Near noon, the sun was hot, Li Zhilian listened to the sound of the soldiers frolicking under the mountain, leaned under the tree and closed his eyes to recuperate

Qi Yu walked over with a roast chicken and said, "Let's eat something!" ”

Li Zhilian narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at the dappled sunlight under the tree, sat up straight, looked sideways at the soldiers in the barracks not far away, gathered in groups to eat, and asked, "They don't seem to be very kind to see you."

Qi Yu handed her the roast chicken and sat next to her: "None of them are soldiers of our Western Zhou Kingdom, and I am just here in place of Your Majesty?" ”

Li Zhilian took off a chicken leg and handed it to Qi Yu: "Is it from the Xiao family?" ”

Qi Yu took the chicken leg: "I don't know, the leader of the troops is called Xiao Ding, and I have heard someone call him the mountain master in private."

"Mountain Lord?" Li Zhilian muttered, Xiao He is also the owner of the mountain, the person who was killed by Jinyun in the inn is called the cave master, and the word "sign" is tattooed on his hand, is this the rank division of the Xiao family?

Qi Yu finished eating a chicken leg: "It's called the mountain master, I heard it right"

Li Zhilian nodded, and asked again: "What about General Zhou Congyi of the Southern Xinjiang Country?" ”

Qi Yu raised his eyes and glanced at her suspiciously, and quickly lowered his head again: "I don't know, in this barracks, there are only about a dozen of my people left."

A dozen? It seems that it should be targeted, Li Zhilian broke off a chicken wing, ate it for a while, and asked, "Can you tell me about the current situation in your Western Zhou Kingdom?" ”

Qi Yu looked at Li Zhilian's expression: "The Western Zhou Dynasty has been ruined"

Li Zhilian looked at him and asked in surprise, "Ruined?" ”

Qi Yu nodded and said: "In the civil war three years ago, almost half of the officials died, after the eldest prince took the throne, in order to make up for the shortage of personnel, the imperial examination was opened twice a year, but most of them died for no reason on the way to office, and the Western Zhou Dynasty is now in chaos, and the people have long been miserable."

Death for no reason? Or is it that the Xiao family, in order to eradicate dissidents and facilitate the installation of their own people, is this for their own plan, and they will not change the people in the midst of fire and water? How can such a person be king?

Qi Yu looked at the soldiers under the mountain and said softly: "I also only found out three years ago, it turns out that I am not the leader of the Eagle Guard at all, we are just a rake on the surface, and we are only responsible for protecting Your Majesty on weekdays, and the real Eagle Guard is in the hands of Lord Situ, so I don't know much more than you."

Another person who was trapped in the fog and wandered around, Li Zhilian sighed and asked, "Is Situ Mo okay?" ”

Qi Yu shook his head: "When I returned to Yongzhou City three years ago, he was no longer there!" ”

Li Zhilian hesitated for a moment, and then asked, "Su Yun has been in the past three years...... How did you get here?"

Qi Yu was stunned for a long time before he said: "Three years ago, when I arrived in Yongzhou City, he locked himself in Lord Situ's spiritual room, and did not eat or drink for two days, until the third day, Lord Situ's henchmen came to him, and the two of them chatted in the house all night, and since then, his whole person has changed, and he has become ruthless and cold...... And I also became the guardian of King Li's Mansion at that time......"

Li Zhilian listened to his words, and thought that Situ Mo's henchmen might be the real Eagle Guard, the organization that united the shadow guards of the Southern Xinjiang Kingdom to fight against the Xiao family, since Su Yun had inherited the real Eagle Guard, then did he marry Xiao Fenghe just to assassinate the emperor?

Li Zhilian and Qi Yu sat under the tree, only half of the roast chicken in their hands was eaten, and the remaining half was planted in the soil by her, and both of them looked at the military camp at the foot of the mountain with their own thoughts

Suddenly, there was a rustling sound in the grass under the mountain, and Li Zhilian turned his head sideways to look at the direction of the sound, Qi Yu had already stood up and was patting off the weeds sticking to his body

It was a soldier wearing the costume of the Western Zhou Kingdom, and when he saw them, he immediately walked over quickly and bowed down and said, "Leader~ Your Majesty has arrived in Yizhou City." ”

Qi Yu nodded and said, "Got it!" ”

After the soldier bowed and retreated, Qi Yu turned sideways and said to her, "I'll go back and prepare first."

Li Zhilian nodded, she felt that she was a little flustered in her heart, in three years, many things have changed, and she and Su Yun don't know if they can return to their former appearance.

After thinking about it, she and Su Yun really don't know each other

The shouts of the soldiers under the mountain startled flocks of birds one after another, and the leaves were blown by the wind, leaving dappled light and shadow

Li Zhilian broke off a chicken leg, suddenly felt that something was wrong, and turned his head to look behind him

Not far away, under the tree, there was a figure standing, dressed in a black robe, who saw her come over, took off the hat of the black robe, and beckoned to her

It turned out to be the shadow guard Luo Chang, Li Zhilian slowly stood up, walked in front of him, and asked, "Lord Luo, why are you here?" ”

Luo Chang looked down at her, the eyes of the two met, he paused for a moment, and replied, "Lord Shen wants me to assist you."

Li Zhilian blurted out: "The teacher asked you to come? What about himself? Don't you come? ”

Luo Chang walked over and picked up the roast chicken that she had planted on the ground, took a bite and said, "The army is already on the way, and in two days, it should be there!" ”

"The teacher wants you to help me? What else did he confess? Li Zhilian said, raised his eyes to look at him again, and asked, "Didn't you shadow guards only listen to His Majesty's dispatch?" ”

Luo Chang slowly chewed the chicken in his mouth, and suddenly smiled: "What do you think?" ”

Li Zhilian's heart trembled, and he hurriedly asked, "Li Kun has an accident?" ”

Luo Chang shook his head and said: "As soon as he stopped on the mountain, he didn't know where to go, and the shadow guard was handed over to Shen Zhitang."

Li Zhilian lowered his head silently, when he was in the mountain, Li Kun said that he wanted to go back to Jiangzhou, I hope he has already arrived there!

Luo Chang pulled out the wooden stick inserted in the chicken, held the half roast chicken in both hands, squatted under the tree, and asked while eating, "How is it?" Did you find anything here? ”

Li Zhilian shook his head: "The soldiers and horses of the Western Zhou are not below, the whereabouts of General Zhou have not been found yet, Su Yun has already arrived in Yizhou City, and he should be able to get here tonight."

Luo Chang threw away the leftover roast chicken, wiped his mouth indiscriminately, and said, "It's the Xiao family's gang again?" ”

Li Zhilian nodded, suddenly remembered something, looked at Luo Chang and asked, "Did you see a green carriage when you came?" ”

Luo Chang shook his head

Li Zhilian asked again: "The carriage took a lot of saltpeter from the military camp below, and the person on the cart was surnamed Yin, called Yin Wanjin, and he opened a Shentang Valley in the west market of Lining City, under the pseudonym Qian Jinyin."

Luo Chang frowned suddenly, thought for a while and said: "Ying Wei has checked this person, his father was sentenced to Ling Chi for reselling illicit salt more than ten years ago, his mother took him away to the border, and did some small business on the border of the Western Zhou Dynasty, but somehow he became a wealthy businessman in the Western Zhou Dynasty, this year he sold all his family property and returned to Lining City."

Li Zhilian nodded, pondered for a while, and explained: "You send someone to keep an eye on the carriage I just mentioned, the things in his carriage are very dangerous, find a few more people around here to see if there is a figure of General Zhou, and I will go to find out over there Su Yun."

Luo Chang nodded, turned around and walked into the jungle, and disappeared after a while