After the leader of the dead man left Fang Yishan's house, he read Gao Ju's letter directly in the carriage, and then he kept a gloomy face and didn't say anything.

After a while, the driver lowered his voice and reported to him: "Chief, it looks like someone is following us." ”

The leader suddenly felt a pang in his heart, came to his senses, lifted the dark curtain behind the carriage, carefully observed a few times, and really saw a carriage following them, which was not inconspicuous, and the coachman was dressed in a very ordinary way, and he couldn't see anything unusual, but the other party had been following them closely and always maintained a distance, which was already an anomaly. He narrowed his eyes and instructed his accomplices: "Just drive well, I want to see who is coming." When we get to a remote place, let's start asking again! The driver agreed. The leader was there, keeping an eye on the carriage that followed.

They soon went out of the outer city, and turned to the east, making a great circle on the way, passing through all kinds of wide and narrow alleys, and then pretending to go to the east gate. The carriage behind followed for a while, and after passing the crutch alley, it suddenly disappeared from the field of vision of the leader of the dead soldiers. He was a little unsure, whether the other party found out that they had discovered the tracking, so they were alert, or they misunderstood the other party, in fact, they were not tracking, but just happened to go the same way?

No, no, if it was a coincidence that they were on the same road, how could they follow them so many times? Stalkers for sure! I just don't know why I didn't catch up halfway.

The leader hesitated for a while, and then directly ordered the coachman: "Get out of the city!" Even if no one is keeping up, don't take it lightly. We can't go back to our foothold, otherwise we will let someone secretly follow, and we will be served in a pot! The coachman answered, and turned around in the carriage. Went directly to the east gate, crowded in a group of ordinary people, and went out of the city smoothly.

The trackers, who discovered that they were aware of their whereabouts, took a different approach, abandoning their cars and walking, quickly shuttling through the streets and alleys, taking advantage of their familiarity with the terrain. Barely kept up with the speed of the carriage. They went out with them, and then began to chase the carriage around the bends in the wilderness. In the middle of the night, they finally tracked down a Zhuangzi. I saw the two men in the carriage get out of the carriage, hand the carriage to the man in a private house, and enter the door of the house. The stalker hurriedly left two people to guard, and then sent two more people back to the city to report. When the gates were closed, the messenger took out his seal. Let the officers and soldiers guarding the city gate put down the bamboo baskets, pull them up to the city, and then go straight to the palace gate.

Early the next morning, the officers and soldiers rushed to the Zhuangzi. Grabbing the man who took over the carriage, he realized that the carriage had been rented from him. He himself didn't know anything about the people who rented the car. As for why the two men entered the door of his house, it was because they were going out from the back garden of his house. Leaving along the path, behind his house was a dense wooded forest and next to the river. When the stalker saw them enter the house, he thought he had found the target's base camp, and happily rushed back in a hurry, not even noticing that the two men had entered the forest and fled.

The clue was broken, and the people who led the team entered the palace in a gloomy manner, and the emperor only frowned, but did not punish them. He had long known that King Ying's most powerful henchmen could escape the rebellion safely, so naturally he would not be so easily captured.

When the king of Quang Binh heard the news, he frowned and asked, "Did the owner of the carriage ever say from which direction those people came?" ”

The emperor glanced at the person who was in his hand, and the man hurriedly replied: "When I returned to the prince's words, I mentioned that they came from Baoding, but they took the road to the north, and the driver of the carriage thought that they came out of the city." ”

The emperor said to King Quang Binh, "What do you think, brother? I think that the dead soldiers must not be telling the truth, for an ordinary farmer, just to rent his carriage for use, why tell the truth? ”

King Guangping nodded and sighed: "That's it, if they read the letter and disperse from now on, it will save trouble." But if they don't give up, they will always continue to contact Fang Yishan, and the emperor will wait for the news. ”

The emperor nodded: "Now it has to be like this, but I also ordered them to go down and order them to investigate strictly." I felt that they had lived in the suburbs of Beijing for many years, and it was impossible for them to be isolated from the outside world when they ate and dressed, and there would definitely be some traces of spiders. As long as you find the traces they once left behind, you will always find them one day. ”

King Guangping smiled and nodded: "If you talk about patience and perseverance, the emperor will never lose to anyone." The emperor smiled: "Brother Xie praised him." ”

The resurrected man went down, and only three brothers and uncles were left in the house. The emperor put aside the matter of the dead soldier for the time being, and chatted with the king of Guangping: "The anniversary of the imperial sister-in-law is approaching, how does the imperial brother plan to arrange it?" The queen mother's heart knot is difficult to solve for a while, and the royal brother should not be angry with her, she is just afraid. ”

King Guangping sighed: "Why don't I understand this truth? Therefore, I only plan to keep everything simple, and there is no need to alarm outsiders. Hengzhu's mother's family is not there, and the anniversary is too public, which will only remind people of the ugly things her mother's family has done, it is better to be quiet, just me and Zhen'er accompany her for a day. It's a pity that the day collided with my father's anniversary again, and I was discussing with Zhen'er to hold his mother's anniversary in advance. ”

The Emperor nodded: "That's fine. It can be staggered with the anniversary of your father, and your father and son have the kung fu of worship. The queen mother went there and said, no matter what happens, I can't stop Zhen'er from worshipping his mother. He paused, glanced at Gao Zhen, who was staring at the map of the capital hanging on the west wall of the imperial study, and lowered his voice, "What did the imperial brother think about about the matter mentioned by the queen mother?" You don't have to worry about what grievances Zhen'er will suffer, since she is the person that the queen mother likes, her heart is naturally not bad, not to mention that she will add a few more children to you, and there will be someone who can take care of your daily life. The queen mother and I know in the palace, and we can rest assured. ”

King Guangping smiled bitterly: "Why did the emperor mention this matter again?" It must have been the queen mother who asked the emperor to come up as a lobbyist, right? In Cining Palace before, didn't I make it clear to the queen mother? Now I really don't have the heart to think about this, I have Zhen'er to take care of the affairs of the palace on weekdays, and the people waiting around me are also dedicated, so it's enough, and I really don't need to add anyone. ”

But the emperor shook his head and said, "How is this enough? Zhen'er can't guard the palace for the rest of his life, he is still so young, he always has to come out to do something. ”

King Guangping was silent, and the emperor smiled: "I know why the imperial brother hesitated, but there is no need. You and my brothers, if I can't even trust the emperor's brother, who else in the world can believe it? Brother Huang should only help me, right? My two emperors are still too young, and when they can share my worries, then it will be the Year of the Monkey? Zhen'er is old, smart and capable since he was a child, if he only guards the palace and cares about trivial things, it will be too wasteful of talents. ”

Without waiting for King Guangping to answer, the emperor raised his voice and called Gao Zhen: "What is Zhen'er looking at?" Come here. I am discussing with your father, but your father will not continue the strings, but the palace cannot live without a mistress. Your grandmother and aunt are discussing choosing a good daughter-in-law for you, what do you think? If you are embarrassed to tell your imperial grandmother and aunt, why don't you tell your imperial uncle quietly? ”

Gao Zhen touched his nose, walked to the emperor and King Guangping, hesitated for a moment, and quickly opened the topic: "Uncle Huang, don't make fun of your nephew, your nephew is still early when he got married." It's the group of people today, and the nephew just looked at the map, but he had some ideas. ”

As soon as the emperor heard it, he knew that he was changing the subject, smiled, and did not break it: "Oh? What did you find? ”

Gao Zhen replied: "Fang San mentioned in the secret letter that the group of dead soldiers had always lived in Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Beijing in the past, and they would not enter the city if they had nothing to do, but they were scurrying around outside, helping King Ying to do some unsightly things. People who really know how to be active in the capital usually follow King Ying closely on weekdays. King Ying was arrested that day, and these people were also destroyed. This time, the leader of the dead soldiers was a man who was working outside. Why, then, was their driver so familiar with the streets and alleys of the city? The man we sent to follow him circled the city several times, and almost lost it. ”

The emperor muttered: "Presumably, although they are doing business outside, they are still very familiar with the capital?" ”

"If you are very familiar with the capital, why didn't you go around in circles before, but only when you get to that area?" Gao Zhen walked quickly towards the map, and drew a circle in the northwest area outside Chongwen Gate with his finger, "I just heard the report of the people below, that group of people detoured, mainly in this area, but there were no other places to get into." And this area is inhabited by ordinary people, mostly poor people, although there is a rice market, but it is not the most lively market in the outer city, and there is not much important place to go around. Since that group of people are all dead soldiers of King Ying and are familiar with the roads in Beijing, there is always a priority, right? What is there about this piece that they are familiar with? Almost all of the people living in this kind of place are locals in the capital, and if you have a foreign accent, it will be eye-catching as soon as you live in, which shows that it is not a suitable place to hide. ”

The emperor raised his eyebrows: "Maybe...... Have they lived here, or are they still living here? ”

Gao Zhen smiled: "If they live here, they will never have the courage to take people around here." The nephew thought that they might have lived quite close to here, and that it was most likely that they had bought the property before King Ying's bad thing. The neighbors around them are accustomed to it, so they will not be suspicious. ”

The Emperor smiled: "This idea is somewhat interesting. ”

Gao Zhen continued: "Look at their actions, it is clear that they found our people on the way, and they also played a trick on our people in the matter of returning the carriage. In this case, they should have gone in the right direction when they left the inner city, but going out of the city through the east gate might just be a trick. It is likely that they will be in the outer city, and not in the detour where they have taken our people. ”

The leader of the dead soldiers had ordered the coachman to take the stalker around the streets and alleys of the outer city for a long time, and almost all the alleys and streets in that area were all bypassed by him, and there were not many places that he did not go around, so it was easy to investigate. The emperor laughed a few times, and immediately called someone to come and ordered him to go down.

The broken clue has hope of picking it up again, and the emperor is full of joy, and he picks up the topic that was just forked by Gao Zhen: "Good boy, Uncle Huang will definitely find you a good daughter-in-law." Do you have a person you like? Hurry up and say, Uncle Huang is in charge of you. If you are too shy to speak, you will have nowhere to cry if your imperial grandmother and aunt choose someone who is not your liking. ”

Gao Zhen was suddenly entangled. (To be continued) R466