Chapter 14: Failure
The cold winter is cold, even if the location of Licheng is southern, the cold wind at night also blows people's faces painfully, and it seems that shuttling in the air is a sharp knife, cutting through the flesh and skin of the clothes, and nailing straight into the depths of the bones and blood. The cold makes people feel cold in the bone marrow, but it can't warm it at all.
The outskirts of the city are close to the mountains, and in the evening they are already inaccessible. Four young men in military uniforms had been patrolling the city gate since early afternoon, as if waiting for someone to arrive. However, the time for the lantern had long passed, and the four of them were also numb from the cold, and their faces were blue, but they still couldn't wait for their target person.
"Big brother, it's so late, I don't think that little lady will come. One of the thinnest men, rubbing his hands and stamping his feet, approached the man who looked oldest.
The man who is called the eldest brother is about twenty-five or sixteen years old, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and he looks a little heroic. He looked at the questioner, and there was a little impatience on his face, "How do I know! This errand was ordered by the general himself, if it is done badly, you will be able to bear it!" Of course, he can't run away! But it's really strange, the little boy has obviously passed the letter to him, and according to the friendship between the little lady and Yan Shao, there is no reason not to come! Could it be ...... The little lady knew that the letter was not written by Yan Shao, so she was suspicious?
Honestly, this one might be just too small. How could a girl in a small village in the mountains think so much? In addition, they deliberately used the matter of their deceased father as bait, even if they knew that there was a deception, they would not release their pigeons so simply!
"Oh! It's over! This time the errand was done badly!" The eldest brother stood there and pondered for a while, and found that they had overlooked a very simple problem, that is, this village girl was illiterate! Village girl! This is not the capital, and most of the common people can read and write, this is Licheng, which is far away from the emperor of the mountain! The other party is still a teenage hairy girl! In case this girl didn't let people read the letter, she just threw it aside......?
The general will definitely punish them for their incompetence, and may even send them to the Xirong border garrison! Oh! No, no, no! The more he thought about it, the colder his heart became, and he looked at his three brothers bitterly, and said silently in his heart: The brothers can't help it! Who told him that he came up with this mysterious idea?
In fact, this strategy is not clumsy, if Du Wanwan did not change the core, if Du Wanwan was not a fool in the past, just rushed to the news of Du's father, Du Wanwan would definitely go, even if he knew that there was fraud in it.
Unfortunately, there are no ifs in this world......
"Are you still waiting?" The other man, looking at their eldest brother's wonderful expression, couldn't help but ask, in fact, they all knew that the little lady would not come.
The eldest brother in the lead sighed, and just wanted to speak, but suddenly turned around, looked at the man in black galloping in the night, narrowed his eyes, and stepped forward to meet him.
The person who came turned over and dismounted, took off his hood, and said in a low voice: "This errand has been canceled, Yan Shao avoided our eyes and ears last night and came to Licheng." The person who had been waiting suddenly realized, no wonder the little lady didn't come, it turned out that Yan Shao was in Licheng!
"Who is this Yan Shao! Even the general's Jingwei can't keep up with him!" the leading brother exclaimed, his face in disbelief.
The man in black turned around and got on the horse, pulled the reins, and his voice was a lot colder: "It doesn't matter who he is, you just need to know that this person is not simple." The man in black rode away, four men, you look at me, I look at you, and walked silently towards the forest on the outskirts of the city, where there were four fast horses tethered.
Du Wanwan waited in his small courtyard for a long time, but he didn't hear any news from the front, and it was estimated that Yan Shao hadn't come back yet. She curled up on the bed wrapped in a quilt, reliving in her mind what had happened recently. The invitation to pass the message is the Hongmen banquet, this Du Wanwan has already been determined, the question is, who is the Hongmen banquet!
It is true that she was introduced by Yan Shao, but there are almost no people in the restaurant who know her background. The people who know that she has a relationship with Yan Shao and can understand her bottom are not in Licheng, except for Du Yu.
But Du Yu would never use a note to send a message, she knew very well what kind of person Du Wanwan was in the past, writing a note to an illiterate person, this brain must have made a hornet nest! But apart from Du Yu, Du Wanwan couldn't think of any other suspicious person now, so she could only wait anxiously for Yan Shao to return. She has a hunch that maybe the real target of this incident is not her, the best proof is the way this choking person transmits messages, everyone who knows Du Wanwan knows that she can't read!
Moreover, the note was not written by Yan Shao, and she had a friendship with Yan Shao, which does not rule out the possibility that she knew Yan Shao's handwriting. But the messenger still wrote it, that is to say, the note in Du Wanwan's hand may be a smoke bomb.
Who the hell is it? When Du Wanwan was scratching his ears and cheeks on the bed, Yan Shao was still contemplating and thinking in the green room of Hanxiang Building. He asked Du Yu to come to Licheng at the beginning, not just to understand Du Wanwan's temporary siege, but most importantly, to install a dark line around Bian Cheng.
Bian County Commander is a cautious person, and there are people above him who mention him from time to time, so that it is difficult for anyone in the county magistrate's office, including the county government, to get close to him. For this reason, Yan Shao had no choice but to hit Bian Cheng with his idea. But the county magistrate is also very concerned about his son, and the people around him are all hand-selected. Yan Shao'an inserted several details into the county mansion, but there was no news, and at this time, Du Yu broke into his sight.
Du Yu, who is beautiful and wants to climb the high branches, is really in line with Yan Shao's requirements. And at that time, Bian Cheng still wanted to marry Du Wanwan, there was such a beauty to comfort Bian Cheng, and after he dealt with Bian Cheng, he didn't have to worry that Bian Cheng would have a strong backlash. He put the dark line next to Du Yu, so that he solved the dilemma in front of him, and Du Yu could get what he wanted, which was really the best of both worlds.
It's just that he didn't expect Du Yu to be so restless, and not long after he came to Licheng, he made trouble for him. Du Yu's life or death has nothing to do with him, but Du Wanwan can't.
"You go back first, find out the whereabouts of that Nanyi person, and pass the news directly to Luwu. ”
The delicate maid retreated respectfully, one after the other, and it didn't take long for Yan Shao to wrap his cloak and leave through the back door of Hanxiang Building.
When Du Wanwan waited until Yan Shao came back, she was so sleepy that she couldn't open her eyes, in this era when there was no TV network, once it was dark, she could only sleep, and it was really not easy for her to survive until now. didn't wait for her to look for Yan Shao, Yan Shao came to find her in person.
Du Wanwan let the person into his room, and before Yan Shao spoke, he handed Yan Shao the soft note that had been crumpled in his hand.
"This was specially given to me by someone else this afternoon, but I knew that you came to Licheng last night, so I didn't go. ”
Yan Shao hung his head, and his thick long eyelashes reflected a shadow on his eyelids. His slender fingers spread out the note, and after reading it, he sneered and put it away.
"Are you really not interested in your father's affairs? I thought that if you knew that there was a deception involved, you would definitely go to the appointment. ”
Du Wanwan was stunned, Baga! She was really smart and confused for a while, how could she forget that Yan Shao had always been suspicious of her affairs!