My father Zhu Gaoxu

Chapter 166 Interception on the Yangtze River
"Clap! Clap! Clap!"

Zhu Zhanhe and Hu Wei clapped their hands together and made a formal bet.

If Emperor Jianwen is really in the Gu Palace, even if Zhu Zhanhe loses, Dongchang and Jinyiwei will listen to Hu Wei's orders in the future, otherwise Zhu Zhanhe will win, and Hu Yi will also obey Zhu Zhanhe's orders.

"I'll send someone to investigate right now, I believe there will be results soon!"

Hu Yi bid farewell to Zhu Zhanhe.

"Hehe, I also believe that there will be a result soon!"

Zhu Zhanhe smiled slightly, and bowed his hands to the other party.

Then the two left separately, and Zhu Zhanhe went to Dongchang, but he didn't assign any task about King Gu at all.

Because Zhu Zhanhe knew that there was no need for him to investigate, and soon the King of Shu would write a letter to report the rebellion of King Gu, and let his son pretend to be Zhu Yunqi to report together, so the bet between him and Hu Wei was completely a win.

Compared to Zhu Zhanhe's leisurely attitude, after returning home, Hu Yi immediately mobilized all his strength and rushed to Changsha to investigate King Gu's situation, hoping to confirm that Zhu Yunqi was in King Gu's mansion as soon as possible.

As time went by, countless pieces of information were released from the couch, and finally gathered in Hu's hands.

As a result, when he saw the information, Hu Yan couldn't laugh at all.

Regarding whether Zhu Yunqi is in the Gu Palace, his subordinates did not find much useful information. The only witness was just a sentence mentioned by Gu Wang, and he saw a person suspected to be Zhu Yunqi, so he was not sure that the other party was Zhu Yunqi. .

However, Hu Yu's subordinates found out a lot of news that King Gu supported the dead and built sharp crossbows and warships. These are almost the same as what Zhu Zhanhe said. From this, it can be seen that King Gu did have the idea of ​​rebellion.

The information I found confirmed Zhu Zhanhe's words, which shook Hu's original firm confidence.

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On the Yangtze River in the upper reaches of Jinling, an ordinary small passenger ship was going down the river, and it was unremarkable among the surrounding merchant ships and passenger ships.

Gu Zhan pressed his waist knife and sat nervously in the cabin, observing the surrounding movement at any time.

As the son-in-law of the King of Shu, Gu Zhan and his wife Princess Fushun have a very good relationship. They can be said to be husband and wife, and they have two sons and a daughter. Their life could not be happier.

But Gu Zhan never dreamed that he was in danger now, and might even die at any moment.

Some time ago, the King of Shu called Gu Zhan and asked him to bring a letter written by himself and send it to the capital for His Majesty.

Gu Zhan didn't think much about it, he took his entourage and guards and set off by boat, all the way down the river, the speed was very fast.

What Gu Zhan never dreamed of was that when his boat arrived at Yuezhou Prefecture, he was attacked by a group of unidentified thieves one night.

Gu Zhan, who was unprepared at the time, was caught off guard by the opponent, and most of the guards and followers around him died in battle.

Fortunately, Gu Zhan is the nephew of Zhenyuan Hou Gu Cheng. Their Gu family is from Yangzhou, and they have been sailing boats for generations. Therefore, most of the men in the Gu family are proficient in water skills, and Gu Zhan is no exception. He almost grew up soaking in the river since he was a child.

So Gu Zhan took advantage of other people's inattention, plunged into the river and swam out for several miles, only to escape the catastrophe.

But Gu Zhan was not safe because of this, and the group did not give up chasing him. During the period, Gu Zhan changed his luggage several times, and even changed to travel by land, but he was almost discovered by the other party.

In the end, Gu Zhan hired the small boat again and mixed in with the passing merchant ships, thus temporarily getting rid of the pursuit.

But seeing that he was about to reach Jinling City, Gu Zhan felt the presence of those pursuers again. The day before yesterday, a boat even tried to approach his boat to check, so Gu Zhan suspected that his whereabouts had been exposed again.

"Father-in-law, what letter did you ask me to send me? This is going to kill my son-in-law!"

Gu Zhan reached out and touched the letter box in his arms. The letter box was made of brass, and the interface was sealed with wax paint, so even if it fell into the water, the letter inside would not be affected. Sometimes Gu Zhan really wanted to open it to see what was written on the letter. what?
But the King of Shu had told him that the letterbox must be handed over to His Majesty, and no one could see it, not even Gu Zhan himself, so he finally resisted the impulse in his heart.

The long day finally passed, and as night fell, the boat boss docked the boat by the river. After all, people also need to rest, and there is Jinling City in front of them, and there are many boats on the river. If you sail at night, accidents are easy to happen.

Gu Zhan ate something casually, and when he learned that he would arrive in Jinling tomorrow, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but when he thought of the group of mysterious people who were lingering, his heart hung up again.

If the other party wants to do something, tonight will be the last chance. Thinking of this, Gu Zhan immediately couldn't sit still.

"No, the other party may have discovered my whereabouts. If I stay here, it may be a dead end!"

Gu Zhan whispered to himself, and then he made a decision that he could no longer stay on the boat tonight.

So Gu Zhan immediately packed up his things, left some banknotes for the boss of the boat, and sneaked onto the deck by himself, and then quietly entered the water.

Gu Zhan is now very grateful to his old father who died early. If he hadn't forced himself into the water since he was a child, he would not have developed such good water skills. Even at night, he was sure to swim back and forth in the middle of the Yangtze River.

With a steel knife in his mouth, Gu Zhan swam forward silently in the water. Before it was dark, he had already spotted a merchant ship. The ship was full of goods, and it was also heading downstream. A boat was also docked on the shore, not too far from the boat he was on.

As long as Gu Zhan swims to the merchant ship and hides among the cargo, he should be able to escape tonight's pursuit.

However, just as Gu Zhan was swimming not far forward, he suddenly felt something was wrong in the water, and then he felt his body tighten, and he was actually entangled by a fishing net.

This made Gu Zhan's face change drastically. As a person who grew up in the river, he knows that the biggest danger in the water is not the big fish monsters in the river, but the fishermen's fishing nets. Where fishing nets get entangled, that is also a dead end.

To make matters worse, this fishing net was obviously manipulated by someone. As soon as he entered the net, someone began to pull the fishing net immediately, and then a sand boat came from the darkness, with a torch on its bow. A medium-sized but extremely strong middle-aged man The young man stood at the bow of the boat.

"It's really you!"

When Gu Zhan saw the middle-aged man at the bow, he gritted his teeth and said angrily. The other party was the leader of the gray mysterious man who had sneaked up on him before.

"Hey, I thought you were just a dude, but I didn't expect to be so clever and have such good water skills, I almost let you escape!"

The middle-aged man smiled triumphantly, and waved his hand after speaking. Immediately, two archers stepped forward, pointing their sharp arrows at Gu Zhan in the water.

(End of this chapter)