The concubine is poisonous

Chapter 63
On Meridian Road, a carved carriage and seventeen fast horses were galloping towards Juechen from thousands of miles away.

After two days of fast horses, Zhao Yuning and his party have already driven more than half of the distance.Every step closer to the capital, Zhao Yuning's inner excitement increased.

Sitting in the carriage, Zhao Yuning was so excited that she couldn't sit still. She opened the curtain to look at the fast horses traveling with her, poked her head out to look at the flying scenery around her, shouted Mo Luotang's name loudly, and turned the galloping horses Mo Luotang called to his side and asked tirelessly, 'Where are you? ''How long will it take to arrive? ' and the like.Mo Luotang, who asked, felt a little impatient, but there was nothing he could do. Who would let him take advantage of Miss Zhao.

Just after noon, the carriage had already arrived at Changshui, and when she heard the news that after crossing Changshui, she would travel another day and reach the capital tomorrow evening, Zhao Yuning was so happy that she almost jumped up.But Zhao Yuning hadn't jumped yet, but the guards who were traveling with him jumped up. The two people in the lead were leading the way, and suddenly they flew into the air.

Mo Luotang hurriedly stopped everyone. The two people who flew up before were still in the air at the moment, but when everyone saw clearly, they realized that they were no longer flying, but hanging, and their limbs were hanging motionless from their bodies. On both sides, the body is floating in mid-air, with a knot on each neck.The other end of the rope was held in the hands of two men in black, who were standing on the branches of the big trees on both sides at the moment.

When Mo Luotang was looking at the two men in black on the tree, suddenly there were two more screams from the team, and then four more people fell off the horse one after another, each with a long bow and arrow stuck in their bodies.

Mo Luotang immediately ordered everyone to retreat and find a big tree to hide.I casually extended sleeves to the two people on the tree, and the two men in black on the tree said 'Ah! 'With a sound, he fell heavily from the tree.

Then several long arrows shot at Mo Luotang, Mo Luotang dodged back, dodged the attack and found a big tree to hide, while observing the direction and quantity of the arrows, trying to understand the opponent.A dozen good horses were frightened and ran away in all directions, leaving only the horses pulling the cart neighing in fear.

However, the opponent was hiding in the dark and was elusive. Seeing that everyone was hiding behind the tree, he stopped attacking, as if he had to wait for Mo Luotang and his party to show up before shooting.Mo Luotang turned his head to look at a guard beside him, and signaled the guard to go out and make a target, because the enemy showed up.

Seeing Mo Luotang's expression, the guard hesitated for a moment, and looked at Mo Luotang timidly. Mo Luotang's eyes turned cold, and he looked at the guard fiercely. Walking on the road, just as the guard reached the middle of the road, a long arrow flew towards him and pierced directly between the guard's eyebrows. Suddenly, a man in black fell from a branch in the distance.

"Hmph, so they are all hidden in the trees, and the branches are used as cover." Mo Luotang muttered to himself, while changing into two sleeve arrows, and shot towards the same direction, another person fell from the tree in an instant.

After Mo Luotang shot down four people one after another, he began to fight in the air. The other party saw his companions killed one after another, but the formation was still not chaotic.Mo Luotang originally thought that after eliminating a few people from the opponent, it would cause chaos on the opponent. As long as the opponent moved at that time, he would be able to pinpoint the enemy's position and launch a targeted attack.

But now, the enemy has been standing still, and he has repeatedly shot empty. Seeing that there are not many sleeve arrows with him.Mo Luotang felt a little worried. Now he didn't know how many people the other party had and whether there would be reinforcements. If it continued, if the reinforcements arrived, it would be easy for him to escape. If he wanted to bring Zhao Yuning back safely, his chances of winning were hard to say. up.

Mo Yutang quietly retreated to the side of the carriage, called Zhao Yuning out of the carriage, asked several guards to use the carriage as a cover, and moved forward slowly, while he led Zhao Yuning back quietly, not far behind was a fork, go left Going through Ancheng, bypassing Ancheng to reach the capital, although it takes a big circle, at least it is much safer.

After making up their minds, the two started to run towards the fork, riding horses for fear of alarming the enemy and discovering their plan, Zhao Yuning didn't know martial arts, so the two of them ran for a long time before finally finding the fork, and happened to pass a car at the fork. The carriage, Mo Luotang bought the carriage with 20 taels of silver, so the two of them didn't have to rely on their legs to exhaust themselves.

But unfortunately, the horse pulling the cart is an old horse, and has been malnourished for a long time, emaciated, and its forward speed is only a little faster than the two of them using their legs. Mo Luotang cursed fiercely in his heart: "Bastard , I came here in secret, who would know, is there a traitor in the prime minister's mansion? Impossible, Ran Hai is extremely cautious in employing people, who has leaked the secret, alas, when we arrive in the town ahead, we must quickly change to a better horse, Lest you have long nights and dreams."

While Mo Xiaotang was thinking, Zhao Yuning next to him asked anxiously: "Who are those people, are they sent by that bitch pretending to be me to kill me?"

"It should be, it's probably not wrong, unless you have other enemies." Mo Luotang answered Zhao Yuning's question absent-mindedly.

"Other enemies? That's impossible. Even if there were, they wouldn't be able to send people to hunt and kill me. Besides, why didn't they come sooner or later? Why did they come when I was going to Beijing? I guess it's that woman It was done." Zhao Yuning said with certainty.

Hearing this, Mo Xiaotang looked up at Zhao Yuning, smiled and said, "I didn't expect that your thoughts are sometimes very delicate."

Zhao Yuning looked at the smiling Mo Xiaotang, and also said with a smile: "I didn't expect that you look good when you smile, but it's a pity that I'm going to enter the palace to be a concubine, otherwise."

"No, no, no, otherwise." Mo Luotang quickly waved his hands and said, as if he was afraid that if he said a word too late, this girl would pounce on her and ask for a kiss.

Seeing this, Zhao Yuning gave Mo Xiaotang an angry look, and said, "How long will it take us to walk like this to get to the capital?"

Mo Luotang shook his head helplessly and said, "Who knows, it will be soon enough to get a better horse in the town ahead."

Zhao Yuning straightened up, and immediately fell down on the car with a tired face, and then asked weakly: "How long will it take to get to the town?"

Mo Luotang looked up at the road in front of him, a winding path stretching as far as the eye can see, so he could only shake his head helplessly, leaning on the car and lazily said: "Wait slowly, when it's time to arrive, I will Arrived."

At this time, seven of the nine guards left behind as bait had died, one escaped and one was arrested.According to the person who was arrested, Mo Xiaotang had already taken Zhao Yuning to escape in the opposite direction.

After hearing this, the leader of the men in black said, "The opposite direction? Ancheng! Old Zhang, let me go!"

"Yes." Hearing this, the person next to him ran back to the forest and took out a cage, which contained a well-trained pigeon. After the leader wrote a secret letter, he tied it to the pigeon and let it out.

The direction of the pigeon's flight is not the capital, but Ancheng. Ancheng is a small place where many business travelers often pass by. Therefore, the economy here has always been very good.The better the economy is, the more people are mixed up, so people from the rivers and lakes are naturally indispensable.

It was almost evening, the setting sun had already slanted, and the evening sun shone on Mo Yutang and Zhao Yuning, showing a sense of laziness.

Suddenly Mo Luotang sat up abruptly, looked up at the endless road ahead, and then looked back at the still endless road. Feeling an inexplicable uneasiness, Zhao Yuning also sat up while shielding the setting sun with her hands. Looking at Mo Xiaotang's nervous expression, she thought that the pursuers had arrived, and quickly looked around, seeing that the surroundings were still deserted. Mo Xiaotang said, "What's wrong with you, are you so nervous all of a sudden?"

Mo Luotang didn't answer, just grabbed the reins, reined in the horse, and then led the horse around, and then drove the horse forward again, and started to walk in the opposite direction again.

Zhao Yuning asked with a confused face: "Are you sleeping stupidly? Why did you go so well, and suddenly you have to change your course again? Aren't you afraid of being chased and killed by the pursuers?"

After Mo Luotang snorted coldly, he said: "The nine wastes must have been wiped out long ago. This horse moves slowly, almost not much faster than us walking on legs. With such a slow speed, if there are pursuers I have already caught up, so the most dangerous thing is not the way to retreat, but the way forward, Ancheng."

Zhao Yuning seemed to understand Mo Xiaotang's words, and suddenly realized: "Oh, I understand, because they had already laid an ambush in Ancheng, so they didn't come to chase us, but waited for us to fall into the trap."

Mo Xiaotang smiled and said: "Well, but this may not be the reason why they didn't chase us. The real reason should be that they didn't expect one thing."

Zhao Yuning tilted her head curiously and asked, "An unexpected thing? What is it?"

Mo Luotang leaned forward, stretched out his hand to gently stroke the horse's back and said, "Thanks to this old horse, they didn't expect us to drive such a group of slow-moving old horses to Ancheng. Since they want to escape, they must ride on good horses and fast horses, if so, then when they wiped out our people, it must have been a while, and it will be difficult to catch up with us."

Zhao Yuning nodded and said: "Well, yes, when our horses were scattered, they didn't know how many horses were scattered in the distance, so they didn't expect that we rushed to the fork in the road by running."

Mo Luotang then nodded and said: "That's right, they thought they couldn't catch up with us and stopped chasing us, because they knew we would go through Ancheng, and they had already made preparations in Ancheng, so they pinned their hopes on Ancheng, if we The rider is really fast and good, and I am afraid that he has fallen into the siege of the opponent at this moment, you say, we should thank this old horse from time to time?"

"It should be, it should be!" Zhao Yuning said while leaning forward and patted her hand on the horse's back.

If you lose a horse, you know it is not a blessing, and if you gain a horse, you know it is not a disaster. It seems that in addition to knowing the way, an old horse can sometimes save lives.Or should it be said that in the dark, everything was predetermined?Maybe God destined Gu Xining to meet Zhao Yuning once in a while and fight to the death, so he helped Zhao Yuning who was doomed in the dark.

So Gu Xining, who is far away in the capital, is she ready to face Zhao Yuning?
(End of this chapter)