In the early morning of the next day, it was the day when the prince and his entourage left Jinling City and set off for the north. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Who knew that Qin Hanzhen and the others woke up and found that the sky outside the window was full of dark clouds and heavy water vapor in the air, so they had a bad premonition.

Sure enough, when Qin Hanzhen freshened up and went to the main room for breakfast, the rain began to fall in the sky. The rain became heavier and heavier, mixed with snow particles, and slowly, it turned into rain and snow.

Qin Hanzhen, Qin Jian and Zhao Mo had breakfast at Qin Bainiu's place, and when they went out and saw the sky, they all looked at each other.

On such a day, how can you hurry? If someone else is down, can the prince's body really stand it?

Qin Bai looked outside the door, and said to his wife Niu: "I'm going to take the child to visit an old friend, you and Hanzhen are at home, keep warm carefully, don't get cold." ”

Niu Shi was surprised and said, "Why are you going out at this time? It's snowing outside." Wait until the weather clears up before you go? Which old friend is so important?"

Qin Bai smiled and said: "I had a friendship decades ago, where do you recognize him?" I'm also worried that he won't live well, and this kind of weather will be offended, go over and take a look." If there's anything you can do to help, you're going to help. Taking the children is also to let them see the loneliness of people's livelihood. We're going in a carriage, and we won't be cold to the children, don't worry. ”

Niu Shi reluctantly said: "Be careful yourself, you are old, don't really think that you are still young." "I don't discourage it anymore.

Qin Bai went out of the room, and ordered Qin Jian and Zhao Mo to go with him. Qin Hanzhen looked at him with blank eyes, he hesitated for a moment, and knew that his children and granddaughters were now considered insiders, so he instructed: "Take care of your grandmother at home, don't make her suspicious." ”

Qin Hanzhen also knew that it was impossible for his grandfather to take him out, and although he was disappointed, he still nodded obediently: "Grandfather, don't worry, just go with your brothers, there is me at home." ”

Qin Jian smiled: "Sounds like it's really a big girl, it's amazing!" was glanced at by Qin Hanzhen.

Zhao Mo hesitated: "Do I want to go too......?" You should avoid suspicion, right?"

Qin Bai said unceremoniously: "What kind of suspicion do you avoid? You have already put on an attitude, others are picking bones in the eggs, and we are not soft people who let others bully and do not fight back! That is the uncle who cares about and loves you, don't you want to know if he is okay?"

Zhao Mo immediately shut up, of course he wanted to know, but he was just afraid of being suspected again.

Qin Bai took Qin Jian and Zhao Mo and took a carriage to Huaiqing Bridge.

Although it is the New Year, as soon as the rain and snow fall, all the pedestrians on the road are gone, and the streets that were busy and crowded with people yesterday are deserted.

In such an environment, once there are people, it is particularly conspicuous. When the carriage of Qin Bai and his party drove into the intersection where the destination was located, Uncle Hu, who was in charge of driving the carriage, reported in a low voice: "Master, there is a watcher over there." ”

Qin Bai frowned, raised his hand and lifted the corner of the curtain of the car, Qin Jian and Zhao Mo also leaned over to take a look, and sure enough, they saw a person sitting in the tea pavilion, with gray and blue cloth in a cotton robe, with his hands on his sleeves, wearing a felt hat, shrinking his head, looking at the carriage from time to time.

Zhao Mo recognized it at a glance: "That time, I met two officials following Imperial Physician Tang outside the medical hall, one entered the medical hall, and the other continued to follow Imperial Physician Tang until it was a hundred feet away from the house, and asked me to call the people from the governor's yamen to lure him away." This is the one that led the governor's yamen away. ”

Qin Bai said lightly: "Sit down, don't pay attention to him." ”

Qin Jian asked in a low voice, "Third Uncle Ancestor, aren't you afraid that he will find out our identity?"

Qin Bai smiled: "What's the matter if you find out?"

Qin Jian was puzzled, and Zhao Mo whispered to him the reason: "That noble man is gone, we are about to make Li Yanchao's people think that he hasn't left yet." With the relationship between the nobles and their uncles and grandfathers, isn't it common for uncles and grandfathers to come to visit from time to time?"

Qin Jian suddenly realized, but he was still a little worried: "That ...... Are you really gone?"

Naturally, it was gone. When His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and his entourage set off, it was just dawn, and the rain was still very light at that time, so it was okay to take the carriage, but the accompanying guards had to suffer a little. It's just that after they set off, the rain and snow increased, and I don't know what the situation was on the road at this time.

When Qin Bai saw Imperial Physician Shen who was left behind, he was worried about this matter: "Your Highness is sitting in the carriage, and you are not afraid to come. But firstly, yesterday I was preparing for the trip, the time was too rushed, and it was the New Year, many shops were not open, and there was not enough charcoal and water to buy, and I didn't know what was going on the road; second, the guards were all on horseback, although they were strong, but this weather may not last. Your Highness's safety is counting on them, and if they get sick, won't it drag down Your Highness's journey?"

Qin Bai frowned and said, "It's really in a hurry. The pro-soldiers sent by Huang Yishi were afraid that their bags were also insufficient. ”

Zhao Mo interjected: "Calculate the time, they should arrive near the town, right? Li Yanchao's people are only staring at this place for now, and as long as we can deceive him, he will not pay attention to the movements in the town for the time being. ”

Qin Bai also thought so, so he said to Imperial Physician Shen: "I'll take the two children to the town to take a look in a while. If His Highness settles there, I am afraid that he will have to wait for this wave of rain and snow to pass before he can set off again. ”

Imperial Physician Shen responded and said respectfully: "Please ask Master Hou to bother more, but I can't leave lightly." Huang Yanshi informed the governor yamen yesterday and informed the Shangyuan and Jiangning county yamen overnight, saying that there were many people in the city during the New Year, and in order to prevent someone from deliberately causing trouble, the county government officials needed to patrol in shifts. In this way, Li Yanchao's subordinates were restrained, and at most one person could come to keep an eye on them at a time. Huang Servant asked people to lure away the people who were watching outside in the morning, and His Royal Highness and his entourage left smoothly, but Huang Servant had to send someone to move in and pretend. I can't help but be there. ”

Qin Bai nodded: "Lord Shen just have peace of mind here, Your Highness has me over there." He set off again with his two children and left the Huaiqing Bridge in a carriage.

The yacha guarding the tea pavilion watched the familiar carriage drive away, couldn't help but sneeze, looked at the sky, and secretly complained in his heart.

What is this called? He is just coveting a few taels of silver, and he can't stay at home to enjoy the warmth and warmth during the New Year, so he has to suffer such a sin in the wind and rain. When he turned around, Liu Zhutou came over for a shift, and he couldn't go home with peace of mind, so he had to report to the yamen and patrol the streets with the other yamen! At the end of this day, when he came home at night, everyone was about to become popsicles. Finally, I had a hot meal, took a hot bath, and had to go to this tea pavilion again. I can't live this day!

It didn't take long for Liu Zhutou to come over to take over his shift. The yacha couldn't help but complain to him: "In such weather, we still have errands in the yamen, why does Master Li send us to do such work? What kind of Jiangyang thieves are we staring at? I have been staring at these days, and I only think that these people are all rich and noble, and they are very magnificent, and they don't look like traitors and criminals at all." What the hell does Master Li want to do? He's just a county magistrate, so do we need to suffer such a big crime?"

Liu Zhutou was actually tired, he had just finished patrolling the streets, and he was in a violent mood at this time: "Who still looks at the face of a county magistrate? We respect the prefect behind him! These people may not be Jiangyang thieves, it is estimated that they just have some disagreements with Lord Li." Adults don't care about it, we little people. You've been staring at it for a few hours, and you've seen movement in the house?"

"At dawn," he said, "some people came out of the house, and they looked around as if they were a little sneaky. I didn't know what he wanted to do, and there was no helper by my side, so I had to follow him and stare at him for a while, and found that he had just gone to buy breakfast, and the hot buns were so fragrant that my stomach screamed, but I didn't have the time to buy one, which was really unlucky! In the carriage sat an old man with two and a half children. One of the boys was with the people in the house, and seemed to have lived here for some time. The old man also came over often. ”

Speaking of this, he lowered his voice: "Liu Zhutou, I see that old man is a little extraordinary, and I don't know what his identity is." The driver who drove him seemed to look at me a few times, but he didn't know if he had found anything. ”

Liu Zhutou also knew that in such weather, there were no pedestrians on the road, and it was easiest for people to find the people who were following them, but there was no way, Li Yanchao asked them to keep an eye on the target, and they had to leave lightly, except for this tea pavilion, there was no other place to keep an eye on the people who came and went at that intersection. They had no choice but to stay here.

He comforted the yacha a few words, then sent the latter away, and then sat in the tea pavilion, continued to take over the shift hard, and kept an eye on it, but he was thinking in his heart: It is not possible to go on like this, he has to let Li Yanchao find a few more people to take shifts, otherwise the two brothers will work hard day and night, and they will have to take on errands in the yamen, how can their bodies be able to bear it?

Qin Bai and his entourage didn't know that the person who was monitoring Huaiqingqiao's house had a different intention, they went out of the city smoothly, arrived in the town after a few hours, and unsurprisingly saw the prince and others in the house where they had not lived for a long time.

The prince looked a little apologetic: "The weather is too bad, they don't worry about me, and I don't worry about them." I was still in the carriage, they were all on horseback, the rain and snow were on their bodies, and there was nowhere to change their clothes, in case they were sick, but they were not fun. ”

Qin Bai nodded: "It's because we didn't arrange it well enough, you should rest here for a while, and then set off when the weather is better." ”

Imperial Physician Tang stepped forward and said, "Master Hou, we also persuade Your Highness, let's leave in a few days." Now going north, you need to hurry, and you can't take the canal, and food and accommodation are all problems along the way. We are not afraid of hardship, but we can't let His Highness suffer with us!"

Qin Bai looked at him: "What does Lord Tang mean ......"

The prince glanced at Imperial Doctor Tang: "Okay, I'm fine, you don't have to say more." ”

Doctor Tang shrank for a moment, but still plucked up his courage and said, "Can you ...... If there is a Hou Ye, play the banner of Yongjiahou, you can rest at the post station along the road, just need to say that His Royal Highness is the younger generation of Hou Ye. With you in the way, the officials everywhere will not dare to ignore it, and they will not disclose His Highness's itinerary, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?"

Qin Bai couldn't help but be stunned.