The next day, under the personal send-off of Governor Yang of Yizhou, Li Mi and Cao Shaocheng embarked on the road to the capital.

Cao Shaocheng rode a jujube red horse to lead the way, and another coachman drove a carriage with Li Mi.

Li Mi looked at the customs of the Great Zhao Dynasty all the way, while receiving all the information about this dynasty.

The first emperor Song Xilin, who was also the founder of the Great Zhao Dynasty, raised troops from thirteen pairs of armor, and in just seven years, swept through the army of the previous dynasty like a hanging.

After ascending the throne, Taizu worked hard to develop people's livelihood and govern the world in an orderly manner, but unfortunately many diseases fell in the early years of the war, and soon died, leaving the Queen Mother Xiao and his favorite youngest son Song Kexin orphans and widows.

It's just that the Empress Dowager Xiao is not mediocre and incompetent as the courtiers imagined, on the contrary, the Xiao family, who grew up with the first emperor during the war, is very skillful, and has the demeanor of the martial queen of the Dafeng Dynasty hundreds of years ago.

She first appointed her trusted eunuch Wei An to supervise the Imperial City Division, creating a precedent for eunuchs to take charge of the Imperial City Division, and then appointed Zhang Dingbian, Hua Yun and other fierce generals to attack Tatar in the north, appointed Li Fuchen as the first assistant of the cabinet, reorganized the super-outline, and stabilized the situation.

In just a few years, the old ministers of the first emperor were purged, and almost all of them were replaced by the Xiao political party, which was jokingly called the rule of Xiao Wu.

However, both the first emperor and the Empress Dowager Xiao have enough grandeur and elegance to be able to carefully accept the criticism of the officials, and open the imperial examination widely, absorb the seeds of reading, and inject fresh blood into the rise of the new dynasty.

In addition, Empress Dowager Xiao imitated the thunderous methods of the Empress Feng Dynasty, vigorously reformed the salt road, Cao Yun and post roads, and regarded the construction of post roads as the top priority, and let the developed post roads allow the rich south to drive the development of the barren north.

The old dynasty changed to the new dynasty, and the rivers and lakes were also turbulent.

First, Zhao Huai'an, one of the top ten masters of the rivers and lakes, was rewarded by the imperial court, and then the Tibetan Sword Villa was slaughtered by the Imperial City Division.

Another thing confirms everyone's speculation, that is, the six gates issue waist cards to all the people in the rivers and lakes who are willing to serve the imperial court, and all the reckless people who dare to use force to prohibit the rivers and lakes will be executed on the spot after being pursued and arrested by the government and the six gates, and then the head of the nine sides will be passed on to deter the rivers and lakes.

At night, the full moon is in the sky, like hanging a jade plate in the world.

On a remote road, an elite cavalry of more than 100 people entered from the official road, and the majestic horses' hooves seemed to crush the moonlight of the entire field.

Under the moonlight, this team of cavalry soldiers carried crossbows and swords, their armor was as bright as snow, and their muscles were smooth, and they were obviously elite soldiers.

The general who was the leader of them was carrying a halberd in his hand, and there was a hideous scar on his face, and he looked extremely brave.

At this time, a spy came from the front and grabbed the reins and reported: "General, that demon girl is still escorted by more than a dozen Jianghu rangers, Zhao Huaian is fighting with the fans of the Imperial City Division at the moment, it is absolutely impossible to pull out, and the meritorious service is only in front of you!" ”

The halberd-wielding general sneered: "Okay, this demon girl dares to seduce the little emperor and conceive a dragon fetus, she really doesn't know whether she is alive or dead." There is also that Zhao Huai'an, who is so good that he has to be a hero to save the United States as a hero, and he has broken dozens of our brothers. Wait for the demon girl to be captured, and then turn around and cut off Zhao Huai'an's head, and dedicate it to the factory father, we have a good future! ”

Two miles away from this cavalry, a carriage drove forward frantically, and more than a dozen rangers with knives guarded the left and right, running for their lives.

Soon, in all directions of them, countless fires lit up.

When they landed, everyone's faces changed drastically.

I saw dozens of horsemen on both sides and at the end of the road, as if hunters who had been waiting for rabbits for a long time had finally waited for their prey to be caught.

When more than a dozen Jianghu rangers saw the scene in front of them, although they had already put life and death aside in their hearts, they still couldn't help but be terrified.

Fleeing all the way, these government pursuers can always intercept them by surprise if they are helped.

If it weren't for a master of the rivers and lakes who took the initiative to stay behind and drag a group of cavalry troops with his own strength, how could they have escaped to the present without danger.

When fleeing into the distance, someone looked back and saw that the senior was pierced through the body by a halberd after slashing more than a dozen horsemen with a sword, and was nailed to the stone, and the dead could not die again.

Finally, the halberd general arrived with his troops, and hundreds of cavalry regiments surrounded the gang of rangers and carriages.

The general leisurely turned his horse, reined in the reins, and pointed the halberd to the carriage: "The people inside come out!" ”

No one responded.

The halberd general sneered, swung forward, and behind him, a wave of crossbow arrows was shot, which were densely nailed to the carriage.

The surrounding rangers were either shot into hedgehogs by random arrows, or tried to shoot off arrows with weapons, and some even blatantly slashed their knives to kill.

With a few snaps of his fingers, there were only a dozen hedgehog-like corpses left on the ground.

A knight stepped forward and lifted the curtain of the carriage, immediately stepped back, turned his head and said, "General, there is no one in the carriage!" ”

The halberd-wielding general's face froze instantly, and he used the halberd to split a corpse fiercely, and scolded angrily: "It's a trick!" ”

At the same time, not far away, on the official road that had already run out of more than ten miles, a carriage and a jujube red horse galloped all the way, turning the two people in the carriage into a mess.

A quarter of an hour later, the carriage finally slowed down, and Cao Shaocheng whispered outside: "It should be safe here, they can't search so far for the time being, and as soon as the morning dawns, we will almost leave the encirclement." ”

In the carriage, Li Mi threw up the window for a long time before looking at the dark-skinned and mediocre little girl with a bloodless face, "I shouldn't have waded into this troubled water, right, Cao Shaocheng?" ”

Cao Shaocheng, who was riding a jujube red horse outside, put his sword on his back and said, "Sir, Zhao Huai'an is half my master, since he has a request for me, I can't die without help." Are you right, sir? ”

Li Mi looked at the little girl in front of him who was obviously wearing a mask on her face, and suddenly sighed.

"I was pregnant with the emperor's dragon heir at a young age, you must know that the little emperor has not even accepted a concubine yet, and the Empress Dowager Xiao naturally does not allow you, a disgraceful child, to be born. Besides, you have a low status and are just a palace maid, if you give birth to the emperor's eldest son, won't it become a joke of the royal family. ”

"Your Majesty and I are in love!" The little palace maid looked aggrieved, "He can obviously intercede for me, he must have forgotten, he will definitely come to pick me up......"

The more the little palace maid spoke, the lower her voice became, and in the end, even she didn't believe herself, only her face was full of loss.

Li Mi said indifferently: "I will send you to Wudang, Zhao Huai'an left the jade pendant when he left, you take it to Wudang, someone will take you in." Now that the little emperor is not in power, he can't disobey the wishes of the Empress Dowager Xiao, even if you want to go back, you have to give birth to the child safely first. ”

The little palace maid nodded decisively, "Okay, it's a word!" ”

Then, the carriage stopped, and Li Mi took the little palace maid down and went to a clearing on the side of the road to build a bonfire and roast some food.

Cao Shaocheng and the coachman both started to eat, Li Mi handed over a piece of bread and said, "Your stomach is barking all the way, I'm really annoyed, I'll get in the car when I'm full." ”

The little palace maid's eyes were gloomy, and she was always reluctant to take it.

Li Mi said to herself: "In order to change out your secret Chen Cang, I have worked a lot of time, and even the curfew at the city gate has been delayed, so I can only spend the night outside tonight." What, you're worse than me? ”

The little palace maid hesitated for a moment, and finally was willing to sit down, but only from the distance of two arms, she took the baked fragrant cake, bit it lightly on her side, and chewed slowly.

After Li Mi finished eating the cake, he clapped his hands and said, "How dare you abandon those people and follow a few of us alone?" ”

The little palace maid said: "I can see that you are much stronger than those straw bales. ”

Li Mi shook her head with a smile, "The woman who came out of the palace is vicious. ”

The little palace maid's eyes were dark, and she gently raised her hand to wipe the corners of her mouth, without saying a word.

Li Mi said: "I don't care what your face looks like under that fake skin, and I don't plan to know, I just hope you don't make trouble for me along the way, otherwise, I will leave you at any time and save a lot of trouble." ”

The little palace maid snorted coldly and nodded, her autumn eyes, which were completely different from her mediocre appearance, were full of impatience.

She poured some water and held it in her hand, washed her face briefly, then patted her ass and stood up and returned to the carriage.

Li Mi followed closely and said: "There are too many flaws in your fake skin, connoisseurs can see it at a glance, and I advise you to light it when you wash your face, don't tear it off." ”

The carriage drove again, and the little palace maid turned her head and asked, "Can I know who you are?" ”

Li Mi nodded and said, "Of course you can." ”

The little palace maid listened attentively.

Li Mi said: "But I won't tell you. ”

The little palace maid was silent.

She thought for a moment and said, "My name is Yu Ruoli. ”

Li Mi smiled: "Then my surname is You." ”

The little palace maid pursed her lips, "If I take off this fake skin, can you tell the truth?" ”

Li Mi asked rhetorically: "Ask my identity, when you make a comeback in the future, it will be convenient to extinguish your mouth?" ”

The little palace maid was silent.

Li Mi smiled softly, lifted Erlang's legs and flipped through a book called "Blood Stain Inquest", and muttered softly in his mouth.

The little palace maid looked at his side face, not knowing what she was thinking.

One night later, they hurried to a ferry port, where the coachman took the horses and carriage back to Wushan County, where the remaining three waited for a three-story ferry to set sail.

There was still an hour before the departure, so Li Mi took Cao Shaocheng and the pregnant little palace maid to a nearby porridge shop for breakfast.

The people sitting around are all big-shouldered and round-waisted Jianghu guests, and they are all reckless.

While chatting loudly, they secretly looked at the back of the little palace maid, without looking at the face, just the bumpy figure and slender waist were attractive enough.

It's just that when the little palace maid unceremoniously turned her head and glanced at them, these people scolded and retracted their eyes, feeling disappointed.

Li Mi asked Xiao Er for a few sweet persimmons, Huang Cancan was very pleased, and after buying one for Cao Shaocheng and the little palace maid, he took a big bite on it.

You Ruoli carefully wiped his sleeve before taking small bites, and did not forget to cover his mouth with one hand.

After eating a few bites, she didn't forget to sarcastically say: "Your eating appearance is ugly." ”

Suddenly, she felt a gust of wind blowing overhead, and when she looked up, a man with a thief's eyebrow retracted his hand.