Early the next morning, Zhu Chenggong got up early and came to see off Hou Xuanyan.

Hou Xuanyan held back a smile, looking at him that his nose was not a nose and his eyes were not eyes, it seemed that he had sulked all night.

From Yanping Mansion to Fuzhou, the fastest is of course to take a boat along the Min River and go downstream. It's a pity that Hou Xuanyan's Fengzi battalion was full of cavalry, so he had to go down the river. Hou Xuanyan arched his hand and said: "Eldest nephew, you must say goodbye to sending you a thousand miles, although you are reluctant to wait for me, but let's say goodbye." ”

Zhu Chenggong pinched his nose and nodded, and mumbled vaguely in his mouth, which was considered a reply.

Hou Xuanyan laughed, turned around and rode towards Fuzhou.

A young general beside Zhu Chenggong looked disdainful: "Phew! I didn't expect Hou Xuanyan to be such a virtuous, it is really famous, but it is actually difficult to deserve. ”

Zhu Chenggong's face was unhappy, and he said in a deep voice: "Don't talk nonsense and insult the minister, how can you say that he is Hou Xuanyan after all." You don't chew the root of your tongue here, go back and give me practice, you also saw the Fengzi camp just now, and then look at you one by one, do you really want to go fishing at sea? ”

...

Hou Xuanyan, who provoked Zhu Chenggong's competitive spirit, went all the way east to Fuzhou, it was already dusk. The scarlet remnant sun half-hung in the sky, like this empire in the twilight of the sunset.

Under the low city wall of Fuzhou, Xia Wanchun personally went out and said loudly: "Hou Xuanyan, the governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, has been ordered to enter the city to meet His Majesty and open the city gate quickly." ”

The soldiers defending the city had already been ordered, and they didn't dare to slack off, and said in a loud voice: "General, Fuzhou is a small city, if all the military masters enter the city together, I am afraid that Fuzhou will be difficult to settle." And it was getting late, and the gate of the palace was closed. The imperial court ordered that all the military masters should go to the eastern suburbs to live temporarily, and Wu Yuebo would enter the palace early tomorrow morning to face the saint. ”

Xia Wanchun looked back at the horse, Hou Xuanyan nodded slightly, and a battalion of men and horses rushed to the eastern suburbs. There is the old house of Gong Zifang in Jiading, and no one has been dotting it.

After the Fengzi camp arrived, they quickly set up camp and rested on the spot. Five thousand people are good to say, plus five thousand horses, although the manor is large, it is also very crowded. It was originally very spacious, but the original huge manor has been empty. Gong Zifang and two thousand Jiading sons had the idea of going to Suzhou and dying with Hou Xuanyan. So I left in a hurry, and I didn't have time to deal with this manor.

Hou Xuanyan was familiar with the road, and took his guards to the place where he slept last time, and he ordered his soldiers to boil a bucket of warm water for him, and found some green salt tea leaves from the manor and sprinkled them in the bucket.

After arranging his soldiers and horses, Xia Wanchun came to Hou Xuanyan's residence and happened to bump into him taking a bath in a wooden barrel. Hou Xuanyan sat in the bathtub, closed his eyes comfortably, pillowed the white silk scarf by the bucket, and said slowly: "This time to enter the palace to welcome the holy driver, it is bound to be a thousand difficulties, and it is said that Zheng Zhilong refuses to let people go, even those Manchu Dynasty civil and military, and they don't want His Majesty to go to Jinling." In their eyes, I, Hou Xuanyan, may be even more terrifying than Zheng Zhilong. ”

Xia Wanchun smiled bitterly: "What the commander said is true, although Zheng Zhilong controls the government, he doesn't pay much attention to these officials. But the commander first killed He Tengjiao, and then beheaded Huang Daozhou, and he had already become their enemies of life and death. I look at this Fuzhou City, except for His Majesty himself and the people around him, no one else wants him to leave. ”

"Having said that, there are no people here to fear, only Zheng Zhilong has soldiers and horses in his hands that are beyond our reach. In Fuzhou is his home field, we only have the Fengzi battalion, but he can transfer 100,000 people in an instant. Hou Xuanyan held a silk scarf and talked eloquently while wiping his wet body. Suddenly, a black shadow fell from the beam, and the two of them exclaimed.

"There are assassins!"

Outside the room, the guards rushed in, only to see Hou Xuanyan naked, looking blankly at the bucket, a petite figure fell from the sky into the bathtub.

"This... Is it a stab? Or touch porcelain? ”

The crowd hurriedly stepped forward, fished out the man in black, and threw him on the ground. Hou Xuanyan jumped out of the bathtub and casually draped a robe on his body. He watched coldly, and already understood that his house had not been taken care of for a long time, and it seemed that it had become a good place to take refuge and escape from pursuit. The man in black was mostly hunted down and wounded, and hid here. After he came, he was alarmed, but he couldn't escape, so he could only hide on the beam. Maybe it was smoked by the heat, or maybe it was a serious injury and fell. In this way, eighty percent is just a thief, at most a big thief, but there is nothing to be afraid of.

Since he knew that he was not an assassin, Hou Xuanyan, who had a false alarm, stroked his chest and secretly reminded himself that this time was different from the past, and his safety should not be neglected. Throughout the ages, I don't know how many heroes have survived the wind and waves, but they capsized in the small gutter.

Hong Yixun hurried over, and when he saw that Hou Xuanyan had no accident, he breathed a sigh of relief. Then he looked at the ground with an unkind look, and with the sword in his hand unsheathed, he gently lifted the veil of the man in black, and shouted in astonishment: "It's you!" ”