"How long is it until Yan'an Mansion?"

Bai Qingyi lifted the curtain of the carriage and asked the coachman in front of him.

"Back to Xianggong, there are about one hundred and twenty or thirty miles!" The coachman glanced at his surroundings, and after thinking for a moment in his heart, he said respectfully to Bai Qing.

"It's so far away, that is, why do you have to get there tomorrow?" Bai Qing frowned and asked the coachman, he didn't expect that this was not a long journey, but it took half a month.

"Well, if nothing else, I will definitely be able to go to Yan'an Mansion tomorrow!" The coachman replied to Bai Qing, obviously, he also knew that Bai Qing's mood was not good at this time.

"It's not too early, I'll see if there are any inns or wine shops on the way, stop to rest, and eat something to fill my stomach!" After Bai Qing looked at the sky, he commanded the coachman, and only after hearing the coachman's answer that he sat in the carriage again, but there was a little unsure on his face.

Behind the carriage, the guards on horseback showed a somewhat relieved look on their faces, and they hurried so many ways that they could finally stop and catch their breath.

Looking at Bai Qing sitting beside him, with a bored look on his face, Fang Jinzhi next to him suddenly smiled, and then comforted him softly.

After so many days of long journey, although Fang Jinzhi, who has always been lively and active, also felt as if his body was rusty and weak, as Bai Qing's family, he still had to persuade Bai Qing a little at this time.

Under Fang Jinzhi's persuasion, Bai Qing didn't say anything more in the end. Sitting there bored, I began to ponder.

Half a month ago. A letter from Yan'an Mansion almost shocked the entire government and the opposition.

According to what is written in the letter. In the prefectures and counties under the rule of Yanyan Road, where Yan'an Prefecture is located, on the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, officials of all sizes in those prefectures and counties suddenly died one after another.

At first, everyone didn't pay much attention to it, thinking that it was just an isolated phenomenon, but as the situation happened further, all the big and small officials in the seven or eight county offices were slaughtered, and then after. The commander of the infantry and military chambers of Gyeongju and several of his commanders and the Marquis of Du Yu were also assassinated on the street, and the blood stained the streets of Gyeongju City, in this festive first month, cast a shadow on the entire Gyeongju City, until this time, the officials of the Yanyan Road realized the seriousness of the matter, and hurriedly pursued it, but the matter did not improve, and it was the eighth day of the first month. The Jinglu pacification envoy of Yan Yanlu was found assassinated in his study, and the Cao Yun envoy was also killed on the night of his death, and all kinds of magistrates were even more bloody on the street, to this point. The matter has reached a point where it can no longer be contained, and in desperation, the remaining officials of Yan Yanlu. Jointly sent a letter to the imperial court, imploring the visitor to investigate the matter.

After the accident of the high pet and the breeder. Although this Yan Yanlu has been nominally placed as the power of the Di family, Di Xiaobai does not have so much energy and strength to insert his hand here. After Lu Deng was transferred to the capital, the military strength of this area fell into emptiness, but it was just some civilian officials, relying on the government officials and the township army, so naturally they couldn't find out why.

This letter was sent into Beijing overnight by 800 miles, which immediately shocked the government and the opposition, Gao Quanye was even more furious, in his opinion, this was simply a disregard for the imperial court, so a decree came down, and before he had time to accompany his wife and daughter in Beijing to spend the Shangyuan Festival, Bai Qing was ordered to take 10,000 elite soldiers to investigate the matter.

Since these 10,000 soldiers and horses have not yet been assembled, and so many days have passed, and now they don't know that the situation in this Yan Yanlu has been eroded to their respective situations, so Bai Qing took some guards to go first.

For this trip, the people who heard the wind were naturally relieved about Bai Qing's safety, so Fang Jinzhi, who was also good at martial arts, took on this important task and accompanied Bai Qing to the west.

Originally, Bai Qing still thought that the soldiers and nobles rushed to Yan'an Mansion where the Yanyan Road Governance Office was located, but he didn't expect that since he got out of Bianliang, there have been constant situations all the way, either the road was closed by heavy snow, or the horses were sick, and on the way, it attracted the attention of a group of daring thieves, and almost lost his purse, fortunately, Fang Jinzhi was still vigilant, and together with those guards, he wiped out the thieves who were not long-eyed, but it also consumed a lot of time during the period, which was originally only seven or eight days away, and now it has not arrived for half a month.

It's no wonder that Bai Qing's heart is a little angry.

Seeing that Bai Qing's expression was not safe, those guards were naturally cautious, lest something go wrong and touch Bai Qing's moldy head.

"Our people, do you have any news?" After calming down, Bai Qing asked softly to Fang Jinzhi beside him.

One year is enough time for Shi Qian to establish an intelligence network, and after receiving the will of the imperial court, Bai Qing has already asked Shi Qian to send a group of people to Yanyan Road to collect intelligence clues.

"There is no useful news yet!" Fang Jinzhi shook his head, and his good-looking brows were also slightly wrinkled: "In other words, there are basically no useful clues, only that he died from assassination, and it should be the same organization or even the same person, because according to the news that came, when the local post-mortem was conducted, the wounds were basically all in the throat, about three inches long, except for Liu Fang, who was commanded by the infantry and soldiers, all the others were killed with one blow, which shows that the assassin's martial arts are quite strong!" ”

"Assassins!" Bai Qing had a headache, to be honest, in this era, there are countless people who have died in assassination, but most of these cases have been pursued for a long time, after all, tracking down assassins in the vast sea of people, in this era of no photos, no monitoring, no network and no convenient communication, it is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack.

The two of them didn't say anything for a while, just fell silent and thought quietly, while at the same time, a few wisps of smoke faintly appeared in front of them.

Seeing this, those guards suddenly lifted their spirits, and even the pace of progress also accelerated, not much effort, in the field of vision of everyone, there were several vague outlines of houses in the distance, and in the front one, there was a thick bamboo pole on the ground at the door, hanging a fluttering flag, with a big "wine" word written on it, it looked like it should be a wine shop.

The group stopped in the wine shop, rested for a while, and after eating some hot food, they hurried on the road and went straight to the direction of Yan'an Mansion......

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