first minister

Chapter 310 The good wind used its power to send me the day I was born

The next day, early in the morning.

Bai Yunbian swayed out of the county government office with his hands behind his back. The ten soldiers, just like the regular men, walked out without General Xiong's orders and followed Bai Yunbian.

Bai Yunbian felt that if he continued to wander like this for half a month, these ten people might become his subordinates.

As usual, he looked around on the street and pointed at the soldiers following him behind him. He smiled and said to the guards on the side: "It's funny to say that they have been here these days. This is the capital of Chuning County." There have been a lot less troubles, it’s no longer like when I first came here, one day one house lost something, tomorrow there was a fight with another house, and the next day people were killed and necks were wiped out.”

The guard smiled bitterly and said: "Under the threat of war, who wouldn't live with their tail between their legs?"

"That's fine! Such a strong and non-rebellious army is a good thing for me."

Bai Yun shook his folding fan and said, "Think about it, when we arrived here, we heard the news of the death of the eldest son of the Long family. The son of a dignified Cao gang elder was killed as soon as he asked. How scary! There are these people here now. , at least I can sleep peacefully."

The guard said helplessly: "Sir, you really are not worried about Master Xia!"

"It's useless to worry about him. He has accepted his fate. Why should I worry?"

Bai Yunbian closed his fan and turned to look at Mingyu Tower beside him, "I think the eldest son of the Long family died here. Now that there are no people there, Baihua Tower has also been changed to Mingyu Tower. Let's go in and have a look, and see what's going on with Zhongjing City." What’s the difference? Let’s buy a roast duck and go back.”

The guard hesitated to speak, but in the end he did not speak and followed Bai Yunbian into Mingyu Tower.

Although it was far from meal time, even if the county magistrate came, no one who was not discerning would dare to rush out.

Bai Yunbian walked around the building, "This building has been renovated well. There is no trace of the dusty smell of Baihua Building before. So much so that I can't even remember where the secret room where the eldest son of the Long family was killed was." Yes, I originally said I would go and have a look at the scene to see what those thieves were doing. That’s all.”

He called a waiter and asked him to pack a duck. The waiter said that it was not ready yet, so he would bring it to him at noon.

Bai Yunbian glanced at the soldiers behind him and sighed, "Forget it then, let's wait until this matter is settled!"

With that said, he turned and left with a look of regret.

After Bai Yunbian left, the waiter rolled his eyes and immediately ran to the backyard and found Qin Li's maid.

Soon, both Qin Li and Su Yanyan walked out of the yard. Qin Li looked serious, "What did Mr. Bai just say? Repeat it word for word."

After the waiter told the story, Qin Li and Su Yanyan looked at each other, and their hearts moved.

The murder of the eldest son of the Long family and the methods of the thieves——
On the other side, Bai Yunbian wandered around the city for a while. When he went back, he accidentally met Ye Wenhe, the leader of the Cao Gang who went to look for General Xiong.

Bai Yunbian's face suddenly showed uncontrollable disgust, and he said sarcastically: "Isn't this Gang Leader Ye? What are you doing so early? Are you giving General Xiong a stinky foot?"

Ye Wenhe's face turned cold, "Mr. Bai, this gang leader respects you as the honorable person of the local county, and I hope you will keep your mouth clean."

Bai Yunbian sneered, "If you want someone's mouth to be clean, your own hands and feet must be clean first! I really feel sorry for Miss Ye. I think she is a heroine who carries a gun and rides a horse to wipe out injustice, but there is such an ungrateful person. Shameless father! I’m afraid she’s too embarrassed to lead people to do chivalrous and righteous things anymore, right?”

Ye Wenhe did not get angry but smiled instead, and said proudly: "Yes, no matter how heroic and bold she is, she is still my daughter, and she and her troops still have to listen to me! I told her to go East, she doesn’t dare to go west!”

Bai Yunbian was also shocked by this shameless expression and didn't know how to refute for a moment.

"Damn, I want to beat him!"

Among the people behind Bai Yunbian who were watching him, there was a soldier who couldn't help but clenched his fist and cursed.

"That's all. If you see such a person, I'm afraid you won't be able to eat until night, so you'll turn around!"

Bai Yunbian muttered and returned to the county office.

The soldiers who were monitoring him also returned to the team silently, as if they had completed a routine patrol, and there was nothing worth saying.

In the county government office, Bai Yunbian quickly arrived outside the room where Xia Jingyun lived, only to find that the door was closed and Chen Fugui was guarding the door.

Bai Yunbian pointed to the door and asked, "What is he doing? With the door closed in broad daylight?"

Just as Chen Fugui was about to speak, the door was opened from the inside, and Xia Jingyun, dressed in a green shirt, walked out, "What else can I do? Of course I'm busy. Is it possible to show off with my hands?"

Bai Yunbian received another new word. While he was puzzled, Xia Jingyun had already asked, "Is everything done?"

Bai Yunbian nodded, "Of course, will there be any problem if I take action? What about you? How are you preparing?"

Xia Jingyun waved to him and led him into the house.

In the room, there was a big ball that was almost as tall as two people and hugged by two people.

It was tied up with bamboo slices and covered with paper, making it look vulnerable.

It can't be said to be a ball, because the bottom is empty.

He looked confused, "That's it?"

Xia Jingyun shook his head, "Of course not."

As he said that, he took out another big basket. Bai Yunbian was startled at first. When he took a closer look, he saw, good guy, it's not even a basket. The pattern on it was drawn by himself. In fact, it was made with extreme force. Thin bamboo strips were stretched out to form the arc of the basket and covered with a layer of paper.

"You can't catch a fart in this basket, can you?"

Just as he complained, Xia Jingyun made another paper figurine, tied it tightly to the bamboo strips of the big ball, and then clapped his hands with satisfaction, "Done!"

Bai Yunbian looked in disbelief, "Do you expect this thing to get you out of trouble?"

"That's right!" Xia Jingyun nodded and pointed at the paper man, "Didn't you see that they were all drawn after me? They are so lifelike!"

The corners of Bai Yunbian's mouth twitched, and he didn't know how to spit out the words in his mouth.

But when the words came to my lips, I remembered Xia Jingyun's glorious and shining cases, and I endured them.

Xia Jingyun squatted down and said with a smile: "Let me slowly work out the details and give them a little technological shock."

Time passed quietly through the day amid strong doubts and curiosity beside the white clouds.

When the sun set over the mountain, the sky slowly dimmed, thin smoke rose from all over the city, and the surrounding scenery was looming in the intertwining of skylight and night, Xia Jingyun, dressed in black, stood in the courtyard of the backyard of the county government office.

He took out a piece of paper and held it in his hand. The late summer wind blew the paper and the tips of his hair.

"Are you going to light the fire?" Bai Yunbian couldn't help but ask.

"There's no rush. It won't work if it's too bright, and it won't work if it's too dark. We have to wait for the right light."

After a while, he nodded towards Chen Fugui.

Chen Fugui picked up the torch and lit the huge Kongming Lantern.

Seeing the big broken ball rising slowly, Bai Yun's mouth opened silently and never closed again.

Outside the county government office, at the door of the restaurant.

As usual, General Xiong placed the table on the roadside facing the county government office, leisurely picked up a piece of meat, put it in his mouth, and chewed it with emotion on his face.

"Another boring and boring day!"

The soldier poured wine for him with a smile, "The general is so powerful that the Xia family's children have long been too frightened to dare to call him."

When he first arrived that day, Xia Jingyun's amazing operations had been gradually smoothed over by the silence these days. Although General Xiong did not take it lightly, he still did not pay much attention to it. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "These literati, in peacetime, say He is full of wits and plans, and his plans are as deep as the sea. If he is really involved in the war, he will be helpless and just be a prisoner."

"But you can't blame him, no one else can do it."

He drank a bowl of wine and pointed at the county government office in front of him, "The entire county government office is surrounded by two hundred brothers. How can he escape? Can he ascend to heaven?"

As soon as they finished speaking, an oval-shaped white ball appeared in their field of vision, slowly rising toward the sky!

The wine bottle in the soldier's hand fell to the ground and shattered, and he stammered: "General, what is that?"

General Xiong also stared blankly at the rising ball. Through the dying light of the sky and a trace of fire above, he could vaguely see a basket hanging below, and there seemed to be a person standing in the basket.

It's a pity that the sky is too dark, so there can only be a vague outline.

At this moment, a chorus of shouts rang out from the county government office.

"The sky lantern appears! Congratulations on sending Mr. Xia out of trouble!"

"The sky lantern appears! Congratulations on sending Mr. Xia out of trouble!"

Uniform shouts echoed around, and General Xiong's eyes widened. Is Xia Jingyun out of trouble?
The person standing in that basket is Xia Jingyun?

He was worthy of being a man who had fought on the battlefield. He quickly reacted and shouted sternly: "Bring me my bow!"

The soldiers also reacted suddenly and immediately took his bow and arrows.

General Xiong opened his bow and nocked an arrow, and with the last ray of light in the increasingly dark night, he shot towards the figure in the basket.

Long arrows whizzed by.

But the huge sky lantern continued as usual, slowly but surely taking advantage of the wind and flying towards the river outside the city.

Seeing that the arrow failed, General Xiong became furious and roared: "Everyone, form a team, mount your horses and get out of the city!"

The soldiers quickly got to work, and the soldiers who had surrounded the entire county government immediately evacuated, taking out their horses from the temporary stables. Soon a 50-man cavalry team and a 200-man infantry team were completed.

General Xiong pointed at the sky lantern that had flown far away, "Chase in that direction! He can't run far by himself!"

"Yes!"

Everyone roared, General Xiong jerked his horse's hips and rushed out of the city, and the others quickly followed.

The sound of horse hooves, footsteps, and the clash of armors sounded chaotically on the long street.In the midst of this chaos, more than a dozen figures nimbly climbed out of the fence in the backyard of the county government office and disappeared directly into the darkness.

General Xiong had just rushed halfway when he found a team waiting on the road ahead.

Ye Wenhe came up immediately with a look of panic on his face, "General Xiong, but Master Xia escaped?"

"He can't escape!"

General Xiong had no time to pay attention to him, so he said coldly and moved on.

"General! General!" Ye Wenhe quickly stopped him, "He is about to escape. I am afraid that he will die without a burial place. I also have people in the Cao Gang. I am willing to help the general search for his traces. We must capture him!" "

General Xiong glanced at him, not doubting what he said. He glanced at Ye Wen and the Ye family Rouge Tiger in military uniform not far behind him, and nodded, "That's fine! You have cavalry, and you guys in the east of the city Just help me! I will divide fifty infantry squads with you, and we must capture him!"

He paused, "You want to see people alive, you want to see corpses when you die!"

Then he rode his horse and rushed out of the city gate, and ordered the defenders at the city gate, "Strictly guard the city gate. No one except ours is allowed to enter or leave!"

When General Xiong and his troops rushed out, Ye Wenhe turned around and said, "Did you hear that? If you cooperate with General Xiong and the others, you must catch the man named Xia! The life and death of the Ye family and the Cao Gang are all at stake. It’s on you!”

Ye Hongluan snorted coldly, but did not dare to talk back. He quickly led the messy tribe and rushed out.

After they went out, the city gate defender closed the city gate directly. Ye Wenhe looked steadily in the direction of the city gate, clasped his palms together like a prayer, muttered something, and then looked at the city gate defender with disdainful eyes. , returned to Ye's house.

The eye-catching red clothes became no longer conspicuous in the night. Together with a pair of infantry teams under General Xiong, they searched the east side of the county. However, a team of more than ten people quietly broke away amidst the chaos and noise. They joined the large force and left towards the north of the city.

The team avoided sentries along the way and came to the forest to the north. Taking advantage of the occasional moonlight, they walked all the way to a forest and rested for a while.

Xia Jingyun looked at Su Yanyan and Qin Li who were dressed as men, and hugged them both into his arms.

In the joy of surviving a disaster, the two women seemed not to be as resistant to such an embrace as they imagined, and they quietly enjoyed the sweetness of escaping from life and reuniting as husband and wife.

"Cough cough."

The white clouds made two dry coughs that were a little unsightly. Xia Jingyun let go of his arms, looked at him, and teased: "You want me to hug you too?"

"Go to hell!" Bai Yunbian spat, "I want to go back."

Xia Jingyun's expression changed and he growled: "Are you crazy? You just escaped and you want to go back?"

Bai Yunbian said: "I am the magistrate of Chuning County. I have the responsibility to protect the land. I cannot leave without permission."

Xia Jingyun interrupted directly, "I am the imperial envoy, and I asked you to leave!"

Bai Yunbian added: "The staff assigned to me by my father are still in the city, and I am responsible for them."

Xia Jingyun interrupted again, "The Cao Gang has arranged a proper hiding place for them. With the help of such a local snake, a group of foreign soldiers and bandits will never be able to find them."

Bai Yunbian stopped talking and looked straight at Xia Jingyun.

Xia Jingyun was confused, and then an idea suddenly came to his mind, "Are you worried about Ye Hongluan?"

Bai Yunbian blushed, but of course no one could tell.

But silence means everything.

Xia Jingyun smiled and said, "Are you really willing to risk your life for love?"

Bai Yunbian looked at Su Yanyan and Qin Li, "You two, listen to this."

"I was wrong! I was wrong!" Xia Jingyun said quickly: "Have you really thought about it?"

Bai Yunbian nodded, "Don't worry, I won't go back to the county office. The Caobang can protect me."

Xia Jingyun took a deep breath, "Well, you have your choice, Brother Lexian, then I wish you all the best!"

Bai Yunbian hummed, cupped his fists and saluted, "Take care!"

After saying that, Bai Yunbian took his guard and turned around and headed towards Chuning County.

Seeing his back disappear, Xia Jingyun withdrew his gaze and looked around, "Let's go, we have to hurry up, otherwise things will be in trouble if someone reacts over there."

Everyone nodded silently, got on their horses, did not dare to light torches, and walked slowly towards Xichu County under the moonlight.

Outside Chuning County, Ye Hongluan was pretending nervously in his heart, shouting from time to time to tell his men to be more careful.

Suddenly a person came to the side and said, "Miss Ye."

She turned around and looked, almost scared to death, and quickly grabbed his clothes and came to the side, "Didn't you leave? You don't want your life!"

Bai Yunbian had a happy smile on his face, "Are you caring about me?"

Ye Hongluan:
"what happened?"

Bai Yunbian said: "I didn't trust you, so I came back. They have already left."

Ye Hongluan looked at him directly, and finally said helplessly: "Follow me, I will take you to hide in Elder Long's mansion."

"Okay!" Bai Yunbian grinned, with silly happiness on his face.
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"How's it going?"

"Report to the general, still no one found!"

"Search again! Search thoroughly!"

"Yes!"

"How are you over there?"

"Report to the general, but he hasn't been found either!"

"Is there any problem with the people in Caobang?"

"No, they work very hard."

"Okay, let's look again, look carefully!"

"Yes!"

Listening to the reports from his subordinates who had returned without success, and looking at the thick night in front of him, General Xiong's face no longer looked as calm and triumphant as the previous few days.

He finally understood why his lord had to be careful and careful before coming, and never let Xia Jingyun go.

He really didn't expect that Xia Jingyun could still escape under such circumstances.

In his mind, he recalled the shocking scene when the sky lantern flew into the sky, and a thought couldn't help but swirl in his mind:
Then does Xia Jingyun really have a destiny?

"What kind of destiny do I have?"

After walking for about an hour, when everyone dismounted and rested, Xia Jingyun drank water and said with a smile: "That sky lantern is a very simple thing. I will teach you later and you can do it too."

One of the guards spoke enthusiastically: "But only the young master can think of this method. Isn't this destiny?"

The rest of the people nodded sharply. The scene tonight was really shocking to them. They even thought that if the young master hadn't taken them away, he might have really been able to fly far away on this sky lantern and fly directly. Back to Zhongjing City.

Even the beautiful eyes of noble ladies like Su Yanyan and Qin Li were full of admiration.

Xia Jingyun couldn't laugh or cry, but he didn't force it, "Don't say anything about destiny. We have just escaped from Chuning County, but we are not completely safe yet. Although if we go to Xichu County, it will surprise the other party, but I If it is Xiao Fengshan, he will definitely deploy back-ups on various important roads around Chuning County, and we will probably still encounter interception from the other party."

After hearing this, everyone calmed down from their joy and began to discuss seriously and make preparations.

And things happened just as Xia Jingyun expected. As it got darker, they arrived at the outskirts of Xichu County.

The guards sent out to find out the news came back, and indeed they brought back bad news.

There is also a force in Xichu County. Although it only has more than [-] people, it is stationed on the official road and the dock. If you want to leave Xichu County, you will inevitably encounter them.

This news was like a bucket of cold water poured on everyone's heads.

It is almost conceivable that since the other party has this arrangement, Chuning County will definitely send a message to the surrounding areas after Xia Jingyun escapes, asking them to step up their defense.

A thought arose in everyone's mind: one link after another, Xiao Fengshan is really cruel!

Chen Fugui stood up and said: "Sir, let me go out and take a look to see how good their troops are. If it doesn't work, I will risk my life to open a hole for you and the two eldest ladies to escape." go out!"

Xia Jingyun said quickly: "Brother Chen, you don't have to be like this. In this case, you go and take a look at their military discipline, take a look at the behavior of the generals who lead the troops, and then see if they are conducting strict inspections. Unless it is a last resort, We will not confront them head-on."

He smiled and patted Chen Fugui on the shoulder, "Don't be too nervous. In places like Chuning County, with such tight guards, we can all escape unscathed, and we can definitely do it this time."

Chen Fugui nodded when he heard this, "Okay! Master, you two ladies, I'll go first!"

Chen Fugui put on a little disguise and came to Xichu County. After some inquiring, he became more and more disappointed.

Xiao Fengshan's reputation is indeed well-deserved. Although his soldiers are a little lazy, their military discipline is definitely not lax.

Almost all passers-by will be interrogated, but at the same time there is no wanton exploitation, and it is not easy to cause riots.

Just when Chen Fugui looked sad, a cautious probing voice sounded from the side.

"Emperor?"

　I added an update yesterday, but something delayed me again in the morning, so today’s chapter is a bit late.

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