On Xiao Rui's side, the two of them did not go to Chang'an. Instead, they took an ordinary carriage and took the official road to the east, which was also in the direction of Luoyang.
"Sir, why don't you really go and look for the person?" On the way, Li Junxian asked, expressing his confusion. After all, it was too dangerous for the prince of a country to be alone.
Xiao Rui smiled and said: "They let him go on purpose. Why are they looking for it? Since your majesty dared to let him go, of course he arranged for someone to protect him secretly."
Li Junxian asked: "The prince is only eleven years old, why do you want him to go out? Just because he doesn't want to learn from you?"
"Fifth brother, you'd better not pry, knowing too much will do you no good." Xiao Rui joked.
Forehead……
Li Junxian changed the subject wisely, "Then why are we going to Luoyang? It's not appropriate for you to show your face now."
Xiao Rui sighed and said, "Hey, it's a helpless move. It's more dangerous to show up in Chang'an. You can go to Luoyang for a few days to hide, and we have acquaintances in Luoyang."
acquaintance? Where do you know anyone in Luoyang? Li Junxian thought for a long time and didn't know who was in Luoyang.
In the large wooden box of the caravan truck, which was narrow, dark, and lightless, Li Chengqian was gagged and his hands and feet were tied. I felt like I was rushing for a while, and my head was swollen from being bumped in the box.
What Xiao Rui said when he left Xiaojiazhuang: If you leave here and return to the palace, it may not be as good as here.
Thinking about it now, Li Chengqian's intestines are filled with regret. Although Xiao Rui is hateful, he still takes care of food and shelter and is not so abusive. Now that someone has kidnapped me and put me in a box, they clearly don't treat me as a human being.
"Uuuu, I don't know if Father has found out that I'm missing? Please send someone to rescue me quickly." Li Chengqian burst into tears sadly.
If he knew that his father watched him being taken away, I wonder if he would continue to cry.
The shopkeeper of the caravan outside urged: "Since this guy is the prince of the Tang Dynasty, it won't be long before the whole city of Chang'an will be searching for him. We can no longer take the official road, change to a smaller road, discard all the goods on this trip, and just This truckload is enough."
"Shopkeeper, our business is just to sell the good goods from Datang back to China, and we are just making money with this batch of goods. It would be a pity to lose them." The subordinates felt distressed.
The shopkeeper reprimanded: "What does this small amount of goods mean? With this meat ticket, do you want to exchange it for anything? We all will have no worries about food and drink for the rest of our lives."
"That's right, the money bag for the meat tickets alone is worth the profits of this business trip." Someone echoed, obviously wanting to share the money.
The shopkeeper pretended not to hear, but warned: "Don't feel bad for these three melons and two dates. If we don't lose this batch of goods, we won't be able to move fast. We were discovered by Tang Jun who was looking for people. Let alone making money, our lives They all have to ride in.”
Everyone's hands trembled with fear, "Then let's unload the goods quickly..."
discharge? waste! If we unload the goods halfway in this wilderness, wouldn't we be showing the way to the people behind us? Find a town ahead and find a reason to sell the excess goods at a low price. Just keep two cars to avoid being detected by passing checkpoints and calling us suspicious.
By the way, Fourth Brother, you go back quickly alone to find someone to support you. As long as we enter the border of Hebei and are beyond the reach of Chang'an, we will be much safer.
Everyone admired the shopkeeper's wit.
Two days later, on a country road north of Luoyang, the secret guard who went to ask for instructions finally returned.
"How is it? What does it say above? Can we save him or not?"
"It says that we need to save him, but we can't let the prince be kidnapped to Goguryeo like this. But we can't rescue the prince back to Chang'an. We need to save him without exposing his identity."
"Save people? But don't reveal your identity?" Everyone was in trouble. We are officers and soldiers who rescued the prince. The prince asked us to take him home, but we pretended not to hear?
Everyone discussed, "How about we go to Hutou Mountain in front and pretend to be bandits?"
"Pretending to be a bandit to save people? Are you stupid? Bandits are all robbing houses and blocking roads. Is there anyone who is kind enough to save people?"
"We are just blocking the road and robbing people! Those Goguryeo human traffickers dare to come to our country, Tang Dynasty, to sell people. If we kill people and steal goods, we are doing justice to God, right?"
Huh? Don’t mention it, it makes sense!
"What about His Royal Highness? Will he be discovered?"
"We don't kill young and old."
Everyone made a plan and started taking action. It was just a gang of five bandits, which was a bit weak.
"Hey! I built this mountain and planted this tree. If you want to live from now on, leave money to buy the road!" The leader of the guard captain shouted.
On a secluded road in the mountains, five big men with knives suddenly jumped out, which really shocked the caravan.
The shopkeeper stepped forward and said with a smile: "Everyone, it's convenient for you. We are just passing merchants. The goods haven't been delivered yet, so we don't have any money. I'll buy you and your brothers a bowl of tea with these two taels of silver." "
"Shopkeeper, what are you afraid of? There are only five of them, and there are ten of us." There was a bold dissatisfaction.
"Shut up! How do you know there are no ambushes in the woods on both sides? This is the difference between the trail and the official road. Bandits are likely to be found on the trail, while the official road is safe, but we dare not leave."
A few people here were communicating in low voices, but who would have thought that the bandit leader opposite would get angry, "Bah! Do you want to give away a few taels of silver to the beggars? Brothers, what kind of business are we doing?"
"The business of killing and selling goods!" the other four people said in unison.
"Then why are you still standing there? Kill them all!"
Five people rushed forward with knives, and the guards of the Chamber of Commerce were not vegetarians. They thought that there were ten of us, but we couldn't defeat five of you? The two sides soon fought together, shouting and killing each other.
But after a while, the shopkeeper realized that something was wrong. The opponent's kung fu was too good, and he didn't look like an ordinary bandit. Why did the murderous look on his body look like a veteran on the battlefield? Without much effort, we lost four people.
"Wait, wait, I have a hostage, the prince of the Tang Dynasty. If any of you dare to act rashly, I will kill your prince!"
"Prince? Stop talking nonsense, don't try to lie to us! Keep killing."
The shopkeeper let his men hold him back, opened the box himself, took out the tied Li Chengqian, pulled out the gag strip, put a knife on the other man's neck and shouted: "Don't move, he is your prince. If he dares to move again, I will kill him."
Um? ? ?
Everyone stopped. The other four secret guards looked at the leader and asked, "What should we do?" just in case?
The caravan brought the shopkeeper with them, and there were only five people left. They were all beaten to death.
"Bandit, save me, I am really the prince, and the lonely king is really the prince Li Chengqian!" Li Chengqian cried as if he had grasped a life-saving straw. But you use this title. How can you call someone a bandit in front of the bandit?
The leader of the secret guard suddenly became wise and sneered: "Bah! It turns out that you are a group of human traffickers. Just grab a kid and tell me he is the prince of the Tang Dynasty? Don't say you made a fake one, but you made a real prince. How about that?" We on Hutou Mountain are all murderous fugitives, but we don’t care about the life or death of the prince. Even if the real prince comes with an honor guard, we will still kill people and steal goods. "
"Stop nagging, kill them all!"
You, you...
The shopkeeper was dumbfounded. In such a moment of confusion, the bandit leader quickly approached and stabbed him in the heart.
Several other people also sped up the fighting progress, and soon all the people in the caravan were killed.
Li Chengqian shivered in the corner, "Don't, don't kill me, I, I'm not the prince, I really am not the prince..."
The expected movement of hands and swords did not appear. As if they deliberately ignored him, these five people began to clean the battlefield and collect goods.
"Boy, your fortune is good. We don't kill young or old. Were you trafficked? Go and fend for yourself."
In the end, they packed up all the goods, left the corpses of the caravan on the ground, and drove away quickly in two carriages.
"Hey, where is this? Which direction is Chang'an?" Li Chengqian asked bravely.
The bandit's reply came from the distance: "Keep going that way."
"Thank you... a few... bandits." This title was too Li Chengqian.
Little did he know that a few well-meaning "bandits" pointed him in the opposite direction of Chang'an. Can you run back to Chang'an by yourself? Then we are designated to be punished.
Li Chengqian's stomach growled, and when he touched his pocket there was no money, he suddenly remembered that these bandits only took away the goods and seemed to have forgotten to touch the body, so my purse must still be with the shopkeeper. So he plucked up the courage and started making money by touching corpses for the first time.
He even plucked up the courage to kick each of them a few times to vent his hatred. All this was secretly observed by a group of secret guards, and they thought to themselves that this was the right thing to do. If the capital doesn't even dare to touch the corpse, is it still His Majesty's dragon species?
