After Xuanping Hou left the tea shed, he was still sighing. The villagers here are so enthusiastic that they don't charge for tea.
The owner of the tea shed has opened a stall here for seven or eight years, and this is the first time I have seen such a rude customer!
Simply!
The torrential rain showed no sign of weakening at all. It was very dangerous and inconvenient to travel on such a rainy day.
Of course, that was someone else. Marquis Xuanping was a military general. He had experienced worse weather on the battlefield than before, and he would not be easily blocked in the middle of the road.
The Marquis of Xuan Ping wore a thick robe and hat, and rode on his high-headed horse.
He patted its horse's head, looked at the waterfall-like rain, and said, "That old man is dying, can't he understand that he can't die?"
The horse seemed to sense the master's determination and murderous aura, roared, raised its front hooves, and rushed out into the rainstorm without risk of death.
On the other side, Xiao Heng finally came to the tea shed that Marquis Xuan Ping once took at night after a long journey all day.
The tea shed was closed at night, but the rain was so heavy that the guests could not leave, and the owner of the tea shed could not go home.
The tea shed was crowded, and the prices of tea and food skyrocketed, and the price of a bun for two cents went up to ten cents.
The carriage was rushing in the rain, Liu Quan was wearing a sackcloth, and his eyes were barely open as he said, "Rokuro, there is a tea shed over there, do you want to take a break?"
Xiao Heng stared and said, "Uncle Liu, it's still hard for you to hurry forward."
Liu Quan tightened the reins and said, "I'm fine, I'm worried about you! It's been a whole day's journey, how is your injury?"
Xiao Heng said: "I'm fine, then let's continue on our way."
"Eh."
"Wait." Xiao Heng suddenly said, "Stop."
Liu Quan stopped the carriage: "What's wrong?"
Xiao Heng looked at the map in his hand, and then at the fork in front of him: "There are two roads ahead, I don't know which one he took."
Both roads can go to the official road near Xishui Village, but the road conditions are different, and the time spent on the road will also be different.
Xiao Heng learned about these situations only after he had read Zhao Guo’s geography, and Xuanping Marquis had never been to Liangwang’s fief, so he didn’t necessarily know which way was closer.
"Go to the teahouse and ask." Xiao Heng said.
"okay!"
Liu Quan drove the carriage to the tea shed.
The owner of the tea shed was boiling water. When he saw a carriage parked beside him, he said without thinking, "It's full, and there's no more space. You'd better go forward. There's a post station on Shili Road in the east."
Xiao Heng lifted the curtain and looked in the direction of the teahouse owner through the thick rain: "Excuse me, I want to ask you about someone, has a tall, handsome man in his early thirties been here today? "
Xuanping Marquis is not in his early thirties, but he is too young, and even in his early thirties, he still has a mature temperament.
The owner of the tea shed added a handful of firewood under the stove, and said casually, "There are several, which one do you say?"
Xiao Heng wanted to say the best-looking one, but a big man was a little bit speechless, and his handsome appearance was the upper limit of what he could say.
Xiao Heng thought for a while, then rolled his eyes and asked, "The one who is particularly stingy?"
"Ah! You talk about him!" The teahouse owner was instantly enthusiastic, and the power of complaining was like the water of the Yellow River!
"I've ridden a tea house on a horse and I've never seen such a stingy! A copper plate! Can you believe a copper plate!"
"The beggars were given to us both!"
"… "
Xiao Heng endured the fire of complaints that he should not endure at this age.
"Then where did he go?" Xiao Heng asked.
"there!"
The teahouse owner waved his hand angrily.
"Thank you." Xiao Heng put down the curtain, lowered his head and spread out the map, "Uncle Liu, let's go."
The tea house owner is fascinated.
No, co-authored you to ask for news in vain
Anyway, buy two buns and go!
"Stop!" The tea shed owner called to stop Xiao Heng's carriage.
Xiao Heng opened the curtain: "Is there anything else?"
The teahouse owner grabbed two buns and handed them to him, then raised his palm and turned it over.
Two fives means ten.
Xiao Heng was not in the mood to eat and didn't want it very much, but the boss had to give it, so he could only accept it so that it would not be difficult for him.
He took the steamed buns and waved at the teahouse owner, "Thank you, goodbye."
Then he left.
The tea house owner said again: "...!!"
He looked at his hand, which was frozen in the air, and then at the bun that was taken away.
What do I mean by that? !
…
The rain was so heavy that the horses could not run at all and could only move slowly.
"Uncle Liu, if it has been such a heavy rain, he should be here now." Xiao Heng pointed to a small village on the map, "Yangliu Village."
Liu Quan didn't understand this, he had never been to Pinglefu City, and Xiao Heng was guiding the way along the way.
He asked: "So is he far from the accident site? If it is too far, maybe he won't catch the landslide."
Xiao Heng said: "If someone else takes this road, they will definitely not be able to catch up."
But he is the Marquis of Xuanping.
No matter how many obstacles in front of him, he will definitely find a way to Prince Liang's mansion.
Liu Quan heard Xiao Heng's worries, he pressed his head and asked, "Then can we catch up with him?"
It's hard.
This is the possibility that Xiao Heng came to after analyzing each road of the map.
"Go the other way." Xiao Heng said.
"Okay." Liu Quan drove the carriage into the opposite path.
From the map, this road is farther than the road chosen by Xuanping Hou, but it is smooth and the road condition is better than that one.
However, this is the case. In the past, the road that could be completed in two hours, they still walked all night.
Fortunately, Xiao Heng put Liu Quan on the most powerful warhorse in the Janissary Army in advance, otherwise they would be fine now, and the horse would have died of exhaustion first.
It was dawn, but the torrential rain poured down, and there was almost no light in the entire city of Pingle.
Xiao Heng frowned: "We haven't reached Yangliu Village yet."
The Marquis of Xuanping was faster than them, and if they continued like this, they would not be able to reach the scene of the incident in the middle of the night.
Xiao Heng opened the curtain and said to Liu Quan: "Uncle Liu, we can go straight to the vicinity of Xishui Village by passing through the forest in the north."
Liu Quan was stunned: "Walk through the woods? That's not good, the carriage can't go!"
Xiao Heng said: "Don't have a carriage, ride a horse."
Liu Quan disagreed: "Can you ride a horse with your injury?"
Xiao Heng took out a set of minnows and put it on from the bottom of the car, and put on another bucket hat: "I just have a skin injury, I haven't moved my muscles and bones, so it's not in the way."
Skin trauma can not be exposed to rain!
Besides, even if you move your muscles, will you stop
Liu Quan couldn't beat him, so he could only abandon the carriage on the side of the road. Fortunately, the carriage had two horses, and the two sat on one each and walked towards the woods.
Xuanping Hou's journey was not smooth. He clearly chose a shortcut according to the map, but he was in various situations.
The Marquis of Xuan Ping looked at the wooden bridge that was washed away by the rainstorm, and suddenly felt a toothache.
Below is not a shallow stream, but a big river rushing like a torrent.
Marquis Xuan Ping touched the horse's head, looked at the broken bridge with a resolute expression, turned around and walked back, he stopped about fifty paces, and turned around again, his eyes became sharp: "Drive!"
The horse raised its hooves and galloped quickly. When it was approaching the broken bridge, Xuanpinghou's legs clamped the horse's belly and slammed the reins!
Facing the surging torrent, the horse did not retreat, but jumped in accordance with the master's instructions and stepped over the broken bridge!
"It's good." After landing, Xuanping Hou patted it, "Let's go!"
After passing the village in front, it is the official road that leads directly to Prince Liang's Mansion.
Old King Liang, your time of death has come.
"Rokuro! Slow down!"
After I don't know how many falls, Liu Quan is almost out of strength. Their current situation is that even the horse is unwilling to leave, and they can only lead the horse to move forward.
"you saw it!"
Xiao Heng pointed to the village filled with heavy rain, "That is Xishui Village!"
"Have it?"
The sky was so dark and the rain was so heavy that Liu Quan's oil lamp could barely illuminate his line of sight.
From morning till now, he had no idea what time it was at the moment, he only knew that he really couldn't walk anymore.
"It should be almost time." Xiao Heng said breathlessly, "Don't go there, just wait for me here."
"That won't work... No..." Liu Quan sat on the ground.
Xiao Heng took the oil lamp from his hand, and walked to the village on foot without the horse.
"Six... Six Lang..." Liu Quan didn't even have the strength to shout.
The villagers in the village have been evacuated, and the poultry that can be taken away have also been taken away. The village is empty, with only his lonely figure.
He passed through the village, and when he reached the entrance of the village, he heard the sound of horses' hooves on the official road from far to near.
It's him!
It's the Marquis of Xuanping!
Xiao Heng was too far away from the official road, and the kung fu horse that ran past had already run away.
He had to walk forward in the rain, shouting loudly, "Stop! Stop!"
The sound of the rainstorm blocked all sounds to the greatest extent, and even the sound of the horse's hooves was weakened, not to mention a distant human voice.
But the Marquis of Xuanping heard something vaguely, which was not very real.
Is someone talking
Is someone calling him
Like... a son's voice.
Immediately, Marquis Xuanping laughed. How could his son come here in the capital
Must have heard it wrong.
"drive!"
He drinks hard.
Xiao Heng watched helplessly as one person and one horse drove past the official road in front of him.
All he felt was that his breath was choked.
Xuanpinghou saw the oil lamp in his hand, but Xuanpinghou did not stop, he would not stop casually for a stranger on the roadside.
Xiao Heng looked at the crumbling mountains, the rocks were already rustling down, and he could almost hear the sound of the collapsed faults inside the mountain.
He looked at the tall figure who was rushing towards the mountains desperately, and there was a voice in his heart that broke through the heavy shackles.
"Father-"
I dreamed that I gave you the third watch. After I woke up, I thought about it. The dream of getting rich overnight can’t come true, but the dream of giving you the third watch is still possible.
(End of this chapter)