The concubine is poisonous

Chapter 178 Leaves and Horseshoe Prints
If this is the case, then the emperor may be in serious danger now, since Ran Hai knows everything, then he will definitely not do anything, just waiting to be caught, it is definitely not Ran Hai's style.He believed that Ran Hai would definitely send someone to kill the emperor along the way.

Zuo Haobai had to admit that in some respects, Gu Xinning was really much more careful than himself. Zuo Haobai might be able to control the overall situation better, but in some details, he was obviously not as shrewd and astute as Gu Xinning. wise.

After thinking of this question, fine sweat dripped from Zuo Haobai's forehead. Gu Xinning looked at Zuo Haobai's face, and already knew what Zuo Haobai was thinking now, and at the same time, he also knew that Ye Junyan was facing extreme difficulties. There was no big threat, so he quickly said: "Let's go quickly, I hope we can catch up."

As Gu Xinning spoke, she raised her legs and was about to rush forward, but stopped after taking two steps.

Where should I go?Beijing?Southern Xinjiang?Or on the way back to the capital?The capital city of Zhaoxuan Kingdom is thousands of miles away from southern Xinjiang, how to determine?Ye Jun said when and where did you arrive?
Gu Xinning's heart began to fluctuate, Zuo Haobai stood silently behind Gu Xinning, did not speak, Zuo Haobai also thought of the problem that Gu Xinning was thinking of now, and he knew that Gu Xinning was worrying about it at the moment, so it was inconvenient for him to speak To disturb Gu Xinning's thoughts, at the same time, Zuo Haobai himself was actively imagining various possibilities and ways to deal with them.

After a long time, Zuo Haobai, who was thinking hard, suddenly heard Gu Xinning's voice from next to his ear: "No matter what, let's talk about it after leaving the Nightless Valley. If there is any problem that you can't figure out, just think about it slowly on the road." As Gu Xinning spoke, she took the lead and walked forward.

Zuo Haobai looked at Gu Xinning's back with admiring eyes, nodded with a smile, and followed. Indeed, the road to leave Wuye Valley and the road to climb over the big mountain outside Wuye Valley is not easy to say. It takes two or three days. They want to think about things, and they have plenty of time to think on the road, so they don't want to waste time here.

The two, one in front and one behind, hurriedly walked outside the Nightless Valley.

The words were divided into two parts. At this time, the team escorting Ye Junyan was not far from the border of southern Xinjiang after a night of traveling.On another mountain road, there were more than a thousand fast horses galloping among them. They tried their best to catch up with Ye Junyan and set up an ambush to prevent him from returning to the capital.

There are only two paths in front of them, one is to kill Ye Junyan smoothly, and enjoy the glory and wealth from then on.The second is that the action failed and died in the hands of the enemy, or died in the hands of his own master.People like them have basically disregarded life and death for a long time. Every task in life is a gamble for them. If they win the gamble, there will be more exciting life waiting for them. , life is coming to an end.

At this time, the high priest was sitting in his room, cross-legged and recuperating. Although arrangements had been made before, the matter was of great importance. After Ye Junyan and the others left, the high priest sent people to investigate all the way. Just in case someone who is unruly wants to speak against Lord Ye.

At this time, there was a sudden rush of footsteps outside the door, the high priest frowned, and said to the door: "There is no need to knock on the door, come in and talk!"

The person at the door was about to raise his hand to knock on the door, when he heard the words of the high priest, his hand stopped in mid-air, after a moment of stunned, he came back to his senses, stretched out his hand and opened the door, entered the room, and walked in front of the high priest Kneeling down, he reported to the high priest: "I report to the high priest, according to your instructions, I sent people to investigate dozens of miles outside the city, and found many messy horseshoe marks and broken wine bowls. The new ones will stay soon."

Hearing the report from his subordinates, the High Priest frowned and thought to himself: "Li Mu escorted Ye Junyan back to the capital. He acted in secret and would never make it public. It seems that something is about to happen." Then he asked: "Can you?" Can you estimate how many people there are?"

The respondent lowered his head and thought for a while and said: "Most of the bowls were broken, it is difficult to count the exact number, but there are many fragments. It is conservatively estimated that the number of wine bowls is at least five or six hundred."

"So many?" The high priest murmured, then asked with a frown, "Do you know where they are going?"

The reporter replied: "The place of discovery is a forest. There are three roads outside the forest. One is the road to the city, the other two are to Zhaoxuan Kingdom, and the other is to the East Sea. On the road to the South Sea, there are a large number of There are no traces of the horse team passing by on the road leading to Zhaoxuan Kingdom, so they should be going to the East China Sea."

The high priest heard that the horse team might be going to the East China Sea, so he relaxed his mood a little bit, thinking that he might be suspicious, but soon, the high priest felt that something was wrong, he always felt that all this was too coincidental, why did Ye Jun As soon as Yan Xing left, a large number of horse teams suddenly gathered outside the city, drinking wine and breaking bowls to show their strength.

Is everything really just a coincidence?The high priest frowned and thought for a long time, before deciding to go and have a look in person to avoid any omissions.

So he ordered the returner to lead the way for him, and went to the place where the traces of the horse team passed and the traces of the assembly were found.

When I came to the woods outside the city, I saw debris all over the ground, as well as traces of horseshoe marks in a mess.

Then I rode a horse and looked towards the direction of the East China Sea, as the reporter said, and found that the horseshoes on the ground were clearly visible, covering almost the entire road, and most of the horseshoe prints were complete and clear.

But just after seeing the horseshoe prints, the high priest's eyes suddenly became sharper, but his brows frowned even tighter. The high priest looked melancholy, reined in his horse, turned back, and ran on the road towards Zhaoxuan Kingdom , I ran all the way for several miles, but I didn't see a horseshoe print on the road, and I didn't even see a human footprint. I saw some leaves scattered here and there.

The high priest jumped off his horse, picked up a few leaves, and found that there were more or less traces of rubbing on these leaves.But now it is spring, everything is recovering soon, the new leaves are growing thrivingly, there is no reason for them to fall out of thin air.

The high priest raised his head suddenly, looked in the direction of Zhao Xuanguo, frowned, and began to feel uneasy.The traces on this road were obviously cleaned by people, and the branches used to clean the traces should be branches. Although they cleaned up the traces and branches, they still left some leaves that have not been removed. Moreover, the entire road The road was cleared too cleanly, which was also a big mistake they made.

In addition, on the road leading to the East China Sea, the footprints of horseshoes are neat and complete, apparently formed by a number of horses passing side by side and trampling on them.If a large number of horses passed by, the horseshoe marks would be trampled by many horses one after another, and the horseshoe rhyme would never be so neat and complete, it should be messy and scattered.

Therefore, the road to the East China Sea is just a cover-up of the other party, used to hide the real whereabouts, and at the same time, the deliberate concealment behavior further exposes its purpose and mission. It must be to intercept Ye Junyan, so that Ye Junyan cannot return to the capital. It might even be to kill Ye Junyan.

Thinking of this, the high priest quickly got on his horse and ran towards the city. He wanted to dispatch troops to help Ye Junyan. Regardless of whether something happened to Ye Junyan in the southern border, he had to keep Ye Junyan. Only Ye Junyan was safe and sound. , the peace between the two countries can be maintained one after another. Once something happens to Ye Junyan, the diplomatic relations between the two countries will fall into a fragile situation. As long as someone provokes a little, there will be a bloodbath.

Moreover, taking good care of Ye Junyan is also his promise to Gu Xinning. He cannot violate his promise to the saint and break his promise to the saint.

Unknowingly, the team escorting Ye Junyan had entered the border of Zhaoxuan Kingdom for a while.

At this time, the high priest gave Ye Junyan the tranquilizing medicine that he drank. The effect of the medicine had expired, and Ye Junyan had already woken up. After waking up, Ye Junyan found himself sitting in the carriage, and his mood began to become a little nervous. The two maidservants who came to take care of him were all unfamiliar faces. Ye Junyan was a little scared, and shrank in a corner of the carriage, looking at the two of them, not daring to speak.

Seeing this, one of the maidservants with big eyes stepped forward to greet Ye Junyan and said, "Your Majesty, are you awake? Is your Majesty feeling thirsty? Would you like me to pour you a bowl of water?"

Ye Junyan shook his head in panic and said, "No, no, who are you? Where are Ah Chun and Ah Hua? Why aren't they here? Where's the high priest?"

Achun and Ahua were the ones who served Ye Junyan before. Because they had been in charge of serving Ye Junyan before, almost everyone in the southern border knew about it. The high priest was worried that someone would try to use them. Being bribed or threatened by others would be detrimental to Ye Junyan, so before leaving, the high priest specially selected two maidservants who had never been in contact with Ye Junyan to replace Ah Chun and A Hua.

The current two maidservants, one named Ying Lian and the other named Ying Shui'er, although they belonged to the Ying clan, but their status was not high, they were slaves of the Ying clan who were in charge of serving the dignitaries.

It was Ying Shui'er who spoke just now, and when Ying Shui'er heard what Ye Jun said, he quickly replied, "My Majesty, Ah Chun and A Hua are staying in Southern Xinjiang, and Xiao Lian and I are responsible for serving the Emperor along the way. If you have any instructions at night, you just want to tell the two of us, and we will serve the emperor with all our heart."

Ye Junyan, due to his limited mind, couldn't understand for a moment, and shouted displeasedly: "Who asked you to serve, I don't want you, I want Ah Chun and Ah Hua."

"But your majesty, Achun and Ahua, they are all in the southern border, far away from us, if you have any needs, just tell us two." Ying Shui'er continued to speak patiently.

Ye Junyan looked at the two with flickering eyes, and after looking at them for a while, he felt that the two seemed to have no ill intentions towards him, so he said cautiously: "I'm so hungry, I want to eat."

Seeing that Ye Junyan finally accepted the two of them, Ying Shui'er smiled and said, "Okay, please wait a moment, Your Majesty, we will fetch some dry food and water for you." From his luggage, he took out the dry food and water bag, handed them to Ye Junyan, and helped Ye Junyan break the dry food into small pieces for Ye Junyan to eat.

(End of this chapter)