Even though the people who knew that Yang Zhiyuan had already set their sights on them, Ye Zheng had no intention of walking out of Yushan.

He disguised his guards into pieces, then scattered and scattered in the team of students going down the mountain.

He and Jiang Xi first prepared three sets of substitutes wearing similar clothes and similar faces to them, confusing the possible eyeliners at any time.

Then, under the cover of Mu Yan and Ji Xing, he and Jiang Xicai quietly left Yushan and walked towards Huafangshan.

Chu Ji did not travel with him. He claimed that the prince Chu was in poor health and was recuperating. However, Ye Zheng confessed to Jiang Xi that Chu Ji was going to do another very important thing.

What can be more important than finding out the mine hidden by Yang Zhiyuan in Huafang Mountain? Of course, it is the life of this prince and the prince!

There is no doubt that Chu Ji took people to the nearby prefectures for help. He should have a secret order given by Emperor Jingyuan of Chang'an in his hand, so that he could mobilize troops at any time. No wonder Ye Zheng said he would be the bait himself to attract Yang Zhiyuan's attention. It turned out that he was taking advantage of Yang Zhiyuan's negligence in Huafang Mountain and let Chu Ji take advantage of the chaos to break through Yang Zhiyuan's blockade in Zhangzhou and ask for help smoothly!

A good move for the mantis stalks the cicada, and the oriole is behind.

The mantis is him, and the oriole is also him.

——Jiang Xi is talking about Chu Ji.

This plan to take advantage of people's loopholes is undoubtedly the work of the Prince of Yongcheng Hou. Although Ye Zheng is delicate, he lacks a view of the overall situation. In contrast, Chu Ji is much more profound and unpredictable. Sure enough, he can play a pig and eat a tiger in the palace and win the favor of the emperor and the imperial concubine. He will not be a simple person.

But Ye Zheng followed Chu Ji's advice, which surprised Jiang Xi again.

Ye Zheng trusted Chu Ji so much, wasn't he afraid that he would throw his life on Huafang Mountain if he took risks?

Looking at his firm and determined eyes, he was not afraid of the bad results that would happen in the future. He didn't care whether there was a death situation ahead or not, but only knew how to move forward bravely... He actually trusted Chu Ji completely.

Jiang Xi looked down in a complicated way, pretending to be nothing from beginning to end, but his mood suddenly became relaxed.

Because of the careful preparation in advance, it was quite easy to walk all the way from Yushan.

Jiang Xi didn't ride her snow lion, which was too eye-catching. She rode an ordinary big cloud horse. She was indeed much shorter than the horse that came to North Vietnam and had less leg strength. This shows that Big Cloud has no strength in the horse shepherd.

Riding a horse and wearing a hat, the four of them dressed up like this. The three of them still hid swords in the hat. Jiang Xi, who was not skilled in martial arts, could only hold a dagger in his arms for self-defense.

Under the dim sky and dense rain, the four people riding horses were like a drop of light ink in muddy water.

On this trip, they set out from Yushan and walked along Nanjiang all the way to Huafang Mountain. The last time they walked this way, the group spent most of the day on the road, and this time they rode a horse faster than the last time they took a carriage. According to Ye Zheng's calculation, they could enter the mountain about two hours in advance.

After shaking the wind and rain all the way, the four of them finally arrived outside Huafang Mountain and met with the guards sent by Ye Zheng before.

This time, Ye Zheng came to Jiangnan to take several guards, and last time the Dragon Boat Festival assassin broke away, Chu Ji went out of Zhangzhou to ask for help, and Ye Zheng sent several people to protect his safety. There were less than forty people following Ye Zheng to Huafangshan today.

There are only thirty people who meet with them now, and the other ten are good at hiding, so they sneaked and explored the way in Huafang Mountain according to Ye Zheng's instructions.

"There are still too few people." Ye Zheng frowned, thinking of the dozens of guards he left on Jade Mountain, his brows frowned tightly.

Jiang Xi walked to him: "Can't you use it temporarily?"

Ye Zheng was silent, and this attitude was obviously impossible.

Jiang Xi was shocked. Ye Zheng went to Jiangnan in the name of the prince, but brought hundreds of guards! He was listed as two teams on the Yushan Mountain Road that day, and the silver-armored horses were extremely powerful! But more than half of them could not be trusted by Ye Zheng?

Ye Zheng not only distrusts them, but also believes that these dozens of people will become a potential crisis in his deep trouble! He may even stab him in the back and take his life!

Otherwise, given their lack of manpower now, even if there are spies, Ye Zheng would pinch his nose and carry it.

Moreover, if Ye Zheng could really command these people completely, it would be impossible to take down Yang Zhiyuan, but it would be possible to protect him from returning to Chang'an. Once the evidence of the crime was sent to the dragon case of the Golden Palace of Chang'an, how could there be such an arrogant reason as Yang Zhiyuan?

Alas, the royal battle is really ruthless and cold-blooded.

Jiang Xi shook her head and said another thing: "On the way I came, I found that the water level in Nanjiang seemed to have risen a lot." She only glanced at the time, and was in a hurry to go without looking too carefully.

"I also discovered it." Ye Zheng began to worry about the troubles in Nanjiang a few days ago when the heavy rainstorm that had hit Dragon Boat Festival for more than ten days without stopping.

Yang Zhiyuan embezzled the river funds allocated to Zhangzhou by the imperial court every year, which means that Yang Zhiyuan has been the governor of Zhangzhou for many years, and the river embankment of Zhangzhou has been ignored for many years.

Don’t be afraid of neglecting or neglecting, but you’re afraid that Yang Zhiyuan never cared about it!

If the Nanjiang River continues to rise, the embankment will not be able to close the tide and the river will be stormy... By then, there will be real corpses everywhere! Life will be devastated!

Before, Ye Zheng was still lucky, but now he found that his worries were probably coming true.

"There is a village ahead, do you want to stop and rest?"

Ye Zheng didn't even think about it, and waved his hand: "No, just hurry on the road."

The team did not stop and continued to move forward because it was a mountain road, and the road was slippery, so they had to get off the horse's back and walk on the horse. Everyone was muddy with one leg.

Jiang Xi struggled to walk, but fortunately she was wearing a pair of light cowhide boots, and Ji Xing was pushing her behind her, but she was not left behind and still biting the speed of the team.

Ye Zheng saw that she was tired from walking and knew that Jiang Xi was weak, so he couldn't bear it.

"Stay off."

Jiang Xi did not refuse, and it was meaningless to just hold on. It was better to rest and accumulate energy.

Ji Xing helped her to sit down a big stone. Outside the stone was the Nanjiang River roaring across the mountains. The many peaks in this Huafang Mountains all had streams down the slope and flowed into the Nanjiang River waterway in the mountains, enriching the water volume of Nanjiang River.

Due to the ups and downs of the mountains, the water of the Nanjiang River passing by slapped the rocks, stirring and majestic, and even the sound of rain could not be suppressed.

Jiang Xi turned around and looked at the river... It was wrong!

Jiang Xi's face under the hat changed rapidly.

She didn't bother to rest and hurriedly got up to Ye Zheng.

"Oh no, the Nanjiang River water suddenly surged. I'm worried that it will continue to surge in the future!"

"What?" Ye Zheng also went to see.

They stood high on the hillside and could naturally clearly see the flow of Nanjiang River below.

Although Ye Zheng was not as keen as Jiang Xi, he could also tell that the river water was indeed a little higher than the skyrocketing just now! The tree he just saw at the foot of the mountain was now half submerged!

"How could the river water suddenly rise so fast?"

Jiang Xi said in a deep voice: "There has been too much rain recently, and it has exceeded the water flow of Nanjiang."

Ye Zheng could only understand Jiang Xi’s statements in half, but the general idea was to understand them.

"You mean, there is a flood that is likely?"

Jiang Xi nodded: "I'm afraid that's the case."

"The village at the foot of the mountain..."

When they were just going up the mountain, they had just passed a village at the foot of the mountain. That village was very close to the riverside. If the flood came, that village would probably not be spared!

"I'm worried too." This is exactly what Jiang Xi was worried about.

They cannot stop natural disasters, but before they come, they can always remind them.

"Are you sure there will be floods?"

Jiang Xi sighed: "I'm not sure if the river water continues to soar, there will be, but if it stops and stops rising, when the rain stops and the river water recedes, my worries will only be redundant."

When Jiang Xi said this, the hands and nails of the straw hat were quietly sinking into the soft flesh of the palm.

She is unwilling to accept it.

I was unwilling to be so incompetent.

Ye Zheng didn't know her little movements, but Ji Xing seemed to feel something and looked at Jiang Xi blankly.

"If the flood can be predicted by us, it will not be a flood." Ye Zheng sighed heavily, "I will send someone down to inform the villagers in the village to evacuate."

With a command, he sent two guards out.

After a while, the two guards came back and said that the villagers refused to leave, and pointed at them and scolded them.

The two guards felt a little aggrieved. Maybe they didn't expect that they came to remind them, but instead they were scolded to death.

Jiang Xi and Ye Zheng were not surprised.

They were just holding a small hope and asked the two guards to give it a try.

"We were not able to reveal our whereabouts, but now it seems we can only go there once." Ye Zheng smiled bitterly.

Jiang Xi nodded: "Go and go back quickly."

They could only hope that these villagers were not stubborn - it turned out that Jiang Xi was too naive.

The two guards came to the door and were scolded very much. Dozens of people came to the door, causing dozens of villagers to run out with farm tools such as hoes and other places, standing in a human wall at the entrance of the village, looking at them with vigilance and vague fear.

This village is not like Jiujiang Village, it is just an ordinary village. The dozens of people standing out are basically young and strong. If they really fight around, Ye Zheng's guards may suffer a loss!

At this time, a white-haired father-in-law walked out of the villagers, who had a lot of prestige among the villagers, and should be the village chief of this village.

The old village chief saw the two guards returning by Ye Zheng at a glance, thinking that they were scolded and were dissatisfied to come for revenge. Although he softened his tone, he also acted as arguing:

"You two friends came up and said there was a flood, and asked the people in our village to leave quickly. The people in our village were also angry and were afraid that the crow would really say that the flood was coming, so they scolded him. This matter is really not for us."

The villagers standing next to the village chief hugged their hoe tightly and nodded in fear.
Chapter completed!