Early Tang Dynasty: forge ahead

Chapter 304: Break through and see who dares to take action!

Chen Qingsi watched the shadow under the water disappear on the water, while the person who was originally chasing him was looking around for the other person's figure on the water in a daze.

Zhou Kui was exiled to Yunnan and Guizhou, and fled all the way to the south of the Yangtze River. He accumulated rich experience in escaping. He said: "This method of escape is the most effective. Lead the pursuers into the river, and then dive. People with good water properties are like my subordinates." , grew up by the river since he was a child. He can hold his breath for more than a hundred breaths underwater, dive into the bottom of the water, and go down the river, and can dive nearly a hundred feet away in one breath. Now at night, you can also choose to sneak against the current, and then the night will secretly change. Tone, there are not many people, so there is no way to detect it.”

Chen Qingsi's eyes fell on a group of people wearing Wu Houpu's clothes on the other side of the river. They were searching on the slightly chaotic river embankment.

Maybe it was too crowded, and another person fell into the water.

There was no chase this time. The man who fell into the water obviously didn't know how to swim. He was struggling under the Qujiang Pond calling for help, so that there was another chaos on the river embankment.

Chen Qingsi listened to the cry for help from the drowning person and looked at the figure in the water. She felt that the other person's voice sounded familiar, but she couldn't remember who it was.

He asked: "If it were you, where would you run in this situation?"

Zhou Kui said: "It depends on the size of the matter. It's just a petty theft. Just dive and leave. The people in Wuhoupu will not block the waterway and search every neighborhood just for a thief on such a festival day. But if For those who are burdened with murder cases or serious situations, the only place to escape is Furong Garden."

As a veteran of absconding, Zhou Kui analyzed with experience: "The light boat will arrive soon. At that time, the entire river will be as bright as day and there will be no way to hide in the water. There must be people from Wuhoupu guarding the upstream and downstream. If he lands on the north bank, The water stains on his body were too eye-catching. Furong Garden was different. Most of the gatherings of officials and elegant scholars were here, and Wu Houpu did not dare to search arbitrarily. In the Furong Garden, there were many servants of high-ranking officials and nobles, as well as many elegant scholars who had sneaked in with the nobles. They Some people are not conspicuous, so there are many opportunities to escape..."

Chen Qingsi nodded and said nothing more.

"The lightship is coming!"

An excited call came from the surrounding area.

Chen Qingsi looked to the north, with a flash of astonishment in his eyes: he had imagined the appearance of the lightship, but now that he saw it with his own eyes, he couldn't help but be amazed. The leading lightship was actually four stories high, a hundred feet apart, and had five masts. The sails were hung with colorful lanterns, and half of the dark night sky turned red under the candlelight, as bright as the sunset...

The huge lightship is like a dragon on the Qujiang River, coming across the river...

The mirror in Chen Qingsi's arms is at the age where she likes colors. Looking at the glow in the distance, she is still babbling and dancing even though she doesn't know what it is.

Even though Xiao Miaochen was a noble daughter of a noble family, she had never seen such a scene before and exclaimed: "It's so beautiful, how many lanterns are there."

"No less than tens of thousands!"

Chen Qingsi was quite emotional. In later generations, he had seen upper-class people show off their wealth, which was an eye-opener. But in this ancient time, it is still unavoidable.

The extravagance of the ancients is nothing compared to that of later generations.

This is still a show off of wealth on the surface, but I'm afraid it's even more so on the inside.

Chen Qingsi looked in the direction of the second fall into the water. The person who fell into the water had been rescued, but for some reason, the people from Wuhoupu surrounded him.

But soon the light boat moved down the river, blocking his view.

Chen Qingsi didn't care, and continued to watch the lightships passing through both sides of the Qujiang River with his wife, until the last lightship passed by and ended.

"Let's go!"

Chen Qingsi held Jingjing in one hand and Xiao Miaochen's little hand in the other, preparing to go home. As he walked out of the main street of the garden, he heard a sarcastic voice: "Zhao Chiman, this is the Wu family's team. The saint's mother, Mrs. Rongguo, is among them. Why are you, a small county captain, searching for me?" It seems that you are deliberately making things difficult..."

At this time, another voice sounded: "Steward, our people have indeed found clues. A traitor has sneaked into Feiyun Tower and lost his trace. It is very likely that he is among the crowd. For the safety of Mrs. Rong Guo, I hope the management will treat it with caution."

Chen Qingsi recognized the voice of the speaker, it was Wang Fangyi.

The steward's harsh voice sounded: "I recognize you. You are the brother of the deposed queen. Empress Wu is unparalleled in benevolence and righteousness. She cannot bear to be burdened too much and forgives you. How dare you do this to repay kindness with enmity? I, the Duke of Rongguo and the Duke of Korea, Is this someone you can easily humiliate?"

Chen Qingsi heard it funny. You have to have the ability to do it if you can't bear to be burdened too much.

Li Zhi has always been generous to generals with military merits, not to mention the current Empress Wu. Even when Li Zhi was seriously ill and could not see, Empress Wu called her the Queen of Heaven to assist Li Zhi in handling government affairs. Queen Wu was unable to do anything about Wang Fangyi. Really It will put gold on your face.

If he were an ordinary person, Chen Qingsi would have to think about it, but when it comes to Wang Fangyi and Zhao Chiman, he can't help but do things without asking.

Chen Qingsi asked Zhou Kui to guard Xiao Miaochen, and then walked forward along with the crowd.

Zhao Chiman's voice sounded again: "Don't misunderstand the management. We are here for official business. One of the fugitives jumped into the river to escape and landed near Feiyun Tower. The fugitive was soaked and too conspicuous to escape. We are already here Feiyun Tower found the clothes exchanged by the fugitives, but the people were missing. It is possible that the clothes were stolen and infiltrated into the team."

Zhao Chiman's voice was sincere, but his attitude was firm.

"What a misunderstanding!"

The steward's voice suddenly became sharp: "It's possible, but there is no evidence. Just because of your Zhao Chiman's words, I want to search whatever you want? Why? Is it because of you Zhao Chiman, or your shaky uncle? Today, I want to Let’s see who dares to take action.”

Zhao Chiman's uncle is the eldest son Quan of the eldest son's family.

At this moment, under the stars, Mrs. Yang of Rongguo and Mrs. Helan of Korea, both of them had anger shining in their eyes.

The Wu family had no successors, so Empress Wu's mother, Mrs. Yang Lao of Rongguo, and Mrs. Wu Shun of South Korea led a branch of the Wu family to show up in his name and travel back and forth for the Wu family.

This time, Grandma Yang and Wu Shun hung up the signboard of the Wu family, hosted a banquet for the heroes of Chang'an City, and had fun in the Feiyun Tower of Furong Garden to win people's hearts.

But he didn't want to be stopped by Zhao Chiman and Wang Fangyi when he was leaving.

Grandma Yang will never forget that for the sake of her daughter, she personally went to Changsun Wuji's house to express her goodwill, hoping that he would relent and let her daughter take the throne. As a result, he was despised by Changsun Wuji...

Wu Shun will never forget his sister's deep-seated hatred for Queen Wang.

Now a nephew of the eldest grandson, a cousin of the queen, and two enemies are leading his team and want to search for it?

This is unbearable.

Grandma Yang was originally the daughter of the Yang family of Huayin, Hongnong. She was considered a lady, but she was mistreated in the Wu family. Now that she has become powerful and is a first-class lady, there is no room for a small Chang'an County Captain and Zuowei Wei Zhong. General Lang saw this and said, "Come over and see who dares to take action!"

(End of this chapter)