After the Harvest Festival, the feudal lords from all over the country entered the palace one after another to bid farewell to King Wu.Beihou was the first to say goodbye, and left the capital to return to his fief the next day.On the second day after the harvest, Prince Guang took the nobles from Dacheng to King Wu's bedroom to bid farewell to King Wu.

"Father!" Young Master Guang knelt and crawled to King Wu's side, buried his head on King Wu's knee and wept.This parting, I don't know when we will meet next time.

"Guang'er!" Wu Wang stroked his son's hair, his eyes were red. "Manage the fiefdom well, hire concubines as soon as possible, and give birth to more sons and grandchildren for the orphans."

"Guang knows." Young Master Guang lowered his head.

"Go!" With a wave of his hand, King Wu gently pushed Young Master Guang away, got up and left the couch, and turned his back to Young Master Guang.

"Farewell, baby!" Young Master Guang kowtowed three times to King Wu's back before he stood up and led the fief nobles to leave the palace and return to the residence, packed their luggage, and prepared to leave early the next morning to return to Dacheng.

When Young Master Guang bid farewell to King Wu, Doctor Jiang quietly entered the palace to meet Yi Ji.

"Madam! Everything is ready."

"Did the additional two hundred soldiers arrive at the manor?"

Chu Chaohui refused to be used by Yi Ji, and the reputation of him and Zheng Yuming in the capital became more and more famous, which made Yi Ji feel that she wanted to get rid of Young Master Guang and her party.It turned out that in order to deal with the eighty-odd missionaries led by Young Master Guang, three hundred strong family soldiers were arranged to hide in the manor of Dr. Jiang's family fief.Now because of the appearance of Chu Chaohui and Zheng Yuming, Yiji asked Doctor Jiang to send two hundred more.

"It's here, it was here last night." Dr. Jiang's fief has privately raised three thousand elite soldiers, selected elite soldiers and generals, and prepared to take Young Master Guang and his party together.

"The Ulsan Mission, we must not let anyone go." Yi Ji's face was no longer gentle, but ferocious.

"Madam, don't worry, five hundred is against eighty, what is right is what is not, and no one from the Ulsan Mission will live until the day after tomorrow." Dr. Jiang has a plan in mind.Young Master Guang will leave the capital tomorrow morning, and is expected to arrive at the ambush site in the afternoon.

When the guard at the west gate of the capital heard the rooster crowing and went to open the gate, he found that his immediate superior was already in the gate.

"I've seen Sima." Huben guard hurried up to salute.

"You guys are on holiday today. This place will be guarded by my own soldiers." Sima Xicheng waved his hand and let these subordinates take their leave.

"Obey!" Several tigers were happy to have a day off for nothing.

After Xicheng Sima waited for the guards of Huben to leave, he asked the guards to open the city gate, and sat in the tower to stare at the gate. He wanted to make sure that Lord Ulsan and his party went out through the gate today.

When the rooster crows, the sky in the east is getting brighter. Those who get up early into the city are farmers selling agricultural products, and those who leave the city are dung carts that collect night fragrance, and they are all sparse.Until the sun came out of the ground, the number of people entering and leaving the city gate increased.Ximen Sima was at the lookout of the tower, staring at the passageway without blinking.

As the sun rose, most of the residents of Wangdu City got up and went out. People came and went in the capital city, and it became lively.A team of horse-drawn carriages came slowly from the city, and the surrounding people cheered when they saw it, shouting "Zheng Sheng" and "Chu Sheng" in their mouths. It was the convoy of the Ulsan Dalseong Mission. Yes, when the people of the capital see the four-wheeled carriage, they will know where the convoy is.

Xicheng Sima lay on the watchtower, staring at the convoy with wide eyes.That's right, none of the five four-wheeled carriages was missing, the number of people was about the same, and the horses were not missing either. Not only were there no shortages, but there were also three more horses, which were the rewards Chu Chaohui got from the martial arts competition in the palace.Now Chu Chaohui was riding on a brown-red horse, and Zheng Yuming was sitting next to him on a white horse.Another black horse was presented to Gongzi Guang by Chu Chaohui, and this black horse was followed by a waiter beside Gongzi Guang's carriage.

Apart from Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui riding horses, the Dacheng nobles were sitting in the four-wheeled carriage. Xicheng Sima faintly saw Young Master Guang in black through the veil of the carriage window.

Xicheng Sima silently counted the number of people. There were 50 people riding horses and sitting in the carriage. Because of the obstruction of the carriage, no one could be seen in the carriage, but based on the number of passengers, it should be 30 people. The numbers roughly match.

After counting the number of people in Xicheng Sima Ma, he couldn't help but feel relieved. After leaving the west gate, this team was about to set foot on the road of no return.Looking at the handsome Zheng Yuming and the majestic Chu Chaohui, Sima Xicheng felt that it was a pity that this pair of bi people would become two cold corpses full of arrows in five or six hours, which really made people feel emotional.

The convoy of Ulsan Dalseong, watched by Sima in Xicheng and the people of the capital, slowly left the city gate and drove onto the road to the southwest.Xicheng Sima couldn't see the shadow of the convoy from the tower, so he came down from the tower, ordered his own soldiers to guard the gate, and rode his horse to report to Dr. Jiang.

An hour after Xicheng Sima left, a group of entertainers came in from outside the city. The group of entertainers consisted of men and women. According to visual estimates, there were 50 to [-] of them. The entertainers seemed to be relatively wealthy. They had several horses. One piece, a bald spot there, and the color of the horse is also messy, but the horse looks strong despite its sloppy appearance.

After entering the city from the west gate, the artists did not stay in the capital city, but passed through the capital city and went straight out of the north gate.Leaving the north gate and walking to a secluded place in the woods, a young man was waiting there with several people driving several carriages.

"Sizhong, didn't Wei Qing encounter anything with the young master?" The person speaking was dressed as a woman, but her voice was male.

"No, my lord, Wei Qing has already gone far with the young master." The boy was Huo Sizhong.

"Let's go too. It is estimated that after four or five hours, they will react if they don't wait for anyone." Chu Zhaohui stretched his legs, and he bent his legs again to pretend to be an old man. Except for a gray beard on his face, And a lot of wrinkles.

"Throw away everything, get into the carriage, and head towards the northeast at a high speed." Zheng Yuming smoothed off his wig, turned over and rode on a dirty, gray horse, which was his white horse.

Following Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui is Prince Guang's attendant, Huben.Young Master Guang and Wei Shen have already led the nobles of Dacheng and Wei Qing to disguise themselves as traders, and left the capital from the north gate.

Hearing Zheng Yuming's order, everyone remained silent, discarded their disguises one by one, got into the carriage, and followed Zheng Yuming, Chu Chaohui and Huo Sizhong's horses and headed northeast.

Forty to fifty miles southwest of the capital, more than 500 people ambushed on the hillside with bows and arrows, holding their breath and waiting for their prey to appear.Among them, 300 people have stayed here for more than three months for this mission. After today's mission is completed, they don't need to hide here anymore. They can return to the owner's fief to receive rewards and have fun for a while .

The sun was gradually sinking to the west, and the avenue leading to the capital city was quiet, except for a few scattered vendors passing by, there was no large group of people.In order to prevent any omissions, Yi Ji's secret order was to leave no passers-by here. None of these vendors could pass through the hillside, and after being shot to death by arrows, their bodies were thrown into the grass.

It was already dark, and there was still no Dacheng mission on the avenue. The leader of the family soldiers was anxious, and quickly sent spies to search in the direction of the capital, but the spies searched all the way to the city wall of the capital, but they did not find any trace of the mission.

The leader secretly yelled that it was not good, did the mission know that there was an ambush here, so they went over the mountain to bypass them?It was no longer necessary to ambush by the hillside, the leader ordered his men to search everywhere, hoping to find the traces of the Young Master Guang Mission, but nothing came of it until dawn.It is very close to Wangdu, and it takes more than two hours for a fast horse to arrive here, and it only takes three or four hours for the Huben army to get here.The leader and his family soldiers did not dare to stay here for a long time, so he left a few spies to guard the main roads and sent a fast horse to deliver a letter to Dr. Jiang, while he himself took his family soldiers back to the manor to hide.

Dr. Jiang was shocked and furious when he received the information. Sima in Xicheng saw with his own eyes the embassy of Dacheng leaving the city. The guards at the west gate did not see any of the embassy return. From the capital to the ambush, all the forks were under surveillance. The young master thought If the route was changed, the watchers would notice it immediately, but now all the reports show that there are no traces of the eighty-odd people, and the carriage and people have all disappeared.People may be able to walk into the hillsides and woods beside the road, but carriages cannot escape from the avenue, and there is only one avenue that must pass through the ambush to the southwest.

"Search all the villages near the avenue!" Dr. Jiang thought that maybe Young Master Guang was the top in the villages on both sides of the avenue.

Before Dr. Jiang’s order was issued, the spies came to report back. In a village outside the capital city, they found five four-wheeled carriages and several ordinary carriages. Come and fetch, there are about 40 artists in this group.The spies also found a bunch of footprints in the woods near the village, showing that many people once stayed here.

Ever since he knew that the Harvest Festival was going to be a pilgrimage to the king's capital, Chu Chaohui went to Tang twice, secretly sneaked into Wu from Tang, and figured out the two roads from Tang to Wu's king's capital. All, memorize the terrain on the road.Chu Chaohui was afraid that worship would be dangerous, and it was his instinct to plan for a rainy day and think of a safe escape route first.

Wei Shen used the excuse of receiving secret information, which showed that Yi Ji would send someone to murder them on their way back, in order to persuade Young Master Guang to disguise himself and change his course.When Young Master Guang heard that Yi Ji had appeared again as a demon moth, he would not let it go, and insisted on using himself as bait to catch evidence of Yi Ji's murder.

"My lord, in the past ten years, haven't there been too few assassins sent by Yiji to arrive in the city? How can we catch her?" Wei Shen wiped his sweat in his heart, luckily he didn't tell his son the exact location where Guangyiji sent his soldiers to ambush.

"But let her be free?" Young Master Guang gritted his teeth. Yi Ji never gave up on taking his life, and sent countless killers overtly and secretly. If Wei Shen hadn't been vigilant all the time, Young Master Guang would have met Wei Ji and Young Master Ming long ago. up.Even the fierce malaria last year, Wei Shen suspected that it was Yi Ji's bad move. After all, one of the two suspects who were tortured later had something to do with Wang.

"Even if the young master goes to the palace to report to the king now, the king will not believe it. As for Yiji, she won't be able to stay for long, and when the crown prince ascends the throne, the crown prince will take care of him." Wei Shen persuaded.

"Let's go to the northeast and enter the Tang Kingdom, and take a big boat back from the sea. You can enjoy the scenery of the sea." Zheng Yuming used the sea to lure Young Master Guang. The fief where Young Master Guang is located is the junction of the Changhe and the sea to the southeast, but Young Master Guang has never Have the opportunity to go to the sea to have a look.

"The sea?"

"That's right. You can see more of the scenery along the way. Due to your status as a son, you can't travel around the world like Wang Jie, this time is just an opportunity." Zheng Yuming continued to persuade.

Chu Chaohui felt slightly sour in his heart, Zheng Yuming knew too much about Young Master Guang.

"That's right. You can take the opportunity to travel." Young Master Guang's eyes lit up. Traveling is very tempting for a young man who has been imprisoned for more than 20 years.

Young Master Guang thought it would be a good journey to travel back to the city by taking a big boat from Tang Dynasty.But the reality is contrary to the wish. He and the nobles of Dacheng pretended to be merchants and followed Wei Qing out of the north gate. They couldn't stop all the way, and they couldn't stop for a while. After entering the Tang Dynasty with the merchant's document, they had to be careful to avoid the interrogation of the Tang Dynasty's tigers. , Even on a big ship moored in a small harbor, you can't get off the ship and walk around.It wasn't until Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui joined them that the big ship sailed along the land in the sea, so that Young Master Guang could walk freely on the deck, but when he was able to walk freely, Young Master Guang couldn't move, he lay on the cabin couch I vomited so badly that I didn't even have the strength to sit up.

When the large ship carrying Mr. Guang and his party was sailing at sea, Dr. Jiang's men were still searching the main roads outside the west gate and south gate. None of them thought of going to the north gate of the capital to investigate, and no one guessed that Mr. Guang would come. Walking in the opposite direction, you will go to the neighboring country and take a boat back to the fief.

Until Young Master Guang came ashore from Nanbu and returned to Dacheng, Dr. Jiang didn’t know where the Dacheng mission got on the boat from the Wu State’s seaside. As long as the Wu State can park a large ship, Dr. Jiang will send people. Checked out.

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