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Tang Ling planted flowers in Bashan's small courtyard, and spent a lot of time engraving two seals. While killing time, she waited quietly for the rain to come, while thinking about a person who traveled far away.

And the person Tang Ling misses has quietly passed through Huaiyan Pass and arrived in Quzhou, southwest of Huaiyan Pass. city.

The victims who fled from Xingtian Pass, Jialin Pass and other places did not travel as fast as Qi Xiao, and there were not many refugees who reached Quzhou, and several major cities in Quzhou had not yet been sealed off.

Qi Xiao was sitting on the scooter dangling all the way, with only Zong Sheng, Chi Yue and a few personal guards around him, dressed up as ordinary civilian husbands, there were three cars in total, and the first two cars contained a few boxes. What, the third car pulled a man, sick, dying, hanging his breath.

The people from Xuanji Camp fell far away, mixed among the refugees, followed unhurriedly, and they could come as soon as Qi Xiao waved his hand.

"Your Highness, Lu An's Mansion is almost here, let's find a place to rest and let me finish dressing up that man."

Qi Xiao nodded, responded to Chi Yue, and raised his hand to let everyone stop to rest.

Chi Yue's disguise technique was superb, Qi Xiao was curious, but Chi Yue didn't hide it, so he let Qi Xiao watch.

His bundle of bottles and jars, including thick paste, powder, and mud paste, brushes, bamboo chips, silk threads, hooks, pens and other tools are also dazzling.

The dying man was picked up by them on the way. The man was not only hungry, but also injured. The sickle entered from the side of the waist and penetrated the spleen. Chi Yue knew that he could not be saved despite his superficial medical skills. .

The man's coat, shoes and boots had already been stripped off, and his inner garment was stained with blood, so it was useless to strip it off, so he kept it for him. Rich people should have encountered robbery on the road.

He was similar to what Qi Xiao was looking for in terms of figure and height, so he picked it up, saving Qi Xiao the trouble to find it.

Chi Yue pasted some fish-like thin skin on the man's face, pasted it with glue, and changed the man's facial features bit by bit.

Chi Yue mixed some liquid medicine into the glue, which had a pungent smell, looked milky white, and rubbed it on the man's face, it turned his face into a sallow yellowish gray, and it was impossible to see that there was still a layer of paste.

In less than half a stick of incense, that man had been changed by Chi Yue.

"Like, really like! It's amazing."

Qi Xiao couldn't help sighing, "It's been more than a month since we left Xingtian Pass, yet you can remember Meng Jing's face exactly."

Meng Jing is a general of Xingtian Pass, only in his twenties, and he is not very impressive under Chen He's command. When he was killed in Xingtian Pass, he didn't even have a chance to struggle.

Until they cleaned up the corpses, the people from Xuanjiying told Qi Xiao that Meng Jing was the second son of Meng's family in Lu'an Mansion.

There are many mountains and forests in Qi State, and its territory is not as vast as that of Chen and Zhou. Originally, there were many indigenous peoples, such as the Huyan people who lived in Bashan hundreds of years ago and were exterminated by the former Sui Dynasty. There were not many left, and they were all recruited by the Qi State court, and became the five major families of Qi State today. The Meng family in Lu'an Mansion is one of them. Each of the five major families occupies a corner. The Qi State royal family has a tradition of choosing concubines for princes from among the five major families. , so they have lived in peace for a hundred years.

However, this kind of peace is also superficial. Whenever the imperial power changes, the five major clans will definitely contribute to the prince who is married to them, and the secret struggle has never stopped.

Tang Ling "saw" the Meng family in Lu An's mansion early in the morning, for no other reason. The daughter of the Meng family married the second prince of Qi, and she was in the same situation as the first prince supported by Xu Zheng.

Meng Jing can just become Qi Xiao's stepping stone.

The original plan was to pick a suitable identity from the information of Xuanjiying to enter the Meng family. Who would have thought that killing the second son of the Meng family at Xingtian Pass, this is a good thing that came to the door, of course we should make good use of it.

After all, Meng Jing is the second son of the Meng family, and Chi Yue has never been in contact with Meng Jing, or even heard him speak. It is easy to disguise and dress up, but it is impossible to deceive the Meng family, so he simply picked a checkmate For those who were not dead, they thought they were the rebels who rescued the second son from Xingtian Pass, but Meng Jing was seriously injured, and saving people became a funeral.

Chi Yue laughed: "It is Chi Yue's blessing that His Royal Highness can use Chi Yue's ability."

Qi Xiao laughed dryly: "You don't have to pretend to be so obedient in front of me."

Chi Yue smiled and nodded: "Thank you, Your Highness, for your compassion."

"Is it done?" Qi Xiao waved his hand, too lazy to break up with Chi Yue, he seemed to be worried about the people of Xuanji Camp, "If he dies, can this layer of skin stick?"

"If it's a living person, this layer of skin can last for three to five days at most. If he's dead, it can last for about ten days in this warm and cold spring season.

Guaranteed that when he was buried, he would still look like this.

But just to be on the safe side, if he really dies, I have to make his face paler and more dry, there is always a difference between a living person and a dead person. "

"It couldn't be better."

"Meng Jing practiced martial arts and still has some old wounds on his body. The skin on this one's hands and feet is tender, and he still needs some work to make it more delicate."

"Can old injuries be done?"

"Yes, you don't need to wash it with special medicine, and you can't rub it off with general force.

It can't be hidden without careful inspection. "

"Your ability to disguise is really amazing."

Qi Xiao sneered, and suddenly asked in a low voice, "Since you have such abilities, why do you still stay in Tiance Camp?"

Chi Yue looked at Qi Xiao and blinked, a little surprised, and after a while he replied softly: "Your Highness, don't you think this question is a bit stupid?"

If the people in Tiance Camp are like Chi Yue, who have no father, no mother, and no worries, but have first-class kung fu and treacherous methods, why do they still have to live a life of licking blood?Why not escape?

Only because there is no escape.

"What method does Tiance Camp have to control people?" Qi Xiao raised his eyes and hurriedly glanced at Zong Sheng who was sitting not far away.

"Your Highness will naturally know when he ascends to the position of supremacy."

Qi Xiao shrugged, didn't ask any more questions, and didn't say anything.

This is Chi Yue's own business. It's not his turn to dictate, and since he can't help, don't cause trouble.

"Your Highness, that's about it, let's continue on our way."

Qi Xiao nodded and waved: "Go."

The group continued to move forward, and finally arrived at Lu An's Mansion at dusk.

The Meng family in Lu'an Mansion is the most powerful branch among the five major families.

The five major clans do not have regular troops, but they have Xiang troops, which are local troops and conscripts. Usually they only take care of their own one-third of an acre of land, and they will be transferred during wartime to build cities, make ordnance, build roads and transport food. logistics force.

Now that Xu Zheng has led an army of [-] to besiege Bashan, he has transferred all the regular troops from the three states near Bashan, and also transferred the food from the three states. Tang Ling will stick to Bashan, and what Xu Zheng will fight will be a long-lasting battle. In order to fight, sooner or later, you have to send troops to borrow food from other places, and the Meng family in Lu'an Mansion is not far away, and there are [-] Xiang troops in their hands, which are very fat.

Qi Xiao dismantled two thousand elite soldiers and dispersed them deep into the hinterland of Qi State, in order to pour some oil and fuel on Qi State's internal troubles at this time of foreign troubles.

Qi Xiao only brought a few people to Lu'an's mansion to sneak into Meng's house, making sure that Meng's family would hold back Xu Shi, cut off Xu Shi's supplies, and even stabbed Xu Shi in the back, preferably in the back of Xu Shi's heart.

Qi Xiao only brought Chi Yue, Zong Sheng and Yu Ran from Xuanji Camp by his side, while the others supported him outside the Meng Mansion.

They dragged people to knock on the rich door of the Meng Mansion, and before they had time to shed a few false tears, the Meng Mansion had already made a fuss by itself, inviting all the doctors in the city to their homes, and lining up to give the fake Meng Mansion Respect the pulse and heal the wound.

Qi Xiao and the others were arranged in a small courtyard, and they were led to meet the head of the Meng family, Meng Boquan, and the eldest son Meng Tao until nightfall.

"What's going on? What's going on?!"

Qi Xiao hung his head and shrank back, and it was Yu Ran from Xuanji Camp who answered: "Chen Jun went south, Xingtian Pass was broken, and our brothers were originally miscellaneous soldiers in the yamen. We escaped while taking advantage of the chaos. Young master, he was seriously injured and couldn't move anymore, so he gave us some money and asked us to send him back to Lu An's residence."

Yu Ran has been lurking in Qi State for many years, and he is very familiar with Xingtian Pass, so he has no trouble responding to the Meng family's inquiries.

"Who? Who hurt my son?! The wound was not an ordinary sword wound. What kind of weapon did Chen Jun use?"

"This... This little one really doesn't know. We were just running for our lives. When we met the second young master, the second young master was already injured. We also wanted to treat the second young master's injury, but the second young master's injury..."

Meng Boquan was filled with anger, grief and indignation. When the news of Xingtian Pass being breached reached Lu An's mansion, Meng Boquan already knew something was wrong, and hurriedly ordered people to find out about Meng Jing's news, but Qi Xiao was in Xingtian Pass. There was a lot of killing, there was chaos, and the people fled everywhere. Where can there be any news.

But when the fake Meng Jing was sent back and lay dying in front of him, Meng Boquan, the father, still couldn't bear it.

"Father..." The eldest son Meng Tao supported Meng Boquan, stroking Meng Boquan's back, giving him comfort, "You guys go down first."

Back in the small courtyard, Qi Xiao and the others were finally able to take a bath after running around for more than a month. Although four of them needed to be squeezed into one room, at least they had a bed to sleep on.

"Dian... Ah Jiu," Yu Ran made a mistake the moment he opened his mouth, but luckily he corrected it quickly, "The servants in the inner courtyard of the Meng family are still busy. I heard that the second son is not well, and the doctors are helpless."

Qi Xiao is the youngest, and everyone before and after let them call him "Ajiu".

Qi Xiao nodded slightly, but said nothing.

But Chi Yue said: "When I changed his clothes, I cut his pulse. He won't survive tonight."

Qi Xiao closed his eyes, he was going to sleep.

Yu Ran didn't say any more, just lay down and went to sleep.