Chapter 411: Encirclement and Suppression of Bandits, Who is Coming?

Chapter 411: Encirclement and Suppression of Bandits, Who is Coming?

"You ran away secretly. Did you elope?"

Qi Peiyao's eyes flashed with cunningness as she looked at them with interest.

Ji Qingwu was slightly startled, his eyes flickered, and there was a hint of tentativeness in his tone.

"You, how did you figure that out?"

She moved her wrist slightly, signaling Sihai to stay still.

Qi Peiyao smiled confidently, leaned back on the couch, and said lazily: "I may not be good at other things, but I am always very accurate in judging people."

Ji Qingwu said: "Madam has good eyesight."

Qi Peiyao guessed half right—they did run away secretly, but their relationship was not what she thought.

Ji Qingwu said, "My young master and I ran away from home secretly, and wanted to go to Longzhou to seek refuge with our relatives."

Sihai no longer had the mask to cover himself. When he heard the word "elopement" and Ji Qingwu calling him "young master", his face suddenly turned red and he lowered his head, not daring to speak.

In Qi Peiyao's eyes, this was irrefutable evidence.

She patted her bulging belly gently and spoke gently.

"Actually, you don't have to hide it from me. I'm also a woman, I understand. I won't embarrass you."

She continued, "As long as you agree to stay, I can arrange some work for him in the village and will never let him be bullied."

Ji Qingwu shook his head and said, "But we have already agreed with our relatives in Longzhou that if they don't wait for me, they will come to find us."

Qi Peiyao wanted to cross her legs, but had to give up because of her big belly.

She patted her bulging belly, raised her eyes and asked with a smile: "Are you saying that your relatives will come to Black Wind Village to look for you?"

Ji Qingwu nodded.

The longer she delays, the more likely it is that the secret guards will discover her.

Qi Peiyao narrowed her eyes and said, "I advise you to give up this idea. Our village is not an ordinary bandit den. This time we robbed the princess's convoy, but no one dares to come and look for us now. Do you know why?"

Ji Qingwu's eyes were fixed on her.

"Why?"

She had long known that this bandit's den was unusual.

Because when robbing the carriage, the bandits around Hu Lie all held their knives and bows with their right hands, and the angles and heights of their hands were almost the same.

This is an effect that can only be achieved by well-trained soldiers in the military camp, not by ordinary bandits.

The appearance of such a group of people near the northern border made it hard not to suspect that this was a trap set by Xi Jin.

Disguise Xijin's soldiers as bandits, and then use internal and external forces to weaken Beili's military strength...

Qi Peiyao realized that she had let something slip, and evaded the question by saying, "Don't worry about it. No one will come to save you anyway."

"What's that saying? Now that we're here..."

She couldn't remember the second half of the sentence, so she stopped worrying about it and waved her hand, saying, "Just stay here, stay with me, I won't let you..."

She pointed at Sihai and said, "And the young man in your family suffered."

Ji Qingwu wanted to ask a few more questions, but Qi Peiyao's stomach growled twice. She frowned and shouted to the door, "Hu Xiaosi! Is the meal ready? Are you planning to starve me and the child to death?"

There was silence outside the door and no one responded.

Qi Peiyao was stunned. There was no robbery in the past, and Hu Si always hung around her.

Ji Qingwu and Sihai looked at each other, feeling vaguely uneasy.

Qi Peiyao was pregnant and had difficulty moving, so Ji Qingwu said, "I'll go check at the door."

"Let me go." Sihai took the lead, pushed open the door and walked out quickly.

Qi Peiyao winked at Ji Qingwu and said teasingly, "You are young, but you are quite caring."

Sihai came back soon and talked about the situation outside.

"It's very noisy outside. It seems like there's a war going on in front."

Qi Peiyao opened the window and looked outside quickly. The village was empty and there was a noisy sound of fighting coming from the distance.

Qi Peiyao bit her fingernails and whispered, "It shouldn't be like this. He promised us that no one would come to trouble us."

Ji Qingwu heard her murmurs clearly. Who is this "he"? Who gave Black Wind Village the confidence to do whatever it wanted?

Fires also started outside.

The three bosses and Hu Si were nowhere to be seen.

Qi Peiyao's eyes changed and she became nervous in an instant. She jumped off the couch, taking off her shoes, and turned into the inner room.

Ji Qingwu did not move. With such a big commotion, it was most likely that someone from the imperial court had arrived. Otherwise, who could contend against a village of thousands of people?

Qi Peiyao pushed open the secret compartment behind the red plum vase and opened a secret room.

He turned around and shouted, "Come in with me!"

Ji Qingwu glanced at Sihai and said, "Jianghai has to come with me."

Qi Peiyao said anxiously: "I don't trust him, only you can come in."

Ji Qingwu knew that Qi Peiyao didn't trust her either.

It's just that she is pregnant and may give birth at any time, so she needs to keep me by her side to feel safe.

But once you’re in, you don’t know if you can get out.

Ji Qingwu insisted: "I want to stay with Jiang Hai."

Qi Peiyao stamped her feet anxiously and said, "You are safest when you are with me. If you don't come in, you will have no chance!"

Ji Qingwu still stood there, motionless.

Soon, the door was kicked open and seven or eight soldiers with knives rushed in.

Seeing this, Qi Peiyao immediately closed the door of the dark room and went in alone.

The officers and soldiers could only see the stone door closing in front of them. They ran over to investigate the situation, but they could not trigger the mechanism.

The few officers and soldiers who stayed behind took out the portraits in their hands, looked Ji Qingwu and Sihai up and down, then handcuffed their hands and led them out.

In the front yard of the village, in the big house where the bandits held meetings.

"Sir, we just went to the backyard and caught these two men."

The officer bowed to the man in official uniform in front of him and said, "There is also a pregnant woman who entered the secret passage in the house, but we don't know how to open it."

The man said calmly, "The pregnant woman is Hu Feng's wife."

The officers and soldiers bowed their heads and said, "We were a step too late and failed to catch him."

The man paused for a moment before saying, "It's not your fault. The people in Black Wind Village are not mediocre."

But having said that, the three Hu Feng brothers had already been captured by him and were being held in a dungeon.

Isn't it talking about himself, who is not an ordinary person?

The officers and soldiers immediately complimented him, "Your Excellency is a smart man. You deliberately let Huang Er enter the Black Wind Village to pass on the news to us. That's why we are so successful today."

Ji Qingwu's ears moved. It turned out that Huang Er, the team manager, was just following orders. No wonder the hired thugs were so useless. They took the risk just to encircle and suppress the bandits today.

The man said, "It's not all my credit."

The officers and soldiers sighed, "I didn't expect that after the Lord sent a report to the northern border, he would so readily allocate 2,000 elite soldiers to suppress the bandits."

Ji Qingwu's eyes widened slightly.

The soldiers she met on the road were not palace soldiers, but were transferred from the northern border military camp with the approval of Emperor Wu Su.

But it is a time when troops are being deployed. To mobilize troops to suppress bandits now would be a waste of talent.

Does he know he is here?

Ji Qingwu was feeling nervous when the man turned around.

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