Bright Spring

Everything went smoothly, and when Zhu Gaoxu went to Yan Wangfu to see Princess Xu, she also felt that Princess Xu was not so worried.After all, since the king of Yan started his army, although he suffered from small losses, he has never lost in every battle!

King Yan used his achievements to strengthen people's recognition of Yan Bing's combat power.

Just as King Yan expected, the officers and soldiers didn't even have decent cavalry, and before the fight started, they had already suffered a huge loss in mobility and lost the initiative in the battle.

The weather was getting colder and colder, and Zhu Gaoxu just used the severe cold as an excuse to suspend his helpless military training mission.All he recruited were soldiers and coolies, and many of them couldn't even shoot arrows. How could they be able to develop combat effectiveness in a short while?At this time, the power of the firearms is not strong enough, and it is still the cold | weapons that determine the outcome, so the individual strength and courage of the soldiers are very important.

A few months ago, Wang Gui bought a dilapidated house diagonally opposite Chiyue Temple.Recently, Zhu Gaoxu also brought a quilt, mainly for Wang Gui to guard, and he also went to change shifts from time to time.

This kind of life is quite boring. Zhu Gaoxu even remembers clearly where the paint has fallen off above the door of Chiyueguan, and sometimes he has hallucinations, imagining those colorful paints as various patterns, just like a child like graffiti.

But Zhu Gaoxu has the characteristics that the nobles of this era do not have, such as enough patience and the habit of enduring loneliness!A writer in a previous life said: Loneliness and poverty always go hand in hand.This sentence is very suitable for his previous situation.

One morning, something interesting finally happened.

In winter in Beiping, the sky dawns very late, at this time the sky is just beginning to get bright, and there is fog at night, making the scenery outside the windows even more blurred.Zhu Gaoxu was guarding in the second half of the night, and he had already started to doze off for most of the night... If the carriage wheels hadn't been rattling, he might not have noticed the carriage coming.

Zhu Gaoxu rubbed his eyes and looked out through a hole in the window paper.

The felt cart stopped at the entrance of Chiyue Temple, and a man wrapped in a blue fur coat came out of the carriage, even his head was wrapped with blue satin. At this time, his back was facing this side, and his face could not be seen.

But as soon as that person walked around, Zhu Gaoxu immediately concluded: She is Xu Miaojin!Even wearing a coat, you can guess the walking movements and twisting postures... Xu Miaojin sent Zhu Gaoxu out several times, because the twisting posture was too soft, Zhu Gaoxu watched carefully.

Sure enough, when Xu Miaojin turned around and spoke to the groom in front, a pair of charming almond eyes appeared in Zhu Gaoxu's line of sight above the silk-covered muzzle.The dark coat and scarf made the upper half of Xu Miaojin's face whiter. Her skin was indeed fair.

Xu Miaojin spoke softly to the groom, then turned and walked towards the door of Chi Yueguan.She knocked on the door, then suddenly turned around and looked around, and even glanced at Zhu Gaoxu!

Zhu Gaoxu's heart tightened suddenly, but he was still calm. It was not yet full day outside, and it was shrouded in fog... This window was tall and small, if she could find herself through this small hole in the window, it would really be a supernatural event!

As expected, Xu Miaojin took a few glances, and when the door opened, she went in.

Zhu Gaoxu stretched out his hand to cover the mouth and nose of Wang Gui who was sleeping next to him, Wang Gui woke up soon, let out a "woo" sound, stared at Zhu Gaoxu, his eyes gradually relaxed again.

"There is a situation." Zhu Gaoxu said in a deep voice.

Wang Gui hurriedly got up, he didn't take off his clothes, his movements seemed very clumsy, he immediately looked over to another small hole.

At this moment, the carriage outside left by itself.

"Go to the yard and get the carriage ready." Zhu Gaoxu ordered.

Wang Gui clasped his fists together, without saying a word, immediately jumped off the bed, put on his boots, and trotted out of the room.

Zhu Gaoxu thought in his heart: Xu Miaojin must have asked him to go back first when the carriage came from Yanwang Mansion just now, and agreed when to pick it up... Xu Miaojin may change to go out next.

He guessed right, after waiting for a while, he saw the door of the Taoist temple opened again, and a carriage drove straight out of the yard.

Zhu Gaoxu held his breath and waited for the carriage to go out first. When he saw clearly that he was going to the left, he immediately jumped out of bed quickly and put on his boots.Then he took his wide-brimmed hat from the wall, put it on, and walked briskly out into the yard.

He glanced at the horses in front of the carriage and Wang Gui who was sitting in front, and without further ado, he opened the tarpaulin curtain and walked up.

"Go out from the main entrance." Zhu Gaoxu said, "Turn right after going out."

The main entrance of this dilapidated courtyard is not facing Chi Yueguan, but on another street.

The gate was already open, Wang Gui flicked his whip lightly, and the carriage started to move.The wheels rolled over the threshold, and with a "bang bang", Zhu Gaoxu also bounced in the car.

This carriage is quite old and dilapidated. Wang Gui doesn't know where he bought it, but it happens to be useful.There was a very strange smell in the carriage, sour and sour, like a person sitting next to him who hadn't showered for half a year.

Another whip was cracked outside, and the carriage began to bump and veer to the right.

Zhu Gaoxu pushed aside the dangling dirty cloth curtain and glanced ahead.He was also very curious: where is Xu Miaojin going?

No matter what, he was faintly excited and looking forward to it. After all, Wang Gui and he stayed in the dilapidated house one after another for two fucking months!

If Zhu Gaoxu hadn't thought about the past over and over again, he really wanted to understand what happened on New Year's Eve and what was the reason, he probably couldn't stand it and had already given up.However, human curiosity and the desire to seek the truth are indeed powerful. .

Chapter 85 It's Snowing

The white mist is entangled between all things.The visibility was not high this morning, and Zhu Gaoxu and others did not dare to follow. Fortunately, the target of the carriage was big, otherwise they would definitely lose it.

The car coming out of Chiyue Temple is heading west.

Zhu Gaoxu has arranged for Wang Gui to capture Xu Miaojin's whereabouts since July, and it has been nearly five months since the beginning of the twelfth lunar month!Later, Zhu Gaoxu pulled out and even guarded Chiyue Temple himself for several days.

Such a thing, if there is no obsession, it is absolutely impossible to persist.

What kind of emotions linger in your heart?Zhu Gaoxu didn't even know himself very well, but he could conclude that although the emotion was not as intense as crying, it was buried very deeply, like the continuous drizzle for many days, completely soaking the soil.

The carriage from Chi Yueguan had already left the city from Zhangyi Gate, and Zhu Gaoxu told Wang Gui to follow at a distance. After leaving the city, the sight line would be wider, and it would be safer to be farther away.

Familiar city tower, familiar place, last year Qu Neng led his troops in here, and then retreated from here...but now he himself has been imprisoned in Beiping City.

Chi Yueguan's carriage went straight to Xishan.There is a temple at the foot of Xishan Mountain called Longquan Temple, which Zhu Gaoxu has been to.Before he arrived at Xishan, he lifted the curtain of the car to take a look, and then vaguely saw a few big trees in the temple. It is said that the ginkgo tree and the ancient cypress are hundreds of years old!

"Let's go another way." Zhu Gaoxu ordered.

He only opened a corner of the cloth curtain, and when he observed carefully, he saw that the car was parked under the mountain gate.After a while, Xu Miaojin, who was wearing a blue fur cloak, came out from the front of the carriage... Could it be that she was driving the carriage herself?She was twisting a cloth bag in her hand. When she came out, she looked up at the sky, and stretched out her hands to gather the blue silk covering her head.

Wang Gui murmured as he drove in another direction, "It's strange, Taoist priests in the Taoist temple don't worship the Jade Emperor, but the Lord Buddha?"

Zhu Gaoxu was as surprised as Wang Gui.

Their carriage rushed to another intersection, Zhu Gaoxu told Wang Gui to stop, and got out of the carriage himself: "Wait here."

After he finished speaking, he pushed his big hat down, covering most of his face, and he quickly walked up the hillside from the path.

Zhu Gaoxu quickly entered another small door.Fortunately, he had come to this Lingquan Temple to handle matters, and he had asked Wang Gui to find out before, so he was familiar with everything.

This Lingquan Temple sits west and faces east, and the houses below the north side are used for fasting meals.Zhu Gaoxu pondered: Xu Miaojin, a Taoist priest, must have something to do when he came to the temple, and he was not in the mood to eat vegetarian food.So he climbed up the mountain to the west, looked around, but saw no one.

In winter, people in the north don't like to go out, and it's very early in the morning, and there are only a few people walking around in the temple, most of them are monks.Zhu Gaoxu walked into the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva Hall calmly, and seeing a monk beside him, he went up to pay respects a few times, took out a big Ming treasure note from his bosom, and put it into the merit box.

Zhu Gaoxu bypassed the Bodhisattva's body sculpting again, went out from the back door, looked around, and when he looked up, he saw a figure wearing a blue fur coat swaying in at the upper doorway.He suddenly had a bottom line in his mind.

He bypassed the two temples below, climbed up the stone steps, and walked to the place where he saw the figure just now.He looked up, and there were two faded red letters written on the gate of the courtyard: Sengliao.

This place should not come from pilgrims, but it is a residential area for monks.Zhu Gaoxu wondered if he would be stopped by the monk when he went in, and his whereabouts would be exposed by unexpected incidents?

But it’s all right for the time being, there’s no one here, the walls and the ground are very dry, the water has frozen, and no one is active outside.Zhu Gaoxu then left the courtyard gate and touched the nearby hillside. There were only bare branches and dead grass all around.

After a while, he saw a very good place: there was a brick and wood house inside the wall, but it was not built against the wall, and there was probably a gap in the middle.Zhu Gaoxu was wearing a gray robe, standing still was very inconspicuous. After observing for a while, he decisively stretched his hands to the wall, feeling the bricks were cold, and then he climbed up vigorously.He climbed over the wall, put his feet down first, and still grabbed the top of the wall with his hands, and went down slowly without making a sound.

He walked sideways to the corner, poked his head out to look into the yard, and immediately shrank back.In an instant, a general picture flashed through Zhu Gaoxu's eyes. There was no Xu Miaojin in the yard, but there was a child carrying a package.

That cloth bag seemed to be twisted by Xu Miaojin when he got off the carriage!

Zhu Gaoxu stood there motionless, after a while, he walked out decisively and quickly.