When it was getting late, Zong Ze sent someone to invite him over to the dinner, he didn't go despite the injury on his leg, and hastily ate some dinner sent by Liang Hongyu and others, and was about to go to bed when Yue Fei came.

Yue Fei saw that his two thighs were tightly wrapped, and said with a smile: "Brother Wan, you are so strong, I'm afraid the injury won't heal for a while." ”

Wan Linggen hurriedly let him sit on the main seat, and said with a wry smile: "Don't hide it from Brother Yue, my injury is nothing at all." As he spoke, he opened the cotton cloth wrapped around his legs, and sure enough, the muscles that were still a little red and swollen were already intact.

Yue Feiqi said: "Then why don't you go to the banquet?" ”

Wan Linggen then said the matter of the four elders going out to buy food, "Brother Yue, where are they now, what is their situation, I don't know at all, how can they still have the heart to eat a feast?" ”

Yue Fei frowned and said: "From Kaifeng Mansion to Henan Mansion, there is an official road to go, but it also has to pass through a few mountain passes, I haven't heard of any bandits before, but now, it's really hard to say." ”

As soon as he said this, Wan Linggen's heart became even more anxious, "Brother Yue, I plan to take people to look for them early tomorrow morning, do you have anyone under you who is familiar with the road?" ”

Yue Fei thought for a while and said: "I have a brother named Tang Huai, he has been running around with me, and he is quite familiar with the road, so let's do it, when will you leave tomorrow, how about I let him come to you?" ”

Wan Linggen was overjoyed and said: "Then thank you Brother Yue, of course, the sooner the better." The two agreed on the matter, and Yue Fei didn't stay long, got up and said goodbye and left. Wan Linggen sent someone to call Zhang Fengnian and Li Qilin, and asked them to prepare a thousand cavalry each, and set off with him early tomorrow morning.

Before dawn the next day, Wan Linggen came to the martial arts arena, and two thousand cavalrymen were waiting there neatly under the leadership of Zhang Fengnian and Li Qilin, and Yue Fei was also standing there with a white-faced boy of seventeen or eighteen years old.

After Wan Linggen and Yue Fei met, Yue Fei pointed at the young man and said, "This is my brother Tang Huai." ”

Wan Linggen clenched his fists slightly, "Okay, hard work brother!" ”

That Tang Huai's eyes were not big, his eyebrows were slender, and he arched his hand and said, "Wan Da is handsome and polite." Wan Linggen patted him on the shoulder, "If you can, just call me Brother Wan." After Tang Huai respectfully called "Brother Wan", Yue Fei explained a few more words, and the group set off.

Starting from the west gate of the outer city of Kaifeng Mansion, along the official road all the way to the west, the horses galloped wildly for a full hour, the sun was already rising in the east, the morning glow was full of sky, he also ran out for more than a hundred miles, Kaifeng City was no longer visible.

The so-called official road, that is, the dirt road paved with loess, has a width of three or four zhang, running all the way, smoke and dust are everywhere, and the momentum is not small.

Seeing that there was a high and low jungle in front of him, and the official road had narrowed a lot, only allowing a column of people and horses to pass through, Wan Linggen grabbed the reins of the horse and asked Tang Huai beside him: "Brother Tang, what kind of place is this?" ”

Tang Huailuo looked at it and said: "This should be a sand ditch, this mountain forest is about fifty or sixty miles away, and after the sand ditch is Zhengzhou." ”

Wan Linggen looked up at the front, and the official road under his feet meandered into the distance, hidden in the trees in front of him. He secretly calculated in his heart that these four elders would not stop here, and there should be a stop in Zhengzhou. Thinking like this, he should urge the horse first and lead a large group of men and horses forward.

Because the road narrowed, the speed of the march slowed down, and it was not until near noon that they passed through the forest, and a gray city was in sight.

"Is Zhengzhou City in front?" Wan Linggen asked.

"That's right," Tang Huai said: "Zhengzhou Zhizhou Yang Zizai is a very careful person, we don't have the customs clearance token of the Marshal's Mansion in our hands, I'm afraid it's not easy to enter his door." ”

Wan Linggen asked, "Can you go over without entering the city?" ”

Tang Huai nodded and said, "Of course you can, but there is a recruiting envoy camp here on Jingbei Road, I'm afraid I can't get around." ”

Wan Linggen asked again, "Xingying?" Do you know who that solicitation is? ”

Tang Huai frowned and said, "I heard Brother Yue talk about it, it seems that he is a person surnamed Huang. ”

Wan Linggen thought to himself that no matter who he was, Lao Tzu didn't know anything, so let's talk about it when I met him. So a dozen horses said, "Go!" ”

Everyone quickly followed, and soon came to the city of Zhengzhou.

This official road is divided into two about a mile in front of the city, one leads to the city gate, and the other turns to the left and goes around the city.

At this time, the city gates were closed, and several soldiers on duty walked around the city walls.

Wan Linggen reined in the horse's head and told everyone to wait here first, and then he galloped his horse to the left side of the road. In a matter of moments, he beat his horse and folded it back.

"Dashuai, is that road impassable?" Seeing his frowning, Zhang Fengnian asked.

"Yes, the front intersection is completely sealed, and a lot of horse rejection piles are set up there. It seems that it is impossible for us to get around it. He was about to walk with his horse toward the gate, when with a whoosh an arrow came at him, and he fell to the ground three feet in front of his horse.

"Who?" A man in the shape of a soldier at the gate asked, holding a bow in his hand, from which the arrows had been shot.

Zhang Fengnian hit his horse forward and said loudly: "Please report to Lord Yang, the request for the remaining military horses in Kaifeng Mansion is approved." ”

"Kaifeng Mansion?" The soldier was stunned for a moment, and blurted out: "Are there any left-behind people in Kaifeng Mansion?" Wait a minute, I'll report to Lord Yang. With that, he hurried down the wall and disappeared into the darkness.

It didn't take long for a crowd of people to run up the walls in a mess. They were of different heights, dressed in different colors, and looked down for a while, and then began to talk to each other, but no one stood up to speak.

Wan Linggen was irritated in his heart, and shouted loudly: "Which of you is in charge, come out and speak." ”

Those people glanced at him, they all took a step back, a middle-aged man with a medium stature and a white beard became the person standing at the front, he was pulling the corners of his mouth in a daze, Wen Yan glanced back, and snorted disdainfully: "I am Yang Zizai, who are you?" ”

Wan Linggen saw that this person's expression was not good, and he was a little unhappy in his heart, but thinking that after all, he had a request for someone, so he slowed down his tone and said, "Your Excellency is this Lord Zhizhou, right?" I am Wan Linggen of Kaifeng City, dare to ask Your Excellency, have you ever seen four old men with a group of people passing by here? ”

"All Souls?" Yang Zizi frowned and thought for a while, "Are you talking about Mr. Gu and the others?" ”

Wan Linggen was overjoyed and said, "Exactly, Lord Yang has seen them before, and which way did they go?" Please let me know! ”