Zhang Shou went back with the king, and the first trip to negotiate with Shao Xi could solve the matter of detaining the officials, which was also a happy thing for Zhang Shou.

As for the entry of the Jingyuan delegation into Southern Zhao, as Shao Xi said, it may be delayed for a day or two, and he will not leave until he helps Tao Qingyun repair the county guard's mansion, after all, the disaster is his own.

Tao Qingyun persuaded Shao Xi a few times, saying that you have also paid the money, and you have also found the person, it is time to go to the right business, and you can leave the matter of repairing the house to yourself. But Shao Xi just got up to the axis, and he didn't want to leave until he had to repair the main hall, which made Tao Qingyun keep blaming himself, saying that it was because his house collapsed and delayed the mission.

Two days later, the main hall of the county guard mansion was finally repaired, Tao Qingyun begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother, and finally got Shao Xi to agree to take the delegation to Nanzhao. Before leaving, Tao Qingyun wanted to return the bead to Shao Xi, but Shao Xi stuffed it back and told him that he could sell the bead, and use the money in exchange for how he liked, and help whoever he wanted.

Tao Qingyun really couldn't resist him, so he had to accept it, and sent someone to the market to buy a delicate box, and put the red tiger bite silver knife in it and handed it to Shao Xi, which was regarded as doing his part.

Shao Xi instructed Tao Qingyun to repair the house, and when he returned from the envoy Nanzhao, he would no longer go to the post house to live, and go directly to the county guard mansion to live, which made Tao Qingyun happy, and told Shao Xi that he would leave the best room to him.

After saying goodbye to each other, Shao Xi left Nanshui County with the delegation and went to Nanzhao Kingdom.

Shao Xi didn't have to worry about the affairs of the mission at all, and all the daily affairs were taken care of by Xu Maocheng. Shao Xi and Lao Wu rode horses and walked slowly in the team looking at the scenery, Zhang Shou followed alongside and kept introducing the characteristics and allusions of various scenery to Shao Xi, obviously very conscious of being a tour guide.

The land of Nanling is rugged and difficult to travel, even the official road is much more difficult to walk than the Central Plains, so the speed of the entire mission plus the reception group is really not fast, but Shao Xi is not in a hurry anyway, he just comes out to enjoy the mountains and rivers.

Shao Xi is not in a hurry, but Zhang Shou is in a hurry! The sooner he brought the mission to the capital, he would have made a mission as soon as possible, and he would avoid a long night and a lot of dreams about the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. But now this speed of travel can really be said to be turtle speed, so I kept urging the reception group walking in front all the way to speed up and hurry up with the mission.

Another reason why Zhang Shou was anxious was that he guessed that Fu Zuoliang would definitely arrange for people to obstruct the progress of the mission along the way, and even possibly send someone to assassinate Shao Xi, so as to provoke contradictions between the two countries and create a hostile situation. Although Shao Xi said that no one in Nanzhao could kill him, it was not a trivial matter for the mission to be attacked! The impact on the two countries will also be extremely bad, so he has always wanted to rush back to the capital as soon as possible, so as not to be so worried along the way.

But the problem is that he didn't take into account that the mission had been delayed at the border for so many days, even if he had been out for a few days, if people really wanted to attack the mission, they would have already rushed to the ambush place, and if you were to go fast, it would be impossible to avoid it.

As a result, along the way, Shao Xi, the person concerned, was not in a hurry or in a hurry, but the person in charge of leading the way was worried and cautious all day long, and he was so nervous that he couldn't do it when there was a stir, a typical "The emperor is not in a hurry, and the eunuch is in a hurry".

At the beginning, Zhang Shou rushed from the capital to the border was lightly armed, and it took three days to arrive with a fast horse and whip, and now this team of people and horses has been walking for three days, and they have only walked less than half of the distance, which can make Zhang Shou anxious enough.

Seeing that he was about to reach the most dangerous valley in front of him, he was even more nervous.

The reason why this valley is called the valley is because the exits on both sides of the valley are narrow and the middle is wide, and after entering the valley, if the exits on both sides are blocked, it is difficult for the people in the valley to break out of the valley, so this is the most suitable place for ambushes.

Zhang Shou's biggest fear was that Fu Zuoliang would send people to set up an ambush here and raid the mission to assassinate Shao Xi.

The worst thing is that I was about to reach the valley of the sandwich, but the sky was dark again. If you don't go into the valley, you are afraid of delaying the trip, but if you can't walk far into the valley, it will be dark, so you must spend the night in the valley, wouldn't it be more dangerous? Zhang Shou struggled for a while and didn't know what to do.

The team stopped at the valley mouth for a long time, and finally Shao Xi got impatient, and with an order, the whole team entered the valley and walked towards the valley.

Zhang Shou couldn't resist Shao Xi, so he had to agree to enter the valley, but repeatedly reminded the reception group and the escorts of the mission to strengthen their defense, and be ready to deal with emergencies at any time to avoid losses to the mission.

"Lord Shao, this valley is the most suitable place for ambushes and raids, such a dangerous place, why do you still want to enter it? You know, after dark we'll have to spend the night in the valley. ”

Shao Xi looked up at the cliffs on both sides of the canyon and asked meaningfully, "Lord Zhang, are you afraid that we will encounter a night attack here?" ”

Zhang Shou hurriedly nodded and replied: "Exactly!" The terrain here is dangerous, it is suitable for ambush and sneak attack, and now we have drilled in by ourselves, and it is difficult to break out if we are attacked here after nightfall. ”

"Master Zhang, do you think that even if we wait until daylight tomorrow to enter this valley, if someone is ambushed here, they will give up the attack on us and let us go because it is daylight?"

Zhang Shou replied without thinking about it: "Naturally, it won't, since we have set up an ambush here, no matter when we pass by, they will do it." It's just that the day passes by, and we can quickly pass through the valley without having to stop here, and maybe it will pass, and now it is not even more dangerous to stay here for too long for the night? ”

Shao Xi smiled bitterly and shook his head, he suddenly found that Zhang Shou was sometimes very naïve, and he thought about the problem very simply.

"If someone decides to attack us here, we will be attacked whenever we pass by. Perhaps the people who were lying in ambush on both sides of the cliff have been lying here for two or three days now, and this has nothing to do with whether we pass by here during the day or by night. As soon as we come in, they will do it, and if we have to meet sooner or later, why should we delay until tomorrow? ”

Lao Wu interjected on the side and asked, "Since you already feel that there are people in ambush on both sides of the cliff, why do you want to let the mission enter the valley and spend the night here?" ”

Shao Xi asked playfully: "Old Wu, do you think that if you want to sabotage this mission, which is easier, attacking the mission or assassinating me, and the certainty of success is greater?" ”

"Do you need to ask? Naturally, it was an attack on the mission! If you want to assassinate you, you have to find you first, and after you find it, you have to be able to beat you, and if you can beat you, you have to be able to catch up with you, aren't you asking a nonsense? ”

"Isn't this the end of it? So attacking the mission is the main task, and assassinating me is just an extra task that is icing on the cake, so since we are going to attack the mission, even if we are not here, this will definitely happen before we reach Yongchuan City. Now it's the best place to do it, and they know, and we know it, so instead of being caught off guard in a place we don't expect, wouldn't it be better to wait for them to do it in this place where we are mentally prepared? It's like when we caught turtle doves, they wanted to eat our bait, and we wanted to catch them, so we had to put the bait in a place where they and we could see it, and then we waited for them to eat it, and then we could catch them. ”

Lao Wu and Zhang Shou's eyes widened at the same time, they looked at Shao Xi with surprise on their faces, and asked in unison, "Are you going to put yourself and the envoy here as bait and wait for them to eat?" ”

Zhang Shou followed up and asked, "Lord Shao is still planning to arrest them?" ”

Shao Xi smiled secretly and said something they had never heard before.

"I don't know if you've ever heard of such a saying? The most astute hunters tend to come in the form of prey. ”

Not to mention Zhang Shou, even Lao Wu has never heard of such a sentence. He wondered how he had never taught this child this thing after all these years! Where did he learn this? How do you feel that this kid is more like an old fox than yourself?

"Young Master, what are you going to do?"

"Wait until it's dark! After dark, let the guards of the mission quietly disperse, and secretly lay in ambush under the cliff. When someone slides down the cliff, let them hide, don't show their heads, remind the guards of the reception group to be on guard and wait for the sneak attackers to approach, when they approach the stationing point, we will make a dumpling in reverse, and attack inside and out. As for the people who may come in from the valley on both sides, it is estimated that we have almost solved it here by the time we arrived. As soon as we get out of the gorge in front of us, we will block them in the valley. ”

Lao Wu and Zhang Shou were stupid, you weren't waiting for someone else to sneak attack you, you planned to sneak attack each other from the beginning?

This pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger is really played 666 by this old six!

But when the two thought about it, Shao Xi was right. Instead of passively defending, it is better to take the initiative to defeat the opponent directly, so as not to have trouble along the way. So the two also agreed with Shao Xi's plan, and arranged for someone to notify them, according to what Shao Xi said, the mission guards quietly dispersed after dark, and the guards of the reception group continued to be responsible for vigilance, ready to deal with possible sneak attacks at any time.

Needless to say, the guards of the mission left Jing Yuan Kingdom, Shao Xi's words were like a holy decree, and they were absolutely and unconditionally obedient. As for the guards of the reception group, they were originally subordinate to the Ministry of Rites, and Zhang Shou was the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, so he was naturally obedient to him.

The group walked slowly, and as the sky began to darken, the guards in the mission began to scatter out little by little, so as to avoid the attention of the collective action of many people.

Before they had completely dispersed, the procession continued to move forward slowly in the dark, and it was not until everyone had dispersed according to the predetermined plan that the team of the mission and reception group stopped in the middle of the canyon, lit a bonfire and camped on the spot, and posed as if they were spending the night there.

The bait had been dropped, and the people on the cliffs on both sides of the valley looked at the piles of bonfires burning in the middle of the valley, and they all decided that what was in front of them was their prey. What they didn't know was that they were also prey to the man sitting around the campfire, they just didn't know it.

Shao Xi smiled and said to Lao Wu: "I've never caught such a big turtledove, right?" ”

Some people died, but not completely......