Prison Dragon

At night, the wind stopped and the rain stopped, and the surroundings were pitch black, except for the swaying fishing lights on the river bank.The ruined temple is on the mountain, and Yang You went out to look. The hill peacefully casts a black shadow in the dark, and the plain below the mountain stands with neatly arranged houses. The lit lanterns illuminate the dark blue night sky, dyeing the sky into a blue sky. Hazy orange.

Yang Yuchun put on his clothes and came out, stood beside Yang You, and asked, "My lord, what are you looking at?"

Zhuo Xinhong fixed his eyes on the road down the mountain, trying to distinguish something from the darkness.

Yang You pointed to the brightly lit city and explained to Yang Yuchun: "Look at Xiuyang City."

Yang Yuchun raised his hand between his eyebrows and sighed, "It's quite bright."

Yang You smiled and shook his head, "The coast of Luoshui is famous for its commerce and trade. You can see that the city is full of lights, but there is no one along the river."

Yang Yuchun clapped his hands together, "Exactly. Could it be that those who chased us are sealing the river?"

"It doesn't have to be Feng Jiang," Yang You said, "It just needs to be checked carefully, and if time is wasted, the merchant travelers will naturally not take the risk of sailing."

He clasped his hands and said, "It seems that my trip to the southwest has hit someone's sore spot."

The Wu family has been operating in Shu County for many years, and it checks and balances with Liu Wu, the Jiannan Jiedu envoy. The bandits in the southwest are rampant. Some people have long wanted to intervene in political affairs in the name of calming the chaos. The emperor hesitated to deal with the situation.

It may also be that he doesn't care about a barren place like Nanman at all.

Perhaps only Shangluo can make a good guess.

At first, Yang You thought that the Southwest was an outcast in the situation of Qi. Shang Luo asked him to volunteer to go to the Southwest, but he didn't want to. Now it seems that even in the Southwest, the water is very deep.

If Yang You can completely control the Southwest and eradicate the foundation of the Wu Family, the Seventh Prince will have nothing to fear.

That old man Shangluo, how many twists and turns does he have in his heart?

Yang Yuchun cut two bamboo trees on the mountain and found a spring on the mountain to hold water. Yang You saw nothing important, so he ran around with Yang Yuchun and squatted aside to watch him.

"Is your injury really okay?" Yang You asked, poking Yang Yuchun's arm.

"It's okay." Yang Yuchun slammed the water and tied it with cloth strips and hung it around his waist. "Let's go."

Zhuo Xinhong surveyed all around the ruined temple, and harmed many flowers and plants, and finally waited until Chu Ge came back.

Chu Ge was wearing a plain farm uniform, carrying a big bag, and sat on the ground panting.

Yang You handed her a bamboo tube, "Drink some water."

After drinking the water, Chu Ge wiped the corners of his mouth vigorously, "The Luoshui line is carefully checking, and it is said that the fleet escorting the prince to the south was robbed by water bandits, and the water bandits escaped. In a few days, strict investigations will be carried out to prevent water bandits from entering the city, and after a while, the army will be mobilized to suppress the bandits."

A mocking sneer emerged from the corner of Chu Ge's mouth, "Now anyone who comes in and out has to look at their names. I looked carefully, and the soldiers focused on those who came from the capital. I asked the old people in the city again and said that they were escorting the prince. In the fleet, only the ship where the prince was on was attacked, and the supplies and the beds of the servants are all safe and sound, and we have already begun to send the people from Taichang Temple back to the capital."

Yang You also found it funny when he heard it, he really came prepared, but the two generals were injured, and they were wronged too much.

Chu Ge took out a stack of documents from the package and handed them to Yang You: "I met someone sent by Mr. Xu, and he asked me to hand over these things to the prince."

The documents of the group were all placed in their luggage, and they were all washed away by the river. Except for the throne and the seal of the chief envoy that Yang You carried with him, there was nothing to prove their identity. Xu Kaiji's documents could be said to have been sent to the point .

Yang You opened it and saw that Xu Kaiji carefully made two documents for them. One was their original identities, who they should be, and the other was forged, saying that Yang You and his party were going to the capital from Sichuan to do business. The peddler, whose goods are now sold out, is about to go home.

Zhuo Xinhong came over to take a look, and praised: "Brother Xu is really careful, we have these documents, we can go on the road with peace of mind."

Yang You looked at the document and shook his head, "I'm afraid it's not enough. The Wu family may not be the only ones who want my life. The Wu family is afraid of me seizing power, so isn't the Jiannan Jiedu envoy not afraid? Southwest chief envoy and Jiannan Jie Dushi envoys are originally at the same level, the chief envoy is in charge of political affairs, and the Jiedu envoy is in charge of the military. For many years in our dynasty, it has long been a practice to emphasize military forces and not to emphasize literature. But I am the prince, and I have received orders from my father to mobilize the army. As long as I am appointed as the political envoy, I can overwhelm him. Liu Wu will not sit back and watch me share power with him."

Xiao Ning said: "According to what the prince said, we still have to disguise ourselves and go out in secret?"

Jiang Ling held the document in his hand and pondered it carefully, before saying for a while, "I'm afraid this document won't work either. We're not like businessmen either. If we really pretend to be, we'll be spotted soon."

"Or do we say that we were robbed by water bandits, and we lost everything, so we had to do business all the way back to our hometown?" Chu Ge said.

Jiang Ling shook his head, "I am used to the business documents, how could it be like this..."

He shook the new document, the paper was clean and bright in the firelight, and he made a loud voice, "New."

Yang Yuchun threw a piece of firewood into the fire violently, shattering the sparks, "This doesn't work and that doesn't work, so what should I do?"

Holding a firewood in his hand, Yang You drew a map of Luoshui on the ground according to what he remembered.

"We might as well assume that if the facts are as we guessed, Qin Nao didn't catch us, so he had to make up an excuse for the water bandits to rob, and draw his attention to the bandits. Maybe someone in the court will write a letter, guessing The other princes secretly acted to trigger a new round of attacks. Let’s not list these for the time being. Miss Chu Ge said that there might be an army to suppress the bandits in a few days. not go down."

"You can't go in the city, and you can't hide in the mountains." Zhuo Xinhong sighed, "It's a dead end."

Yang You said coldly, "It's not that there is no way to break the situation. We must leave before they dispatch troops. Since they want me to die, I will also cooperate."

He looked at Chu Ge's package and smiled, "Isn't the girl the same as I thought?"

"Exactly." Chu Ge smiled and clapped his hands. A man who was about the same size as Yang You jumped in from the door, knelt down on one knee in front of Yang You playfully, and made an inconspicuous salute. .”

Xiao Ning looked at him in surprise and said, "Dai Zong! Why are you here?"

The man named Dai Zong raised his head. He was dressed in tattered clothes and his hair was tied casually on the top of his head. Ah, Daoist."

Yang You turned his doubtful eyes to Xiao Ning, Xiao Ning said: "My lord, this is Dai Zong, the chief bandit in Jiangxi, who has practiced kung fu very well, and flying over eaves and walls is as easy as eating and drinking. He specializes in robbing the rich and helping the poor. He is a hero of loyalty .”

It means that it can be trusted and used.

Yang You automatically simplified Xiao Ning's words.

Dai Zong scratched his hair, "When I was young, I was wandering in the rivers and lakes. I received a little favor from Miss Chu Ge, and I must repay the favor. Now I am here to repay the favor."

The next morning.

Qin Nao and Ji Chen led troops into Xiuyang and were checking the checkpoints in person. Not long after, someone came to report that fishermen by the river had found someone ashore in the middle of the night and fled to the mountains.

The fisherman was about to ask who the man was, but he didn't answer, and he didn't go to crowded places, he just went to the mountains and forests.

Qin Nao asked, "Can you see what that man is wearing?"

The fisherman replied tremblingly: "No... I didn't see it clearly. It's white clothes, and the material should be pretty good."

Qin Nao couldn't find anything after asking a few more questions, so he beckoned someone to take the fisherman down.

Ji Chen whispered in his ear: "Could it be him?"

"White clothes, the material is very good." Qin Nao murmured, "It's possible."

"But where are his accomplices?"

Qin Nao rubbed his chin, "The river is so fast, I'm afraid it was washed away. The higher-ups specifically told me that the man grew up by the water, and he is good at water, so he can't be neglected easily. You stay here and I will go personally." have a look."

Qin Nao mobilized a hundred soldiers and led the fisherman to chase up the mountain. They first arrived at a ruined temple with traces of a fire in the temple.Qin Nao was a scout and was very sensitive to traces. With dust on his fingers, he sniffed it against his nose, "Yesterday's fire, chase after it!"

The winding mountain road is full of greenery.In summer, when the vegetation was growing wildly, Qin Nao stumbled among the grass and vines. After chasing it for about half a day, he could only see some traces of walking, but he still couldn't touch anyone.

At this time, he became more and more sure that the person who kept running away was the one they had been tracking down.

He also had to admire that person's patience and physical strength, but no matter how cunning the rabbit was, it still had to be caught by the hounds.

A hundred pawns spread out into a fan shape, searching the forest without landing an inch.

"There!" Qin Nao turned his head when he heard the sound, and a white shadow slipped across the brown tree trunk.

He couldn't help but strode forward to chase after him.

The encirclement gradually narrowed, and the white figure was getting closer and closer. He seemed to find himself trapped in the siege at last. If he went further, he would be surrounded by a cliff, hundreds of feet deep, and below him was the roaring river. , there is no escape.

Qin Nao could see his complete figure. Although his description was sloppy, the Shu brocade costume and the gilt hairpin on his head all showed his identity.

There must be no future troubles.

He raised his hand and signaled the pawns to raise their arrows, and he wanted to kill him on the spot!

The man in white finally understood his situation, couldn't help feeling sad, and roared up to the sky. His thin and straight back was overwhelmed, and he humiliated his pride under the blue sky.

Qin Nao began to feel a little regretful, what a peerless man this man was, to die quietly in the wilderness.

Thinking this way, he raised the crossbow in his hand.

"God will kill me! God will kill me!" The man in white said, jumping off the cliff.

Qin Nao ordered: "Go down and have a look."

The pawns shied away, and the centurion stepped forward and said: "General, there is no way to go down that cliff. You can only climb from the cliff. If you are not careful, you will die. Brothers are all family members..."

Qin Nao pinned the bow and crossbow back to his arm, and stared at the centurion, "Only you in Xiuyang have a lot of military affairs."

"Let's go, go back."

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