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Chapter 61 It's all about layout, it's all about testing

Just when Peng Ke was busy mobilizing his troops, preparing to send troops to Taihu Lake with great fanfare.

Jinyiwei all over the south of the Yangtze River has received an order.

Keep a close eye on lone pigeons in the sky.

As long as there are carrier pigeons, they will immediately track their traces and find out where the carrier pigeons are delivered without exposing themselves.

The Jin Yiwei who received this order were all very headache.

This is a big project.

In the Ming Dynasty, carrier pigeons are a relatively common way of conveying messages.

Many scholars and pen pals, as well as some businessmen who run business across provinces, often use carrier pigeons to deliver messages.

Although it is not to the extent that homing pigeons are flying all over the sky, if you really want to stare, no matter where you stand, just look up at the sky for a day, and you can see at least seven or eight homing pigeons.

If every one of them had to be tracked down, Jin Yiwei would be exhausted to death!
There is no way, the first sentence, the lower one will break the leg.

After complaining in my heart, Jinyiwei began to frequently dispatch all over the south of the Yangtze River, especially Suzhou Prefecture and the counties around Suzhou, to track down the carrier pigeons in the sky.

In order not to be exposed, they all had to pretend to be farmers, running from morning to night every day, and changing people when their internal strength was exhausted.

However, with so many pigeons, it is not possible to check them in a short period of time, at least it will take a week or two.

While Jin Yiwei was chasing carrier pigeons everywhere, in a secluded courtyard outside Suzhou City, Wang Man, the patriarch of the Acacia Sect who was dressed as a man, was doing her makeup in front of the mirror. lady's clothing.

"Sovereign, the disciples in and out of the city were all monitored by Jin Yiwei before, and now that Peng Ke has been controlled by the saint, can you use Anzi again?"

The second in command of the Hehuan Sect, Wang Man's confidant, Zeng Xuewei, who was dressed as a maid, was asking Wang Man respectfully.

Although Jin Yiwei did it secretly before, it was inevitable that he was a little negligent. Several disciples of the Hehuan Sect found out that they were being monitored and quickly reported it to Wang Man.

At that time, Peng Kedu hadn't even come to Suzhou yet, so Wang Man ordered those disciples from the outer veins of the Hehuan Sect to stand still, pretend to know nothing, and continue to lurk in the Suzhou mansion.

After that, Wang Man never took the initiative to contact these disciples again.

Now that Yan Qingbo successfully broke into Peng Ke's side, Zeng Xuewei, who was in charge of intelligence management, had another active idea.

"Not urgent."

Wang Man, who was facing the silver hairpin in the mirror, shook her head, and said very calmly, "Don't contact any inner and outer vein disciples."

"Keep waiting."

Zeng Xuewei looked at Wang Man in the mirror suspiciously: "Sect Master, what are you waiting for?"

"Wait for Peng Ke's next move, wait for him to clean up other sects, wait for him to let Hehuanzong go, return to Beijing to report to Emperor Hongwu, wait for him to fool Emperor Hongwu, and then talk about other things."

Zeng Xuewei thought for a while, and said worriedly: "Sovereign, is Emperor Hongwu so easy to deal with? Even if the saint controls Peng Ke, it will be difficult for him to return to Emperor Hongwu if he doesn't attack our Acacia Sect."

"It depends on Peng Ke's ability." Wang Man's lips curled up slightly, and she said inexplicably: "Judging from Peng Ke's record of sweeping the 24 sects in the rivers and lakes in the past two years."

"He is certainly not an incompetent person."

"As the commander of Jinyiwei, he is also Emperor Hongwu's confidant minister. I believe he has a way to remove Hehuanzong from Hongwu Emperor's sight."

"After all, the emperor who controls such a large empire has too many things to take into account. It is impossible to focus on the small Jianghu sect."

"Of course, the premise is that Yan Qingbo really obeys and controls Peng Ke, making him willing to serve the Acacia Sect."

"Sect Master, what do you mean?!" Zeng Xuewei's complexion changed, and she said slightly angrily: "The saint dares to betray the sect?! She doesn't want Mu Wanqing's life anymore?"

Wang Man glanced at her, didn't go further into this topic, but asked instead: "How is Mu Wanqing?"

"Delicious food and drink are available, and the resources for cultivation have never been cut off, and she is also very calm and obedient." Zeng Xuewei bowed back.

"understood."

Wang Man raised her eyes slightly, looked at her makeup in the mirror, then glanced at the men's clothes she was changing by her hand, and sighed.

"I just hate that I'm not a man."

It was about 50 miles away from the other courtyard where Wang Man lived, and was about to leave Suzhou Mansion, on a land border close to Songjiang Mansion.

Dong Yunzi, holding a compass, was walking in the mountains with Yan Qingbo's maid, Xiaocui, several captains of Jinyiwei, and the innate master Mo Xu.

Dong Yunzi lowered his head and stared at the compass for a long time, then stretched out his hand to pinch the compass, stopped, and said with certainty: "It should be around here, spread out and look around, there should be people nearby."

"Remember Mr. Peng's words. Be very careful not to expose yourself. If you encounter anyone suspicious, come back and report immediately."

"Yes!"

"Here!"

The school captains immediately stepped on light work, scattered and searched.

This hill can be regarded as a hill at most, with an altitude of only 200 meters, and within two quarters of an hour, Captain Jin Yiwei came back to report.

"Daozhang, about seven or eight hundred meters ahead, there is a small stream with a dilapidated thatched cottage beside the stream."

"When I went to investigate, there happened to be a woman who came out of the house to fetch water. It seemed that she had martial arts, she was not like an ordinary person!"

Dong Yunzi had an expected expression, smiled confidently, turned to Xiaocui and said, "Poverty lives up to Mr. Peng's trust."

"This should be the place where the girl Mu was imprisoned."

"In the next few days, Pindao and a few brothers from Jinyiwei will be guarding this area."

"You can go back and report the situation to Lord Peng."

"If you want to collect the net, please let Mr. Peng crush the letter I left with him, and Pindao will rescue this person."

With an unconcealable surprise and excitement on her face, Xiao Cui nodded repeatedly, turned around and left the place together with Mo Xu, and went back to Suzhou Mansion to report to Peng Ke and Yan Qingbo.

On the way back, Xiao Cui was still emotional, and couldn't help but said to Mo Xu: "The methods of this Qi refiner are really unpredictable!"

"The Taoist priest Dongyunzi just set up the altar and lit three sticks of incense, chanted a few spells, then lit a piece of talisman paper, picked up the compass and chanted another spell, and he was able to calculate that the Muzhang envoy was imprisoned. Where are you."

"It's amazing, just like the fairy who knows magic in the picture book!"

Mo Xu shook his head.

As a congenital master, and also a congenital master of the Buyan sect, he knew more about the mysterious qi refiners than other people in the world.

He explained: "It's not as simple as you said."

"Opening the altar is a very complicated thing. The censer is a special censer, and the incense burned is also a special incense. Those who are not advanced in Taoism will not be able to taste this kind of incense."

"Besides, to cast the spell, you need to step on the ground and fight, keep the gods and worship the emperor."

"It's a very complicated and extremely energy-intensive thing to do."

"Ordinary qi refiners can only open the altar to practice once a day, and they cannot practice continuously."

Xiaocui nodded half understanding.

"Oh, don't worry about it, anyway, Taoist Master Dong Yunzi can find Mu Zhangshi, that's amazing!"

"Let's go, let's go back and report to the Lord."

(End of this chapter)