Chapter 168: Chasing Along the Way
Wen Yingsu left the palace early the next morning and embarked on a journey to find Kong Wuli. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
But the direction she went was not Kong Wuli's hometown of Yuanzhou, but in another direction.
She has carefully analyzed it in the past two days, and she knows that Kong Wuli's real purpose in leaving the capital this time is not to return to his hometown but to avoid suspicion, so it is very likely that he will not take the route back to his hometown. But where will he go? The world is so big, if you don't analyze it carefully, I'm afraid you can't find it in such a hurry, she knows that everyone who wants to leave the capital has to go to the city gate, so she decided to go to the city gate of the capital to inquire first.
There were eleven gates in the capital, and she inquired one by one.
She also brought a portrait of him.
"Have you seen this person out of the city in the past two days?" She asked the man in charge of the gates.
She asked ten gatekeepers at the city gate in a row, but they all said no, and finally when she inquired at the south gate, she was told by the person in charge of the city gate that there was a record of this person leaving the city yesterday morning.
Wen Yingsu immediately thanked him, and galloped towards the south.
Kong Wuli's hometown is in Yuanzhou, which has to go to the east, and now Kong Wuli is going to the south, it can be seen that he has made plans to attack the east and the west and secretly abscond, but there are many intersections and prosperous cities in this section of the road to the south, and it is not easy for her to find him.
Wen Yingsu walked all the way to inquire about the people around him, and slowly figured out the direction of his trip. In order to catch up with him as soon as possible, Wen Yingsu rode his horse all the way to chase after him, and rarely stayed on the way except for the necessary directions and inquiries.
said that the three people sent by the man in the straw hat were also on this road at this time, but they were in front of Wen Yingsu, and there was a distance of nearly five hundred miles from Wen Yingsu.
In front of the three of them, less than four miles away, Kong Wuli, who had already been hastily disfigured, was galloping forward on a tall horse.
Although Kong Wuli was in a hurry, he still didn't forget to look back from time to time.
He dared to breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that no one was following him.
It was already noon, and the hungry Kong Wuli pulled his horse and flashed into a restaurant deep in the alley.
Entering the door of the restaurant, Kong Wuli immediately looked inside, and saw that there were only three or two customers eating, so he relaxed, walked to a seat by the window and sat down, and beckoned the shopkeeper to come over.
"Bring me a jar of osmanthus wine, a plate of fried peanuts, a plate of beef, a plate of stewed pig's feet, a plate of steamed pork ribs, half a catty of rice, and three steamed buns." Kong Wuli said to Xiao Er, and then put a string of silver coins on the table.
The shopkeeper hurried to prepare a meal for him.
While waiting for the shopkeeper to serve his meal, Kong Wuli quietly looked around, and when he didn't see any suspicious people, he took off his duffel bag and long sword, and stretched his waist for a long time.
He didn't dare to stay there before, so he kept enduring hunger, and when he was hungry, he was very tired, so at this time he only felt weak, and he wished to find a bed to lie down immediately.
The place where he was now was often passed by people from the capital, so it was not suitable for him to stay for a long time, so he planned to continue his journey after lunch, and did not slow down until he reached Shijiazhuang.
The shopkeeper quickly brought the food he ordered.
Kong Wuli ate half a bowl of rice first, then poured a large bowl of osmanthus wine and drank it in a big gulp.
Just as he was getting drunk, three men sat down at the round table to his right.
From their dusty appearance, Kong Wuli could infer that they had also traveled for a long time before.
These three men were the ones sent by the man in the straw hat.
Kong Wuli didn't know them, so he just glanced at them and continued to drink and eat.
The three of them were also strange, and after sitting down, they didn't say anything except a few words when ordering.
When the food was served, the three of them also just buried their heads in eating and drinking.
Kong Wuli was a little more relaxed.
After eating and drinking, Kong Wuli didn't stay long, immediately picked up his luggage and went to settle the bill, and walked out of the restaurant after settling the bill.
As soon as he left, the three of them went to settle the bill.
The summer afternoon sun is like a burning fireball, which burns the ground into smoke, and people have to sweat in less than half an hour under this scorching sun.
Kong Wuli unbuttoned the button on his chest slightly, and let the horse run faster, only then did he feel a trace of wind blowing in his face.
Less than a mile away from him, three people and three horses were following him unhurriedly.
At this time, Wen Yingsu galloped less than four hundred miles away from the three of them.
She had just learned from passers-by that Kong Wuli had passed here an hour ago, so she hurried here.
The sun gradually turned west, and Kong Wuli reached the pass of Liuming Pass.
It is a pass close to the sea. Since this is a trading port, it is crowded inside and outside Rumyeong Pass at this time.
Kong Wuli jumped off his horse and squeezed from the crowd towards the pass little by little.
The three men also jumped off their horses and followed him less than two feet away.
Since there were so many people, they squeezed for a long time to advance a few inches, and in such a boring situation, they simply chatted in whispers.
"As soon as it gets dark, we'll act." The first of the three said softly.
Person B glanced at Person A and Person C and said, "You don't have to wait until it gets dark, there is a very desolate jungle area less than six miles ahead, and we can ...... there."
Man C nodded slightly.
The three of them smiled tacitly again.
This time, if they can take Kong Wuli's head back to the adults, they will make a fortune, and the adults have said that they will reward them heavily.
They also knew that Kong Wuli knew martial arts, and they would too, and there were three of them, so they were not worried that they would not be able to deal with Kong Wuli.
After squeezing in the crowd for nearly two quarters of an hour, Kong Wuli finally got out of the Liuming Pass.
After a while, the three men also came out of the pass.
Once out of the Liuming Pass, there is a section of nearly 200 miles that is very remote.
Since there were no dwellings on the road, Kong Wuli could hear the sound of horses' hooves of the three people not far behind him.
Kong Wuli suddenly remembered the three people who were sitting at the table next to him at the restaurant at noon, and he immediately came to his senses - they were following him.
Apparently, he was followed by the man in the straw hat, for only the man knew the route of his journey.
Thinking that he had faithfully followed him for eight years, and that he had treated him in the way of killing/killing/killing/mouthing, he suddenly felt remorse and disappointment, and two lines of hot tears unconsciously flowed from his eyes.
He told himself secretly that he couldn't die this time anyway, because he had to save his life to expose the man's ugly face. (To be continued.) )