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Chapter 867
August 21, Pingyang Prefecture, Huozhou.

On the mountain road in Qiliyu, Zhang Hongfan lowered his hands and observed the horse dung on the ground.

"The horse dung was just pulled this morning. It should be the carriage that I saw last night when I was looking for a horse. I ran away as soon as I saw the horse. It is probably Wang Xiao..."

Originally, Zhang Hongfan didn't want to come and kill Wang Xiao and Hao Tianyi.

It's hard to deal with Hao Tianyi's painstaking efforts to capture him back. Killing him may make some people feel insecure, but keeping him will make some people think that it's okay to be captured.

Escaping is of course not good.But at least it can be said that "Hao Tianyi, a good-for-nothing, lost his way in the war, was captured and surrendered, and wanted to conspire to take Shanxi for Li Xia, but when he saw Zhang Jiulang coming, he ran away."

Since there is no perfect way to do it, Zhang Hongfanben didn't bother to bother.

As soon as he arrived in Taiyuan, he scared Hao Tianyi away, and successfully thwarted Li Xia's conspiracy to secretly open up Shanxi through smuggling business.For him personally, it is already meritorious service and prestige.

But Zhang Hongfan noticed that it seemed that Mao Jujie helped Wang Xiao escape.

He really didn't want people like the Zhang family to be unsteady.

In his view, betting on both ends is not safe, but a way to bring disaster.

Therefore, Zhang Hongfan didn't say anything, but he still came to chase and kill Wang Luo himself under the pretext of going to Xiezhou to meet Ahema.

He quickly found the clues and pursued him so far...

After seeing the horse manure, he stood up, looked around the forest, calculated the distance the horses could travel in two hours on such a road, and began to deploy manpower to search and arrest.

"All of you, go up to Wulonghe and look from a distance to see if there are any people moving around."

"Search to the south, search carefully within a radius of twenty miles, they are probably hiding here..."

Compared with Hao Tianju's performance in the search and investigation in Taiyuan City, Zhang Hongfan seemed very relaxed.After the arrangement is complete, sit cross-legged on a big rock and close your eyes to meditate.

Sure enough, not long after, a soldier came back to report: "Commander, they found a carriage on the mountain road to the south, and they still have a horse that is exhausted..."

Zhang Hongfan looked up at the sky, talking to himself and calculating.

"Abandon the carriage and leave? It won't be far. With our little manpower, it may take two days to search this mountain forest, right?"

"Marshal, let's search carefully and we will definitely find it."

"But how do you know that this is not Wang Xiao's plan to get out of his shell, and deliberately sent someone to lure me away. In fact, he has already fled away."

"This... the villain doesn't know."

"Take me to see their chariots and horses."

Before Zhang Hongfan got up, he saw a fast horse galloping from the official road outside the valley.

He had a premonition that there would be some important news, so he stopped and waited.

Soon, the messenger shouted to the soldiers in Yukou: "Is Marshal Zhang in Shuntian? Urgent letter from Taiyuan!"

"Let him come over."

"I met Zhang Shuai, something happened in Taiyuan!"

"..."

"Is Hao Tianju dead?" Zhang Hongfan murmured to himself, looked at the mountains and forests to the south, and finally made a decision, saying, "Go back to Taiyuan."

On this trip to Shanxi, his biggest responsibility is to ensure the peace of mind.

Right now, the situation in Taiyuan Town is even more important.

Another small reason is that, for him, Hao Tianju's death is very similar to Wang Luo still in Taiyuan City. Whether it is or not, no one will think about whether Li Xia's secret work is already in Mao With the help of Ju Jie, he escaped from Taiyuan City.

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Wang Chengye looked out from the gap in the grass, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that the soldiers finally retreated.

"gone?"

"gone."

"Why did you leave?"

"It almost fell into the hands of Zhang Hongfan, he is such a good dog." Wang Hao cursed secretly, climbed out from the bushes, looked down the mountain, and said, "How do we go?"

"When the limelight passes, we can contact Huozhou's stronghold." Wang Chengye said, "As long as we don't meet Zhang Hongfan again, I have the confidence to bring you back to Guanzhong."

Wang Luo showed disdain, and said with a sneer, "Zhang Hongfan is nothing special. If it were in Guanzhong, I will search for him and see if he can escape."

Wang Chengye thought for a while, and said: "With our military intelligence department here, we won't let the Mongolian spy work sneak into the pass."

If it was said that Wang Luo was being stubborn, Wang Chengye was speaking very sincerely.

After experiencing Zhang Hongfan's search and arrest, the group became more cautious and hid in the mountains and forests of Qiliyu for another six days. Feeling that the limelight was fading, Wang Chengye just contacted the Huozhou Military Intelligence Division stronghold, and the other party provided them with new identities and information. card symbols.

After waiting for another three days, they sneaked into a business group, but instead of going south to Jiezhou, they went northwest to Luliang Mountain.

After the merchant brigade sold the horses and leather to the smuggling caravan near Luliang Mountain, they followed the smuggling caravan down the Yellow River.

The road was difficult and difficult, and the smuggling caravan almost traded their lives for money, shuttled along the cliff trails, and crossed the most turbulent section of the Yellow River.

"In four seasons, fog and rain cover the mouth of Hukou, and waves on both sides shake Mengmen."

At the beginning, Wang Luo was still able to recite poems to show that he was not intimidated by the precipitous terrain, but gradually he also shut up.

Finally, after passing through waterfalls and canyons, they finally stepped into the land of Sanqin.

Hao Tianyi revisited his old place with complicated mood.

The last time he crossed the Yellow River was to lead his troops to attack Li Xia, who would have thought that this time it was to defect to Li Xia.

But to vote alone, the future is uncertain, and it is uneasy after all.

Wang Xiao felt frustrated again.

He forgot to think about it when he was running for his life, but the closer he was to Chang'an, the more he felt like a waste.

……

It was September 26th when I arrived in Chang'an City.

Walking into the lobby of Prince Qin's Mansion, Wang Luo looked at Li Xia, bowed, and even cried.

"Kings!"

Li Xia put down the official document in his hand and said, "You've worked hard..."

"Your Majesty is ashamed!" Wang Luo bowed deeply, but he really felt that he had not done his job well.

Li Xia is still only calling himself king now, and sometimes even though some of his subordinates call themselves ministers, they are only used to express their position, and most of the time they talk in a casual tone.

Although Wang Xiao usually looked arrogant, he was one of the few under Li Xia who was considerate to Li Xia and liked to call himself a subordinate.

Because he looked down on Song the most, and because his father once said to Li Fen that "Wang Fu is the lord of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and he will be the minister of Xuanling".

Wang Wentong didn't realize his ambition in Li Fen, he, Wang Luo, wanted to realize it in Li Xia.

Moreover, he is very crazy in doing things, and he has the intention of dying at any time, so he should surrender earlier and enjoy the feeling of assisting the "Lord of the Prosperous Tang Dynasty" earlier.

"On that day, the king personally went to Baqiao to see them off, and he had high hopes for his minister. This minister was supposed to seek Shanxi for the king, but his success was on the verge of failure..."

While chattering here, Li Xia seemed a little careless.

His eyes fell on the official documents on the table, and he wondered if he was listening to Wang Luo's confession of guilt.

After much difficulty, he didn't think about it until Wang Luo finished speaking, and he gave a few words of encouragement.

"Don't be arrogant in victory, and not discouraged in defeat. I hope you will improve this time and understand where your own shortcomings are. Go and have a good rest."

……

After that, Wang Chengye and Hao Tianyi went to see Li Xia one by one.

Wang Hao left the Qin Palace first.

He felt that Li Xia treated him a little lightly, but there was nothing he could do.

Compared with before this trip, he is now more able to accept the helpless result, and sinks down to think about how to do better.

Perhaps this is the "Jinyi" that Li Xia mentioned just now.

After walking to Huji Noodle Shop, Wang Luo looked up and found that he was surrounded by several people.

He swept his eyes away, ignored the woman and the little Taoist priest, cupped his hands, and saluted: "Young Master Li, you are polite."

"You're polite." Li Zhaocheng returned the salute, unable to bear the small talk, he quickly asked, "Where's Taoist Yu?"

Wang Xiao was taken aback for a moment, then remembered this matter, sighed helplessly, and said, "It must be dead..."

(End of this chapter)