I dare not

Sure enough, when the man saw the official uniform, he kicked him on the chest and knocked him to the ground, "You are from the government!"

Now that the matter has come to this, Gu Qiao decided to choose to die with dignity, so he replied in a straight voice: "Yes!"

The red scarf raised the knife and slashed, "How dare you fucking lie to us?"

The black and thin man raised his hand to stop him, "Officer from Beijing, take him back!"

The red turban seemed to listen to the black and thin man's words very much. Hearing this, a flower-tie put away the hatchet, grabbed Gu Qiao's clothes and lifted him up from the ground, "Fuck you, go!"

"What are you going to do?"

"What did you say you were going to do? Tie you back!" The red scarf pushed him, "Hurry up!"

At this time, the old yellow dog who had been lying next to him suddenly sprang up and bit the leg of the red scarf. The red scarf screamed in pain and kicked him vigorously.

The black and thin man grabbed the hatchet and pierced the old yellow dog's body with one knife.The old yellow dog made a whining sound in his throat, and his teeth were deeply embedded in the red turban's calf, making his whole body tremble.

Gu Qiao was stunned. He watched the bright red blood flow out of the old yellow dog's stomach and mixed with the blood of the red turban in the mud.

He froze for a moment, then turned around and ran away immediately after he realized it.

The black and thin man immediately caught up. How could a frail scholar outrun the bandits? Gu Qiao jumped into the river in desperation.

The moment he entered the water, he heard the sound of another person diving.

Gu Qiao learned how to swim with his father when he was a child, and he hasn't been in the water for ten years since he returned to the capital.If he had known that he would swim for his life one day, maybe he would have been more serious when his father taught him.

At this moment, he couldn't think too much, just swam forward recklessly.When I ran for my life, what I thought in my heart was that as long as I didn't get caught up, even if there was an abyss in front of me, I wouldn't hesitate.

After swimming for a long time, he felt that he was exhausted, only to realize that there was no one following him.

He finally breathed a sigh of relief, and raised his head to the surface of the water to breathe heavily.Climb ashore dripping with water, and then cautiously lay down in the grass to observe for a while, making sure that no one followed.

His life was saved for the time being. He touched his body and found that the ivory title card next to his body was lost. It must have been lost in the river just now.The official uniform and the paperwork for taking office are all in the bag, and he didn't have time to pick them up when he was running for his life. Now that the certificate is gone, he has nothing to prove his identity now.What should I take to take office? Now I am going back to look for the paperwork. I don’t know if I can still find it?

I hope that the bandits are illiterate and not interested in the scraps of paper with writing on them, otherwise, if they find someone to disguise themselves and go to Ningcheng to take over as Gu Sima, who is doing something wrong, Gu Qiao will be guilty of great crimes.

Gu Qiao looked up at the sky. She had been swimming in the river for more than an hour just now. At this time, the sun was already in the west. She had to go back, at least to find the documents.

There were lush trees by the river, and the vines hanging from the trees slapped his face from time to time.The drenched underwear was stuck to his body, and every step seemed to be walking in shackles.

It was getting dark, and the forest quickly became dark, and after a while, the road was already invisible.

Hearing the sound of gurgling water, Gu Qiao felt cold and hungry, fatigue and drowsiness hit him at the same time.

He tripped over a tree root and fell top-heavy.Not caring about the shivering from the wet clothes on his body, he lay down on the spot, feeling soft and dry, and closed his eyes.

Unexpectedly, the tree root that tripped him moved, Gu Qiao was shocked, his survival instinct made him bounce up from the ground, and the "tree root" also stood up!

It turned out to be a person.

The man was sleeping against the tree trunk, but when someone stepped on him and was still lying on his body, he woke up.

"Who?" Gu Qiao asked.

"Who?" The man also asked, with a capital accent.The voice sounds like Gu Qiao's age, but his stature is much taller than Gu Qiao's, but the light is too dim, and only his vague outline can be seen.

"I'm on my way." Gu Qiao said.

"I'm on my way." The man also said.

"Who are you? Why are you imitating my language?" Gu Qiao was a little annoyed.

The man didn't answer, he took out a torch from his pocket and lit it, shining it on Gu Qiao's face.

Seeing the bright fire, Gu Qiao was as friendly as meeting a relative, "Brother, you have a fire in the humidity of the night. Let's build a fire so that no insects and snakes will disturb you, how about it?"

The man said, "Oh."

Together they found dry branches, and soon a fire was built.

Gu Qiao felt that this person was a little weird, but he couldn't tell why.

After lighting the fire, he quickly took off the clothes that had been half-dried by the body temperature, and leaned close to the fire, feeling the warm heat enveloped himself.

Only after warming up did he have the time to observe the person opposite. He was very young, probably a little younger than Gu Qiao.He was wearing a black sackcloth bunt, the dress of a local farmer, but his clothes looked new.His body shape and chiseled face gave him the appearance of a noble man, but his dark eyes revealed childlike curiosity and innocence.

At this moment, he was looking at Gu Qiao's body, which was stripped to only a pair of underwear, with innocent eyes, looking at it curiously and seriously, as if it was something particularly interesting and worthy of careful consideration.

Gu Qiao was a little embarrassed by the sight, so she found a topic to cover up her embarrassment, "Are you from the capital too?"

Hearing this, he raised his eyes to look at Gu Qiao's face, and then lowered his gaze.Gu Qiao thought he was introverted and embarrassed to talk to strangers.So he took the initiative to say: "My name is Gu Qiao, and I'm from the capital. What's your name?"

The man was silent for a while, and said two words uncertainly: "Fool."

"What?" Gu Qiao thought she had heard wrong.

He repeated, "Fool."

Gu Qiao was taken aback, "Do people call you a fool?"

The boy nodded.

Gu Qiao realized that the boy might not be out of his mind, so he changed his tone when speaking to the child, and asked gently, "Then why are you here?"

The young man held his arms tightly, glanced at Gu Qiao vigilantly, "Run out."

"You said you ran out by yourself?"

"Needle," the boy gestured, "It hurts so much, that's why I ran out."

"Where is your home? Where is your family?"

The boy buried his head in his arms, and said in a muffled voice, "I don't know."

Gu Qiao pieced together a complete plot in his mind: he has a capital accent, his skin is fair, and he doesn't look like a native of Lianzhou.Most of them are the stupid sons of people in the capital city, who were kidnapped and sold to Lianzhou by human traffickers, where they were abused and then escaped by themselves.But who would buy such an old fool in such a poor place in Lianzhou?Maybe it was kidnapping, used to blackmail his rich parents.

The possibility of the latter situation is very high, and it happens that in Luoxian Mountain, the vicious bandits are completely capable of abusing hostages.Although this little fool spoke like a five-year-old child, but he was so tall and handsome, he must be loved by his family.

So Gu Sima, who has not officially taken office, decided to rescue the hostages kidnapped by bandits as the first practical thing he did when he came to Lianzhou.

"Come with me, I work in the government, do you know the government?" Gu Qiao asked him in the tone of talking to a child.

The boy thought for a moment, nodded, "I know."

"I'll find a way to get you home, okay?"

The boy looked at him with wide eyes, Gu Qiao smiled at him, "Come with me, I won't bully you."

The boy nodded slightly, then closed his eyes very suddenly, and fell backwards.Gu Qiao was shocked, and hurried over to help him up. The boy had already fallen asleep with his eyes closed.