Duan Qianqiu and King Zhengyang traveled day and night, and it was three days later when they came to Dengzhou Mansion. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

On March 29, the 36th year of Dajing Tianbao, Qingming and Guyu had passed for a while, the weather gradually cleared, the temperature rose, and there was already a faint atmosphere of early summer.

Dengzhou Mansion is located in the northernmost part of Henan Road, bordering the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea, and the throat of the Kahai Sea.

In Dengzhou Mansion to the east across the sea to Goryeo, Fusang, to the northwest across the Bohai Sea to the northern Xinjiang strategic resource base Youzhou Mansion, to the south bypassing the Jiaozhou Peninsula also to reach the Jianghuai area of the rich fishing rice country.

Here, under the influence of the sea monsoon, there is no severe cold in winter, no scorching heat in summer, the climate is cool, the sun is sufficient, and the scenery is beautiful, and everywhere you can see is the vast blue, so it is called "fairyland on earth".

After Duan Qianqiu and King Zhengyang secretly entered Dengzhou City as Qincha, they went directly to the government and handed over the corresponding documents to the officials such as the Dengzhou Mansion Assassin and the Henan Provincial Disposal Envoy, who were waiting here in advance. Duan Qianqiu officially set up the Xingyuan Office in Dengzhou Mansion as the envoy of Henan Province's maritime appeasement envoy and began to "work".

King Zheng Yang assisted as the deputy envoy of Zhaofu, because he had many years of experience in the coordination of local ministries, joint dredging, document processing, and reporting to the imperial court, and he was familiar with the operation without hindrance.

Seeing that the former teacher arrived as a messenger, he responded enthusiastically to the order of the Qin Mission, and did his best to do things, without perfunctory procrastination, so it was unexpectedly fast to collect and transmit information on all aspects of Cui Chengxiu!

Duan Qianqiu naturally didn't have to worry about King Zheng Yang's ability to do things, but at the end of the day, he found that although there was a lot of information about Cui Chengxiu collected by the state capital and the Southern Guard, none of them could get to the point.

In short, this is a pile of big, complete, plentiful and empty "scraps".

Duan Qianqiu was not disappointed by this, because he also knew that if the state capital below had already "taken care of everything", then what else did he have to do?

He didn't have to do anything in the Dengzhou Mansion, he just watched King Zheng Yang and his people doing things.

But he knew that everyone was waiting for him.

Wait for him to find Choi Sung-so!

......

King Zhengyang and Zuo Qianniu Wei, a general of Wuwei under the Southern Guard Army, Wang Xiaojie, were all waiting for Duan Qianqiu's order.

But since Duan Qianqiu sat on the Taishi chair in the hall in the morning, except for moving his body when pouring tea and reading official documents, and casually asking and agreeing a few words, he has hardly moved, let alone going out to find Cui Chengxiu.

King Zhengyang is still more accustomed to this kind of "sitting in the hall" of boiling qualifications, but Wang Xiaojie is different, he was born in a horse, and he was born idle, so he sat for a day, and he was so anxious that his butt was about to smoke.

Seeing that it was almost dusk, and the two Great Qincha were still studying the official documents, he couldn't hold back any longer, so he left his seat and bowed down in front of Duan Qianqiu and said, "The last general has the courage to ask Lord Duan, when can we go to find Cui Chengxiu?"

Duan Qianqiu raised his head buried in the pile of materials, smiled and said, "General Wang, wait a little longer, and when it is almost time to hold the lamp, it will be almost there." ”

Wang Xiaojie frowned and said, "Why?"

"Because that's when the meat is almost out of the pan. ”

"What..."Before Wang Xiaojie could ask again, Duan Qianqiu's head was buried again, and he could only return to his seat with a stomach full of unhappiness and continue to wait.

King Zhengyang, who was sitting opposite him, was sipping the dragon well before the rain with taste, eating a few mouthfuls of crispy grain from time to time, very freehand, seeing Wang Xiaojie's anxious appearance, he smiled and comforted: "General Wang, don't worry, Lord Duan has his own arrangements, we are waiting here." ”

Wang Xiaojie muttered: "I don't know if it's going to be the Year of the Monkey, why don't we just find a smuggler? Do you need so many people to wait? It's so late, our people haven't even eaten lunch." He glanced at King Zheng Yang, and saw that none of the entourage beside him was no longer around, so he smiled and asked, "Lord Zheng, what about your people?

After hearing this, King Zheng Yang seemed to have come to his senses and turned around and said, "Oh, I asked these people to pack my luggage for me, and help me go to visit my old friends, I'm too busy here to be separated." ”

The sun set.

The shadow of light gradually climbed up the steps, and there were already maids and servants with fire folds lighting the wind lamps on the porches and under the eaves.

It's time to hold the lights!

At this time, a retinue of King Zheng Yang ran in outside the door, and I saw him come to Duan Qianqiu's seat with light steps and whisper to Duan Qianqiu.

Duan Qianqiu smiled: "Sure enough, the rain has not changed, it has always been so punctual." ”

After that, he told everyone else in the hall to leave, and then left his seat and walked to King Zhengyang and Wang Xiaojie, and said, "Two adults, Cui Chengxiu's contact person has been found, we will go to him now, as long as we find him, it is equivalent to finding Cui Chengxiu." But you two must remember that you must not reveal the identity of someone in our court, otherwise he will not want to see us. ”

King Zheng Yang smiled: "That's a certainty. Then ask Lord Duan to pretend to be a prince of a family, and the two of us will disguise themselves as entourages. ”

Wang Xiaojie asked, "What is the name of this contact person and where is he now?"

Duan Qianqiu said: "Seven years ago, when I was in the grain business with my grandfather here, I had a few dealings with him, his name was Lao Wangtou, and he set up a stall of marinated donkey meat in the night market near Dengzhou Port, and he would only come out on a single day. I can't believe that after all these years, he is still there!"

Wang Xiaojie listened, thought for a while before saying: "My lord, please wait a moment, the last general will first arrange for Qianniuwei to set up a guard post and monitor the post in the night market, in case he escapes." ”

Duan Qianqiu smiled and patted him on the shoulder and said, "General Wang, there's no need, our trip is light and simple, just the three of us." It's easy to scare people away when they work hard!"

At the beginning of the lanterns, Duan Qianqiu and his party sat in a spacious carriage and headed for the night market outside Dengzhou Port.

Originally, Wang Xiaojie was going to bring fifteen plainclothes guards with him, but Duan Qianqiu insisted on not allowing it, and strictly ordered that no one was allowed to come with him privately!

After all, the official level crushed people to death, and in the end, Wang Xiaojie could only accept it helplessly.

The night market is bustling with activity, stretching for a mile in the market, where stalls selling all kinds of snacks and groceries are placed in a disorderly manner, and each stall owner shouts vigorously in front of his stall to attract customers, for fear of missing this golden opportunity to make money.

Duan Qianqiu led King Zhengyang and Wang Xiaojie to walk slowly through the market with great interest, as if they were really here to eat snacks.

The aroma of stir-frying, barbecue, and liquor wafts everywhere in the air, and the smell is also appetizing and hungry.

It's dinner time, and although Wang Xiaojie is also hungry, he is worried about finding the old king's head in his heart, and he has no appetite.

But unexpectedly, Duan Qianqiu and King Zheng Yang really found a stall to eat fried sea fish and sat down!

Ready for dinner!