Murong Xiao entered the door and went straight to Zhang Xingzhou's bed. With murderous intent all over his body, his eyes fell sharply on him.

Immediately, Beiyuan and Xie Chengfeng also walked in behind Murong Xiao.

When Xie Chengfeng saw the mess in front of the bed, he guessed that it was a scene that had just been treated and had not yet been cleaned up, and his heart suddenly rose in his throat.

From last night to today, he traveled hundreds of miles back and forth. Not only did he not persuade the officials of the state capital to mobilize troops, he was almost arrested by the confused prefect for lying about military information.

In desperation, he had to come back alone and think of other solutions. Unexpectedly, when he returned to the inn, he happened to bump into Murong Xiao.

Murong Xiao recognized him, and he had no way to escape, so he had to pretend to meet him by chance and say hello, saying that he and the owner of the inn were friends, and he passed by here on his travels. The owner was injured by bandits, and the county magistrate sat back and ignored him. Go to the state capital to report to officials and recruit soldiers.

Murong Xiao was not stupid. He would not believe that there could be such a coincidence in the world.

He concluded that Xie Chengfeng and Chu Zhao were in the same group, and that Xie Chengfeng was the senior brother mentioned by Chu Zhao. It was also Xie Chengfeng who escaped with Chu Zhao on the mountains on the border of Yunzhou.

After thinking about it like this, Murong Xiao figured out many things.

No wonder Xie Chengfeng helped Chu Zhao bully Su Nuanyu when he was exorcising evil spirits in the palace. No wonder Chu Zhao wanted to elope at the risk of his whole family being killed. It turned out that the two of them had had an affair for a long time.

He felt that he was so stupid. He was fooled around by these two people in the palace, and after leaving the palace, he was still fooled by them.

Unfortunately, he had no evidence, and Xie Chengfeng refused to admit it. Everyone in the inn also said that the doctor was a man. In desperation, he had no choice but to go up the mountain to rescue Chu Zhao first, no, capture him later.

When the time comes, three people and six eyes will have solid evidence, let’s see what these two dirty men and women have to say.

So, under such circumstances, the angry Murong Xiao forced Xie Chengfeng up the mountain, and asked Beiyuan to watch him to prevent him from escaping midway.

Before coming, Murong Xiao went to the county government again, pretending to be an official from the capital, chopped off the head of the inactive magistrate with a sword, mobilized all the people in the county government, and went up the mountain with him to suppress the bandits.

In fact, there were not many people in the county government office. They just followed Murong Xiao's instructions and yelled their bluff to scare the bandits.

Unexpectedly, before they started fighting, the bandit leader sent someone out to surrender. He also said that they were not bandits, but soldiers in exile who wanted to seek refuge in the Jingnan Palace.

Murong Xiao didn't care about these deserters. Apart from catching Chu Zhao, he had no time to care about anything else.

"Where is the doctor who treated you?" He looked at Zhang Xingzhou on the bed and asked coldly, "Did that doctor tell you my identity and where did you hide her?"

Zhang Xingzhou was overwhelmed by several questions in a row.

He stabilized his mind and then slowly said: "It's not what the doctor said. It's because we originally planned to seek refuge with the prince. We had inquired about his appearance in advance. There was a moment of confusion just now. I couldn't move in bed, and I didn't know that the doctor had escaped. Where have you gone?"

This statement was false and true. Murong Xiao couldn't tell the truth for a moment. In order not to miss the best opportunity to capture Chu Zhao, he decided to find someone first.

Zhang Xingzhou said that the terrain in the mountains was complicated and asked Cao Xuan to lead Murong Xiao.

Murong Xiao did not refuse and sent a few soldiers to guard the door. He would wait until he came back to discuss the matter of surrender.

Because he was afraid that Xie Chengfeng would escape like Ao, he simply locked him in the room with Zhang Xingzhou and Zhang Dahan, and threatened him: "I know these people are no match for you, but if you dare to escape, I will directly Lead the troops to destroy Qingcheng Mountain."

Xie Chengfeng didn't want to run away, but wished he could stay and ask Zhang Xingzhou about Chu Zhao's whereabouts, so he obediently agreed to his request.

After Murong Xiao led the people away, several soldiers closed the door and stood guard outside. Xie Chengfeng couldn't wait to ask Zhang Xingzhou: "Where is my sister?"

Before Zhang Xingzhou could speak, Zhang Dahan told him with a mysterious face: "Your sister escaped through the secret passage."

"Secret passage, what secret passage?" Xie Chengfeng asked in surprise, "Since there is a secret passage, why don't you escape together?"

Zhang Xingzhou didn't reply immediately. He ordered Zhang Dahan with a stern face: "Give me the knife and stick out your tongue."

"Don't." Zhang Dahan hurriedly covered his mouth, "Brother, don't worry, I know in my heart who I should talk to and who I shouldn't talk to. I didn't say anything to that King Jingnan just now."

"you sure?"

"OK, sure." Zhang Dahan nodded repeatedly.

Zhang Xingzhou spared him and said to Xie Chengfeng: "You don't need to worry about where the secret passage is. Anyway, your sister did run away. She saved my life. I let her go. From now on, we will not owe each other anything. As for her Whether I can escape or not has nothing to do with me."

Xie Chengfeng felt relieved after hearing this and bowed deeply to him: "If you don't mention anything else, thank you very much for this."

Zhang Xingzhou snorted coldly, thinking of Chu Zhao's words before leaving, and looked him up and down: "Isn't it good to be King Jingnan's brother-in-law? I think King Jingnan is quite talented. Letting your sister be my concubine doesn't count as wronging her." .”

Xie Chengfeng: "..."

Where is this? Why can't he understand?

But even though he didn't understand, his words were flawless. He smiled and said vaguely: "Everyone has their own ambitions. You can't force it. I respect my sister's choice."

Zhang Xingzhou flashed in front of his eyes the image of the woman talking and laughing while using a knife on his leg, and suddenly asked abruptly: "What does your sister like?"

"..." Xie Chengfeng glanced at him inexplicably, "Why are you asking about this?"

"I just asked casually." Zhang Xingzhou snorted, closed his eyes and stopped talking.

On the mountain, Murong Xiao and a group of soldiers searched for Chu Zhao for a long time but could not find it. Although he did not want to admit it, he still had to admit that the woman slipped away from him again.

Murong Xiao was particularly angry.

He really couldn't figure out why the woman still refused to go back with him when she was kidnapped by bandits one after another.

Is the Jingnan Palace more terrifying than the bandits' den?

Is he worse than the bandit leader?

Speaking of which, the bandit leader just now is not like ordinary people. Even if he has limited mobility, he shouldn't be able to look down on a woman, right?

Murong Xiao's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly realized that he might have been deceived again, so he hurriedly turned back to find Zhang Xingzhou.

In order to prevent Zhang Xingzhou from telling him the truth, he decided to trick Cao Xuan first.

"I didn't have time to ask before, where did you come from? Why did you become a bandit instead of being a good soldier?"

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