Early the next morning, Li Zhang led the delegation on the road alone, in front of the Great Song Dynasty, Yelu Zhirang led his cavalry to send them forward for a few miles, and then the two sides said goodbye to each other.

However, just as Li Zhang was about to leave, he couldn't help but stop and reminded Yelu Zhirang again: "Brother Zhirang, you must not forget my advice yesterday, and if possible, let your family stay away from Zhongjing!" ”

"I'll think about it when I get back!" Yelu Zhirang also showed a grateful expression at this time and said, no matter what, Li Zhang is also for his good, and he went back last night to think about it carefully, and his heart slowly became a little uneasy.

Hearing Yelu Zhirang's words, Li Zhang relieved his heart, and then he waved goodbye to Yelu Zhirang again, and then the mission set foot on the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and Yelu Zhirang behind him also waited until the figure of Li Zhang and others disappeared, and then turned his horse and left here.

Li Zhang did not take the road of Suicheng again this time, but staggered a distance to the east, directly from Hejian Mansion into the Great Song Dynasty, in fact, it was also closer to the Xijin Mansion of the Liao State, so the Great Song Dynasty stationed more troops here, but because of years of peace, the garrison of Hejian Mansion was also partially withdrawn.

Hejian Fu is close to the border of Liao, which belongs to the boundary of Shenzhou, and the northwest of Shenzhou, there is a small county seat, that is, Leshou County, here and Suicheng, are the first line of resistance to the Liao attack, when the Liao army went south on a large scale to fight the grass, hundreds of people were plundered, which also led to the sparsely populated Leshou County, and it has only slowly recovered in recent years.

Leshou County is Zhao Anren's hometown, he was taken captive to Liao in a Liao army fighting grass valley, because of his beautiful appearance, he was sent to the palace to be a eunuch, and finally climbed to his current position.

Li Zhang had promised Zhao Anren before that he would definitely help him find his family, so he made a special detour to Hejian Mansion, Leshou is a small county town, and there are garrison camps outside the city, but the people living in the city are ordinary people, after all, the Liao people have no longer gone south on a large scale in recent years, even if they occasionally fight the grass valley, they are all sporadic cavalry, and they can't break the blockade of the Song army at all, so the life of the county is no longer affected, and the population is slowly increasing.

Leshou County Commander didn't expect that the mission would suddenly come to their small place where birds don't, and immediately went out of the city to greet them, and then arranged for the mission to stay, but their county seat was too small, and there was no post house or anything, plus there were too many people in the mission, the county town couldn't live, and the last escorted forbidden army could only live in the barracks outside the city, and Li Zhang, Fu Bi and a few other people were arranged to live in the inn in the county.

Originally, the Leshou County Commander even wanted to vacate the county government for Li Zhang and them to live in, but Li Zhang felt that it was too troublesome for the other party, so he politely refused, but he really had something to trouble the Leshou County Order, that is, to find out the situation of Zhao Anren's family, generally speaking, the county government will register all the people in the county, as long as Zhao Anren's family is still in Leshou County, it should not be difficult to find.

Early this morning, the Leshou County Commander came to the inn where Li Zhang lived to find him, and then sent a stack of documents and said: "Lieutenant Envoy Li, this is the household registration register of Zhaojia Village, but there is no name of Zhao Da you are looking for, and there is no whereabouts of his sons. ”

"No?" Li Zhang also frowned when he heard this, Zhao Zai is Zhao Anren's father, according to him, his hometown is in Zhaojia Village, ten miles east of Leshou County, but when the war broke out, their whole family fled to Hejian Mansion, but he was separated from his family on the road, and then he was captured by the Liao army, if his family was not arrested, he should have returned to Zhaojia Village afterwards, after all, it was the root of their Zhao family.

"Is there anyone else living in Zhaojia Village?" Li Zhang asked the Leshou county magistrate again at this time, this county magistrate's surname is Zhou, he is not very old, he looks like he is in his thirties at most, he looks ordinary and medium-sized, he looks almost featureless, and he belongs to the kind that can't be found in the pile.

"Yes, although Leshou County experienced several wars, many people fled to Hejian Mansion and other places in the rear, but after the war passed, most of the people came back, after all, the land is here, the ancestral tomb is also here, and many people are unwilling to stay away." Leshou County Ling replied again at the moment that it is difficult to leave the homeland, especially for the Han people, losing the land is like having no roots, and even many people will transport their bodies back to their hometown for burial even if they wander outside for a lifetime.

"It's good to have someone, there is a Laozhou County order to arrange two officials to take me to Zhaojia Village!" Li Zhang spoke again at the moment.

"No problem, do you need to be accompanied by a subordinate officer?" Zhou Xianling immediately nodded in agreement, and then asked again.

"No need, it's already very troublesome for Zhou County during this time, and I only go to Zhaojia Village to do some private things, so I don't need to bring too many people." Li Zhang refused with a smile.

Zhou County Commander did not insist on this when he heard this, and made an appointment with Li Zhang, and in the afternoon, the two officials came to the inn, and then Li Zhang took wild dogs, and asked people to prepare four horses, and did not bring anyone else, and then left Leshou County with the officials.

Zhaojia Village is ten miles east of the county seat, even if you don't ride a horse, you will arrive after walking for half an hour, but Li Zhang is anxious to inquire about the news of Zhao Anren's family, so he dares to hurry up this way, and soon came to Zhaojiafu.

Zhaojia Village is not big, there are at most twenty or thirty families in the village, but a strong village has been built with wood outside the village, which is also the norm in border villages, because the border is very unsafe, and there will be horse thieves from time to time, if the village is not protected, it is likely to be looted by horse thieves, so the border villages will generally have protection, and as long as it is a male villager, there will be a practice of martial arts, even if a woman can copy a knife and cut people at a critical moment.

But now is peacetime, the door outside the village is wide open, and you can see a group of children playing at the door, when they see Li Zhang and their arrival, these children also show curious looks, compared to the children in Tokyo City, the children here look thinner, all of them are big and small and look malnourished, which makes Li Zhang also think of the scene when he first saw Huozi and Douzi.

The four of them entered Zhaojia Village, and then the two officials went to find the head of the village, the so-called head of the household, that is, the township official who was responsible for supervising and urging taxes, and was responsible for the management of the grassroots level together with Li Zheng and the township scrivener, the number of people in Zhaojia Village was not enough, so there was no Li Zheng in the village, but there was a Li Zheng with several other villages, but there was a head of household in the village, and he was also surnamed Zhao, maybe he could find out the situation in Zhao Anren's family from him, but when the head of the household was brought, Li Zhang's heart sank.