"My lord, it rained heavily last night, and the bridge and river ahead were washed away, so it seems that we have to take a detour."

The long convoy was advancing, and halfway down the road, suddenly there was a report from Jinyiwei's visit to the horse.

"Map!"

Wang Xu lifted the sedan curtain and walked down, took the map from the people around him, and looked at it in his hand.

Today, it was the second day after leaving Fuzhou, and I walked 150 miles in a day and a half, and judging from the map, I arrived at the junction of Guobei County and Surabaya County.

"If you don't take the official road of Guobei County, you can only take a detour from Surabaya County, back and forth, let alone 80 miles of mountain roads, and waste two days in vain. Strangely, although the rain last night was not small, it is a bit too much to say that it can break bridges and rivers! Wang Xu looked at the map, although there is a Lanruo Temple in Guobei County, it belongs to the plain road, and there is an official road that leads directly to the outside world.

Surabaya County is different, it is surrounded by mountains, there are many mountain roads, there are few major roads, there are only small roads for three people to go in parallel, and it is not certain whether the carriage can pass through.

Eighty miles of mountain road is more difficult to walk than two hundred miles of official road, and you don't want to go out without a day or two.

"If the road is built, how long will it take?" Wang Xu put down the map and asked the Jinyi guard who was exploring the way.

Jin Yiwei, who was exploring the way, thought for a moment and said: "My lord, the official road washed away by the flood will take at least three or five miles, and if you open the road in the mountains and build a bridge in the water, it will be impossible to build a bridge in three or five days. ”

"Three or five days?"

Wang Xu handed the map to the people around him and ordered: "Take a detour, go to Surabaya County, and march quickly!" ”

"Yes..."

Although the roads were muddy, Wang Xu's group of men and horses were mainly composed of war horses and vehicles, and there were no infantry, so they still had some advantages in speed.

After receiving the order, the front team quickly turned around and turned from the road to Guobei County to Surabaya County.

Wang Xu sat on the sedan chair, lifted the sedan curtain to look at Fu Tianqiu, and said: "Master Fu, the road ahead has been washed out, we have to turn to Surabaya County to avoid the official road that was washed out." ”

"Surabaya County?"

Fu Tianqiu sat in the prisoner car, not knowing what he remembered, and his brows furrowed slightly.

The team set off again, and soon, took the trail to Surabaya County.

After walking for about three hours, at ten o'clock in the morning, Wang Xu, who was sitting on the sedan chair, suddenly felt a chaos in front of him.

"Who?"

"My name is Ye Zhiqiu, and I am a good friend of your family, you hurry up and get out of the way, good dogs don't get in the way."

"Nonsense, what is the identity of my family, how can there be a friend like you, take him down!"

There was a crackling fight in front of him, Wang Xu opened his mouth to ask the sedan chair driver to stop, and walked out of the sedan chair to look out.

In my eyes, Ye Zhiqiu and Xiahou will fight together, and the two of them come and go, looking so lively.

"Hey, will you talk well, if you keep fighting, I'll clean you up with a spell!"

In a short exchange, Ye Zhiqiu suffered a small loss, in terms of strength alone, without using spells, Ye Zhiqiu was not the opponent of General Xiahou.

Xiahou will be the great grandmaster, and he was born in a place like Jinyiwei, and his sword went straight to the point, forcing Ye Zhiqiu to be in a hurry, and he was in danger for a while.

"Stop!" Wang Xu let out a low snort and stopped the two of them.

Xiahou put away his sword and stood aside, Ye Zhiqiu breathed a sigh of relief, and said loudly: "Your subordinate is very powerful, fortunately I am not bad, otherwise I would have been killed by him with a sword." ”

"Why are you here?"

Wang Xu took the initiative to walk up, he and Ye Zhiqiu hadn't seen each other for almost a month, and the last time they met, they only heard that he was dealing with mountain ghosts.

"I'm here to report to you, last night, I settled at the post station in Surabaya County, and I heard a group of Jianghu people saying that they were going to blow up the reservoir and divert the flood water to wash the official road, so that a group of officials who were escorting prisoners would take the small road in Surabaya County and then deal with them."

When Ye Zhiqiu said this, he came up with a hippie smile and whispered: "How is it, am I a friend enough?" ”

"It turned out that the official road was destroyed, and someone blew up the upstream reservoir, I said that yesterday's heavy rain, how could there be such a big destructive force, it turned out that someone was playing ghosts!" Wang Xu thought so in his heart, and asked Ye Zhiqiu again: "Why did you go to Surabaya County?" ”

"There is a wealthy businessman in Surabaya County, and he brought unclean things back on the way to business, and I used to deal with dirty things."

Ye Zhiqiu said casually, looked at Fu Tianqiu who was locked in the prison car, and whispered: "To be honest, I see that those people in the rivers and lakes don't seem to be ordinary people in the rivers and lakes, and there are faint shadows of the army. ”

"The army? Seriously? ”

Wang Xu is not interested in the people in the rivers and lakes, and the people in the rivers and lakes in the Daning Dynasty are all small characters who have been suppressed by the imperial court and cannot set off the storm.

On the other hand, the army is different, and if it is the army that is going to attack them, the nature is two different things.

"Danglinghou is the prince's man, and around Surabaya County, there is a battalion of Danglinghou." Fu Tianqiu, who had been sitting in the prison car, suddenly said something.

Wang Xu's eyes narrowed slightly, and he nodded lightly and said, "I know." ”

The princelings want to kill Fu Tianqiu, and since Dangling Hou is a member of the princelings, it makes sense to clear the obstacles for the prince.

"You are the Qingtian Lord in the mouth of the people, the former military department Shangshu, Fu Tianqiu, Master Fu, right?" Ye Zhiqiu saw Fu Tianqiu speak, and he also cheered up and went to talk.

Fu Tianqiu sat in the prisoner car, although he was tired of traveling, he was in good spirits, and he was still the head of the second-class officer, and said in a deep voice: "You know me? ”

"I know, good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles, everyone said that you were killed by a traitor and wanted to be dragged to the capital to be beheaded, I didn't expect that I would have the fate to meet you, it's really a blessing for three lives." Ye Zhiqiu is also a self-familiar character, and he looked at Fu Tianqiu with admiration.

"It's not beheading, it's going to the capital to convict, where did you hear the gossip?" Ye Zhiqiu said it simply, but Wang Xu sensed that something was wrong.

The arrest of Fu Tianqiu was two days ago, and Jin Yiwei didn't say anything about it at all, so why did it spread like a lot.

It seems that Fu Tianqiu is really unwilling to be lonely, this kind of rumor must have been spread by him to gain fame, if there is no person with a heart to spread it, he doesn't believe that the news will ferment naturally, and it can be known to everyone in two days.

"Where did I hear that you don't care, anyway, everyone says so, anyway, you should be careful, I have something to do, go first."

Ye Zhiqiu came and went in a hurry, accompanied by a "retreat", and soon disappeared without a trace.

Wang Xu looked at the path to Surabaya County, the other party was Yangmou, because there are three roads from Fuzhou to the capital, the waterway, the official road in Guobei County, and the mountain road in Surabaya County, and there is no other way.

The waterway is different, Fu Tianqiu is seasick and dizzy, and taking the waterway can toss him to death.

Now, the official road in Guobei County has been washed away by floods, and even if you know that someone is ambushing on the mountain road in Surabaya County, you can't wait three or five days to repair the road.

Building roads is not reliable, and the people who are waiting for the mountains are not dead, what is the use of waiting for them except to increase the number of accidents, it is better to return the gong to the gong, and the drum to the drum to beat it to see who sings better.

"Cheng Canwei, Cheng Qianhu!"

"The subordinates are in..."

A middle-aged man with peach blossom eyes who looked a little obscene walked in front of Wang Xu.

In the Jinyi Guard Station in the land of a state, in addition to the pacification envoys, there are eight thousand households below to assist.

After Wang Xu was promoted from a thousand households to a pacification envoy, a thousand households were parachuted into the capital, and it was this Cheng Qianhu.

At that time, Fu Tianqiu had been demoted and returned to his hometown, and through Wang Xu's observation, eighty percent of this person came for Fu Tianqiu, and he had an inexplicable relationship with the Donglin Party.

"You are responsible for protecting Master Fu, no matter what happens along the way, you don't want to leave the prisoner car three steps away, do you understand?" Wang Xu knew the origin of Cheng Qianhu, and he also knew that this Cheng Qianhu was probably sent by the Donglin Party to protect Fu Tianqiu, but he didn't plan to pierce this layer of window paper.

"Yes, sir."

Cheng Qianhu handed over the war horse to his subordinates, and personally sat in the prisoner car to be responsible for driving the car, and the full name did not communicate with Fu Tianqiu.

Wang Xu was also happy to pretend to be confused, walked back onto the sedan chair, and said: "Let's go, I want to see who can stop me!" ”