18. [Pick-up] Search
Huo An sat on the broken threshold in a daze, watching Qin slowly and methodically squat on the flat ground and feed rice to the chickens running all over the ground.
It has been half an hour since he was robbed to the cottage, and in this small half an hour, Qin slowly touched the sheep, hugged the dog, and now is feeding the chickens with a group of bare-bottomed little children.
She fed the chickens very carefully, no more and no less, a total of ten grains of rice. After feeding one, it is picked up and set aside to drink, as fine as embroidery. The little kids followed their irascible Lao Tzu, and their patience was not very good, and they watched Qin Slow feed the chickens for a while and shouted in a mess to let Qin Slow tell them stories.
Qin Chu happily replied with a good word, and Huo An had countless claws scratching and scratching in his heart, scratching his heart like frying! It's all on this, this aunt is like a nobody, and she is still in the mood to tell stories to this group of bandits!
On the way here, both of them were blindfolded, and when they arrived at the bandit village and peeked at it, Huo An fell to the ground with a broken heart.
The mountain is a hundred feet high, there is no road on three sides, the only entrance and exit gate can be described as heavily guarded, although they are not tied hands and feet, but he and Qin Chu are not immortals and have no wings, there is no way to enter the sky and no door to the ground.
As for the village, leaving aside the killing sound of the martial arts training ground in the east, it is not much different from ordinary villages. In a huge rice field in front, a lot of corn and wheat were dried, and the young children ran all the way over barefoot. The women and children in the village sit under the eaves with dustpans or bamboo baskets, chatting and watching the children.
There are very few faces in the bandit village, and Qin's slow hair and skin are particularly special, so as soon as he was escorted into the village, people attracted onlookers, especially the curious children. She was born innocent and well-behaved, and with a face that looked a few years younger than her actual age, it didn't take long for the shackles on her and Joan's hands to be unshackled, and people were allowed to move around within certain limits.
Qin slowly led a group of children to sit down under the big tree in the corner of the rice field under the watchful eyes of the guards, patting the dust from the wound on his knees: "What story do you want to hear?" β
"I want to hear the havoc in the Heavenly Palace!"
"I want to hear Guan Gong fight Qin Qiong!"
She thought for a while: "Then I'll tell you a story about Guan Gong's havoc in the Heavenly Palace and Qin Qiong!" β
Hoan: "......"
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At noon, the men and horses of Yongque and King Haihui had been wandering in the forest for nearly an hour. The mountains in the south are not high but deep, and the mountain collar coiled by long snakes is deep and bottomless. Fortunately, before the sting, the fierce beasts and poisonous insects in the mountains did not move frequently, even if it was just Yongque and his party, it was not a problem to find Qin Slow. didn't even take the team of King Haihui to drag the oil bottles, with the swift speed of Jinyiwei's action, maybe Yongque had already brought people out of the mountain.
If there are too many people, it is easy to startle the snake; Second, the two families went their own way, where did King Haihui call Yongque's subordinates, and even he took the initiative to ask for the door, willing to hand over his army to the commander of Yongque. However, Yongque politely refused, he smiled humbly but distantly: "His Royal Highness's vassal soldiers obey His Highness's orders, and Wei Chen is an internal official will never dare to trespass." β
There is a difference between respect and inferiority, and there is an order between the top and bottom, and he is the head of the way. However, looking at the world, no one knows that in addition to the emperor in Dayan, he is the one who will decide the future.
The emperor made him a sword envoy and beheaded all those who were not convinced, but he did not expect that the knife would become sharper and sharper, until it was sharpened to the edge of today's double blades. He is still a quick knife, the cold is coming, cutting the grass and eradicating the roots, but the people who use him must always worry that they will accidentally cut their hands full of blood.
Xiao Ling, the king of Haihui, is nominally a prince of the clan, a descendant of the β‘β‘, and a heavenly bloodline, but how dare he use this knife, and he has to think twice about it, even if it is close.
Years of illness have consumed the vitality and vitality that Xiao Ling should have at this age, and even if he was wrapped in a heavy long coat on the rattan chair, he couldn't withstand the cool air in the mountains, and he coughed for a long time. After a pause, he gasped and said weakly: "The factory minister is too polite. β
Yongque smiled noncommittally, it is not difficult to sit in his seat, it is rare to sit for a long time, and now he is polite to others, but he is just trying to one day, the sun and the moon will be new, and others will leave it to themselves to be polite.
After going around the labyrinthine mountains a few times, I returned to the official road, and still found nothing. Yongque paused, his eyes fell on a boulder, and he walked over without moving for a long time.
Xiao Ling asked coyly: "What did the factory minister find?" β
"If you go back to Your Highness, it's a bit of a doorway," Yongque walked around the boulder for half a circle, and suddenly bent down, and picked it gently, with a tuft of weeds in his hand. Most of the weeds have been crushed in two by boulders, and the fractures are slightly blackened, and strangely their pointed ends, long and short, seem to have been deliberately pinched.
Yongque counted, three long and two short.
King Haihui was beside him, and naturally he also saw the article on the grass, and asked in surprise; "Minister, this is what your wife left behind? It's really a ...... of the blue heart."
Yongque smiled slightly, with a deep light in his eyes: "The inner family is naughty, and I usually like to play some games with Weichen that are not on the table." β
He looked around, and the sparse and dense trees fell into his eyes, and he unconsciously took a few steps back, walked back and forth again and again, and finally stood at an angle. Boulders, pine trees, and distant shadows were all in his sight, and the star-like eyes of the abyss flashed with light.
Kneading the tip of the grass in his hand, he suddenly threw it: "Come on, demolish this forest for our family!" β
In ancient times, there were Wolong to take the number of six and three derivations, set up a gossip array, and then there were strangers to adopt the essence of it, kneaded into the art of Qimen Dunjia, in a small square inch, using a few things, relying on the terrain to set up a strange array, can trap the enemy in the dead realm.
The people who set up a formation for Yongque said that they were clever but did not put them to death; It was clumsy but could take advantage of Qin Slow's short blank space with him to separate them without him even noticing.
Qin Slow's whereabouts, from the time he met King Haihui, Yongque roughly guessed that there were mountain bandits in the mountains, and there was this array in the forest, and it was self-evident where the people were.
It's just that the person who came came was coming at him, or was it going at Qin Slow? Yongque can't be sure.
Because Qin Slow herself is a fan, she has checked many times in the East Factory of the Road, but she has not found anything so far.
It was a boring errand, but it turned into the current situation, and Yongque didn't feel troublesome, but provoked a little faint excitement.
Breaking the formation, breaking the formation eye for the first time, and Qin Slow, who was robbed of the formation eye, had already given clear instructions.
With the efficiency of Jinyiwei, within an hour, the original redundant and chaotic forest road suddenly refreshed, and on the left side of the road, a narrow path that had never been seen before was clearly extended......
Xiao Ling, who came down from the rattan sedan chair at some point, slapped his palms lightly, and sighed: "The mind of the factory minister can be said to be unparalleled in the world, this king is ashamed of himself, he is really ashamed of himself......"
After he finished speaking, there was another violent cough, and his pale face was almost colorless, as if he was about to cough through his lungs, and the attendants on the side hurriedly supported him, looking for medicine, knocking on his back.
Yongque frowned, signaled to Jinyi Wei to help, and the soldiers were in chaos for a while before Xiao Ling, the king of Hui, relieved his breath, Yongque couldn't bear it, and persuaded sincerely and worriedly: "The miasma in this mountain is getting thicker, and the prince is really not suitable to stay for a long time with the soldiers, just leave the matter of finding the princess to Weichen." The prince can rest assured that Weichen will definitely send the princess back to the palace unscathed. β
Unexpectedly, Xiao Ling was unusually firm and persistent: "Ah Yu came all the way from Yuzhou to marry me, but I neglected to prevent her from falling into the hands of thieves." If I don't rescue her myself this time, what kind of face will I have in the future to make an oath to her in front of heaven and earth and make a marriage contract? β
Ah Yu must be the name of King Hui's future princess, originally most of the marriages of the vassal kings were commanded by the emperor, but the current fiancΓ©e of King Haihui was a baby he set when he was a child, and the other party was a big family in the southwest region. Originally, the emperor would not approve of this kind of strong marriage, but at that time, there was a rebellion in the southwest, and in order to appease the people and stabilize the situation, he acquiesced in this marriage. After that, King Lao Hui let go of his power and handed over all the power to the state officials sent by the imperial court to take care of affairs, and completely became his idle prince.
Since childhood, the family affairs have deep feelings and reasonableness, and there are many infatuated women in Hongchen who are difficult to see infatuated lovers. With the body of King Hui persevering in the deep mountains until now, no matter how much truth is mixed in it, Yongque really looks at him a little differently.
"The prince has deep respect for the princess's affection, and since this is the case, then while it is still early, I will try my best to find the location of the cottage, and I can rescue the princess as soon as possible."
Xiao Ling's pale face nodded, and after walking a section of the mountain road, it became more and more rugged and bumpy, so he gave up the rattan sedan chair and climbed along the mountain road one by one under the support of the guards.
Compared with Yongque and his family, Xiao Ling's body is really not good, but he has been silent all the way, although he walked slowly, he never took the initiative to rest.
It can be seen that his heart is strong, far beyond ordinary people.
If it is an opponent, when it is equal, it is difficult to distinguish between victory and defeat, Yongque said in his heart, he is a good opponent.
On the way to take a short break, King Hui took a sip of water, looked at Yongque, and sighed: "The factory minister is looking for people's hearts, and the relationship with his wife must be very good." The one who can enter the eyes of the factory must be an extraordinary woman. β
Eunuchs marrying wives have always been despised, but what he says in his mouth is as natural as ordinary couples, and even vaguely has the intention of elevating each other.
Odd woman? Yongque lost his smile, and picked up a stalker gray cat halfway. He couldn't help but think of the broken grass pressed under the boulder, and all the ...... when he was in the Hua family
But it is true that there are often surprises.
"It's strange, it's not ......" Yongque smiled at the corner of his mouth, although it was very lightly mixed, he could still see the slightest smug and spoiled, "It's just a little clever and painful." β
Xiao Ling promised to make peace: "The factory minister is humble, humble." β
After a short rest, he was about to set off, when there was a sudden movement in front of him, and a gray figure jumped twice, jumped to Yongque and knelt down like lightning, which was originally a scout he sent out: "Overseer, I can vaguely see smoke curling at the mouth of the cliff in front, I think it is where the thief village is." β