Chapter 31: The Journey to the North

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Now that you've made up your mind, it's all that's left to do with it. Chen Xun's original intention was to take advantage of the opportunity of the Northwest Dao Jiedu to recruit troops to the north and re-enter the grassland on the side of Weiyang County. This is to allow yourself to be in the military camp of the Northwest Province at any time, and if there is a new trend in the grassland, you can know at any time, and at the same time, it is also convenient for you to secretly find clues in Chaotian Pass. But now after careful consideration, the fact that the Northwest Army was completely wiped out is obviously full of suspicions, if it is just to go north with the army, people are soft-spoken, and a lot of news is afraid that it will be known in time, and I am afraid that there will be little gain at that time.

Chen Xun once again felt helpless, if he had an official position, maybe he could act in more ways. But now that such an identity is not visible, and if you want to make another move, you only find it even more difficult. But he has no intention of waiting and seeing, and the clues may be in some small things in the past, but he has not found it.

Suddenly, he suddenly realized that he had missed something very important. Before, at the Yuelai Inn in Chaotianguan, it was also the four of them, and they had once caught and questioned a blind storyteller in the room. The news of the destruction of the Northwest Army was first spread by this blind storyteller in Chaotian Pass, because of this incident, the blind man was also arrested and put in prison by the city patrol department in the city, but after the grassland people really entered the pass, the blind man was released again. Although Chen Xun and the others had seen early on that the grassland people had ulterior motives for letting the blind man out, as the grassland people did not commit any crimes after entering the customs, they probably guessed the role of the blind man. It is nothing more than taking advantage of the convenience of the blind man to tell stories to establish a reputation for the grassland people and ease the hostile relationship with the people in Chaotian Pass.

So at that time, after everyone felt that they couldn't ask anything valuable from the blind man's mouth, they just let him go. Until just now, Chen Xun seemed to have a thunderbolt in his mind, and suddenly remembered the source of the news that the blind man said about the destruction of the Northwest Army that day. The blind man's account that day was that he heard the small talk of two people with accents similar to those of the Western Regions on the side of the street, and he only learned about it.

People from the Western Regions, chatting on the street, were overheard by a blind storyteller, all of which seemed absurd and uninhibited. No matter how you look at this matter at this moment, you feel that the blind man of that day is talking nonsense. Even if it is true, as the blind man said, everything is learned "by accident", but there are doubts worth investigating. Just imagine, two people from the Western Regions chatting on the street in the northwest border of Daxing, not in the language of the Western Regions, but in the broken Daxing official dialect, this alone is suspicious enough.

Chen Xun carefully reviewed and found that he was only surprised that the blind man said that the grassland people were about to continue to invade Daxing in the south, but he really ignored the suspicions that had just come to mind. So, he talked about the doubts in his heart with the master master Baijia scholar again, and the result was the same as he thought: the blind man who told the story was definitely not so simple as it seemed!

Chen Xun regretted for a while, he was really careless. Although I didn't expect that there would be so many doubts behind the destruction of the Northwest Army, I had long been suspicious of this matter, but I didn't interrogate the blind storyteller in detail at that time. Now if I go north, I don't know if I can gain anything.

"Master, fourth uncle, eighth uncle, I won't go south with you to return to Beijing, I have to go north immediately and find the blind storyteller" Chen Xun was a little anxious, before the grassland people occupied Chaotian Pass, hidden and hidden. But now that the city is open, and the people are going to stay at will, I'm afraid there will be a big move soon. He had to hurry up and re-enter Chaotian Pass, otherwise he might not be able to find the trace of the blind man.

The white armor scholar thought about it carefully, and felt that there were many doubts on the blind man's side, and this breakthrough was relatively safe from the current situation, so he nodded and agreed.

But Li Yihuan and Liao Chonghai immediately became anxious, Liao Chonghai threw down the wine bowl and almost immediately stood up: "Looking for a boy, I'll go with you." After saying that, he began to pack his weapon package.

Chen Xun waved his hand and persuaded: "No, Eighth Uncle, I'll go alone." ”

Liao Chonghai became anxious when he heard this: "Then how can I do it, how dangerous it is in the north now, you can't handle it alone." The eighth uncle will go with you, and if there are barbarians who dare to make trouble, the eighth uncle will kill them all for you. And that blind man, Uncle Eight also chopped him up for you. ”

Chen Xun laughed, but Li Yihuan pouted and said angrily: "Fight, kill, kill, have the ability to kill all the barbarians." Hearing that Chen Xun wanted to go north alone, he was actually anxious, but he was born to be a little softer than Liao Chonghai, so he was not like Liao Chonghai, but it didn't mean that he didn't want to go north with Chen Xun.

The eldest Baijia scholar frowned, "The two of you have such obvious goals, following Chen Xun is like two candles in the night. Going north with him, it's too much of an eyesore. ”

Li Yihuan wanted to refute: Before, the eight of us went to the north together and it was not conspicuous? The four of us have been together for more than a month and have not been conspicuous? But when he saw that the white-armored scholar glanced at him, he was silent.

Liao Chonghai, an anxious man, didn't care about this, he still insisted on going north, and finally Chen Xun persuaded him again and again before he reluctantly gave up this idea.

"However, now that the Jiedu envoy and the county guard should know the fact that the barbarians are going south, I am afraid it will not be easy to go north directly." The Baijia scholar also had hidden worries in his heart, but he hid it very well, even if he reminded Chen Xun, it was a tactful expression, which made Li Yihuan secretly roll his eyes for a while. The other seven people in the Eight Horsemen of Yanshan all respected the boss Baijia scholar and believed his words, but it didn't mean that they wouldn't slander the boss, at this time, Li Yihuan greeted the boss Baijia scholar cordially from head to toe in his heart.

"Well, so I have to get out of the city as soon as possible, and now I'm worried that the people in the city are panicking, and the county guard hasn't closed the city gate yet. I'm afraid that the city will be closed later, and then I really won't be able to get out. Chen Xun became more and more anxious, and began to pack his things and prepare to leave immediately.

The white-armored scholar nodded, "Then be it." Finally, he added, "Stay safe." ”

Chen Xun said "um", but before going out, he once again asked the three masters earnestly again: "The matter of the note, after the master returns to Beijing, please check it again, this clue is very important, and it is impossible to directly solve the matter in the northwest." ”

The white-armored scholar has not yet responded, Li Yihuan really can't see the boss's Wen Tun at the moment: "Don't worry, Xun'er, the fourth uncle will definitely help you investigate this matter, as soon as there is news, the fourth uncle will come to the north to find you." ”

Chen Xun nodded, solemnly bent down to say goodbye to the three people in the room, and then left the inn and rode towards the city gate.