Chen Tang lowered his voice and said, "The brothers found some suspicious people outside the village."

"Oh?"

When Jiang Kesheng heard this, he immediately asked, "Who are they?"

Chen Tang said: "They have been observing for a while, they are all young and middle-aged, and in the past two days, several groups have passed on the main road outside Zhuangzi, and in the past few months, except for our own people, there are no young adults who have appeared here again."

Jiang Kesheng turned his head to look at Shang Ruyi: "Young lady."

Seeing Shang Ruyi thinking silently for a while, he then smiled lightly: "There are a lot of people running away from Luoyang recently, and it is not strange that some people are passing by here."

Jiang Kesheng said, "Then we—"

Shang Ruyi said, "Don't worry about them, just let your people do their own thing."

"Yes."

Jiang Kesheng immediately asked Chen Tang and the others to continue to go out to patrol around Zhuangzi, and he packed up the map himself and retreated.

Shang Ruyi sat for a while, and finally sighed as if he had breathed a sigh of relief, and then turned to Tushe'er and said, "You go and pack your luggage, and tomorrow, we will go back to Luoyang."

Tusher said, "Yes."

Chang Wan and Wo Xue immediately asked, "Young lady, do you want us to clean up together?"

Shang Ruyi smiled: "Don't be lazy, you two hurry up and cook, I'm tired from the martial arts training ground just now, and I'm already hungry."

Hearing this, Wo Xue immediately laughed, and pulled Chang Wan to the kitchen.

When they were all gone, Shang Ruyi sighed lightly again, looking up at the faintly bright but still gloomy sky outside, not knowing when the light from the ceiling would completely penetrate the haze and shine down.

After a long time, she muttered, "It's going to change again......

Her words were like an omen.

That night, the whining north wind blew all night, as if Liang Shide's men and horses had not yet arrived, but the stirred wind arrived first, in his sleep, Shang Ruyi even heard the sound of the flagpole of the martial arts training ground being blown down, and woke up the next morning, the wind still did not stop, and the sky began to snow again.

By the time they had breakfast, the snow on the road was ankle deep, and the wind and snow had been blowing non-stop, blowing so that people's eyes could not open, and the dark clouds were like an emotionless black hand, pressing on the hearts of these already fragile people, making people breathless.

The people in the Zhuangzi are still like this, but those outside the Zhuangzi who want to hide their deeds and keep close to all the people and things in the Zhuangzi are even more difficult.

Several sturdy men hid in a dead wood forest not far from the foot of the mountain, the howling north wind cut their faces and bodies like knives, even if they were wearing heavy clothes, they could not withstand the cold in such a field, they all shivered from the cold, and some people unconsciously complained: "A general's wife, as for making us work so hard?"

Standing beside him was the captain of this team, who only glanced at him coldly and said, "If you want to complain, go to Your Majesty and complain."

The man gritted his teeth and could only keep his mouth shut.

A person who was half-sideways hiding behind him clasped his hands together and snorted twice, and then said, "This general's wife is not an ordinary person, otherwise, this time she followed His Majesty to Jiangdu Palace to the relatives of so many officials, how could we just let us spy on her."

….

Another person whispered, "I heard my brother who went to Yanmen County come back and say that His Majesty seems to have some ...... with this lady."

Before he finished speaking, he was stabbed by the team leader with a knife in the eye, and immediately closed his mouth.

"You guys, you really don't want heads!"

At this moment, the person standing at the front suddenly whispered, "They're out!"

Everyone immediately looked up and looked forward, only to see that in the wind and snow, a group of people walked out of the Zhuangzi, although all of them wore thick clothes and held umbrellas, not only could not distinguish between people, but even men and women were almost indistinguishable, but they still immediately recognized that walking in the center, wearing a heavy and gorgeous mink fur,

There was also a figure holding an umbrella for her next to her, the wife of the general of the auxiliary country, Shang Ruyi.

I saw them slowly walk out of Zhuangzi and come to the carriage that stopped at the intersection early in the morning.

She didn't get into the car immediately, but stood by the car, said a few words to the people around her, and seemed to be explaining something, and listening to her words, it was naturally Jiang Kesheng, the steward of the Zhuangzi, who nodded incessantly, and reached out to the other side of the Zhuangzi.

Over there, dozens of horses had been prepared, and heavy luggage was still carried behind them, apparently intending to leave them after she left here.

One of them whispered, "These people, are you leaving?"

The squad leader stared intently ahead, didn't speak, and a person next to him whispered, "There has been no one around here for a long time, and it won't be long before one of them stays here alone." I just don't know where they're going next."

"Where? I guess I'm going to Taiyuan to find their master."

"Then, the general's wife went south, and no one followed?"

"Didn't she send a team of nearly 100 people south before?"

These people were talking about something, and while they were talking, the people at the intersection had already explained the matter clearly, only to see everyone helping Shang Ruyi to get into the carriage, and then, the carriage took a few guards she brought when she came and staggered on the road, and the rest of the people watched the carriage disappear into the wind and snow, and then returned to Zhuangzi.

When everything had calmed down, the people of the forest gathered together.

The squad leader said, "You two, take the path and hurry back to the Eastern Capital, go and report to the above, Young Lady Yuwen has returned to the city."

The person who was named said strangely, "Aren't we going back? Why bother to take a path?"

The squad leader's eyes were like falcons, he glanced at the end of the road in the wind and snow, and his sharp eyes stared at the swaying figure in the village, and said in a deep voice: "This road is not easy to walk, but now that the wind and snow are so big, they will have to walk for at least a day and a night. In order not to worry Your Majesty, I have to go back and report it in advance."

As he spoke, he said as if subconsciously, "So as not to cause problems."

Although the two men were reluctant, they did not dare to say much at this time, and after receiving the order, they led their horses out of the dry woods and set out on another road.

The rest of the group looked at the squad leader and asked, "We're now—"

The squad leader took a deep breath and said, "Let's go, let's go behind them and follow back to the city." lest there be any accidents along the way."

….

Everyone nodded, untied their horses, and set out on the road.

And just as they had left, a group of men and horses came out of the village and plunged headlong into the blizzard, all the way north.

As the captain said, this road is not easy to walk, and the wind and snow have not stopped for a day and a night, and riding a horse in such weather is almost no different from being tortured.

They couldn't even make a sound of complaining, and at last three o'clock the next day, a huge black shadow appeared from the darkness of the night ahead.

They're back in the Eastern Capital!

The squad leader couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

At this time, there was no need to keep a distance from the carriage of Yuwen Mansion, they hurried their horses, and saw that the carriage entered the city gate where the snowflakes were flying, and they also passed quickly, and as soon as they entered, they saw that the two people who had been sent back before were waiting at the city gate.

Everyone stopped, and the captain leaned over to look at them, "You have all reported it?"

The two men bowed to him, "Yes."

"What did Your Majesty say?"

"Your Majesty, let us continue to keep an eye on the Yuwen Mansion, today the team is set off at the right time, we must make sure that their people are ready to gather at the South City Gate."

"When to go?"

When the team leader heard this, he couldn't help but take a deep breath, and set off at the right time, and Young Lady Yuwen returned to the Eastern Capital City after midnight, almost less than two hours, fortunately, there were no accidents on the road, otherwise their task today is really difficult to say.

So he nodded and said, "We know, you go down."

Only then did the two of them arch their hands and turn to leave, and the squad leader said to the people behind him, "Everyone work hard, and then go to Yuwen Mansion to keep an eye on."

Everyone was already exhausted at this time, but they didn't dare to disobey the emperor's order, so they could only continue to ride their horses and follow the direction of the carriage all the way forward. Probably because today was the day when the emperor's southern tour team set off, the entire eastern capital city had not slept almost all night, and the sky had not yet dawned, but the lights everywhere had already been lit up, illuminating the road in front of them for a while and darkening for a while, and there was always an illusion as if they were in a labyrinth of suspicion.

After walking for another half an hour, the carriage finally arrived at Yuwen Mansion.

The people here also began to wait early in the morning, and the two large lanterns at the door emitted an orange light, reflecting the messy flying snowflakes, as if countless sparks were flashing in the sky, and the eyes of those at the door were also reflected in the flickering eyes.

Until the carriage stopped at the door, they hurried up to meet it.

And the people who followed here on horseback and stood at the end of the long street finally breathed a sigh of relief at this time.

Everything has finally settled.

They have worked hard for the past few days, and their merits can be regarded as complete, and now they must hurry back to join the Praetorian Guard brigade, because in less than an hour, His Majesty the Emperor's southward march will set off.

But just as they were about to turn around and leave, the squad leader suddenly said, "Wait a minute!"

The crowd hurriedly stopped.

Everyone looked at him, only to see that his eyes were staring at the door of Yuwen Mansion, as if he was eagerly looking for something, and couldn't help but say, "Big brother, haven't they already gone home? It's time for us to go."

"No, no......"

The squad leader muttered, and suddenly, his eyes turned red, and he immediately rode his horse forward.

A few people didn't know what was going on, so they could only ride their horses to follow, only to see that he had rushed to the gate of Yuwen Mansion in an instant, and the guards who followed the car saw that someone suddenly broke over, and hurriedly stepped forward to stop him: "What are you doing?"

The captain ignored them at all, rode his horse and galloped over, came to the carriage, and opened the curtain!

Inside, it's empty!

(End of chapter)

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