In the afternoon, the weather cleared and the sun came out, and the rainy weather of the past few days was swept away, and the temperature rose to give people a feeling of relaxation and happiness.

It was already past two o'clock in the afternoon, and the sea had been galloping for eight hours from half past six in the morning. In order to be in a hurry, he hardly dismounted to rest halfway, and when he was hungry, he ate some dry food on horseback; When he was thirsty, he begged for some water from a farmer's house, and walked on without stopping.

Since he had only ridden a horse occasionally, today was the first time he had ridden such a horse, and he still felt very uncomfortable and tired, especially his hips and crotch were very sore, and his lower limbs were swollen unbearably.

The horse seemed to be tired and hungry, and it seemed that he could no longer walk, so the sea wanted to find a place where people and horses could have water to drink and grass to eat, so as to relieve the fatigue of people and horses.

Just as he was thinking about it, he saw several tall ginkgo trees on the side of the road in front of him, standing luxuriantly beside the post road, and under the dense shade of the trees, there were many people sitting or lying there to rest, and some people were putting tea and melon and fruit stalls there to sell, which seemed very lively.

So the sea also quickly turned over and dismounted and led the reins of the horse to the tea stall, he didn't ask, picked up a big bowl of herbal tea and drank it in one go, after drinking he asked the old man who sold tea: "May I ask the old man, how much is a bowl of this tea?" The old man who sold tea looked at him and replied, "This tea costs a penny a bowl." ”

The sea didn't know how much a penny was, he didn't have copper coins on him, and he only had some broken silver taels, so he took out a piece of broken silver and said: "Old man, I only have this silver tael, I don't know if it's enough?"

The old man looked at it and exclaimed, "I can't find this silver tael, forget it, you don't have to pay for a bowl of tea." The sea quickly clenched his fists and bent down to thank him.

At this moment several of the people lying in the shade of the trees were staring at the sea, because they had noticed him from a long distance, and some of them said that this horse was a rare and good horse, and that the rider must not be an ordinary person. Sure enough, when the sea led the horse over, he didn't look like an ordinary civilian, and when he drank water and paid, he took out the silver, so he must have been a powerful person.

Two of them stood up and stepped forward to greet the sea, clasping their fists and saying to the sea: "May I ask the guest officer, it has been raining all the past few days, is it easy to walk on the post road ahead?" The sea also hurriedly replied: "The road was muddy when I came this morning, but the sky was clear in the afternoon, so I guess the road is good." So the two men nodded their heads in thanks and left.

There are many wastelands on both sides of the post road, and although it is almost the middle season, there are still many weeds in the fields that are not yellow and green, and many people bring their horses here to let them drink water and eat some weeds in the ditch. Seeing people grazing horses here, the sea also led the horses here to eat grass and drink water, so that the horses could also recuperate.

The sea clenched his fists and asked the person who was also a horse herder next to him, "May I ask my brother, what is this?" Is there a market town ahead? How far is it from Xudu? "Back to my brother! This place is Liu Zhuang, not far from the front of Du Ji, this place is still thirty miles away from Xudu. The Wrangler replied. The sea hurriedly clenched his fists and replied: "Thank you, big brother!" ”

After resting for a while, the sea felt that his strength had recovered well, and then he looked at the red rabbit horse and was also refreshed at this time. The sea looked at the time, it was three o'clock in the afternoon, there were still thirty miles to go, and now he could go, so he turned over and walked towards Xu Du.

Riding on the horse, he thought, this horse is Cao Xiu's mount, it is different, Cao Xiu will definitely send information to Cao Cao, so I can't ride this horse into the city, I have to put the horse in foster before entering the city, and then find other horses or walk into the city. In addition, Cao Cao may be alert and arranged, and I can't enter the city from the south gate, so I will go to the front to find someone to ask about the situation first.

Before I knew it, I walked nearly five miles again, and sure enough, there was a big market town in front of me, which must be Duji. At this time, he invisibly looked back and found that two people were also riding horses about a hundred meters away from him and following him unhurriedly. So he waved his whip and shouted, "Drive!" The red rabbit horse rushed out like a maroon "lightning" at once.

It was indeed the person arranged by Xu Chu who followed. It was under the ginkgo tree that they concluded that the man on the red rabbit horse was the one to follow. The two people who asked the sea just now were those two people with a super strong memory, and after noting down his appearance and clothes, they had already reported back to Xu Du quickly.

The two people who stayed behind, one named Zhang Kang and the other named Shi Jian, were both capable people under Xu Chu, and they were selected by Xu Chu to arrange this tracking task. Before leaving, he was told that this was a task personally ordered by King Wei, and the stakes were very high. If you do a good job, you will be rewarded, but if you make a mistake, you will be punished heavily. So they both cheered up.

The previous tracking was quite smooth, and I didn't want to be discovered by it for some reason just now. Before they could react, they saw the man riding the red rabbit horse in front of them "snap" with a whip and a "drive!" in his mouth. The horse suddenly accelerated, and ran away like a puff of smoke.

Although the two of them also hurried forward, the red rabbit horse ran too fast, and disappeared without a trace in a blink of an eye. Losing the target to track, the angry two of them beat their chests and scolded the future people for being too cunning.

After shaking off the people who were following him, the sea thought to himself, "I may be targeted, so I can't take the big road anymore; It's only more than ten miles away from Xudu, and you can't ride a horse, so you can only foster the horse, but the inn may not be safe, so you can just find a remote farmer to foster it for a few days. Thinking of this, he immediately left the post road and ran into the wilderness in front of him.

After walking a short distance, he saw a solitary thatched courtyard, so he rode to the door of the house and stopped and shouted inside, "Is there anyone?" ”

At this time, a big yellow dog rushed out of the yard and barked at him, "Wang, Wang, Wang". Soon an old man with a white beard staggered out of the yard on crutches and shouted at the barking dog, "Rhubarb, go back!" Hearing the old man's reprimand, the fierce big yellow dog just now instantly became docile, and returned to the yard with his head bowed and his tail wagging.

The sea turned over and dismounted, clasped his fists with both hands and said: "Dare to ask the old gentleman his name, this year's Gui Geng, where is this?" The old man said: "The old man's surname is Shu and the word is long, and today there are eight out of sixty, and this is Longshan." This old gentleman Shu also answered the questions of the sea one by one,

After the greetings, he led the sea into the courtyard. This yard seems to be not small, there is a bowl thick jujube tree in the center of the yard, and there are many jujube trees on the branches, and the branches are bent and hung on it.

There was also an old woman in the courtyard, with gray hair and a look of more than sixty years old, who was sitting on a wooden bench and mending clothes, when she saw her wife leading a stranger in, and the man was holding a tall horse in his hand, she was startled, and hastened to meet her.

After greeting the old woman with both hands in fists, the sea handed over the reins of the red rabbit horse to Shu Lao, and told him that he had something important to keep the horse here for a few days, and took out two ingots of silver and sent them to Mr. Shu, and told him to take good care of the horse.

Mr. Shu stared at the horse carefully and said, "This horse is a good horse, but it is still a little short of the BMW raised by the old man." ”

The sea was amazed; "Is there a better horse than this? Check it out with me. Mr. Shu twisted his beard and said with a smile: "The old man has four BMW horses here, and he will sweat like blood when he runs, and he is called 'sweat and blood BMW' brought by his father from the Western Regions, and he has bred for three generations in total, and now there are only a few horses, but the old man has never told outsiders." With that, he led the sea to the stable behind the courtyard.

When he saw the horses, he was speechless, and these horses were taller and stronger than the red rabbit horse he had ridden.

Seeing the approaching people, the horses all snorted and neighed loudly, looking very energetic. The sea couldn't help but feed the horses with grass and pet them, and the horses came down quietly. The sea touched the backs and stomachs of the horses with his hands, and sure enough, he found that there was red sweat sticking to his hands.

The sea said to Mr. Shu: "It turns out that the old man is a master of raising horses, but why didn't such a good horse be sold for money or leaked the news and was requisitioned by the officials?" ”

Mr. Shu replied: "The first few generations of this horse are the horses of the enemy chieftain captured by my father when he followed his general to the Western Regions, a total of six, my father was a groom, and then the general who followed my father died in battle, and before he died, he gave these horses to his father, and let him breed them well, and use them for the Han Dynasty in the future." Unexpectedly, the Yellow Turban Army uprising broke out, and warlords in various places fought each other, so my father did not let others know about these BMWs, and after my father died, he let the old man raise horses and breed in this secluded place. ”

The sea asked, "I see! This horse is really a BMW, if I need it in the future, dare to ask the old gentleman if he can cut his love? Mr. Shu replied: "My old man looks dignified, he must be a decent person, there is a saying that 'a good horse is a good saddle', but a good horse must be a good person!" In the future, if you need such a horse, the old man will be able to give you a good horse, and you can choose from among them. ”

The sea said very gratefully: "Thank you, Mr. Shu, for raising up!" In the future, if you need to, you will definitely come here to pick up the horse, and then Shu Lao must endure the pain and cut his love! ”

In the end, after asking about the situation of Xudu, he said goodbye to the old couple and walked to Xudu City on foot with his baggage.

After going out, it was already half past four in the afternoon, according to Mr. Shu, this place is the closest to the east gate of Xudu, it is estimated that there is still a distance of twenty miles, and it takes nearly two hours to walk, so the sea sped up its pace, and strive to enter Xudu City before dark at seven o'clock in the evening.

Walking on the sea, he felt that something was wrong, and he thought to himself, I can turn on the satellite and use the terminal to check the satellite positioning, so that I can know the location and the distance of Xudu more clearly. So he turned on the satellite and used the terminal to check, and then talked to Li Yong and the others, and told him where he was and what happened on the way.

Li Yong told him: "Although you are walking, your clothes and appearance may be remembered by the people who are following you, and if you enter the city like this, they may see through it, so you must enter the city in disguise." ”

Hearing Li Yong say this, the sea felt that it made sense, so he immediately turned around and returned. Fortunately, he had just walked a short distance, and soon returned to Mr. Shu's thatched hut, asked him for a coarse cloth dress with many patches but was still clean, and left him the satin clothes, and then turned back and walked towards Xudu City.

Besides, Zhang and Shi, who were following them, were anxious and angry since they were thrown off, and they came to the south gate of Xu Capital City all the way. Zhang Kang asked Shi Jian to stay at the door and squat, and he hurried to the city tower to report to Xu Chu.

After Xu Chu heard Zhang Kang say that the person was lost, he was furious, slapped him on the spot and shouted: "You are so useless! After the general reports to the prime minister, he will punish you heavily! After finishing speaking, he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly sent someone to report to the prime minister.

This Cao Cao is really not comparable to ordinary people, he had already expected this situation, so he said to the person sent by Xu Chu to report: "Go back and tell General Xu, don't blame yourself, the prime minister has long expected this result; Passing on the order of the true appearance, let him be cautious before dark, and never take it lightly again. So the messenger immediately returned to the south gate to report to Xu Chu the will of the prime minister.

Xu Chu arranged Zhang Kang and Shi Jian, as well as the two people who came back first to deliver the letter in the afternoon, and arranged them at the four city gates in the east, west, south, and north respectively, to assist the officers and soldiers guarding the gates to identify the people who were being followed in the afternoon.

It was getting dark, and the many officers and soldiers guarding the gates of the city were all wide-eyed and energetic, but they did not find the man on horseback that they had seen in the afternoon.

Seeing that the city gate was about to be closed, Xu Chu was anxious and thought: "Could it be that this person didn't enter the city today or did he use some tricks to sneak into the city?" If he really sneaked into the city, wouldn't that be a serious dereliction of duty on the part of General Ben? ”

In fact, Liu Dahai really got involved. Just as it was getting dark, he wore the shabby clothes and used the make-up props he had brought with him to disguise himself as a hunchbacked scavenger who followed the other people into the city through the east gate.

As soon as they entered the city, the sea headed for a place where buildings were relatively scarce. By this time it was completely dark, and every house was lit up with dim lights. It was dinner time, and there were relatively few pedestrians on the streets, but from time to time there were groups of officers and soldiers patrolling the streets hurrying down the streets.

Dahai thought to himself: "Now Cao Cao's people are afraid that I have infiltrated the city, so they have stepped up patrols, I must first find a remote inn to live in and then eat some food to recover my strength." ”

So he went into an alley northeast of the city. He didn't go far when he saw two lanterns lit at the door of a courtyard, and when he walked in, one of the lanterns had the word Ruyi written on it; Another lantern has the word inn written on it.

Above the door, under the dim light, there is a faint plaque of "Ruyi Inn", which seems to be an inn called "Ruyi Inn".

The sea never expected that as soon as he entered, he was targeted by the people arranged by Zhang He. Because when the city gate was closed, no one who was followed in the afternoon was found, and after Cao Cao found out, he expected that this person might have mixed into the city. Immediately ordered the undercover agents to be sent to the inns disguised as men, and if anyone came to stay after dark, men over the age of sixteen were to be questioned and reported.

As soon as the sea walked into the inn, a guy went up to ask if he wanted to stay at the hotel. Without even thinking about it, the sea said to him, "Are there any rooms yet?" Find me a secluded room if I have one; Is there anything else to eat? The man immediately said: "Return officer: there are still rooms and food to eat." ”

So the sea asked again: "How many silver taels for a night in this room?" The man hurriedly replied: "This room is not expensive, only one penny of silver for one night." So the sea took out a burden from the arms of the tattered clothes, took out a piece of broken silver from it, and said, "Book two nights first, and then make me some delicious dinner and send it to my room." ”

After the fellow took the silver, he bent down and said, "Thank you, guest officer!" So he shouted to the people inside: "Quickly arrange dinner for this guest officer, and have more beef and braised vegetables!" ”。

The sea followed the fellow to a relatively remote room, where he lit the candle on the table, and in the light of the beating candles, he could see everything in the room.

It was a room with the door facing east, and a window at the back, the room was small but tidy, with a bed and a small table, and the bedding on the bed was fairly clean, but there was a faint musty smell in the room. After looking at the sea, I thought it was okay, anyway, I just had to sleep.

The man sent the sea into the room and left, and soon someone came in with a food box. After the man opened the food box, he brought out the braised beef, braised pig's trotters, fried shredded pork and green vegetable egg soup one by one and put them on the table one by one, and immediately a fragrant smell of food filled the whole room, and he also sent a pot of wine.

The sea is really tired and hungry at this time, and besides, there has not been such an opportunity to eat and drink here leisurely in the past few days as today.

He picked up the braised pig's trotters on the table and gnawed it, after eating a few bites, he couldn't help but look at the pot of wine on the table again, so he opened the lid and smelled it, it was really fragrant, and when he was about to drink it, he calmly thought again: "I am alone on a mission, and I must not drink, otherwise I may make a mistake." So he swallowed the foam and put the wine back on the table.

It may be because of eating something, the mind and body are a little relaxed, and the sea suddenly feels a little sore all over the body, especially the special swelling and pain in the lower body, maybe it is caused by too long riding and walking time today.

Dahai thought again: "I just arrived here tonight, the Wei army outside patrols more frequently, it seems that it is not easy to act tonight, why don't I drink some wine to relieve my fatigue, and talk about it tomorrow." Besides, there is a musty smell in this room, and you can't smell it when you drink some wine. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but pick up the wine on the table, opened the lid and drank it.

I wanted to drink less, but I couldn't hold my mouth when I drank it, and there were so many dishes on the table, so it didn't take long for him to sweep away all the food and wine on the table.

At this time, the sea was already dizzy, and I wanted to call Li Yong to report the current situation, but considering that he had already drunk and was afraid of being discovered by Li Yong and them, he only sent him a message about his current location and everything was normal, and he would act on the camera tomorrow, and then shut down the phone.

This is exactly what it is: after a lot of hardships and hardships, I finally came to Xudu Mansion

Unexpectedly, his whereabouts were discovered, and he was greedy and fell for Cheng Yu's plan