"Sister, good news, your good news! That man is coming to Wancheng. I heard that the man is coming to Wancheng!"

"Then..., that man?"

"It's sister, you miss that man every day."

"Nonsense! Nonsense! Who misses every day? I..., do I miss that man?"

Although Da Qiao Qiqi Ai's firm denial and blushed his face to the bottom of his neck, Xiao Qiao refused to let his sister go and pointed out the facts without hesitation: "Do you miss that man? Who secretly painted the portrait of that man? Who is it? Whenever you hear that an official came to our house to visit, you quietly went out of the window to eavesdrop on the news about the man? Who is it? Every time you enter and leave the city, you have to go to see if there is any news about the man? Who is it? When he heard that the man came to Huainan, he doesn't want to have a tea or a meal every day? He still calls that man in his dream?"

"Who called him in the dream? Who said that?" Da Qiao asked shamelessly and angrily: "If you talk nonsense, I will tear your mouth apart!"

"Sister's maid, Xiao Cui."

Xiao Qiao's expressionless answer completely shattered Da Qiao's last dignity as a sister, and also made Da Qiao scream with shameless shame, "Xiao Cui! Xiao Cui! Xiao Cui, you ghost girl, come in, I'm going to tear you! I'll tell you nonsense! I'll tell you nonsense!"

Of course, the maid Xiao Cui did not come in to beat and scold her, and quickly escaped from Da Qiao's embroidery building, leaving Da Qiao to scream in the boudoir, and Xiao Qiao continued to look at her sister expressionlessly.

After finally venting enough, he barely suppressed the embarrassment of embarrassment. Da Qiao then lowered his head and asked shyly: "Then... when will he arrive?"

"Sister, please ask who will arrive when you will arrive? Where will you?" Xiao Qiao asked her sister in surprise.

"Ignore you!" Da Qiao was embarrassed and rushed to the window to look at his garden, angrily ignored his sister.

"Sister, do you really want to know?" Xiao Qiao finally showed a hint of smile. Seeing Da Qiao looking out the window with a stern face and ignored him, Xiao Qiao was afraid that his sister would be really angry, so she smiled and said, "There is no way, who called me a sister? For my sister's lifelong happiness, I will tell you about doing good deeds and doing good deeds - in fact, I don't know when he will arrive in Wancheng. I only know that the government has posted a notice saying that he will go to Wancheng to inspect the people's conditions soon. The county magistrate (county magistrate) Lord Zheng asked the people to clean the streets and houses in Wancheng to welcome him. He also invited his father and the heads of some wealthy families in Wancheng to the county government to discuss how to arrange the welcoming ceremony."

Da Qiao continued to speak with a stern face, but his heart was already full of joy, and his pink face gradually became hot. Xiao Qiao added on the other side: "Oh, by the way, our Prime Minister Xu from Lujiang also brought the team to Wancheng, and was stationed in the camp outside the east gate. The county lord may also lead his father and others to pay homage to Prime Minister Xu, so today's lunch must be for us sisters to have dinner together. Sister, what do you want to eat? I asked the chef to make it."

"You can do it, I'll just eat something casually." Da Qiao replied with a stern face.

Seeing that my sister was really angry, Xiao Qiao didn't dare to stimulate her anymore. She said something and left her room. However, when she went down the embroidery building, Xiao Qiao couldn't help but irritate her sister again, "There are all notices. Sister, if you want to go see it yourself, take advantage of my father's absence at home today, hurry up and go to see it. Otherwise, when my father comes back and chats, you can't go there even if you want to."

"No! I don't want to see it!"

Da Qiao was tough, but after Xiao Qiao left, Da Qiao hesitated for a long time with hot cheeks. Finally, he called his close maid Xiao Cui, and sneaked out of the garden from the garden on the excuse of buying rouge and water, and quietly came to the city gate where the government notice was posted. However, because his sister once reminded her father Qiao Xuan might go to the east gate, Da Qiao smartly chose to go to the remote south gate to read the notice, so as not to happen to be hit by his father who likes to nag.

As we arrived at the south gate, there was indeed a brand new list of documents posted on the sign next to the city gate. When Da Qiao, who knew the words, looked at the list again, he saw that the content was similar to the introduction of his sister. It was indeed the order of Wancheng Zheng Hui of Wancheng that the people of Yangzhou, said that the imperial court enthroned Xu Yangzhou, envoy Tao Yingtao, was going to visit Wancheng recently to inspect the people's situation and asked the people of Wancheng to clean the houses and streets to leave a good impression on the Tao envoy, but he did not tell the people the specific arrival time of Tao envoy, which disappointed Da Qiao, who was full of expectations.

"It's been two months and thirteen days a year. Maybe he has forgotten me a long time ago, right? It's not surprising that he is the governor of the state and has a lot of wives and concubines. How could he remember me, a humble woman from a small family? Or is the younger sister right? There is no need to take that day seriously. A woman like our sister, who is a small family, may not be able to look down on him even if she comes to her door to be a slave and a servant..."

"Miss, go away quickly, there is a team coming."

The maid Xiao Cui suddenly pulled Da Qiao to the side of the road and whispered to remind Da Qiao not to block the road. Da Qiao put away his self-pitying thoughts and looked carefully, but he saw that a group of plainclothes men came from the streets in the city. The number was not large, but only about a hundred people. The more than ten people were still riding expensive war horses in Huainan. They were very rare in Huainan. They were all covered in dust. They seemed to have walked a long way to Ancheng. They were about to leave the city before they could wash up, and they walked very quickly. It seemed that there was something urgent to leave the city.

Seeing that the team was in a hurry, Da Qiao was afraid of being hit, so he pulled Xiao Cui back a few steps and made way as much as possible. However, when the team passed by Da Qiao, a knight suddenly strangled the horse's head and stopped in front of Da Qiao and Xiao Cui. When Da Qiao looked up in surprise, he saw the knight pulling off the scarf that was covered with wind and sand on his face, revealing a frivolous face that was almost greasy and pink. Da Qiao was also suddenly struck by lightning, staring blankly at the greasy and pink face almost demented. Ying just murmured, "How is it possible? How is it possible?"

"You..., who are you? What are you doing?"

Da Qiao's maid suddenly screamed, because the greasy and pink face suddenly turned over and got off the horse, and walked straight to Da Qiao. Xiao Cui, who had just arrived at Lao Qiao's maid, was loyal to protecting the master half a year ago. He quickly opened his arms to block the greasy and pink face. Unexpectedly, the greasy and pink face pushed Xiao Cui away extremely roughly, and then picked up Da Qiao who seemed to have been scared. Without saying a word, he hugged Da Qiao onto the war horse and rode it. Finally, he also got on the horse and rode behind Da Qiao, hugged Da Qiao in his arms, and finally swung the reins of the horse and took the lead to running out of the south gate of Anhui City. The companions brought by the greasy and pink face also whipped and rushed out of the city gate quickly.

He spoke without moving quickly, from the greasy and pink-faced dismount to the city gate. The time before and after was probably less than fifteen seconds. It was so fast that Da Qiao's maid Xiao Cui was at a loss. The people watching the fun on the road and the soldiers guarding the city gate were all stunned, and they could not think of blocking the enemy at all. Until the greasy and pink-faced team arrogantly and domineeringly hijacked Da Qiao and disappeared deep into the road outside the city. Everyone woke up from their dreams and shouted. "Kidnapped! Kidnapped! A thief kidnapped a good woman in broad daylight!"

A frivolous and greasy person with a large group of accomplices and lackeys, actually kidnapped the leading beauty in Anhui City in broad daylight. Such a big incident naturally spread throughout Anhui City in less than two hours. Qiao Xuan, who was discussing with the gentry of Anhui City in the county government to welcome the visit of Tao Envoy, heard the news and fainted on the spot. After being awakened, Qiao Xuan naturally had to cry and run to Lujiang County Prime Minister Xu Sheng and Wancheng Order Zheng Hui to complain, asking Xu Sheng and Zheng Hui to send someone to rescue their precious daughter immediately.

The greasy floured horse is a very rare war horse in Huainan, and it has hundreds of followers. Logically speaking, this kidnapping case should be very easy to solve, but when Qiao Xuan introduced the situation of the greasy floured team with tears in his nose and tears, Zheng County Jun was angry and immediately decided to send a large number of people to search and rescue Da Qiao and arrest the extremely vicious greasy floured face, but Xu Guoxiang, who had a strange face, grabbed Zheng County Jun and dragged Zheng County Jun into the back hall to discuss for a while, and then sent a yamen runner and a large number of troops to search for the damn greasy floured everywhere.

There was no one who understood it. At least after learning the greasy and pink appearance from Xiao Cui, who was crying, Xiao Qiao, whose real sister was kidnapped, understood everything and quietly began to regret it. "If I had known, I should have gone to the South Gate with my sister to read the notice." After this thought, Xiao Qiao's face suddenly became even more blushing than Da Qiao.

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Originally, he just went to Wancheng for a short rest and replenished some dry food and drinking water, but happened to run into Miss Daqiao who had been thinking about it for a long time. Deputy Director Tao, who had been a monk since leaving Xuzhou, was no longer polite. He picked up Daqiao and left Wancheng, and continued to go west with the official road. On the way, after a long period of shock, shock and at a loss, Daqiao finally came back to his senses and turned to the deputy director Tao and asked, "Where are you taking me to?"

"Xunyang." Deputy Director Tao replied that the place name was a county town near the Yangtze River and the westernmost county town at Lujiang.

"What did you take me to Xunyang for?" Da Qiao asked in surprise again.

"Two reasons." Deputy Director Tao replied calmly: "One is to keep it confidential and you cannot let you disclose my whereabouts, and the other is to make your promise. You shouldn't have forgotten what you said at the beginning, right?"

When Deputy Director Tao mentioned the ridiculous promise, Da Qiao's pink face suddenly turned red again. He turned his head and whispered shyly: "But... but..., I heard that you already have a wife?"

"Yes, there are more than one." Deputy Director Tao replied very simply and said with confidence: "But it doesn't matter. My wife is very virtuous and never bullies my side-family house. She also treats them as sisters. So it doesn't matter if you come here to make a side-family house. In fact, it's similar to the wife of the side-family house."

Deputy Director Tao answered with confidence, but Da Qiao was ashamed and said, "Who wants to be a side room for you?"

"If you want to be a concubine, please talk about it slowly." Deputy Director Tao hugged Da Qiao and faced him, while relaxingly said: "But since you have seen me, in order to keep it secret, I will take you to Xunyang for any reason! Okay, hold me tightly, and I will find a way to get you a carriage in front. We have two hundred miles to go. You should think carefully about whether you want to make a side room for me on the road."

"You... Why are you so scoundrel?" Da Qiao murmured with a red face, but maybe because the weather was too cold. Da Qiao finally hugged Deputy Director Tao tightly and buried her hot cheeks in Deputy Director Tao's arms. Fang's heart beat so much that she almost jumped out of her chest...

Deputy Director Tao said that in order to keep it secret, he had to take Da Qiao to search for Yang. Of course, it was a lie to deceive the beautiful little girl to be his companion on the road. Not to mention that he was exposed because he accidentally ran into Da Qiao, the possibility of his whereabouts being discovered by the enemy's detailed works was extremely small. Even if the enemy's detailed works discovered the whereabouts of Deputy Director Tao, Xiao Yuan Sangong or Liu Yao's detailed works would definitely not guess the real destination of Deputy Director Tao's trip.

Let’s take another step back, even if Xiao Yuan Sangong and Liu Yao discovered the whereabouts of Deputy Director Tao and knew the real purpose of Deputy Director Tao, it was too late. It was not easy to pass through the layers of blockades of the Xuzhou army and sent the news to Chungu or Niuzhu? Even if there is waterway to go, the news to Chungu or Niuzhu will be smoothly sent. Xiao Yuan Sangong and Liu Yao can only be anxious and have no choice, because their navy must resist the northwest wind and the Yangtze River flow in the winter, go up nearly a thousand miles against the current, and cross the entire Poyang Lake. Then they can rush to Xunyang to stop Deputy Director Tao’s evil actions - daylily is basically cold.

It is precisely because of this that on the evening of the 22nd day of the first lunar month two days later, Deputy Director Tao finally brought Miss Da Qiao to the purpose of the trip - Xunyang County, the westernmost end of Lujiang, north of the Yangtze River, and west of Poyang Lake! In the same day, more than 3,000 Xuzhou soldiers who disguised themselves as ordinary people also formed fifty people under the leadership of Xuzhou generals such as Qiao Rui and Qin Yi, and then divided the whole into pieces to the city of Xuyang. In addition, there were 3,000 troops sent by Lujiang Prime Minister Xu Sheng. They also arrived in Xunyang on the same day. More than 6,000 troops gathered in Xunyang, and the logistics supply was provided by Zhang Tao, the leader of Xunyang, who was caught off guard.

Logistics supply is okay. No matter how remote the Xunyang County is, the county's inventory of grain is supplied to more than 6,000 Xuzhou soldiers for ten days and half a month is still not a big problem. However, when Zhang Tao learned that Deputy Director Tao was planning to cross the river in Xunyang and attack the Chaisang City of Yuzhang County, which was across the river from Xunyang, Zhang Tao, who had not even qualified to meet Deputy Director Tao, was so scared that he knelt down on the spot, kowtowed to Deputy Director Tao, and shouted with a sad face: "Lord, forgive me, lord, forgive me, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord, lord

"Please get up, Lord Zhang." Deputy Director Tao smiled and helped Zhang Tao up with both hands, and said with a smile: "It is my envoy who has not ordered you to prepare a boat crossing the river. If there are not enough boats, why are you guilty?"

"Okay, lord, how can your army cross the river?" Zhang Tao asked in surprise.

"Of course there will be a boat." Deputy Director Tao smiled and patted Zhang Tao on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Don't worry, do your logistics chores. When our army successfully crosses the river, you, Lord Zhang, can also be promoted."

"Promoted?" Mr. Zhang Tao, who has been a county magistrate in the remote small town of Xunyang since his childhood, has been lit up.

"Of course." Deputy Director Tao smiled and said, "Our army crossed the river and laid nails to form the Poyang Lake Navy, and then moved some people from the disaster-stricken areas in Huaibei to build a new city in the eastern part of Xunyang. So many difficult tasks will be handed over to you Lord Zhang. If this governor is not promoted to your official position, he will be dissatisfied with his conscience."

"Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for your promotion!" Zhang Tao was overjoyed and kowtowed again, and at the same time he wondered, "Of course there will be a ship? Where will the ship come?"

After resting in Xunyang City for a night, Anxin helped Da Qiao complete the transformation from a girl to a woman. The next morning, and on the 23rd day of the first lunar month, 6,000 Xuzhou infantry and cavalry lined up south and rushed to Xunyang Ferry Wharf Marshal. When he saw so many Xuzhou teams appeared on the north bank, there was even the Xuzhou flag of Deputy Director Tao. The Chaisang defenders who were announced by Xiao Yuansan were almost crazy. They hurriedly closed the city gates and rectified the city defense. Then they quickly sent a messenger to ask for help from Jin Shang, the prefect of Yuzhang appointed by Xiao Yuansan, and also announced an emergency call to Xiao Yuansan, who was thousands of miles away.

Of course, Song Qian, the governor of Chaisang, was also confused about the situation. "There was news that came the day before yesterday. Didn't the pottery thieves go to attack Chungu? Why did they come to Xunyang, which is thousands of miles away? Also, there are only a few broken ships at Xunyang Wharf. How could the pottery thieves cross the river? Could it be that the pottery thieves' navy is coming from the downstream, but there is no police call downstream?"

The questions of General Song and Magistrate Zhang were answered soon. Just as Chen Shi passed, a very large Jingzhou naval fleet suddenly arrived in Jiangxia County, Jingzhou, the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. It was densely packed like a crucian carp crossing the river. The sails were all sailing through the wind and waves, and they walked down the river smoothly. In a moment, they arrived at Xunyang Wharf. The flagship was under the banner of Liu. A young man on the deck stood on the bow of the boat. Before he got off the boat, he bowed to Deputy Director Tao on the wharf and shouted: "Brother, my brother Liu Qi pays homage to my brother! I was invited by Mr. Wenhe and made an appointment to ask the Jiangxia naval master to come and listen to him. Fortunately, the future was late!"

"I'm here for you!" Deputy Director Tao clasped his fists to Liu Qi on the dock and said with a smile: "I'm sorry to ask my brother to personally bring the navy to help him. I don't thank you for your kindness. When my brother succeeded Huang Zu to conquer Zhang Xian in Changsha, I will definitely send troops to help my brother achieve great achievements in order to repay my kindness today!"

"Brother, don't be polite. If it weren't for the guidance of my teacher Mr. Zhongming, how could I have today? It's a pity that I heard Mr. Wenhe say that my teacher is currently working on a big business in Jizhou. I can't thank my teacher for teaching and giving me great kindness in person. I feel so guilty!"
Chapter completed!