Jing Mo didn't say anything either. He just sat on his horse, waiting for the captain of the guards to continue.

The captain of the guards looked at the boss and his gang who were walking behind the team. The young guard just looked up and met the captain of the guards' gaze. His brows slightly furrowed, and the young guard urged his horse forward.

The chief guard saw the guard coming towards him, so he stepped closer to Jing Mo and whispered, "Master, a young girl was shot to death by arrows at the city gate yesterday."

"What?" Jing Mo never expected that the captain of the guards would say this.

"The girl's body is lying on the side of the road," the chief guard said as he saw the guard approaching. He spoke faster and said to Jing Mo, "Master, go and take a look."

Jing Mo turned his head to look at Xiao Wei, then at the chief guard, and dismounted and walked towards the crowd. Why was the chief guard afraid of Xiao Wei? Jing Mo could not think of any other possibility except that this girl was related to Yu Xiaoxiao.

The captain of the guards was walking behind Jing Mo. He heard footsteps following him. He turned around and saw that the young guard had also dismounted and was following them.

Jing Mo arrived in front of the crowd. He didn't need the captain of the guard to serve him. He stretched out his hand and pushed aside the circle of people, squeezing to the innermost part of the crowd.

In the crowd, a couple was sitting on the ground. The woman was holding a little girl with arrow wounds all over her body in her arms. Looking at her age and figure, Jing Mo suddenly clenched his fists. At first glance, this girl looked very much like Yu Xiaoxiao.

When Xiao Wei saw the girl's body, he was stunned for a moment, and immediately asked the people around him: "What happened?"

There are always people who are happy to answer questions, and they immediately told Xiao Wei: "He was shot to death on the official road near the city gate."

How could a good person be shot to death by arrows while walking on the official road? Even if it was a robbery, they would not choose to do it outside the city walls of the capital, right?

"Who is the murderer?" Xiao Wei asked politely to the middle-aged man who looked like a businessman.

The middle-aged man shook his head and sighed, "I heard it was a group of masked men who shot someone to death and then ran away."

Jing Mo reached out to the captain of the guards.

The captain of the guards hurriedly took two ingots of silver and put them in Jing Mo's hand.

Jing Mo squatted down, put the silver in the father's hand, and asked slowly: "Who are you?"

The man, who was about thirty years old, looked up at Jing Mo, his face expressionless with grief.

The chief guard said, "If you have any grievances, just tell me. My master will make the decision for you."

After hearing what the chief guard said, the woman holding her daughter's body looked up. Jing Mo saw that he looked like a nobleman, which made the woman see hope of getting justice for her daughter. The woman held her daughter's body, knelt on the ground and cried to Jing Mo: "We just came to the capital to live with our relatives. We are unfamiliar with the place and we don't know what happened."

Jing Mo said: "Have you reported it to the police?"

"The government said it was a revenge killing and asked us who our enemy was," the man said. "I said I had no enemy, so the government drove us out of the capital."

"Is it the Dali Temple?" Jing Mo asked.

The man nodded, looked down at his daughter's body, and a painful expression appeared on his numb face again.

"This isn't the first little girl to be shot," someone in the crowd shouted at this point.

Jing Mo and Xiao Wei turned their heads to look at this man almost at the same time.

The chief guard took a look at the middle-aged man and said to Jing Mo, "Judging from his attire, this man is a coolie who helps transport goods in this area."

Xiao Wei asked the man, "How many girls were shot to death in total?"

"I don't know how many there were," the man said to Xiao Wei, "I saw two with my own eyes, one at the south gate and one at the east gate."

"Are all these girls like this?" Xiao Wei asked, pointing at the little girl's body.

The man nodded and said, "They are all about the same size. Nowadays, families with daughters in the capital don't let them go out, for fear of running into this group of people."

Jing Mo stared at the little girl's body. Just looking at the front, there were more than a dozen arrow holes on the girl's body, which showed the miserable state of the girl after being shot.

Xiao Wei also looked at the body of the little girl and said in a cold voice: "Is the murderer crazy?" He expected to shoot his princess to death with a volley of arrows?

Jing Mo stood up, took off the jade pendant he was wearing, handed it to the chief guard, and said, "Take them to the Dali Temple."

The captain of the guards took the jade pendant with both hands, bowed and said yes.

The first and second in command squeezed into the crowd at this time. When they saw the little girl tightly held in the woman's arms, they were both stunned.

"What's going on?" The boss pointed at the girl's body and asked. Was he seeing things? Outside Jiuyan City, he could see the body of a girl shot to death by arrows? Was this a chaotic world?

Xiao Wei shook his head at the boss and said, "Don't ask. We'll talk on the way."

The chief guard said to the girl's parents, "Come with me, the Dali Temple will not refuse your case this time."

The little girl's parents looked at the captain of the guards hesitantly.

Jing Mo bent down and patted the man's shoulder, and said softly: "Go, we will meet again. If I don't give your daughter justice, then I don't need my official position."

The man said, "May I ask who your Excellency is?"

Jing Mo patted the man's shoulder again, turned around and walked out of the crowd.

The second in command was mumbling to the first in command at this time: "Does this girl look like my princess? Am I seeing things?"

The eldest boss said, "I think so too."

"Let's go," Xiao Wei said.

The boss and the second in command followed Xiao Wei out of the crowd.

"There is a group of people who specialize in shooting girls like this," Xiao Wei said to the first and second in command after he left the crowd, "This is one. One person died in the South City and the East City of Jiuyan City a few days ago."

"Are they all like this?" the boss asked hurriedly.

Xiao Wei nodded.

"Who the hell wants to kill our princess?" the eldest boss was dumbfounded and cursed.

Xiao Wei sneered and said, "Let's see what your majesty says."

Jing Mo got on his horse again and glanced at his guards. Someone among them must have informed Jiuyan City. Otherwise, how did certain people in Jiuyan City know that Yu Xiaoxiao did not travel with them?

Xiao Wei and the other two walked up to Jing Mo's horse.

Jing Mo, Xiao Wei and the other two whispered, "Let's go into the city first. I will give you an explanation for this matter."

Xiao Wei and the other two then walked back to their horses and climbed on them.

Xiaozhuang's group didn't know what happened yet, so they asked Xiaowei, "What happened?"

The leader spat at his horse and said to the pirates, "Now that we have entered Jiuyan City, don't rest, hurry and find the princess."

The letter of returning home was delivered to Jing Mo not long ago. Now everyone knows that Yu Xiaoxiao has finished the matter of Xuanwu. With Yu Xiaoxiao's speed, no one doubts that their princess is not in Jiuyan City now, but how can they find her in such a big Jiuyan City?

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