It was the first time for Guo Song to come to Shuofang Jiedu Mansion, and Jiedu Mansion and Lingzhou Thorn Mansion were together, which was actually two brands and a team.

In the past two days, tens of thousands of people in Mingsha County have just fled to Lingwu County to avoid the war, and the government is extremely busy, and almost all the officials have gone out to settle the people, making the gate of Jiedu Mansion deserted, with only a few soldiers standing guard.

Although Guo Song came to return the bow, he didn't plan to go to Duan Sanniang, but came directly to Duan Xiushi.

Guo Song hesitated for a moment, and finally stepped forward and said to the soldier guarding the door: "I want to find Duan Envoy, please inform me." ”

The soldiers had already seen him, and it turned out that this young man had come to look for the envoy, and the soldiers looked him up and down, and saw that although he was half-dressed, he was tall and extraordinary.

The soldier did not dare to underestimate him, so he asked, "Is there an agreement?" ”

Guo Song shook his head, "I'm here to return Duan Envoy's bow, and there is another important military situation to report to him, and there is no agreement in advance." ”

The soldier guarding the door thought for a while and said: "In this case, we generally have to report to Duan Envoy Jun's staff first, and they will decide whether to introduce Duan Envoy Jun for Gongzi, we have no right to decide, but the three staff members are not in the official office, Duan Envoy Jun also went out early in the morning, if Gongzi is in a hurry, you can wait for a while, if you are not in a hurry, you can wait for the afternoon to come back, they are generally there at that time." ”

Guo Song nodded, "Thank you!" ”

He doesn't have time to wait here, so he'd better wait until the afternoon!

Guo Song was just about to leave, but he saw a carriage speeding towards him under the escort of more than a dozen cavalrymen, and the carriage drove in front of Guo Song. The carriage stopped, the curtain opened, and in the carriage was a middle-aged man of about fifty years old, wearing a gauze hat, a lilac official robe, a leather belt around his waist, white skin, clear eyes, a foot-long black beard under his chin, and a rather elegant temperament.

The person who came was Duan Xiushi, the assassin of Lingzhou and the imperial historian, and the envoy of Shuofang Jiedu, he leaned out of the window, pointed to the bow in Guo Song's arms in surprise and asked, "This young man, how can this bow be in your hand?" ”

Guo Song saw that this official was wearing a purple robe and a goldfish bag on his waist, this was at least a third-grade high-ranking official, and it was estimated that this person was Duan Xiushi, Guo Song hurriedly stepped forward, bowed down and saluted: "May I ask if the lord is the envoy of Shuofang Jiedu and the general of Jinwuwei Duan?" ”

"I'm Duan Xiushi, who are you?"

Duan Xiushi looked at Guo Song and saw that he was slender and strong, heroic, and had deep eyes, and he had a good impression in his heart.

His eyes fell on the iron spine bow in the other party's arms again, how did the iron spine bow he hung on the study wall get to this young man's hand?

"In Xia Guo Song, a native of Mingsha County, I hereby return this bow to Duan Envoy."

Guo Song respectfully handed over the bow, although he has always been unruly, but he also has to divide the occasion and the object, in front of the world-famous Duan Xiushi, if he also puts on a cold and indifferent appearance, it is not unruly, but stunned.

Duan Xiushi took the bow, and when he saw that the bowstrings on it were all up, he was even more surprised in his heart, someone in Lingzhou City could actually open a two-stone bow?

Two stone bows are two hundred and forty pounds of strength, and someone may be able to pull the foot bow, but this is a riding bow!

"Are you from the Guo family?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Duan Xiushi immediately reacted, and the other party said that he was from Mingsha County, so he was not from the Guo family of Lingwu County.

"Can you use this bow?" Duan Xiushi asked curiously.

"I am reckless, I don't know if it is General Gao's bow, I take the liberty to put on the bowstring, please forgive me!"

"It doesn't matter! Shoot an arrow and show me. Duan Xiushi handed the bow to Guo Song again.

A personal soldier next to him immediately pulled out a wolf tooth arrow and handed it to Guo Song.

"The bow method is rude, don't dare to make the envoy laugh, archery is still exempt!" Guo Song refused to take the arrow.

"It's the official who is presumptuous, if Shaolang refuses, then the official can only regret it."

Guo Song saw that he was in a high position, but he didn't put up a fight against himself as a flat-headed person, and he had a good impression of him in his heart, he thought about it and said: "Then shoot an arrow, the little people's bow method is rude, please don't laugh at him!" ”

Guo Song looked around, and there were no birds flying in the sky, but he saw a big tree sixty or seventy steps away, and he bowed slightly, "Then Xiaomin will shoot the branches!" ”

He pulled out a small four-inch-long wrist knife from his boots, which was a wild boar tooth handle wrist knife given to him by Uncle Liang Wu, which was made of iron mixed with Gasha, which was very sharp and heavy, and Guo Song loved it very much.

He shook his hand, only to see a flash of cold light, sixty paces away, a branch 'click!' 'Broken.

"Good knife technique!" Duan Xiushi cheered.

But before the branch landed, Guo Song opened his bow and shot an arrow, the arrow was like lightning, nailing the branch that had not yet landed to the trunk.

Several pro-soldiers suddenly grew their mouths, stunned, Duan Xiushi praised him, this archery technique is simply superb, and he has chased the tall and handsome back then.

He immediately looked at Guo Song with admiration, "Are you really from Mingsha County?" He didn't believe it, how could there be such a clever archer in Mingsha County, and he had never heard of it.

Guo Song nodded and said: "My father is Guo Huaishan of Mingsha County, but when he was five years old, he went to Kongtong Mountain to be a Taoist priest, and he went down the mountain not long ago to return to the world. ”

Duan Xiushi suddenly realized, it turned out that the other party was a Taoist priest of Kongtong Mountain, no wonder the flying knife was so clever, but Kongtong Mountain didn't seem to use a bow and arrow, how did he practice his archery? And it's still a bow shooting method, Duan Xiu is not a solution in his heart.

"How did this bow end up in your hand?"

Guo Song smiled slightly: "This is Ling Ai to Liang Wu, Liang Wu didn't dare to accept the bow of the tall general, so he asked me to return it to the envoy." ”

Duan Xiushi smiled, "I see! ”

His love for talent rose, and he hurriedly asked: "In a few days, it will be the Lingzhou Martial Arts Meeting, can Shaolang participate?" ”

Guo Song nodded, "I will fight for the Liang family." ”

"Good! I'm looking forward to seeing Shaorou again. ”

Duan Xiushi is very methodical, he will not see Guo Song's clever archery, so he immediately recruited him to his command, this is not his style of doing things.

Everything must be in order, and now that he has recruited Guo Song, it will make people feel that there is some insider trading between him and the Liang family, and it is reasonable to recruit him again when Guo Song performs well.

As for this bow, he really can't give it to Guo Song as a favor, this is the only souvenir that Gao Xianzhi left him, and he himself has collected a few good bows, which can be used as a reward for him at that time.

Guo Song saw that the other party had no intention of keeping him, so he handed the bow back to Duan Xiushi, and took out a bamboo tube from his arms and handed it to him, "This is a piece of information that I got by accident yesterday, the other half should be in the hands of Li Ande, a black market weapons dealer, and he hasn't left yet, so Jun Ke can immediately send someone to arrest this person." ”

He bowed, took his knife from the soldier's hand, and turned to walk away.

Duan Xiushi looked at his back and walked away, and said to himself: "The young Taoist priest named Guo Song, where do I seem to have heard of this person?" ”

He didn't think about it for a long time, so he opened the bamboo tube left by Guo Song, and there was a roll of paper inside.

Immediately shouted and ordered: "Send someone to arrest Li Ande quickly, don't let him escape!" ”

What Guo Song gave him turned out to be half of the city defense deployment map, and the other half of the major secrets about soldiers and equipment were on the other half, if Xue Yantuo got it, the consequences would be unimaginable.

………

Li Ande was still waiting for Xue Yantuo's spies to come and trade with him, and he asked his nephew to bring the other half of the picture to Mu Ze, the shopkeeper of the Yinshan Inn next to the Yellow River ferry, so Mu Ze should come and trade with him today.

He spent a high price to get this map from an official of the Ministry of War, he knew the value of this drawing, with this map, he could find the weakness of the Shuofang army, and it would be effortless to capture Lingwu City, and he sold it to Xue Yantuo for five hundred taels of gold, which he felt was not expensive at all.

After receiving the gold, it was time for him to leave the Tang Dynasty and return to his hometown, Li Ande originally planned to take Kang Bao to Samarkand to find his family for ransom, but now he exchanged Kang Bao for the sword of alliance between the Great Cannibals and the Persians, and took it to Baghdad, he will definitely get a heavy reward from the caliph.

It is likely that as his nephew said, he will become the chief tax collector of Anguo, that is, the emperor of the soil who rules Anguo on behalf of the Great Food.

The more Li Ande thinks about it, the more beautiful he becomes, he is already a little impatient, why hasn't Mu Ze come yet?

All his belongings had been packed, dozens of camels were tied to the courtyard, and a dozen servants, and as soon as Muze arrived, and the transaction between the two sides was completed, he set off.

At this time, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps in the courtyard, Li Ande hurriedly got up and went out, and just walked to the door, but saw a large group of Tang soldiers coming in, he was shocked, turned around and ran.

A crossbow arrow' whoosh! He hurriedly took out a brocade bag from his arms, trying to stuff the cloth map hidden in the brocade bag into his mouth and swallow it to eliminate the evidence of the crime.

But it was too late, and before he could open the knot on the brocade bag, the brocade bag was snatched away by Duan Xiushi's personal soldiers, and then rushed to several soldiers to press him to the ground and tie him up.

"Search me thoroughly!"

Duan Xiushi's pro-soldier team was waving his hand, and dozens of soldiers rushed into the room and began to rummage through boxes and cabinets to search for suspicious items.

The pro-soldier team opened the brocade bag, and found that it was indeed the city defense deployment map full of all kinds of important information, and his heart suddenly fell, this map was not sent away, and Lingwu County was saved.