- When the group was about to discuss the aftermath of the matter, the middle-aged man sitting on the throne suddenly stopped: "Everyone, don't discuss this yet. The main thing we want to discuss today is to cooperate in a few days, and if we cooperate well, maybe things will not be as bad as you just said. ”

The middle-aged man woke everyone up with a word, and a guest immediately asked during the banquet: "Could it be that Brother Liang has a plan in his heart?" ”

"Foolish brother Zhimin is limited, and this plan has to be discussed by everyone to be considered in order to be considered." The middle-aged man surnamed Liang first said modestly, and then his eyes pointed to the last middle-aged man to arrive, and Wen Yan asked: "Brother Fu, you came slowly, and then you have been sitting like a mountain, could it be that you already have a good plan?" ”

The middle-aged man surnamed Fu raised his eyes slightly when he heard this, and after staring for a moment, he first laughed "hehe", and then said in an unhurried tone: "There is no good strategy, but the clumsy plan is a little rudimentary." There is a saying in the Criminal Department that 'the law does not blame the public', so in order to ensure your safety and dilute the suspicion that Wan Da may add to it, it is necessary to make the circle of participants larger. Only the more people participate, this wave is stirred up enough, and it will not be easy for His Majesty to pinch a person alone when he calculates the accounts in the future. Although His Majesty's decree is strict, he is also a well-known gentleman who condemns by evidence. ”

As his words fell, a sarcastic smile appeared on the faces of some of the people in the audience. The middle-aged man sitting on the throne had always had a stiff face carved in stone, but after a moment of silence, he suddenly patted his knee lightly and praised: "That's a good idea! ”

……

Tonight's guests only rented the courtyard for an hour or so before coming out, and when they left, they left one after another as they came. Looking at the old man Luo, who was slowly leaving with a total of more than a dozen people with his master and servants, and squatting outside the courtyard wall and blowing the night breeze for an hour, he was a little reluctant. I also felt a little relieved.

Old Man Luo originally hoped that they would come back in the future, but looking at the neat and untouched simple stools and chairs in the room, as well as the smell of a thin layer of precious spices floating in the air, Old Man Luo felt a little scared inexplicably, and felt that he seemed to have done something wrong.

On the narrow street between the old houses, the middle-aged man surnamed Fu walked halfway through the road and suddenly sighed deeply. The pace of his feet slowed down.

The young man he brought with him was actually his eldest son. Seeing his father sighing, the son naturally cared: "Why did father sigh?" ”

The middle-aged man said softly: "I have some regrets for taking this trip today." It feels like it's being framed. ”

When the son heard this, he chimed in: "I also think that my father should not be involved in this kind of thing." ”

"But now I don't have to participate." The middle-aged man sighed briefly, and then muttered: "Actually, my attitude towards the person surnamed Lin is five points good and five points bad. If it weren't for the guy surnamed Yi who tricked me. For the one surnamed Lin, I prefer to have nothing to do with it. ”

The son was puzzled and asked, "But it depends on what those uncles mean just now." It seems that even if we don't provoke Lin Shan, he will provoke us in turn, and the possible results don't seem to be very good. ”

The middle-aged man said calmly: "Their words are originally half-truths and exaggerations. It's just to mark the opposites and make everyone tie them tighter. Lin Shan, the person, is a little bookish, but more of a light. Compared to cleaning up the decay in the middle of the court. He probably preferred to leave nothing at all, or he would have died ten years ago. Either that, or all of these people who are here today have grass on their graves. I've always wondered, what was it that tied him up? Maybe to find out this problem, we don't need to use the knife to see the blood, he himself has already gone far. ”

The son suddenly asked curiously, "Father, I've always wanted to know, what kind of Cheng dù is that person named Lin Shan?" ”

The middle-aged man looked at his son's young face without a trace of wrinkles, smiled gently, and said: "Let's describe it this way, compared to me, he has a net in his head, which is much denser than the net in his father's head, but the direction of that net is a little special." I only know that part of the outer city of Kyoto has been planned and renovated by him, although I have not seen it inside, but only from the outside, it is already very terrifying, and its changing characteristics are like a huge and complex but orderly mechanical beast. ”

When his son heard him talk about this, he couldn't help but lose his voice: "Is it really so powerful? ”

"These are only observed during the drill formation, and they have not yet been tested in actual combat." The middle-aged man said slowly: "In short, it is not too strange that those people are afraid of him. A person with such a mind, if one day he really casts that net into the officialdom and uses that kind of mind to gain power, coupled with his friendship with the emperor's Jinlan righteousness and life, I am afraid that whoever is targeted by him will have to take off a layer of skin. ”

His words were a little abrupt, and then he said word for word: "Son, whether you are a person or an official in the future, you should not be too eye-catching in the crowd." If it is like the surname Lin, it is easy to become the target of the public, and it is easy for people to kill. Because such a person seems to be the only way to die forever. ”

The son nodded, and after thinking silently for a moment, he suddenly said: "Father, when I heard you mention Lin Shan's friendship with the emperor, my son suddenly had a bad premonition. My father often taught that sometimes you can do things in a high-profile way, but you need to get used to being low-key. Doesn't Lin Shan, then, know this truth? Why did he provoke the wrath of the people before he could stand on his feet? ”

The middle-aged man patted his son's shoulder, smiled and said, "Yes, yes, my son's mind is a lot more flexible." My father also has doubts about this, but this doubt cannot be said at all at the table just now, otherwise they will think that I am retreating and losing my sincerity first, and secretly I don't know how many people are shaken. There are fewer people who participate together, and those who really participate will have more responsibilities and be more likely to be detected. ”

A glimmer of light suddenly appeared in the son's eyes: "Father means ......"

The smile on the middle-aged man's face gradually turned mysterious: "Let others rush ahead, the water is muddy, it is also a cover for ourselves, and there is also room for buffering when we do things." After all, our Fu family is not the protagonist of this incident, the matter is done, we are just running errands, and the matter is lost. Let's not blame the protagonist for his sins. ”

Speaking of this, his eyes turned cold, and he said in a calm tone: "In the group of people sent out by our Fu family, we want to put a few special people. After arriving at the place, if you see something wrong, let those people immediately kill all the people they brought there, and the corpses will pretend to be people from the Yi family. In this way, we can still do not use the knife against the forest cedar. You can also put the surname Yi and the person who may grab us and bite us back after defeat. ”

The son's hand hanging down his sleeve was slightly cocked. Compared with a big brother, he smiled deeply: "Father is clever." ”

……

This spring has had plenty of rain, after a light rain in the morning. In the afternoon, most of the cumulus clouds in the sky dispersed. Seeing that this is a clear omen, on the sand bank of the Liudi Township Reservoir, farmers walk up in twos and threes. Most of the spring planting in the fields is over, so the farmers have less ploughs on their backs. Most of them are hoe-carrying, and shallow loose soil is fine weeding. It is a farming task that must be done well for many crops at the seedling stage.

Of course, there are also two large baskets of cow dung, grass ash and other field fertilizer, "hehey, yoyo" exhaled the atmosphere, and walked over the sand bank of the reservoir. This is about a farmer who grows vegetables as his main product. Cow dung is a valuable farm fertilizer, which can only be used in a cellar after about a winter, and is reluctant to use it in paddy fields. Most of them are sprinkled with grass and wood ash, and livestock manure is mostly used to grow crops with higher returns such as vegetables and fruits.

Just picking such a fertilizer to come and go every day. The smell on the body is not very good. Fortunately, most of the farmers are used to it, not only will they not shy away from it, but they will also mix a few words with the farmers who pass by by picking dung. "Yo, you have enough in your pool this year!" "This taste is smoked enough, the more smoked, the fatter it gets, your family's melons will have a bumper yield again this year, right? When the time comes, you have to give your fellow villagers a cheaper name? "And so on.

Farmers who walk across the sand bank to the farmland, farmers who pick up fertilizer and stride straight on the sand bank, or fellow villagers who have no farm work for a while, take a homemade fishing rod made of wild bamboo in the field col to the reservoir to fish, these are all familiar scenes in Liudi Township. In the middle of several villages, in addition to watering the fields, the villagers' daily life depends on this large reservoir and more than 100 households.

In such a harmonious living environment, if there are living people mixed in, it will be particularly obvious in the eyes of the big guys.

Today, there are two very conspicuous outsiders on the sand bank of the reservoir.

The young man walking in front of him, although he was dressed in cloth, was not like the farmers in Liudi Township who wore straw sandals and rolled up their trousers and sleeves. The young man's clothes were neat, his shoes were muddy only with the brims, and he carried a black cloth umbrella in his hand. However, at this time, the spring rain gradually stopped, and only the slight raindrops were sparsely falling, and the farmers in Liudi Township would only wear old straw hats at most, and the actual situation was that there were few straw hats.

Behind the young man, about five paces apart, followed by a man in a cloth. He wore a broad-brimmed hat that obscured the upper part of his face, and he could only be seen by touching that he was about a little older than the man in front of him. But the man in the coat and the young man with the umbrella in front of him should have been all the way, because although his face was covered by a hat, his clothes, shoes and socks exposed outside the coat were also neat and clean. It's so hard to walk in the wilderness in a light color without getting dirty.

However, since it is all the way, why not walk side by side, and be sure to drag the middle steps all the time?

The farmer passing by with a hoe on the sand bank, and the idle farmer who was holding a fishing rod and stringing bait under the embankment, glanced at the two people from time to time, and they were a little wary of the two people, fearing that these two people were gangsters from other countries who had come to destroy the reservoir. There is no river in this area of Liudi Township, this reservoir is the patriarch of several villages to convene hundreds of households to dig together for half a year to build, it is a large water storage project in the vicinity, but no matter how big the reservoir is, I am afraid that the embankment will burst, which is related to the first summer harvest of hundreds of households.

There are also silver carp raised by Hesheng, Danian and Liuxi in the reservoir, and they can also give some prices to the countryside when fishing every year, but they can't let people take a medicine to hurt them.

However, the big guy stared at it for a long time, and he didn't see the two people on the sand bank doing anything out of the ordinary, and they were really passing by.

The relieved farmers couldn't help but have that thought in their hearts: since they are not here to harm people, but they are not like friends, what are these two people doing here?

Wu Qinan and Xiao Kuang, who had walked past the sand bank on the side of the big reservoir one after another, didn't want to do anything, they were indeed just passing by. Wu Qinan really wanted to get rid of the short-haired monk behind him, Xiao Kuang didn't want to lose the killer in front of him who was no longer capable of using force, the two walked unhurriedly, but they were actually very impatient in their hearts.

The embankment they stepped on. It seems that although it is a major project in the construction of rural townships, it can be about 70 zhang long. Half of the reservoir built by the embankment is overflowing, which is enough for three large-scale irrigation of dozens of acres of farmland in spring, summer and autumn. However, compared with the lofty mountains and mountains that Wu Qinan walked at the foot of Wu Qinan, compared to the Beiyan Wangfu and Nanzhao Jingcheng that Xiao Kuang walked under his feet, this reservoir suddenly seemed much thinner and smaller.

Here, it is just a passage in the long journey of the two of them to get rid of the tracking, and then to chase after it.

Walked through the reservoir sand bank. I walked through the ridge in front of the sand bank. Walking into a mountain road, Wu Qinan slowly stopped and put away the black cloth umbrella in his hand. Slowly turned his head to look at the man in the cloth behind him, and said in a loud voice: "Your Excellency is going to follow like this?" ”

Xiao Kuang raised his head slightly, his eyes were still hidden by the wide-brimmed hat, and he saw the corners of his lips picked. As if smiling, he took over the conversation and said, "Cursing you is damaging to my Sven." I won't let go of beating you to death, so I have to follow like this. ”

Wu Qinan turned his head to look into the distance, this was his way of expressing his disgust, and then he slowly added: "Then I will not go back for the rest of my life." You've been following it for the rest of your life? ”

If you change the environment, change a couple of men and women, they are saying this. The atmosphere should be quite ambiguous in an instant.

However, this kind of situation will never happen at this time, because Wu Qinan is talking about a cruel thing in reality at this time.

For Wu Qinan's words. Xiao Kuang thought seriously for a moment, and then replied seriously: "As far as the current situation is concerned, it can only be like this. ”

After saying this, he paused slightly, and then said with a smile: "In Xiao's opinion, this matter should not be as troublesome as you said. Because you have a faction, it may be difficult to find out about you. But because you are not alone, I can always meet someone who knows you early, but he may not be as tenacious as you. ”

Wu Qinan's eyes were constricted.

There are few people in this world who are so powerful and willing to do such tedious things as tracking, but he is fortunate and extremely unfortunate to meet them.

After being followed by this person for a few days, Wu Qinan often felt confused.

From the perspective of common sense, a person with strong ability must also have far-reaching ambitions, and in order to achieve something, he can keep learning and honing himself.

However, such a master with rigorous thinking, good intelligence, and such strong martial arts who can already achieve internal strength and external strength is followed by him, what did he not do well, but he chose such a boring thing? Could it be that he has worked hard to improve his ability to this point, but his inner ideals are so short-sighted? Willing to be enslaved for this little thing?

Moreover, thinking about this, Wu Qinan already had another realization that made him feel a headache and madness, and it was precisely because he couldn't see through the state of mind of this short-haired monk that he couldn't use the benefits he could control to try to buy his apostasy instead.

This monk's martial arts are extremely high, and even if he can turn one person into ten, he is not his opponent. In addition, this person is not short of money, although it has the meaning of returning to the vulgar, but he still has a light diet, no bad habits, and no interest in women...... It's a seamless egg!

Not only can he fail to counterattack, but listening to the meaning of his words at this moment, his situation will become narrower and narrower.

Wu Qinan sighed, turned his face sideways and looked at the clothed monk again, and said lightly: "With you following so obviously, no matter how ignorant the people in my faction are, they will not knowingly commit crimes." ”

"Are you trying to build a yì for me?" Xiao Kuang still smiled with a smile, "I've also been hiding my head and tail for a long time, and I'm a little tired, so I'll follow this for a while." The people in this countryside are simple, there should be no one of your peers! Later, when I get to a crowded place, I will naturally hide, so you don't have to worry about it. ”

Wu Qinan pulled the corners of his mouth, did not say a word on the surface, but already scolded in his heart: I miss you ball, what kind of monk is this, this virtue, no wonder you want to return to the vulgar.

Holding back the resentment in his heart, Wu Qinan also laughed dryly, and then said, "What if I don't leave?" How do you want to follow? ”

Xiao Kuang said gently: "If you feel tired, I can hire a carriage to take you away, and you can accompany the coachman along the way to see the scenery on the side of the road." ”

For a moment, Wu Qinan really wanted to lift the hat on the monk's head with one palm, and then pounced on him, knocked him down, and smashed the calm and smiling face with his fist. Step into the mud again, and finally run over a few feet.

However, the reality was that he couldn't do this at all, and this kind of scene lingered in his mind for a moment at most.

At this time, his body was severely depleted, and even if he did not suffer in prison, with his martial arts in his heyday, there was nothing he could do about this monk.

Not to mention punching this monk head-on, you have to walk three steps closer to this person. It is very likely that the bones will be shattered by the palm wind that he can almost handle casually.

Wu Qinan swallowed. Gritted his teeth, and finally could only release weakly. He let out a long sigh and changed the subject without warning. The atmosphere is very different: "Your Excellency is superior in everything you have learned, especially in martial arts cultivation, you can mix and thrive wherever you go, why are you willing to be in the Southern Zhao Emperor Capital and the Green Lantern Ancient Scroll for so long?" ”

"You can mix anywhere you want......" Xiao Kuang's tone rarely carried a trace of doubt. Do you mean robbers? ”

Wu Qinan was stunned, and immediately had a trace of evil thoughts in his heart. nodded and began to fan the flames: "It's okay!" Call friends, eat and drink spicy, there is beauty in the night and night, you can go wherever you want to grab ......"

"Your idea is good. With your skills, you can do it. ”

Before Wu Qinan's words were finished, he was suddenly interrupted. This man who doesn't speak casually. The hatted monk who followed him, of course.

Wu Qinan stopped talking.

Another temptation, another failure.

Xiao Kuang suddenly sighed at this time. With a smile on his face, he said calmly and slowly: "In order not to be a guest of the Beiyan Palace, I just came to Nanzhao, and here are my friends. However, in order not to contaminate the affairs of Nanzhao, I can only go to the green lantern scrolls. ”

Wu Qinan seemed to have suddenly grasped something, and immediately a trace of ruthlessness flashed in his eyes, and said: "But now you want to be vulgar, who forced you to not even be a monk?" ”

"Your provocative words are too obvious, even if someone forces me, I won't tell you who you are." Xiao Kuang smiled again, and after only one pause, he continued: "What's more, no one forced me, because I don't want to continue the Green Lantern Ancient Scroll, and being a monk is indeed not as happy as being an ordinary person." ”

Wu Qinan slowly clenched his fists and said word by word: "I want to commit suicide." ”

"You don't want to kill yourself." Xiao Kuang smiled slightly: "Even if you want to, I can make you think about it, you will believe it." ”

Wu Qinan was choked again, he snorted coldly, no longer spoke, no longer stopped where he was, and continued to walk forward with the black cloth umbrella he had put away.

If you don't know where to go home, it's always easier for people to get tired early if you don't have hope.

After walking for more than an hour, Wu Qinan stopped in front of a shallow stream, squatted down to wash his face.

Then he looked sideways, and saw the hated monk standing quietly by the stream, still five paces away from him, doing nothing, but looking this way.

Wu Qinan suddenly said, "Are you a snake?" ”

Xiao Kuang was silent for a while, as if he was considering whether it was necessary and beneficial to answer this question, and then he really didn't answer, but just asked: "Why do you think I belong to a snake?" ”

Wu Qinan stretched out a finger, nodded his foot, and said, "Five steps!" You're always five steps away from me, and you're not like a person. ”

"The serpent is not so accurate, man is the head of all things, and only man can do so." Xiao Kuang opened his mouth indifferently, and he didn't know whether he was boasting or correcting Wu Qinan's mistakes, "Moreover, the so-called five-step snake and seven-step snake refer to the time of the occurrence of such snakes, not the distance. If you are bitten by a five-step snake, even if you don't take five steps, you won't be spared. ”

Wu Qinan pursed his lips and said lightly: "Of course I know this, I deliberately said that just now, just to scold you." ”

Xiao Kuang was also very calm, and said slowly: "If you ask me about my physiognomy, at most you are trying to get close to me, not insulting, but this time you also failed." ”

The corners of Wu Qinan's mouth twitched, and he said, "Can you not be so patient?" ”

Xiao Kuang thought for a moment, and then said, "But I'm not a tiger either." ”

Wu Qinan turned his face again, he didn't want to mention this topic again today.

After washing his face, he was ready to pluck another handful of water to moisten his throat. After walking for most of the day, he was also thirsty, but because of his profession, he was used to patience, so he didn't show a trace of it. At this time, seeing the clear stream, there is no point in enduring.

However, just as he picked up a handful of water and was about to pass it to his lips, he suddenly felt a fierce wind blow from the side of his face.

He couldn't be more familiar with the feeling, sprinkled water, and didn't hesitate to dodge it. Took a few steps backwards from the edge of the stream.

Then he glared at the hated monk who had raised his sword in the air and had not fully withdrawn his gesture, and said with anger in his eyes: "If you are angry that I have offended you verbally, you don't need to use such a tactic as a sneak attack, didn't you still cherish your image of Sven before?" ”

"No." Xiao Kuang slowly raised his left hand, the brim of the hat was tied to the brim, he lifted the hat behind his back and carried it crossbody, and said slowly: "I want to kill you." There will be no rush. But some people are very anxious to kill you. ”

Wu Qinan immediately looked up at Siye, but he didn't find anything, and then he seemed to remember something. Glancing at the stream at his feet, he finally moved his gaze back to Xiao Kuang's face, and said suspiciously: "You mean, there is a problem with this water?" ”

"I'm not sure." Xiao Kuang spread his hands. It seems to be a casual move, but I don't know when in the palm of my hand. A row of four copper coins has been covered. He continued: "I can only be sure that the people who came are murderous, and I think that after Xiao arrived in Kyoto, he has always lived a life without people, so these killers should be coming at you." ”

Wu Qinan sneered and said, "I also live quite indisputably with the world. How can you be sure that someone is coming for me? ”

"It's hard to believe...... Sending a group of killers to kill another killer should be an embarrassing thing in your killer world! Xiao Kuang spread out his other hand, and there were four copper coins in a horizontal row. Even without me, with the abilities of these killers. If you run into you, you will lose money. ”

Wu Qinan immediately said again: "Don't you think that there is a thief among your people?" No one knows where I'm now, it's hard to catch a chicken, only your people know......"

As soon as he finished speaking, behind a large rock on the other side of the stream, in the shade of a tree about ten paces behind him, and in the thorn bush four paces to the left, three men in black jumped out of each other, lassing and swinging their swords at him.

At the same time, four copper coins in Xiao Kuang's right hand were projected out like lightning.

Three of them stabbed at the neck, shoulder, and chest of the three killers, and one of them flew on a very different trajectory, standing up, and projecting in a different direction, actually crashing into Wu Qinan's knee.

In the face of Xiao Kuang's martial arts mastery, Wu Qinan was powerless to dodge, and when his knee touched the copper coin that was flying upright, it was like being hit by a heavy hammer, and he immediately fell to the ground. At the same time, the three killers who rushed towards him also fell to the ground, but although they fell, the sharp blades in their hands came out of their hands, still flying over Wu Qinan's head with the master's will to take his life.

Xiao Kuang's left hand swung out a little late, and the three copper coins were like Seiya retrograde, smashing the two sharp blades that were slashed towards Wu Qinan, who was kneeling on the ground.

Xiao Kuang still had two copper coins in his hand that had not been issued, he pointed to the air, looked at the two big trees farther away, and said loudly: "If you come out, you won't kill yourself." ”

After he said this, the two trees were still standing.

Wu Qinan got up from the ground with difficulty, frowned and said bitterly: "I can't see that your secret weapon kung fu is so bad." ”

"I deliberately, you stay where you are now, it is more convenient for me to save your life." Xiao Kuang glanced at Wu Qinan, and then looked back at the two big trees.

Wu Qinan also looked sideways at the two big trees, and at the same time said with a slight mockery: "You threw inaccurately, is it because of the problem with your eyes?" ”

Xiao Kuang didn't answer him, just looked at the two big trees, raised his voice and said: "Restless, even if it is ten steps away, Xiao Mou only needs to kill Er's strength." ”

Sometimes when it comes to certain things, it is indeed more effective to speak harshly than to speak kindly.

……

Seeing that the road was faintly visible between the mountains, Mo Ye felt a little more relaxed, found a hidden place to rest for a while, and then according to the graphic passages he remembered in his mind, after thinking about it several times, he came up with a route that he thought was relatively safe. However, it didn't take long for her to feel that the scenery along the way seemed to become more and more familiar.

It's strange that I haven't been to this place before!

Could it be that you have been misled by the wrong pen of a certain senior?

After a few long breaths, Mo Ye suppressed the anxiety that was gradually rising in his heart, and continued to walk patiently for a while. Then she realized that she was indeed on the wrong path, but she was very wrong.

Before she knew it, she was back in the place she had been looking forward to for a long time.

Yuxian, Shuyun Town, Xingjia Village...... These three locations, if drawn on a piece of paper, are connected to each other in a line, which is about a triangle. Mo Ye lived in Xingjia Village for ten years, although she was obviously not an heir in the Xing family's genealogy. But that didn't stop her from seeing that quiet village as her hometown in her heart. The location of Lizheng Academy is in Yuxian County, where she has studied and lived for five years, and she is also familiar with the streets and alleys of Yuxian County.

As for Zhuyun Town, Mo Ye is relatively unfamiliar with it, but this strangeness is only relative to Xingjia Village and Yu County.

The predecessor of the town of Stop Cloud was a post station, except for official use. Started for decades. It was gradually discovered that, for some special geographical reasons, the place occupied by this post station was also a concentration point for travelers from different directions to cross paths. There are businessmen with unique business vision. The first was to build an inn here, followed by those who raised horses, sold fruits, struck iron, and sold vegetables...... A lonely post station on a deserted road gradually gathered the scale construction of the town.

Zhuyun Town is not far from Yu County, so Mo Ye also had several opportunities in the early years. The reason for visiting this place is that I was invited by the brothers of the college. Be a guest at their home in Cloud Stop.

Standing in front of the inn at the head of the town, which had not changed much, Mo Ye looked around and couldn't help but sigh softly. Compared with three years ago, several more buildings have been built in the current town. There seem to be more pedestrians passing by.

In terms of geographical characteristics, within a radius of 100 miles, people from the west should go east or south. and those in the southeast should go west, and there are only a few easy paths to take. This path through the town of Stops is the shortest. Shortening the distance is to shorten the travel time, and even save the loss on the road, this account is easy to calculate. With an unwavering notion of saving money and time, and the fact that the town has now expanded to a near-perfect supply area, people who travel long distances are certainly more willing to take this route.

The innkeeper first saw a young guest with crumpled clothes and messy hair in front of the door, and he didn't pay much attention to him. An ordinary tourist like this, or he can't even be called ordinary, should be a tourist who is so poor that he only has a few copper plates, and he may not be able to afford to live in a big inn like theirs.

However, when the innkeeper looked slightly away and saw the horse led by the poor tourist, his eyes lit up again!

Good horse!

But...... Looking at this little brother's messy clothes, can he afford to raise such a horse? Or was the horse stolen? That's not like, if it's a stolen horse, how can it be used to carry firewood? But the strange behavior of such a good horse for coolie work is even more inappropriate for its proper use......

Mo Ye's image at this time is indeed very problematic, if she doesn't make a sound, it will be really difficult for the people next to her to distinguish whether she is a white-faced boy or a young girl.

However, at this time, Mo Ye didn't have the time to care about what others thought of her, and she stood at the door of this inn, and she really didn't mean to live in it. It was only because she saw this familiar storefront that she further judged that she had indeed come to the familiar Zhuyun Town, not like the Wangzi Stone on the opposite side of Taihuan Mountain, and there was a town boundary archway with the same name on the map in a certain year.

After determining the correct location, Mo Ye led the black horse and groped his way to the store where the horse dealer was located in the town.

She's going to sell horses.

……

Xiao Kuang discussed the task assignment with the thirty cavalry left by Li Gai in the "Cloud Stop", and did not stop much, he personally led two teams of people, plus a post guard who was familiar with the environment, and went to Xingjia Village together.

Thirteen years ago, Lin Shan took the infant Mo Ye to Xingjia Village in seclusion, and he never stopped communicating with Kyoto during this period. Of course, most of his letterheads were sent to the palace and handed over to the emperor, but a few were sent to the small temple in the south of the city and handed over to Xiao Kuang. The content of the letter also mentioned once that he had great trust in Xiao Kuang, the senior brother of the same sect.

Before contacting the two teams of subordinates under Lin Shan's control, he chose to visit the house where he lived in Xingjia Village, which was a clear choice. Mo Ye's whereabouts have appeared around here, and if she is really back, there is a great possibility that she wants to go back to "home" to take a look. She has lived in Xingjia Village for ten years, and there are too many memories of her, and people are most likely to think of home and family when they are most helpless.

It's just that Xiao Kuang is a step slower to catch up after all.

Or to be more precise, the speed at which King Qingchuan sent out to rob people was too fast!

When Xiao Kuang and his party of fourteen people came to Xingjia Village, they saw dozens of houses clustered together, but it was terrifyingly quiet in broad daylight. Not only was there not a single villager on the path between the villages, but there was also no sound of chickens and dogs, and the doors of the houses were closed, and the whole village was as if it had died.

Xiao Kuang looked at the post guard beside him and said calmly: "Yuxian County includes the two major academies of the empire, and it is also the hometown of Yan Yizheng, if there is a war in this vicinity, it will not be concealed and reported, right?" ”——

(To be continued)