The next day, the morning glow rose, the mountains were shrouded in green mist, and everyone woke up to the sound of birds singing.
"Hey, why did those big guys get up so early today? Usually, don't they get up only after the police officers call them?" someone asked curiously.
Liu Huai walked over and glanced at An Xin with an obscure expression.
An Xin seemed unaware that Liu Huai was looking at her. After tidying herself up as if nothing had happened, she went to wash up at a spring at the foot of the mountain.
"Look around," Liu Huai ordered the officer, "If you can't find them, report to the next government office as soon as you pass by. The six people have escaped."
Thinking about last night when the six people discovered that person got up to go to the bathroom, they sneaked behind her and slowly entered the woods on the hillside. In the end, only that person and the two students who later stood at the foot of the mountain waiting for someone came back.
Liu Huai had a premonition that the six big men would either take the opportunity to escape or be in great danger.
He wanted to do something bad, but was taken care of by the female official who was able to capture the enemy general among thousands of soldiers.
Liu Huai, who had served as a vanguard general in the army and once had dreams of being a hero, already had some admiration for An Xin.
Moreover, the six bandits who killed people and looted goods should have been beheaded, but they were suddenly included in the exile group. This was not reasonable.
Liu Huai, who had been escorting prisoners who had been in exile for many years, had long felt that there was something weird about this assignment.
Therefore, no matter whether the six bandits escaped or were killed, as long as they were dealt with according to the regulations, he would be responsible. However, Liu Huai did not go and see An Xin kill anyone.
Things have happened, so let's just deal with it. At most he will lose his job as the escort leader due to dereliction of duty.
Although most people were curious about the leader of the officials, Liu Huai, who was on the road again, only sent people to search around for the six people who suddenly disappeared, and concluded that they were on the run.
Then when passing by the next government office, they went to report that a prisoner had escaped during exile and asked the government office to report the pursuit. In this way, they continued to escort An Xin and others on their way.
Liu Huai made such a simple and crude conclusion.
An Xin raised her eyebrows and glanced at Liu Huai from a distance, thinking that he might have guessed that she was the one responsible for the disappearance of the six men.
What puzzled An Xin was why Liu Huai didn't take the matter seriously.
The closer they got to Lingnan, the more An Xin observed that among the group of exiled officials, some of them looked not only relaxed, but also a little excited.
He was originally grateful for An Xin and the others' care, but then he became aloof and took it for granted.
This made An Xin unhappy, as he thought it was a good deed for him before they died.
When they saw them resting, they took it as a matter of course to order Leng Xiangbai and the others to help fetch water from the stream and collect firewood from the woods. They also wanted them to help cook meals.
An Xin: "Do you want me to feed you food again?!"
Wei Yaoxin paused at six or seven officials who were becoming increasingly arrogant, and then his expression turned very ugly.
They felt that they were officials secretly arranged by King Liang in the capital, and even if they were exiled to King Liang's fiefdom Lingnan, they could still serve as King Liang's retainers.
An Xin and his friends don't have this kind of relationship as they are exiles.
Now he has truly changed from an official to an exile who is bullied and despised by everyone.
They will also be arranged to go to the most barren and desolate places, where they can only hope to survive by reclaiming wasteland and cultivating crops.
Wanting this, Wei Yaoxin looked at An Xin and the others with contempt, raised his head and said arrogantly: "It is your blessing to be ordered around by us. There will be a time for you to benefit."
Wei Yaoxin said in a cryptic tone.
Several other officials appointed by King Liang to the court nodded in agreement. Six or seven of them did not show any sign of gratitude for the care they had received some time ago.
An Xin curled the corners of his mouth and smiled.
At first, she thought that these people were unknowingly poisoned by a scheming, meticulous, and petty boss who sent them back to King Liang with a chronic poison, leaving them with no way out but death, which was quite pitiful.
I didn't expect that there must be something hateful about pitiful people.
It is not difficult to guess Emperor Sheng An's intention in sending these people to King Liang.
The first is to say that some people already know that Prince Liang arranged for someone in the palace to instigate Concubine Xian to drug the emperor and to help her come up with an idea to join forces with Prime Minister Xiao to support the third prince to ascend to the throne.
Prince Liang wanted to cause chaos in the court. After Emperor Sheng An died of poisoning, he would tell the world what Concubine Xian and Prime Minister Xiao had done, and then take advantage of the chaos to rebel, attack the capital and seize the throne.
When An Xin connected the dots, he understood why Emperor Sheng An announced to the public that he had been poisoned and was unconscious, and was about to die.
If sending back these officials secretly planted by Prince Liang in the court would alert the enemy, then Emperor Sheng An staged the poisoning again to give Prince Liang the opportunity and hope for a successful rebellion.
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The shameless old emperor secretly arranged for her to come to Lingnan. His purpose was probably nothing more than to let her come here to investigate the power of King Liang, and mainly to find the place where he secretly trained his private soldiers and destroy them.
I don't know why the old emperor thinks so highly of her. He always gives her such heart-pounding tasks. It makes her look like she has so much free time.
An Xin didn't want to care about Wei Yaoxin and his group of idiots anymore. He just hoped that they would have smooth sailing on the road ahead and not kill themselves.
She stroked her chin in thought.
Since Emperor Sheng'an got the news that Prince Liang was planning to rebel through reports from the royal spies stationed in Lingnan to monitor the princes, it meant that it was possible that the governor of Lingnan had been bribed or defected to Prince Liang.
An Xin looked up at the exiled officials who had not changed at all even as they were approaching Lingnan, and still expressed their sincere gratitude for their help.
It is speculated that these people should be people whom Emperor Sheng An could trust, and she exiled them together with him. It is very likely that she planned to stay and take over the officials who manage Lingnan after she succeeded.
While taking a break, An Xin walked to a secluded place, opened the secret report sent by Long Yi, and read it quickly.
As expected, Emperor Sheng An wrote in the secret letter that from the moment he set foot in Lingnan, everything here was under her full authority.
An Xin does not need to report any decision it makes.
In addition, she was holding another item that Long Yi had sent her this time, which had surprised An Xin at the time. It was actually half of a tiger talisman that could mobilize all the troops in the country.
It seems that for the emperor, the princes of any dynasty are the existence that they are extremely taboo about. Once they know that they have the intention of rebellion, they will definitely be destroyed with all their strength.
It is not difficult to understand why An Xin is holding half of the tiger talisman in his hand at this moment.
If he did not have the right to mobilize the army, even if An Xin found the army that King Liang had secretly trained.
She was a commander alone, and even if she had three heads and six arms, she could not destroy the thousands of Liang Wang's private soldiers.