Chapter 225 Thieves are difficult to prevent

"With all due respect, are you worried? Long live today, still relying on the general. Otherwise, how can he be a general to go to the Song-Liao border to suppress the invasion of Liaoning? The use of Ye Mingxin is just because his Ye family has a concubine in the palace. I'm afraid he has enough heart and lacks strength to go to war with an old bone, haha!" There is obvious contempt in the tone of middle-aged people.

The imperial concubine alone can make the emperor reuse Ye Mingxin to such a point. How to explain the dismissal of Ye Zilian before? He can't even understand this, and he must be a brave and arrogant person. Thinking of this, Man Xiu not only despised the middle-aged man.

"Do you think so? Or does the general think so?"

"This is just my subordinate's opinion. What do you think is wrong?"

"Fortunately, it's just your opinion. If the general also said so, then I would consider whether to leave Zhou Zhou's house and turn to the Lord.

"What do you mean by this, sir?" There is a little anger in the tone of the middle-aged man, but this anger is still a little angry and dare not say anything. Who is this person called "Mr."?

"No idea. I know the general's intention. Please retreat... What, what else do you have to do?"

"Yes. The general kept repeating three words before his subordinates set out. He didn't know why. I'm afraid it was also related to the general, so he wanted to ask him for advice.

"Oh? Which three words?

"Qin Manxiu!"

"Is it him? It seems that the general still wants something like that!"

"Who!"

When the comic correction outside concentrated and wanted to listen to the following - what the so-called "thing like that" was, it was accidentally found by the people in the house.

Hearing this shout, Man Xiu's reaction was also sensitive. He jumped and dodged the middle-aged man's horizontal knife snatched out of the room, and passed a few moves one after another. Man Xiu used Shaolin kung fu taught to him by Uncle Yuan Fei. Although he had only practiced for two years and was not very skilled, fortunately, the middle-aged soldier who sent the letter did not have much effort. With only a few moves, his offensive was easily resolved by the maneuve.

When he was secretly glad that he had not met a master and even wanted to take another inch into the house and ask what the old man's "thing" was, he heard the sound of the patrol soldiers coming here. Now if you are caught, you will change from a little initiative to absolute passive, no!

Man Xiu wanted to jump to the roof and leave when the middle-aged man was forced to take a step back by himself. Who would have expected that there would be a mechanism around this inconspicuous thatched hut. I don't know where I touched it, but I shot three darts at him at the same time, hiding and blocking, or my arm was cut by a dart.

When the patrol soldiers arrived, Man Xiu had already jumped to the roof, covered his arms and fled. Those people prepared bows and arrows and looked at the empty roof, but they could only sigh.

"How are you, sir?" The patrol captain respectfully asked the people in the room.

"Ye, that's very good."

"There are blood stains here, and the thief is injured!" The middle-aged man first found a few drops of blood on the ground and said.

"It should be this dart." The patrol captain picked up a bloody dart on the ground and said cooperatively.

"Don't touch that dart!" There was a scolding from the room.

"Mr..."

Just when everyone didn't know why, they heard the old man in the room say slowly, "There is a lot of poison on the darts!"

Hearing a crack, the dart immediately fell to the ground, and then heard a scream. When everyone looked at it, they saw that the hand that the patrol captain had just touched the dart had quickly turned black, which was undoubtedly a sign of poisoning.

"Sir, please give me the antidote!" The captain of the patrol knew that the gentleman in this room was not only General Zhou's staff, but also an insider of poison. Since this dart came from around his cabin, he must be the one who could solve the poison above.

"Sir, please give me the antidote!" Seeing that there was no response in the room, the patrol captain said sincerely again.

"Chopping down your hand!" After a long time, waiting for such a cold answer, the patrol captain couldn't help but say, "What?"

"I am a patrol captain, but I failed to do my duty and let the thief into my land. It's cheaper for me to cut off your hand. If the general is here, do you think your end will be better than this?

After hearing this, the patrol captain didn't say anything. He pulled out his saber and cut off his left hand that had touched the poison dart. The pain made him almost unconscious for a moment, but a moment later, the man knelt down to the person in the room with big sweat and begged, "The villain knows his mistake. Just be generous and ask the villain to capture the thief back and hand it over to the general!"

"Well, the thief has been poisoned and must not be able to escape far. If you want to find him, Moruga will send people to search for the blood stains left by him, and he will surely have a good result.

"Thank you for your advice!"

The soldiers with torches looked at every inch of the surrounding land, blood stains! The more obvious the blood stains at the beginning, the more difficult it is to find. Can this poisoned person run so far?

"Here it is!"

A unclear blood stain was found on a wall, which should have been accidentally left by the thief when he crossed the wall. However, on the other side of the wall, it is the residence of General's wife Hu!

The soldiers are embarrassed. Do you really want to disturb the general's wife in the middle of the night? However, if it is not disturbed, what if the thief escapes? If it's okay to escape alone, in case the life of the general's wife is threatened, it's not too much for them to die a hundred times.

"What's going on?" Hearing the turmoil outside, Shen Yuncheng in Xinyuan came to inquire. But when he saw the patrol captain's handless arm, he couldn't help but be shocked.

"Guard Shen, a thief just broke into the husband's residence with the intention of being wrong. Later, he was injured by the poison darts in the husband's organ. We waited for blood stains. I just got the four gates of Zhou's house to report that there were no thief. It is very likely that the thief is now hiding in his wife's courtyard.

"What? Isn't that lady dangerous?"

"Yes. I'm also considering whether to break in or not, for fear that the thief will jump over the wall and hurt my wife's life.

"I'll go first and have a look. Don't be impulsive!" With that, Shen Yuncheng wanted to jump inside.

"No!" A calm and calm voice interrupted Shen Yuncheng's behavior. Look, the person who is talking is Yao Tian, the former captain of the Qinfeng Road military camp in Shaanxi Province, who was transferred to the capital two years ago. Now, he has become one of the deputy generals around Zhou Ke. Just because the last time he went to fight with Zhou, he was seriously injured and needed to recuperate in order to kill the enemy commander. Zhou Kecai did not take him with him during this expedition to the Song and Liao border. However, Yao Tian applied for an expedition several times, but Zhou couldn't stand him, so he prevaried him with the reason of giving him another task. And the task is to let him take charge of the safety of his wife Hu and his daughter.

"Why didn't Vice General Yao use it?"

"Isn't Guard Shen also fascinated by the thief's trick? If you cross the wall, this is the outer wall, and the trend of blood stains should be from the bottom up. But Shen guard looked at it. Obviously, this blood stain did not come from the bottom up. The trend was obviously caused by the thief who forced his wound on the wall in order to divert his attention. When we search his wife's yard, he can buy more time to escape and attack the east and west.

After Yao Tian's analysis, Shen Yuncheng, who was a little frustrated by the safety of his wife Hu, also immediately turned around. However, the thief was not in his wife's yard, and the four doors of Zhou's house were closed again, and no thief went out... Where can a thief with a dart injury and a poison dart injury go?

"Search again!" The captain of the patrol gave the order.

Zhoufu's large-scale search and arrest continued.

It was dawn, but I still didn't find any news about the thief. The name of the same person has always appeared in Shen Yuncheng's mind, Qin Manxiu! But he didn't dare to see it. If it was really Qin Manxiu, Qin Manxiu could enter the 18th floor of hell and never live. He doesn't want to hurt him.

"I haven't found any clues after checking for a long time." Yao Tian, who was still wearing bandages on his arm, said to Shen Yuncheng beside him. I don't know if he could see his strangeness. Shen Yuncheng took a long deep breath in his heart.

"Yes, where on earth can this thief escape? Isn't it true that you have left the house?"

"No, it's impossible. Finally, I saw that the blood stain was the corner of the general's courtyard, and the blood stain was from top to bottom, which was enough to prove that the thief came down from the roof and walked a flat road. The only thing that can be explained is that the thief is still in the house this week. Moreover, the thief knows that if he doesn't smear blood outside his wife's yard, he is a person who is extremely familiar with the terrain of Zhoufu. In my opinion, the latter is more likely.

"Does Vice General Yao think this thief is a thief?"

"Since ancient times, family thieves have been difficult to prevent! Since he is injured and can hide at night, it is the best way to find it in the daytime. When someone comes, send my order to go down and ask the searcher to stop searching for blood stains and investigate every person in Zhoufu. If there are injured people, report to me immediately!"

I don't know why Shen Yuncheng always goes up and down in his heart.

Hear, hope, hope...

After all, the soldiers of Zhoufu have undergone special training. Soon, he brought all the injured people in Zhoufu to Yao Tian. Shen Yuncheng immediately looked over. Fortunately, there was no him!

Yao Tian did not pay attention to Shen Yuncheng's eyes at this time, but focused on the people who were brought here. However, soon, Yao Tian was also disappointed, because these so-called injuries were nothing more than burns while cooking, cuts when chopping wood, or falling injuries on horseback, etc. None of them were injured by darts.

"Are all the injured here?"

Yes, Vice General Yao. According to your request, all the injured people in the whole Zhou government have been gathered here.

"Let them all go back."

"Yes. But this..."

"The thief is not among them."

The captain of the patrol let him go according to his words, and the injured also went back to recover.

"No, isn't it? Is the speculation wrong?" When Yao Tian said to himself, he heard a voice coming from behind him, "No, there are two other people you haven't checked!"

When Yao Tian looked back, it was the young lady of the Zhou family who spoke happily.