Chapter 366: Internal and External Troubles (1) 47,500 votes
Bidding farewell to the shopkeeper of the Yingmen Inn, Wei Nong's journey south was quite smooth, and it was also thanks to God's blessing, she escaped just in time for the end of the month and the beginning of the first month, not only the officers and soldiers were worried about the New Year, and the search was weak; The people were also brightly lit, and the streets were bustling, which provided her with a lot of cover.
There were several times when the officers and soldiers were very strict, but she cleverly avoided them, and once she even pretended to be called Hanako, for which she was also hostile to the real beggars in the locality, and the two sides almost clashed.
In this way, all the way south, to the territory of Fengzhou, the fiefdom of the Marquis of Wei, has always been in danger. At this time, it was the fifteenth day of the first month of the sixty-sixth year of Ningguo Zhengshun, although the death of the prince's grandson Qi Zhan, and the confrontation between Yanning and Youzhou, but the joy in Ningguo did not diminish at all. Probably because sixty-six is an auspicious number, and the people also have unconditional trust in King Ning, and they are optimistic that he will be able to repel the Yan Kingdom and even unify Kyushu.
Wei Nong didn't know where their confidence came from, but looking at the current situation in Yan Kingdom, she didn't have much confidence herself.
When entering the city, the sun had set, the city gate was closed, and Wei Nong saw that he could not get out of the city, so he had to invest in the city. She heard that there was an annual lantern festival in Toyosu that night, and that this year it was going to be bigger than usual, which made her feel very puzzled. Less than half a year after the death of the prince's grandson Qi Zhan, Wei Hou Yuanshu openly held such a grand lantern festival poetry meeting on the fiefdom, is he not afraid of being criticized? It can be seen that he didn't care about the death of the prince at all, maybe he still thinks that his son Yuan Che finally has a chance?
Judging from this one thing alone, King Ning's choice is not wrong, Wei Hou is indeed a heartless mediocre man, and he is not even willing to do the work of face. It is conceivable that Yuan Che's former high-flying and domineering character was emulated by whom.
However, in general, the tense mood of the slight nongs has been slightly relaxed in the arrival of the Lantern Festival. She didn't dare to show up, so she had to ask for a guest room facing the street and look out of the window. She is really uncomfortable these days, and she desperately needs this kind of excitement to impress herself and warm her heart that is becoming more and more cold.
Finally, when night fell, the city was lit up with lanterns of various colors, as bright as day. The downstairs of the inn is the most lively street, and it is also the only way to enter the city, and the lantern market in this kind of place can make everyone who enters the city feel the warmth of Toyosu. It is said that this was an idea that Hara Che came up with when he was young, and it has been going on for ten years now.
Wei Nong sat in front of the window, quietly opened the window halfway, and the cold wind of early spring blew in his face, carrying the laughter and laughter of the street into his ears. She looked in, and the riddle guessing had begun, and just downstairs she was gathered a crowd of people, many of whom were slender girls, and they all chose to wear masks.
Wei Nong had an idea, and hurriedly changed into women's clothes and went downstairs, and also bought a mask to wear on his face. After putting on the mask, she understood why those girls' families were like this, because with the mask on the face, no one would find out their true identity, and they didn't have to care about the name of their daughter's family, let alone their own beauty and ugliness, they could wander around to their heart's content, and they could even compete with men to learn.
There is no shortage of outstanding women in this world, and some girls are even more courageous than men, and they have the ambition to get ahead and the ability to turn things around. It's a pity that men are inferior to women, they don't have the opportunity to perform, and in the end they can only be willing to be wives and concubines, slaves and maids, and even more unfortunate will fall into the Qinglou Chu Pavilion.
Wei Lianpian, Xiaoxin, and even Yuan Che's side concubine - the seasonal leaf she has never even seen in person, is already considered the luckier among them. And judging from a certain aspect, she herself is more lucky, in terms of talent and learning, she can't compare to any of them, all her status and knowledge are from Nie Xingji and Chu Li.
When I thought of this, I felt sad again. Suddenly, there was a cheer in her ears, someone had guessed an extremely complicated lantern riddle, and this cheer was incompatible with the sadness in her heart, and she lost interest in the moment and was about to withdraw from the crowd.
However, at this moment, the noise on the street suddenly became quieter, and it seemed that something had happened. Wei Nong looked at the corner of the street and found that many officers and soldiers were blocking people and evacuating people along the street, and it didn't look like they were arresting her.
Could it be that Wei Hou is coming? Or is it something else? Wei Nong was afraid that something would happen, so he quietly took a few steps back, standing outside the crowd so that he could escape at any time.
Everyone was whispering to each other, no one knew what was happening, and they couldn't even go home at this time, so everyone could only stand in the cold wind, waiting for the next instructions from the officers and soldiers. I don't know how long I stood like this, and Wei Nong felt that she was almost freezing, only to hear someone shouting: "Everyone take off their hats and masks!" ”
As soon as he raised his head, he heard the sound of horses' hooves getting closer and closer, and it was a group of officers and soldiers riding tall horses in front of them, pulling a behemoth to pass by.
Wei Nong glanced at the person who started the head, it was a military attaché, and the tasseled helmet was at least three grades. The people who followed behind did not look like ordinary soldiers, and the armor was more like the Praetorian Guards of the Ning Palace, but unfortunately they were too far away, and the lights of the whole street were yellowish, and the color of the armor was slightly thick, and they could only see that they were surrounded by a huge carriage pulled by four horses, and the behemoth was placed on top of the carriage, covered with delicate silk cloth, and it was impossible to see what it was.
The only thing that can be seen is that it is a rectangular shape, the size of which is like ...... Coffin?
This word suddenly appeared in Weichun's mind. Right! It's a coffin! A large wooden coffin on the outside of the coffin!
If the carriage was really a coffin, who died? can make the military attache of the third grade protect the coffin, and the one who dies must be a member of the royal family, at least the respect of the marquis!
There was a continuous sound of horses' hooves in his ears, and he quickly recalled in his heart that there were people in the Ning royal family who had been named marquis, or would appear south of Fengzhou. But after thinking about it, there was no one.
Among the three sons of King Ning, the eldest son is a concubine, and his biological mother's status is not high, so he has never been a marquis, so he lives in Lidu, not to mention his descendants; The second son, Prince Ning, is innocent, and all the heirs have died cleanly; And the third son, Wei Hou's sister-in-law, Yuan Cheyuan, is far away in Lidu......
Could it be that Wei Hou Yuan is dead? Or his other offspring? No, the Wei Hou Mansion is located in this city, if someone from the Wei Hou Mansion died, how could they pass through this place? Looking at the direction from which the guards came, this coffin was clearly brought in from outside the city!
But there are Minzhou and Youzhou left in the south of Fengzhou, Youzhou has been occupied by the Yan army, and Minzhou is not anyone's fiefdom, whose coffin will be transported over? And looking at it like this, they only borrowed Toyosu!
Suddenly, a strange thought crossed Wei Thick's heart, combined with what the shopkeeper of Yingmen Inn had said, and Nie Xingji's life experience, she seemed to think of something. Her instincts told her that there was a big secret involved, but she wasn't so sure, she didn't even know if it was a coffin in the carriage!
Maybe some kind of treasure? What utensils? Or is it some peerless weapon? The more I thought about it, the more I felt a headache, and I couldn't help but want to find out. However, thinking of her situation, she hesitated again.
Is it worth taking the risk for the sake of a secret that you don't know anything about? What if it has nothing to do with her? After thinking about it, Wei Nong weighed his ability and decided to give up. When she made up her mind and looked back, she found that the convoy had not yet finished, and as far as the eye could see, at least five thousand soldiers and horses were escorting that thing, occupying an entire street.
Wei Nong suddenly found a question: If this thing was transported from Youzhou, would the Yan army camp know nothing? How did they get released? Or did this thing not pass through Youzhou at all? From Minzhou? Wei Nong suddenly felt that she was very close to the truth, but she couldn't touch it and couldn't see through it, but felt that the matter was getting more and more complicated.
Until the soldiers had all gone, she was still thinking about it. In addition to guessing what that thing is, I'm also guessing where it will be delivered. Wei Hou Mansion? Or is it Rito? Or even the Ning Palace?
After this incident, the Lantern Festival Poetry Festival naturally couldn't be done, and everyone felt very disappointed, and they speculated like her. Wei Nong listened to it roughly, but there was no information available, so he returned to the inn with the dispersed crowd, and set off again the next morning, continuing south.
When she rushed to Youzhou non-stop, it was already the twenty-third day of the first month, and the Yan army camp was still stationed here. Wei Nong began to make trouble - this is Nie Xingji and Ming Chenyuan's cronies, if Ming Chenyuan supports the army and stands on his own, there is no doubt that these people will definitely follow him. In this case, do you want to tell the news of your escape to the Yan army camp? Is it a good thing or a bad thing for Ming Chenyuan to know her whereabouts?
Wei Nong is a little uncertain. After thinking about it, she decided to go to the Momen chief helm to find her master Ji Fengzhi first, and find out whether Nie Xingji and Qi Zhan were dead or alive.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the talent arrived in Youzhou Mansion, a piece of gossip was already flying all over the sky - Yanning was going to war again! Wei Nong was taken aback, because as far as she knew, Ming Chenyuan was still dealing with Nie Xingyi in Yan Kingdom! King Ning saw that she had escaped, Ming Chen was far away, and he was not in the Yan army's camp, so he was about to launch a surprise attack!
Regardless of whether this news was true or not, Wei Nong couldn't sit idly by, so she had to temporarily change her plan and go to the Yan Army camp to find out the situation first. I thought that I would be subjected to a series of interrogations when I returned to the camp, but who knew that Yan Jun had already received the news of her escape, and had already told the soldiers guarding the camp to pay attention to her whereabouts.
"How did you know that I escaped from King Ning's Palace?" As soon as Wei Nong entered the Yan army camp, he asked Nie Xingji's former deputy general surnamed Zuo.