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Chapter 338 Clues
After exiting Yangxia Pass, Luo Tian pulled the cloak over her head, her hands were frozen stiff, she turned her head to He and said, "Where did you get the certificate for customs clearance?" Jiang Jun and the two have been with her all the time, how can they have time to do this?
Yu He took out the customs clearance document from his bosom, handed it to her, and beckoned her to read it by herself.

Luo Tiandu took it over, opened it, and found that there was no approval document from the Six Departments on it, but a line of small characters instead.

If my personal guards go to the various prefectures in northern Xinjiang, they will be released according to the ultimatum.

Under the document, there is a big jade seal.

This turned out to be a customs clearance document written by Emperor Tianqi himself. No wonder Yu He was not worried about making things difficult for the general guarding the pass when he arrived at Yangxia Pass. It turned out that he had already prepared for it.

She was a little speechless, Xindao Shenwuwei had always walked sideways in Shangjing and didn't pay attention to the officials at all. It turned out that the source was here, the emperor's thugs were so confident.

Yu He grinned, and said: "Before I left Shangjing, the palace servants of Yikun Palace brought it over. I think the empress guessed that we might leave the customs, so she specially prepared the customs clearance documents, in case we were caught. Make things difficult for people."

Although the person who brought the document was a member of the Yikun Palace, it was stamped with the seal of Emperor Tianqi, which indicated that there were only two possible sources of the document. One was that Emperor Tianqi knew that she was going to go to Beijing, It is not easy to come forward and instruct the queen to do so; another possibility is that empress Ning stole a blank customs clearance document without telling Emperor Tianqi, imitated Emperor Tianqi's handwriting to write the approval document, and then stamped it with the emperor's seal privately. Send it to Luo Tiandu again.

However, Luo Tian would rather choose the possibility of Emperor Tianqi's love son earnestly instructing Queen Ning, otherwise the crime of embezzling the jade seal privately would be too great a crime, and he would be beheaded if found out.

This was just a small episode, and Luo Tian didn't take it to heart at all. In her eyes, no matter where the customs clearance document came from, it didn't matter at all. On the hundred-year-old land, how to find Wei Que is the biggest problem for her.

Luo Tiandu and Yu He left the Yangxia Pass, and saw a vast expanse of whiteness outside the pass, the roadside was covered with snow, and the horseshoes passed by, leaving only a row of horseshoe footprints.The further north you go, the colder the weather is. The north wind blows fiercely, cutting your face like a knife, and the sound of howling wind is all around your ears. It sounds like a ghost in hell struggling and screaming. generally.

Such bad weather is simply a disaster for those who are on the road.Luo Tian even wrapped himself up tightly, only his eyes were exposed, and he also wore gloves on his hands. Otherwise, in this weather, if he held the rein with his bare hands, it would be no wonder that his hand would not be as cold as the rein.

She and Yu He galloped on horses, set off before dawn in the morning, ate dry food when they were hungry, and drank snow water when they were thirsty.It's better during the day, I have a goal, it's just harder, but it's not too difficult. It's the hardest at night. After leaving the Yangxia Pass, let alone the post station, they can't even see people. They never go to places with lights. If you dare to go, you are worried that you will run into the territory of the barbarians, so you can only choose some places that are slightly sheltered from the wind, light the fire, sit on the fire, take a rest, and sleep at all. Humans, jackals and other beasts, although the weather is cold and most of the beasts have entered hibernation, but occasionally there are hungry beasts that come out to look for food.

After working so hard for two nights, on the third day, the sky was overcast and it looked like it was going to snow.

Yu He pointed to the direction to the west, and said to her, "After passing this forest, ten li ahead will be Donglin Mountain."

Luo Tian looked at the front, it was a vast expanse of whiteness, he couldn't see anything.She turned her head and asked Yu He: "Have you been outside the customs before?"

Yu He said, "I've been here twice."

"Are you going to Beiliang as an envoy?" Luo Tiandu asked again. She really couldn't think of any reason for him to leave Shangjing and come to this bitter cold place other than being ordered to be an envoy to Beiliang. Guarding the safety of Gyeonggi, even if it is a war, it is not his turn to play. When it comes to the time when even the imperial guards have to go to the battlefield, Daqing is not far from being destroyed.

"Kill someone." Yu He said calmly.

Luo Tian gave her a surprised look, and then remembered Yu He's identity, he was the emperor's personal thug, who came all the way from Shangjing, and had no other reason than to assassinate someone under the emperor's order.Thinking of this, she couldn't help asking: "Wei Que also often receives killing...um, is this kind of mission?"

Yu He glanced at her, with a smile that was not a smile: "Master Wei is our envoy, what do you think?"

Luo Tian didn't speak for a moment.

Yes, military generals are no better than civil servants, and the credit and status are all earned by their own blood and sweat. You can't fake it. Even veterans like He Long, Minister of the Ministry of War, did not kiss the battlefield in their early years. It took blood to climb to where it is today.

Originally, she wanted to ask Yu He whether they were in danger when they went out on missions, but seeing such a dangerous environment outside the pass, there was no need to ask this question any more.

After a while, the forest Yu He mentioned arrived.

This is the junction of Daqing and Beiliang. After leaving this forest and passing Donglin Mountain, it is really the territory of the Hu people. There is an endless grassland where you can't see the edge. There are hyenas, bears and wolves on the grassland. No farming, cattle and sheep, living by water and grass, life is naturally not as stable as the Central Plains people, especially in winter, the land is covered with ice and snow, people have nothing to eat, let alone livestock, so the Hu people went south again and again, harassing Looting the Central Plains.

The ancient trees in the forest are towering, and the tall cedars reach the sky. There is no sunshine in the forest all year round. There is a thick layer of decaying vegetation underneath, which is very dark. The snow is knee-deep, making it very difficult to walk.

Luo Tiandu and Yu He walked in the woods with great difficulty. The branches couldn't bear the weight of the snow, and fell down with a "pop", some even fell on Luo Tiandu's face and hands.

Suddenly, Yu He stretched out his hand and made a stop gesture, Luo Tian immediately reined in the reins, held his breath, looked around, and saw something was wrong.

Almost none of the surrounding trees were intact, and the branches at the bottom were broken a lot. The breaks were still relatively new, so it should have been broken not long ago. The most shocking thing was the big tree in front of which two people hugged each other. There were several scratches on it. There are marks on it, as if someone had slashed it with an iron tool.

Yu He got off his horse, inspected the trace, frowned, then looked up the tree with his eyes, his face changed suddenly.

Luo Tian followed his gaze and saw several half-mutilated corpses eaten by wild beasts hung on the thickest branch of the tree, bloody and bloody, and the scene was very shocking.Luo Tian's lips were trembling, and his eyes were straight.

Yu He swayed, flew up the tree, turned over the incomplete corpses, then picked up a waist card, looked at it under the weak light in the forest, and said solemnly: "It's the guard of Anyang Palace. Badge."

Luo Tian was startled: "Are they the personal guards of the Eighth Prince?"

Since they are the guards of the Eighth Prince, then Wei Que and the Eighth Prince must have been here before. If they died, what about Wei Que?Did Wei Que...Luo Tian didn't even dare to think about this possibility.

Yu He had the same thought as her, turned the surroundings upside down, and found several Hu people's corpses besides the bodyguards of the Seventh Prince. Fortunately, there were no Wei Que and Eighth Prince among these people.

However, the whereabouts of the two are unknown. Did they escape?Or was it captured by the barbarians?Are you hurt?If they escaped, where did they escape in this icy and snowy place?How do they survive on this ice sheet without food or clothing?

Luo Tian raised his heart, the pain was unspeakable.

However, she also thought that if Wei Que really escaped with the eighth prince, he must know that the court would send people to search for him, and there would be some clues left behind.Thinking of this, she was shocked, got off the horse, and bent over to search the forest over and over again.

"What are you looking for?" Yu He asked her.He has gone through this area carefully, and there must be nothing missing.

"Clues, Wei Que must have left some clues." Luo Tian didn't even turn his head, and walked with difficulty in the knee-deep snow, still examining each tree carefully.

"I've seen it all. There is no secret signal for contacting the guards left by Mr. Wei." Yu He looked up, the forest was gloomy, and he couldn't see the weather outside. He only felt that the light was getting darker. This was not a good sign, it usually meant that the snowstorm was coming, and urged Luo Tiandu to leave quickly.

Luo Tiandu still stubbornly checked the trees one by one, and finally let her find them.

On a small tree trunk that was smashed to the waist, there were a few deep scratches with a small knife. To outsiders, these marks were just random knife marks, no different from other knife marks. , but Luo Tiandu could tell at a glance that it was the word Northeast written in pinyin. The person who carved it seemed to have used a lot of effort, and the carved character was very conspicuous.

Just after Wei Que's handwritten letter to her was stolen, she began to teach Wei Que some simple English pinyin, as a secret signal between the two of them, and Wei Que really understood what she meant.

She turned her head and said to He with certainty: "Wei Que has gone to the northeast."

Yu He didn't ask her why she was so sure, but took out the map, checked the surrounding terrain with the faint light in the forest, then pointed to the map, and said: "There are only three roads to the northeast, and these two are official roads. The direction leading to Beiliang is heavily guarded, and the other one is a rugged mountain road, which goes along Langshan Mountain and enters Wuhuan territory. Lord Wei must have found this road, entered Langshan Mountain and headed towards Wuhuan.” Of course. Another reason is that Wei Que was born in a mountain forest, and the forest environment is more favorable to him, so he would not give up the favorable environment of Langshan Mountain and take the Beiliang instead.

After months of hard work, he finally had a clue about Wei Que.

Luo Tian got on his horse and said over and over again in his heart, Wei Que, you must hold on, and I will come to you.

(End of this chapter)