Travel to the early Tang Dynasty and become a salted fish

When he thought of Chu Mo, he slipped away openly under his nose.

Cheng Yaojin roared angrily and kicked the table next to him into pieces.

When the guard beside him saw this, he rolled his eyes and said immediately:

"My lord, the situation has not reached an irreversible situation yet. Although Chu Mo has escaped, his daughter is not still in your hands. All you need is..."

Before the guard could finish speaking, Cheng Yaojin immediately pushed him aside and rushed outside.

When the other guards saw this, they all looked at each other and swarmed after him.

In an instant, the originally bustling grocery store was completely empty, leaving only Shopkeeper Yang, San Xizi and a mess on the ground.

Seeing that everyone had left, Mikiko immediately ran to the front yard and closed the shop and all doors and windows.

Then he returned to the house and nodded towards Shopkeeper Yang.

Seeing Sanxizi's signal, Shopkeeper Yang was relieved, and then quickly came to the place where the two guards fainted before, and carefully lifted the floor, revealing a secret door.

After opening the secret door, Chu Mo and Yang Paifeng walked out directly.

It turns out that Chu Mo had planned all of this a long time ago in order to send a false signal to Cheng Yaojin, making the other party think that he was setting up a conspiracy and deliberately delayed him here.

In line with the fact that the most dangerous place is also the safest place, after Chu Mo knocked out the two guards, he did not escape from the grocery store, but hid directly in the room.

Sure enough, Cheng Yaojin sent people to search the entire three floors of the grocery store, but only missed the crime scene, allowing Chu Mo to successfully evade the search.

As for why he didn't escape from here immediately after stunning the guards.

First of all, they were all surrounded by Cheng Yaojin's guards. Yang Paifeng had already taken a big risk by knocking out the two guards.

If Chu Mo knew some martial arts, he could just run away with him.

The key is that he is not even a three-legged cat. If he runs away with them, he will not only have the physical strength to keep up, but he will also infinitely amplify his and Yang Paifeng's goals, allowing the other party to easily discover them.

The second thing is that if I go out pretending to be a beggar as I did in Luoyang City, it will undoubtedly be very conspicuous to the inner city of Zhengzhou where there are hundreds of thousands of refugees outside the city.

You know, since the refugees gathered outside the city, the Zhengzhou Governor's Office issued a notice not to allow any refugees to enter the city. Even as a precaution, the Governor's Office even drove out the beggars on the streets.

Now you say that a beggar suddenly appears on the street. Isn't that a lice on a bald man's head? It's a clear sign to others that there is something wrong with his identity.

As for pretending to be another identity and leaving the city, Chu Mo never thought about it. In this sensitive period, if any flaws are revealed, it will be magnified infinitely. Don't think that the soldiers guarding the gate are freeloaders.

In Luoyang City, if it weren't for Lin Wan's cover, no matter how capable Chu Mo was, he would never have been able to get out. Without directions and identification, let alone letting you leave the city, I would have arrested you as a fugitive on the spot. Not bad.

As for using money to bribe the soldiers guarding the gate, Chu Mo couldn't even think about it.

I know that the authorities have tightened their grip recently, but now someone comes here to stuff money and want to go out. You can tell there is something fishy at a glance.

It’s not like what you’re getting is gold and silver, and people’s heads aren’t made of iron. Why would you take such a huge risk for a mere taels of silver?Wouldn't it be nice for him to arrest you and send you to receive a reward? Wouldn't it be nice for him to get promoted and make a fortune?

Therefore, after Chu Mo went through everything, he found that it was really difficult to leave the city now, so he decided to stay temporarily and see the situation first.

But what he never expected was that Li Chengqian, who originally had to wait several days to arrive, skipped Luoyang City and came directly to Zhengzhou City.

While he was glad that he did not leave the city directly, otherwise he would have bumped into Li Chengqian, but at the same time he began to worry about Wu Xu who stayed in the Cheng Mansion.

So, he asked Yang Paifeng to send people to pay close attention to all the movements of Li Chengqian and the Cheng family, while he began to make plans to leave the city.

However, the plan did not change quickly. After Li Chengqian saw Cheng Yaojin, he immediately knew the news of Chu Mo's escape. This made him furious. Without stopping for a moment, he ordered his troops on the spot and went out of the city to search for Chu Mo. .

I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, but when Cheng Yaojin reported the news about Chu Mo, he did not mention Wu Xu's words.

Therefore, the little girl accidentally ended up in Cheng Yaojin's hands.

Li Chengqian, on the other hand, was like a mad dog. He took Hou Junji to the battle in person, commanded his own guards and Cheng Yaojin's guards, and searched for all the soldiers in Zhengzhou City outside the city for three days.

In the past three days, apart from digging through the ant nests outside the city, the other party also dug through all the rabbit holes, but no trace of Chu Mo was found.

In the end, it was Hou Junji who stood up and stopped Li Chengqian's crazy behavior.

"Your Highness, it seems to Yiwei that Chu Mo's guy has definitely left Zhengzhou now."

"According to my understanding of Chu Mo, the other party is either going south along the Grand Canal to Suzhou and Hangzhou, and then returns to Lingnan along the coast."

"Either the other party is likely to take risks and go directly to Chang'an."

Hearing Hou Junji's words, Li Chengqian frowned immediately.

"General Hou, you said that Chu Mo returned to Lingnan by water. I can understand this. After all, if he takes the land route, the target is too obvious and the road is long and blocked. If his whereabouts are accidentally revealed on the road, he will be pursued endlessly."

"But you said that the other party is not going back to Lingnan, but going to Chang'an. This makes me a little confused."

Hou Junji smiled slightly and said with great confidence:

"Your Highness, according to my observation and understanding of Chu Mo, the other party has always been a person who does not follow common sense and always makes surprising moves."

"The reason why he said he would go to Chang'an is because Chang'an is the safest place besides Lingnan."

"As long as he shows up in Chang'an, not to mention who dares to take action against him, even His Majesty the Emperor, then we must find ways to protect his safety."

Hearing Hou Junji's words, Li Chengqian was instantly angry:

"Hou Junji, Chu Mo is just a pariah. My father wants to skin him and day lilies. How can he send someone to protect him?"

Hou Junji sighed and said:

"Your Highness, Chu Mo himself is not scary. What is scary is the Taoist sect behind him and the masters in the Taoist sect."

"You must have seen how powerful a grandmaster is. How would you feel if you were being watched day and night by a group of grandmasters?"

Li Chengqian couldn't help but feel chilled when he thought that he was being cared about by a group of masters all day long, who might attack him at any time.