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The heavy rain continued, and the Yan army continued day and night. They soaked in the cold wind and rain for seven or eight days. All the places with houses around Fusangguan were searched, but Yuanjing disappeared as if out of thin air, without a trace.Xumi Ting also came out to look for it once, but failed to find it all, and finally his eyes fell on the edge of the deep cliff closest to the village where he was staying.This cliff is bottomless, and there are poisonous miasma and ferocious beasts in it. If a person falls, there will be no life.

Fang Qing saw Xu Miting frowned, with displeasure written all over his face, fearing that he would say something cruel to irritate people, he hurriedly said: "I have searched below, and there is no trace of our young master."

Xu Miting looked at him suspiciously: "Your young master?"

Fang Qing glanced at Chu Yu's face, and said hesitantly: "Yes, he is a member of our prince's family, and he had some unpleasant troubles with him earlier, so he left in anger."

On the night of the Lantern Festival, most of the people in Fusang Pass saw the grand ceremony of fiery trees and silver flowers. After Xu Miting got the news, he looked out of the window and saw only a glimmer of glory. , I was dazed for a moment, and I didn't even listen to the old horse's intention to speculate on the surname Chu.Now that he heard Fang Qing's words, he immediately found out the inside story. With a sneer on his face, he snorted, "A family member?"

Seeing his strange expression, Fang Qing suspected that he knew something, so she didn't dare to speak up for a while.While talking, the imperial guards sent a secret letter, which was originally from Chu Yu's departure from Beijing. Many officials from the court and China were assassinated, and most of them were his cronies.Assassins appear elusive, and often escape without a trace after a successful strike. Occasionally, those who were defeated and captured would crush the poison between their teeth before being interrogated.People in the capital were panicked and the situation was unstable, so they jointly signed a letter, begging the regent to return to Beijing to sit in charge.

Fang Qing was well aware of the pros and cons, so he hurriedly sent the letter to Chu Yu.Dozens of soldiers, with sandbags tied to their feet, stood and groped in a rushing river. The ice and snow had just melted, and the water was bitingly cold. Every second, soldiers would come up to rest and take turns.Only Chu Yu stood still, standing in the air for several hours.Fang Qing passed the crowd and walked under the tree covered with ice flowers. Seeing Chu Yu staring at the water surface in ecstasy, Fang Qing was silent for a while, and then said, "My lord, there is another letter from Beijing." Chu Yu just nodded absently, No response either.Fang Qing had no choice but to say again: "It's still the same as last time." After a pause, "Commander Qiu was also assassinated, but fortunately nothing happened. Please return to Beijing to take charge of the overall situation."

This person was one of the first generals who surrendered after the palace change that day, and now he is in charge of the 3000 infantry in the palace.Chu Yu stared at the water, remained silent for a long time, and then said: "Send [-] people from the forward army, he knows what to do." Before he could speak, he changed his pace and went to the other side to supervise the leader without mentioning it.

Seeing that he was determined to find Yuan Jing first, Fang Qing had no choice but to go back and send people to reply to Jingzhong.Wu Shitu got up early, saw these three thousand armored soldiers marching out of the camp, and lazily said: "What trick did the prince come up with again? He went up the mountain and went down to the sea and didn't find his little emperor. This time, he wants to send someone to heaven?"

Fang Qing couldn't laugh or cry when he was squeezed by him, he waved his hands and said: "Your Majesty is joking, these people are sent to Beijing."

Wushitu glanced into the distance with complicated meaning, and his tone became serious: "Is there any change in Beijing?"

Fang Qing hesitated for a moment, and said: "It's fine now, but..." He sighed softly, saluted, and then went to arrange for today's rotation of soldiers.How shrewd Wushitu is, he understood the inside story in an instant, looked at his busy back for a long time, and smashed a few words from the root of his teeth: "It's crazy!"

Throwing the shawl studded with precious stones on the ground, and finding out where Chu Yu is now, he rushed towards the main tent like a rainbow.Today's weather is not good, and the tent is also groggy, and only one candlestick is lit, which can barely illuminate the map with many marks on it.Most of Chu Yu's body was immersed in the darkness, and when he heard the sound, he looked up.

Wushitu saw the disappointment flashing in his eyes, and his anger sank silently.After standing there for a moment, he walked over and lit the rest of the lampstands for him. When he turned around, he saw that Chu Yu was still looking at the map, as if he was thinking about something, and couldn't help but mocked: "I told you to get down and coax others." , then you have to be willing to listen, where is today’s business.”

Chu Yu said impatiently: "Go out if you have nothing to say."

Wushitu sat down on the soft chair confidently, and said: "The event has just been decided, and Beijing needs you to sit in the town. When will the prince go back?" Seeing that he was silent, he didn't know if he heard him, and sighed: " I know you're sad, but it's been so many days, I'm afraid the person has... so what if you find it?"

Before he finished speaking, a short knife flew straight over and pinned it to his ear, and then Chu Yusen's cold voice sounded: "If you dare to curse him again, don't blame me for being rude!"

Wushitu was made angry by him, and he stood up abruptly: "Are you in a daze! Now that Jiangshan has been taken away, and the new emperor has been selected, Dayan is already in your pocket. Are you late?" If you don’t return, there will be chaos in Beijing sooner or later, and you’re going to throw the whole world away for just one person!”

Chu Yu glanced at him: "What do you think I want this world for?"

His tone was unusually calm, and there was a faint sense of being overwhelmed in his eyes. Wushitu was taken aback for a moment, and he suddenly understood that there was no need to say those scoldings that hadn't come out.He quickly adjusted his mood, cleared his throat, and said, "Even if you want to look for it, don't keep wandering around here. His Majesty is riding a horse. Maybe he would have gone back to Quli to look for my brother a long time ago."

Chu Yu paused and looked at him hesitantly.Wushitu took the opportunity and said: "If you are worried, just leave some people behind, let's go back to Quli to have a look, maybe your little emperor is already waiting there."

Chu Yu glanced over and saw that his gaze was slightly dodged, and he had already guessed what he was thinking, but after a long silence, he finally agreed: "Forget it, let's go back and have a look first."

The army set off on the same day, Chu Yu and Wu Shitu led a thousand personal guards to go back to Quli first.There was nothing to say all the way, Fang Qing entered the tent at night to serve him, saw him sitting silently by the bedside, touching the mace bracelet on his wrist, felt a pang of sadness in his chest, knelt down beside him, and helped him take off his hardened military boots, Comfortingly said: "My lord, you haven't closed your eyes for two days, you'd better rest and rest, His Majesty is still waiting for you to find him."

Chu Yu smiled very lightly: "You have also learned to use his banner to manipulate me." Having said that, he finally lay down, stroked the soft quilt, and said to himself: "He I'm most afraid of the cold, and I don't know if I've slept well recently?" Fang Qing sighed softly, turned off the light for him, and before he went out, he heard his slow breathing.Now only in sleep, his frowning brows can be unfolded, Fang Qing can tell at a glance that the person in his heart has returned to his dream.

At dusk the next day, Chu Yu led his army into Quli.The guards at the city gate suddenly got a report, and they were in a hurry to welcome them.Wu Shan had been under house arrest for a long time, and he didn't know about outside affairs, but saw that the guards guarding him were not as vigilant as usual, took advantage of the opportunity when the male slave came in to deliver food, beat him unconscious, put on his clothes, and left quietly.

Sitting in the room for several months, when he went out, his eyes hurt from the sun.When I looked carefully, I felt that the palace was quite abnormal, the palace people were running around, and the guards were reading.Seeing Renaji in a splendid attire, he hurried to the palace gate and hid behind a jade pillar. A few words came to his ears, which were the trivial arrangements he had given to Wang Shi after he entered the city.

Wu Shan was overjoyed in his heart, and secretly said: "Xiao Jiu is back." Hiding all the way, he crossed the white jade painted wall in front of the palace gate, and met Wang Shi head-on.The frost on Chu Yu's cloak was still cold, and when he saw him, he was taken aback.Wushitu said angrily, "Who let you out!"

As soon as Wu Shan heard his brother's voice, he subconsciously wanted to run like avoiding cats and mice, but when he turned around, he remembered his purpose for coming here.He only thought that Yuan Jing was in the team, and was afraid that he would be worried, so he turned around and said stiffly, "I'm in my own palace, so I can go wherever I want!" His eyes flicked behind them one by one, but he never saw Yuan Jing's face. Figure, he frowned, and simply went into the queue to look for it.

When Wushitu saw him looking around, how could he not know his intentions, his heart sank, and he said coldly: "Look at what you're wearing, why don't you come here!"

Wu Shan couldn't find Yuan Jing, so he opened his mouth and said, "You don't care what I wear, Xiao Jiu!" As soon as he said this, even the wind fell silent.Seeing their strange expressions, Wu Shan became more and more anxious: "I'm asking you something! Where is Xiao Jiu!"

Chu Yu's voice was hoarse: "Is he not with you?"

Wu Shan froze for a moment, as if he didn't understand what he meant: "Wouldn't he be taken away by you! How could he be with me?" Glancing at his brother with an embarrassed expression, he suddenly understood: " You lost him?"

Chu Yu's expression remained unchanged, but his tone became a little more anxious: "Is he really not with you?"

Wu Shan shouted: "If he is here with me, will I still come to you! What's going on! Did you force him again?" Wu Shitu knew that his younger brother would be rational when he met his sweetheart. Quan Wu, before he went crazy, took him over: "He left the city by himself, we searched everywhere, thought he came back to look for you, so we came here to have a look."

Wu Shan's angry eyes were wide open, his eyes were bloodshot, he suddenly pulled out his saber, and rushed to Chu Yu: "It must be you! It was you who ran him away in anger. He had a good life with me. Once you came, he Just say you want to go, I managed to persuade him to stay, he has fled here, why are you still refusing to let him go?"

Fang Qing jumped forward and blocked his saber: "Your Majesty, be careful." Wu Shitu shouted: "Wu Shan!" With a movement of his palm, he snatched the saber from his hand, and he slapped Wu Shan's face Up: "You're crazy!"

Wu Shan stood unsteadily and fell to the ground. He didn't seem to know the pain, but just cried bitterly: "How could I trust you, how could I give him to you!" He hated to the extreme, and there was a fishy smell in his chest Upwelling, a mouthful of hot blood spurted out.Wushitu's expression changed, and he rushed forward: "Ashan!" Renaji, who had some medical skills, hastily felt his pulse, and said, "I'm short of breath, it's nothing serious."

Wushitu didn't expect things to come to this stage. With a livid face, he signaled his followers to take his younger brother down. When he turned around, he saw Chu Yu standing behind everyone, his face was a little worse than that of Ah Shan, and it was nothing. In a comforting mood, he hurriedly said: "My brother was confused for a while, I will apologize to you for him, I will take him back first, and we will discuss how to find someone tomorrow."

It was late at that time, the coach was in a bad mood, and naturally no one dared to mention the festivities, Genoji took the soldiers down to rest, Chu Yu left the crowd, and walked aimlessly in the palace.Rao knew that Wushitu's lure to bring him back was probably a tactic to delay the attack, but when he thought that Yuan Jing might be here as he said, he still couldn't stand the temptation and came back with him.Now that the expectation has come to nothing, the loss in my heart gushes out again, it is even more tormented than when I found out that he was missing that day.

Before he knew it, he walked to a delicate and beautiful palace full of fragrance, and felt that the fragrance here was very familiar. He stood there for a moment, his heart skipped a beat, and suddenly he remembered who the fragrance belonged to.When he stepped into the gate of the palace, he still had a glimmer of expectation, but the only response to him was the tinkling of wind chimes under the flower window.

The decoration here is completely different from that of Yanfu Hall. Being in it, there is no old scene at all. The people who live here must have made up their minds to break with the past. Chu Yu looked around and his eyes fell on the one in Baibao Pavilion on the token.This token was given to him before he left, and it seemed that he had been treated very roughly. The tassels were of different lengths, several clusters seemed to be missing, and a corner of the token was broken.He remembered that Yuan Jing was angry now, his temper was much worse than before, he smashed everything he saw, and looked at people like a kitten with furred hair, as if he would stretch out his claws to shine his fangs as soon as he took a step closer. people.Thinking of Yuan Jing's vivid appearance when he was angry, he couldn't help but smile, before the smile faded, his chest hurt, like that kitten suddenly appeared and bit the softest part of his heart like.

When he put down the token, his finger touched the uncovered brocade box next to it. The lid of the box was half opened, revealing many medicine bottles stacked inside.Chu Yu frowned, checked carefully, and found that all the medicines contained here were gold sore medicines, and most of them had been used up.His heart was empty, and he thought to himself: "Did Jing'er get injured earlier?"

The answer to this question is bound to be unpredictable.Since their reunion, Chu Yu hardly had a chance to take a good look at him.He fell on Yuanjing's bed with his head up, feeling empty in his heart, and he thought blankly, "Why couldn't I resist looking for him at that time?" He touched a sachet beside the pillow, put it under his nose and lightly touched it. Sniffing lightly, I fell asleep in the fragrance.

When he woke up, it was already the next afternoon. He hadn't slept for such a long time in a long time, his mind was drowsy and painful, and his hands and feet were a little numb when he got out of bed.He saw Chi Zhu and Fang Qing standing beside the bed with strange expressions, rubbing their temples wearily: "What happened again?"

Fang Qing hesitated to speak, hesitated for a moment before saying: "Go back to the lord, this old boy came with me to look for you last night, you slept too soundly, you didn't wake up no matter how much you called, he saw something was wrong, so he called you Pulse..." I offered one thing, which was the sachet that he hung by the bed every day.

Chu Yu didn't understand for a while, looked at Chi Zhu and said, "Didn't you give this to me?"

Chi Zhu hurriedly said: "My lord, this sachet is indeed made by me, but someone added something to it." He untied the belt and poured out some spices.I saw a fine silvery-white powder mixed among the flowers and trees. If you don't observe carefully, you will never find it. Chi Zhu said: "This is an incense made from deer grass in the Western Regions. It has not been seen for many years. I've seen it, probably only the dream masters who have been passed down from generation to generation still have some in stock."

Chu Yu knew something was wrong, and said in a deep voice, "What is the use of this thing?"

Chi Zhu carefully put those things into the sachet, then stepped on and said slowly: "Dream. Or enter the dream of the living with the spirit of the dead; , something that is hard to extricate myself from. I heard that Emperor Ming burned this incense for three months in order to find the soul of Concubine Yang Guifei. But as time goes by, people will become dull and dull. Even if they don’t use this thing anymore, they can’t distinguish between reality and dreams. Fortunately. The contents of this sachet are limited, as long as it is taken care of carefully, it will not hurt the root."

Chu Yu remained silent, thinking of the lingering and intoxicating scenes in his dreams every time he fell asleep in the past few months. Who exactly did this, I couldn't think of it for a while.

Fang Qing whispered at the side: "I have always tidied up your bed tents, and no outsiders have ever handled them." Chu Yu saw his hesitation, his heart sank suddenly, and he said coldly: " explain!"

Fang Qing lowered her head: "Last time in Heqi, you let His Majesty go in."

Chu Yu said decisively: "Impossible."

Fang Qing bit the bullet and said: "Just now, my subordinates went down to inquire. When Your Majesty first came to Quli, a caravan from the Western Regions passed by, and there was an old Mengshi among them. Not long after they left, you were in Beijing. Assassinated, Chi Zhu checked the incense used by the musician, and it is of the same family as the things here, and they are all things that make people fall asleep." Looking at Chu Yu's face, he simply said it all in one breath: "Your Majesty has secrets in Beijing. I used to raise a group of shadow guards. Although I caught a few when I was looking for Mrs. Zhaorong, most of them could not hide and no whereabouts. Now that I think about it, the assassination of officials in Beijing may be inseparable from these people. Now Cao Ruyi Right here in the army, if you take him over and torture him, maybe the truth will be revealed."

Chu Yu didn't speak for a long time, he looked at the sachet, and suddenly smiled: "I used to laugh at him, but as a king, I didn't have the slightest heart, but now it seems that I underestimated him." Put the sachet into his palm , got up and said: "Go ask Wushitu to come over and accompany me to search Quli."

Fang Qing looked at him incredulously: "Are you still looking for him?"

Chu Yu hummed casually, and didn't seem to take what he had just heard to heart at all.Fang Qing thought that his previous abnormalities were all due to Mixiang, but now that he is awake, he should regain his sanity.Looking at it now, he made up his mind to find Yuan Jing regardless, and hurriedly persuaded him: "My lord, he wants to kill you! Why do you..."

Chu Yu chuckled: "Yes, he wants to kill me, so he won't die like this."

Fang Qing has always followed his orders, but now he wanted to argue, but couldn't find a word for a while, so he poked Chi Zhu once, signaling him to help, not wanting this old boy to be very shrewd in this matter, he ran to the side and waved his hands repeatedly , dare not say more words.

Just when he felt that it was difficult, Wushitu suddenly strode in, grabbed Chu Yu's arm, and said, "Come here quickly, I will show you someone!" Chu Yu's expression brightened, and he followed quickly.

In the main hall, stood a young man about seven or eight years old, holding a dagger tightly in his hand. The soldiers in armor around him overlapped with the Wei soldiers who robbed their houses that night. He looked down with horror on his face, as if he was about to cry.Wushitu said at the side: "The child escaped that night. He fell into the hunter's trap and stayed in it for several days. When he was rescued, he was only breathing. Go back to Fusang Pass to find Xu Miting, but our people stopped us on the way."

Wu Shan also struggled down from the sick bed. He recognized at a glance that the thing in the young man's hand belonged to Yuan Jing. He rushed up and grabbed the young man tightly: "Where is the person who gave you this dagger?"

The young man has experienced great changes in the past few days, and he is like a frightened bird. He was frightened and almost cried: "...I... I don't know, he fell off the horse, those people...Wei Bing...killed him... ..."

Wu Shan felt dizzy, coughed, blood was almost coming out of his throat: "What did you say! Say it again!" His eyes suddenly went dark, and the person he was holding had been snatched away by Chu Yu, and Chu Yu's eyes were extremely terrifying : "You saw him killed with your own eyes?"

When the young man met his cold face, he felt a terrifying force overturning him. He was terrified for a moment, and with a cry, he cried, "I saw Wei Bing beat him and kicked him, those people are necrotic." , they kill everywhere..."

Chu Yu let him go slowly, and took the dagger from his hand.Wu Shan rushed forward to snatch it: "He was killed by you, what face do you have to touch his stuff!"

Wushitu hugged him from behind: "Okay, I just said that he was arrested, so he will definitely die!"

Wu Shan couldn't listen to it at all: "Wei people are so cruel, Xiao Jiu fell into their hands, how could there be any chance of surviving? It's all him, if it wasn't for his hard work, how could Xiao Jiu run away in anger! I want Kill you!"

Chu Yu seemed unwilling to pay attention to him, looked at the dagger for a moment, and suddenly said: "Go and call Chu Shao over."

It was destined to be an uneven day, not long after Fang Qing went out, Chu Shao came in by himself.He was walking in a hurry, but he was stunned for a moment when he saw the scene of chickens flying around here.Seeing that he was holding something in his hand, Chu Yu asked, "What's the matter?"

Chu Shao looked at the people next to him uncertainly, as if he didn't know if he could speak in front of them. Seeing Chu Yu nodded slightly, he reported: "Traveling the horse to report, we found traces of Wei Jun at the hundred miles away from the customs. There are about 3000 people, and the leader seems to be Prince Wei."

Wushitu was surprised and said: "He has escaped, why is he coming back?" Chu Yu thought of the Wei army that had not been found so far, and immediately understood: "He came back to find Qin Yanfeng." Seeing Chu Yu get up suddenly, he said to the door: "Prepare your horse! Follow me to seal the pass!"

The author has something to say: After writing [-] words, I still haven't written the scene of the cannon fodder attack, there must be one in the next update! !What follows is the scene where Cannon Fodder Gong takes Yuan Jing to show off his affection in front of Zha Gong. When Zha Gong meets Yuan Jing again, his mentality changes from "I don't want face?" to "What's the use of this face?"

Thank you Xinbao, the snakeskin monster, a little fox for the overlord ticket, and Jiang Chengzi's nutrient solution, okay?