The cool breeze is gentle and the lush forest path is lush.
A stream passes through the forest like a lively white snake.
A team of people were stopping by the stream, resting temporarily, taking water from the bowl, and resting on their own.
"What are Dalang looking at?"
Wei Mei asked suddenly.
Li Guer and Li Xian turned their heads and found that Li Dalang was fetching water while turning back his face and staring at the forest road when they came.
"It's okay, I'm just thinking, if Li Congshan and the others are not trapped, what should we do if they chase after him? We really can't escape."
Lu Ya, who had been staring at the compass, shook his head:
"Senior Brother Zhang just used a compass to hear the movement... According to the agreement, this movement means that Li Congshan and others continued to go south as the little princess expected and chased Hanyang County. Sure enough, they did not find another way to take."
Wei Mei and Li Xian breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this.
They, Li Dalang and Lu Ya, couldn't help but look at the plum blossom-making girl who was holding her skirt and making water not far away.
Li Guer turned a deaf ear to him, and his attention seemed to be attracted by the fish swimming in the stream, watching with interest.
The pink lady's skirt she often wore was gone, and replaced by a blue double-breasted short skirt that the young lady often wore.
Not only Li Guer, Li Xian, Wei Mei, Li Dalang, and Lu Ya, they all changed their outfits.
It's like a wealthy man who is rushing on the road.
The luggage I carried with me was reduced by half, and the carriage I had brought out from the Xunyang Palace disappeared.
There was a mellow and spicy smell in the air between the crowd.
It is faintly like a spice odor mixed with ambergris and realgar.
Li Xian's family's clothes, Lu Ya's Taoist robe, compass, and peach wood sword were all covered with these spices.
Covering their breath.
Lu Ya looked at Li Guer with admiration, and he could not help but talk more:
"It's still the little princess who is smart and think of such a clever plan, abandoning the miscellaneous items all the way and setting up many tricks to let Senior Brother Zhang follow the compass and report the news. Li Congshan and the others are attracted by it, so they can also save us from suspicion, or even doubting ourselves..."
Speaking of this, his eyes sighed:
"In this way, we have also understood which luggage objects are here to attract Li Congshan and the others to chase after him. We will arrange a fire to burn all these suspicious luggage completely, leaving behind some of the most certainty, such as the accompanying carriage transporting ice, carried by fellow Daoist Xie, pretending to us and going south to mislead the enemy."
Wei Mei turned around and looked towards Qingyayi, looking lingering in fear:
"It's really dangerous. I didn't expect that not only the two carriages we often use in the royal palace were marked, but also the carriages that transport ice... were marked by Li Congshan and the others. Although I don't know how he did it and what kind of Qi refining technique it was, if it weren't for Gu'er to try it out, something really would have happened."
Li Dalang asked curiously:
"A sister, what is the meaning of the poem you left at Qingya Posthouse yesterday? Why did you suddenly leave ink traces?"
Li Guer didn't raise his eyes, but still scooped out the stream water and shook his head gently:
"Sister Xie's instructions are to deceive Li Congshan and leave traces. This is the only way to do it."
Li Dalang's concern and question:
"What does it mean? Could it be that there is a hint? Is Mrs. Xie leaving it for Tan Lang?"
Li Guer lowered his eyes and said:
"I think Xuan, but Sister Xie is very confident that he can find him."
As if she remembered something, she curled her lips:
"Since the time when the skirt knife was heard, Sister Xie has been distracted every day, and can only rely on her once to make her feel at ease."
Li Xian sighed a little:
"I have to obey Ling Jiang. This time she made great efforts and continued to drive south to help us lead the pursuers... The more I think about it, the more I feel ashamed. Tan Lang and Ling Jiang have helped us too many times, but we have been implicating them. They have been running away all the way. We can't help much about Tan Lang in Xunyang City, and it also affects him to find the child bride. He was also in Longcheng..."
The rich and nobleman dressed in the outside world was halfway through Li Xian's words, feeling the warmth of the back of his palm. When he turned around, he saw that his first wife Wei Mei was gently stroking the back of his hand.
Wei Mei comforted her optimistically:
"Now is not a time to complain about oneself. We must return to Luoyang. This is the greatest reward for Tan Lang and Jiang. After walking all the way from the Su Mansion in Longcheng, we can no longer look back. Looking back is a deep abyss, and no one can stop us from returning to Beijing!"
Li Xian looked north silently, his eyes a little confused.
Li Dalang turned around and asked Lu Ya:
"Master Lu, when will Master Zhang return? Is he going to wait for Miss Xie to come back together?"
Lu Ya shook his head slowly and glanced at the compass:
"I don't know. After Brother Zhang passed the message, he had no response, but I can ask."
After saying that, the Taoist priest with a paralyzed face lowered his head and started to fuck the compass.
Li Dalang looked closer and saw that there were symbols of the heavenly stems and earthly branches on the copper plate. He didn't understand it much, so he had to walk away.
Li Dalang looked at Li Buer who was leisurely scooping water, and asked in a low voice that his father and mother could not hear not far away:
"Ah sister, aren't you worried that our plan will fail. Li Congshan saw through it and chased him? Now that Miss Xie and Master Zhang are not around, we are actually at the weakest time now, and we are almost unable to escape death if we are caught up..."
Li Guer handed the water bag to Caishou and asked the little girl to play with the water. She took the white handkerchief and wiped her hands. Her eyes looked back, her red lips and white teeth, and she spit out a few words:
"I'm afraid, but so what?"
Li Dalang was stunned for a moment.
Li Guer sat on a bluestone and placed a slender sword in front of him.
She looked up and down at Brother's expression.
Li Dalang saw this sister's pretty face as usual, took a long sword and crossed her sword to her knees, and said indifferently:
"Our trip north is not just a stroll. From leaving the Xunyang Palace, no, from leaving the Su Mansion of Longcheng, we should be ready to die halfway.
"If you want to enjoy wealth, why don't you stay in the Su Mansion of Longcheng? If you don't want to be a bird in a cage, you have to break out of the bird cage, how can you be safe and sound?"
Li Guer's clear eyes drooped, like stars hiding behind the clouds, she pulled out half of the long sword on her knees. The sword light was like the light of a certain palace in the Nine Heavens, flowing like water on the faces of the Li brothers and sisters closest to it.
"Brother, I thought you were ready for a long time, but I didn't expect that I was still scared later. This is human nature, but this is not what a real man does, especially a man who wants to do big things."
Li Dalang scratched his head:
"It's Brother, I'm obsessed with it. A girl has a lot of courage. I often think that it would be great if A girl was a man... I thought the reason why A girl was so indifferent was because Master Yuan left something."
Li Guer said nothing.
At this time, she turned her head and the afterglow seemed to be attracted by something.
Li Guer suddenly looked downstream of the stream.
Li Xian, Wei Mei and others were also attracted by the eyes. When they turned around, their faces were stunned.
"What is this? Fish?"
Wei Mei said strangely.
I saw a white sturgeon swimming slowly from the downstream of the stream and going upstream.
If you look closely, it is floating.
When Lu Ya saw this, he suddenly stood up and his eyes were straight.
At this moment, the leaves around the forest trembled slightly, and the sound of horse hooves hitting the ground came from far to near, accompanied by the clamor of leaves being blown away by heavy objects.
A knight came to defeat Lin Chong.
Li Xian and others' faces changed drastically.
Li Guer, Li Dalang subconsciously thought of something, stood up and blocked Li Xian and his wife.
Lu Yaqing listened for a moment, but frowned: "Two people rode two, or scouts..."
"Prince, it's me!"
Ouyang Rong's clear voice came from the gaps in the forest, like the summer breeze blowing on his face.
Li Yi, Li Da Lang smiled suddenly.
Lu Ya held the hilt of the Tao Jian behind his back with his back hand and also released his palm, releasing his guard.
He continued to stare at the white sturgeon that made him terrified inexplicably. Yu Guang saw that the little princess's palm was put down on the moonlight sword, and sat down silently. She lowered her head to scoop the water of the stream and turned her back to everyone and someone who was about to come.
He didn't go to greet him specifically.
After a while, two quick riders broke out from the forest.
Carrying a man and a woman.
They are all familiar figures.
Lu Ya saw a young man in Confucian clothes and a girl in a palace skirt looking around, then turned over and dismounted.
The inexplicably terrifying white sturgeon was like a greasy swallow entering the forest, spinning around this Ouyang Young Master.
"Tanlang!"
Li Xian, Wei Mei, and Li Dalang all smiled and went up to meet him.
Halfway through, they saw clearly the cold little face of the girl in the palace skirt.
"Rong...Rong Zhen Girl History?"
Everyone was discouraged and their faces were novel.
Rong Zhen didn't look at everyone, staring at the floating white sturgeon in front of him, without looking sideways.
She seemed to nod her head slightly at the shouting of everyone, but the amplitude was very small... and seemed very cold.
Ouyang Rong inspected everyone and found that they were all safe and sound. Apart from changing into simple clothes, there was no injury from fighting.
He let out a long breath, pushed away the stupid fish in front of him that was sticking to him regardless of the occasion, and said:
"I will explain the matter about Master Shi later. I will finally catch up with you. By the way, where is the younger sister?"
Ouyang Rong looked around and the atmosphere became quieter.
Li Xian said guiltily:
"We are not here, so we are helping us lead the pursuers. We are chased by Li Congshan. Fortunately, this time, Guer has a wonderful plan."
Li Guer glanced at Rong Zhen behind Ouyang Lianghan, silently looking at the female Lord Shi, and his eyes fell faintly on the tiny gap between the latter's arm and Ouyang Lianghan's arm.
There is a subtle boundary between the physical distance between the opposite sex.
Rong Zhen didn't seem to see this little princess who looked like a saint. She raised her hand and held the mandarin duck jade hairpin on the raised bun.
Li Guer's eyes slowly moved upwards and landed on the hairpin.
Ouyang Rong suddenly walked to Li Guer and pointed at the sword on her knee:
"Little Junior Sister's Sword?"
Without waiting for him to say, Li Guer directly took the sword and threw it away.
"Well, Sister Xie keeps me on guard."
Then Rong Zhen looked at the little princess with the plum blossom makeup with everyone.
Ouyang Rong took the moonlight sword, weighed it, looked down, and for a while, he took out a small seal from his arms.
He was close to Guer and faced each other again. He saw the words "Red Lotus" and other words engraved on this small seal with vaguely engraved.
Everyone didn't know what the young man in Confucian clothes made this move.
Rong Zhen's face was as usual, and she turned her head to look at the moonlight sword and seal, as if she was interested, so she was petite and unconsciously approached Ouyang Rong.
The little girl's elegant vertebrae touched Lang Jun's wide and thick shoulders.
Except for the straight steel man Lu Ya who only likes to stare at fish.
Li Guer, Li Xian, Li Dalang, and Wei Mei's eyes instantly fell on Rong Zhen's still cold face.
...
Zhang Shixiu didn't expect to encounter a reinforcement.
On the official road near Hanyang County, the moment he was rescued by the iron-armored cavalry who were also black-robed and black-armored, he was a little confused.
But when he saw clearly the red clothes among the leading men, he immediately woke up:
"You... thank you fellow Taoist, who are these people?"
Xie Lingjiang was relieved when he saw that he was alive:
"This is a reinforcement brought by the senior brother. Her name is Qin Ying, the granddaughter of the old general Qin. The old general transferred a Xuanwu camp from the front line. I made a trick in Hanyang County and was about to come back. I met Qin Yanqing by the city gate. My family had some friendship with the Qin family and were both old acquaintances with them.
"I was going back, but since I met them, I just took them out. I was going to stop Li Congshan. But when I met Qin Ying halfway, she came back from Qin Yayi and said that there was a Taoist priest named Lu Ya who might have been chased by Li Congshan's White Tiger Guard and asked us to go over and help, so I came. But I didn't expect that it was not Lu Ya who was chased, but you."
Qin Ying next to her nodded slightly, as if he had said hello, and then stepped forward immediately.
Go and help Qin Yanqing command the Xuanwu Camp and repel the pursuers.
Xie Lingjiang set his sword and was about to go to help. Before leaving, he looked at Zhang Shixiu:
"Are you exposed at Qingyayi?"
Zhang Shixiu covered his chest injury and lowered his head a little ashamed:
"Yes, I was discovered by Li Congshan and Miaozhen. I was chased and killed all the way. I didn't dare to lead them back to the east road, so I could only run to the south official road."
Xie Lingjiang frowned: "How did they discover you?"
Zhang Shixiu sighed: "It's a compass, with the breath of Junior Brother Lu on it. This thing is also the locked object of Li Congshan and the others."
As he said that, he reached into his arms and was about to take something, but suddenly his face was stunned.
"What’s wrong with you?"
Zhang Shixiu said nothing, lowered his head and quickly searched his body.
At this time, Qin Ying and Qin Yanqing returned with the Xuanwu Camp soldiers, carrying 30 and 40 heads in their hands.
Qin Yanqing clasped his fists and reported, but his eyebrows were puzzled:
"It's solved, there are not many rebels in this group, only about forty cavalry."
Xie Lingjiang frowned immediately: "Li Congshan, where is Miaozhen?"
"I didn't see it."
"Oops!"
Zhang Shixiu suddenly spoke:
"The compass is gone, it seems that it was falling in the forest during a fight..."
Xie Lingjiang asked seriously: "Fellow Daoist Zhang, where are Li Congshan and Miaozhen?"
Zhang Shixiu looked around in a daze and frowned:
"I don't know, I am defeated them, and I am seriously injured and escaped from the woods. I fled south all the way. I only felt that there were pursuers following me along the way. I didn't pay attention to Li Congshan, whether Miaozhen and the others were behind."
Everyone looked at each other in an instant.
Zhang Shixiu's face changed.
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(PS: The title of "Guoer's Proposal" in the previous chapter is considered "Guoer's Proposal". Brothers, where did you do me? This is not a car to go to kindergarten, put me down!)
Chapter completed!