Zhan Ziyu said: "It should be considered, but it's just that he has a strong temper and a big temper."
"Oh," Chu Qiao nodded, "A good horse is like this, it takes time to tame it. Is that horse obedient now?"
"It's dead."
Chu Qiao was stunned, and then she heard Zhan Ziyu say, "It doesn't want to be tied up, and it will hit a post and die in the end."
Chu Qiao stared at him blankly, not knowing what to say for a while.
Zhan Ziyu said with a smile: "Let's go, we will land in Wupeng City tomorrow, you should take this opportunity to leave."
Chu Qiao frowned slowly, and whispered, "Who are you?"
Zhan Ziyu raised his head quietly, the cold moonlight shone on his face, the fine layer was like silver-white sand on the seashore.
"I saw your portrait in Xiushui Provincial Governor's Mansion, and then contacted the decrees on the mobilization of troops and horses in various places recently. It is not difficult to guess your identity."
"Why did you let me go?"
"I live in Xiushui temporarily, but I'm not from Xia." Zhan Ziyu turned his wheelchair and walked towards the cabin, "Besides, I don't want to cause trouble."
Chu Qiao followed closely, grabbed the back of his wheelchair, and said in a deep voice, "Then why did you save me?"
Zhan Ziyu turned his head, looked at her indifferently, and said slowly after a long time: "The thirteenth prince of Daxia sent me a letter, asking me to look for you. I owed him a favor."
Chu Qiao was taken aback for a moment, and couldn't help letting go of her hand.
"I'm just a child of the Luopo clan. From tomorrow onwards, there will be more Xia people traveling with me. I can no longer take you with me. I have already done what I have to do. You can do it yourself."
The wheels of the wheelchair rolled across the deck, making a faint sound. Chu Qiao stood silently in the night wind for a long time until the sky turned pale.
The river whimpered and flowed slowly eastward, and at some point, fine rain fell in the sky, pattering and dripping, forming one piece with the river. Chu Qiao spread her hands and looked at the sky silently.
In the distance, I saw a flat boat slowly passing by, and on the opposite bank, several horses galloped rapidly.
She stood silently, only feeling the cold seeping into her back along with thousands of drifting rain. She closed her eyes slowly, and she still seemed to be able to see the pale face, the blood-stained lips, and the empty sleeve, floating alone in the cold wind.
While thinking, the horse team galloping on the embankment stopped suddenly, and one of them turned around and looked in the direction where she was standing. After a sleepless night, Chu Qiao was unable to think anymore, so she turned and went back to the cabin.
At this time, the man standing on the other side of the river riding his horse was none other than Zhuge Yue.
"Young Master, Huashu County is just ahead, it's a small town, we can take a rest there, and then go on our way, and then we'll be Wu Peng City."
The rain fell down Zhuge Yue's cheeks. He looked at the big ships on the river and asked, "Zhu Cheng, did those ships leave Xianyang City with us?"
Zhu Cheng took a long look, then nodded and said: "Young master has good eyesight. It was originally a boat prepared for us by the Xianyang River Transport Yamen. We let it out after taking the dry road. Now it should be Biantang Zhan's family."
"The Zhan family in Xizhiling?"
"Exactly."
Zhuge Yue's eyes were as quiet as an ancient well, and he said calmly: "Even these families with old sesame seeds and rotten millet have jumped out. It seems that Tang Jing will really be very lively this time."
Zhu Cheng said: "This time the Zhan family returned to Tang Dynasty, it seems very unusual."
Zhuge Yue said: "Of course they have this idea, but whether it can be accomplished is another matter."
"However, my servant heard that the Patriarch of this generation of Zhan's Mansion is a very capable person, has a wide range of friends, has a lot of power in the world, and has a good relationship with His Royal Highness Thirteenth. I think he is not an easy person."
Zhuge Yue frowned, thought for a moment, and then asked, "Are you talking about Zhan Ziyu who married his sister?"
"That's him." Zhu Cheng said, "Zhan Ziyu was sent to Cangshan to study art since he was a child, under the tutelage of Daoist Diancang, under the pseudonym Cangxue. When he was traveling down the mountain at the age of seventeen, he met Zhan Zijin, the second lady of Zhan's family who escaped from marriage and left home incognito. The two decided for life privately and had a child. They didn't know each other's identity until the people of the Zhan family caught up. Mrs. Zhan broke Zhan Ziyu's leg in a fit of anger, and Zhan Zijin was burned alive. It was because of this incident that the Zhan family However, his status in the Bian Tang clan has plummeted, and he had to move his family to Daxia, which was arranged by His Royal Highness the Thirteenth Prince."
"Burn alive?" Zhuge Yue frowned, and snorted coldly, "This Zhan Ziyu is really useless, if he doesn't investigate clearly before doing something, and dare not bear it after doing it, breaking his legs would be too easy."
Zhu Cheng said with a smile: "That is, the young master is wise."
Zhuge Yue smiled and said: "Stop flattering, let's go, we must arrive at Wupeng before the morning of the day after tomorrow."
Everyone responded in unison when they heard the sound, they all waved their whips and whipped their horses, intending to leave. At this time, the black war horse that had been following Zhuge Yue's side suddenly neighed towards the river, and refused to stop no matter how others pulled him, as if he had gone crazy.
"Meteor!" Zhuge Yue shouted in a deep voice, "What's wrong?"
The horse raised its two front hooves, and neighed loudly at the boats on the river. Zhuge Yue frowned, swiped his whip on the horse's neck, and said in a deep voice, "What are you doing?"
"Master, Meteor may be frightened."
"Scared?"
Zhuge Yue frowned, and looked towards the river again. With a loud sound, Chu Qiao sat up in the cabin.
"Little Qiao, what's the matter with you?" Liang Shaoqing was startled by her, and hurriedly asked.
Chu Qiao sat up and said in a daze, "I seem to hear a meteor calling me."
"Who?" Liang Shaoqing asked, "Who called you?"
Chu Qiao replied: "Meteor, my horse."
Liang Shaoqing said: "How is it possible? This is on water, can your horse swim?"
Chu Qiao frowned, and opened the window, the wind and rain poured in immediately, Chu Qiao poked her head out to watch carefully, but the rain was getting heavier, and there was a thick fog on the river, so she couldn't see it at all. clear. She frowned and listened for a while, then suddenly jumped off the bed, put on her clothes and was about to rush out.
Liang Shaoqing was startled, quickly grabbed her, and shouted: "What are you doing?"
"I went out to have a look, and I really heard the meteor calling me."
Liang Shaoqing shook his head, "It's raining so much outside, you'll get sick if you go out."
Chu Qiao frowned, put on a coat and rushed out.
The rain was much heavier than it was just now, and the sky and the earth were all silvery white at this moment, and it was impossible to see clearly. The big boat was lying on the river, and the boatmen and sailors ran out to stabilize the boat, and rushed to bail out the water, for fear of trouble.
Chu Qiao stood among the chaotic crowd, looking around in a daze, there was no shadow of a shooting star. She put her hands around her mouth and shouted, "Meteor!"
But soon, her voice was drowned in the rumbling thunder.
The boss of the boat ran to the cabin in a hurry, shouting to his deputy as he ran: "Tell the young master that we must go to the shore. The rain is getting heavier and heavier!"
The deputy asked, "Which way to lean?"
"Although the left bank is close, the water is too shallow to support a boat, so stay on the right bank!"
At this time, on the left bank, because of the sudden intensification of the heavy rain, the horse team had to stop and hide in a broken pavilion to avoid the rain. Meteor was still running anxiously in place, almost breaking the rope that bound it.
Standing in the pavilion, Zhuge Yue looked at the shooting star, moved his ears slightly, and slowly frowned.
"Zhu Cheng, did you hear that?"
Zhu Cheng was taken aback, and asked, "Master, what are you listening to?"
Zhuge Yue didn't answer, but continued to listen with frowns. It's a pity that the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and there was still rolling muffled thunder in the sky, and the faint sound finally disappeared.
Zhuge Yue stopped talking, stood with his hands behind his back, and looked as far as he could, but he could only see a white light between the sky and the earth, and those ships, hidden in the pouring rain, had long since disappeared.
Chu Qiao put down her hand, and the boat was anchored on the right bank. Her whole body was soaked by the rain, and her voice was also hoarse. Liang Shaoqing got an umbrella from somewhere, covered her head, and hurriedly said: "Go in quickly, you will get sick like this."
Chu Qiao stopped talking and looked across the river for a long time. Chu Qiao firmly believed that she had heard it right. After the boat docked the next day, she secretly returned to the place where she heard the horse yelling last night. Sure enough, she picked up the bell hanging on Meteor's neck. At the beginning, this bell was her own. Hang it for the meteor.
Why is the meteor here? Didn't it return to Zhenhuang City
That day Chu Qiao was hunted down by Zhao Chun'er, so she had no choice but to turn to Bian Tang, intending to turn from Bian Tang Chengzhou to take the southwest waterway to return to Yanbei, but this required the support of Yanbei, and she was unable to pass the news to Yan Xun, as a last resort, She wrote a letter and hid it in the horseshoe hollowed out by the meteor. Meteor was given to her by Miss Yu, and has been raised in the horse farm of the Zhenhuang Datong Association. This horse is very spiritual, and has been acting as a messenger for her and Miss Yu for the past few years. Although Miss Yu is probably no longer in Zhenhuang, as long as it can find someone in Datong, it can send the news back.
Now that Meteor appears here, could it be that her message has also been intercepted? Then should she rush to Chengzhou? If he went, wouldn't there be a large number of Great Xia killers already ambushing there? If you don't go, if you go back to Yanbei at this time, you will have to cross half of the Great Xia border, wouldn't it be more dangerous
After much deliberation, Chu Qiao decided not to return to Yanbei for the time being. Following the traces left by the horse team, she tracked and inquired all the way, and finally she came to the city guard of Wu Pengcheng. Looking at the magnificent mansion in front of her, she knew that tonight, no matter what, she had to go in and check it out.
The full moon was covered by dark clouds, the sky and the earth were pitch black, and within a few ups and downs, Chu Qiao had already entered Tian Chengshou's mansion without anyone noticing. She slid down from a tree like a loach, and then leaned sensitively behind a rockery, her ears moved slightly, only to hear footsteps approaching in the distance, as if they were coming towards her.
The corners of Chu Qiao's eyes narrowed slightly, and she suddenly exerted force on her feet, and ran towards the pillars of a circular corridor on the right, and was about to hit the pillars, she immediately raised her feet, kicked on the pillars, and her body followed Inertia jumped up instantly, and she stepped forward in three steps. When she gradually lost her strength, she stretched out her hands and grabbed the tile roof above. The boom and legs clamped the pillars, and she jumped up quickly. Just when the lights at the corner were about to turn around, Chu Qiao leaped quickly, and immediately lied tightly on the tiles of the corridor like a gecko!
"This way."
A high-pitched voice suddenly sounded, the voice was flattering and cautious, full of servility. Immediately, chaotic footsteps sounded, and there were about twenty people who heard the sound. Chu Qiao frowned, crouching quietly, motionless.
"I've heard that the young master is handsome, intelligent and courageous, and he is a dragon among men. I can see you today. It is true that being famous is not as good as meeting him. The rumors in the market are not enough to show the young master's elegant demeanor."
The man suddenly laughed, as if he was very happy with his words, but the young man whom he praised didn't say a word, only the man's exaggerated laughter echoed in the garden, which seemed extremely embarrassing.