In the fifth year of Taihe, October was not in October, and Chenzheng was in the middle of nowhere.

Chang'an, Chang'an County, Guangdefang.

As soon as the curfew ended at the beginning of Chen, Zhang's father led the two new servants from the house, got on the horse and went straight out of Guangdefang, and went to the Chunming Gate on the east side of Chang'an.

After bidding farewell to his father, Zhang Yijun did not feel the expected relief. It is also strange to say that after the weak crown, Zhang Yijun often lived in other businesses in Jinchangli, and rarely returned to his family house in Guangdefang, nor did he live under the same roof with his grandfather for so long. Now that his father is temporarily in the Eastern Capital, Zhang Yijun has become the top pillar of the house, and more than a dozen servants are driven by him, and the steep increase in pressure and the feeling of loss are engraved in his heart.

Li Shangyin seemed to get up and freshen up, and slowly walked to the courtyard from the east hall of the second courtyard where he was staying. He stretched his waist and found that Zhang Yijun was leaning against the porch of the Sanjin Moon Cave, and his expression seemed to have been waiting for him for a long time.

Li Shangyin followed Zhang Yijun all the way to the back garden, Li Shangyin had been staying in Zhang's house for ten days, but he rarely set foot in the back garden except for occasionally coming to take away Ziyun Cong. Therefore, when Zhang Yijun led Li Shangyin into the spacious east side of the library, Li Shangyin looked at the rich collection of books on the wall and couldn't help but sigh.

Zhang Yijun did not delay, and walked straight to the front of the lenient case on the north side. Before leaving, Zhang's father seemed to have carefully cleaned up the case, changing the previous messy book and stacked paper rolls, and now there were a few wolves left on the pen holder, as well as a skin bag that seemed to contain clean water, and the rest was clean and dusty, and the morning sun came in from the window, and the varnish on the case reflected some light.

Zhang Yijun hurriedly looked around for a moment, pointed to a low cabinet on the side of the case, and said to Li Shangyin: "Bring some rice paper to ......."

Although Li Shangyin was still a little ignorant in his heart, he didn't know why Zhang Yijun brought him into this room early in the morning, but Li Shangyin hurriedly opened the cabinet door when he heard this, and saw that several rolls of Yipin rice paper were really neatly stacked in the cabinet.

Li Shangyin turned around, only to see that Zhang Yijun had already laid a felt on the case, and found an ink ingot, an inkstone, and a ruler from the nearby cabinets, and the four treasures of the study were complete. Li Shangyin wondered, didn't he want to simulate the poetry and poetry of the scientific examination for himself in advance?

"Brother Yijun, what is this?" Li Shangyin wondered.

"Last night, I was always thinking, where do we start to investigate the plans of the rebellious party in detail," Zhang Yijun opened a water bladder, poured some water on the inkstone, and after a while, he developed a shallow pool of ink, "That Xuanduguan culvert is the breakthrough!" ”

Only then did Li Shangyin understand the purpose of their visit: they were going to do business. Then he suddenly came to some spirits, thought for a while, and said: "What does Brother Yi Jun mean, is he going to visit Xuandu Temple again?" ”

"Definitely," Zhang Yijun directly vetoed, and then opened the tip of the wolf's pen, dipped it in some ink, and said: "The Xuanduguan culvert has been discovered, no matter how arrogant the chaotic party is, it will not be stupid enough to do nothing, it must be prepared, and the Xuanduguan is no longer possible." ”

"That ......" Li Shangyin looked at Zhang Yijun carrying the wolf's hair, flying dragons and snakes on rice paper, and after a while, he hastily sketched a picture of Chang'anfang.

"The focus is not on the culvert, but on the direction of the culvert ......" Zhang Yijun drew a cross in Chongye Fang, and then went upward, that is, in the direction of due north, dragging the millipoint, "The culvert has been extending to the north, and there has never been a fork in the road, that is to say, the chaotic party still has a stronghold in another place!" ”

Li Shangyin suddenly had an epiphany, Zhang Yijun said that this Chang'an Fang diagram is like a chessboard, and all the squares are like chess pieces, and they have too few clues at the moment, so they urgently need to find out where all the chaotic parties may be entrenched, investigate in turn, and expand the clues.

Chongye Fang goes straight to the north, and there are four squares: Anye, Fengle, Tonghua and Shanhefang, and then to the north is the Imperial City Taiji Palace.

"Could it be...... Do you want to start your search at Anye Square? Li Shangyin looked at the workshop map on the rice paper and speculated.

Zhang Yijun shook his head lightly, if he really wanted to search in turn, the huge workload would not be completed in half a month with only the two of them, and the ghost soldiers might have already done it by then......

"If you think about it from the perspective of the chaotic party, Chongyefang is located in the center of Chang'an Waiguo, which is the junction of Chang'an and Wannian counties, and the supervision is chaotic, so it is very appropriate to dig a culvert here...... Zhang Yijun muttered to himself, his slender fingers on the rice paper from Chongye Fang to the north, "The culvert is to the north, if it is a mutiny, it should be connected to the Taiji Imperial City in the north, close to Suzaku Street......"

"Zenhefang?" Li Shangyin said.

Zhang Yijun nodded silently, and then drew another cross at Shanhefang, "The exit of the culvert should be here!" ”

When Zhang Yijun came to a conclusion, he was even more determined in his heart, Shanhefang is connected to the imperial city in the north, although this imperial city is not the Daming Palace where the Son of Heaven lives, but the imperial city is full of bureaucratic institutions, such as Honglu Temple, Dali Temple, Taichang Temple are located here, Shanhefang is adjacent to Zhuque Street, so it will be the first to know the details of the court and the rest of the Fang, Shanhefang is located in the north of the city, it can be coordinated with the north and south of Chongye Fang, so as to monitor the imperial city and the south of the city.

Xu was Zhang Yijun's analytical thinking that inspired Li Shangyin, and he also stared at the diagram of the Xuan Paper Mill for a long time, and his index finger continued to the north, stopping at the blank Taiji Palace, "...... Then enter the imperial city, then go out of the east side of the Yanxi Gate, north to the Daming Palace......"

Zhang Yijun's eyes lit up, he glanced at Li Shangyin and said, "Why do you want to go through the imperial city to Daming Palace?" ”

"Yishan has traveled to Chang'an with Brother Yijun in the past few days, and noticed a detail," Li Shangyin raised his hand and explained: "There are Wuhou patrols on each main street during the day, and Jin Wuwei patrols at night, so I thought, if there is a big plan for the chaotic party, it must be done in concealment, or maybe go straight to the imperial city, so as to avoid alarming the defenders of Chang'an?" ”

Zhang Yijun shook his head and said: "There is a forbidden army garrison in the imperial city, I am afraid it is far more difficult than going to Guozhu Street. ”

"Ah......" Li Shang said in a sneer, this is no wonder to him, after all, he has never been to the imperial city.

"But the idea is good...... Zhang Yijun smiled, he felt that his original judgment of Li Shangyin was correct, and he was indeed an uncrowned young man with good observation.

"But Brother Yijun ......" Li Shangyin was puzzled, and his fingers tapped at Shanhe Fang and Chongye Fang respectively, "If you look at it like this, will it be a little thin?" ”

"Huh?"

"Yishan is saying that if you think from the perspective of a thief, such a big thing should be done in every detail, and it is foolproof, after all, if it is not done, it is the sin of the Chi clan," Li Shang thought thoughtfully, looked at Fang Tu and carefully said: "But Brother Yijun, please see, Daming Palace is located in the northeast corner of Chang'an, and the southern boundary is under the jurisdiction of Wannian County; Although these two squares are adjacent to Wannian County in the east, it is difficult to change the fact that they are located in Chang'an County, will it ......" Xu was a little unconfident in his own judgment, and Li Shangyin wanted to stop talking.

Zhang Yijun somewhat figured out the meaning of Li Shangyin's words, but still encouraged Li Shangyin to speak clearly.

"Will it ...... There is also a place for thieves to communicate in Wannian County? ”

Zhang Yijun's gaze hurriedly swept over the territory of Wannian County, and he couldn't help but focus on Jinchangfang.

The reason is not that this is where he spent his youth, nor is it that the famous Big Wild Goose Pagoda and the Great Mercy and Grace Temple are located here, but ......

"I haven't seen gold and purple, but ...... Some time ago, 'Sanyang' came here for a banquet, and Xuanji was the one who accompanied the waiter at that time......"

Xuanji's words suddenly echoed in Zhang Yijun's ears, as for Sanyang...... Yang Yuqing, Yang Rushi, Yang Sifu. Zhang Yijun secretly thought, he remembered that these three people seemed to live in Jinchangfang, and they also had a relationship with the mysterious man in the shirt who lost his right earlobe.

Could it be?

Zhang Yijun put down the wolf and patted Li Shangyin's back, "Let's go, go to Jinchang!" ”

At the beginning of the year.

Daming Palace, including the cool hall.

After the sermon, Zhao Guizhen walked down the imperial steps of Hanliang Palace, but he didn't see Ah Hao's figure everywhere, at first Zhao Guizhen thought that Ah Hao was running to play by the Taiye Pool, but he turned a small half circle along the corridor, but he couldn't find Ah Hao's figure at all, so he returned to the front of the imperial steps of Hanliang Palace.

Zhao Guizhen bowed his hand slightly to the golden-armored guard in front of the garrison hall and asked, "Dare to ask the two, have you ever seen a poor maid?" ”

The two golden-armored guards took advantage of the absence of the green-robed eunuch to chat energetically, but after being interrupted by Zhao Guizhen, one of them had a gloomy face and replied coldly: "I saw it, but then I didn't know where to go." ”

Another guard laughed and said, "It's not like running to a forbidden place and being caught and killed......

Zhao Guizhen knew that the two of them couldn't help much, so he thanked him with his hands and turned in the opposite direction.

This is terrible, although Zhao Guizhen has already practiced the state of mind of pure and inactive and undisturbed by everything, but at this moment he only feels that he is anxious, like an ant on a hot pot, if he is found by the internal officials to stay in the forbidden place for too long and violate the law, it is a small matter, but Ah Hao was adopted by himself, and he was brought up with one hand, if something really happened to him, as the guard said, he jumped to a certain dormitory and was caught......

Zhao Guizhen didn't dare to think downward, he just unconsciously sped up his pace, and then saw a side hall located on the west side of Hanyuan Palace.

Zhao Guizhen fixed his eyes and saw that on the imperial steps in front of the palace, there was a drooping hair sitting alone on the steps, with his hands on his cheeks, and his eyes were dull looking at the stone road in front of him.

It's Ah Hao......

At the same time, on Suzaku Street.

Zhang Yijun and Li Shangyin rode quickly to this point, just passing through the Zhuque Street that runs through the north and south, this street is one hundred and fifty steps wide, leading directly to the Vermilion Bird Gate of the Imperial City, and connecting the outer Guo Mingde Gate in the south, which is the heavenly street of Chang'an City.

Even if the street is so wide, at the beginning of this moment, the east and west markets are about to open, so the streets are full of endless streams of pedestrians and pack horses and wide carts, so Zhang Yijun and Li Shangyin have to dismount and lead the "Sa Yuqi" and "Ziyuncong" to cross on foot.

Passing through Zhuque Street, you will leave Chang'an County, enter the jurisdiction of Wannian County, go to Jinchangfang still need to pass through Jingshan, Jing'an Erfang, and then turn south into Qixiamen Street, through Yongchong, Zhaoguofang, to Jinchangfang, not to mention also need several miles.

Looking at the crowd on the street, Zhang Yijun and Li Shangyin only felt a little sighing of hope. Li Shangyin also felt for the first time that the hustle and bustle in Chang'an City was actually a little in the way at this moment.

"Sixteen Lang," Zhang Yijun stopped and asked, "Do you know the way to Jinchangfang?" ”

Li Shangyin looked at Zhang Yijun, and carefully recalled the picture of Chang'an Fang drawn by Zhang Yijun on rice paper before, and nodded.

"There is a two-entry house in Sanqu Bingxiang of Jinchangfang, and there is a lock in front of the door, this is the key," Zhang Yijun took out a copper key from the oblique bag, and handed it to Li Shangyin in Li Shangyin's puzzled eyes, "Wait for me there......"

Getting along with Zhang Yijun to this day, Li Shangyin has also developed the habit of not asking questions even if he is suspicious, so he only asked where Zhang Yijun is going.

"Pingkang ......" Zhang Yijun finished speaking, and turned over on the horse.

Li Shangyin was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then smiled lightly and nodded: "Yishan understands!" ”

These words made Zhang Yijun, who was about to clamp the horse's belly between his feet, pause, and left a sentence, "What do you want?" Then he pulled the reins and rode straight north along Suzaku Street in the direction of the flow of people.