Chapter 69: The Chase
Wen Liang naturally doesn't have to worry, judging from Cheng Wangshu's actions, he doesn't seem to be hostile, not to mention that Wen Liang is good at self-preservation, so there shouldn't be anything wrong with going this time.
Wen didn't go back to the house, so he analyzed with Zhixia in the courtyard: "The current situation in Southern Chu is generally clear, Tang Xianyao and Tang Mingyi are divided into courts, and there are also some people who are at both ends of the head of the rat, or simply do not help each other, and the civil and military officials above the court of Southern Chu are nothing more than one of these three. Now that Cheng Wangshu has participated in Xu Zhongyan's affairs, it means that he has made a decision between these two princes. ”
Zhixia nodded, but also had some inconsequential doubts: "Cheng Wangshu is not a military man, he is just a swordsman, is he also involved in these?" ”
Hui said: "Cheng Wangshu himself may not be involved, the right phase behind him is the key." ”
Zhixia then understood: "That's it, when a swordsman enters the court, there should indeed be an attachment." ”
Zhixia said it logically, but Wen was a little surprised to hear it: "When did you start talking like this?" ”
Zhixia, who was still a little sophisticated in tone when he first spoke, saw the eldest lady ask like this, and Deng Shi became hesitant again: "When I first came to Tongcheng, the eldest lady asked me to think more about this, so I asked Zhou Tong and them when I was free, and I also turned over some books that the eldest lady had read." Am I saying something wrong? ”
Wen Gu smiled: "That's it, you did the right thing, and there is nothing wrong with saying it." Cheng Wangshu is doing things for the people he is attached to, and the position of the right minister of Nanchu is his position, but what do you think, what did the right minister want him to do in Tongcheng? ”
Zhixia got the eldest lady's affirmation, and Fang Cai's hesitation was gone, and he only felt that the eldest lady asked strangely: "Isn't it to protect Xu Zhongyan thoroughly?" ”
"That's the problem." Wen Gu pondered for a moment, and then said, "What we knew before, contrary to Li Xun, Tang Mingyi came to kill Xu Zhongyan, and Tang Xianyao came to protect him. Then Cheng Wangshu escorted Xu Zhongyan to Tongcheng, and it seemed that his position was the same as Tang Xianyao's. ”
Zhixia nodded, this reason is obvious.
Wen Gu said again: "In this case, why did Tang Xianyao come to Tongcheng thousands of miles to wait for Xu Zhongyan? Wouldn't it be nice to arrange him properly in Lianzhou? ”
"That's right!" As soon as the eldest lady said this, Zhixia figured out the logic, but then came up with a possibility, "Maybe Li Xun and Xu Zhongyan are both in Tongcheng, so he made arrangements together?" ”
Wen Gu shook his head slightly, and said: "At the beginning, it was possible to arrange this way, but now, Li Xun's matter Tang Xianyao has already lost a journey, if they are really all the way, he should join Cheng Wangshu on the way back to Lianzhou, and bring Xu Zhongyan back to Lianzhou together, or settle in the prefectures and counties under his control." ”
Zhixia thought for a while, and said, "Maybe he doesn't know where Xu Zhongyan is?" ”
"This is the strange thing in between, if Xu Zhongyan is acting alone, Tang Xianyao doesn't know, there is still this possibility, but Cheng Wangshu is also involved, so they can only choose one of the two sides to make a trip. If Cheng Wangshu and Tang Xianyao had the same plan, the road would be quite difficult, and he would not risk letting Xu Zhongyan die on the way and let him come to Tongcheng. Wen said logically.
Hearing the eldest lady say this, Zhixia had new doubts: "Cheng Wangshu is famous, and Xu Zhongyan will be at risk with him?" ”
Wen was still thinking in his heart, and blurted out: "This time, I didn't hear the city gate official say that he was injured, and besides, the three of them entered the city together, but last time..."
Speaking of this, Wen suddenly realized that he had lost his words, stopped suddenly, and hurriedly looked up to look around. Zhixia didn't know what was wrong with the eldest lady, so she also looked up.
The two looked at each other for a while, and there was nothing unusual around them. Zhixia was suspicious: "Miss? ”
Wen retracted his gaze and hurriedly asked her, "Is there anything uncomfortable about you?" ”
Zhixia was asked such a sentence without a head, but he still held his breath, felt it for a while, and then said: "I'm nothing, why did the eldest lady suddenly ask like this?" ”
After getting the answer, he was a little relieved, but he still had palpitations: "I'm tired of standing, let's go back to the hall and say." ”
After that, Bento went to the hall first, and Zhixia followed behind without knowing why: "What did the eldest lady say about the last time?" ”
Wen Yu hurriedly said: "I mean I didn't think about it enough last time, let's sit down and talk carefully." ”
After that, he looked at the sky again, and saw that the sky was clear, and there was no sign of change, so he slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
At the moment when the two were talking, Wen Liang had already chased Cheng Wangshu out of the five alleys.
Today's dispatch of soldiers and horses in the city has made the people of Tongcheng speculate, coupled with the abnormality of rice and grain prices in the past few days, many people feel that there may be another war approaching.
It's not that Wen Liang doesn't want to hide his deeds, but the opponent's skills are quite strong, and if he is distracted and thinks about other things, he will inevitably be thrown away, and he has no choice but to do so.
However, even though he pressed hard, Na Cheng Wangshu still had a lot of strength to spare, and during the chase, he would fall into a certain courtyard from time to time, and he would stay for a while, as if he was waiting for Wen Liang to catch up.
Wen Liang thought it was some kind of strategy to divert the tiger from the mountain, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it was not, Cheng Wangshu really had some powerful helper, and he just appeared together without losing his position, and he was afraid that he would not be able to stop what he wanted to do. Besides, he is not in the middle, and now there are many more secret guards on guard, and Zhixia is beside the eldest lady, so he also relaxes his mind and only cares about chasing people.
Of course, Wen Liang will not let go of the courtyard where Cheng Wangshu stayed, but no matter how you observe, there is either no one in the courtyard, or it is just the courtyard of ordinary people, and there is nothing abnormal. Since this is the case, Wen Liang concluded that Cheng Wangshu should have wanted to get rid of him, and deliberately fell down to find an opportunity to confuse the direction.
So, from never losing their homes all the way to the east, the people who came out of these alleys could see that one person on the roof was the first, one person followed, more than a dozen people followed behind, and even there were soldiers who followed their movements to investigate and interrogate everywhere, passers-by were either frightened or curious, and they could also feel the urgency of these people on the house.
After a while, half of Tongcheng was stirred up by them.
Wen Liang chased Cheng Wangshu all the way to a courtyard in Anningfang, and a moment ago, Cheng Wangshu stopped here for a while.
When Wen Liang arrived, a young girl about Wen Jing's age and a young man dressed as an obvious scholar in the courtyard were looking at him in surprise.
Wen Liang first recognized the direction in which Cheng Wangshu was leaving, and then glanced at the two of them hurriedly.
The girl looked at him, her expression was a little nervous, and the scholar opened her mouth, looked at the room for a while, and then looked at Wenliang, her expression was quite dazed.
(End of chapter)