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Arriving on the other side, under the surveillance of the garrison, the party went ashore again.
The other side's generals and their generals came to pay homage to Shang Chaozong. They had not yet completely rebelled. They were still nominally members of the imperial court, and Shang Chaozong was still the prince of the imperial court. He came to pay homage to him both emotionally and rationally. Generally speaking, people here are quite polite and courteous to Shang Chaozong, and everyone knows that Shang Chaozong is not a member of the imperial court, let alone an enemy.
The general here wanted to host a banquet, but Shang Chaozong declined. He only wanted some supplies. He had no good impression of these self-respecting rebels. He was a member of the royal family after all.
However, they were still polite here and specially sent a team of ten people to escort Shang Chaozong and his party, saying that they would escort Shang Chaozong out of Guangxi County.
Shang Chaozong did not refuse, nor could he refuse. He knew that it was called an escort, but in fact it was surveillance. After all, he had five hundred elite cavalry in his hands. They could charge into the battle in a formation, and even a few thousand infantrymen would not be able to stop them. If you live there, you can completely cooperate with the court's actions. The relationship between Quang Guang County and the court is here, and people have to be on guard.
The group set out on the road again, followed by a small team. The leader of the team, named Qu Wu, followed and monitored the entire journey, passing by the inns and reporting the situation along the way.
After entering Quang Ngai County, we were actually not far from Xiaonan Mountain. We finally arrived at the foot of Xiaonan Mountain the next day. The hilly forest area next to the official road is the so-called Xiaonan Mountain.
Shang Shuqing turned her head and shouted, "Brother!"
Shang Chaozong raised his hand with a solemn expression. The reason for his solemn expression was that several people here had already judged that Niu Youdao would part ways with them sooner or later and would not be able to keep him. The reason why he had not left for so long was because he was afraid of being with the messenger. Things are related, I'm afraid it's time for Niu Youdao to say goodbye when we get to Xiaonanshan.
When the group of people and horses saw the signal prohibiting movement, they all reined in the reins and stopped on the road.
Shang Shuqing, who was sitting on horseback and wearing a gauze hat, leaned forward slightly, turned his head to look at Niu Youyou on the other side and said, "Master, don't you want to deliver a message? Xiaonanshan is here."
"Oh! Are you here?" Niu Youdao looked like he just knew.
Chu Ze was the centurion in charge of exploring the outpost. He pointed to the road into the mountain not far away: "Nanshan Temple can be entered through this road!"
Niu Youdao turned back and pointed at the package hanging on Yuan Gang's horse, and said: "Monkey, the letter is in the package, please help me run for it!"
Yuan Gang nodded silently, flicked the reins, and his mount left the team, turned half a circle on the spot, pointed his whip at a guard in the team, and said without politeness: "You, come with me for a walk. trip!"
The guard's name was Su Jieren. Seeing that he was pointed at, he couldn't help but look at his leader in shock. Shang Chaozong turned around and nodded, then he rode out. Yuan Gang flicked the reins and galloped towards the mountain road, followed by Su Jieren.
"Be alert!" Lan Ruoting shouted, while winking at Guan Tie who was standing beside him.
Guan Tie understood, nodded slightly, and led a group of troops to one direction to guard. Most of the 500 cavalry were ordered to disperse and guard.
Qu Wu, the young general from Guangyi County who was in charge of surveillance, ran over with his men and asked, "Your Majesty, what's wrong?"
Lan Ruoting smiled and replied on his behalf: "It's nothing. I sent someone to Nanshan Temple to deliver the letter. It won't take long for them to come back."
Qu Wu said "Oh", led the people away, and kept looking around...
"follow me!"
Yuan Gang, who was galloping on the mountain road, suddenly turned around and shouted. His horse turned around, turned down the mountain road, and rushed into a dense forest with gentle terrain.
Su Jieren followed the corner and rushed in. Not far into the dense forest, Yuan Gang in front suddenly stopped his mount and silently observed his surroundings.
Su Jieren approached and stopped, and said suspiciously: "Brother Yuan, aren't you going to Nanshan Temple to deliver a letter?"
"Get off the horse!" Yuan Gang said, jumped off the horse, took off the horseback package, and took out a set of clothes, which were Niu Youdao's clothes.
As soon as Su Jieren got off his horse, he caught the clothes thrown by Yuan Gang unprepared and hugged them in confusion.
Yuan Gang raised his chin towards him and signaled: "Change clothes!"
"Why?" Su Jieren was puzzled.
Yuan Gang: "Just change it if I ask you to, why is there so much nonsense!"
Su Jieren was a little helpless, so he had no choice but to do as he was told. His movements were a little slow, and Yuan Gang shouted again, "Hurry up!"
After changing his coat three times, Yuan Gang stepped forward to pull his hair again, trying to change his hairstyle.
This time Su Jieren quit, covering his hair and retreating, saying warily: "What on earth are you going to do?"
Yuan Gang didn't force it, "If you don't want to, just go back. Go back and tell the prince that you don't want to run errands for me and ask the prince to find someone who is willing to come over."
"..." Su Jieren was speechless and helpless, and finally obeyed.
After a while, Yuan Gang changed his hairstyle to Niu Youdao's ponytail that was tied casually to the back of his head. A letter was slapped on Su Jieren's chest, "What you have to do is very simple. Pretend to be a mage and go to Nanshan Temple to deliver the letter. You Just say that you are Niu Youdao, a disciple of the Shangqing Sect, and you have been ordered by the leader to deliver a letter and ask to see the abbot! Sending letters is secondary, the most important task is to observe the situation in the temple, remember?" The last sentence is purely for stability. Living in Su Jieren obscures the dangers of existence.
After some instructions, the two got on their horses again and left the dense forest, returned to the mountain road and continued moving forward. After running to the Nanshan Temple on the top of the hidden mountain, Yuan Gang once again hid in the forest alone, while Su Jieren rushed to the top of the mountain alone.
Hiding in a remote place in the forest, Yuan Gang placed the horses, quickly lurked towards the top of the mountain on foot, and finally hid in the canopy of a big tree to observe, and saw Su Jieren entering the temple gate with his own eyes.
"President, there is a person outside who claims to be Niu Youdao, a disciple of the Shangqing Sect. He said that he was ordered by the leader to deliver a message to the presiding officer."
In the main hall of the backyard, the host Yuan Fang was drinking tea and talking with Song Yanqing and others, when a disciple came to report.
Before Yuan Fang could reply, Song Yanqing stood up abruptly, his eyes flashing, and hey, "Here we are indeed!" He turned around and said to Yuan Fang, "Let people come in!" He also waved to Xu Yitian and Chen Guishuo, He led the two of them to a small side room to escape temporarily. Song Yanqing poked several holes in the window paper of the cubicle.
Yuanfang was quite helpless. He didn't want to get involved in the disputes between the practicing sects. That was something he, a little demon, couldn't afford to offend. But he had no choice but to wave to the disciple who informed him, "Please come in!"
Soon, Su Jieren, who was observing the surroundings all the way, arrived. After meeting Yuan Fang, he greeted Yuan Fang, took out the letter from his arms and presented it with both hands.
Song Yanqing frowned in the small side room. How could he not know Niu Youdao? The person who came just pretended to be Niu Youdao. He was not Niu Youdao at all. He turned around and said to Xu Yitian and Chen Guishuo: "You guys go out. Look what’s going on!”
The two of them took the order and walked out of the side room. They didn't avoid the fake Niu Youdao at all and left quickly.
Yuanfang opened the letter, shook out the letter paper inside, looked up and down, left and right, turned over and over, but didn't understand what it meant. He couldn't find any writing on it. It was clearly just a blank piece of paper!
Song Yanqing walked out and grabbed the letter. He glanced at Su Jieren up and down, then looked back at the content of the letter in his hand. His eyes were stunned. What's going on? Immediately I was looking over and over again...
At the gate of Nanshan Temple, Xu Yitian quickly rushed out and ran down the stairs, looking from both sides along the way.
Yuan Gang, who was hiding in the canopy of trees, quietly paid attention. His eyes flickered again and again, and he saw another figure flashing out of the temple wall. He stepped on the top of the wall, flew through the air, and landed on the treetops outside the temple. The tip took advantage of the force and bounced up again. As light as a flying swallow, it floated all the way through the treetops, with its eyes searching left and right.
The person who came was none other than Chen Guishuo, who was working together with Xu Yitian to check.
Yuan Gang secretly complained. What a coincidence. The direction that Chen Guishuo floated in was exactly where he was hiding. Now he didn't even dare to move and hide. He would be very likely to be discovered if he moved. So he remained motionless and could only hope that Chen Guishuo didn't notice.
However, he was not so lucky. Chen Guishuo, who floated from the tree crown in front, had not landed on the tree crown here. His eyes flashed and he had already locked onto him. His pupils suddenly shrank, and with a clang, he drew his sword and shook it out. Sword Flower volleyed directly towards Yuan Gang who was hiding.
Yuan Gang dwarfed and fell down, stepped on the branch of the tree trunk, took off with a sprint, and flew out, from the tree on one side to the tree on the other side.
With a few swish sounds, the branches and leaves were shattered and flying. In the flickering sword light, the obstructing tree crown branches and leaves were twisted to pieces by the shadow of the sword in Chen Guishuo's hand. He kicked his feet on the tree without stopping, and the man pierced through the crown of the tree like a swallow flying through the rain. , one man and one sword continued to chase Yuan Gang.
Yuan Gang flew to another tree, pulled a branch and bent it to the ground. He dodged and ran quickly among the trees. When he saw that the other party was as light as a swallow and could fly on the treetops, he knew that he was in crisis. That was no ordinary samurai at all.
Chen Guishuo, who was chasing after him, did not even hit the ground. He kicked left and right on the tree trunks in the forest. His speed was not comparable to Yuan Gang's escape speed. In an instant, he caught up with him, waved his palm in the air, and struck out with a 'Xuanqing Palm'. ’ There was a roaring sound, and the palm force struck Yuan Gang through the air.
Sensing the danger, Yuan Gang had no time to dodge, and his back stiffened. There was a loud sound, and he received a slap. He jumped out at a shocking speed, and suddenly opened the gap between him and his pursuer. Distance, keep running.
Chen Guishuo said "Hey" in surprise. He didn't expect that the other party would act as if nothing happened after being slapped by him. He continued to chase after Yuan Gang, who was using trees to escape in the forest. He caught up again, learned his lesson, and flew into the air. The sword thrust out.
Yuan Gang dodged sideways, brought his arm down the tree trunk in front of him, and moved his body around behind the tree. He circled around the tree, roared out with a punch, and blasted Chen Guishuo behind the tree.
Chen Guishuo, who was chasing after the tree trunk with his sword, could not help Yuan Gang coming out from the other side. He didn't expect that Yuan Gang would dare to counterattack. Listening to the wind of the fist, the strength seemed to be quite strong. He hurriedly struck out with a palm, hard Take a punch.
Boom! With a loud noise, Yuan Gangzhen lost control of his body and rolled backwards down the mountain.
Chen Guishuo was shocked when he landed and took a few steps back. He used his hind legs to hold up the slope before he could stabilize himself. He was a little frightened. This guy has so much brute strength!
Yuan Gang's punch also completely aroused Chen Guishuo's murderous intention. He flew up again and soon caught up with him again. The sword light flew down into the air and covered Yuan Gang below. This time, he had no intention of leaving alive for questioning. , but to kill him! ,.