In Ding Wei, he naturally couldn't travel openly with great fanfare, only with Wang Chong, Wang He, Wang Ming, and more than a dozen elite guards that he was used to, wearing civilian clothes and carrying swords, because he had to cross the intertwined area of Sun Cao's forces, he couldn't bring controlled weapons such as bows and crossbows.

Wang He Wang Ming is very familiar with Jingzhou Nanjun and Nanyang County, and Wang Chong has been a personal guard under Zhang Xiu in Wancheng, Nanyang, and has won Zhang Xiu's trust.

Nanyang is the place where the Cao army gathers heavy troops, and the Xiangfan generation has concentrated a large number of elites of the Cao army.

Along the way, Huo Yi was thinking about where Deng Ai was, but it didn't work out for a long time, in fact, the history books clearly recorded Deng Ai's place at this time, but the book "Three Kingdoms" has tens of millions of information, how can he memorize it one by one. I'm afraid that those old pedants will not be able to do it.

Now I can only go to Nanyang Xinye Deng Ai's hometown to inquire about the news, the Deng family is a big family in the local area, and it is impossible to move everyone, if you can find out, you will run less wrongly, if you can't inquire, you can only enter Runan and then say.

The group's tracks were well hidden, and nothing happened along the way. The two brothers Wang Ming and Wang He seem to be quite famous in this area, and as long as they listen to the names of the Gong brothers in Huya Mountain along the way, they are all allowed to go all the way, which saves a lot of trouble.

The place where the Cao army gathered in Nanyang is good, but since the Yellow Turban chaos in the world, the flow of people in the lower reaches of the world has become larger, and the system of counting has long been a formality, although individual counties and counties are still implementing the plan, but most of them are areas that have not been affected by military disasters, such as Jingzhou, which has been frequently warred in recent years, has long been scattered and lost, and the local officials have no way to start. Second, the powerful annexed land, accepted the displaced or landless people, built their own fort city, and became an uncountable population; Third, the people fled the war, or went to Shuzhong, or to Jingnan, or into the mountains, and the statistics became very difficult.

As long as there is no large-scale influx of young and middle-aged people into Xiangfan, most of them will not be too difficult, but the defending generals just tortured a few words, and then let Huo Yi and his party enter their own territory.

When you see this, you have to ask again, more than a dozen people are walking on the street with swords and no one cares?

In fact, the sword was the right of all adult men in this era, and there was no law restricting this article, so that even the scribes at that time had to wear the sword to show their bravery. As long as you don't have a large-scale weapon such as a bow, crossbow, spear, or halberd, the official will not care about you.

A group of more than a dozen people was not hindered and came straight to Xinye.

Deng's family is a big household in Xinye, under this inquiry, he found the ancestral hall of Deng's in the north of Xinye County, where there are still forty or fifty families of Deng's family staying here, and most of the rest of the population is Xinye's local military households in this place.

Huo Yi found an elder of the Deng family, usually this kind of person is full of prestige in the clan, and he respects his reputation, and he will not tell lies.

This elder of the Deng family is very old, and he is very long-lived in this era, called Deng Long, Huo Yi is very polite: "Old man! Dare to ask, this place is where the Deng family has always lived? ”

The old man looked at Huo Yi: "Where did the little boy come from, and what is the matter?" Why ask me about Tang's? ”

Huo Yi said: "We are the officials of the imperial court, and we came here to count the population of the major clans in various places, because most of the nobles moved to Runan, so we came here to trace the source." ”

The old man nodded, and his attitude was much more polite: "It turned out to be a court official, my clan has always lived here, and it is also a good thing for Prime Minister Cao Cheng to move most of my clan to Runan, which can avoid war and strife, after all, this place is too close to the front line." ”

Huo Yi didn't get bored with the old man's verbosity, just smiled, and said: "Dare to ask the old man, the nobleman has a young man with Deng Ai, and he moved to Runan together when the prime minister moved to Runan?" ”

The old man stroked his beard, as if he was trying his best to recall something, this kind of old man respected his identity and was very willing to cooperate with the imperial court, Huo Yi didn't have to worry that he would lie.

"No, maybe there is, but I don't remember exactly, maybe it's because of my age." The old man touched his forehead in annoyance.

"This person may also be called Deng Fan, and the character is the scholar." Huo Yi continued to ask tentatively.

"Huh? There is this person, but this person is standing in the middle of the age, where is the young man? The old man was puzzled.

Huo Yi was taken aback, thinking that this was the person who made Deng Ai have to change his name to Deng Ai, and continued: "It shouldn't be, this young man stutters a little, does the old man have an image?" ”

"Well, the old man knows that there is a man, this man lost his father at a young age, and his mother depended on him, although he stuttered but worked very hard, he was familiar with group books, he was a motivated child, I remember this year, this child must be sixteen or seventeen years old. But he is not called Deng Ai, nor is he called Deng Fan, the old man only remembers that he has a milk name, called Ah He. The old man smiled. (When Deng Ai was twelve years old, he followed his mother to Yingchuan, and read the two sentences in the inscription of the late Taiqiu Chang Chen Yu, "The text is the world's fan, and the behavior is the rule of the scholar", and he was pleased to admire, so he named himself Deng Fan, and the word Shize.) Later, there was a man in the clan who had the same name as him, so he changed his name to his present name. I don't know my name before the age of twelve, so I don't show it)

"Probably this person, does the old man know where he is now?" Huo Yi affirmed what he was thinking and made a gesture at the old man.

The old man hurriedly said: "The countryside horseman does not dare to accept the courtesy of the officials, this child should have moved to Runan County with my Deng clan, a few years ago, a letter from home, Dao Ming My Deng clan people are all in Runan Shangcai, not far from the county governance and public opinion." ”

Huo Yi was relieved when he heard this, and finally found Deng Ai's information, and saluted: "Thank you for the old man's guidance." There's still something important to do, so it's time to go. ”

"Shangguan walks slowly." The old man smiled.

Huo Yi turned his head and said loudly: "Runan County, let's go." ”

Everyone didn't say much, Wang Chong took the lead, and the group went straight to Runan County.

Along the way, I saw the situation of various places, Yuzhou, which was once densely populated, was already ten rooms and nine empty, this war together, it was always the people who tossed, it was really prosperous, and the people were bitter; Death, the people suffer.

Fortunately, Huo Yi is not a person with a surname of compassion, although he was lonely and helpless since he was a child in his previous life, he has developed a surname that he has to rely on himself for everything and has to look forward to everything.

Everyone went out day and night as usual, walking through the deep mountains, there were not a few people along the way, and the beasts and poisonous insects had seen a lot, but at this time, it seemed that Wang Ming and Wang He had the means of the two brothers, and for a while, Wang Chong and more than a dozen guards were admired by the astuteness of these two people, and at the same time, they were also impressed by Huo Yi's insight into people.

This group of people didn't have any other purpose, just rushed to Runan County, and I don't know how many nights later, Pingyu City in Runan County was already in sight.