Nangong Yunxue shook her head.
"Thank you for your hospitality, cousin. We agreed to return in the afternoon when we left."
Chu Xia was anxious: "Cousin, there is no need to rush at this moment. At worst, we can send a servant to deliver the letter back!
Since you are all here, you should wait for your husband and father-in-law to come back. Let us all meet and show our hospitality. It is not too late to leave then."
Mrs. Chu smiled and continued, "Xue'er, there's nothing particularly important to do when you go back, so just go back tomorrow.
You haven't met your cousin's husband yet, go meet him."
Nangong Jiu kept shaking Nangong Yunxue's arm.
"Mom, let's stay here for one night. I want to eat Auntie's cooking. Uncle has my great-grandfather with him, so it's okay for us to go back tomorrow."
Nangong Yunxue had no choice but to agree: "Okay, then stay for one night."
【I want to eat braised lion's head! 】
"Cousin, please make Jiuer a braised lion's head."
Chu Xia nodded happily: "No problem, it happens to be my specialty."
Then he called Qing He over and said, "Go find the housekeeper and ask him to send someone to the general's mansion and tell them that I'm letting my mother and the others stay for one night and won't be leaving until tomorrow."
“Hey!”
Qinghe agreed promptly and went to make the arrangements quickly.
After receiving the news from the servant, Zhou's father and son returned home from the county government office before dusk.
After some greetings, everyone drank tea and chatted.
Seeing that both father and son looked exhausted, Mrs. Chu asked with concern, "Son-in-law, are you very busy with official duties? Even if you are busy, you must take care of yourself."
Young Master Zhou Lingchuan nodded and said, "Thank you, mother-in-law, for your concern! A case occurred in the city today, and we have no clue what it is."
When he heard something was wrong, Nangong Jiu pricked up his ears.
Nangong Yunxue saw Nangong Jiu's expression and looked at Zhou Lingchuan with a smile: "Brother-in-law, what's the case? Tell us about it."
Zhou Lingchuan glanced at his father, County Magistrate Zhou, and said, "Today, many homes were robbed in the west and south districts. The gang moved so quickly that the victims didn't even get a clear look.
The government received reports from victims one after another, but they didn't know where to start.
Nangong Jiu narrowed his eyes.
Rob?
Who would dare to be so blatant?
Just as everyone was talking and speculating, the servant who was sent to the general's mansion came back in a dishevel.
"Master, Young Master, there are bandits blocking the road and robbing people on Funiu Mountain. I can ride fast on my horse, but they chased me for a long way!"
Chu Xia was shocked: "Mom, nothing happened when you came here, right?"
Mrs. Chu shook her head: "No, we had a smooth journey here."
"Wait, cousin-in-law, when did the people get robbed?" Nangong Yunxue asked with a frown.
"It starts at the beginning of noon and lasts until the end of noon, which is about an hour."
"What do you think? Could it be that we were lucky and happened to get separated from those bandits?"
Mrs. Chu clutched her chest and said, "You mean, the group that robbed the city are the same group as those mountain bandits?"
“It feels like that’s possible!”
County Magistrate Zhou hurriedly asked the servant, "Nothing happened when you left, but you encountered this on your return?"
"Yes, those bandits also robbed a carriage and took two women abducted up the mountain.
When they saw me riding a horse, they chased me and swung knives at me from a distance."
The servant said this while showing everyone the sleeve that was cut by the knife.
Zhou Lingchuan looked at his father: "Dad, maybe they are from the same group."
Nangong Jiu hummed when he heard this: [It’s not that we are lucky, it’s that they are lucky that they didn’t run into us.
In broad daylight, they dare to rob openly. They must be tired of living.
Mother, tomorrow morning, on our way back home, we'll pick them up.
Nangong Yunxue looked at the angry Nangong Jiu, then looked at the Zhou father and son.
"Let's go check it out tomorrow."
The Zhou family's father and son's faces turned pale with fright.
"Don't take this risk. Wait until we send people to find out the situation on the mountain and eliminate those bandits, then you can go back."
"fine……"
Chu Xia also advised: "How can you, the elderly, the weak, women and children, take such a risk? If something goes wrong, how will your husband and the others explain to the emperor?"
Nangong Jiu scratched his head.
Nangong Yunxue saw that Nangong Jiu had stopped talking. "Why don't we go ask my uncle to send troops to suppress the bandits? How can the officials from your county government defeat the bandits?"
The Zhou family father and son nodded: "Let's wait until tomorrow and send someone to find out the situation first."
Guest room.
It was just getting dark.
After eating and drinking, Nangong Jiu pretended to be sleepy and returned early to the guest room arranged by the Zhou family.
Nangong Jiu ordered: "Little Wang Xiaoxing, let's go to that mountain now and see what the situation is.
We have to get rid of these bandits before they continue to do evil."
Xiao Wang reminded: "Your Majesty, we cannot use magic to kill mortals."
"When did I ever say I would kill mortals? I can still deal with them without killing them."
"Jiuer, what are you going to do?" Nangong Yunxue asked as if she had sensed something.
[Mother, we're planning to go to that mountain to find out about the bandits.]
"No, it's dark now, and it's dark everywhere."
[For Xiao Wang Xiao Xing, day and night are the same. I just ride Xiao Wang.]
Nangong Yunxue was worried: "You are too young, can we let Xiao Wang and the others go and take a look?"
[It's okay. Although I'm small, my cultivation is higher than theirs. We'll go find out the situation and come back.]
"Then go quickly and come back soon, don't let mother worry!"
Nangong Yunxue looked worried as she watched Nangong Jiu riding Xiao Wang out, and then he disappeared in a flash.
I just leaned against the door and waited.
A certain god who had transformed into an object in the darkness spun around and followed.
Funiu Mountain.
Somewhere on the top of the mountain, laughter and noise could be heard from time to time.
Nangong Jiu commanded Xiao Wang and Xiao Xing to act separately and approach quietly.
I saw fifty or sixty men dressed as mountain people sitting around a fire under a rock.
The two women were tied up and gagged and placed in a corner not far away.
"Today is such a fucking treat! All this wealth is enough for us to eat and use for a while, and we even have two women to be our wives..."
"Brother Yong, this place is too close to General Chu's garrison on the border. If we make such a commotion today, it will definitely attract soldiers to encircle and suppress us. What should we do next?"
The man called Brother Yong didn't care.
"What's there to be afraid of? After making this big profit today, we'll have enough money for the journey.
We will leave here at dawn tomorrow and head north. There is an even more dangerous mountain about two hundred miles away from here.
That mountain is dozens of miles in radius and uninhabited. It's a perfect place for us to carve out a piece of land there and settle down there."
"Brother Yong is very knowledgeable, we will all listen to you.
The emperor is incompetent and won't give us a way out, so we have no choice but to make our own way."
"I also stayed in that mountain for a few days when I was learning from my master and going for training with him."
"Then why don't you continue to follow your master?"
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