Dai Yu also felt his scalp numb: "If the young master finds these marks, where will the young master go? Go to Linning to find me and Ji Langjun, or should I go to Liuguili to find you first?"
"I'll go find him first," Xia Zhaoyi said, "Whether Shen Langjun goes to Liuguili or Linning, you all go to Bajiang Lake and wait for me." After a pause, Xia Zhaoyi said again, "Where is Bajiang Lake?" ?”
Du Xuan paused and suddenly said: "No way!"
"What?" Xia Zhaoyi raised her eyebrows.
Dai Yu also recalled it and said, "Ah Li, it's Taoxi Village in Lining, Bajiang Lake. It's the small courtyard where you lived before, but you can't go back."
"It's a long story." Du Xuan said, and then tried to use simple sentences to tell the story of how her identity was discovered after she left Bajiang Lake, and when Shen Lie went to find her, he was afraid that the landlord and his wife would be affected. The matter of buying the small courtyard directly.
"You bought that small courtyard?" Zhi Changle was surprised.
"Well," Du Xuan nodded, his eyes magnanimous and natural, "I left it there after I bought it. The young master thought that this behavior might offend Miss Ali, so we have never lived in the small courtyard and left it to Aunt Liu to clean it every month. We give her a fixed wage."
"Shen Langjun is interested," Xia Zhaoyi said. After thinking for a while, he added, "Then let's stay at the Fu'an Inn in Lining. Please take care of yourself on the way. I'll go find Shen Langjun first."
She turned around, mounted her horse neatly, paused, looked at Zhi Changle, and said: "Try to avoid Qingque Pavilion, and try not to let Ning Jin know that we are back."
"Okay!" Zhi Changle nodded, "Ah Li, you have to be careful too."
"Yes." Xia Zhaoyi responded, said goodbye to Ji Xiahe and Sun, shouted coquettishly, spurred his horse, and bolted away.
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Mountains and rivers are winding, jade trees are green for thousands of miles in the spring, and the sun is shining all over the mountains. The fire at Du'ankou is gradually extinguished, but the thick smoke is still billowing. Other soldiers and horses near Kaipingyi came with a large number of people, and nearly ten thousand people stood on the open wasteland. , the various armors on his body shone dazzlingly in the sun.
The casualty count was complicated, and even more difficult was the remaining cleanup work. Lu Qiyuan arrived late, and saw a ruins and scorched earth at the foot of Xinghua Mountain from a distance. Lu Qiyuan's face turned pale in an instant, and his hands could almost even hold the reins. Can't live.
Several soldiers wearing black armor were standing in the crowd with their horses. When they saw Lu Qiyuan coming from behind, a soldier mounted his horse and greeted him: "General Lu!"
This black armor was so easy to identify that Lu Qiyuan's throat was dry and he said, "Where is General Cao?"
"General, go after the Ji family, and leave me here to wait for General Lu," the soldier said. "Leave the Ji family in front to our general to chase. We also ask General Lu to quickly send men to blockade the entire Songzhou and Xiongchi, and capture them alive." A young girl, Ah Li, who became famous in Daqian Dynasty in Kyoto a few years ago."
Lu Qiyuan didn't care about Ah Li, and frowned and said, "What do you mean by asking me not to chase you? My Lu Qiyuan's head is just a decoration now and will fall off at any time! Is Cao Yijun trying to harm me?"
The soldier paused and said: "General Lu, our General Cao said that you led 3,000 elite soldiers, but you couldn't even catch up with Ji's family and a lot of burdens. As a result, thousands of soldiers were trapped in Du'ankou. This innocent death without any room for resistance is a great dereliction of duty. King Xunping will not treat you lightly! This matter will most likely affect your family and subordinates. If King Xunping is angry, he will behead you. General Lu, according to the way King Xunping has behaved in recent years, General Lu's family will definitely be killed to avoid future trouble forever, unless General Lu himself dies."
Lu Qiyuan listened to his ears buzzing and shouted angrily: "What nonsense are you talking about! Your soldiers who are attacking the camp are so ignorant of the importance, and you are making irresponsible remarks about the general?! How did Cao Yijun teach you!"
"General, don't be angry. Our General Cao is here to help you," the soldier said hurriedly. "Our General Cao has taken away General Lu's blame. If anything happens, my general and General Lu will suffer together. King Xunping's
No matter how angry you are, you can't kill two generals at the same time, does General Lu say so?"
Lu Qiyuan frowned, and the anger in his heart dissipated a lot. He nodded and his voice became gentle: "It seems that General Cao is indeed helping me. Wait, who does General Cao want me to find, Ah Li?
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"Yes," the soldier said, "if this girl hadn't blocked the road, we would have caught up with the Ji family long ago, and the crossing of Ankou would not have suffered such a disaster!"
"How many people did she bring with her? How did she stop them?" Lu Qiyuan said, "She brought people in without anyone noticing, and no one found out about those passes?!"
The soldier raised his eyebrows, paused, drove his mount forward, and whispered in Lu Qiyuan's ear.
I really don't want to tell Lu Qiyuan that the girl was the only one I saw last night. Telling this would be such a shame and a great humiliation for their attack camp, but there are some things that I have to explain.
Lu Qiyuan was shocked after hearing this.
"General, go quickly. If you can catch her, maybe you can make up for it!"
"Yes," Lu Qiyuan nodded, "I will make up as much as I can."
He pulled the reins, turned his mount around, and raised his voice to give orders to his men.
On the rightmost side of the second row of the army, a pair of bright and thoughtful eyes looked at the soldiers from the assault camp next to Lu Qiyuan, and then turned back to Lu Qiyuan. He confirmed that his ears heard correctly. Just now
The name the soldier mentioned was "Ali".
"Quan Jiu Dimension," the general on the side whispered, "What do you think?"
Quan Jiuwei came back to his senses, looked at him, and said, "What are you looking at?"
"Cao Yijun wants us to go back," General Lang said. "We have found the Ji family. Cao Yijun takes the credit. If we can't find them, I think we will be in trouble!"
"Oh," Quan Jiuwei said, "I didn't hear that. I can't hear it clearly here."
General Lang glanced at him, frowned, and looked away.
Quan Jiuwei ignored the other party's dissatisfaction with him and continued to think about the name he just heard.
Ah Li.
A few years ago, when this little girl came to him, her reputation was not as good as when he later escaped from the capital. Moreover, at that time, he was not sure that she was from Duke Dingguo's palace.
If I can catch her now, she will definitely fly into the sky and become a successful person. I have to think of a way.
After Lu Qiyuan gave the order, he left with his troops and horses without stopping much.
Quan Jiuwei gathered his thoughts and quickly followed along with everyone around him.
At the same time, Shen Lie finally found a familiar mark beside an ancient bridge at the foot of a hilly mountain.
He dismounted and went over, pushing aside the soft vegetation with his bare hands. There was a piece of bark pressed under the soil. On it were words written by Du Xuan with green grass sap. The seven words were squeezed together on the back of the bark: Songzhou Fushang Liu
Guili.
The tense and tense Junrong finally breathed a sigh of relief, showing that Du Xuan was still alive.
