Jiangzhou summer night.
After several torrential rains, the rainy season receded, and the midsummer finally came. The flood tossed Chen Junchen and his ministers all over the place, and there were too many people to support. When the weather gets hot, there are pigs, horses, cattle and dogs outside the city...even people's corpses are everywhere, and dead fish washed up by the river are everywhere.
As a result, I am afraid that the plague will spread again, and everyone in the city is busy cleaning up the drowned corpses. Letters of love from disaster-stricken places were sent non-stop into Jiangzhou and the cabinet, where they were annotated by the cabinet and then presented to the imperial palace before being handed over to Li Yanqiu, waiting for the emperor's approval.
Li Yanqiu was also replaced by four classes of black armored army guards, who took turns to replace him. Every half hour, soldiers entered the palace to report. Until late at night, there was someone outside, Xie You asked to see him.
Li Yanqiu ordered him to come in, and Xie You walked in in casual clothes and stood in the imperial study. Xie You didn't say a word, and Li Yanqiu didn't speak, so the monarchs and ministers were silent, and there was only the sound of folded paper in the study.
After a long time, Li Yanqiu stopped what he was doing and looked up from the pile of memorials.
"What is the prince doing?" Li Yanqiu asked.
"I'm reviewing the papers." Xie You replied, "I don't know why recently, but I've been diligent in military affairs."
The guards of the Heijia Army brought over the memorials after reading the East Palace. In the past few days, Cai Yan took the initiative to undertake the daily government affairs, while Li Yanqiu was responsible for reviewing the memorials related to the flood. The cabinet has already screened them, but Cai Yan has read the papers, and Li Yanqiu will occasionally check a few.
Li Yanqiu opened one of the books, and his eyes fell on the final reply.
"I remember that when the prince returned to the palace, he wrote several letters." Li Yanqiu said, "One of them is the book of mourning the late emperor that was presented to the Taimiao Temple, thank you, go and take it for me to see."
Xie You frowned deeply, but didn't ask any further questions, and the descendants went out to get it. In a short while, a guard of the Black Armored Army handed Huang Jin to Xie You, and Xie You held it in both hands and presented it to Li Yanqiu.
Li Yanqiu spread out Huang Jin and pressed it with the jade Huang next to the desk, his eyes flicked line by line, and landed on the word "Li" in "Li's Jiangshan".
The East Palace was brightly lit, Cai Yan was drowsy, with one hand supporting his forehead, he almost fell on the book.
"Your Highness?" Feng Duo said.
"What time is it?" Cai Yan asked.
Feng Duo replied: "It's the third watch, Your Highness might as well rest first, and we will prepare for the morning court in a while."
"I won't be able to sleep for long." Cai Yan replied, "Wuluo Houmu."
Lang Junxia sat aside and responded.
Cai Yan said, "Go and fetch my jade Huang, and go to court later."
Lang Junxia got up and left, the hall was quiet for a while, Feng Duo took a hot towel and wiped Cai Yan's hands.
"How's it going?" Cai Yan asked in a low voice.
"Three teams have been dispatched." Feng Duo also replied in a low voice, "A total of 48 people, led by Baili, Linghu, and Nangong, are expected to arrive in Yecheng in January, and will be ambushed at the foot of the Ochre Mountain."
The film team was founded by the founding father of Chen, and each team was not too much or not, just 100 people. And these 100 people are named after 100 family names as code names. No matter what the real name was called before joining the film team, it will be hidden after joining the team, and a surname will be used as the name.
Forty-eight people were all lying in ambush in the dark, and news would be sent back at any time. Cai Yan felt relieved when he heard it, so he cheered up and was diligent in handling government affairs. Not long after, Lang Junxia brought Yu Huang back, and Cai Yan and Feng Duo stopped the conversation, each tacitly understanding.
Lang Junxia glanced at Cai Yan, but did not speak.
The official road in summer is lush and green, and it has been nearly a month since Duanling left Jiangzhou. The further north you go, the more pleasant the climate. Gradually, he also recognized all the people who followed him along the way, and was able to call out their names one by one.
In front of everyone, Wu Du has always acted like a loyal guardian, even more serious than in the Prime Minister's Mansion, without any transgression. Sometimes during the day, in order to take care of the team, he would often go out to ride horses, but Duan Ling would go in to serve him when he was taking a nap.
Wu Du took the post of Colonel Hejian, and everyone called him "general"; Duan Ling was the prefect of Hebei, and everyone called him an adult. The two didn't talk much in front of everyone, and occasionally they answered each other, which was also a matter of Duan Ling's report on the security along the way.
During the break, children from nearby families occasionally found their motorcade and gathered. The prefect got out of the car and taught the children to use slingshots to hit the green plums on the trees on the roadside, and they hit every shot and gave them to them to eat. Wu Duze sat cross-legged on a stone and told the children about the achievements of the late emperor, sometimes vividly, depicting how the late emperor shot a tiger to death at night, and found it to be a stone after dawn; Go forward and tell the soldiers that there is a plum forest in front of you, so everyone will not be thirsty.
Duan Ling was amused by listening to it. Along the way, he heard a lot of things that had nothing to do with his father but were inexplicably tied to his head. It turned out that Wang Mei quenches thirst and the flying general shoots a tiger.
Duan Ling was sitting next to another big rock drinking plum tea to relieve the heat, dressed in literati clothing, although he was only sixteen years old and a little immature, he had a vague aura that should not be underestimated in his gestures.
At this time, he would always look across the road and look at Wu Du, who was separated by a road. After Wu Du finished telling the story, he got up and dismissed the children, walked over under the fine sunlight, tall and handsome, made a gesture, asked him to get in the car, sent Duan Ling to the car, and kissed his lips in the car, He turned around and got on Benxiao, patrolling for everyone and defending the convoy.
Occasionally overnight in the villages, towns and cities along the way, and got a separate room, Wu Du would come to look for Duan Ling in the middle of the night. They kissed and whispered that they missed each other in a low voice, but they were stingy with this time together, and it was unwilling to say more than a word. I would rather just entangle their lips and tongues, and after another intense lingering, Fang let Duan Ling hug him to sleep.
There is no need to hurry on rainy days, Wu Du will also stay in the room, take the food list given by Zheng Yan and read it carefully, and accompany Duan Ling.
Such a group of people stopped and walked. After a month, the scenery along the way was almost desolate. At the end of summer and early autumn, they finally reached the boundary of Hebei.
After the boundary monument is Hebei. It rained heavily that day. There was no village in front, no shop in the back, the wheels were stuck in the mud, and Duan Ling came down to push the cart with them in the rain.
"What's wrong!" Wu Du inspected the front, rushed back in the rain, and said loudly, "Go back to the car!"
"The wheel is stuck!" Duan Ling replied loudly.
The torrential rain poured, Wu Du urged Duan Ling to get on the carriage, for fear that he would get cold in the rain, he dragged the carriage back in one hand, and shouted loudly, and he dragged the thousands of pounds of carriage out of the mud.
"Don't do this!" Duan Ling said displeased, "It will hurt your bones!"
Wu Du pressed his right shoulder with his left hand, moved his arm, and replied, "It's fine! Don't come down!"
A flash of lightning pierced through the dark sky. Tonight, the team could only spend the night in the mountains. However, the rain was so heavy that they could not sleep outdoors. Wu Du inspected the convoy and was soaked in the rain.
"Keep walking!" Lin Yunqi said, "Find a mountain stream! A cave or something will do!"
"No!" Yan Di said, "it's too dangerous, don't march on the mountain! Go down the mountain road!"
Yan Di was drunk and woke up after being drenched in the rain. He insisted that he could not go any further. Wu Du listened to his advice and told everyone to go into the woods not far away.
Not long after the retreat, the yellow mud on the top of the distant hillside collapsed in a large area, and the mud and water mixed with stones poured down, covering the road.
Very dangerous, Duan Ling thought to himself, if he persisted in advancing, he might lose a lot of property.
It was dark in the woods, and the strong wind swept the rain. It couldn't block much rain in the woods, but it was barely able to avoid the cold wind. Wu Dupai drove a convoy formation and formed a circle, asking everyone to go to the car to rest, and dispatched people to stand guard and patrol before getting on the car to notify Duan Ling.
Wu Du: "I had to spend the night here tonight, but I listened to Yan Di."
"Don't be brave." Duan Ling frowned, "Let me see."
"It's okay." Wu Du's previous effort was wrong, his shoulders were red, he took off his robe, and his arms were drawn together, showing his strong shoulders, and Duan Ling put a stasis-dissipating patch on him.
"Kiss one." Wu Du turned his head to the side and kissed Duan Ling. Duan Ling hugged his strong waist from behind, lowered his head and kissed him on his shoulder full of strength.
"Tomorrow we will be in Hejian." Wu Du said, "Have a good night, remember to drink some ginger soup, don't catch a cold."
"No." Duan Ling replied, "It's not as weak as you think. There should be nothing to do at night. Don't go down. There are people patrolling."
Wu Du said, "It's better to go and have a look."
Duan Ling couldn't resist, so he had to let Wu Du go out again. He lay down in the car. He was soaked wet, and the car was not easy to make a fire. He had to take off his robe, shirtless, and a pair of trousers. Close your eyes and meditate.
In the middle of the night, Wu Du came back and lay beside Duan Ling. His body temperature immediately warmed Duan Ling. The two hugged each other tightly, and Duan Ling fell asleep unconsciously.
I don't know how long I slept, Duan Ling suddenly opened his eyes.
"Did you hear that?" Duan Ling asked.
"What?" Wu Du immediately stood up alertly. They were both shirtless. Wu Du frowned deeply and asked, "What did you hear? Is there something?"
Duan Ling seemed to hear the faint sound of horse hooves in a dream, but it disappeared as soon as he got up.
"Don't scare me." Wu Du said nervously, "What did you hear?"
Duan Ling shook his head in confusion and said, "It's a dream."
Wu Du put the white tiger Mingguang armor on Duan Ling, and was about to go out for patrol when Duan Ling took his hand, lay down again, and said, "Master, don't be too nervous?"
Wu Du said: "You have to take care of you comprehensively. If you have any problems, I will not be able to live."
Duan Ling was lying on his side on the couch in the car, staring at Wu Du, his fingers touching his handsome face, the more he looked at him, the more he liked it, and he never dreamed that he would be with Wu Du like this, as if he had picked up a big one. Cheap in general.
Wu Du looked at Duan Ling's face attentively, as if something was bothering him. Wu Du's brows furrowed slightly again, and he said, "You have suffered hardships along the way."
"I suffered a lot when I was young." Duan Ling replied softly, "I don't know how good it is now..."
Suddenly, Duan Ling heard the sound of hooves again.
"Wait." Duan Ling said, "I heard it again."
Duan Ling heard very clearly this time, and found that he was lying on his side, with one ear resting on the cross of the wooden couch, the wooden couch was attached to the carriage, and the chariot was under it, the chariot was attached to the wheel, and the wheel was on the ground, touching a piece of wood. big Stone.
Then the distant voice of the earth faintly reached his ears.
"Come and listen." Duan Ling gestured to Wu Du, who just listened to it and said, "Within five miles away, there is a marching army that is approaching us, hurry up!"
"Not necessarily to trouble us!" Duan Ling said.
The two jumped off the carriage, got everyone up, and went deep into the woods. Just as they were about to withdraw, Duan Ling stuck to the ground and listened for a while.
"Go around." Duan Ling replied, "The target is not us!"
The rain stopped, and the night was silent except for a faint muffled sound.
Duan Ling immediately had a premonition that things were not easy. There was only one possibility for this sound—the horse's hooves were wrapped in cloth, and they wanted to sneak attack on the rainy night.
Wu Du said: "Wang Zheng led ten people to stay, be sure to hide, and the rest who can fight follow us!"
Wu Du turned on his body and ran to the sky, stretched out his hand, Duan Ling took advantage of his strength and jumped, got on the horse, and sat firmly behind Wu Du, slung his longbow on his back, and set off with the soldiers.
A group of Yuan soldiers rushed to the Hejian City not far away in the darkness of the night where they could not see their five fingers.