Twenty days later, Jizhou and Pingyuan County.

In an abandoned house, Tao Xiaomi squatted down and looked carefully. There was a pile of ashes in the house, with residual heat.

They followed Yuan Zhen from Qingzhou. Originally, most people speculated that Yuan Zhen was dead, but Ye Xiaoqian of Qianban firmly refused to agree with such inference.

So the team was divided into two parts, some stayed in Qingzhou and continued to investigate, while some went north to enter Jizhou.

After Ye Xiaoqian was injured, Tao Xiaomi asked him for instructions and no longer followed the team of Tingwei Mansion, but instead took twenty or thirty elite subordinates to act alone.

This time, there were three teams chasing from Qingzhou to Jizhou, one team of elite military commanders led by Tao Xiaomi, one team of soldiers assigned by the people, and the other team of black cavalry from the Tingwei Mansion.

At this moment, Tao Xiaomi's face looked a little bad.

This is the third time in nearly seven days that I have been so close to the fugitive.

There was a stone next to the fire. The stone was very clean. It was obvious that Yuan Zhen had been sitting on the stone before and burning the fire.

It was already summer, but there were fires in the three places where Yuanzhen was discovered, so Tao Xiaomi speculated that Yuanzhen's injuries were getting worse.

Tao Xiaomi closed her eyes and a picture appeared in her mind.

A person whose eyes were already ulcerated burned his wound with something red.

Ye Qianban once said that he should not only hurt Yuan Zhen's eyes, but perhaps the wounds in other places ulcerated due to the lack of medicine.

So Tao Xiaomi shook her head. If the injury of her eyes was ulcerated, then Yuan Zhen would not have escaped so far.

Yuanzhen had to return to Jizhou, and he could only return to Heiwu as soon as possible after leaving Jizhou.

Moreover, Tao Xiaomi firmly believed that what else was carrying Yuan Zhen was enough to help the black warriors go south, perhaps a map drawn by Yuan Zhen himself.

During his time assisting Han Feibao, Yuan Zhen traveled through many places, even to the northwest border and to Jizhou.

This person has a deep understanding of Zhongyuan. If he is really allowed to escape all the way, it will inevitably be a huge disaster in the future.

Tao Xiaomi opened her eyes and slowly let out a breath. He looked left and right and found few light yellow things on the ground.

He leaned down, his nose pressed against the ground and smelled it, confirming that it was a medicine for injury.

So Tao Xiaomi had a picture in her mind. Yuan Zhen had medicine on her body, but it was only enough to change the medicine for his eyes and wounds, and she didn't care about other places.

So Yuanzhen used this cruelest way to treat himself to burn his other wounds to prevent them from getting worse.

They chased after him too tightly along the way, and Yuanzhen didn't even dare to stay for a moment, nor did he dare to go to the drug shop to steal medicine.

"map."

Tao Xiaomi reached out.

The military officer quickly took out the map. Tao Xiaomi took the map and looked carefully, then used her finger to draw a line on the map: "Let's follow this route and keep chasing."

After saying that, he handed over the map to his subordinates and walked out of the room with great strides.

About ten miles away from this place, Yuan Zhen, wearing a straw hat, looked back.

At this time, his face was so ugly that it was fatal if the injuries on his eyes were not handled properly.

Therefore, as Tao Xiaomi speculated, Yuan Zhen used all the wound medicine in his eyes.

He was indeed not only injured, but what was ridiculous is that what was most uncomfortable for him now was the place where he was bitten by those big mice.

In Qingzhou, he jumped into the turbulent river to escape the pursuit.

If he hadn't bumped into those piles of tree branches, he couldn't stop, but how could he have thought that there were actually many big mice in those piles of tree branches?

Maybe it wasn't a mouse. Yuan Zhen had never seen that kind of thing before. He was bitten several times on his leg.

I didn't care much at first, but after two days, my wound actually became pus.

He fled along the way and picked some herbs, but it was useless. There was no way, so he had to use the cruel method of burning the wound.

At this moment, a carriage came up behind him, and Yuanzhen kept bowing to the carriage and asked the carriage to stop.

There was a family in the car. He kindly stopped and asked him what was wrong. Yuan Zhen lied to someone and said that he was a businessman and had met a bad guy.

Not only was he seriously injured, but he had no money anymore. I hope he could take him a good way.

It was time for this man to meet a kind-hearted person, so he got into the car and took him for sixty or seventy miles before he got off at the fork in the road.

At this time, the corn in the field was more than half a person tall. Yuan Zhen hid in the corn field and gnawed a few corn stalks and even got a meal.

Looking back on this life, I can't help but feel a little sad.

He was once such a proud and arrogant person, determined to be the first prime minister of the Black Martial Empire who was not from the Ghost Moon Clan.

He felt that he could definitely take power in the Black Martial Empire, and for his goal, he could give everything.

That's why he came to the Central Plains. He needed great contributions to be recognized by the nobles of the Ghost Moon Eight Tribe.

It is useless to recognize him alone, because the Black Martial Khan Emperor cannot break the rules for him.

But this time, he lost too badly.

Han Feibao was unable to support the mud on the wall and wasted so much time that Yuan Zhen was extremely upset.

Lying in the cornfield and resting for a while, he didn't dare to continue walking on the official road. He had to wait for the night before he dared to set off.

I was in a daze, but I was sleeping very lightly.

When he heard the sound of horse hooves vaguely, Yuan Zhen was immediately awakened. He immediately turned over and lay down, not even daring to show his anger.

Judging from the sound of horse hooves, there were at least one or two hundred teams passing by on the road.

He was not sure if he was chasing his lieutenant. Even if he was sure that he was not, he would not dare to show up.

"It's a capable person."

After Yuan Zhen waited for the horse team to come, he lay down again and performed a self-discipline.

He thought of that Qianbian.

Yuan Zhen was very clear about his strength. He could kill him with the ordinary Tingwei Mansion with only the stones in his hands.

"If you can catch up with this, don't give up..."

Yuan Zhen let out a heavy breath.

He needs to change his route, and even if the horse team may not be chasing him, he dare not continue on this road.

He didn't know much about Jizhou, but he knew that he could reach the Yanshan Mountains by walking north.

Tingwei's Mansion must have sent people to send notices to various parts of the northern border, and it must have been much faster than Yuanzhen.

But what other choice does Yuanzhen have?

As long as he arrives in Yanshan, he is sure that with his own ability, he will definitely be able to pass the natural barrier that ordinary people cannot overcome.

if......

If you really can't get through, then you'll live in seclusion in Yanshan for a while. In the vast mountains, let alone the Tingwei Mansion, even if King Ning used tens of thousands of troops to capture him, it wouldn't be easy to draw him out.

I thought about it in a mess, and fell asleep again in a daze. When I woke up again, it was already dark.

Yuan Zhen broke some corn stalks and replenished some moisture. It was slightly sweet and tasted pretty good.

Yuan Zhen was gritting his teeth and rushing to the road throughout the night. He adjusted his plan. He did not go north anymore, but walked back.

One night later, he returned to the abandoned house where he had stayed for a while.

The traces of the fire were still there, and there were some messy footprints, so Yuan Zhen was sure that the people from Tingwei Mansion had already come here.

He rested for another day in this dilapidated yard. At night, hunger had made him unable to sleep soundly.

He stayed up until midnight, went out of the dilapidated yard and quietly found a pharmacy.

There was only one apprentice in the pharmacy who lived in the housekeeper and was killed directly by Yuan Zhen. The poor boy was only fifteen or sixteen years old and died inexplicably.

Yuan Zhen searched for a lot of medicine in the pharmacy, first changed the medicine to the eyes, and then packed a lot.

I also found some food here, and he ate it and filled his stomach.

Next, he sat upright in front of a bronze mirror. The person in the mirror looked so terrible.

It was so dirty that it was like a savage, with hair sticking together and a beard even more messy.

He was silent for a moment, got up and fed water, took a shower, then shaved off his beard, and changed into a coarse cloth clothes. The clothes were apprentices from the pharmacy. He was wearing a little, but there was nothing to be picky about.

After packing up, he looked at himself in the mirror and was silent for a long time.

He used to be such a handsome man, but at this time the people in the mirror looked so ugly that they were scary.

There is a black hole in the wound of the eyes, and the only thing that can be thankful is that the injury did not kill him.

After a while of being stunned, he began to disguise himself with the things he had found in the medicine shop.

He knew that the Tingwei Mansion had issued a joint investigation notice and must have told the passes in the northern border that the fugitives were people with one eye missing.

No matter how disguised such a thing is, it is impossible to hide it.

He tried his best to make him look much older after disguising himself, which was the limit he could do.

Before dawn the next day, he left the medicine shop and walked around the small town for a long time. He found a place to use it.

An escort agency was loading the car and ready to set off. With Yuanzhen's hand reaching out, he hid it quietly in a car, and no one noticed it.
To be continued...