Gao Qiu stayed in the side hall for a while, then called a servant over, whispered to him a few words, then returned to the inner hall to sit down, and continued to drink with Wen Ju and the others as if nothing had happened.

"Taiwei, why didn't you see Wang Tuanjian?" Wen Ji asked.

Gao Qiu smiled and said, "I'll ask him to do something, let's not worry about him and continue drinking."

Several people drank together for a while, and suddenly a servant walked in and said, "Taiwei, the Taishi sent someone to see you."

"What, the Grand Master has sent someone!"

Gao Qiu immediately stood up and said, "I'll go see you."

"Yes, please."

Gao Qiu went out for about five or six minutes and said, "Everyone, the Grand Master has something to do to discuss with me and asked me to go back overnight, so I can't get together with you anymore."

After saying that, Gao Qiu didn't say anything to them anymore and immediately went back to the room to change his clothes.

"What's so urgent?" Gou Li asked at Wen Ji.

Wen Ju shook his head gently, and then said, "Since the Grand Master sent someone to invite the Grand Marshal overnight, it must be a big incident in the court."

Soon Gao Qiu changed his clothes and came back. Everyone took him out of the city together, watching him leave before going back.

Two miles away from Chenzhou, Gao Qiu immediately asked the team to detour and headed to the official road leading to Caizhou to Bianjing.

After these failures, Gao Qiu was not very relieved about Wang Wenbin leading the people to kill Hua Ju, so he was preparing to take people to supervise himself.

If Wang Wenbin can successfully kill Hua Ju, he will make arrangements immediately if he fails. Anyway, he will not let Hua Ju and the others return to Bianjing alive.

On the edge of a wood in the wilderness.

Forty carriages were parked together, and thirteen fires were burning on one side of the carriage, and many people were surrounded by each fire.

These people were Hua Ju, Su Yuanjing and others who were dressed up and quietly returned to Beijing in a caravan.

Because the official road conditions were not good, and Su Yuanjing's body had not fully recovered, he walked very slowly this day and only walked ninety miles.

"Is the Grand Marshal okay?" Hua Ju looked at Sun An and asked.

Su Yuanjing did not get off the car due to physical reasons and stayed in the carriage. Sun An had just visited him.

"It's okay, there's nothing serious about having Mr. Kou taking care of him," said Sun An.

Hua Ju nodded gently and said, "This road is too difficult to walk, and you will feel wronged by the Taiwei."

Sun An said: "In fact, this road is so bad. I have been experiencing the world over the years. The official roads I see everywhere I go are not good, almost all of them are ragged. Some places are even rotten so much that it rains and carriages.

Even if you can't leave, it makes it extremely inconvenient for ordinary people to go out."

After hearing this, Hua Ju was silent for a while, picked up a branch beside him and threw it into the fire, and said, "As sooner or later, I will make the roads of the entire Song Dynasty wide and smooth, so that the people will no longer worry about traveling."

Sun An looked at Hua Ju, realized the true meaning of his words from the expression on his face, and said, "I believe that sir can do it."

Hua Jue added some branches to the fire and asked, "Wei Mao, are Xing Wei and the others okay?"

Sun An said: "It's okay. I just went to see them. Except for the fact that I still couldn't wake up, everything else was good."

Hua Ju pondered for a moment, remembered something, and said, "You go and search Wei Mao's body to see if there are any letters on him."

Although Wei Mao refused to hand over Cai Jing's letter, if he wanted to hand over the letter to Huizong in person, he would have to carry it with him. If he could get the letter at this time, even if Wei Mao regretted it, he would not have to worry.

"yes."

Sun An came back for a while and said, "Sir, Bei Zhi has searched Wei Mao's whole body inside and out, but he has not found any letters."

“Searched all of them?”

Sun An said: "I searched all of them, and even took off my shoes and checked them, but there was no."

Hua Jue then stood up and went to search Wei Mao's body in person, but she did not receive anything.

"It's strange. Where would this guy hide the letter when he said he wanted to present it to His Majesty?"

Hua Jue didn't give up and searched carefully again, but she still couldn't find it. She had to give up and sit down next to the fire.

In the woods on one side of the fire, Zhong Daming and more than a dozen people were patrolling with torches.

The most feared thing about camping in the wild is sudden attacks, so in order to prevent someone from sneaking into the night, Hua Ju arranged for Zhong Daming to take a dozen people to patrol around.

Suddenly, just as he was about to continue moving along the woods, a man who was patrolling with him shouted, "Who?"

Zhong Daming asked: "What's the matter?"

The man pointed to the depths of the forest and said, "I saw three black shadows moving."

Zhong Daming used a torch to look in that direction, but he saw nothing, but he didn't dare to be careless and immediately took the people over to see clearly.

He had just walked forward two or three meters, and suddenly, behind the tree more than ten meters ahead, three black shadows suddenly flashed out and fled backwards.

"Don't run, chase!"

Zhong Daming and his men followed him all the way. When they chased him out of the woods, the three black shadows were already riding on horseback.

"Damn it!"

Zhong Daming looked at the three black shadows that were leaving, shouted in anger, and then said to the others: "I'll report to the Lord, please take a closer look around you, are there anyone else hiding.

”

"yes."

Hua Ju was sitting by the fire talking to Sun An, and Zhong Daming hurriedly ran over to report, "Sir, while we were patrolling around, there were three suspicious people sneaking into us."

"Who is it? Have you caught it?" Hua Ju asked as she stood up.

Zhong Daming said: "It was too dark and I couldn't see my appearance clearly. The villain led the man to chase him for a while but didn't catch up, and they rode a horse and ran away."

Hua Jue thought for a while and said, "It must be that the incident of our quietly returning to Beijing has been exposed. Someone wants to attack us on the road."

"Sir, what should we do now?" Sun An asked.

Hua Ju said: "We can't stay in this place anymore, we can set off immediately."

Sun An said: "We move slowly. If someone really wants to be unfavorable to us, we can't get rid of it even if we rush to travel overnight. If they set up an ambush in front of us, then we will fall into their trap when we go on a night trip, which will make us even more

Danger."

Hua Ju thought about Sun An's words and felt that what he said made sense. It was night now. If the other party really set up an ambush in front and then deliberately asked someone to "shock the snake", they hurriedly fell into the trap.

But even if a sheep enters the tiger's mouth, it will be eaten without even leaving any residue.

"What should we do now, according to what you said?" Hua Ju asked.

Sun An said: "According to the humble opinion, we should now find a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, use the terrain to defend until dawn, and then depend on the situation."

Hua Ju nodded in agreement and said, "Then you go around now and see where there is a suitable place, and then we can transfer immediately."

"yes."

Sun An left, Hua Ju said to Zhong Daming: "You will immediately bring people to increase the scope of inspections, and at the same time notify everyone to be vigilant, carry the knife with you, and lift the arrow, and be prepared to fight at any time."

"yes."

With a command, everyone took out the knives and bows from the sandbags and formed four teams to guard the surroundings.

In the night, three horses galloped forward quickly along the avenue. After running for a distance, they found that no one was chasing behind them, so they stopped and took a breath.

These three people were Yao Biao, Chen Damao and Luo Zhen who came to investigate Hua Ju and the others on the order of Gao Qiu.

"It was really dangerous just now, I almost got caught." Chen Damao said with a long breath.

Yao Biao said: "You two stay and stare at me, I will go back and report to the Taiwei."

"Yes." Chen Damao said.

Yao Biao said: "Now they already know that someone is staring at them, so they will definitely strengthen their patrols. You must be careful not to be caught by them."

"Know."

Yao Biao left on horseback, and Chen Damao said to Luo Zhen: "Let's go, let's go back."

The two of them rode back for a while. When they were about two miles away from Huaju and their camp, they got off from the horse, led the horse into the woods on the side of the road and tied it up, and then looked carefully.

Hua Ju and his team went over to the camping site.

"Wait a minute, someone is ahead."

The two were walking forward, when Luo Zhen suddenly pulled Chen Damao, and the two hurriedly hid behind the stone beside them, then poked their heads out and looked out.

Two hundred meters away, there were many people in the woods carrying torches to investigate the forest.

"Their search scope has expanded. Let's not go there anymore, so as not to be discovered by them." Luo Zhen whispered.

Chen Damao didn't say anything and nodded.

Half an hour later, Sun An came back and said to Hua Ju, "Sir, there is a high ground not far from this place, and a broken temple on the high ground, which is easy to defend. We can move there."

"How far is it from here?" Hua Ju asked.

Sun An said, "It's not far, it's about one mile away."

Hua Ju said: "Immediately notify everyone to move to the ruined temple, hurry up."

Everyone immediately became busy, some were driving the car, some people broke the back, and led by Sun An toward the dilapidated temple.
To be continued...