Pingyang City can be said to be the most remote place in the frontier, and in summer and autumn, there will be merchants passing by here, more or less borrowing a few days, and it looks better.

In winter and spring, when there are no caravans, it will be seen that the number of local people is actually small, and the population is decreasing year by year.

Many people can't support their children, and they can't survive until they are thirty or forty years old, and people die and live in houses, so now in this city, there are even many houses, which are already empty.

The imperial court exiled prisoners, and liked to go to these remote places, firstly, to punish the prisoners, and secondly, to fill these places with a little population as much as possible.

To the east, you have to cross several county seats, pass through those small towns and villages, and walk through large wilderness river valleys.

In order to see a most prosperous city among the people in the border area, Gaohe County.

There is a big market there every month, every three or five days there are foot merchants in and out of the city gate, the county government officials, catchers and fast catchers, there are dozens of people.

It is said that the county magistrate often invites the "general general", who commands more than 400 soldiers and horses nearby, to come to the county government as a guest.

Tonight's Gaohe County County Office is also brightly lit.

The county commander and the general were all here, but there were no seats, trembling, standing under the hall, carefully looking at the one in the hall.

Cao Wubo, the governor of Dongchang, sat behind the big case in the public court, and sat on the Taishi chair that the county commander cherished the most, but he removed the original cushion, added a silk cushion, and paved a layer of brocade.

"Since the Yu family's mongrels left the capital, the manpower we sent has been constantly obstructed, and the additional manpower will still be stopped."

Shaotang, the head of the East Factory, stood beside Cao Wubo with his sword and said in a low voice, "That's it, but recently a large number of our teams have left Beijing, and those people actually dare to attack and harass our team of more than 1,000 people, delaying our speed, I really don't know how many forces are hidden behind them." ”

Bai Qi, who was standing on the other side, said, "If it weren't for the fact that there are so many thieves who have not died, why would the overseer bother to use the three baits of the family to bring them out?" ”

Cao Wubo is in his forties this year, but his hair is silver, dense and shiny, his face is like that of a young man, his whole face is red and radiant, he has a strange appearance, he is full of qi and blood, and he is not angry and arrogant.

He looked at the secret letters on the table, and said indifferently: "These obviously up-and-coming ones are not to worry, their heads are pedantic, and they are exactly the same as the old horseman. ”

"Those who are still hiding in the imperial court and secretly providing them with information and convenience are more troublesome."

"The things we encountered along the way, all of them, you have to write them down, sort them out, and when we return to the capital, we will compare them with the recent news recorded in the capital day by day, day by day, and we are not afraid that we will not be able to find their fox tail."

Pi Shaotang showed a look of sincere admiration on his face, and praised: "The overseer is strategic, strategizing, inspecting the temples, and exploring the rivers and lakes. ”

Qianhu Bai Qi also hurriedly said: "This high river is barren, and the county government is also shabby, but the residence of the overseer, I have sent someone to resettle, using all the things we brought out from the palace, and I am in a hurry, please overseer the overseer for one night." ”

The bedroom of the county order was not looked down upon, but the study was greatly renovated, and all the original things in it were cleaned out.

The cabinet against the wall is full of unique ancient books and jade for appreciation, and the gong bucket and night pot in the corner of the wall are all wrong gold and silver lines, and the dry spices are also paved in advance, even when the night comes, there is no smell.

There is an incense burner on the table, which is a high-grade incense burner cast by Xuande for three years, with 12 gold, silver and copper, and the emperor personally inquired about it.

Burning inside the furnace is the tribute spices that sleep and nourish the mind, and the aroma of these tables and chairs, brocade quilts, and ancient books, mixed and escaped, forming a completely different atmosphere from the outside world, separated by a door, as if two worlds.

Cao Wubo came into the door, stretched his arms, and nodded secretly, sure enough, they were all cooked things.

His subordinates untied his clothes, and when he went to bed, they all retreated and closed the door gently.

It wasn't until he lay on the bed and closed his eyes for a moment that Cao Wubo remembered that something was missing in this room.

Lack of beauty!

Although he is a eunuch, he likes to enjoy beauties, and he also likes freshness, when he is in the capital, this requirement is naturally not difficult to meet, and it is also this Gaohe County, there is really nothing that can be seen, Bai Qi They did not arrange it.

Well, after this trip is completed, go back to the capital and make up for it.

He was about to close his eyes again when his face suddenly moved slightly.

Crash!!!

The tiles shattered, the rafters broke, and a figure mixed with the fragments fell down with a bang, shattering the entire bed to pieces.

The assassin's move was very powerful, but when he saw that there was no one on the bed, he shook his hand without thinking.

The weapon in his hand, which seemed to be a thick iron rod, was suddenly opened, but it turned out to be a large black umbrella.

The umbrella covers his entire upper body.

The teapot on the table was shattered by Cao Wubo's palm, and the broken porcelain pieces were like thousands of deadly secret weapons, all of which were hit on the umbrella surface, but none of the porcelain pieces could penetrate it.

In the sound of rain hitting plantains, several pieces of porcelain were bounced open, but they could still be nailed into the wall tiles.

The porcelain tiles are originally fragile, but they can perform like this.

It is only because Cao Wubo filled every corner of the teapot with his internal force at the moment when his palm came into contact with the teapot just now, so that the internal force on the porcelain piece after the rebound has not dissipated.

The skill of the overseer of the East Factory has reached the level of combining rigidity and softness, and the spirit is not dispersed, looking at today's martial arts, it is full of good and evil in the government and the opposition, and there are only a handful of people who can do this step.

But the big black umbrella and the person holding the umbrella are also extraordinary.

The big umbrella blooms like an epiphany, and after it is opened in an instant, it is pushed forward sharply and then closed.

There was a cracking sound in the air, and the umbrella in the assassin's hand, like a large iron cone, rushed towards it with the momentum of a thousand troops.

When the umbrella was opened, Cao Wubo couldn't see the specific movements of the person behind the umbrella, and it closed too quickly, so that people's eyes didn't have time to accept this change.

The enemy situation was unknown, Cao Wubo was reluctant to take it hard, his body shook, he was already leaning against the wall, and his probe grabbed the sword on the side of the bookcase.

He wasn't ready to draw his sword, because his Wheel King Sword had a longer body than ordinary swords, and the texture was hard, and it would take longer to draw the sword in a hurry, and it was likely to leave a flaw for the enemy.

Therefore, he grabbed this time, and directly tore off the frenulum on the side of the scabbard, preparing to use the sword sheath as a club.

Who knows, when Cao Wubo got his weapon, the assassin did not continue to attack him at all, only changed the direction slightly, directly smashed the door, and rushed out in one go.

When Cao Wubo came to the door, the figure had already jumped off the beam in the distance and disappeared.

Outside the door, only two guards were left who had just been knocked away by the assassins, and they fell to the ground vomiting blood.

"If you miss a hit, you will be thousands of miles away......"

Cao Wubo's eyes narrowed, and his whole ruddy face became a little redder, "Good assassin!" ”

Pi Shaotang and Bai Qi hurried over and were about to speak, but they heard a strange noise outside the city.

Pi Shaotang was shocked: "Explosion? These people can even get gunpowder?! ”

Bai Qi listened attentively: "This little movement is nothing, it should be just a little gunpowder obtained by the people." ”

Cao Wubo's face was a little gloomy, thoughtful.

Soon someone rushed to report.

They were encamped outside the city during the day because of the large number of people, and just now someone attacked with arrows, and there was fire on the arrows, and when the brocade guards moved, some people attacked the stables, and used gunpowder to scatter the horses.

Bai Qi's face was very ugly, this neighborhood was already a wilderness area, so many horses were scattered in the wilderness, and if they wanted to find it, they didn't know how much time it would take.

I'm afraid that they can walk on two legs, and the chances of catching up with the exile party are higher than recovering the horses.

"These traitors are really unscrupulous and full of tricks."

Pi Shaotang sneered, "But they couldn't have thought that as early as in the capital, except for me, the other four major stalls had already changed their disguises, led people to dispatch, blocked and chased after them, and waited for them to take the bait." ”

The people who had fought with those people before were at most ordinary Jinyi Wei, as well as Cao Tian, the head of the fifth gear, and Mao Zongxian, the head of the third gear, led by them respectively.

Jia Ting, the head of the second gear, tracked the distance farther, and Xiao Chuan, the head of the fourth gear, went around to the front to wait for the rabbit, but they were not exposed.

"As long as they still want to save the people of the Yu family, they will inevitably be dragged in Pingyang City, enough for us to arrive."