Yu Huaqian slowly breathed a sigh of relief. What a coincidence.
"Come in." Emperor Wu of Liang said coldly.
A moment later, Zhao Cheng, along with Du Tianli and his party, knelt before Emperor Wu of Liang with pale faces.
Zhao Cheng turned his head and glared at Du Tianli.
Du Tianli trembled all over and shouted in a hoarse voice,
"Your Majesty, the Xiao family has lost all conscience. They killed the officials, escaped, and even abused the officials. They are simply insane..."
"And... the dozens of concubines from the Niu family who were exiled together are all gone too. They must have been captured by the Xiao family's private soldiers..."
Du Tianli couldn't believe his eyes when he thought of finding the disheveled officers in the ditch.
He couldn't understand why the Xiao family's private soldiers were so indiscriminate?
The concubines of the Niu family must have been abducted by the Xiao family's private soldiers. These are not private soldiers at all, they are simply bandits.
When he arrived at the post station that day, he learned that Meng Zhuang and his group might have been in trouble, so he immediately rode the post station's horse and took his brothers to search along the way.
Then they found a group of stripped officers in a ditch.
The officers' bodies were covered with messy black claw marks. Those Xiao family private soldiers were really ruthless and could do such a thing.
"Um!"
Emperor Wu of Liang glared at Du Tianli, who uttered a low growl and cursed with his back teeth bitten.
"You're just a bunch of rubbish! You let someone slip away from under your noses after all these days."
"What use do I have for a bunch of good-for-nothings like you?"
"Come on, drag them all away and behead them."
His men were clearly watching the Xiao family's private soldiers in Brahma City, so how could they let the Xiao family's private soldiers run under his nose to rob people?
What kind of useless people did he have?
None of them are useful.
"Your Majesty, please spare my life..."
Du Tianli and his group were so frightened that they kowtowed and begged for mercy.
Zhao Cheng swallowed his saliva and quickly tried to find a way out.
"Your Majesty, I have already investigated. The Xiao family's private soldiers did not go through the cities to pick up the Xiao family members. They must have taken the mountain road."
Emperor Wu of Liang frowned and looked at Zhao Cheng, signaling him to continue.
Zhao Cheng pursed his lips and continued to speak,
"If you want to cross East Gate City via the mountain road, you have to cross seven mountains. The deeper you go into the mountains, the harder it is to walk. Those seven mountains are all connected to each other. It will take at least half a month to pass through them."
"What's more, there are so many women and children in the Xiao family, so the speed will definitely be slower."
"I suggest that we divide our forces into two groups to hunt down the Xiao family. We should follow the mountain road and go straight through the east gate of the city, and then wait for them where they come down the mountain."
"Attacked from both sides, the Xiao family will be unable to escape even if they have wings..."
As soon as Zhao Cheng finished speaking, he secretly pinched Du Tianli next to him.
Du Tianli shuddered in pain and immediately kowtowed and shouted,
"Your Majesty, I am willing to redeem myself from my crimes and capture the traitor of the Xiao family alive..."
The other six palace guards quickly followed suit and shouted,
"Your Majesty, I am willing to redeem myself from my crimes and capture the traitor of the Xiao family alive..."
Emperor Wu of Liang's face was filled with anger, and he glanced at several people with a gloomy look.
Looking at the people who were shaking like sieves, he wanted to kick these useless things away.
But now he needs people, so he can only endure it and wait for the time to settle the score in the future.
The royal cemetery is also in those mountains, and I guess the Xiao family doesn't dare to walk through the royal cemetery.
Those guarding the royal cemetery are all masters among masters.
If the Xiao family were chased to the royal cemetery and alerted the gravekeeper...
Thinking of this, Emperor Wu of Liang's eyes flashed slightly.
He didn't want the Xiao family to disturb the ancestors of the Yuwen family, but he also wanted the Xiao family to offend the gravekeeper.
With the gravekeeper taking action, the Xiao family will have no way to escape.
The tomb keeper family is responsible for protecting the mausoleum, and each generation of tomb keepers has reached a superb level of martial arts.
Even he, the emperor, could not find any gravekeepers, as they had lived in the royal cemetery for generations.
After a long while, Emperor Wu of Liang gritted his teeth and said,
"If you can't catch the Xiao family, bring them to me with your heads."
........
That night, the Xiao family's private soldiers sneezed one after another. They didn't know that someone had accused them of a very ugly crime.
The culprit, the old woman of the Niu family and several concubines, were wearing the clothes of officials and hiding in nearby villages.
At that time, Mrs. Niu was the first to run away, and then Mrs. Niu and the concubines followed her.
Not long after they ran, Mrs. Niu remembered that the bracelets and anklets on their hands were not opened, and they would not be able to survive anywhere in the prison uniform.
She pulled a few concubines together and after some discussion, they bravely went back to the ditch where the body was thrown at night.
With trembling hands, several people took the keys from the officers, opened their bracelets and anklets, and then fumbled to strip off their clothes.
They also took away all the silver on the officials.
In this way, the officers were left with various marks from their fearful grabbing.
By the time Du Tianli discovered the bodies of the officers, they had already started to stink and start leaking water...
Coupled with the various marks on the bodies of the officers, Du Tianli was immediately frightened when he thought that this was the immoral thing done by the Xiao family's private soldiers.
That same day, he and his men rushed back to the capital to report.
If they were to hunt down the Xiao family members who were rescued by the Xiao family's private soldiers with just a few people, wouldn't that be tantamount to sending their heads off?
.........
"I hope they've run away..."
The mighty general Bai Hong stood in the yard with his hands behind his back, listening to the sound of galloping horses on the street in the middle of the night.
There is no need to guess, it must be that Emperor Wu of Liang had received news that Xiao Yunzhan's family had escaped and sent people to hunt them down.
At the same time, Chai Yuanyu, who had just lay down, heard the sound of horse hooves. He jumped up from the bed, walked out of the room with his clothes on, frowned and listened carefully.
After a while, he breathed a long sigh of relief.
Emperor Wu of Liang finally found out what the Xiao family had done. These palace guards were really useless and were not as good as his spies.
It took so long to discover it. It was so hot, the body must have rotted.
That night, five hundred imperial guards were dispatched from the capital, and they rushed out of the city without stopping.
Zhao Cheng led 400 people straight to the east city gate, stationed at the foot of the mountain, and guarded the Xiao family.
Du Tianli was so tired that he looked unrecognizable, but he still gritted his teeth and desperately led a hundred people to chase along the mountain road.
........
At daybreak in the morning, the Xiao family quickly finished their breakfast, packed up their things and prepared to start their journey again.
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