It's October in the blink of an eye, the war that began to ignite in June in the Central Plains is still not extinguished, Yu Wenliang, the governor of Anzhou, led the army to guard various important places in Jingzhou, and the imperial army in Luoyang continued to confront the army of 'Pseudo Zhou' Wei Chi Dan after breaking through Xingzhou, and the Yuzhou Governor's Office has not moved since the design of the attack on Anlu in September fell short, guarding the territory to prevent the east Wei Chi Qin and the west Yu Wenliang from attacking.

Huangzhou Governor's Mansion, Hengzhou, outside the post station, a train fleet slowly stopped, several carriage wheels pressed out of the road ruts, it seemed that the goods carried were very heavy, and the entourage surrounded a richly dressed middle-aged man into the post station to eat, leaving a few people to guard the side of the car.

It was noon, and although the autumn sun was not as strong as in midsummer, it was still dizzy, and just as the guards guarding the carriage were drowsy, more than a dozen horsemen galloped towards the post station.

Seeing someone approaching the carriage, these guards looked at each other vigilantly, one of them turned into the post station, while the rest of the people pressed their swords with their swords in their hands, and looked tense, and the more than ten horsemen passed directly without dodging or avoiding these carriages and stopped in front of the post station.

"Sixth, go in and arrange it, and order the best wine and food!" When a young man sat on his horse and said, he looked at the carriages and then threw his whip off the horse and stepped into the gate of the post station without looking back, and the attendant hurriedly stepped forward to lead the horse to the tethered stone beside it.

The young Langjun's entourage immediately hung a lot of pheasants and hares, it seemed that they had just come back from hunting, and the people on the side of the carriage were relieved to see the other party behaving like this, and then returned to normal, but they never thought that the young Langjun would make trouble not long after he walked into the post.

"Ekiji! Where does the good wine go? This is the voice of the young man.

"How do you talk?"

Before the words fell, I only heard a snap, which sounded like someone had been slapped in the face, and this slap directly caused the chickens and dogs to jump in the post, and the people guarding the carriage outside the door were just silent when they heard the sound.

Suddenly, several people rushed out of the post station, and one of them shouted to the man guarding the carriage, "It's an official errand." Come on! ”

As soon as the words fell, the entourage that the young Lang Jun had left outside drew his sword and rushed up. The middle-aged man commanded the left and right to fight him, and he got on his horse in a panic and galloped away. Before he could run far, the young man chased after him, bent his bow and shot an arrow right in his shoulder, and after he was hit by the arrow, his body shook, and he lay on his horse and continued to escape.

"You and the post secretary are in prison together, you guys come with me, don't let him go!" After the young Lang Jun finished speaking, he stepped on his mount and chased after him, and several of his followers also rode their horses in hot pursuit, and the remaining few were tied up by their slashed opponents.

The two sides chased one after the other, galloping westward on the official road, and a large group of people suddenly appeared on the road ahead, and the young Lang Jun thought it was the other party's accomplice, but after looking at it for a while, he was overjoyed, and then shouted loudly: "We are Hengzhou officials." Don't go thief! ”

"Catch it alive!"

The group of people on the opposite side seemed to hear his shouting, and several horses rushed out of the queue to greet the middle-aged man, and after the distance between the two sides approached instantly, one of them bent his bow and shot directly at the horse's head, and the middle-aged man and horse stumbled forward and pounced forward, and before he landed, he grabbed it in the air and held it in his hand.

"A strong man's good means!" The young man rode his horse and exclaimed, but when he was about to ask the other party where he was going, he felt a pang in his heart: these people all looked like soldiers with armor, and there were more than ten horsemen who flanked them left and right, and they were like hunting.

"We are Hengzhou Zhou Envoy Jun's subordinate who was ordered to arrest the key criminals, I don't know who the general is?" He decided to salute first and then soldier, at this time, the enemy is outnumbered, in case of an accident, I am afraid that I will not be able to escape, but I will have to pull a cushion to die.

"What crime did this man commit?" The man with the middle-aged man asked, he grabbed people with one hand and held the reins with the other, and his face was full of vigilance, just when they were on guard against each other, a person in the back team stepped forward, and the man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks did not look like a decent gentleman, and after glancing at the young Lang Jun, he suddenly said:

"Isn't this Wednesday Lang? Long time no see!"

"Yuwen Fifteen at the foot?" Young Lang Jun was a little surprised. He is Zhou Faming, the younger brother of Zhou Fashang, the new assassin of Hengzhou, who led the 'leading party' of the new army of Gongyu Wenwen in Xiyang County to attack the Baman camp in Tongbai Mountain at night four months ago.

"Lord Shi. It's your own people, your own people. Yuwen fifteen smiled and signaled that there was no need to be nervous in the future, and then he immediately stepped forward to greet this old acquaintance: "Ouch, I haven't seen Wednesday Lang more and more out of luck in the past few months, and I know how much to bully less!" ”

"If you catch a thief, you have to bully more and less, how can this be on the battlefield."

Yuwen Wen, the poisonous tongue master of Yuwen Fifteen, made Zhou Faming's face turn red: "Nonsense! Just now at the post station, I waited to hit more with less, but just walked away from this thief! ”

Shi Wansui saw that the two of them were arguing like enemies, and he didn't bother to pay attention to it, and directly threw the person he was holding on the ground with an arrow in his back, and he was dizzy by such a throw, and before he got up, he was hugged and tied up by Zhou Faming's entourage.

"It turned out to be Wednesday Lang, I haven't seen you for a long time, I don't know how it is now?" Yuwen Wence immediately stepped forward and asked, just when he saw this chasing after him, he thought that some young man was in trouble and was chased by the wicked, and he was thinking about drawing a knife to help, but he was a fugitive.

Zhou Faming saw that it was the second son of the governor of Anzhou, and hurriedly stepped forward in front of him to explain the matter: a few days ago, there were thieves robbing the business brigade in Hengzhou, and his second brother Zhou Fashang, the assassin of Hengzhou, sent officials to search around.

"My father is going to Xiyang in Bazhou Prefecture this time, and I am afraid that there will be thieves who want to buy road money, so I brought more people." Yu Wenwen roughly said the purpose of his trip, and when Zhou Faming heard this, he looked at the team, but saw that there were many carriages behind him, along with a large number of soldiers, which seemed to be as many as thousands.

"The county prince even brought the army under his command, could it be that he went to Bazhou to take office?" Zhou Faming asked, the governor of Anzhou mobilized manpower and material resources to build a large number of buildings in Xiyang City to prepare for his son's appointment, this matter is well known, and now there is no war in the Huangzhou Governor's Office, and if the Xiyang County Governor appears here, he must be going to Bazhou to take office.

Yuwenwen did not hide it, nodded and said yes, and invited the other party to sit in Xiyang, Bazhou and Hengzhou are both under the rule of the Huangzhou Governor's Office, Bazhou is on the north bank of the Yangtze River and Hengzhou is in the northwest of Bazhou, and the distance between the two states is more than 100 miles apart.

Zhou Faming listened to this and took over the conversation and said that he was also very familiar with Xiyang City, and Yuwen Fifteen heard him say this on the side, and said in a strange way: "Zhou Lang seems to be familiar with where he goes, next time I wait for Chang'an, I will ask Zhou Lang to lead the way?" ”

was so provoked by Zhou Faming couldn't help but tell the truth: his father Zhou Jiong attacked Ba, Qi and other Jiangbei states that were still the territory of Northern Qi at that time, as the commander of the Chen army, and quelled the Haoqiang rebellion.

"I see, this highway through Hengzhou should be visited by Zhou Zhijun, but it is inconvenient for his family to accompany him, and he will definitely visit him in the future."

A chance encounter ended quickly, Zhou Fashang looked at the team that stretched for several miles to the east, and thoughtfully, the cavalry just now made a deep impression on him, and now he looked at the spirit of the infantry, and he felt that the new army under the command of Xiyang County had changed a lot compared to more than four months ago.

"There's a place to spend now." ……

An Lu, outside the Xiyang County Mansion, the former lively mansion is now closed with the gate closed, and there is silence inside, a carriage slows down slightly as it passes the gate along the street, and then continues to move forward, after turning the intersection, a middle-aged man gets out of the car and knocks on the door of a residential courtyard.

"Lao Jia, where is the Xiyang County Mansion?" He asked the old man who opened the door, and the other party looked at him after hearing the words and said, You just walked by, turn around and go back.

"I was entrusted by the owner to come to Anlu to meet the shopkeeper Liu in the Xiyang County Mansion, and I didn't recognize the road when I first arrived, so I arrived at the gate of the mansion according to the address, and I was a little puzzled when I saw that there was no movement inside, I don't know what happened in this mansion?"

"Are you here to find Shopkeeper Liu? You're too late! The old man said with a smile, and the middle-aged man arched his hand when he saw this, and asked him in a humble tone What happened, and the old man said the matter slowly.

It is said that the Duke of Xiyang County was ordered to go to the Huangzhou Governor's Mansion to govern Ba Prefecture as an envoy, and also moved with the family members of the house, a few days ago, the house carried a large bag of things, loaded more than a dozen cars, is busy moving, even the county duchess who had just finished the confinement and her son also set off together, and now it has been gone for seven or eight days.

"I heard that Shopkeeper Liu also left with him, but there are still people left in the house to guard, if there is something in the future, you can go and leave a letter."

After thanking the old man, the middle-aged man boarded the carriage and changed his accent to talk to another person in the car, and the man couldn't help but pat his knee when he heard that Yu Wenwen had moved to Bazhou with his family: "Let that guy slip away!" ”

"Chief, do you want to rush to Bazhou now?" The middle-aged man asked, and after thinking for a while, the man said that he was not in a hurry, and he would send someone to Bazhou to find out after An Lu lived.

"Remember, the side room surnamed Yang also has to be investigated, if you act in a way, you must save her and the little girl's lives!"

Soon after the carriage slowly left, a few people sneakily came to the Xiyang County Mansion, seeing the deserted appearance of the courtyard, one person hesitated for a moment and then stepped forward to knock on the door, and after a while, the small door opened the door slightly, and the room stretched out his head to ask what was the matter.

Seeing that the other party said that he wanted to talk to the shopkeeper Liu about the deal, he said with regret that most of the people in the house moved to Bazhou with the lord of Lang, if they were in a hurry, they would rush directly to Bazhou Prefecture to govern Xiyang, if they were not in a hurry, they would leave a message to convey here.

"Bazhou? Where is Xiyang, Bazhou? The man's face was embarrassed when he heard this, and when the porter saw this, he roughly said the direction of Bazhou, seeing that the other party's eyes flickered, and he wanted to stop talking, he suddenly burst out with a sentence:

"What kind of goods are you looking for Shopkeeper Liu? There are tiger skins in the house. ”

"Well, I heard that there are tiger whips in the house and I want to buy three," the man's eyes lit up when he heard this.

The porter heard the other party say this, first glanced at both sides of the door, and then said: "I don't know martial arts."

"I'm embarrassed to read all of Ivy!" The man hurriedly picked up the next sentence, and the porter nodded and let him in, and after a moment the man walked out of the small door with a smile on his face and led his entourage away.

Turning to a secluded street corner, he whispered: "Thirteen, sixteen, you two go to stay at this address, this is what they arranged, you can rest assured that it is easy to live and find, you follow me back to Chang'an!" (To be continued.) )