The two officials were the two killers sent by Yuan Zai, they followed Guo Song all the way, and they were also very experienced, they did not dress up as businessmen or the like, but dressed up as officials who were more in line with their physique, and the first two appearances in front of Guo Song were just to determine the target, and tonight was their chance to do it.

They didn't go to the inn opposite at all, but hid opposite the inn where Guo Song and they lived, waiting for the opportunity to come.

But people are not as good as heaven, and they never imagined that the inn opposite was closed, exposing their abnormal behavior.

At two o'clock, the two men in black rushed across the intersection and jumped onto the roof, they could see clearly from the big tree opposite, their target Guo Song lived in a guest room in the westernmost part, and several of his men lived next door.

The two of them were as fast as raccoons, running on the roof, the thick soles of their soft boots keeping them from making a sound, and soon they approached the upper room to the west, where they were clinging to the windows, and faintly heard snoring coming from the room.

The two nodded, and each took out the deadly killer weapon, one was a short sword, the other was a hand crossbow, whether it was a short sword, or the crossbow bolt flashed with blue light, obviously quenched with poison, even if they couldn't kill each other, as long as they cut each other's flesh and skin, the other party would be poisoned and die.

A man in black gently cut through the window paper, and through the gap in the window paper, it could be seen that their target was sleeping on his side on the bed, sleeping soundly.

'Click! With a slight sound, the window was slashed and gently opened, and the two men in black jumped into the room together, and they cooperated tacitly, and the crossbow shot a short arrow, which hit the man on the bed, and the other pounced, and the short sword stabbed in.

The two immediately felt that something was wrong, and pulled open the quilt, where there was someone on the bed, there was a six-foot-long hanger.

"Fooled!"

The two of them turned and swept out the window, but a man fell from the roof beam, and the black sword swung like lightning, incredibly fast, 'Click! A human head flew out.

The other person was so frightened that he couldn't possess his body, the short sword in his hand was thrown back, but his body jumped out of the window, Guo Song dodged the short sword, he quickly took off the bow, drew an arrow, pulled the bow like a full moon, and shot an arrow.

The other man in black had already run to the edge of the eaves more than twenty paces away, jumped down, and as soon as he landed, he would be safe.

But his feet had barely left the roof, his body still hanging in the air, and a wolf's tooth arrow 'whoosh!' The arrow pierced the back of the black's head, the tip of the arrow peeked through the forehead, and the man in black was reduced to a corpse when he landed.

The five soldiers rushed over one after another, and Guo Song said lightly: "I won't find any clues, bury their corpses, and bring the horses." ”

It was true that no clues were found, but the harvest was very rich, and they found a thousand taels of silver and a hundred taels of gold from their horse bags, as well as two good horses and two good swords, and the crossbows were very delicately made, and the poisonous short swords were sharpened like clay, and even their boots were specially made, and they could run silently on the roof.

The spoils of Guo Song were distributed to everyone, and the silver and gold were just used as entanglements, and the two corpses were buried in the woods outside the town.

.........

Guo Song and his entourage crossed Wangwu Mountain from the south of Jiangzhou, entered Huaizhou, and then traveled eastward along the Yellow River, and ten days later, Guo Song and his entourage crossed the Yellow River in Bozhou and entered Qizhou.

Qizhou was the territory of Li Zhengji, the envoy of the Ziqing Festival and the king of Raoyang County, who controlled the entire Shandong Peninsula and was a powerful feudal town of the Tang Dynasty.

After walking for more than half a day, they finally arrived in Licheng County, to their surprise, the business of Licheng was quite prosperous, merchants gathered, and all kinds of cargo ships on the Jishui wharf could not be seen at a glance.

The order in the city is also quite good, and there are soldiers constantly patrolling back and forth to maintain order.

At this time, a wide luxury carriage came from the north at a high speed, and it turned out to be three horses pulling, and there was a horseback attendant in front of him shouting: "Fellow villagers, borrow the way!" Borrow! ”

Passers-by dodged in both directions, soldiers urged pedestrians to get out of the way, and dozens of swordsmen escorted the wide luxury carriage as it drove by.

Pedestrians discussed, "Cui Yuanwai's new carriage is really luxurious, and I heard that the utensils inside are made of gold." ”

Guo Song was confused and asked an old man: "Who is this Cui Yuanwai?" ”

The old man laughed and said, "Young man, you are a foreigner!" Even Cui Yuanwai didn't know that he was one of the largest cloth merchants in Datang, and there were thousands of looms in the workshop, and he was the guest of the old prince. ”

Only then did Guo Song understand that Cui Yuanwai was a businessman, and Xue Changshou next to him sighed: "I can't imagine that a businessman can actually ride in a carriage, and it is so luxurious?" ”

Guo Song also deeply felt that Chang'an would never allow businessmen to ride in carriages, let alone three-horse horse-drawn carriages, which would have been arrested in such a high-profile manner in Chang'an, but in Qizhou, they could go to the streets in a grand manner, which was a rare thing in the Tang Dynasty, where merchants had a low status.

Guo Song quickly asked about Baofeng Restaurant, which is one of the three major restaurants in Qizhou, and Guo Song quickly found Baofeng Restaurant.

The restaurant is in the county seat Yuquan Fang, this is the largest and most prosperous neighborhood in the ten squares of Licheng County, the restaurant covers an area of about ten acres, a three-storey red building in front, there are more than 20 small courtyards in the back, more than a dozen huge red lanterns hang down from the eaves, and the lanterns are written with four big characters of 'Baofeng Restaurant'.

When Guo Song and his entourage arrived at the restaurant, it was noon, business was not bad, people came and went, and two bartenders greeted customers warmly at the door.

A bartender saw Guo Song and his entourage, and hurriedly greeted him: "A few masters, come in and sit down and have a glass of wine, the shop has authentic Lanling wine, sweet and long, and will never disappoint you." ”

The two meals of the Datang Eclipse mainly refer to the middle and lower class people, and large households do not have this restriction, most restaurants will open at noon, and many people will go in and drink two glasses even if they don't eat.

Guo Song said to Xue Changshou: "You take a few brothers in to eat and drink, and I will come to you when I come back." ”

Xue Changshou nodded, and Guo Song said to the bartender: "You take them in!" I'm looking for your shopkeeper. ”

"Great! Five masters, please come with me. ”

The bartender led the five people into the restaurant, and Guo Song walked in and saw the shopkeeper standing at the counter at a glance. He stepped forward and said with a smile: "Shopkeeper, business is okay!" ”

"It's okay, everyone's cheering, business has been good, is there something wrong with this son?"

Guo Song gently flicked the ring in his hand and asked, "Does the shopkeeper know this ring?" ”

The shopkeeper saw the white jade turtle ring on Guo Song's finger, his face changed slightly, and he nodded and said, "Childe, please come with me, please come here!" ”

He pushed open the small door next to him, Guo Song followed him out, and behind him were more than 20 single courtyards of restaurants, the alleys were very narrow, and they were like a labyrinth.

The shopkeeper took Guo Song all the way to the last courtyard and pushed open the courtyard door, "Son, please!" ”

Guo Song walked into the courtyard, but saw an old woman pacing back and forth in the courtyard, and the familiar figure made Guo Song's heart hot, and said with a smile: "Senior aunt, why are you here?" ”

The old woman was the eldest lady of Gongsun who she hadn't seen for a year and a half, and when she looked up and saw Guo Song, she was overjoyed, "I'm still worried, the Son of Heaven will send someone over, but I didn't expect it to be a nephew, when did you come back from Anxi?" ”

"Less than ten days after I came back, I was arrested by the Son of Heaven, and asked me to come to Licheng to assist my aunt, and it took more than ten days on the road."

The arrival of Guo Song made Aunt Gongsun overjoyed, with the arrival of Guo Song, many of her difficult things can be solved, Aunt Gongsun hurriedly invited Guo Song into the house and let a maid serve tea.

Guo Song smiled: "Senior Aunt has to tell me what happened first, and then tell me what do you need me to do?" ”

"Didn't the Holy One tell you?"

Guo Song shook his head, "The Son of Heaven just asked me to help you, and then I was confused." ”

Gongsun Auntie sighed softly and said: "Things are more complicated, you have to start from the beginning, three years ago, a mutiny broke out in Lingnan, the general Ge Shuhuang killed the Lingnan Jiedu envoy to rebel, and established himself as the king, the general Lu Sigong served as the Lingnan Jiedu envoy, led 20,000 troops to suppress Ge Shuhuang's rebellion, and in less than a few months, Ge Shuhuang's rebellion was suppressed, Ge Shuhuang himself was killed, and the Son of Heaven sealed Lu Sigong as the Duke of Jiguo, thinking that the matter was over.

But a year later, there were more and more Guangzhou maritime merchants who ran into Beijing to complain, saying that they had been robbed by Ge Shuhuang, and Lu Sigong did not return them to them, and Lu Sigong wrote to explain that the money was used by Ge Shuhuang to recruit soldiers.

At the beginning of the year, the Son of Heaven received a secret report, saying that the six million pieces of money that Ge Shuhuang had stolen from the maritime merchants had actually been embezzled by Lu Sigong, and the Son of Heaven was furious, so he sent a master to Lingnan to investigate, and the results of the investigation were true, and Lu Sigong not only embezzled six million pieces of money, but also snatched millions of dollars from the maritime merchants in Guangzhou in recent years, and he had accumulated tens of millions of dollars.

The Son of Heaven transferred him to the envoy of the Biansong Festival, and at the same time named him the king of Chenliu County, in recognition of his merits in quelling the rebellion in Lingnan, but Lu Sigong did not expect that this was the Son of Heaven's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, so he went on the road, a total of thirty warships, full of all the wealth he had collected in Lingnan, we got the latest information, he was ready to enter the Yellow River from the sea, and go directly to Bianzhou. ”

Guo Zhong hesitated for a moment and said, "Can't you arrest him again in Bianzhou?" ”

Aunt Gongsun shook her head and said, "I'm afraid it's too late to catch him in Bianzhou." ”