"Pei Ran has always been cunning, and he can always feel it first when there is a stir in the court. I haven't used him since I entered Qinghuai Villa, nor have I persecuted him, and I don't know when he got the idea of escaping? ”

Zheng Lun said: "There are more than 200 people of all sizes in this Pei Ran Mansion, even if you remove the subordinates, there are also forty or fifty relatives alone, how can such a large number of people escape from the city in one breath and not be discovered by us?" Moreover, Pei Ran's mansion is quite rich, how can he still bring a pile of heavy gold and silver treasures out of the city? Isn't it Chen Qi again......"

"Nope! Pei Ran is also a careful person, and he will never rashly ask Chen Qi for help. What's more, Chen Qi will only get into trouble if he helps him, how can he help? ”

"What the hell is that ......?"

Ye Zhiqiu's eyes stayed on the thick pile of papers, and suddenly a thought flashed through his mind.

"Lord Zheng, you quickly go to the city gates to check and see what happens to the cars, horses and pedestrians who have been coming in and out in the past few days?"

Zheng Lun took the order, but he turned back after half a day, and his face was very ugly.

When Ye Zhiqiu saw his expression, his heart was half cold.

"Lord Ye, this Pei Ran is really cunning......"

"Grain Truck...... Isn't it? ”

"Yes! After Pei Ran set up porridge sheds in various parts of the imperial capital, he would go out of the city to the granary outside the city in the morning in the name of transporting grain, and only came back at noon. The guards guarding the city gate also interrogated them, saying that there was a granary in the city, so why should they go far and near. The person transporting the grain said that he was ordered by Pei Ran, because the granary in the imperial capital stored new rice, and it could also be stored, so it was better to use the old rice in the granary in the suburbs first. So the guards didn't care. Presumably, the gold, silver, and money were all hidden in the cart and shipped out, and those relatives must have disguised themselves as people who carried grain, and then went outside the city to change to someone else and then came back. ”

"This Pei Ran! I can think of such a way to slip out of my nose! Didn't the guards of the city gate check the grain wagons? ”

"The entry and exit have always been wide and tight, and the people and horses who come into the city are carefully checked, so as not to mix in anything suspicious. When he left the city gate, he was not so strict, and the person who carried the grain had a passage document issued by the household department, and the matter of setting up a porridge shed was also known throughout the city, so the guards did not investigate it in too detail......"

"Smack!" Before Zheng Lun's words fell, Ye Zhiqiu had already thrown a tea cup on the table to the ground.

"Pei Ran has a lot of henchmen in the court, and now that he has fled, within a few days, someone in the Hanyuan Palace will notice this matter, and they are only afraid that everyone will be in danger and will cause trouble."

Zheng Lun hurriedly said: "Lord Ye, most of the ministers in this court are powerless, and it is okay to say, the key is that there are many ambushes in this city." ”

Ye Zhiqiu thought about it, picked up the grain album that Zheng Lun brought back from Pei Ran's mansion, flipped through a few pages, and said:

"It doesn't matter, although this Pei Ran person has escaped, what I want him to check is not sloppy. You see, the amount of money bought and sold in all the grain estates in this city is clearly written. Wait a moment for me to take a closer look. As he spoke, he opened the grain book and read it page by page.

After looking at it for a while, Zheng Lun saw Ye Zhiqiu's expression gradually becoming solemn, and asked, "But what's wrong?" ”

"It is indeed not proper, according to this grain book, some grain farms have sold nearly half more grain in the past month than in the previous month! If it weren't for the influx of displaced people in the city, how could it be so bad? ”

"But how can there be any influx of displaced people during this time?" "So, this shows that there is indeed an ambush army in the city......" Ye Zhiqiu frowned.

"Could it be that Pei Ran is cheating? Deliberately scribbling? ”

"Everyone else has escaped, if there is fraud and you don't want me to know the truth, you can write not a word, why deliberately deceive?"

"Maybe you've already collaborated with the enemy?"

Ye Zhiqiu shook his head and said: "Since the night in Xuelu, he has been under the noses of you and me, and he has not interacted with anyone, so it should be impossible to say that he collaborated with the enemy." ”

"Lord Ye, can you show me this grain book as well."

Ye Zhiqiu handed it to Zheng Lun, and he leaned back on the chair and looked up and sighed.

Zheng Lun didn't understand the numbers, but just looked at the names of those grain farms one by one.

After looking at it for a while, he suddenly exclaimed, "Not good! ”

"How?"

"Lord Ye, please see, these grain farms with abnormal movements are gathered in the southwest corner of the city."

Ye Zhiqiu followed the sound and found that what Zheng Lun said was good.

The two of them looked at each other, and at the same time felt a chill run through their backs.

Because they think the same thing.

The southwest of the city is where Chen Qi is stationed, and the northwest of the city is Zheng Lun's main camp. If the grain farms that sell a large amount of grain are in the southwest of the city, but the grain farms in the northwest of the city do not fluctuate at all......

"Lord Ye! Can't hesitate any longer, now that the land under the city outside the palace walls is mixed with foreign reinforcements, not to mention, Chen Qi has also been rebelled, and it will be too late if we don't do it! ”

Zheng Lun's face still had some scars, which had been scratched by the flying gravel that the unknown female assassin had blown up with fire and thunder a few days ago. Zheng Lun's heart was already anxious, because he knew that next time it might not be as simple as scratching.

Ye Zhiqiu thought about it again and again, and finally sighed heavily and said, "Okay......"

******

After the eagle tail made a big fuss with the thunder fire beads, she did not enter the city again for several days, although she repeatedly promised that there would be no traces, Su Xiaochen still did not let her enter the city.

"The current balance is just right, there is no need to enter the city, just wait for the rabbit."

Of course, the eagle tail obeyed, and no longer mentioned the matter of entering the city.

However, one person became more and more unable to hold back after hearing that Eagle Tail entered the city, especially after knowing that Eagle Tail had blown Zheng Lun to the ground and couldn't get up, he even yelled that he wanted to enter the city together next time.

"That dog thief is so vicious! I'm going to kill him with my own hands!" Cao Xiwen said.

But before Su Xiaochen could persuade him, Eagle Tail and Ye Yin had already grabbed him one by one and didn't allow him to go.

"Master Su has his own ideas, you can't spoil a big deal!"

Both of them have good reasons, but they both have the same heart in their hearts...... Once he enters the city, will Cao Xiwen discover the truth about his father? You must know that his father's head is still hanging in the city......

Eagle Tail actually wanted to take down the head and bury it for a long time, but she was afraid that doing so would irritate Ye Zhiqiu, in case it disrupted Su Xiaochen's plan too much, after all, she couldn't afford it, so she could only endure it.

Xu Fu was honest here, Su Xiaochen didn't tell him what to do, he stayed honestly, and then he thought, although he couldn't go to the city, it was always good to ambush some people outside the city to watch the movement.

So he sent people to hide in a hidden place outside the city and watch, and stared at it for several days.

This stare is really famous. Xu Fu found that since a few days ago, several grain trucks would come out of the city every day, and those grain trucks would start to change people and outfits as soon as they arrived outside the city, and they would also change the things in the cars for food.

Xu Fu ordered someone to spy carefully and found that there was a large amount of gold and silver hidden in the car! And the sheer number is staggering.

He immediately reported the matter to Su Xiaochen, who pondered for a while.

"Let's put a long line and see if there are any big fish in the back."

Sure enough, a few days later, one day, the number of grain carts seemed to be a little more than usual, and the number of people accompanying them increased by seven or eight. Xu Fu followed him as Su Xiaochen had instructed, until those people left the imperial capital forty or fifty miles with a load of gold and silver, and then suddenly made it difficult to surround them. Then all of them were pulled back to the camp without pulling a cart or a person.

When they arrived in the camp, Su Xiaochen and the grizzled Pei Ran were taken aback when they met. On such an occasion and such an occasion, no one expected to meet the person opposite.

Su Xiaochen saw that he was dressed in disguise and brought gold and silver with his family, he had already guessed some intentions, and he was relieved at the moment.

Pei Ran was far more shocked than Su Xiaochen.

At first, he thought that Su Xiaochen was Ye Zhiqiu's nephew, and he must be on the same hill as Ye Zhiqiu, but now he was afraid that he would not be able to save his life if he fell into the hands of the enemy. Unexpectedly, Su Xiaochen bluntly told him that it was his idea to subdue the city of the eighteen countries in the imperial capital, and Xu Fu testified that this time he was ordered by the Holy Lord to pacify the imperial capital.

Pei Ran's mind turned extremely fast, and now that he knew what was at stake, he immediately changed his smiling face, not only explaining the situation in the city, but also boasting about the fact that he had secretly covered up the flaws for Su Xiaochen.

He pointed to the carriage lanes outside the tent: "Master Su, those are all furniture, but as long as Master Su is willing to let me go, I am willing to give it with both hands, which can be regarded as a little bit of support for the soldiers, and the military rations on the other side of the saint have not been delayed for me, and I have filled them out of my own pocket!" I also hope that Master Su can protect me for the sake of my loyalty and patriotism......"

Before the words fell, a person suddenly burst in from outside the tent and asked:

"Have you ever met my father?"

When Pei Ran saw Cao Xiwen, he suddenly remembered that it was Xuelu who robbed his seat that night, and the kid who was sitting next to the crown prince Li Chongyan that night, and thought, isn't his father dead? was about to answer, but he caught a glimpse of Su Xiaochen giving him a look.

Pei Ran is such a clever person, he immediately began to pretend to be stupid and said, "Your father? Didn't your father escape? I was drunk that night, and when I woke up and looked again, I found that your father was gone, didn't Zheng Lun go out to chase you? ”

When Cao Xiwen heard him say this, he felt a little at ease.

Since he was separated from his father, he always had an indescribable anxiety, and he didn't know what was wrong, but the feeling of being scratched by a cat lingered in his heart.

met Pei Ran today, at least verified that Eagle Tail's words were right, and his father did escape from the snow house.

Then you can always meet it, don't you?

Eagle Tail broke out in a cold sweat on the side, and was about to persuade him softly, when suddenly Ye Yin stopped in front of him and said coldly: "I'll just accompany him." ”

Eagle Tail was stunned, why was Ye Yin suddenly so hostile to herself these days?

Su Xiaochen deliberately wanted to open the topic, so he opened his mouth to ask about the situation in the imperial capital, and Pei Ran also knew everything.

Such a question and answer took more than an hour.