Wen Feng looked at the two-zhang high temple gate, the mottled stone pillars that one person couldn't hold, and the six bluestone steps in front of the door, and couldn't help but be a little suspicious: "This is a broken temple?"

Pei Zheng pointed to a large number of gray and white cobwebs hanging on the door, and wrote lightly: "Even if it is not a broken temple, it is an old temple, Lord Wen can rest assured, the humble post has just been searched, and there is no one inside." ”

Wen Feng didn't buy Pei Zheng's remarks, and said with a displeased expression: "What if someone comes over later?" Didn't you just say that there are still two days to go to Beixia Prefecture? This place is so close to Yuguan, the other party will definitely arrange a large number of spies to focus on. ”

"It is extremely difficult for you and me to go on a small road for the past three days, and to stay in the wilderness at night, so how can we be negligent in such details?

Pei Zheng stopped when he heard this, slightly speechless.

He didn't think that Wen Feng's nitpicking was deliberately targeting him, but Wen Feng's detail-oriented behavior he thought was very correct, and the embarrassing thing was that he didn't answer.

He can't tell Wen Feng that I didn't go in the direction you predetermined at all, this is actually not near Yuguan, but Jinzhou, which is hundreds of miles away.

If he really wanted to say that, Pei Zheng suspected that Wen Feng would be angry and punch himself to death.

At this time, Lin Xing, who was next to him, saw that something was wrong between the two, and opened his mouth to relieve the siege: "Master Wen, don't be impatient, since Pei Zheng chose to settle in the broken temple, he must have his reasons for coming." ”

"Sleeping in the wild for three days in a row, you and I are naturally free of martial arts, Pei Zheng's martial arts are a little lower, but he is young and strong, and he can basically bear it, I am afraid that the prince of the grassland will not be able to bear it when he is young. ”

"Look at this little face's pale face, if he accidentally freezes, where will you and I go to find a doctor to treat him?

Pei Zheng's eyes lit up when he heard this, why didn't I think of such a good excuse?

Hurriedly borrowed the slope to get off the donkey, held the reins and arched his hand to Wen Feng and said: "As the adults said, staying in this broken temple overnight is indeed at risk of being discovered, but for the sake of the body of the prince of the grassland, I think it is worth taking some risks." ”

"I have checked the map, this ruined temple is at least ten miles away from the nearest town, and it is located in a remote area, so no one usually appears nearby, so adults can rest assured. ”

"In addition, the lowly will keep vigil in the first half of the night, and if someone approaches, it will give a timely warning, and if the situation is critical, you can choose to travel overnight to avoid the pursuers. ”

Wen Feng glanced down at the child in his arms, his face was indeed a little pale, and then looked at the broken temple standing in front of him, and walked in without saying a word.

Lin Xing immediately popped out a true qi, pushed Pei Zheng forward, and pretended to be serious: "Why don't you go and cook for Master Wen?" After eating dry food for three days in a row, the bird is about to fade out of his mouth. ”

"Hey, let's go pick up some firewood, see if we can make some game, and make a pot of hot soup. ”

Pei Zheng nodded in response, and was about to turn around and leave.

Lin Xing grabbed him, shook his head and said, "It's cold, where can I go to hunt game?" I don't think there's any need to be so troublesome, let's kill the horse." ”

Pei Zheng hesitated for a moment, nodded, led the horse into the temple, moved the salute into the main hall used to sleep at night, and placed the mount in a few rooms in the backyard that were suspected to be monks' houses.

At Lin Xing's urging, Pei Zheng carefully selected the next dinner with a sword.

As Pei Zheng's exclusive mount, the black horse was definitely not within the scope of his choice, and he finally picked a gray horse that was thin and looked a little lacking.

Natural selection, survival of the fittest.

This is true of man, and so it is with all living beings in the world.

Then he collected firewood to make a fire, set up a pot to boil water, killed horses and took meat, and was busy for a while.

......

Half an hour later, Pei Zheng put a pot full of steaming horse meat filled with the smell of meat in front of Wen Feng Lin Xing.

The two swallowed their saliva, didn't care if the horse meat was hot, and directly reached out and took a large piece of gobbling it up, not knowing what kind of delicacies it was.

Pei Zheng took a small piece, took a bite and chewed it twice, and couldn't help but complain: Why is it that the protagonist in other people's novels will be extra delicious when he grills meat and cooks soup, why can't he do it when it's his turn?

Even if a lot of seasoning is put in, the taste of this boiled horse meat is really a little flattering.

The only thing that makes Pei Zheng feel relieved is that the taste is much better than gnawing dry food.

Pei was eating, and suddenly found that Wen Feng and Lin Xing were staring at him, and he couldn't help but look a little weird, what are they staring at me, eating meat?

When his eyes fell on the iron pot, he found that more than a dozen catties of meat in the pot were gone.

Sorry for misunderstanding you.

Pei Zheng got up silently, cut more than a dozen pieces of fine meat on the horse's legs, rinsed them with snow water, and put them in a pot to cook.

Then Pei Zheng cooked the meat three more times, adding up to at least sixty catties, and finally fed Wen Feng and Lin Xing's stomachs.

Pei Zheng finally figured out one thing, why Lin Xing didn't approve of him going out to hunt game, but asked him to kill the horse, it turned out that he was worried that he wouldn't have enough to eat.

After eating and drinking, he entered the rest time, Pei Zheng got up and walked out of the hall, inspected until midnight, and then came back to rest, without saying anything all night.

......

At the end of the third day, Pei Zheng took Wen Fenglin through a dense forest, and a majestic city appeared three miles away.

Wen Feng immediately reined in his horse, a hint of surprise flashed on his face, and he asked, "Pei Zheng, where is this, how can there be a city ahead?"

Pei Zheng carried the prince of the grassland on his back, his speed did not decrease, and he replied from afar: "Adults get closer, you can see it at a glance." ”

Wen Feng watched Pei Zheng go farther and farther, and rode his horse to chase after him: "Hurry up and stop the official and make it clear, otherwise don't blame the official for being unkind to you." ”

Sensing the blazing killing machine coming from behind, Pei Zheng weighed it again and again, it was too difficult to escape the pursuit of a Dantian Realm martial artist on horseback, so Le Ma turned around and asked, "What does the adult know?"

Wen Feng came to Pei Zheng and asked in a deep voice: "This official asks you, how did you lead the way? Didn't you say that you could reach Northern Xia Prefecture through Yuguan today? Why did the city appear in front of you?"

Pei Zheng hesitated for a moment, waiting for Lin Xing to arrive, and then said honestly: "Ahead is Taiyuan City, and the humble post did not go straight south, but went around to Jinzhou. ”

Wen Feng's face changed greatly when he heard this, and he said angrily: "Bastard, do you know where Taiyuan City is, how dangerous it is for you and me to take the prince of the grassland here?"

Pei Zheng replied without being arrogant or humble: "My lord's words are wrong, for the prince of the grassland, Taiyuan City is the safest place. ”

Wen Feng seemed to understand something, but his tone calmed down, but he was a little cold: "Are you the secret son of the Li family in the army?"

Pei Zheng shook his head slightly and said, "My lord, this is a bit nonsense. ”

"I know what the lord is worried about, it's nothing more than that you think that the ambush of the mission is inseparable from the Li family in Longyou, so now that you have arrived in Taiyuan City, the core sphere of influence of the Li family, you are worried that you will die at the hands of the Li family. ”

"My lord seems to have forgotten that no matter how strong the Li family is, it can't be stronger than the imperial court. No matter how many killers the Li family arranged to ambush the mission in private, they could only hide their identities and act secretly. ”

"The lord gave the Li family a hundred dares, and they didn't dare to kill the imperial envoy and the prince of the grassland openly, unless the Li family was all crazy, or they were ready to rebel. ”

"Now that the world is peaceful and the imperial court is coercing the Quartet, do you think the Li family dares to rebel?"

"The humble position admits that the humble position has gambling elements, but my lord, although rest assured, you are now swaggering and taking the prince of the grassland into the city, and in the name of the imperial court envoy, please ask the Li family to send someone to escort you and the prince back to Chang'an. ”

"The humble man dares to guarantee with his life, but the Li family not only does not dare to touch half of your hair, but sends you and the son wholeheartedly. ”

"After all, if something happens to you and the prince, if the imperial court blames it, don't look at the Li family's inheritance for hundreds of years, it may not be able to experience a few storms. ”

As Pei Zheng and Zhao Gu said in Xin'ancheng, the family has always liked to weigh the pros and cons.

The reason why the Li family dared to participate in sending people to hunt down Wen Feng and the prince of the grassland was because they had already prepared a scapegoat, and even if the matter was revealed, they could ensure that it would not affect themselves.

In other words, if a person died in Northwest Province, even if the imperial court guessed that it was related to the Li family, without evidence, it would not be able to pursue the Li family, whose sphere of influence was mainly in Jinju.

But if Wen Feng and the prince of the grassland died in Taiyuan City, the base camp of the Li family, or were assassinated under the protection of the Li family.

The Li family is the yellow mud that fell into the crotch of the pants, not but.