Yang Ze was taken aback, and he immediately realized that something might be going to happen!

Of course, his mount can only be ridden by him, after giving it to Caicai, Caicai loves the horse very much, and does not let anyone ride, there are other horses in the county government, if Yang Ze has something, he will ride other horses, and he will not grab the horse with Caicai, so the horse has been exclusive to Caicai for a while, no one can move the horse except her, and now that the horse is gone, it is impossible for it to run away by itself, so it can only be Caicai who took the horse away!

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, it's early in the morning, so what are you doing riding a horse if you have nothing to do?

Yang Ze didn't care about the horse, he immediately called a soldier and asked the soldier to go to the city gate to have a look, and then he ran to the palace and shouted outside the gate: "Lord, princess, are you up!" Happy New Year! He tore his throat and shouted!

Li Yan and the princess are both old, and they slept late last night, so naturally they didn't get up at this time. The husband and wife heard Yang Ze's loud voice and woke up together.

The princess said angrily: "This Yang Ze, is there any mistake, last night's New Year's Eve together, and they live in the opposite door, why did they come to pay New Year's greetings so early, they won't come in the afternoon!" ”

Li Yan yawned, slowly got up from the bed, and said, "You, in the past, when others came to pay New Year's greetings, you said that you were snubbing us, and that others looked down on us were snobbery." Now that we finally have someone who doesn't snub us, you suspect that someone came early! ”

The princess is right to think about it, she still enjoys Yang Ze's "respect" in her heart, after all, this is the first county order in this county that does not treat them as "prisoners".

Li Yan got dressed, he opened the window a crack, and said to Yang Ze outside the door: "Yang Ze, you wait in the courtyard first, I'll come out!" ”

Yang Ze waited anxiously, and when he saw Li Yan, he said, "Lord Wang, can you help the lower officials to see, is the little princess in the house?" ”

Li Yan was slightly stunned. Then he turned around and said to the princess who was also dressing: "It seems that people are not here for us to pay New Year's greetings, but just a reason, people are here to see the dishes!" ”

The princess also smiled, the two children could come together, of course she was willing, she said, "I'll go and tell Caicai to get up!" She was about to go out of the house to call for Caicai, when suddenly, she was stunned for a moment and said, "That's not right." Yang Ze shouted so loudly, how could Caicai not hear it, she was angry when she got up, if she didn't sleep well and was woken up, she would lose her temper! ”

Cai Cai is not a princess who grew up in the imperial city, and she never takes reserve or anything to heart, Yang Ze shouted so outside to wake her up. Then this little girl had to shout at him through the window, but today it was so quiet, which means that the little girl is not in the house!

Li Yan and the princess moved faster. But he can't come out right away, Yang Ze can't wait any longer, if something happens, chase after him a moment early. The possibility of catching up is one point greater, and the time is impossible to delay, and he shouted again: "Little princess." Nana, are you in the house? Are you absent? ”

There was no sound in Caicai's room, and Li Yan hurriedly said, "What's the matter, Caicai?" The princess was also in a hurry, and quickly got dressed, and the two of them came out of the house together.

Yang Ze saw the two of them come out, so he entered the courtyard and said, "Lord Wang, the horse that the lower official gave to Caicai is gone, if Caicai is not there, is she out of the city?" ”

Li Yan and the princess glanced at each other, the two of them had long known that Caicai would run out and go to find her prince, and they also hoped so, so that Yang Ze would chase after her, and the two of them would have the opportunity to be alone, but now that it has really happened, they will still be worried, worried that their daughter will encounter any accidents, worried that Yang Ze will not catch up in time, in case they can't catch up, what can they do!

Li Yan shouted: "I must have gone out of the city to find that prince, how could I run out on the first day of the new year, and I didn't pick a time!" ”

The princess ran to Caicai's house, pushed the door in, and saw that there was no one in the house, and there was a letter on the table, she opened the letter, and saw that the letter was left by Caicai, saying that she went to play on the grassland and would come back soon, so that the father and mother should not worry, she has many friends on the grassland, and there will be no danger!

took the letter out and showed it to Li Yan and Yang Ze, the princess panicked, she said: "This child has not experienced any major events, what friends can she have in the grassland, such a person runs out, what if she encounters a robber!" ”

At this time, the soldier who was sent out by Yang Ze ran back and shouted: "County Zun, the people at the city gate said that someone went out of the city last night, saying that they were ordered by you to inspect the surrounding area, in case someone took advantage of our New Year's celebration and robbers came to sneak attack......"

Yang Ze hurriedly said: "That is the little princess?" ”

The soldier shook his head and said: "At that time, the people guarding the gate were drinking, it was dark, and the man covered his face and covered it tightly, they were drunk, and they didn't pay attention, he was going out of the city, and he didn't want to enter the city, so they didn't take it to heart, so they let the man go out of the city, and said that he had worked hard, and the Chinese New Year's Eve had to go out to patrol the city, and gave him a bag of wine......"

Here in Zhenxi County, although it is a frontier, few people dare to come here to rob, it has always been the people of Zhenxi who rob others, so the guards have never been strict, Yang Ze has not specially explained, plus outsiders entering the city in the middle of the night will cause danger to the city, but going out of the city will not, the guards are celebrating, no one takes the people out of the city to heart!

Yang Ze was furious and shouted: "What is the city gate used for, isn't it to prevent idle people from entering and leaving, now it's good, the city wall is patched, but the city gate is the same as nothing, if there is a war, we must not let the enemy take us to the pot!" ”

The soldier shrank his head in fright, and did not dare to speak back, but he thought to himself: "When the city wall is not repaired, how can you use the city gate to enter and exit the city, what is the point of the city gate not guarded, and besides, the man said that he went out of the city on your orders, so you can't let him out!" ”

For the dereliction of duty of the guards in Zhenxi, Yang Ze had no time to pursue it, so he could only train well in the future and make amends. He said to Li Yan: "Lord Wang, the lower officials immediately went out of the city to chase, the little princess has not been gone for a long time, and it is estimated that she can catch up!" ”

Li Yan and the princess urged repeatedly, they didn't dare to think about whether Yang Ze would have a chance to be alone with Caicai, all they wanted was to get her back quickly!

Yang Ze immediately ordered a small group of soldiers, took Hao Weifeng and Fu Bingrong with them, left Yan Chenghou to look after the house, rode a horse, and hurried to the city gate! When he arrived at the city gate, Yang Ze angrily scolded the soldiers guarding the gate, and strictly ordered them to take care of the city gate in the future, and if they dared to let people enter and leave the city gate in the middle of the night, he would be severely punished!

The soldiers guarding the gate still haven't figured out that the one who went out of the city in the middle of the night is the little princess, they still feel very aggrieved, the city wall used to be full of big holes, and no one took the city gate seriously, but now although the city wall has been repaired, but the county order did not say that people are not allowed to enter and exit in the middle of the night, and there is no curfew, how would they think that going out of the city will be restricted, and entering the city is almost restricted.

Yang Ze took the soldiers, along the horseshoe prints outside the city, all the way wildly, he estimated that Caicai went out of the city in the middle of the night, it was dark, and the road was not easy to walk, she couldn't go too far, as long as she chased quickly, she could catch up!

Running out for more than 30 miles, there was a fork in the road, a big road was divided into three small roads, there were a lot of horseshoe prints on the fork road, as well as the hoof prints of cattle and sheep, from the hoof prints alone, it was impossible to tell which way the vegetables went.

Yang Ze stopped his horse, called Hao Weifeng, and asked, "Do you know where these roads go?" ”

Hao Weifeng said: "They all go to Balluxun, but the tribes they go to are different, the Balluhun place is too big, there are many tribes, and each tribe has its own grassland." He pointed to the road to the west and said, "This road is to Shuluobu, which is the closest tribe to us." ”

Yang Ze of Shuluobu knows that it is the tribe where the two brothers Shuluochai and Shuluozao are located, but whether Caicai will go to Shuluobu or not, it is not necessarily, because Caicai doesn't know which road leads to Shuluobu!

Yang Ze couldn't be sure which way Caicai was going, he looked back at the people he brought out, a small team of ten soldiers, and he said: "Bingrong, Zhengwen, you take people to these two roads, and the rest of the people will follow me to Shuluobu." ”

Fu Bingrong and Tan Zhengwen agreed, took three people away, and walked along the other two roads.

Yang Ze took Mu Gen and Hao Weifeng, as well as the remaining four soldiers, and rushed to Shuluo Tribe.

After running a long way, Yang Ze stopped his horse again at noon, and looked ahead, and saw that there was all plain land in front of him, and as far as the eye could see, there was no obstacle, neither a hill nor a forest.

Yang Ze pointed to the front and asked Hao Weifeng: "Old Hao, it can be seen from here that there are more than ten or twenty miles of land, and there is no one, is it still the situation on the ground in the distance, if it is like this, we don't have to chase this direction." ”

Hao Weifeng was also in a dilemma, he couldn't determine which way Caicai was taking, in case of a misjudgment, the consequences would be severe. He had no choice but to tell the truth, saying that he couldn't be sure of this direction and didn't need to chase it.

Yang Ze thought for a while and said, "Shuluo is close, this direction must be found, and after finding Shuluobu, we can also ask the two Shuluo brothers to gather people to help us find it together." I won't go over in person, Lao Hao, you bring someone over, explain the matter to the people of Shuluobu, if the little princess is there, let them send them back to Zhenxi, if not, let them help find it together. ”

Hao Weifeng hurriedly agreed, and then asked, "What about you, do you want to find it from another direction?" ”

Yang Ze thought for a moment, he didn't want others to know what prince Caicai was looking for, but in the current situation, he didn't say that he was afraid that he would really be unable to find it, so he said: "There used to be a prince, he saw the little princess when he went to our town, and gave her a fat sheep, do you know that prince?" ”

Hao Weifeng's face changed, and he said, "What the county lord said is someone from the Murong Department?" That is the first tribe of the bald and muddy, the Khan king in the tribe also claims to be a descendant of the Dayan Dynasty, with royal blood, the people there are not easy to mess with, there is indeed a prince in the Murong Department who hunted around the west of our town, and he also saw the little princess and sent her sheep, but his subordinates did not know his name. ”

Yang Ze sighed and said, "It's the prince of the first tribe of Balluhun, isn't that the heir of the Murong Ministry?" No, if it's that important, how can you not know his name? (To be continued......)