The main routes of the northward and westward journeys were all on increased vigilance, and all business trips were checked.

Whether Li Huchong fled to Hami and Qinghai, or fled to the Hetao grassland, he must have been quickly searched. He had a little arm that broke off at the elbow, which was so easy to recognize.

According to Li Huchong's original plan, the best plan after the incident was to flee north or west. However, Yu Xian's sudden surrender completely disrupted his deployment, so he immediately activated the backup plan and walked directly from Zhongnan Mountain to the Hanzhong Basin.

This is a dead end, and after arriving in Hanzhong, it is impossible to escape directly to Qinghai.

Either go to Hubei, go to Sichuan, or go back to Shaanxi. The nearest route from Hanzhong to Qinghai is from Chencang Road to the north, and Chencang Road goes out to Qinzhou (Tianshui), where Jiang Liang's army is stationed.

Therefore, after Li Huchong arrived in the Hanzhong Basin, he could only find a place to hide first, and then find an opportunity to escape after the government was relaxed.

Li Huchong's villa at the foot of the mountain is not far from Yugu Road.

This passage, in the Tang and Song dynasties, was only a mountain trail, the Yuan Dynasty was officially opened as a post road, and in the Ming Dynasty continued to widen, has been for business travel.

Between the mountains, a team of more than 40 people passed through the various passes of the Qinling Mountains, from northwest to southeast.

There are men and women, in addition to the maids and slaves, there are even two Li Huchong's henchmen patrols.

Li Huchong's money has long been melted into gold cakes, which are small in size and easy to carry. These gold cakes, hidden in the real cargo, usually do not go wrong. Because there were very few merchants on the Yugu Road, and there was only one checkpoint on the way, Qianyou Pass, they were very strict about the business travelers to the north (they might smuggle), and they were much more lax about the business travelers going south.

After passing through two passes in a row, he woke up early in the morning, Yang Bin had a gloomy face, and found Li Huchong: "Uncle, there are two house slaves missing." A man and a woman, probably running away in a gang, just now I counted the gold and found that a piece of gold cake was missing. ”

Li Huchong said angrily: "Every evening, don't you have to collect and count the gold? ”

Yang Bin explained: "I was so tired yesterday that I was negligent during the evening count. ”

Li Huchong wanted to reprimand angrily, but he still endured it, and there could be no more contradictions at this time.

Yang Bin said: "Uncle, when we just left, there were house slaves who ran away, and it is estimated that they have gone to report to the official." Now that two more house slaves have run away, I'm afraid that before we reach Jiayou Pass, the officers and soldiers have already caught up! ”

"These two fugitives won't report to the officials, they stole gold, they must hide it and spend it themselves," Li Huchong pondered, "but the officers and soldiers may indeed chase after them, and it is not a way to continue to flee south." We took the mountain road with the goods, while the officers and men were in a hurry, and they were sure to catch up with us halfway. Gotta find a place to hide! ”

In the Qinling Mountains, there is nothing else, and there are many hiding places.

They also brought a lot of grain and salt, and they had no problem hiding them in the mountains for a year.

Continuing to hurry for a while, Li Huchong ordered to lead the mule horse up the mountain. He even walked at the end himself, dealing with footprints and trampled weeds.

After a day of hard walking in the mountains, I found some dilapidated houses.

Those houses were originally built by villagers in the valleys along the post road, in order to avoid the rogues and Ming officers and soldiers, and abandoned their homes and moved to the mountains. When the Datong New Dynasty recovered Shaanxi, the mountain people came out to buy salt, and gradually learned about the policies of the New Dynasty, so they moved back one after another, after all, the land in the valley was more fertile.

The house was empty, and Li Huchong ordered it to be cleaned up, and all the gold and supplies were collected to prevent anyone from running away with their goods.

How is it possible not to run?

These domestic slaves of the Qin Wangfu of the previous dynasty, the new dynasty of Datong gave them their residence and divided the land, and they could have cultivated the land honestly. They feel that farming is too hard, and they also feel that they can't, so they continue to be Li Huchong's slave, and now where are they willing to follow Li Huchong to escape and endure hardship?

On the same day, there were two house slaves, who were sent by Li Huchong to collect firewood.

Li Huchong, who learned the news, was suddenly discouraged.

Once upon a time, in the face of the flattery and service of many slaves, he really regarded himself as a prince. That fluttering feeling made a battle-hardened general, whose IQ fell off a cliff, thinking that he could control everything, and the house slaves were loyal to him.

At night, the pregnant little beauty secretly took out two gold cakes from under the bed.

She crept out of the house and into the nearby woods, and Yang Bin had been waiting for a long time.

The little beauty asked, "Brother, do we really want to run?" ”

Yang Bin said: "If you don't run, you can't stay here, and there are many people, and sooner or later you will be chased by officers and soldiers." It's just that the two of us are gone, and it's not so eye-catching. Don't worry, I have already done a full set of paperwork, and we can easily get past Qianyou Pass by pretending to be a couple who are visiting relatives in the south. ”

"Yes...... One day husband and wife Bairien, I am already pregnant with the old man's child. "The little beauty is actually a little attached to Li Huchong.

Yang Bin said angrily: "You really treat him as a husband?" ”

The little beauty was in a dilemma, and at the urging of her brother, she still decided to leave.

The brother and sister hadn't walked a few steps before they saw a figure faintly appear in the darkness ahead.

"Auntie...... Uncle? Yang Bin trembled with fright.

Li Huchong sneered: "Lao Tzu has fought for more than ten years, and when he fled, he was very vigilant, do you really think you can steal gold from under my nose?" The Yang family that the dog entered, if it weren't for you, Lao Tzu would still be a lord! ”

Yang Bin puffed and knelt on the ground: "Uncle spares his life, my nephew is blinded by lard, as long as my uncle lets my nephew die, he will definitely be loyal to his uncle in the future, and he will never ......."

"Fart!"

Li Huchong finally regretted it, because the time of his fall was not long, the silver he had embezzled in the past two years was only more than 10,000 taels. All kinds of enjoyment cost more than 3,000 taels, and the rest of the silver, hidden in two places, is now only half of it can be taken away.

All of them turned into gold, and it was only about a hundred pounds.

For the sake of this bit of gold, he even lost his title and official position, and maybe even lost his life. Why bother?

He counted all his resentment on the head of the Yang family, if it wasn't for the Yang family pulling him into the water, he would still be a beautiful lord now. He has an official position, a knighthood, an income from land, and an income from a salt shop, so he can live a prosperous life. Even if his wife is a tigress and he is not allowed to take a concubine, he can quietly raise the outer room, as long as he is not too greedy, no one will investigate him at all.

Immediately afterwards, he complained about Yu Xian.

is not resentful of Yu Xian's surrender, but resentful of Yu Xian's laxity. Li Huchong didn't think about smuggling grain and iron tools, after all, this is a matter of losing his head, and the people below are too outrageous, and as a high-ranking person, he can't stop it at all.

It's just that after knowing about the smuggling of grain and iron tools, Yu Xian was entangled and blamed himself, while Li Huchong chose to give up on himself. Anyway, if you are checked and want to lose your head, then you will break the jar and break it, and Li Huchong will also intensify his enjoyment.

He not only raised the beauties of the Yang family in Zhongnan Mountain. In another villa, he raised the beauties sent by the Li family, and supported the Li family to balance the Yang family, and the rest of the gold was also hidden there.

"It's all you who hurt me, it's all you who hurt me!" Li Huchong's tone became more and more resentful.

He felt that he was greedy for too little, so it was not worth throwing everything away. He didn't want to think about it, he had only been greedy for two or three years, and he had already collected more than 10,000 taels. Moreover, the silver is not average, and the illegal income is getting more and more every year, and if he is greedy for a few more years, the silver will inevitably exceed 100,000 taels.

If you don't check it for ten years, I'm afraid the amount of embezzlement will reach hundreds of thousands of taels!

Yang Bin trembled and knelt on the ground: "Uncle spare your life, uncle spare your life!" ”

The little beauty also knelt down and cried: "Husband, spare your life, for the sake of the child, you can let our brothers and sisters go." ”

"Kid?"

Li Huchong was already a little nervous, and said with a cruel smile: "The child in your belly, whose wild seed is you don't know yet?" ”

The little beauty shouted: "Wronged, the concubine is loyal to her husband, and she has never disobeyed women's morality." ”

Li Huchong didn't say anything more, but stood still and pondered.

He also felt that it was not a matter to continue to lead people to run, and the goal was too big for many people. Before, he was reluctant to pay for gold, and he couldn't bring so much alone, so he took the slave and walked with him.

Now, life is more important than gold!

Boom!

Li Huchong pulled out the knife and walked over with a limp.

Yang Bin was so frightened that he couldn't take care of his sister anymore, so he got up and turned around to flee for his life.

Li Huchong's legs and feet were inconvenient, and he knew that it was difficult to catch up, so he raised his arm and threw the waist knife and stabbed it into Yang Bin's back.

The little beauty was so frightened that she almost fainted, and then she had severe pain in her abdomen. She hurried for days and climbed mountains, and when she was frightened again, she already had signs of miscarriage.

Li Huchong stepped on Yang Bin's body in the past, ignoring the other party's wailing and begging for mercy, he pulled out his waist knife and slashed it again, directly cutting off his head with his neck. When he walked to the little beauty again, he found that he was holding his stomach and trembling, and he hesitated again and again, and finally couldn't bear to start.

The miscarriage in the mountains and mountains, and there is no doctor here, even if you don't kill it, it is estimated that it will be difficult to survive.

Fend for herself, if she survives, it will be her fate.

Li Huchong returned to the house, called the big beauty up, and said in a deep voice: "Take your son and follow me immediately!" ”

He took out two pieces of gold, and threw the others on the ground, waiting for the servants to pick them up tomorrow. As long as the slaves took the gold, they would do everything possible to avoid the government instead of going to the government to report their whereabouts.

He was missing half of his arm, and his legs and feet were inconvenient, and it was impossible for him to kill all his slaves.

"Husband, what's the matter...... What's wrong? The big beauty said in horror.

Li Huchong: "Don't ask more, take your son and follow me!" ”

He had lost everything now, and he couldn't even bring more gold, leaving only the baby beside him to be nostalgic. He was afraid that he would not be able to support his son by himself, so he brought the child's mother with him.

The next day, the slaves woke up and soon sensed that something was wrong.

First, Yang Bin's body was found in the woods, and the aborted little beauty was gone. They went to Li Huchong's house again, and found gold cakes all over the ground, so they began to scuffle and fight, and after dividing the gold, they scattered and fled.

(Thank you for the reward.) ）

(It's cold in spring, everyone remember to keep warm, my wife and children here are hospitalized together.) ）

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