The veteran was very talkative and told He Qizhou in detail:
"The northern section of the official road from Yongcheng to Suzhou is called Beiliang Mountain, and further north is Mazong Mountain, which is separated from the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Although Beiliang Mountain is not high, it has undulating hills and ravines, and has always harbored fugitives.
Bandits, because horses are impassable in most places, it is difficult to send large groups of officers and soldiers to suppress bandits.
In the past, banditry was not a serious problem. There were only a few robberies a year, and casualties were rare. However, a major case occurred more than half a month ago. In order to stabilize the minds of the military and civilians, General Han sent
A group of guards went to Chang'an to take their family members to Yongcheng. Who would have thought that before the group could reach this place, they were attacked by bandits on the official road. A total of three people died, and even the captain who led the group was hacked to death.
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He Qizhou asked in confusion: "Are those gangsters so powerful? But what can they rob from the officers and soldiers?"
"Yes, our master thinks so too. The place where the accident occurred is Yelangling, forty miles west of the city. The nearby Beiliang Mountain has always been considered the lair of bandits.
At that time, there were nearly twenty people in the team sent to pick them up, and several of them were General Han's personal guards with strong martial arts skills. However, there were only six robbers. In the end, they didn't grab anything and fled after leaving four corpses.
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Later, we carefully inspected the corpses, and two of them looked particularly like people from the Northern Zhou Dynasty. The General was worried that spies from the Zhou Dynasty were hiding in Beiliang Mountain, so he sent many people to search the mountain afterwards, but unfortunately not even a ghost was found.
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"Did General Han's family finally arrive?" He Qizhou continued to ask.
The veteran said: "What a coincidence. When I left the city yesterday afternoon, I heard that a mother and daughter were picked up. General Han's family is really amazing! Others are evacuating their families to the east, but his family is not afraid to stay in dangerous places.
Because we were worried about encountering gangsters again, yesterday the city's Military Police specially sent two experts to accompany us to escort us."
When He Qizhou heard this, he also praised: "With such a great general here, I am not afraid that I will not be able to defend Suzhou. Uncle, please take care, I will leave now."
"Be careful too!" The veteran said goodbye to Qi Zhou happily. What he was thinking was that if there were more passionate men like this, he wouldn't be afraid of not being able to defend Suzhou!
It is more than 400 miles from Ganzhou to Suzhou. He Qizhou knew that based on the current condition of the big yellow horse, it might take three days to complete the journey. Including another 200 miles from Suzhou to the racecourse, it would take at least another two days.
There were only five days left before the agreed meeting time at the racecourse, so after He Qizhou calculated the time, not only that he had no time to lure the bandits in Beiliangshan, he also had to plan carefully even for meals.
It’s more than two thousand miles from Huashan to Ganzhou. Along the way, the big yellow horse has shown its age. When starting from Luoyang, He Qizhou and his luggage could still cover more than two hundred miles a day, because he was rushing almost every day, and he was old.
Dahuang has long been exhausted. Even if He Qizhou walks with his luggage for most of the time, Dahuang can only run more than a hundred miles a day at most, and he always slows down for no reason.
These days, He Qizhou has not had the heart to urge it to go fast, and every hundred miles, almost sixty miles, is walking fast on its own feet. But now that time is tight, He Qizhou can't take care of so much, one person and one horse.
After walking almost seventy or eighty miles in the morning, we were really tired and hungry, so we had to rest temporarily in a pavilion beside the official road, hoping to avoid the noon sun before moving forward.
The pavilion was built next to a mountain stream. He Qizhou led the horse to rinse its nose, and then let Rhubarb drink water and graze. He also ate dry food and meditated and rested for about an hour. He Qizhou wanted to continue moving forward. Today's goal is Shannan Town.
, He Qizhou had already found out clearly when he stayed in Ganzhou last night that after traveling for hundreds of miles from Ganzhou to Suzhou, it was mostly deserted Gobi. Shannan Town was the only village on this stretch of road, and it was also a post station on the official road.
It's just that it's still a hundred miles away, and he'll have to walk at night if he doesn't start. He Qizhou just went outside the pavilion to call Dahuang, but he saw smoke and dust on the road, and two horses came galloping, and after a while they rushed to the pavilion.
He got up, turned over and dismounted, probably because he wanted to take a rest by the pavilion.
Both of them were dressed in smart clothes, one old and one young. The old man was in his fifties and the young man was in his early twenties. Seeing He Qizhou about to leave, the old man hurriedly asked: "Little brother, are you going west too? Have you ever seen someone?"
Is the team heading west?"
Seeing that the other party was quite polite, He Qizhou replied truthfully: "The convoy going east has met several of them, but the one going west has never been seen."
The young man among the two said: "Master, don't be too hasty. We should be able to catch up in Shannan Town. My horse's old injury has occurred again and it can no longer run. It's better to rest for a while before catching up."
When He Qizhou left the city, he heard the veteran gatekeeper say that it was General Han's family's motorcade that had just passed by yesterday. It was estimated that these two people were chasing them, so he was wary and asked casually: "Uncle, I am in the year of the horse."
I'm older and I just had a rest. Because I also want to get to Shannan Town before dark, I took the first step. Who are you chasing after in such a hurry? If I run into you, should you let them wait?
You guys for a moment?"
The old man was quite alert and asked: "Little brother, why are you traveling westward alone?"
"I'm going to join my relatives at Anxi Racecourse and find a job." He Qizhou replied.
Seeing that He Qizhou was young and did not seem to be a treacherous person, the old man said with confidence: "Thank you first, little brother. We are the bodyguards of the Pingxi Bodyguard Bureau in Ganzhou. I heard that my niece and her daughter left the city west yesterday.
, maybe because I was in a hurry, I didn’t come to see my uncle, because the road has not been very peaceful recently. I want to escort them to Suzhou and catch up on old friendship. If you see the convoy going west, oh
, there are a dozen people in the convoy, led by officers and soldiers, and a carriage. Please tell my niece that Uncle Yu is here to see her. It is best for them to wait for me at the Shannan Inn. "
"No problem, I'll go ahead." He Qizhou said goodbye and continued westward. The big yellow horse seemed to know that He Qizhou was in a hurry, so he stopped being lazy and trotted all the way for two or three miles. After leaving the Changting Pavilion, He Qizhou showed sympathy to the big yellow horse.
, he got off his horse and carried his luggage, and began to exercise his body again. When he felt weak, he would get on his horse and rest for a while.
After going back and forth like this for more than two hours, a slowly moving convoy suddenly came into view. He Qizhou was overjoyed and sped up a little to catch up. There were indeed more than a dozen officers and soldiers escorting a carriage moving forward slowly.
There is an iron rule that one post is almost sixty miles away on the official road. Apparently they stayed in a small post station sixty miles away from Ganzhou after leaving the city yesterday afternoon. They could not live in Ganzhou City in order to rush on the road, so they lived in extremely simple conditions.
At the inn, He Qizhou admired Mrs. Han even more.
He Qizhou gradually caught up, and the guards turned around to notice him. The soldier riding in the middle of the road moved slightly to one side to make room for He Qizhou to pass, only to find that He Qizhou had also slowed down.
He Qizhou quickly scanned the team in front and found that there were three cavalrymen closest to the carriage, a young officer, and two others in military uniforms, both over forty years old. Then there were six cavalrymen in front and behind the carriage.
They are ordinary soldiers.
"Excuse me, are you Mrs. Yu and her daughter in the car?" He Qizhou carefully asked the kind-faced young officer. It was obvious that he was the leader of the group of soldiers. Originally, He Qizhou wanted to call Mrs. Han, but Han Chong's identity was sensitive.
, He Qizhou was worried about unnecessary suspicion, so he used Mrs. Han's maiden name to ask.
"I'm sorry, you got the wrong person, you are..." the officer asked politely.
"Oh, my name is Zhou Qi. I met an escort on the road who said that Mrs. Yu was his niece. He and his apprentice were chasing her from Ganzhou and wanted to escort her for a ride. They wanted to stop riding, so they asked me to bring a message...
..." He Qizhou answered truthfully, but he was confused. There were two people in the car breathing slowly and slowly. They must be Mrs. Yu and her daughter. Why did the officer refuse to admit it?
"Boy, show me your household registration and road map!" A slightly younger official from the Military Inspection Department suddenly became angry and said to He Qizhou fiercely.
He Qizhou felt quite unhappy when he saw the fierce look on the man's face. When the other person said this, the soldiers also stopped and looked at him warily.
He Qizhou didn't want to get into trouble, so he took out the identity certificate prepared by Zhang Heng and handed it to the questioning officer of the Military Inspection Division. However, he had more doubts in his heart, why all of these soldiers looked tired and faintly sad.
After the Inspector carefully looked at He Qizhou's voucher, he asked He Qizhou about the destination of his trip. He Qizhou could only tell him one more time. The official could not see the flaw, so he returned the voucher to He Qizhou and rudely told him to hurry up.
When He Qizhou was thinking about whether to say what Escort Yu told him, a woman asked in the car, her voice was slightly hoarse: "Little brother, what do Escort Yu want to say?"
He Qizhou thought to himself, it doesn’t matter whether you want to admit it or not, I just brought the message to you, and said: "Bardguard Yu said that if you encounter Mrs. Yu's motorcade, he will send a message to Mrs. Yu and ask her to wait at the Shannan Inn.
After a while, Escort Yu will catch up with her and escort them for a while."
Upon hearing what He Qizhou said, he opened the curtain with a plain hand, and a woman with her face covered with a gauze poked her head out and said: "Thank you, little brother, my real name is Yu. The guards don't know it because they are in a hurry.
I don’t want to disturb my uncle. Since he’s here, I’ll wait for him at the Shannan Inn.”
"By the way, did the escort tell you what escort agency he was from?" the Wucha Division official still asked rudely.
"Pingxi Escort Agency." He Qizhou replied unhappily. He was muttering to himself that Escort Yu didn't look very old.
"Could it be Vice President Yu from the Pingxi Escort Bureau? I never expected that he is a relative of General Han..." the Wucha Division official murmured to himself, thinking about how to curry favor with him in the future.