Although Oguzdan was seriously injured and caught a cold, his hearing was still sharp.
From the distant street came the sound of horse hooves and the collision of armor. If he escaped from prison, the King of Liaonan would certainly search the whole city. Ogusdan knew that he could not escape this disaster.
He asked Jiang Yanxi in a hoarse voice: "How many people have seen you since you hid in this dilapidated temple?"
Jiang Yanxi hugged her knees and shook her head: "I didn't dare go out. I only traded my earrings for steamed buns with a few beggars at the end of the alley."
As she spoke, she took out half of the uneaten bun from her arms and handed it to Ugusdan carefully: "This is the half I left for you."
Ugusdan didn't answer. He looked at Jiang Yanxi, who was obviously afraid of him but stubbornly stayed with him, and weighed the pros and cons in his mind.
If he was caught and taken back like this, his jailbreak would be in vain. Besides, the prison would be strictly guarded in the future, and his chances of escaping would be pitifully slim.
As long as he is still in Feng Shuo's hands, the Turkic tribes will not dare to launch an attack on Xizhou.
Ogusdan pondered for a moment, a look of determination flashed across his eyes. He struggled to pull off the wolf tooth pendant from his neck, turned his head and looked at Jiang Yanxi and said, "I have saved your life."
In the firelight, his androgynous face was stained with blood, and his facial features were much more profound than those of the people of the Daxuan Dynasty. The thick scarf around his neck covered his Adam's apple, and he looked like a foreign beauty.
Jiang Yanxi nodded.
Ogusdan handed her the wolf tooth pendant and said, "Do me a favor. Consider it as a way to repay you for saving my life. Take the wolf tooth and go now. Go to the teahouse at the north gate for tea in the next few days. If anyone asks you where you are from, answer that you are from the land of wolves. If they ask how many wolves are left, answer that they are all dead."
The wolf fang was taken from his neck. He had a fever and his whole body was incredibly hot. The wolf fang fell into Jiang Yanyi's cold palm, still carrying the residual heat from his body, but the wolf fang, which was as thick as her little finger, seemed to be surrounded by a murderous aura. It was not difficult to imagine how ferocious the wolf that owned this fang was.
Jiang Yanxi's hands trembled unconsciously: "If I leave, what will you do?"
Ogustan sneered, his androgynous face showing mockery: "What do you think you can do if you stay?"
Jiang Yanxi bit her lip in embarrassment: "I'm sorry..."
Ogusdan listened to the sound of approaching horse hooves, and a hint of anxiety appeared on his brow. If he had not been seriously injured and caught a cold and could not even stand up, he would not have wanted to pin all his hopes on a useless person who could do nothing but cry.
In order to let Jiang Yanxi leave with peace of mind, he gritted his teeth and said, "Leave now! I killed the man, it has nothing to do with you. If you stay, you will be regarded as an accomplice!"
Jiang Yanxi shook her head: "Yes... that person was the first to flirt with me. In court, I will testify for you, maybe I can get a lighter sentence. Girl, you saved me, how can I abandon you..."
Oguzdan was still hoping that she could run out and help him report the news. Her hesitation made Oguzdan so furious that he wanted to kill someone. If he had persisted a little longer last night and kidnapped a passerby, his situation might have been better than it is now.
Ugusdan took out a dagger, pointed the tip of the knife at Jiang Yanxi, and forced her to say, "Go!"
Jiang Yanxi had no choice but to leave the dilapidated temple with tears in her eyes, looking back every few steps.
Ogustan shouted with difficulty: "We must go to the teahouse at the city gate!"
His throat hurt so much that his voice was hoarse and he couldn't shout loudly. Jiang Yanxi had already walked out of the ruined temple and couldn't hear clearly at the door. She thought Ogusdan was reminding her, so she was moved and said, "Don't worry, girl. I will take good care of myself!"
Ogustan, who was lying in the ruined temple and almost dead, said: "..."
He wants to kill someone!
When Jiang Yanxi was walking through the alley in front of the dilapidated temple, she met a beggar. Jiang Yanxi had seen this beggar in the daytime. He wanted to take advantage of her by using some steamed buns, but Jiang Yanxi ignored him and exchanged her earrings for steamed buns with a few little beggars.
Now when she met this beggar again, he looked at her with lustful eyes. Jiang Yanxi was so scared that she covered her face with her hands and walked out quickly.
The beggar chased after him with a strange smile, but he ran into the searching army at the alley entrance. The beggar was immediately frightened and hurried back, leaning on his stick.
Jiang Yanxi's face also turned pale when he saw the army.
The leader sitting on horseback saw Jiang Yanxi and immediately asked, "Who is it?"
Jiang Yanxi's mind went blank: "I... My surname is Li. I came to Xizhou from the capital to seek refuge with my relatives."
She had been questioned by soldiers every time she left the city gate all the way from the capital to Xizhou. At this moment, she spoke completely on instinct.
When Minister Jiang forged her household registration, he said that Li was her mother's surname.
The chief asked, "You are from the capital, do you have any documents?"
When Jiang Yanxi left Lu Linyuan's house, she packed up all her things and took them away. She took out the documents from her bag and handed them over.
The chief took a quick look and could not figure out the problem with the clerk, so he continued to ask, "If you are seeking refuge with your relatives, why are you still here in the middle of the night?"
Jiang Yanxi bit her lip, a strand of hair fell by her ear, she looked miserable and pitiful, "I have spent all my money on the journey, and I haven't found my relatives yet, so I have to stay here for one night."
This area where beggars gather is indeed a free temporary place to stay.
The leader asked, "Why are you coming out at this time?"
Jiang Yanxi's palms were full of sweat. She seemed unable to speak and only glanced at the beggar who followed her out of the corner of her eye.
When she did this, the leader understood that she left here perhaps because she was harassed by beggars.
The leader signaled the old woman who was following them in the search to search Jiang Yanxi, mainly because he was afraid that the Turkic prince was disguising himself as a girl and stealing someone else's household registration.
The old woman touched and pinched Jiang Yanxi's body through her clothes, and after confirming that she was a girl, she nodded to the leader.
The leader then signaled his men to let them go.
Being searched in public was an embarrassing thing after all. Jiang Yanxi left with tears in her eyes. Thinking of the woman who saved her was still in the dilapidated temple, she felt guilty and could only helplessly hold the wolf tooth pendant that Ogusdan gave her.
As soon as Jiang Yanxi left, the officers and soldiers began to interrogate the beggars in the alley, but they did not find anyone suspicious among them.
The leader asked his men to search the ruined temple behind, and he shouted to the beggars, "Have you seen a wounded woman or man?"
Most of the beggars shook their heads. Only the beggar who followed Jiang Yanxi smiled, revealing a mouthful of black and yellow rotten teeth. "Sir, last night, two young ladies stayed in the dilapidated temple. One of them knew Kung Fu and was very powerful, but she seemed to be injured. The other one was the young lady who just left."
At this moment, the subordinate who was searching the ruined temple also came back and said with joy: "Boss, we found the person!"
The leader had no time to be happy. When he thought that the Turkic prince's accomplices had slipped away right under his nose, he was so angry that he cursed and immediately took people to capture Jiang Yanxi.
Jiang Yanxi was not familiar with the road conditions in Xizhou. She stopped and walked along the way, and hesitated whether to go back to help Ogusdan. When she passed an alley, someone suddenly covered her mouth and pulled her inside.
At the same time, soldiers holding torches and riding war horses also chased from the end of the street, shouting angrily: "Search carefully!"
The firelight did not bring any warmth in the cold night, but instead made Jiang Yanxi's heart sink to the bottom of the valley.
The person who was covering her mouth was thin, and there was a pleasant scent of pine and cypress on his clothes. Jiang Yanxi burst into tears instantly.
Lu Linyuan whispered, "Don't make any noise, just follow me."
The two got on the carriage and Qingsong drove the carriage back.
Lu Linyuan asked Jiang Yanxi: "Are you injured?"
His voice was gentle and gave people a sense of strength, as if no matter what she had experienced, she could be healed by him.
Jiang Yanxi shook her head and cried silently.
Lu Linyuan wanted to comfort her, but now was not the right time. He said, "Someone died in Huajie last night. Your hairpin was the murder weapon. What happened last night?"
Jiang Yanxi knew that Lu Linyuan worked in the government office, and telling him the truth might help Oguzdan, so she told him everything about Oguzdan saving her, but she subconsciously kept out the fact that Oguzdan asked her to take Langya to the teahouse in the north of the city to drink tea and wait for others.
After listening to her, Lu Linyuan asked a few more questions about the appearance of the woman who saved her, and he guessed that the girl she was talking about was the Turkic prince Ogusdan.
He said, "Since you didn't kill him, you don't have to worry. I'll find a way to get you to a safe place when I get back."
Jiang Yanxi said anxiously: "She was injured because she was trying to save me, how could I just ignore her?"
Lu Linyuan closed his eyes and shouted, "Do you know who he is? If you really get involved with him, it will be a heinous crime that will implicate all of your clan!"
Lu Linyuan's words stunned Jiang Yanxi.
The wolf tooth in the sleeve pocket which was obviously not an ornament from the Central Plains, the officers and soldiers who searched all night, and the girl's deep facial features... "Her" identity was obviously not simple.
Jiang Yanxi squeezed her palms and smiled bitterly: "She may be a heinous criminal in the eyes of others, but to me, she is just my savior."
As soon as she finished speaking, the carriage was stopped.
Lu Linyuan swallowed the scolding words that were about to come to his lips.
The leader of the search stopped the carriage and asked, "Who is in the carriage?"
Lu Linyuan motioned Jiang Yanxi to sit aside, and then he opened the curtain on the other side a little, coughing twice because of the cold: "Hello, General Yuan, I am Lu passing by here."
The leader clasped his fists towards Lu Linyuan on horseback and said, "Why is Lord Lu here?"
Lu Linyuan said, "To our shame, the murderer of the Huajie murder case has not been found yet. The people in the government office dare not relax and are investigating the case."
Song Lu Shi signed a military order in front of Feng Shuo. He suspected that the Turkic prince was related to the murder in Huajie. In order to find the murderer as soon as possible and catch the Turkic prince, everyone in the government office was working day and night to look for clues.
The chief had also heard a little about Song Lushi's affairs, and said, "Master Lu has worked hard, but to avoid suspicion, we would still trouble Master Lu to lift the carriage curtain."
Lu Linyuan's smile did not diminish at all: "That's right."
He placed his hand on the curtain and opened it inch by inch. The leader kept staring at his carriage.
"stop!"
"Stop her!"
Suddenly there was a noise in the distance. The leader looked back and saw a man in black and a woman crossing the wall. The woman's dress was exactly the same as Jiang Yanxi's.
The curtain of Lu Linyuan's carriage had been half opened, and one could see that the back of his carriage was empty, with no one else in it.
The chief clasped his fists and said, "Sorry to bother you, Lord Lu."
After saying this, he urged his horse to chase the two people who had escaped.
Lu Linyuan lowered the curtain and told the driver, "Go to the inn."
His secret guards couldn't hold out for long.
He had been doing business in Xizhou for so long, and the Lu family was strong in both financial resources and reputation, so it didn't take much effort for them to rent an inn as a base.
Jiang Yanxi's back was pressed against the car wall near the curtain, and cold sweat had almost soaked her inner shirt. What had just happened was really too dangerous.
Lu Linyuan said to her, "Xiangyun Inn is the property of the Lu family. You should hide there for a while. After tonight, I will also be suspected. You can't go back with me."
Jiang Yanxi nodded fearfully.
The leader led the officers and soldiers in a relentless pursuit and finally forced the man into an alley.
The officers and soldiers held torches and could see clearly that the person the man in black was leading was not a woman at all, but a bundle of straw wrapped in silk cloth.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the man in black quickly jumped over the wall to escape. However, as soon as he climbed over the top of the wall, someone jumped into the air and kicked him in the chest, knocking him down.
With a sharp pain in his chest and his back hitting the blue brick floor, the man in black lay on the ground, twitching in pain.
The leader looked at the man in tight clothes who landed steadily, and quickly clasped his fists and said, "Commander Xing."
Xing Yao said: "Tie him back."
The officers and soldiers quickly stepped forward and tied up the man in black.
Xing Yao walked out of the alley and stood outside the carriage window. He lowered his voice and reported to Feng Shuo inside the carriage: "Master, the woman who helped the Turkic prince escape has not been caught, but the person who deliberately confused the audition has been caught. There is obviously a mastermind behind the scenes."
Feng Shuo's voice came from the carriage, colder than the wind on this snowy night: "Take him back and torture him."
We did not gain nothing tonight, at least we caught the Turkic prince who escaped from prison.
With the Turkic prince as a hostage, the Turks would not dare to go to war against Xizhou in the short term. But I don't know what the Turkic prince told his accomplices. If the Turkic prince's accomplices passed the news back to the Turks, it would definitely be detrimental to Xizhou.
When the carriage was moving back, Feng Shuo lifted the curtain and looked out, and happened to find a wheel track on the snow.
It was snowing heavily, and if there were any marks left behind before, they would have been covered by the snow long ago. However, these ruts were very fresh, and it was obvious that a carriage had just passed by.
The lantern hanging under the eaves of the carriage cast a fist-sized dim light. Feng Shuo's narrow eyes reflected the light of the lantern. He stopped the carriage and asked Xing Yao, "Who else is passing by here in a carriage tonight?"
As Feng Shuo's personal bodyguard, Xing Yao naturally didn't know this, so he asked the small leader. After getting the answer, he quickly reported to Feng Shuo: "It was Lu Linyuan. The government office is investigating the murder case on Hua Street. However, the people under him checked his car, and there were only him and the driver in the car."
Feng Shuo didn't say anything. He got off the carriage, looked at the tire tracks left by the two cars on the ground, and snorted meaningfully.
Xing Yao walked in with a lantern, carefully distinguishing the ruts left by Feng Shuo's carriage and Lu Linyuan's carriage. He soon discovered something was wrong and his face changed drastically: "I will take people to capture Lu Linyuan right away!"
Lu Linyuan's carriage left first, but because the snow had been falling for so long, the ruts left by his carriage were still slightly deeper than those left by Feng Shuo's carriage.
There were only two people in Lu Linyuan's carriage, and there was only Feng Shuo and the guard driving the carriage. However, the wheel tracks were of varying depths, and it was obvious that there were other people hiding in Lu Linyuan's carriage!
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