The flotilla continued northward, heading straight for Quanzhou downwind.

In the first cabin of Shenzhou, Yang Congyi and Tang Xun frowned and were silent.

After a long time, Yang Congyi broke the silence.

"Listen to me, it's better to disguise yourself as a sudden serious illness, unfortunately you died, it's too dangerous to fall into the sea, once there is an accident, you can't regret it."

"How to disguise? Three doctors on board, pretending to be in the past? I don't want to go back to Lin'an. ”

Tang Xun retorted angrily, but she also knew that it was indeed extremely risky to fall into the sea, and she wanted to retire completely, but she had many concerns.

"In this way, in the past few days, you have been declared to the outside world that you are unwell, let the imperial doctor prescribe some medicine first, and when the fleet arrives in Quanzhou, you enter the port to recuperate, what happens after that, we can say anything, if you are sick in Quanzhou, you will not find the imperial doctor with the ship, and the imperial court will not cure the sin of the imperial doctor, they will naturally not be troubled. What do you see? ”

Tang Xun nodded lightly: "That's the only way." ”

But then he remembered something, and immediately said: "But there is still a problem, will I be sent back to Jianpu when I pass away in Quanzhou?" I don't want to go back! ”

Yang Congyi could only sigh: "Why don't you go back to Jianpu first?" Fallen leaves return to the roots, how can I explain to your father if you don't go back? It's going to be exposed. ”

"I don't care, I'm not going back anyway, just watch."

Tang Xun made a little sex, and simply didn't care, no matter what, she never wanted to return to Jianpu again.

"Okay, listen to you, don't go back to Jianpu."

Seeing this, Yang Congyi had no choice but to arrange according to her ideas.

It was night, the moon was hidden and the stars were scarce, the clouds were low, the sea breeze was gusting, and the wide Shenzhou was also swaying and undulating with the waves.

It's going to rain, and it's getting more and more dreary in the cabin.

Yang Congyi and Tang Xun came to the deck to relax, and also sent someone to invite a group of dancers and singers to the deck to sing songs to cheer up, and later called several dancers who were sent to Yang Congyi by the national division of Zhancheng, and danced together on the dim deck.

After singing and dancing for a long time, Tang Xun was bored, so he said to go to the side quietly.

Without waiting for an answer, he got up and left.

Yang Congyi sat in place, the song and dance continued, and the excitement came, so that the Lin'an dancers and the Zhancheng dancers were together, and more than 20 people danced a Champa dance together.

However, the Champa dance is very different from the Lin'an dance, and the dancers are unwilling to learn new movements and new things, the key is that they look down on the Champa dancers from the bottom of their hearts, and only regard them as playthings given to Yang Congyi and Tang Xun by the Champa magnates, so the two groups of dancers dance together and twist each other, and they can't get along for a long time, which makes people uncomfortable to watch.

After a while, Yang Congyi got bored, got up and was about to leave, when he suddenly remembered something.

Then he shouted: "Lord Tang, the wind is strong, you are unwell, go back and rest early!" ”

The voice lagged behind, and no one answered.

"Lord Tang?" Yang Congyi shouted again.

There was silence on deck, no one responded.

"Someone! Did you see Lord Tang return to the cabin? ”

A guard on duty close to the cabin immediately stepped forward and responded, "No, Lord Tang didn't go back to the cabin!" ”

"Go back to the pod and find it!"

Half an hour later, the guards came back and reported: "Lord Tang is not in the cabin, there is no one inside, I asked the people on duty in the cabin, and they haven't seen Lord Tang go back!" ”

Yang Congyi's face changed, he raised his voice, and shouted: "Master Tang! Soup-sama! Lady Tang ......"

The deck was as quiet as the sea, and no one responded, and the guards, aware of the possibility of an accident, hurriedly moved into action, and searched carefully on the deck.

The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became tense, and when the more than 30 dancers and singers saw the actions of the guards on the deck, they immediately shrank into a ball in fright, not daring to look around, let alone move around at will.

"My lord, I found a hairpin here!"

Soon, a guard found out about the situation on the deck and immediately reported it to Yang Congyi.

Yang Congyi took three steps and made two steps, and immediately appeared in front of the guard who found the hairpin, which was less than a foot from the side of the ship.

After taking the hairpin from the guards, Yang Congyi's face suddenly changed greatly, and he lost his voice: "This is Lord Tang's hairpin, where did you pick it up?" ”

The guard realized the seriousness of the problem and stammered back, "My lord, not the villain, I ..... I...... That's where I picked it up, and they saw it! ”

The pale-faced guard raised his hand as he spoke, pointing directly at the people next to him.

Yang Congyi held the hairpin and swept it over.

"My lord, we did see it here!"

Without waiting for questioning, the guards nodded their heads almost simultaneously to testify.

Yang Congyi took two steps forward, approached the side of the ship, and looked into the sea, where there was all black sea water below, and he couldn't see anything.

At the same time, I heard a guard behind me reminding: "Be careful, my lord, the wind is strong, and the boat is turbulent!" ”

Yang Congyi took a few steps back and immediately ordered: "Order, someone in Shenzhou has fallen into the water, order the warship to come to search and rescue immediately!" ”

"Yes, sir!"

The guards received the order and immediately went back to prepare and gave orders to the ships escorting the convoy nearby.

Yang Congyi returned to the middle of the deck and saw that the group of dancers and singers were all panicked, obviously they already knew what was going on the deck.

"When you go back, keep your mouth shut, don't say what you shouldn't say, don't ask what you shouldn't ask. Do you understand? ”

"Yes, my lord, the concubine understands!"

The women were in a panic, and they should be in a hurry.

"Go, when you get back to the cabin, don't wander around, stay in the cabin!"

"Yes, sir!"

After that, more than 30 women left in a hurry and returned to the cabin.

"Bang! Boom! Boom! ”

Three blue fireworks soared into the sky, sending a distress message to the warships escorting the front and back, left and right, and sending a distress message that someone had fallen overboard.

However, in the face of the dark and dreary sea, the fleet of ships at full speed, even if the warship is close at hand, it is difficult to find the place where the water falls, and on a gloomy night, it is almost impossible to see anything beyond the sea, and it is impossible to find the person who has fallen into the water.

Sending a message for help is just asking for psychological comfort, the guards on the deck of Shenzhou thought so, they thought that Lord Yang, who was standing on the deck in a daze, also thought so.

What was Yang Congyi thinking, how could those guards know?

The warships in the distance quickly responded, reversed course, lit many lanterns, and headed straight for Shenzhou.

They knew that in such sea conditions and weather, even if they came, it would be useless, and it would be impossible to find the person who had fallen into the water, but they still came, because they were escorts, and when the fleet was in danger and needed help, they had to act.

Shenzhou did not stop sailing, nor did it slow down, unless it hit the reef or docked, no sea ship could accelerate or slow down for no reason, this is the rule of the Huiyi fleet.

In addition, each ship must maintain a distance of two to three miles from the previous ship, not too far, not too close, the same is true for Shenzhou, there can be no special, absolutely must not affect the normal navigation of the fleet, unless there are special circumstances. For example, if the sail is broken and the speed slows down, and at this time, the ship that has problems must steer, away from the main channel, and cannot block the fleet that follows behind, after all, it is much easier and easier for a ship to turn around than dozens of ships.

After the accident of the Tang Hawk, the fleet sailed normally, from night to dawn.

And Yang Congyi stood on the deck all night, until dawn, and was helped back to the cabin by the guards to rest under the persuasion of Lu You and Shen Jin.

Lu You and Shen Jin stood on the deck, looking into the distance, silent.

"How so? Seeing that he is in Quanzhou, his merits will be completed immediately, how could Lord Tang fall into the water? Shen Jin couldn't figure it out, his mood was dull, and he was very uncomfortable.

He has known Tang Xun for as long as he has known Yang Congyi, although the division of labor in Huiyi is different, but his communication and interaction with Tang Xun are not as much as Yang Congyi, but they are still good friends, after all, since the day of Taixue's debate, they have known each other for ten years, and they have worked together for many years.

"Who knows, the world is impermanent!"

Lu You also knows what to say, although his relationship with Tang Xun is not very good, but it is not bad, he can still talk about things, as for small talk, they have no common topic, and they can't talk together, the most important thing is that Tang Xun will not chat with him at all, and it is rare for him to chat with anyone other than Yang Congyi.

At first, he still felt strange why Tang Xun was very cold to everyone except Yang Congyi, but later he heard Shen Jin say that the two of them were originally classmates in martial arts, and they were awarded officials and officials together, and they also supervised the return to Yi together, escorting the fleet to go to sea, and the friendship between them was deep, and it was difficult for others to understand.

"Lord Tang has an accident, Lord Yang is afraid that he will also be hit hard, seeing that the fleet is about to return to Quanzhou, but such a disaster happened, and they walked ninety-nine steps together, and the last step is probably for me to bear a lot of care with Brother Lu."

Shen Jin's face was full of sadness, and his brows were furrowed.

"Brother Shen, don't worry, Lord Yang treats me well, and the last step must be accompanied by him, complete the return to Yi, and give an account to the imperial court!"

Lu You's eyes were firm, and the expression on his face was not as sad as Shen Jin's, but a little more solemn.

The flotilla continued to sail at full speed, and a day later the front convoy entered Quanzhou Bay.

According to the established itinerary and plan, the Huiyi fleet will stay in Quanzhou for half a month to carry out a small-scale return.

When the sea ships and warships entered the port, they docked one by one, and the escort troops landed as soon as possible, completely taking over the three outer ports of Quanzhou, and ships other than the Hui Yi fleet were not allowed to enter the port and dock for the time being.

The warships looking for the traces of Tang Xun in the rear sea did not come to the news until all the fleets entered the harbor that they found only a coat on the sea, like the clothes worn by Tang Xun.

When Yang Congyi saw the clothes and determined that Tang Xun had fallen into the water and died, he immediately cried bitterly, crying bitterly that his friend was unlucky, crying bitterly that he was in his good years, and he was full of blood and sacrificed his life for the country.

After crying, he put away the clothes and the hairpin he left behind, so that he could send them back to Tang Xun's hometown for burial.

Immediately afterwards, he wrote two letters, one to Tang Xun's hometown of Jianpu County, and the other to Lin'an, to report to the imperial court that Deputy Envoy Yi had fallen into the water and died on the way back.