The news from Huang Zun's side came to Zhou Shu one after another, but it was of little use.

On the surface, Zhou Han's daily departure from the house is pure entertainment, and the people he interacts with are the heads of various families in Jinan Mansion, that is, the future parents or patriarchs. The so-called things gather by like, people by groups, as a son who also wants to inherit the inheritance, it is normal for him to be good friends with these people.

What he did was nothing more than drinking tea and drinking tea, swimming in the lake and listening to music, which had nothing to do with rebellion.

Zhou Shu is very sure that Zhou Han has a problem, otherwise, he just went out for tea and friends, where would he need to be secretly protected by a master? There was still no movement on King Ji'an's side, and his left and right hand Yan Cheng was still busy with some daily chores in the mansion every day.

It's a maddening feeling to know there's a problem, but not to know what the problem is.

The speed of the holy car was even faster than expected, and by noon on the thirteenth day it had arrived in Xuzhou, and it was quicker to enter the territory of Shandong before evening.

Early tomorrow morning, the king of Ji'an will be ordered to rush to Mount Tai to pick up the driver, if he cannot find out the source of the troops before today, he will completely fall into passivity. Zhou Shu was anxious, whether he tried his best to cover it up, or was he seen something strange by Imperial Doctor Gao, because he was inattentive and reprimanded him very harshly.

Just when he was at a loss, Jian Ying noticed a detail from the news from the dark line, and immediately ordered Yuan Fang to call him back to the Blue Courtyard.

"Lady, what did you find?" As soon as Zhou Shu entered the door, he couldn't wait to ask.

"Nun." Jian Ying put the few notes she picked up in front of him, "From yesterday to now." Your eldest brother frequently meets nuns who have turned into a relationship, and he has found the 'dark line' three times, do you think this is an accident? ”

Zhou Shu was moved, picked up the notes and read them quickly. Huang Zun's people probably felt that this news was not important, but he just said it, and he ignored it when he read it. Now that I think about it, it's not quite right.

On the occasion of the holy sacrifice to the sky, the monks and Taoists flocked to the various temples of Mount Tai, wanting to take advantage of the same door to see the majesty of the saint. Those who have a little bit of deeds and fame. even sharpened his head to drill camp. I want to take this opportunity to show my face in front of the saint.

Although there are many monks who have a heart like water and have no quarrel with the world, they will not run out one after another at this juncture, which is really contrary to common sense.

"I think I know where my father hid his soldiers." He said with an awe-inspiring eyebrow.

"I think I know that too." Jian Ying learned his tone, but there was no joke on her face. "Yesterday I went to my grandmother's. When chatting with my aunt. I heard her inadvertently say that this time the sacrifice to the heavens will use 200 male and female monks.

Most of these 800 people were selected from the temples of Mount Tai. Only a small part of them are invited from well-known temples in various places. The celestial worshippers are served by the abbot of Lingyan Temple. ”

Zhou Shu understood what she meant, when worshipping the sky, the garrison led by the governor of Shandong could only maintain order at the bottom of the mountain and on the first half of the mountain road, and only the Praetorian Guards could accompany them to the altar on the top of the Jade Emperor.

The top of the mountain is not as flat as the ground, and there are no more than 5,000 Praetorian Guards, so the Praetorian Guards can only be scattered and guarded on the second half of the mountain road, and some of them must be left at the bottom of the mountain, in case something happens and the saint is trapped on the top of the mountain. In the end, those who can protect the saint at close range will have at most a thousand elite soldiers.

The top of the mountain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the heavily armored Praetorian Guards cannot arrange troops at all, and if they can't arrange troops, they can't show the advantage of the Praetorian Guards, and their combat strength will be reduced by one-third, to say the least. Among the 800 monks, as long as there are 3 to 500 people who are the king of Ji'an, they can come up with a surprise attack that the Praetorian Guards can't parry.

In addition to people, King Ji'an must have made preparations.

As far as he knew, all people on the escort list were to be searched and not allowed to bring anything that could hurt anyone. Even the jewelry worn by the female dependents is regulated, mainly jade, and there are no pure gold, sterling silver, pointed thorns.

Some of the accessories for the female dependents are selected, and the magic weapons held by the monks who participated in the worship ceremony are not selected, since ancient times, they are all those things, many of which are holy objects that have been enshrined in the temple for many years, stained with the word "Buddha God", with a sense of awe, that is, it is checked, and it will not be as careful as the body search.

Before the king of Ji'an decided to rebel and went to the holy heaven to worship the heavens, he spent more than ten years repeatedly researching and trying, completely finding all kinds of hidden ways to hide weapons and even dangerous items such as poisons, hidden weapons and fire oil in those magic weapons.

Because the first emperor was keen to worship the sky, Buddhism and Taoism were once extremely prosperous, and the temples on Mount Tai sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. Like Lingyan Temple, Puzhao Temple, Zhulin Temple, Yuquan Temple, Bixia Temple, Jade Emperor Temple and other famous ancient temples are famous, and the incense is still prosperous. The temple site has also been expanded again and again, and the number of disciples received is as little as one or two hundred, and as many as thousands.

Counting those small and medium-sized temples built with the trend, there are dozens of them, distributed in all directions and corners of Mount Tai. If there were people from King Ji'an hidden in every temple, and they would poison and set fire to create chaos, then this battle would really be unpredictable.

Just imagine that a thin layer of cold sweat was already breaking out on his back. Fortunately, he was negligent and passed all the news to Jian Ying and asked her to read it again, otherwise he would have missed such an important clue.

Jian Ying stared at him for a moment, taking in the expression on his face without any mistakes, "If your father wins, you are the prince......"

"If he loses, we all have to die." Zhou Shu's expression was resolute, without the slightest wavering, "He can bet, I can't bet, I can't afford to take the risk of not being able to live with you and our children for the rest of my life."

Lady, I'll stop him! ”

Jian Ying nodded heavily, "Hmm." ”

Zhou Shu got up and walked over and imprinted a deep kiss on her forehead, "I'll go." ”

"Hmm." Jian Ying closed her eyes and nodded, not asking him what he was going to do, nor could she bear to look at his departing back. Listening to his footsteps far away, he opened his eyes and exhaled slowly.

He called for someone to prepare pen and paper, wrote a letter, sealed it carefully, and handed it to Yuan Fang, "You go out of the house immediately and give this letter to Luo Yuzhu." Remember, give it to him with your own hands and tell him to burn it as soon as he finishes it. ”

"Yes." Yuan Fang agreed, reassured the letter, and went quickly.

In the tea garden, Zhou Shu also wrote several letters in a row, put them in a bamboo tube, and asked someone to quietly send them out of the house. He also called Shiquan, Longjing, and Houkui to him, and told him many things in detail.

Seeing that the sky outside the window was completely dark, he picked up the prepared wine jar and went to King Ji'an's study......

――(To be continued......)