Before she could think clearly, Xiao Mo pulled her into the carriage.
"Stay still!" He waved his hand, and several guards surrounded the carriage.
Yingbao's mind raced, thinking about what would be the safest thing to do.
It would definitely not be a wise move to fight head-on at this time, but it is also not an option to let them search for it.
What if they hurt Chen Zhu and the others
"Xiao Mo! What are you doing?" Ying Bao asked loudly.
But Xiao Mo ignored him and ordered the cavalry out of the city gate. He himself stood at the city gate and gave instructions to the troops guarding the city.
Yingbao suddenly calmed down.
Chen Zhu and his men are just ordinary villagers. So what if they are caught by them
They were just trying to protect themselves, and she did everything by herself. It had nothing to do with Chen Zhu and the others. Although Xiao Mo was cruel, he was not the kind of person who would kill innocent people.
Thinking of this, Yingbao calmed down and sat in the carriage to watch what would happen.
Half an hour later, the cavalry that had left the city returned.
"Nothing unusual was found." One person reported to Xiao Mo: "We searched the entire forest and found no suspicious people."
Yingbao listened attentively and breathed a sigh of relief.
Apparently, Chen Zhu saw the white scarf he was waving and ran into the woods without wasting any time.
Xiao Mo's frown relaxed slightly. After returning to the carriage, he asked the driver to drive back home.
After returning to the county government office, Yingbao went straight back to her room, locked herself in, not allowing anyone to disturb her, and secretly fiddled with the poisons.
It is unrealistic to poison Xiao Mo to death all at once, because Xiao Chengjun will soon lead his troops here.
Then, I can only wait for reinforcements to arrive before taking any action.
Several days passed in a flash, and the Xiao family army arrived as expected.
But they did not enter the city, but camped outside it.
In the evening, Xiao Chengjun brought twenty or thirty guards into the city to meet his brother.
Yingbao was confined to the inner courtyard of the county government office and did not see anyone.
But she had a chance to escape.
Because the two maids who had always been with her finally left the house and went to the front yard to help.
Yingbao opened the door and walked out, coming to the room that Xiao Mo used as a study, and pushed the door open to go in. Looking around, she didn't see anything useful, including maps, letters, etc.
At this moment, someone seemed to be coming towards this side from outside.
Yingbao immediately hid at the back window and slipped into the cave.
After that, she stayed in the cave for several days. Apart from eating, drinking and sleeping, she also collected mushrooms and fruits and fed the horses.
That's right, she also kept a horse in her cave in case of emergency.
Then he would walk around the small courtyard in the cave and perform a set of sword skills in the middle of the courtyard.
She had never dared to look at the mirror in the bedroom, as she was inexplicably afraid of that thing.
However, she didn't know that there was a big commotion outside because of her disappearance.
Xiao Mo sent people to search house to house in the county, but they couldn't find Ying Bao.
As a result, the two maids in charge of taking care of her were beaten with whips, and even the guards guarding the county government office were punished.
But the little girl seemed to have disappeared out of thin air and never appeared again.
A few days later, Xiao Mo and Xiao Chengjun led two teams of troops respectively to recapture the surrounding counties.
During this period, Yingbao would come out of the cave every night, waiting for an opportunity to spy on the situation in the study.
Finally one day, Yingbao found a lot of intelligence in the drawer of the study desk.
Among them was a piece of news saying that there were rebel troops stationed in Anping County, with a very detailed description of the number of people, the number of horses, where the food and fodder were stored, where the troops were stationed, and who the general leading the troops was.
Ying Bao frowned. Anping County was close to Chuanhe Town. She suspected that the Da Zhou team wanted to come and encircle and suppress the Xiao brothers.
But before they arrived, someone leaked the detailed information to the Xiao family, indicating that there must be a traitor in that team.
Yingbao quickly took the intelligence report back to the cave, copied it, and put it back in the drawer intact.
Then he climbed out of the window and quietly came to the wall.
Seeing guards coming for inspection, she slipped into the cave and mentally calculated the patrol time she had observed in the past few days.
Expecting that the team of guards had passed by, Yingbao appeared again, climbed up a jujube tree at the foot of the wall, and flipped out easily.
There were still patrol teams outside, but Yingbao had a cave to hide in. She just had to wait in the cave until the guards went far away, then she would quickly run into the darkness.
Yingbao did not dare to hesitate and sneaked out of the county town through the waterway again.
After leaving the county town, she did not dare to take the land road, but took out the gourd boat and rowed towards Anping County by water.
After rowing for dozens of miles, they went ashore, rode horses, and galloped along the official road.
She didn't dare go to the post station on the official road for fear that it might be someone from the Xiao family.
It was not until the afternoon of the next day that Yingbao arrived in Anping County. According to the address in the intelligence, she found the stationed troops and asked to see their general, saying that she had something important to tell them.
After the soldier passed the message to her, he came back quickly and took her in.
Yingbao was brought into a tent, where she saw several people sitting. The one leading the group was actually Uncle Fu.
"Yingbao, why are you here?" Wei Zhan, who was standing next to her, walked over excitedly.
Ying Bao looked around at everyone and said, "I have something important to report to the general, so I shouldn't let anyone else know."
Zhou Fu frowned and signaled everyone around him to leave, including Wei Zhan and Xu Kun.
Wei Zhan had a resentful look on his face and left the tent with the others.
Yingbao glanced at the scholar standing behind Uncle Fu and said, "He hasn't left yet."
The scholar paused and shouted angrily, "How dare you! Who the hell do you think you can give orders in the military camp?"
Ying Bao didn't have time to pay attention to him. She turned to Zhou Fu and said, "Uncle Fu, I have something important to tell you and I can only tell you."
The scholar's face flushed, and he was about to say something while pointing at Ying Bao, when Zhou Fu spoke up, "Mr. Dong, please go out first. This girl is the daughter of an acquaintance, so she is not considered an outsider."
Mr. Dong walked out of the tent angrily, and when he passed by Yingbao, he glared at her fiercely.
Zhou Fu saw them all walk out of the tent, then asked: "Yingbao, what's the matter?"
Ying Bao then handed the intelligence she had copied to Zhou Fu, "Take a look at this."
Zhou Fu took it and looked at it carefully, frowning in anger.
He naturally knew what this meant.
The only one who can know the detailed information and movements of his own army is the insider.
In other words, there was a traitor around him.
"Uncle Fu, the Xiao family army has no less than 10,000 people this time, all deployed near Qinchuan County, and Qinchuan County has fallen into the hands of the Xiao family. You must not be fooled and go to rescue Qinchuan County."
Yingbao told Uncle Zhou Fu everything she knew in one breath, including the situation in the county.
"I see." Zhou Fu smiled and said to Yingbao: "Thank you for your hard work, Yingbao. Go and have a good rest. We will set off tomorrow morning."
"Okay." Yingbao was indeed very tired. She felt like she could sleep for three days and three nights without opening her eyes if she lay down.
Zhou Fu asked someone to take Yingbao to rest. He leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes in deep thought.
Thinking of Yingbao's words, he went over all the people around him in his mind and made a decision.
Zhou Fu summoned all his generals and told them to set out early tomorrow morning to attack the Xiao brothers' troops in Zhouhe County.
That night, a dark figure sneaked into the woods outside the base, took something out of his arms and stuffed it into a tree hole.
He looked around and went back quietly.
Not long after the black shadow left, two more shadows approached the big tree, took out an oil-paper bag from the tree hole, and when they opened it, they were all so angry that their teeth were itching.
"This bastard! He is indeed a spy!"