Early in the morning of the second day, as soon as the sky was bright, Xu Mingyuan had already opened his eyes and turned over and sat up. Qi Haobo, who was lying on the side, also opened his eyes and sat up in the carriage.

Xu Mingyuan glanced at the clothes on his body, and there were still a few blood stains on the corners of his clothes, so he changed into an old Taoist robe.

Qi Haobo also changed into the half-old green shirt that Xu Mingyuan gave him yesterday, and tied up the long hair on his forehead, looking a few years younger.

Xu Mingyuan lifted the curtain and walked out, and many of the people in the caravan also got up, eating dry food while waiting for the door to open.

The gang of Jianghu people rode horses and stood at the front, and no one dared to compete with them for positions, it seemed that they were thinking that as soon as the door was closed, they would quickly whip up their horses to find Qi Haobo's traces.

In fact, in addition to the killer yesterday, there should not be many people who know Qi Haobo's whereabouts, and there are many Jianghu people looking for them near Shuzhou, and this team of Jianghu people is probably just trying their luck on this Shu Road, with their strength, where can they win the Qingcheng Sword Sect.

Xu Mingyuan took a coarse grain cake to Qi Haobo, poured some water on a coarse cloth, wiped off the blood stains that had not been wiped clean last night in the carriage one by one, and stood on the wheel of the carriage and pretended to look in the direction of the closed door, silently wiping the blood stains on the cover of the carriage.

After confirming that there was no omission and that the sword hole on the carriage cover was not conspicuous, Xu Mingyuan entered the carriage.

These things are not allowed to be sloppy, and if they are slightly missed, it will not be good in the eyes of those who care.

Qi Haobo, who tied up his hair and changed into a green shirt, looked like a handsome scholar, not like a person who kills people without blinking, leaning on the wall of the carriage, while nibbling on coarse grain cakes, he said with a smile: "Are you often hunted down, these things don't look like the first time you have done them." ”

"It's not often that hunts and kills, but it's true that people are chased often." Xu Mingyuan said, put some red cloth in the dark compartment, poured some water to wash his hands, and also took a coarse grain cake and gnawed it against the wall of the carriage.

Qi Haobo smiled a little surprised, and lightly tapped his fingers on the wall of the carriage, "I see that you don't look like the first time you have gone far away, and you have been to many places." ”

"That's a lot." Xu Mingyuan took a sip of the water bladder, swallowed the coarse grain cake in his mouth, and smiled: "But except for that lazy girl, I have to charge money for telling stories to others, do you want to listen?" ”

"Is one or two enough?" Qi Haobo found a piece of broken silver out of nowhere, stretched out his hand and threw it at Xu Mingyuan.

Xu Mingyuan caught the broken silver, his nails habitually lightly touched it, and he said with a slight chin bow: "It's barely enough." I've been to Beili in the north, Dashiguo in the west, Leizhou in the south, and Suzhou in the east, where do you want to hear it? ”

Qi Haobo's eyes couldn't help but widen a little, seeing that Xu Mingyuan's appearance didn't look like a deception, he thought about it before saying: "Then you can tell me how Nanzhao is, Nanzhao, have you been there?" ”

Although he was a little surprised why Qi Haobo wanted to listen to Nanzhao, Xu Mingyuan still nodded and said: "Nanzhao has naturally been there, if you want to say that the rivers and lakes of Nanzhao are not very interesting, are you sure not to change it to Tubo or Beili?" ”

"What rivers and lakes are in Nanzhao, even the rivers and lakes in Beili and Tubo are just children's toys, you can tell me about the customs of Nanzhao, as well as what you have seen and heard."

Xu Mingyuan glanced at Qi Haobo slightly, but he didn't expect that he still cared about the customs of Nanzhao, and most of the people in the rivers and lakes like to hear about the affairs of the rivers and lakes, and how many people will care about the customs and customs.

However, he said so, and Xu Mingyuan picked out a lot of what he saw and heard when he entered Nanzhao. Since he didn't listen to the affairs of the rivers and lakes, Xu Mingyuan also avoided telling Zeng Qingyi about the things he had made up to Zeng Qingyi to listen to again.

Qi Haobo listened to it with relish, frowning and thinking from time to time, and asking some questions. Xu Mingyuan, who can answer, answers them one by one, and if he really doesn't know, he can only give up.

Half an hour later, the outside gradually became noisy, Xu Mingyuan lifted the curtain to see, the heavy door slowly opened, and the Jianghu people on horseback in front of the city checked it, and they were already out of the gate first and rode away.

"Let's go too, remember that you are a scholar who went to Chang'an with me for the scientific expedition, named Wang Ziqi." Xu Mingyuan turned around and whispered to Qi Haobo, got out of the carriage, pulled the reins and let the donkey cart slowly follow the team in front of him.

This half-hour conversation made Xu Mingyuan a little impressed by Qi Haobo, originally he thought that Qi Haobo was just a bold and merry man who lingered in the sea of flowers, but in the previous conversation, Qi Haobo's judgment on the situation between Dawan and Nanzhao surprised Xu Mingyuan.

Qi Haobo's judgment on the consequences and situation of the war between Dawan and Nanzhao is similar to Xu Mingyuan, but he is more detailed and reasonable, and his understanding of this matter is much deeper and clearer than Xu Mingyuan. Xu Mingyuan even felt that if he participated in that academy debate, the first place should be his.

This made Xu Mingyuan a little more suspicious of Qi Haobo's identity, with such insight and talent, he was definitely not an ordinary ranger.

Jianmen Pass eight zhang high arrow tower leaning against the mountain to build, just to block this narrow road, on both sides of the cliffs thousands of thousands, dozens of soldiers wearing black armor stand on the wall, really worthy of the word Xiongguan.

There were more than a dozen soldiers standing on both sides of the passage under the arrow tower at this time, but unlike in the past, these officers and soldiers did not directly let them go today, but checked the appearance of those merchants one by one, and even the cargo boxes were carefully rummaged, as if they were looking for someone.

Looking at the team walking slowly in front of him, Xu Mingyuan frowned slightly, lifted the curtain and just wanted to remind Qi Haobo, looking at the little mole in the center of his eyebrows, the two-inch long beard under his chin and the two mustaches on his lips, Qi Haobo, who had a sallow face, couldn't help but be slightly stunned, and almost didn't laugh out loud.

Unexpectedly, in this short moment, Qi Haobo actually used the few things in the carriage to disguise himself, and suddenly changed from a handsome scholar to a sallow-faced nerd, and even Xu Mingyuan almost didn't recognize it.

Qi Haobo smiled at Xu Mingyuan and nodded, stuffed the long black knife beside him under the quilt, leaned on the quilt, and held an ancient book in his hand, but there was no disobedience in the slightest.

Seeing Qi Haobo's appearance like this, Xu Mingyuan was also relieved, he was still a little worried that these officers and soldiers were looking for Qi Haobo, but although Qi Haobo's disguise technique was a little rough, it was still exquisite, as long as he didn't look closely, he probably couldn't see it.

And the current Qi Haobo is very different from the previous appearance, even if the notices in the hands of those officers and soldiers are really Qi Haobo, I am afraid they will recognize it.

The team moved forward slowly, although the caravan was also a complaining person, but no one dared to come forward to theorize anything, the toughness of the Dawan army was not something that these small traders with no status dared to rebel against.

The convoy slowly moved forward, and Xu Mingyuan, who was sitting lazily on the wheel, holding a scroll in his hand, had already confirmed that those officers and soldiers were indeed checking people.

Listening to the conversation between the officer and soldier and a trader before, it was found that it was said that he was a flower thief, who committed a lot of cases in the Shuzhou area and ruined a lot of girls, and they were also ordered to stop here.

The three carriages full of goods in front of them went out of the customs and gradually moved away along the post road, and after half an hour, it was finally Xu Mingyuan's turn.

The leader of the officers and soldiers was in his thirties, quite tall and strong, and when he saw that it was a dilapidated donkey cart, and on the wheel was a small Taoist priest wearing a half-worn Taoist robe, and he already had a little contempt, and waved his hand to let a tall and thin officer and soldier come forward for questioning.

The tall and thin officer and soldier stepped forward with a two-foot-long and wide piece of white paper, compared it with Xu Mingyuan, turned around and shook his head at the leader, looked at Xu Mingyuan again and asked, "Who are you?" Where is Jiannan Road going? What is it? ”

"I am from Shuzhou, and I went to Chang'an to participate in the imperial examination." Xu Mingyuan closed the book in his hand and replied without humility or arrogance.

"It turned out to be a lifter, but are there other people in your car?" When the leader heard Xu Mingyuan say this, he showed a little surprise, and stepped forward to ask.

Although lifting people cannot be awarded official positions, no one can guarantee that people will take the Jinshi exam and come back, so ordinary people will be polite to lifting people.

This is especially true of these illiterate officers and soldiers, so the leader's tone is also a little polite, but this inquiry is still indispensable.

"There is a friend in the car, who also went to Chang'an to participate in the exam, but a few days ago I caught a cold and was sick." Xu Mingyuan opened the curtain of the car with a smile, so that the two of them could see the situation in the car.

Qi Haobo in the car coughed twice cooperatively, and nodded apologetically at the two, with some pale lips and sallow face due to blood loss, he really looked like a poor sour scholar who had a cold.

The leader glanced at the drawings in the hands of the officers and soldiers beside him, got out of the way, nodded and said, "You can go over, there is a small town thirty miles away from here, you can go to the town to buy some medicine, and go to Chang'an, the road is still far away." ”

Xu Mingyuan put down the curtain, nodded with a smile and said, "Then thank you two, I hope to catch the flower thief as soon as possible, so as not to have any more innocent girls suffer." ”

After speaking, he gently pulled the reins, drove the donkey cart forward, and when he passed by the tall and thin officer and soldier, he glanced sideways at the notice slightly, and his face couldn't help but become a little strange.

The person depicted on that notice was not Qi Haobo.

Although the painting is a little rough, the long hair hanging down on his forehead and his handsome face are like Qi Haobo before his disguise.

The donkey cart left the Jianmen Pass, and Qi Haobo, who had been sitting in the carriage, lifted the curtain and sat on the wheel, with his current makeup, if it wasn't for the people who had seen him before, most of them would not recognize him by the portrait.

Xu Mingyuan turned his head to look at Qi Haobo beside him, glared at him in disbelief and said, "You won't really force the daughter of the head of the Qingcheng Sword Sect, right?" ”

There were already half of the rivers and lakes behind him, and now even the government is setting up a card to block the road, and it is really a house leak that coincides with overnight rain.