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Chapter 65 Alertness
Wanqiu County, Chenzhou, probably later Huaiyang District, Zhoukou City, Henan Province.

This is one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization.

Surrounded by a large lake, the city is in the middle of the lake, and the lake is in the middle of the city. It looks like an upside-down bowl, hence the name Wanqiu.

The big lake is called "Dragon Lake", which is named after the Fuxi clan established its capital here and was nicknamed "Dragon Master". It covers an area of ​​[-] mu and has a vast water surface.

In the north of Longhu Lake, there is a mausoleum named "Taihao Mausoleum", which is the mausoleum of "Taihao" Fuxi.

The Taihao Mausoleum was first built in the Spring and Autumn Period, and it was continuously added during the Han and Tang Dynasties. People were forbidden to use firewood and plows here.

Up to now, wars and chaos in the world have continued, the households guarding the mausoleum have long since disappeared, the rituals have not been repaired, the temple is gradually destroyed, and the mausoleum of the emperor has also begun to be dilapidated and deserted...

There was no one in the field, so Li Xia led the horse and walked slowly outside the temple mausoleum.

He was dressed as a scholar, in white clothes, and his long sword was wrapped in cloth and hung on the horse, as if he was a student going out to travel.

All the way from Luyi County to this point, Li Xia felt a little strange, and vaguely suspected that the Zhang family seemed to know that he was going to Wanqiu County.

He killed the messenger and seized the horse, took the letter from the Zhang family, and galloped on the horse.It stands to reason that the Zhang family should be chasing after him, one step slower than him.

But there were not many pursuers behind him. On the contrary, after he turned to the west, he encountered two ambushes, which almost killed him.

Fortunately, he was vigilant and narrowly escaped.

It wasn't until I changed my identity and made a detour back to the north that the situation got better.

This made him arrive two days later than the agreed "fifteen days".

Li Xia and Lin Zi made an appointment to meet in Wanqiu County, but they were not familiar with this area, so they chose Taihao Mausoleum, a historic site known to both parties, to leave a mark.

Today, after walking around Taihao Mausoleum, Li Xia turned to the forest of steles behind the mausoleum temple.

After passing through one stone tablet after another, he saw the mark made by Lin Zi on a broken tablet.

The soil under the stele was dug up, and there was a small package inside. When it was opened, there was a Mongolian army uniform, a token, and a note. On the note, only the words "Ximing Inn" were written...

~~
"Centurion, Li Xia has been caught!"

Lei Sanxi heard the words, his eyes lit up with joy.

He was Zhang Hongdao's wife family, and one of the centurions who killed Eridunbari that night.

At the critical moment when he was about to deal with Yingzhou's residence, Zhang Xiandao sent him to Wanqiu to search for Li Xia.

At that time, Zhang Hongdao also told him earnestly: "With Li Xia's ability, maybe I should deal with it myself. But I can't get rid of the Yingzhou matter, so I have to entrust it to you. Don't let me down."

Lei Sanxi had always admired Zhang Hongdao, and he didn't believe that Zhang Wulang would be able to deal with such a small person. After all, this was still in the Zhang family's territory.

But since he said it, he went all out.

And these days, Zhang Yanxiong and Shen Kai successively sent news that Li Xia could not be caught, which gradually made Lei Sanxi feel that this son is difficult to deal with.

After all, it finally came to fruition today.

"Where is the person?!"

"Before a stick of incense, he entered the city with the token given by Tian Kui, and now he has taken it..."

"it is good!"

Lei Sanxi strode towards the city gate.

When I got to the place, I saw soldiers escorting a young man.

However, this person was not tied up, and there were still several people from the Yin family in Chenzhou who were talking around.

Lei Sanxi frowned, his face gradually turned ugly.

After more than twenty steps, I could already hear the conversation over there.

"It's Liulang of the Yin family, Yin Jun Yin Maoxiu, eighteen years old, definitely not a wanted criminal."

"It's absolutely true, the presence of my ninth uncle is enough to prove that Maoxiu is a child of my Yin family."

"..."

Lei Sanxi frowned, and when he looked over, he saw that Yin Liulang was handsome, but his foolish appearance did not really look like Li Xia.

He took the paperwork and looked at it, and asked very displeasedly: "What's going on?!"

Soon, Yin Jun began to tell what happened.

"Today, there was a small essay meeting at the Saints Temple outside the city, that is, the Xiangetai. When I went to the meeting, I met a talented man called Ma Zhiyuan. He has a thousand words, his appearance is extraordinary, and he is extremely talented."

At this point, Yin Jun's voice gradually became weaker, and he timidly glanced at the surrounding people before shrinking his neck and continuing to speak.

"Because... because of my ignorance and lack of good lyrics, he was willing to give me a small order, but he only gave me two sentences. He said that he forgot later, and took out this token again, and asked me to write a poem in the city. The door is lighted, there is no need to say anything, and then go to the city to drink a cup of tea at the Ximing Inn, and someone will give me his poems.

As a result, I was taken down as soon as I showed my token at the city gate.I still regard him as a disciple of a high school, who would have thought that such a person would be a wanted criminal..."

Before Yin Jun finished speaking, Lei Sanxi had already shouted loudly.

"Follow me to the Saint's Temple to get someone!"

"Yes!"

A group of soldiers acted vigorously and resolutely, like wolves and tigers.

Yin Jun was taken aback by this scene, and couldn't help being shocked again.

Before he came to his senses, he only heard the minister of Zhang's family who recorded the incident ask coldly: "Yin Liulang, what kind of words did Li Xia give you, so that you can drive a child of your family to do things for him?"

"It's "Sand in the Sky", with withered... withered vines, old trees, dark crows, small bridges and flowing water..."

The family member's eyes lit up, he wrote quickly, and asked eagerly, "What's the next sentence?"

"No... I don't know, he forgot..."

~~
String song stage.

"Where's Ma Zhiyuan?!"

Lei Sanxi grabbed a scholar by the collar and snarled.

"Ma Qianli? He he he...he left..."

"Where are you going? How long have you been walking?!"

"This land around the lake, when... of course I walked from the bridge, and it has been almost an hour."

"Give me a careful examination of these scholars one by one!" Lei Sanxi threw the scholar away from his hands, and shouted, "I'd rather kill the wrong one than let Li Xia go!"

"But, this is the art of culture and education..."

"Cultural education? It is the commander-in-chief who wants to promote cultural education, and there is only cultural education in the Central Plains. I will ask you to carefully examine it, do you understand?!"

"Yes."

"Follow me and continue chasing!"

"Yes……"

Lei Sanxi had only chased for a few miles when he suddenly saw smoke flying in the distance.

"Call law!"

Shen Kai reined in the reins, with a dusty face, and said loudly: "Did you catch Li Xia?! I followed him all the way, and he has arrived in Wanqiu!"

"Run away." Lei Sanxi got off his horse and said, "That little thief..."

"What did you say?!"

Shen Kai got off his horse and rushed over, put his hands on Lei Sanxi's shoulders, and shouted: "Be sober! You know that Wanqiu's net, it took Goro so much effort to set it up? How could he run away?!"

"He only left for an hour, I'll search right away." Lei Sanxi spoke quickly, telling what happened.

"No." Shen Kai shook his head and murmured: "Let me think about it, first suppress the movement, the fish is already startled, don't startle the bait..."

~~
Ximing Inn.

"Let's go."

"Brother, really don't wait for Li Xia?"

Nie Zhongyou said: "The [-]-day period has passed, we waited for two more days, but he still hasn't come, we can't wait any longer."

Everyone was speechless, they got on the chariot silently and headed north.

The 14-member team crossed the embankment on Longhu Lake and passed Taihao Mausoleum.

Lin Zi looked in the direction of Taihao Mausoleum, and said, "I'll go see if the token is still there, and leave a message for Li Xia?"

Nie Zhongyou was frowning and thinking at first, but when he heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and glanced around, he saw some farmers in twos and threes on both sides of the road clearing up wasteland and weeding, and some farmers walking behind them with hoes.

"do not go."

"Brother, do you want Li Xia to go to Kaifeng without leaving a letter?"

"Don't go, see and talk."

"It's fine if you don't go, but leave the things there, and he can have an identity to cover when he comes." Lin Zi responded, and then he realized what Nie Zhongyou meant. He was shocked, and said in a low voice: "Brother I mean those people..."

"Why are there so many peasants digging wasteland when the sun is at its peak in June? It's not so lively outside the city on weekdays."

"But if you want to move us, wouldn't it be better to do it in the city, where we can't escape."

"I hope I'm worrying too much, remind everyone to be alert..."

Farmers in twos and threes scattered on the side of the road, hoeing the weeds.

Someone glanced at the passing team and whispered something to his companions.

"They have been looking back, let the centurion know, the bait has already been shocked..."

(End of this chapter)