"Who are you, how dare you do something to the officials?"

The man glanced coldly at the people in front of the car, took out a token from his chest, and said, "The imperial guards are in charge of Lu Jiu."

The leader of the cavalry flashed his gaze, then got off his horse, came to the front of the car, bowed and said: "It turns out that it is Commander Lu, the next official Li Heng, the procurator of Liaoyuan, has met your lord."

Although Ji Linglan didn't know the rank of the commander of the imperial guards, and the punishment was based on the rank of the inspector, but it was clear from the actions of the two of them that Lu Jiu must be a higher official than Li Heng.

Lu Jiu put the badge back and said flatly, "Master Li, I don't know why you stopped my carriage?"

Li Heng said with a smile: "Your Majesty Lu didn't know something. The official was ordered to arrest the important criminal of the court. This person was injured by the official and disappeared around here, so he stopped your carriage. I don't know if your lord has seen the person in this portrait before." ?”

As he spoke, Li Heng took out the portrait and unfolded it in front of Lu Jiu.

"No." Lu Jiu only took one look, then looked away, and said, "Lu Mou was ordered to do business and passed by here without stopping."

Li Heng put away the portrait, still smiling at the corner of his mouth, glanced at Ji Linglan, and said, "Just now this little brother seemed to say that there was no one else in the car, Master Lu..."

"Lu Mou is on business in Yongping Town, and we separated from him. He just caught up with the carriage, and he didn't speak when he got into the carriage, so he didn't know." Lu Jiu frowned, and said: "Master Li suspects that Lu Mou is harboring criminals?"

Li Heng quickly bowed and said: "I don't dare, but this matter is of great importance, so I ask more, Master Lu, don't misunderstand."

Lu Jiu's expression softened slightly, and he said, "Since that's the case, then Lu has some business to do and won't be able to stay for a long time. I also ask Mr. Li to make way for Lu to leave."

"My lord, this car..."

Li Heng's eyes turned cold, and he reprimanded: "Blind your dog's eyes! Master Lu is the commander of the imperial guards, the celebrity in front of the emperor, how can you doubt it? Let it go!"

The people in charge of criminal justice looked at each other and gave way.

Lu Jiu looked at Ji Linglan, and said displeasedly: "I haven't got in the car yet, why are you dawdling?"

Ji Linglan quickly responded, "Yes, my lord."

Ji Linglan climbed onto the carriage nimbly, sat on the shaft to pull the reins, but Lu Jiu also sat down, snatched the reins, and said, "Stay slow, sit still."

Lu Jiu flicked the reins, and the carriage started to walk steadily, and the speed became faster and faster, but it didn't feel very bumpy.Ji Linglan couldn't help feeling that this is the difference between having a 'driver's license' and 'not having a driver's license'.

After walking two miles away, Ji Linglan couldn't help but lift the curtain of the car and look inside.Seeing that the man was just lying there, he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief. After such a waste of effort, if the man died, then he would be indebted.

Sensing Ji Linglan's movements, Lu Jiu said flatly, "Aren't you afraid of losing your head if you dare to hide a fugitive criminal?"

"When I rescued him, I didn't know his identity, so it's not a crime if I don't know." Ji Linglan smiled guiltyly, he almost forgot that the person next to him was also an official.

Lu Jiu raised his eyebrows and said, "Even if I didn't know it at first, I should have known it just now. Why didn't you hand him over to the official?"

"Compared to the one lying inside, I always feel that Mr. Li on the horse is not a good person." Ji Linglan didn't judge people by their appearance, but when facing Li Heng, the indifference in his eyes gave Ji Linglan a feeling A chilling feeling.

"Judging people by appearance?" Lu Jiu raised the corners of his mouth slightly, a smile flashed in his eyes, and said, "Do you know what the meaning of the word 'dressed beast' is?"

Ji Linglan glanced at the corner of her mouth, and tentatively said cautiously: "Lord Lu, why did you help me? Do you also think there must be something strange in this?"

"What's strange? What's so strange? How do you know I'm helping you? Maybe I'm an accomplice to the man in the car, and I'm thinking of how to kill you right now." Lu Jiu gave Ji Linglan a faint look.

Ji Linglan's expression froze for a moment, then she forced a smile and said, "My lord, don't be joking, I'm timid and can't stand being scared."

Ji Linglan thought about it, and couldn't help touching the scalpel on her cuff with her fingers. Even if she was not an opponent, she couldn't even struggle without struggling.

"Are you afraid? If I hadn't come in time, how could you still be alive now?"

Ji Linglan felt no danger from Lu Jiu, and always felt that he would not hurt her, but she couldn't figure out where this feeling came from.

"My lord, have we met before, why did you help me?" Ji Linglan asked with doubts in her heart.

"You are pleasing to the eye, what's the reason?" After Lu Jiu finished speaking, he was stunned for a while. For some reason, he and Ji Linglan felt very relaxed getting along with each other. What's more, he, who is usually unsmiling, would sometimes joke around .

Ji Linglan twitched the corners of her mouth, thinking that this man really treated him like a child to coax him.

"What the adults say is what they say, and the little ones don't dare not believe it." Ji Linglan simply stopped asking if he couldn't tell the truth. Anyway, he can enter the dissection room at any time, and it is not so easy for this person to silence him, so he decided to wait and see. Change.

"It's not impossible for you to know the reason, but you have to answer me a question first."

Ji Linglan looked at Lu Jiu, and resolutely refused: "My lord, although I am young, I also understand that 'the more I know, the sooner I die', I really dare not bother my lord."

Lu Jiu's expression froze. He obviously didn't expect Ji Linglan to say that, and then he felt amused again, and said, "Is it too late for you to withdraw now? You and I are grasshoppers tied to a rope now. "

Ji Linglan frowned, turned to look behind the car, and said, "Your Excellency, what you mean is that they have doubts about us, and they won't let it go?"

Lu Jiu smiled faintly, and said, "If they are really official servants, you will probably be escorted back to Liaoyuan as an accomplice if you act like this."

"My lord is saying that they are not official servants?" Ji Linglan instantly grasped the key point of Lu Jiu's words.

"Have you seen their ID cards?" Lu Jiu smiled, and said, "They look very smart, why are they so easy to trust others? Liaoyuan Criminal Division is the closest to the capital, and there is indeed something wrong with it." A man named Li Heng, whom I met once, is not this person."

"Then just now..." Ji Linglan came to her senses and said, "There are eight of them, and there are only two of us. If we really fought, wouldn't it be fatal? It's really dangerous!"

Lu Jiu chuckled and said, "Two people? Can you fight, or the one inside?"

Ji Linglan looked at her body, then thought about the steel knife in the opponent's hand, smiled embarrassingly, and said, "My lord, what do you think we should do?"

"Changing the road and going back to Beijing."

"Go back to Beijing? No!" Ji Linglan subconsciously refused.

Lu Jiu frowned slightly and asked, "Why not?"

After finally getting rid of the watchers, wouldn't it be self-inflicted to return to Beijing now, but the people in the car are half dead, and there are a group of evil spirits behind them waiting for their lives, Ji Linglan is really one head and two big.But even so, he didn't regret saving people. It wasn't that the Holy Father had a heart attack, but it was just the education he had received since he was a child, and it was already engraved in his bones.If you don't have good quality, you can't be a qualified forensic doctor.

"Going back to Beijing now, if I run into them, I don't know how to beat them. He is half dead. How can adults beat them. Let's find a place to hide first, and wait for him to wake up and find out what happened. Plan not to be late."

Lu Jiu glanced at Ji Linglan, was silent for a while, and said: "That's fine. All the way to the south, there is Seat Willow Mountain 20 miles away from here. There is a village on the mountain. The owner of the village has some friendship with me, so we will go there for a while. "

"The village master? Bandits?" Ji Linglan looked at Lu Jiu in disbelief. Could this be the collusion between officials and bandits in the legend.

The emotional change in Ji Linglan's eyes made Lu Jiu laugh, and said, "If I accidentally leaked the secret, do you think I should kill someone to silence it?"

Ji Linglan sat aside and said: "My lord is joking, but my little mouth is very strict, and I will never reveal a word, so I won't trouble my lord."

Apart from knowing the other party's identity, Lu Jiu was completely unfamiliar to Ji Linglan. He didn't know his purpose, his temperament, and what he was going to do next. It could be an enemy or a friend.But there were pursuers behind him, he was carrying a fuel bottle, and he had to rely on Lu Jiu, so Ji Linglan was conflicted in his heart, so he could only be cautious.

"The matter of raising the knife and dropping it is not troublesome." Seeing this, Lu Jiu couldn't help but want to tease him.

"That... my lord, go in and see what happened to the people inside." Ji Linglan stood up resolutely and got into the carriage.

The corners of Lu Jiu's mouth turned up, and he couldn't help chuckling, thinking: After searching for these days, I finally found it, luckily I came in time.

Lu Jiu is Ling Jiu's real name. He was originally the commander of the imperial guards (fourth rank), and was later sent by Fu Lianchao to protect Fu Nanling. He became Fu Nanling's shadow guard, but he still holds the salary and position of the fourth rank.

In the past few days, Lu Jiu searched almost all over the capital, but he couldn't find Ji Linglan's whereabouts. He wondered if Ji Linglan would return to his ancestral home, so he rode after him, took his portrait and asked around, and finally found Ji Linglan in Yongle. Ping Zhen found his whereabouts.But he was one step late, Ji Linglan and his party had already left in the morning.He chased after him on horseback again, and met people pretending to be Li Heng on the way. Seeing that they were in a hurry, and they were wearing the uniform of the criminal police, he was puzzled, so he followed them not far or near.It wasn't until he recognized Ji Linglan at a glance that he quietly got into the carriage from the back of the carriage when all the attention was on Ji Linglan.

Looking at the 'window' that appeared behind the carriage for no reason, Ji Linglan finally knew how the man at the front got into the carriage.

After checking the man's wound, Ji Linglan poured some sugar water on him again, reached out to test his body temperature, and lay down on his chest to listen to the heartbeat. Although it was weak, it was still stable. Ji Linglan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief .

Not long after staying in the car, Ji Linglan got out, held on to the car door and started to vomit.There was nothing in my stomach, but now I vomited bile.

Lu Jiu asked with concern: "How do you feel, can you persist?"

Ji Linglan leaned against the car door in a state of exhaustion, and said, "I'm fine, I'll just sit outside for a while, how long will it take to arrive?"

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The official rank system refers to the Ming Dynasty

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