(It's my birthday today, and I wish myself a happy birthday!) ）

There are horses to travel, and more than ten miles between the south gate and the Feishui River wharf will arrive at a stick of incense.

The horse team rushed along the slope to the embankment, and Su Jin looked at the river below the wharf, and immediately cursed.

On the wide wharf, a flat boat has left the wharf and reached a place four or five miles downstream, and there are several figures on the small boat, which seem to be Zhu Shiyong and others; In winter, there were two heavy snowfalls, the ice and snow melted, the river swelled, and the current was very fast, and the boat took advantage of the flowing water to go straight downstream.

"Damn, this guy really ran away, how is this good?" Everyone also scolded one after another, angrily slapping the horse's neck.

Su Jin gritted his teeth and said: "If you escape to the edge of the sky, you have to catch him back, he has a boat, let's also get on the boat to chase, go, go to the dock to find a boat." ”

The brigade rushed down the embankment to the wharf, where there were more than ten large houses, which were originally used to rest the boatmen and the wharf porters, and of course, when it rained and snowed, they were also used to temporarily stack goods.

Dozens of large carts were parked in the open space of the wharf outside the house, and dozens of people and idlers were leaning against the wall to bask in the sun, when they suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves, and a large group of fierce officers and soldiers rushed to the front, frightening these people suddenly stood and did not know what to do.

"Where can the dock owner be?" A young man with ragged clothes and a bloodied face stepped forward and asked with a big stinging shout.

Everyone wondered for a while, this guy seemed to be the leader, but it was really incomprehensible why he was dressed in such tatters.

Su Jin looked at everyone's stunned looks, anxious, raised his horsewhip and slammed it on the ground, pumping the dust on the ground all over the sky, and shouted, "What do you say?" ”

A short and fat middle-aged account room ran out of the house, and he hurriedly stepped forward and said: "This military master is polite, my owner generally does not stay on the dock, the villain is the manager of this dock, if you need anything, you might as well tell the villain to see if the villain can help." ”

Su Jin snorted, pointed to the small boat down the river with a horsewhip and asked, "Did you let this boat go?" ”

The steward arched his hand and said, "Yes, I just hired it." ”

Su Jin shouted: "Are you guilty? The escapees on the ship are the rebels, and we are here to chase them, but you have let them go, quickly find us a big boat, and we will go on the boat to pursue them. ”

The steward was stunned for a moment, and hesitated: "Master, the ship is not easy to find now, there has been no ship on the dock for several months, and the ships that were originally moored here have gone to look for work elsewhere. ”

Su Jin's heart was cold, could it be that this is the will of heaven? He deserves Zhu Shiyong's luck, can't he catch him? If you can't catch up by water, you can only go to Fanchang Lotus Mountain by land, not to mention trekking five or six hundred miles, in case Zhu Shiyong doesn't go to Lotus Mountain, find a place to just have a cat, the world is big, where to find him?

Su Jin frowned and smacked his tongue, and the forbidden army was also in a hurry, and everyone was gossiping, some said that they were chasing with bamboo rows, some said that they should hurry up to the downstream wharf to find a boat, and some had the bad idea of going to the city to collect large wooden basins and tie them together as boat envoys, which made Su Jin cry and laugh.

These northern forbidden troops are all landlubbers, who do not understand the dangers of the rivers at all, and the waves are naturally calm in the Feishui River, and the simple boats are naturally unimpeded; Once you enter Chaohu Lake, it is an ocean, and then go down into the river, it is turbulent and the water is fast, unless it is a serious boat, even if it is a canopy boat, bamboo rows and the like are waiting for all to fall into the water to be water ghosts.

Just as he had no choice but to ask, the steward suddenly dared to ask, "Official...... You say the ship is a culprit? The villain is a little puzzled. ”

Zhang Long scolded: "You are blind, the boat is Zhu Shiyong, the prefect of Luzhou, who escaped, there is a commotion in the city, don't you know?" ”

The steward was stunned and said, "Governor Zhu? No, it's not him, the villain of Zhu Zhifu naturally knows him, but it's not him on that boat. ”

The people and coachmen who watched the excitement around were also dumbfounded, and said: "I haven't seen Zhu Zhifu, how can Zhu Zhifu take such a small boat, every year he goes to Jiangnan to play, but he takes the Hongfang cruise ship hired downstream." ”

Su Jin secretly thought to himself, maybe Zhu Shiyong dressed up in disguise, and taught everyone to not know each other, no matter what, it can't be delayed, and he has to pursue by land quickly, so he immediately ordered the soldiers to divide into two routes, one way along the river to pursue, to the downstream dock to see if the boat can be found, and the other way to the Lotus Mountain, rushed to the head to block him.

"Master Jun, don't blame the little talker, the boat is really not Zhu Zhifu, if you don't believe it, you will pounce in the future, but don't blame the villain for not making it clear to you, the villain wants to talk to one is one or two is two, then the boat is obviously Zhang Daguan from Nanqi Town who went to Jiangning Mansion to visit the old man, although the villain is old and dizzy, Zhang Daguan will not admit his mistake."

The steward chased Su Jin's horse butt and nagged repeatedly, he knew that if he didn't make his words clearer, Su Jin and the others would pounce into the air, and they would definitely come back to find their bad luck.

Su Jin hurriedly turned the horse's head and asked, "Really?" It's really not Zhu Shiyong? ”

The steward swore to the sky with a sincere expression and vouched for his life, but the ship was only Zhang Daguan, not Zhu Zhifu.

Su Jin lowered his head and pondered, chasing all the way, the official road was empty, there was no figure, and Zhu Shiyong was not seen on the dock, could it be that he was chasing in the wrong direction?

It's impossible, Zhang Long asked the soldiers guarding the south gate, and he also got the news from Zhu Shiyong's concubine Yu rinse, and both showed that Zhu Shiyong would escape by the waterway of the south gate, but there was no sight on the road, and the dock was gone, did Zhu Shiyong still dare to play the trick of going around in circles at this time? If Zhu Shiyong had such courage, then he should really admire him.

"Leave twenty brothers on the docks to keep an eye on the river, don't teach the old thief to get a boat and run away; The rest of the brothers searched with me along the way we came, and since Zhu Shiyong didn't come to the dock, he was set to be somewhere outside the city. ”

The forbidden army is also confused, this old thief will actually attack the west, it is really not simple; In any case, since he didn't escape by water, it was a good thing, as long as he was still close to the left, he could always be caught.

Everyone cheered up, suppressed their tiredness and hunger, and followed Su Jin back and forth.

This time it was not a hurry to whip up, everyone slowly rode along the official road in a fan shape, their heads looking left and right like a spinning top, catching the clues on the wilderness.

Suddenly, a forbidden soldier in front of the right shouted: "Envoy Su, come and see, what is this?" ”

Su Jin rode over and looked in the direction of the forbidden army's fingers, only to see a large wooden shelf in the shape of a tic-tac-toe lying horizontally in the grass, covered with some wild grass on it, and it really couldn't be seen if he didn't look carefully.

Su Jin jumped off the horse, kicked the wild grass away with his foot, pointed to the wooden shelf and asked the forbidden soldiers who gathered around, "What is this?" ”

A soldier of the forbidden army said: "This seems to be a broken wheel, painted with tung oil, look at this fracture, or a new stubble, it seems that whose big car wheel is broken, and it is thrown here." ”

Su Jin frowned and smiled: "Che Yuan?" Did you read that right? ”

"It must be a wheel, the long logs on both sides are stretched out to the two sides of the livestock to flail the livestock, and the two small rungs behind are the handlebar-type sitting position, yes, it is the wheel."

Su Jin laughed out loud and said: "It turns out that it is really providence, this old thief does not want to go to the dock, but the carriage is broken, and he can't go at all." ”

"However, the carriage and the mules and horses have not been seen, and if the carriage is broken, where can the carriage go?"

Su Jin smiled: "The wheel is broken, but it can still be dragged away, but it can't go far; Zhu Shiyong was willing to put the carriage on the road and tell us that his car was broken, it must be hidden somewhere, everyone looked around, and it would not be very far. ”

Everyone agreed and scattered to look for it, and sure enough, after a while, someone shouted, "Here, here." ”

Everyone gathered around the past, there was a mouth wild pond in the field from the official road, and below the high pond ridge, a carriage rolled over at the root of the pond ridge, fortunately the wild pond could not hold water, so although it turned over here, it was not flooded; A horse died next to the car, and his throat was cut off with a knife, probably because he was afraid that the neighing of the horse would reveal his whereabouts.

Su Jin stood on the pond ridge and looked down, only to see that the curtain of the car was torn in half, and he could see several pairs of feet crowded together in the carriage.

Su Jin said with a smile: "Governor Zhu, come out, don't hide." ”

A pair of black official boots moved, and finally lifted the curtain and poked out, stepping on the wet dry grass beach, and then Zhu Shiyong scattered his hair in a bun, and his wrinkled and dirty head and body in his official uniform came out, and he looked up at Su Jin on the pond ridge.

The dazzling sunlight shot from above Su Jin's head, making Zhu Shiyong dizzy for a while, his body shook, and he was busy squinting and holding the carriage to stand firm; Due to the backlight, the row of figures above the ridge is all black, and the face cannot be seen clearly.

"Don't come unharmed, Governor Zhu." Su Jin's words were full of ridicule.

Zhu Shiyong had a gloomy face, tidied up his clothes, and put the scattered bun in an orderly manner, pinned it with a golden hairpin, and said lightly: "Envoy Su, you are a chess master, and the house has nothing to say, but one person does things and one person is responsible for it, can you let the dog live, and in the next life, I Zhu will tie a grass ring to report." ”

"Daddy!" Zhu Tianshun's cry came from inside the carriage.

Su Jin said: "Master Zhu, don't think about it, you know that I don't have such a big right, you know your own affairs, how serious it is, you know better than anyone else; Ling Gongzi's life still needs to be saved by yourself, for today's plan, confess well, have a good attitude, the emperor is a benevolent lord, and he will not be extrajudicial to show mercy. ”

Zhu Shiyong raised his head and laughed and said: "The old man knows that asking is in vain, but a father always has to make the last effort, the sky is smooth for my son, and the father is also benevolent and righteous, whether you can survive depends on your own creation; It's useless to say more, Envoy Su, let's go. ”

Su Jin didn't expect Zhu Shiyong to say such open-minded words, although he felt a little sorry for him, but he didn't want to talk nonsense with him more, so he only waved his hand and ordered: "Take them and bring them back to the mansion......"