Looking at the letter from Li Xiuning in his hand, Li Yuan fell into deep thought, and Chang Bao, who had been standing beside him, was silent, and could only look at Li Yuan cautiously.

"Chang Bao, how much do you know about the Mo family?" Li Yuan put the letter paper in his hand on the dragon book case and asked Chang Baolai.

Chang Bao can be said to be Li Yuan's closest person, even those concubines and children do not spend as much time with Li Yuan as Chang Bao, and the relationship between Chang Bao and Li Yuan was very close during the Great Sui Dynasty, which is still due to the fact that Li Yuan once served as the young eunuch in the palace of the Sui Dynasty, and the intimate relationship between Chang Bao and Li Yuan also began at that time.

Later, the news that Emperor Yang of Sui wanted to destroy Li Yuan in Taiyuan was also leaked to Li Yuan by Chang Bao, and a large part of the reason was that Li Yuan was able to raise troops in Taiyuan at the right time, on the one hand, because of the relationship between the generals and ministers around Li Yuan, and on the other hand, I am afraid that it also has a lot to do with Chang Bao's early warning.

Therefore, when the Li Tang Dynasty was established, Chang Bao naturally became Li Yuan's personal attendant and the chief manager of the palace.

And Chang Bao himself is also good at martial arts, and he also knows a lot about some things in the rivers and lakes, it is said that the "bad guy" was set up by Chang Bao to help Li Yuan, so Li Yuan will ask Chang Bao questions.

"Back to Your Majesty, the Mo family has been in a slump since the First Emperor burned books and pit Confucianism, and it has been difficult to find a trace after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty!" Chang Bao bowed to Li Yuan and replied.

"Oh!" Hearing Chang Bao's answer, Li Yuan nodded slightly, and at the same time his gaze swept to the letter paper on the dragon book case again, "I don't know if this Mo family heir is good or bad, I hope it won't bring disaster to my Datang!" Li Yuan pondered for a while.

"Chang Bao, keep an eye on Lu Chen, and report anything abnormal at any time!" In fact, the first time Lu Chen appeared in Li Xiuning's army, there were already bad people who sent news to Chang Bao, so Lu Chen had already registered with Li Yuan, as for what Lu Chen did in the army, Li Yuan knew everything if he didn't know everything, but what Lu Chen did was only to strengthen Li Xiuning's strength, so Li Yuan let it go.

Now in the letter Li Xiuning sent to himself, he was seeking an official for Lu Chen, hoping to leave Lu Chen to work for Datang, which made Li Yuan can't help but start paying attention to Lu Chen.

In fact, at this time, Li Yuan was also very curious, why Lu Chen came to Datang, if the time was ripe, Li Yuan would not mind seeing Lu Chen.

And Li Xiuning actually concealed something from Li Yuan in the letter, only mentioning Lu Chen's identity as the "heir of the Mo family", and Lu Chen's master's will to "travel to his homeland", but he did not mention Lu Chen's self-proclaimed immortal's poem "White Yujing in the sky, five cities on the twelfth floor".

"Yes! Slave maid understands! Chang Bao naturally understood what Li Yuan meant, and Chang Bao naturally arranged for it to be executed.

Lu Chen rode out of Weizhou City on a black wind, and ran out of forty or fifty miles of land as soon as he slipped through the smoke, until he met a small town and stopped, Lu Chen dismounted at the entrance of the town, and led the horse into the town, this town covers an area that is not small, according to Lu Chen's estimates, this town must have at least one or two thousand people, but at this time the whole town seems to be quite depressed, Lu Chen, who is standing at the entrance of the town, sees that from time to time there are residents with families and carts and backpacks are fleeing the town in a hurry.

There are only two roads in the whole town, the cross street connecting the east, west, north and south divides the town into four parts, and the houses of the residents and shops are built on the street, which should be lively, but at this time it is quite quiet, the houses on both sides of the street are closed doors, many shops are closed with door panels, and the gate is the iron general.

The crisp sound of horses' hooves in the black wind echoed on the street, and from time to time, people with their families hurriedly walked by Lu Chen's side, walking in the direction of Weizhou City outside the town, of course, many people looked at Lu Chen with curious eyes when they passed by Lu Chen's side.

After walking on the street for a while, Lu Chen finally found a restaurant that was still open for business at the corner of the street, but the lobby of the restaurant was quiet and empty, and two young people dressed as young people were sitting at the door of the restaurant chatting, shaking their heads and sighing from time to time.

When Lu Chen led Hei Feng to the two of them, the two of them got up instantly and greeted Lu Chen with a smile, "This guest officer, is it a tip or a hotel?" One of them, a thinner-looking shopkeeper, asked Lu Chen diligently, and the other took the initiative to reach out to lead Heifeng.

"Our store has good forage to ensure that the guest officer's horses are well fed!" Another slightly chubby shopkeeper also introduced it politely.

Lu Chen looked up at the restaurant called "Fuweiju", and happened to be a little hungry, so he walked into the restaurant under the guidance of the thin Xiaoer, as for Hei Feng, he was tied to the tethered horse stake on the side of the door by another slightly chubby Xiao Er, and in front of Hei Feng was the livestock trough, and the slightly chubby Xiao Er held a handful of straw and put it into the livestock trough.

As Lu Chen walked into Fuweiju, the thin junior shouted directly: "A guest officer, hit the tip!" ”

There was only one diner in the entire hall at this time, Lu Chen randomly found a place to sit down, and this position happened to be able to see the black wind at the horse tether at the door, and the black wind was eating straw with relish.

didn't wait for Lu Chen to sit down, Xiao Er, who followed Lu Chen, hurriedly picked up the towel on his shoulder and wiped the bench, the bench at this time was not the kind of high-legged bench in later generations, but a small stool similar to Mazazi, as for the table, it was a wooden board made up of four wooden blocks, "Guest officer, please sit!" Xiao Er greeted Lu Chen attentively, "What do you want to eat?" ”

"Our specialty is mutton soup and steamed mutton..."Xiao Er diligently introduced the dishes of Fuweiju to Lu Chen, but it sounded like only a few things to Lu Chen.

"Then let's have a mutton soup, a regular mutton, a pickled vegetable (pickled vegetables) and a few steamed cakes!" Lu Chen ordered a few things casually.

"Okay! Wait! Xiao Er turned around and walked in the direction of the back kitchen, reporting the name of the dish as he walked.

After all, there was only one diner in the whole restaurant, and the speed of serving the food was not slow, and soon the meal that Lu Chen wanted was sent by Xiao Er.

"Xiao Er, let me ask you, why do all the people in this town seem to have fled the famine?" Lu Chen asked a little knowingly with Xiao Er.

"Hey!" Without waiting for Xiao Er to speak, the shopkeeper who had been standing at the counter on the side sighed and turned out from behind the counter.

"Why is the shopkeeper sighing?" Lu Chen still looked like he was pretending to be confused.

"The guest officer doesn't know! Then Liu Heimin is about to fight, and I heard that he led an army of 200,000 to attack Weizhou City! The shopkeeper sat directly next to Lu Chen, and said with a sigh, "There are well-informed people in the town who say that Liu Heimin is only a few hundred miles away from here, if I hadn't been reluctant to give up this restaurant, I would have left a long time ago!" The shopkeeper couldn't help but shake his head and sigh when he said this.

"Oh?" Hearing the shopkeeper's words, Lu Chen's eyebrows raised slightly, it would take at least five or seven or six days for Liu Heimin to arrive in Weizhou City, but he never thought that he would come so quickly, hundreds of miles away, if Liu Heimin marched in a hurry, it was estimated that it would take two or three days to reach Weizhou City.

"We've only lived a peaceful life for a few days, and we're about to go to war again, how can we let the people live!" Seeing that Lu Chen didn't talk, the shopkeeper couldn't help but shake his head and sigh again.

"Don't worry, the shopkeeper can't afford to make big waves, as far as I know, the imperial court has sent a large army to quell the rebellion!" Lu Chen didn't know how to comfort the old shopkeeper, so he could only try his best to give the shopkeeper confidence, and Lu Chen also felt that he had to hurry up, but even so, he was afraid that this town would have to suffer some hardships first, after all, in Lu Chen's plan, Liu Heimin had to die under the city of Weizhou.

Lu Chen swept the clouds for a while, and then paid for the meal, and then rode the black wind to leave the town, riding on the black wind, Lu Chen couldn't help but look back at the town that was getting farther and farther away from him, and felt a little unbearable in his heart, for his own plan, to sacrifice such a town really felt a little cruel, but fortunately, he learned from the old shopkeeper that there were no more families living in the entire town, which made Lu Chen feel less guilty, and before leaving, Lu Chen also persuaded the old shopkeeper to flee the town first, I hope that this old shopkeeper can listen to his own advice.

Out of Zhendian, walk a few dozen miles further, it has already gone out of the boundary of Weizhou, entered the boundary of Qizhou, the situation here is more depressed than the boundary of Weizhou, the village is ten rooms and nine empty, the road is full of people fleeing in the direction of Weizhou, seeing these people, Lu Chen couldn't help frowning, if so many people enter Weizhou City, it will definitely make Tian Liuan scramble, and Lu Chen feels that all this seems to be planned by someone.

Lu Chen flicked his horse and entered the mountains and forests directly, his outfit was too dazzling, and many people would stare at him a few times along the way, which made Lu Chen regret a little that he didn't come out with some Tang Dynasty clothes, but fortunately, the mountains and forests were dense, and the black wind was very suitable for mountain paths, so Lu Chen, who was walking through the mountains and forests, never encountered trouble again.

The advantage of riding alone is that when Lu Chen is hungry, he can enter the base to take individual rations out to eat, and Heifeng's rations can be seen everywhere, of course, Lu Chen will occasionally bring some grains such as soybeans from the base to add food to Heifeng.

In the mountains and forests, Xiaoxing stayed overnight for two days, on this day Lu Chen finally saw a large stretch of military tents, and these military tents were on the road from Qizhou to Weizhou, and there were patrolling soldiers in the barracks from time to time, and there were even people who were cooking in pots, standing on the top of the mountain through the telescope, every move in the entire barracks was seen by Lu Chen, and Lu Chen was looking for the person he wanted to find at this time.