During this period of time, the official road is still busy, and there are a large number of ox carts and horse-drawn carts approaching and leaving every day, providing everything necessary for the lives of ordinary people in Luoyang City, as well as officials and merchants. This is something that cannot be affected after the death of the emperor.

No matter who dies or gets up, there is no way to stop people from doing these things that don't make any sense but keep repeating them.

The carriage where Li Ru and Liu Xie were was mixed in this traffic, and there was nothing surprising at all that could attract attention. At a glance, there were several of the same carriages, and no one would care who was sitting in the carriage and wanted to find out.

Li Ru half-lifted the curtain of the car and said to the scout who was driving: "Go west directly along the official road." ”

The coachman did not answer, but was silent and followed Li Ru's orders.

Lowering the curtain, Li Ru nodded with satisfaction, not caring about the coachman's behavior. This was what he had told the coachman to behave in this way, and he knew that the easiest way to avoid being traced was to blend in with the others and become an ordinary member of them.

Go west.

Looking at Liu Xie sitting opposite, Li Ru knew that with Liu Xie here, everything would be much easier to do next. His father-in-law should be on the way to Luoyang now, and he only needs to go all the way to the west, and he will soon be able to meet him.

When the time comes, no matter what they want to advance or retreat, what they want to do, they will have a choice. Because of the prince association in his hand, not to mention anything else, just his identity and the blood flowing in his body, these two points are enough for them to have great capital.

The prince, the prince, as long as there is enough power, someone is acting as a pusher in the back, how do you know that he did not sit on the day that the emperor grasped?

Puppet emperors have not been uncommon since Qin, and the difference is only to see whether the emperor cooperates or not. It's okay to cooperate, at least he can enjoy the glory and wealth he deserves. Not cooperative? That's it. A three-legged toad is hard to find, and a teenager with royal blood is not a difficult task.

Abruptly, I don't know why, Liu Xie, who came into contact with Li Ru's gaze, actually felt even colder.

On the other side, at the east gate of Luoyang City, a carriage was moving forward quickly. The driver of the car kept waving his whip and struck the horse on the hind buttocks, causing the horse to move faster.

But no matter how fast it was, the carriage was only a carriage from beginning to end, and instead of pulling apart from the speed of the pursuers in the rear, it was getting closer.

"Huh? Still want to run? The general on a war horse had a cold glint in his eyes.

How could he possibly let his prey escape? Let the prey escape, how can he, the hunter, please the people who determine his glory and wealth?

With his legs firmly clamped between the horse's belly, he picked up his bow, drew another arrow, and put it on his bow, pointing at the horse pulling the carriage not far away.

He remembered that the queen mother was telling him whether he lived or died, as long as he was not escaped by the prince's association. After this arrow goes down to the horse, it will definitely go crazy, and at the same time as the speed increases, there will inevitably be problems in the carriage of the carriage that is pulled, large or small.

He can't control whether the people in the carriage are alive or dead. All he could do was where the arrow fell.

"Huh."

The feathered arrow shot out and hit the hips of the horses pulling the carriage, and the arrow pierced deep into it. The horse immediately let out a long neigh, and its eyes were blood-red, and it ran forward frantically.

Regardless of the pedestrians, regardless of the carriage on the opposite side, and regardless of the undulations of the terrain, the horses pulling the cart were completely in a state of madness.

The pedestrians on the official road screamed in surprise, and hurriedly dodged to make way for the crazy carriage to gallop through. After the carriage had passed, they saw the army following closely behind, and only then did they understand what had happened.

The general who led the pursuit was silent, and then drew an arrow from the quiver behind his back and shot it at the horse. No matter how fast he runs, the war horse under his seat can follow and not be thrown away.

Then it became very simple, and the more it ran, the more he shot, and kept shooting. Until the horse pulling the cart could no longer run, the blood ran out, or the carriage overturned on its side.

Finally, after leaving Luoyang City for a mile, they chased the carriage. It's just that at this time, the carriage has flipped to the ground, and the horses pulling the carriage are farther away, lying on the ground and convulsing, and a pool of blood has gathered under them.

"Bring everyone out of me." The general looked at the eunuch who was struggling out of the carriage, and suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.

Sure enough, after all the people in the carriage were dragged out, his face immediately changed. Three people, three people, three eunuchs!

What does he want the eunuch to do? What he wants is Liu Xie! The queen also wants Liu Xie, not these eunuchs. If he catches these eunuchs and kills them, the queen will not make any difference to him.

Jumping off his horse, he walked over to the trembling eunuchs with frightened faces on their faces. By the time the last step fell, the long sword at his waist had been completely drawn from its scabbard and hung over the neck of an old eunuch who was being escorted and kneeling in front of him.

"Say, where did Liu Xie go?" He asked, without any respect or politeness in his words.

What a prince! If Liu Xie stays in the mansion of Luoyang City and waits for him to arrest him, he may still be honored as His Royal Highness. But since Liu Xie has run away, don't think about him maintaining his apparent politeness.

From the moment he received the will of the queen's mother, he knew that Liu Xie, the prince, would not live long. Even if he was His Majesty's favorite prince in the past, he even had many plans to make him the crown prince. is not a prince, he is just a prince after all.

Now that His Majesty has died, the crown prince can still be abolished, let alone a prince with no power and fame?

"You, presumptuous!" The old eunuch glared at the general, his chest rising and falling.

Bowing his head, the general said, "Oh, it seems that you don't want to say it." ”

Of course, this eunuch will not have a chance to speak again. Because the general would not give him a chance, he walked towards the other eunuch next to him, the long sword in his hand passed the throat of the old eunuch, and behind him, a puddle of blood burst out from between the blades.

The old eunuch was lying on the ground, his hands and feet twitching, and the wound on his neck was bleeding more and more until the ground where he was lying was stained red.

There was still a trace of surprise and incomprehension in his dim eyes, and he didn't believe that this general would be so ruthless, so he didn't continue to ask at all, and started directly.

The general's sword was across the neck of the second eunuch again, and the blood on the blade of the sword slid down, fell at the tip of the sword, and dripped between the eunuch's collar.

The eunuch couldn't help but tremble, the blood was still warm, and when his skin came into contact with the blood, goosebumps all rose.

He glanced to the side and shuddered at the sight of his companion's death. When he retracted his gaze, he saw the impatient look on the general's face, and the long sword with blood that flickered with cold light in his throat.

With a grunt, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

"I... I..."

Blood splattered again, and the general's sword swept through the eunuch's neck without hesitation.

No matter what he wanted to say, whether he wanted to say it or not, he couldn't say anything now.

Until he fell to the ground, the eunuch still had too many questions. The most obvious one is that he obviously wants to tell the whereabouts of the prince's association, why is he still dead?

"It's too slow." The general, with an indifferent face, stepped towards the third eunuch.

He didn't want to wait, time was of the essence for him right now. It's okay to waste some time listening to the eunuch just now tell Liu Xie's whereabouts, but he just doesn't want to hear it, he wants to kill someone, so he kills it.

There is no need to wait, there are three people anyway, and the third person, he believes, will not be hidden. He had seen the latter's eyes change from firmness at first, to hesitation, and now to complete horror and fear.

What people are most afraid of is not death itself, but the process of waiting for death to come, the sight of seeing death coming to you and about to reach yourself. This is also the reason why some soldiers on the battlefield lost their fighting spirit and became deserters when they rushed fast at the beginning, and later saw their comrades next to them die.

The long sword lay across the neck of the third eunuch, and the general said softly, "Say it." ”

"I say, I say, I say it all!" The third eunuch said busily.

He is Liu Xie's cronies and the most trusted people. But it wasn't until the moment he was caught up that he realized that whatever it was safer to go separately was all just nonsense, used to perfunctory their words. They are complete decoys, outcasts, a few people who are thrown out to attract attention.

Since Liu Xie has abandoned him, why should he work for Liu Xie?

"They went to the west gate."

"Simon?" The general muttered, and then continued to ask, "Who else is with you?" ”

He knew that there must be other people around Liu Xie who were planning for Liu Xie, otherwise at Liu Xie's young age, he would have planned this kind of escape plan, which would be too demonic. Don't look at this plan as simple as it gets, it's just throwing out a suspicious soldier all the way.

But only he knew why he chose the East Gate. It is completely the closest here, and the closest distance to Liu Xie in Luoyang City. In addition, when he arrived at the city gate, he carefully questioned the soldiers at the city gate, and suppressed those soldiers as officials, so that they could tell the palace people under the prince's association to go out of the city with the prince's token to do business.

Only then did he catch up, and it was only now that he tasted the old spicy behind this series.

Now he couldn't help but wonder if what the eunuch said was true or false. Or in this way, what the eunuch said is true, but it is also the truth of his self-righteousness, in fact, this is another suspicious soldier thrown by the person behind Liu Xie.

Can he not go? Obviously, no. Whether it is a suspicious soldier or not, he has to confirm it, otherwise there will be no way to explain it in front of the queen.

"He is a middle-aged scribe who claims to be a scholar of literature." The eunuch honestly told what he knew.

"Priority student?" The general searched carefully in his mind, but he couldn't find any information related to Wen Xian's students.

It doesn't make sense to just stop caring who that person is. He asked again: "Why did Liu Xie flee to the West City Gate?" ”

"Liu Xie, Liu Xie told us that he was going to the Queen Mother's hometown Hejian." The eunuch didn't even add an honorific title at the moment, and called Liu Xie by his name.

"That's very likely." The general was thoughtful.

"General, I've said it all, let me go, let it go..."

Before the word I could utter, the eunuch's eyes widened, and only a hissing sound came out of his throat. His hands covered the wound on his neck, trying to keep the blood from coming out, but nothing could stop the hot blood from pouring out between his fingers.

The general turned, and from behind him came the sound of a "plop" and the corpse falling to the ground.

From beginning to end, he didn't want to let go of these three eunuchs. Whether they don't say it or say it, some anger needs to be vented.

That's the price.

"Let's go, follow me to the West Gate of Luoyang." With a greeting, the general turned over and rode towards the west gate of Luoyang City with a large number of soldiers.

"Time is enough. It seems like I'm doing a bit too much. Li Ru's fingers as he flipped through the pages of the book stopped.

At about this time, if the chasing speed is fast enough, then they should be on the way to chase the second suspicious soldier by now. Whether it is or not, whether they can catch up or not, from the moment they decide to chase, it is already destined that he and Liu Xie will be able to leave safely without accident.

Everything was expected by him. In fact, it's okay not to use the second way of suspicion, but for the sake of insurance, he has always been so cautious. Just as the pursuer doesn't know who he is, he doesn't know who is in the pursuer, he wants to overestimate the enemy, isn't it?

Although when the pursuers worked hard to catch up with the second suspicious soldier, thinking that everything was over, they found that it was empty again, and that kind of frustration probably made them very angry, right? But anger can't change the fact that he's gone.

The plotters are nothing more than playing with people's hearts.

The danger of people's hearts, the shallowness of people's hearts, as long as they see through and can be manipulated, no problems will be problems. Li Ru knew that some people's hearts were unpredictable, but this kind of person was only a very small minority, and he only needed to be able to capture the hearts of most people.

He lowered his head, looked at the book in his hand again, and looked at it carefully. The carriage was very quiet, there was no extra sound, only the sound of Liu Xie's gentle breathing, and the subtle sound of Li Ru when he turned the pages.

It was completely cut off from the noisy world outside the carriage.

(End of chapter)