- In Tutuo Town, under the grass shed behind the inn, Gao Qian led two coachmen and began to set out to straighten out the carriage and prepare for departure.

Originally, Gao Qian had already gotten up and washed up, but because of the sudden rain yesterday evening, after one night, not only did the light rain not stop, but the rain clouds in the sky also piled up. The clouds were chaotic early in the morning, and I couldn't see the weather conditions, so I had to delay the departure time a little.

At this time, the sky is already bright, and although the sun is covered by thick clouds, at least you can see the changes in cloud cover and wind direction. Based on experience, Gao Qian is afraid that it will be difficult to escape a heavy rain during the day today, but if there is no sudden wind, then the clouds in the sky should still be able to 'hold' for a while before dripping.

And plan your itinerary, in order to get to the next city and county for the night before dark today, you can't move the departure time back anymore.

After tidying up the three carriages, checking the items on the carriages, and preparing for the rain on the roof, Gao Qian drove the lead carriage out of Tutuo Town.

Because of the geographical characteristics of Tutuo Town, it is surrounded by mounds that protrude from the ground for unknown reasons, like hills and not many trees, so the fork road that winds between such natural obstacles cannot have a long straight road, so it is necessary to turn around and build a forward extension around the mound.

In such road conditions, the high diver drove the car and did not go too fast.

Under normal circumstances, the most common thing in the journey is the neat windproof and road protection trees on both sides of the road, which can be used on this fork road built by Tutuo Town, and the most seen on both sides of the road are relatively neat mounds. If they were to be made in human form, they would resemble sergeants standing solemnly on the side of the road, as if they were examining the pedestrians and carriages passing by on the road. It seems that it is only tenacious and silent guarding this not very prosperous land.

The protection of the army should also be rich and poor. It is only geographical affiliation that is observed.

Cen Chi leaned boredly by the car window, looking at the mounds on the side of the road one by one. Just as he was about to lower the curtain and lie down weakly, a dark shadow came into his sight in the gap between the overlapping mounds.

He had thought that it was because he had been poisoned and his eyes were slowly starting to show visual hallucinations, but when he blinked vigorously and looked again, he saw the tent clearly.

Cen Chi stared for a moment, as if talking to himself: "That seems to be the light I saw at the inn window last night, and it was so close." I didn't expect them to leave yet. ”

Gao Qian glanced back at Cen Chi, followed Cen Chi's gaze, glanced at the side of the road, and only said casually: "Maybe it's because of the rain that I will stay here!" ”

It seemed that Gao Qian was not interested in this group of people camping in the wild with tents, but this made Cen Chi a little puzzled.

In Cen Chi's impression of Gao Qian, he felt that he would not be such a person who ignored the things around him so easily.

At least along the way, the high dive has nothing around him. are very attentive. Because of the poisoning of the Prime Minister's Mansion, it has not yet been completely discovered, and it cannot be ruled out that a real culprit behind the scenes will pursue Cen Chi and attack again. Therefore, high divers must always be vigilant.

Although he sensed the strangeness of the high potential, Cen Chi didn't say anything more. He lowered the curtain and sat down in a corner of the car. The feeling of weakness after poisoning did not improve in the slightest because of rest. It also seems to have a slight effect on the mind, causing inertia in people's ability to think.

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Waiting for Cen Chi and his entourage to drive slowly through the fork in the official road led out by Tutuo Town. After a while, the winding road is not far away. In that tent, there were also helpers in action.

More than a dozen helpers came out of the big tent one after another, spread out, and dismantled the canvas on the top of the tent in a very tacit manner. Then the servants divided into two groups, one of whom rolled up the canvas and the other who began to dismantle the shelves that held up the tents.

When the tent was dismantled, several stalled carriages were revealed. Gray and black, flat and stable freight carriages, each with a small flag embroidered with a feathered swallow on one corner.

The one who arched his tent and camped among the mounds outside Tutuo Town last night was the Yan family caravan that he and Cen Chi and his party had met once at the gate of Kyoto's north city yesterday morning.

In fact, the destination of the Yan family's trip was Xiaoliang Country in the northwest, and the general direction was the same road as Cen Chi and his party. But in this trip, the Yan family's transportation of goods is secondary, and the most important task is to send a few people away. These people, the three vans that had been waiting for the convoy for more than an hour at the city gate in the morning, slowly interspersed with the middle of the convoy.

Because of this special errand, after leaving the north gate of Kyoto, the Yanjia caravan could not go straight to the west, but had to go north and detour for half a circle, so when it was halfway up the Hongdu trade road, it turned right and entered the fork through Tutuo Town.

Perhaps this was due to the will of heaven, Cen Chi and his party, who were a little slower than the Yan family caravan, because they couldn't bear the ruggedness of the official road in Hongdu, and when they were halfway there, they also turned right and got on the fork in the road leading to Tutuo Town. Although Cen Chi and the others stayed at the inn in Tutuo Town at night, they set off after dawn and saw the Yan family and their party who had set up tents and stayed in the wild again on the road.

However, this meeting again was only a passing by, and it was too late to take a closer look.

Maybe Cen Chi and his party set off a little later, just so that they could see a very interesting thing, but they missed it, which may also be providential.

But if Cen Chi knew which people the Yan family's caravan had brought on this business trip, he might have to sigh at his own miss, but also be glad at his miss.

The tents in the open space between the mound were all dismantled, and after they were sorted and loaded, the mercenaries began to divide the horses and wagons again. When everything was in order, the mercenary and horsemen stood in their places, and the noise of busyness in the open space gradually quieted down, but the convoy did not set off immediately.

Yan Yu, the second young leader of the Yan family, didn't rest very steadily last night, because of this trip, the responsibility of the Yan family was really not light.

Yan Yu also wanted to finish this trip quickly, but he also knew that this matter was not in a hurry, and the more anxious it was, the easier it was to make trouble. Even if all the guys in the caravan were in a hurry, as a young master, he had to be more and more calm.

Although the sky was drizzling, the sky was not very clear. But the hour is really not early. Yan Yu closed her tired eyes and stretched out her fingers to push her eyelids a few times. Then open your eyes and cheer up. Jumped off the ground from the carriage where he had spent the night.

Holding an umbrella, Yan Yu slowly and carefully checked every car in her fleet.

Supervisor Wu, who served as the general affairs supervisor of this business trip, saw that Yan Yu was checking the car, but he didn't give him the order to leave for a long time, Supervisor Wu hesitated, couldn't help but lean over and asked twice.

Yan Yu didn't think about it, and quickly replied, still "wait".

After inspecting the long convoy from beginning to end, Yan Yu stopped. Breathed a sigh of relief. He deflected the handle of the umbrella slightly, looked up at the sky where it was difficult to discern the exact hour, and muttered to himself, "They shouldn't miss the hour because of the weather, right?" ”

Standing silently in the rain with an umbrella for a moment, Yan Yu walked towards the three vans in the middle of the convoy.

Walking to the door of the last of the three vans, Yan Yu asked softly to the driver of the car, "The guests in the car, how is the situation now?" ”

The coachman hesitated for a moment, then shook his head, and replied in a very soft voice, "That guest woke up once in the night, and has been asleep since the dressing change. ”

Yan Yu nodded in understanding. No more asking.

He walked to the door of the carriage in the middle, but he made a "whew" gesture with his fingers, and then did not say anything more, but only 'inquired' with a somewhat worried look.

In fact. During this trip, Yan Yu often asked the driver of the carriage in this silent way when she walked to the door of the carriage in the middle.

Seeing this, the coachman also quickly understood. After a moment's deliberation, there was a worried look in his eyes. Slowly shook his head.

Yan Yu nodded again to indicate that she understood, from the time she came to the door of this carriage to the time he left. He didn't say a word, but as he left, his previously calm face was noticeably darker.

Yan Yu walked out again, naturally approaching the third carriage.

However, before he could get to the door, he saw something come out of the car, blocked by the curtain hanging from the door, reflecting a protruding but blurred shape.

Seeing this scene suddenly, Yan Yu only felt slightly frightened.

He knew that the two people who rode in this carriage were not weak in martial arts. In fact, the people on these three carriages all have good kung fu. It's just that these people were all seriously injured, especially the people carried by the two carriages that Yan Yu had walked through before were the most seriously injured. The two wounded men in the carriage he had approached last were much less wounded than the people in the two carriages.

So if these two people want to deal with themselves, Yan Yu feels that it may be difficult to dodge.

But this assumption was obviously a misjudgment after a whole night of anxiety.

The thing that I didn't know what was striking the curtain of the carriage was not very strong, and after knocking the curtain a little crooked, it fell out of the edge of the door. Yan Yu stared at it and recognized that it was a bloody lump of cotton cloth, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but at the same time he was surprised.

When the driver sitting in the driver's seat saw this scene, he didn't know why, but there was a look of embarrassment on his face.

The driver didn't say anything, just lifted the curtain that blocked the door. He was able to do this, naturally because the two people in the car were injured, and their injuries were relatively stable. Since the Yan family is a young master to visit, there is no harm in meeting each other directly. Unlike the people in the other two cars, they were either unconscious or unable to see the wet and cold in the light rain.

The starting point of the Yan caravan's trip is Kyoto, and after Nanzhao replaced the Southern Zhou, Kyoto can be regarded as the first metropolis to settle down and restore people's livelihood and prosperity.

besiege and kill the senior members of the DPRK and the Central Committee, and then burn the corpses and destroy the house! After post-mortem examination of some of the objects left at the scene of the killing, it was also confirmed that the incident actually involved the supply of materials consumed by the military during the war! Nanzhao has ruled the country for nearly ten years, and it is the first time that he has committed such a serious case at the feet of the Son of Heaven.

All this happened just because the target of that siege incident was too eye-catching. However, no one will know that one of the many elements of the success of the siege is actually related to the hapless victim who 'designed' his own behavior.

There are many thoughtful designs, but only one is missing. In that brutal siege incident, because a little girl was mixed in halfway, there were many risks and twists and turns. Although the final result is that the nine deaths finally have a glimmer of life, the price paid in the whole process is too great.

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In the open space between the mounds, the Yan family caravan waited in place for more than an hour after tidying up the carriage and goods, and finally waited for the passerby they had contacted before leaving.

On the official road, from far to near, soon came twelve horsemen. These twelve people were all dressed in ordinary clothes, and they did not carry sharp weapons with them, and they turned around halfway through the official road and walked towards the Yan family caravan.

There is no need for an eye-catching uniform, no need for a token that can prove his identity, Yan Yu, who was already waiting a little anxious, just looked at the two people who were leading the group, that is, he knew the other party's intention.

The twelve horsemen who were close to the Yan family's caravan were actually the two groups of people led by Lin Shan's seclusion in the west. However, the Yan family caravan was communicating with them, and they agreed to pick up people in this place and split the way, and the two groups of people did not all arrive, but the twelve horsemen who left the group were really the elites in the group. The leader is a man and a woman, respectively Luo Qing, the leader of the first group, and Liu Sheng, the leader of the second group.

However, because the Yan family reminded them in the letter that the only people they wanted to pick up were the old Qiao Cui in the second group, Liu Sheng's younger brother Lu Sheng, and a member of the fourth group, but Lin Shan was the only one missing, Luo Qing and Liu Sheng couldn't help but be full of doubts and worries.

The matter of Kyoto, after only one night, reached the second group stationed in the west, and the group was almost chaotic at that time. Fortunately, after about half a month, the second group received another express letter about this matter, and the situation of the second group's confusion calmed down a little.

But if these two groups of people really feel at ease, they can only see with their own eyes that the forest is unharmed. Therefore, the express letter that the two groups received late last night gathered more than a dozen important people in the two groups all night to discuss for several hours, and finally only a few people were left in the group, responsible for presiding over the daily affairs of the group in the past few days, and most of the elites went out with the two team leaders.

At the beginning of the letter, the time was actually calculated, and after the second group received the letter, they had to send someone to arrive on time immediately. However, because it took more than two hours for the group council, the arrival time was bound to be delayed.

However, the twelve horsemen of these two combinations only made the Yan family caravan wait for more than an hour, and the reason for this was only known by these twelve people in their hearts...... (To be continued......)