When Nie Zhongyou looked at him, Li Xia knew that he, the "number two person", was going to come forward and find a solution.
His eyes fell on the spear in Liu Jinsuo's hand and said: "Find a dense forest and bury all the weapons. Let's go back to Caicheng."
"Why?"
Li Xia said: "They deployed their troops on the official road, tight on the outside and loose on the inside, so there were fewer manpower in the city. We did not carry weapons and were divided into two groups. In such a large state and county, it would be difficult for them to search for us.
Also, yesterday when I stayed overnight in Guiji Town, my hair was still wet. This is the easiest feature to identify. After a day or two, they will be able to find Guiji, and thus determine that we have left the city, and the focus of the search will also shift to
Outside the city."
"No, what's going on?" Liu Jinsuo said, "I never leave my gun!"
"Bury it." Nie Zhongyou said lightly.
"oh."
Lin Zi asked: "But without weapons, if we are found, we won't be able to escape."
"Once found, you can't escape even if you have weapons." Li Xia said: "But don't worry, the city is safe. Their blockade method can only block us in Shouzhou, and if that doesn't work, they still have the Di family's token.
"
"But we can't be stuck here forever. We still have errands to do."
"There is always a time when the checkpoints they set up are slack, and you just have to move on when the time comes."
Now that Li Xia said this, everyone calmed down and buried their weapons.
After a while, Liu Jinsuo scratched his head and suddenly realized, "It turns out we were just blocked in Xiacai City. I thought it was over."
When Li Xia heard this, he frowned and his eyes showed contemplation.
"Brother Li, are you taller than when I first met you?" Liu Jinsuo asked again.
The rough man's voice was very loud, which disrupted Li Xia's thoughts.
Speaking of this, Li Xia said "hmm", turned to Nie Zhongyou and said, "When we return to the city, how about we buy some big bones to make soup?"
"All the goods and copper coins have been lost. We are not well off."
"This is for you. It should be worth some money. Buy some more big bones..."
Gao Mingyue followed behind and saw Li Xia taking out a few jade beads and handing them to Nie Zhongyou.
She looked at this scene, slightly distracted, and didn't know what she was thinking...
A group of people came out of the woods, mixed in with the civilians who wanted to enter the city, and walked towards Caicheng.
As they walked, Li Xia seemed to think of something again, and suddenly said: "You go to the city first, and Mr. Han and I will go to the checkpoint over there to have a look."
"What's wrong? The interrogation is so strict, so get close and don't get caught."
"Mr. Han has a Henan accent. If I pretend to be his grandson, I won't be caught."
Lin Zi narrowed his eyes and said, "I'll go with you."
"Need not."
Lin Zi was obviously a little worried and glanced at Nie Zhongyou again.
"Go." Nie Zhongyou said.
…
Li Xia and Han Chengxu pretended to be collecting firewood and walked towards the checkpoint. Sure enough, they saw that the road was blocked and anyone leaving Shouzhou was strictly interrogated.
Han Chengxu looked like he couldn't walk, so he sat on the roadside and rested, allowing Li Xia to observe secretly.
After a while, six people came running from the south on fast horses. They dismounted the horses and looked very handsome.
"Just let Qiao go!"
A soldier on the other side of the checkpoint shouted and opened the fence.
Li Xia looked at this scene from a distance, his eyes even more thoughtful.
"Qiao Dushi? Are you leaving now? Tight on the outside and loose on the inside... Why are we stuck in Shouzhou..."
Looking up again, the six riders had already run far away, leaving only smoke and dust on the official road.
The fast horse, light fur, and lightning speed made Li Xia very envious.
He has never seen such a good horse south of the Huaihe River.
Recall that Nie Zhongyou led a team, but it only had a few horses pulling carts, and it was very slow.
"Mr. Han, how many miles can that kind of fast horse travel in a day?"
Han Chengxu said: "At his speed, he can travel more than two hundred miles a day."
"You can go to Yingzhou that day."
"Yes." Han Chengxu looked at the road with his old eyes and murmured: "We would be able to walk on this road."
"Let's go back and drink bone soup..."
~~
"drive!"
Qiao Ju galloped with his horse's belly under his arms, passing by the hills beside the official road.
Thinking back to the opponent he met in the past two days, Qiao Ju made a decisive decision not to fight with him in Shouzhou.
He will set up a dragnet and wait for them in Yingzhou.
Before that, he had to go back to Bozhou to report the matter and mobilize more capable manpower.
This time, he was not a garrison soldier like Hong Deyi who was not good at hunting.
"Tuotuo? I'll wait for you..."
~~
Bozhou.
Bozhou borders Yingzhou to the southwest, Shouzhou to the south, and Guide Prefecture to the north.
After the wars between the Mongolian and Jin Dynasties, Song Dynasty and Jin Dynasty, Bozhou was in dire straits. It was not until Zhang Rou was ordered to move to Bozhou two years ago that the people's livelihood here improved.
Zhang Rou built residential buildings, mansions, city walls, and built bridges to connect with Guide Mansion in the north, allowing the people to gather and live in peace again. He also repaired the Confucius Temple and invited many great Confucian scholars to set up museums to teach, which revived Bozhou's culture and education.
Nowadays, there is a constant flow of business, travel, boats and cars in Bozhou City, just like in the peaceful and prosperous times.
Therefore, Zhang Rou’s Military and Civilian House of Ten Thousand Households is an extremely prominent presence in Bozhou City...
On this day, Zhang Wenjing was sitting in the boudoir practicing calligraphy in the vast backyard of the Zhang family mansion, when she suddenly saw a maid running hurriedly below from the window.
She then put down her pen, got up and walked downstairs.
"But Brother Ninth wants to see me?"
"Yes, Jiulang is in the pavilion in front."
"I know, I just went over to see him..."
Zhang Wenjing has an oval face, willow-leaf eyebrows, a straight nose, and skin as smooth as cream. She is extremely beautiful, but she feels inaccessible.
Zhang Rou gave birth to twelve sons, and finally got two daughters. She doted on them very much. As the eldest daughter of the Zhang family, Zhang Wenjing, although not relying on favors but arrogant, was very reserved and wealthy. She had just turned ten.
At the age of six, his temperament is already dignified and heavy,
She walked all the way to the pool pavilion and saw Zhang Hongfan sitting there.
Because the sons and daughters of the Zhang family are ranked separately, one calls each other "Brother Ninth" and the other "Elder Sister".
After seeing the ceremony, Zhang Hongfan smiled and said, "I'm going to Shuntian Road to say goodbye to you."
Zhang Hongfan has just turned twenty. He is tall and well-groomed. What's even more rare is that he has three strands of long beard at this age, making him look like a man with a beautiful beard.
Zhang Wenjing bowed and asked, "Is Ninth Brother going to become an official?"
"It's not a good thing. Not long ago, some remnants of Dali assassinated the Mongolian general under Sixth Brother. Sixth Brother has to go to Helin City and explain to the Khan in person that I will take care of Shuntian Road for him."
"Will Brother Six be okay?"
"It's okay, he just went to report on his work, just explain it." Zhang Hongfan said: "You don't have to worry about this. I'm leaving today. I have a few things to tell you before I leave. One, my manuscripts, classics, and musical instruments are all
Someone has been moved to the backyard, you can go get it at any time..."
When Zhang Wenjing heard this, her eyes lit up with joy.
There was a feeling of joy that "when my brother leaves, all his things belong to me", but she restrained herself for a moment.
Seeing that she was happy, Zhang Hongfan smiled, but then he changed his face and said: "Secondly, don't get angry with your father anymore. Qiao Ju is my classmate. I understand his character and he is indeed your good friend."
Matching. My father loves you so much that he has arranged this marriage for you."
"But my father didn't even ask me..."
"Listen to me, Qiao Ju has a calm temperament, outstanding talents, and comes from a poor background. After he marries you, he will never dare to let you suffer in the slightest. This is my father's painstaking efforts. Otherwise, a high-ranking member of the Zhang family will propose marriage to the Zhang family.
There are countless dignitaries, why should father find Qiao Ju as your son-in-law?"
Zhang Wenjing was still not happy. She turned away and said, "But I don't like it."
Zhang Hongfan smiled bitterly and asked: "What makes you dislike him? I'll ask him to change it."
"I don't want to talk about people behind their backs."
"It's not about right and wrong. Just tell your brother what you don't like about Qiao Ju."
Zhang Wenjing held her hands, turned sideways, and said: "If I want to say it, it is the word 'passionate'."
Zhang Hongfan understood it as soon as he heard it.
But he wanted his sister to explain it more clearly and asked, "What's the explanation?"
"To put it more seriously, it's hard to guarantee that he is not a coward. Who knows if he treats me well because he admires me as a person or because he admires my father's power? To put it more lightly, I want a husband who is neither humble nor arrogant in his behavior, and has the demeanor of a celebrity.
, rather than a...snobbish...honest person who dare not even raise his head in front of my father."
The last few words came to Zhang Wenjing's lips, but she changed them to another word.
Zhang Hongfan shook his head and smiled bitterly, and said deliberately: "So you think he is from a poor background."
"No, I don't hate the poor and love the rich..."
"Then what do you want to do? You don't like those high-ranking children, saying they are dandy and arrogant. It's hard to find a handsome man from a poor family for you, but you think he is honest? Sister, your vision is too high."
"snort."
"It's not that your father and brother don't listen to you, but what should you do with your father and brother now that you're old? If you don't marry anymore, will you be satisfied when the Mongolian governor comes to propose marriage and lets you marry that rude and uncivilized China?"
After a word, Zhang Wenjing lowered her head and became speechless.
Zhang Hongfan was already good at eloquence, so he was sent as a lobbyist by his father before leaving. At this time, seeing that his sister was unhappy, he sighed and said: "You believe Brother Jiu, Qiao Ju is already
We can find a good match for you. If you marry him, you will live a good life in the future."
"Brother Ninth is saying that I have no choice."
"I selected him after selecting all the talented men for you, otherwise the Mongols..."
"I know." Zhang Wenjing finally responded with a compromise, "Qiao Jianzhang, just Qiao Jianzhang."
"That's good, don't be angry with father?"
"oh."
"Then Brother Ninth is gone."
Zhang Hongfan raised his hand, turned around and left, quite free and easy.
Zhang Wenjing thought for a moment, then took two small steps forward and said, "Brother Ninth is the most diligent in studying and practicing martial arts. As you said in your poem, 'Half the window is cold and rainy, the night is deep, and the orchid paste is burnt and an inch of gold is burned.' This time
If you become an official, my sister wishes my brother a bright future."
"Haha." Zhang Hongfan laughed loudly, chanted casually, and walked out of the courtyard.
"Don't laugh. For ten years on the wall of dust, you have also revealed the hearts of sages. For ten years of sharpening your sword, once it is unsheathed, it will surely scream in the sky..."