The clouds accumulated in the sky became thicker and thicker, and at last at the first hour it began to snow, and clusters of snowballs fell from the sky like torn chains, and the snow became denser and denser, and the sky and the earth finally became gray.

On the official road south of Luoyang, a team of more than twenty people was rushing to Luoyang, all of them riding horses, escorting three tightly sealed carriages, a young woman, wearing a thick leather jacket and holding a pair of long swords.

She is Zhao Qiuniang who rushed back from Dengfeng County, Zhao Qiuniang went to Songshan with two tasks, one is to deal with Li Zhen, and the second is to collect the wealth accumulated by Wei Shifang.

In the three carriages they had tightly guarded, loaded with the booty they had collected on their way south, a full fifteen thousand taels of gold and fifty thousand taels of silver, they found the entrance to the underground palace in the Laojun Palace, which had been destroyed by fire.

So much wealth is enough to attract many Central Plains thieves and road bandits, but their news is extremely secretive, and there are no accidents along the way.

But the closer she got to Luoyang, the more worried Zhao Qiuniang became, she knew that countless people were peeping at this huge wealth, and the robbers might not know it, but it would be very difficult to hide it from the people in the capital.

This wealth originally belonged to Xue Huaiyi, but now that it is in their hands, how can Xue Huaiyi be willing to give up, and Princess Taiping, those black-clothed people who attacked Li Zhen should be sent by Princess Taiping, she is so eager for power and wealth, will she let this wealth go?

There are also Wu Sansi who is hidden in the shadows and Wu Chenghei who refuses to quit the political stage, and even Li Dan and Li Xian, who are honest on the surface but secretly restless, don't they want to get this wealth?

There are still thirty miles away from Luoyang City, but the snow is getting heavier and heavier, and the road is not visible dozens of steps away, and the road is becoming more and more difficult.

Everyone rushed to the pavilion and set up the horses, they squeezed into the pavilion, and kept stamping their feet, and someone pulled out the blanket from the horse bag and wrapped himself tightly, when a woman asked, "Sister, can they find a place to stay?"

More than half an hour ago, Zhao Qiuniang sent three of her subordinates to find a place to stay first, preparing to wait for dawn before going on the road, people have been gone for a long time, they should be back, Zhao Qiuniang also felt a trace of uneasiness in her heart, they won't encounter anything!

At this moment, one of his subordinates pointed to the official road and shouted, "They're back!"

I saw two black shadows stumbling towards this side, everyone hurriedly greeted them, Zhao Qiuniang pushed everyone away, and saw that there were only two people, one was her apprentice Lin Baohu, and the other was called Xiao Liulang, but they were injured, she asked extremely worriedly: "Capture the tiger, where is Jin Er?"

Lin Baohu panted and said, "We were surrounded by the warrior monks of the White Horse Temple, there were more than thirty of them, and Jin Er was killed by them. ”

Everyone's hearts sank into the abyss, the warrior monks of the White Horse Temple only had one force to intercept them, there must be another person waiting for them, and the outside of Luoyang City would become a hunting battlefield, and everyone's eyes were looking at Zhao Qiuniang.

Zhao Qiuniang is very familiar with the terrain in this area, in front of them is Peng Po Town, to the northeast is to Yanshi County, and now it is snowing heavily, which can cover their transfer.

She pondered for a long time and said to the people: "Our soldiers are divided into two routes, and I will take a few brothers to continue north. ”

Her eyes fell on the eldest apprentice Zhang Wei, and Zhang Wei immediately arched his hand and said, "The disciple is here!"

"You take others to protect the carriage and go to Yanshi County, hide in Yanshi County for a few days, and I will bring reinforcements to meet you. ”

Zhang Wei was very worried, "There are warrior monks ambushing soldiers ahead, isn't the master going north like this, didn't he just fall into their ambush?"

Zhao Qiuniang shook her head and said: "I won't go north for the time being, when you go far, I will make a detour to the north, their goal is to focus on this gold and silver, and they won't put too much energy on me." ”

She pointed to three more carriages, "Free up one for me, which I will use as bait." ”

Zhang Wei left the official road with twenty brothers to escort the two carriages, and went from a small road to Yanshi County, while Zhao Qiuniang and four of his men were still waiting in the pavilion, patiently waiting for the next day's dawn

At noon, the heavy snowfall that had been falling all night finally stopped, and the streets, trees, and houses were covered with thick snow, and Luoyang City became a snowy world.

This heavy snow has undoubtedly added a bit of joy to the upcoming New Year, and the streets and alleys of Luoyang City are full of groups of children playing, and many young people can't help but join the ranks of snowball fights.

The vicinity of Luoyang's Changxia Gate is also particularly lively, with more than a dozen hunters who come to Luoyang with mountain goods to sell them are surrounded by nearby residents, who are vying to buy all kinds of fresh game meat to add a delicacy to the New Year's table.

Dozens of children gathered at the city gate for a snowball fight, and the laughter of the approaching New Year was filled with laughter, and at that moment two knights galloped from a distance, and the horses were running through the snow with great difficulty, and they were all tired and panting, but the knights on the horses continued to whip their horses.

The soldiers guarding the gate were startled and raised their spears to stop them, "What people, stop!"

The people who came from afar were Zhao Qiuniang and her apprentice Lin Baohu, the two were covered in blood, although they made a detour to the north, they were still ambushed by a group of black-clothed people, three of their subordinates were unfortunately killed, Zhao Qiuniang and Lin Baohu fought their way out of the encirclement, but both of them were injured.

Zhao Qiuniang was exhausted, she didn't have the strength to explain to the soldiers defending the city, took out a silver medal, and shook it in front of the soldiers, several soldiers were so frightened that they hurriedly put away their spears, and a firefighter shouted: "Get out of the way!"

The city gate was cleared, Zhao Qiuniang and Lin Baohu urged the horses to rush into Luoyang City, and a soldier next to them didn't see the silver medal they showed clearly, so he asked in a low voice: "Huo Chang, who are they?"

"Stupid!"

The fire chief scolded viciously, "Didn't you see a double-headed eagle on the silver medal?"

The soldiers were suddenly too frightened to speak, and the children of Luoyang all knew that the double-headed eagle was the symbol of the Tang Dynasty's internal guards, and it was the most mysterious and powerful guard, directly responsible to the empress.

The internal guard is a special guard established shortly after Wu Zetian took power, it is different from Zhou Xing, Lai Junchen and other cool officials, the internal guard is responsible for carrying out various secret tasks assigned by Wu Zetian, the number is not large, only about 300 people.

The commander of the internal guard is equivalent to the lieutenant general, currently concurrently served by Wu Youxu, with two deputy commanders below, the military rank is equivalent to that of Lang general, and each deputy commander has three captains under each lieutenant, and each lieutenant leads fifty guards.

The guards are divided into four guards and two guards, the guards hide in the market, and they usually engage in various trades to disguise their identities, such as merchants, bartenders, dancing girls, street scoundrels, and so on.

Zhao Qiuniang has been hiding her identity from Li Zhen, she is actually an internal guard captain, and she is a hidden guard, she opened the martial arts hall is just a cover, there are not a few internal guards among the many apprentices in the martial arts hall, and her fifty subordinates are distributed in Nanshi.

Zhao Qiuniang was introduced to the internal guard by her master Gongsun Aunt five years ago, and got the respect of Shangguan Wan'er, her husband is also a captain of the internal guard, and unfortunately died in a mission last year, Zhao Qiuniang took over her husband's position and was promoted to captain.

This time, she secretly helped Li Zhen on the order of Guan Wan'er and confiscated Wei Shifang's huge wealth, but when she came back, she encountered great trouble.

Most of her subordinates have been temporarily transferred to Yanshi County, and Zhao Qiuniang must do her best to bring people to support, otherwise those who intercept wealth will easily target Yanshi County.

Not long after entering Luoyang City, Zhao Qiuniang and Lin Baohu first returned to the martial arts hall located near Nanshi.

Since Zhao Qiuniang went to Songshan, the martial arts hall was also suspended, and the apprentices were preparing for the New Year at home.

"Ah Ling, why are you here?" asked Zhao Qiuniang.

Ah Ling is only fourteen years old, she is very well-behaved and lively, her family is also in Fushan Fang, and her father is a businessman in Nanshi.

Ah Ling was the most favored by Zhao Qiuniang, she suddenly saw the master, and immediately jumped up with joy, jumped forward and grabbed the master's hand, "Master, I'm bored at home, come to the martial arts hall to play!"

She suddenly saw blood stains on Master's body, and she was so frightened that she exclaimed, "There is blood! Master, what's wrong with you?"

"Ah Ling, don't make a fuss, you take Senior Brother Lin to rest, help him with medicine, and then bring Master's medicine box. ”

Ah Ling panicked and helped her senior brother Lin Baohu to the backyard, while Zhao Qiu came to the rest room of the martial arts hall and slowly pulled up her long skirt, only to see that her pants had been pierced by a long sword, she tore open her white satin pants, and there was a sword wound on the outside of her thigh, and her flesh and blood were blurred.

She sat on the couch exhausted, and at this time, Ah Ling hurriedly ran over with a medicine box, "Master, give you the medicine box!"

Zhao Qiuniang nodded, opened the medicine box, carefully washed the wounds on her waist and legs with wine, and applied the wound medicine.

"Ah Ling, during Master's absence, is there anything unusual in the martial arts hall?"

Ah Ling thought for a while and said, "Master is not here, there is nothing abnormal in the martial arts hall, but there are always a few strange people dangling outside, even at night." ”

Zhao Qiuniang was taken aback and asked urgently, "Are they still there today?"

"I saw them when I came, and there were three of them. ”

Zhao Qiuniang immediately realized that she was negligent, her martial arts hall had been monitored, she didn't care about the pain of the wound, she immediately stood up and said, "Ah Ling, you go and tell Senior Brother Lin to get up, just say that we are leaving soon." ”

Zhao Qiuniang simply cleaned up, walked quickly to the side door, apprentices Lin Baohu and A Ling hurriedly came, the two turned over and got on the horse, at this moment, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves outside the martial arts hall.

The fierce sound of horses' hooves seemed to be stepping on Zhao Qiuniang's heart, she was so nervous that her legs were weak, and she hurriedly looked through the side door, only to see nearly thirty internal guard soldiers rushing into the gate under the leadership of the deputy commander Wan Guojun

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