Thinking of Shen Mengxi, Lu Chuan couldn't help but feel a little melancholy in his heart. She has been with Chu Liusheng in the palace since she was a child, and she has been a childhood sweetheart since she was a child, but unfortunately Chu Liusheng at that time was not familiar with the world, since the death of Princess Aqiao, she has become more and more depressed, neither reviewing the scriptures, nor practicing martial arts and swords, and locking herself in the palace all day long. At that time, Chu Mo was already able to take charge of himself and assume the identity of the prince, and was deeply loved by the important ministers in the palace. But the king of Chu took Chu Liusheng seriously, not only let Lu Chuan fuse the blood of the time secret technique into his body, but also ordered Han Luyao to marry him, which caused all kinds of conflicts between the two brothers. Lu Chuan has always had a heartfelt awe for the King of Chu and did not dare to disobey, but he also understood that Shen Mengxi's affection for Chu Liusheng since he was a child, and it was also out of his love for her, so he accepted her as a righteous daughter.

The love and hatred of these young people was not something that he, an old man, could understand, he just saw with his own eyes that Shen Mengxi's deep love for Chu Liusheng could only be hidden in his heart, and he couldn't help but feel a little distressed. Now that Chu is dead and all relationships are reshuffled, these two young people may have more opportunities.

Lu Chuan secretly calculated, his steps were fast. Before the blazing sun set over the horizon of the Gobi Desert, he finally saw the lonely post station nestled in the desert.

Wu.

Taizhou.

Luqiao Town.

The sudden heavy rain fell for a day and a night, washing away the dirt slope, the mudslide poured down, the road from Hangzhou to Taizhou was flooded, and the entire country of Wu was immersed in the rain waterfall.

The coachman stayed in the small hut with Liu Xiaoxiao and the young Niu Lian, Liu Xiaoxiao was added to the sadness on her face by the gloomy weather, and she thought about her plummeting family background and the confusion of the future all day long, and she couldn't help but feel sad and became more and more silent.

Yan Wuchang went out with a hat during the day, saying that he would take care of the seedlings in his field, so as not to be washed away by the flood and affect the harvest of the coming year. The coachman was a little reluctant to go, and he went with the work. In the hut, only Niu Lian was left with her.

Niu Lian has been smart and diligent since she was a child, and she did not feel uncomfortable in the slightest when she came to this depressed place from Niu Mansion, and actively helped Liu Xiaoxiao clean up her softness. She looked at Niu Lian's lively appearance, and finally felt a little more relieved in her heart.

The sensible Niu Lian is like a little adult, squatting down and busy working, and said to Liu Xiaoxiao: "Sanniang, don't worry, when you get to that place, I will help you work, even if you stay here for the rest of your life, it doesn't matter, I will accompany Sanniang, you see, I will help you clean up the housework now, and I can still work when I grow up in the future, and help you go to the ground." ”

Liu Xiaoxiao's chest was hot, and she stepped forward and gently stroked her little head, and said, "How can Sanniang let you do such rough work? ”

Niu Lian heartily wiped the beads of sweat on her forehead and said with a smile: "It's okay, Sanniang, I'm not tired." ”

"It's just that I pity you kid, who should be in the academy at the age of ...... It was Sanniang who implicated you. Liu Xiaoxiao said, her eyes were full of pity when she looked at Niu Lian.

Niu Lian smiled: "It's okay, Sanniang." My brother said that he will come to see us after he finishes taking care of the affairs of the house, and we will not worry about eating and drinking in the future, and he will help us settle down here. ”

After hearing this, Liu Xiaoxiao sighed silently in her heart, with some emotion.

"Eh, Sanniang, what is this?" Niu Lian suddenly pulled out a thick booklet in her luggage and asked with a puzzled face.

Liu Xiaoxiao was stunned for a moment, took the yellowed booklet, and was a little surprised.

She had never seen this strange booklet before, and she didn't know when it was put in her luggage. When she left, she was in a hurry, and she didn't have time to look through her luggage, and she didn't know who put it in.

She opened the booklet and saw that there was something recorded in dense fly-headed small letters, as if it were an account book.

"Thousand Machine Crossbow...... 50,000 ...... Machete...... Lakh...... Iron Armor ......," she murmured softly, reading the contents of the booklet, "March Harvest...... 200,000 taels of gold ......"

Thinking of this, her heart couldn't help but tremble, her eyes widened suddenly, and the hand holding the booklet trembled.

Isn't that ...... Is that the account book that Master Niu has been looking for? Could it be that Liu Zhenwei hid it in my luggage?

She was shocked, hurriedly closed the ledger, looked around, and there was no one else.

This ledger is like a hot potato, and everything is made of it. Liu Xiaoxiao hurriedly stuffed the ledger into her luggage, Niu Lian looked at her strange expression, and asked, "Sanniang, what's wrong?"

"I didn't ...... Nothing ......," Liu Xiaoxiao said in a flash. She hurriedly hid the ledger and said to Niu Lian: "Xiaolian, remember, you have never seen this thing, you don't even mention it if anyone asks you, do you hear?"

Although Niu Lian's expression was still a little puzzled, she still obeyed: "Got it." ”

The heavy rain outside the hut had not stopped, and the sound of pouring rain covered everything in the hut.

A few miles from the hut is an endless field, and at this moment, it is being watered by the rain.

Yan Wuchang was wearing a big hat, his slender legs were immersed in the field, and rows of neat seedlings were inserted at his feet.

He squinted his eyes and looked through the rain and mist to see if the crops in the distance had been washed away by the rain.

Behind him, the coachman also wore a hat and struggled to move forward in the muddy water. He said loudly to Yan Wuchang's back: "Big brother, you have a good harvest here, a few rains are better than a hundred days to take care of." Ho, these guys grow up so fast. ”

Yan Wuchang smiled, did not answer his words, and looked at the seedlings in the field by himself.

The coachman walked up to him, put on a close look, and said: "Big brother, I won't tell you, before I entered the city when I was a child, I followed my mother to the ground, and I was also facing the loess with my back to the sky, and I was also very familiar with rice planting and the like." ”

Yan Wuchang straightened his waist, turned his head, and asked, "Master, you don't feel like you're going to your mother's house this time, looking at the sad face of the girl in the house, are you afraid of life?"

After hearing this, the coachman shook his head and said to him: "Big brother, I won't tell you, in fact, we came from the county government in Hangzhou. The girl was bullied by her master, she couldn't stand it, and she thought that she would kill her master, but it turned out that the master was not killed by her, and the girl was still sentenced to exile by the county order. No, I just arrived here from an official car. ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the official car parked under the trees in the distance.

"Oh, what's the matter, the escort prisoner, why are you here alone?" Chu Liusheng asked with a smile.

"Well, this is not arranged by the adults. The coachman shook his head, sighed, and said, "This girl is also miserable, after being imprisoned in the dungeon, she didn't have time to inform her mother's family, but somehow, she was actually killed." I haven't seen the last one yet, and the girl is also filial, and she has cried for a few days and nights, and her eyes are swollen from crying......"

"Oh, is it, is there such a thing as a kingless thing under the sun?" Yan Wuchang smiled slightly.

"Who said no, the world is impermanent, who knew that there was such a deep hatred with this little girl's family. The coachman sighed with emotion and said, "My lord has recently left, and an envoy sent down from above is in charge of our yamen, and he arranged for me to send her and bring a girl here, and the rest of the people are busy." You said that this Hangzhou city is really not peaceful......"

The coachman muttered behind Yan Wuchang, but Yan Wuchang's eyes looked towards the end of the field.

"Old man. Yan Wuchang suddenly interrupted him and said, "Are you on an errand in the county government of Pingxiang County?"

"yes, what's wrong?" asked the coachman with a nod.

"Then with so many things going on these days, where did the county magistrate go?" Yan Wuchang asked casually.

The coachman shook his head, waved his hand and said, "Who knows, maybe go and report to the state capital." ”

Yan Wuchang nodded, standing in place and thinking.

The coachman looked at the road under his feet in the field, took difficult steps, and said to Yan Wuchang: "Little brother, you see that the rain is getting heavier and heavier, let's go back quickly, so as not to get a cold." Eh, by the way, when I saw you yesterday, I looked at you familiarly, as if I had seen a portrait on a document in the county office, and I looked very similar to you......

As soon as the words fell, Yan Wuchang turned around, came to the back of the coachman, got closer, pulled out a short knife from his waist, and inserted it into the coachman's chest with lightning and flint. The driver didn't have time to react, snorted, and looked straight ahead.

Yan Wuchang slowly lowered the coachman's limp body, pulled out a short knife, and made a deep cut on his neck. The coachman's face twisted, and blood kept pouring out.

When he put the coachman down, the rain in the field just covered his body, and if he didn't pay attention in the heavy rain, he couldn't be found at all. Yan Wuchang bent down and washed the short knife in the water, and inserted it back into his waist.

"The people of the Heavenly Pivot Pavilion...... Shouldn't he be looking for any ledger at this time?Why did he leave suddenly?" Yan Wuchang walked in the direction of the hut and muttered, "Those old guys in the Tianshu Pavilion still want to use the Skynet to build momentum and cover for them...... If it weren't for the waste of King Yan, it would have brought a bunch of trouble......"

He walked alone through the narrow path to the hut.

Entering the door, he saw Liu Xiaoxiao squatting next to her luggage, Yan Wuchang was startled when he came in, and hurriedly covered the luggage with his hands.

Yan Wuchang looked at her and the petite Niu Lian beside her, ignored it, and went straight into the house.

Liu Xiaoxiao looked at him without saying a word, and asked, "That...... Excuse me...... Didn't the coachman come back with you?"

Yan Wuchang sat on the kang behind the door, took off the hat, and said, "The wheel hub of the carriage you came has sunk into the mud, he will check it, and he will come in a while." ”

Liu Xiaoxiao listened and nodded timidly.

For a while, the hut was quiet all of a sudden, and Liu Xiaoxiao secretly glanced at the strange man in front of him. Lowering her head and not knowing what to say, Niu Lian beside her leg also obediently closed her mouth, and went to the corner to pack up the luggage on the ground.

Yan Wuchang didn't care about the awkward atmosphere in the thatched hut, he casually leaned on the kang head, and asked Liu Xiaoxiao, who was at a loss, "Do you know a person named Ma Liang?"