Lin Jue was stunned for a moment.

When he looked closely, he saw Ling Mo standing in the grass, looking at her with joy on his face.

"You?! It's fine if you're okay. ”

Lin Jue also laughed.

Then I breathed a sigh of relief in my heart. God, fortunately, it's Ling Mo, a false alarm.

After the sky was bright, the surrounding fog gradually dispersed, but the clothes on Lin Jue's body were still sticky together, which was very uncomfortable.

But looking at this scene, it will still be a sunny day today, and the sun will be basking in the sun later, and the clothes on my body will almost dry.

"I didn't expect that the fourth child would send someone from the Golden Scale Guard out this time."

After listening to Lin Jue's words, Ling Mo sweated.

The Golden Scale Guard was a department specially trained by Emperor Zhaoyang to collect intelligence for himself, independent of the official rank of the Great Cause Kingdom, and only obeyed Emperor Zhaoyang's orders. This is also what makes Ling Mo even more surprised, this time, the people of the Golden Scale Guard can be used by the four princes?

I don't know how his queen mother, who lives in the harem, will feel after knowing this news.

"What about you, how did you escape?"

Last night, the incident happened suddenly, and she didn't even have time to inform Ling Mo before she was broken into the door by that group of people.

"I didn't sleep well last night, and I got up from the noise outside, and then I heard someone knocking on the door of your house, and I was about to go out to see what was going on, but I was surprised to find that the outside of my room was surrounded by people from the Golden Scales. But my room is right at the end of the second floor, and there is a window on the right side next to it. I walked through that window. ”

There were tall haystacks piled under the window on the right, so Ling Mo had no trouble jumping down. Because he was worried about Lin Jue, he didn't dare to go too far. Later, when he saw that the Golden Scale Guard had not caught anyone, he knew that Lin Jue and Qinghe had probably escaped from the back window, and when he thought that there were cliffs and rivers behind the inn, he instantly became worried.

But there are too many people in the Golden Scale Guard, and if he appears rashly, there is only a dead end. I had to hide in the woods not far away, and wait until all the Golden Scales were gone. I went around to the back of the inn. I wanted to have a fluke mentality, but I didn't expect to really find Lin Jue.

"Good thing you're okay."

Ling Mo added again. It seems to be for Lin Jue. It seems to be mumbling again.

"Are those people gone?"

Last night was too chaotic, it was dead and hunting, and she missed a lot of information.

"The group of people from the Four Princes are ostensibly gone", Ling Mo seemed thoughtful. "And the king of Gaoyang County. Because human lives are involved, I went to Fenzhou Mansion to deal with the aftermath. Originally, Ling Nan didn't care at all, but the shopkeeper reported to the official, you also know that this Fenzhou Thorn Shi is not a good talker. ”

"Ling Nan this time, but it was planted in the hands of the four princes."

Lin Jue said.

A human life is nothing to him, but this time comes and goes. But it's a waste. Even if he could leave for the northwest immediately after dealing with the matter, the trip would have fallen behind a lot.

Plus if you plan to do something in the Northwest. It's definitely too late.

"That's why everyone underestimated the fourth child before."

Ling Mo said lightly, with no expression on his face.

In fact, even if Empress Yang didn't say it explicitly, he knew that his current situation was not optimistic. Not to mention the four princes, even the indifferent five princes who have always expressed Xiàn should not be underestimated. There is also Nangong Yi, whose identity is confusing.

Emperor Zhaoyang was a Ming monarch, but he had an eccentric temperament and liked to employ people according to his own preferences. Judging from his previous attitude towards Nangong Yi, it can be said that he is extremely important.

And Nangong Yi has a heavy army, and for this alone, he is much stronger than these princes.

It seems that this time, everyone has set their eyes on the difficult fat in the northwest.

Seeing that Ling Mo's face was full of depression, Lin Jue couldn't bear it, so he said with a half-joking smile, "It's okay, I'm optimistic about you." ”

"Really?"

Ling Mo raised his head suddenly, his eyes shining.

Lin Jue suddenly remembered that Nangong Yi had told her that even if his identity was the prince, he never thought of sitting in that seat, so he smiled and nodded, "Of course it's true." I don't know the Four Princes well. ”

As for the fifth prince, with such a smart Situ Yan by his side, who else does he need to be afraid of?

Ling Mo was happy at first, and then the light in his eyes gradually dimmed, "Yun Shu, don't comfort me, in fact, I know in my heart, there is almost no hope." ”

Because of this, he sometimes even resents Empress Yang's approach, who is set up in the East Palace depends on the emperor's mood and preferences, and doing so many other things will sometimes only backfire.

"It's far away", Ling Mo smiled a little bleakly, "Wait for Qinghe to come back, clean up, and we can set off." ”

Lin Jue nodded.

But I couldn't help but sigh in my heart.

Ling Mo's words just now actually hoped that she would be able to express her loyalty to Nangong Yi, if she could win over Nangong Yi, it would become indifferent whether she won the emperor's favor or not. Because Nangong Yi has military power in his hands, and he also occupies half of the military power of the entire Daye Country.

In the last decentralization, Emperor Zhaoyang took back and reduced the power in the hands of others, such as King Qin, but the military power in the hands of Nangong Yi did not decrease but increased. The other half was divided into more than 20 parts.

In this case, unless it is an alliance and confrontation, no one can compete with Nangong Yi.

Because of this, the last decentralization caused great dissatisfaction among conservatives and vested interests in the division of power. Just regarding Nangong Yi's military power, Emperor Zhaoyang's table about Nangong Yi was piled up with a large stack. But Emperor Zhaoyang still carried out the decentralization to the end, and everyone saw that Emperor Zhaoyang would not change his mind, and his voice gradually became quieter.

However, the situation is different now.

First of all, the four princes came out, not only recommended Hongyuan to Emperor Zhaoyang, but also reached an alliance with Concubine Yin in private. In this way, the people around the emperor who can speak can all become the people of the four princes.

Lin Jue didn't know if the four princes still had an alliance with other people in the court, but in any case, the red people around the emperor of Daye Country were undoubtedly the four princes.

And Nangong Yi, judging from all indications, it seems that he is gradually beginning to be not valued by the emperor. Since the power was given by the emperor, whether he wanted to take it back was just a matter of words......

Thinking of this, Lin Jue suddenly realized that so many people were rushing to the northwest, did it mean that there was a large area of interests in the northwest waiting to be divided?

And the land that has always been stored in Zài is not a benefit, what is more important than land is the military power, and it is the military power in the hands of Nangong Yi! Does this mean that the news of Nangong Yi's disappearance has leaked!? Did these people who rushed to the northwest all know that Nangong Yi has disappeared now, or that Nangong Yi's disappearance was simply caused by this group of people?

The more he thought about it, the worse Lin Jue's mood became. But no matter how depressed they were, they had to cheer up and move forward, so after Qinghe came back with a change of clothes and dry food from the inn, the three of them set off again.

Especially Lin Jue, she can't wait for a moment now, and she can't wait to fly to the northwest immediately, find out the situation, and find Nangong Yi.

The journey is getting harder and harder, and the surrounding environment is getting worse and worse. After leaving the Yumen Pass, there is often no trace of people for hundreds of miles, and there is no water source.

"Fortunately, we have a lot of water, otherwise this way, the lack of water alone will kill us."

Ling Mo looked at the endless vast desert in front of him and couldn't help but sigh.

In the desert, it was difficult for horses to move forward, but after they got out of the customs, they found the local herdsmen, added some silver, exchanged three horses for two camels, and bought some water to carry them, but even so, after walking all the way, they still felt that their throats were so dry that they could not do it.

"Will the army heading to the northwest also have to pass through this large desert?"

Lin Jue was a little puzzled.

Not only are the conditions of the desert harsh, but the temperature difference between day and night is extremely large, not to mention fighting against the Tartars, just passing through this large desert will have to lose some soldiers.

"They didn't go this way, there is an official road to the north, although it is also a desert, but it will be better than here." Ling Mo explained, "But it's not suitable for us to go to the official road, because the fourth person, except for some of them who go to the northwest first, the rest of the people are probably waiting for us on the official road in the north." ”

Seeing that Lin Jue was a little confused, he added, "But there is also an advantage to taking this road, we will definitely arrive in the northwest earlier than those of them." ”

But the price of getting to the northwest early is to pass through a large desert that is uninhabited.

Hopefully, they'll be able to walk through the desert smoothly.

Kyoto.

At the gate of Taibu Mansion, there is a coffin parked, and around the gate, there are large and small dark papers, and several guards on high horses are guarding the side, as long as someone dares to move the coffin, it will attract a vicious beating.

The passers-by watched from afar, whispering, and exchanging ears, but none of them dared to come out and say a word.

The coffin had been resting here for nearly twenty days, and even if there was ice in the town, the corpse inside had already begun to decompose and emit a foul smell.

"It's too much of a deception! It's just too deceitful! In the lobby of the Lin Mansion, the old lady's face turned blue and her words were incoherent.

Originally, it was already bad luck for a lowly girl to die inexplicably at the door of her own house, but now it's good, and she parked the coffin at the door to seek justice?

What kind of justice? None of them asked for justice from the General's Mansion, and Vika's side actually hit a rake first! It's just too deceitful!

"Grandmother, you get rid of your anger first, and then I'll talk to Vika."

Lin Qiong was also full of helplessness.

In the past few days, in addition to negotiating with Vika, he has also traveled to many other places to find some people, but no one is willing to lend a hand. (To be continued.) )