Chapter Seventy-Four: The Python in the River

After tossing for a noon, Wang Baoshan and the others finally failed to find something suitable to write a letter asking for help.

In the end, he couldn't, and the little soldier Lu Yun winked at him and cast a meaningful look, meaning to let him steal.

Of course, Wang Baoshan understood his thoughts, and although he had the intention to dissuade him, he had no choice but to acquiesce considering the importance of the follow-up task.

In order to avoid suspicion, Lu Yun took advantage of the convenience of the past, so he quietly left everyone and went out of the reeds. After a meal, he came back with a few more things in his hand.

Two small and delicate brushes, a pile of white paper, a small ink sac with gold veins, and a box of equally small and delicate inkstones.

Looking at these exquisite four treasures of the study, not like they are only available in ordinary people, Wang Baoshan was very curious, and without waiting for Lu Yun to start writing letters, he pulled him to the corner and asked him in a low voice where he went.

Lu Yun did not hide it, saying that he went to the Li Mansion in the town, and said that on the way, he found that there were many city guards hidden in some private houses in the town.

This discovery shocked Wang Baoqiang, and he hurriedly found Yang Zhuoyi and others to discuss countermeasures.

The situation is getting more and more complicated, so they can't act rashly for a while, so they can only write the specific situation into the letter, and then Luo Ying beckons the goshawk to take off, wraps it in a strip of cloth, ties it to its feet, and lets it fly back to Heifengling to deliver the letter.

After the goshawk took off and spread its wings and flew away, Wang Baoshan asked everyone to camp and rest here for the time being, eat some dry food, and recuperate.

Along the way, everyone was already sleepy, and after eating dry food, the soldiers pushed down the reeds and weeds, and lay on them, barely able to sleep. But in order not to be discovered, they can only scatter and sleep in a nest of threes and twos.

Wang Baoshan deliberately asked Lu Yun to stay with him. At this time, he said to Lu Yun a little embarrassed: "Brother Lu, I am really embarrassed for you today. ”

"General, there's nothing embarrassing about this, I don't think I've done anything wrong?" Lu Yun smiled, with a little pride on his expression, how could there be any embarrassment.

Wang Baoshan saw that he didn't care at all, so he whispered: "But this is stealing things after all! ”

After saying that, he also looked around with some concern, and found that except for a few people who were in charge of waking up and watching, everyone else was asleep and relieved.

"Have you ever heard of the saying that thieves also have a way?" Lu Yun said, leaning back and trying to lie down, but found that there were not many reeds behind him, so he gave up.

Wang Baoshan shook his head, obviously he hadn't heard of it.

"I learned a lot from Mr. Zhao and asked him about stealing. Mr. also told me the allusion of this thief and Tao, which made me understand a lot. Generally speaking, "thieves also have a way", which means that as a thief, there are also moral standards and behavioral norms. But I think that if you don't steal from the weak and poor, and if you don't steal from the upright and kind, you can only be called a thief! Huh..."

After Lu Yun finished speaking, he couldn't help but be very happy for his words.

Wang Baoshan saw that he said so conclusively, but he didn't agree much in his heart, after all, he had always done his duty and had never done anything to steal, so he was somewhat resistant in his heart.

Although what Lu Yun said is right, stealing is stealing, even if there is a principle, its essence is not the same, after all, it is just defending himself.

I think he can think like this, but he can't say it, otherwise I really don't know how Lu Yun will feel.

"It's like we're coming to rob the grain, isn't it wrong? But if any of us thinks it's wrong, everyone hasn't come as a matter of course. Lu Yun saw that Wang Baoshan was silent, and he didn't answer for a while, so he spoke again.

Right and wrong, in everyone's heart, has its own criteria for judging, who can say clearly!

When Wang Baoshan heard this, he couldn't answer, and said: "It doesn't matter if it's right or wrong, as long as you have a clear conscience!"

After he finished speaking, he asked himself in his heart: Can you really have a clear conscience?

Lu Yun nodded and didn't say anything more, as if he was thinking about Wang Baoshan's clear conscience.

"Hurry up and rest! After Wang Baoshan finished speaking, he closed his eyes and stopped thinking about those things that he couldn't understand.

This sleep, until the night, Wang Baoshan woke up leisurely.

I don't know what time of day it is, the moon and stars are sparse in the sky, and there are not a few wisps of clouds in sight.

Liu Qing saw that Wang Baoshan woke up, so he took some dry food, came over with Qing Shui, and said, "General, eat and drink!"

"Well... Are you all rested?"

"They were still resting, and I woke up after a while. Liu Qing smiled and sat down beside Wang Baoshan.

"Come, let's have a drink together..."Wang Baoshan took a sip of water, and handed the cowhide water bag with half a bag of water left to Liu Qing.

"General, I'm not thirsty, let's drink it!"

Wang Baoshan listened to Liu Qing's words, his throat was a little dry, presumably because he didn't have much water with him, and he was reluctant to drink it, so he said to him: "Drink some! Although it's not much, you have to drink some, let's go and find a way tomorrow morning! ”

Liu Qing took the water bag, nodded gratefully at Wang Baoshan, and took a sip of water.

Their scene happened to be seen and heard by the little soldier Lu Yun in his eyes and in his heart.

"Brother Liu, I really envy you!" When he said this, Lu Yun sighed lightly.

"Hehe... Wait a long time, and you will be like this... Come, take a sip of water. Liu Qing drank the water and handed the water bag to Lu Yun.

Wang Baoshan ate some dry food, drank some water, sat still for a long time, and did not feel the distension and pain in his abdomen, so he said hello to them, saying that he was going to go out of Gong, and walked slowly to the edge of the river with the reeds.

Fortunately, the moonlight was bright at this time, and the silver light shone on the earth, so it was not dark.

Wang Baoshan, who was convenient to finish his work, came to the riverside, squatted down and washed his hands in the turbulent river.

When he washed his hands, he felt that the river water was not too cold, and washed his face again.

When he finished cleaning, he inadvertently looked up at the river, and suddenly found that in the dark river water, there seemed to be two points of starry light.

At first, he thought it was the reflection of the stars in the sky, and he didn't pay much attention to it, but just as he was about to leave, a sound that came and went caught his attention.

"Whoa...... Whoa......"

The sound was particularly soft in the lapping of the river, and if you didn't listen carefully, you wouldn't be able to hear it at all.

At this time, the huge Yellow River is empty, and the other side is a blur, and it does not look like a ship sailing at night.

"What's that?"

Wang Baoshan looked at the two sparks, floating in the river, and they were getting bigger and bigger, slowly becoming the size of two lanterns, as if they were coming towards him, and he couldn't help but feel a little surprised and uneasy in his heart.

Whatever it was, it was certainly not a good thing to be present in the dead of night, on the edge of this quiet and desolate river.

Thinking of this, he hurriedly got up and wanted to run back.

"Whoa......

The voice suddenly became louder, as if it sounded in Wang Baoshan's ears, and he was so startled that he almost sat on the ground.

"Ah......h

Before he could scream, Lu Yun, who suddenly appeared in the reeds, screamed in fright when he saw the scene here.

"What's wrong? Brother Lu......"

"What happened?"

"Where's the ......?"

With this shout of his, it instantly attracted the attention of the others who were committed to the reeds.

But before everyone could rush over, Wang Baoshan only felt a cold waterfall attacking, and his lower body seemed to be entangled by something. He hurriedly looked down, it was okay not to look at it, but when he looked at it, he almost fainted.

I saw that the thing that was wrapped around him seemed to be a snake tail as thick as a stone mill, and in the moonlight, the countless dense scales on this snake tail were glowing with a faint black glow, extending all the way to the river, and it was getting thicker and thicker, and it was impossible to see the head for a while.

After a loud "poof", the snake's tail wrapped around Wang Baoshan and smashed into the turbulent river.

Lu Yun, who was still stunned in place, couldn't help but be drenched by the smashed waterfall.

"Brother Lu, where is the general?"

"What just happened?"

At this time, everyone who hurried over was still a step too late, and heard a loud noise, but only saw Lu Yun who was sitting in the overgrown weeds.

Just when Yang Zhuoyi and others surrounded Lu Yun and tried to inquire about the situation, Wang Baoshan had already fainted at the moment when he was smashed on the water.

"Knowing the ...... of Soso"

The sound of crawling was like thousands of pieces of iron scraping and grinding against each other, and the sharp sound was mixed with piercing pain. It makes people's scalp numb, their skin tremble, and their hairs stand on end.

Wang Baoshan, who was in a coma, listened to the noisy and unbearable sound in his ears, and gradually woke up. Now he is embarrassed, soaking wet, and his surroundings are cold and damp, dim and unknown. When he settled down and took a closer look, he could roughly see where he was.

It was a huge mountain cavern with rocks and a mossy ground that was damp.

Through the missing opening in the top of the cave, the moonlight projected in, as far as the eye can see, in some obscure and vague places, there are still piles of broken bones, human, beast, and some unknown things...... And so on, so many and cluttered, piled up into a hill.

"Ah......h

Looking at those poignant and gloomy bones, Wang Baoshan couldn't help but cry out in horror.

But before he could finish his call, in the depths of the dim cave, a behemoth crawled over faintly.

It was a large python as thick as a foot basin, with a huge head the size of a millstone, swallowing letters, dragging the body of a snake about thirty or forty paces long, and was winding around.

It was only at this time that Wang Baoshan figured out what the two lanterns he saw before were the two eyes, which were clearly the two eyes of the giant python.

In the eyes of the faint snake, there was a green glow, and the fierce light was cold and vicious, as if it was going to choose people to eat.

"This ......" Wang Baoshan was stared at by those snake eyes, his whole body was weak, his mind was blank, his crumbling heart seemed to sink into the cold water, and he couldn't even give birth to the slightest desire to survive.

The giant python approached slowly, and the smell of fishy and unbearable breath, like a gust of wind, rushed to his face, making Wang Baoshan suddenly feel that he couldn't breathe, and he was like a dead body.