More than 100 warriors were panicked like lost dogs, guarding a carriage and following Li Jiangzuo along the Bianhe River all the way to the west.

Early in the morning, they arrived at the town of Guoqiao, where there was a large tea shed at the entrance of the town, where breakfast was being sold, and the samurai were hungry and thirsty, occupying the tables and chairs, slapping the tables and shouting.

Just then, from the opposite woods 'whoosh! An arrow was shot from the ground, and it was so powerful that a warrior named the fiercest was shot through the forehead with an arrow, and fell on his back.

The other samurai fell to the ground in fright, but to no avail, and two arrows followed, and two samurai were shot through the back of the neck and nailed to the ground.

Everyone shuddered and turned the table over and hid behind it.

"Pavilion Master Li, he's there!" A samurai suddenly pointed to a large tree and shouted.

I saw a black shadow standing on a towering tree at the edge of the woods, condescending, coldly pointing at them with a bow and arrow.

Li Jiangzuo was angry and anxious, and shouted: "Go up and thirty brothers, surround the big tree!" ”

But no one responded to him, Li Jiangzuo turned his head and glared at a warrior angrily, "Zhou Qian, you take someone up!" ”

Zheng Xiaotian died, and Zhou Qian, the deputy hall master, became the leader of the Huben Martial Arts Pavilion. "Why should we go up and die!" ”

Li Jiangzuo sneered, "If you don't go now, then go back and explain to Ah Weng yourself!" ”

Zhou Qian was helpless, so he had to stand up and shout: "The brothers of the Tiger Ben Martial Arts Pavilion follow me!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, an arrow shot like lightning, hitting his eyebrows, and an arrow pierced his head, Zhou Gan opened his mouth wide and fell to the ground on his back.

The samurai next to him collapsed and cried out loudly, "I'm not going to do it!" ”

He turned around and ran towards the wheat field at the other end, Li Jiangzuo was furious, gritted his teeth and shouted, "Come back to me!" ”

The samurai did not listen to him, and soon ran away, and then several more samurai followed him towards the wheat field, and they did not do anything.

Someone took the lead in escaping, the warriors got up and ran towards the wheat field, and ran away more than 30 people in the blink of an eye, Li Jiangzuo was so angry that he jumped like thunder, but he was helpless, all the warriors of the Huben Martial Arts Pavilion ran away, Zheng Xiaotian died, Zhou Qian also died, and no one could stop them.

"The surname Guo has a kind of duel with me!" Li Jiangzuo shouted.

Guo Song said coldly: "I said it, if you don't let people go, no one will want to return to Chang'an alive." ”

With that, he shot another arrow, and a samurai who had just probed was shot in the head by an arrow and fell to the ground and died.

Li Jiangzuo saw that all the warriors were frightened, he knew that if this continued, his subordinates would either be killed or run away sooner or later, so he had to shout: "Okay! Let's release people, you don't hurt people anymore. ”

"I'll give you a stick of incense!"

Li Jiangzuo stood up slowly, and when he saw that the other party did not release any more arrows, he ordered left and right: "Go and release the people!" ”

The samurai were waiting for his order, and immediately several samurai rushed to the carriage, cut the rope on Sun Xiaozhen's hand, and ripped the cloth off his mouth, Sun Xiaozhen jumped out of the carriage and almost fell.

He limped into the woods and quickly disappeared.

Li Jiangzuo looked at the big tree again, he was stunned for a moment, the figure on the big tree was gone, when did the other party leave? In the blink of an eye, the person is gone.

Li Jiangzuo knew that they had met a real master, he sighed, gathered everyone together and said, "I'm afraid that Yu Chaoen won't be able to spare us if we go back now, let's find a place to hide for a few months!" If you have to go back, I won't stop you, everyone will do it yourself! ”

The samurai were killed in the past two days, and they didn't want to go back to Beijing to wade into this muddy water, although they had a good income, but they thought about it was still important to save their lives, they took off their waist cards, cleaned up the corpses, and dispersed.

Li Jiangzuo did not dare to return to Beijing, he wrote a letter, asked a confidant to bring back to the capital to his family, and went to Zizhou to join Li Zhengji.

Yang Wanhua brought out more than a hundred warriors from the capital, and they were finally disbanded.

Sun Xiaozhen limped into the woods, but did not find Guo Song, it was Guo Song's voice from behind him, "Your legs don't matter!" ”

As soon as Sun Xiaozhen turned around, he saw the yellow-faced man standing behind him, but his voice had changed back, it was Guo Song, he hurriedly bowed and saluted, "Thank you Uncle Shi for saving my life, my leg is fine, it's a little sore after curling up for a long time." ”

Guo Song smiled slightly, "The salt tax fleet is moving slowly, it is still behind us, it is estimated that it will be here in half an hour, you take the boat back to Beijing!" ”

"Uncle Shi won't go back with me?"

Guo Song shook his head, "You tell Liu Yuanjun that I will follow the boat in the dark, and ask him to be careful, even if there is an army guard, he can't take it lightly!" ”

"I'll tell Liu Yuanjun!"

Half an hour later, the salt tax fleet arrived at Guoqiao Town, escorted by 5,000 cavalry, and Guo Song saw Sun Xiaozhen on board, and he disappeared into the woods.

.........

In the past two days, there was a sensational event in Chang'an City, Prime Minister Yuan Zai's second son Yuan Zhongwu was hit and killed by a startled horse on the street, at least hundreds of people witnessed the tragedy, many people saw with their own eyes, someone rode on that horse to control the horse and crashed into the deceased, after the incident, the horse rider fled in a hurry.

Soon, the government characterized this incident as an accident and dealt with it in a low-key manner, but this practice wanted to cover up, and for a while, all kinds of gossip in Chang'an City were circulating, and the most widely spread news was that Yu Chaoen took revenge on Yuan Zai because his third son was killed in Chuzhou.

This news is not groundless, some people recognize that the horse that killed the second son of Yuan Zai is owned by Yufu.

In the fish mansion, Yu Chaoen squinted and listened to the report of the eldest son Yu Linghui, Yu Linghui went to the Yuan Mansion on behalf of his father to pay tribute to filial piety, and the news he brought made Yu Chaoen like a spring breeze, and washed away the gloomy mood of the past few days.

"Father, today Yuan Zai lost his temper, drove the child out of the house with a mourning stick, and threatened to take revenge on his father!"

Yu Chaoen laughed, "When he killed my son, he would have thought that today, I would also let him taste the pain of losing his son!" ”

Yu Linghui said cautiously: "I heard that the results of the imperial court investigation have come out, and the third brother was killed by Tian Shenyu!" ”

"!"

Yu Chaoen said angrily: "Tian Shenyu is dead, any dirty water can be poured on him, who killed the third child, I don't know?" ”

"Father, what the child means is that we still don't want to confront the court on the surface, and there are some things that can be done secretly."

Yu Chaoen glanced at his son, "What do you mean, the court has put pressure on you?" ”

Yu Linghui sighed, "Yesterday, the Son of Heaven gave some tribute, because the number was not large, some ministers got it, and some ministers did not. ”

"Meaning you didn't get it?"

"Yes! I heard that it was a list drawn up by the Son of Heaven, and there used to be children's shares, but this time it was gone, and the children felt that the Son of Heaven was expressing some kind of dissatisfaction. ”

Yu Chaoen paced back and forth in the room with his hands in his hands, and he also obviously felt that Li Yu had gradually become stronger in the past few months, especially after Li Fuguo's death, the military obviously began to favor Li Yu, and he had repeatedly failed in the past few months, Yangzhou failed to fight for control of the salt tax, Tian Shenggong seized the salt tax and lost his life, the four states of Biansong were re-controlled by the imperial court, and Yang Wanhua was killed in Kaifeng County, and all his subordinates disappeared.

It is the unfavorable situations he has encountered in the past few months that have made him and Li Yu lose their strengths.

If he doesn't break the game, I'm afraid Li Yu will look for an opportunity to attack him.

Yu Chaoen knew very well how he should break the game, that is, to force Li Yu to make Li Miao the crown prince.

But there must be an opportunity to force Li Yuli to be the crown prince, Yu Chaoen pondered for a moment and asked, "When will Sijie Khan come to Chang'an?" ”

"Ten days later, I'll be in Chang'an!"

"Isn't it autumn hunting in ten days?"

"Exactly, that's why both the Ministry of Rites and Taichang Temple proposed to use the Autumn Hunt to welcome the Khan of Sijie."

Yu Chaoen nodded, Autumn Hunt is the best time to force the palace.

........

When the tax fleet entered Guanzhong, Li Baozhen, the general of Zuotunwei, led 30,000 cavalry of the Zhaoyi Army to take over the fleet to protect the fleet, and at the same time, more than 100 warriors of the Tibetan Sword Pavilion also rushed to Tongguan and strengthened the vigilance along the way.

Guo Song saw that the fleet was completely safe, so he quietly left and returned to Chang'an first.

At noon on this day, an ox cart slowly stopped in front of the Meishou wine shop, Guo Song handed a handful of copper coins to the coachman, and looked at the wine shop with some surprise, the wine shop had doubled in size, and it seemed that the next door had also been bought.

"Childe, this wine is not easy to buy, hurry up and queue up! Otherwise, you may not be able to buy it in the evening. The ox coachman persuaded him kindly.

Guo Song nodded, took out the bookcase of the car, in the bookbox was his bow and quiver, he wore a scholar's white robe, leather belt around his waist, although he wore a sword at his waist, but carried a bookcase, he looked very polite.

The ox cart was gone, and he glanced at the queue that had been lined up for at least two miles, and then walked straight into the winery.

A guy from the wine shop stepped forward to stop his way, "Childe, please stay, please line up outside to buy wine, outsiders can't come in at will!" ”

Guo Song smiled, "I'm talking to you Li Dongzhu about a big business, where is she?" ”

The guy was stunned, and hurriedly shouted: "Master Li, someone is looking for you here!" ”

"Didn't you see that I was so busy that I was dying? Who came to me. ”

Li Wenyu walked from next door with an unhappy face, and when she saw Guo Song at a glance, she was stunned for a moment, "Senior brother! ”

She stepped forward and pushed the guy away, knocking him hard on the head, "You bastard with no eyes, this is my little brother-in-law, you dare to stop it!" ”

The man muttered and shrank aside.

Guo Song smiled slightly: "Business is good, and my senior sister's temper seems to be rising." ”

"Hey! To make you laugh, I'm really busy, you see that there are twelve of us guys, and we are still busy, and we are naturally in a bad mood, come in. ”

Guo Song walked into the wine shop and saw that it seemed that Li Wenyu was in charge of collecting the money, so he smiled and said: "Senior sister, you just let the guy collect the money, and hire an account office to be responsible for checking the accounts, so that you will be relaxed." ”

"You're right, I've hired the bookkeeper and the shopkeeper, and I'll officially enter the store tomorrow, so I'm going to sort out the account books today, and I'm very busy."

"Then senior sister is going to be busy, what about my senior brother?"

"That fat dead man doesn't know where to go to have fun, he works at night, I let him rest during the day, and he just wanders around, and I don't know where he died now?"

Li Wenyu scolded hatefully, then opened his throat and shouted, "Qin Wu, you help me collect money, I have something!" ”

"Senior brother, let's go sit in the backyard."

Guo Song nodded and followed Li Wenyu to the backyard, only to see that the partition wall of the next yard had been broken down and turned into a large courtyard, with at least a dozen houses.

There are stone tables and stone benches in the courtyard, Guo Song sat down in the courtyard, Li Wenyu poured him a cup of hot tea, and explained: "Next door is half a month ago, 20,000 yuan, including 300 barrels of ten-year sake, and solve my urgent need, junior brother, I am now worried about sake all day long, I thought that a wave of wind passed, I could be idle for a few days, but I didn't expect the wine customers from other places to come, and they were more than three times busier than before." ”

"But I've made a lot of money!" Guo Song said with a smile,

Speaking of making money, Li Wenyu couldn't hide the joy in her heart, and said with a smile: "Senior brother, guess how much we have earned in the past few months?" ”