The two of them felt uncomfortable, but they didn't have time to be sad, so they ran to the river, and sure enough, they saw a small boat tied to the shore, and immediately untied the rope and jumped on the small wooden boat.

Sitting on the boat, Yang Yun picked up the penny, steered the boat, and rushed downstream as soon as possible.

An hour later, sure enough, there was a small town by the river, and the two of them continued to walk, and after the town, the banks of the river gradually became desolate, with dry reeds, wild grass, miscellaneous trees and shrubs, as far as the eye could see, there were occasional villages, and there was no one on the bank.

On the twenty-fourth day of the cold and rainy lunar month, who is still washing and working by the river outside?

Nearly an hour later, there was a small shrine standing on a small river beach, which looked very dilapidated.

The two hurriedly docked the boat.

The door panel of the wild shrine fell in front of the threshold, rotten, and the shrine in the shrine was dedicated to a human-shaped clay puppet with a long head and two horns and a hideous face, but the paint had already fallen off, leaving only a little mottled trace.

The shrine was full of cobwebs, and the two of them didn't want to get any closer when they stood a few feet away from the shrine.

Yang Yun was still holding the sword, holding Qin Nuan in one hand, looking around, looking at the surrounding environment, this place was really very deserted, full of shrubs and thorns and weeds growing messily, even if the branches and leaves withered in this winter, they were still densely piled.

A road that is almost covered by dry grass extends from the front of the wild shrine by the river to the distance, seeing that this road is not narrow, I think that this wild shrine should have been prosperous for a while.

Other than that, as far as the eye can see, there is no living being, let alone a person who can see the answer......

Looking up, there is smoke rising in the distance, there should be a village there, and it is two or three miles away from here.

The two of them were hesitating, when suddenly a man stood up from behind the bushes not far away, and waved at them.

This man has a scruffy beard, a very rough bun on his head, a gray cloth jacket, very fat and ill-fitting, and there are patches on his shoulders, like a poor woodcutter nearby, the only thing that does not look like a woodcutter is that he has a sword in his hand!

Yang Yun didn't feel overjoyed to see his own people, and still led Qin Nuan to stand in place, looking at him.

The man raised his hand, struck the trunk of the willow tree beside him with the hilt of his sword, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, and struck about seven or eight times, stopped, held his sword and bowed it to Yang Yun, and then turned and walked out of the riverbank.

The connector code is right!

Only then did Yang Yun feel relieved, and led Qin Nuan to follow the road under his feet.

Qin Nuan traveled all the way, only to feel that the spy personnel under Li Yi of Guangling were also very strong, well-trained, and the organization was also huge and strict.

No wonder Li Yi, as an "orphan girl", can still gain a foothold in Yangzhou, the richest and most prosperous and powerful city in the south of the Yangtze River, and sit high at the top of the food chain!

If she only has royal blood and only has the name of the royal county lord, there is no deterrent effect for those nobles of the family, then she, the county lord, will only be reduced to a beautiful and noble ornament in their eyes, a habitable wonder!

However, she is a powerful heir to the royal palace!

Although he did not have the title of a vassal king, he was much more powerful and influential than many vassal kings.

In Yangzhou Prefecture, as well as in the entire Huainan Province, as well as the nearby Jiangnan East Province, in the vast area of these two provinces, no powerful person would treat her as an ordinary royal daughter, and this could not be achieved by relying on the legacy and residual power of His Royal Highness King Wu.

It must be known that the vassal king, although he has a fief, but has no real power, and the share of the income from the fief is not high, he only has the rich scenery on the surface, and at the same time he is very restricted by the court and the local government In order to be famous, he loves to find fault with the vassal kings, and the emperor in order to show his Mingjun demeanor, when he encounters such a twist, he will pass it, and he will also issue an order to reprimand or punish the defendant vassal king, anyway, he is not his own brother or uncle, and he is not distressed...... Of course, if it's a kiss, then it's even less distressing, and it's very happy......

Those who are really very cordial to His Majesty the Emperor in terms of blood and feelings, such as His Majesty's own sons of the Emperor, are all princes in the capital, and they can brush their sense of existence in front of His Majesty every day. Of course, if His Majesty returns to heaven and one of their brothers becomes the new Emperor, then they will also be thrown somewhere or even some corner to become vassal kings.

These vassal kings, especially after two generations, halved and halved their fiefdoms, until they halved again after each generation, and the population of the clan became larger and smaller, and the children and grandchildren were not very good, and the days were really a bit bitter.

Li Yi has lived such a beautiful life, he is simply an outlier in the population of vassal kings!

And Li Yi and her father, their success cannot be replicated, after Li Yi's grandfather, His Royal Highness Li Dan, the first King of Wu, for so many decades, no of His Royal Highness's domains can fall in the prosperous and rich place of Wu Chu.

It is precisely because there are too many ways to find money in such a place, and she is smart enough that she does not rely on the income on the surface of the fief to live, so she can raise a huge and powerful private force.

At the end of this deserted road, at the intersection was a dirt road wide enough for a carriage, and after a walk of incense, there was a small dirt slope on the side of the road, although not high, enough to block the view, and there was indeed a carriage parked at the corner here.

"Shaoshi, please get in the car!"

The man waited for Yang Yun and the others to get into the carriage, jumped on the carriage himself, and thrust the sword in his hand into the gap in the carriage beside him, so that the sword could not be seen, and then he whipped and drove the carriage forward.

The carriage was moving forward, and the two people in the carriage finally breathed a sigh of relief, and heard the driver say outside the carriage: "There is food and water in the carriage, and the young general will use some of them! The thief has already started an incident, and his subordinates have no scruples about doing things, and I am afraid that there will be entanglements on the road for this journey of six or seven hundred miles!"

He paused, and said: "It's already past noon, and we won't stop all the way, and we will continue to rush at night until we reach a slightly larger county town, please be patient!"

Yang Yun said: "It's okay, but it's arranged by my brother!"

The man replied, "Yes!" and the carriage went faster.

The carriage was bumpy and bumpy, Xu was finally out of the clutches, Qin Nuan no longer had a heart hanging all the time, and actually fell asleep leaning on Yang Yun.

When she woke up, it was already dark outside the car curtain.

"When?" she asked Yang Yun softly.

"Second watch!" Yang Yun was also tired, and replied crookedly on the carriage.

It wasn't until after the third watch that the carriage stopped in front of a mountain temple to rest, which was also because the horses pulling the cart were too tired to stand it.

There is no temple in this small mountain temple, there is a unique one, there is a mountain god sitting on a god seat, there are a few steamed buns on the plate on the table, and there are a few fresh fruits on the other plate.

The man unceremoniously grabbed the fresh fruits in his hand and clicked and gnawed them.

After taking a few bites, he seemed to remember that Yang Yun and Qin Nuan were still on the side, and said with a smile: "Shaoshi and Xiangu can use some fresh fruits?

Yang Yun smiled and waved his hand, seeing that the man was so skilled, this person often ran outside, I am afraid that this kind of thing is not less.

At that time, people believed in the gods of water and soil, and where there was a village, there would be a land temple, and where there was a mountain, there would be a mountain temple, even if the mountain was just a small hill. Of course, most of the land temples are such small single rooms, which are very simple, but there is no shortage of incense offerings.

The man finished eating the fruit, and roasted the fire around the fire with Yang Yun for a while, and suddenly said: "Shaoshi, I think we can't go back to Yangzhou if we are in such a hurry!"