Xishu Road.

It's been three days and nothing.

Nie Ye looked at Han Zhaozhi with a ashamed expression: "My lord, my subordinates are incompetent. ”

Han Zhaozhi glanced at him, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, and he smiled and said: "It's not your business, Mu Zhaotong has planned it a long time ago, and we don't know anything, if this is the case, it can't be found out that you are incompetent, then it also proves that I am incompetent, I never believe that I am incompetent, and I never believe that you are incompetent." ”

He walked to the window and looked out, his eyes were a little wandering: "You have never suffered a loss before, and neither have I, the Tingwei Mansion has rarely suffered a loss, and now it is a loss, but it can show that we are not as strong as we think, the opponent is serious, we become passive, but active and passive are mutual, he calculates so clearly, but there are still some things that cannot be avoided." ”

Nie Ye asked, "What did the adults think of?" ”

"Yunxiao City is a big city in Xishu Road, extending in all directions, this is Mu Zhaotong's advantage, he knows that we don't have enough manpower, in order to chase him, we will divide everyone out, and chase every road, so there is nothing to find, he should be complacent, but can he really fight against the whole country? He can't, he can't even fight against the Tingwei Mansion, and power has given me a lot of convenience. ”

"Although I didn't find anything along the way, if he had caught up on every road we had chased, he must have caught up, and if he didn't catch up, it meant that he didn't choose those roads, but I could send someone to inform the cities and counties at all the passes and intersections as soon as possible, as long as he was on the road, no matter which road, it was impossible for him to hide."

Nie Ye said: "But my lord's arrangement, Mu Zhaotong must have thought of it." ”

"So he really only has one choice."

Han Zhaozhi said: "Of course he knows that I will send someone to inform all the cities and counties as quickly as possible, no matter how confident he is, he will not dare to take the land route, the only thing he can go is the water route." ”

Nie Ye said: "Since the adults have already thought of it, why don't we chase it?" ”

"Because he probably hasn't gone yet."

Han Zhaozhi said: "He was led by the nose because our emotions were guessed by him, all people's decisions must be different under different emotions, and the decisions made when they are in a good mood will not be the same as the decisions made in an angry state, Mu Zhaotong naturally knows that we belong to the latter, according to this speculation, he can be counted in front of us everywhere, it is because he knows too much about human nature and emotions, more than most people, because that is his specialty, he has been in officialdom for more than 40 years, From looking at the big people with the mentality of the little people to looking at the little people with the mentality of the big people, what kind of emotions has he not had? ”

Han Zhaozhi continued: "He understands human nature too well, since I have thought of this, I will inevitably make a judgment, I can't make my hatred and anger disappear, I can't control it, but I control how to make choices, if he wants us to do what we don't do, it will make all his subsequent actions less reasonable, or, according to what he set, but not so anxious in time." ”

Han Zhaozhi patted Nie Ye on the shoulder: "Don't blame yourself, arrange for someone to go east by boat early tomorrow morning, you and Nalan Xiaodi will all go, and take all the court captains with you." ”

Nie Ye was stunned: "What about you, my lord?" You can't leave no one around. ”

"Of course I'm in the car, and of course I'm on the boat."

Han Zhaozhi's gaze withdrew from the window, and after a moment of silence, he said, "Help me go and get a basin of water, I want to shave my beard." ”

Outside Yunxiao City, it is the wasteland where the coffin was discarded, this is a cemetery, many families in Yunxiao City will send the deceased old man to be buried outside the city, and the feng shui here is good, which is the first choice in the south of the city.

There are many graves in the wasteland, and there is a tombstone not far away, and the people of the Tingwei Mansion found the abandoned coffins and chariots and horses after chasing them, and the group of people who did the white work disappeared, and then the Tingwei Mansion arranged for people to transport the coffins back to the city, and assigned people to track them by land and water, and for three or four days, nothing was found.

Night.

Not far from the place where the coffin was abandoned, a tombstone suddenly moved on its own, moving sideways about two feet away, and a dark shadow came out from behind the tombstone, and if there were people in the cemetery at this time, they would be directly scared to death.

The baotou who did the white thing came out and looked out, made sure that there was no one, and then learned to bark a dog, he got out of the way and walked to a slightly farther place to squat down and stand guard, and his subordinates helped Mu Zhaotong out of the grave.

"Elder Ge, come out and breathe."

Baotou, who was doing white things, whispered: "Those people from the Tingwei Mansion would never have thought that we hadn't gone anywhere at all, we had been here all along, and when the elder arranged for me to go to Yunxiao City to do this kind of business, my subordinates didn't understand it, but now I understand that the elder is far-sighted." ”

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Mu Zhaotong took a deep breath, and then exhaled a long breath, it was too stuffy to hide in that pit, and the air outside was much more comfortable.

"It's not a far-sighted plan for me to arrange for you to come, and you don't have to slap me on the back like that...... I arranged for you to go to Cloud City to do white business, which is also a helpless move, it is not far-sighted, it is just because you are afraid of death and think more. ”

Mu Zhaotong sat down, looked at the night sky and said, "I can't die yet, there is one last thing to do...... If nothing else, Han Zhaozhi has already reacted, he will understand that all land routes will not be my choice, the only thing I can go is the water route, you arrange for someone to go to the dock to watch, if you see all the people from the Tingwei Mansion boarding the boat and leaving, then it is time for us to leave. ”

Baotou snorted: "Although Ge Lao is not in Yunxiao City, but every move of Han Zhaozhi and those people in Tingwei Mansion is within the prediction of Ge Lao, and it is really not bad at all, compared to Ge Lao, they are too far behind." ”

Mu Zhaotong shook his head: "It's not far away, there is not even a gap, Han Zhaozhi is an amazing person, the reason why I counted in front of him is because I can guess what emotions he is, he hates me, he is angry, so I can think of all the judgments he makes, a calm Han Zhaozhi is terrible...... As I said, he should have reacted. ”

Baotou asked: "If you find that Han Zhaozhi is walking along the waterway with a large team of people, Ge Lao, how do we go?" ”

"Naturally, he also takes the waterway, he walks a day later than Han Zhaozhi, and he always walks behind him, and when he reaches the Grand Canal, they will chase north, if he is not stupid, he must go north, and we will go south."

Mu Zhaotong was still taking a deep breath, and he seemed to understand how enjoyable the free air was.

"Do you want to help the old lady out to breathe?"

Baotou asked in a low voice.

"She's asleep again."

Mu Zhaotong sighed: "It's too greedy to sleep now." ”

After saying this, Mu Zhaotong got up and patted the soil on his body: "Go back, the taste of freedom is very tempting."

All tempting things can make people go wrong. ”

Several people helped him back to the pit, Baotou stayed outside, and specially explained to a few of his subordinates, after he entered the pit, those men moved the tombstone back, and then left in the direction of the dock.

The next day.

When the people from the Tingwei Mansion arrived at the dock, the battle of hundreds of people was already terrifying, even if it was a few hundred officials from the official mansion, it would bring a huge sense of oppression to the people, not to mention that it was hundreds of people from the Daning Tingwei Mansion, everyone subconsciously got out of the way, and watched those Tingwei wearing black sè brocade clothes board the two boats, they saw the black sè carriage on the shore, and also saw the people in the black sè carriage come out, everyone got on the boat, the carriage really couldn't be transported, and the coachman drove the carriage back to Yunxiao City.

Soon after the two boats left the dock, a few people watching in the crowd quietly withdrew, and they did not rush back to the wasteland in the south of the city, but patiently went to a nearby restaurant to sit down, ordered food and ate, and chatted until nightfall, and then they were still in the mood to walk around the dock for a long time, calculating the time, and then rushed back to the south of the city.

Another next day.

At noon, the ships in and out of the dock became fewer, and when it was time to eat, the dock was much more lively than the waterway, an ox cart stopped not far away, six or seven people carried down two large boxes from the ox cart, Baotou looked around, and told his subordinates to take care of it, and then he entered the dock, and found a cargo ship that was going out of the dock, the owner of the cargo ship kept shaking his head, probably meaning that the ship was full and could not hold anything, Baotou took out a bag of silver and handed it over, the owner of the cargo ship looked at it, and was embarrassed. In the end, I agreed.

Baotou hurriedly returned to the ox cart and tapped lightly on the big box three times.

"You're all light-hearted, you're too valuable."

Several men answered, and carried the large boxes to the side of the ship, and the owner of the ship led them to the side of the ship, and said that he would wait a minute, and he would take the boatman and the merchant ship to rearrange the goods.

Baotou looked around nervously, only when he got on the boat and went out of the dock was he more steady, and he had to wait until he entered the Grand Canal and turned south, at this moment, he was only looking forward to leaving here quickly.

At this time, he saw a middle-aged man look at him, and suddenly became more nervous, but the middle-aged man just glanced at him and left, Baotou breathed a sigh of relief, at this time the owner of the boat beckoned on the boat, signaling that he could carry the box up, he took someone to carefully carry the box onto the boat, and when he looked around, no one paid attention to him, and he let out a long breath.

"Is the box heavy? It's right that when you get older, you get lighter. ”

Someone suddenly said something beside him, Baotou was so frightened that his face turned white in an instant, and he turned around sharply, and saw the middle-aged man who was passing by just now standing not far from him, with a smile on his face.

Han ...... Han Zhaozhi. ”

Han Zhaozhi nodded: "So you can recognize me." ”

Baotou subconsciously stepped back, only to find that the boat had opened.

At this moment, it is impossible for those two large boxes to get off the ship again.

"Don't panic."

Han Zhaozhi looked at Baotou and said calmly: "It's just me, I counted just now, there are nine of you in total, your kung fu should be pretty good, nine fight one, you should have a chance of winning." ”

He asked seriously, "Do you want to try it?" ”