Kong Sizhen didn't know anything about what was happening in the palace. [No pop-ups. At this time, she was secretly traveling to Guangxi, preparing to meet with Guoan and his father's old generals.

As the daughter of the king of Dingnan, although the Dingfan has been held by Si Zhenyao, but the actual ruler is Guoan, Guoan, as Kong Youde's old general, forced Li Dingguo out of Guangxi meritorious, was named the capital of Guangxi by the imperial court, the prestige of Guoan is quite high and has a heavy army, the chaotic situation in Guangxi has improved compared with the previous year, but at the same time, there are also some people in the national security who are ready to move, which requires the imperial court to be timely or appeased, so as not to change over time.

This candidate, of course, has to be Sizhen.

Now that Sizhen has reached the throne, in order to better control the Dingfan, the Queen Mother and the emperor discussed, and then issued a secret decree to send her to Guangxi.

In the name of traveling, the court rewarded and comforted the national security, in order to hide people's eyes and ears, Sizhen accompanied her in the name of the deputy envoy, and there were very few people who knew her true identity, except for the Lord Qinchadu, only a dozen people from Sizhen knew.

When she went out this time, in addition to the thrush, she also brought Huang Ying, as well as the dozen or so orphans that Qi Niangzi accepted, her senior brothers.

Along the way, Lord Qin Chadu was a civil official and needed to take a car, for the convenience of the march, Sizhen was his deputy envoy, the thrush was dressed as a servant, and Huang Ying was a cook, and all three of them wore men's clothes, took another carriage, and followed.

The dozen or so orphans, led by the eldest Qi Dongping, dressed up as Qincha's personal guards, and rode horses in the escort team.

In order to speed up the journey, the sergeants who escorted the reward materials also rode the escort and protected the front and rear.

To the boundary of Guangxi, you have to pass through Qinglong Mountain.

Qinglong Mountain is majestic and beautiful, the mountain is nearly 1,000 meters high, the mountain is full of pine and cypress, the four seasons are gloomy, just like a green dragon, lying in the mountain range, so it is named Qinglong Mountain.

Entering the mountain road from the official road, you can see a green mountain winding on the horizon in the distance, and it is full of life as far as the eye can see.

In order to rush to Guangxi as soon as possible, so along the way, Sizhen and his party ate and lived relatively simply, and the inns and restaurants were all close to the official road.

Even so, by the time I entered the mountain, it was already dark.

The convoy walked methodically along the mountain road, and in the silence, the sound of horses' hooves could be heard.

On both sides of the mountain road, some people were ambushed in the dense pine and cypress belts, gesturing to each other and asking, "The fat sheep is coming?" ”

"It's coming!"

Sizhen and their group, sitting on people, pulling things, dozens of carriages are mighty, and there are guards and soldiers on horseback in front and behind, and it seems that the formation is quite strong.

In the eyes of the mountain bandits, it is indeed a fat sheep.

After eating, it was easy to get sleepy, and then by the rhythmic shaking of the carriage, the yellow warbler was drowsy, and the upper and lower eyelids kept fighting, and then simply leaned his head on the shoulder of the thrush and fell asleep.

Sizhen was also a little sleepy, but she forced her eyes open, and even lifted the curtain to look out.

In her impression, this Qinglong Mountain is a place where bandits haunt.

The thrush with her eyelids was also fighting with Huang Ying, and woke up, she glanced at Sizhen, smiled embarrassedly, and reached out to tuck the cloak on Sizhen's shoulders tighter.

Suddenly, a sharp whistle came from the mountain road.

The whistle was so sharp that it sounded unusually thrilling!

The silence of the night was suddenly broken, and the neat hooves of the horse team became chaotic, and the soldiers and sergeants, who had been a little listless, were immediately alert!

Then, some torches were thrown, and if it wasn't far away, I was afraid that the convoy would immediately fall into chaos.

Even so, the horse team was already a little frightened, and the riders and charioters had to struggle to hold on to the reins.

Master Du in the carriage was taken aback, and asked anxiously, "What's the matter?" What's going on up ahead? ”

After asking, he suddenly thought of something, and shouted: "Let the convoy stop first, and you bring some people to the back to protect Deputy Envoy Kong, so that they don't get out of the car, and beware of someone taking advantage of the fire to rob." The rest, don't panic! ”

Soon, someone came to report, "My lord, there are mountain bandits robbing the road." ”

Master Du frowned and said, "Did you tell them that they were official messengers?" ”

The people do not fight with officials, and even if they are bandits, they generally only dare to rob the property of ordinary merchants or pedestrians, and do not dare to confront officials like them with open fire.

The person who came to report nodded, "The other party saw our formation, and heard that it was the official family, and they have dispersed in a hurry, but there are many torches and big stones blocking the way in front, and we have to find someone to clean it up." ”

Qi Dongping, who drove the horse over, said: "The fire has gone down, don't worry, there are subordinates guarding in front, it's okay." ”

Master Du nodded, "Qi Zuo leads you to bring more people over, you still have to be careful." ”

He ordered some people, "You go with Qi Zuoling, help those people in front of you to put out the fire, if you see the eldest prince and them, let them listen to Qi Zuoling's command, don't make trouble." ”

When the spies came to report just now, his eldest son took a few people to take advantage of the chaos to run to the front, Lord Du thought that there was no danger, and it was good to exercise the stunned young man in his own family, so he didn't stop it, and he was afraid that he would do his own thing and make trouble for Qi Dongping, so he gave an order.

Not long after, Xiao Zhang, another captain of his personal guard, rushed back on horseback and shouted at Lord Du from a distance: "My lord, don't go quickly, this fire is about to burn our convoy." ”

Lord Du's heart froze, "It's not that the mountain bandits have dispersed, how can there still be fire?" ”

Xiao Zhang shook his head and said: "I don't know, this fire came strangely, after those people went up the hillside, they also threw down a lot of torches lit with oil, and the horse team behind us was a little chaotic, maybe they escaped before they were pretending, or maybe they wanted to fish in troubled waters, we had to guard against it."

Master Du hurriedly asked, "Come here, how is the back?" ”

This time in Beijing, in order to ensure the smooth operation of the convoy, they deliberately divided the work, and the boss Du was in the center and was responsible for the overall command of the center; Qi Dongping played the avant-garde, responsible for pathfinding, accommodation arrangements; Xiao Zhang was in charge of escorting the team, at the back of the convoy.

Xiao Zhang was about to say that it was okay, when he saw a carriage driving madly over.

Several guards and sergeants were unable to avoid it and were knocked to the ground by the carriage.

Master Du hurriedly said: "Stop it, stop it, it's Deputy Envoy Kong's carriage." ”

He jumped out of the carriage and wanted to chase after him.

Xia Shi, who had been staying in the carriage without speaking, grabbed him, "Master, you don't know martial arts." Let the guards go and save Deputy Kong, don't follow, don't let the horse step on you. ”

Master Du roared angrily, "Let go, you let go." ”

Seeing that Xia was stubborn, he was about to kick it when he returned to his feet.

The sharp-eyed guard bent his bow and shot the eye of the galloping horse, and a sergeant stepped forward at the risk of death, restrained the startled horse that was slowing down, and said: "Deputy Envoy Kong"

Then he exclaimed in surprise and disbelief: "My lord, the carriage is empty, and there is no one. ”

Xi is that Deputy Envoy Kong is not in the car, so he should be fine. I suspect where Deputy Envoy Kong went, will something happen?

Hearing the guard's reply, Lord Du retracted his feet and shouted outside the carriage, "Deputy Envoy Kong, Deputy Envoy Kong"

"My lord, don't worry, I'm in the car behind, I'm with Hua Wen."

Hearing the clear voice of Sizhen in the night sky, Lord Du breathed a sigh of relief. Master Du felt the hand holding his arm tighten, and he looked at Xia.

Xia Shi let go of his hand in a panic, "Great, Deputy Envoy Kong is fine, master, you were too panicked just now, what if you rushed over and were stepped on by that startled horse?" What do you do with your concubine, what do you do with your wife and a few children? ”

This trip, should not have brought a family, but Lord Du is very fond of this Xia, and only after setting off did he find that she was wearing men's clothes and mixed in the team, at that time, it was already dozens of miles away from Beijing, Xia cried and said that if she wanted to go back, sooner or later she would be tortured to death by her wife, and she would die if she didn't do that...... In this way, Master Du took her with him.

After saying these few words, Xia Shi was already in tears.

Master Du wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything, he only glanced at Xia, and then said, "I'll go and see the children, Deputy Envoy Kong is only afraid that he will be frightened." ”

"Concubine body"

Without waiting for Xia to finish speaking, Lord Du said: "No, you're messing around here, you're a woman, it's not easy to get out of the car." ”

Master Du had just gotten out of the car and walked a few steps, when suddenly a scream came, and he was startled and turned his head to look over. I saw a person running in front of me, blood flowing from his forehead, and he couldn't even tell his appearance, he could only tell that it was the guard in front of him according to his clothing.

The man staggered to the middle of the convoy, and he couldn't hold on any longer, fell to the ground, and said in a hoarse voice: "My lord, there is an ambush, Qi Zuoling can't hold it anymore, hurry, hurry...... Send someone to ...... Support. ”

Xiao Zhang jumped over and asked urgently, "What's the matter, the mountain bandits have gone and returned?" ”

Xiao Zhang was about to lean over to check the guard's injuries, when Sizhen's voice suddenly came from behind the car, which was particularly clear in the night sky: "Be careful!" ”

Xiao Zhang subconsciously dodged and retreated.

I saw a sword light like a match, which could pass in front of his chest and cut through his clothes.

If it weren't for Xiao Zhang's timely dodge, I was afraid that he would be disemboweled!

The man who came out with the knife was the bloodied guard who came to report the news!

In a moment of astonishment, the already organic guards swarmed up, protected Xiao Zhang, and went up to fight the sneak attacker.

At this time, Lord Du already understood that this person was wearing the guard clothes in their mansion, deliberately covered his face with blood, and spoke in a low voice, intending to confuse his vision and take the opportunity to sneak attack.

To put it this way...... What's going on? Thinking of this, Master Du hesitantly looked at the calm and waveless behind, and gritted his teeth, "Xiao Zhang, you guard the back, I'll go to the front to take a look." ”

Before Lord Du could lift his feet, the assassin saw that his fists were invincible to his four hands, and he had already slashed with a whirlwind of knives, rushing out of the encirclement of the guards and disappearing into the darkness.

At this time, Sizhen had already jumped down, protected by the thrush and Huang Ying, left and right, and walked over: "My lord, you get in the car and let your subordinates go over and have a look." ”