The coachman drove the carriage and led us to gallop along the mountain road.

I looked at the rapidly receding trees on both sides of the trail, and I got tired of seeing them for a while.

The scenery of the mountain road repeats itself over and over again, and I occasionally see the pavilions scattered among the mountains or the houses of the mountain people.

It's a little different from the houses you see in the town.

The boy kept looking out the window, and he didn't even turn his head!

I turned my head several times and saw the boy lying on the window looking at it with relish, and I didn't know what was wrong with this guy?

Is the view from outside pretty?

I have already noticed his strangeness, and I said in my heart that this guy didn't notice him when he came down from the eldest mother's house to drive down the mountain, and it was like being evil at this time!

After a long journey, I felt bored, so I also went to the window.

But it was not the window of the carriage that the boy was looking at, but the window of the driver in front of him, talking to the coachman!

I'm going to ask him.

I thought to myself, according to the speed of the carriage we were riding, where would I go to rest if I arrived in Suzhou City tonight?

You can't look for my brother's house in the city in the middle of the night, it sounds too weird.

Eyes swept over the young man's body, and I wondered if that guy didn't know how he would be placed in Suzhou City.

I heard him say that he had an agreement with the people below in advance, and sent the group of people who accompanied the ship to Suzhou City first, and also said that there was a house in the east of the city.

Wait, it looks like I've missed something critical again!

The thought in my head turned, but for a moment I couldn't think of a reason.

Because of this, I asked the coachman, "You guess it." Can we get to Suzhou City tonight? “

At this time, out of the corner of my eye, I glanced at the young man who was lying in the window looking at the scenery, and sure enough, I saw him turn his head and listen.

It's about the itinerary. He must have liked it too!

Don't look at this guy sometimes in a cold state, the severity of the matter can still be distinguished.

The coachman sitting in front of me thought for a moment and replied to me, "If the sky does not change, most of the time you can reach it at night, but if it changes in the mountains, it is difficult to say." “

My heart moved, and my eyes turned to the sky.

The driver did the same thing as me. He also looked up at the sky.

Most of the coachmen are quite able to talk, and they meet customers to inquire about things. Especially when asked about the experience of catching a car, the conversation was endless.

As soon as the conversation began, the coachman's conversation began, and he slowed down a little to catch the car and recalled: "Once I was pulling a guest. Also from Suzhou City to the town"

"At that time, the guests were in a hurry. The carriage also went fast."

The car happened to turn a hill pass, and the driver drove carefully, and continued after a while.

"I didn't expect it to rain heavily on the way, so I waited with him in the mountain temple until it was dark, and the rain didn't stop."

The driver said with emotion: "I couldn't make the night road, so I had to stay there for one night and eat up all the dry food I brought." "At that time, it was raining heavily outside the temple, and the guests were anxious but useless." The coachman said slowly, "I also comforted him that he was not in a hurry." It always depends on the weather, and no one wants to be in that situation. "He delayed things, and I also delayed pulling guests, and then waited until dawn after the rain stopped the car before continuing to walk." "If the landslide is severe, maybe I'll have to stay in the village near the mountain road for two days."

Hearing this, I turned my head to look at the young man, and the eyes of the two people were in unison, and they were both stunned.

We sat at the tea stall for a while before we set off, but we didn't hear the coachman say anything about it.

Could it be that the distance from the town to Suzhou is particularly difficult to walk, and the mountains are dangerous?

I couldn't help but ask the coachman, and he nodded, "That's right, there are a few cliffs in the middle, and it's a bit dangerous during the rainy season." ”

"I met it once the year before last and washed away a bridge under the mountain."

When I heard this, I was stunned for a moment, and the mountain wind blew, and I couldn't help but shiver.

The scene described by the coachman was too shocking, I frowned, subconsciously pursed my lips, and asked with a little horror in my tone: "So serious?" "But isn't it, at that time, the river poured in, and the low-lying villages over there were flooded."

As I listened to the coachman, the ghost messenger turned his head again to look at the young man guarding by the window, and he turned his head to listen, and then he lowered his head thoughtfully and thought about his thoughts.

I stared at the boy for a moment, not sure what he was thinking, and then I withdrew my gaze and listened to the coachman. "That time, the government dispatched manpower, and even then we waited for several days!"

The coachman pondered for a moment and said: "In my impression, it was the most unpleasant time to catch the car, and I didn't even ask the guests to collect the money, because the delay was too long, and I didn't plan to collect it." ”

I listened and said, "You're such a good person." ”

"It's not easy, is it?!" The coachman said happily.

"As a result, the guest still gave it, according to the agreed amount before departure."

Speaking of the guest, the coachman's voice raised a few points, obviously extremely impressed. "You've been driving for so many years, what an accident like the one you just said?" A look of confusion flashed in my eyes, and I asked curiously. "To be honest, there are always a lot of bumps in time throughout the year."

The coachman raised his whip and slapped it lightly on the horse's back, saying: "Luck is also about hurrying, depending on luck!" "Who can guess God's thoughts, if it rains heavily, it will happen!"

I turned my head, looked at the sky through the window of the carriage, and said to the coachman in a tone of approval: "You are right, it depends on luck!" ”

"I hope we have better luck this time!"

Listening to him say a lot, my mood is different now than before departure, and I am always a little worried when I look at the sky

In the courtyard of the mansion in the east of Suzhou City, the guards who saw them off outside the study hurriedly walked to the door, stretched out their hands and knocked gently.

The people inside were sitting at the table at the moment, and a detailed map of the Northland was neatly spread out on the huge table.

Tianfang looked at the place marked on the top with a focused expression, and the tea on the desk was cold.

Hear the soft knock of the guards outside the door. He raised his head and glanced at the door, and said in a deep voice, "Come in." ”

The guard walked in and handed the letter to Tianfang.

Tianfang took it. Stood up and opened the envelope, and after reading it quickly, he walked back and forth in the room a few times, looked at the guard and asked, "Who is the messenger?" ”

The guard paused, then answered, "It's a merchant from the Northlands. ”

Tianfang was surprised when he heard this: "Merchant? ”

"Yes, Lord, he is dressed as a merchant. I heard that I was going to the capital city to run a business. ”

The corners of Tianfang's lips floated and he smiled: "The water depth of the northern land." ”

The guard glanced at his master blankly, unable to comprehend the meaning behind this inexplicable sentence for a while.

Tianfang stretched out his fingers and rubbed his eyebrows, and said with a little tiredness: "Notify people outside the city to come here." Including those guarding the docks. ”

The guard stood there, his eyes even more dazed, and said, "Lord, those two people have not been caught, and now they are locked up with us." Does it make sense to stay there? Pier that place"

Tianfang smiled slightly when he heard this. His eyes swept over and said, "Why don't you decide for me." ”

The guard's back flashed in an instant, and his eyes flashed: "The subordinate didn't mean that, the subordinate said it."

Tianfang saw that his words became stumbling, knowing that he was nervous, he shook his head and slowed down his tone and said, "Just go and inform, what are you talking about." “

The guard cautiously added, "Lord, are you going now?" ”

Tianfang glanced out the window and said in two short words: "Immediately!" ”

When the guard walked out of the study, his steps were still a little vain.

The evergreen plants in the precincts are abundant. The smell of plants and trees wafted in the cold wind.

The guard saw a few companions waiting in the courtyard outside, and said with a frightened expression: "I almost said the wrong thing just now." "Fortunately, the Lord didn't care."

He said the order of the heavens. Several guards split up and immediately rushed to various places outside Suzhou City.

Replace the manpower so that those few people can report to Tianfang here.

In the eyes of the guards, there should be a new task to be handed over to everyone to do this time, and I don't know what it will be, and I am nervous and vaguely expectant.

No one knows what the idea is in the heavens, and they, the lords, always hide their minds so deep that people can't guess or guess them.

Just as the two men who planned the hijacking were caught at the docks, no one would have guessed the plan until then.

Now the two unlucky ones are locked up in the basement of the small courtyard, and I heard that they will have to wait a few days to deal with it.

As for how to "deal with it", that is also a question

One of the guards rode out of the gate on the west side of the city, and went all the way to the post station on the other side of the mountain road, and his own people who were waiting for him noticed it from afar.

Seeing him approaching with his horse, he hurriedly greeted him and said, "There are a few people who went to the southwest before dawn today, and there is a mountain road leading to the national capital, and listening to their accents, it seems that they are from the north. “

"It's not the first time we've met people from the Northland in the past few days, but those guys look a bit like people in the army."

The guard who came looked shocked, and a cold light flashed in his eyes and asked, "Are you sure?" ”

"Sure, the body looks very similar to the riding skills."

Most of the guards under the sky have been trained in the army, and if they have been in the barracks, they will have a kind of temperament.

The guard who came pondered for a moment, then his face changed: "You go, the Lord will summon you, go immediately, here I am." "Tell the Lord in detail about the morning, I won't be able to leave now."

The guard waiting at the post station answered knowingly: "Okay." “

One person dismounted, replaced another person and went up, all the way along the mountain road outside the city to the east of Suzhou City

The carriage entered the most difficult part of the mountain road, the roughest part of the town we had ever come out of, and I was so jolted in the carriage that I swayed from side to side.

I grabbed the window and asked the driver in front of me, "Do you think the road is very difficult to walk, do you want to come down this section?" “

The driver smiled: "If it's not in the way, you just have to go slower, and if you go too fast, you are afraid of overturning." ”

I was startled and hurriedly said, "You can do it slowly, we are not in a hurry." ”

I turned to look at the boy, and he nodded at me.

Then, the boy made a reassuring gesture to me, and the guy had suddenly become silent again since he got into the car, and he rarely spoke, but he seemed to be preoccupied.

Could it be that he is also worried, worried that there will be a situation on the road, or is he worried that he will run into trouble after arriving in Suzhou City?

I lowered my head and thought about it, but decided to leave him alone for the time being, and when I got to the first place to rest, I asked the boy what was going on when I got out of the car.

The carriage was jolting so hard that I clung to the wooden frame of the window

When the carriage reached a place, he saw a forest beside the mountain road, and a small stream flowed by the forest.

It is a beautiful and quiet place, and for a moment it reminds me of catching fish by the stream with a teenager in the deep mountains.

The coachman turned around and shouted, "Stop here and rest for a while, and the horses will have to drink some water." ”

The boy and I jumped out of the carriage one after the other, and the coachman led the horse to the stream to drink.

I followed the coachman with the boy to the edge of the forest, and I deliberately distanced myself a little further from the driver.

I had something to ask him, so of course I had to avoid the driver and take the opportunity to talk to him.

Looking back at the young man, I made a look, and he immediately followed quietly.

The coachman was leading his horse to drink, and he sat down on a stone by the brook to rest

I walked with the boy to the bottom of the trees in the forest, and stepped on the fallen leaves of the forest, and there was a thick layer on the ground, some of which were deep and one foot shallow, especially when the forest was damp, and it might have rained in the middle of the night.

In autumn, you might be able to find a lot of wild fruit in the woods.

I walked under a tree, met the eyes of the young man who followed me, and asked, "Are there anything I don't know about you in the car?" ”

I frowned and asked him, "Are you worried that we will be in danger along the way or are you worried about when we arrive in Suzhou?"

At this point, I stopped and looked at him, and he knew the few words that were not said at the bottom.

The young man stretched out his hand to break off a branch from the tree, and said in a slow tone: "Xiaoling, I asked the people below to go to Suzhou City first to wait for me on the one hand, and on the other hand, they should also check what happened before and after the boat." ”

The young man's tone was a little unnatural: "But I am not in Suzhou, I have been in the mountains for a few days, and I don't know the progress of those people." ”

Hearing him say this, I was stunned, and then I breathed a sigh of relief, stared at his face and said, "So you were thinking about this, and I was worried about you at first." ”

I'm afraid that the teenager will make a mistake somewhere, or hide something I don't know.

After being silent for a while, I met his gaze and said, "Hey, aren't you going to Suzhou soon?" “

A smile appeared on the corner of my mouth, and I said calmly: "If they don't do their best, you will assign tasks as soon as you arrive, and everyone has something to do." "Just do your job." (To be continued......)