Bianliang City is very large and prosperous.

In this era, whether it is her size, or the population she has, or the wealth she has gathered, she can deservedly be called the world's first.

But compared with later generations, Bianliang City is very small.

At most, it is only the scale of a backward prefecture-level city, or a county-level city with relatively prominent development.

In a city of less than a million people, no matter what happens, it spreads very quickly.

On this day on the second day of the lunar month, the residents of Bianliang City passed on three things by word of mouth.

The first thing, yesterday morning Wang Hao's home was burglarized, stolen a priceless jade horse, reported to Kaifeng Mansion, Kaifeng Mansion immediately launched an investigation, found out that the thief had been drinking and eating chicken in Jufeng Building on Bianhe Street in front of Taishi Mansion that day, when the official sent to arrest him, the thief fled across the ridge;

The second thing is that yesterday afternoon, the Beijing Forbidden Army had a large number of troops, and 50,000 horses and horses went to the south, which is said to be to go to the south of the Yangtze River to conquer Fangla;

The third thing is that the imperial court announced the list of documents, which is scheduled to be held three days before the Shangyuan Festival in the coming year, and the martial arts masters of all states in the Great Song Dynasty are allowed to participate, and even the prisoners in the prisons of various states are among them, as long as they know martial arts and can pass the examination, they can be exempted from criminal punishment. The selected men will form a special army to participate in the war against Western Xia after the beginning of spring.

The army of the Great Song Dynasty could not attack the enemy in the north in winter, and before they could fight, they would freeze to death.

Of these three things, the first thing that people talk about the most is because it happened around them and has the characteristics of tracking and reporting. Because the rumors about the jade horse stolen from Wang Hao's house are developing all the time, and new revelations will appear from time to time.

Some people say that just yesterday morning, a beautiful woman named Bai Lu once brought a jade horse to Cai Jing as a gift, and I don't know if this jade horse was lost by Wang Huang's family.

Some people also said that the jade horse must have belonged to Wang Hao's family, because the guys in Jufeng Mansion personally testified that the guests who ate chicken were two men and a woman, and that woman was wearing a purple fox fur, which was the same as those who had been to the Taishi Mansion and had seen Bai Lu.

Then people heard rumors from some people who had been to Taishi's Mansion that Bai Lu also had an elder brother named Bai Sheng, and Bai Sheng also had a daughter-in-law named Xiao Feng. And they also have a cousin who is Zhao Mingcheng's daughter-in-law, Li Qingzhao, a talented woman in the words.

By the time these claims spread in the streets and alleys of Bianliang, Kaifeng Prefecture had already had first-hand information about the matter and had sent a large number of people to find these key figures.

No one dared to enter the Taishi Mansion and then go to Cai Jing's bedroom to investigate and collect evidence to verify whether the jade horse sent by the Bai Lu brothers and sisters was the one in Wang Huang's family.

Therefore, the tolerance of Kaifeng Mansion and the people in the Wang Huang family can only look for these few focal figures.

But the result was very disappointing, and they only found Zhao Mingcheng alone.

Li Qingzhao had already taken Pan Yan's two maids to live in the "Lecture Hall" of the private school set up by Cai Jing at his own expense, and he didn't come out.

So people went to the lecture hall to investigate and collect evidence, and to people's surprise, this lecture hall was guarded by internal guards, and it was strictly forbidden for idle people to enter. claimed that unless there was Taishi Cai's permission, not to mention the official errand of Kaifeng Mansion, even a sparrow would not be able to fly in.

As for Bai Sheng and Xiao Feng and their sister Bai Lu, one is counted as one, and they are all missing.

So Kaifeng Mansion went to investigate those who returned from Taishifu yesterday, and the answer was that during lunch that day, Bai Sheng first left Taishifu alone, then Bai Lu and Cai Youxianggong left by car together, and then Li Qingzhao left alone, and Xiao Feng did not come out at all.

Kaifeng Mansion had no choice but to launch a city-wide search. As early as yesterday at noon, the official set up a checkpoint to check and block a total of 13 city gates in Bianliang City, and today posted the portraits of this man and two women, but so far nothing has been found.

These three people evaporated from the world.

No one knew that when the people of Bianliang City began to talk about Bai Sheng, Bai Sheng was already walking on the field of hope.

He did not walk alone in the fields, but followed an army of 50,000 in a southeasterly direction.

Yesterday afternoon, when he found that Jufeng Building was surrounded by errand officials, he immediately detoured back to the inn where Guo Sheng was staying, but found that Guo Sheng was not waiting in the inn, but did not know where to go. Only Guo Sheng's seven brothers have fallen into a coma again.

He couldn't go to Guo Sheng, nor could he stay in the inn and wait, the only thing he could do was cut the veins of one of Guo Sheng's brothers, and briefly explained the situation when the brother woke up.

only said that he would go to Jiankang Mansion to find a miracle doctor to rescue them, and instructed the brother to temporarily save the other six brothers in the same way, and then went separately to find Guo Sheng, who might have been unconscious, and be sure to tell Guo Sheng that he must wait for him to come back.

The reason why he did this was because he suddenly thought that he could take this antidote that belonged to Guo Sheng and find An Daoquan to imitate it, if An Daoquan couldn't imitate it, then there was no way. Moreover, even if An Daoquan can imitate it, whether Guo Sheng and the others have the fate to wait until he returns from Jiankang can only depend on the creation of the eight of them.

During this period, Guo Sheng and others could only rely on bloodletting to survive. Of course, this creation also includes whether he Bai Sheng can find An Daoquan as scheduled and sneak back to Bianliang City safely.

came out of that inn, and without waiting for Li Qingzhao to return from the Taishi Mansion, he first returned to Li Qingzhao's maiden house and found Pan Jinlian and Yan Poxi. The two beauties didn't pass out, because their aunt hadn't gone yet.

After giving the antidote to the two girls, he didn't dare to stay at Li Qingzhao's house, and told the two girls to follow Li Qingzhao's side, and then went to find Yan Zongwang.

Wanyan Zongwang did not live in the same inn as Guo Sheng, they had to beware of the Khitan assassination, and they also had to prevent someone from robbing the Golden Vulture Technique Golden Bird Mountain Opening Axe. So they stayed in a relatively remote inn.

Bai Sheng went to Wanyan Zongwang, and he didn't mean to use the only remaining antidote on Wanyan Zongwang, he had only one purpose, that is, to steal the horse. It's not the jade horse that the time has stolen, but the jade lion that shines on the night.

In fact, he didn't really want to take this poisonous beast for himself. Wanyan Wulu had told him that the jade lion had passed out and woke up after drinking wine containing dry blood, not because it was poisoned, but just drunk.

He just wanted to borrow it quietly once. Because he felt that if he rode the jade lion to Jiankang, it would only take a day at most to travel a thousand miles each way. If it goes well, I will come back with An Taoquan in four days at most.

But when he snuck into the courtyard of the inn, mounted the jade lion and was about to slip away, a whistle sounded from inside the inn, and the beast refused to step any way.

He dismounted in embarrassment, and then heard Wanyan Zongwang's voice: "The friendship between the two of us is still there, but if you want to ride the jade lion to Jiankang, please forgive me for not lending it to you." ”

Listening to the meaning of this, could it be that Yan Zongwang already knew what I was going to Jiankang for? Then Yan Wulu should have come back after speaking. Bai Sheng thought in surprise, but didn't ask, there were three antidotes on hand, none of which were left for Brother Wanyan, and he felt guilty of conscience.

He didn't know that Cai You was in Wanyan Zongwang's room at this moment, and Wanyan Wulu didn't want to see him anymore.

At the same time, due to his profound internal strength, Wanyan Zongwang did not fall into another coma at the same time as Guo Sheng's brothers, and Jin Wushu was sleeping in his room, and no one knew even if he was in a coma. So Wanyan's family didn't realize the true meaning of Bai Sheng going to An Daoquan.

Wanyan Zongwang's intention of refusing to lend Bai Shengyu the lion is very clear, he has reached an agreement with Cai You, and strives to take advantage of Cai Jing's bedside to help Cai You ascend to the throne.

After Bai Sheng left, Cai You arranged a vehicle and invited Wanyan's family to live in his Xiangfu, so who could find "Bai Lu"? The Taishi Mansion was heavily guarded, and the Xiangfu was not entered casually.

Silently leaving the inn, Bai Sheng knew that even if he borrowed the jade lion, he couldn't leave Bianjing, because all the city gates of Bianjing had been blocked, this time it was not a fake blockade played by Wu with Ruan Xiaowu, this time it was real.

If it weren't for the 50,000 army led by Huang Sheng who immediately started yesterday afternoon, Bai Sheng really wouldn't have been able to get out of Bianliang City.