To The Land of Nevernight

On the night Yeluqin was assassinated, the masked assassin took the secret letter and fled westward. Everything fell into Lu Shen's eyes.

The only person in the world who remembered the general appearance of the assassin was not Yeluqin, but Lu Shen.

Lu Shen had his own way of finding someone. He walked west along the Dubufu Mansion, and first ruled out places like inns.Because the Liao army had searched all the inns in the city in the past few days, but did not find the assassin.Secondly, ordinary houses are excluded.Xijin Mansion is the territory of the Nanmian officials, and it is also the territory of Yeluqin, the assassin must not dare to meet with anyone.As long as he has seen people, he will be found.

Lu Shen quickly found dozens of deserted houses that no one lived in, and needed to investigate them one by one.

On the other hand, Qiao Jiu personally visited Xiao Lu with a gift, and apologized at the door, saying that her son's previous cold was still not healed, and suddenly fell ill again, so he really couldn't see the second prince.

Xiao Lu became angry immediately, he suppressed his temper and said: "Qiao Jiu, but you said that you were in a hurry to get your son to leave Xijin Mansion, so I went so hard to ask the Second Prince to get this opportunity. I have already agreed with His Highness Well, if you do this, what do you want me to do!"

Qiao Jiu is such a fine person, he sensed something wrong from Xiao Lu's words.Why does Xiao Lu seem to want Tang Shen to meet the second prince, could it be that he has already discovered Tang Shen's identity?

Should not be.If he really knew Tang Shen's identity, he would not wait for Tang Shen to meet Brother Yelushe, but would catch Tang Shen and claim credit from Brother Yelushe.

Qiao Jiu cried and cried: "Mr. Xiao, I am suffering too! I, Qiao Jiu, are old and young, and all of them are sick. What can I do! The dog really can't get out of bed, unfortunately you go and see , he is very sick, and if he really wants to see the Second Highness, he is afraid that he will infect His Highness with his sickness. If not, I will go with Mr. Xiao and explain to the Second Highness?"

Xiao Lu did the same thing, so he could only take Qiao Jiu to meet Brother Yelushe.

Brother Yelushe heard that Qiao Jiu's son was ill, he was slightly surprised, and then smiled coldly: "It's a coincidence that he was ill, and this illness saved his life. Since he was so ill that he couldn't get out of bed, naturally he couldn't go out of the city. Xiao Lu doesn't have to come to see His Highness either."

Xiao Lu ate the door shut, got angry, flung his sleeves and left without looking at Qiao Jiu again.

Qiao Jiu chased him and apologized repeatedly, but Xiao Lu ignored him.When Xiao Lu got in the carriage and left, the obsequious look on Qiao Jiu's face gradually disappeared.He thought to himself: "Now I can't do without killing this Xiao Lv. This time, if I keep this person here, I will definitely not be able to accomplish anything in Xijin Mansion."

Tang Shen pretended to be sick in bed, and wanted to wait for Lu Shen to find the assassin before leaving Xijin Mansion.

Unexpectedly, within a few days, Su Wenyun's secret letter was sent into the city.

Xijin Mansion can enter but cannot exit, Su Wenyun's letter can enter, but Tang Shen cannot exit.Su Wenyun wrote a poem in secret language on the letter. After Tang Shen interpreted it, his heart trembled. The letter said: Shengjing is here!

Someone from Shengjing actually came?

Tang Shen couldn't figure out how serious the matter was for a while, but he didn't dare to be careless.The conspiracy of Liao State intelligence this time is a major event that is not known to outsiders. Even Wang Qin, Tang Shen never said it to his face. Everything was guessed by Wang Qin.No one knows whether the officials from Shengjing will miss a big deal.

Tang Shen squeezed the secret letter tightly, and he pondered in the room for a whole afternoon.At nightfall, the sky was getting dark, Tang Shen stood up and lit a candle.He burned the secret letter, looking at the curled black rice paper, Tang Shen let out a long sigh.He approached Qiao Jiu and said, "Tomorrow at the latest, I will be leaving the city. Do you have a solution?"

Qiao Jiu: "Your Excellency must leave the city?"

"Yes, I must go out of town."

Qiao Jiu racked her brains: "Yes! Please don't worry, my lord, I will leave this matter to my little one."

In the early morning of the next day, on the bumpy and uneven gravel road, a thin man with the appearance of a servant pushed a swill cart and wobbled towards the west city gate.As soon as he reached the gate of the city, he was stopped by the city guards.The young man said with a bitter face, "Gentlemen, please do me a favor. Our restaurant has not sent slop out of the city for several days. If we keep it in the store again, it will kill people."

The two city guards hadn't heard the boy's words clearly, and as soon as they approached, they were retched by a stench.

A guard said: "What is this? It smells very bad. Don't you know that Xijin Mansion is closed, no one can go out!"

The boy said: "The young one is the waiter from Yaque Tavern in Chengxi, send some swill out."

Just as the guard was about to speak, he could smell an overwhelming stench as soon as he opened his mouth.He quickly shut his mouth, only to feel that every time he opened his mouth, it was like eating a mouthful of shit.

The so-called closure of the city by Xijin Mansion is naturally impossible to completely close the city.If it is true that people are not allowed to come in and out at all, in the next few days, the dung trucks and swill trucks in the city will smoke the Xijin Mansion into a smelly city.

The guard held back the stench and stepped forward to check the swill truck.

A total of four large buckets were placed on the swill truck, and the guard lifted two lids, and the leftovers that had been hoarded for a few days made him vomit sour water.He asked his companion to check the other two large buckets, and the boy pushing the cart cooperated very well, and took the initiative to lift the lid of a swill bucket.Unexpectedly, another guard held his nose and muttered, "Okay, okay, let's go."

The little servant was overjoyed, and hurriedly knelt down to kowtow to the two guards, picked up the car and planned to leave.

At this time, a guard said: "I haven't seen those two barrels yet."

"What's the matter, it stinks like this, and you can hide people?"

Just as the guard was about to say something more, his companion pulled out his sword in displeasure, and stabbed it into the remaining two large barrels. "Is this good? Hey, it's even more stinky. The slop is flowing out, and my sword is stinky! This damn thing, you can go quickly, don't delay."

In the past, when the city guards inspected the incoming and outgoing goods, they often stabbed them twice with their swords.This time the guard was so confused that he subconsciously drew his sword and stabbed, completely forgetting that this was a swill truck.After the stabbing, he regretted it.

The boy's eyes widened in shock, the guard drew his knife and stabbed it into the barrel so fast that he didn't have time to react.However, this time, he couldn't leave if he wanted to, and the two guards drove him out of the city gate directly, lest a bucket of swill flow on the ground.

After leaving the city, the servant pushed the cart and left quickly.

When he came to a deserted place, he hurriedly opened the lid of the swill bucket.After opening the lids of the four swill buckets, the boy even forgot which bucket Tang Shen was hiding in.He looked for the mechanism in the bucket, and finally found the swill bucket with a partition.He opened the partition and said anxiously, "Are you alright, my lord?"

After holding back for an hour, Tang Shen just got up and climbed out of the bucket as soon as he took a breath of fresh air, retching on the side of the road.

The mechanism of the swill bucket was built overnight by Qiao Jiu, and it was so rough that it couldn't stop the swill from seeping down from the top of the partition.Tang Shen's body and hair were covered with sour and smelly dirty water, and he had used his superhuman will to endure it until now.

The servant who escorted Tang Shen out of the city was Lu Shen's confidant, he handed Tang Shen a water bag, Tang Shen couldn't drink it, and vomited for a long time until he emptied his stomach.

The boy said: "My lord, just now the guard stabbed twice, are you injured?"

Tang Shen wiped the acid water from his mouth, and raised his arm: "I have scratched a little bit, but the wound is not deep, so it's nothing serious. My bucket was already half soaked with swill. After he stabbed in, he should find out Nothing abnormal. Don't waste time, go back to Youzhou City quickly."

The servant inspected it carefully, and found that the wound on Tang Shen's arm was indeed very shallow, and the bleeding had dried up during the time he was out of the city.

They were in a hurry to hurry, and they didn't care too much about the wilderness. They quickly found a town, changed their clothes, bought a horse, and rushed to Youzhou City.

It took Tang Shen six days to travel from Youzhou to Xijin Mansion.But when they went back, they worked fast, and it only took two days.

Along the way, eating and sleeping in the open, Tang Shen gritted his teeth and rode southward.

When approaching Youzhou City, in the middle of the night, Tang Shen tightened the reins.The soldier guarding him looked back suspiciously, and saw Tang Shen's face was as pale as paper under the moonlight. He clenched his fist with his right hand, covered his lips and coughed. When he spoke, his voice was hoarse and weak. Touched a wound, got an ulcer."

Terrified, the soldiers hurriedly dismounted to check Tang Shen's wound, only to see that the wound was obviously not deep, but it was white and pus.Touching Tang Shen's skin again, it was scorching hot.The soldier said in surprise: "No, this injury needs to be dealt with quickly. My lord, please endure the pain." Then, the soldier pulled out a dagger, lit a fire with a fire pocket, and put the dagger on the fire to roast .

After the dagger was burning red, he said to Tang Shen, "My lord, bear with it."

Tang Shen panted, and nodded slightly.The next moment, the scarlet dagger was branded on his arm, Tang Shen was so painful that his eyes were about to burst, the piercing pain spread from the injured part of his arm to his whole body, centering on the wound, his muscles twitched unconsciously.

Tang Shen fainted directly.

When he woke up again, the two of them had already reached the city of Youzhou.The soldier didn't think too much about it, and was about to go to the city: "You have to go to the city to find a doctor for your wound. The small one was treated simply, and it didn't work."

Tang Shen was already burning hot all over. He grabbed the soldier and took out a token from his sleeve tremblingly: "Don't enter the city like this. You go to the Youzhou camp to find General Li and tell him the matter. And bring me a word... Sheng Jing's favor, the general can return it."

On the vast grassland, I can only see the bright moon hanging low, and the stars are like stars.

A thin soldier with Li Jingde's Marshal Order to Conquer the West galloped his horse and entered the Youzhou camp in the dark.The sky will be bright, but the soldier has not come out yet.But to the east of Youzhou City, after dawn, two carriages drove slowly and steadily towards Youzhou.

After the two carriages entered the city, one went to the government office of Youzhou, and the other to Yinyinsi.

The carriage to Fuya only stayed for half an hour, and then went to Yinyinsi.

At dawn, Yu Chao, the right servant of the Ministry of Officials, gave birth to the carriage.He looked up and saw that the three-character plaque of "Yinyinsi" was hung high on the gate, and there was a crowd of people in Yinyinsi's government office. The officials arrived at the Yamen early and started to do business.

An official sent out to receive Yu Chaosheng, and led him around two courtyards to Yinyinsi's backyard.

Yu Chaosheng said outside the door: "Your official, Yu Chaosheng, come to pay your respects to Mr. Minister of the Household Department."

The door opened with a creak, and Wang Qin was wearing a brand-new crimson official robe, and said with a smile: "Master Yu just went to the Youzhou government office, so you're here for Yin Yinsi?"

Yu Chaosheng said: "The lower officials are ordered to supervise the affairs of Yinyin Division, so I dare not neglect."

Wang Qin smiled leisurely and said, "Then let's go into the house."

After Yu Chaosheng came in, the two exchanged pleasantries for a while.Then, he asked: "The officials of the Yin Yin Division are all dedicated to their duties. Before the official entered the door, they had already started to run errands. It's just that the official did not see Mr. Tang during this journey. Mr. Tang came to Youyu a month ago. The state inspector is responsible for the work of Yin Yinsi, and the next official needs to hand over to him. Why don’t you see others, can your lord know?”

Wang Qin didn't answer either. He smiled lightly, bowed his head and started making tea.

Although Yu Chaosheng couldn't tell of his family background, the Yu family is also a big family in the local area.Wang Qin suddenly started to make tea, Yu Chaosheng could only stop talking, and watched Wang Qin's tea making method with etiquette.He wondered in his heart, thinking that he couldn't fathom Wang Zifeng's mind, could it be that Wang Zifeng wanted Tang Shen to do something, so he didn't want to tell him Tang Shen's whereabouts now?

However, Wang Qin is a man who is dignified and elegant, like the setting moon shining brightly.

Even if Yu Chaosheng felt strange, he had to admit that watching Wang Zifeng's tea ceremony was really pleasing to the eye.

At this time, the two of them had already wasted half an hour in the house.

Yu Chaosheng tasted the tea, and was about to ask again, when he saw an officer enter the house, saluting, "General Li went hunting outside the city with Mr. Tang this morning, and he hasn't come back yet. The younger one has already gone outside the city to invite him."

Wang Qin's eyes moved, he thought that the younger brother is smart, came back at the last moment, and knew to find Li Jingde to make a fuss about.

Wang Qin gave a "hmm" and said, "No hurry. Master Yu, would you like another cup of tea?"

Yu Chaosheng drank a lot of tea, he actually wanted to leave a long time ago, but Wang Qin didn't say anything, so naturally he didn't dare to move.On the surface, he was sent by the emperor to supervise Yin Yinsi's errands, but no one knows that Yin Yinsi is Wang Zifeng's territory, and in Youzhou City, he should bow his head a little and not offend Wang Zifeng.

After another half an hour, the soldiers sent by Li Jingde to report came on time as if they were pinching a point.

Yu Chaosheng said: "But Master Tang and General Li are back?"

The soldier said: "During the hunting, Mr. Tang accidentally got hit by a stray arrow, and he is currently undergoing diagnosis and treatment at the camp in Youzhou."

Wang Qin frowned, and thought it was Tang Shen's trick to delay.He pretended to be surprised and said, "Are you hit by the arrow? How is the injury? Is there a serious problem?"

Hearing this, Yu Chaosheng glanced at Wang Qin quietly, thinking that Wang Zifeng didn't seem to be too anxious, could it be that the two brothers and sisters were at odds with each other, and their relationship was not good?

The soldier followed Li Jingde's instructions and said honestly, "Master Tang is unconscious. General Li has invited two military doctors to look at him. When the little one came, the military doctor had already used the best golden sore medicine."

A gleam of light flashed in Wang Qin's clear eyes, as if he had sensed something, he held his cup tightly and asked suddenly, "Is he in Youzhou camp?"

The soldier and Yu Chaosheng were all taken aback, and looked at Wang Qin strangely.

The soldier said just now that Tang Shen was injured, and now he is being treated in the barracks, didn't Wang Zifeng hear it?

The soldier said honestly, "Yes, Mr. Tang is in the barracks."

Wang Qin's hand trembled slightly, the teacup in his hand was not held firmly, and fell on the table, the tea was suddenly wet.There was a long silence in the room, Yu Chaosheng quietly looked at Wang Qin, only to see that Wang Zifeng's elegant and absolutely expressionless face, but he was silent all the time, without saying a word, as if he had forgotten how to speak .

After a long time, Wang Qin breathed a sigh of relief, and he said calmly: "Master Yu, can you go to the barracks to see how Master Tang is injured?"

Wang Zifeng is going to visit his younger brother, so Yu Chaosheng is of course doing the favor: "Okay."

The next moment, Wang Qin stood up abruptly, but then he stopped.As if feeling that his actions seemed too urgent, he nodded to Yu Chaosheng, and then told the soldier: "You go back first, tell General Li, we will come later."

Soon, Wang Qin and Yu Chaosheng got into a carriage and headed for Youzhou camp together.

Yu Chaosheng quietly looked at Wang Qin, only to see that Wang Zifeng closed his eyes and rested his mind indifferently, without saying a word.After watching for a while, Yu Chaosheng withdrew his gaze. He was a little confused whether Wang Qin was worried about Tang Jingze or not.If he was worried, why didn't he seem to be too relieved when he first learned about Tang Jingze's injury.But if you don't worry, it doesn't seem like it.

"Master Wang?"

Wang Qin opened his eyes and looked at Yu Chaosheng.

Yu Chaosheng glanced at him and was suddenly shocked.Then he quickly retracted his gaze and whispered: "It's nothing, it just seems to be coming soon."

The carriage stopped outside Youzhou camp, and the two got off and walked.After entering the barracks, Li Jingde quickly opened the tent and walked out.

Yu Chaosheng made a bow and said, "Your Majesty has seen General Li."

Li Jingde saw Wang Qin's calm and calm look, and asked suspiciously: "It's strange, your junior brother, Wang Zifeng, why don't you seem to be worried at all?"

Wang Qin asked, "How is his injury?"

Li Jingde originally wanted to say "the injury is so serious that he is about to die", but in fact he said it too, but he stopped after he only said the first three words.Wang Zifeng's eyes were scary, Li Jingde changed his words: "It's not very good, but it's not that bad either."

Wang Qin closed his eyes and remained silent for a long time.When he opened his eyes again, he said, "Go in."