Chapter 1705: Girl, What Am I?

It was already half a month later when Xiao Li's ship arrived at Anzhou Pier.

From Anzhou to Lingzhou, it was faster to travel by land than by water, so they decided to go to Anzhou, hire a carriage and then go to Lingzhou.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he landed, he was stopped by officers and soldiers.

The fact that the four states south of the Yangtze River were occupied by rebels was originally a secret. After all, the rebels were passing through the border, and information was blocked in each state capital to ensure that no hint of news spread.

But in the past month, Liu Weirong Leng arrived in Qingzhou, and there were rumors that they were obstructing her, the queen rebelled, and the soldiers invaded Jiangnan.

As soon as the uninjured prefectures heard this rumor, they quickly asked the capital for confirmation, but there was no response from the capital, so they did not dare to ask for help. On the one hand, they sent people to quietly go to the four prefectures that were said to have fallen to inquire about the news, and on the other hand, they spontaneously stepped up patrols. Guard, strictly control foreign ships and horses.

As outsiders, Xiao Li and the others are now under control.

The person in charge of the docks in Anzhou is the master of Fuyin Yamen. This master now looks at everyone as if they are thieves. He leads a team of patrolmen and stares at a group of old and weak women and children coming off the boat. What do you think, what do you think? I find them strange.

"You said you were going to Lingzhou to visit relatives? How can you prove it?"

Xiao Li reluctantly took out the road guide from his bag and handed it over.

Unexpectedly, when the master saw it, he immediately ordered people to surround them.

Xiao Li frowned.

The master said: "Come from Chongzhou? Are you from Pinghe Prefecture in Chongzhou? Oh, Pinghe Prefecture was later changed in the state records, and the name was changed. The original name was Zehe Prefecture. In all household registration documents, the person named Zehe Prefecture was stamped. Hefu, you wrote the oblique characters wrong, and your guide is fake."

This road guide is indeed a fake. Before setting off, Xiao Li asked a Haidongjun with outstanding craftsmanship to make a fake certificate. The Haidongjun was obviously not from Chongzhou, so he didn't pay attention to the details. Even Xiao Li used this road to visit so many state capitals, and no one found anything wrong.

But now, the shipwreck in the gutter has been seen.

Xiao Li breathed out, and faced the "You are all spies" expression on his master's face, he was silent for a moment, and confessed: "Well, we are indeed not from Chongzhou, but from Songzhou."

The master spread his hands: "Where is the household registration?"

Xiao Li shook his head: "No household registration."

Liu Wei was born in Kyoto, so his household registration is in Kyoto, but Xiaoli was born in Qujiang Prefecture, Songzhou, so his household registration is indeed in Songzhou. However, he has been displaced in the past two years, and even went to Xianyan Kingdom. This kind of thing, just a piece of paper, has long been soaked in water.

Now that he has returned to Qingyun Country, Songzhou has been occupied by the rebels. Xiao Li can't just run over and ask the rebels to reissue it for him, so now, he is a black householder who cannot get his household registration.

The master was very neat and he waved his hand directly and asked the guards to take these people away and take them to the Yamen for questioning.

Xiao Li remained calm and asked everyone not to resist and to go to the Yamen to check first. He wanted to determine first whether the officers and soldiers who stopped them were really Anzhou officers and soldiers, or whether Anzhou had been captured by the rebels. These were rebels. Military people.

If it's the former, he has his own way of explaining it. If it's the latter, if they resist now, the old man and the child will be injured in the fight, so they can't be impulsive.

When they arrived at Anzhou Fuyin's Yamen, they were taken to the back hall. The master went to invite Fuyin to come out. When Fuyin saw them, he immediately asked, "Songzhou people?"

Xiao Li nodded: "Yes."

"Where are you from Songzhou?"

Xiao Li said: "He is from Qujiang Mansion."

“How to prove it if you don’t have household registration?”

Xiao Li asked: "Where are you from, sir?"

The governor of Anzhou was stunned for a moment, looked at the young boy, and after a while, ordered the officer: "Take them to the prison."

Xiao Li frowned.

The governor of Anzhou sneered and said: "The situation in the south of the Yangtze River is dangerous now. A bunch of old and weak women and children are walking freely in the two rivers? This is weird. In the face of my official's inquiry, you are just a young man, calm and composed, while ordinary children, Do you have such determination? Both doubts prove that your origins are unknown. I would rather wrong you than tolerate you. I will stay in prison for a few days and then release you after the situation stabilizes. "

Seeing the government officials surrounding them, Xiao Li quickly said: "My lord said that the situation in the south of the Yangtze River is dangerous. I don't know what that means. We didn't find anything dangerous along the way."

The governor of Anzhou laughed: "I don't know whether to believe what you said, but one thing can be proved. Recently, there have been a large number of soldiers and horses moving between the two rivers. You said that you are a citizen of a good family, but when the two rivers come, you have nothing." Have you seen a large number of official ships coming and going?”

Xiao Li shrugged: "So what if we've seen each other before? We are just ordinary people. When we see an official ship, we will take a detour. Do we have to go up and ask, where are you going? Why are so many people going in the same direction?" "

Anzhou Prefect was blocked by his words, but he still felt it was unbelievable, especially the more steady the young man appeared, the more suspicious he felt.

He said: "Then let me think that I have wronged you." As he said this, he waved his hand and ordered the government officials to take action.

Xiao Li raised his hand to stop the yamen servant, and then looked at Anzhou Prefect: "It doesn't matter if you go to jail, but I still want to know, sir, where are you from?"

The governor of Anzhou was silent for a moment, probably feeling that it was hard for them to fly, so he said frankly: "My ancestral home is Kyoto, how about it?"

Xiao Li's guess was indeed correct. This Anzhou governor was indeed from Kyoto. Although he spoke in Anzhou dialect, his Kyoto accent was very strong. Xiao Li had lived in Kyoto, so it was easy to recognize him.

Xiao Li asked again: "You said that there are troops flowing between the two rivers, and that the situation in Jiangnan is unstable. I want to ask, is there a mutiny in Jiangnan?"

The prefect of Anzhou sneered: "Aren't you the ones who know best whether there is a mutiny?"

"We don't know." Xiao Li said with a straight face: "But when I came here, I did find that the patrols in Songzhou, Qingzhou, Fengzhou, Nanzhou and other places were strengthened, and the officers and soldiers were all new faces."

The prefect of Anzhou suddenly glanced at the master, he sat up straighter, squinted his eyes and asked: "Nanzhou and Fengzhou have also strengthened the patrols? "

Xiao Li looked at the expression of the prefect, judged his current state of mind, and said calmly: "Yes, we did not set out from Songzhou, we came from the East China Sea. We originally wanted to return to Songzhou, but the Songzhou dock was really strange. Those officers and soldiers did not look like people from the Central Plains, but more like barbarians, so they did not go ashore. They wanted to go to Lingzhou first to visit their ancestors. "

The master on the side suddenly clenched his fists and said excitedly: "It is indeed a barbarian. The rumors are right. The four states in the south of the Yangtze River have really fallen."

The prefect of Anzhou coughed and stared at the master.

The master realized that he had said the wrong thing. He hurriedly looked at Xiao Li and the others, and said with a stern face: "Even if you say so, it can't prove that you are not spies. Since ancient times, the elderly, the weak, women and children are the easiest spies to go deep behind enemy lines. "

Xiao Li has completely confirmed that Anzhou has not been captured by the rebels. The prefect and the master in front of him are all original, so he doesn't beat around the bush. He directly took out a token from his arms and handed it over.

The prefect of Anzhou looked at the token and his eyes widened.

"Zhengemen?"

Xiao Li looked at the girl beside him: "Girl, what am I?"

The girl was very smart and said crisply: "The young master of Zhengemen." After saying that, she burst out laughing.

Xiao Li shrugged and said naturally: "Since you are from Kyoto, I think you can make your own conclusion whether this token is real or fake."