"Okay, okay." Ji Hu nodded, very moved in his heart: "If you do your best, you will be rewarded." ”

Only then did Dong'er raise his head and look directly at the young Son of Heaven: "Your Majesty, the slave maid is in the deep palace and has nothing to ask for." I only hope that Your Majesty can take care of my younger brother in my family, and the slave and maid will die without regrets.

"Lone promises you." Ji Hu replied without thinking.

The sunset is like fire, and the melodious evening horn is blown in the dreary twilight.

The shouting of the soldiers at the battlement echoed in the wasteland: "The sunset closes the city, and the pedestrians, chariots and horses are the last to enter and exit—"

With the sound of the evening trumpet, the endless stream of carriages, horses, and pedestrians are full of loads, like a colorful river, hurriedly flowing out of the tall stone doorway----

"The door is about to fall! Those who have not left the city will stay overnight, and the rooster will crow on! In the middle of the shouting, the hanging stone door began to roll and fall. At this moment, a yellow horse came to the dust, and shouted: "Close the door slowly, I will get out of the customs later!" ”

A captain with a sword waved his hand and shouted, "There is a time for retreat, this is the rule!" If you don't get out of the way, the defenders will be convicted of the law! ”

Seeing that the yellow horse still refused to give in, the stone gate hanging in the air could not be put down. The lieutenant was furious, and with a wave of his hand, the mournful horn horn at the head of the city sounded three times in a short time, and immediately heard the sound of the horn outside the pass. Everyone knows that the Wang Shima team is about to drive.

At this moment, a four-horse chariot was stirring dust and smoke flying from the south, and the golden light of the chariot could be seen shining under the residual sun, which was clearly not an ordinary official car. With the smoke and dust, a long and sharp shout came from afar: "The king chariot is out of the customs, and Mo is out of the city——! ”

The captain of the city head waved his hand and shouted: "The city gate is hoisted!" Pedestrians dodge! The king car is released! ”

In a few moments, the four-horse chariot rushed to the city and rumbled out of the gate under the guidance of the yellow hussar.

As the car drove out of the gate, a young man of about eighteen or nineteen years old with loose long hair sat up leisurely and yawned and stretched a long lazy waist.

The yellow knight glanced at him, and couldn't help but grab the white and said, "Tu Ge, you are really good!" Can you snore like thunder on such a bumpy road? No one in Zhou has such good skills as you! ”

Tu Ge laughed heartily: "Haha, big brother Duoyou! Don't you know this? Our Rong people are different from the Zhou people, they grew up on horseback when they were young, and they learned to ride horses before they learned to walk. As many herdsmen as there are usherdsmen, there are as many cavalry! It's a pity------" He slammed his thigh desolately: "It's a pity, I'm afraid I won't be able to get on the horse anymore!" ”

How can Ji Duoyou, who is good at archery and horse riding, not understand his loneliness and regret? Hurriedly comforted: "Tuge, don't be a little daughter's sigh!" Even if you can't ride a horse, you have a lot to do! Do you have to be on a horse to command the cavalry in battle? ”

Tu Ge shook his head: "Brother Duoyou, others don't know, but you have lived in the Kuirong Grassland for several years, don't you understand?" In the steppe tribes, men who can't get on horses are like waste. I'm afraid that when I return to the Lynx, I will only be greeted with white eyes and guidance, and I ------ I really don't understand, why did my father save me back? ”

"Don't talk nonsense, how can there be a father who doesn't love his own son?" Ji Duoyou said this, but his heart was infinitely sour. In any case, Ao Xing is a good father who loves his son. But his biological father ------ alas! What do you want him to do? He shook his head, pushing the thought away.

Tu Ge obviously didn't want to dwell on this topic anymore, and asked instead: "Brother Duoyou, how do you know that someone will come to pick me up when I leave the North Pass?" ”

"It's very simple, this is the closest pass to the court of the Lynx. When he just left the customs, there was such a commotion, someone must have seen Wang Che and the prince himself. ”

"I said, big brother, why are you in such a hurry? I had to step forward to stop the gate from closing the door, which turned out to be deliberate. Tu Ge suddenly realized and sighed: "No wonder the people on the grassland say that the Zhou people have a twisted mind and a hundred hearts. Today is a sight! ”

"You boy, are you praising me? Or do you want to belittle me? Ji Tayou pretended to be angry.

As he spoke, there was suddenly dust in the distance, and a cavalry and horse team of hundreds of people was rushing towards the chariot. Duoyou pointed and said, "Tuge, look, the person who picked you up is here!" ”

As he spoke, the horse team had already arrived, all of them masked eagle archers. The figure of the leader was a little familiar, and he said, "Lord Sima of Wangcheng personally escorted my prince, I am very grateful!" ”

"Is that you?" Ji Duoyou narrowed his eyes: "Aren't you the one from Qiaoling?" Why didn't your master come? ”

"The right minister and the king set up a banquet in the king's tent to catch the wind and wash the dust for the prince." With a wave of his hand, several knights stepped forward to help Tug out of the cart.

Seeing that they were leaving, Duoyou hurriedly stopped: "Slow! Prince Tug has returned it to you, but what about the plague? ”

Before the Condor Archer could reply, Tu Ge stepped forward and said, "Brother Duoyou, I will already hand over the epidemic prescription to you at that time." ”

"What?" Ji Duoyou was shocked: "When?" ”

"Just when you followed Zhaogong to my secluded place, I have personally entrusted the epidemic prescription to you."

"You mean the beard?"

"Yes," replied Tu Ge, "this beard was given to me by my father before the Battle of Lacquer, when he said that the bronze crossbow is a treasure weapon, but it only kills; And the beard is not worth a penny, but it is enough to save people's lives. My father said, don't look at this little thing, but it is more precious than the original 'offender'------"

"This ------" Ji Duoyou panicked, and said in his heart that if he had already taken this precious epidemic prescription in his hand, he would have been unconscious for so long, and watched many lives die in the palace in vain, this is really a great evil! He quickly dismounted and groped all over his body, but he did not find the beard.

"What? Didn't Brother Hu Ji take it with him? There was a bit of disappointment in Tu Ge's words, and he felt that the other party didn't care about such a precious gift.

"Oops!" Duoyou slapped his head and shouted: "It was originally placed in my own bedding mattress in the district, and I haven't paid attention to it for the past few days!" What's going on now? He raised his eyes and glared at Tu Ge with disgust: "Why are you only talking about such an important matter now?" ”

Tu Ge glanced at the condor archer behind him, and his face was embarrassed: "Zhao Guogong was present that day, and the younger brother also had all kinds of difficulties, and I hope that the eldest brother Haihan ------"

Before the words were clear, Ji Duoyou was so smart that he had already understood the meaning of Tu Ge's words. As a hostage of the enemy, how can he show such an important bargaining chip lightly? It is already a supreme trust to be able to put this beard in your own hands, how can you be so demanding?

Thinking of this, Duoyou suddenly felt guilty, and hugged his fists again and again and thanked him: "Brother Youde is so trusted, he is already flattered, let alone others?" Brother walks slowly, he meets day by day, and the foolish brother will definitely repay the deep kindness of this gift! ”

"Big brother, take care!" When the group turned their horses' heads to go, Tu Ge suddenly turned his head, his eyes flickered, and his steps hesitated.

Duoyou knew that he still had something to say, so he stepped forward and asked, "What else does my brother have to say?" ”

Tu Ge arched his hand and said: "After many years, I don't know when there will be another time to meet." The foolish brother has a word to say! ”

"You and my brother, but it's okay to talk!"

"My brother is a man who is open-minded, uninformal, and doesn't know what it means to serve others. Now, it is too deeply involved in the matter of the rat Gu, if one day it is not allowed in this Great Zhou Temple, as long as I Tu Ge is here, the door of the Lynx Royal Court will always be open for the eldest brother! ”

Although Duoyou felt that this was a bit redundant, he still couldn't help but be moved and said: "Friends have written it down, take care of your brother!" ”

As soon as the words fell, Tu Ge had been helped into a car by an eagle archer, and the masked man led by him pointed his horsewhip and said loudly: "Let's go!" Hundreds of knights raised their whips and went away without looking back.

Duoyou looked at the smoke and dust that was rolling away, and his heart was very reluctant, and his eyes couldn't stop turning red. But there's more to do! He had to rush back to Hokyo as soon as possible to get that mustache, and it would be too late to get it.

"Someone!" He ordered the driver of the king's chariot: "Untie the horse, and give me a horse to spare!" ”

In the study room of Zhao Gong's Mansion, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy was reporting something to Zhao Bohu. The servants outside the door were all cleared to Sanzhang outside, and outside the door of the inner study, there was Uncle Mi personally on duty. The servants were well-trained and understood that this situation must be a confidential matter for the prime minister, so they didn't dare to pant loudly.

The room was closed, but there was a trace of cold air emitted from the ice basin, and it didn't feel very stuffy. The young man's eyebrows are handsome, and his gestures reveal a neatness and ease.

"Boyan, have you investigated it clearly?"

"Lord Yu, everything has been investigated. When the Hou Yufang entered Beijing, he did not stay in a post house, but lived in a high-end trading company in the city, called 'Laifengju'. The owner, nicknamed Shangzi and whose real name is Yigong, came from the Chengzhou area of the Central Plains and has been running a trading company here for three years. In addition to 'coming to Fengju' in Hojing, he also has a wine shop with Fengming Terrace, where there are often scholars who openly debate on the stage, which is very well-known. ”

"Fengmingtai?" Zhao Bohu searched for this name in his mind, and suddenly turned around, and a long figure with a dark complexion came into mind-Rong Yi? Is this a coincidence?

Seeing that his expression was different, Boyan called softly: "Xiangye? What now? Do you want to take this Yigong over for interrogation? ”

"Interrogation?" Zhao Bohu smiled bitterly: "A law-abiding businessman who hasn't done anything, and he hasn't violated "Zhou Li", why arrest him?" Send someone to keep an eye on him to see if any suspicious people are in or out of the trading house and the liquor store. Go ahead! ”

Boyan left in response, summoned Bohu to sit slowly behind the case, and fell into bitter thought. He had long wondered, if the matter of the rat Gu was indeed a conspiracy between Ejiao and the Lynx, then how did a woman in the deep palace, a country of E, which was far away in the land of Jing and Han in the south, have a relationship with the Lynx royal court far away in the north of the desert?