Jicanghai

Xie Jue originally came here to intercede for his brother-in-law, when he heard the words, his face turned pale, he lowered his head and read the sacrificial oration, not knowing where to start.Seeing that he hesitated to leave, Ming Ran asked, "Do you have something to say?" His tone was unusually cold, there was no room for others to speak, Xie Jue could only shake his head.Mingran turned a blind eye to his anxiety and asked him to go out to assist Feng Chengzhu and others in preparing for the memorial service.

Xie Jue didn't dare to say anything more, but it didn't mean that everyone was like this.After a few days of sacrifice, Zhong Xu came to the door and blocked Ming Ran in Chengfu Hall.I don't know what the nephew and uncle said, but I can only vaguely hear Uncle Zhong Guo's spitting from time to time.Ah Yan and the two maids waited anxiously outside the hall in the middle of the night, until Mingran came out of the hall in the early morning of the next day and ordered to prepare a ship to go back to Yunjing.

Ming Zhuohua stared at the faint finger marks on his face, and finally couldn't help asking: "Master, did Uncle Guo hit you?"

Mingran said indifferently: "How much strength he can have, but I scratched him lightly, and after I complied with him, I stopped hitting him."

Uncle beating nephew is also beating, and others have no room to comment.Ming Zhuohua was not reconciled, and quietly reported: "Yesterday, I saw Master Xie's family conspiring with my uncle for a long time."

Ming Ran hummed, Ming Zhuohua saw that his complexion was not good, so he didn't dare to say any more, he just followed his instructions to prepare his luggage, and the rest of Ming Ran stood in the porch and watched the birds foraging in the courtyard, silent.

To him, Zhong Xu's messing around was like a fly shaking a tree, and it didn't affect anything, but when he led everyone to pay homage to Wen Jiaxiu a few days ago, although he only stated the cause of Wen Jiaxiu's death truthfully at the memorial ceremony, he never revealed his intentions. And the future whereabouts of Mingxiang Army, but looking at the expressions of everyone, apart from sadness and anger, many people showed a kind of dazed panic. Regardless of disappointment or disappointment, it is not so easy to give up completely.

He only cares about the ups and downs of his thoughts in a daze, but Zhong Xu followed him out again, leaned up and looked at Mingran's face, both annoyed and distressed: "I didn't hit you on purpose, I was also in a hurry... You have to know, if Yunjing falls, wouldn't we become slaves to the subjugated country? Oh, why didn't you hide when I beat you? Are you stupid?"

He wanted to rub Ming Ran's face, but Ming Ran blocked him.

Zhong Xu's big eyes flickered, showing a bit of embarrassment.Mingran teased him for a cup of tea, and seeing his uncle's pure and innocent appearance, he lost his temper again.This little uncle is said to be an elder, but as the old son of the Zhong family, he is not as old as his eldest nephew. Since he was a child, he has been pampered by the big family members, and he has no idea that the world is difficult. How can he understand him? situation and mood.He sighed secretly, and finally smiled helplessly: "It doesn't hurt, what are you hiding? It's my fault that I didn't make it clear to you in advance, I planned to go back. You stayed in Jiehai City, brother-in-law. The emperor issued a decree that if Yunjing can be taken down, the ministers of civil and military affairs can surrender. Only the six surnames of Yunjing, no man will be left, and the woman will be an official prostitute. You and I are all being slaughtered Lie, you don't have the ability to protect yourself, so don't go back."

Zhong Xu twisted Liu Yemei, and was about to continue arguing with him, Ming Ran hurriedly circled his hands, Zhong Xu couldn't move, so he broke out fiercely: "If you don't let me go back, I might as well die now, I will die too Let you bear an unfilial name!"

Mingran was beaten and angry for nothing but couldn't fight back, and felt panicked, so she could only smile shyly: "So I just found out today that my uncle hates me so much. Well, we'll go back now, we will live and die together."

Because there is a part of Mingxiang Army stationed in Yunjing, they are waiting for someone to go back and take over.As for the overall situation in Jihai City, there are also a lot of people, so Mingran only brought more than [-] boats back this time, including five fire dragon boats, and the rest are medium-sized sea falcon boats.Because Zuo Susu was pregnant, she left Ming Fuzhu to accompany her.Generals Feng Chengzhu and Wei Shuangqiao of the Ming Xiang Army also stayed on Twin Islands.Accompanying them were Zhong Xu, A Yan, Ming Zhuo Hua, Xie Jue, Liu Yin and others, and Yi Tan also abandoned his lovely wife and followed up cheekily.

When a group of people came to the mouth of the great river, they should go to Haimen Island immediately to resupply the ships according to the usual practice. Moreover, the checks on the passing ships are extremely strict. Should I rely on the self-registration number and go to the captain of Haimen to apply for ship supplies.

Mingran said: "No report, you go and have a look with me at night."

The largest town on Haimen Island is Haimen Town, where the government office is built.Mingran and Xie Jue sneaked in in the middle of the night, and saw notices posted everywhere outside the government office at the intersection of the pier, and upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a portrait of Wen Renyu, so that the people in the government and the people from all over the country should immediately arrest him when they see him.

Mingran couldn't help being angry again, the secret master, you knew that you killed Wen Jiaxiu by mistake, but you still refused to let Wen Renyu go, are you planning to threaten me with it?It just doesn't make sense!

In the middle of the night, Captain Haimen was dragged out of the warm blanket by Xie Jue.This captain was born in martial arts, and he had some kung fu in his hands, but somehow he was taken down before he had time to resist.After Xie Jue questioned, Captain Haimen put on a face that would rather die than surrender, and Mingran said impatiently: "Extort a confession. If you don't tell me, you will die."

Xie Jue immediately geared up his fists and sacrificed his whip and sharp blade, and was about to force a confession, Haimen Duwei heard Mingran's voice, looked up at the two of them in surprise, and suddenly shouted: "Don't be impatient, both of you, I'll tell you right away! "Before Xie Jue made a move, he obediently recruited everything.

It turned out that he had received two secret decrees from Lord Zhu Luan in succession a while ago, the first one was to strictly guard against the Haimen Pass, prohibiting that Mingxiang Army Capital Yuhou Wen Renyu from fleeing to the East China Sea with a ten-year-old girl.The second way is to inspect and monitor the incoming ships in the East China Sea at any time, and report the traces of Marquis Yongjiang immediately without error.

Mingran thought to himself that this journey was not publicized, but Lord Zhu Luan got the news so quickly, presumably someone in the Mingxiang Army made publicity for him.It's just that there have been too many irritating and helpless things recently, and he's used to it, so he just threw the captain of Haimen away, turned around and went out.

The two turned back on the same road and walked for a while, but found someone following behind them.Mingran slowed down her pace, and when she was far away, those people still followed furtively.He simply stopped and turned around and shouted: "Come out."

Seeing that Xingzang was exposed, a few people rushed out, and the leader was the captain of Haimen, who shouted loudly: "Yongjiang Marquis, I still have something to report!"

Ming Ran was taken aback, although he was too lazy to change his face, but the black scarf covered his face with only two eyes exposed, he couldn't believe that this person had such bright eyes.At this moment, looking up and down at the captain of Haimen, the thought of murder and silence once again appeared in his heart, and his eyes were as cold as ice in an instant.The man was slightly trembling when he saw it, but he took this opportunity to boldly rush forward, seeing that he wanted to hug his leg, Ming Ran dodged and said, "What are you doing? How could you recognize me?"

Captain Haimen hurriedly explained: "Your official is just guessing randomly. You should be back by the time you count. It's just a matter of luck. You hit the right way." Scalp said again: "Actually, there was a year of martial arts. Young Master Ming, you were the chief examiner, but the next official happened to be one of the martial arts candidates. I have met you a few times, and I have heard you admonish me to wait once. It should be your disciple."

Mingran had only been the chief examiner of martial arts for one session, and in that year, except for Yu Jinfeng, who he got back, there were no outstanding figures who appeared. If you run away once in anger, you won't remember this person, so you can only be polite at the moment: "What's your name?"

Captain Haimen said: "My surname is Yang. My surname..." He suddenly thought of something, and said again: "At that time, my surname was friendly with another Juzi named Yu, who later joined your Mingxiang Army. We haven't seen each other since you went to Donghai, but I don't know if you have come back this time?"

Mingran hummed, and finally remembered that there was such a person, so he said, "You mean Yu Jinfeng? Don't drag me to get involved. If you don't kill you, just say what you have to say."

Yang Duwei said: "Speaking bluntly like this. Yunjing is in a hurry, and I am waiting for you to return to the king of Jingqin! The lord of the country ordered officials from all over the river to provide food, grass and military pay as soon as they saw the return of Yongjiang Hou. But today The officer was lucky enough to meet the Marquis, why did you leave after asking the officer some questions? Don’t tell me your ship doesn’t need supplies?”

Now that Mingran has returned after all his wealth is gone, he doesn't care for the little supplies, but just stands there with his hands up, with a bad attitude and a cold tone: "No need."

If he doesn't want it, then he doesn't want it, and Captain Yang has nothing to do, he got Mingran's promise not to kill him, so he followed him all the way and asked him how he was, but Mingran just ignored him.After everyone passed the Haimen Pass, he finally called Yang Duwei to him and asked, "You said Yunjing is in a hurry, how urgent is it?"

Yang Duwei finally waited for him to speak, and he heard Lun's voice for a while, and hurriedly said: "Actually, it was fine a while ago, with General Wen on the water and General Wan on the land, Yunjing also seemed to be in a stable state. It's a pity that General Wen...he...caused Mingxiang's soldiers to lose their minds and almost collapsed. However, another powerful general came to Cangpei Kingdom, and he never showed up. However, they always win by surprise. All of a sudden, several groups of soldiers and horses approached Yunjing separately, and the people in the court panicked. How about receiving the secret decree from the lord?"

Mingran sneered: "Didn't you do it all by yourself? You feel honored to accept his secret decree?" Turning around and leaving in a huff.

Yang Duwei didn't dare to answer, he just sent him away respectfully, and asked someone to urgently write a letter to the Lord Zhu Luan to report the matter.

The lord of the country received the secret report from Captain Yang in Yunjing, and he was so happy that he could not wait to dance: "It seems that my little uncle loves orphans the most! Xiaoran, my darling, come back obediently! Don't worry, Your previous rudeness and arrogance, Gu will let you go, who is older than you, so naturally I have to coax you to let you go! Wen Hui, do you want to pick up Gu personally? Our little cousin?"

Zuo Wenhui: "That's... just forget it. If Your Majesty wants to clear up the estrangement with his cousin and clear up the previous suspicions, it would be most appropriate to withdraw the people who hunted Wen Renyu back."

The lord's face turned cold: "That's absolutely impossible. We'll do it secretly, and we must not let him know. If we can get that Wen Renyu back before him, it will be safe. Xiaoran has wings. I guess I can't fly away, hahahahaha..."

After returning from the Haimen official office, Mingran tore off the black scarf on his face and threw it away, his face was always gloomy.Xie Jue was at his side, looking for an opportunity to carefully explain: "My lord, I am waiting to return to Yunjing, it's not that I leaked the news."

Mingran said: "Well, it should be my little uncle, but you also fanned the flames, don't think I don't know."

Xie Jue shrank and fell silent.Mingran just said it casually, but he really didn't intend to argue with him, but secretly thought about what Yang Duwei said just now, saying that the other party had a new general, and his methods were chaotic but always won by surprise. Could it be the cloud in the northwest The general is back?If it is true that the general of the northern army has returned, why is the general of the southern army not moving? Is it because Cang Peiguo hid it well, or is there some other reason?

He gave a new order to Ah Yu, who had been searching for Wen Renyu's whereabouts near Yunjing, to sneak into the Cangpei Army camp immediately to find out if the new general was Yun Yusu. Find out its whereabouts yourself.Ah Jiao was ordered to go to Cangpei country.

With Zhong Xu following, Mingran didn't expect to hide her whereabouts anymore.Officials from all walks of life along the river got the sovereign's will, and they came to pay their respects to the two in batches, and harassed them endlessly.Mingran hid in the cabin and pretended to be dead most of the time, and secretly searched for Wen Renyu's hiding place, and asked the searchers to drop the secret marks of Mingxiang Army everywhere as much as possible.

As a result, several days passed, but Wen Renyu was still nowhere to be seen.However, based on the clues reported by A Yan and others, it seems that another group of people are also searching everywhere, and they are so numerous and powerful that they are highly skilled and sneaky. They have casually photographed this side several times, but the other party hastily avoided them. .

Mingran guessed that it should be someone sent by Yunjing, and suddenly realized in anxiety that Wen Renyu brought Wen Jiaxiu's daughter and was wanted by two groups of people. They chatted and chatted affectionately, and he must have become suspicious.According to his temperament of accepting death, he would never come to the door to ask for clarification. He would only hide deeper and further away, or even disappear forever in the rivers, lakes and mountains, never to appear again.

In the blink of an eye, seven or eight days passed, and it was getting closer to Yunjing. On this day, another group of local officials came to pay respects to the two, and listening to their tone, the king of the country actually planned to go out of the city to greet him.Mingran was completely impatient, so she reluctantly sent them away, turned her head and said to Zhong Xu: "Ming'er asked Xie Jue and Liu Xuan to accompany you back to Yunjing, and I will go elsewhere."

Zhong Xu's face changed slightly: "Where are you going? Since the lord wants to meet him in person, you can't leave, you can't give him no face, what do others look like!"

Mingran replied in a very concise and shocking way: "I'll find someone." He turned to go back to his cabin, but Zhong Xu grabbed his sleeve and did not leave him.Mingran simply pushed the boat along and dragged him into the cabin, while coaxing: "Uncle, aren't you tired after a busy day? Come, come, I'll wait for you to rest early."

He forcibly threw Zhong Xu onto the bed and planned to have him meet Duke Zhou. Zhong Xu understood his intention and exclaimed: "Xiaoran, Xiaoran, what are you going to do to uncle? You don't want that... say It’s because you all know how to get acupuncture points, it’s very harmful to your body! Or do you want to... oh my, is there a nephew in this world who intends to do something wrong to his uncle? You unfilial son, unfilial son!”

Ming Ran covered his mouth with his hand, blocking his unscrupulous nonsense: "How could it be. You sleep well, and don't touch your sleeping hole."

Zhong Xu just struggled endlessly: "You are not allowed to go, you can sleep if you want, you stay with me!" But he heard a soft "click", and in the struggle, he accidentally swung something off the small table beside the bed with his arm on the ground.

Mingran picked up the thing and glanced at it, his expression changed immediately, he held a bow in his hand, pushed Zhong Xu away and walked out through the window, his figure instantly disappeared in the dark night.

Zhong Xu said in surprise: "Xiaoran, you really can't go!" He looked out of the window with his big eyes wide open, and saw the moon shining in the spring, the sky was clear and quiet, and there was no shadow of Mingran.

Ming Ranfei landed on the shore, holding his breath and concentrating, and searched around. Not far away, among the clusters of smoky trees on the shore, it seemed that the wind was slightly moving the grass and trees.He dodged to chase after him, and sure enough, he saw a faint figure in front of him, riding the wind and riding the moon.Mingran hurriedly followed him like a shadow, and the mountains, rivers, ravines and gullies seemed to be in vain, and in a moment, he rushed out one after the other.

After walking for an hour, the people in front of us became less and less populated, with continuous black hills and criss-crossing rivers and ponds under our feet.That person's movement seemed to be slow, Mingran hurried two steps, and shouted: "Stop, if you run again, I will shoot the arrow."

The man seemed to tremble a bit when he heard the words "shooting arrows", and finally stopped on a treetop, his body fluttering up and down with the night wind, but he didn't turn around, and only sighed softly: "I owe you money, so I always feel guilty when I see you."

Ming Ran dodged up the big tree, slowly opened his right hand, and in his palm was a copper soldier talisman, which was exactly the one that Wen Renyu took away from Yunjing Mingxiang Army, and said in a deep voice: "It turns out that Wen Renyu and Mr. Ye, you are together. Why didn't you come to find me earlier?"

Ye Zhiliang turned around and looked at him, with a helpless expression on his face: "He said that if I leaked his whereabouts, he would die immediately. Besides, he wants to avenge Wen Jiaxiu, even if he sees you, what can you do? Can you grant his wish?"