Chapter XVIII
The town of Pingshan is very small, but it is also an important border town. The pen "fun" pavilion www.biquge.info the 100,000 mountains to the east of it is Shudi, and Pingshan Town is the only town within a radius of 100 miles.
The mansion that Xie Yujiao borrowed was the mayor's mansion and the place where the mayor entertained high-ranking officials. Now that the mayor of the town has just passed away due to illness, General Gu, as the general of the town, temporarily takes the position of the mayor of Pingshan Town, managing the important affairs of the town.
The whole town is just one main street, and most of the town's residents live on both sides of the main street.
The reason why it is rare to see such houses on the ground in this radius of hundreds of miles is because the people here use local materials and live in holes in the stone walls, which is also the characteristic dwellings in this area.
The heavy rain that had been falling for three days finally stopped. Xie Yujiao felt that the whole world was much more energetic, she opened the door, took a deep breath of moist air, and a chill rushed into her nostrils and went straight to her lungs.
The road ahead is long, and the days always have to pass.
Let's have breakfast first. When Xie Yujiao went to the kitchen to serve food, she saw Aunt Wang and they were actually eating melon seeds very leisurely.
"Auntie, don't you have to cook for those big brothers today?"
"There aren't many people in the house today, so don't be too busy"
"They're out?"
"Well, I said I was going out for a day, and I won't be back until night."
"Oh, so they still have something to do, I thought they had nothing to do every day."
"How can there be nothing to do, a soldier has to be ready to fight at any time, with his head on his waist, how dangerous it is"
"Well, too, fighting a war is fate"
"Then I'll take the food away."
Xie Yujiao has never seen the battlefield, and she doesn't know what the battlefield is like, but she always feels that it shouldn't be like Pingshan Town, which is a big slap, and the momentum is not enough.
After having breakfast with Ding Dong, Xie Yujiao wanted to go out to the town for a walk. But she was afraid, afraid of meeting bad people. Since she was abducted by a kidnapper, Xie Yujiao has been a little afraid to go out alone, always worried about running out of a crutch from a corner, or where a bad guy will catch her.
General Gu and the others were in the mountains more than 200 miles away at this time, and he listened to Xie Yujiao's story, firstly, to confirm the truth of what Xie Yujiao said, and secondly, if what Xie Yujiao said was true, then these twenty or thirty lives, large and small, would also have to be filed with the local yamen, and the government would clean up the mess and properly bury the dead.
He ordered people to carefully examine the two murder scenes, and finally found a few fragments of clothes and the remains of a carriage, but the corpses were long gone, presumably devoured by the wild beasts in the mountains and forests. In addition, the heavy rain in the past few days has also washed away the bloodstains, and there is not a trace to be found. In the end, although he was not very sure of the events that Xie Yujiao said that happened that night, it was certain that there was a homicide, but his intuition of marching and fighting for many years made him always feel that something was wrong, and he couldn't say it for a while, only had a trace of doubt about what Xie Yujiao said in his heart.
That night, when he returned to his study and was about to carefully consider the whole thing, he received an urgent secret letter of eight hundred miles. After reading the letter, he didn't move, put the letter on the candle flame and burned it clean, and then turned around and went to Li Tianlei's room.
Li Tianlei has been diagnosed and treated by Dr. Wang, and has come to his senses during the day under the careful care of his subordinates. At this time, his face exposed outside the quilt was wrapped in layers, and only red and swollen eyes, nostrils, and mouth could be seen.
He heard hurried footsteps outside the door and turned his head to look at the comer.
"The prince has been robbed!" After General Gu entered the door, he didn't talk nonsense, and directly told Li Tianlei the shocking news.
"The prince's guards were wiped out in the mountains, and Miss Xie and her party were wiped out because they blocked the way of the robbers, only she and the kid escaped, and they also witnessed the whole process of the prince's robbery."
"Where are the robbers?" Li Tianlei was also shocked when he heard the news, the Son of Heaven was seriously injured, the prince was robbed, the northern front line was tight, and the neighboring countries were eyeing each other, not to mention that there were still people in the country who were ready to move.
Da Zhou, in danger! Both of them looked very solemn.
"There is no news of the robbers for the time being, and it began to rain on the second day of the incident, and even if there are traces of them, they have been washed away by the rain for days."
"I haven't waited for the news of the prince in the past few days, and the news of the emperor's serious illness has also been spread by people with a heart, and the people in the court are panicked, and the lord asked me to lead the troops back to Beijing immediately. Now that you are seriously injured and unable to leave, I will let Zhu Xiang stay and take care of you, and return together when you are a little better. ”
"Hmm!" Li Tianlei knew that Gu Zhishan had to lead people back to Beijing to help the Lord, and it was not the right time for him to be injured. "The military order is like a mountain, you better leave as soon as possible, don't worry about me. In ten days I will set out after you. ”
"You don't have to rush. The lord specially explained, let you take care of your body, and then say, there should be people around the lord at present, and you are not the only one. ”
"I know, you go, and set off overnight."
General Gu is actually the rank of captain of the colonel, no more than Li Tianlei is the most powerful person of the lord's confidant, because Shangfeng sent him here to take over Li Tianlei who went out on a mission, and when the mayor of Pingshan died of illness and no one took care of the trivial affairs in the town, he had the highest position in the town, and it was natural that he would act as the mayor.
Now the person who wants to respond has also received it, the task has been successfully completed, and it is time to go back to report it.
On the second day, Xie Yujiao finished breakfast, and when she was wandering around the mansion, she found that the mansion was much cleaner, and when she asked, she realized that General Gu had taken most of the men and horses away last night.
The mayor's mansion, which has lost most of the centaurs, is much quieter now.
Xie Yujiao inquired about Li Tianlei's cultivation yard, and wandered around to find the door, under the guise of visiting the patient, in fact, to find out whether the peace letter to his family had been sent.
It is worthy of being a place for important people to recuperate, this treatment is obviously much more exquisite than the side courtyard of their guest residence, the independent courtyard is guarded by a carved red lacquered wooden door, if the door is not opened inside, the noise outside can not be transmitted at all. Xie Yujiao pulled the copper ring on the door and knocked on the door, only to see that the person who opened the door was an old man, thinking that he was a person who specialized in taking care of Li Tianlei, so he said hello first and explained his intention.
"Hello uncle, I'm Xie Yujiao, I'm here to visit Brother Li, I don't know if Brother Li is better?"
"Miss Xie, please come in, my adult happened to be awake, and said that there are worms on his lying body, you come to talk to him, I think the adult will be very happy"
"Really? Then I'll talk to him more in the future, anyway, I'm bored and moldy now, just right"
"That's a good feeling, girl watch your feet, don't get your shoes wet"
The old man led Xie Yujiao into Li Tianlei's bedroom, turned around and went down.
Xie Yujiao stood in front of the bed, looked at the person who was wrapped in a mummy, and laughed very unkindly.
"Is it really funny?" Li Tianlei looked at the smiling little girl in front of him, a little helpless, and felt that this child's laughter was really low, and he could still laugh when he became like this. But when I think about it, I don't see this child have a sad face since I met him, even if he was trapped in that hut for a few days.
"When I saw you, I thought of the cocoon, and you look like a big cocoon now, hehe...... It's the first time I've seen such a big white and chubby cocoon. Xie Yujiao didn't know why she just wanted to laugh, and she couldn't stop it.
"I'm injured now, I'm recuperating from my injuries, is Miss Xie just looking at my big silkworm cocoon and laughing?"
"No, no, okay, I don't laugh at you, I'm just here to see how you're hurting? Much better, right? Xie Yujiao still couldn't help but want to laugh, so she had to pour a glass of water and distract her attention with the help of drinking water.