When Li Cai returned, he brought three injured doormen with him.

The severity of the injuries of these three people varied, and the most serious one was already lame.

This person's name is Cui Yong, and he has already stepped into the ghost gate with both feet.

When Cui Yong fled to the city gate with Tian Ziyun, he was shot off his horse by the Yan people, and his right leg was also cut off by the Yan people's long knife, and he lost too much blood and fainted on the spot.

After the Yan people were defeated and retreated, Jimo's defenders cleaned up the battlefield, and seeing that Cui Yong was already half crippled, they had no intention of saving him, leaving him to fend for himself outside the city.

Later, Tian Ziyun instructed Li Cai to look for someone outside the city, and then he picked him up from the pile of dead people.

The other two doormen, although their injuries were not as serious as Cui Yong's, were also injured.

Everyone cleaned their wounds in the courtyard, recalling that when they set off from Pingsong Mansion, there were more than 300 guests, and they were full of ambition.

Now that he has returned to his hometown, he has returned, and there are only nine people left, and he can't help but sigh for a while.

Tian Ziyun also sighed secretly and looked at Li Cai.

Li Cai was changing clothes by the well water, and he carried Cui Yong back all the way, his clothes already soaked in blood.

"Childe?" Li Cai saw Tian Ziyun's eyes and arched his hand.

"Didn't Ma Ba send you back?" Tian Ziyun thought that if there was a carriage to send Cui Yong and the others back, Li Cai should not be so embarrassed.

"Childe doesn't know?" Li Caiqi said.

"How?"

"General Ma was halfway through the line, saying that he had forgotten to tell the eldest prince about something important, and turned back again. The villain and Chen Qiu were eager to save people, so they went out of the city alone to find people. ”

"Ma Ba came back to me?" Tian Ziyun felt strange and looked at Shen He again.

He was away for a while while chasing the thief, and if he missed it, only during that time.

Shen He shook his head and said: "After Peng Gaoyang was injured, the last general was afraid that Gongzi would come back and be ambushed by the assassins, so he ordered everyone to guard the four gates of the Pingsong Mansion and wait for Gongzi, and Ma Ba was not seen during this period. ”

Ma Ba neither went to the city gate nor came to the Pingsong Mansion, where did he go during that time?

Why did he tell such a lie?

Everyone thought it was strange.

"No wonder ......" Li Cai frowned, and suddenly said: "At that time, the direction General Ma went to was not the nearest route to Pingsong Mansion, and the villain still felt strange, General Ma had something important to find his son, why did he take a long way?" ”

"Which way did Ma Ba go?" Tian Ziyun grasped the key point in Li Cai's words.

"It should be Wuliang Street."

"Where's Wuliang Street?" Tian Ziyun's mind was empty, and he had no idea about this place at all.

"Wuliang Street is located in the northeast, leading directly to Nanshou Street, and after passing Nanshou Street, it is the Imperial Palace." Shen He said suddenly.

Everyone knew that Shen He was the city guard of Jimo before, and he knew the traffic arteries in the city well, so they only heard him continue:

"Although Wuliang Street can lead to Miyagi, as Ma Ba, it is absolutely impossible to enter Miyagi directly without the king's summons. There is also another place on Wuliang Street, which may be Ma Ba's place. Shen He said that he suddenly stopped here and looked up at Tian Ziyun.

"Really?"

"Cheng-Yang-Fu."

"What!" This time, everyone was shocked.

"Isn't Chengyang Mansion Tian Fazhang's mansion?"

"What did General Ma do when he went to Tian Fazhang's mansion?"

"Could it be that Ma Ba is actually Tian Fazhang's person?!"

……

This Tian Fazhang is the half-brother of "Tian Ziyun", the second son of the current King of Qi, but between everyone's words, they all call him by his name, without the slightest honorific title.

The reason is simple - Chengyang Mansion is less than half the size of Pingsong Mansion.

The master of Pingsong Mansion, no matter his prestige, merit, or prestige, is not comparable to the master of Chengyang Mansion.

After Tian Ziyun fought the first war of the Song Dynasty in the Qi State, he became famous as a young man, and there was an endless stream of customers who came to take refuge in him, reaching more than 1,000 people in his heyday, second only to Xue Gong of the Qi State, and more than ten times that of Chengyang Mansion.

Therefore, although everyone's masters are the sons of Qi State, the doormen of Pingsong Mansion do not look down on the doormen of Chengyang Mansion. Not to mention, one master is the eldest son, and the other master is the second son, who will sit in the position of the future King of Qi, is it not obvious?

This is also why everyone will despise him so much when they hear that Ma Ba lied to see Tian Fazhang.

"It seems that Ma Ba is going to deliver the news of the Chu people." Shen He said.

Tian Ziyun nodded, thinking of Ma Ba's reaction to "Xiong Yi's death", it seemed that as early as that time, Ma Ba couldn't bear it.

But why did Ma Ba and Tian Fazhang care so much about the death of the crown prince of Chu?

The betrayal of the Chu people is already well known, what is the death of a prince? Even have to report to Tian Fazhang first, more concerned than the King of Qi in the palace?

Thinking of this, Tian Ziyun couldn't help but look in the direction of the palace city, and frowned, this King of Qi can really sit still.

At this time, a small footstep came from the door, accompanied by a hurried call: "Childe, someone is in the palace!" ”

Everyone was overjoyed when they heard this, and even the Wen Tong who was boiling medicine in the room couldn't help but poke his head out:

"It's finally here!"

"How many people came?"

"Is the king here himself?"

Everyone, you and I said a word, and I couldn't resist this doorman's question.

Thinking about it, it is understandable that everyone has experienced all kinds of hardships and dangers during the trip to the Chu State, and now they are escorting Tian Ziyun to escape back, all kinds of hardships, and it is the time to look forward to the king's summons. The number of people who came to the palace, the number of carriages that came, and whether the king came in person or not can all reflect the king's attention to everyone.

"This ......" The doorman was stunned, looking at Tian Ziyun, it seemed that it was a little difficult to speak.

"What's the matter, Chen Qiu, didn't the king come to pick up the prince in person?"

"Or is there something strange about the people who came?"

"Even if it is, it's not ......" The doorman named Chen Qiu said: "Childe, you better go and see for yourself." ”

Tian Ziyun also felt strange, when Chen Qiu came back with Li Cai, he was not like this, why did someone come to the palace and become so twisted.

Tian Ziyun immediately led everyone there.

When the crowd reached the door, two of them had already rushed to open the door.

The door slammed open, revealing a wide open space in front of the door.

It's just that in the open space at this time, the wind is blowing, there is no guard of honor, no eunuchs, no palace maids, and no King Qi, only a man and a horse standing alone.

There is no one else.

Everyone was stunned for a moment, they didn't expect it to be such a battle.

"I've seen the eldest prince." The man seemed to have been waiting at the door for a long time, and when he saw the door open, he immediately came forward to salute him with a very respectful attitude.

"You are?" Tian Ziyun didn't remember seeing this person before.

"The villain Tiandan, in accordance with the king's will, came to welcome the prince into the palace." Tian Dan took an old horse behind him and arched his hand.

"Save you? Pick up Childe? Wen Tong pointed to the yellow-maned horse that had lost its hair and couldn't help but laugh.

Looking at this person's outfit again, he is in his early twenties, although he is wearing a clean and tidy dress, but the style is old, and the corners of the clothes are worn, and he has been wearing it for many years. It's like a gorgeous costume handed down by the older generation, reluctant to lose it, and was searched out of the cabinet by this person to support the façade.

This kind of dress is simply inferior to the subordinates of the Ping Song Mansion, no wonder Wen Tong has such a reaction.

"Childe, please." Tian Dan was not surprised, and led the old horse over.

Tian Ziyun frowned, not because he disliked the bad conditions of the carriage and horses, but like everyone else, he felt that something was wrong.

This person doesn't look like the palace at first glance, and he is also a few ministers in his impression. Tian Ziyun has a bad history, and he has never heard of Tian Dan's name.

What is the reason why King Qi sent such a person, is it possible that all the people in the palace are dead?

"Childe, we can enter the palace by ourselves." Shen He reminded.

"That's right, riding this old horse, it's dawn in the palace." Wen Tong explained Shen He's intentions in one sentence, he disliked that this old horse was not worthy of the identity of a son.

The princes and nobles of the Warring States period followed the Zhou etiquette, and they still paid great attention to the pomp and circumstance when they went out.

What kind of identity and what kind of carriage and horse, you can't overcome, and you can't be hasty, otherwise you will be told the truth, and it will violate the etiquette law, which is not a trivial matter.

Tian Ziyun also had the intention of going on his own.

Anyway, this King of Qi was going to see him sooner or later, but after waiting for most of the day, such an unknown person came, which made him quite unhappy. It's better to go to the palace to see King Qi by yourself, saving Ma Ba and Tian Dan these messy informants.

"Childe." Tian Dan suddenly bowed and said, "Don't hide it, the villain was sent by the second son to humiliate the son." ”

"What?" The crowd was shocked.

Tian Ziyun also sighed, is this kid dead, and he still talks like this?

Not only slapped the master in the face, but he couldn't please here.

Are you still not from Tian Fazhang?