On the side, the young commander was also observing the people coming down below.
The number of people is small, so if they strike first, it won't be a big problem to capture this group of people.
The only thing that worries him is, is that person really the rebellious Jin King Li Du?
"Your Highness," the young commander whispered, "You look a little bit different..."
"What's the difference?" Now that he had arrived at Li Du, Li Shao was angry now, but his irritable mood had calmed down a lot, "The light was not good enough, so you probably didn't see it clearly. I saw it clearly, and it was him!"
His Highness was so kind and kind, so the young commander couldn't just say the opposite, so he only tried to persuade him in a roundabout way: "There seems to be no Eunuch Ye among them."
Hearing this, Li Shao glanced down again and said: "I didn't see him either, maybe he wasn't following him. Look again, they are waiting for us. Let's catch them all in one fell swoop."
The young commander hurriedly agreed.
It would be better to wait, he would take the opportunity to take a closer look. If it was Li Du himself, he would have taken the credit. If not, he would have persuaded His Highness to stop him.
Although there are two or three torches in the mountain temple, they are almost like burning lights in the dark.
At some distance, and blocked by the branches and leaves of trees, it is easy to see a person's figure, but it is still difficult to distinguish the facial features.
The firelight did not shine directly on Li Du. It only illuminated the side of his face when he turned his head to speak, making the young commander afraid to make a complete judgment.
Several of his subordinates were also muttering softly.
They have all met Li Du, some said yes, some said no.
Li Shao waited patiently and watched the third watch. He did not see Su Yi and his party, nor did he find Su Chang's whereabouts down there.
"Useless thing!" He cursed Su Chang secretly in his heart.
After another quarter of an hour, Li Shao saw two people entering the mountain temple, and whispered something to Li Du. Then, Li Du raised his head and quickly looked around the surrounding mountains, then pedaled onto the carriage.
Li Shaoxin said: It’s broken!
"Have they discovered us?" asked the young commander, "They seem to be running away."
"Don't let them run away!" Li Shao said, "Catch them and catch them!"
The young commander said again: "Your Highness, follow quietly..."
"What are you doing quietly?" Li Shao pointed down and said, "Look, they didn't go back the way they came. Instead, they went towards Ji'an Town. How can we be so quiet? It's so dark on the mountain, so we have to go down the road and go around the mountain. You
If I’m not afraid of death, I’m still afraid!”
The young commander couldn't persuade Li Shao, and he also knew that the dark mountain road was impassable, so he had no choice but to follow Li Shao and lead the men and horses down the mountain.
The mountain road was difficult to navigate, and when we finally got off the main road, the carriage had already driven far away, and only a tiny bit of torch light could be seen in the distance, which seemed not to be there at all.
Li Shao raised his whip to urge his horse, and just as he was about to catch up, a man hurriedly crawled out of the field beside the road.
"Your Highness! My Highness!"
Li Shao paused his whip and bent down to look at the embarrassed figure: "Su Chang?"
"Yes, yes, it's the little one!" Su Chang nodded quickly, leaned forward and said, "Don't chase me yet. The little one just lay here to take a look. The person on the carriage doesn't seem to be Li Du."
Li Shao raised his voice: "What did you say?"
When the young commander heard this, he also pricked up his ears and looked at the person coming.
"Your Highness, please don't chase me. They are definitely trying to trap you in a urn," Su Chang said eagerly, "The princess knew that you brought thirty royal guards and came here. She was so anxious!
The princess also said that she was afraid of falling into Li Du's bad tricks. You see, Su Yi was nowhere to be found. He and Li Du were probably hiding. The one just now was a fake, yes, a stand-in, a stand-in!
You are going to be tricked, what should you do if you get hurt?"
Li Shao was the most impatient to listen to these mother-in-laws.
Eunuch Gao and the others coaxed and persuaded, but Li Shao was more or less patient because he was afraid of going straight to Shengting. Who was Su Chang?
Besides, Su Chang opens his mouth and Ning An keeps his mouth shut to cajole, who is he looking down on?
"Get out of the way," Li Shao's face darkened, "Can you afford to let Li Du go? I've seen it with my own eyes. Can I be wrong? How many times have you met Li Du? How long have I known him? Are you still lying! He
That substitute has long since died in the palace!"
"Your Highness!" Su Chang said, "Who said there can only be one fake person?
It’s not shameful to be deceived. Didn’t your Majesty almost get deceived by that fake Li Du?
And, and!
The princess couldn't find you in the paddock. She was afraid that you were in danger and had no time to return to the palace to report. So she immediately went to the station and asked An Yibo to send troops to help.
My uncle will arrive with his troops immediately, and he will never let Li Du escape. Just stay here, thirty imperial guards will guard you, you will be safe... Oops!"
Li Shao's face turned completely black into ashes.
What does Ning'an mean?
The opportunity he finally seized to make a great career was handed over to An Yibo?
Ning'an is really short of success and more than adequate of failure!
Li Shao was so angry that he kicked Su Chang.
It is difficult for a person to exert force when sitting on a horse, and this move is not very powerful.
Su Chang screamed in pain and fell back into the field beside the road. Before he could get up, he saw Li Shao whipping his horse and galloping out.
As soon as Li Shao ran away, Yu Lin dared not to chase him and followed him immediately.
Su Chang called out "Your Highness" twice, then stopped, rolled his eyes, and walked back into the fields.
I have to say that the princess really predicted it.
His Highness cannot bear to be provoked at all. The more he refuses to let go, the more he goes!
When I heard that An Yibo was coming to Ji'an, I couldn't wait for a moment.
In fact, Su Chang didn't see clearly just now whether that person was Li Du himself, but since Su Yi didn't show up, it was probably a game as the princess said.
At the same time, it was not until today that Su Chang knew the name of his new pirate ship.
It has to be said that the couple, Duke Fu and Princess Ning'an, acted unexpectedly, and if you analyze it carefully...
Forget it, Su Chang stopped analyzing.
Touching the back of his neck, Su Chang knew very well that he had to analyze the several times he was taken back for questioning and his complicated relationship with the Dashun royal family, and if he even opened his mouth to say it, the thing that the boy struck down was not a hand knife.
, but a real sword.
"Don't be a wallflower, don't be a wallflower!" Su Chang murmured.
Your Highness, he tried his best to "persuade" you here. Afterwards, you can calculate the accounts and save your life to do business. It should still be possible, right?
Speaking of which, the princess wonders if she can block the real Li Ferry...
On the other side, beside the mountain.
Li Du gathered up his cloak and suppressed the cough in his throat.
Su Yi stood aside, looking down the mountain with his hands behind his back.
The seat they were in was higher up the mountain road where the carriage had gone down the mountain. They could see the mountain temple and the town of Ji'an in the distance.
Of course, at this time, no one in Ji'an Town lit up lamps or candles, and it was pitch black.
Su Yi chuckled: "It seems he took the bait."
They have no torches here, only two night-light pearls.
Eunuch Ye took one, and Liu Xun held one next to him.
Liu Xun just arrived here yesterday.
Quzhou was so miserable that he was detained and exiled all the way. When he got there, he was completely thin and sick. He was not dead, but his life was boring.
He missed the prosperity of Beijing too much, and also missed his old life.
At first, he hated Xu Jian, blaming his father and mother, but later he didn't hate anything at all, because Jingli gave him two cotton-padded clothes and a little money.
The person who sent it said it was sent by the Duke of Fuguo.
Liu Xun believed it. If Xu Jian hadn't entrusted someone to send it to him, let alone the clothes, the money would never have been in his hands. Who knew where it had been embezzled.
And Xu Jian would never think of giving him anything. Her mother must have cried.
It was just a little money and some clothes, but it didn't hurt Xu Jian, so the matter was settled naturally, and her mother could arrange it if she wanted to give it away.
Liu Xun thought, now it's just clothes. In two years, maybe his mother will be able to cry and beg Xu Jian to let him go back.
As long as he can return to Beijing, he can kowtow to Xu Jian.
Liu Xun was waiting.
One day, someone made arrangements to pick him up and let him return to Beijing.
Liu Xun was overjoyed and rushed all the way. It wasn't until halfway that he figured out what was going on - it was King Li Du of Jin who asked him to leave Quzhou.
And the King of Jin has already rebelled!
Liu Xun was stunned, but the thief couldn't jump out of the car, so he had to be brought to Li Du.
"You are a witness."
"Xu Jian has known about Chenmi Hutong for a long time. He sat back and watched you eat wine. Not only that, it was he who let Li Shao go to the house that night, and you were arrested."
"Brotherhood? You and him have this thing? Do you believe it?"
"Li Shao is stupid, and you are stupid too. I was also deceived by Xu Jian. Xu Jian deceived everyone."
"I don't ask you to do anything now, just stay well."
What can Liu Xun do?
Liu Xun looked at the good food and rice and cursed Xu Jian in his heart.
Tonight he was brought here by Li Du, and he was not allowed to do anything except take the Night Pearl.
As for what happened down the mountain, he was still in the dark.
Li Du coughed for a while and then told Su Yi: "It's your turn, go to Ji'an."
Su Yi waved and took a few people away.
People have been ambushed in the town. When Li Shao enters the town, then...
Kill or burn, except for Li Shao who wants to live, the rest should live or die, whatever.
As soon as Su Yi left, Eunuch Ye advised Li Du: "Master, let's go back to Zhuangzi. You are still coughing..."
"Wait!" In the darkness, Wang Jie, who had been silent all this time, stopped Eunuch Ye and looked at the mountain road with a serious face, "Someone has climbed up the mountain. It seems there are quite a few of them!"
Eunuch Ye's face turned pale: "Go back, there are few people here, and there are still..."
Before he finished speaking, the birds flying on the mountain startled the sky.
"Zhuangzi, where is Zhuangzi?" The luminous pearl in his hand almost fell to the ground. Liu Xun looked at the mountain, and there was a faint light of fire.
Li Du's breath was choked in his throat.
There is no movement in Ji'an at the foot of the mountain, but Zhuangzi on the mountain is lit first?
How come the "early morning of September 25th" he arranged for Li Shao deviated from that year?
"We can't go back," Li Du felt his chest was tight and he made a quick decision, "Go down the mountain!"
Li Du got on the carriage.
The coachman wanted to light a torch, but Eunuch Ye persuaded him not to light it. During the argument between the two, Liu Xun jumped onto the coach, placed the night pearl next to Li Du, and took out a kettle from the small box on the side and handed it over.
He can't be left here!
Li Du glanced at him, but did not chase anyone away. He just said to the coachman: "Don't light the torch, drive slower on the inside, and go down the mountain first."
Down the mountainside, on an inconspicuous mountain road, a carriage was parked.
Uncle Niu sat on the carriage, looking serious.
The horses were his old companions, but the carriage he drove today was not the princess's usual luxurious one.
Beside the car, Shen Chen was also very cautious. After some observation, he turned around and said to Lin Yunyan in the car: "There was some movement on the mountain first, and there is fire in Ji'an now."
Ji'an Town belongs to Tong County.
Gao An, who was doing business in Laoshi Lane on behalf of Uncle Chengyi's Mansion, had been doing business in Tong County before.
Jingli couldn't let people go to Ji'an to inquire about news, but Gao'an could. His wife was born in this town, and she came back to visit relatives.
Su Yi's letter said that Li Du couldn't stop coughing and took a lot of medicine from the town's traditional Chinese medicine pharmacy.
Gao'an's wife made many twists and turns and secretly inquired, and got a lot of information.
The pharmacy was short of cough medicine a while ago.
The large house with three entrances on the west side of the town has a new face.
He seemed to have left a few days ago.
…
After Lin Yunyan received the news, she had a lot of speculations.
Li Du is feeling unwell, which may be true. He was recuperating earlier, but now he has probably left Ji'an.
Since he conspired with Su Yi to trick Li Shao into coming to Ji'an and specifically chose an "auspicious day", if Li Shao was a fool and rushed to Ji'an to find someone, wouldn't he have ruined Li Du's plan?
After Li Du left, he was not afraid that Li Shao would ask people to inquire. The more Li Shao believed that he was in this area, the more Li Shao took the bait.
But Li Du will not go far.
The exact location of Zhuangzi is difficult to determine, but Lin Yunyan has some idea of the mountain roads in this area.
Because this was the road she and Xu Jian took when they left Gyeonggi.
Xu Jian could not ride a horse, so they could only ride in a carriage.
Gao An drew a route, and Niu Bo walked the mountain road at night, avoiding the official roads below, and tried his best to send them out.
Lin Yunyan nodded, took a deep breath, and thought two words in her heart: luck.
Xu Jian is right.
"Once you have gone through it, you will know what is right and what is wrong. The more you know, the better your luck will be."
The arrangement she made today was because they had "passed through" it before and they had mastered it.
At noon today, Lin Yunyan went to the paddock first. After discovering that Li Shao and Yu Lin were missing, she asked Eunuch Gao to return to the palace to report, and she went to the camp to find Bo An Yi.
An Yibo heard that Li Shao dared to go to Li Du with only thirty men. He was so angry that he couldn't ignore it, so he hurriedly called for help.
Lin Yunyan quietly discussed it with An Yibo.
"The matter has come to this. If we can't capture Li Du, we will lose both my wife and our troops."
"With Li Du's ruthlessness, I'm afraid there will be trouble in Ji'an. He is probably not in the town, and will be hiding in the mountains."
"If you can go around these mountain roads, it would be best if you can find Zhuangzi hiding there."
"Besides, His Highness refuses to listen to dissuasion and insists on going his own way. I'm afraid there will be another one in the future."
"Why don't you stay behind and teach His Highness a lesson?"
An Yibo had a good relationship with Xu Jian and trusted Lin Yunyan, so he was very troubled by Li Shao's behavior.
"Since he has thirty people, it won't be a problem to support him for a while. I will arrange for people to go to Ji'an and won't let anything happen to him. It depends on luck on the mountain. I will hold people on several mountain roads to see if I can find Li Du."
Lin Yunyan came out of the camp and came here instead of going back to the city.
Faintly, she felt that to catch Li Du, she would need her luck.
Just like that day when she went to find Jin Shu.
Outside, Shen Chen held his breath and listened for a while, then whispered: "Princess, a carriage is coming down from above."
