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Chapter 79

Late at night, Wang Xiao opened his eyes and saw a figure in the darkness.

Startled, he sat up abruptly.

Taking a closer look, what I saw in the moonlight was Zhang Hongdao's tired face.

"Huh... Goro, why are you here? It scares me."

"It's all my hands here, what's so strange about it? You see, I can kill you at any time."

Wang Luo said, "I mean, don't you even need to sleep? You didn't sleep last night."

"How can you sleep so deeply?" Zhang Hongdao said in a cold tone, "You are colluding everywhere and plotting rebellion, yet you still dare to sleep soundly? It's ridiculous."

"Otherwise? In order to rebel, why don't you go to sleep?"

Wang Luo yawned, his mouth was so big that it was scary, and he smiled and asked: "Just because you saw me, you were scared like this? It's too timid. Don't worry, you know what I know, and it won't spread to the Khan court. of."

"Hmph, I am loyal to Han Ting, why should I be afraid. Let me ask you, what is the situation of Zhao Song's secret work?"

"I told you all about it." Wang Luo said, "We gave the information to a 50-[-]-year-old man, who is easy to recognize and has a big scar on his face. You catch all the scarred people in the city, and I will give it to you." You identify it. If you really can’t find it, I’ll ask you..."

"That person's name is Laogui?"

"Maybe, I don't care what his name is... Hey, you have already found him?"

"How will he pass the information back?"

"Could it be that Goro is stupid? Isn't that the group of spies you're chasing come north to meet him?"

Zhang Hongdao asked: "He doesn't have other channels to pass on the information?"

"Ha, is it easy to send news to Zhao Song? How should I put it..."

At this point, Wang Luo patted the quilt and said: "Song people are also interesting. For more than 50 years, first the Kaixi Northern Expedition, then the Jiading peace talks, and finally forced to join forces to destroy the gold. First Duanping entered Luo, and then Withdraw from Sanjing. Whether it is war or peace, it is vacillating. Up to now, the words 'recovering the Central Plains' have become delusional for them..."

"I know, it's useful."

"According to that person... his name is Lao Gui, right? Lao Gui said that two years ago, Song Ting would send someone to find a way to contact him. Now that he's not here, it's hard to spread the information he has."

"and then?"

"That night, it must have been late March." Wang Luo recalled, "We gave him the information and asked him if he could pass it on to Song Ting. He said that at the end of last year, Song Ting was told to send someone to collect it. It must have started after the new year, and it will be here soon, and this time he will go back to his hometown with them."

"is it?"

"Yes, I also said at the time, logically speaking, Zhao Song should have sent someone to wait for such a big event, oh, what a waste of time."

Zhang Hongdao frowned in thought.

Wang Luo laughed loudly and said, "What? They've already run away? I told you, it's been three months, maybe the people and intelligence arrived in Lin'an earlier..."

"Old Gui should be dead."

"died?"

"Otherwise?" Zhang Hongdao said indifferently: "The fine works of the Song Ting School are only coming now, can he still run back to the Song Dynasty alone?"

"Ha." Wang Luo spread his hands and said with a smile: "If you die, you will die. It seems that I couldn't help Wulang this time. It's a pity."

"Where did you meet Lao Gui?"

"Goro wants to know?"

"The man I'm looking for is likely to go there."

"Li Xia?" Wang Luo said, "I've heard this man's name many times in the past two days. I don't know why Wulang went so hard to find him?"

"Official business."

"Then you are really dedicated to the public."

"Tell me, where did you meet Lao Gui?"

"Can Li Xia really find it there?"

"He'll be found soon."

"Okay, it's okay to tell Wulang, beside Longting Lake, to the west of the former site of Fanlou, there is a garden called 'Knowing the Time Garden', which means 'Good rain knows the season'..."

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"Zhishi Garden?"

"Yes." Gao Changshou said: "It's not difficult to find out, I asked several sandalwood merchants in succession, and the Zhishiyuan family is the only one that uses high-grade dragon saliva in Kaifeng City."

Li Xia asked again: "Whose garden is it?"

"I can't find out about it." Gao Changshou said: "But the north bank of Longting Lake is the original Great Song Palace, and now Kublai Khan's Palace, Henan Jinglue Mansion, etc. are all nearby, and Zhishi Garden is across the lake from it."

"Just looking at this location, the owner of the garden is unusual."

"Yes, I wanted to inquire more carefully, but I thought that the pursuers would probably guess that we would ask the sandalwood merchants, so I only took a look at it from a distance and came back. Sure enough, I seemed to be followed when I came back, and I went around for a while. It took a big circle to get rid of it. Also, Kaifeng City is blocked today."

After Gao Changshou finished speaking, Li Xia's eyes were full of thought.

"Is the city closed, prepare to transfer..."

"Xiao Langjun, if we can find Zhishiyuan, others can also find it." Han Chengxu said: "I'm afraid it's impossible to go there."

"Ah."

Han Chengxu turned his head and glanced at Liu Jinsuo in the distance, and said in a low voice: "Zhao Xin disappeared three or two months ago, and it is possible that he died. The imperial court doesn’t pay much attention to this matter, otherwise they wouldn’t just send us here. Why don’t we just go back to the Song Dynasty?”

As he said that, he and Li Xia subconsciously walked a few more steps, walked a little farther, and said: "Going back now, what Cheng Xianggong should give to Xiao Langjun should be indispensable."

Li Xia asked, "Why didn't the imperial court take this matter seriously?"

"I'm afraid we have to start with 'Duanping Entering Luo'. After the Jin Kingdom was destroyed, the officials wanted to restore it. The courtiers all said that the land was vast, and at least 15 elite troops were needed to defend the Yellow River defense line. The Great Song Dynasty was unable to bear the burden. All parties were constrained, and finally [-] infantry marched into Henan, and they lost... half of them. Afterwards, the Mongolians went south, and fortunately Meng Shaobao and Du Xianggong..."

"Tell me the name."

"Yes, fortunately, Meng Gong, Yu Jie, Du Gao, Zhao Kui and other famous generals ruled the Sichuan, Jinghu, Jianghuai battlefields, and guarded the country's barriers. But the ambition to regain the Central Plains is probably..."

"I'm afraid it's impossible to regain the Central Plains?"

"Yes, Meng Gong, Yu Jie, and Du Gao have passed away one after another in the past few years. Zhao Kui stayed away from the court under the name of "the troublemaker in the three capitals". It is impossible to restore the Central Plains, and it is even more impossible now."

When Han Chengxu said this, he shook his head and sighed: "The defenses of Jianghuai, Jinghu, and Sichuan are there. I already knew that the Mongolian army was going south. What's the use of passing this information back to the north?"

Li Xia asked: "Didn't it mean that there is a great prince in the north who wants to rebel?"

"Who knows if it's true or not? If it's true, can the imperial court still send troops to the north? Even, some people in the court are worried that if there is real information sent back, if there is another main battle, there will be a 'Duanping into Luo'."

"After all, it's an opportunity, shouldn't we grasp the news first?"

"Pian'an, Pian'an... I'm afraid Mr. Xiao Lang still doesn't understand the various thoughts in the word 'Pian'an'."

When Han Chengxu said this, he stroked his beard and thought for a while, and then said: "Of course, these are all my speculations. Maybe the imperial court attaches great importance to this information, which is why they sent me here. I just told what I know. The decision is made by Mr. Xiao Lang..."

Gao Changshou turned his head to look, with some thought in his eyes.

He couldn't hear the whispers of the two, but he could feel keenly... Han Chengxu's attitude towards Li Xia was completely different.

The difference between "Li Langjun" and "Xiao Langjun", in Han Chengxu's mouth, clearly called out the difference between the inside and the outside, and it seemed that Li Xia was the master.

Taking advantage of the fact that I went out with Lin Zi today...

An old man serves a young man as his master, what are the two worthless people going to do?Is it a prince?

Gao Changshou thought of the destruction of the Dali Kingdom, and thought of the "local generals" that Li Xia had said before, and suddenly felt a little confused...

(End of this chapter)