Mu Changzhou nodded, seeing that there was indeed no one on the road coming again, and asked in a low voice: "Is there any news from the two states?" ”

Hu Xiao'er immediately approached and whispered: "It's hard to investigate, I sent scouts over, they feel very vigilant, they have been found many times, and nothing has been found." ”

Mu Changzhou was silent.

He said Hezhou and Kuozhou, and the other states did not come to report the reason, and after inquiry, it was all true.

Only these two states, claiming that they can't come because they are busy with affairs, but they strictly prevent scouts from visiting, it is not necessarily true.

Seeing that there was no one on the road, Hu Xiao'er looked left and right, and said, "Does the military secretary still want to send scouts again?" ”

Mu Changzhou still didn't speak, and suddenly looked on the road.

Hu Xiao'er followed and looked over, and immediately shut up.

"Military Division." Sheng Yu just arrived, stood on the side of the road, bowed down, "Madame said that there is something urgent to come to see the military secretary." ”

Mu Changzhou looked at the side of the road, where the carriage was parked, and just stopped, the bamboo curtain of the door was still shaking.

Immediately following the lifting of the bamboo curtain, Shun Yin leaned out, got out of the car, and looked at him.

As soon as they looked at each other, the events of last night seemed to come out again, Shunyin's eyes moved slightly, and he turned to the side.

Mu Changzhou seemed to be smiling, turned around and walked towards the official office: "Come in and say." ”

Shun Yin looked left and right, and then glanced at Hu Xiao'er, who glanced at her from time to time, and followed her over and entered the gate of the official office.

It was still early, and the officials were busy seeing them off outside the city gates, and the courtyard was quiet.

Mu Changzhou walked straight all the way to the hall, stood still, turned around and waited.

Shun Yin followed and walked in, standing behind the door.

Mu Changzhou took two steps closer and looked at her: "Say it." ”

As soon as he approached, Shun Yin suddenly felt that this position was very similar to the position he was standing in last night, and there was also a door behind him, his eyes drifted, and he made up his mind before he said, "What Second Brother Mu said before can be counted?" ”

Mu Changzhou asked, "When?" ”

Shun Yin looked inside and outside the hall, made sure that there was no one, and said softly: "What you said when you asked me to help you." ”

Mu Changzhou suddenly smiled: "Naturally." ”

Shunyin said: "Since this is the case, then I should continue to explore the border." ”

Mu Changzhou smiled, and his voice was low: "Where does Yin Niang want to explore the border?" ”

Shun Yin took out the letter in his sleeve: "There is a letter from Wujian saying that there is an abnormality in the two states of Hekuo, and I want to investigate." ”

Mu Changzhou's eyes moved, and as soon as she received the news that she had found nothing there, she raised this, lowered her head slightly, and looked into her eyes: "If the guards are well guarded there, and the scouts are very easy to find in the past, how should they be explored?" ”

Shun Yin thought for a moment, and said while thinking: "As long as it is not as closed as the small city of An Qingui, the scouts can at least enter." It is easy to be detected, which proves that they are well prepared, scouts can not be explored at the same time, it is best to work in pairs, separate and explore, take one place each, do not have to be greedy, make a detailed judgment after gathering, and then make arrangements. ”

Mu Changzhou looked at her face, and there was a smile on his lips: "Yin Niang is right. ”

Shun Yin suddenly came back to his senses and looked at him: "Second Brother Mu has already sent scouts?" ”

He bowed his head.

Shunyin twisted her eyebrows, it seemed that there was really something different, and the fingers in her sleeves couldn't help but clench the letter.

Mu Changzhou thought for a moment and straightened up: "According to what Yin Niang said, I will wait for another visit." ”

Shun Yin pursed her lips: "I want to ......"

Mu Changzhou looked at her.

Shunyin squeezed the letter again: "Something is wrong, I don't worry, I want to go in person." After saying that, he looked at him.

Mu Changzhou walked two steps beside him and didn't reply.

Shunyin was speechless for a while, so she could only wait for him to make a statement.

Mu Changzhou stopped in his footsteps, and suddenly said: "If you want to go in person, you must coordinate and arrange." ”

Shun Yin came back to his senses: "Yes, so I have to come to Second Brother Mu." ”

Mu Changzhou nodded: "Then you go back and prepare, and then go out of the city after everyone in other states has left, you don't have to leave in a hurry, stop ten miles outside the city, and wait for my arrangement." ”

Shunyin was stunned: "You agreed?" ”

Mu Changzhou said: "Haven't you been to Ganzhou yourself, do you care about other places?" ”

Shunyin looked at him and immediately turned around and walked out.

Mu Changzhou saw that she was in a hurry, and guessed that the news conveyed in the letter was very urgent, and he knew that he should have taken a look at the letter without illness.

He followed out, and when he arrived outside the official office, Shunyin had already gotten into the carriage, and Shengyu immediately urged the carriage to leave.

Hu Xiao'er waited outside the door at this time, approached and asked, "Madam, what's wrong?" ”

Mu Changzhou watched the carriage go away, turned around and entered the official office again, and his steps were much faster: "Later, bring my warrant to enter the army and transfer the scouts again, call Zhang Junfeng back, there are affairs arranged." ”

Hu Xiao'er followed, writing down one by one, listening to his serious tone, thinking that there was something urgent about this......

It was still early when Shunyin returned to the house, but it was three poles in the morning.

She went back to her room, took off her skirt, and changed into a man's dress with a round-necked robe.

This was done by the way when Shengyu bought her clothes before. It is not surprising that middle school women often dress up like this for convenience.

Sheng Yu tied her hair before the makeup, and asked, "Where is Madam going to go, is it too hasty?" ”

Shunyin avoided the important and light: "I have agreed with the military secretary, it's not a big deal, just clean it up." ”

Shengyu immediately stopped asking, tied her hair in a bun, and hurried out to prepare a horse for her.

After all the preparations were completed, it was already noon, Shun Yin walked out of the room, listened to the movement outside with his right ear, the city seemed to be quiet, and it should be that the officials from other states had left.

She did not delay, but walked to the gate of the house, and when she went out, she saw a group of archers waiting at the foot of the stairs in front of the door, as if it had been a while, and there was still simple luggage on the horseback.

As soon as they saw her, the archers clasped their fists together, obviously arranged by Mu Changzhou.

Shunyin stepped on the stirrup and got on the horse's back, nodded at everyone and said, "Follow me." ”

The group followed and escorted her along the secluded road as if they were on official business on weekdays, and went straight to the east city gate.

Sure enough, there were no out-of-state people at the city gate, and there were no officials to see them off, and the road was unimpeded. Only the officers and soldiers guarding the city thought that the military secretary's wife was out to watch the scenery again, and greeted her, and the rest did not attract much attention.

Shun Yin remembered Mu Changzhou's words, led people out of the city ten miles, and stopped.

The sun began to set, but the light was still strong, shining brightly on a gravel slope in all directions.

Shunyin observed everywhere, there was no one near and far, and it was still hidden, and signaled the archers to retreat far away to defend, so as not to attract the attention of the patrolling soldiers and horses.

The archers retreated, not far away, not near.

She went back and forth, Mu Changzhou asked her to wait for the arrangement, probably to arrange a helper for her, but how could there be a helper in Liangzhou who could go with her, Hu Xiaoer and Zhang Junfeng were impossible, unless it was a woman, but there was no one available among the women......

After thinking about it for a while, the sun faded a little, Shun Yin looked up, and vaguely heard the sound of horses' hooves.

Her first reaction was to pull the horse to a low place to avoid it, but when she saw that the archers in the distance did not move, she stopped and looked back and forth.

A man and a horse galloped to the horse, and the man on the horse was tightly bound in his robe, with a sword and a bow, and his posture was heroic.

Shun Yin looked at him: "Second Brother Mu will arrange it personally?" ”

Mu Changzhou looked at her: "It's been arranged, it really took some time, you need to arrange military affairs, and you have to get the warrant from the chief manager." ”

Shun Yin's mind moved, and he looked at him: "Then why did you come in person?" ”

Mu Changzhou suddenly asked: "Since Yin Niang divided the scouts into a group of two, then who are you going to visit with this time?" ”

Shunyin's eyes moved, he didn't speak, and suddenly realized and stared at him.

Mu Changzhou pulled his horse closer and smiled: "Don't leave yet?" Who else but me? With that, the bow he was holding slapped on the horse's hip behind her, leading the horse out.

CHAPTER XXXII

In the dead of night, a low and slow sound of horses' hooves stepped into the border town.

Surrounded by barren mountains and remote wilderness, this town has long been abandoned, without the sound of chickens and dogs, not even the lights, a broken earthen platform, weeds everywhere, relying on the bright moonlight in the sky, The group arrived in front of a row of earth and stone buildings.

Shunyin led the horse and looked around, taking shortcuts for several days on the way, almost every day as he went to Ganzhou before, he used felt cloth to block the camp.

Today, when I arrived here, I was only close to Kuozhou, and Hezhou was even farther away, and I finally saw the house, but it was only a barren place.

Mu Changzhou led the horse and stood on her right, dragged a long shadow to the ground under the moonlight, and whispered: "I can't delay this trip for too long, it's best to return to Liangzhou quickly, otherwise the general manager's office will not be easy to explain, and the itinerary will only be more biased." ”

When Shun Yin heard this, she couldn't help but whisper: "Then why do you want to come in person?" As soon as he finished speaking, he felt that his eyes had already looked, and he turned his head to look over.

Mu Changzhou didn't answer her, his face was shaded by the moonlight, and his eyes became more and more deep, his nose was straight, his eyes were deep, and he seemed to have a smile of unknown meaning, and pointed in front of him: "This was originally a place for guards, but now it has been abandoned, and not many people know it, so it is just used to settle down." After saying that, he turned his head to look into the distance.

Shun Yin understood why he came here, and saw him standing and looking into the distance, as if he was waiting for something, and followed to see out.

After waiting for a moment in this abandoned place, there was a faint sound of approaching horses' hooves in the distance.

The archers were all silently guarding dozens of steps behind them, and when they heard the sound, they immediately drew their bows and guarded, but when they saw Mu Changzhou raising his hand in front, they lowered their guard one after another.

Two fast horses arrived in front of him, stopped in a hurry, and the people on the horses all silently clenched their fists towards Mu Changzhou.

Later, there were several bursts of fast horses' hooves, all of them together, one after another, about a cup of tea, and more than a dozen people came one after another.

Shun Yin could see at a glance that all the people who came were scouts.

According to what she said before, these scouts are all in pairs, and they should have been explained before, and they must come here and now to report the news, so they will be so punctual.

All the scouts dismounted, bowed their heads silently, and stood in front of Mu Changzhou.

It is always the rule that the scout only reports to the main general, and no outsider can get the news, and he will not speak until he speaks.

Mu Changzhou glanced at Shun Yin and said in a suppressed voice: "This is Madame, report to me in the future, and there is no need to shy away when you see Madame." ”

Everyone said yes, and finally someone moved. There were only two people, and these two were the last to arrive, and one of them stepped forward to report: "I only found out that there were generals in Kuozhou who went to Hezhou, and about ten days ago, they had encountered their soldiers and horses during the journey, and the rest were not known." ”

Another person reported: "Kuozhou is sensitive to precautions, and has also sent scouts from all walks of life, and they will be detected if they stay for a while, and the other two people went to Hezhou to explore, but they have not had time to return." ”

Shun Yin pinched his fingers and secretly thought: The more sensitive the two states of Hekuo are, the more taboo they have committed, because this is equivalent to telling outsiders that there are secrets hidden in the state. She counted the time again, except for the time spent on the road along the way, about ten days ago, it should have been the time when Liangzhou was busy welcoming all the governors to report to the governor's mansion.

Mu Changzhou obviously thought about it too, and turned his head to look at her: "What did Yin Niang say?" ”

Shun Yin thought that since Feng Wujian had sent a letter, indicating that there had been signs in the area he was staring at, he said: "Send a message to the two people who went to Hezhou, so that they don't have to enter Hezhou, go straight to Qinzhou, and send back the news immediately." ”