On the city tower of Tonghua Gate, Di Renjie held the city wall with his hand and looked out of the city gate, because a grand event was being held in Chang'an City, so there were still people entering the city in a steady stream, from morning to now, there were 1,232 people entering the city, and only seventy-eight people were out of the city, which was the data in Di Renjie's mind.

Di Renjie was born with extraordinary insight, even if he just stood on the city tower to inspect, he would inadvertently remember the number of people entering the city, he stood here not to play, he carefully observed the looks, clothes, goods carried, vehicles, etc. of each person entering the city.

His eyes are like a scanner, any unreasonable existence will be seen through by him at a glance, from the morning to now, he has caught three suspicious people, after catching these three people, Di Renjie sent someone to ask on the spot, these three people immediately confessed, it turned out that they were all thieves and habitual criminals, probably wanted to take advantage of the excitement to come to Chang'an to "work".

Although they were habitual offenders, they had not committed any crimes, so Di Renjie could only order them to be expelled, and send someone to notify the other city gates, strictly prohibiting these people from entering the city.

Just as Di Renjie was looking out of the city with burning eyes, he suddenly saw four people pushing a car out of the city, and at this moment only these four people were out of the city gate, which was very conspicuous.

Di Renjie stared at the four people for a moment, suddenly frowned slightly, and then quickly went down the city tower and asked the guard in charge of the investigation: "The four people who went out just now, what did they have in their car?" ”

One of the guards replied with a fist: "My lord, their car is loaded with some cotton cloth, we have carefully checked it, and there is no problem." ”

"Cotton?" Di Renjie looked up at the blazing sun, and asked, "How many horses?" ”

"This ......," replied the guard, after a moment of reflection, "not much, about five." ”

"Five horses ......" Di Renjie's mind quickly flipped, those four people have too many doubts, it is now May, it is about to enter summer, what do these people still buy cotton cloth for, it is impossible to go home to make clothes, if they are in the cloth business, then sending four people to transport five cotton cloth, it seems a bit funny, five pieces of cloth only, four people can carry it away, what are you doing with the car, besides, after the four people left the city, one of them looked back at the direction of the city gate, and his expression was very unnatural, This is also the main reason why Di Renjie is suspicious of these four people.

Di Renjie pondered for a moment, then asked the three Dali Temples beside him, "You three, come with me, I suspect that there is something wrong with the four people who went out of the city just now." ”

"Yes!" The three of them answered in unison.

After Di Renjie said that, he took the three people and rushed out of the city gate quickly, after leaving the city, Di Renjie found that the four people had actually traveled more than three miles, the speed was so fast, it was obviously abnormal, Di Renjie couldn't help but speed up his pace, and chased after them with three questions.

After walking three miles away, the four people turned north along a fork in the road, which happened to be blocked by a poplar forest, and when Di Renjie chased after the fork in the road, he found that there was a figure on the fork in the road.

"These four people are no ordinary dog thieves!" Di Renjie immediately took out his token, handed it to a questioner, and said, "Zhou Da, you take my token and go back quickly, and call twenty more brothers to come over, remember, bring all the blades and ride horses, I will leave a mark along the way!" ”

"Yes!" The young man named Zhou Da took the token and hurriedly ran back.

"Look at the rut marks, they're in the woods, let's go and see." Di Renjie spoke, and followed the rut mark into the Yang forest.

In May, the poplar forest is already very dense with branches and leaves, and the trees here are extremely dense, and when you enter the woods, you can't see anything three feet away, and your vision is seriously blocked.

Di Renjie took two questions to look along the rut all the way, and finally found that there was a trolley in front of him, he hurried over, the two questions were on guard, and Di Renjie was responsible for checking the trolley.

"The cotton is all ...... This cart ......" Di Renjie removed the cotton cloth, tore off the linen cloth that was padded at the bottom of the cart, and then exclaimed, "There is a secret compartment in this cart!" ”

As he spoke, he uncovered the wooden board of the dark grid, revealing the dark grid at the bottom of the car, the dark grid was empty, there was nothing, Di Renjie looked at it carefully, and said with his eyebrows: "This is the car in the palace, the car in the palace actually appeared here, and there is a dark grid, this is not a trivial matter......" He said and began to check the surrounding terrain again.

I saw some footprints around, and on the other side of the tree, there were many horseshoe prints, which were very messy.

Di Renjie immediately said: "Those four people must have stolen something from the palace, and they also changed horses here, this matter is not trivial, Zhou Tong, you stay to protect this car, this is very important evidence, Qin Hai and I continue to chase!" ”

"Yes!" The two of them received orders in unison, Zhou Tong stayed, and Qin Hai and Di Renjie went all the way north.

The land in the forest is soft, and there are clear horseshoe prints along the way, which are easy to identify, but after going forward for several miles, out of the poplar forest, the horseshoe prints are on the road, and it is a fork in the road, one of these two roads leads to the northwest direction, and the other leads to the northeast direction, and the footprints on the road are mixed, and it is impossible to distinguish which horseshoe prints are what they are looking for.

Di Renjie squatted down and looked on the ground for a long time, pulled out his pocket knife, carved a mark on the ground, got up and ran to the fork in the road on the right.

Di Renjie traveled all the way for seven or eight miles, and mountains and forests began to appear in front of him, but before entering the mountain, there were two forks, one left and one right around the mountains and forests, Di Renjie knew that these two forks led to different mountains, and once he chose the wrong one, he was afraid that he would have to lose his prey.

Di Renjie carefully searched for traces on the ground again, and after looking for a while, he pointed to the fork on the right and said, "This way!" With that, he carved a mark on the ground and rushed towards the path to the right.

After walking less than a mile forward, he saw horse manure on the road, Di Renjie hurriedly squatted down, buckled a little horse manure with his hand, put it in front of his nose and smelled it, Qin Hai on the side was dumbfounded.

"This horse manure is very fresh, and there is still residual warmth, it must have just been left, we chose the right one." Di Renjie's tone was a little excited, wiped the horse manure on his fingers on the ground, got up and continued to chase forward.

Four or five miles further, I saw a large mountain forest in front of me, and the road disappeared, Di Renjie rushed into the mountain forest without hesitation, and soon found the horseshoe print, Di Renjie was overjoyed and continued to chase forward.

Suddenly, Qin Hai behind him suddenly screamed miserably, Di Renjie was shocked, and hurriedly stopped and turned his head, only to see Qin Hai standing there still, his right foot stepping on the grass, and he could vaguely see a trap in the grass, clamping Qin Hai's right foot.

Di Renjie hurriedly went over to help him unhook the trap, Qin Hai pulled out his foot, and the blood immediately stained his trouser legs and boots, Di Renjie helped him take off his boots and rolled up his trouser legs, only to see that there were four small blood holes in his ankles, which were gurgling and bleeding, he took out the gold sore medicine he carried, put it on the wound for Qin Hai, and then tore off a piece of cloth from his clothes, bandaged Qin Hai quickly, and said at the same time: "You wait here, Zhou Da will bring someone over soon, I will continue to chase." ”

Qin Hai shook his head and said stubbornly: "No! How can I let you be in danger alone, and I can still go! ”

"If you know I'm an adult, listen to me!" Di Renjie said with a straight face, "You wait here, don't act privately!" ”

As he spoke, he had already bandaged Qin Hai's wounds, then put away the trap, got up and continued to chase the prey.

Continuing forward, the terrain gradually rose, obviously began to go up the mountain, not long after, the mountain became steeper and steeper, Di Renjie saw four horses tied to the tree, obviously, the mountain was too steep, it was impossible to ride a horse, the four people gave up the horses, and walked up the mountain.

Fortunately, there are very few pedestrians in the mountains, and the fallen leaves on the ground are very thick, if someone walks by, they will leave footprints in a short time, although it is difficult for ordinary people to find these footprints, but Di Renjie can see that he followed the footprints all the way up the mountain, and soon reached the mountainside, and also found a rugged mountain road.

Di Renjie just walked along the mountain road, next to the cliff, there was the sound of water flowing under the cliff, not far ahead, he vaguely heard someone talking in front of him, Di Renjie hurriedly dodged against the mountain wall, just hiding behind a big stone, only to see two people walking along the mountain road towards this side, talking while walking.

"I didn't expect the kidnapping of the princess to go so smoothly this time, hey, are the group of Jin Wuwei and Yulin Jun in the palace all fools?"

"Yes, if the palace guards are so bad, it is better to go directly and kill Li Shimin with a knife, how much trouble it will be......"

With only these two sentences, Di Renjie felt that the hairs on his body stood up, and from the first sentence, it could be heard that this group of people seemed to have robbed a princess, and from the second sentence, it could be heard that this was a group of rebellious thieves!

Since it has been confirmed that the other party is a thief, how can Di Renjie be polite, while the two of them are passing by, he suddenly rushed out from behind the boulder, Tang knife waved, one head flew up, the other person just wanted to draw his sword to fight back, opened his mouth and was about to shout, Di Renjie had already stabbed him in the throat.

This sword technique is fast and smooth, almost completed in a second, if in the past, he would definitely not be able to reach such a level, but after he saw Ye Mengqiu's sword technique, he seemed to have an epiphany, and after going back, he studied it painstakingly, and finally made his martial arts greatly improved.

Two knives to solve the two thieves, Di Renjie searched on them, except for the money bag and weapons, did not find anything valuable, Di Renjie was slightly frustrated, in order to prevent being discovered, he threw the bodies of these two people and the severed heads into the river under the cliff, and then covered the ground with mud with blood, and after arranging everything, he carved a mark on the root of the boulder next to him, and continued to rush forward.

After a few bends along the mountain road, I saw that the terrain in front was flat, and a dilapidated mountain temple could be seen in the distance, Di Renjie cautiously approached the mountain temple, and finally came to the side of the mountain temple, and then walked with his back to the wall, and came to the back of the mountain temple, just happened to have a hole in the back wall of the mountain temple, Di Renjie came to the entrance of the cave, he didn't dare to look inside, in case he was discovered, just listened carefully at the entrance of the cave, and only heard that there seemed to be someone pacing back and forth inside.

Di Renjie quietly guarded outside the entrance of the cave, motionless, and even controlled his breathing very lightly, although he was young, but in the face of this kind of thing, he was extremely experienced, and he didn't know how the martial arts of these thieves were, and the princess was in their hands, if he was not absolutely sure, he didn't dare to act rashly, he was very patient.

After a long time, suddenly many footsteps approached the mountain temple, and at the same time, there was a shout: "Quick, in this temple." ”

Di Renjie was overjoyed when he heard this, he knew that the reinforcements from Dali Temple were coming.