The dim back

Zhang Yulu came to the bamboo forest on the back mountain at night. He looked around and finally saw a tall and handsome man under a bamboo tree.

Zhang Yulu walked up to the man and said politely, "If I'm not mistaken, you should be Shi Yufeng?"

Shi Yufeng nodded: "Do you know why I asked you to come here?"

Zhang Yulu was very surprised: "We have never met each other, why did you bring me here?"

Hearing Zhang Yulu say this, Shi Yufeng smiled: "You may not remember me, but do you remember Tianhu Bridge?"

Zhang Yulu tried hard to recall the plot of the novel because she had traveled through time. It seemed that when Zhang Yulu was at Tianhu Bridge, she saw a man buying buns. Because the man forgot to bring money, the owner of the bun shop kept arguing with him.

Zhang Yulu rescued him, could it be that? The person Zhang Yulu rescued was Shi Yufeng.

Zhang Yulu asked tentatively: "Are you talking about the incident of selling buns?"

Shi Yufeng was overjoyed: "You really remember me, then do you still remember? At that time, I told you to come to the Nine Gates Governor's Mansion to find me afterwards?"

Zhang Yulu didn’t remember any of this at all: “I was ill some time ago, and after I recovered I don’t remember a lot of things. I’m really sorry.”

Shi Yufeng felt very embarrassed: "I just heard recently that you and Liu Zhongqing were engaged. If I had asked my father to propose earlier, we would have had a chance to be together."

Zhang Yulu saw Shi Yufeng's straightforward statement and immediately said to Shi Yufeng: "We met by chance and we are all friends. If it was someone else, I would also save him. Don't say that again in the future. After all, I am engaged."

Zhang Yulu didn't expect that when she finished saying this, Shi Yufeng immediately became irritated: "Don't remind me again and again. I don't want my mother to worry every day, worried that I'm going to steal the bride."

Zhang Yulu looked at Shi Yufeng's performance and said, "You should check your mind first. We can talk when you are free."

How could Shi Yufeng give up this opportunity? "I may be too anxious. I don't want to do anything. Because in broad daylight, I can't meet you alone, so I have to ask my nanny for help. But don't worry about this matter. Your business will be very good tomorrow."

Hearing Shi Yufeng say this, Zhang Yulu laughed: "You are not a fortune teller, how do you know whether my business will be good tomorrow? As long as you don't come out to make trouble, I believe my business will be good every day."

Zhang Yulu is still confident in this. After all, in modern times, her family runs a small merchandise department. When Zhang Yulu was young, she followed her parents to sell things, so she is good at spending money carefully.

Hearing Zhang Yulu say this, Shi Yufeng was very unhappy: "You are blaming me for disturbing your business. I have no choice. This is the only way for the two of us to meet alone."

At this time, Liu Zhongqing, who followed Zhang Yulu, walked up to Shi Yufeng and said, "Master Shi, you are fine. If you are not a palace guard, why are you running to the bamboo forest?"

Unexpectedly, Shi Yufeng quickly responded: "I didn't see you, the Marquis, patrolling the streets, so you ran into the bamboo forest, didn't you?"

Seeing the two people at loggerheads, Zhang Yulu had no choice but to start persuading them: "You two should just go back to work and we can continue the conversation when we have time."

Seeing Zhang Yulu was about to leave, Shi Yufeng immediately said, "It's still early, can you accompany me to eat a bowl of wontons?"

Zhang Yulu wanted to refuse, but the system reminded her: "Host, Shi Yufeng in front of you can help you. I hope you can get along well with him."

Zhang Yulu didn’t know what the system was talking about, but Zhang Yulu felt that more friends meant more paths, so he might as well agree to it.

Zhang Yulu nodded and said, "Then let's go eat something together."

This made Liu Zhongqing very angry: "You are my fiancée, and it is unreasonable for you to go out to eat with another man in the middle of the night. I must follow you."

Zhang Yulu had no choice but to nod: "It just so happens that your shift is about to change, so after dinner, let's go back to Yiren Villa together."

Liu Zhongqing then smiled happily: "You are the best, let's go together."

The most unhappy person here is Shi Yufeng: "I think you should contact Miss Qiufeng at this time, and you shouldn't be hanging around us."

Liu Zhongqing said as if he was claiming his sovereignty: "This is my wife. We go out together as a couple. Are you envious? But you don't have a chance anymore."

Zhang Yulu looked at the two people in front of him, who were acting like children, and found it a little ridiculous: "One of you is a palace guard, and the other is a marquis. Why can't you act more maturely?"

After hearing what Zhang Yulu said, both of them stopped talking and walked forward.

After a while, Zhang Yulu laughed and said, "Why are you two suddenly not talking?"

Liu Zhongqing didn't show any reaction, but Shi Yufeng immediately started to complain: "Of course I'm not happy that someone else got the upper hand."

Liu Zhongqing also began to talk about Shi Yufeng's problem: "Don't forget about you and Princess Honglian. You are also engaged. I heard that your father went to propose marriage these days."

Hearing this, Shi Yufeng laughed: "Then I am not like you. At least I rejected it sternly. Unlike you, you hesitated there and made everyone unhappy."

What Shi Yufeng said was indeed true, and Liu Zhongqing really had no way to refute it.

Zhang Yulu didn't want to mention this matter at first, but after hearing the two of them talking about it, she said, "I want to state once again, what is the relationship between Liu Zhongqing and Qiu Feng? It has nothing to do with me. I just want to run my shop peacefully and have my own business."

Hearing Zhang Yulu say this, Shi Yufeng immediately said: "Remember that time at Tianhu Bridge? You once told me that you like kites very much, so I will help you open a kite shop."

When Liu Zhongqing heard Shi Yufeng say this, he immediately started to argue with Shi Yufeng: "This is my fiancée. I should help her with the store opening. You should just stand aside."

Zhang Yulu didn't expect that the two of them would start arguing again because of a sentence.

Annoyed Zhang Yulu had no choice but to walk ahead. Sure enough, he saw a wonton stand on the roadside. Zhang Yulu sat down and said, "Boss, give me three bowls of wontons."

Soon, three bowls of wontons were ready, and the three people just sat down and wanted to eat.

Liu Zhongqing said in the room, "A strange thing has happened recently. There are many missing children in the capital. So you can see that every household locks up all the children at home as soon as it gets dark."

Shi Yufeng had also heard about this matter: "I did hear about this matter a few days ago, so I often pay attention to this matter when I go out. It seems that this is the task assigned to you by the emperor?"

Liu Zhongqing nodded: "Who took the child away? Was it a human trafficker?"

Zhang Yulu felt very nervous: "Then you have to be careful, these human traffickers are extremely vicious, they must not hurt you."

Seeing that Zhang Yulu cared about him, Liu Zhongqing said proudly: "Since you care about me so much, I will certainly do everything well, so don't worry."

Shi Yufeng was a little jealous: "The emperor also sent me to assist Liu Zhongqing in this matter. Starting tomorrow, the two of us will go door to door. I feel upset when I think about cooperating with someone like you."

Liu Zhongqing sighed: "People like you make me upset."

The two of them were talking back and forth. Zhang Yulu slammed the table and said, "Can you two have a good meal? Can you please shut up?"

Seeing that Zhang Yulu was angry, the two grown men immediately shut their mouths and ate the wontons in their bowls.

At this moment, someone was heard shouting at the entrance of the alley: "Help, help!"

Liu Zhongqing threw down the spoon, picked up a knife and went into the alley to chase after him.

Shi Yufeng also immediately ran to the other side of the alley entrance and blocked it.

Sure enough, after being attacked from both sides, the two men finally saw a person in blue clothes holding a child in his arms.

Zhang Yulu also came to comfort the child's mother this time. Liu Zhongqing said to the man in green, "Are all the children who have disappeared recently taken away by you?"

The man in green had a fierce look in his eyes and said angrily, "My child is lost, so I want to capture other people's children. Who can help me find my child? I will release all these children."

Seeing that he couldn't escape, the man in green threw the child away. Everyone was so scared that they all rushed to save the child, but the man in green suddenly ran away.

When Liu Zhongqing and Shi Yufeng looked for him again, the man in green had disappeared without a trace.

Shi Yufeng laughed: "I didn't expect him to run so fast, but I know a secret. There are dead ends around the entrance of this alley. As long as we keep looking along this alley, we will definitely find the man in green."

Liu Zhongqing also nodded: "This is the first time we two have worked together, I hope it will be a success."

In Zhang Yulu's eyes, these two people at this time are symbols of successful people, because they can put aside the small interests in front of them and only think about completing the task.

As the two people searched around, they finally saw some clues at the door of a small house.

Although the door was closed, a child's cry seemed to be heard from inside the house.

Liu Zhongqing kicked the door open, and Shi Yufeng took out his soft knife from his waist, and the two men approached step by step.

Sure enough, a man in green appeared in the house, holding a child in his hands.

The man in green lifted the child high up and said, "If you take another step forward, I will throw this child to death."

Seeing that the man in green was extremely vicious, Liu Zhongqing was really at a loss: "Tell me what you mean?"

The man in green immediately ordered: "Put down the knives in your hands, or I will kill this child."

Liu Zhongqing and Shi Yufeng had no choice but to obey the orders of the man in green.

Liu Zhongqing saw one thing. On the roof of the Qingyi man, Liu Zhongqing saw Zhang Yulu.

Zhang Yulu immediately shook his hand, signaling Liu Zhongqing not to speak.

Shi Yufeng also saw it, but he immediately hid it well: "Can you tell me? Why did you capture these children?"

The man in green softened his attitude at this time: "I have reported this to the authorities many times, but they just said they couldn't find my son. If you can find my son, I will definitely let these children go."

Liu Zhongqing asked, "How did your son get lost?"

The man in green sighed, "My son was at the entrance of this alley. He said he was going out to buy a windmill, but then he disappeared. I've been looking for him for ten days."

Liu Zhongqing finally understood: "Then you can't use this method to force us to help you find your son. It's hard to say that your son went out to play on his own."

Shi Yufeng also reminded: "Have you had any conflicts with others recently? Is it possible that someone is taking revenge on you? Did they take your son away?"

Liu Zhongqing shook his head: "I don't think it's possible. It's been ten days. If they really wanted to take revenge on this person, there wouldn't be no news at all."

Hearing some noise outside, a woman came out of the house.

After seeing this situation, she immediately said to everyone: "My dear men, this man of mine has gone insane. In fact, my son was drowned in a well, but he thinks that my son got lost while buying a windmill. You should help me think of a solution. He keeps bringing back a child and treats the child as his own son."

After hearing these words, Liu Zhongqing wanted to go into the house to rescue the child.

Unexpectedly, the man in green raised the child high up in anger, and then let go and threw the child out.

Liu Zhongqing touched the ground with his toes, flew high up, and caught the child.

After landing safely on the ground, before he could say anything, Zhang Yulu jumped down from the roof and landed right on the man in green. After this panicked move, Shi Yufeng immediately pinned the man in green to the ground and asked Zhang Yulu with concern: "Are you okay?"

Zhang Yulu smiled and said, "It's nothing. I feel like a hero."

In fact, Zhang Yulu had a wish when she was young, which was to become a policeman. However, she did not have the physical strength at that time, so she could not take the entrance exam for the police academy and could only write novels at home.

Now, Zhang Yulu finally has the opportunity to experience it, and of course she is very happy.

Seeing all this, Liu Zhongqing complained to Zhang Yulu: "What's wrong with you? You want to do something so dangerous? Catching thieves is obviously our job as soldiers. Why are you showing off here?"

Zhang Yulu heard that Liu Zhongqing resented her, and said angrily: "I just want to help, is it necessary for you to make such a fuss?"

Liu Zhongqing didn't want to continue to argue: "It's very dangerous here, go home quickly, there are people to protect you there."

Zhang Yulu didn't want to hear this and said angrily, "I'm not a coward. There are so many children who need us to rescue. I want to rescue all of them now so that I can feel at ease."

The man in green was pinned to the ground, and he kept roaring, "You saved so many children, why couldn't you save my son?"

When the woman heard what the man in green said, she burst into tears and said, "Our son is dead. Please wake up."