Early in the morning at Qingzhou City, bailiffs were posting notices at the city gate.
The time was not yet very late; back during the third and fourth watches, night-soil carts had already left the city while merchants hauled in vegetables, melons, fruits, meat, and eggs to prepare for business, and by this hour the city gate was already a bustling stream of carts and horses.
On the notice board, the rankings on the arrest warrant had changed, and there was one more bandit riding a fiery horse, depicting precisely the scene of Chen Shi riding a horse to kill the county magistrate, ranking second on the Qingzhou wanted list.
Li Tianqing still occupied the top spot, and the bounty for him was also the highest.
A young bailiff had just finished pasting up Chen Shi's portrait when the veteran bailiff beside him poked him in the ribs and motioned with his chin to one side.
The young bailiff looked over and saw that the number one and number two on the wanted list were walking toward this side.
He hurriedly looked at the notice board and then looked at the newcomers, who indeed were numbers one and two. The two youths were both around twelve or thirteen years of age.
The criminal ranked first wore a white jushi scholar's Taoist robe with black trim, a red silk ribbon tied around his waist, and wore a white-gold crown on his head.
The criminal ranked second wore a pale green jushi scholar's Taoist robe with purple trim, a black silk ribbon around his waist, and wore a golden crown on his head.
Both were bright-eyed and clean-featured, and judging purely from their appearance, they didn't look like vicious Red Horse Bandits at all.
The two walked into the city, one very