After that thought arose in his heart, he tried again and again, and it took a long time. I didn't go to bed until the ugly time had passed.

He woke up once when the hour was about to pass.

If it were the usual thing, now that he had woken up, he would get out of bed and arrange what he was going to do for the day.

But he was going to the invitation later today, and it was unpredictable what would happen in the future, and it was especially important to recuperate, and he turned over and fell asleep after thinking about it.

Some of the people in Pusaka were even more miserable than Sima Wenzhi, who barely stayed up all night.

In the first half of the night, the sound of tigers roaring and dragons sounded from time to time in the city, and it was not completely disappeared until the end of the night.

I thought nothing would happen again, but people panicked and drifted off to sleep. But it didn't take more than an hour for a dazzling light to rise in the palace of General Pingxi, illuminating half of the city above Pusaka.

The people didn't know what was going on, and after a lot of discussion, they wanted to go out to check it out, but they couldn't pass because of the curfew in the city.

After a night of anxious waiting, news came out after dawn.

The vision in the city at night is the work of a master cultivator. This person practiced magic in the Pingxi General's Mansion, and when the Xia army came to attack the city again, he would definitely give them a hard blow.

When the people heard this, they ran to tell each other.

As noon approached, Sima Wenzhi woke up from his sleep, got up and got out of bed to freshen up, and at the same time planned what he would do later. He walked out of the house in the middle of the afternoon and went out to walk towards An Jie.

Because of last night's incident, he had sent all the other people in the mansion away yesterday, and the courtyard door had not been opened at the moment. Sima Wenzhi opened the courtyard door and was shocked by what he saw.

There are a lot of food and other things in the open space on both sides of the house gate, I don't know when it was, and I don't know who did it.

It was the people of the city who did it.

After the news spread, some people took the initiative to bring out some food from their homes and put them outside his mansion to leave. When the other people saw it, they followed suit until there was no more space on either side of the gate.

Among the practitioners, no matter the Taoist Buddha, they do not avoid eating meat. But inside the door, there is very little meat. People's livelihood is difficult, meat is precious, even if it is vegetarian, it is the people who save it from their own mouths.

The servants in the palace have not yet returned, and it will take a lot of effort for Sima Wenzhi to clean up these alone. Therefore, he ignored it, looked for a gap and walked to the main road, and went straight to An Jie.

"Langya, don't move that, hurry up and keep up. After walking a few steps, he noticed that Langya had not followed, and turned around to call her.

Langya is greedy, and she hasn't used it for morning food or lunch, and she is just hungry in her stomach. After hearing Sima ask her to call, she hurriedly put a piece of dried meat in her mouth and ran a few steps quickly to keep up.

"Dao Chief, you are here. ”

When Sima Wenzhi arrived, An Jiezheng was listening to the detective cavalry's report on the situation outside Pusaka City, and at the same time gave orders. After seeing him coming, he hurriedly stepped forward to greet him. As he got closer, he continued.

"There was such a big movement in the Dao Chief's Mansion last night, if I hadn't been informed in advance, I would have sent someone to break down the door to investigate. ”

"Is there any movement in the soldiers and horses of the Xia Kingdom?" Sima Qianzhi expected him to have such a reaction, so he ignored it and asked directly about the current situation.

"After dawn, I sent three groups of scouts to the southeast and southwest twenty-five miles to investigate, until there was no abnormality. An Jie replied.

After hearing this, Sima nodded in response.

An Jie would send scouts out of the city to investigate these days, but in the past it would only go ten miles away. Today, fifteen miles away, it is to investigate the situation around the invitation.

"General, is there a carriage driver in the city who is familiar with the situation outside the city?" After responding, Sima Zhi asked the purpose of this place.

From Tongwan to Pusaka, there was a coachman who accompanied him, which could have been available. But the man was unfamiliar with the surrounding area, and he was embarrassed.

"There are several people, and I will immediately send someone to select the most suitable person for the Daoist. An Jie responded with a happy response to this matter. After answering, he went on to state his intentions.

"I have selected a team of soldiers and horses, and I will also go with the Taoist leader at that time, in case the people of the Xia Kingdom are cunning and untrustworthy. ”

After Sima asked, he shook his head in response.

"Dao Chief, you have to be on guard. Seeing that he refused, An Jie opened his mouth to advise.

"It is useless to have fewer people, and it is useless to have many people. Sima Wenzhi said what he thought in his heart and refused again.

Leading the soldiers and horses is not necessarily better than being alone. Sima Wenzhi's insistent refusal is also related to his second purpose of coming here.

In his opinion, the invitation sent by the Xia State Protector was more like luring him away from the city, so that the Xia State's soldiers and horses would not be hindered from attacking Pusaka.

If this is the case, there are only a few troops in the city at this time, three or four thousand, and taking one person away will make Kagasaki a little more dangerous.

An Jie also had this concern, and seeing that he insisted on not accepting it, he no longer insisted on it.

"General, is there a cinnabar wolf in the city?"

After deciding not to bring soldiers and horses, Sima asked for it.

"Yes, too. Take all of them and give them to the chief. An Jie responded and ordered someone to fetch it.

These things were left after the cunning Taoist practiced the spell in the hall that night, and they came in handy at this moment.

It didn't take long for someone to offer cinnabar and wolf's hair. Sima Wenzhi took out the yellow paper from his bosom, and drew the talisman after mixing the ink.

The runes are not used for attacking, but for warning. He couldn't stay in two places at the same time, so he had to leave a rune to deliver the message.

"Except for the Dao Chief, there is no one else in the city who is involved in magic. An Jie saw that he had finished drawing the talisman and handed it to him, and hurriedly reminded him.

"It doesn't matter. ”

Sima Wenzhi took back the three talismans, put them on the table one by one, and explained the usage.

"There's no need to fix it. According to the priorities of the military situation, the general chooses the appropriate talisman and ignites it directly with fire, and I will sense it. ”

After saying that, he put away the talisman and handed it over again. An Jie hurriedly took it and carefully put it in his arms.

In the invitation letter, the meeting is in the intersection of Shen and You. From the South City Gate to the meeting point, it takes an hour to ride slowly by carriage and horse.

Therefore, Sima Wenzhi can go out when Shen Shi comes.

But he didn't wait for Shen Shi, and soon after returning to Fuzhong from An Jie, he ordered the coachman to drive the chariot and take him and Langya to the south of the city.

On the way, Sima Wenzhi asked the coachman about the surrounding area. The coachman responded, the surroundings were vast, there were no undulations, no shelter.

But that's not the case.

When we arrived twenty miles south of the city, the sky was still very bright, and the signal of the fire candle agreed in the invitation was ineffective.

No candles required.

In the vast open space in the mouth of the coachman, a wooden house was erected at some point. The wooden house seems to have been built in a hurry, not very tall and not exquisite.

Sima Wenzhi ordered the coachman to wait in place, and he went alone with Langya. When I got closer, I realized that I was wrong, the wooden house was very high, more than two feet.

The door of the wooden house was wide open, and there was no obstruction outside the door.