So I play chess

Chapter 62 Arrangement
Wen Gu wanted Liu Zhu to inquire about two things. One was whether Li Xun was related to Lianzhou, and the other was whether there were other hidden secrets about another girl adopted by Miao Zhu back then.

Liu Zhu naturally didn't know all this, and he didn't have time to do it himself, so he just found an excuse to make a patrol, and sent a few close friends to go.

Wen Gu didn't go out of the city anymore, he stayed in the mansion every day to read, and from time to time he saw the Chu army who had just been arrested.

About [-] people from the Chu army wanted to sneak into the city. Under interrogation, they all used hunters and Jianghu people who used swords and guns as pretexts.

Wen Gu didn't force him to ask, but instead asked Zhou Tong to pick a few brave men from the Liangzhou Army, and put them in a ring. Under the watchful eyes of the city's officials, he had a fist fight with the self-proclaimed Jianghu people, and beat them one by one. A bruised nose and a swollen face are enough.

Tang Mingming never showed up.

On the seventh day, the first few members of the Military Department of the Criminal Department of Southern Chu arrived in Tongcheng and told Liu Zhu that the two masters of the Second Department and the Bi Department of the Driving Department were escorting the horses and weapons all the way, and they would arrive in Tongcheng in a few days. territory.

Wen Gu originally thought that since Tang Mingming was acting secretly to sabotage Lord Lingguang's plan, and he himself sabotaged Tang Mingming's affairs, he would be involved in this trouble no matter what.

Then it's better to take advantage of Ling Guangjun's wind, push Liu, and go one step further to the Southern Chu Dynasty Hall.

So from the very beginning, he was thinking about how to arrange the layout so that he could have some relationship with Ling Guang-jun, but this gave him a chance, so he didn't have to worry about it a lot.

It's also a bit of a coincidence.

Liu Zhu arranged for the officials who came first to entertain them, asked about the travel distance, and arranged for another official in charge to prepare in advance at the official post in the south of Tongcheng and other matters.

As far as Wen Gu is concerned, these are all different from the last time.

The beginning of the change was that she protected Li Xunzhouquan. The lives of this "ordinary commoner" were able to work at the same time for Lord Ling Guang, Tang Mingming, who was suspected to be from the royal family of Great Chu, and officials from the second department above the Great Chu court, and even Maybe there are other people hidden behind it is unknown.

However, the person Liu Zhu arranged to go to Shangtang County to check the situation did not bring back much useful information.

It is only said that Miaozhu's surname is Xia. He was not a native of the country. He also suffered a disaster in a foreign country when he was young.

And Li Xunjinwan stayed here for the past few days, seeing that Wen Gu really didn't do any "misconduct", and his mood stabilized a lot.But she was still quite dissatisfied with Wen Gu. She tried it a few times, but the two couldn't say anything.

So there is no rush, just wait for the two Langzhong from Nanchu to come.

However, these two were not the only ones who came at this time.

From Lianzhou to Tongcheng, if you take the fast road, the distance is [-] li.It takes more than [-] miles to walk through the wilderness and dense forests on small roads, bypassing several important official roads.

At this time, two people were walking quickly in the dense forest. The first one was wearing a bamboo hat, wearing a hemp brown cross-collar shirt, holding a long sword, a short knife and a short spear more than three feet long on his waist.Although his brows and eyes are not clear, judging from his figure and demeanor, he is obviously a young swordsman.

The person behind him has a square hat and loose clothes. He is obviously a scholar. This person does not hide his appearance. If it is not Xu Zhongyan, who else can he be.

The swordsman didn't have any wounds on his body, but there were bloodstains on his clothes. Obviously he had fought several times, but he didn't suffer a loss, and he might have paid a heavy price to those who blocked his way.

But Xu Zhongyan was already out of breath, although his face looked exhausted, but his eyes remained unchanged, and he didn't say a word, he rubbed his thighs as he walked, obviously exhausted, but he still held his breath and held tightly Follow behind the swordsman.There was no scar on his body, presumably it was the result of the swordsman's profound skills and careful protection of him.

After walking a little further, the swordsman raised his head to look around, then stopped suddenly, and said, "Rest."

Only then did Xu Zhongyan feel relieved, but he didn't sit down immediately, but cupped his hands first, and said, "It's hard work to be a brother."

The "Brother Cheng" he was talking about was Nan Yijian Cheng Wangshu.

After Feng Xian'er issued the edict to punish the Minister of Rites and the capital inspection on behalf of Ling Guangjun, she still did not change her intention to arrange someone secretly to escort Xu Zhongyan back to Tongcheng.

Others only know one of them but not the other, so there is no extra guesswork.But in Feng Xian'er's view, these two layers of contradictory edicts should have a deeper meaning.

But she just recalled Cheng Wangshu, and Cheng Wangshu just followed his word.

Sure enough, as soon as they left the border of Lianzhou, Cheng Wangshu and Xu Zhongyan were chased and killed. The people who came did not deliberately conceal the identity of the Chu army, but it was difficult to identify which one.

Cheng Wangshu easily dealt with the visitor, and came all the way to Tongcheng without encountering any ambush danger on the way.It's just that when Tongcheng is still more than a hundred miles away, if you need to go deep into the dense forest, you can only abandon your horse and go on foot.

It was still early in the daylight, and the two took a short rest.Cheng Wangshu was a man of few words, and Xu Zhongyan didn't know how to talk to others. The two of them came together, like two dumb gourds that were just placed together, relying only on the singing of insects and birds in the forest, Just make some noise.

Xu Zhongyan, a scholar, calmed down and closed his eyes, thinking about the Guangyang War for a while, and thinking about the difficulties in the tide, his mood was disturbed by righteousness.Then I turned to listen to the singing of birds and insects beside me, and listening to it tactfully from near to far away, adding a bit of poetic feeling out of thin air.

But before he could write a poem, he fell asleep.

Almost at the same time, Cheng Wangshu suddenly stood up, put the long sword back into its sheath, and at the same time took out the short knife and short spear, turned around and jumped out towards the left side beside him.

The man moved around in front of several palm-width trees, first pierced the spear into the trunk, and then chopped with a short knife. In a few breaths, the man returned to the original place, but the trees broken by him turned in the same direction. Falling down, all of them were placed in front of another giant tree on the right, which happened to block a passage.

Such a loud sound woke up Xu Zhongyan who was still asleep, and he heard a voice coming from the other side of the blocked place.

"I heard for a long time that Nanyi's sword Cheng Wangshu used the sword of taking advantage of the situation. Now it seems that the surrounding situation can be used by the king. In today's world, there is no second person who can use this sword. It's amazing!"

Cheng Wangshu looked through the gaps of the fallen trees. There were about ten people in the other party's group, all of whom were dressed in the same style. The leader who spoke alone was different. He didn't bother to take a closer look, but simply said: "It's not a sword. "

The other party was obviously taken aback, and said again: "It is indeed not a sword. Everything in the world can be turned into a sword in the hands of the king. If you use the situation to break the situation, you don't have to stick to the sword. Since it is the sword that covers the world, you should follow the people who cover the world. , Brother Cheng, what do you think?"

The other party spoke sincerely, but Cheng Wangshu frowned, and replied, "It's a gun."

(End of this chapter)