The candle flame under the window flickered lightly twice, crackling softly, and a little light burst out.

Leng Linjiang took Han Changdu's letter, came at night quickly, threw the whip to Jin Yu, and hurriedly broke into the room, grabbed Bao Cheng's collar, stared at his eyes and scolded loudly: "You big man, how can you let a little girl go to the tiger's den in Longtan, why don't you go." ”

Bao Cheng replied in horror: "People, people, people want girls, don't want me." ”

"You, me." Leng Linjiang raised his fist, and finally threw Bao Cheng back to the bed in a rage, raised his eyes and looked at Han Changdui and said, "People are for you to run errands, you can't ignore it." ”

Han Changdui said expressionlessly: "What's the matter, I didn't let her go to the thief's den, besides, do you know where she is now?" ”

"I," Leng Linjiang stammered, and suddenly slapped his thigh: "I don't know, you just know." ”

"......" Han Changdui said, "I don't know either." ”

"......" Leng Linjiang was speechless.

After a strange silence, Bao Cheng said in embarrassment: "That, just, don't you care?" ”

"Shut up." Han Changdui and Leng Linjiang turned their heads together, one with a gloomy face and the other with wide eyes, but the words they said were the same.

Bao Cheng shrunk his neck, but he still didn't speak, so as not to be beaten by the crowd.

After a moment of silence, Han Changdui turned his head and instructed Jin Yu: "Go and get the map of the Jialing River." ”

Leng Linjiang shouted in surprise: "You even have a map of the Jialing River, Jiuchao, what treasures do you still have not taken out." ”

Han Changdui raised his eyebrows: "Then you won't know until you can use it." ”

"Boom." Leng Linjiang snorted disdainfully.

Jin Yu moved quickly, walked in with a brocade box that had ended, unfolded the scroll in the brocade box, and hung it on the spikes on the wall.

A meandering river occupies the most eye-catching position on the map, and the banks of the river are covered with large and small villages and towns, and large and small islands are sparsely dotted in the river, which is dazzling to see.

Han Changwei carefully patrolled the map, pointed to a place on the map, and asked Bao Cheng lightly: "Are you saying that the place where the accident happened was more than forty miles after leaving Beijing and going on the official road, and that group of people came from the direction of the two axes, and the wet mud on the horse's hooves has not yet dried, and there are still hoof prints on the ground?" ”

Bao Cheng nodded: "Yes." ”

"You're saying that before they rushed to the tea shed, they arrested nine more girls and sent them back first." Han Changwan lowered his head, carefully examined the map, and asked as he looked.

"Yes." Bao Cheng said.

Han Changwan nodded slightly, slowly drew a circle on the map with his hand, and lightly buckled his fingers twice: "These villages are not very far from that tea shed and the Jialing River. He raised his eyes and looked at Bao Cheng: "It's in line with what Bao Cheng said." ”

Leng Linjiang swept away Fang Cai's decadence, and said energetically: "Then, that means that these water bandits may be hiding in these villages?" ”

Han Changwan glanced at Leng Linjiang lightly: "I mean it's possible that these people went to the village to arrest the girl." ”

Bao Cheng finally came back to his senses, and said ecstatically: "Yes, yes, they must have plagued these villages, the old woman doesn't know about these bandits, and the people in these villages may not know, we can inquire village by village." ”

Leng Linjiang counted the several villages circled by Han Changdu, and his indescribable gaze fell on Bao Cheng's face: "Yes, there are six villages here, and after checking them one by one, three days is just enough to collect Ah Cheng's body." ”

"......" Bao Cheng was dumb.

Han Changdui nodded: "It's enough." ”

Bao Cheng rolled his eyes angrily, and almost spit out a mouthful of old blood.

Han Changdui quietly patrolled a few times on the map, and instructed Jin Yu: "Eighteen people from the mansion are sent out, take the flying slaves, and rush to these villages overnight, three people inquire about a village, before noon tomorrow, I want to know where the water bandits are located and where the river god is sacrificed." ”

Jin Yu had never seen Han Changdui like this, although he was still expressionless as usual, but the coldness in his eyes made people shudder.

He answered yes, and sighed silently, his family was angry, these bandits were miserable.

Leng Linjiang listened to Han Changdui's arrangement, his heart was a little calmer, and he stared at Yutu and said: "Even if we find out the location of the water bandits and the place to worship the river god, but we don't know anything about the number of water bandits and weapons, and the water bandits are more familiar with the situation of the waterway than us. ”

"Only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one not be defeated." Han Changwan nodded, but only said this, and then didn't speak again, just slowly pressed the corners of his forehead with his fingers, with an anxious look on his face.

Leng Linjiang and Bao Cheng looked at each other in surprise and closed their mouths in amusement.

Han Changdui thought for a moment, picked up the pen and wrote another letterhead, slowly folding it into a narrow strip.

Leng Linjiang was very curious, bent over, and looked to see what was written on the note.

Han Changwan pressed Leng Linjiang's forehead with one hand in disgust, pushed him away, and sealed the letterhead into a jade tube with the other.

"Stingy." Leng Linjiang sighed, straightened his back, and made a look of nonchalance, but he still couldn't hold back his burning curiosity, and the hippie smile and Han Changdui came face to face, nose to nose: "Jiuchao, what did you write." ”

Han Changwan sighed helplessly, and pushed Leng Linjiang's face aside again.

Bao Cheng snorted and laughed.

After a short time, Jin Yu arranged the manpower, and after watching them set off with his own eyes, he turned back again to report: "My lord, the picks are all good hands in the house, and they have already set off, and their subordinates have also drawn several marks commonly used by Yao to join the army, so that they can pay attention to one or two when they ask." ”

Han Changwan nodded appreciatively, handed the jade tube Zihao that had just been sealed to Jin Yu, and ordered in a deep voice: "Give it to His Royal Highness the King of Han with your own hands." ”

"My lord, will you go now?" Jin Yu looked out the dark window: "It's already a curfew." ”

Han Changwan turned his head to look at the leak, and said lightly: "There is still an hour before the sky is bright, you go and wait outside the Han Palace." ”

Jin Yu sighed helplessly, didn't ask a word, and walked out quickly.

Leng Linjiang heard that the note was for Xie Mengxia, and it blew up all of a sudden, he could be sure that what was written on the note must be something related to those bandits, but what could he tell Xie Mengxia, but he couldn't tell him.

He glared, jumped up eight feet high, and thought angrily: "Okay, Jiuchao, you have something to tell the King of Han, don't tell me, yes, too, His Royal Highness the King of Han is in a high position, I naturally can't compare." ”

As soon as she said this, she was an angry little daughter-in-law.

Han Changwan still smiled and looked at him left and right: "Okay, Yungui, Lingtong, hurry up and rest, let's set off as soon as the morning dawns, and go to the tea shed first." He asked Leng Linjiang again: "Is Jingzhao Mansion all arranged, the old woman came with the child, but she is going to go to you, you are not here, there must be someone to take care of these things." ”

Leng Linjiang stiffened his neck and sighed: "I won't go, you won't tell me anything, I'm afraid that you will sell me to the water bandits." ”

Han Changwan spit out four words without smiling: "Don't pull it down." ”

Leng Linjiang heard the meaning of turning his face from these cold four words, and he grinded his teeth with hatred: "Go, I'll go, can't I go?" ”

Han Changwan raised his eyebrows: "Even if it sells you, will you go?" ”

Leng Linjiang only swore to God: "Go, don't say that you sold me, even if you kill me, I have to go." ”

Han Changwan nodded with satisfaction: "That's okay, let's go back to sleep first, I'll set off as soon as dawn, there is a tough battle to fight in the past three days, I'm afraid I won't have to sleep." ”

Leng Linjiang and Bao Cheng nodded in unison.

When the sky was twilight, there was already the smell of fireworks in the streets and alleys, the wheels ran over the bluestone pavement stained with morning dew, and the gurgling sound swirled lonely in the empty streets and alleys.

The corner door of the Han Wang's Mansion had just opened, and a mother-in-law came out with a gong bucket, and a small servant carried a broom to sweep the ground, Jin Yu hurriedly stood up from the corner and squatted for more than an hour, his legs and feet were already numb and not his own.

He grinned and patted his legs, staggered to the corner gate, and handed over the name post: "Please see Your Highness." ”

The little guy in the corner gate opened the name card and looked at it, didn't ask a word, and didn't pass it on, and led Jin Yu directly into the door.

When Xie Mengxia arrived at the Han Mansion, Cheng Chaoyan had already arrived, and he was looking at Han Changdui with a sad face: "My lord, I don't know how to paint." ”

"Cheng Zongqi can't draw, I can paint." Xie Mengxia rolled up his sleeves, took the makeup box in He Cai's hand, and walked in with a smile on his face.

Hearing this, Leng Linjiang's throat jumped up: "No, no, I don't do it, why let me do it, Cheng, Cheng Zongqi, she doesn't need to paint, she doesn't need to paint, she is a woman." ”

Han Changwan smiled and said, "You said it yourself, no matter what, you have to go." ”

Bao Cheng pressed Leng Linjiang back to the Hu bed, and his laughter was about to burst out: "Lord Shaoyin, Ah Ji said, you are beautiful, and a little painting is a peerless beauty, which can tempt a large number of pretty people." ”

Cheng Chaoyan rolled up his sleeves high, and Bao Cheng held down Leng Linjiang, who was constantly struggling, left and right.

Leng Linjiang roared in despair: "Whoever dares, whoever dares to touch my face, I will beat him." ”

"I'm coming, you dare to hit me." Xie Mengxia didn't think it was a big deal to see the excitement, pinching Luo Zidai in one hand and holding the rouge box in the other, he walked closer, followed by He Cai, holding an open makeup dowry in his hand, and Leng Linjiang's distorted eyebrows and eyes were reflected in the bronze mirror.

Leng Linjiang's foot had just kicked out, and before he could kick Xie Mengxia, he hurriedly took it back, and pleaded again and again: "Your Highness, Your Highness, cousin, brother, spare me, spare me." ”