Early the next morning, Sima Jingwen ordered the guerrilla general Wang Qing to lead his own escort of 200 people, count the horses, and Gu Rong arranged the entourage, and left Luoyang in a majestic manner.

On the way, I met Jia Mi who was about to go to Jingu Villa.

Jia Mi saw that it was King Langya's team that was preparing to leave the city, so he immediately stepped forward and asked, "King Langya is leaving for Yangzhou?" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty's holy message, leave immediately, don't dare to delay!"

Jia Mi looked inside the team, and saw that there was a sedan chair in the team, and King Langya and the others were all riding horses, so he asked: "Since you have been ordered to investigate the case, why do you still bring your female dependents?" ”

"I'm bored on the road." Seeing that Jia Mi's face was full of curiosity, and he was afraid that he would embarrass Sima Jingwen with his words, Murong Jia hurriedly replied.

"Well, it's a long way to go, listen to the song to relieve boredom." Sima Jingwen also replied casually.

"Which Oiran lady is this?"

"Of course it's Miss Yi Xue."

"Yi, Yixue girl?"

"If you don't bring Miss Yi Xue, I'm afraid that in a few months, when we come back, she will enter the Golden Valley Villa!"

Seeing Murong Jia snatching himself, Jia Mi hurriedly smiled and said, "Prince Murong is also going with him?" ”

"Of course, I love people so much, how can I be missing. Besides, how good Jiangnan is, I heard that the beauties in Jiangnan have tender skin and can pinch out the water, Lu Guogong, do you want to go with us? Murong Jia deliberately lowered his voice and laughed.

"King Langya is ordered to investigate the case, and Prince Murong is afraid that he will make trouble here." Jia Mi laughed as she spoke.

"He investigates his case, I play with mine, I have already said hello to my mother, I have been in Luoyang City for a few years, and I have not been to the land of Jiangnan, so I take this opportunity to invite the watch to come out and play."

"Niangniang actually allowed you to accompany you?"

"I said Jia Mi, my Xianbei Murong clan has been able to study and travel in your Jin Kingdom since the time of Emperor Xianwu, my Murong Jia is out of politeness, is this prince still bound by you?" Murong Jia said unceremoniously.

Although Jia Mi is the nephew of Empress Jia, he is usually arrogant and arrogant, but he is helpless against Murong Jia, the Xianbei prince, so he sneered: "Then I wish Prince Murong a happy trip and bring a few Jiangnan girls back." ”

Then he said goodbye to Sima Jingwen: "I also wish King Langya a smooth trip." ”

The team continued to move forward, Mu Yixue opened the sedan curtain and smiled at Jia Mi.

Waiting for the team to pass by, Jia Mi's personal entourage, the steward Jia Liu, stepped forward and asked, "This Prince Murong is just studying in Luoyang City, why is Grandpa Guo so accommodating to him?" ”

Jia Mi reprimanded angrily: "What do you know, for the stability of Liaodong, since the time of Emperor Xianwu, he has formed an alliance with Xianbei, specially established the Murong Prince's Mansion, and invited the Murong clan to send the prince to study, this Murong Jia is Murong Shegui's favorite youngest son, unlike the proton, Murong Jia's behavior is unrestrained, especially now that the war at the border of Beijun is urgent, the stability of the Murong clan in Liaodong is related to the safety of our dynasty, and it is better not to provoke him if there is nothing to do." ”

"Yes, yes, the villain is short-sighted" Jia Liu hurriedly changed the topic:

"Grandpa Guo, this King Langya was ordered to investigate the case, and he also brought a beauty, but he is also a vulgar person, plus Prince Murong who is interested in playing, I'm afraid I won't be able to find out anything this time."

"Vulgar people are good," Jia Mi said and laughed.

Jia Liu also laughed.

But when Jia Mi thought that Yi Xue was taken to Jiangnan by Sima Jingwen for a few months, he felt bad in his heart, so he immediately put away his smile and smacked Jia Liu.

Jia Liu didn't know why and quickly put away his smiling face.

King Langya's team went out of Luoyang City, traveled until dark and rested in the post house for the night, and after leaving the city from the post house, Mu Yixue and Zhou Rong changed into men's clothes, abandoned the car and changed horses.

Sima Jingwen ordered Wang Qing to go to Jianye with his own guards, Sima Jingwen and others rushed to Jianye from the first step in light clothes, everyone did not care about carefully appreciating the scenery of this way, but when they rested and ate and stayed, they occasionally inquired about the folk saying about the loss of food in Huaishui, so the road was also regarded as a fast horse, and they arrived at Jianye (now Nanjing) in a few days.

Jianye is the seat of Yangzhou (ancient Yangzhou is one of the thirteen states in the world, Yangzhou has nine counties, and the place under its jurisdiction is about the current Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, and part of Guangdong. ）

When everyone came to this Jianye City, they did not go directly to Yangzhou Thorn Mansion, but found an inn, asked for a few upper rooms, handed over the horses to the shopkeeper, and came to the city to shop.

This Jianye used to be the capital of Eastern Wu, although now "the king of Jinling is gloomy", but still does not lose "Cuihua to support the six dragons to see".

As far as the eye can see, Jianye City is saggy, Zhulou is handed over, the pink wall is tiled, the merchants gather, the Huaishui is connected, the painting boat Lingbo, the rhyme of the qin song, the elegant serval, Wu Nong's soft language, and the pink enchantment.

Everyone sat down in a small wine shop next to the Qinhuai River, ordered a few special dishes, asked for two pots of wine, and talked about the beautiful scenery of the south of the Yangtze River and what they saw on the road while eating, while carefully observing the customs in the wine shop.

Most of the wine shops are common people, such a local family of big families is basically not appeared, the Western Jin Dynasty Gaomen and Shu people do not sit together, do not intermarry, even clothing, crown hair have regulations.

Halfway through eating, Gu Rong stood up and walked to the table.

Facing a scholar who looked like a scholar in a gray cloth shirt and a bib outside, he bowed and said, "This son, may I ask if you have heard of the Yin soldiers borrowing grain?" ”

The scholar arched his hand and said: "You are polite, what are you talking about the Yin soldiers who borrowed food in Huaiyin a few days ago?" ”

"Exactly"

The scholar replied: "This Yin soldier borrowing food is also the first miracle of my Great Jin Dynasty. Of course I've heard of it. ”

"When I first arrived in Jiangnan, I heard about this miracle, and please elaborate on the details." Gu Rong arched his hand again.

"Sir is polite, it is said that that night, this official ship full of grain sailed to Huaishui, just entered Huaishui soon after the river was covered with fog, suddenly from the sky came down a soldier wearing white armor, fell on the official ship transporting grain, this group of soldiers some headless, some less limbs and arms, terrifying, and this official ship company and officers and soldiers have no trace since then."

"Didn't Yangzhou Assassin send someone to track it down?" Gu Rong asked

"First, Lord County sent someone to check, but nothing was found, and then Lord Shi sent someone to check, but nothing was found."

"This headless, limbless Yin soldier descended on the official ship, did anyone see it with their own eyes?" Murong Jia's curiosity was bursting.

This topic has aroused the interest of many drinkers again.

A guest said: "It is said that when the fog on the river was rising, there were still individual boatmen ferrying, and there were also merchant ships, although the people on the shore could not see very clearly, but the boatmen on the river still saw clearly, the most strange thing is that the people on these boats were instantly unconscious, and when they woke up, they found that the official ships were gone with the Yin soldiers." ”

"If you want to say that the Yin soldiers borrowed food, why did the Yin soldiers borrow food, do the Yin soldiers still eat food? I think there must be an article in this. A blue-shirted scholar disagreed.

Another fat man in white said: "If it weren't for the Yin soldiers borrowing food, what would it be, if it was a bandit, the sergeant on the ship and the water bandit would have to have traces of a fight; If it is a shipwreck, so many ships sink together, why didn't the water ghost go down and even catch a sampan, 20,000 stone grain is enough to block the river. ”

At this moment a young man dressed in a blue and white narrow-sleeved shirt and linen jacket, hakama pants, and a tasseled belt around his waist coughed lightly, knocked on the table, and said in a matter-of-fact manner: "But I have heard that someone saw a boat in the ditch that night, and it disappeared in an instant. ”

The fat man in white asked with a questioning expression: "This is strange, it stands to reason that these Yin soldiers borrowed food, and they should go back to the underworld, why do they want to go to Hangou?" ”

The young man in the blue and white narrow-sleeved shirt continued: "I have heard of the Yin soldiers borrowing the way, it is said that the so-called Yin soldiers are not soldiers from the underworld, but soldiers who died on the battlefield, because there are more soldiers killed in battle, the battle situation is tragic, and the ghosts of the soldiers gather and do not disperse, wandering near the battlefield, so some people have seen the Yin soldiers borrowing the way, as for whether this Yin soldier borrowing food is the same, it is unknown. ”

"Oh, no wonder the Yin soldier that day was decapitated and had fewer limbs"

Everyone was talking with great interest, and Murong Jia chatted happily with everyone.

While Sima Jingwen and Mu Yixue quietly listened to everyone's discussions, Gu Rong occasionally asked a few questions.

At this time, the young man in the blue and white narrow-sleeved shirt noticed the difference between Sima Jingwen and the others, and stepped forward and said, "Brothers, but you are from the north?" ”

Gu Rong replied: "Yes, we are here from Luoyang, Kyoto, and this is our host. ”

Sima Jingwen nodded slightly, as if he didn't want to say more, so he got up and said, "It's getting late, let's say goodbye first" After speaking, he walked out of the door.

"Mountains and rivers meet, if there is fate, I will meet my brother again." The young man in the blue and white narrow-sleeved shirt said loudly at Sima Jingwen and the others.

When Murong Jia heard this, he felt that this person was a little interesting, so he turned around and hugged him with a fist.

After the group came out of the wine shop, they strolled until the night curfew before returning to the inn to rest.

On the second day, under the leadership of Gu Rong, everyone went around in the characteristic places in Jianye City, and at about noon, Gu Rong led a group of people to a cloth village, only to see that the door was written "Ruyi Cloth Village".

Seeing this, Murong Jia said: "I said, Mr. Gu, it's noon, you don't take us to eat, what are you doing leading us to Buzhuang?" ”

Gu Rong smiled and said nothing.

After entering the cloth village, the shopkeeper saw Gu Rong and hurriedly came out to greet him: "Tsing Yi makes Ning Xun see the sect master." ”

"Shopkeeper Ning doesn't have to be polite, are you ready?"

"Back to the sect master, get ready."

So Shopkeeper Ning led Gu Rong to the inner hall of the backyard.

Murong Jia's eyes were full of curiosity, and he wanted to ask a question, but was stopped by Yi Xue.

After arriving at the inner hall, I saw that a sumptuous banquet had been prepared, and two people in gray plain clothes stood aside, and when they saw Gu Rong, they immediately greeted him: "Subordinates see the sect master." ”

Gu Rong asked Ning Xun about the results of the investigation into the loss of grain in Huaishui, and told him that an official ship had appeared in Hangou, but the reason had not yet been clarified.

Sima Jingwen, Gu Rong and others heard that this was basically the same as the news they heard in the wine shop, but why only one ship appeared in the upper reaches of the ditch, everyone was puzzled.

※※※