moment.

Ji Yunzhang clenched his teeth, and his pupils became brighter.

He can't act rashly now.

To catch a thief, one must first catch the king. He must find the Khan of the Western Jin Dynasty as soon as possible!
There were almost no people on the streets of Fengqing, and even the patrolling Western Jin soldiers were very few.

He couldn't help but darken his eyes. Fengqing was under the jurisdiction of Shiqiu, and there was a Hu Ben Army stationed there.

The people of the Western Jin Dynasty managed to take Feng Qing down quietly.

With 60,000 Tiger Guards, these few people from the Western Jin Dynasty secretly built a den of thieves right under their noses!

Didn't they notice anything unusual? !

They are all a bunch of good-for-nothings!

Two lazy Western Jin soldiers were guarding in front of a private house.

The two men held long knives and sat cross-legged on the steps at the door.

There are so many houses on the street without guards, but this one has a guard.

Ji Yunzhang looked at it silently for a few seconds. It was so different. Could it be that the Khan of the Western Jin Dynasty was hiding here?

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Yanjing.

Wei Shuo rode a horse alone and arrived at the capital at the same time as Jin Shaoyi.

In stark contrast to the border areas, the people of Yanjing still live and work in peace and contentment.

When Jin Shaoyi returned to the mansion after reporting from the palace, the first thing that surprised him was the miserable situation in Xinling Marquis's mansion.

Prince Ji has been imprisoned for several months, and Madam Ji was abducted and disappeared out of thin air, and her life or death is unknown.

Now only the wife of Marquis Xinling and her two young children are left in the mansion.

Wei Shuo also sighed after hearing this.

He touched his chest and thought, he disappeared right under the eyes of the officials. I'm afraid there is no trace of his body left.

His hand touched a long and thin object, and he remembered that he had picked up an excellent hairpin in Guangyang.

He originally wanted to embezzle a corrupt official's things, but after this trip, he found out that this corrupt official had connections with people in Beijing.

Such valuable things are stolen goods. If they are investigated later, he will be in big trouble.

Thinking of this, he took the hairpin out of his arms.

"General, this is what I found in Guangyang that day. I was so obsessed that I wanted to steal it myself..."

Liu Yaru, who was standing by, was holding her son who was twisting and turning, but she frowned. Why did this hairpin look so familiar?

"How come this hairpin..."

Jin Shaoyi took the hairpin and looked up at him, "What's wrong?"

Liu Yaru handed her son to the wet nurse and drove all the servants out before speaking.

"I've seen Madam Ji wearing this hairpin before."

As she said this, she took the hairpin from Jin Shaoyi's hand and said, "Look, my husband, there are the seal of Ruyifang and the logo of the Ji family here."

Jin Shaoyi turned the hairpin to the bottom and saw the logo as expected.

"You mean Madam Ji was taken captive to Guangyang?"

Liu Yaru didn't reply to him, but frowned and said, "This matter cannot be made public. Even if Madam Ji is still alive, the rumors in the capital can drown her."

"To go to such great lengths to take her away in front of so many people in Xiangguo Temple, it must not be just for money or sex."

Jin Shaoyi nodded, "Madam, you are right."

Liu Yaru looked up at him and said, "My husband, the Ji family can't stand any disturbance now. Find a reliable person to go to Guangyang and investigate quietly."

She pondered for a moment and said, "From Yanjing to Guangyang, in addition to the relatively short land route, there is also a water route."

"Perhaps we can find something by starting from here."

(End of this chapter)