Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Sandpiper and the Clam Fight
Xie Shenwei quickly left the northern city, followed by thirty personal guards and twenty iron guards.
Ten miles outside the North City Gate, Xie Shenwei saw a group of people, about more than a hundred black-armored cavalry.
A cavalry envoy wearing a black mandarin duck suit greeted him and said to Xie Shenwei: "General, my lord is invited." ”
This is the man of the Ti Cavalry.
Xie Shenwei asked the fifty people behind him to stop, and one person stepped forward.
A young man in black clothes and black hat stepped forward and said, "I've seen Shizi." ”
Xie Shenwei's eyes narrowed slightly.
"Zhou Jinmian, what are you going to do when you stop me here."
The young man is none other than Zhou Jinmian, a clerical officer of Tiqi.
Zhou Jinmian smiled: "I walk with the son." ”
Xie Shenwei smiled faintly and said, "This son doesn't trust you. ”
The cavalry envoy behind Zhou Jinmian instantly clenched the mandarin duck straight knife and looked at Xie Shenwei with an unkind face.
Xie Shenwei still used "this son" in this sentence, not the "this general" of the loyal generals canonized by Emperor Jin before. And Xie Shenwei unabashedly said the word "distrust". The few cavalry envoys standing behind Zhou Jinmian could already feel the faint killing intent emanating from Xie Shenwei's body.
In Xie Shenwei's understanding, there is no doubt that it is the incompetence of Ti Qi that has led to Xie Shence's current life and death.
Zhou Jinmian was slightly embarrassed, and said patiently: "The prince can not trust us, but please give us a chance to make up for it." ”
"If you can't help, then don't get in my way."
Xie Shenwei then beckoned, and the soldiers and guards behind followed, silently passing in front of Ti Cai.
Zhou Jinmian smiled bitterly, and then followed behind Xie Shenwei at a distance.
Xie Shenwei marched extremely fast, killing more than 80 horses along the way, and it took only six days to reach the Iron Gate Pass.
Jiang Qi went out of the city ten miles to greet him.
Of course, it was not only Xie Shenwei who greeted, but also Ti Qi who followed Xie Shenwei.
Zhou Jinmian was very tired after six days of frantic marching, in fact, if it wasn't for the cavalry envoy to caress him, he wouldn't have been able to get off the horse at all.
The young scholar's inner thigh was already covered in blood.
Jiang Qi brought a carriage very considerately, and Zhou Jinmian did not shirk or feel ashamed, so he got into the carriage directly, and then fell asleep.
Six days of marching nearly 2,000 miles!
In total, nearly two hundred war horses died on the road!
If it weren't for the fact that the post road and post station from Jindu to the northwest were very smooth and complete, Xie Shenwei would not have been able to rush to Tiemen Pass in just six days.
However, even Xie Shenwei is already very tired, Zhou Jinmian is really not ashamed to fall asleep, you really can't ask more from this young clerk.
Jiang Qi brought the dusty group into the Beida camp, rested briefly for an afternoon, and held a meeting in the Shuai Hall in the evening.
According to the information Jiang Qi recently obtained, Xie Shence and the others did complete the killing of the Erli people and left Daba City safely, but they were never found again.
In the past few days, Jiang Qi's only breakthrough was to rescue several Tiqi envoys.
According to the accounts of the four surviving Tiqi envoys, the receivers arranged by the Tiqi rebelled against the water and attacked the Ticai. According to survivor estimates. Hundreds of horsemen were already certain dead, others may have gone into hiding.
As for Mr. Zhang, he should have died.
Xie Shence, He Ruoque, General Secretary Yang, and the Erli woman are all missing.
This is all the news that Jiang Qi has so far.
Then Jiang Qi asked the soldiers to admit those pens.
Xie Shenwei and Zhou Jinmian looked over one by one.
After reading the transcript file, Zhou Jinmian asked, "Jiang Shuai, where are those people now?" ”
Those people were naturally the surviving horsemen.
Jiang Qi said: "It's in the camp, but Lord Zhou wants to testify in court?" ”
Zhou Jinmian said with a smile: "This is natural, my Tiqi person, naturally I still want to ask Tiqi." ”
Jiang Qi simply asked his own soldiers to bring over the four cavalry envoys who had fled back.
The four were quickly taken to the hall.
Zhou Jinmian looked at the four people below, and a trace of essence flashed in his eyes. Some of them were covered in wounds, while others were unharmed.
Zhou Jinmian said: "Report your division number and code, the task you performed and the time. ”
When the four of them went to the palace, they found more than ten horsemen wearing mandarin duck costumes and mandarin duck double knives, and they understood that it was the horsemen who came.
One of the highest-ranking Tiqi envoys said: "The lowly position is the member of the Executive Department of the Second Division, codenamed Watch, and the task is to supervise the northeast of the Duan Department and the southwest of the royal court, and the time is Zhenglong for three years to the present. ”
The other three were the Ti Cavalry Envoys, that is, the lowest Ti Cavalry, who each reported their own information.
"How did you get out?"
One of the horsemen replied, "It is the way led by the lowly duty." First, they entered the Alxa Desert, then entered the northwest from the Yinshan Trail and came back through the Huangsha Pass. ”
After listening to him, Zhou Jinmian walked straight to the sand table and was silent.
Jiang Qi naturally knew Zhou Jinmian's identity, so he gave great respect to Zhou Jinmian's actions, so he did not interrupt his thinking.
Zhou Jinmian thought about a lot of things, then turned around, pointed to the cavalry envoy who led the way back, and said, "He is a spy, kill him." ”
Immediately, two black-armored horsemen stepped forward with their swords drawn and slashed off the head of the horseman.
The envoy was shocked and hurriedly shouted, "Humble duty is not a spy!" The lowly is the intelligence man of the second division! ”
Zhou Jinmian waved his hand, and the two black-armored horsemen put down the knives in their hands.
"You say you're not a spy, so how do you prove it?"
The envoy shouted, "There is proof of lowliness!" Now in the Second Division, the member of the Collection Division, he is a lowly old superior, and the lowly documents were approved by him back then! ”
Zhou Jinmian thought for a while and said, "Lu Sigang?" I remember there was such a person. But unfortunately, this reason still doesn't impress me, so I'm going to kill you anyway. ”
The envoy raised his head, looked at Zhou Jinmian, and said, "Please tell me your identity, you don't necessarily have the right to kill me." ”
Zhou Jinmian smiled and said, "I'm Zhou Jinmian." ”
The envoy's face instantly turned to ashes.
Tiqi's clerical officer is a young man, a young man who is deeply liked by Emperor Jin. He has been riding for many years, and there is nothing wrong with everything he does, nothing wrong with what he says, and nothing wrong with what he does.
The clerical officer has no power to deal with the cavalry privately, even if it is the lowest envoy, but Zhou Jinmian is an exception, he has the treasure knife given by the Jin Emperor, and the holy decree of the Jin Emperor, the holy decree says that he has the right to deal with the insiders, then he has the right. So when the envoy heard him say that he was Zhou Jinmian, he couldn't speak anymore.
The clerical officer of Tiqi actually came to the northwest.
The clerk at the bottom of the stairs hurriedly defended: "Master Clerical, I really don't know that this person is a spy and a lowly ......."
Zhou Jinmian interrupted him with a wave of his hand and said, "Of course you don't know, because I just knew." ”
Tiqi was convinced of Zhou Jinmian's statement that the Tiqi envoy who came out with them was a spy.
Zhou Jinmian said: "You can obviously take them directly through the Alxa Desert to Tiqi's supply point, and then send the information to Kyoto through the teleportation channel, why don't you do that?" Ti Qi Si set up a contact point between the Alxa Desert and Yin Mountain a year ago, why did you go directly to the Iron Gate? ”
The envoy said, "Is that alone enough to determine that I am a spy?" The lowly was the most injured of the few! ”
Zhou Jinmian said solemnly: "Yes! ”
"You are indeed a rider, but it is also true that you have betrayed. The severity of your injuries has nothing to do with whether you are a spy or not. If I have to say that there is, then I can only say that you were injured by my Tiqi after your true identity was discovered. Your family and your uncle's family all moved from Jinyang to Fenglingdu a year ago for one reason or another, is that enough? ”
Jiang Qi was in awe of Zhou Jinmian. Zhou Jinmian is the clerical officer who mentions, and there are countless files to deal with on weekdays, and it is a miracle that he can still remember the family changes of a little envoy.
Zhou Jinmian seemed to sense Jiang Qi's attitude towards him, smiled a little shyly, and explained: "These things naturally started to check after receiving the news. ”
Jiang Qi said: "Lord Zhou is really knowledgeable. ”
Zhou Jinmian smiled slightly.
"You can now say what you know, you know what I want to know, so you don't talk nonsense."
Then the envoy smiled miserably and said, "You can kill me." My parents have now arrived in the Qin Kingdom, and Tiqi can't do anything to my family. ”
Zhou Jinmian raised his eyebrows and said, "Okay, I know." ”
Then the two Black-Armored Horsemen dragged the envoy down.
Xie Shenwei frowned and asked, "That's it?" ”
Zhou Jinmian said as a matter of course: "Yes, this is the end." ”
"Isn't it too hasty? You killed him without asking anything? ”
Zhou Jinmian smiled confidently: "I already know the cause and effect." It's okay to keep him behind. Of course, even if you try it, I bet you won't be able to ask anything useful. If you spend time on him, the result is nothing more than a few messages. There's no value anymore. ”
Jiang Qi got up and said, "Please speak up to Lord Zhou." ”
Zhou Jinmian said: "First of all, I'm sure that there must be a hive involved in this matter. I've read the file, and the process of the little marquis's encirclement and suppression of the people in Erli was unexpectedly smooth, and there should have been people from the hive secretly helping, but it was done extremely covertly, so that it didn't attract any attention from Ti Qi. Then, it is certain that the little marquis did not go south or west after leaving Daba City. So, the little marquis can only go east, but I can't figure it out, since the little marquis has gone east, where does he want to go? To the east, is the Duanbu, and to the east of the Duanbu, is the Northern Yan......"
Xie Shenwei and Jiang Qi frowned at the same time, unable to understand.
After the meeting, Xie Shenwei found Jiang Qi alone.
Jiang Qi said: "Did the prince make any discoveries? ”
Xie Shenwei nodded, "I know where my second brother may have gone, but to confirm and find him, Jiang Shuai's cooperation is required." ”
Jiang Qi said, "Yes." ”
......
In the middle of the night, Xie Shenwei returned to his residence. An iron guard walked up to Xie Shenwei and whispered a few words in his ear, Xie Shenwei nodded, and pushed the door into the room.
There was a thin figure in the room, and when he heard the sound of the door being pushed, his back turned around.
Those who can enter Xie Shenwei's room are naturally only He Ruoque in the northwest.
Xie Shenwei walked up to He Ruoque and said, "I'm here." ”
He Ruoque opened his hand and slapped him, but when he touched Xie Shenwei's face, he suddenly stopped and turned into a stroke.
Xie Shenwei stretched out his hand, pressed He Ruoque's hand on his face, and then hugged her.
He Ruoque cried loudly in Xie Shenwei's arms.
Xie Shenwei gently patted He Ruoque's back with one hand, letting her tears wet the clothes on his chest.
"I'll find them."
(PS: The week is over!) Tomorrow it's time to go to class, it's time to go to work~
Next week, it's still two chapters a day! )