Chapter 132 Can They Fly?

Yun Qingqing didn't even need to look back to feel that someone's gaze was icy cold.

The Seventh Princess didn't know that this person had very sharp ears and he must have heard everything she said clearly.

She quickly coughed to interrupt the Seventh Princess's chattering:

"Well, it's getting late. We have to leave."

Situ Qinglan then sighed, watched Yun Qingqing get on the carriage, and waved goodbye reluctantly.

She sat on the trunk of the giant elephant, letting it lift her up, and watched the team go farther and farther away and turn into small black dots. Then she sighed softly.

"The capital of Liang State... is so far away. I wonder if I will have the chance to see you again in the future..."

…

There is a mountain called Weilang Mountain about ten miles away from the border of Liang State and Jing State.

There is a village on the mountain called Weilang Village. One day, the guards of Weilang Village brought two people, a strong man with a dark face and a tall and thin man with a goatee.

It was Zhang and Li who had secretly discussed the regent on the official road in the imperial capital.

The two were brought directly to the village's chief, and the dark-faced man, Lao Zhang, handed them a wooden sign:

"According to the secret order of my master, please come out and help."

When the boss saw the wooden sign, he immediately took it very seriously:

"May I ask what mission the two messengers have brought?"

Lao Zhang bowed and said:

"Five hundred soldiers from Liang will pass through here on their way to Jing State in the near future. All the boss needs to do is to lead his men to ambush and surround them..."

He paused in the middle, put his hand in front of his neck in the shape of a knife, and made a cutting gesture with a cruel look on his face.

The boss understood, but after a moment's thought, he suddenly asked:

"The five hundred men you mentioned are the fully armed imperial army?"

"That's right," Lao Zhang complimented with a smile, "The boss is really well-informed. The team hasn't even traveled halfway through the journey yet, but you've already received the news!"

The boss became more and more confused:

"Not even halfway through the journey? According to what you said, there are more than one group of people from Liang Kingdom heading to Jing Kingdom recently?"

Lao Zhang was stunned:

"No, there is only this group of people. Don't worry, Boss. You will definitely not miss them as long as they arrive."

The big boss frowned:

"But a group of soldiers entered the territory of Jing State from here the day before yesterday, and they hurriedly returned the same way yesterday. My men secretly counted them and found that there were exactly 500 soldiers. Are you sure you didn't make a mistake about the time they arrived?"

The group brought a lot of supplies on their return trip. If it was an ordinary merchant caravan, he would have attacked it. However, because it was escorted by the imperial army, all the nearby strongholds, big and small, remained on standby.

After all, if we were to launch a siege against the imperial court, the gains would outweigh the losses.

Lao Zhang and Lao Li looked at each other in surprise, hesitated for a moment, and then smiled with relief.

"Maybe the local team just happened to go to Jingguo for business. The team we are waiting for set out from the Imperial Capital, there is no way they could have arrived the day before yesterday!"

"Yes, the two of us traveled day and night, resting only for two hours a day, and killed two fast horses before we got here. How could the team from the Imperial Capital arrive earlier than us?"

When the boss heard the two of them say this, he nodded:

"Since the two envoys are sure, that's good. I will send out outposts to investigate and make careful arrangements. We will definitely kill him completely!"

Zhang and his partner completed half of their mission and immediately said with a smile:

"Master, you are so happy! Don't worry, the master said that as long as you succeed, he will definitely satisfy your previous request!"

"Hahahaha... Great!" The big boss was delighted, "Come on, prepare a banquet to welcome the two envoys. We won't go home until we are drunk tonight!"

Early the next morning, the leader of Weilang Village called the second and third leaders and all the leaders of the village to the meeting hall to discuss how to ambush.

The bandits knew very well that such a thing must not be done near their own stronghold. There happened to be a Liuhuo stronghold a hundred miles to the north that had always been at odds with this side. It would be better to divert the disaster there, and then the court could look for them for revenge!

So it was decided to send out spies in batches to go north to find out the progress of the target team of 500 people.

Once the target is discovered, all 3,000 troops in the village will be dispatched immediately to ambush in the mountains 30 miles north of Liuhuo Village in advance and kill all the targets!

only……

As the days passed, spies were sent out in batches, but the team of 500 people was never seen in the direction of the imperial capital.

One day, the head of the family convened a meeting and frowned, saying:

"Is the information from the two messengers really correct? Even if a large group of people set out from the Imperial Capital, they should reach the border of our Langwei Village within ten days."

"But now, not to mention that they haven't even come here, there is still no sign of them even dozens of miles north of Liuhuo Village!"

Old Zhang's face didn't look good:

"Master, do you not trust us?"

Old Li was afraid that he might offend someone, so he quickly tried to smooth things over:

"Hey, don't say that for now. The boss wants to ask for clarification only because he is worried about making mistakes. But there is indeed a problem with this matter. Could it be that they took another route?"

The second in command denied:

"No, there is only one route from Dijing to Jingguo after passing through Quzhounan. They definitely can't avoid it."

Lao Zhang hesitated for a moment, then suddenly sneered:

"Perhaps they were delayed in the first half of the journey due to an accident. Can the boss send someone to investigate further north? We may get some news soon."

The big boss nodded:

"Okay, then I'll..."

He had just said halfway when someone reported that the spy in the village had returned with important news.

Old Zhang's eyes lit up:

"Has the target appeared?"

However, after the spy entered the meeting room, the second in command said:

"This is not a spy heading north. It's the person I sent to Jing Country to investigate two days ago who has returned."

It turned out that after he heard that a team of 500 people had passed by, he felt a little suspicious and sent people to investigate.

"Tell me, have you found out the background of the group of people who entered and left Jing Kingdom a few days ago?" the second in command said to the spy.

"Reporting to the heads, we have already found out that the last group of people was led by the Regent to go to Jing Country to discuss the alliance and borrow military rations."

"What!"

"impossible!"

Lao Zhang and Lao Li cried out in dismay.

"The Regent and his entourage made quite a commotion on their way to the Jing Kingdom's palace. The Regent's wife won a bet with the Seventh Princess of Jing Kingdom, and an assassin appeared behind them. Everyone in the Jing Kingdom's imperial city knows about this. If you don't believe it, just ask around and you'll find out!"

The spy said somewhat unhappily.

The two looked at each other, their jaws dropped.

The big boss asked in a deep voice:

"Two messengers, the one that the Lord ordered you to deliver the message to surround and kill, could it be the Regent's team?"

"Uh..." Old Li was speechless.

"That's right..." Old Zhang finally squeezed out two words after a long while, which meant he admitted it.

The big boss slammed the table:

"Are you two kidding me? The Regent's team had already returned the day before you arrived, but you insisted that they were still on the way! You made me wait for so long in vain!"

"What on earth are you thinking?!"

The two were completely dumbfounded.

There was definitely some truth to the fact that there was such a big commotion in the Imperial City of Jing State.

But they both clearly set out at the same time as the Regent!

How was it possible that a team of 500 people was faster than the two of them, who had been running day and night and killing two fast horses, and arrived a day earlier?

Can't they fly?