After the person who pretended to be the one who did not return disappeared, the fog in the sky slowly dissipated. Then, the guards and chamberlains who had fallen to the ground slowly got up. Everyone was dazed, not knowing what had just happened.

When the few small chamberlains sent out by Liu Xiu hurriedly ran back to the big tent, they saw that the emperor was fighting with the princess of the East China Sea. After seeing that the emperor was safe and sound, several attendants breathed a sigh of relief. Except for the emperor and the princess, there was no one in the big tent.

At the same time, in a small tent not far from the Emperor's tent. Among the three accompanying officials, a tall man was saying to a young man next to him who was a few years younger than him: "Old fellow, you are really blinded by you." There are really monks secretly guarding the emperor, but aren't you cultivators unable to control the fortunes of the country? It's all for the emperor to take care of the home, what is this? ”

"Do you think that the world is full of unenlightened monks?" The younger official smiled at the big man, and then continued: "There are many monks in the world who protect the king, and I don't see what will happen to anyone. In fact, even if he was a Fang Shi, he was mixed in the mansions of various princes back then, as long as it was not too out of line, Xu Fu also turned a blind eye. Isn't he himself a guest of the First Emperor? ”

......At this time, another official glanced at the colleague who had just spoken, and then said in a mean tone: "Are you talking about yourself?" Old guy, one of the six people just now is not weak in magic. If you can have such skills, you should also recognize it, right? ”

"I dare to say that I saw my old man hundreds of years ago, except for those few alchemists, the rest of the people can be counted with one pair of hands." After the young official smiled, he continued: "However, in addition to Xu Fu's elixir of life, other methods of immortality in the world are also effective. There may also be monks at the time of Yan Aihou, who have been hiding in the deep mountains and old forests to cultivate, and it is not necessarily that they have not come out. ”

Mean-spirited officials have become accustomed to young officials not telling the truth, and they no longer speak in the moment. He just tilted his head to the side, closed his eyes and pretended to sleep.

By this time, the fog outside had cleared. There were guards and guards running around everywhere, and when the chaotic noise outside was a little quieter, the big official said to the young official again: "Your third brother hasn't come back for so long, can't something happen?" ”

"Don't worry about Xiao Rensan, it's smarter than you," the young official laughed and continued: "The place he's going to is not close, even if it's its innate method of escape, it will take some time to go back and forth. Wait, as long as it doesn't come out of the ground, even a whale shark won't hurt that little guy. ”

A strange fog made the entire emperor's guard of honor nervous. After the fog cleared, Feng Yi and Cen Peng, who were in charge of the emperor's safety, immediately arrived in the emperor's tent. persuaded Liu Xiu not to stay here for a long time, and at that moment, Liu Xiu ordered the honor guard to go forward overnight and rest in the county seat thirty miles away from here.

At that moment, the brigade left all the baggage in place, leaving a small number of people to guard it, and the rest of the people all rushed towards the county pointed out by Liu Xiu overnight. Early the next morning, Liu Xiu's guard of honor arrived in the county seat. Most of the Imperial Forest Army remained outside the city, and the emperor took his palace and officials into the county seat. After last night's strange fog, Feng Yi and Cen Peng didn't dare to be careless, and under desperate persuasion, Liu Xiucai nodded again, and the two of them brought 10,000 imperial forest troops into the city to guard.

Originally, there was no county seat in the itinerary, and the local officials were not prepared to receive the emperor at all. At the moment, the emperor, the queen mother and the empress can only be taken to live in the county government. The remaining officials were assigned to the homes of other officials and wealthy families, because there were so many people accompanying them. The county couldn't arrange it, so they could only invite them to the people's homes.

Early in the morning, the county seat was overcrowded. Everywhere except for the prison was crowded with people, and the three new-faced officials connected with a dozen other officials of low rank, and could only temporarily go to live in a dilapidated mountain temple in the county. In other places, the mountain temple was built at the foot of the mountain outside the city, and I don't know why, why this temple was built inside the city, and it is so dilapidated that it has not been demolished.

Since the three men had finished going, the few rooms inside had already been occupied by other officials. Due to the lack of preparation in the county seat, the baggage carried by the honor guard did not keep up. The mattress or something has already been tightly attached to the big officials such as the Three Princes and Jiuqing, and the other officials with a slightly lower grade can only find a way to endure it themselves.

Soon after everyone entered the mountain temple, the emperor's decree followed. The Queen Mother occasionally felt the wind and cold, and the honor guard team temporarily stayed here for a few days. After the Queen Mother recovered from her illness, the brigade marched towards Luoyang. Originally, all the officials thought that they were just stopping here for a while, and they couldn't think of when they would leave now. Fortunately, the baggage will be delivered soon, at least at night there is no need to be directly on the ground.

However, it was still not quite what the officials expected, and in the evening, the weight of the honor guard was not delivered. In addition to the lack of bedding, the county town could not afford the food of the brigade. This small county town has a population of one or two thousand. But the attendants, palace maids and guards brought by the emperor alone were more than double the population of the county. Coupled with the more than 10,000 Royal Forest troops who were already standing on the street, it was just a meal at noon, and after eating, there was nothing left in the county's food stockpile.

That night, no one came to the temple to bring food to the officials. Changshi, the highest-ranking official, went to the county magistrate to negotiate for a long time, and finally came back with five wheat cakes. I heard that this was saved from the mouths of the guards who escorted the car, but there were twenty-one officials stuffed in the mountain temple, and these five wheat cakes were not enough anyway.

Just when the officials were pretending to be humble and discussing this arrangement according to their official positions, everyone ate a bite. A big man who had been transferred to Beijing came over and knocked away several officials who were guarding the wheat cakes. Then he picked up the wheat cake and stuffed it into his mouth.

looked at the official uniform of this big man, that is, Lang Zhongling in a vassal state. Counting his official position, he is the last to lick some wheat cake crumbs. No one thought that such an outgoing petty official would be wild in front of these chiefs, and at that moment, the chief Shi who was the leader slapped the table and said to the big man Lang Zhongling: "You are so presumptuous in your eyes, do you still put Shangguan in your eyes?" Say, "Where are you an official, and what is your surname?" doesn't even have an official body, what kind of official are you doing! ”

The big man swallowed the wheat cake in his mouth, then grabbed another wheat cake and stuffed it into his mouth. Then he grabbed several other wheat cakes and threw them to the two officials behind him, who were also Lang Zhongling. After seeing that there were no more wheat cakes, the big man pointed to Changshi and said, "My son, don't you even recognize your father?" What did Lao Tzu tell you when he gave birth to you? When you grow up, you should honor your father well. I knew that I was not even willing to give up a wheat cake now, and after giving birth to you, I should have drowned you in the dung pit. You are talking nonsense now, and you are not even willing to give your father a cake......"

When has Changshi heard this, even if an important minister like Sangong Jiuqing was angry, he didn't point his nose and scold the street like this. At that moment, he was trembling with anger, and he couldn't even say a word. In the end, he was also out of the way, and rushed over tremblingly, and he was going to fight with the second stunned.

However, all the people present were civil officials, and they saw that the big man was a head and a half taller than Changshi. looks like a civilian general, and Changshi was also beaten in the past. At that moment, the officials hurriedly stopped Changshi. After a bit of persuasion, he finally 'convinced' Changshi to swallow this breath temporarily. After arriving in Luoyang, the new capital, all the officials jointly participated in this big man's book. I was looking for a few ministers and bigwigs, and I broke off the years when a big man was an official.

The two officials in the back, one of whom was younger, looked at their appearance and laughed, and said to himself, "Is it going to start again tonight?" ”