Chapter 314: Distress in the Mountains
The sturdy man looked at the footprints on the ground, and soon found the place where Feng Ping found the map. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Now, though, there's only a broken earthen pot, and there's a small pile of ashes on the ground.
The man crouched down, picked up the ashes on the ground and looked at it, knowing that he was late, and he couldn't help but get anxious.
They were ordered to rush to Yingzhou, just to snatch the map from Feng Ping's hands, but this map was actually burned, how can this be good?
He hurriedly left the mansion, and when he returned to his residence in the capital, his companion told him that Feng Ping and his two followers were buying goods, as if they were going into the mountains.
This person was a little relieved, "Send a letter to the capital, Feng Ping burned the map, do you want to catch Feng Ping and go back." Before the letter came from the capital, we still followed them. ”
Another man heard that the map had been burned and hurried to prepare to write a letter.
There were two other men in the room, and when they heard that they were going to go into the mountains, they also went to prepare dry food and other things.
After Chu Mo led people away, Chu Zhaoye recruited them and sent them to Yingzhou and Yingzhou.
Feng Ping quickly prepared the items, picked them up, and took his entourage to the Nanjiang River along the official road, and entered the mountain from the mountain road there.
Feng Ping was wearing a round-necked green shirt and looked like a bookkeeper from a big family.
Along the way, the closer to the foot of the mountain, the fewer pedestrians, but along the way, I saw a lot of government notices, as well as rewards for reporting the whereabouts of suspicious people.
They heard that the officers and soldiers of the imperial court had fought with the bandits twice again, and they won both times, and the bandits hid in the mountains and could not come out, so they felt much more at ease.
The two entourages were all servants of the Yan family, and as soon as Chu Mo came, the bandits were defeated, and they were all honored. When the two talked about their happiness, they said that they were smooth, and blurted out a sentence that the future uncle was really powerful.
When Feng Ping heard this, he also laughed.
After the three of them entered the mountain, the trip slowed down.
Feng Ping took out the compass from time to time to look at the direction and slowly groped.
After wandering around the mountains for two days, Feng Ping and the three of them came to the bottom of a cliff. In this cliff, a lot of big rocks have been thrown around, and many wild vines have grown on the mountain wall, which wraps the whole stone wall tightly.
Feng Ping opened the vines and looked at it carefully, Daxi, it should be this place.
"Let's eat some dry food and get ready to go back to Beijing." Feng Ping smoothed out the vines that he had pulled away, and turned to the two entourages and commanded.
When the two attendants heard that they could go out of the mountain, they were even more happy.
In the mountains for the past two days, I have been sleeping in the open air, and it is good if the weather is warm. The weather is cold and humid now, and it depends on your luck to find a dry cave to spend the night in.
However, it was already afternoon at this time, and the two looked at the sky, "Cousin, look at the weather, it's not early." Didn't we see a cave on the way here, so why don't we go back there and spend the night? ”
After Feng Ping married Qin Wanru, the people of the Yan family, according to the relationship between Qin Wanru and Qin Wanru, called Feng Ping his cousin.
"Okay, let's go back then." Feng Ping put down the placket tucked into the belt and followed the two of them back.
He wanted to ride a donkey into the mountain, but when he entered the mountain, he found that the mountain road was muddy and narrow, and the donkey had to be abandoned at the foot of the mountain.
The two entourages carried their bags on their backs, and Feng Ping followed behind them, walking back with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
The past two days were lucky, it rained before entering the mountain, but it had not rained in the past two days, and after finding the cave, it was getting late. The three of them boiled some hot water, ate the dry food with hot water, and slept in chaos.
The next day, the three of them packed their bags and walked in the direction of Yingzhou.
After one of the attendants walked out of the cave, his stomach was a little swollen, and he handed his bag to another person, "I drank too much water in the morning, you go first, and I'll go put some water." ”
"It's just you." The attendant took the thing and cursed.
Not long after, the man came back and asked his companion in a low voice, "Have you been to that place?" ”
"How?" The companion shook his head.
"There are footprints there, and the marks are shallow. Judging by the size of the footprints, it should be an adult man. ”
The two of them looked at their feet, and where they stood, there were obvious four footprints, and the light body of the person who came was very good.
Feng Ping looked a little nervous at the two of them, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
"Cousin, we may be followed." One of the attendants whispered what he had discovered.
Feng Ping subconsciously glanced behind him, naturally, there were only Lin Musensen, and occasionally there were one or two mountain birds chirping, and the others couldn't even see a shadow.
"If you really follow us, you must follow up when you enter the mountain, let's not rush to the direction of Yingzhou. Today, we will go to Yingzhou first. Feng Ping immediately thought that it was the third prince Chu Zhaoye's person.
This mountain road, where they are standing, if they want to leave the mountains and forests, it is better to go faster to Yingzhou.
If it is really the people of the Three Princes, they must want to get the gold mine information with them, and now that the map has been burned by themselves, if they have been following them for the past few days, then once they find that they are leaving the mountain, they may have to do it.
The best way is to pretend that you are still looking for it and delay it for a while. It's just that I don't know if the other party will be fooled.
The three of them returned and walked towards the mountain road in the direction of Yingzhou. Feng Ping was still holding the compass, looking for it.
They were followed by the four men who had appeared in Yingzhou City.
The first person saw Feng Ping and the three of them walking in the direction of Yingzhou, and hesitated.
The order that Chu Zhaoye sent back from the capital was to follow Feng Ping and write down the places they had walked through. If they have any intention of leaving the mountains and forests, they will be killed on the spot immediately.
"Chief, they're going back again."
"Follow first, and if they don't stop by the afternoon, they'll be killed." The man in the lead ordered.
Although Feng Ping and the three of them will go back and forth to circle along the way, the general direction is from Yingzhou to Yingzhou, and they will also find this mountain road to Yingzhou every day.
Now I suddenly changed direction and walked back, probably finding that I was being followed by someone.
Feng Ping and the three of them quickened their pace and walked to the afternoon, Feng Ping really couldn't walk, so he found a dry place on the side of the road and sat down.
"Cousin, take a drink of saliva and take a break."
"Okay, let's take a break, I really can't walk." Feng Ping took the kettle and gasped.
"Since you can't walk, don't go." A gloomy voice came from behind the bushes on the side of the road.
The three of them jumped up in shock, and saw four men in strong suits standing at the end of the mountain road, all with black scarves covering their faces.
The two attendants threw down their burdens, drew their knives in their hands, and one of them pulled up Feng Ping and pushed him to the road behind him, "Cousin, go quickly!" ”
Feng Ping didn't care about anything else, and ran desperately along the mountain road, and soon heard footsteps turning behind him, and someone caught up.
He didn't know martial arts, the mud on the mountain road was sticky, and the more he ran step by step, he got into the forest by the roadside.
Feng Ping ran to a place and saw that there was a cliff under his feet.
The rustle of the people behind him through the grass got closer and closer, "Feng Ping, you can't go!" ”
Feng Ping wanted to turn around, but felt a pain in his back and fell off the cliff. (To be continued.) )