Li Yanqing arrived in Suzhou with Qing'er and ten guards in the afternoon of the next day, although Li Yanqing was wearing a Tsing Yi Confucian shirt, but the ten guards were wearing vermilion lacquer mountain armor, wearing copper helmets, wearing green dragon embroidered shirts, typical forbidden guards, they all rode high-headed horses, galloping all the way to the south, attracting countless passers-by. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Just when they were still three miles away from Gusu City, they saw two tolerances in a pavilion on the side of the road beckoning to them, Li Yanqing hurriedly reined in the horses, and after a while, the two tolerances ran forward and asked, "May I ask if the eldest brother is a subordinate of King Jia from the capital!" ”

"Who are you?"

"We are Changzhou County, and we are waiting here for His Royal Highness King Jia's party on the order of the county, and our county lieutenant has important things to report."

Li Yanqing nodded, "We are indeed the entourage of His Royal Highness King Jia, where is your county lieutenant?" ”

"Please wait!"

A catcher quickly ran back, and after a while, a man in his early thirties hurriedly came, followed by several officials, and the man hugged his fists and said: "Down is Lu Gensheng, the lieutenant of Changzhou County, the stakes are very high, please show your identity!" ”

Li Yanqing gave the guards a look, the guards took out the Jiawangfu waist card and showed it to the man, the man also took out the official seal and handed it to Li Yanqing for identification, Li Yanqing returned the official seal to him and said with a smile: "It turned out to be the county lieutenant Lu, I don't know what is important for the county lieutenant to stop us halfway?" ”

"This is not a place to talk, if you are for Zhu Mian's business, please come with me."

"Please!"

The group left the official road and came to a small river, where a passenger boat was parked, and Lieutenant Lu was waiting on the boat just now.

"Please speak on the ship!"

"If there is anything important about County Lieutenant Lu, just say it." Li Yanqing did not get on the boat, and he would not put himself in danger.

"That's right, this afternoon, Zhu Mian's eldest son and brother led 2,000 people south, and we suspect that Zhu Mian may have to abscond."

"Why did you say he was absconding?" Li Yanqing asked.

"One of my subordinates has docked more than a hundred cargo ships in front of the docks, and someone has already started to move large boxes into the cargo ships."

"I don't understand, why did Lieutenant Lu tell us this?"

Lu Gensheng sighed and said: "What has our good land of fish and rice become by this beast, which of us Suzhou people is not eager to eat his meat and skin him?" Two months ago, Li Yushi came to Suzhou to investigate secretly, or I led him up the mountain to see Zhu Mian's manor, Li Yushi asked me to monitor Zhu Mian, I heard that King Jia was coming, I guess I came to clean up Zhu Mian, if not, then I also admit it! ”

Li Yanqing nodded and smiled: "Then congratulations on your bet, I came to check on Zhu Mian's movements on the order of King Jia, can you ask County Lieutenant Lu to take us to Zhu Mian's mansion to have a look?" ”

Lu Gensheng was overjoyed, he actually didn't tell the truth, he received a flying pigeon message from Wang Shan, the capital of Wujin County, and learned that His Royal Highness King Jia sent someone south, so he waited outside the city for a day, and finally waited for Li Yanqing.

Lu Gensheng immediately took Li Yanqing and his entourage to Yanshou Villa.

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In a forest two miles away from Yanshou Villa, Li Yanqing looked at the more than 100 cargo ships moored on the Xu River from a distance, and saw that people were constantly coming in and out, carrying large boxes onto the ship, and half of the ships were already full of boxes, but the ox carts transporting large boxes were still coming from the villa to the wharf.

"Damn bastard, how much money are you greedy for!" Lu Gensheng saw that Zhu Mian's wealth was amazing, and he couldn't help but scolded in a low voice.

Li Yanqing pondered for a moment and asked, "Where is the closest harbor to here?" ”

Li Yanqing keenly judged that Zhu Mian must be going to sea to escape, and Zhu Mian had no way out except for one way overseas.

"Recently, it was Huating County, Xiuzhou."

"Can I take an ocean-going ship?"

County Lieutenant Lu also understood what Li Yanqing meant, he thought for a while and said: "It doesn't seem to work, there is a salt wharf over there, you can only go to the near sea boat, if you want to go to the open sea, you must go to Mingzhou!" ”

Mingzhou is today's Ningbo, if you pass by land, you will inevitably pass through the edge of Fang La's power, even if Zhu Mian's 2,000 dead soldiers dare to venture south, Zhu Mian himself may not dare to take this risk, if he guessed correctly, Zhu Mian must first go to Xiuzhou, and then take a boat to Mingzhou, and then transfer a big ship from there to escape overseas.

Thinking of this, Li Yanqing asked again: "How many roads are there to go to Huating County by water from here?" ”

"Either take Changzhou, or take Taihu Lake, and finally enter the Jiangnan Canal, but going to Changzhou will go around the city, it is easy to expose his whereabouts, it is estimated that Zhu Mian will not take the risk, he will definitely take Taihu Lake, enter the Jiangnan Canal from Wuxing, and then take the Jiaxing River to the Huating Estuary, where the Huating Wharf is built."

Li Yanqing hurriedly called a few guards and whispered a few words to them, and the guards immediately said, "Young Jun, please rest assured, we will definitely do it!" ”

Several guards turned their horses' heads and left the woods first, while Li Yanqing continued to wait in the woods.

Night fell, and it was pitch black, but the dock was still brightly lit, and the family was still carrying wooden boxes with torches, but apparently it was already over, and there were no more ox carts to bring the boxes, only about two dozen large boxes piled up on the dock.

At this time, Qing'er said in a low voice: "Little official, my water nature is very good, let me get on the boat!" ”

"No, it's too dangerous!" Li Yanqing flatly refused.

"What's the danger of this, I can hold half a stick of incense underwater, my father has been training my light skills in the water, little official, let me go!"

couldn't help Qing'er's repeated requests, Li Yanqing finally agreed, if there were people on the ship, things would indeed be much easier, he whispered a few words to Qing'er, Qing'er nodded and smiled: "I understand the little official, I promise not to disappoint you!" ”

She cleaned up a little, then bent down and ran out of the woods, Li Yanqing saw her go into the water, and climbed into a big boat lightly, which seemed to be hidden in a large wooden box, Li Yanqing secretly praised her for being smart.

After another quarter of an hour, more than a dozen carriages came, Zhu Mian appeared with his family and a large group of beauties, and County Lieutenant Lu whispered to Li Yanqing: "The one who is dressed in black is Zhu Mian!" ”

Li Yanqing saw this famous corrupt official in history for the first time, only to see that he was dressed in black, with a medium stature, and his movements were also vigorous, which shows that this person practiced martial arts when he was young, Zhu Mian and an old man on crutches, it is estimated that his father Zhu Chong got on the first big ship, and the rest of the family and beauties got on the next few big ships.

As the gates of Yanshou Villa closed, the fleet slowly turned around and headed towards the Taihu Lake to the west.

Li Yanqing smiled at the county lieutenant Lu: "Sure enough, the county lieutenant said that he was right, and I have to ask the county lieutenant to continue to lead the way, let's go to the front and wait for them." ”

County Lieutenant Lu nodded, "Let's go!" ”

Several people left the woods and rode along the trail in the direction of the county seat.........

At dawn, Li Yanqing saw the Zhu family's fleet again in Wuxing River, and there were 500 soldiers on the south bank to follow, their equipment was almost the same as that of the officers and soldiers, but the helmets were painted red.

Although the fleet went down the river, it was against the wind, and the sailing was not fast, until noon it arrived in Jiaxing, and it turned into the Jiaxing River after walking less than ten miles to the south, and sailed at this speed, and the fleet could reach Hangzhou Bay at night.

Zhu Mian stood at the bow of the boat with his hands in his hands, squinting at the grass and trees on both sides, the strong wind blowing his black robe and hair, and the wind carried the unique fresh smell of the sea, he had already felt the call of the sea, which made him feel both fortunate in his heart, but also an indescribable loss.

He was glad that Zhao Kai, the king of Jia, should still be in Changzhou, and he really made a decision to leave the Song Dynasty before Zhao Kai arrived in Suzhou, and went overseas with huge wealth.

But the pride is only for a while, and it is more of an indescribable loss, he is about to leave his homeland, I don't know when he will come back, I'm afraid he won't have a chance in his life.

This filled Zhu Mian's heart with the sadness of leaving his hometown.

At this moment, a boatman suddenly pointed ahead and shouted, "What's going on ahead?" ”