Guangzhou City, where Guangnan East Road Road is located, is close to the hottest time of the year at the end of July, because it is located in Lingnan, facing the ocean, and there are Xijiang River, Yushui and so on converge under the city, the climate is humid and sultry, warm and rainy, making it difficult for people to adapt to this place for the first time.

Zhao Wei, who had just been appointed as the new local chief a few months ago, was like this, and it stands to reason that the days of coming here are not short, but he still doesn't want to stay in the room, even if the people act as human fans for him, he also feels that the wind is hot.

Therefore, the favorite place to stay is a water pavilion in the house, after tea and dinner, lying in the pavilion across the lake, there is a burst of coolness, only here can not see the big sun dangling overhead, in order to relieve his depressed mood a little.

Everyone knows that the entire Lingnan, the land of Liangguang, was still a place of exile for the army in the former Tang Dynasty, and it began to pay attention to it after the Song Dynasty, that is, after the southern crossing. Especially after the gradual prosperity of maritime trade, this place is no longer regarded as a daunting path, but in Zhao Wei's heart, he was assigned.

After the Battle of Jiankang, the imperial court began to liquidate the previous mistakes and omissions, and officials, including several ministers of political affairs, were demoted and exiled, and the farthest was under his rule. Almost all of them were participants in that incident, but in his opinion, except that he was bigger than the official, he was no different from those rogues.

When his predecessor Su Shi was demoted to Huizhou, he wrote a poem

"At the foot of Luofu Mountain, Lu Tangerine and Huangmei are the newest.

Eat 300 lychees a day, you might as well grow into a Lingnan person. ”，

Now, the lychee that can make Yang Guifei smile is in his hand, but he is not in the mood to look at it.

"The mountains and rivers compete for the way to turn into a fan, and the coconut leaves are dark and barbaric streams.

Sorrowful poisonous fog meets snake grass, fearing sandworms and avoiding swallow mud.

In May, she harvested fire rice, and the three watchmen reported the tide chicken.

Unbearable homesickness, the red hibiscus flowers are more and more birds cry. ”

At this moment, what came to his mind was a poem by Li Deyu of the former Tang Dynasty, and the last sentence could be said to have written his heart, no matter how good the place was, what was the use? Far away from the court, when the report came, he didn't know what day it was before, he Zhao Wei had never been old enough to be a scholar, and he still had the ability to share worries for the country.

"The owner, the owner."

was squinting his eyes to rest, and suddenly heard a few calls, the current staff member was left by the previous Lu Chen, familiar with the local customs and customs, he was very much in need of such a guide when he first arrived, so he left him behind. Although he is not as capable as Mr. Chen before, he is still capable in general, and when he thinks of the Mr. Chen who died in vain, Zhao Wei still feels pity from the bottom of his heart.

"What?"

"Back to the owner's house, someone outside the house handed over the post, saying that it was the old man of the owner's family, and he wanted to ask to see him, but the housekeeper couldn't make up his mind, so he found so, you see"

Old friend? What kind of great old man will be this, most of them are here to fight the autumn wind like before, and now he Zhao Wei is not as solid as before, and the little property left behind has to be used for dotting, when he thinks of this, he can't help but feel irritable.

"You can do it, if there is really a difficulty, let the porter send him a few sons, Ben Shuai has no time to see him."

Zhao Wei closed his eyes and waved his hand and said, he didn't hear the sound of retreating for a long time, he opened his eyes and saw that the staff member was standing in place with a stunned face, holding a post in his hand, and seemed to be very embarrassed.

"What is the origin of this person that makes you hesitate so far?"

"He himself is not enough, the sergeants who followed him, all dressed in armor, looked like the attire of the imperial camp forbidden army."

The staff had a bitter face, and he didn't want to come to disturb the owner when he was resting, but the helpless people who came were really unusual, all of them were freshly dressed and angry, and they didn't put the sergeant guarding the door in their eyes at all, and if they didn't give an answer, they were afraid that they would break in.

"Imperial Camp? Do you mean how many people they came from Beijing? ”

"More than 20 rides, it looks like they have been running around for a long time, and they should have come day and night."

The words of the staff made Zhao Wei's heart startled, more than 20 heavily armed armor soldiers came from Beijing again, could it be that something happened to him, who came to investigate? He thought of himself first, it wouldn't be the East Window incident, he wanted to settle accounts after the autumn, and before he could figure out what to do, he heard noisy footsteps from the other end of the corridor.

"Zhao Shuai, why do you wait so late when the old man is visiting?"

Before the people arrived, there was a long laugh, and the staff on the side knew that it was not good, and they had to wait for them to break in on their own, needless to say that something big must have happened. And looking at the owner's demeanor, it turned out to be a lost soul, and the fine porcelain cup in his hand rolled down "gurgling" and smashed on the ground, but he didn't know it.

Jiankang Mansion across the river opposite Zhenzhou, which is already under the rule of Huaidong Road, but because Huaidong is now handsome, it is equivalent to being directly under Li Tingzhi, which was not allowed before, but now it is ignored by the imperial court intentionally or unintentionally.

From here, you can reach Chuzhou, an important town in Huaidong, through the Xuyi army, and then cross the Huaishui from there to the ground of the Tartars, and the route planned by Li Shiyi is this one. He rushed to Liuhe County yesterday, where he gathered his former brothers, and now it is early in the morning, a good time to hurry, and he does not want to delay for a moment.

"Is the man awake?"

"If you can't wake up, you will be knocked out with a stick and put it in a sack and stuffed it into the cart, which will save you noise."

One of his subordinates said nonchalantly, in order to keep a look at this person, a few of them missed following Dutou to Jiangzhou, and their hearts were on fire, how could they still have a good temper.

"Be careful, you must let him live."

Li Shiyi didn't care much about that person's treatment, no matter how big an official he was, now he was the meat ticket in his hand, if it wasn't more valuable to live, he wouldn't bother to waste this energy.

"Don't worry, shopkeeper."

After a while, a hemp cloth bag was carried out, and it was thrown onto the cart with a "bang", and there was no kind of carriage for people, but some bags of the same appearance were piled up, and they were all bulging, and I don't know what they contained.

Except for the part of the Jiankang Mansion that stayed, the more than thirty people here were his mobile force, and they were also all the manpower after the start of the Yidu plan, jumping on his mount, Li Shiyi's mind had already begun to think about how to lay it out, saying that there were still too few people at the bottom, and they were all fresh faces, without the cooperation of local forces, things would be difficult to do everywhere.

Because of the front line, the road between the two Huai is very wide and solid, which is a necessary requirement for the passage of grain and heavy vehicles, and half of the huge military expenditure allocated by the imperial court every year must be used on it, and only such a spacious road surface can ensure the supply in wartime.

When they arrived in the Song Land, they became the direct subordinate soldiers of the Marshal's Mansion, and the brand in their hands was more effective than that of the Xie family in the Northland, and the sergeant guarding the door not only let them go directly after seeing it, but also solemnly performed a military salute, for such a role change, Li Shiyi has become more and more proficient, maybe he was born to do this, he sometimes thinks.

"Shopkeeper, we have a few tails behind us, and we have been following them from the city, and we are still hanging here."

Walking up the avenue outside the city, a subordinate approached him and whispered in his ear, Li Shiyi nodded his head and motioned for him to continue to monitor, this is Song Jing, he is not worried about what the Tartar will do, the other party is not very professional, he wants to know who it will be.

Today's expected camp is Tianchang County, to which the Xuyi Army belongs, and if nothing else, time is not too tight, so his team is not moving fast, stopping every once in a while to stop for a while. And whenever they stopped, the people behind them didn't leave, and for some reason, Li Shiyi kept letting them follow, not like they were going to take action.

After less than an hour, Ma'anshan, the highest mountain in the state, was left behind, and the road made a nearly ninety-degree turn at the foot of the mountain. Li Shiyi ordered his subordinates to continue walking, but he stopped around the corner, he didn't bring many people, because after walking for so long, he had roughly guessed who would be following behind.

"Li Li Dutou."

The old dog and his companion were hanging the group of men and horses in front of them from a distance, and suddenly when they turned the foot of the mountain, they unexpectedly rode in front of them, looking at each other's smiling expressions, they did not know where their actions did not escape the eyes of others.

"Where's Sister Pheasant?"

In fact, if you want to talk about the rank in the army, the old dog is still above him, as early as a few years ago, he won the nine-grade Lang official with his military merits, but now he is acting sneaky, and his heart is half shorter. In addition, he is still his own life-saving benefactor, and when he asked like this, the old dog man smiled and pointed to the back.

knew that this was the case, Li Shiyi didn't know what to say, he deliberately only informed Li Tingzhi of the trip, but this girl still got the news, and now it is pointless to find out who leaked the secret, how can I persuade her to go back? Li Shiyi felt an incomparably headache.

It's not that Sister Pheasant will be a drag on him, everyone knows that the waiter system attaches great importance to her, he has to go deep into the enemy territory on this trip, and it can't compare to the kind of place in Jiangzhou, which is the core area of the Tartars, if something happens, there is no way to save him, what will he do to explain to the waiter system at that time?

"Why are you here?"

On the avenue about half a mile away, an ox cart was driven slowly, and the old dog and the two took him back, Li Shiyi lifted the curtain from behind the carriage, and what he saw in front of him was shocked.

There was a person sitting in the car, and it was a woman, of course she was not a pheasant slave, but didn't she clearly tell their father and daughter to stay in Jiankang Mansion? A pheasant sister has already given him a headache, and with such a powerless chicken, do they think they are going to Youchun?

"Where's Sister Pheasant?"

Li Shiyi put down the curtain, like an old dog, they asked the master, and before the two could answer, they jumped down from the front of the ox cart, took off the bamboo hat and looked at him with a smile, dressed in a green cloth shirt, and there were two whiskers stuck under his chin, but it was not a pheasant slave.