After finishing the last lesson in the ancestral hall, the children of the Zheng family had the last meal at home, and then with a plausible answer, they carried their burdens and families with them, preparing to leave their hometown where they had grown up for generations......

The town is full of strong sorrow, but outside the town is a slaughter, tens of thousands of officers and soldiers are waiting for it, Zhu Jiuye personally led the brocade guards to guard the wooden bridge erected on the ditch, which is also the only way out of the town.

The water in the trench under the wooden bridge was a foot deep. When the officers and men dug to a depth of two zhang, it seemed that they had dug up the veins of water, and the groundwater gushed up, and it became the way it is now......

At this time, one hundred and ten households in the first mile of the Zheng family had already come to the entrance of the town. Under the command of Jin Yiwei, one by one passed through the wooden bridge. In the Jinyi Guard, there are those who have seen Jianwenjun on an errand in the palace before, they are the main force of the inspection, and there is only one task, if they can find that person, they will be rewarded with ten thousand taels of gold and thousands of households

Under the heavy reward, every pair of eyes widened, and they looked at everyone carefully, except for children, old and weak, women and children. Anyone who has a slight edge in figure and appearance will be called aside and subjected to the scrutiny of the brocade guards from the inside out.

In this way, the atmosphere at both ends of the bridge is extremely tense......

On the sentry tower of the military camp not far away, Zhou Xin's gaze in Zhentai, Zhejiang, seemed a little careless. He looked at the Zheng family lined up in a long line, and under the intimidation of the official army, he suddenly said to Zhou Tai beside him: "It's the moon." ”

"Yes." Zhou Tai said softly: "It's the second day of the lunar month today." ”

"When you enter the wax moon, it is the year." Zhou Xin looked at the bridge and said slowly: "I'm afraid those people are not adults." ”

Zhou Taigang wanted to say, 'It's been everywhere, but he sighed in his heart and glared: "My lord is saying that they are dead?" ”

"Yesterday, the Zhejiang sailors had secretly anchored, and they were ordered by Tang Yun to set up an ambush at Qiantangkou." Zhou Xin's voice was extremely low and said, "Wait for the arrival of the Zheng family's fleet......

"Ah......" Zhou Tai was stunned, although he stood on the opposite side, it was difficult for him not to feel sympathy for the Zheng family. He asked softly, "Is this Your Majesty's will?" ”

"It's not." Zhou Xin shook his head and said: "This is Tang Yun's own intention, and it is also because the battle of Pujiang was too embarrassing, and he didn't catch the main master, so he decided to take the Zheng family to the emperor......"

"It's really ruthless...... Zhou Tai asked in a low voice, "What do you mean?" ”

"The Zheng family's harboring of that person is only a matter of Zheng Tang, Zheng Yan and a few other core figures. The vast majority of people are uninformed. Zhou Xin said in a deep voice: "Even if you are convicted, it is Zheng Tang who should be killed, and those thousands of people are innocent." Saying that, he sighed and said, "Lord Hu and I let the Zheng family go overseas to save their lives, but now we have become the culprit of their harm." ”

"Where do you speak, the culprits are Tang Yun and Zhu Jiu," Zhou Tai said hatefully.

"I can't tell." Zhou Xin shook his head and said, "After all, it was we who let them go to sea." ”

"......" Zhou Tai said worriedly: "My lord, is there a way to save them?" ”

"......" Zhou Xin pursed his lips tightly, closed his eyes and pondered for a while. His loyalty to the Yongle Emperor was evident and he did not sympathize with the incompetent Jianwen Jun. But during this time, those who were willing to die in order to protect Jianwen had a great impact on him. The Zheng family's determination of 'I don't go to hell, who will go to hell) deeply shocked him. and his classmates and friends who protected him in the past...... He really couldn't watch the thousands of people in the Zheng family die in the belly of the fish in such a daze...... After a long time, Zhou Xin opened his eyes and said in a low voice: "I can only use the strategy of diverting the tiger from the mountain." As he spoke, he lowered his voice again and said, "Do you remember that ghost hand Zhang in the prison of the Priest?" ”

"Of course I do." Zhou Taidao: "That guy faked the survey of the government, and even the old officials of the yamen couldn't distinguish the authenticity." If it weren't for the eyes of adults, that guy wouldn't know how long he would have cheated. ”

"During the interrogation, I remember him saying that there was no seal that he could not forge, and there was no handwriting that he could not imitate." Zhou Xin said softly.

"Hmm." Zhou Tai's eyes widened and said, "What do you mean?" ”

"You go back to Hangzhou, take my customs guard to put the ghost hand Zhang out, and ask him to forge a troop transfer order...... Zhou Xin ordered expressionlessly: "Then find someone to pretend to be a messenger from Ningbo Mansion and send the letter to the sailor of Qiantangkou."

Zhou Tai couldn't help but gasp and said, "My lord, this is a lie about the military situation."

"Yes." Zhou Xin sighed and said, "But if this is not the case, how to transfer the Zhejiang Navy Division and let the Zheng family's fleet go to sea smoothly?" This is Zhu Yuanzhang's power, he let the local three powers separate, and the political envoy and the envoy could not command the army at all.

"What will I do if I track it down in the future?"

"I don't know." No one in the world knows better than Zhou Xin the truth that 'if people don't know, unless they don't do it, but sometimes, you must know that you can't do it, otherwise how can your conscience be safe?' Where is the conscience? He sighed deeply: "I'll talk about the future later, let's help them get through this in front of them first."

"Yes." Zhou Tai has been with Zhou Xin for eight years, and this is the first time he has seen him do 'illegal deeds', but it made him respect his own adults even more, and he bowed deeply, so he went straight to Hangzhou......

"Brother Ziyan," Zhou Xin looked at the wooden bridge again, his eyes were more calm than Fang Cai, and he said softly: "I don't owe you anything......

Not everyone was paying attention to the wooden bridge, and Hu Qincha, who should have been most concerned about the inspection site, was not by the wooden bridge and ran to visit the injured number......

The injured number that can let him visit is naturally Young Master Xianyun. It is said that when Young Master Xianyun was found in the bamboo forest, he couldn't do it, but I don't know if it was because of the strong medical skills of the surgeon of Daming, or because of his own inhuman quality, it was only less than half a month, and he actually broke through one ghost gate after another...... The wound did not suppurate, and the person no longer had a fever, and this life was completely recovered.

Of course, this is also related to Wang Xian and Lingxiaoyi's inextricable care. It is said that the bigwigs have gathered for a while, Zheng Fantai, Hu Qincha, Zhu Jiuye, one by one, even Zhou Zhentai doesn't talk much, and Wang Xian is naturally even more idle. He was also happy to be like this, while taking care of the seriously injured Xianyun with Lingxiao, he inquired about the situation in the county. Yesterday, he heard that the official army had recovered the county seat, and he wanted to go and see it quickly to make sure the safety of his brothers, but it was the same over there, and the water was surrounded and impassable, and no one was allowed to enter or leave.

Wang Xian had no choice but to give up, and this morning he was serving a spoonful of chicken soup to Xianyun, when he saw Hu Tong coming in from outside. Two days ago, Wang Xian knew that he was here, and he really wanted to find this bastard who killed him to settle the account, but what is his identity? Shall he see each other? What's more, listening to Lingxiao, Hu Xiao's martial arts are higher than Xianyun's, and eighty percent of this account will be rotten......

So Hu Tong came in and saw Wang Xian's gaze so resentful, that look was like a pregnant woman who had been abandoned from the beginning to the end, making people feel that they had made a big mistake.

"Ahem, don't look at me like that." Rao is Hu Tong was thick-skinned, but he couldn't help coughing dryly and said, "I really didn't do this authentically." ”

Wang Xian whispered: "It's not just not authentic, it's just too inauthentic." ”

"Okay, okay, the official will compensate you." Hu Tong said: "Turn around and say hello to the officials, let you go to Hangzhou to be an official, and leave this ghost place, this is always okay, right?" Glaring at him as he spoke, he said, "You messed up the errand, and I haven't settled accounts with you yet."

"......" Wang Xian shrank his neck when he heard this, and whispered: "That thing is too strange, the secret of 'chasing souls for thousands of miles, I don't know how to be known by the other party.'" After a pause, he said: "I asked Lingxiao, and she said that after Xianyun was seriously injured, his body entered a state of turtle breath, and it was impossible to speak at all. ”

"That's if there's an inner ghost." Hu Tong said in a deep voice: "Have you ever told the people around you about 'chasing souls for thousands of miles?'" ”

"No ......" Wang Xian shook his head and said with a blank expression.

"Forget it, if there are too many lice, don't bite, let's talk about this later." Hu Tong lifted the quilt on Xianyun's body, looked at his upper body wrapped like a zongzi, and sighed: "This time it's really a recipe for stealing chickens and rice, if this young master has three long and two short, how can I explain to Sun Zhenren?" ”

"He's out of danger and can wake up at any moment." Wang Xian comforted Hu Tong and said: "What's more, the imperial court has set up a net of heaven and earth, and that person can't fly out of the Pujiang River." ”

Hu Tong glanced at him and didn't respond, sat down on the edge of the bed, picked up Xianyun's wrist to check his pulse for a moment, and covered him with a quilt before saying, "Do you really think so?" ”

"Now I can only think about the good...... Wang Xian whispered.

"Hehe," Hu Tong couldn't help but smile bitterly: "No matter what you think, this time it's no drama again." After a pause, he said: "After I heard that you lost your hand in the mountains, I knew that there was no drama in the road." Now even if I dig three feet into the ground in Pujiang County, I can't find that person. ”

"Why should adults be so pessimistic?"

"I've been looking for him for six years." Hu Tong said in a deep voice: "I know too well that there are too many people protecting him, so I use you, a kid who has nothing to do with the past, not because I raised it, but I really don't know who to believe." ”

"It's a pity that I let the adults down." Wang Xian said in a low voice.

"No, you've far exceeded my expectations." Hu Tong said with a smile: "You deduced the general location of that person through some vague clues, and used their psychology of clearing all hidden dangers to successfully fish them out." Being able to kill more than 20 of his servants this time is already a great credit. ”

"It's a pity that the man escaped." Wang Xian whispered.

"Be content, boy" Hu Tong gave him a burst of chestnuts, and scolded with a smile: "If you catch him at once, I haven't succeeded in the past six years, I should find a piece of tofu and kill him" said with a smile, and said: "This time I can at least give the emperor an answer, and it's not completely impossible to deal with it." ”

Wang Xian nodded, he understood what Hu Tong meant. This time it can at least prove that Jianwenjun is indeed alive, and at least it can make Emperor Yongle's heart feel at ease.