When it was dark, the three civilian boats hired by Feng Xiang and others arrived at the Jiuzhou River section, Feng Xiang led Kong Fanlin, Xiao Erlang and six palace guards to abandon the boat and land, take the official road south to Baise, and the Lufu family Ding and the remaining palace guards continued to take the waterway under the leadership of Kong Fanlin's deputy Luo Kedi, and turned from the Beipan River to the Pearl River, and then arrived in Guangzhou, where they met in Deqing, Guangdong. However, although Kong Fanlin and other guards reluctantly agreed to Feng Xiang's decision, when it came time to actually get off the ship, Kong Fanlin and the others inevitably scratched their stomachs again.

"I said, Master Lu, you're really looking for trouble." Looking at the civilian boat that disappeared into the night, Kong Fanlin, who was full of regret, couldn't help but complain to Feng Xiang: "If you don't sit on a good boat, you have to get off the boat and walk, we don't even have a horse, when will we have to walk to Deqing?" ”

"Yes, young master, it's nothing to walk a little bit, can you stand walking such a long way?" Xiao Erlang, the only one in the team who was loyal to Feng Xiang, also complained, and suggested: "Young master, if you want to run quickly and call the boat back, let's take the boat, it's too tiring to walk, the little one is used to walking mountain roads since childhood, but it's nothing, I'm afraid you can't stand it." ”

Feng Xiang, who was not too sure, was a little shaken, and began to wonder if he was a cup bow snake shadow, but at this moment, one of the palace guards closest to the river bank suddenly shouted in a low voice: "Don't speak, another boat is coming from upstream." Feng Xiang was stunned for a moment, and then immediately ordered: "Quickly turn off the torches, everyone hides in the woods, and don't let the people on the ship see us." ”

"Quick, quick." Amidst the urging, the well-trained Wu Sangui guards quickly extinguished the fire torches and rushed into the woods beside the road to hide under the cover of night. After a while, sure enough, a small boat with only two lanterns came down from the upstream, and stopped at the section of the river where Feng Xiang stayed before, Feng Xiang and the others listened carefully, and vaguely heard someone on the boat say: "No, who said that there was a fire here just now?" ”

"Huh? Strange, I just seemed to see the light of the torches here, why is it not there again? General Branch, why don't you send a few people ashore to have a look? ”

"Don't waste time, if there are really people on the shore, as long as there are torches, you can see clearly from a distance of two or three miles, see for yourself, what torches are there on the shore?"

"That's right, eighty percent is a junior, you read it wrong. Let's go, chase Lu Yifeng, if you lose his boat, you will find Lao Tzu to settle accounts, and Lao Tzu will not spare you Xiaosi. ”

During the conversation, the boat re-anchored and chased downstream, while Feng Xiang and the others who were hiding in the woods were shocked to look at each other, until the boat went away, Erlang stammered and asked, "Feng...... Young master, did you commit that case last time you were in Dali Mansion and a married woman were killed? The little one said at the time, just like the kind of woman who has a man, just forget it, and give a few taels of silver to clear it, it's okay, but you want to hook up with that woman, and now it must be the woman's man who found out and sued the Dali Mansion Yamen to send someone to arrest you. ”

"Idiot!" Feng Xiang rewarded Erlang with a violent reward again, and said angrily: "This is Guangxi, how can the Yamen of Dali Mansion send someone here to arrest me?" Even if it is really the Dali Mansion that pursues across provinces as you said, it will be the officials of the Dali Mansion who come, how can it be the army of Guangxi? ”

"Then why did the Guangxi army arrest you?" Jiro asked even more confusedly. Over there, Kong Fanlin also asked: "Lord Lu, have you offended anyone in the Guangxi officialdom?" Or have you offended someone in the Guangxi army? ”

"No, I've never been to Guangxi before, how can I provoke people here?" Feng Xiang denied it, and said in a deep voice: "Now it seems that the worst thing I expected may have happened, there are indeed people here in Guangxi who are eyeing me, but I don't know what their purpose is, why have they discovered my whereabouts, but they don't do it?" ”

"Lord Lu, you have the secret letter from the prince to the king of Pingnan, and you can't tolerate the slightest mistake." Kong Fanlin said worriedly: "Why don't we go back and go back to Yunnan to report to the prince, if we miss the prince's major event, none of us can afford to be guilty." ”

The situation is unclear, the identity and intentions of the enemy are not clear, Feng Xiang was of course a little tempted by Kong Fanlin's suggestion, but after thinking about it carefully, Feng Xiang immediately vetoed: "No, if I do this, I will leave an impression of cowardice and incompetence in front of the prince, so I can only continue to go to Guangdong, and at most send one person back to report to the prince." Seeing that Feng Xiang insisted, Kong Fanlin and the others did not force it - anyway, the target of these Guangxi soldiers had already been clearly set out to be Feng Xiang, and Kong Fanlin, the guards who belonged to the Pingxi Palace, would not care too much about Feng Xiang's life or death. At that moment, Feng Xiang and Kong Fanlin and other guards re-discussed, and a guard from the Pingxi palace returned to Yunnan by land to report to Wu Sangui, while Feng Xiang took the remaining six palace guards and Xiao Erlang to the south overnight, rushed to Baise by land, and then took a boat from Baise to Guangdong.

After sending the guards to report the news, Feng Xiang and the others were worried that the Guangxi warships that were tracking them found that they had already broken out of their shells, so they didn't dare to delay too much, and they didn't care that the night was dark, so they went south overnight, fortunately, Kong Fanlin and other palace guards were all veterans carefully selected by Wu Sangui from the army, Kong Fanlin was still born as a scout, and he was best at discerning the direction and lurking in an unfamiliar environment, and he was also very good at expelling wild beasts and poisonous insects, so it was smooth this night. By the time dawn, Feng Xiang and others had arrived at Lucheng Pavilion, a small town in Sicheng Prefecture, and it should be Feng Xiang or not Ji Tailai, the town happened to be a gathering today, Feng Xiang and others bought two horses, and Feng Xiang, who inherited Lu Yifeng's white and fat body, finally had a substitute tool, and the road was also sped up a lot.

After walking for more than a day, Feng Xiang and his entourage successfully arrived in Baise, Kong Fanlin visited the wharf and found that the inventory was not strict, Feng Xiang took Erlang and others to the wharf to charter a passenger boat, and rushed to Guangdong by the Yujiang waterway. Between the day and night boats, Feng Xiang and others are getting closer and closer to Guangdong, and there are no strangers following them after careful observation, Feng Xiang gradually put his mind at ease, and said that the pursuers have not found that they have been shelled by golden cicadas, and they are still stupidly chasing those few drug-charged civilian boats, so they are no longer worried. There is also a plan to persuade the veteran Han Jian, Shang Kexi, father and son, and Wu Sangui to join forces to fight against the Qing court's plan to weaken the soft power of the three feudatories.

Unconsciously, Feng Xiang and his entourage had arrived in Xunzhou, which was less than three days away from Guangdong, but at this time, the boatman hired by Feng Xiang came to complain, saying that Feng Xiang was in a hurry and did not stop, and the firewood, rice, oil and salt on the ship had been completely exhausted, and he had to stop at the Xunzhou Mansion Wharf anyway to replenish the usual consumables. At the same time, Xiao Erlang and Kong Fanlin, these bad species, have long been tired of the boring life on the ship, and they are all clamoring to enter Xunzhou City to have a good time, Feng Xiang has no choice, so he has to agree to stay in Xunzhou for one night, let the boatman purchase daily necessities, and he himself took Kong Fanlin, the eight masters of Qiu, into the city, and invited them to eat, drink, gamble, and be happy.

Xunzhou, also known as Guiping, is one of the cities with the longest history in Guangxi, the waterway transportation is very developed, the city is full of commerce and trade, it is also very lively and prosperous, after Feng Xiang and others who are in a hurry to travel for a long time into the city, it is inevitable that there is a sense of re-entering the mortal world for a long time, and Ding Xiao Erlang, the soil bun family around Feng Xiang, is even more dizzying, constantly shouting, and even said to Feng Xiang on the street: "Master Feng, Xunzhou Mansion is really much stronger than our Dali Mansion, If the prince of Pingxi asked the young master to become the prefect of Xunzhou that day, let's scrape the ground here, and we can get twenty or thirty thousand taels of silver in a year, right? ”

Erlang's shameless shouting on the street naturally attracted the eyes of the whole street, let alone the white eyes of hundreds of people, and Feng Xiang didn't dare to answer Erlang's words with that contemptuous look, but quickly pretended not to know this idiot. But it's a pity that Ding Xiao Erlang, the soil bun family, didn't notice it at all, but said even louder, "Scraping twenty or thirty thousand taels of silver a year is only afraid that it is still less, I remember that the young master said that after becoming the county governor of Qujing, you plan to receive nine yuan for fire consumption, there is so much money here, it shouldn't matter if you collect two taels of silver for fire consumption, right?" Over the course of the year, how much oil and water should you fish, young master? ”

"Idiot!" Feng Xiang couldn't bear it anymore, and slammed a chestnut on the head of the bad guy Ding Xiao Erlang, and scolded in a low voice: "Idiot! Shut up! Are you afraid that others will not know that I have come to Xunzhou? Stop talking nonsense, go quickly, find a big restaurant to gag your mouth. With that, Feng Xiang kicked Erlang and left, and Kong Fanlin and other guards who were smiling next to him also hurriedly followed. But what Feng Xiang, Kong Fanlin and the others didn't pay attention to was that not far behind them, several gloomy eyes had already stared at Feng Xiang............

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"Idiot! Idiot! When Kong Fanlin and other guards who had already faded out of their mouths on the boat couldn't wait to pick up the wine glass and start drinking, Feng Xiang was still angry with Erlang, and scolded while beating Erlang: "Do you think the reputation of our Western Election Official has not been ruined enough?" In broad daylight, you said how to scrape the ground to get oil and water, and called out my official position, do you want my reputation to stink more than your stones? ”

"Young master, the little one doesn't dare, I don't dare anymore." Erlang hugged his head and begged for mercy while disdainful in his heart, and said in his heart, young master, what are you pretending? Some time ago, you took us from Dali Mansion to Kunming on the way to meet the prince of Pingxi, I don't know who is smiling all day long. By the way, how can I collect taxes for five years in three years, and now I pretend to be pure?

"Master Lu, forget it, Xiao Erlang didn't mean it." Kong Fanlin raised his wine glass and persuaded: "Besides, I dare to guarantee just now, when Erlang reported your official name Lord Lu, there was no one around who looked like a soldier to listen to it - I have been a scout in the prince's army for more than ten years, and it can be seen at a glance whether the people on the street are ordinary people or soldiers, so don't be angry." After that, Kong Fanlin stuffed the wine glass into Feng Xiang's hand and said with a smile: "Come, Lord Lu, let's have a drink together." ”

"General Kong, it's not that I'm afraid that he will expose my whereabouts." Feng Xiang took the wine glass and said shamelessly: "I'm just afraid that he will miss the prince's big event, if that's the case, then I will die." ”

"Okay, okay, I'll be in Guangdong soon, I can't miss it." Kong Fanlin smiled and touched the wine glass with Feng Xiang's wine glass, and was about to raise his head to drink, but the door of the private room was suddenly knocked on, and a delicate and sweet voice floated in, "A few masters, can the slave family come in and disturb a few masters?" ”

"There are beautiful women?!" Before the words fell, Kong Fanlin and other palace guards were already bright-eyed, and Xiao Erlang, who was beaten by Feng Xiang just now and shrugged his head and didn't dare to speak, his eyes lit up, and he quickly raised his head and said: "Young master, the little one dares to bet on his head, just with this voice, the appearance of the little lady outside is definitely not as good as there, at least better than the young master and your few good looks in Dali City." ”

"Good voice, but what is she doing here?" Feng Xiang also felt that this voice was very good, and there was a feeling of coquettishness, but sitting in the restaurant drinking wine, suddenly such a woman knocked on the door and asked to see him, and Feng Xiang, who had changed a lot of reckless mistakes, was inevitably a little confused. But Feng Xiang was puzzled, Kong Fanlin and the other guards over there couldn't wait to jump up and open the door, "Little lady, please come in, if there is anything to sit down and say slowly, you're welcome." ”

"Thank you, uncles." In the delicate sound of agreement, the woman raised her legs and walked into the room, and when she saw the woman's appearance clearly, Rao is Feng Xiang was quite vigilant in his heart, and he couldn't help but feel a little hard in his heart, and his lower body felt a little hard. It turned out that the woman who came into the room was indeed quite good, her facial features were pretty and moving, needless to say, her body was convex and backward, and her figure was definitely super-first-class in ancient times when nutrition was generally insufficient, her skin was white and tender, and the only drawback was that her mouth was a little big, but her ruddy and crystal lips were enough to make up for this shortcoming. What's even more rare is that although this woman's clothes are ordinary and ordinary, her whole body and gestures contain a kind of charm that can only be understood and cannot be spoken, and the kind of charm that makes men have the most primitive impulses.

In front of the woman's charming, Feng Xiang, who was suspicious, was still like this, not to mention Kong Fanlin and the others who had just come out of the barracks where mosquitoes were all males, one by one, they lost their souls, staring at the woman fiercely, and several guards simply swallowed their saliva. In the face of Kong Fanlin and other old Qiu Ba's wolf-like eyes, the woman not only did not have the slightest restraint and nervousness, but threw a flattering eye at Feng Xiang and the others, and was blessed, and then said to Feng Xiang and the others: "Uncles, the little woman is from Dongguan, Guangdong, and her surname is Sun Yu'er, please give you uncles." ”

"Miss Sun, you don't have to be polite, please take a seat." Kong Fanlin was the first to wake up, and quickly got up to give up his seat to Sun Yu'er. Sun Yu'er was not polite, and sat between Kong Fanlin and Feng Xiang generously, and threw a wink at Feng Xiang, who had been quiet, and asked in a coquettish voice: "This son, looking at your appearance and bearing, you should be the master of all the masters here, right?" Dare to ask what Childe is called? ”

"Feng Xiang, I'm not their master, just their friend." Feng Xiang replied very simply, and his tone was very flat, neither humble nor arrogant, as if he was turning a blind eye to Sun Yuer's coquettish teasing. And that Sun Yu'er was secretly surprised, with her beauty and means, so far, in front of her deliberate teasing, as long as it is a man with normal body and mind, there are not many men who can maintain such calm and calm! In this way, Sun Yu'er, who had not completely figured out the details of Feng Xiang, inevitably looked at Feng Xiang even more, and secretly said in her heart: "If this big fat man doesn't like Master Rabbit, then he must be a difficult opponent, I have to be careful." ”

"Little Wave Hoof!" Feng Xiang scolded in his heart, "Do you think you are really beautiful, and every man has to be tempted when he sees you?" In the past, in the 21st century, I have seen more beautiful women on the Internet, TV, and movies, and people like you can only barely squeeze into the first-class goods at most, if it weren't for such a wind, maybe I would still be tempted, but it's a pity that you are like this, and my boy's body is reluctant to give it to you casually. ”