After the hunter got into the carriage, the coachman set up the carriage and headed to the east of the city, followed by Fang An on horseback and several guards of the Fang Mansion.

Along the way, Congzhe couldn't stop urging the coachman to hurry up, although Fang Congzhe urged all the way, but the streets in the capital were full of people, and the coachman couldn't get up quickly if he wanted to.

Seeing this situation, Fang Congzhe lifted the curtain of the carriage and shouted to Fang An behind, Fang An heard the call of his master, and hurriedly urged the horse to walk a few steps quickly to catch up with the carriage in front.

Fang Congzhe stretched out his head and said to Fang An, who was riding a horse outside: "Fang An, the old man has an ominous premonition, you ride a horse to the front to open the way, and we will try to reach Dongshan as early as possible." ”

Fang An responded, "It's the master." Then he hurried the horse forward and crossed the carriage.

Fang An took the lead in front, he held the reins in his left hand, raised his right hand high, and held the whip in his hand, while shouting in his mouth, "Get out of the way, get out of the way", his right hand kept waving at the crowd in front of him, and from time to time he also danced a whip.

The people who came and went on the street saw a fast horse and a carriage rushing towards them from a distance, and for a time the streets were full of chickens and dogs, and it became a pot of porridge.

Along the way, although Fang An's fast horse did not hurt anyone, the vendors on the side of the road were knocked over a lot by the crowd that avoided them, so the speed of the carriage was much faster, and the carriage that followed behind Fang An went out of the city gate after a while.

After Fang walked away from Zhe's carriage, someone recognized that the person who was riding a horse in front of him and galloping in the downtown was the steward of Fang Mansion, so the person sitting in the carriage behind must be the old man of Fang Mansion, Fang Ge Lao.

On Chang'an Street, a vendor who was knocked down by a carriage pulled the man who knocked down his stall and refused to let him go, and insisted that the man buy the goods of the whole stall.

Several women sat at the door of their own houses not far from the vendor and watched the excitement, and one woman said: "You don't have to fight, and you can't fight for a way, the carriage that passed just now was the old man of the head of the court, if you are really capable, take the broken things to the Fang Mansion to ask for money." ”

Another woman next to her said: "On weekdays, I look very kind when I see that Lord Fang, but I didn't expect it to be such a high-flying person." ”

"But no, just his son, who in the capital doesn't know that he is a famous gentleman, bullying men and women and doing all kinds of evil, what kind of good person can teach this kind of son?"

"I heard that Fang Da Shao killed someone some time ago, it seems to be a Qinglou woman, and in the end, that Fang Da Shao didn't have anything at all."

"There is such a father, let alone the death of a person, even if someone else's family dies, he will be fine, haven't you heard of the protection of officials and officials?"

"But in the past two days, I heard that Fang Da Shao has suffered retribution, and I don't know which good man tied up that Fang Da Shao for Tianxingdao."

"Really?"

"But no, this matter has spread all over the capital, and in the past two days, I have been looking for people everywhere in the capital, and my man is on an errand in the yamen, and he has not been home all day these days in order to find a son for the lord of that party."

The other woman quipped, "Your man won't go to accompany him to get along with him, so can he coax you with this." ”

"Just the appearance of that dead ghost, even if he wants to find a good match, someone has to ask for it, his monthly silver is here with me, even if he wants to go to a kiln, he has to weigh whether there is silver in his waist."

At the beginning, Fang Congzhe's carriage was full of scolding, and slowly everywhere he passed began to be filled with this kind of malicious words, as time passed, it slowly pulled away, but Fang Congzhe in the carriage would not know, at this time he was full of anxiety, and he had no intention of caring about anything else.

After leaving the city, there were many fewer people on the road, Fang An slowed down his horse and followed the carriage, and the hunter sitting next to the coachman in the carriage showed the driver the direction from time to time.

Although there are few people on the road outside the city, compared to the inside of the city, the road surface is full of potholes, and the carriage runs on it and bumps badly, Fang Congzhe completely ignores the uneven road surface, and keeps urging the coachman to go faster, and the coachman has to speed up according to Fang Congzhe's words. In this way, the originally comfortable carriage is even more uncomfortable than riding a horse, and Fang Congzhe, who is used to sitting in a sedan chair, has suffered this kind of hardship, and an old bone is about to fall apart.

Even so, Fang Congzhe ignored it, and still kept urging the coachman.

The road, which had taken an hour, took only half an hour to arrive, and the coachman finally stopped the carriage according to Orion's instructions.

Fang An drove his horse forward, sat on his horse and asked the Orion, "This is the place where you said you saw those people?" ”

"Yes, this is the place, the villain was hiding in that place at that time, if it wasn't dark at the time, I'm afraid the villain would have been discovered so close." As he spoke, the hunter stretched out his hand and pointed to a nearby forest, where the outermost trees were only three feet away, and at such a distance, it was no problem to hear the conversation of the people on the road.

Fang An glanced at the forest and asked, "Do you know where those people went later?" ”

The Orion shook his head and said, "This villain doesn't know, the villain didn't come out of the forest until those people disappeared that day, but the villain guessed that those people should have gone up the mountain." ”

As soon as he heard that he might have gone up the mountain, before Fang An could ask in detail, Fang Congzhe in the carriage got out of the carriage like a tiger that had been touched on his buttocks, and asked the Orion in a fierce voice: "Why do you say that they may have gone up the mountain?" Can't they go anywhere else? ”

When the hunter saw Fang Congzhe's appearance, he didn't know which sentence was wrong and provoked the adult, so he hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Master, the grass people, the grass people are guessing blindly, don't be angry, just treat the grass people as nonsense." ”

Fang Congzhe saw the appearance of the Orion, and said in his heart that he was a little anxious, afraid that he would scare this person, so he calmed down and said to the Orion with a pleasant face: "The old man is a little anxious, don't be afraid, slowly say why you guessed why they went to Dongshan." ”

Orion saw that this adult was two appearances in a blink of an eye, and thought in his heart that it was no wonder that the official could do so much, this ability to change his face was not ordinary, he had long heard that being an official was to scare the people with a fierce face, and when fooling the emperor, he had to smile all over his face, so that the official could do higher and higher.

Orion was only a little distracted, and soon came back to his senses, seeing that Fang Congzhe's expression was no longer so terrifying, he strengthened his courage and said: "Master, the end of this road is Gaolizhuang, and the grass people are the people of Gaolizhuang, and when the grass people went back that night, they didn't see any strangers in the village, and those people were not from our Gaolizhuang that day, and the grass people didn't know each other, so there was only one road on the East Mountain, in fact, there were several small roads on the East Mountain, but those roads were rugged and difficult, It's not that we who often go up to the mountains to hunt or chop firewood, we can't find it at all. ”

Fang An saw that this Orion was a little far away again, and hurriedly spoke: "Okay, let's let go of the trail if we don't leave today, you take us to find the avenue on the East Mountain first." ”

"That path is easy to find, but we have some more way to go." ”

Fang Congzhe said to the coachman: "Then continue to move forward." With that, he sat back in the carriage.

After walking for less than a stick of incense, he passed a corner at the bottom of the hill and came to the avenue that Orion had said, which was said to be an avenue, but it was a little flatter than the rest of the city, and at most it could only accommodate three people side by side.

Fang An got off the horse, handed the horse to the coachman and asked him to wait at the bottom of the mountain, and then helped Fang Congzhe to get out of the carriage.

Fang Congzhe said to the Orion: "Little brother, you are more familiar with this Dongshan, and I want to trouble you to lead the way." ”

Seeing Fang Congzhe's politeness, the Orion couldn't help but smile shyly and said, "The reward you give, my lord, is enough even if you let the grass people come to show you the way every day." ”

Fang Congzhe said: "That silver is the news you provided, little brother don't have to take it to heart." ”

The Orion walked in the front, Fang An helped Fang Shihong to follow, and several courtyards fell behind.

The young hunter didn't know how many times he had walked on this mountain road, and he couldn't be more familiar with this mountain road, even if he didn't have to look at the road, he knew how to go, so he turned back to Fang Congzhe and said while going up the mountain: "Big lord, you may treat this money as a trivial matter, but in a poor family like us, it is a lot of money, and these fifty taels of silver are enough for our family to live for more than two years." ”

Fang Congzhe was very nervous at this time, afraid that what he was worried about would happen, so he was not in the mood to talk to the Orion.

In the past few days, Fang Congzhe has been frightened, plus he has eaten less and slept less, and he almost lost his breath when he was in the house before, and he walked up for almost a cup of tea, Fang Congzhe's body was a little unbearable, and he still held on to go up.

Fang An saw that the hand of his own master who was holding him was trembling slightly, and his face was already sweating a lot, he dissuaded: "Master, why don't you rest here for a while before leaving?" ”

Fang Congzhe shook his head and refused: "It's not too late to rest when you find Shihong." ”

Fang An grabbed Fang Congzhe and said: "Master, the road up the mountain is still long, it's not bad for a while, there is just a place to rest, just sit for a while?" Take a break and go faster when you get down the hill. ”

Fang Congzhe thought about it for a while, so he reluctantly nodded and agreed: "If you sharpen your knife and don't cut wood, then everyone should take a little rest." ”

Fang An helped Fang Congzhe to sit down on a flat boulder, and he stood next to Fang Congzhe, a zhang away from the boulder is a cliff, this cliff is steep, but the ground near the boulder is very flat, this place seems to be specially repaired for people who go up the mountain to rest.

And there are few trees on this cliff, sitting on a big rock and looking down the mountain is basically unobstructed, the sight is very good, it seems that someone has specially cut down the sheltered trees for viewing.

Fang Congzhe raised his head and looked down the mountain, as far as he could see, in addition to the scenery under the mountain, there was a large camp not far away, he quickly called the young hunter and pointed to a place and asked, "Where is it?" ”

Orion looked at it and replied, "If you go back to the old man, there is Jingying." ”

"Jingying is close to Dongshan, the old man naturally knows that it is Jingying, what does the old man mean is there in Jingying?"

Orion looked towards the place pointed by Fang Congzhe, only to see that it was a high platform that was nearly one person high and five zhang square, and Orion smiled and said, "Master, there is the oath platform." ”

Fang Congzhe stretched out his trembling hand, pointed to the open space between the oath platform and Dongshan and said, "In other words, this open space is the shooting range of the firearms battalion of the Shenji Battalion?" ”

The young hunter didn't notice that Fang Congzhe was not only in his hands, but his whole body was trembling, and he nodded slightly and replied, "Exactly." ”

Hearing Orion's confirmation, Fang Congzhe shouted at the top of his voice: "Fang An, Fang An, hurry up the mountain, take me up the mountain quickly." ”

"Master, you just sat down, can you rest a little longer?"

Fang Congzhe gritted his teeth and said, "Didn't you hear that I asked you to go up the mountain quickly?" ”

"Yes, sir."

Fang An said to the young Orion: "Lead the way ahead." ”