Catching Monsters

Chapter 227 Is there any news?

After Jiang Yun finished speaking, he was actually a little unsure in his heart. He didn't know whether the identity of the Jinyiwei could scare the other party.

After all, this is the first time that he has used the identity of Jinyiwei outside the capital.

The other party is just a bandit...

Hearing the three words "Jinyiwei", Huang Si lowered his head and stared at the heavy token in his hand, on which was written the words "Hundred Households of the Eastern Pacification Division of Jinyiwei".

Obviously, Jiang Yun still underestimated the deterrent power of the Jinyiwei Baihu on these people, especially for bandits like Huang Si.

Huang Si was able to become the leader of this group of bandits because he had been on the road for many years and had heard countless rumors and stories about the Jinyiwei.

He looked at Jiang Yun who threw out the token, frowned tightly, and after thinking for a while, he respectfully handed the token back to Jiang Yun.

"Let's go! Let's go to another one!" Huang Si said in a deep voice.

One of Huang Si's men couldn't help but whisper, "Brother Si, are we leaving just like this? The wealthy families nearby have almost robbed everything, and there isn't much food left in our village..."

This subordinate was very uneducated. Before the famine, he was just a farmer working in the countryside. He could not read or write, and had never heard of the three words "Jinyiwei".

Huang Si glared at him fiercely: "What nonsense."

Then, Huang Si forced a smile, clasped his fists towards Jiang Yun, and quickly turned around and left with his men.

Only after seeing this group of vicious bandits leave did the people in the Wu Mansion breathe a sigh of relief.

Wu Qing looked at Jiang Yun in shock: "Are you a captain of the Imperial Guard?"

Wu Qing often went to the capital for business. As a captain of the Embroidered Uniform Guard in the capital, he was also a well-known figure.

Jiang Yun put away the token, sighed, and said, "Miss Wu, let's go back to your study and talk."

Soon, Jiang Yun and Wu Qing returned to her study.

"Thank you for your help, Master Baihu. Otherwise, if these bandits attacked, the servants of our Wu Mansion would not be able to stop them." After Wu Qing sat down, he poured a glass of water himself: "We in the Wu Mansion don't have any extra money to buy tea, so we can only serve water to our guests."

Jiang Yun didn't care about these things and said, "Miss Wu has a big business. I wonder if she has a carrier pigeon to communicate with the capital?"

"If there is, I would like to send a letter to the capital." Jiang Yun said in a deep voice.

Upon hearing this, Wu Qing nodded and agreed readily.

Jiang Yun then said, "Also, there is a village twenty miles east of Baiji Villa."

Jiang Yun took out his token and said, "Miss Wu, please ask the servants in the mansion to go and look for them quickly. Many of my companions should be there."

"Please ask them to come here immediately."

For Wu Qing, these two requirements were a piece of cake.

After Wu Qing agreed, Jiang Yun used the pen and ink in the study to write a letter to the people in the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion, asking them to invite Feng Yu to come to Tiankang Mansion immediately.

Then fly to the capital by carrier pigeon.

On the other hand, Wu Qing also hurriedly asked his servants to ride on horses and rush to the village mentioned by Jiang Yun overnight to look for Qi Da and others.

At the same time, in the government office of Tiankang Prefecture, the prefect Qiao Yuanbo was sitting in his study, counting the silver bills in his hand.

Master Wu Yue was quite generous. In the past two years, the benefits that he had gained from Master Wu Yue were enough for himself and his descendants to live worry-free for three generations.

If he could catch the two people who escaped, Master Wu Yue would be willing to give him tens of thousands of taels of silver.

At this moment, Xiao Huasheng, the chief constable of Tiankang Prefecture, suddenly pushed the door and walked in.

When Qiao Yuanbo saw him come in, he quickly put away the banknotes in his hand, and then asked seriously: "Captain Xiao, have you found the person I asked you to find yet?"

"Reporting to the prefect, I just learned from my subordinates that at noon today, I saw a man and a woman. Judging from their appearance, I'm afraid they are the people the prefect wants to arrest."

"It's just that..." Xiao Huasheng paused and said in a deep voice: "The two were taken away by the people from the Wu Mansion, and they said they were servants of the Wu Mansion."

Xiao Huasheng knew that the Wu family had some relationship with the prefect, and that they would give a lot of money to the prefect during festivals.

If not for this, Xiao Huasheng would have already taken his runners and constables to the Wu Mansion to arrest the person.

Qiao Yuanbo frowned. Why did the Wu family take those two people away?

After thinking for a moment, he said, "Take your men to Wu's residence and ask them to hand the man over."

"If he doesn't want to hand it over, I'll snatch him away by force!"

"Understand?"

"Yes."

……

Jiang Yun and Linglong were sitting in a room in the backyard of the Wu Mansion.

Linglong sat cross-legged on the bed, sweat dripping from her forehead and a faint black devil blood seeping into her skin.

Jiang Yun was sitting next to her, holding a handkerchief and wiping the devil blood that had been forced out of her body. After a long time, Linglong opened her eyes weakly. The power of the blood devil's devil blood was beyond her expectations.

She took a deep breath and then said to Jiang Yun, "Has the carrier pigeon been released?"

"Yes." Jiang Yun nodded and said, "I will also ask the servants of the Wu Mansion to go and invite my men."

Linglong nodded slightly and said, "When your men arrive, we will leave this place. This Miss Wu is a good person. Such good people are rare in today's world."

"If we stay here too long, we might harm her."

Once the people from Baekje Villa find this place, the Wu family will probably not have a good ending.

After hearing Linglong's words, Jiang Yun looked at Linglong with some surprise.

Linglong is the leader of the Red Lotus Cult after all, how could she be worried about implicating an ordinary person?

Seeing Jiang Yun's eyes, Linglong seemed to have guessed his thoughts and said slowly: "Do you think our Red Lotus Sect is a demonic sect that kills people without blinking an eye?"

"The purpose of our Red Lotus Sect is to overthrow the Zhou Dynasty and establish a country without corrupt officials."

Having said this, Linglong suddenly frowned and looked outside the yard.

"what happened?"

"I'm afraid there are some uninvited guests outside."

Although the magic power is gone, the keen insight is still there.

Sure enough, dozens of yamen runners soon walked into the courtyard. Wu Qing followed them and tried to persuade them, "Captain Xiao, there must be some misunderstanding here. The prefect and my Wu family have a long-standing friendship."

"How could my Wu Mansion harbor a fugitive?"

Xiao Huasheng looked solemn, snorted coldly and said, "Miss Wu, where are the man and woman you rescued and took away at noon today?"

"They?" Hearing this, Wu Qing frowned and said, "There must be some misunderstanding..."

"Where is the person?" Xiao Huasheng was a little impatient, but considering the other party's identity, he was still somewhat polite: "Miss Wu, I came to visit you and persuade you with kind words. I didn't search for you directly. I'm already giving face to the Wu family."

"You don't want to make it hard for me, right?"

Wu Qing thought to himself, how could a captain of the Embroidered Uniform Guard be a fugitive?
Then she pointed to the room where Jiang Yun and Linglong lived.

"on!"

Soon, a group of yamen runners kicked open the door and entered the room.

At this time, Jiang Yun and Linglong had no strength to resist and were quickly tied up.

"Captain Xiao, there must be a misunderstanding. This young man is a captain of the Embroidered Uniform Guard and also a member of the imperial court." Wu Qing quickly walked to Xiao Huasheng and began to persuade him.

Xiao Huasheng shook his head and looked at Jiang Yun who was pinned to the ground: "Miss Wu, you don't know that we are a hundred households of the Jinyiwei. Can our group of yamen runners easily capture him?"

"He is nothing more than a fraud using the name of a hundred households."

It’s not like the Jinyiwei haven’t come to Tiankang Mansion before.

Xiao Huasheng had even received him personally before.

The Jinyiwei people are very skilled. If they really fight, all the yamen runners in the entire courtyard may not be their match.

Seeing this, Jiang Yun said in a deep voice: "I am Jiang Yun, a captain of the Jinyiwei of the East Pacification Division..."

Before he could finish his words, Xiao Huasheng kicked Jiang Yun in the stomach: "You little bastard, are you addicted to acting? Don't you even look at yourself?"

"A Jinyiwei captain in his early twenties? Who are you kidding?"

"Someone, tie him up for me!"

"Take him back to the government office and wait for the prefect's decision."

Afterwards, he had someone cover Jiang Yun and Linglong's mouths with cloth and took them away.

Wu Qing looked worried as he watched Jiang Yun being taken away. After all, Jiang Yun had just helped the Wu family. He then returned to the study and sent a servant to the government office.

Find out what Jiang Yun and Linglong have done wrong.

If it was a minor crime, then we would spend some money to try to rescue the two men.

After the arrangements were made, it was already late at night.

Wu Qing was in the study, but he couldn't sleep.

After a full hour, a servant quickly pushed the door and entered the study.

"How is it? Any news?" Wu Qing quickly stood up and asked.

The servant hurriedly reported: "Young lady, there are seventy or eighty people outside our house, riding horses, claiming to be the Jinyiwei from the East Pacification Division, and they are here to pick up Captain Jiang."

(End of this chapter)