The road is long and the sky is high and the sky is wide.
Within a few days, Xu Zun and others had passed through Changqing City and entered the boundary of Yonghui.
Yonghui is a special county. It has a vast area, larger than the other counties in Tangzhou.
However, the counties under his jurisdiction are the least, because it is vast, sparsely populated, and barren. In addition to steep mountains and plateaus, it is not very suitable for living.
Moreover, it is connected to Hanzhou at the top, Xiazhou at the bottom, and Shuzhou to the southeast. It is almost surrounded by desolate land, which forms a gray area with no control.
Even though it is under the jurisdiction of Tangzhou, the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, so the state government's control over this place has never been smooth.
What's more interesting is that although this place is an important route for Xiazhou to enter Beijing, it does not station a large number of troops or build a military fortress.
The first reason is that although Xiazhou is known as a barbaric wilderness, it has been peaceful and stable for many years, and there are Daxuan Iron Cavalry stationed there, so there will be no loss.
Another reason is that this place is very close to the Hanzhou border guards. If there is a war, troops can be transferred from Hanzhou.
In addition, there is another most important reason, that is, Yonghui is too poor and the cost of stationing troops here is too high.
It is said that there was not even a city built where Yonghui County was located, but many houses were built along the river bank, which looked more like a huge market.
Fortunately, Yonghui County still has three rivers passing through it. If there were no more of these water veins, I am afraid it would be abandoned sooner or later.
At this moment, Xu Zun's motorcade was driving on the road. In order to better understand the situation, Xu Zun asked all eight guards to put on ordinary clothes and pretend to be traveling merchants.
In addition, Xu Zun sent two guards to Yonghui to gather information early, so he was well prepared.
"My lord..." Zhao Yu held a few pieces of paper in Xu Zun's new carriage and asked, "Tell me again, what is the name of this thing?"
"J," Xu Zun introduced, "J, Q, K, now we are farmers and Huo Anu is a landlord, we have to fight her!"
It turned out that Xu Zun made a deck of playing cards while on the road and was teaching the two to fight the Landlord.
"Why should we fight against landlords?" Huo Anu was surprised, "Besides, I'm not a landlord either? My family doesn't even have land!"
"It's not really a landlord fight, it's a game of cards. Do you understand how to play cards?" Xu Zun introduced, "You are a landlord and you play cards first. I just taught you the rules of playing cards!"
"Sir...sir," Zhao Yu looked at the playing cards in his hand and said, "What do these two ghosts mean?"
"Oh," Xu Zun looked up and saw Zhao Yu holding two kings. He immediately frowned and said, "You can't do this. The two kings will scream. You have to be the landlord."
"Me? I can't do it," Zhao Yu waved his hand, "It would be pretty much the same if I inherited my father's family property!"
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Xu Zun slapped his forehead and said helplessly:
"Otherwise, let's just fry the golden flowers!"
"Hey?" Zhao Yu thought of something and immediately took out the dice from his arms, "I have some dice here, how about we play with them?"
"I don't want to play," Huo Anu waved his hand, "I don't gamble!"
"Okay," Xu Zun realized that he couldn't teach these two people, so he put away the poker and said depressedly, "Then what should we do?"
"How about... drinking?" Zhao Yu said, "I bought a jar of good wine from Changqing City, do you want to try it?"
Xu Zun shook his head and expressed no interest.
"My lord, my lord..." Zhao Yu said again, "How about we chat! Tell us what happened to that Yuanzhou woman? Why do you have to let her follow us?"
"Didn't we already talk about it?" Xu Zun said casually, "Be careful these days. The news that we are taking him to Yonghui is no longer a secret. I always feel that someone will come to save her!"
"Isn't this just what he wanted?" Zhao Yu clenched his fists, "Zhengchou can't find any clues!"
"Sir," Huo Anu interrupted at the side, "we left in a hurry and forgot to say hello to Hong Gu. That girl also knows a lot of Xuanmen secrets. We should take her with us."
Xu Zun shook his head: "I have already thought about this problem, but Hong Gu is only a child, and we should not let her take risks with us.
"Don't worry, I have already left a letter to Taimin, asking him to temporarily keep Honggu under the protection of the county government, just in case."
"Oh, that's good..." Huo Anu was relieved.
However, this foreign girl's face has always been sad. Ever since she knew that Shen Qian might be the mastermind of the Iron Coffin case, she has always looked worried.
After all, she and Shen Qian have an irreversible friendship, and she doesn't want Shen Qian to go astray no matter what.
"It's too stuffy here," Huo Anu said, lifting the iron umbrella and opening the curtain of the car, "I'll go outside and get some fresh air!"
After saying that, she whistled to attract her mount, then jumped onto the horse and rode off.
"This hot girl," Zhao Yu glanced at Xu Zun playfully and said, "Are you still angry with Sir? I have already said that there is nothing wrong with her. You must let me monitor her."
"Ignore her for now, let's talk about yourself!" Xu Zun said, "The last time I met Cai Kun, he didn't tell me that you were an internal guard!"
"What?" Zhao Yu's face changed suddenly, "Did you ask him? You can't do this. Doesn't this mean you betrayed me?"
"You're still pretending!" Xu Zun bluffed, "You're not an internal guard at all, so you're still bluffing me?"
"Sir, how do you say this?" Zhao Yu quickly defended, "I really didn't lie, I am really an internal guard, just a half-baked internal guard, unprofessional!
"Huh? Impossible? If you really asked Cai Kun, then he shouldn't deny it. I had already shown him the token at that time!"
"Okay, okay," Xu Zun said with squinted eyes, "I'm just teasing you! You're so nervous, don't you have something going on in your heart?"
"Oh, look at what you said," Zhao Yu defended awkwardly, "How can you talk nonsense about things like internal guard! If you don't make trouble, it is the crime of bullying the emperor. Don't scare me like this in the future. …”
"Oh, it's a bit stuffy here," Xu Zun stretched out and lay on the car seat and said, "I'd better get some sleep, you go out!"
"Okay, okay..." Zhao Yu smacked his lips vigorously before lifting the curtain and walking out of the carriage.
However, he didn't have a horse that could listen to the whistle, so he simply sat next to the guard driving the carriage and chatted with them.
Xu Zun lay in the carriage and smiled helplessly.
In fact, he did not ask Cai Kun whether Zhao Yu was an internal guard.
The reason why he didn't ask is very simple, that is - he forgot to ask!
At that time, everything Cai Kun told him surprised him. How could he still think of asking Zhao Yu about it?
Therefore, it is quite comfortable to use this meme to beat Zhao Yu.
For some reason, although Xu Zun believed that Zhao Yu was indeed an internal guard, he still felt that he was not telling the truth about something.
What Xu Zun didn't know was that although Zhao Yu was chatting with the driving guard in a decent manner at this moment, there were already bursts of cold sweat on his forehead...
