Chapter 314

No matter how fast the 800-mile express is, it still takes several days to get from Hexi to the capital. By the time the express delivery arrived in the capital, it was already four days later.

The messenger did not dare to delay. After passing the city gate, he shouted to get out of the way and galloped towards the palace.

He didn't notice that there was a tall, thin man following him all the way. When he rode into the city, the tall and thin man also walked slowly into the city, murmuring as he walked, "This guy really did his duty. Apart from changing horses, he only stopped for a few hours along the way, and he almost exhausted me!"

"Stop!" The guard guard raised his hand to stop the man.

Staring at his face, he asked: "Where are you from? What is your name? What are you doing in the city?"

No luck! The man smiled helplessly, hurriedly took out the household registration documents from his arms, and said with a smile: "Brother, I am from Jinguan City in Shu region, my name is Zhou Zhilin."

The soldier took the document, weighed it from side to side, looked at it carefully several times, and found that there was nothing wrong with it. After returning it to him, he asked: "What are you doing in the capital?"

"Traveling around the world, I stopped by Beijing to take the exam. It's not even spring time yet, so I plan to visit the capital!" The man whose pseudonym was Zhou Zhilin said with a calm smile.

His hands were not idle, he secretly handed over two taels of silver, and nodded with a smile.

No wonder he has the heart to travel around the world, Ganqing is still a kid from a rich family! The soldier held Yinzi's hand upside down, smiled with satisfaction, waved his hand and warned: "Go in, remember, this is the emperor's feet, you can't cause trouble randomly, otherwise..."

The soldiers didn't say anything else, but pointed to the sky, which was a very clear hint.

Zhou Zhilin was also quite sensible and hurriedly thanked him, "Thank you for your advice, brother. I will definitely behave myself and not run around randomly."

"As long as you know, go in quickly."

After smiling politely, he walked into the capital with light steps. The messenger had disappeared a long time ago, and he was not in a hurry to find him. He just wandered around with his hands behind his back. He looked like he was a scholar who had come to the capital for the first time and everything he saw felt new.

At this time, the messenger had already arrived at the entrance of the palace. He got off his horse and trotted towards the palace. Several eunuchs immediately surrounded him and asked, "What are you doing? Do you want to break into the palace without permission?"

"Eight hundred miles of urgent delivery, we need to present it to the emperor!"

Several eunuchs looked at me and I looked at you. No one dared to make a decision, so they froze in front of the door. Coincidentally, at this time, Eunuch Bingbishi, the Superintendent of Ceremonies, happened to be passing by on business, and saw several eunuchs gathered around him.

He hurriedly yelled, "What are you guys doing? Hanging around chatting on errands? Don't you want the head on your neck anymore?"

Hearing a voice coming from behind, several eunuchs turned around and recognized Eunuch Shi. He was instantly overjoyed and explained: "Godfather, it's not that the servants didn't do their job properly. It's that this man wants to enter the palace, and the servants are blocking him."

"Why does he want to enter the palace?" Eunuch Shi asked.

One of the eunuchs with sharp ears rushed to answer: "I'll send you eight hundred miles to expedite it."

"Nonsense!" Eunuch Shi pointed at the person who delivered the message and scolded: "Why are you going to the palace? It's 800 miles away and handed over to the eunuch on duty, and they will send it to the cabinet for duty. What's going on with you entering the palace?"

"Father, this urgent delivery is different!" The person who delivered the letter hurriedly explained, "This is a frontline battle report in Hexi!"

ah? Eunuch Shi immediately turned his gun, pointed at several eunuchs and yelled: "You guys are living on dry food? Why don't you ask clearly?"

He turned around and waved, and said to the messenger: "Hurry in with me, hurry!"

Eunuch Shi led the way and trotted towards Xiyuan, for fear of wasting a little time. When they arrived at Xiyuan, Eunuch Shi didn't care about his appearance. He stretched out his hand and asked, "Where is the urgent delivery?"

The messenger took out the express delivery from his arms, and before he could speak, Eunuch Shi quickly snatched it away, saying "Stand here and wait!", and then hurriedly ran towards Qingxuan Palace.

"Is the ancestor here?"

"Here you are, Eunuch Shi." the eunuch at the gate replied.

"Shout out quickly, something big is going on!"

After a while, Eunuch Feng walked out quietly, frowned and asked, "What's wrong? Who caused the trouble?"

Eunuch Shi held the express delivery in front of him and said with a smile: "Old ancestor, the battle report of the express delivery from eight hundred miles west of Hexi."

As soon as the words came out, Eunuch Feng also changed his expression. Where's the battle report? Why didn't he receive any news?

Soon he thought of another question: had Lu Wenyu received the news? If he didn't receive the news, then the matter would be big!

Thinking of this, he hurriedly waved to Eunuch Shi and whispered: "Get out of the palace quickly, go to Mr. Lu Wenyu and tell him everything! Go quickly!"

Eunuch Shi nodded, turned around and ran out. Looking at the expression on Eunuch Feng's face just now, it was obvious that he had not received the letter at all, otherwise how could the person who delivered the letter be stopped.

When I went to find Mr. Lu, I was probably afraid that Mr. Lu would not get the news either.

The matter is huge and cannot be delayed! If it weren't for the fact that Qi couldn't circulate in the palace, he would have loved to use Qing Gong.

Eunuch Feng took the urgent delivery, swallowed, took a deep breath, turned around and walked into Qingxuan Palace. Holding it in both hands, he walked to the altar, knelt down and said carefully: "Master, the urgent delivery from Hexi is a battle report."

"oh?"

Hearing the word "battle report", Yuan Zhuo, who had his eyes closed, opened them instantly. After thinking for a moment, I haven't received any news about Hexi recently. How could the battle report suddenly come back?

"Who wrote it?" he asked curiously.

Eunuch Feng lowered his head, "What is written above is: Liu Huanzhou's handwriting by Governor Liu!"

Hmm? Yuan Zhuo, who had been expressionless just now, suddenly changed his expression. He turned to look at Eunuch Feng, and slowly walked down the altar to pick up the express. When he saw the words "Minister Liu Huanzhou's handwriting" on the cover, his face became even uglier.

He walked to the desk with his hands behind his back and sat down. He casually opened the express and read it slowly with his hands folded. After reading it once, he was a little bit unbelievable, so he read it again in detail.

Then he laughed, but in this laughter, anger accounted for the vast majority.

He looked up at Eunuch Feng, suppressed his anger and asked: "Big companion, get up. When was this express delivered?"

Eunuch Feng stood up and replied: "Just now, the messenger was outside. Do you want me to call him in?"

"No need, this so-called victory report, big companion, come and see it, see how well our General Liu won the battle!" Yuan Zhuo gritted his teeth.

The word "victory" was pronounced very heavily, and it can be clearly heard that Yuan Zhuo is almost furious now.

Sensing the anger in Yuan Zhuo's tone, Eunuch Feng walked to the desk with fear and trepidation, turned the thin battle report on the desk over, and read it attentively.

He couldn't help but gasp after reading it for the first time, and his teeth felt cold.

How could this be a victory report? It was more like a great defeat!