"Sir, it rained heavily last night and the bridges and rivers ahead were washed away. It seems we have to take a detour."
The long motorcade was moving forward, and halfway along the way, a horse from the Imperial Guard suddenly came to report.
"map!"
Wang Xu opened the sedan curtain and walked down, took the map from the people around him, held it in his hand and read it.
Today is the second day after leaving Fuzhou. It took a day and a half to walk a hundred and fifty miles. From the map, we arrived at the junction of Guobei County and Sishui County.
"If you don't take the official road in Guobei County, you can only take a detour from Sishui County. Every time you go back and forth, you have to walk an extra 80 miles of mountain road, which is a waste of two days. Strangely, although it rained a lot last night
, but to say that it can destroy bridges and rivers is a bit unreasonable!" Wang Xu looked at the map. Although there is a Lanruo Temple in Guobei County, it belongs to Pingyuan Road and has an official road that leads directly to the outside world.
Sishui County is different. It is surrounded by mountains, with many mountain roads and few major roads. There are only small roads that can accommodate three people walking parallelly. It is not certain whether a horse-drawn carriage can pass by.
The eighty-mile mountain road is more difficult to walk than the two-hundred-mile official road. Don't even think about walking out without a day or two.
"If we build a road, how long will it take to build it?" Wang Xu put down the map and asked the Jin Yiwei who was exploring the road.
Jin Yiwei, who was exploring the road, thought for a moment and said, "Sir, the official road destroyed by the flood is at least three to five miles. If we open a road through the mountains and build a bridge when encountering water, it will not be possible within three to five days."
"Three to five days?"
Wang Xu handed the map to the people around him and ordered: "Detour, take Sishui County, and march quickly!"
"yes"
Although the road was muddy, Wang Xu's group of troops, mainly composed of horses and vehicles, with no infantry, still had some advantages in speed.
After receiving the order, the front team quickly turned around and diverted from the road heading to Guobei County to Sishui County.
Wang Xu sat on the sedan, opened the curtain and looked at Fu Tianchou, and said: "Master Fu, the road ahead has been washed away. We have to go to Sishui County to avoid the washed-out official road."
“Sishui County?”
Fu Tianchou was sitting in the prison car. He didn't know what he thought of and frowned slightly.
The team set off again and soon embarked on the path to Sishui County.
After walking for about three hours, at ten o'clock in the morning, Wang Xu, who was sitting on the sedan chair, suddenly felt a chaos ahead.
"who?"
"My name is Ye Zhiqiu, and I am a good friend of your family. Please get out of the way quickly. Good dogs don't block the way."
"Nonsense, what is my master's identity? How can he have a friend like you? Take him down!"
There was a fight in front of him. Wang Xu asked the sedan bearer to stop, got out of the sedan and looked outside.
Upon entering the scene, Ye Zhiqiu was fighting with Xia Houjiang. The two of them were going back and forth, and it looked very lively.
"Hey, can you talk nicely? If you continue to fight, I will use magic to deal with you!"
In the short battle, Ye Zhiqiu suffered a slight loss. In terms of strength alone, without using magic, Ye Zhiqiu was still no match for General Xiahou.
General Xiahou, as a great master and from a place like Jinyiwei, went straight for the vital point with his sword, forcing Ye Zhiqiu to scramble and create danger for a while.
"Stop!" Wang Xu shouted, stopping the two people.
Xia Houjiang sheathed his sword and stood aside. Ye Zhiqiu breathed a sigh of relief and said loudly: "Your men are very powerful. Fortunately, I am not bad either, otherwise I would have been killed by his sword."
"How did you come?"
Wang Xu took the initiative to walk up. He and Ye Zhiqiu hadn't seen each other for almost a month. The last time they met, they only heard that he was dealing with mountain ghosts.
"I'm here to report to you. Last night, I stopped at a post station in Sishui County. I heard a group of Jianghu people saying that they were going to blow up the reservoir and divert the flood to wash away the official road, so that a group of official escorts escorting prisoners could go to Sishui County instead.
path, and then deal with them."
When Ye Zhiqiu said this, he came up to him with a playful smile and whispered: "How about it, am I a friend enough?"
"It turns out that the official road was destroyed because someone blew up the reservoir upstream. I asked why yesterday's heavy rain was so destructive. It turns out someone was up to something!" Wang Xu thought in his mind and asked Ye Zhiqiu again.
"Why did you go to Sishui County?"
"There was a wealthy businessman in Sishui County who brought back dirty things on his business trip. I went over to deal with the dirty things."
Ye Zhiqiu said casually, then looked at Fu Tianchou who was locked in the prison car, and whispered: "To be honest, I think those gangsters are not ordinary gangsters, and there is a faint shadow of the army."
"Army? Seriously?"
Wang Xu was not interested in people in the world of martial arts. The people in the Jianghu in Daning Dynasty were all small characters who were suppressed by the imperial court and could not make waves.
On the other hand, the army is different. If it is the army that plans to attack them, the nature is completely different.
"Danglinghou belongs to the prince, and there is a camp of Danlinghou stationed around Sishui County." Fu Tianchou, who had been sitting in the prison car, suddenly spoke.
Wang Xu narrowed his eyes slightly, nodded slightly and said: "I understand."
The princeling wanted to kill Fu Tianchou. Since Danlinghou was from the princeling, it made sense that he wanted to clear the way for the prince.
"You are Mr. Qingtian, the former Minister of the Ministry of War, Fu Tianchou, Master Fu known to the people, right?" Ye Zhiqiu saw Fu Tianchou talking, and he also cheered up and went to chat.
Fu Tianqiu was sitting cross-legged in the prison car. Although he was tired from traveling, he was in good spirits. He still looked like a second-grade official. He said in a deep voice: "Do you know me?"
"I know, good things don't go out, and bad things spread thousands of miles. Everyone said that you were killed by a traitor and were taken to the capital to be beheaded. I didn't expect that I would have the chance to meet you. I am really lucky." Ye Zhiqiu is also here.
He had a familiar character and looked at Fu Tianchou with admiration.
"It's not beheading, it's going to the capital to convict. Where did you hear the gossip?" Ye Zhiqiu said simply, but Wang Xu noticed something was wrong.
The arrest of Fu Tianqiu happened two days ago. Jin Yiwei didn't make any announcement about it at all, so why did it become so popular?
It seems that Fu Tianchou is really unwilling to be alone. He must have spread this rumor to gain fame. If there is no caring person to spread it, he does not believe that the news will naturally ferment and become known to everyone in two days.
"Where did I hear that you should just leave it alone? That's what everyone said anyway. In short, you should be careful. I have something else to do and I'll leave first."
Ye Zhiqiu came and went in a hurry. With a "escape", he quickly disappeared without a trace.
Wang Xu looked at the path to Sishui County, and the other party was using a conspiracy, because there were three roads from Fuzhou to the capital, the waterway, the official road in Guobei County, and the mountain road in Sishui County. There was no other way.
Don't think about the water route. Fu Tianqiu suffered from seasickness. Taking the water route would kill him.
Now, the official road in Guobei County has been washed away by floods. Even if we know that someone is ambushing the mountain road in Sishui County, what can we do? We can't wait three to five days to repair the road.
Road construction is unreliable, and the people waiting in Dangling are not dead. Waiting for it is of no use except to increase accidents. It is better to beat gongs to gongs and drums to drums to see who can sing better.
"Cheng Canwei, Cheng Qianhu!"
"The subordinates are here"
A middle-aged man with peach blossom eyes and a somewhat wretched look walked up to Wang Xu.
In addition to the governor of Jinyi Guards in Yizhou, there are also eight thousand households below to assist.
After Wang Xu was promoted from Qianhu to Zhenfu Envoy, a Qianhu was parachuted down from the capital, and this was Cheng Qianhu.
At that time, Fu Tianchou had been demoted and returned to his hometown. Through Wang Xu's observation, it was most likely that this person came for Fu Tianchou and had an unclear relationship with the Donglin Party.
"You are responsible for protecting Mr. Fu. No matter what happens along the way, you must not leave more than three steps away from the prison car. Do you understand?" Wang Xu knew the origin of Cheng Qianhu, and also knew that this Cheng Qianhu was probably Dong
Lin Fang came to protect Fu Tianchou, but he had no intention of breaking through this layer of paper.
"Yes, sir."
Cheng Qianhu handed over the war horse to his subordinates, got into the prison car and took charge of driving it himself. He said he had no communication with Fu Tianchou.
Wang Xu was happy to pretend to be confused, got on the sedan again, and said: "Let's go, I want to see who can stop me!"