Lu Qiyan threw the reins, clamped the horse's belly, and the horse raised its feet and moved forward.
Before he left Xinghua Lane, Lu Qiyan heard a cry of "woof, woof, woof" coming from behind. When he turned around, Wu Jin was already in front of him, shouting "wow woof woof" at him again.
“Wu Jin, go back.” Lu Qiyan shouted.
"Woof woof woof woof." Wu Jin barked again, then turned back and ran back. After a while, he ran back again, holding a piece of handkerchief in his mouth.
Lu Qiyan recognized the handkerchief as belonging to Xia Mingyue. It had a golden full moon embroidered on it and light-colored auspicious clouds underneath.
Wu Jin took Xia Mingyue's handkerchief over at this time...
Lu Qiyan frowned, "You mean, you can help find it?"
"Wow!" Wu Jin responded solemnly. There was a sound.
A dog's sense of smell is indeed the most sensitive, and it is especially easy to distinguish the owner's scent. Wu Jin's intelligence is beyond ordinary dogs, and his ability in this area is also extraordinary.
Maybe it will be faster to take Wu Jin with him to find Xia Mingyue.
It’s just...
Although the dog is agile and has a certain amount of endurance, he doesn’t know how far he has to run here, and he has to pay attention to efficiency. Wu Jin may not be able to withstand running like this.
Lu Qiyan jumped off the horse and looked at the saddle, thinking about how to put Wu Jin on the horse's back for easy carrying.
Wu Jin barked twice, walked around behind Lu Qiyan, jumped directly, and pounced on Lu Qiyan's back.
Lu Qiyan subconsciously reached out and carried Wu Jin on his back.
Wu Jin, who was lying on Lu Qiyan's back, put his front paws on Lu Qiyan's shoulders, "Woof woof woof woof!"
Lu Qiyan, "..."
It seems to be a solution.
Lu Qiyan directly carried Wu Jin on his back and got on the horse again, "Then you have to sit down!"
Then he shook the whip in his hand and urged the horse to move forward.
A man, a dog and a horse were galloping through Jinqiu County. The pedestrians on the street were so startled that they ran away. However, when they saw that the horse was riding a man, and the man was riding a dog, they were almost frightened. jaw.
Is this kind of travel method popular nowadays?
The bandits mostly gathered in the west, and the several bandit dens he knew were also in the mountains to the west. The people who kidnapped Xia Mingyue used the excuse of going to the military camp, so they must have will go west.
Lu Qiyan guessed so, and took Wu Jin out of the city gate, heading west.
It rained a few days ago. Although the rain was not heavy, it rained for two full days. The ground absorbed enough rainwater and became slightly soft. Even if it dried for a few days, the vehicles and Pedestrians still left fairly obvious traces on the road.
When we first left the city gate, the tracks were complicated and difficult to distinguish, but as we walked forward, the tracks became fewer and fewer, until only the last two were left.
The two tracks were flat and smooth without any pause, which shows that the carriage was running very fast and had a clear purpose.
This is most likely the carriage that Xia Mingyue and Zhuang Cui are riding in.
Lu Qiyan continued to chase along the ruts, and the traces on the ground also changed.
There are two more ruts on the ground, like carriages going and returning, and there are also more messy horse hoof prints.
And these traces, at the fork in the road, go the other way.
Lu Qiyan frowned. After thinking for a moment, he turned his horse's head and chased towards another fork in the road.
Going along this road, not far from a stone bridge, Lu Qiyan saw a parked carriage and horses that fell to the ground.
There was a very deep wound on the horse's buttocks, and the blood had somewhat coagulated. It seemed that he died of blood loss. However, there was no one in the carriage, but there was some scattered powder in the carriage. Lu Qiyan stuck the powder on his fingers, put it under his nose and smelled it, and found something familiar...
It's fried noodles!
He liked this fried flour very much before, and Xia Mingyue made a lot of it for him. The fried flour that appeared on the carriage probably happened not long after Xia Mingyue heard about his death, so she brought some of his favorite food.
This carriage is probably the carriage that Xia Mingyue and Zhuang Cui rode in!
Wu Jin also jumped on the carriage, and after taking a sniff, he barked "woof, woof" twice at Lu Qiyan.
Lu Qiyan touched Wu Jin's forehead and said, "This carriage must have been taken by Mingyue."
"Woof woof!" Wu Jin gave the exact answer.
After receiving the affirmation, Lu Qiyan felt more confident and continued to observe the surrounding situation.
Different from the numerous but regular horse hoofprints before, the horse hoofprints here are numerous and messy, mixed with the footprints of many people, and after staying here for a while, these footprints are scattered everywhere. Come.
It looked like the horse was stabbed and ran forward wildly, so the people chased it all the way here and then split up to look for it.
From this inference, Xia Mingyue and Zhuang Cui had abandoned the car and fled.
But there was almost no trace of the carriage stopping along the way. How did they manage to run away without anyone noticing while being chased?
After thinking for a moment, Lu Qiyan asked Wu Jin to lie on his back, mounted his horse again, and rushed back to the stone bridge he had just passed.
This stone bridge is a common stone beam bridge. It is flat, which is convenient for carriages to travel, and is level with the ground. Although the river is not particularly wide, it seems to have a certain depth, and the water flows gurgling. An ordinary boat capable of traveling.
In a river like this, if you jump from the bridge, you can swim to the side smoothly and avoid being tracked by those people.
It’s just that this river runs from north to south, and you can go upstream and downstream...
Lu Qiyan raised his eyes and looked around, and saw that the sun was setting in the west, and wisps of blue smoke were floating not far from the river bank downstream.
“This way.” Lu Qiyan led the horse and walked downstream along the river.
Wu Jin followed behind, lowering his head and sniffing around with his nose, hoping to quickly detect traces of Xia Mingyue's breath.
One person, one horse and one dog walked like this for a long time, until the sunset completely set and night gradually fell.
Lu Qiyan squinted his eyes, with an anxious look on his face.
After walking along the river for so long, there was no sign of Xia Mingyue and Zhuang Cui coming ashore. After swimming in the river for a long time, the two of them must have been exhausted when they came ashore again.
What if...
Bad thoughts came to Lu Qiyan's mind, and then he shook his head in a hurry.
No, she will be fine!
While Lu Qiyan was thinking wildly, Wu Jin suddenly started barking "woof, woof, woof".
Lu Qiyan hurriedly took a look and saw that a patch of weeds on the shore had indeed been severely trampled, and the ground looked a little damper than next to it.
Wu Jin then sniffed and continued to yell "woof woof" at Lu Qiyan.
"This way?"
"Woof!"
Lu Qiyan led the horse to follow.
The original one person, one horse and one dog now became one dog, one person and one horse, and they slowly continued to move forward.
When it was completely dark, Lu Qiyan and Wu Jin arrived at a village. (End of this chapter)