Chapter 408: Letter from Zhao Zhixian
After listening to Lu Er's words, Lu Chengyan glanced back at Rong and said softly, "I'll go find Yao Yan." With that, he closed the door, jumped out of the carriage, and strode straight back. Soon, a long queue of carriages slowly passed by Lu Chengyan's side, and after Lu Chengyan found the carriage, he suddenly turned over and jumped up.
"Master?" Yao Yan was taken aback by Lu Chengyan who suddenly appeared, and he immediately said in surprise: "Didn't I tell Lu Er?" Why are you still on a trip? ”
Lu Chengyan frowned, and said with an ugly face: "Did you find something?" There are no empty rooms in Tangjia Village, what does it mean? Could it be that the ambushed people lived? We've been in a wolf's den, aren't we? ”
Yao Yan was stunned by a series of questions, and it took him a long time to react and take out a carrier pigeon, which also had a cylinder tied to it.
"Someone delivering a letter? Who? Zhao Zhixian? Lu Chengyan asked.
Zhao Nanyu on the side immediately handed over the letter, which was what Yao Yan told everyone.
"Are you going to write a reply now?" Lu Chengyan looked at the pigeon and asked.
"Yes, I have to let Zhao Zhixian know that we know." Zhao Nanyu said.
Lu Chengyan shook his head and said: "Don't use it for the time being, I'll send a letter back later, this pigeon is good to raise first, be careful not to let it go." ”
Zhao Nanyu immediately patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, my little fat is very well raised." ”
Lu Chengyan glanced at the majestic rooster, nodded thoughtfully, then took the letter, turned to get out of the carriage, and strode forward. When he boarded the carriage, it sped up again.
Rong Qing felt uneasy when Lu Chengyan got out of the car and went back to find Yao Yan, and when Lu Chengyan came back with the letter, he immediately understood after a little thought.
"That's right, why are we so stupid, how can we stay in that mountain depression for such a long time, we must rest, maybe we will be on the back foot, they will leave on the front foot, and then start the ambush, or simply in Tangjia Village will do something with us." Rong gently crumpled the paper into a ball, her brows furrowed tightly, and then the next moment, she re-spread the paper with a surprised face, looked at Lu Chengyan and asked, "Are you sure this is Zhao Zhixian's note?" ”
"I'm sure, I've been to his study, and he always likes to put his hands down when he writes at the end of his hand, a special habit that others shouldn't imitate." Lu Chengyan said.
Rong sighed lightly and said, "So after we persuaded for a long time, Zhao Zhixian still decided to get involved." ”
Lu Chengyan laughed helplessly at this time, then looked at the crumpled piece of paper and said, "I also said that Governor Yin has a donkey temper, I think he is about the same." So saying, he took the paper, blew a fire fold, burned it thoroughly, and swept it out of the carriage.
Rong Qing was also a little helpless, it is estimated that Zhao Zhixian is still reluctant to accept his fate, after all, something happened in the place under his jurisdiction, and he is also worried that they will not be able to deal with it, so he still managed to find out some news.
"If that group of people were passing through Shuhe County, and there was another homicide in the local area, they would definitely go to check these strangers as soon as possible, but Zhao Zhixian didn't know about it at all, so they took a different path."
Rong said softly, looked at the route map that had been sticking to the inner wall of the carriage, stretched out his hand and pointed at the road and said, "Maybe it's by water, bypassing...... So the man who died was killed by someone who had been watching us, probably when he was releasing the carrier pigeons, he was seen by the old man who got up early to patrol the farmland......"
Rong's heart tightened, and she felt that she had guessed eight or nine.
"The matter of Tangjia Village, it is estimated that Zhao Zhixian knew about it by mistake, and then gave us the letter as soon as possible, but this letter was safely in our hands, what does this mean?" Lu Chengyan said, his eyes lit up and he looked at Rong lightly.
"This means that the people who are watching us have gone to rendezvous, and now we can start preparing." Rong said softly, and immediately patted the car door and asked Lu Er to stop the carriage.
The convoy behind also stopped one after another because the leader had stopped.
Lu Chengyan turned over and got out of the carriage again.
Rong gently explained uneasily: "Don't take too long." "After all, speculation is just speculation, and you have to be careful.
"Don't worry." After dropping this sentence, Lu Chengyan went to find Yao Yan again.
The convoy stopped for about an hour before it was on the road again, looking no different from before it stopped, but only their own people knew that the artillery had been moved, the pocket arrows had been smeared with poison, some of the traps were fully prepared, everyone knew what they were going to face next, and then after a brief panic, they immediately calmed down.
The carriage continued to gallop forward, but the mood of the crowd was not as heavy as expected, but ready to be calm and calm.
As the sun set, the night gradually darkened, and the chill of being sniped by the sun during the day immediately spread wantonly at night, accompanied by a slight wind, which made people feel cold in their bones.
The families had already eaten in the evening, and now they had all shut themselves in their houses, lighting kerosene lamps, enjoying the silence of the night.
At this moment, a soft knock on the door broke the night, and the moonlight peeked out of the clouds to reveal half of his face, illuminating the person who was tapping on the door below.
After a long time, the door creaked and opened a crack, and a man poked his head out of the crack in the door, looked at the visitor, and opened the door wider.
"Hello, we are passing through here and are going to Song'an County to do business, but now it is getting late, and it is too late to rush to the next town, so we want to stay here for two days." Yao Yan said sincerely, and then in order to make himself more sincere, he casually presented a purse.
The man took the letter and took it, and after glancing inside, he immediately put on a smiling face and said, "The visitor is a guest, please come in, son, prepare two clean rooms, and put on new bedding......
Yao Yan rubbed his hands, looked at the man embarrassedly and said, "This, we have a lot of people......"
The man opened the door completely, then walked out and took a look, and his eyes went dark.
"We pay per head, but I don't know how many people you can live here?" Yao Yan said immediately.
The man gritted his teeth, stretched out a hand and said, "Four people." ”
"For the rest, can you arrange it for us? Of course, we'll pay for the arrangement. Yao Yan continued.
The man's heart moved, and he immediately patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, I'll take you to knock on the door and keep it so that you can all live in tonight." After that, he immediately went back to the house and got a kerosene lamp, walked out, and led Yao Yan forward.