Chapter 444: The Horse Team
are both brothers and sisters, Huo Qingzhou and Huo Roufeng not only learn words quickly, but also have the same recognition of voices as well.
At four o'clock, there was a doctor sitting in the hall, and there was an endless stream of people who came to see the doctor, and there was no queue, so they chatted on the side, and some asked for medicinal materials.
The voices of these two people were mixed in the chaos, and Huo Qingzhou could still hear them at once.
One of them was Xie Sicheng, and the other was an old man he had seen beside Xie Sicheng.
That year, he and Xie Sicheng were often together, and most of the people who followed Xie Sicheng were Uncle Wang, and he had only met this old man once.
Huo Qingzhou raised his eyes and looked over, and couldn't help but secretly curse himself for being negligent, if he hadn't heard the voices of these two people, he would have almost missed it.
I saw that Xie Sicheng was wearing a royal blue coarse cloth robe, with two patches on the robe, and a small green cloth hat on his head, which had been washed and white. His face was pale, his chin was stubble, and his hair was so disheveled that it hung down from his hat and over his eyes, and he was so haggard that it was painful.
Although the old man standing beside him was tall and strong, he had a white cloth wrapped around his forehead, and blood stains came out of the white cloth, which was shocking.
Huo Qingzhou gasped, if the master and servant were pretending to be down-and-out, in order to hide people's eyes, then they would be too similar.
Xie Sicheng covered his mouth with his sleeve, and coughed violently, this cough will not be fake, this is absolutely true.
For the hall doctor, cough is just a common condition, and the hall doctor asked a few words, then wrote a list of medicines and asked them to follow the buddy to get the medicine.
Today I came to visit my sister in Sishitang, Huo Qingzhou did not wear an official uniform, nor did he wear the white clothes that he had always loved, so he shrank in an unnoticeable place, and Xie Sicheng's master and servant did not notice him.
Seeing the figures of the master and servant disappear into the crowd, Huo Qingzhou got up and walked out.
He originally wanted to be called Ruyan and Ruwu, but as soon as he went out, he bumped into Huangling.
Huang Ling saw that it was him, and hurriedly saluted.
Huo Qingzhou asked, "What about the Nine Niangzi?" Why aren't you with her? ”
Huang Ling hurriedly explained, "Jiu Niangzi asked me to come back...... Master Xiaohuo, why are you here, it's noisy here, you can rest in the back. ”
When Huo Qingzhou looked at him, he knew that he had something to hide, so he didn't ask much at the moment, so he went back to the backyard.
It wasn't until after a cup of tea that Huang Ling trotted over and said to Huo Qingzhou: "Lord Xiaohuo, I will send someone to send you back to the official post, if you don't want to live in the official post, then stay in the Four Seasons Hall." ”
Huo Qingzhou frowned, faintly feeling that something was about to happen, and he asked in a deep voice: "Where is Jiu Niangzi, what did she tell you to come back?" You can rest assured that even if she knows that you told me, she will not reprimand you. ”
Huang Ling said with a smile: "Lord Xiao Huo smiled, when Jiu Niangzi asked me to come back, I had already told me to bring you a letter, either please stay in the official post, or move to Si Shi Tang, Jiu Niangzi also said, if you ask, just let me tell the truth, Jiu Niangzi also said, you are extremely smart, rather than hiding from you, it is better to let you know." ”
Huang Ling said a lot in one breath, Huo Qingzhou's brows were deeply locked, and he suddenly remembered Xie Sicheng who he had just met in the Four Seasons Hall.
Before he returned to the backyard, he asked Ruyan and Ruwu to pay attention, Xie Sicheng only took the old man alone, and there was no other entourage.
"Jiu Niangzi asked you to follow Xie Sicheng, right?" Huo Qingzhou asked in a deep voice.
Huang Ling said: "Lord Xiao Huo has good eyesight, Jiu Niangzi found Xie Sicheng the day before yesterday, Xie Sicheng's people were ambushed in Datong, and more than a dozen people only escaped Xie Sicheng and the old man, if it wasn't for Jiu Niangzi ordering to help him once, I'm afraid that their master and servant would not be able to get out of Datong Mansion completely." Jiuniangzi Bodhisattva was heartfelt, and asked us to follow us all the way and follow Xie Sicheng to Xuanfu. ”
Huo Qingzhou frowned, and said angrily: "She went to Datong Mansion? And went for a few days? ”
In the past few days, every time he came to the Four Seasons Hall, he told Jiu Niangzi to go out of the city, but no one told him that Jiu Niangzi had not come back since he left the city, and he thought that Huo Roufeng came back every day, but he just missed the time to go.
Huang Ling said: "Datong is very close to Xuanfu, there is a business of Yongfeng over there, and Jiu Niangzi ......"
"Okay", before Huang Ling finished speaking, Huo Qingzhou asked, "Why did you want you to come to me, is there a mess in the Xuanfu?" ”
Huang Ling said with a smile: "It's a matter of time before there is chaos in Xuanfu, it's just a day earlier or a day later, Jiu Niangzi won't calculate, she is just thinking about Lord Xiao Huo." ”
Huo Qingzhou stroked his forehead: "You don't have to say nice things for her, she will think about me?" She's not worried about being angry, and I'm thankful. ”
Huo Qingzhou and Huo Roufeng are brother and sister, they can hide it from everyone, and they can't hide it from the people around them, Huang Ling knows this relationship, so he is very affectionate to Huo Qingzhou, and when he saw Huo Qingzhou say this, he just smiled.
Huo Qingzhou didn't want to go back to the official post, so he stayed in the Four Seasons Hall at night. Just after the second watch, he heard a movement outside and sat up.
Sishitang is a shop facing the street, the front yard is facing the most lively street in Xuanfu, and the backyard is only separated from another street by a wall, so Huo Qingzhou can clearly hear the sound of horses' hooves from far and near.
The sound of hooves is crisp, not just one or two, but hundreds!
"Like smoke, go out and have a look!" Huo Qingzhou commanded.
As soon as he ran under the dripping eaves, he bumped into the oncoming Huo family guards.
Ruyan knew this person, this was Huang Ling's subordinate, he hurriedly ran over, and said to Huo Qingzhou: "Lord Xiao Huo, Huang Tou'er, please don't be impatient, this is not a Tartar, but a person from the Xuanfu General Military Mansion." ”
"Xuanfu General Military Mansion? They don't sleep in the middle of the night, what are they going to do? "I heard that it is not a Tartar, Huo Qingzhou patted his chest, he has grown so big, he has never seen a war, nor has he dealt with these general military mansions.
"I don't know, but Huang Tou'er seems to have known for a long time, why don't you ask Huang Tou'er tomorrow?" The guard stammered.
Huo Qingzhou waved his hand and decided to go out and have a look by himself.
He walked under the wall, took a deep breath, and jumped onto it.
Xuanfu is colder than the capital, but in October, the wall is frozen hard, Huo Qingzhou regretted not wearing a cloak when he went out, at this time the autumn wind came up, Huo Qingzhou was so cold that he hugged his shoulders.
I saw that there were about 100 war horses dispatched, and the people on the horses were really all soldiers in white armor.
The horse team galloped past the gate of the Four Seasons Hall, turned a corner in front, and galloped away in the other direction.
As soon as the horse team left, someone opened the door and window to look out, and then, Huo Qingzhou saw someone carrying a burden and dragging his family out of the house and heading to the west of the city.