"It's a little weird, normal people will never just go home and run out of the door immediately," On the wide official road, Gu Huai looked at the mighty team in the distance, turned his head to the side and said: "King Ning has only one concubine, the city guards and Ning Wangfu had a conflict with me and Wei Laosan on the day they entered the city, and Princess Ning showed up, so why did she go back from the safari and run out again?" ”

Mang Chong nodded: "It's very strange, because there are too many guards." ”

Normal princes and nobles go out of the city to hunt, and it is normal to bring some guards, and even when the mountain is closed at the end of each year like the Yan Wangfu, it is necessary to dispatch three guards to guard, but the composition of the team in front of him is too strange, not only the men in Tsing Yi who Gu Huai saw last time rode their horses to accompany them, but also the mighty Mongolian cavalry to accompany them.

Ning Wangfu safari, the accompanying guards were actually Mongolian cavalry?

There is no need to think about it, there can be so many Mongolian cavalry in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the source can only be one - Duoyan Sanwei.

Princess Ning is the younger sister of the commander of Tainingwei, Gu Huai knows this, but why didn't she see these Mongolian cavalry when she entered the city yesterday, and suddenly appeared today? Gu Huai, who originally planned to enter the city after handing over the matter with Mangzhong, couldn't hold back his curiosity, so he followed all the way from outside the city.

Although he didn't know what the use of following along... But the confusion and wandering of these days made him subconsciously want to seize any possible opportunity.

Since it is a safari, it is naturally not as hurried as the march, even if Gu Huai and Mang Chong ran to find two ordinary people's clothes to change into, and rented a donkey cart to pretend to be a traveling couple to find it slowly along the official road, they did not lose this safari team, and looking at the direction they walked, it was obvious that they were going to Yanshan outside Daning.

Yanshan is a dividing line between the two major ethnic groups of agriculture and animal husbandry for generations, the north of the mountain is the grassland of the nomadic people, and the south of the mountain is the field of the farming people, so Yanshan has become a natural defense line to block the cavalry from going south, and then the farming people realized the necessity of building the city wall, so they built the pass gate along the mountain for entry and exit, and Daning is the place where the soldiers are stationed in the south of Yanshan.

Some of the passes in Yanshan are very famous, such as Juyong Pass, Gulongkou, and Lulongsai, but there are also some lesser-known ones, such as Dengjiakou, where this safari team is going.

As a pass, Dengjiakou is neither the main road to the grassland, nor the lifeline of transporting supplies, so it is completely understandable that it has become more and more depressed in recent years, but to enter Yanshan, Dengjiakou is still the flattest road, and a river passes by Dengjiakou, which can also be used to drink horses, so it is indeed a good place for hunting, but not many people know.

Gu Huai and Mangzhong followed the safari team all the way from Daning to Yanshan, and saw that the team crossed the water pass into the range of Yanshan, but there was no way to follow, so they could only watch the safari team disappear into the reckless mountains.

The so-called water pass is a brick and stone arch in Dengjiakou, which can be pedestrianized, but it is mainly to facilitate the passage of the river through the pass, so even if the mountains on both sides are surrounded and the road is rugged, the road is also flat and stable, but when Gu Huai and Mangzhong took out the road guide before arriving at the water pass, and were ready to continue to follow the safari team into the mountain, they were coldly pointed to the dirt road next to the guard of the pass, and they had to stop here.

This pass is not big, but there are a lot of guards, the brick city tower is a few zhang long and wide, and there is a water hole below, Gu Huai squinted and looked at the city tower for a long time, and suddenly said:

"Mangzhong, what do you think of this place?"

Mang Chong looked back blankly, and after a while she figured out what Gu Huai was talking about, she looked at Gu Huai's appearance for a while, and nodded: "It's very hidden." ”

"I didn't see a few towns just now, which means that there are not many residents here, and this road is sparsely populated, so you shouldn't be found if you walk here," Gu Huaixin calculated, "It's barely a straight line, starting from Kaiping, passing through Yanshan and Daning, although it will take a few more days than walking on the front, and it is estimated that you have to drill the forest, but the concealment is not the same." ”

He breathed a sigh of relief: "This can be regarded as an unintentional insertion of willows." ”

followed Princess Ning all the way, firstly, because this safari was full of weirdness, and secondly, Gu Huai was hesitant to show up to see Princess Ning, in fact, as long as he did not reveal his true identity, and only contacted Princess Ning as a spy of the secret spy department, the probability of being cut off without saying a word is still very low, because no matter how the battle is fought, Yan Wangfu and Ning Wangfu are still relatives after all.

But now this pass solves a big problem... What to do about Daning's affairs, in the end, it may not be possible to avoid the time when the swords and soldiers meet, if Zhu Di leads the troops out of the customs with a swagger, the court generals are not fools and will definitely be able to react, so a hidden marching route is needed, enough for Beiping City to attract all the attention At the same time, Zhu Di can touch Daning's side silently.

"My lord, since we can't keep up, what should we do next?"

After Dengjiakou, they entered the Yanshan realm, and the safari team was afraid that they would not be able to catch up if they entered, but this trip was not in vain, Gu Huai hesitated for a moment, and said: "Since we have figured out the road, we have also passed the customs, and the sudden return is inevitably suspicious, and I heard the guard say that there is a small town in front, let's go there to rest for one night, and then return to Daning tomorrow." ”

After walking a short distance, I saw the town from a distance, the town is not big, but the scenery is beautiful by the mountains and rivers, although there are only 100 or so households, but the scene of curling cooking smoke on the roof is still refreshing, pretending to be a husband and wife, Gu Huai and the two are looking for the inn, they heard a silver bell-like smile, a crisp girl's voice smiled: "Brother, if you can catch up with someone, I will give you a kiss, I am here... Ah! ”

A woman's figure ran out of a hillside, she didn't expect anyone here, as soon as she saw Gu Huai and Mangzhong appear in front of her, she turned around with an exclamation, Mangzhong only felt that her eyes were bright, although it was just a glimpse, but Mangzhong still saw the woman's stunning and beautiful face, even if she turned around, she could see the slender and elegant back... There is such a beauty in such a small town?

At this time, another person ran out from behind the bushes, it was a majestic middle-aged man, he was holding a bunch of red fruits in his hand, his face was full of doting smiles, as soon as he saw that there were still people on the hillside, his face couldn't help but change, and he looked at Gu Huai and Mangzhong vigilantly, and saw that the two of them were dressed very ordinarily, and even drove a donkey cart, so he eased his expression a little, took the girl's hand, wrapped his hand around her waist, and said softly: "It's not early, let's go down the mountain first, right?" ”

The accent is strange.

The girl nodded, combed the hair between her sideburns, and noticed that she was wearing a ring on her hand, and the ring was all green, which was clearly the best in jade... Even if this woman is so beautiful, how can she wear ordinary clothes and such precious jewelry?

Central Plains women are not likely to wear rings, and only married women will wear them, but Hu women have this habit, because it has the effect of wrenching fingers, which is used to buckle the string and open the bow... No wonder this woman's face is extremely beautiful, but there is some exotic flavor, is it actually a Hu woman?

The figures of the two gradually moved away, and Mang Chong noticed that the chief official beside her had not spoken for a long time, which was very unusual, and she turned around, only to find that Gu Huai's face was extremely stiff.

"What's wrong?"

"That woman," Gu Huai's cheeks twitched, and he paused before continuing, "That woman... It's Princess Ning. ”

Mangzhong froze.

Gu Huai looked in the direction of the two of them going downhill: "Don't ask, I've seen it once in front of the gate of Daning City, I can't admit it... So here's the problem, the one with her arms..."

"Could it be Ning Wang Zhu Quan?"