"The rolling Yangtze River is passing away, and the waves are sweeping away the heroes"

"Success or failure turns empty"

"The green mountains are still there, and the sunset is red a few times..."

……

Standing at the bow of the boat, Zhang Xiang frowned, overlooking this side of the river.

Starting from Pingzhou, up to now, the ship has been traveling on the river for more than ten years, and now it has just sailed through Yunmengze, and it will probably be able to reach Jingzhou at this time tomorrow.

Jingzhou is the place where Zhang Xiang went ashore, and after going ashore, he could take the land route.

After traveling so much by water, even Zhang Xiang would get seasick from time to time, and the slave had a fever for several times, but fortunately her physique was not bad, Zhang Xiang went to a nearby pharmacy to grab some medicinal materials to prepare when he landed along the way, and the slave recovered after drinking a few medicines.

In addition to the boatman, this boat is the only one from their Horse Mansion, and the journey is smooth.

The slave walked up to him and sat down, and the girl looked good: "Donkey, is this your new word?" ”

"How can I do this?" Zhang Xiang smiled and shook his head: "I didn't do it." ”

"Who's that?"

"You don't know each other."

"You don't know each other if you are a slave."

"Then you should think I did it!" Zhang Xiang smiled, let's not know if there is such a person in this world, even if there is, this will not be born yet! We'll have to wait a few hundred years.

The slave looked adoring: "Slave and maid, except for the horse, who can make such a good word." ”

"Do you know words?"

"I don't understand, but princess, the words made by the colt must be good words."

Zhang Xiang nodded her forehead: "Go in and rest, I'll stay alone for a while." ”

"Oh!" The girl nodded obediently, turned around and went into the cabin.

She knew that the horses were in a bad mood, because of a news they heard yesterday when they were resting on the shore in Yuezhou, and more than half of the military rations in Jiangnan had sunk into the river.

From yesterday to the present, except for eating and sleeping, the horse has been sitting alone, and she is the only one who can say a few words to the horse.

After the slave left, Zhang Xiang's brows continued to lock.

After hearing the news of the military rations sinking into the river yesterday, Zhang Xiang's mood on his westward journey also sank to the bottom.

Why was the ship scuttled there?

Zhang Xiang knew very well that the ferry crossing from Huainan East Road to the canal was a section of the river with a great flow of water, coupled with the rising water level during the rainy days, if the ship was wrecked there, basically nothing could be fished, and it was a blessing to be able to save 90,000 stone of grain.

The ship was scuttled, it must have been man-made, who had the ability to do this?

The person in charge of supervising the review is the prince and the household servant, who did this under the noses of these two Rao, then this person is also very powerful.

The Cao transport fleet is heavily guarded, and it will definitely be difficult for ordinary people to blend in, so there are only officers and soldiers in charge of escorting.

However, these officers and soldiers are basically the Xiang troops of Jiangnan East Road and Liangzhejiang Road, and the people in charge of these Xiang troops are the commanders of the two places, and these commanders are selected by the prefects of the two places.

Zhang Xiang didn't know who the prefect of Linzhou Mansion was, but he knew that Zheng Wei, the prefect of Pingzhou Mansion, was a person, and Zheng Governor would never do such a thing, in order to raise this batch of military rations, those days were hard work, Zhang Xiang saw it in his eyes, so the two also specially arranged to arrest Xu Songwen, Pang Bo was Zheng Wei's carefully selected escort officer in charge of Jiangnan East Road, and those escort officers and soldiers were also people under Pang Bo, and he also knew that Pang Bo was from Pingzhou, there were old and low, Zhang Xiang also had contact with him, and he was a very honest and loyal person. There's no reason to do that.

This is probably the case with Liangzhejiang Road.

So what's the problem?

Destroying military rations at such a moment of battle is a great crime to kill the heads of the nine clans.

It is estimated that the emperor has already gone crazy in the court, and everyone in the Caoyun fleet is estimated to be thoroughly investigated, from top to bottom, including the prince who supervises the transportation and the household servants, may not be spared.

Of course, what worries Zhang Xiang the most at present is not the mastermind of this incident, but that after this incident happens, it will affect the great battle between Southern Chu and Northern Liao in Liangzhou.

At this critical moment, if you want to raise food again, it should be too late, the only way is to no longer fight a war of attrition, you can only fight a quick battle with Northern Liao, and now the reserve supply is insufficient, the more it drags on, the more unfavorable it will be for the army of Southern Chu.

And if this matter is transmitted to the army, it will also affect the morale of the army, causing a certain amount of military spirit to collapse, and whether it can defeat Northern Liao in a short period of time is simply unknown.

If you can't fight quickly and drag it behind, the soldiers who will starve to death will also be unknown.

What the imperial court can do at present is to block the news to prevent this news from reaching Northern Liao, and then thoroughly investigate the matter and find out the traitor.

It must have been a premeditated plan.

Zhang Xiang thought in his heart, but at this time he couldn't think of what the problem was, nor could he think of people who were suspicious, and now he was far away from Pingzhou, and he couldn't go to the scene to understand the situation.

From the time he knew about it, he was uneasy from yesterday to now.

There is no one on this ship who can talk to him, except for a team of guards, that is, Lin Feihong and the slave, Lin Feihong is not good at words, he is stuffy like a gourd, and the slave does not understand this, and she also plays the piano to the cow.

If it is in Pingzhou, there will be Su Shaoyuan, the princess, and Li Yanzhi.

Zhang Xiang didn't know how the imperial court would deal with this matter, but he felt that there was no better way to deal with it except for a quick battle, and he had to wait for follow-up news.

Just sat like this until the evening, and after dinner, Zhang Xiang wrote two letters, called Lin Feihong, and asked him to fly the pigeon and pass the book, one to the princess and one to Li Yanzhi.

On the third day of the fifth month, Zhang Xiang and others arrived in Jingzhou, went ashore in Jingzhou, and changed to a carriage.

He went ashore from here, firstly, because the official road to Jin'an Mansion in the north was spacious and easy to walk, and secondly, he also wanted to find Yang Li to catch up with him, and when Yang Li left Pingzhou, he returned to Jingzhou with Liu Qingyin.

When he left, Zhang Xiang knew that he wanted to return to the country with Liu Qingyin, but after so long, there has been no news of their return, so it is clear that they have not taken action yet.

Otherwise, there should be a commotion.

As for how they want to return to the country, Zhang Xiang doesn't know.

He doesn't reject the anti-thief, it's white, no matter what, it's all Nanchu's own internal fighting, becoming a king and defeating a coward, whoever is powerful will be the emperor, as long as this land is not seized by external enemies, no matter how fierce the internal struggle is, no matter how powerful it is, he is willing to watch the excitement.

Although he and Yang Li have different ideas and it is difficult to work together, they can at least be regarded as friends, and when they came to Jingzhou, they naturally had to find him to catch up.

Zhang Xiang first sent two guards to explore the road first and inquire about the news, and his carriage slowly drove to Jingzhou City on the official road, walking more than a dozen waterways, and now it is on the shore, not to mention how comfortable it is.

The slave fell asleep after getting into the carriage, and she didn't have much rest on the boat, which would have slept soundly.

There are a lot of travelers on this official road, there are still a lot of businessmen, and from time to time you can see a lot of people galloping on horses

They look like a rich family, so passers-by can't help but have to take a second look.

After Shen Shi, Zhang Xiang's carriage drove into Jingzhou City and found an inn to settle down.

As soon as they settled in, the two guards who had gone to inquire about the news returned.

Donghu Villa is very famous in Jingzhou, so it is easy to inquire, but the news brought back by the two guards is somewhat unexpected to him.

"Childe, my subordinates have inquired, Donghu Villa is on the west bank of Yunmengze, fifty miles east of Jingzhou City, but the subordinates have asked the people nearby, they have never heard of Yang Li such a person, and as early as five months ago, the original owner Wei Zhuang had already moved away with everyone, and now in the villa, there is only a girl surnamed Yang, but this Yang girl rarely shows up, so others don't know what her name is and what she looks like."

The two guards told Zhang Xiang what they had heard.

"No?"

Zhang Xiang was also stunned.

"It's true that no, the farmer who told us the news, there is only one Yang girl living in it, there is no Yang Gongzi, are we mistaken." The guard confirmed again.

"Miss Yang?"

Zhang Xiang thought for a while, and then waved his hand to let the two guards retreat first: "You guys go down first, everyone is tired from hurrying, let's rest, let's go and have a look tomorrow." ”

Early the next morning, Zhang Xiang took Lin Feihong to Donghu Villa.

Out of the east of Jingzhou City, after traveling more than 50 miles, he finally saw the East Lake Villa not far away from a hill, and the magnificent villa also shocked Zhang Xiang.

This mountain villa is very extensive, standing on the west bank of Yunmeng Jersey, from the front, behind the villa can not see the end of a huge group of lakes, smoke, clouds, like a dream, worthy of the real fairyland on earth.

And it is very quiet here, only the migratory birds flying over the lake water, from time to time there is a cry to break the tranquility, the lake is also calm, there is no ripple, the whole mountain villa is set off by this quiet lake as if in the painting.

After going down the hill, I came all the way to the gate of the villa, there was no one on the way, and the gate of the villa was also closed, without any fireworks.

Zhang Xiang couldn't help but wonder if there was anyone in there.

He asked Lin Feihong to come forward and knock on the door, but no one answered.

Lin Feihong said in a deep voice: "I'll go in and take a look." ”

Zhang Xiang stopped him and shook his head: "Hey, we're here to visit, not to steal, if someone inside sees you flying in like this and doesn't treat you as a thief, it won't give people a good impression." ”

"But after knocking for so long, you should have responded to the words."

"Wait, if there's no one yet, go back first."

In this way, the two knocked from time to time, and then waited for a while, and after nearly an hour of intermittent work, the gate of the villa finally slowly opened from the inside.

Accompanied by two maids, a woman in green clothes walked out, and behind the woman in green clothes, there was a man in white clothes, holding a long sword in his hand, and his face was expressionless.

It's just that when Zhang Xiang and the woman in Tsing Yi looked at each other, both of them were stunned.

"Yang Yue?"

The woman in Tsing Yi in front of her is Yang Yue, who is known as the first talented woman in Pingzhou, Yang Li's sister.

"Folk girl Yang Yue, see the horse."

Seeing him, Yang Yue also stepped forward quickly and saluted him, and her expression was also surprised to see Zhang Xiang.

Zhang Xiang looked at her, revealing a look of understanding in his heart, and said with a smile: "Yesterday, I heard that the owner of the East Lake Villa has already moved out of the villa, and now it is a Yang girl who lives here, so I vaguely guessed that it would be Yang Yue's girl." ”

"Let the colt smile, please inside the colt."

Yang Yue gave a salute and motioned him to enter the village.

And Lin Feihong and the sword-wielding man behind Yang Yue have been staring at each other vigilantly since they met.

It's the induction between the masters.

Zhang Xiang didn't know this man, and he didn't ask, because just looking at the positions of the two of them who came out just now, it was obvious that this man was just a subordinate.

After Yang Yue entered the village, Zhang Xiang looked at the magnificent villa and said with a smile: "Miss Yang Yue, I said goodbye to Pingzhou last year, and now it has been half a year, I didn't expect to see it here." ”

"yes, time flies." Yang Yue faced him, very restrained: "The folk girl has not been visited since she moved into this villa, I heard someone knocking on the door just now, and the folk girl still doesn't believe it, but the maid has been informing, and the folk girl has come to take a look, but I didn't expect it to be the horse visiting, it was the folk girl who was rude, and I also looked at the horse Haihan." ”

Zhang Xiang waved his hand: "It's okay, I went west and north this time, passing through Jingzhou, I originally planned to come to Brother Yang to catch up with the old days, but I didn't expect to know that Brother Yang did not come to Donghuzhuang through inquiry, I just heard that there was a Yang girl living here, I guessed if it would be you, so I came to take a look." ”

"After my brother and Miss Liu left Pingzhou, they didn't come to Jingzhou." Yang Yue said.

"Oh?" Zhang Xiang shook his head and said casually: "Then your brother has deceived me so badly, I came here to see him, and I was kind to me." ”

Yang Yue hurriedly pleaded guilty: "Don't blame my brother, my brother didn't tell the horse for a reason, although my brother and the horse are close friends, but the horse is a horse after all, there are some things that my brother should not say to the horse, if the horse is to blame, the girl is willing to be punished on behalf of her brother." ”

"You and Brother Yang are really brother and sister." Zhang Xiang squinted at her.

Yang Yue lowered her head: "My brother is the only relative of the people's daughter. ”

Zhang Xiang said: "Miss Yang, you don't have to be like this, I'm just joking, I understand what Brother Yang means, if you are like this, if Brother Yang knows, he will think that I am bullying you." ”

"Thank you for your sins." Only then did Yang Yue raise his head and continue to take him to the former colonel

This East Lake Village is very big, there are carriages after entering the Xumen, there is a good distance from the Xumen to the main house, the main road that comes here is the corridor built above the lake, five steps and a pavilion, ten steps and a pavilion, it is very beautiful, the Four Seasons Garden of Pingzhou is just a corner compared to this.

Walking in front with Yang Yue, looking at the man in white with the sword walking side by side with Lin Feihong behind him, Zhang Xiang suddenly said: "Miss Yang, this is the disciple of Master Wei Zhuang, right?" ”

"Huh? Hmm..."

Asked by him coldly, Yang Yue was stunned for a moment, and then nodded: "His name is Wei Zhuang, after the owner of Wei Zhuang left with the people of Donghu Village, he was entrusted by Miss Liu to protect the safety of the people in Jingzhou." ”

"So, there are no people in this East Lake Village now."

"Well, in addition to the Minnu and Wei Zhuang, there are only some maids and subordinates left by the original Wei Zhuang owner."

Zhang Xiang shook his head and muttered to himself: "Hey, it seems that I came late." ”

"Pony, what are you?"

"Oh, it's nothing, let's go, since you are now the owner of this East Lake Villa, you might as well take me to visit this East Lake Villa..."