"How?"

Zhou Tingyu was holding a small wooden figure in his hand, still carving, looking at the shape of the small wooden figure, he could already see that it was the prototype of two people embracing each other. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Back to Your Highness, those people have traces of the army." Qingyun arched his hand and replied.

"Oh?" The movement in Zhou Tingyu's hand paused, raised his head, looked at Qingyun with sharp eyes, and his eyes began to gradually become solemn, "Army? ”

"Back to Your Highness, the combat effectiveness of those people fighting alone is not high, but they are good at group combat, and they cooperate well with each other, looking at their combat methods and experience, they all have traces of the army, if it weren't for the Xu family's escort team with experience in charging, we wouldn't have left so many of them."

Qingyun is the leader of this escort tribute, this time he can eliminate those mountain bandits, there is Tai half of his credit, his martial arts are strong, he alone has eliminated nearly 20 mountain bandits, and the remaining more than 70 are eliminated by the Xu family's escort team.

Qingyun himself is a secret guard, and he follows his master to temper in the army on weekdays, and he has a sense of familiarity with the people in the army, this time he obeyed the master's order, and escorted a fake tribute transport team to Beijing with more than 200 people, and the master also instructed him that if someone came to attack, he must leave people behind.

Unexpectedly, there were hundreds of people who came to attack, this is not a small number, in the Great Xia of Haiyan Heqing, there was a group of more than 200 mountain bandits, and the generals in this place must all be held accountable!

"An army of more than two hundred?" A sneer rose on Zhou Tingyu's lips, his eyes were cold, with a deep chill.

"It's really a big fish!" Zhou Tingyu said in a low voice, the cold wind in his voice whistled, and the bones of the people present were completely cold.

"How many people are left?" Zhou Tingyu turned his head to look at Qingyun.

"There were ninety-seven people in total, and those people wanted to snatch the body back, but unfortunately they didn't find the opportunity in the end."

Qingyun replied, as if he still hated that the bomb he threw was not powerful enough, and said one more thing: "Your Highness, those people have standard bows and arrows in their hands!" ”

"Huh?" Zhou Tingyu's eyes tightened, and he looked at Qingyun fixedly.

Qingyun lowered his head and replied: "These people are very cautious, and when they saw that the corpses left behind could not be brought back, they took away all the bows and arrows, and their subordinates only left a bow and a few arrows. ”

When Qingyun said this, he picked up the bow and arrow from his feet and handed it to Zhou Tingyu with both hands.

Zhou Tingyu put down the carving knife and the little wooden figure in his hand, took the bow and arrows, first looked at the bow carefully, and then looked at each arrow back and forth, and finally said coldly: "There are no signs on the bow and arrows, but their size standards are all styles in the army, and these are indeed standard bows and arrows." ”

What is a standard bow and arrow? That is, the unified standard bow and arrow in the army, the size and weight are almost the same, such a standard bow and arrow, only the military department and the general can be manufactured, and the people cannot make such bows and arrows in large quantities, otherwise it will be regarded as the crime of rebellion.

Hunters can go to the government to declare their identity, and then they can make a bow out of wood, as for the arrows, they can only have ten, the same way, the bow and arrows must go to the government for the record, and the bow and arrow must also leave their own private unique mark to prevent problems in the future, and the government can track down the accountability through the record.

Therefore, if these bows and arrows presented by Qingyun are self-made, they are self-deceiving, and such sizes and standards are exactly the same as the bows and arrows issued by the army, but they are not comparable to the self-made bows and arrows of the people.

Zhou Tingyu gently touched the tip of the arrow with his fingers, and looked at the tip of the arrow carefully at the sun, feeling the sharpness of the tip of the arrow, and said lightly: "This iron is not very pure." ”

"Your Highness, you mean, this bow and arrow is private?" Shu Hongxuan, who had been silently watching all this from the sidelines, spoke up.

"Uncle, come and see." Zhou Tingyu handed the arrow to Shu Hongxuan and asked him to see it for himself.

Shu Hongxuan ignored the title of "eldest brother" for the time being, took an arrow, looked down carefully, and then did the same method as Zhou Tingyu, and finally said: "It's really impure, if I change it, I can still purify this iron again." ”

"Oh? Uncle brother still knows how to purify fine iron? Zhou Tingyu looked at Shu Hongxuan curiously and said in surprise.

"Your Highness, please don't mess around!" Shu Hongxuan really couldn't bear it anymore, this person always hit the snake with the stick, the first time he didn't correct it, the second time he came immediately.

Zhou Tingyu waved his hand casually, "Hey, my eldest brother will see the outside world when he says this, in another year, Hua'er will be my princess, and now we are a family, what kind of relationship?" ”

Seeing that Shu Hongxuan still wanted to speak, he immediately turned back to the topic, "Uncle, you originally told me that you wanted Qingyun to lead the Xu family to transport tribute on the surface, and let another group of people secretly transport the tribute to Shangjing in secret to prevent someone from becoming a demon, but now it seems that this is not such a simple thing as being a demon, uncle, you guessed in advance?" ”

Zhou Tingyu asked this, but he didn't doubt Shu Hongxuan, but he was just curious, he sent Qingyun out, it was for the sake of Shu Hongxuan is face of his eldest brother, he didn't expect such a discovery, he just thought that the team on the surface confused the enemy, and the real tribute had already been secretly Chencang and arrived in Beijing.

Shu Hongxuan was very calm, "Your Highness, you are laughing, how could I have a guess, I am more surprised than you in this matter, I just think, just in case, it is better to be prepared than to mess up when you encounter trouble." ”

Zhou Tingyu nodded approvingly, "That's right, uncle, you have always been cautious." ”

"Your Highness, what do you think about this matter?" Shu Hongxuan gave up correcting the statement of "eldest brother", and only talked about things.

In fact, he had already guessed in his heart that ninety percent of these people might be the second prince's people, he couldn't imagine that the second prince would be so bold, not only training the army privately, but also holding an iron mine in his hand, otherwise he would not have the ability to make weapons privately.

Now it depends on whether His Royal Highness can think of this, he won't say a word more, if he says his guess, first of all, he can't explain why he guessed that it is the second prince, if he wants to confirm the guess, he will involve Shu Xiuhe and the second prince, even if Zhou Tingyu and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince know that Shu Xiuhe has taken refuge in the second prince, this is also something that cannot be said, because Shu Xiuhe is still his father, he can't let this matter be put on the bright side, otherwise if the second prince does not succeed in the future, When it comes to liquidation, Shu Xiu and this chaotic minister and thief will definitely implicate the Shu family.

Therefore, he must solve Shu Xiuhe before the second prince gets into trouble, and he must not let him cause trouble to the whole family! (To be continued.) )