Chapter 23 Before the Iron Beam Pass

The three of them drove the carriage all the way to a small town in front of the Iron Beam Pass, where they stayed. Zhao Cheng drove the carriage out of Lu, and he didn't know what he was doing.

Xiao Ruoshui and the princess hid in the guest room to rest after eating.

You look at me, I look at you, I don't know what to say. Xiao Ruoshui lay on the bed to rest, and the princess held her cheeks with her hands and stared at Xiao Ruoshui. I don't know what to think in my heart.

Xiao Ruoshui lay down for a while, then opened the package, took out the carving knife, and began to carve the wooden kite one by one, still so cautious, or put into it and forgot everything. The small shavings flew up, like white snow flakes, and gradually a wooden kite appeared vividly, he looked at the wooden kite with satisfaction, and began to use a sharpener to grind off the uneven places on the wooden kite little by little, and the fine sawdust slowly leaked down and piled up on the table, like a pile of yellow mounds.

The princess suddenly spoke, "You carve something for me." ”

Xiao Ruoshui slowly grinded the wooden kite, carefully put it into the cloth bag, looked at the princess slowly and said, "Why don't you carve a swallow for you, aren't you called Li Yunyan?"

There was a hint of surprise on the princess's face, but she soon became expressionless, and said, "Well, it must be carved better." ”

Xiao Ruoshui took out the carving knife and slowly began to carve, he carved very quickly, and after a while, the prototype of a swallow was about to come out, he began to change a carving knife, and slowly began to carve carefully, and gradually the swallow came out, it was a flying swallow, with open wings, scissor-like tail, and pointed mouth, all vivid.

After the last day, Xiao Ruoshui began to slowly grind the swallow, so that the barbed stubble on the swallow's body became smooth. After he finished it, he poured some tung oil out of the lamp and slowly brushed it on the swallow's body, and the swallow's color became golden and golden, which was very beautiful.

Xiao Ruoshui handed it to the princess and said, "When it's done, you can play with it." ”

The princess happily took the swallow and blew on it one by one, wanting it to dry out sooner.

Xiao Ruoshui looked at her and said with a smile: "You put it on the windowsill and let the wind blow for a while before it dries, so you are not tired." ”

The princess gave him a blank look, ignored him, and continued to blow. It didn't take long to do it. She held it in her hand, looked at the swallow with joy on her face, and suddenly asked: "Do you say that the swallow is good-looking, or the kite is good-looking?"

Xiao Ruoshui said: "Swallows are not as beautiful as kites, at least not as many as kites in color, and they are not as beautiful as them." ”

The princess stared at Xiao Ruoshui viciously, and the fist in her hand hit her directly, Xiao Ruoshui suddenly reacted, did not dodge, the princess knocked down Xiao Ruoshui with one punch, Xiao Ruoshui deliberately pretended to be in pain and screamed.

The princess smiled proudly and said, "Let you talk nonsense." I think the swallows are beautiful. ”

While the two were laughing, Zhao Cheng came back, with three umbrellas, and put them on the table with a loud bang. The princess reached out to take it but didn't move, but picked it up with all her might. It turned out that the umbrella surface was made entirely of steel sheets. It is exactly the same as the umbrella he carried when he escaped from Chang'an.

Zhao Cheng looked at the princess and said, "Come, open and close it and try it until you are proficient." ”

The princess had also received military and equestrian training before, and it was not difficult to accept this weight, and it would not be long before she was able to turn it on very skillfully.

Zhao Cheng smiled with satisfaction and opened the map. Said: "After the Tieliang Pass, it is the jurisdiction of Sizhou, after we arrive in Sizhou, we go directly to Yangzhou to meet Brother Wang, on the road from Sizhou to Yangzhou, we can choose a lot of routes, but we have to cross the Tieliang Pass first, there are not many officers and soldiers guarding the Tieliang Pass, but the King of Yan sent the white wolf Gu Rushan to check here." Gu Ru is kind and ruthless, he is a guy who eats people and does not spit out bones, it is estimated that he will not fight us head-on, and will ambush the soldiers, so we must be more vigilant. When the time comes, we will go separately, remember that you now have a new degree, you are a husband and wife, and you are going to Yangzhou to visit your parents. I will follow you and pretend to be a merchant to protect you secretly. The iron beam closed and closed very early, and we had to blend in with the crowd and pass slowly without showing a trace. The iron umbrella is used to block the attack of the arrows, to prevent long-range attacks on us, and short-range attacks on Xiao Jiu can protect the princess, so don't worry too much. Go to bed early now, and set off early tomorrow morning, it's best to cross the Tieliang Pass. If you can't get past it, kill it. Sleep in a room tonight, and I'll call you tomorrow. After Zhao Cheng finished speaking, he didn't look back, closed the door and left.

Xiao Ruoshui and the princess just wanted to say something, but the door was already closed and the person was gone.

The two looked at the door, turned their heads and said at the same time, "No peeking at night"

The princess was furious, and directly hit Xiao Ruoshui with an old punch, and said loudly: "This is my line, how do you use it." Xiao Ruoshui caught the princess's fist, subdued her appearance of teeth and claws, and said directly: "Don't be angry, I'll guarantee your safety."

As soon as he turned around, he threw her on the bed, and pulled a rope from the middle, and put a few sheets on the rope, just separating the two, and no one could see anyone.

Xiao Ruoshui lay on his bed angrily, sulking for a while. It's really a cause for no reason.

The sheets were opened, and the princess's flower-like smile poked out, looking at the angry Xiao Ruoshui, and smiling proudly. Xiao Ruoshui turned around and ignored her, and fell asleep after a while. The princess looked at Xiao Ruoshui and shouted several times, but no one paid attention to her, she sighed, blew out the light, and fell asleep.

Before dawn, Zhao Chengcheng called the two of them on the road. The two got into the carriage and slowly walked towards Tieliang Pass, and Zhao Cheng rode his horse. Slowly follow them far away. There are many people on the road, and they are all in a hurry to rush to Tieliang Pass, waiting for the switch to catch up with some roads.

Before the gate, a large number of people waiting had gathered, bustling, obviously waiting impatiently, and it was also in the past that the gate had been opened by this time, but now it was indeed tightly closed, as if the guards were asleep.

Someone was already shouting loudly, shouting to open and close the door.

"Master Gu, do you see if you should open and close the door now, it will be difficult to check if there are too many people. The commissioner of Tieliang Pass said cautiously.

"Switch it on at dawn, are your men ready?" said the white wolf Gu Rushan with a gloomy face. He is white and pure, looking like a scholar, but he is one of the four major guards under King Yan, the white wolf Gu Rushan, everyone says that Gongsun is the most evil, the white wolf is the most yin, the eagle is the most poisonous, and the lion king is the most ruthless. refers to the white wolf Gu Rushan who is the most spicy, does not fight with manpower, and wins with intelligence.

His most proud example of the battle is to surround more than 300 bandits on Qingfeng Village, only encircled and did not attack, blocked all the way out, slowly advanced, a little bit of consumption, three months of bandit attack was beaten back by the arrows, surrender but he did not accept it at all, forcibly surrounded the bandits until no one came out, surrounded and suppressed the people who had been in Qingfeng Village to see, most of them were starved to death, and the personnel inside had developed to the point of cannibalism, it was really hell on earth. Since then, all the white wolves and bandits have dispersed and no longer fought against each other, who wants to be rectified by a person with extremely despicable means to the point where they are powerless to return to the sky. Generally, bandits are bloody men, so if you have experienced such a thing, if you don't fight, you will slowly grind you to death with more people, so it is better to run away to another place. Robbing the house soon for a round belly, that can be robbed, you don't have to get together. Therefore, when the people on the rivers and lakes saw the white wolf, they avoided it from a distance, unwilling to have friction with him. But he also hated him to the core.

The head of the guard of Tieliang Pass has not had a good life since Gu Rushan came, training every day, hiding ambushes, practicing archery, tired and half dead, and accompanying a smiling face every day.

He was tired of this for a long time, and he thought that if the fugitive would not appear here, and leave his territory early, then he would still be able to live a good life, and he kept praying that he would not come to Tieliang Pass. Don't make trouble here when you come, fight up, I guess the people under my hands are not enough for others to stuff their teeth. He always hoped that the fugitive would leave his territory as soon as possible and go somewhere else, so every inspection was hastily passed, and he really couldn't spare his own life for other people's affairs.

Gu Rushan came to the city wall, looked at the people in ambush, sighed, he brought ten people, plus more than thirty people on the checkpoint, he was indeed barely able to form a comprehensive coverage of the shooting network, but it was still not dense enough, and he couldn't withstand the impact of the master, his subordinates led three people to form a team, the purpose was to protect the archers before the master came up, at least his subordinates were not ordinary people, but the officers and soldiers were a little problematic, the oldest was actually more than fifty years old, the youngest was only fifteen years old, the height and low level were uneven, and the combat effectiveness was indeed a problem, but then again, there was no military disaster in the hinterland of the mainland, stationed in such an army is just a symbolic pension. It can play a role in maintaining law and order, and nothing else is useful.

Gu Rushan looked up at the sky, the sky was already dark, he lowered his head and carefully looked at everyone in front of the pass. He can see everyone's face in front of the pass, he looks at it carefully, hoping to see the difference, his eyes fell on Xiao Ruoshui's body, he keenly felt that he was different from others, for example, he was not in a hurry, he was slow as if he had nothing to do, he was not as impatient as others, he was still waiting leisurely. The key is that his eyes, there is no flickering at a glance, only perseverance and perseverance.

"When you pass the customs, you leave the carriage and all the people around him and take it to the big tree in front of the barracks and wait, and I will ask them myself later. Gu Rushan called the chief and said.

The customs chief agreed, and then beckoned the officers and soldiers to switch it on.

Gu Rushan beckoned, called his subordinates, whispered a few words, and his subordinates turned around and walked away quickly. Gu Rushan slowly paced down the city wall, walked to the big tree in front of the barracks, sat down at a table, and waited slowly.

The gate of Tieliang Pass slowly opened, Xiao Ruoshui followed the large army and slowly moved forward, someone had already been called out and waited beside him, Xiao Ruoshui looked at the person who was called out, every expression on his face, slowly lined up and moved.

When he drove the carriage to the inspectors, the officers and men of the inspection looked at Du Mu, pointed to the people who had been called out, and said, "You go and assemble there and wait for the inspection." ”

Xiao Ruoshui slowly drove the carriage to that side, the princess in the carriage was already nervous, her heart was beating wildly, she couldn't control her emotions at all, she could only lie in the carriage, hiding in the quilt, but her whole body was already sweating profusely, and her face was red.

Have they been discovered?, will they be able to escape the Iron Beam Pass?