Chapter 142: Chasing the Horse Thief (Part I)

"Why do you have an antidote?" Li Hao squinted his eyes and looked at Jin Li suspiciously and gloomily.

Jin Li was embarrassed for a while, and he knew that he couldn't avoid this topic, so he could only confess: "Don't hide it, my lord, I used to be a horse thief, and I used this cow drink before." ”

"Now that the golden basin has washed its hands?"

"Yes."

"Now that you've washed your hands, forget it." Li Hao jumped out of bed and said, "Where are my two bodyguards, take me to detoxify them." ”

"Okay." Jin Li hurriedly took him to the next room, where Li Yuanzhong and Lu Yun were there.

Jin Li taught him how to use this antidote, Li Hao did it, but he didn't wake up, Jin Li explained, it will take a while to be effective, Li Hao thought about it and felt right, the medicine, of course, must be absorbed by the stomach before it can take effect.

Then he wanted to go to the camp to detoxify others, and suddenly, he remembered something, turned around and asked Jin Li: "Shopkeeper Jin, where is Fat Di?" ”

The golden shopkeeper naturally knew who Fat Di was in his mouth, and replied: "Didn't you say just now, all five people were taken away." ”

"She's been taken away too?" Li Hao twisted his eyebrows when he heard this, when Jin Li said that the five were all taken away, he thought he was talking about the silver fox and his four female dependents, but it turned out that he was talking about Fat Di and the four female dependents, and the silver fox was not counted at all.

He suddenly thought of the blue-shirted man next to Fat Di, and asked again: "Where is that guy named Fan Shui?" ”

"Come with me." Jin Li said and took Li Hao to the next room, and Fan Shui lay on the bed.

Li Hao first helped Fan Shui detoxify, and then explained to Jin Li: "If they wake up, let them go to the barracks to find me." ”

"Yes, sir." Jin Li nodded in agreement, and Li Hao went to the barracks with the antidote.

When he arrived in the barracks, Li Hao first detoxified Peng Hai, and then began to detoxify his thirty special forces, just after feeding all the thirty special soldiers, there was not a drop of antidote left.

At this moment, Lu Yun, Li Yuanzhong, and Fan Shui all came.

As soon as they met, without waiting for them to speak, Li Hao preemptively said: "Let me tell you about the current situation first, our camels and goods have all been robbed by horse thieves, all the horses have been killed, and the most important thing is the most important!" The ladies have been robbed by horse thieves, and we must get them back as soon as possible! ”

When Lu Yun and Li Yuanzhong heard that their female dependents had been robbed, they were both shocked and hurriedly asked, "Then do you have an idea?" ”

"I just thought about it." Li Hao said, "We are facing two problems, first, we don't know where these horse thieves come from and where they go; Second, we don't have horses or camels, and even if we know where they're going, we can't catch up. ”

"So what to do!" Lu Yun, who has always been extremely calm, showed an anxious and anxious look for the first time, "We must rescue them quickly, the woman who was robbed by the horse thief, if she is not rescued in time, will definitely be ruined!" ”

"I want to be calm, I want to be calm......" Li Hao pressed his temples with both hands, and kept muttering in a low voice, trying to keep himself calm, his face was unprecedentedly solemn.

He thought for a moment, then suddenly raised his head and said, "Lu Yun, you go around the inn to check the horseshoe prints on the ground, they have a total of more than a hundred horses, and they must have left traces." ”

"More than a hundred?" Lu Yun was shocked when he heard this, "When did so many people come, why don't we know?" ”

"Don't ask so much!" Li Hao glared and shouted, "Execute it immediately!" ”

"Yes!" Lu Yun hurriedly surrendered his order, turned around and rushed to the outside of the camp.

"Li Yuanzhong, you immediately take my official seal and the holy decree of my appointment to Shazhou to find the assassin of Shazhou, and borrow soldiers and horses from him...... No, without the emperor's order, they did not dare to mobilize troops and horses, and it was useless to serve in the holy decree, so you can ask them to borrow horses and camels, and send them in two batches, the first batch of forty fast horses and forty camels, and send them here at once, so that we can quickly chase after the horse thieves, and the second batch of horses and camels will be sent to the right guard, so that the right guard can delay and gallop to help us. After he finished speaking, he took out the official seal and holy decree from his bosom and handed them to Li Yuanzhong.

"Yes!" Li Yuanzhong took the official seal and the holy decree, and also went like a gust of wind.

"Do you have a task for me?" Fan Shui's face was full of anxiety and unease, and he asked, "What can I do?" ”

Peng Hai also said: "And the last general, my lord, what do you need the last general to do?" ”

Li Hao waved his hand and said: "Don't use it for the time being, Peng Hai, you are guarding in the barracks, if my thirty parts wake up, let them come to wait for me outside the inn immediately, Fan Shui, you go to the inn with me and ask the gold shopkeeper again, maybe you can find out what clues." After he finished speaking, he took Fan Shui and strode out of the barracks and headed for the inn.

Li Hao came to the inn, the golden shopkeeper was sitting quietly with his brothers in the hall, seeing Li Hao's arrival, he hurriedly got up and saluted, Li Hao raised his hand to signal that they didn't have to be polite, and then spread his hands and said: "The gold shopkeeper, please sit, I have something to ask you." ”

The golden shopkeeper sat down according to his words, Li Hao sat down opposite him, and then asked: "The golden shopkeeper, you have been in this desert for many years, you should know the desert very well, I want to ask you, what is the origin of those horse thieves, and where is the nest?" ”

The golden shopkeeper was stunned for a while when he heard this, and suddenly thought of Yuan Jinliang's warning to them before leaving, and immediately hesitated, Li Hao still had a set of words and expressions, and when he saw the golden shopkeeper's expression flickering, he guessed what he must know, and said eagerly: "The golden shopkeeper, I am anxious to save my family, please be sure to tell me, please." After he finished speaking, he got up and bowed to the golden shopkeeper and made a big salute.

The golden shopkeeper was embarrassed in his heart, he himself was not afraid of death, but he couldn't affect his brothers, but Li Hao was a big official of the imperial court, and now he begged for a big gift, if he didn't say it, he was afraid that he would offend him again......

"I'll get you on your knees." Li Hao saw that he was still hesitating, and he was about to kneel down in a hurry.

Jin Li was startled, hurriedly stepped forward to hold him up, and said repeatedly: "I can't help it!" I can't help it! ”

Civilians have a natural fear of officials, even horse thieves, unless the horse thief already has the ability to raise troops to rebel, but Jin Li obviously does not have this ability, he is not even a horse thief now, just the shopkeeper of an inn.

"Shopkeeper Jin, please, I have to save them, please......" Li Hao's eyes were already moist as he spoke.

The golden shopkeeper was in trouble, Lu Damao couldn't help it, and suddenly said loudly: "Big brother, tell him, it's a big deal!" What are you afraid of! ”

Lin Dingkun also said loudly when he heard this: "Yes, it's a big deal, we are not afraid." ”

"I'm not afraid!"

"Tell him, big boss."

……

All of Jinli's subordinates supported Li Hao, because they hated Yuan Jinliang and hated the blue wolf gang horse thief, and now that they had the support of officers and soldiers, they were naturally much more courageous.

Seeing that all the brothers said this, Jin Li no longer hesitated, gritted his teeth, and said: "These horse thieves call themselves the blue wolf gang horse thieves, according to their own words, they are not in this desert, it seems that they are not close, they left and went to the west, I know so much." ”

"Thank you." Li Hao waved at him again, and said, "I also want to ask the shopkeeper to prepare more than 30 portions of water and food for me, I have no money now, so I can only pay on credit, but the shopkeeper can rest assured, after I rescue the female relatives at home, I will repay it tenfold." ”

Jin Li stood up and said, "How can I keep an account for such a trivial matter and give it to an adult." Then he turned to his brothers and said, "I have heard you, and I have prepared food and water." ”

"Yes!" A group of guys were very happy when they heard this, and Li Hao led the officers and soldiers to recruit the blue wolf gang horse thieves, they were able to vent their evil anger, how could they not be happy, and they went to prepare food and water.

"Jingle Bell Jingle Bell ......" There was a sudden sound of messy camel bells outside the courtyard, and there seemed to be a lot of them.

Li Hao was pleasantly surprised when he heard this, and hurriedly rushed out of the inn, and when he came to the outside of the courtyard, he saw a long camel team coming this way, and Li Yuanzhong was at the front of the camel team.

At the same time, he also saw that his thirty parts had already woken up, and at this time they were neatly lined up, standing motionless outside the inn.

When the caravan approached, Li Yuanzhong handed back the holy decree and the official seal to Li Hao, and said excitedly: "Poetry madness, luck, good luck, I just walked out not far, and I met this caravan in Chang'an, I told them about borrowing camels, they heard that you are a court official, it seems that there is a move, and the three businessmen are currently discussing." ”

Li Hao asked, "Have you shown the holy decree?" ”

Li Yuanzhong shook his head: "Not yet." ”

Li Hao nodded and looked at this caravan, there were about four hundred people and more than two hundred camels, which was not a small caravan.

When all the people in the caravan arrived, Li Hao suddenly tore open the holy decree and shouted: "The holy decree has arrived!" ”

Everyone in the caravan was stunned for a while, and hurriedly knelt down in chaos, including Li Yuanzhong, Li Hao read the holy decree loudly, and then walked to the caravan and asked, "Who is the leader of your caravan?" ”

The three businessmen stepped forward and saluted: "Back to the adult, the villain Mu Yifeng, the villain Qin Zheng, the villain Shiyun." ”

Li Hao took out the official seal and showed it to them, and then said: "This official is the Tingzhou Assassin Shi and Zhichong Lieutenant of His Majesty's holy decree, and he led the Zhaowu Lieutenant to disperse the title, and passed by here on his way to the post, but the food and drink were done by the horse thieves, and the female relatives of the family were all taken captive by the horse thieves, and the five hundred war horses of the official were all slaughtered by the horse thieves, and the camels were also robbed, so the official wants to borrow your forty camels to chase the horse thieves. ”

When these three people heard Li Yuanzhong mention the matter of borrowing camels before, only one of them was willing, and the other two were against it, but when they knew that Li Hao was the emperor's holy decree to seal the history of Tingzhou, they were all moved, although camels are expensive, but they can be bought for a little money, but the favor of the officials is not something that anyone can owe, and Li Hao is still the history of Tingzhou, Tingzhou is an important town on the Silk Road.

Li Hao said that after the matter is completed, he will ask the emperor for them, if he is trustworthy, it is terrible, maybe the status of the three of them can rise, you know, in ancient times, the importance of agriculture and business, the status of businessmen was low, even if they were rich, they were looked down upon, especially in the Tang Dynasty, people were more temperamental, the general teacher is unwilling to accept the children of businessmen as students, no matter how much money, all often appear businessmen have money to invite Mr. Teach.

The three big businessmen exchanged glances, and then a middle-aged man with a mustache stepped forward and arched his hand: "Why should the adults borrow camels, it's just forty camels, and the villain will give them to the adults." ”

"What the official has is money, and he does not take bribes." Li Hao waved his hand and said, "You are also businessmen, you should have heard of perfumes, soaps and spirits, these are the business of this official. ”

"I see." The bearded middle-aged man's eyes lit up, and he knew Li Hao's identity when he heard the liquor, and said in surprise, "It turned out to be the young Yingjie Li Hao, who captured the enemy chief of Tugu in person, no wonder this name is so familiar, please forgive the villain for not knowing Mount Tai." ”

"Don't say so much." Li Hao said anxiously, "Hurry up and unload the goods, I'm anxious to save people, and I'll talk about it later." ”

"Yes!" The middle-aged man turned around and whispered a few words to the other two, and the three began to instruct the caravan to unload the goods.

At this moment, a figure rushed from the west, shouting from afar: "Young master, the horse thief has gone to the west!" ”

The person who came was Lu Yun.

"Very good!" Li Hao suddenly shouted, "Sons, listen to the order and go to the courtyard to get water and food, three catties of water and three catties of grain per person!" ”

"Whoa!" The thirty parts roared in unison, and the sound shook in all directions, causing a commotion in the caravan camel herd, but fortunately it was controlled in time.

After a while, thirty special forces rode on camels and lined up neatly, and there were three people at the front of the team, Li Hao, Lu Yun, and Li Yuanzhong.

Everything was ready, Li Hao looked at the west, the cold light in his eyes bloomed, his hands slowly clenched into fists, and he gritted his teeth: "Blue wolf helps horse thieves, wait!" Your grandpa is here! ”