After Cen Erniang and Lu Mingsi and their party entered the mountain, they still followed the route they had taken before with Lin Siye. They first went to Yuan'an Village to rest for a day, replenished the utensils, medicines, and food used to enter the mountain again, and then went straight to the mountains.

This time, the nineteen dart masters brought by Lu Mingsi are all from local hunters, and several of them are in this deep mountain, and they are very familiar with the terrain and climate in the mountains.

After Cen Erniang described the habits and growth environment of the medicinal herbs she was looking for to the dart masters, they took her to dig for medicinal herbs familiarly.

Because the medicinal materials I am looking for this time are all more precious. Cen Erniang didn't tell the group of dart masters about the value of those medicinal materials. She was afraid that they would get rich, so she turned back halfway and snatched her medicine and sold it herself.

Even Lu Mingsi himself didn't know the specific value of the medicinal materials that Cen Erniang asked them to find and collect. They don't know a lot of medicinal materials, but Cen Erniang, the owner, asked them to pick them. No one was interested in those herbs.

Because Cen Erniang agreed to let those dart masters pick and find some mountain goods along the way, such as walnuts, chestnuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, mushrooms, etc., and sold them for silver. I just want them to guarantee that the medicinal herbs she picked will be transported out of the mountain intact. She doesn't have an opinion on how many mountain goods they want to load.

This move was collectively praised by the group of dart masters.

Although Cen Erniang and his entourage walked around the mountains non-stop every day, they had to get off their horses many times, climb high and low on foot, and go to some cliffs or barren grasses to find medicine and collect medicine, which was very hard. But no one felt tired.

As long as they thought of the profits they could make from entering the mountain this time, those dart masters were all in high spirits, and they couldn't wait to treat one day as two days and have more time to dig for treasure.

Because the yams that Cen Erniang was looking for had different growth habits, they had to go to many different places a day. In addition, this group of dart masters and Cen Erniang are used to walking mountain roads, and their travel speed is extremely fast. They were still on this mountain for a while, and two hours later they were on another mountain.

As a result, the forty mountain bandits who had been following them since Yuan'an Village were complaining bitterly. After only walking with them for two days, those mountain bandits have never found a suitable opportunity to start, not to mention, and they are still tired to death. Just go on strike.

Because the Zhou family only asked them to kill Cen Erniang alone. But they were promised two hundred taels of gold. The leading bandit leader calculated the risk of working against Lu Mingsi and his party, and the cost of killing Cen Erniang. It was found that two hundred taels of gold were not profitable at all.

If he wants to kill Cen Erniang, as soon as the war starts, he will definitely have to lose the lives of many brothers, and the group of thorns brought by Lu Mingsi is not easy to provoke. If you don't do it, you have to take your own life. The bandit leader felt that this deal was too cost-effective. It's better for their brothers to nest in the mountains for more than ten or twenty days to find some mountain goods. Then hunt some wild goods and leather goods to sell, which is both safe and reassuring.

The bandit leader told his brothers about his decision. This group of mountain bandits who are more life-sparing are all praised. It's not that they don't have food in their cottage, so why do they have to work hard to make that little money. It's not enough to buy a coffin and buy medicine for wounds.

It's better to sell some mountain goods and leather goods in a down-to-earth manner, so that you can earn more money, and you don't have to worry about being surrounded and suppressed by the government and the army.

Only fools will kill people for the Zhou family. When killing people is killing chickens? Kill when you say kill. There is retribution! Who wants to be a murderer and have a restless conscience for the rest of his life! It's not that you don't have enough to eat. relied on the two hundred taels of gold of the Zhou family to survive.

Since the so-called "Feng Family Army" was stationed in Anping Town, the mountain bandits in several nearby mountains have been carrying their tails between their legs. for fear that the "Feng Jiajun" would find an excuse to suppress the bandits and clean them up.

Seeing that everyone began to transform, they either took the silver they had robbed in the past and returned to their hometowns to buy fields and build houses as farm houses, or they mixed in convoys and caravans and went to other places to make a living. The more than 50 of them also had the idea of washing their hands in a golden basin.

They had planned to finish the vote and then return to their hometown. Who knew that the Zhou family was too stingy, the hard money given was too little, and the group of dart masters who protected Cen Erniang were too difficult to deal with, so the mountain bandits decided to leave the burden and change their careers to become hunters and mountain merchants.

The mountain bandits were very happy and satisfied with this, because they also earned more than 200 taels of silver for entering the mountain and a fixed amount of 100 taels of gold paid by the Zhou family for nothing.

Later, the Zhou family learned that the mountain bandits had taken the money and missed the appointment, and Master Zhou and the Wei family were almost angry to death! I lost so much money in vain, and I can't ask those bandits for it. It's a sin to think about it!

Cen Erniang didn't know that because of Zhou Dafu and Wei's stinginess, she couldn't afford to make the mountain bandits' hearts move, so that she was spared a catastrophe. She was also full of strength digging and picking everywhere to collect medicinal herbs.

The days in the mountains go by quickly.

At noon that day, when the snowflakes were falling in the mountains, Cen Erniang and his party temporarily rested in the wooden house by the waterhole they had built before. She pinched her fingers and realized that she had been in the mountains for twenty-one days!

She had always thought it had only been a few days. Well, she was so happy and engaged in collecting medicine that she forgot about the time.

Lu Mingsi came in with two water bladders filled with hot water, and handed one to Cen Erniang: "Ershao, drink hot water and warm up." The snow was falling heavily, and the sky was overcast and tight, and I was afraid that it would rain for several days in a row. After a few days of icy mountain roads, it will be difficult to descend. Why don't we have lunch for a while and pack up our things and go out of the mountains? ”

"But I still have a few medicinal herbs that I haven't picked up......" Cen Erniang opened the water bladder, poured a few mouthfuls of hot water, took out the paper in her sleeve pocket, and showed it to Lu Mingsi: "Brother Lu, you see, the one that didn't come to the door was hooked with a black line, it was what I was looking for, and there were few left." ”

"Why don't we stay two more days. I know these herbs, and they are found in Eagle's Beak Ridge. When I've picked them, we'll go out of the mountain. It didn't take long to ride, and it only took half a day to ride from here to Eagle's Beak Ridge. ”

"Okay." Lu Mingsi nodded: "I'll go out and talk to my brothers, and I'll go out of the mountain in two days." ”

"Thank you, Brother Lu, for making it complete!" Cen Erniang gave up her hand and Lu Mingsi smiled: "After going out of the mountain this time, I will prepare two pills for my sister-in-law to replenish her body. In this way, she will not be uncomfortable when she comes back in the future. ”

"Good. I thanked you on behalf of your sister-in-law. "Lu Mingsi knew that Cen Er Shao was a divine doctor, and his medical skills were not very clever, but he was better than ordinary doctors and barefoot doctors. He is willing to help his daughter-in-law to adjust her body, and he is naturally happy.

Night. When Cen Erniang and his entourage rested happily in the open space at the foot of Yingzui Mountain, a group of uninvited guests were ushered in in Cen Mansion, which was hundreds of miles away.

There were ten of these uninvited guests, all of whom were dead soldiers in captivity by the Gao family. They received Gao Hongqing's order to take the heads of Cen Erye, Lin, Cen Dalang and Cen Sanlang.

As for the rest of the Cen family and the Shen family, Gao Hongqing asked them to decide whether to kill or not to kill according to the situation. If no one finds out they are committing murder. only killed Cen's second master and his family of four; If someone else finds out. and all of them were extinguished.

The batch of killers sent by Gao Hongqing this time are all good at fighting one against five. They were all raised by the Gao family from childhood to adulthood, and they were absolutely loyal and reliable. In order to kill the Cen family. Gao Hongqing also made a bloody investment.

It was the second watch of the night, and the cold wind was mixed with snowflakes, and in the Tonghua alley where Cen House and Shen House were located, every household had sunk into sleep early.

A group of dead soldiers dressed in black and covered with black cloth. Walking lightly through the dark alleys, the watchdogs on both sides of the alley were kept in the doorways to scream.

But because they are running so fast. It was dark and occasionally, and occasionally a few dutiful porters were woken up by dogs, braving the wind and snow to open the door to check the situation, but found nothing. Those porters scolded a few dogs for being troublesome. Kicked the dog a few times, kicked it until it stopped barking and noisy, turned around and fell asleep with its head covered.

The ten dead men had in their hands a map of the Zhou family's friendship dedication. They also pretended to be street vendors during the day today, and stepped on a little near Tonghua Alley. Within two quarters of an hour, they came to the Cen House and Shen House in the middle of Tonghua Alley.

The two dead soldiers who walked in the front first stabbed to death the two big dogs guarding the two gates of Cen Mansion and Shen Mansion. Then he used incense to stun the two gatekeepers guarding the door, and then jumped over the wall with the other eight people into the courtyard of the Cen family.

According to the distribution map of the Cen Mansion given to them by the Zhou family, after a few turns, the three dead soldiers first touched into the room of Cen Dalang in the East Chamber, intending to solve the seriously injured household first. Four more people went to the main room to cut off the heads of Lin and Cen Erye, and the remaining three all went to Cen Sanlang's room.

These ten dead men were very unlucky, on the night they went to the Cen family to assassinate, everyone in the Cen family lived in the Shen family next door, except for the porter and the two rough envoys who cleaned the courtyard.

Because in the afternoon of the same day, Lin Siye, Lin Wuye and others took a few boys and more than a dozen dart masters to run thousands of miles and made a special trip to Anping Town to congratulate Zhao Yue, who was happy with his son. By the way, stay in Anping Town for the winter, and wait for the spring of the next year to go to the mountains to find some treasures and transport them back to Zhanzhou Mansion to sell.

The Cen family was invited by Zhao Yue to the Shen family to drink with friends and catch up.

Because Second Master Cen and Yumo were both drunk. Cen Dalang, Cen Sanlang, Yang Peng, Lin Siye, and Lin Wuye's family hit it off at first sight, and they were reluctant to go home. The Lin family, Chang Yan, and Peony wanted to stay and help the Shen family take care of the drunk and unconscious Lin Fourth Master, Lin Fifth Master, Cen Second Master and others. simply stayed at Shen's house for the night.

That's what made the dead break through the empty door.

These ten dead soldiers have all received orders to bring back the heads of Er Ye Cen's family of four within half a month. Failure to meet the deadline will result in heavy fines. They searched the Cen family but couldn't find anyone, and they were very anxious, so they tied up the two rough envoys and asked them where the Cen family had gone.

After the two rough envoys told the whereabouts of the Cen family, they were stabbed to death by the dead soldier with a cloth in their mouths.

Then, the ten dead soldiers jumped several times and jumped over the wall into the Shen Mansion.

They didn't have the structural map of the Shen Mansion in their hands, so they had to start from the guest rooms and look for people next to each other. Because the incense they brought was not enough, they ran out when they stunned the porter, and they were all ruthless and decided to see one and kill the other.

Anyway, we must not let those who see them have a chance to survive and go to the government to testify against them in the future.

If you want to talk about the luck of this group of dead soldiers, it is also carried home. They were divided into three teams according to the number of three, three or four, and acted separately, but all three teams kicked the iron plate.

The three members of the first team touched the room of Lin Siye, Jian Sanye and Hong Dabao, and as soon as they entered, they were discovered by Lin Siye. Jian Sanye immediately set off the cannon that he carried with him to warn.

immediately woke up all the dart masters who were resting in this row of rooms in the guest house, including Cen Dalang and the Lin family's boys who knew some kung fu.

For a while, the dart master in the guest courtyard, as well as Cen Dalang and the boys from the Lin family, all took up arms and forced the ten dead soldiers who broke into the guest courtyard room to besiege them. The two sides fought several moves, and Lin Siye and others used the tactics of a sea of people to quickly subdue the ten dead soldiers.

After these dead soldiers were arrested, without waiting for Lin Siye and them to have a chance to interrogate them, they quickly bit through the poison sac buried under their tongues and committed suicide by swallowing the poison.

In a few breaths, all ten dead men were dead. Lin Siye, Cen Dalang and others only then knew that these people were not ordinary bandits, but dead soldiers who had been raised by others! Ordinary bandits, where are there people who commit suicide by taking poison after being caught.

Lin Siye immediately made a decision and asked someone to put the ten corpses into a sack, carry them out of the town overnight, and bury them in the wilderness. lest they alarm the town's guards and officials and cause more trouble.

Seeing that his henchmen carried the corpse away, Lin Fourth Master and Lin Fifth Master sent their own children away, and drove them, Cen Sanlang and Yang Peng back to the room to sleep, so they asked Cen Dalang to go to the wing room of the main courtyard to wake up Cen Erye and bring him over to discuss matters.

Lin Wuye was more anxious, and when he saw Cen Dalang helping the drunk Second Master Cen in, he immediately stood up and closed the door, and asked Second Master Cen: "Master Cen, who has the Cen family offended recently?" How could there be trouble for a dead man to come to find the Cen family? ”

The reason why Lin Wuye was sure that those dead soldiers came to the Cen family was because when they first fought with those dead soldiers, a masked man shouted, "What we are looking for is the Cen family, and it has nothing to do with you heroes, please don't meddle in your affairs."

At that time, after the masked man shouted these words, he called the chivalrous Lin Wuye to slash him.

"Huh? What dead man? Second Master Cen slept too heavily before, and the main courtyard was some distance away from the guest courtyard, he didn't know that someone was coming to assassinate him, and the whole person was dizzy, "Fifth Master, what did you say?" Why don't you understand it when you hear it? ”

"Father, ten dead men came to assassinate us. was subdued by Fourth Uncle Lin and them, and the ten dead soldiers all committed suicide by swallowing poison without waiting for our questioning. Cen Dalang explained the confusion of Cen Second Master with a gloomy and handsome face: "Fortunately, only ten people came this time, and they happened to meet Fourth Uncle Lin and them first, so no one was killed." If it weren't for Fourth Uncle Lin and them coming over by chance, our family would be over. ”

"What?!" Second Master Cen's wine suddenly woke up for more than half of the time, and he touched his face, "Do you know which family sent it?" ”

"I just don't know. Do you have a clue? Fourth Master Lin asked Second Master Cen to move a chair for Second Master Cen, who was not very stable, and asked him to sit: "You sit down first, let's talk slowly." ”

"I suspect it was sent by the Gao family." Cen Dalang said his thoughts: "If you talk about the enemies of our Cen family, there are the Zhou family, the Wei family, the Gao family and the Feng family. The Zhou family and the Wei family are both natives of Anping Town, and they don't have the financial resources and energy to support the dead, so it can't be these two. As for the Feng family, I can't say why, anyway, the Feng family won't make a move against our family at this time. If you calculate it this way, then only the Gao family is left. ”

Second Master Cen remembered that not long ago, the Gao family and the Zhou family teamed up to frame Zhao Yue and Cen Dalang, and also agreed with Cen Dalang's opinion: "Dalang is reasonable. I also think it's the Gao family. ...... at the beginning"

Seeing that Lin Siye and Lin Wuye and others were a little confused, Cen Erye remembered that they had just come to Anping Town, and they didn't know the shape of Anping Town now, as well as the festivals of the Gao family and the Cen family, so he briefly told them. (To be continued.) )