old friends return

You and I are still talking about the two of you here, when Han Shuwen's voice suddenly came from outside, "Commander Gao, Mr. Lin, there are a few people who are dressed like An Ling outside and claim to be secret guards, but they fought with you a few days ago. The person who went to track down that batch of things in two ways?"

Lin Anyou stopped his dishonest hands, and responded loudly: "Please, General Han, let them wait outside first, and then go and have a look!"

Gao Xuan cleared his somewhat hoarse voice, and pushed Lin Anyou away, "Go and have a look, His Royal Highness the Second Prince and General Han should be anxiously waiting for information about these people."

Lin Anyou nodded, and moved his hands again, and quickly put on Gao Xuan's clothes, "If you are really uncomfortable, don't go out, take a good rest for a day."

Gao Xuan naturally would not agree, "You go first, I will be there later." Lin Anyou didn't say anything more, lifted the curtain of the military tent and came out to salute Han Shuwen, "General Han, where are they?"

"It's still outside. The investigation has been more rigorous recently than before. People are not allowed to enter without confirming their identity."

Han Shuwen led him there and explained to him.

When Lin Anyou arrived at the outermost checkpoint, he saw a few familiar faces, counting them, and there were six of them. The faces of the dark guards were as usual, but the skin was a little dry due to the wind. Looking at it this way, this trip was considered a good one. smoothly.

Lin Anyou nodded to Han Shuwen, and Han Shuwen ordered the soldiers to let these hidden guards in, and they saluted Lin Anyou, but did nothing to Han Shuwen.

Han Shuwen naturally knew in his heart that this was Anling's own rules, and apart from their own convinced commander, even if the emperor stood here today, he would still have no reaction.

Lin Anyou was not in a hurry to ask them if they had tracked down anything on the road these days, but just chatted a few words casually. Han Shuwen shook his head. He also said a few words about some fun local customs.

After entering the main tent, Gao Xuan was already waiting inside. Seeing the hidden guards, he counted the number of people first, and finally heaved a sigh of relief.

Cheng Muxing himself was also a little anxious, and he didn't care about being rude, so he asked the others to sit down together, "I don't know if you have discovered anything during this trip?"

The leader of the dark guard, Qiao Nan, said: "We followed that group of people all the way, and when we arrived at Tanzhou, they stopped there. We thought it was a night's rest, so we sent someone to guard the place where they lived. , but never thought that they would set off again at midnight."

Lin Anyou frowned, "Are they trying to avoid it on purpose or are they always being so cautious?"

Qiao Nan shook his head, "We followed them all the way from a long distance away, so we should not have been discovered. The group of them took the escorted things to the wilderness outside the city, and we followed them. .”

"Did someone come over to make a deal with them?" Cheng Muxing asked.

Qiao Nan nodded slightly, "There are six people here, and they couldn't see their faces clearly in the middle of the night, and they deliberately wore masks, as if they were afraid of being recognized."

"However, Xiaobei saw that their clothes were different from ours. There was only one Han inside, and the other five were all barbarians."

Cheng Muxing shook his head, "It's a pity that I didn't see their specific appearance. How can I find them among so many people..."

Han Shuwen said: "Sure enough, there are Han people. In this way, there must be someone in the Great Zhou colluding with the barbarians and wanting to provoke a war..."

"Hey, why don't you guys like to hear people tell you the truth!" Qiao Bei, who had been silent for a long time but obviously couldn't hold back, jumped out and interjected, "We are so smart that we can end without bringing back any evidence. gone?"

"Qiao Bei, don't be rude!" Lin Anyou reprimanded, a little embarrassed, these hidden guards are not used to being around them, and now the prince and general standing in front of them don't know how to restrain themselves.

Qiao Bei was still a little unconvinced, "That's what it is. Could it be that the few of us worked so hard to go all the way with those people, and then we found out that there are spies in the big week. Is there anyone on the two sides that everyone knows this news? Then we These hidden guards are really just eating for nothing..."

Gao Xuan finally glared at him, Qiao Bei closed his mouth in time, and looked away angrily.

On the contrary, Cheng Muxing and Han Shuwen were stunned, and then Cheng Muxing smiled, "Is it our fault? We should have known that the people who came out of An Ling are absolutely comparable, so do you know any other clues?"

Qiao Bei turned his head back in an instant, and said happily: "We waited for them to exchange these things and started to check the goods while we took advantage of the fire."

"What?" Lin Anyou was curious.

"Then you also know that the sulfur powder has long been turned into sand, and the saltpeter has been turned into ordinary stones. The inspectors must not be convinced. After reprimanding the escorts, they focused on On the only Han Chinese."

"At this moment, we took off our robes and covered our faces, and when we went down, we yelled 'robbing'!"

The other three laughed out loud "Puff" at the same time, only Gao Xuan glared at the six sitting guards with a cold face, "Nonsense! I'm not afraid of any accidents! "

Qiao Bei rubbed his nose, and no one else turned their heads away and didn't speak or dare to look directly at Gao Xuan. Lin Anyou shook his head, "It's a bit of a nonsense," and then waved to Qiao Bei, signaling him to hide behind him. behind.

"Go on."

Qiao Bei said again: "Those people were arguing with the sulfur and saltpeter, and they were escorting that Han man to check the firecrackers, but when we made a fuss, they got a little confused."

"We saw that everyone was protecting the man in the middle like a conditioned reflex, probably the leader of this group, Qiao Zuo went to snatch the jade pendant from that guy, and I also snatched the jade pendant from the Han man, and by the way took off his veil."

"And then we ran."

Qiao Bei said while throwing two jade pendants to Gao Xuan, then retracted his head, "I can't remember the appearance of that man, but I saw a seven-point score. I will draw it for you some other day!"

Gao Xuan took a look at the jade pendant and handed it to Cheng Muxing.

At this time, Qiao Nan added, "When we surrounded them, those people shouted 'Be careful, three kings!'".

"Three kings...?" Cheng Muxing looked at the jade pendants in his hand, one of which was obviously the token of Grand Tutor Li Ye. It is estimated that Li Ye must be looking for something in a hurry.

And the other engraved on it should be the barbarian's own characters, they can't recognize it, only three pythons are connected with each other, and there is a strange symbol among them.

Han Shuwen leaned over and took a look, "This is the special symbol of the barbarian royal family."

Cheng Muxing lay the jade pendant on his hand, raised his head and told the people outside: "Send some envoys to the barbarians, and invite their third prince, Wei Chifeng, to come and talk. I have something to ask him in the palace."

"Yes!"